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The Empire Continent in the autumn of 173

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Originally, the army led by Wotaihe and the Iron Shield Fortress army led by Lin Bing had formed an alliance, and they were pursuing the troops of Simon's consul Aosong in the province of Derinx in the north of the empire, but they were introduced into the pocket formation that Simon's cavalry had already laid out by Sandjo, the son of David Sijo, one of Simon's two consuls, and most of the casualties of the Wotaihe army were lost, only a few thousand soldiers escaped, and Wotaihe retreated to the north, the eldest prince Yang Yu was captured, and the Iron Shield Fortress army suffered slight losses because it was still a certain distance from the Wotaihe army.

In this battle, the Wotaihe army lost 10 soldiers and 10,000 commanders, 92 commanders, 89,152 soldiers killed, and 4,981 missing.

Later generations evaluated the big businessmen, and the main factors for the failure of Wotai were attributed to the following points.

The first is that the new army is fifty kilometers in front of the Wotaihe army, and the Wotaihe is anxious to join Li Xiangru's army, the second is that Li Xiangru's march is too conservative, and the position where Wotaihe was ambushed at that time has shouted to the sky, but Li Xiangru still maintains the formation and advances steadily, and the third is Lin Bing, the commander of the Iron Shield Fortress, when the Wotaihe army was attacked, he saw the scene in front of him clearly, but he immediately changed the front army to the rear army, retreated twenty miles, and broke away from the battlefield, so that the Wotai army was defeated like a mountain.

The biggest highlight of Simon's cavalry in Derinx Province to defeat the Wotaihe army this time was that there were 200,000 new troops of Li Xiangru in front and 100,000 troops in the Iron Shield Fortress in the back, but they easily defeated the Wotaihe Iron Blood Army in the middle.

In this battle, the military strength of the Great Shang Empire and the Simon Republic changed again, and the ratio of soldiers on both sides reached thirty to twenty-three.

Three days later, Simon's Archon Ao Song repeated his old trick and surrounded Lee Sang-ru's new legion at the intersection of the Derinx and Black Sand provinces, while the Lin Bing Iron Shield Fortress Legion, which was supposed to follow closely, disappeared.

Li Xiangru's new corps was mainly composed of garrisons and newly recruited soldiers drawn from various places, and normally speaking, the combat effectiveness should be extremely low, and it should be easily defeated by the cavalry corps on the plains.

However, the troops led by Osson and Sandjo were unable to disrupt the new army's formation, whether it was a squeeze frontal breakthrough or a roundabout charge on both sides, and the casualty ratio of both sides remained at about one to one.

A new legion composed of 200,000 recruits and eggs, like hedgehogs across the vast plain, so that the Simon cavalry who are eyeing each other has nowhere to speak, and their effect in defending Simon cavalry is actually stronger than that of the iron-blooded army of Wotaihe, and Li Xiangru's defensive ability is finally highlighted.

200,000 Simon cavalry besieged Li Xiangru's new army for three days, Li Xiangru simply stationed on the spot, put a few rows of pointed horses in front of the camp, the camp was full of dense horse pits, and they actually made a fire to cook leisurely, putting on a posture of long-term resistance to war.

The unbelieving Simon cavalry attacked several times in the middle of the night, but they were either trapped in the horse pit and broke their legs, or they were pierced through the horse's hooves by a baby's fist-sized thistle, and for a time they lost thousands of cavalry, while the big merchants were safe and sound, and the sneak attackers became victims.

In the face of the turtle shell formation posed by the old commander Li Xiangru, the Simon Archon Ao Song finally gave up the continued attempt on the new legion, gave up the game of attack and defense, spear and shield with the old Li Xiangru, and the whole army slowly retreated from the battlefield, and turned the horse's head to go directly south, aiming directly at the big merchant capital.

