Chapter 621: The strength of the troops
The Drunken Spirit Peak was scorched black.
A cliff on the top of the mountain, a cliff immediately below the cliff, the cliff is engraved with dense Buddhist scriptures, those Dawu soldiers who came to burn down the Buddhist temple may have come and gone in a hurry, and did not find this cliff, or it may be shocked and moved by the huge cliff that is as long as a hundred zhang and up to more than ten zhang, and cannot bear to destroy, a wind would rather believe that it is the latter.
On the other side of the cliff is the original Zuiling Temple, which has now become a decadent wall, black bricks and scorched earth, and only a few huge Buddha statues with broken heads sit upright, enduring the wind and rain of the world.
From here you can overlook a long distance, surrounded by some low hills, in the cold wind is still verdant, only the Zuiling Peak is unique, most of them are maple leaves, I heard that it is the founding abbot of the Zuiling Temple who loves maple trees, so he spent decades alone, planted the maple forest of this mountain.
Overlooking it, the hills in the south stretch into a low mountain range, on both sides of the mountain range, are scattered villages, to the west is the boundary of Junzhou, to the east is Lingtai County, from here you can see that there are already scattered and lively people go home, large and small dirt roads and paths are scattered with groups of people, like ants hurrying slowly.
Zheng Wenqi looked at this scene under the peak, behind him were Chong Kai and Zhan Yanzhang, and one zhang away from him was standing Yifeng, and behind him were Shuli and Fire Monkey.
But he remembered the unusual things he had just seen from the treasure and fell into deep thought.
When he passed by the Wind Roar Army just now, he felt the unusual aura fluctuations emanating from their battle armor weapons, and his astral magic power had passed through the guidance of Cui Ming of the Great Pillar Kingdom, and now it was advancing by leaps and bounds, and he immediately sensed that their armor weapons contained the power of the Divine Que, presumably they had integrated the power of the Divine Que into the crafting process.
Originally, this was not surprising, during the previous battle in Qingyang Pass, he noticed that the armor and weapons of the Wind Roar Army were not the standard that he usually saw, they were much tougher and sharper, and he guessed it at that time, but what he saw today was much stronger than the breath of the Wind Roar Army before, and it was no longer at the same level.
It should be that the two star beasts of Fire Monkey and Little Fu Butterfly have also integrated their cultivation on the Divine Que during this period of time into the weapon refining of the Wind Roar Army, this kind of armor weapon, judging from his experience of fighting on the border with the army many years ago, the defensive power of the spear and halberd, the sharpness and tenacity of the weapon are more than ten times higher than that of ordinary armor weapons.
Then he also found that among them, there were tens of thousands of people's breath very wrong, the tens of thousands of monks at the foot of the mountain gathered in one place, all of them were monks with swords, a single monk looked at it, except for the sword to appear that this Buddhist monk was a little abrupt, there was no difference.
But when the tens of thousands of identical monks and soldiers gathered together, he felt a majestic and huge sword intent, which was more penetrating than the strong wind of this winter, and a chill was pressing towards his heart.
Although he didn't know what the reason was, if he wanted to achieve this powerful combat power of turning parts into a whole, it must be inseparable from the magic circle.
Although the rest of the monks are relatively ordinary, their queues are neat, their expressions are focused, their eyes are focused, their faces are resolute, and they are all refined monk soldiers at a glance, which is nothing unusual, the dragon cavalry in the Dragon Martial Army are all this kind of elite soldiers, but the terrible thing is that the number of such monks is now 100,000······
100,000 such a strong monk soldier, placed in all the legions of the Great Wu Kingdom, is a powerful combat force that can set off a storm, and it is a heavy weapon of the country's war that cannot be ignored.
In addition, in front of his eyes, in the low hills and forests to the south of this Drunken Spirit Peak, he also sensed a strange aura, like some restless monster, he was very sure that the Wind Roar Army was hiding some powerful killer feature.
Such a legion is enough to pose a deadly threat to Junzhou City.
Two years ago, the Yunzhou Legion was defeated in Qingping Town, and the Yulin Legion was implicated, and the right Yulin Legion brought out by the Badun Marquis was actually injured by forty or fifty thousand people, so that the combat effectiveness of the entire Yulin Legion was sharply reduced to 150,000, and it has not yet recovered.
More than a year ago, Yi Xiao led the Right Longwu Legion to conquer the southwest, and was defeated by the Wind Roar Army, after which the remnants fled into Leizhou, and lost most of them, and the Right Longwu Legion in Junzhou City only had 100,000 troops left.
A year ago, Dong Han and Yang Jiong led the Shenwu Legion 200,000 to aid the northwest, and the prince Wei Jian surrounded the northwest Buddhist road, which was broken by the wind roaring army, and then set up an ambush to ambush two legions, the two legions suffered heavy losses, Wei Jian was killed, the Thundering Legion and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry lost a total of 200,000 people, the 200,000 troops of the Shenwu Legion were almost wiped out, and the Shenwu Legion that responded in Junzhou still had 200,000 troops.
