Chapter 108: The Decisive Battle

Under the shouting, the whole city was in chaos. The sound of rumbling horses' hooves and the trotting footsteps of the sergeants exacerbated the confusion to a climax. In the face of the sudden military rebellion, the people and merchants were the most afraid, the merchants were worried about their goods and money being robbed, and the people were worried about the safety of themselves and their families. As a result, the streets of the entire Xiongzhou City became more noisy and more impassable. Some of the people in the city wanted to escape from the city, some wanted to find a safe place to hide, and some wanted to show the courage to defend their homes and the country and fight the thieves who rushed into the city. Because there is no one to guide them, there are no proper rules, these people act according to their own ideas, but in the end, they are stuck in each other's roads and cannot move forward at all.

The chaos led to the sluggishness of the city's defense system, and this sluggishness was reflected in reality, that is, Li Jingxuan's army was like no one. Soon he took control of the key places on the city walls, and quickly suppressed the resistance in the city.

Two hours later, the city of Xiongzhou became calm. The shouts of killing have been far away, and the tourists in the city have also run away without a trace, leaving only the soldiers guarding the street standing upright, silently maintaining order in the city.

Li Jingxuan entered the city at this time. As soon as he entered the city that had been controlled by his own subordinates, he hurried to the hall of the government office in Xiongzhou, and used the official seal he carried to suppress the official seal of Xiongzhou City, in order to obtain the final ownership of this city. This is a ritual of the phantom array, Li Jingxuan doesn't know why, but he has to follow this rule. Because only in this way can he, as the lord of Xiongzhou City, order everything in Xiongzhou City to be moved.

Yes, move everything in the city of Xiongju. Li Jingxuan had no plans to occupy Xiongzhou City for a long time. Although he will eventually take all the cities, that will be later, not now. Li Jingxuan has a fundamental criterion for how to fight, that is, everything is based on the destruction of the enemy's living forces, and the occupation of the city is secondary. In terms of tactics, it is mainly to gather its own forces to fight a war of annihilation, and put the flat push and defeat battle behind.

In six days, Li Jingxuan stayed in Xiongzhou City for six days. In these six days, as the lord of Xiongzhou, he issued martial law, blocked the four gates of Xiongzhou, and cut off Xiongzhou's contact with the outside world. The method of secretly erecting the banner of demons and barbarians, but allowing them to enter but not leaving, blocked all the people who knew that there was something wrong in Xiongzhou in Xiongzhou City, and never let them contact the outside world.

Next, Li Jingxuan turned into a robber and porter. He was generous to Shen Qingyan and took out part of Shen Qingyan's money and grain stored in Xiongcheng, and as a reward, he paid a lot of money to hire the people of Xiongcheng to move the inventory in Xiongcheng to the fleet's troop carriers, and then transported these materials to the rear with the people of Xiongcheng for resettlement. He wanted to leave Shen Qingyan with a blank city.

Under the temptation of money and the persecution of swords and guns, the people of Xiongcheng succumbed. They relied on their own hard work to move the materials of the entire Xiongcheng.

Looking at the empty treasury and the blue-white slate on the street that was becoming more and more clean, Li Jingxuan nodded with satisfaction. At this time, all the people in Xiongzhou City had been coerced away by him, and they were in troop transports, escorted by eight warships, and sailed south, but they had been walking for two or three hours. When they left, Li Jingxuan was relieved. So, Li Jingxuan gave his last order in Xiongcheng: "Start a fire, burn the city!" He wanted to burn the entire Xiongzhou City to a blank field, but he did not leave a copper plate to Shen Qingyan and Jin Yu - although they did not know the news that Xiongzhou City was captured by Li Jingxuan.

With Li Jingxuan's order, countless rockets were shot into Xiongcheng. Suddenly, the raging flames rose from the city of Xiongzhou, the scorching flames happily **** everything in the city, and the billowing black smoke kept pouring into the sky, and after a while, the bright sun was obscured. The sky became dark, but the people in the shadows did not feel the coolness of the shadows, but felt that waves of heat were coming one after another like a tide.