Northern part of the province of Cavas

Two cavalrymen in black armor jumped on a dirt bag side by side, they looked around vigilantly for a while, looked at each other and nodded, one of them picked up two flags from behind the saddle and waved them in the air a few times, soon, from the distant ground line, a large black dot slowly appeared, more and more, this is the army of Yang Yi, the third prince of Xuantie City in the Songfeng Plain, in order not to leak his whereabouts, all the war horses set off before the iron hooves were tied with thick felt cloth, and the soldiers tried not to make a sound, and the black armor uniforms they wore were uniformly made by dwarven craftsmenThe characteristics of this armor of the Xuantie Army have many advantages over the traditional armor of the Imperial Continent, such as non-reflective, non-rusty, light weight, and high hardness......

This army is composed of 10,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, and the Songfeng Plain does not produce horses, and these 5,000 cavalry are all the cavalry that Xuantie City can dispatch.

The commander of the Xuantie Army is the commander of Rick Worf, and he came with the third prince Yang Yi, in order not to expose his whereabouts, the whole army marched relatively slowly, only fifty miles a day, in these days, the only army they encountered was the remnants of Simon's army that retreated from the Flame City Fortress, and fortunately the news of the fall of the Flame City Fortress did not reach Simon's Archon Aosong.

In the face of such a rapid advance of his Xuantie City army, the third prince Yang Yi had no choice, he had already promised before setting off, and all actions were up to Rick Worf.

At this time, the third prince Yang Yi suddenly missed Huang Fei, if it was Huang Fei, he would definitely not choose this kind of method, although it is very safe, but it is the most stupid.

The Xuantie Army is still marching slowly, the infantry is in the center, the cavalry is in the front and rear, the three princes Yang Yi and Rick Wolf are at the forefront of the team, Yang Yi secretly glanced at Willow, Rick Wolf on the horse is still standing upright, his face is expressionless, but his eyes are bright, even if he is beside the third prince Yang Yi, he is still not smiling.

At this moment, the scout in the distance suddenly shook the flag vigorously at the marching team.

Rick Wolf's face sank, his arm raised, and he grabbed the reins with one hand, and the team immediately stopped.

In a very short time, they untied their straps, pulled out the blackiron crossbow from behind their waists, the archers held it up with one hand on horseback, and the infantry were in a half-squatting position, holding the blackiron crossbow and aiming ahead.

The entire tactical movement of the fifteen thousand Xuantie Army was almost completed in two breaths, and the third prince Yang Yi glanced at Kruff with a look of approval on his face.

Rick Wolf jumped off his horse with agility, walked to the open space and put his ear to the ground, and after a while, he got up and walked in front of Yang Yi, "His Royal Highness the Third Prince, it is an infantry, and there are about six thousand people. ”

As if to verify Rick Wolf's words, soon, a disheveled army of merchants appeared from a distance, the soldiers of this army looked tired, their lips were chapped, and they supported each other, and they couldn't help but stop when they saw the Xuantie City army in front of them, which was ready to attack and full of murderous faces.

At this time, the Great Shang army dodged a passage, and two soldiers carried a stretcher, on which lay a dying and bloodstained person, and that person turned out to be General Wotaihe.

"All of them, immediately speed up the march, target, Shang Capital, Shang Capital!" With the herald's command, all the soldiers of Xuantie City carried the Xuantie crossbow on their backs, and began to march rapidly with neat steps under their feet.

At this moment, the third prince Yang Yi clenched his teeth, his eyes were full of anger, just now Wo Taihe said a word and fell into a coma again, the content of what he said was really shocking, "Your Royal Highness the Third Prince, Lin Bing is the leader of the treason. ”

Shangdu City

Mei Lin, the former deputy commander of the city defense army, was patrolling the city wall, he was the right and left hand of General Wotaihe, and this time Wotaihe transferred all the elites of the city defense army, leaving him with less than 10,000 old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers.

"Look, who are those?" a soldier pointed into the distance, and following the direction of his finger, he could clearly see that a large number of soldiers were rushing towards the Shang capital.

