Chapter Forty-Nine: Hope in Distress
The vast wilderness has become lush.
The cruel environment of the last days could not stop the tenacious growth of plants, nor could it stop the yearning of human survivors for new life.
The long procession stretched for seven or eight miles, and people supported each other, many of whom were stained with blood on their tattered clothes, and some were even carried on stretchers.
Except for the clothes on their bodies and a weapon to defend themselves, there was nothing on them. Even the most down-and-out wanderers are better off than these people, with at least one pocket for miscellaneous items and a blanket to keep out the cold at night.
But there was not the slightest sadness on their faces, but instead they had a smile on their faces and a sparkle in their eyes. Because they had been given a new life, the Chi City Lord had officially accepted them as a member of Phoenix City.
With separate rooms, clean clothes, enough food to fill their stomachs and even a job, all the perks of Phoenix residents beckon to them and sustain them on the last leg of their journey to Phoenix.
The qualifications of the residents of Phoenix City who let the people of the affiliated camp fight for their heads were not rewarded to them by Chi Hua's sudden kindness, but they exchanged their blood and sacrifice.
The 50,000 people who followed Li Yunfei when they set off, after all the way to the road, bloody battles, and after the tragic battle in the Canaan Valley, only more than 20,000 people survived, and more than half of the people fell on the way to Phoenix.
They also made a huge contribution to Phoenix, dragging down a large number of troops and evolutionaries in Bright Heaven with their lives.
According to later statistics, in the first battle of the Canaan Valley alone, six thousand corpses of soldiers of the Bright Army fell on the battlefield, forty or fifty corpses of the Heavenly Punishment Knights, and countless soldiers and evolutionaries were killed in the battles of Shun'an Trading House and Heaven's Gate. If these troops had been put to the front, they would have broken through the defenses of Phoenix City long ago.
It can be said that this battle has greatly damaged the vitality of Bright Heaven and greatly relieved the pressure on the northeast defense line of Phoenix City.
At the forefront of this long line are Tao Yong, Li Yunfei and others. Behind them, the evolutionaries and soldiers of the Phoenix Independent Brigade all had proud, smug expressions on their faces.
Although the independent brigade also suffered heavy losses in this battle, with more than half of the battle losses, it immediately resurrected on the spot with full blood after the battle. The latest weapons and equipment of the Bright Army have become their trophies, and the soldiers and evolutionaries who are willing to continue to serve in the army in the original camp escort regiment have all been incorporated into the Phoenix Independent Brigade.
The Phoenix Independent Brigade now has more than 200 evolutionaries and more than 7,000 veterans who have been tempered in battle, making it the strongest brigade among the several regular forces in Phoenix.
The strange thing is that Chi Hua, An An, Li Xiaofei and Qiu Ying were not seen in this team.
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The battle in the Canaan Valley was only an episode in this end-time war.
The end of this battle also kicked off another battle that was much larger and more tragic.
The battle on the two lines of defense in the southwest and northeast of Phoenix City continued.
The northeast defense line is still firmly controlled by Phoenix City, but the entire defense line has become fragmented, and the two brigades of Zhou Boyuan and Wu Yulong have a total of 10,000 Phoenix City defenders, and only more than 3,000 people remain.
The line of defense has long since lost its clear borders, and these three thousand men are scattered in all corners of the tunnel, ready to devour the enemy who dares to rush into the line.
But the enemy temporarily lost the courage to storm the line again.
Nearly 20,000 corpses of soldiers and evolutionaries of the Bright Heaven and Huaxia Dragon City armies were left in the trenches of the Phoenix City defense line, and these corpses were stacked together enough to fill more than a dozen trenches. Except for the madmen at Heaven's Gate, who used death as a ladder to heaven, everyone was terrified.
After the three second-order powerhouses reinforced by Phoenix City arrived, who didn't know how many corpses they would have to throw behind before they could completely capture this meat grinder-like defense line? No one dared to give the order to attack again.
This is also the biggest reason why more than 60,000 coalition troops were blocked from the defense line by 10,000 Phoenix defenders. None of the Bright Heaven Seven members of the Committee were in command of this defensive line.
Bright Heaven, who was also aware of this problem in the later stage, suddenly sent Dylan, An Jiayong and Baili Wuxian.
If one of the three people appeared on the front line to take command, there would be no situation where the Illuminati subordinates were cowering and Huaxia Dragon City retreated in advance. It's just that the three of them all ran to the Canaan Valley, and finally suffered a big loss again on Chi Hua.
After Feng Yongchang's army withdrew from the front line, he took the initiative to retreat the original military camp back for another three or four miles, deliberately distancing himself from the military camp of the subordinate forces of Bright Heaven.
The temporary commander of the Shun'an Trading House and the Heaven's Gate Front went to the military camp in Huaxia Dragon City in a rage and asked Feng Yongchang why he retreated early?
Feng Yongchang only threw down two sentences and walked away, one was "Let you people who can be the masters of the Bright Heaven come and talk to me." The other is "Why are you retreating, ask the Illuminati." ”
The Shun An Trading House and the people of the Gate of Heaven had a nose in their hands, so they had to leave in a huff, waiting for the final order from the higher-ups.
The barracks of Bright Heaven and Huaxia Dragon City were still stationed on the opposite side of the defensive line, neither attacking nor retreating. The battle on the northeastern defense line was thus inexplicably suspended.
