Chapter 18: Defeat

As mentioned last time, as a high-ranking knight of the ghost clan, Vancyti created his own spear style trick and broke through the first layer of the gun forest array, but he saw that he was about to be trapped in the second layer of the gun forest array, and his deputy army commander sacrificed his life to bring a few personal guard cavalry to stop him, but he was greeted by the team leader of the second layer of the gun forest array. Although they had already restrained their horses from crashing directly into the gunfire, they were stabbed by the eight-foot spears thrown from behind the gunlining. Even if it was an immortal ghost clan, it was pierced by a spear, and it was not lightly injured and fell off the horse. Many of the knights had just struggled to their feet, but they were drenched with grease by the light infantry that came up from them, set on fire, and turned to ashes in their wailings. The deputy corps commander led the team to fight to the death, only slowing down the offensive of the second layer of the gun array, seeing that the gap was about to be surrounded, and it was difficult for him to survive the ghost clan, Van Saiti raised his head to the sky and roared, determined to fight one by one, and led the team to rush towards the place where the deputy corps commander was buried. At this time, the last three layers of the second layer of the gun forest array threw their spears and ran out of weapons, and the first three layers of light infantry in order to cover the arson of the enemy, saw the enemy cavalry rushing and threw their eight-foot spears one after another. As soon as the spear was thrown, the empty-handed spearmen retreated to the sides according to tactics, and the third team in the rear attacked.

The third team is General Zhao's cavalry team, seeing that the second layer of the gun forest layer was broken, he waved his knife and said to his subordinates: "There have always been only ghosts attacking me, and it has been more than two hundred years. Now follow me to attack ghosts, although this body does not hesitate to die. Under the rhetoric, the cavalry rushed to kill. The ghost cavalry had just broken through the spear array, and before they could find a good direction, they encountered the same cavalry with steel armor and iron armor. Although the ghosts are immortal, the swords can still easily cut off their hands and feet under the impact of the cavalry. After a round of impact, the ghost riders fell off their horses one after another, and were firmly held down by the longpole soldiers and lasso soldiers who followed the cavalry assault route, and saw the grease poured on the ghost horsemen, and then a torch was lit, and the wailing was silent for a moment.

Relying on his height and horse, not only did he not fall off his horse when the cavalry was hedging, but assassinated a number of cavalry of the New Han Army, and then took advantage of the fact that after the New Han Army penetrated his cavalry team, the whole team was not far away and was ready to attack again.

In this battle, the infantry and cavalry of Van Saiti were completely lost, and there were thousands of ghost infantry cavalry that were burned, plus several annihilation battles on the territory of the ghost clan, the loss of the ghost clan was more than 10,000. Although the New Han army suffered no more than 100 casualties, it lost a figure they could not afford to lose - General Zhao.

General Zhao led the team to rush and kill, with a momentum like a rainbow, but unexpectedly, when penetrating the ghost cavalry, he was hit by a sword in his left chest. After enduring his injuries, leading troops to kill all the cavalry, and waving his troops to encircle and suppress the infantry, he finally died of his injuries at the age of 30.

The Xinhan army returned to the land of the New Han Dynasty, and no longer had the will to fight, the King of the New Han Dynasty was mediocre and incompetent, afraid of the attack of the ghost clan's strange soldiers, and no longer sent troops to conquer, giving the ghost clan a chance to cultivate.

After returning to the territory of the ghost clan, Van Saiti felt that the human race was not easy to deal with, so he did not attack the new Han land again, but worked hard to establish a knight system and train high-level knights. Since then, knighthood has not only become a military position, but also a symbol of honor, and can also obtain a nobleman's fiefdom for various expenses. The training method of high-level knights has solidified into a model, and after many years of removing the chaff, training bases such as knight schools and high-level knight schools have been established. Over the course of a decade, the number and quality of knights have increased exponentially, and two high-ranking knights have been born.

Under the advantages of the other, the strategic advantage of the ghost clan has been achieved.

After the death of this generation of Xinhan kings, his son Yuji was even more cowardly, on the one hand, he was afraid that the Xinhan army would threaten his throne, and on the other hand, he was stubborn and wanted to establish a crusade like his father. Under the advice of the courtiers, he actually adopted the method of using the ghost clan to wear down the strength of the New Han army. In his mind, the New Han Army went to the territory of the Ghost Clan to crusade this time, not to mention that it could be exchanged for more than ten years of stability, and if he deducted military supplies a little, the New Han Army would inevitably suffer heavy losses. It's a win-win-win-win

History has always slapped fools mercilessly, and this one is no exception.

The king of the New Han Dynasty, Yuji, ordered the population to be counted, recruited soldiers, and won 40,000 troops, and then conquered the other side of the stinky lake. Due to the incompetence of General Wei, the main general sent by Yuji, coupled with poor logistics, before he reached the ghost clan area, he was already disheartened. In order to boost morale with a victory, General Wei divided the army of 40,000 and surrounded a castle from four directions. This is a small lord's castle, the city is only six feet, there are no more than a hundred soldiers, there are only more than twenty knights, and there is not even a high-ranking knight. Seeing that the soldiers of the New Han Army were pressing the territory and surrounded on all sides, the little lord decided to sacrifice his life, so he took all the infantry cavalry out of the city to meet the enemy.

