Chapter 1443: Haunted
At this point, Shu Zhan no longer had any щ in his heart. lā
There is no other reason, even if this is really Lin Sibu's game, the price he paid is too great. So many cities were given up for nothing, and it will not be so simple to fight back in the future.
It wasn't just him who had similar thoughts, but also the generals of Shenyan and Purple Star, the soldiers, and even the people of Purple Star felt that Lin Si had lost this time.
Shu Zhan's only regret is that although he recovered a lot of lost territory, he was unable to annihilate as much of the army of the Dianyue Kingdom as possible.
But there is no way, if the main force of the Moon Kingdom army is still on the opposite side, it will not be so easy for him to take down so many places.
Although Shu Zhan didn't have much to worry about, he didn't relax much either.
The scouts and vanguards he sent out kept reporting to him what was going on, he wouldn't fall into any more ambushes, he wouldn't easily step into ambushes, he wouldn't be negligent.
But on the eve of dawn that day, he and the army of more than forty thousand gods around him still suffered a catastrophe.
At that time, Shu Zhan's army had already taken down five cities overnight, and on their way to the sixth city, they collided head-on with Lin Si's Moon Kingdom army.
Yes, there was no ambush, not an ambush, it was a head-to-head showdown.
Shu Zhan's scouts and small vanguard troops on the front road could not come back, and they were directly extinguished by Lin Si. If he didn't get any news after a while, Shu Zhan might have stopped, but Lin Si didn't give him this chance.
After exterminating Shu Zhan's scouts, he directly led the army to rush towards the Shu Zhan army that was about to sweep in the north, and took the initiative to provoke a frontal battle.
Such a scene, Shu Zhan should not have been afraid of originally, although this battle came a little suddenly for him.
But now, his heart sank, because the army of the Moon Kingdom on the opposite side was no less than 400,000, and its strength was not inferior to him at all.
And in addition to this, there is the most important point, although Lin Si's army has also rushed for dozens of miles, compared to the 400,000 Shenyan army behind Shu Zhan who has been attacking all night, they can be regarded as an out-and-out waiting.
What will be the consequences of the 400,000-strong army that has stayed up all night and kept running? Although they have hardly experienced any decent battles, it is inevitable that they will be tired and exhausted, and their combat strength has long since disappeared.
In the past, a Divine Flame soldier could firmly defeat a Moon Country soldier, but now, three Divine Flame soldiers may not be as good as a Moon Country soldier.
This battle can't be fought at all, even if it's not an ambush, there is no ambush.
Except for the roughly equal number of people, the gap between the two sides is too great, and the current combat effectiveness is not at all at the same level.
Shu Zhan finally understood Lin Si's plan, it was true that his withdrawal was fake, otherwise where would the 400,000 Yueguo army come from on the other side. If his expectations were right, Lin Si and the 400,000 troops around him had already hidden in this vicinity a few days ago, and they were waiting for now.
As for the Divine Flame Purple Star Alliance in other areas of the middle lane, I am afraid that they have also suffered similar blockades.
Lin Si's tactic is very simple, that is, to wait for work.
Deliberately threw irresistible bait, creating a situation where it was impossible not to be moved, making the Shenyan and Purple Star people lose their cool, and making them frantically pounce on the table to eat and drink until they couldn't move, and then come out and give them a knife.
Yes, in the face of so many empty cities, Shu Zhan was indeed lost, even if he was very cautious and careful for a while, thinking of almost everything, but he still forgot that his army was tired.
He didn't take this seriously, because under the assumption of him and the generals around him, there should be no resistance ahead, they just need to get there, and then they can occupy it.
And according to the original plan, after the next city, he also planned to let the soldiers stop and rest, after all, the soldiers and the war horses were almost unable to run.
Who would have thought that at this juncture, a large number of enemies would appear in front.
To be honest, although he understood all this, he still couldn't understand Lin Si's plan. How could he have decided that he would kill here overnight, and if he had conquered two cities, he would choose to stop and repair and attack again tomorrow?
Then his so-called waiting for work will be a joke, and when the time comes, he will be tantamount to giving up the cities he has built before, right?
What was going on in this person's mind? Could it be that he really dreamed about what would happen the next night the first night, as some newspapers in the Moon Kingdom had reported before?
And in the end, what he couldn't understand even more was that his scout had clearly seen the 600,000 Yue Kingdom army return to the territory of Southern Qi with his own eyes, and unless Lin Si's army could all fly, how could he appear in the north at this time for nearly 10,000 miles?
The teleportation array is impossible, the cost of the teleportation array is not small, and it is unrealistic to teleport on the scale of tens of thousands of people, let alone an army of 400,000?
He should have really withdrawn his troops, and with countless doubts, he had to brace himself to deal with this unwinnable battle. Because the four armies of Lin on the opposite side didn't give him any chance to react at all, they rushed over like that.
In this battle, even if he wanted to turn around and run away, he couldn't escape, because the soldiers and horses were tired and couldn't escape far. Rather than fleeing and being chased by the other party and easily killed, it is better to stop and fight head-on.
Of course, Shu Zhan didn't know that Fan Xing, Jiang Qi and the others had indeed withdrawn, and the 600,000 troops that those scouts saw in Southern Qi were not an illusion.
