Volume 3 Good and Evil Temporarily All Depend on People Chapter 165 The Strategy of Exhausting the Enemy
There is a way that Ci is not in charge of the army, Tang Yi still can't be ruthless after all, even if he knows that killing those people at this time is the best choice, but in the end he still didn't kill them, but sent someone to send them to Jiyang City to be placed under house arrest.
The army did not continue to delay, but entered the land of Lucy at a faster pace.
In the following days, more and more deserters were encountered, most of them were three or two people, and there was no large number of deserters.
These people did not directly say that the whole army was wiped out and the two Wu generals were killed in battle, in fact, they didn't know much, only that the army was encircled and the troops were scattered.
Some people say that the main force has been withdrawn safely, and they are only responsible for the small troops behind the palace; others say that the whole army has been broken up, and the two Wu generals have broken through with thousands of elites; and some people even say that an elite army suddenly killed in the middle of the way, and after defeating the enemy's army, they left with a large army.
Of course, the authenticity of these news is not high, even the deserters who brought the news are not sure, they only heard what people said, and they did not dare to go back to look for the large army and the two Wu generals, for fear of dying in the chaos.
However, the place of the battle was not too far from here, but only a thousand miles, and if the whole army hurried at full speed, it would be possible to reach it in a day and a half at most.
If you leave behind those people who are in the Dao state of mind and in the realm of hearing the Dao, you will be able to arrive in half a day at most.
Tang Yi did not choose to march in a hurry, but instead slowed down the army slightly, and just sent out all the people who broke the Dao Realm.
After the army marched 600 miles, Tang Yi ordered the whole army to camp and rest on the spot.
As soon as the camp fell, Wang Meng, who had been away for a day, rode back on Xiaobai.
However, Wang Meng didn't come back alone, and there was another person sitting on Xiaobai's body, Qi Sheng!
But it turned out that when Qi Sheng was retreating westward, he happened to encounter a small group of troops.
After dealing with the Eastern Route Army for a period of time, Qi Sheng naturally recognized the identities of these people, and these were the people of the Eastern Route Army.
After Qi Sheng led people to eat this small group of people, he learned that the Eastern Route Army had broken into pieces and infiltrated the land of Luxi, so he immediately led people into Luxi.
Of course, at that time, there were already two groups of troops stationed outside Jiyang City, and Qi Sheng didn't know the movements of the Middle Route Army, so after seeing those two groups of troops, he didn't dare to rashly send someone into Jiyang City to report the matter.
In addition, he didn't expect to stay in Luxi for so long, just thinking that he could swallow more of the squad of the Eastern Route Army.
It's just that after Qi Sheng wiped out three squads in a row, he found that the army had converged in one place, and Qi Sheng, who was unwilling to retreat, decided to lurk and look for an opportunity, and it was best to gnaw another piece of meat before returning to Jiyang City.
It's just that this stay is a day, and he was already planning to give up and retreat, but at this time, Wu Neng suddenly fell into the encirclement with an army of 20,000.
Qi Sheng thought about taking advantage of the opportunity of the battle between the Eastern Route Army and Wu Neng's subordinates, and then decapitated the Eastern Route Army and wiped out the Eastern Route Army in one fell swoop.
What he didn't expect was that the 20,000 troops under Wu Neng couldn't even parry a round, and after dropping hundreds of corpses, Empress Ben hurriedly withdrew.
At this time, Qi Sheng didn't dare to make a rash move or retreat, so he had to continue to wait and see.
At this time, he finally found that the opposite side was not a large army, but a combined army of 60,000 from the Central Route Army and the Eastern Route Army.
These two armies are far more powerful than the West Road
The army is much stronger, not the strength of the individual, in fact, the personal strength of the Middle Route Army is indeed stronger than that of the Western Route Army, and the Eastern Route Army is slightly inferior to the Western Route Army.
But the cooperation between these two armies is far from being comparable to that of the Western Route Army, and compared with these two armies, the Western Route Army is like a ragtag army that has been put together haphazardly.
These two armies have their own characteristics and their own formations, although they are not as powerful as those formations described by Daozun, they are much stronger than the Lunan Army without formations and purely relying on cooperation.
Of course, the Lunan Army is also stronger than them, the Lunan Army is more like a whole, and everyone's execution is stronger than the Eastern Route Army and the Middle Route Army.
These two armies just have military formations, and in fact the cooperation between them is not so perfect.
Wu Neng's army really failed to break out of the encirclement, and soon had a second confrontation with the enemy, this time although Wu Neng still failed to withstand the opponent's charge, but the situation was slightly better than the first time.
Taking advantage of the enemy's third charge, Qi Sheng led people to attack, he originally wanted to go straight to the headquarters of the Middle Route Army and kill the general of the Middle Route Army first, but unfortunately he didn't succeed.
The other party's reaction speed is also very fast, and the combat power of the army is not weak, especially the escort team under the command of the general, which is not far behind compared to his elite troops.
Fortunately, the pro-guard team did not dare to leave the general behind and come out to chase and kill the elite troops under his command, so he tore a hole in it and rushed out of the encirclement with Wu Neng.
Ke Chong rushed out, but they lost a lot of soldiers and horses, more than 100 people were killed in the battle of the sharp knife troops under his command, more than 300 people were injured in various ways, Wu Neng's command killed more than 1,000 people, and nearly 4,000 were captured and scattered.
