264. The dilemma of the abyss underground
The participation of the Flying Wing Army means that the war has finally entered a white-hot stage.
Those who can serve as the commanders of the flying wing department are naturally not ordinary people.
Every general of the thousand-person team is a five-grade cultivator, with steel armor all over his body, and the sharp steel wings on his arms, holding steel guns, brought heavy casualties to the Yongzhou army in an instant.
The sword cavalry on the top of the city has not participated in the battle, and at this time it has to participate in the battle, if the flying wingers are allowed to kill and kill wantonly, it will definitely destroy the morale of the Yongzhou soldiers.
Two thousand sword riders rode huge horses and rushed through the vast city wall, and fought fiercely with the wingers who flew up the wall.
The Tianma cavalry of the Yuezhou Army also joined the battle group at this time, and the Azure Horse, which was not much worse than the black iron horse, could cross the ravines more than ten meters wide and enter the city wall with a little help on the Pingcheng car.
The city road that was 100 meters wide turned into a blood river hell in an instant.
One by one, the dragon cannons, and the bed crossbows, were destroyed by the elite of the three-state coalition army at the cost of their lives, and ordinary soldiers could finally enter the city along the Pingcheng Che Wooden Pai Bridge.
Even if Wang Yan, Lu Kai and others personally went into battle and led the remaining 3,000 sword cavalry to join the battle, compared to the three-state coalition army that far surpassed the Yongzhou army and the soldiers and horses, it was still inferior, and slowly fell into disadvantage.
There were even soldiers and horses from Sanzhou who went down the city road and entered the outer city to fight with the Minzhuang troops in Yongzhou.
It's just that the tenacity of the Yongzhou army's resistance still exceeded the estimation of He Teng and others.
Wang Yan, who has iron bones and martial courage, is born to lead the troops, and it is really difficult to deal with it to the extreme!
This is also an important reason why Wang Yan can become the governor of Yongzhou, there are too few strong people with military courage.
The three-state coalition army has suffered 20,000 or 30,000 casualties, but it is still unable to take the city wall.
The strength of martial arts has a certain range of limitations, Wang Yan's top-grade iron bone and martial arts, when leading the army, the protection power is increased by three, which can cover a three-mile radius, but now Yongchang City is full of battles, and the battle line is extremely long, and it is difficult for Wang Yan to bless the whole army with the power of iron bones and martial arts.
But the most elite sword cavalry, has been staying near Wang Yan, advancing and retreating with Wang Yan, with the blessing of iron and courage, the protection power has been increased by three times, which is equivalent to everyone wearing iron armor, and the morale is also extremely high, although the casualties have reached one-third, they still fight to the death.
He Teng, Zhao Tao and Miao He also had red eyes at this time, and their anger skyrocketed.
If this battle cannot be fought, it will certainly greatly damage the morale of the army, and no more threatening attacks will be organized within a month.
Li Hui asked Wang Yan and others to hold on for another month, and Yonghong and others didn't order He Teng and others to quickly take Yizhou City, and then mobilize troops to support the Tongtianhe battlefield!
He Teng and the others knew that as long as the Yongzhou soldiers were trapped to death, within two months, the Yongzhou soldiers would definitely collapse and surrender due to the food problem, but they couldn't afford this time!
After sending messages to each other with drums, the commanders of the three armies, under the escort of their own soldiers, personally led the reserve troops to kill the key battlefields everywhere!
Although the troops under He Teng's command were only second-grade troops, the three new forces joined the battlefield, their blood was churning, and their morale was high, but they were in a stalemate with the third-grade sword cavalry under the command of Wang Yan, and with the advantage of numbers, the balance of the war was suddenly suppressed.
The defeat was like a mountain, the soldiers of the Yongzhou army were defeated and retreated one after another, and those who assisted in defending the city were even more difficult to withstand the terrible pressure of the three-state coalition army.
