Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎforeadx;? The next morning, Shangguan Xiu summoned the generals of the river seals,

After everyone arrived, Shangguan Xiu said straight to the point: "Presumably all the generals have also heard that the 300,000 troops in Ningnan are rushing to Qingcheng, you think, in this battle, our army should fight or withdraw,"

Although Shangguan Xiu did not directly state his position, until now he has not ordered the evacuation of Qingcheng, obviously he wants to fight with the Ningnan army, however, with 70,000 against 300,000, everyone is not very confident about this battle.

"If Your Highness says war, even if we are crushed, we will swear to fight the enemy to the death, and if Your Highness says to withdraw, we will have nothing to say, and we will definitely follow Your Highness," the generals led by Jiang Leopard said in unison,

"Since all the generals have made up their minds, then, let me also make a statement," Shangguan Xiu held the table with his hand, stood up, saw him get up, and everyone on the left and right brushed up and followed, he said: "I have decided that our army will stay in Qingcheng and fight to the death with the enemy,"

Everyone more or less guessed Shangguan Xiu's decision, and they were not surprised by this, and everyone intervened in the salute and said, "The last general swears to follow His Highness to the death,"

Shangguan Xiu said: "Give an order to the three corps stationed in Gucheng, Qucheng, and Liangcheng, so that the three corps all move closer to the direction of Qingcheng, their task is to block and harass the Fifth Army in Ningnan, without a direct confrontation with the enemy, just slow down the speed of the Fifth Army's advance to Qingcheng,"

"Yes," the leopard replied, bowing down,

"Immediately send the elite soldiers of our army to the vicinity of Qingcheng to arrest the displaced people affected by the disaster, and the target of the arrest is as long as the young and strong men must act quickly and secretly, and they must not leak the news,"

"Yes, Your Highness," the crowd commanded in unison,

Shangguan Xiu looked at Jiang Leopard and said, "Ah Leopard, divide the soldiers of the four corps, go to the east of Qingcheng ten miles away, build fortifications, and do your best to make the fortifications impregnable,"

Hearing this, all the generals present frowned, building fortifications ten miles away from Qingcheng, is their defense system too open, after all, they only have 70,000 soldiers, and in the case of the enemy is outnumbered, they should shrink to defend, ten miles away from the city to arrange the defense line, that is the tactic when our enemy is outnumbered, the purpose is to keep the enemy out of the door in the future, and minimize the damage to their own cities,

"Your Highness, ten miles of defense, is our army's defense line ...... It's too long, I'm afraid that the current strength of our army will not be able to garrison such a long defensive line," Jiang Leopard said cautiously,

The rest of the generals also nodded, saying that what Jiang Leopard said was right, and it was indeed unreasonable to deploy defenses ten miles away.

"Just do as I say, dismiss the meeting," Shangguan Xiu did not listen to the dissuasion of Jiang Bao and the others, waved his hand, and ended this short military meeting,

Although all the generals have an incomprehensible approach to Shangguan Xiu, no one dares to question it, this has nothing to do with identity and status, but Shangguan Xiu's prestige in the army is too high.

Even if he ordered the soldiers to build a ladder and climb to the moon, the soldiers would follow his orders, and they would firmly believe that as long as they did according to his orders, they would definitely succeed, which was the prestige brought by Shangguan Xiu's accumulated exploits in successive battles.

In accordance with Shangguan Xiu's order, the officers and men of the Seventh Army began to dig trenches, build earthen walls, and set up horses to resist horses, and went all out to build a defense system.

Let's say that Huai'an, the eldest grandson who commanded an army of 200,000, received two important pieces of information for two consecutive days.

The first piece of information was the news that Shangguan Xiu was seriously injured and died, for him, this news was too important, there was a wind army under the command of Shangguan Xiu and a wind army without the command of Shangguan Xiu, it was completely two different armies,

For Shangguan Xiu, the eldest grandson Huai'an is still quite jealous, Qingcheng has Shangguan Xiu, whether his own 200,000 troops can successfully defeat Qingcheng, it is really unknown, but if Shangguan Xiu is dead, then Qingcheng is in his own bag, and it can be easily taken,

He asked people to carefully investigate whether this news was true or false, on this day, the investigation reports of Qingcheng were like a marquee, and they kept coming back to the new army, and all the information was the same, Shangguan Xiu was indeed seriously injured, or was injured by the Venerable Zhan Chao of Xuanling Palace, and tens of thousands of people in the city saw it with their own eyes, Shangguan Xiu was carried back to Qingcheng covered in blood, as for whether he died or not, there is no definite news for the time being,

This information greatly relieved the nervous mood of the eldest grandson Huai'an, no matter whether Shangguan Xiu died or not, as long as he was seriously injured and could not personally go to the battlefield to command the battle, it was enough for his own side.

The next day, another good news came, the Feng army was deployed ten miles away from Qingcheng, seeing this information, the eldest grandson Huai'an laughed on the spot, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed: "God help me,"

In the case that the enemy was outnumbered, the Feng army did not seek to concentrate its forces and retreat to defense, but instead extended the battle line to ten miles away from Qingcheng, making the already small number of troops even more dispersed, how could such an obvious low-level mistake be committed by Shangguan Xiu,

Through this information, it can be verified that the information from the previous day is accurate, Shangguan Xiu was indeed seriously injured and could not command in the wind army.

Now, the eldest grandson Huai'an hopes that Shangguan Xiu will not die if he is seriously injured, so that he will have the opportunity to capture Qingcheng, capture Shangguan Xiu alive, and make immortal achievements, becoming the first person in Haotian in hundreds of years.

