Episode 14 Encountering the Enemy
Tianlun Mountain Range is located in the territory of Gui at the junction of Guizhou and Vietnam, and the mountain range is composed of dozens of peaks of different sizes, which are in a north-south direction and nearly 1,000 kilometers long. The main peak of the www.biquge.info is located in the middle of the mountain range, up to more than 4,000 meters, is the highest peak within a radius of thousands of miles, its mountain is steep, surrounded by peaks, easy to defend and difficult to attack, has always been a place where soldiers must fight. Gui Guo built Tianlun Pass on Tianlun Peak, operated for hundreds of years, deployed heavy troops, and strictly guarded the western defense line of Gui State.
A few years ago, since the war between Gui and Vietnam, hundreds of battles have taken place between the armies of the two countries. The main force of more than 50,000 Gui troops relied on the steep terrain and the strong resistance of the Tianlun Peak Super Array, firmly guarded the Tianlun Pass, and formed a confrontation with the Yue army that occupied the numerical advantage.
However, a few months ago, the Yue army suddenly increased the front line, plus the 80,000 main forces on the front line, forming an army of 120,000 people, launched a fierce surprise attack on Tianlun Pass, breaking through several defense lines of the Gui army in Tianlun Pass in one fell swoop, beheading nearly 10,000 people, and greatly inflicting heavy losses on the Gui army. The Gui army suffered this defeat and had to urgently retreat to the main peak of Tianlun Peak. Taking advantage of its great defeat, the Vietnamese army occupied more than ten nearby peaks with great vigor, surrounded the Gui army on three sides, and only the passage on the side of the Gui country of Tianlun Peak had not yet been captured.
In the past few months, the Vietnamese army has taken advantage of the strong situation around Tianlun Peak to send troops from time to time to cut off the supply channels between the Gui army and the country, and often launched sneak attacks, posing a huge threat to the Gui army of Tianlun Peak. Although cultivators do not need to need a large amount of food and grass every day like mortals, many large formations, combat weapons, and magic weapons still need a large number of spirit stones to support, and the combat weapons consumed in battle also need to be replenished in time. What's more, the supply of cultivation resources such as spirit stones has a great effect on the recovery of the monk's mana, and like the mortal war, the war between cultivators is also a fight for resources.
The strong offensive posture of the Vietnamese army made the Gui army have to stick to the position of Tianlun Peak unswervingly, relying on the protection of the protective array to barely resist. Moreover, because it was unable to break through the blockade of the Vietnamese army and could not obtain domestic resources such as spiritual stones, it was difficult for the Gui army to launch a large-scale counterattack against the Vietnamese army. The Vietnamese army also seized the weakness that the main force of the Gui army was difficult to mobilize, and from time to time divided troops into the territory of Gui, invaded the cities on the border of Gui, and blocked the Gui army supporting Tianlun Peak, hoping to slowly consume the main force of the Gui army through this method.
After knowing this situation, the Gui royal family was naturally very anxious, and even issued a national ****** more than four months ago, requisitioning and mobilizing various counties to participate in the war, forming a large army to support the main force of the front, hoping to break through the blockade of the Vietnamese army in one fell swoop. It was in this context that the Lijun Levy Corps was ordered by the royal family to support the front line and escort a batch of important supplies to the hands of the Tianlun Fenggui Army.
On a road leading to the front line in the Great Plains in the western part of Guiguo, a corps of more than 4,000 monks marched mightily in the direction of Tianlun Peak. In the middle of the team surrounded by layers, there were hundreds of low-level spirit beast carts filled with huge boxes, which were closely protected by the entire corps, and they didn't know what important materials they were carrying.
In front of the team, four huge rhinoceros-like spirit beasts dragged a command chariot with obvious signs, floating at a low altitude and slowly moving forward. These four spirit beasts don't know what their origin is, although they look quite burly and clumsy, but with a light step, they move forward several meters like a phantom step, dragging the chariot behind them smoothly and steadily.
On the body platform, a royal minister dressed in a brocade robe and a civil official sat on a Taishi chair in the middle, and there were two people dressed as military generals on each side. The minister looked ahead for a moment, smiled and said to a military general with a calm demeanor next to him: "Commander Lin, are you a little too careful? Our corps is so huge, it can be regarded as the largest team to support the front line during this time, I am afraid that the Vietnamese army will not be able to avoid us when it encounters us, how can it still have the courage to block the attack? Why do we advance so cautiously? If we advance at full speed, I am afraid that it will not take us two or three days to reach the foot of Tianlun Peak, right?"
When the other three heard the minister's words, they immediately let out a sneer, and they all turned their eyes to the "Commander Lin" in the minister's mouth.
