Chapter Twenty-Five: Qin Qiong's Plan
Chapter 25 Qin Qiong's plan
"What did you say?
"Back to the deputy commander, the Fengyun Division suddenly retreated after only half an hour of attack, and now they have all returned to the camp!" said the soldier who was kneeling on one knee said in a deep voice.
"Go back! What is this Zhou Yunfeng going to do? Is it just a test attack?" said the man on the back of the wildebeest king.
This person is the commander sent by the Cong Yun Empire to guard the Sky City, Yun Xuchong, the deputy commander of the Central Legion, and he is also a member of the Yun family.
I have to say that the Yun family has great power in the Congyun Empire, not only is the Viper Legion in the hands of the Yun family, but also the ten deputy commanders in the Central Army are also one of his Yun family.
This is equivalent to four million people in the five major legions of the Congyun Empire, and the Yun family controls 700,000, nearly one-fifth of the troops, what kind of power is this?
The Yun family's plan in Tianwu Province failed, not only did not the Zhou family do anything, but also lost a lot of strong people, even the strong people of the Martial Emperor lost a few people, plus the Viper Legion fell in the hands of the Blue Dragon Legion, which made the Yun family's prestige in the Congyun Empire suffer a great blow, and their status was also provoked.
Although there are not many first-class forces in the Congyun Empire, there are only a few, so the Yun family cannot cover the sky in the Congyun Empire, and if you want to have enough right to speak, you must have enough strength.
In terms of top strength, the Yun family is extremely not weak, three martial honors, such strength can definitely be sent close to the top three in the Cong Yun Empire.
It's just that there was an accident when he ambushed Zhou Zhantian, not only did he not kill Zhou Zhantian, but he also lost one Wuzun, even if another Wuzun escaped back, he was seriously injured.
Although these things were unknown to ordinary people, they couldn't escape the eyes of those martial artists in the Cong Yun Empire, so they seized the opportunity of the Yun family's successive defeats and began to continuously attack the Yun family.
Although because of the fear of the remaining two martial artists of the Yun family, those forces did not dare to be excessive, but this also made the Yun family, which had been rampant in the Cong Yun Empire for decades, unbearable, so after the family's strength suffered repeated losses, in the face of various blows, the Yun family did not choose to forbear, but broke out.
The Viper Legion was destroyed, which was a great reduction in the Yun family's right to speak in the Congyun Empire, under normal circumstances, the Yun family should have kept the 200,000 troops led by the Yun family in the central legion, as a hole card for the family to turn over in the future, but they didn't. On the contrary, the task of guarding the Sky City this time was still requested by the Yun family themselves, and their purpose was obvious, not only to be ashamed, but also to use this opportunity to kill the people of the Zhou family, in order to vent the hatred in their hearts.
For this move of the Yun family, although the various forces of the Congyun Empire were a little surprised, they did not mean to stop it, especially the emperor of the Congyun Empire, he knew that the Dao was determined to resist the Tianyun Empire, and in the Congyun Empire, I am afraid that no family would be stronger than the Yun family.
There is no other reason, even if the Cong Yun Empire is destroyed, as long as the other families surrender, basically nothing will happen in a short time, but the Yun family is different.
Once the Cong Yun Empire is destroyed by the Tianyun Empire, then the Yun family will inevitably perish next, and there is no suspense about this.
Let's not talk about the fact that the royal family of the Tianyun Empire plotted against the Yun family and the Blue Dragon Legion back then, causing the Tianyun Empire to be in danger at the beginning of the war, the Zhou family who was active in the Tianyun Empire now and the Long family who were not really wiped out back then were enough for the Yun family to drink a pot.
Not to mention the specific strength of the Zhou family now, even the Long family, which was almost wiped out by the Yun family, made the Yun family have to deal with it carefully.
Although there was only one person left in the bloodline of the Long family back then, Long Qingshan was not dead, and the people who survived the war were extremely strong, which is also the reason why only Long Qingshan, who had the strength of the Martial Emperor, could support the Long family.
Therefore, the Yun family could not let the Cong Yun Empire be destroyed by the Tianyun Empire no matter what.
Yun Xu Chong groaned for a while, feeling that he still needed to go to Motianling to take a look, although he had already concluded in his heart that Zhou Yunfeng was a tentative attack this time, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, he knew the importance of this battle to the Cong Yun Empire and the Yun family.
"The army is back to the city!, the personal guards will follow me to Motianling to have a look!" Yun Xuchong ordered, and then walked in the direction of Motianling with a horse's belly.
Hearing that the Fengyun Division was attacking Motianling, Yun Xuchong did not go alone, but brought an army of 50,000, originally wanting to give Zhou Yunfeng a little strength, but he didn't expect that he hadn't arrived yet, and Zhou Yunfeng had already led the army to withdraw
Cangwu City is a county town located in the Moshi Province, and this county town is located on the offensive route of the left army led by Qin Qiong.
Cangwu City is the second city that the left army needs to conquer when entering Moshi Province, this city has just been broken by the Praetorian Guards this morning, and at this time, there is basically no one walking on the street except for the Praetorian Guards who are chasing and killing the remnants from time to time.
When formulating the plan for dividing the army into three routes, which one is responsible for which cities has been agreed, Luo Cangxing Province has a total of seventeen counties, except for Yonghe City and Gukou City, which have been taken by Zhou Yunfeng, there are exactly fifteen cities left, and the three-way army is exactly divided into five cities on each road.