Despite the strong suppression of the Yongzhou Military Supervision Team, there were still countless people who could not withstand the pressure and fled violently.
Wang Yan's Huangpin Sword Soul Martial Courage has all been used, and the two Xuantie Nine Ring Swords in his hand burst out with several zhang long light, under the strangulation of the two knives, the two four-rank martial arts generals who fought against him screamed, and the entire body has turned into a blood mist under the strangulation of the sword.
The nearby Sanzhou generals were also killed one after another by Wang Yan and the Qui Dao cavalry under his command, but looking at the huge battlefield, only a few battle formations composed of the Qui Dao were strongly supported.
The others, whether it was Lu Kai, Tian Lang and other subordinates, were all suppressed by the three-state coalition army and completely fell into disadvantage.
At this time, countless three-state coalition troops poured into the city like ants, He Teng was holding a dragon head spear, leading hundreds of sword and shield men to kill him directly, Wang Yan sighed in his heart, knowing that the situation was irreparable, and he was about to order the golden gong to be sounded, and retreat into the inner city first!
At this time, a horse rushed up from the city road, and when he saw Wang Yan, he couldn't care about sweating profusely, and said urgently: "Tell the general, the Yellow Turban Demon Army in the south of the city suddenly withdrew from Qingyun Road a hundred miles away!"
Wang Yan was stunned for a moment, and asked urgently: "The Yellow Turban Demon Army withdrew from Qingyun Dao, where did the news come from, are you sure?"
The knight spoke very quickly and reported the news he had obtained: "The subordinate led the scout team to explore the terrain south of the city and found that the Yellow Turban Army was no longer in Qingyun Road. ”
"The subordinates followed the traces and found that the Yellow Turban Demon Army had withdrawn to the vicinity of Shuanghuan Mountain, and the subordinates asked people to monitor the movements of the Yellow Turban Demon Army, and immediately came back to tell the general!"
Wang Yan didn't care about verifying the accuracy of the news, He Teng and the others were about to kill the city wall, once they were surrounded by these tens of thousands of fresh troops, they were afraid that the soldiers and horses under their command would be completely buried here.
The sound of the golden gong sounded rapidly, and Wang Yan ordered the destruction of the catapults, fire dragon cannons, etc., which could not be taken away, and then led thousands of sword horses to kill a bloody road and retreat from the Yongchang city wall.
Lu Kai and the others also reached the limit, seeing that Wang Yanming and Jin collected their troops, where would they be entangled with the Sanzhou Coalition Army, they all led the remnants and fought a bloody way to retreat.
He Teng and the others saw that the Yongzhou soldiers were fully retreating, and they wanted to lead the army to capture the inner city, but they didn't know that under the inner city, Wang Yan and others had already assembled the remnants and led the tens of thousands of young men who stayed in the inner city defense line, and waited for the battle.
Although the inner city is not as majestic as the outer city, it is not easy to take the inner city without siege equipment.
Seeing that the Sanzhou Alliance Army did not continue to attack the city, Wang Yan breathed a sigh of relief, summoned the messenger knight, and asked in a deep voice, "What the hell is going on? Why did the Yellow Turban Demon Army suddenly retreat?"
Lu Kai was also a little confused: "How can the Yellow Turban Demon Army get out of the way of Qingyun Dao?"
"This is a passage connecting Yongzhou and Qinzhou and the land of the Southern Barbarians, as long as we stay in Qingyun Dao, even if we withdraw from Yongchang City, we will definitely have to pay a great price to pass through Qingyun Dao, and we will even be chased and killed by the rebels of Sanzhou, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army!"
The messenger told the generals in detail the information he had detected.
In addition, several other spies, plus the news that the black fringel had brought back, made Wang Yan have to believe the fact that the Yellow Turban Demon Army had retreated.
A cadre of generals and officials looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, how could the Yellow Turban Army make way for the Yongzhou Army and give the Yongzhou Army a chance to live?