This "Lin Commander" is naturally Lin Da.
Five days ago, the Lijun Levy Corps unexpectedly succeeded in advancing the spiritual power infusion body under the Tianbi Peak, and when they were confronting Prince Luo, they suddenly received an edict from King Gui to rush to the front line. Linda immediately took the order as if nothing had happened, and then left the holy place safely with the entire levy corps with the royal envoys, making Prince Luo grit his teeth and be angry, but he was helpless.
After returning to the barracks, after two days of rest, they received a formal order from King Gui to assemble with the other three noble levy corps, led by an overseer sent by the royal family, to escort a large pile of war supplies collected from Xiangcheng to the Gui army at the front.
The other three people who were with Lin Da were the leaders of the three nobles of Li, Mu, and Yan respectively. These three people are quite well-behaved and obedient in front of the royal ministers, but they have an attitude of disgust and rejection towards Linda.
The reason why the three of them disliked Liulinda was precisely because the Li clan, who was the same nobleman, had planted a big heel in the hands of Linda and others, and was not only teased, but also lost control of the army of Lijun. The four nobles secretly didn't know what connection they had, and they hated Linda, who had already taken refuge in the royal family, and the three of them naturally showed obvious hostility towards Linda.
Hearing the Overseer's question to Linda, a middle-aged man from the three clans said to the Overseer: "Lord Overseer, this is very true! The current war is so urgent, the Gui army in front does not know how much we need the supplies we escort, and if the supplies can be delivered to the front line as soon as possible, perhaps the siege of Tianlun Peak will be relieved sooner." If we were to hurry up, it would take us less than three days at most to transport the supplies to the front line, but now Commander Lin has done the opposite, and it will take at least five or six days for the army to rush to the front line.
After this man finished speaking, the other two immediately spoke out in agreement, and were very dissatisfied with Linda's request to slow down the army's advance, and even wanted to use it as an excuse for the Overseer to punish Linda.
Linda didn't care about the three of them's remarks, just frowned slightly, and then fell silent. Before the departure of this army, Prince Luan had quietly sent an order to Linda, asking him to secretly keep an eye on the leaders of the other three clans, and at the same time appointed Linda as the deputy commander of this levy legion, assisting the royal overseer to control the four levy legions. This decision shocked the Li, Mu, and Yan clans, but because of the majesty of King Gui, they had to accept it, but secretly they were extremely dissatisfied. As for the attitudes and thoughts of the three clans, Linda naturally knows it.
The overseer minister of the royal clan listened to the words of the leader of the three clans, and only smiled slightly, and did not blame Lin Da as they expected, but said slowly: "You don't need to worry, although this official also wants to go to the front line one day earlier, but Commander Lin's actions must have his reasons, can you tell me about it?"
Linda bowed deeply to the Overseer and replied respectfully, "My lord, my subordinates have gathered a lot of information from the front line before they set out. Now that the Vietnamese army is strong, it not only sent troops deep into our border to harass us, but also repeatedly blocked our army's troops supporting Tianlun Peak, causing a lot of losses to our side. The position we are in now is the area where the Vietnamese army has appeared most frequently before, and our army may encounter a sneak attack by the enemy at any time. Therefore, it is precisely in case that the troops are on alert and slow down the march, just in case. ”
The Overseer listened to Linda's explanation and nodded slightly, acknowledging his careful approach. But when the other three clan commanders heard this, they didn't think so, and one of the Yan clan leaders said even more disdainfully: "Hehe! It turns out that Commander Lin thinks so! I think it's the same, among us, you haven't been on the battlefield." It seems that we still have to ask Commander Lin Duoduo for advice on how to lead troops to fight, hahahaha!" After saying this, the three of them laughed at the same time, not taking Lin Da in their eyes at all.
Seeing this, a hint of strangeness flashed in the eyes of the royal overseer, and he did not say anything to reconcile, he glanced at Linda, thinking that he would be furious. But to his surprise, Linda didn't have any anger when he saw that the three of them were so rude to him, but leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed, and didn't pay any attention to the words of the three of them. Seeing Linda's attitude, the leaders of the three clans couldn't say anything more after laughing, but their faces became more gloomy, and they secretly glanced at each other, and the five of them fell silent in this calm and strange atmosphere.
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"Elder Jing, is your information accurate? We have been waiting here for a day and a night, and we haven't even seen the shadow of Gui Jun! If we wait any longer, will we delay the warplane?!" On a dense meadow somewhere in the Great Plains, a samurai in heavy armor asked impatiently to a white-robed old man beside him. Around them, there were more than a thousand heavily armed soldiers crouching in a dense manner, and judging from the signs on these soldiers, they were all soldiers of the Yue Kingdom!
