Chapter 27: The Challenge
Ye Luo, the master of conquering the heavens and the deputy commander of the famous Blood Killing Battalion, was killed by Wu Feng with a sword.
Twenty years ago, he had killed three elders of the Divine Hall in a row, and he was so powerful that now he was just a soul under a sword.
The knights trapped in the camp of the Shentang Army saw that Ye Luo had been killed, and the dragons were leaderless, and they fell into chaos.
Some of the light cavalry chose to surrender in order to save their lives.
However, the knights of the Bloodslaughter Camp fought bravely despite the lack of command, and in the end, they were all lost, and none of them surrendered.
This is where the dignity of the Bloodslaughter Camp lies.
They are one of the four strong soldiers of Middle-earth created by Li Qing, and they are the glory of the Three Rivers Sword Sect. In their dictionary, there is no word for surrender.
Zhao Zhonggao and Jiu Zhongci fought their way out of the encirclement with great difficulty with the remnants of the army and fled towards Anxiang City.
At the time of the attack, there were 200 armored cavalry and 500 light cavalry, but when they withdrew, there were only more than 200 people left, of which only 62 were remnants of the bloody slaughter battalion.
The bloody camp built by Li Qing and shocked the world can be said to be ruined so far.
Li Zhong and Huangxu Dao, who were attacking from the other two directions, were blocked by the solid camp, and then they were dragged by the Shentang soldiers commanded by Su Can and others.
Although Su Can is not good at military strategy, there is still no problem in fighting this kind of thing steadily, not to mention that there is a group of Shentang generals such as Lin Tonggu to help.
When Su Mengzhen successfully solved the raid of the Three Rivers Knights and led the elite to reinforcements, whether it was the main force of the Three Rivers Sword Sect led by Li Zhong or the Anxiang City soldiers who fought outside the city led by Huangxu Dao, they could not support it and were defeated, with heavy casualties.
The defeated soldiers on all three sides fled into Anxiang City.
In this battle, if you count those who were executed by military law, the loss of the shrine is more than 500 soldiers and three times that of the militia.
On the other hand, the Three Rivers side lost 700 soldiers, and the militia suffered no losses.
It seems that the loss is about the same, and the number of people in the temple is twice as much. However, the loss of the elite of the Shentang was not large, and most of the losses were recruits, while the elite of Mikawa suffered heavy losses, and the blood slaughter camp was almost completely wiped out, and the elite light cavalry of Night City was also lost by more than half.
And the militia is originally a consumable, and after the loss, it can be replenished from the mainland without any scruples. The pension of the shrine has always been not low, and for the militia in their twenties and thirties who are still only in the realm of laying the foundation and cultivating qi, only through the bloody battle of life and death can they have the hope of breaking through to become soldiers.
Su Mengzhen's ruthless gamble was won after all.
He proved to his subordinates that he could not only pinch soft persimmons, but also be able to fight tough battles in addition to strategic means. Even if he waved the butcher's knife at his own people, casting a shadow on the benevolence of twenty years, he successfully destroyed Li Qing's legacy, shattered the invincibility myth of the Blood Killing Camp, and almost wiped out the Blood Killing Camp on the territory of the Three Rivers Sword Sect.
The morale that had been lost due to the three defeats was also fully restored by this successful counter-killing.
Now the small city of Anxiang has 3,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of militiamen, but because of this fiasco, morale is extremely low, and the wealthy people lack the will to fight.
In addition, in the previous onslaught, Anxiang City's formation had been seriously depleted, so now the crumbling situation of Anxiang City has not changed.
After a short period of recuperation, the reinvigorated Shindo army resumed its assault on Anxiang Castle, with a variety of siege weapons such as trebuchets, giant fire crossbows, and wells.
Xue Yiren is known for being proficient in miscellaneous arts, although Su Mengzhen is not as knowledgeable as Xue Yiren, but he is also a generation of famous masters in building city walls and manufacturing war equipment, which can be described as both offensive and defensive.
One day, above the city walls of Anxiang City, a war-free card was suddenly hung high.