"This city is over!" Feeling the oncoming heat wave, Li Jingxuan made such a judgment very directly. It's just that it's over, and there aren't many ripples in Li Jingxuan's heart. He thought he had done what he had to do, and as for the losses caused to the people of the city, he thought they were necessary, "all for the sake of victory!"

"Let's go!" Li Jingxuan gently pinched the belly of the war horse under him, signaled it to turn his head, and turned to move forward. This is the end of the matter on the side of Xiongzhou City. The next thing was that he led 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command to go straight to the rear of Qinzhou City by land, attacking Shen Qingyan from the most unbelievable place, achieving unexpected results.

"In short, care is the most important thing. What I ask of you is to be swift and confidential. On the next road, we will walk day and night, and I plan to use ten days of hard work to insert behind Shen Qingyan. I think you can do that. Li Jingxuan asked his subordinates.

"Ten nights to walk 1,200 miles?" Li Jingxuan's subordinates' eyes widened.

"What? is this difficult?" he asked.

"No, we can do it!" the man nodded heavily.

"That's good. Let's go. Li Jingxuan was somewhat impatient.

That's how the army was set aside. Everyone walked step by step, gritting their teeth and persistently. Along the way, everyone walked quite tired, but they also walked very smoothly. Li Jingxuan's route of march was similar to that of the two sides of the official road. In order to prevent the movement of the army from being discovered by some people, Li Jingxuan adopted strict secrecy measures, he not only sent scouts in both directions, and extended the range of activities of the scouts to a hundred miles away, but he also ordered all passers-by on the road to be controlled so that they would not leak their information intentionally or unintentionally.

Under such strict rules, Li Jingxuan's army perfectly hid its traces. Nine days later, they had arrived only twenty miles from Qinzhou City. Li Jingxuan hid his army in a forest several miles away from the official road, and then sent his spies to make contact with the Tang River on the opposite side, bypassing Qincheng.

At this time, the situation in the Don River is not too good. At the same time that Li Jingxuan realized his strategic intentions, Shen Qingyan of Qincheng also completed his tactical arrangement, and Jin Yu, who occupied Dingzhou City on the north bank of the upper reaches of the river, had already joined Shen Qingyan's Qinzhou defenders with his horse infantry army of 30,000, and the strength of the demon barbarian side reached 90,000 people.

At Shen Qingyan's suggestion, Jin Yu used these 90,000 horses to surround the camp of the Tang River and attack it day and night. They were eager to drive Tang River down the river, but with the support of the river patrol fleet, Tang He still used more than 10,000 people in his hands to borrow the fortifications they had built to block Jin Yu's onslaught.

After more than a dozen days and nights, Jin Yu always worked in vain. However, the continuous attacks have seriously depleted the spirit of Tang He's soldiers. After all, there are only 10,000 soldiers under Tang He, and 90,000 soldiers under Jin Yu. As time passed, it was clear that they were getting closer to a bottom line. To put it simply, they can't hold out for much longer.

Tang He naturally understands such a situation. It's just that he is in the team's selected trust, so he gritted his teeth and persisted. It wasn't until someone sent by Li Jingxuan came over and explained the situation to him that he was really relieved.

"Jing Xuan's team is only on the left, which is good, since that's the case...... Then let's prepare for a decisive battle with the other side. Now that the main forces of the armies of both sides are gathered here, it is a good time to win or lose. As long as we can overcome each other in this battle, we will win the final victory. After hearing Li Jingxuan say where he was now, Tang He made a corresponding judgment on the current situation. Out of consideration for this judgment, Tang He looked earnestly at the envoy sent by Li Jingxuan: "I will return to the second phase of the official launch plan tomorrow...... We need to cooperate with each other in this battle. ”

"Understood!" the messenger nodded heavily. After observing the situation in Tang He's camp for a while, he said goodbye to Tang He, quickly returned to Li Jingxuan's camp, and informed Li Jingxuan of Tang He's opinions and deployments.

"It seems that my brother has reached the point of exhaustion. If it weren't for the fact that he really couldn't hold on, he was afraid that he wouldn't have said such a clear weakness. Li Jingxuan listened to the information of the spies and muttered to himself.

