Chapter 1401: Peak
Where did this ambush come from?
Shu Zhan was not stupid, and he reacted after a brief moment of shock.
Lin Si attacked Yanshan City, and there were indeed only 500,000 troops, and they were all in his sight. But this doesn't mean that there are really only these 500,000 people available in the Moon Country, and the rest of the cities around Yanshan City have also been attacked recently, right?
There are a total of millions of Moon Country troops in the middle lane, but I just ignored it before, because I felt that the battle in those places was fierce now, and I couldn't get out of it at all.
Looking at it now, the two Moon Kingdom ambush soldiers, all the way leading the troops was Gu Yuda, all the way was Meng Zhen, they weren't in Yanshan City at all, were they?
They should be attacking Tu Ling City and Yu Hucheng on the east and west sides of Yanshan City now, and the war in those two cities has not ended at all, otherwise they should have gotten the news a long time ago.
It is likely that they sneaked back from the two surrounding cities last night and ambushed them on both flanks.
In order to cooperate with Lin Si, he attacked Shenyan's pursuers from behind.
Lin Si's previous defeat and retreat was simply a sign of weakness, in order to let Shenyan's pursuers reach a suitable ambush position, and at the same time try to be as dense as possible, making it equally difficult to turn around.
After that, he withstood the attack from the front, in order to block the way of the Shenyan people, so as to facilitate the ambush of Gu Yuda and Meng Zhen's back.
Now the back road back to the city has been cut off by Gu Yuda and Meng Zhen, and the front road is blocked by Lin Si, and the 300,000 Yue Kingdom army that fled before has gradually been gathered at this time and turned around again.
The tide of battle was really reversed, and it was so sudden, so crisp. The original victory suddenly turned into a defeat, and it can only be said that the battlefield is really changing in an instant.
The general trend has gone, even though he is extremely unwilling in his heart, Shu Zhan still has to admit that he still fell for Lin Si's plan......
Lin Si's note was used to frame Mi Yuanyun, but that was not the end of the whole plan.
Retreating from the army was also calculated by him from the beginning.
He expected in advance that Shu Zhan would suddenly attack when he was unable to turn around and fight back.
What he wanted at the beginning was to chase Shu Zhan out of the city. Not many people can resist that kind of temptation. After all, everyone knows that after turning around, it is not so easy to fall back and fight.
And if the army's morale is in chaos, it is likely that there will be a big rout.
Of course, Shu Zhan could expect this situation, but it was a pity that although he expected many things, and even thought about the ambush in advance, he still missed something.
His eyes were all attracted by the 500,000 people, to put it bluntly, he was too expecting Lin Si to miscalculate, and when he saw the picture of the big rout he wanted, he felt that the general trend had been achieved.
He also didn't care about the war in Tu Ling City and Yu Protector City, after all, it was under his jurisdiction, but he still ignored that Lin Sihui would borrow troops from those two cities this time. He didn't connect the two in his heart......
The ambush of Gu Yuda and Meng Zhen was completely out of his plan.
The rear and flanks of the large armies were attacked, with often devastating results. As with the withdrawal of troops, it is also inconvenient to fight back in this situation. In addition, the rear army could not block the impact of the heavy cavalry in such a sudden situation.
As a qualified general, he generally does not give people the opportunity to target his flanks and rear, and Shu Zhan is no exception.
After all, the so-called change of battle formations is actually mostly to prevent the enemy from hitting his flanks and rear.
No matter how fast the roundabout outflanking is, it can't be as fast as the change of battle formation.
However, the change of battle formation was no match for the sudden ambush......
In particular, now the main force at the front of Shu Zhan was pinned down by the army behind Lin Si Palace, and the rear were all some foot soldiers. Before, they were chasing with all their strength and moving forward with all their might, but now they want to retreat and change formations, how could Lin Si give them a chance?
The 300,000 Yueguo army that had originally fled in front of it gradually gathered back under the orders of Fan Xing, Jiang Qi and other generals, and now it finally began to turn around and kill again.
For Shu Zhan, this is undoubtedly an even worse scene.
It was irretrievable, and the Shenyan army that was attacked from the rear was quickly chaotic and collapsed. Many Shenyan soldiers lost their armor and began to flee in all directions, this is the real rout, at this time, no matter how strong their fighting ability is, they will not be able to restrain them.
When the previous 300,000 'deserters' of the Yue Kingdom joined the battlefield, Shu Zhan made a reluctantly correct choice, not going all out to return to Yanshan City, but breaking through to Tu Ling City to the east of Yanshan City.
Yanshan City, they can't go back at all. And even if you can go back, I am afraid that there will be no more than 30,000 people who will enter the city in the end, and it will only be a dead end at that time.
It's better to go to the surrounding cities, there are 200,000 Purple Star Shenyan coalition troops in Tuling City, and now go to join them, you can still stabilize your position, and even take advantage of the situation to defeat the remaining Moon Army of Meng Zhen's department that originally attacked where.