There is no Shangguan Xiu sitting in the army and commanding the overall situation, so now, the highest-ranking general in the Feng Army is naturally the commander of the Seventh Army, Jiang Leopard, a long time ago, the eldest grandson Huai'an made an evaluation of Jiang Leopard, "There is courage and no strategy,"

I can see it today, and it really confirms his previous evaluation of Jiang Leopard, fighting 200,000 with 70,000, and deliberately lengthening the battle line, deploying more than ten miles, and vainly trying to keep the enemy out.

After receiving these two pieces of information, the eldest grandson Huai'an ordered all the officers and men of the army to abandon the large baggage, go into battle lightly, and march to Qingcheng at full speed, and be sure to arrive in Qingcheng within five days.

Under the order of the eldest grandson Huai'an, the 200,000-strong Ningnan army gave up large artillery and other baggage, only brought rations, and rushed to Qingcheng day and night.

Long story short

Five days later, the main force of the Ningnan Army arrived at the outpost camp placed by the vanguard, and only took a short rest, and the eldest grandson Huai'an issued an order for the whole army to attack, and the army of 200,000 was like a tide, overwhelmingly surging towards Qingcheng.

Soon, the front army of the Ningnan Army approached the outer defense line of Qingcheng, and in the outer defense line, there were two corps of the Seventh Army of the Wind Country stationed, and in addition, there were many rebels mixed in the defenders.

These rebels are not the Qingcheng rebels, but the young men who have been secretly captured by the wind army for several days, the number is not much, but there are also a lot, there are six or seven thousand people, at this time, they are all wearing the military uniforms of the wind army, wearing the helmet of the wind army, and holding the fire guns issued by the wind army,

It's just that not everyone has a firecracker, on average, every three people are assigned a firecracker, and the paper shell bullets distributed by each firearm are only a pitiful three, probably the rebels only fired one shot per person, and it can almost be withdrawn.

Looking at the horizon outside the trenches, first the Ningnan military flags fluttered one after another, and then, a long small black shadow appeared on the horizon, and then, the black shadow became bigger and wider, and when I looked at it, it was full of people, like a huge carpet, covering the whole land,

The rebels were all captured by the Feng army, and they were unwilling to help the Feng army fight, but now they see the strength of the Ningnan army on the opposite side, which can be described as tearing the ground and the sky, and people are even more demoralized, and many of the rebel soldiers are squatting in the trenches, and their bodies are trembling.

Knock, knock, knock,

As the Ningnan army approached, the drums during the march became louder and louder.

"Kill, kill, kill," the roar of the soldiers of the Ningnan Army, like a muffled thunder, pierced the sky, and reached the ears of the Feng Army and the Righteous Army, and people's faces were not very good-looking.

"All cheer up, the enemy is coming, ready for battle, all ready for battle," the battalion captains shuttled back and forth in the trenches, boosting the morale of their own soldiers,

The wind army is indeed battle-hardened, even if the number of enemies on the opposite side is so large that they can't see the edge at a glance, but the people still quickly stabilized their mood and entered the battle state one after another.

In comparison, the rebels are too far behind, most of the rebels are either squatting in the trenches, or lying on the ground with their heads in their hands, and there are many rebels who are crying in fright.

"Damn it, it's all a bag, get up, get up, get up for me, pick up the firecracker, and prepare for battle," the battalion commanders of each battalion were so angry that their faces turned red at the rebels assigned to their own battalions, and they beat and kicked, and pulled and pulled.

"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill," It didn't take long for the Ningnan Army's offensive to officially kick off,

The eldest grandson Huai'an is indeed very familiar with the art of war, and he is also very discerning, and it was only the three corps of the Ningnan Army that launched the attack at the beginning, testing the reality of the Feng Army's defensive line.

Even if it was only the three corps that were doing a tentative attack, their strength was half more than that of the Feng army in the defense line, and seeing the soldiers of the Ningnan army advancing step by step, the soldiers of the Feng army were nervous,

When the other party was only 100 meters away, the two corps commanders of the Wind Army invariably gave the order to attack,

Bang bang bang,

The wind troops in the defense line pulled the trigger in unison, the explosion of the fire guns was continuous, and the flames appeared in the trenches, and the smoke of gunpowder rose in the trenches.

The soldiers of the Ningnan army who were advancing forward, from time to time there were clouds of blood mist on someone's body, screaming and falling to the ground, and it didn't take long for the counterattack of the Ningnan army to unfold, and the soldiers fired back while advancing,

Puff, puff, the projectiles flying from the opposite side hit the edge of the earthen wall and trench, and the muffled sound came and went, and the wind army and the rebel army who were shot in the head, shoulder, and arm were also one after another, and the roars and screams kept coming from both sides of the battlefield.

On the side of the Wind Army, the combat power of the righteous army is almost zero, and it can't help at all, and what is really fighting bloodily is the Wind Army of the two corps,

However, in the face of the Ningnan Army of the three corps, the blocking strength of the Feng Army was obviously insufficient, and the two sides fought for less than half an hour, and several defensive lines had been torn apart by the Ningnan Army, and a large number of Ningnan Army soldiers had rushed into the trenches.

Seeing that an enemy army was coming in, the nearby Feng army immediately drew its sword and started a white-knuckle battle with the Ningnan army that had entered the trench.

Although the Feng army failed to stop the advance of the Ningnan army with firearms, in hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers of the Feng army showed strong combat effectiveness and forced the Ningnan army that broke into the trench out.