From the news that came back from the detection, it can be seen that there are no other troops near Qingyun Road, and it is impossible to lure the Yongzhou army out of the city and annihilate it in the wild.
The strange behavior of the Yellow Turban Army made Wang Yan, a coach who has been experienced in a hundred battles and has incomparably rich combat experience, completely unable to figure it out.
"Lu Fucheng, what do you think?"
Lu Kai smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "Xia Guan doesn't know what's going on. ”
"It's just that according to the lower officials, there is no need for the Yellow Turban Demon Army to do this, as long as the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Demon Army are guarding Qingyun Dao, it is the safest way. ”
"With our current situation, there is no way out of life at all, and the Yellow Turban Demon Army does not need to make another move to make other conspiracy means. ”
Wang Yan frowned and said in a deep voice: "This is the same view in Benzhou. Is it true that the Yellow Turbans are really going to give us a way out?"
Zhang Kuo couldn't help but say: "Lord Wang, please forgive the rudeness of the last general, the worst situation for our Yongzhou army now is to stay in the inner city!"
"If we wait for the rebels in the three states to transport siege equipment, we will definitely not be able to resist the rebels' offensive. In that case, why don't you lead your army out of Yongchang City!"
Wang Yan did not answer this question directly, but asked sharply: "What are the casualties of the various departments in this war?"
Lu Kai's face darkened and said, "The damage is extremely serious. More than 8,000 of our troops were killed in battle, and more than 2,000 were seriously wounded! Now there are only more than 10,000 soldiers left who can fight. ”
Tian Lang, Zhang Kuo and others also reported the casualties under their command.
The Yongzhou Army did suffer heavy casualties in this battle, and there were originally 1120,000 regular troops, but now there are only more than 70,000 combatable soldiers left, with nearly half of the casualties.
In addition, the losses of the Minzhuang are even heavier, although Wang Yan has ordered all efforts to collect the fleeing Minzhuang, and now the Minzhuang gathered is only 50,000 or 60,000 people.
The only good news is that the main force of the Warrior Cavalry, the casualties are not very serious, after all, they are well-equipped, and with the blessing of Wang Yan's iron bones and bravery, the five thousand Warrior Cavalry only lost six or seven hundred people.
Wang Yan thought for a long time with a gloomy face, and finally said in a deep voice: "Pass the order, the army is ready to retreat, each person carries fifty catties of rice grain, no need to carry all kinds of baggage, and withdraw from Yongchang City from the south gate overnight!"
"Tian Lang, Benzhou has promised you 2,000 soldiers and horses, responsible for organizing Minzhuang to stay in the inner city, in case the rebels take the opportunity to break the city. After dawn, you can do it cheaply!"
The situation in Yongzhou is similar to the situation deduced by Zhang Jiao.
Wang Yan, Lu Kai and others, led an army of 70,000 overnight, escaped from the south of the city to Yongchang City, and the Yellow Turban Army did not have any obstruction, and when He Teng found out, the Yongzhou army had escaped more than 200 miles away overnight.
Tian Lang did not stay in Yongchang City for long, took out the armor of the treasury and put it on the Minzhuang, lit torches everywhere in the city, and after laying down the suspicious array, when the rooster crowed, burned the remaining grain and grass, and then left from the south of the city with dozens of personal guards, and disappeared.
He Teng was furious when he heard the news, he originally had the idea of encircling Sanque Yi to weaken the fighting spirit of the Yongzhou army, anyway, Qingyun Road was guarded by the Yellow Turban Army, and even if the Yongzhou Army left Yongchang City, it would not be able to escape.
How would he have expected that the Yellow Turban Army would give way to Qingyun Dao.
But the Yellow Turban Army is not a subordinate of the Tri-State Alliance, it can only be regarded as a friendly army, and He Teng can't help it.
Even if he sent someone over, he could only have a war of words with the Yellow Turban Army, and He Teng had to forcibly suppress his anger and slowly settle accounts with the Yellow Turban Army in the future.
