Chapter 743: Attack begins
Al Zhanhu and Xiao Pan led the troops away quite low-key, and Xia Fan didn't send them because he needed to pay more attention to the battle situation in front of him.
In yesterday's battle, the Holy Dragon Kingdom lost 3,000 wind cavalry, which was like a slap in the face, completely stunned them who originally imagined that they could easily defeat the army of White Rock City with just one battle. Although the loss of the three thousand wind cavalry was nothing to the entire Holy Dragon Country, for the current battle situation in Qingcao Lake, it made the Holy Dragon Country lose a force that was so strong that it could be put into the battlefield when the battle was stalemate.
And if you want to send the wind cavalry from the rear, it will take at least a day or two, which is really far from quenching your thirst for the current battle situation.
Although the loss of the three thousand wind cavalry was a bit painful, Long Tieshan, the commander of the Holy Dragon Kingdom's army this time, did not intend to withdraw his troops, but was even more determined to defeat the enemy and destroy it all.
Long Tieshan was originally not surnamed Long, but surnamed Li. Li Tieshan, who has a common surname and an ordinary name, is even more common, and it is difficult to find him almost in the crowd, but he is one of the few generals in the Holy Dragon country who are most capable of fighting and winning battles, and because of his great merits, he was given the national surname.
Yesterday, the Wind Cavalry suffered heavy losses, and Long Tieshan was also shocked and angry, secretly calling out that he had made a mistake, because he really didn't expect that the infantry formation in Baishi City would use so many magic weapons in order to kill the Wind Cavalry.
Although he was a little annoyed, Long Tieshan did not lose his mind, even if the camp was repeatedly harassed last night, he did not easily send troops to counterattack, because in order to know himself and the enemy, he had studied the previous battles commanded by Xia Fan and others, and found that they especially liked night battles and were extremely good at night battles, he was worried that last night's harassment was just to lure him into sending troops, and then take advantage of the night to launch a surprise attack, so Long Tieshan decided to ignore it for the sake of safety.
It was just that the price of the shrunken turtle was really not small, and this morning, before dawn, his subordinates came to report that after the harassment last night, not only were 78 camps destroyed, but also nearly 2,000 people were killed or wounded, of which 600 were killed, more than 1,100 were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured. In addition, due to the harassment last night, the soldiers were frightened overnight, and they did not rest well at all, so now they are not only very sleepy, but also have a very bad temper, and as a result, occasional quarrels will lead to fights.
After listening to the report of his subordinates, although Long Tieshan's face was expressionless, the muscles on his face couldn't help but twitch. Although it is said that there are no immortals in a war, but because of the harassment of the enemy, so many people were killed and injured, which still made him quite distressed and angry.
"Bang bang bang ......" Long Tieshan was just about to say something, when he heard a series of thunderous drums outside, followed by the earth-shattering shouts of killing.
"Commander, the enemy is on the offensive. "Someone hurried in to report it.
"What?!" Long Tieshan was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped out of the big tent, and then he heard the rumbling explosion sound that had already sounded, and the screams of the soldiers when they were killed in the battle continued to sound, which made his face suddenly become more gloomy, how could he not have thought that the enemy army had harassed all night last night, and they had just started to attack at dawn, didn't they all have to rest or eat?
Of course, ordinary soldiers are not made of iron, and if they don't sleep, they will be sleepy and won't eat, so they naturally won't have the strength to fight, but the souls in Xia Fan's Ten Thousand Soul Banner don't need to eat, drink, and sleep, so they can naturally fight all day without interruption.
Last night, Xia Fan asked Dudu to send more than 30,000 soul bodies to harass the camp tent of the Holy Dragon Kingdom army, and at the same time, he gradually withdrew the soldiers and horses who had been ordered to harass before and let them go back to the camp to rest, so don't look at the endless harassment last night, but the vast majority of the troops on Xia Fan's side are resting quite well.
Even at this time, the main force of the attack was all 100,000 souls under the command of Dudu, except for a few sharpshooters who were responsible for occasionally shooting a few rune arrows, basically no ordinary soldiers participated in the battle, because they were busy eating now.
Since Xia Fan decided yesterday to attack today, and intended to defeat the enemy in one battle, he naturally thought about how to fight to win more easily and easily, so he had the strategy of starting to attack at dawn now, in order to make a time difference.
To put it bluntly, because of the harassment last night, the army of the Holy Dragon Kingdom is either not awake or is in a daze now, let alone eating, but the army on Xia Fan's side is already in good spirits after a night's rest, and has started to eat in advance.
Fighting, fighting, to put it bluntly, is still quite a test of the soldier's energy and physical strength, and being so engaged by Xia Fan, at least in these two points, his soldiers and horses have taken a lot of advantage.
