Chapter Twenty-Four: A Dead Battle

"Lord Lin!"

Xie Ying and Huang Tingchi, the top generals of Jin Tiezhen's military, and Liu Kun, the top general of the escort army who escorted the ordnance, came to Lin Xi and bowed deeply to Lin Xi.

It is a matter of life and death and a major national event that is more important than life for these Yunqin soldiers, and such a simple salute at this moment is extraordinarily sincere and solemn.

When the three Yun Qin generals bowed to Lin Xi, almost all the Yun Qin soldiers, even those who were injured and bandaged with the help of their companions, began to bow to Lin Xi.

"No need to be polite, you should also understand that this is not something I did alone. Lin Xi turned his head to look at Qin Xiyue, and then looked at the three Yun Qin generals who were much older than him, and said self-deprecatingly: "Besides, even if the officials still recognize my official rank, my official rank should be below your lords." ”

"Lord Lin, you are the high priest of the Priesthood Academy..."Xie Ying reminded Lin Xi softly.

Lin Xi originally wanted to smile and say that he hadn't completely turned positive, but the bloody breath in his nose also reminded him that this was not the time to talk nonsense. So he couldn't help frowning slightly, looked at the three generals, and asked: "I know that Damang has the main army pressing to the East King Tomb, and he wants to pass through the East King Tomb and jointly attack the Falling Star Tomb, what is the latest military situation you know so far?"

The three generals glanced at each other, and Liu Kun spoke first, saying: "Our batch of ordnance has a total of 200 crossbow cars and 200 rotary blade vehicles, and the rest are some crossbow arrows, arrows, and giant crossbow arrows needed to defend the city in the East Jingling, as well as a batch of oil-soaked thread regiments used in night battle lighting. Lord Lin, you've been in the army for quite some time, so you should know... The weight of this ordnance is already very important for the defense of the city, and we have been delayed here by this heavy cavalry for half a day... It is only a half-day carriage ride from the Dongjingling itself, which is not far away, but the Dongjingling side has not even transmitted the signal to us such as reconnaissance horses, carrier pigeons, beacon smoke, etc., I am afraid that the reckless army has been pressed to the Dongjingling. ”

Lin Xi thought for a while and nodded: "Not even carrier pigeons and beacon smoke... Indeed, it can only show that Dongjingling has taken care of itself, and the reconnaissance army has no way to break through the blockade of the pressed army. It is possible that at this time, the army of Da Mang had already begun to attack the Eastern Tomb. That's at least three or four hours ahead of what the military expected?"

"Four hours. Liu Kun nodded heavily, looked at Lin Xi and said: "This Damang army itself belongs to the follow-up reinforcements of Damang, and its own itinerary is more than two days behind the main army of Damang attacking the Falling Star Tomb, and in the first five or six days, the rush of this army and the battles along the way are very urgent... Therefore, according to the fastest estimate of the military department, if this reckless heavy cavalry does not appear, at our normal speed, after arriving at the East Kinging, we still have at least two hours of preparation time, which is enough to unpack and equip this batch of ordnance. ”

"After days of rapid marching, I squeezed out two more hours. Lin Xi's brows furrowed a little deeper: "How can this reckless army do this kind of march beyond the limit after exceeding the limit?"

"Drugs. Li Wu, who had been listening silently, spoke calmly and said: "There is a kind of magic flower in the Thousand Demon Caves, and the medicine extracted from the juice can greatly stimulate people's mental and physical strength, and can even make people in a state of high spirits for four or five consecutive days, and they are full of energy without even sleeping, but after the effect of the medicine, people will be extremely tired, and the most important thing is that they will be very dependent, and if they can't get this medicine in the future, they will be extremely uncomfortable, and even if they don't think about tea and rice, their physique will get worse and worse." ”

"Poppies?opium?" Lin Xi was stunned, "There are a lot of flowers in the Thousand Demon Cave?"

"The Thousand Demon Caves are called Demon Eyes. Li Wu nodded and said: "On some slopes of the Thousand Demon Cave, the mountains are full of blooms, just because there are more harms than benefits, and they should only be used as adjuvants for some medicines." If Wenren Cangyue spared no cost, in the past year, it would still be enough to save medicine for tens of thousands of troops to use once. ”

"It seems that Wenren Cangyue has squeezed the resources that Da Mang can squeeze to the extreme... It is estimated that he also did not consider how much these reckless soldiers would survive in the end. Lin Xi sneered: "Two hours faster, it can disrupt many of the deployments of our Yun Qin military." ”

"The Dongjingling is in danger, please Lord Lin to command the whole army, and ask Lord Lin to issue an order for the whole army to march urgently. Xie Ying, Huang Tingchi and Liu Kun glanced at each other, bowed deeply again, and made a sincere and anxious request.