After that, the two sides fought several times, and now there are only more than 12,000 people left under Wu Neng's command, plus his nearly 3,000 elites, exactly 15,000 people.
At this time, Wu Neng was leading a large army to abscond here, and the reason why Wang Meng brought Qi Sheng over was to let Tang Yi quickly send troops to meet him, but he didn't expect Tang Yi to have already arrived here.
After the three of them summed it up, they decided that the army would no longer move forward, but would build a position here to meet Wu Neng, and at most there would be a day before Wu Neng led the army to flee here.
With those 3,000 elites here, it would be no problem to break through the enemy's blockades, as long as the guards under the commander of the middle route army did not make a move.
Thinking about it, given his importance to the soldiers, his guards might not have left him to make a brazen move, even if he personally ordered it.
However, just in case, Tang Yi gathered all the people from the Enlightenment Realm and the Dao Breaking Realm who had just withdrawn in the whole army, and asked Qi Sheng to take them to lurk again, and use them as a surprise soldier if necessary.
About the next day, Wu Neng and the others finally appeared in Tang Yi's field of vision, Tang Yi did not immediately show up to greet him, nor did he allow the army to show up.
When Wu Neng led the army to pass by from the flank of the position and the enemy intercepted Wu Neng in front, Tang Yicai led his soldiers and horses to attack brazenly, and after swallowing the enemy's 5,000 vanguard troops with one blow, he immediately took Wu Neng to hide back in the position.
After the enemy suffered this wave of losses, they did not attack rashly, but joined forces to set up a camp thirty miles opposite the Lunan army, intending to rest on the spot for a while.
After all, they, like Wu Neng and others, have not rested in the past two days and need to take a rest.
Tang Yi did not let it
Wu Neng and the others rested, and while the enemy army was camping, he led the army to raid the enemy's flank, and after charging a wave, he withdrew to the position.
The results of this wave of charges were not very big, only more than 100 people were killed, but it disturbed the rest of the enemy army, which can be regarded as a good result.
After experiencing this wave of harassment, the enemy immediately retreated thirty miles, and then re-encamped sixty miles away from the Lunan army.
This time, after Tang Yi asked Wu Neng and the others to rest, he led the army to charge again, this time choosing the enemy's wings, but after the army charged halfway, it immediately withdrew to the position.
On the other side, it was clear that the troops had been divided to be on alert, Tang Yi had no intention of going up and fighting hard, his purpose was just to harass the enemy army and make them unable to rest.
After the enemy spies investigated the movements of the Dao Lunan army, they really stopped camping, but as soon as they were ready to fight, Tang Yi led his troops to retreat again.
After repeating this three or four times in a row, when the enemy army had already thought that the Lunan army was just scaring them and didn't even bother to defend, Tang Yi finally led the army to charge.
And the charge did not know the 20,000 troops on Tang Yi's side, as well as the thousands of elites led by Qi Sheng.
Li Yong only noticed Tang Yi's main army, so most of the troops were used to defend the 20,000 main forces, but they were killed by Qi Sheng and others.
The Central Route Army and the Eastern Route Army had to retreat another forty miles, to a hundred miles away.
After Tang Yi led the main force back to the position, he asked Qi Sheng to divide thousands of people into two groups, Qi Sheng and Wang Meng each led an army, and every other hour they went to the enemy's camp tent to wander around, mainly to harass, and to make a false charge every seven or eight times.
If the enemy army does not defend, it will turn the fake into the real, rush to the edge and kill some people and retreat immediately.
The death order he gave to the two of them was that they should not rush into the enemy formation no matter what, even if they were ten percent sure that they would kill each other, after all, they would be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.
The Middle Route Army and the East Route Army were not stationed in one place, but camped in a corner, the purpose of which was to prevent the Tang Yi army from attacking.
Since they separated and set up camp, Tang Yi's main force has not appeared, only two soldiers and horses of more than 1,000 people each.
At this time, in the big tent of the middle route army, there are three tall generals, and two of the three are veterans who are not young, but the realm of the two veterans is not high, but the state of mind is just the Tao.
The other person is a man in his thirties, and the strength of the man is not very weak, at least much stronger than these two veterans, and he probably has the strength of the Enlightenment Realm.
This man is none other than Li Yong, the Li Yong in Lijia Village, who should have died.
At the beginning, after he was rescued by the coma, he was thrown into the base camp of the soldiers, intending to use the soldiers to arouse Li Yong's murderous intentions, in order to one day be able to save him and achieve his own merits.
"At present, Lunan is constantly harassed, can the two old generals have a strategy to deal with the enemy?" Whether it is Li Yong's Middle Route Army or the East Route Army of the two old generals, they have long been overwhelmed by this harassment.
It's just that these thousands of people never refuse to rush into the military formation, so that the arrangement they arranged cannot play a role, and if they want to shoot the army to encircle and suppress, the speed is slightly inferior.
Although the people of the Dao Breaking Realm are not satisfied with anything in terms of speed, the cooperation between those people is very good, even if the Middle Route Army and the Eastern Route Army are out of the Dao Breaking Realm together, one hundred and forty or fifty Dao Breaking Realm martial artists are still helpless against those people.