Originally, in Qin Qiong's opinion, although it was difficult for the left-way army under his command to become the first of the three-way army to pass through Luo Cangxing Province, it should be very easy to become the second.
The Blue Dragon Legion of the right army is not only strong and strong, with many generals, but also Zhou Xiaojun, the commander of the legion that Qin Qiong has to admire, so losing to the Blue Dragon Legion, Qin Qiong thinks it is acceptable.
As for the middle road army led by Zhou Yunfeng, Qin Qiong didn't put it in his eyes at all, although Zhou Yunfeng had a precedent of taking the six cities of Gukou, but in Qin Qiong's opinion, this was only the beginning of the battlefield, and those cities were defenseless, so Zhou Yunfeng had a chance to take advantage of it and won the six cities by sneak attack.
And now the situation is completely different, it is no secret that the Tianyun Empire has occupied Taniguchi City, and it is not difficult for the Tianyun Empire to attack Congyun Empire from afar as there is a clear-eyed person, so the next war will not be as easy as attacking Yonghe Six Cities.
It's just that there are always accidents in things, and the Fengyun Division led by Zhou Yunfeng is completely an accident for Qin Qiong, an accident that he can't even dream of.
The speed at which the middle army captured the five cities was not only faster than the left army, but also much faster than the right army that Qin Qiong saw, when he learned the news, Qin Qiong first felt that the intelligence was wrong, but then he accepted this reality.
From this moment on, Qin Qiong still looked at Zhou Yunfeng and the Fengyun Division, because they broke his cognition.
Although there were nearly 150,000 people when the Fengyun Division left Taniguchi City, in Qin Qiong's opinion, they were all a rabble.
The reason why Qin Qiong thinks this is very simple, except for the 30,000 light cavalry transferred from the Blue Dragon Legion, the rest of the Fengyun Division are either mercenaries or surrendered troops from the Congyun Empire, and these people still account for the vast majority of them.
Qin Qiong didn't believe that an army like Zhou Yunfeng would have any combat effectiveness, in his opinion, Zhou Yunfeng didn't ask him for help on the way to attack, this was already a matter of burning high incense.
But the facts in front of him made Qin Qiong have to admit the strength of Zhou Yunfeng and the Fengyun Division, and at the same time attach importance to them.
Because of the attack speed of the Fengyun Division, Qin Qiong was greatly stimulated, so in the future battles, Qin Qiong launched a ruthless attack, accompanied by a much faster siege.
It's just that there was too much lead in the middle, and although Qin Qiong tried to catch up, he still couldn't catch up.
But Qin Qiong did not lose confidence, because he knew that the place of Motianling would definitely slow down Zhou Yunfeng's pace, and whether Zhou Yunfeng could go to Motianling was still two words.
Things really did not escape from Qin Qiong's expectations, the Fengyun Division was blocked under the Sky Ridge, and it had not attacked once in ten days, this was Qin Qiong's chance, and let the left army surpass the middle army.
On the tenth day when the Fengyun Division reached the Sky Ridge, the Middle Route Army finally took their second city in Moshi Province, Cangwu City, and at this time they could be regarded as catching up with the pace of the Middle Route Army.
The middle army can't take the third city of Moshi Province, Sky City, but the left army is very sure to take their next city, Mohe City, for the simple reason that the place where the Fire Phoenix Legion blocks the left army is not in Mohe City, but in the first city, Yuyang Pass.
Although Yuyang Pass is not as dangerous as Motianling, it is also a dangerous place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Qin Qiong is not sure that he will take Yuyang Pass from the Fire Phoenix Legion in a short time, but the difficulty of attacking Mohe City is not as difficult for him as it is to attack Cangwu City.
Although even if Zhilu Dao captures Cangwu City and temporarily surpasses the middle lane army, this does not mean that the left army is stronger than the middle lane army, but Qin Qiong doesn't want to be behind others all the time, he needs to surpass.
"Solve the remnants of the enemy in the city as quickly as possible, restore the order of Cangwu City, and rest the army for a day. A day later, the army left Cangwu City and marched into Mohe City!" Qin Qiong ordered the commanders of the two divisions under his command.
"Yes!" the two division commanders replied.
"Now that the Fengyun Division is blocked in the Sky Ridge, I don't know when Lu Dao will be able to capture the Sky City, so we must reach Yuyang Pass as soon as possible. Qin Qiong continued.
"Although Yuyang Pass is not as dangerous as Motianling, but with the 200,000 people of the Fire Phoenix Legion guarding there, I am afraid it will not be so easy for us to capture it!" one of the division commanders said in a deep voice.
Now that the Middle Route Army is blocked in Motianling, Zhou Yunfeng and the Fengyun Division are still too young, and the previous battles were easy, so they can be as strong as a bamboo, but now that they have encountered hard stubble, I am afraid it will be dangerous. Qin Qiong said in a deep voice: "If our army on the left is blocked by the Fire Phoenix Legion, I am afraid it will have a great impact on the soldiers of our Tianyun Empire, so we must take Yuyang Pass as soon as possible, and then make a detour from Yuyang Pass and attack Motianling with the army in the middle lane." Only in this way can we keep our army's offensive like a bamboo!"