Chapter 223: The war lasted for three months
Twelve's letter to Mu Li was extremely concise, nothing more than allowing Mu Li to continue to maintain a standing by attitude towards the war between the White Tiger and Xuanwu, and between the lines, there was a sense of arrogance, not so much a request, but more like an order!
Mu Li could even imagine through this thin page of letterhead that she was carrying a pen and a book, and she must have a cold face and sharp lips.
"Do you stand by?" he smiled faintly, crushing the letterhead with a fighting spirit, and the sprinkling of white scraps fell from his palm, if she could calm the war, she would surely win the hearts of the people, and help him to ascend the throne as king in the future.
This is the most important reason why Mu Li decided to agree to the twelve requests!
Outside the carved window, the night is like the Milky Way, a crescent moon hangs high on the branches, sprinkled with a cold moonlight, a bright star is scorching in the world, as if competing with the sun and the moon, the stars are surrounded by two purple stars, one bright and one dark, it is the double king star of Mu Li and Ling Yuhan!
"Demon Star Present ......" Mu Li wore a crescent white brocade robe, like a god who does not eat fireworks in the world, standing quietly by the window, looking up at the sky sky, the moonlight shrouded his body, like a dream, more and more set off him, handsome and amazing.
Three days later, the Mohe, the surging river is unfathomable, the river is rapid, impacting the cliff on the side, there is a big reef on the riverbank, the mountain wall is steep, towering into the clouds, in front of the Mohe, is a green jungle, a winding mountain range is quietly located between the jungles, even the sky is grounded, the army of the Xuanwu Kingdom is stationed at the top of the mountain range, the flag erected high, hunting in the wind, in the center of the two sentry posts, is a wooden fence, the top of the fence is sharpened by a knife, circle a camp, countless yurts are set up in the camp, soldiers patrol around in groups。
In the commander's tent, Li Yan was dressed in silver armor and sat at the top, and below him were four deputy generals, as well as three generals on the left, center and right who followed him to fight.
The atmosphere in the camp was solemn, Li Yan had a gloomy face, looked at the map on the long case in front of him, and frowned: "It's been ten days! I've been trapped here for ten days! Now the army in the army is disheartened, and the white tiger is stationed on the other side, and the grain and grass of our army can't be sent, and if this continues, even if the white tiger doesn't cross the Mohe, we will be trapped here!"
He said in a deep voice, now the 200,000 army is in a dilemma, although Emperor Xuanwu even if he sent grain and grass, but was repeatedly robbed by Sima Xiong's people, so that now the remaining grain and grass in the army can only be used for two days, the army is boiling with resentment, although Sima Xiong has not yet found a way to let the 70,000 army force cross the Mohe, but the flying demonic beasts under his command will always hover above the Xuanwu camp in the dead of night, and in the past ten days, the Xuanwu soldiers are all worried and dare not relax.
If it goes on for a long time, I'm afraid that before the enemy army comes, the morale of the army will be completely dispersed!
"General, what do you say we should do?" The general of the left road arched his hand and asked, staring at Li Yan with burning eyes, he is the commander of the three armies, and it is because of him that the 200,000 army has to retreat here safely, and the white tiger is far away from the desert river, and now Li Yan has a very high prestige in the army, and he is burdened with the trust of too many people.
"Either retreat, or retreat as advance!" Li Yan slapped his palm on the desk, and with a loud bang, the ninth-order fighting qi under his feet instantly exploded, and his eyes were scarlet and almost hideous, "We have no way to retreat, and if we retreat, half of the Xuanwu country will surely fall! The day of the death of the country is not far away." ”
"But," the deputy general of staff shook his head disapprovingly, and retorted loudly: "General, there are too many warriors in the White Tiger Barracks, if we act recklessly, I am afraid that we will become fish and meat, and when the time comes, the sheep will enter the tiger's mouth, and the Mohe River will not be able to stop their iron horses!"
"Fight is death, if you don't fight, you will die!" Li Yan's eyes widened like copper bells, and his sharp gaze swept over the lieutenant generals under him one by one: "If you fight, you may still have the possibility of victory! Rather than cocoon yourself in the end, it is better to fight with them!"
"Okay!" The general on the right immediately raised his knife and got up, and was the first to second: "Anyway, I am a rough man, as long as the general says a word, whether he advances or retreats, Zhou Quan will definitely follow the general!"
"That's right. The middle road general nodded heavily, "I, a Xuanwu person, would rather die in battle than be a slave to the country!"
"Okay, order to go down and beat the drums to gather!" Li Yan padded the heavy armor on his body, picked up the silver helmet on the table, put it on his head, took off the scimitar on the shelf next to him, and put it on his waist with a brushing sound: "Pass on the general's order, after an hour, go down the mountain and beat the white tiger!"
The Xuanwu people are crazy!
When Sima Xiong received the secret report that they had gathered 200,000 soldiers and were ready to kill them down the mountain, he only had this thought in his heart.
"How are they going to fight our army?" Across a desert river, how is Xuanwu going to come over? Are you going to fight against the White Tiger on the other side of the river? Being regarded as the mighty general of the White Tiger, Sima Xiong is dressed in an almond-colored brocade robe, with a radiant face, revealing a trace of ruthlessness, and a face with a national character, full of anger!