Since Tang Hedu has reached the most important juncture, Li Jingxuan will naturally not ignore it. So, through a close connection, the two finally determined the plan for the decisive battle.

In the plan, Tang He's men and horses would be regarded as a big shield to attract Jin Yu and Shen Qingyan's attack, and Li Jingxuan's men and horses would attack from the rear at the right time and completely defeat the two - such a tactic, neither Li Jingxuan nor Tang He had any opinion on this. They all felt that this was a good way to deal with the enemy as soon as possible.

Since it's a good idea, it's natural to go according to the plan.

As a result, Li Jingxuan and Tang He were secretly preparing for a decisive battle.

Two days later, it was the day of the decisive battle.

Tang He led his troops out of the village, posing as if he wanted to break through. This posture was taken seriously by Shen Qingyan, and Shen Qingyan was afraid that he would run away. immediately discussed with Jin Yu, and finally determined the battle plan to rob and kill Tang River in the wild.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, Shen Qingyan almost completely evacuated the troops in Qincheng, and he and Jin Yu joined forces together, with an unprecedented amount of money, nearly 10,000 two layers, and surrounded the Tang River tightly. At the moment when the encirclement was formed, they seemed to have seen the dawn of victory.

Tang He's "breakthrough" began, and after three miles out of the camp, he was desperately blocked by 30,000 demon barbarians, while the other 40,000 demon barbarians were hunting on the north side of Tang He's army, posing as if they were going to attack at any time. As for the last nearly 10,000 soldiers, they rushed straight behind Tang He, cutting off the connection between him and the battalion.

The two sides fought on a wide and flat road, and the demon barbarian, who had many cavalry, had a geographical advantage. Under the flying hooves of the war horses, the army of the Tang River suffered an unimaginable blow.

Watching the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command fall one by one, Tang He had a great headache about this. Speechless, he sensed that the situation was not good. However, the fact that Li Jingxuan's army had not yet been killed made him grit his teeth and continue to persevere.

The two sides were entangled like this for a long time, and the nearly 10,000 soldiers in Tang He's hands had already suffered more than 2,000 dead and wounded, and Jin Yu, as their enemy, also suffered more than 1,000 losses under Tang He's desperate resistance. The demon barbarian has much more powerful combat power than humans, which is very obvious here.

Although Tang He has been resisting, both Jin Yu and Shen Qingyan can see that Tang He's fall is inevitable, unless some miracle happens.

Is it just a so-called miracle, will it really happen? Jin Yu and Shen Qingyan didn't believe it. So, they think they've won, and they start to think about what they're going to do after they win.

However, just as they were imagining what would happen after the victory, Li Jingxuan's team finally arrived at the battlefield. With the swing of the long sword in Li Jingxuan's hand, 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry suddenly rushed towards Shen Qingyan and Jin Yu from behind. Almost instantly, they were within a mile of the two of them.

Unless there is information and vaccinations in advance, no one will believe that when they are suppressing the enemy head-on, another enemy will appear behind them and attack them. With Li Jingxuan's sudden arrival, Shen Qingyan's mouth opened wide in surprise, and Jin Yu even showed a hint of confusion. Although they reacted quickly and made a very correct arrangement-they transferred a part of the troops on the left and right flanks to try to block Li Jingxuan's attack, but it was useless.

When Li Jingxuan's horn sounded on the battlefield, Tang He knew that his reinforcements had arrived. He informed his subordinates of the news, which immediately provoked the excitement and morale of his subordinates.

And under the elimination of the other, the morale of the demon man suddenly fell a lot. Faced with the situation in this formation, these simple-headed fellows were a little stunned, and they did not know whether their most correct choice now was to stay and continue the battle, or to go back and rescue their generals - they were a little confused.

And such chaos was grasped by the Don River. The Don gave the order for a counteroffensive. The human soldiers, who had been pressed by the demon barbarians, suddenly burst into flames, and the attacking and defending sides suddenly shifted their positions. After a short moment, the situation on the battlefield actually showed a situation where the human side was pressed by the demon barbarian and beat wildly, which made people look somewhat strange. (To be continued.) )