Something like a war-free card is actually of little use. Unless the attacker basically does not have the ability to take the city, and the defender is not strong enough to counterattack, it will occasionally play a few roles.
But Li Zhong, the master of the Three Rivers Sword Sect, appeared in person at the head of the city.
"Please come to the city to talk about it!" Li Zhong said in a loud voice.
The herald soon rode to bring Li Zhong's words to Su Meng's pillow tent.
"Will Li Zhong want to lure his father to the city and shoot with arrows?" Su Can said: "With the despicability and shamelessness of the Li family, they did it. ”
In the previous battle, Wu Feng took the lead in leading the light cavalry to break the enemy in a roundabout way and kill Ye Luo, the deputy commander of the blood slaughter battalion, and Ji Hongyan and Lin Xiuzhen were second. And Su Can was also rewarded for biting Li Zhong's infantry until Su Mengzhen led the army to kill.
Su Mengzhen smiled slightly: "What tricks can you play?"
He was conceited and cultivated to be high, but he didn't care at all, his green robe fluttered, and he came to Anxiang City alone.
But this was by no means unplanned, Su Mengzhen controlled a safe distance, ensuring that with his own cultivation, if the other party shot with a bow and arrow or sniped with a musket, he would not be able to do anything about him.
"Su someone is here. Su Mengzhen looked at the city and raised his voice.
Li Zhong gasped with a tired look on his face, and said: "Master Su really led the troops well, and he deserved to be the number one enemy in my father's life back then, this is considered an insight." ”
Su Mengzhen smiled faintly: "In that case, why don't the Li Sect Master break away from Shenxiao and form an alliance with our Divine Hall?" If this is the case, Su will immediately lead the troops back, and he will not want this peaceful city." ”
Li Zhong shook his head: "If this is the case, Sanhe will become a barrier for the Divine Hall, facing the onslaught of the Divine Sky." With the strength of the gods, it can also support the three rivers against the invasion of the gods. If Mikawa forms an alliance with the Shrine, what is the Shrine's ability to protect Troiss?"
He paused, and then said: "What's more, the new master of Shenxiao Dao, Long Aotian, is very young, and the rising stars such as Gang Yuanxin and Gu Xichao are not things in the pool. And your temple is - there is no successor. ”
Hearing this, Su Mengzhen laughed wildly: "There is no successor, how can you almost kill your blood killing camp?"
In the previous battle, it was mostly young people who performed well. Wu Feng and Ji Hongyan broke the enemy in a roundabout way, Su Can dragged Li Zhong, and Su Guang lurked behind the enemy to incite the Xiangyang Mountain Barbarians, and successfully contained part of the combat power of the Sanhe Sword Sect.
Li Zhong was not annoyed, but said, "Can Hall Master Su dare to truce for one day? One day is enough." ”
"One day naturally doesn't matter, there is no such delaying strategy. Su Mengzhen said: "But why?"
Li Zhong said: "Sanhe and Shentang can produce young and handsome people, and they will fight alone outside the city. No matter who wins or loses, on the second day, the master of the Su hall will continue to attack the city. ”
Su Mengzhen thought about it for a while, and then understood what Li Zhong meant.
If the temple is defeated, there will be no successor, and the morale will drop, affecting the siege efficiency.
However, if Mikawa is defeated, the already low morale will be even lowered, and it will be much easier for Shindo to capture Anxiang Castle.
It's another bet.
However, Anxiang City is extremely strong, even if it comes to this point, Su Mengzhen still can't say that he has a chance to win.
"Allowed!" Su Mengzhen waved his hand, ignoring the dissuasive eyes of Lin Xiuzhen and others, and said categorically.
If you refuse, you may be said to be scared, which is bad for morale.
In fact, this proposal is beneficial to Mikawa. The older generation of the temple has two brothers, Su Mengzhen and Su Youguang, and no one in Sanhe can match. But when it comes to the younger generation, there is indeed no obvious advantage.
But Su Mengzhen didn't think that his side would lose at all.
It was as if he hadn't thought that in the face of the robbery of the Blood Killing Camp, he would be defeated as he was on the Han River.