It's just that Shu Zhan's step was also expected by Lin Si in advance.
He really couldn't keep Shu Zhan's entire army of 500,000, but he wouldn't give Shu Zhan a chance to turn around.
Leaving an army of 400,000 to strangle the defeated soldiers of Shenyan on the spot, he personally led an army of 200,000 and joined Meng Zhen's 100,000 heavy cavalry to quickly chase after him.
This is a desperate pursuit and escape battle, along the way, Shu Zhan more than once broke his wrist, leaving behind some people to break the queen, and tried to block Lin Si's pursuit again and again, but unfortunately this move did not have much effect.
Lin Si's personal strength finally played a great role at this moment.
Able to fly, he flew to the front of Shu Zhan with a single sword, constantly hindering him from top to bottom. It is true that he alone could not inflict too much damage on Shu Zhan's more than 100,000 deserters, but his attacks were all aimed at Shu Zhan himself.
Shu Zhan is the boss, how can the Shenyan side not swear to defend to the death?
This attack from the sky further delayed Shu Zhan's escape.
When Shu Zhan finally fled into Tu Ling City with a group of masters, he had less than 50,000 people under his command. And just as he rushed into Tu Lingcheng with his front foot, Lin Si with his back foot began to join Meng Zhen to attack Tu Lingcheng in a big way.
His plans have always been one ring after another, and he will not only focus on immediate interests at all.
The current Tu Ling City is not ready to attack at all, is it? Although there are 200,000 people in this city, they can't stop their sudden extra 200,000 people.
Meng Zhen's 100,000 army left outside the city was already ready to go, and of course he rushed forward without hesitation at this time. Tu Lingcheng was actually equivalent to using 250,000 people to block the attack of 400,000 people, and it was a sudden attack.
Lin Si was the first to kill the city head again, and Shu Zhan, who fled into the city in a hurry, had to cooperate with Tu Ling's city guards to passively meet the attack. It's just that all this came too suddenly for Tu Lingcheng's guards.
It's like facing a sudden flood and only now starting to build a dam, and where can it be late, it will only be quickly washed away.
Tu Lingcheng's army and the 50,000 Shenyan defeated soldiers who had just fled in also lacked effective cooperation, and the city fell almost instantly, and then Lin Si and the Sword Sect masters fought all the way into the city and opened the city gate. The army of the Moon Kingdom officially entered the city, and Tu Ling City fell.
Shu Zhan, who was also a master of the Heavenly Realm, had to personally join the fierce hand-to-hand combat at this time, but all this seemed to be useless.
If he doesn't continue to escape, I'm afraid that even he, the manager, will die in battle.
He could only continue to flee north with Tu Lingcheng's defeated troops, while Lin Si continued to pursue.
This kind of rout, of course, he will not hesitate to chase. He also knew that it was impossible to kill Shu Zhan, after all, he still had three late Heaven Realm masters by his side, as well as more than a dozen early and mid-Heaven Realm masters.
However, at least try to annihilate the enemy's living forces.
This pursuit lasted for a whole day, and it was chased for thousands of miles, and finally the pursuers of the Moon Kingdom themselves were sleepy and tired, so they had to stop.
And the last remaining people around Shu Zhan were less than 20,000, and he himself was not lightly injured and almost died. The Heavenly Realm masters on the side of the Divine Flame Purple Star killed three people in battle, and the army of the Moon Kingdom counted the pretended defeat outside Yanshan City before, and the total battle losses were less than 70,000.
It's a true victory, but it's not the end.
According to Lin Si's plan, after the defeated Shenyan soldiers outside Yanshan City were hanged and killed, Fan Xing only divided 50,000 people to occupy the city. The rest of the more than 200,000 troops converged with Gu Yuda's 100,000 army and fought all the way to the Yuhu City on the west side of Yanshan City.
That night, in the face of the Moon Kingdom's army, which was suddenly twice as strong as its own, Yu Hucheng also fell.
When the time came to five days, the Shenyan Purple Star Coalition Army in the middle lane had accumulated more than 800,000 battle losses, and it was almost completely disabled. And the army of the Moon Kingdom has also advanced for more than 3,000 miles, and the cities along the way have hardly been able to give any decent resistance.
The Purple Star Monarch was shocked, they never imagined that the middle lane would be defeated so quickly, if this was a small country suffering such a blow, they were afraid that the country would be destroyed in just ten days.
The middle lane originally had Shu Zhan and Mi Yuanyun, if you want a master to have a master, if you want a famous general, the soldier's equipment literacy is no worse than that of Yueguo, how can this be?
If this continues, will Lin Si directly penetrate all the way, and then go straight to the Purple Star National Capital?
This possibility is actually not very large, Zixing is different from Qianlan back then, and they have been prepared for this war for a long time after all. Now the Purple Star Kingdom has been frantically transferring troops to the middle lane, the north and east and west sides are almost empty, and even the city guards around the national capital have been transferred to the front line.