And this is far from over, Xia Fan let 100,000 souls take the lead in attacking, and it is still a tired strategy. In other words, whether these soul bodies can break through the camp of the Holy Dragon Kingdom army is not in Xia Fan's consideration at all, if they can get away with it, it is of course the best, but if they can't break it, he doesn't care, because what these soul bodies themselves have to do is to keep attacking, and then force the opposite Holy Dragon Kingdom army to fight, so that they don't have much time to rest and eat, and at the same time, they have to always keep their spirits tight.
A person gets tired easily when they are at high levels of stress, and then they are prone to making mistakes. And in the middle of the battlefield, listening to the impact of the surrounding weapons and the cries of the tragic death of comrades, no one must be able to deal with it calmly, and there will inevitably be negative emotions such as anxiety and fear, and then they will become extremely nervous, and even negative and war-weary. In addition, fighting is actually very tiring, and fighting with spirits is not only easy to get tired, but also easy to despair, as normal attacks can hardly cause fatal damage to them.
This also means that you desperately slash them and stab them, thinking that they will die, but they are still alive, and even hack them to death with a backhand, this kind of scene that you can't kill the enemy but will be killed is not only terrifying, but also very discouraged, and will be a great blow to the morale and morale of the army.
Even if the soldiers of the Holy Dragon Kingdom were not killed in the battle against the soul body, they would definitely be tired enough after a few battles, and there would be no possibility of continuing the battle in a short period of time. In this way, these people are equivalent to being abolished. At least in the ensuing battles will be of little use.
Xia Fan didn't expect these small means of his to make the army of the Holy Dragon Kingdom defeat without a fight, but he hoped to use this to continuously accumulate his own advantages until the final victory was completely established.
Among the 100,000 soul bodies, the number of soul generals is the mainstay, followed by the soul commander and the soul king, and the number of yin gods who are comparable to the strength of the god realm powerhouse is the least, and there are only a limited number of flame white ape kings, but the role they can play in the battle is quite large, just like attacking the camp, because there will be some defensive formations outside the camp, ordinary hundreds of soul generals may not be able to destroy it together, but the flame white ape king can be directly exploded, which makes the attack of the soul bodies much smoother.
However, although the ordinary swords of ordinary soldiers can't help the soul body, it doesn't mean that these 100,000 soul bodies can run rampant, because there are still many powerful cultivators in the army of the Holy Dragon Kingdom, and because the Holy Dragon Kingdom invaded Yunhuanhu Lake this time, it originally also had the idea of finishing its work in one battle, so the troops sent were definitely elite, so the proportion of cultivators in the Spirit Cultivation Realm and the Transformation God Realm was quite large.
At first, because of the sudden attack of 100,000 souls, the army of the Holy Dragon Kingdom had to be busy defending, but after stabilizing the situation, these cultivators of the Spirit Cultivation Realm and the Transformation God Realm began to exert their might, not only blocking the crazy attack of the soul bodies, but also their spells, talismans, and various magic weapons also caused a lot of damage to the soul bodies.
Thankfully, the soul body is not flesh and blood after all, so even if it is seriously injured or even scattered on the spot, as long as the soul is not completely scattered, then it will be attracted back by the Ten Thousand Soul Banners planted around the battlefield, and it only needs to be restored after a period of recuperation.
And the role of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner is much more than that. On the battlefield, there are people who die in battle all the time, and some people's souls are fragile, and they will dissipate on the spot when they are rushed by the extremely thick bloody qi, but the strength of some soldiers is not weak, and the soul is strong, even after the death of the body, there will be remnant souls, and the Ten Thousand Soul Banner can suck it away to fill the void left by the loss of the soul body in the battle.
It is not an exaggeration that if he could continue to fight like this, then the number of soul bodies in Xia Fan's Ten Thousand Soul Banner would only increase and definitely not decrease. If it weren't for the fact that there was a limit to the capacity of the Ten Thousand Soul Banners, then after a few big battles, the number of soul bodies in his hands could easily be more than doubled.
The two sides constantly fought for the favorable terrain of the camp, fought frantically, and each side continued to have casualties.
When there were only 70,000 souls left on the battlefield that could still fight, the casualties of the Holy Dragon Kingdom's army had reached more than 60,000, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides was close to one to two, which showed how elite the Holy Dragon Kingdom's army was. After all, they are not afraid of swords like soul bodies, and they are quite powerful to be able to fight such a record.
Xia Fan has been paying attention to the changes in the situation on the battlefield, especially through Dudu, who is always aware of the casualties of the soul body.
He wasn't worried about the soul body casualties, but he was able to roughly estimate the casualties on the Holy Dragon Kingdom's side so that he could adjust the battle in time.
At this time, the battle had lasted for nearly an hour, and the army under Xia Fan's command had already eaten breakfast and rested for a while, it was the time when he was full of energy and high fighting spirit, so Xia Fan waved his hand to the front and ordered: "Start attacking." ”
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