General Wei was preparing to attack the city by sending his troops to the main station, but unexpectedly the enemy army came out of the city. Before he could figure out where the other party had the courage to bring more than a hundred people and dare to challenge his 40,000 military horses, the little lord led the cavalry to rush over. General Wei hurriedly ordered to meet the enemy, but his subordinates could not eat enough to eat, and they could not wear warm clothes, so they had no strength to meet the battle, and they were easily broken through the defense by the ghost horse, and stabbed General Wei under the horse with a spear.

The New Han army immediately scattered and fled, the lord of the ghost clan waved his army to cover the killing, and more than 100 ghost generals killed thousands of new Han troops. The rest of the New Han army lost their baggage supplies, so they had to look for food along the road and walk back to the land of the New Han Dynasty. Forty thousand went out, and less than 20,000 returned.

Yuji regretted it at this time, and wanted to blame the defeated general Wei for this defeat, but was indignantly exposed by a minister. More than 10,000 people of the New Han Army forced the palace and wanted to abdicate the throne. Yuji had no choice but to pass the seat to his son Yuye, and ran to the back to hang himself around his neck. Although Yu Ye had the intention to reorganize the New Han army, he had no soldiers. Most of the young and middle-aged people of the new Han people sacrificed their lives in the army, and the population development also stagnated for a time. finally recuperated for a few years, and before Yu Ye had the ability to form a new Han army, the ghost clan came.

This time, the ghost clan came with six high-ranking knights, leading 4,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry, divided into six legions to march together. First recovered the stinky lake, reopened the sulfur mine, and still renamed the place as the sulfur lake. Then along the road, Lianke Fort Village, destroyed farmland and cottages, and went all the way to the capital of the New Han Dynasty.

In the first battle of the national capital, 19,000 Xinhan troops were all killed, and Yu Ye learned from his father and committed suicide by throwing himself into the ring.

At this time, the population of the new Han people had reached 500,000, and after the ghost tribe wantonly killed and plundered, they could not escape 50,000 or 60,000 people. The land of the New Han Dynasty has been reduced to the territory of the ghost clan.

These 50,000 or 60,000 exiles re-established villages in various places and lived quietly, but they were still found and slaughtered by the ghost tribe one by one. Until one of them stood up and said to the ghost clan: Don't kill me, I should serve.

The survival of the ghost clan is inseparable from sulfur, but where the sulfur is located, the air is often extremely corrosive. In less than half a year, the mining zombies will be corroded beyond recognition, and even their hands and feet will be broken, all because the ghost clan has been damaged and cannot repair it by itself. Humans, on the other hand, are injured and heal on their own. This gave the people of the village a way to live - to mine sulfur ore for the ghosts, and then process it into all kinds of necessary acid or mineral powder. This formed the prototype of the ghost clan governing the village and collecting taxes. Later, some villagers discovered that ice fruit trees could be cultivated, ice fruits could be used to make wine, and even ice mushrooms were picked to cultivate. The ghost clan is very fond of some things, and is willing to let the villagers of the New Han people pay these things to buy their lives. In this way, in areas where there are no sulfur mines, there are gradually human villages that exist and develop.

It's just that the ghost clan is very afraid that the new Han people will have another immortal genius like General Zhao, so they strictly control the human village. Once the number of people exceeds the required number, they are divided into other villages, and if there are more people in several villages, they are drawn to form new villages. However, if the number of villages is beyond the control of the lord, people are often forcibly killed and refined into zombies.

Over the past thousand years, human villages have been built one after another, and the lords of the ghost clan have become richer and richer, and the ability of the ghost clan has become stronger and stronger.

"Aren't they afraid of attracting too many souls, and the corpses in their hands are not enough?" Lu Jingzhi asked hatefully when he heard the young village chief talk about this.

"Then what's there to be afraid of, those adults of the ghost clan can't wait for it. The young village chief looked at the fence that had been erected not far away, and replied, "Even if there are no corpses, they can dig up the bones and attach them to the skeleton soldiers, or let the stonemasons carve the stone statues, and attach them to the gargoyles." ”

"I've walked so many villages, why haven't I seen a single stonemason?" Lu Jingzhi asked puzzled.

"My lord, our duke is a little lord, and he is very poor. He couldn't afford to raise a stonemason, so he had to pull people from the villages under his rule to count them. The master stonemason can only afford it in a big castle. The young village chief replied.

The stonemasons have both strength and skill, and if they are broken with a hammer, they cannot be repaired, unlike the blacksmith who can add a piece of iron to re-strike it, or the carpenter who can nail other wood to it. This stone statue is basically formed at one time, and if you can carve the stone statue, you can almost call it an artist.

Just as he was saying this, Silly Da came with someone and said to Lu Jing: "Master, the fence has been built." ”

Lu Jingzhi looked up at the sky and said, "You take someone down to rest, eat something, take a nap, the 'opposite' is coming soon." ”

Lu Jingzhi asked two ghost pawns and four zombies to be called over, guarding behind him, looking at the road at the entrance of the village, there was already a faint figure with a steady pace, which was the unique pace of the ghost pawns. Although zombies are extremely fast and agile when attacking, they usually walk staggeringly because they need to conserve energy in their bodies. When zombies are attached to corpses, they can only consume the chemical energy of the corpse itself, and if they are not used well and consumed excessively, they will forever lose the opportunity to open their minds. To the extent of ghost pawns and ghost rides, one is that the control of the energy in the body is more accurate, and the other is that with ice fruits and ice mushrooms and other things to replenish energy, they will no longer walk crookedly, but walk with great precision in every step like this.

Lu Jingzhi asked the young village chief in a low voice, "Are all the things you prepared just now ready?"

The young village chief nodded and said, "My lord, I'll let people go over there." ”

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.