Chapter 632: Promotions and Tasks
"Surrender or die!"
Looking at the grassland cavalry that was slaughtered by more than 10,000 Yang family troops, Yang Rui mobilized the internal strength in his body and shouted loudly, and the loud voice covered most of the battlefield.
"Surrender or die!"
"Surrender or die!"
"Surrender or die!"
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A Yang family guard shouted loudly, and the loud voice covered the entire battlefield.
Seeing that their own commanders were all killed, most of the remaining more than 20,000 grassland cavalry threw away the scimitars in their hands and surrendered, and the few grassland cavalry who refused to surrender were ruthlessly killed by more than 10,000 elite Yang family troops and became a broken corpse.
Soon, there was not a single steppe cavalry standing with weapons in hand on the battlefield.
Seeing this scene, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Yang Rui's mouth, and he said softly: "Clean up the battlefield, and by the way, take all these grassland soldiers to the big camp to take care of them, don't let them escape!"
After saying that, Yang Rui left the battlefield with his personal guards, returned to Qingyun Town, and began refining the Spirit Devouring Pill.
Three days later, Yang Rui successfully refined more than 20,000 Spirit Devouring Pills and gave them to more than 20,000 grassland cavalry soldiers, allowing him to have more than 20,000 grassland cavalry warriors under his command.
At the same time, Sunset County, who had already received the news, also reacted, and a messenger from Sunset County came to Qingyun Town with a set of official uniforms and an order from Zhao Kun, the county guard of Sunset County.
"Lord Yang, from today onwards, you will be the partial general of our Zhao State, you can command an army of 100,000, this is your official uniform, please take it!" The messenger of Sunset County handed Yang Rui a brand-new official uniform and said with a smile on his face.
Hearing the messenger's words, Yang Rui smiled slightly, took the brand-new official uniform, handed it to Yang Ping on the side, and said, "Should Lord County Guard not only let me send me a set of official uniforms?" Lord County Guard has any new orders, tell me that as long as I can complete it, I will not disappoint Lord County Guard!"
Hearing Yang Rui's words, the messenger's face turned straight, and he handed Yang Rui an order stamped with the seal of the county guard mansion and said, "General Yang, this is the order of the county guard, please check it!"
Yang Rui took the order handed over by the messenger, read it carefully, and was surprised to find that the county guard actually asked him to lead his army to attack Crescent City more than five hundred miles away, which made Yang Rui frown slightly, and bowed his head and pondered.
Crescent City is the county seat of the Crescent County of Zhao State, after being captured by the grassland army, it has become the logistics base of the grassland army, stationed more than 100,000 grassland troops, storing a large amount of grain and grass materials, and constantly supplying them to the grassland army of Sunset County, so that the grassland army of Sunset County will not run out of grain and grass and other materials.
If Yang Rui can capture Crescent City, then it is equivalent to directly cutting off the logistical supply of the grassland army, making the grassland army in Sunset City a rootless tree and unable to continue the protracted battle, either retreat back to the grassland immediately, or capture Sunset City in a short period of time and obtain the grain and grass materials of Sunset City, otherwise there is only a dead end.
However, as the county town of Crescent County, the city walls are as high as strong, and with more than 100,000 grassland cavalry, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the army under Yang Rui to capture it.
Therefore, after pondering for a long time, Yang Rui shook his head lightly and said, "The walls of Crescent City are tall and strong, coupled with the large number of grassland cavalry garrisons, I can't capture it, I'm afraid I will disappoint Lord County Guard!"
Hearing Yang Rui's words, the messenger immediately said loudly: "General Yang, the county guard said that as long as you can capture Crescent Moon City within a month, he can ask Your Majesty for merit, canonize you as a hereditary lord, and give you Yinghe Town as your personal fief!"
As soon as the messenger's voice fell, a light flashed in Yang Rui's eyes, and he thought secretly.
The area of Zhao is very large, with tens of millions of square kilometers and billions of people, most of which belong to Zhao, and a small part of the land belongs to the nobles of Zhao, which is the private fief of the nobles of Zhao.
In the fiefdom of the nobles of Zhao, the nobles of Zhao had the absolute right to recruit troops at will, formulate their own unique laws, and as long as they did not openly rebel against Zhao, they could do whatever they wanted, just like a soil emperor.
The nobility of Zhao has great power, so it is very precious, and under normal circumstances, only those families with monks are eligible to become nobles of Zhao.
Now, as long as Yang Rui captures Crescent City, he can become a nobleman of Zhao State, and he is not the lowest-level baron, but a viscount, which makes Yang Rui very excited.
However, thinking that Crescent City was very important to the grassland army, and it was likely that there were grassland monks in charge, Yang Rui had to dispel the idea of attacking Crescent City.
After all, the strength of the monk was too strong, and a lowest-level mana realm monk could easily sweep through tens of thousands of armies, and easily kill the leader of the army among hundreds of thousands.
Crescent Moon City, which has monks in town, is not something that the Yang family's army can capture at all.
Thinking of this, Yang Rui said helplessly: "Crescent City is so important, it is certain that the grassland monks will be in charge in the future, and our Yang family army is not the opponent of the grassland monks!"
Hearing Yang Rui's words, the messenger chuckled and said, "General Yang, do you know, our Zhao Kingdom and the grassland have an agreement, the war between mortals, the monks cannot participate, the monks cannot attack the mortal army at will, they can only fight with the monks!"
If the monks could attack the mortal army at will, then the armies of our Zhao Kingdom and the grassland would have been slaughtered by the monks of both sides!
