Chapter 163: The Contest between the Two Sides (2nd Update)
Fan Zhongyan nodded, didn't say anything, his figure flashed and left here, and continued to guard Tongji City.
Li Chunfeng ordered the army to rest here for a while, and after recovering some physical strength, all of them marched quickly to the entrance of the Chiyan Mountain Gorge.
This is a very difficult road to follow!
Because they want to assist the Qi family army guarding the entrance of the Chiyan Mountain Gorge, they can only capture it from the front of the entrance of the Chiyan Mountain Gorge, and there is a stronghold on the canyon in front of the entrance of the Chiyan Mountain Gorge, which is an important stronghold of the combined forces of the various dynasties on the Chiyan Mountain Range, if this is discovered, the 170,000 Wu Zhou new army will be finished.
Fortunately, it was Li Chunfeng's Wuzhou New Army who had trained to hide traces, and without being discovered by enemy scouts, they went from the mountain and forest trails to the front of the entrance to the Chiyan Mountain Gorge.
Li Chunfeng did not rush to attack, but let the army rest while waiting for the brief darkness before dawn to come.
Because at that time, it will be the time when the enemy army is most likely to be careless!
"Your Majesty, our army lost less than 40,000 people in the battle this time, but the enemy army lost at least 200,000 in battle, which can be described as a big victory!"
In Zhou Chuan's tent, Meng Yi was full of excitement and talked about today's results.
Zhou Chuan chuckled lightly and said, "This is indeed a big victory, but it is more because the city defense crossbow array has caused losses to the enemy army in the Chiyan Mountain Range Canyon of at least 100,000 people, plus the Qi family army rushed into the enemy's crossbowman formation and launched a massacre. It was precisely because the Qi family army killed those crossbowmen that I was able to achieve such great results. ”
"Today's battle, Qi Jiguang and Qi Jiajun, as well as Li Chunfeng, should be remembered as the first merit!"
Meng Yi immediately nodded and said, "Your Majesty, the minister also thinks so, if it weren't for the fact that General Qi Jiguang's Qi family army slaughtered the enemy's crossbowmen, and the enemy's follow-up army crossbowmen didn't survive, we would have lost at least 20,000 people today......!"
Meng Yi looked at Zhou Chuan, sighed lightly, and said: "Your Majesty, we won today, but in the next battle, Luo Zhong will definitely be vigilant in his heart, and he will not make a lot of mistakes like today, and it will be a little difficult to achieve such results!"
"So, the next key point is Li Chunfeng and his Wu Zhou new army!" Zhou Chuan's face was solemn, and he said: "If Li Chunfeng leads 200,000 Wu Zhou new troops to successfully take the entrance of the Chiyan Mountain Gorge and can guard the entrance of the Chiyan Mountain Gorge, then I will be able to besiege and kill the soldiers of the combined forces of the various dynasties in front of the army now!"
Now he didn't know that the Wuzhou New Army had suffered more than 90,000 casualties, and there were only 170,000 Wuzhou New Army.
"There are at least 1.2 million troops in this place, if all of these 1.2 million troops are killed, the combined forces of the various dynasties will definitely not dare to be as presumptuous as before!"
Meng Yi looked at Zhou Chuan and asked, "Your Majesty, is General Li Chunfeng really that powerful?"
Meng Yi had never seen Li Chunfeng's feng shui techniques used in the army.
Wu Zhou's new army Meng Yi knew very well, after all, it was the army he had trained.
Naturally, he knew the combat effectiveness of the new army of Wu Zhou.
Zhou Chuan smiled faintly and said, "I believe that Li Chunfeng will not disappoint me!"
Meng Yi didn't ask any more.
"By the way, where are Qi Jiguang and Qi Jiajun now?" Zhou Chuan suddenly asked.
Now the war is over, but Qi Jiguang did not return with the Qi family's army.
"Your Majesty, General Qi Jiguang sent news before, he took the Qi family army to the avenue up and down the gorge of the Chiyan Mountain Range, once Li Chunfeng's new army of Wu Zhou came, he was ready to attack that stronghold directly, so that the armies of the combined forces of the various dynasties could be repulsed, and it would be impossible for them to connect to the canyon!" Meng Yi said.
Zhou Chuan nodded and said: "Qi Jiguang's idea is very good, give an order to the front-line Eastern Expeditionary Army, pay attention to covering the Qi family's army, and definitely not let the Qi family's army suffer from the enemy!"
"Yes!"
Meng Yi immediately went down to give the order.
"Everything I should have prepared is ready, now it's up to Li Chunfeng to see if he can lead Wu Zhou's new army and Qi Jiguang's Qi family army to conquer that stronghold together!" Zhou Chuan muttered in a low voice.
In the stronghold above the canyon of the Chiyan Mountain Range, in Luo Zhong's tent, his face was gloomy, looking at these generals standing in front of him.
There is also that prince, who was very arrogant before, but now he also lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything.
"Now, who of you will tell me who is desperate to persuade me to send troops to pursue the victory during the day? Now that the army has lost more than 100,000 people, who of you will be responsible?" Luo Zhong held the saber at his waist and looked coldly at the generals in front of him.
These generals trembled at Luo Zhong's cold eyes, but they didn't dare to answer.
During the day, one by one, in order to make meritorious contributions, they persuaded Luo Zhong to pursue the victory, but now it is good, the pursuit failed, and they lost the lives of 50,000 soldiers, and the army on their side only killed thousands of enemy soldiers.
And it was the prince who proposed to pursue the victory, but he was the prince, and these generals naturally didn't dare to say that he proposed it.
"Humph!"
Luo Zhong snorted coldly and said, "I won't pursue today's matter for the time being, but if someone interferes with my decision-making in the future, I will definitely tell the young master about today's matter and hold him accountable!"
As he spoke, his cold gaze deliberately glanced at the prince a few times.
The prince was very unhappy, but he could only keep his head down, and he didn't dare to say anything, if Luo Zhong told Luo Tianwang about today's events, although he was the prince of the Zhongqian Dynasty, he might also be held accountable for this.
Luo Tianwang is now in the south, it can be said that he is in full swing, and no dynasty dares to offend him easily!
"Pass the order, all armies must be vigilant, they must not be attacked by the enemy at night, forcibly occupy the point, this place is condescending, if the enemy army is occupied, then our situation is even more difficult than facing the Chiyan Mountain Range!"
"Yes!"
After receiving Luo Zhong's order, these generals ran out of the camp one by one, for fear of being stopped by Luo Zhong and questioned.
After these people left, Luo Zhong sighed lightly and muttered: "Zhou Chuan, Zhou Chuan, no wonder you were able to clear the internal worries of the dynasty in a short period of time, and even destroyed the Fenglin Dynasty and became an intermediate dynasty!"
"Today, you let me understand your power!"
Today, in one day, the losses of the combined forces of the various dynasties exceeded 200,000, and more than 100,000 soldiers died under the crossbow array of the city defense on the gorge of the Chiyan Mountain Range alone.
Because more than a million troops passed through that place, they were attacked by the crossbow array of the city defense above like a target, but they lost more than 100,000 soldiers, which is already good.
If the city's defense crossbow array was placed on the main road, the loss might be doubled.
However, in that case, the city defense crossbow array will definitely be broken, and Luo Zhong himself will have no worries.
I wish you a happy new year and don't catch a cold.
(End of chapter)