It's just that those 600,000 troops are not the main battle troops of the Moon Country. Just like Shu Zhan's middle road, which is known as the 1.4 million Divine Flame Purple Star army, this 1.4 million only refers to those who can go to the battlefield to fight.
Of course, a war cannot be only these main battle troops, and outside the battlefield, there are countless other people who are silently serving the war ahead. For example, the civilians in the rear, such as the baggage soldiers and logistics soldiers, their total number is actually more than that of the front-line soldiers.
In war, they are generally not attacked much, and even if they loot food and raid the rear, no one will usually kill them.
Because they have no combat effectiveness, they can't pose any threat at all, and as soon as the main battle force is destroyed, they will naturally disperse. Or if they are captured and forcibly requisitioned by themselves, it can still play a big role.
Those 600,000 people do belong to the army of the Moon Country, but they are all logistics soldiers and some people of the Moon Country, and they are just wearing the armor of the main battle army.
Their actions were inherently elusive, they were indeed marching at night and hiding in the mountains during the day, plus among the 600,000 people, there were still tens of thousands of real elite soldiers guarding around, and it was extremely difficult for the Shenyan scouts to approach, how many details could they find?
It was impossible for them to recognize the faces of every soldier of the Moon Country, and in the end, Fan Xing and Jiang Qi had really returned to the Moon Country, and seeing them, where would the Shenyan Scouts have any suspicions?
The real main force of the Moon Kingdom, although they had withdrawn from the front line, they had not left too far at all, they were waiting for the ecstatic and exhausted Divine Flame Purple Star Alliance.
And now the rest of the Moon State armies in the middle are commanded by Gu Yuda Mengzhen and the lieutenants of Fan Xing and Jiang Qi.
As for why Lin Si expected Shu Zhan to kill here tonight, in fact, it was just a gamble.
He thought it was more likely, so he did it.
He doesn't know how to read minds, and he doesn't give himself dreams, he will make this choice because he is originally a mad general who will give it a try as long as he is 30% sure. And this chance of success is more than 30% in his eyes.
If Shu Zhan didn't succeed in the plan of waiting for work, then he would indeed lose the original good situation in vain. Regardless, at this moment, he won the bet.
Although it was not an ambush, although the Shenyan army was well prepared to deal with it, and although Shu Zhan had been commanded in a hundred battles, there were some things that could not be reversed out of thin air.
No matter how strong the will of the Divine Flame army is, it can't fool their tired bodies. Originally, they planned to sleep in the next city, but now they are just fighting with their spirits, carrying their sore arms and heavy legs.
What they used to be able to do with ease is now so laborious and slow. The power and speed that they used to have, now they simply can't use it. Shu Zhan had obviously issued the order to form a formation, but the army was a few beats slower......
And the consequences of this are, of course, devastating.
The Shenyan army array was soon cut and surrounded and strangled by the wolf-like army of the Moon Kingdom, Lin Si did not make any mistakes, suspended in mid-air, he controlled the overall situation of the entire battlefield, and one by one orders were conveyed by him without any confusion, and then turned into the smooth movement of the soldiers of the Moon Kingdom like mercury.
A Mingshenyan soldier fell unwillingly, in the past, they shouldn't have died so easily, but now they have more than enough heart and less strength.
And the most fatal thing is that their fighting spirit is also fading quickly, and they can also see that their own side is doomed to defeat in this battle. Under the influence of this mentality, many Shenyan soldiers already had the intention of fleeing.
Seeing the elite army under his command being rapidly eroded, Shu Zhan's heart was dripping blood, he himself was not tired, because he was a master of the Heavenly Realm, but he couldn't lend his strength to the soldiers.
He could only watch them die in pieces, and when the battle came to an end, and when there were only more than 100,000 of the 400,000 Shenyan army left, he could only choose to flee.
It's just that at this point, how could Lin Si still give him a chance to escape?
He handed over the temporary command of this war to his lieutenant general Zhong Tai, and then personally chased and killed him with the Tianqi Sword.
Shu Zhan only escaped for only twenty miles, and then he had to fight. He and the masters around him were all caught in a bitter battle, and although the masters of the Supreme Cloud Dian and the Heart Palace struggled to save each other, Lin Si also had the help of the elders of the Sword Sect by his side.
It was Lin Si himself who fought against Shangshu.
Although Shu Zhan himself was a master in the early stage of the Heavenly Realm, and he was also a strong man in terms of personal strength, he was a little inadequate in the face of Lin Si.
If it weren't for the dozens of Shenyan master guards around him desperately resisting, I am afraid that he would not even be able to block Lin Forty moves. However, even so, after a period of fierce pursuit and fighting, the Shenyan General finally died under the Heavenly Lack Sword.
Of the seven Heavenly Realm masters on the Shenyan side, only Gao Yi and Xingong Suyun escaped from the Supreme Cloud Realm, because these two were masters of the late Heavenly Realm, and they had many powerful and powerful means.
The others, even the hundreds of masters of the Divine Flame Army who broke through the Extreme Realm, were all slaughtered.
When Lin Si killed Shu Zhan, the Shenyan army in the rear was gradually exhausted.
He only left 10,000 men to clean up the battlefield in place, and the rest of the men quickly marched towards the surrounding cities in three directions.
For him, the next thing to do is to expand the results of the battle, and as for the cities that were originally lost, he is not worried.
As long as you kill all the people, you can get back the lost city at any time, right?