The white-robed old man smiled slightly, and said confidently: "General A, please rest assured, this information that the old man has received is reported by us in the Gui Kingdom, and this internal government has an extremely special status in the Gui Kingdom, and the news is absolutely credible! As long as we can intercept the materials transported by this Gui army, it will definitely be a fatal blow to the Tianlun Peak Gui Army, which is short of spirit stones!"
The military general nodded, and soon asked with a little suspicion: "Although your situation is accurate, it is said that there are as many as 4,000 Gui troops transporting this batch of materials, but the marshal only asked me to bring more than 1,000 people from the Weihu Corps to block the attack, although I am quite confident in the strength of these brothers, but it is still not enough to deal with these 4,000 Gui army, have you ever understood the situation of this Gui army?"
The white-robed old man smiled slightly, and said confidently: "Hehe, it turns out that General A is worried about this! You can rest assured, I will wait for this time to fight in the Gui Kingdom, so naturally we can't bring too many troops, so as not to attract the attention of the defenders of the Gui army." What's more, General A still doesn't know, although there are as many as 4,000 Gui troops that we want to block this time, all of them are scattered cultivation corps temporarily recruited by Gui State, and the vast majority of them only have cultivation in the early stage of the Qi Realm, and all of them are a group of rookies who have no combat experience! The Weihu Corps is definitely more than enough to deal with them!
"Oh, is this true?, these people are all low-level cultivators?!" the military general asked excitedly when he heard this.
"How could the old man lie to you! This news is also from the Gui Kingdom, and it is absolutely credible!" the white-robed old man nodded.
The general's face suddenly showed murderous aura, and he said fiercely: "Okay! This is really a godsend! To deal with this scattered cultivation corps, our more than 1,000 people are indeed enough. It's really God's favor, give us this credit for nothing, haha!"
The white-robed old man agreed with the general's words very much, and nodded silently, looking extremely confident in this battle.
At this time, a lieutenant general flew in front of the two from a distance, and hurriedly reported: "General Qiqijia, Master Li, we have found a small group of Gui troops in the scouts in front and have had an encounter with the opponent, they should be the outposts of the Gui army!"
The general's eyes lit up suddenly, and he hurriedly asked: "Small Gui Army?
The lieutenant cautiously replied: "Not yet... As soon as we discovered this Gui army, we sent ten small units to the front to reconnoitre, and we have not yet found a large Gui army. ”
"Haven't found it yet? Then how did this Gui army come from? You should hurry up and search for it! If you miss the warplane, you are the only one who asks!" the general shouted angrily.
The white-robed old man on the side said with a pleasant face: "General A, don't worry, these ordinary soldiers have limited spiritual sense, and it's not strange that they didn't find the large army of the Gui Army, why don't we go and check it out in person?"
"Okay!" the military general immediately agreed, he didn't want to miss this great opportunity to attack the Gui army's legion, and immediately released a flying magic weapon with the white-robed old man, and rushed in the direction where he found the Gui army's small force.
Not long after the two Vietnamese commanders took off, a soldier recruited from Li County hurried to the command vehicle in front of the Gui Army Corps and reported to Lin Da and others the information that the Vietnamese army had been found in the front.
"What? Did you really spot the Viet Nam twenty miles ahead?" asked the Overseer as he jumped up from his chair and looked alarmed.
"Commander Lin is not mistaken, is he? Twenty miles away, why hasn't our spiritual sense discovered it?" asked the Li Clan Commander suspiciously.
Lin Da frowned, and replied unceremoniously: "Have you found the enemy, naturally there is a report from the scouts, could it be that Commander Li's spiritual sense is stronger than all of us present, and he can even know everything twenty miles away in advance?"
When the leader of the Li clan heard this, his face turned dark, and he was immediately unable to say a word. Commander Yan on the side immediately said: "Hmph! Even if our spiritual sense can't detect 20 miles away, then we can't just assume that the Vietnamese army discovered by the scouts really poses any threat to us! Maybe it's just a small force of the Vietnamese army, so why make a fuss!"
Lin Da said solemnly: "You can't say that! Since the traces of a small group of Vietnamese troops have been discovered, it is very likely that there will be a large army of Vietnamese troops nearby, and we must be vigilant and not be careless!" He immediately turned to the Minister of Overseer and said without hesitation: "Lord Overseer, please allow me to immediately order all the requisitioned corps to prepare for battle!"
The Overseer hesitated, but didn't answer immediately. But at this moment, a rapid horn suddenly came from a distance, which startled everyone. (To be continued.) )