Taking advantage of the gap in the armistice, the corpses of Xuan Qi, Zhou Boyuan, Na Liang Hong, Hua Feiying and other advanced evolutionaries were collected and transported back to Phoenix, and the corpses of ordinary soldiers and evolutionaries could only be transported to the rear of the position for cremation, and only a nameplate and a small jar of ashes were brought back to Phoenix.
As for the corpses of the Bright Heaven and Huaxia Dragon City Evolutionaries and soldiers, they directly pulled off the soil on both sides of the trenches and buried them hastily.
When the pause button was pressed on the northeastern battlefield, the battle on the southwestern defense line was still stalemate.
The results of the other two battles don't seem to have any effect on the area, with a large number of soldiers and evolutionaries dying every day.
During this period, Yi Fengleng and Xiao Yu both made a sudden move, but they were immediately stopped by "Electric Wolf", "Shi Hu" and others, and the battle between the two sides at the level of super strong still could not tell the winner.
However, in the battle at the level of ordinary soldiers and evolutionaries, the combined forces of Tianjin City and Huaxia Dragon City gradually figured out the weakness of the weak forces on the Phoenix side, and instead continued to increase the frequency of attacks.
The large number of grassroots soldiers and evolutionaries died in battle, which made the morale of the Phoenix side continue to be low, especially those mercenaries hired in the later stage.
Three days ago, there was a desertion for the first time among the mercenaries, and Yi Fengleng used thunder to execute more than a dozen deserters who were captured, and only then did he stabilize the morale of the army a little.
Yi Fengleng has already begun to prepare for the worst. When they really couldn't hold it, they withdrew to Qinghai and took advantage of the geographical advantages to fight ambush warfare and guerrilla warfare.
Just like the strategy used to deal with the Doomsday Salvation Army, the battle dragged all the way to the bottom of Phoenix City, and then the final decisive battle.
When Yi Fengleng had already begun to secretly arrange for people to start arranging, Phoenix's daily support materials were sent over through the underground passage.
To Yi Fengleng's surprise, there was also a strange army of 3,000 people along with the supplies.
The soldiers and evolutionaries of this army all wore wide robes, and among them there were more than a dozen lamas wearing monk's robes, as if they were an army from a foreign land.
If it weren't for Yao Yiyi, the evolutionary who led the team, Yi Fengleng would even think that he had been copied by the enemy's makeup.
Ma Qingqiu fooled a large number of simple Tibetan compatriots as the "Living Buddha of Qingqiu", and the expansion of his troops in Tibet in the later period was unusually smooth and rapid, and except for a few remote areas, he controlled almost the entire territory of Tibet.
In the process, he also hunted two second-order fierce beasts, Jiang Bai Chilie and Yao Yiyi are now both second-order evolutionaries.
Ma Qingqiu vaguely foresaw the critical situation in Phoenix a few days ago, so he asked Yao Yiyi to lead a local army that had defected to Phoenix City to rush back to Phoenix City.
This force was a rain from heaven for the crumbling southwestern defense line, and although 3,000 men could not reverse the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, it was enough to keep the defense line going.
And there is also Yao Yiyi, a second-order powerhouse, Yi Fengleng can't wait to give the enemy a big surprise.
Yi Fengleng, Xiao Yu, and Mo Yingyang joined forces to raid the Tianjin City military camp again.
"Shi Hu" Mu Han, "Electric Wolf" Yu Xiao, "Insect Tiger" Nie Feng and Pan Kaige were killed from the barracks, and "Shadow Wolf" Cen Ping was still hidden in the dark and did not show up.
The battle between the super powerhouses of the two sides returned to its previous rhythm, and neither could defeat the other, Yi Fengleng and the three of them slowly retreated towards their own defense line.
Just when Yu Xiao and the others thought that the two sides were going to end the battle with a draw again, Yao Yiyi's figure suddenly jumped out of the ground.
The huge Death Scythe waved, and Nie Feng, who happened to be the closest, became a sacrifice under the Death Scythe.
Yao Yiyi's figure flashed to Nie Feng's back, and the scythe of death slashed towards Nie Feng's waist almost silently.
Nie Feng forcibly twisted his waist and scurried forward. But his speed was still not faster than the Death Scythe, and the blade of the scythe swept Nie Feng, and this knife almost cut Nie Feng's waist in half.
Yao Yiyi then slashed at Nie Feng's neck with a second knife. The "shadow wolf" that had been lying in the dark suddenly struck, and the target of the spear gun was also Yao Yiyi's neck.
Yao Yiyi was unwilling to exchange his life with him, so he returned to save himself.
Cen Ping rolled forward, picked up Nie Feng and ran to the barracks.
Because of the person in his arms, the "shadow wolf" can no longer integrate into the surrounding environment.
Mo Yingyang, who had been guarding against Cen Ping's sudden appearance, raised his hand to be an arrow, and the arrow wrapped in the ability exploded on Cen Ping's back, blowing him away.
"Insect Tiger" and "Shadow Wolf" were all injured and fell to the ground, and Yao Yiyi was about to rush over to end the lives of the two.
Mu Han and Yu Xiao desperately rescued each other, one supported the lightning field in the sky, and the other smashed wildly before snatching the two back to the barracks.
Although it failed to kill the opponent's second-order powerhouse, the "Worm Tiger" and "Shadow Wolf" were seriously injured, and they had no strength to fight again in a short time, and Phoenix City regained the advantage in terms of super powerhouses.
The scales are slowly tipping, and Phoenix's southwest defense line is finally seeing a glimmer of hope in the predicament......