"The Xuanwu Kingdom is preparing to use ships to force the crossing of the Mohe River. A soldier under Sima Xiong's command shook the feather fan in his hand, and the old god spoke: "After they crossed the Mohe, they had ordered all the boats to be scuttled, so that we had searched for hundreds of miles, and we had not found a raft, so we were trapped here and could not cross the river, and Xuanwu was trapped in the mountains for ten days, and there was not enough food and grass in the military camp. ”
At the beginning, Li Yan led an army of 200,000 to cross the Mohe River and scuttle all the boats, but he left nearly 1,000 of them, and there were many trees in the forest, so it was easy to make a raft.
If he hadn't been cornered, I'm afraid he wouldn't have made such a bold move.
The soldiers composed of 200,000 ordinary people, against the masters of the 10th and 11th orders of 70,000 warriors, are clearly mantis arms as cars!
It's no wonder that Sima Xiong thought that Xuanwu's people were crazy!
They are indeed crazy, death is lighter than a feather, heavier than Mount Tai, if they want to die, they will drag the white tiger people on their backs!
This is Li Yan's obsession!
"There is a road in heaven that you don't go, and there is no door to hell, you have to break in," Sima Xiong sneered, "Command to go down, the whole army is on alert, and order a thousand archers to prepare rockets on the river bank, as long as they cross the river, burn them for me immediately!"
"Yes!" The feather fan in the military hand shook in the air, nodded in response, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was determined, as if he had seen the scene of the defeat of the Xuanwu army and the destruction of the country.
The 60,000 soldiers of the White Tiger quickly gathered outside the camp, the drums moved all day long, the sun hung high in the sky, and a beam of terrifying coercion froze the air, and their faces were excited.
"Sons!" Sima Xiong held high a sword that sharpened iron like clay, standing on top of a sentry post at the highest point, and on his side, a huge banner embroidered with the word "white tiger" flew in the wind, "Today, the Xuanwu thieves are looking for their own death, wait for them to appear, kill them with me!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
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The shouts in unison soared into the sky, hundreds of huge flying demonic beasts hovered in the air, sometimes making a few sharp chirps, flapping huge wings, covering the sky and the sun, the entire sky, as if it was covered with them, looking at it from a distance, the momentum was very terrifying.
General Xuanwu Zuolu personally led 10,000 people wrapped in shrubs and grass as a cover, quietly descended from the top of the mountain, put the boat into the Mohe, the surging water, and sometimes rolled up a huge wave to beat the black reef on both sides of the mountain wall, the sound of the water was loud, the sound vibrating.
"Let's go!" the general on the left roared, and a hundred ships rushed from the other side of the Mohe River to the place where the White Tiger military camp was stationed, and at the stern, there was a warrior in each, driving the boats quickly with fighting spirit.
"Here they are. The archers who were crawling in the weeds on the opposite bank were in charge, squinting, staring at the movement ahead, only to see the black pressure of the ships coming rapidly from the Mohe, passing through the algae bushes of the Mohe, on the bow of the boat, there were many soldiers wearing Xuanwu armor, most of the vanguard troops were warriors with cultivation, Li Yan had already guessed that Sima Xiong would secretly ambush and prepare to ambush the ships, so he ordered the warriors in the army to open the way, even if their strength was inferior to the white tiger, but at least they could buy time for the ships behind to go ashore!
As long as you reach the other side and get to the land, Xuanwu has a slight chance of winning!
Although the odds of victory are almost pitiful, for them who have repeatedly suffered defeats, even the slightest possibility of victory, they will never let go!
The Xuanwu people all held their breath in their hearts, every time the White Tiger broke through a city, it would definitely slaughter the city, which had already ignited their anger, they were all young and strong teenagers, which one was not full of blood? Would rather die than witness the destruction of the country and the death of the family!
The Xuanwu soldiers were murderous, their weapons clenched in their hands, and their eyes roamed back and forth among the bushes on the opposite bank, lest they be ambushed.
When the boat crossed the middle of the Mohe River, a huge eagle in the sky suddenly fell vertically, belonging to the coercion of the fighting beast, like a big mountain, and pressed fiercely against the Xuanwu people below.
"It's a monster!"
"Archer prepare!"
"Shoot me!"
A sharp feather arrow like a heavy rain, towards the eagle in the sky, several warriors kicked on the bow of the boat, flying and jumping, they knew that their personal strength was absolutely unable to compete with this group of monsters, so they started a fighting battle, two or three people in a group, beating a fighting beast.
The combat power is almost equal, the man and beast are fighting in the air, the demonic beast is enraged by the attack of the Xuanwu, hundreds of flying fighting beasts roar and fly from the sky, the pointed mouth, the soldiers pecking at the bow of the ship, the head, the heart, and the wings wave at will, it is a strong hurricane! Countless people stumble from the boat and fall into the bottomless river.
The splash of water is endless.
Seeing that the Xuanwu vanguard was disturbed by the group of demonic beasts, the white tiger archers hidden in the bushes all showed red faces.
With a wave of his hand, the commander took out a feathered arrow from the quiver behind his back, the tip of which was a cotton cloth soaked in liquor and stained with a little gunpowder.
The fire slammed into the sky, spreading from the bow to the stern of the ship, and the entire ship was surrounded by firelight, even if the people who survived from the mouth of the demonic beast were swaying one by one, and they could only be forced to jump into the surging water of the Mohe River.
"Ahh
"It's on fire!"
"Jump!"
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For a while, the vanguard troops of the Xuanwu Kingdom lost their armor, and the picture looked so good.