They could only do this, because at this moment, the death of the country seemed so close to them. If you don't fight to the death, you will have nothing.
On the other hand, Lin Si actually didn't plan to go directly into the hinterland of the Purple Star. One is because it is difficult to do, and the other is that it is actually a lone army, and it is tens of thousands of miles deep, which is easy for the Purple Star people to copy the back road and cut off the connection with the rear.
Lin Si chose to help Xue Chen and Shen Qing on the east road first and Ji Bingyun on the west road, there was no pressure on the middle road for the time being, and he had enough spare strength to support these two roads.
The current battles in the eastern and western theaters are quite stalemate, and something like Lin Si that is decisive in a war cannot happen every time. Just like when he attacked Southern Qi, which was far weaker than Purple Star, it took more than half a year for the Moon Kingdom, didn't it?
Even if Ji Bingyun and Shen Qing and Xue Chen were quite good at fighting, the Divine Flame Purple Star General on the opposite side was not an ordinary person.
Resisting the city and defending it, the troops are equal, and it is difficult to advance like a bamboo.
However, with the support of Lin Si's middle route army, the situation on both sides gradually improved a lot.
In the worst case, Lin Si could let the Middle Route Army go to the rear of the enemy on the east and west to rob grain and cut off the transmission of news, and he could also cooperate with Ji Bingyun and others to besiege the city.
After he joined, the battle between the east and west went much smoother.
And at this time, the battle report of the battle in Yanshan City in the middle road finally spread, and for a while, the Cangluo Continent was in an uproar.
Mi Yuanyun was recalled, and the Lin Mi duel that everyone was looking forward to did not happen. And the Shenyan General Shu was in the middle of the battle, and then collapsed for thousands of miles, almost burying the fate of Zixing.
No one expected that Shenyan people would suddenly lose so quickly, all of this made many people think of Yan Gaoyang and Lin Si back then.
Back then, Long Yan, with the help of Lin Si, even suppressed Shenyan to the downside. But it was at that time that Lin Si was driven away by Yan Gaoyang, and then the complacent Yan Gaoyang crossed the Nanhun River and went north, Mi Yuanyun was also defeated all the way, and then Yan Gaoyang was in the middle of the plan and buried a good situation......
In the end, it also opened the prelude to the demise of Long Yan.
How similar are today's Shu Zhan and Mi Yuanyun to those of the past?
It was the same coach who drove away the most powerful generals around him, the same self-righteous light enemy who rushed forward, and the same final rout.
The only difference may be that the rout of Shu Zhan this time is not as big as Yan Gaoyang's loss back then. Compared with Yan Gaoyang, who attacked thousands of miles in a big way back then, he only ventured into more than ten miles.
After learning of Shu Zhan's defeat, Emperor Shenyan was furious, and many ministers in the court demanded that Shu Zhan be recalled for punishment. Encountering such a defeat, his best ending may be to be removed from the position of coach and general.
Surprisingly, however, the Shenyan Emperor made a rather intriguing decision after a brief period of anger. There is no substantive punishment other than a reprimand.
In addition, he even transferred troops from Shenyan to the Purple Star Battlefield again to support Shu Zhan on the front line. As for Shu Zhan's position as the commander and general, he has not moved at all.
At this time, Mi Yuanyun, who was under investigation by the Shenyan Imperial Court, was not reactivated because of this.
On the other hand, Lin Si's prestige in the Cangluo Continent had also reached its peak.
Now no one says that he is not good at head-to-head duels, and he avoids the confrontation with Mi Yuanyun, and not many people will think that he is afraid of Mi Yuanyun, after all, Mi Yuanyun didn't do anything similar to Lin Si back then?
Being able to calculate the Yuan Yun with discord is not a manifestation of ability?
The ranking of the famous generals of the Heavenly Book Ceremony was also changed again, and Yuelianshan, the prince of the Moon Kingdom, was ranked first because of this great victory, becoming the recognized first general in the Cangluo Continent.
Whether it is a head-on duel or a clever ambush, whether it is the coordination between the theater corps or the use of the tiny details of the current battlefield, he is all good at, and he really seems to be born for battle.
At this time, Lin Si almost became an invincible incarnation in the minds of many people.
He won a great victory on the battlefield, the Moon Kingdom behind him was stable and prosperous, he and his wife were in good shape, his newborn child was healthy and strong, and his family and friends were all well...... It's completely like this, what more can you ask for in life.
At this time, who would have thought that there is another word in this world, called 'prosperity and decline'?
Many changes that people could never have imagined gradually hit him quietly. Even thousands of years later, there are still many people who feel incomprehensible about the many things that happened at that time, and even happily assume that if those changes had not happened at that time, what would have happened to the Cangluo Continent later.
It's just that there are no ifs in this world...... (To be continued.) )