Lin Xi was silent for a long time, then calmly raised his head, looked at the three generals and said, "Okay, I promise you, I will lead this army... But then, you have to obey any of my commands, even if my commands are unreasonable, you can ask questions, but if I can explain it, I will explain it, and if I can't explain it, I won't explain it. ”

"I'm not going to ask any questions. Xie Ying narrowed his eyes slightly, "Whoever in our army dares to disobey the orders of the adults, I will cut off his head, including my own." ”

Liu Kun said in a calm and respectful whisper: "The same is true of our army. ”

Lin Xi nodded, gave a military salute to the three Yun Qin generals seriously, and said calmly: "The whole army is moving forward at the normal speed of normal times, carefully cleaning up the battlefield... All the useful ordnance that this reckless heavy cavalry could take away, even if it was slightly damaged, did not affect the feather arrows fired, were all cleaned up and placed in the convoy to take to the East King Tomb. ”

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"Why?"

Qin Xiyue, who was sitting with an ordnance cloth on the carriage, looked at Lin Xi, who had finished issuing the military order and made people even pile up the Shenmu Feihe in a carriage, and asked.

"More than 50,000 to more than 70,000... It is not known how many cultivators there are on both sides. Lin Xi said: "We have so much strength here, it's nothing, if before we arrive, the Dongjing Tomb can no longer support it, then it makes no sense for us to get there." And we have just experienced a great war, and the soldiers need to rest, and we also need to rest and meditate to replenish our soul power. ”

"I understand that you want our army to be in the best shape and go into battle as a new force. Qin Xiyue looked at Lin Xi quietly and shook her head, "I just asked you why, not why did you give this military order, why did you hesitate for so long before agreeing to them to be the commander of this army? ”

Lin Xi looked at her calm and beautiful face and smiled bitterly.

He found that although he didn't have much contact with Qin Xiyue, it seemed that since the academy misunderstood him, she understood herself very well like Gao Yanan.

"Fighting purely as a practitioner and charging into battle is completely different from commanding an army. Lin Xi looked at her and explained: "Especially in this kind of big war, as a commander, an order, is an order about many people... Because sometimes, in order to save more people and win, you even have to let some soldiers carry out the order of death, and fill some soldiers to the place where they must die. ”

"Next go to the East Tomb, there is a good chance that you will really have to face such an order. Qin Xiyue looked at Lin Xi quietly, she knew that Lin Xi's emotions were considered by some people to be a woman's kindness and unnecessary entanglement, but this was probably the reason why all of them would fight with Lin Xi to the end. She looked at Lin Xi and said calmly, "But you have to take on such a thing... Because it's a matter of life and death for many more people. ”

"With great power comes great responsibility... When I heard this before, I always thought it was a funny statement, but now I know that it is a very painful statement. Lin Xi nodded and said calmly.

Bian Linghan looked at Lin Xi, if a long time ago, she might have said that Lin Xi was saying very idiotic and stupid things like Tong Wei, but at this moment, she could put herself in Lin Xi's shoes, she just sat silently on a carriage next to her, closed her eyes, and began to try to enter meditation and practice to recover her soul power.

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Dongjingling.

The Great War has indeed broken out.

The Dongjingling area is still a plain area, but along the line, there are large woods and rivers, rice fields are densely scattered, some light cavalry and infantry troops can still quickly cross these areas, but some heavy armored troops, as well as the army that transports the follow-up ordnance, can only go through the Dongjingling, from the avenue behind the Dongjingling.

The Da Mang army was naturally afraid that when the road was detoured, the more than 50,000 troops in the East King Tomb would cover up and kill from the rear, and they would have a bag with the Falling Star Tomb.

Destroying the large force of Yun Qin here, building defenses on the spot, cutting off the supply and interspersing of some of the subsequent Yun Qin troops, and the various reasons required for the advancement of the Da Mang army themselves made the battle here determine the outcome of the decisive battle between Yun Qin and Da Mang.

The dull and grand roar of ordnance operations covered the sky over the entire Dongjing Mausoleum.

The catapults and crossbows in the mausoleum and the catapults of the reckless army outside were constantly bombarding each other.

Because of the limitation of the speed of the rush, this reckless army brings, are small detachable catapults, the throwing distance and the weight of the stones that can be thrown, naturally can not be compared with the large tower giant arm catapults in the city, but the purpose of this reckless army is very clear, their catapults are all cone-shaped heavy wood, the front end is wrapped with a hard steel inlay head, all the catapults are not used to kill and injure the Yunqin soldiers on the city wall, all the catapults are adjusted, just adjusted to the limit distance that can be thrown into the city wall, all the thrown collisions, all are impacted in the city wall below the half-wall。

These reckless catapults, like chisels, are constantly knocking on the walls of the East Tomb.

The catapults in the Eastern Tomb, the target of tuning, are these reckless catapults.

The tide of the Great Reckless army is a certain distance away from these reckless catapults, and most of them are located outside the attack distance of the catapults in the Mausoleum City.

All of a sudden, although from time to time there were large pieces of rubble collapsing on the city wall, the stone smoke was filled, and from time to time there were huge boulders smashing down the catapults on the side of Damang, and the giant trees and broken steel bars flew around, but the whole scene was extremely cold for a while, and in the huge sound, compared to this kind of battle, it seemed a little dead for a while.

(This chapter is finally done.,Continue to open the night code tomorrow morning)