"Close the gates" Merlin ordered the soldiers, these are extraordinary times, and any anomalies will be treated as an emergency by Merlin.

After receiving the order, the soldiers in charge of guarding the city gate drove the people who traveled to and from the merchant capital, and slowly closed the heavy city gate, and the moment it closed, the city gate made a dull sound.

The army in the distance was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers were wearing recognizable clothes, they were wearing the purple armor common to the army of the Great Shang Empire, and the banner had a big "Lin" written on it, and a soldier next to Merlin said happily, "It's our Great Shang army." ”

Merlin's hanging heart also let go, but a question suddenly rose in his mind, being able to command the army of so many people, handsome and with the name of Lin, it should only be Lin Bing who was stationed in the Iron Shield Fortress, an important town in the north of Dashang, but at this time, what was he doing here without guarding the Iron Shield Fortress?

"Commander Mei, long time no see. Lin Bing smiled, and he slowly walked out of the team with his horse.

"Lin Da is in charge. Merlin arched his hand on the city wall, looking condescendingly at the dense iron shield army under the city wall.

"On the occasion of this national crisis, I also ask Commander Mei to open the city gate and let us enter the city to escort us. ”

Merlin couldn't help frowning after hearing Lin Bing's words, "I'm afraid Commander Lin has forgotten, even the prince can't bring more than two hundred guards with him when he enters the business capital, let alone a general?"

"Okay, then ask Commander Mei to open the city gate first, and we'll go in with two hundred soldiers. In the face of Merlin's indifference, Lin Bing still smiled.

"Yes, please ask Commander Lin to order your troops to retreat twenty miles, and let me open the city gate again. ”

Lin Bing under the city was still smiling, but the men and horses under him showed no signs of wanting to move.

Seeing this, Merlin was furious: "Lin Bing, what do you want to do?"

"What do you want to do? Send the order down and attack the city!!" Lin Bing put away his smile, he sneered, and glared at Merlin fiercely, Lin Bing at this time was full of the pleasure of revenge.

He made such a great contribution to the Great Shang Empire, and it was only because of his attachment to the Great Prince Yang Yu that he was crowned a small viscount, with his talent, it is reasonable to be at least an earl, and the Great Shang is unfair to me Lin Bing.

He recalled that some time ago, Sandjoe came to the Iron Shield Fortress to find him and asked him to surrender, although he refused in front of the fortress, but afterwards he sent his henchmen to find Sandjow secretly, and when he was secretly bargaining, General Wotaihe led the army to kill him without knowing the times.

However, Lin Bing released water at the most critical moment, increased his bargaining chips for himself, and contacted Sandjoe afterwards, revealing all the marching routes and destinations of Wotaihe to the other party, knowing that there were ambushes in front, he deliberately kept his army at a distance from the Wotaihe army, and betrayed Dashang when Wotaihe needed help the most.

When the Wotaihe army fell into an embattled situation, the friendly troops on the side stood by and watched, thinking of Simon's cavalry waiting there early, and Wotaihe knew what was going on even if he was a fool.

Previously, Sandjo had promised Lin Bing a count of Simon Republic, and if he could capture the Shang Capital, Lin Bing would be the first duke of the Lin family, of course, the duke of Simon Republic.

"Brothers, kill me, capture the Shang capital, loot for three days, capture Yang Ji alive, directly knight, and reward 10,000 taels of gold...... In the face of such a tempting promise, the soldiers of the Iron Shield Legion flocked to the Shang capital like a tide......

Lin Bing now has absolute control over this Iron Shield Legion, and when he learned that he was going to attack the Shang Capital, there were indeed many generals who expressed strong opposition, and there were many excellent generals among them who he liked, but he still found a reason to kill all of them.

In Lin Bing's eyes, all the people who stood in his way were his enemies, and the only way to treat the enemy was to be more cruel than him.