At the same time, the Zuo Shence Legion led by Tie Ning went out to the Northeast to exterminate the Buddha Dao, and died together with the Northeast Buddhism, Tie Ning almost returned to Junzhou alone, and the Zuo Shence Legion had 100,000 troops left.
Half a year ago, Tao Zhuo's Youshence Legion, which had been in a stalemate for two years in Arzhai in Gunzhou in the north, was hit by a major blow to the Wind Roar Army and fled when they heard the wind, leaving only one of the 100,000 soldiers and horses left in Junzhou.
And he and the 100,000 people of the Zuo Longwu Legion led by Chong Kai, when they fought with the fire monkey and the Buddhist monks of Jiangnan Buddhism, they encountered stubborn resistance, losing 30,000 or 40,000 troops, and together with the Zuo Longwu Legion left behind in Junzhou, there were more than 160,000 soldiers and horses.
The most remaining is the Shenwei Legion, the Shenwei Legion is under the command of the crown prince Wei Huang, as the suppression of Junzhou City and the daily control of the soldiers and horses, although before the Great Martial Buddha and Taoist forces besieged Junzhou, the prince Wei Huang in front of the Martial Emperor Wei Yu repeatedly asked to draw out the soldiers and horses of the Shenwei Legion to participate in the extermination of Buddhism, and even threatened to personally lead the soldiers and horses to the battle, but Wei Yu always refused the prince's request on the grounds of the importance of Junzhou City, but expressed great satisfaction in front of hundreds of officials. So now the Shenwei Legion still has 400,000 troops.
This is the summary of the military situation handed over to him by his mentor Cui Ming of the Great Pillar Kingdom before this mission, and the strength of the ten major legions of the Great Wu Kingdom now totals about 1.2 million, Cui Ming said to him, it seems to be a million male division, but in fact it is in crisis.
First of all, the state border legions in various places were directly scrapped by the Wind Roar Army and the local Buddhist and Taoist forces in this war of exterminating the Dharma, and they have not yet recovered their vitality.
Secondly, although the soldiers and horses guarding the three borders of the northwest border, the northern ice field, and the south of Wanzhou are strong, they cannot help, and once they withdraw and retreat, the consequences are unimaginable, and even the Great Wu Kingdom may be destroyed.
Again, the Yulin Legion is the guardian of the Dawu Emperor Palace, these 150,000 soldiers and horses can't be moved no matter what, and the Shenwei Legion is responsible for the control and rectification of the four or five million people in the entire huge Junzhou City, even if the soldiers and horses are withdrawn, according to the rotation system of the Shenwei Legion, they can draw out up to 100,000 Shenwei Legion, which is good.
In other words, at most, there will be about 750,000 troops to deal with the crisis of the siege of Junzhou.
There are also some uncertain unstable factors, such as the chief generals of the ten major legions, among the main generals who can fight, except for Chongkai, the rest were either killed by Yifeng, or were imprisoned by him, Emperor Wu was furious, and reprimanded Dong Han and Tie Ning for losing their troops and losing generals, and did not give them an edict to behead them on the spot.
Therefore, only Chongkai, the chief general of the legion, has not been replaced, and the rest are newly appointed generals, including Zheng Wenqi, who has been appointed as the chief general of the Right Longwu Legion.
What's more, none of these legions are a single soldier, and at least they have 100,000 soldiers and horses. Even if Zheng Wenqi has a plan, but it will take a lot of time for all the soldiers of the Right Dragon Martial Legion who originally obeyed the orders of the roar to listen to him, until the legion can run as expected, it is even more far away.
The Wei royal family stipulated that all legions leaving Junzhou to go on an expedition must leave half of the soldiers and horses to defend Junzhou, which is also the reason why Yifeng was able to lead the Wind Roar Army to defeat the Dawu Legion in the states of the Dawu Empire, and it was also an important factor in the current situation.
But in this matter, this set of rules handed down by the Wei royal family is not wrong, because no one thought before that there was really a force that could defeat so many great martial arts legions, and now, it is this set of rules that allows Junzhou to retain a huge military advantage in this seemingly dangerous situation.
But the situation remains critical.
Zheng Wenqi calculated frantically in his heart, he expected that once the war started, if he wanted to target the Wind Roar Army in front of him, he would need at least a total of 260,000 soldiers and horses of the Dragon Martial Legion, which might be more than that, and he would also need 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Shenwei Army to help him, so that it would be possible to contain the offensive of the Wind Roar Army in front of him.
But he understood that if he wanted to send the soldiers and horses of the Shenwei Legion, although the crown prince Wei Huang said it nicely, he would definitely send the figure he didn't want to cooperate with the most: Shi Meng.
Even in such a complicated and difficult situation, before leaving, Cui Ming still told him eight words with a firm expression: find out the details and prepare for war!