Although the remnants of Wang Yan's army left overnight, He Teng really wanted to lead the army to chase after him, and he could still catch up, but the problem was that the city was now in a mess, the grain and grass were burned, and he had to slowly clean up.
Wang Yan left lightly, without baggage, He Teng, the three soldiers and horses, really pursued the past, they could only use cavalry troops, and it was by no means easy to eat this remnant army.
There are fewer soldiers and horses to go, and they may not be the opponents of Wang Yan and the Kui Dao Cavalry, and sending hundreds of thousands of troops over will affect the layout of the Sanzhou army.
He Teng hated and scolded the Yellow Turban Army, and in the end, only a part of the men and horses could be left to garrison Yongchang City, and the remaining 200,000 troops quickly supported the main battlefield of Tongtianhe.
On this side of the Chu River, the operation of the elite of the Abyss Guard in the underground abyss proceeded quite smoothly at the beginning.
With the help of three gods of war, Chu He himself is also at the level of most of the gods of war, and in terms of high-end combat power, it is definitely a crushing advantage.
In addition, the white tiger's coercive talent should not be underestimated, making it difficult for the scorpion-tailed winged tiger to have the courage to resist, and the scorpion-tailed winged tigers that often appear in groups are impacted by several gods of war such as Chu He, and their morale will plummet and flee separately, and then they will be stopped by the hidden abyss guards.
In just a few days, Chu He and the others successively laid down more than a dozen nests of scorpion-tailed tigers and captured nearly two hundred adult scorpion-tailed tigers.
It's just that the scorpion-tailed winged tiger that jumped over the wall in a desperate way was a four-grade fierce beast in the end, and it also brought a lot of losses to the Qianyuanwei, and more than a dozen team members died under the poisonous needle of the scorpion-tailed winged tiger.
The toxins of the Scorpion-tailed Winged Tiger are too terrifying, especially those elite five-grade Scorpion-tailed Tigers, the poisonous needle can penetrate the battle armor, break the triple golden bell jar and injure the Hidden Abyss Guard.
As long as they are injured by the poisonous needle, and the three gods of war have no time to rescue, the Qianyuan Guard will not be able to save his life, and he will only die without being injured in the battle with the Scorpion Tail Winged Tiger.
It's just that after the first few days of successful capture battles, the remaining scorpion-tailed winged tigers saw that the situation was not good, and they left their nests and fled towards the abyss underground, leaving Chu River with an empty lair.
More scorpion-tailed tigers joined the scorpion-tailed tiger king's command, begging for the protection of the scorpion-tailed tiger king, which made the scorpion-tailed tiger king's subordinates increase rapidly, and there were tens of thousands of scorpion-tailed tigers under his command, and nearly 5,000 adult scorpion-tailed tigers.
There are only tens or hundreds of scorpion-tailed tiger clans, and the adults are only about fifty, all of which can bring casualties to the heavily armed Qianyuan Guard, which shows how terrifying these five thousand four-rank demon beast clans are!
Next, it was no longer Chu He and the others who captured the Scorpion-tailed Winged Tiger, but the angry Scorpion-tailed Winged Tiger King, with two thousand adult Scorpion-tailed Tigers, flying angrily in the underground abyss all day long, and hunting the Hidden Abyss Guard in turn.
The blood qi condensed by the two thousand scorpion tail winged tigers was really terrifying, it was only less than ten days, even under the protection of Chu He and the other four gods of war, the battle damage of the Qianyuan Guard was not optimistic.
More than 1,200 elites have lost as many as 100 people, and in the past ten days, the scorpion-tailed winged tiger captured is not as much as the previous few days!
If it weren't for Chu He's overlord martial arts, coupled with Jiang Wei's hundred battle martial arts, he could greatly improve the strength of the army and suppress the blood and qi of the scorpion-tailed winged tiger, I'm afraid the casualties would have increased several times!