So, don't worry, don't say that there may not be monks in Crescent City, even if there are grassland monks in charge, don't dare to make a move against your Yang family army, otherwise our monks of Zhao Kingdom will definitely launch a retaliatory attack on the grassland army and slaughter the millions of grassland troops outside Sunset City!"
Hearing the messenger's words, Yang Rui pondered for a moment and said, "You go back and tell Lord County Guard, I promise to capture Crescent City within a month, and I hope that the Army of County Guard can keep my promise and make me a hereditary viscount of the Empire!"
After receiving Yang Rui's affirmative answer, a happy smile appeared on the messenger's face, and he immediately assured loudly: "General Yang, you can rest assured! Lord County Shou is a disciple of the Zhao family and the second heir of the Zhao family, one of the three major families of our Zhao Kingdom, how can he break his promise!"
Hearing the messenger's words, Yang Rui nodded lightly and asked him to return to Sunset City to report, while he began to mobilize his army and prepare to go to Crescent City to capture Crescent City.
The next day, Yang Rui completed the transfer of the army, except for the 20,000 troops left by Yang Ping to garrison Qingyun Town, all the other armies went to Crescent City with Yang Rui.
Three days later, Yang Rui took 20,000 Yang family troops and more than 20,000 grassland cavalry to dozens of miles away from Crescent City, and did not continue to advance, but stopped, set up camp, and sent spies to pay close attention to the movements of Crescent City.
Yang Rui led an army of more than 40,000 people to cause great turmoil, and was discovered by the grassland spies of Crescent City at the first time, and reported it to Wei Hai, the leader of the grassland army of Crescent City.
"Everyone, Yang Rui of Qingyun Town, with more than 40,000 troops, came to our Crescent City dozens of miles away and stationed there, looking like he wants to attack our Crescent City, I don't know what your opinions are?"
In the Crescent City City Lord's Mansion, Wei Hai looked at the dozens of grassland tribe leaders in the conference hall and said in a flat tone.
"Lord Commander, there are only more than 40,000 troops under Yang Rui's command, and half of them are cavalry from our grassland, as long as we send an army of 20,000 people, we can easily defeat it, so I suggest that we dispatch 20,000 troops to defeat Yang Rui's army in one fell swoop!"
Although I don't know what confidence Yang Rui has to dare to attack our Crescent City with an army of 40,000, our task is to defend Crescent City, as long as Crescent City is not lost, we have made a huge contribution, and we should not send troops to attack Yang Rui's army!
"Lord Commander, we have 160,000 elite troops in Crescent City, and we can dispatch 60,000 troops to destroy Yang Rui's army with the power of thunder!"
"Lord Commander, the army under Yang Rui's command is outside the city, which will affect our transportation team in Crescent City, so that our Crescent City will not be able to provide timely support to the front line, so we must dispatch a large army to destroy the army under Yang Rui's command!"
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As soon as Wei Hai's voice fell, the leaders of the grassland tribes in the conference hall shouted loudly, and most of them suggested that a large army be dispatched to destroy the army under Yang Rui's command.
Hearing the words of the leaders of the many grassland tribes, Wei Hai pondered for a while, and said in a flat tone: "Han Xu, you led the army of 50,000 in your headquarters and destroyed the army under Yang Rui!"
"Yes, Lord Archon!"
Han Xu, the deputy commander of the Crescent City Grassland Army, had a gleam in his eyes, and immediately got up and responded loudly.
Soon, Han Xu, the deputy commander of the grassland army of Crescent City, left Crescent City with 50,000 elite grassland cavalry and rushed in the direction where Yang Rui's army was.
As soon as the grassland cavalry army moved, the spies sent by Yang Rui found out and quickly passed the news back, allowing Yang Rui to learn the news of the grassland army's attack in advance.
"If you dare to attack, then let's stay all!"
Yang Rui muttered, and let the army under his command move, more than 20,000 Yang family troops quickly assembled to form a neat military formation, and more than 20,000 grassland cavalry were scattered on both flanks of the army, ready to pounce on the grassland army at any time.
Boom, boom, boom!
In the midst of a violent roar, the 50,000 grassland cavalry urged the war horses under them, raised the scimitars in their hands, and let out a shocking shouting of killing, and charged straight in the direction of the army under Yang Rui.
In the face of the charge of 50,000 grassland cavalry, more than 20,000 Yang family troops were unmoved, without the slightest fear, the crossbowmen in front of the front, pushed the crossbow array to the front of the camp, aimed at the direction of the grassland cavalry, ready to shoot the grassland cavalry with arrows,
"Shoot the arrows!"
With Yang Rui's order, a gate crossbow array let out a violent roar, and sharp arrows slashed through the void like lightning, pouring towards the charging grassland cavalry.
Bang! Bang!
In the crisp sound of metal clashing, sharp arrows pierced the armor of a famous steppe cavalryman, mercilessly shooting him, causing him to decline from his horse and be trampled into meat sauce by the steppe cavalry behind.
Soon, under the attack of the dense rain of arrows, the tens of thousands of grassland cavalry who were charging at the forefront were shot and killed, which slowed down the momentum of the grassland cavalry's charge, and a look of horror flashed in his eyes.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
At this moment, more than 20,000 grassland cavalrymen who had taken the Spirit Devouring Pill let out a shocking shout of killing, brandished the scimitar in their hands, rode their horses and galloped, and directly killed the more than 40,000 grassland cavalry who were full of horror and greatly reduced their fighting spirit.