Chapter 38: The Beginning of the Great War
The Zhenxi Army built twelve large strategic passes along the vertical and horizontal mountain ranges, choosing the most dangerous areas.
From south to north, in order: Hidden Dragon Pass, Tieqi Pass, Crazy Eagle Pass, Jiayu Pass, Broken Intestine Pass, Youling Pass, Jixian Pass, Chasing Wind Pass, Luoyue Pass, Datong Pass, Baoshu Pass and Yemao Pass.
According to the importance of the military position of each pass, different numbers of troops were deployed.
The five military passes, Hidden Dragon, Iron Cavalry, Wild Eagle, Jiayu, and Broken Intestine, are all within the territory of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The five passes run through the three counties of Tolan, Bau and Beshang.
The remaining seven passes are all located in the territory of the Three Princes Tie Anle.
The northernmost is Yemao Pass, and the nearest pass adjacent to it is Baoshu Pass.
Baoshuguan is about 5,000 miles away from Kongxiang County, and more than 6,000 miles away from Yemao Pass.
Since three years ago, the defenders of the two passes began to receive military supplies from Kongxiang County, but the two passes have had an irreconcilable conflict.
Of course, there are factors instigated by the people of the Three Princes, but in comparison, they seem to be biased towards taking care of the defenders of Baoshu Pass, which are farther away from the county town, and ignore the existence of the people of Yemao Pass and Wulie.
The guardian of the treasure tree is called Feng Jiyuan, from the Feng family, the most powerful of the six families in the Imperial City!
He is a child of the Feng family, only thirty-two years old, but he has been wandering at the peak of the Qionglou realm for many years.
The reason why he was allowed to join the Zhenxi Army was that the Feng family had its own long-term plans.
Almost all of the children of the six major families hold important positions in the Zhenxi Army or the Zhendong Army, which is also a manifestation of the secret competition between the six major families.
Comparatively speaking, there were many more factions in the Tianxuan army than the factions of the Takeoff Ferry and Meng Dian armies!
And the two Tianxuan legions, which are completely controlled by the King of Zhenxi and the King of Zhendong, do not seem to be taboo for the children of these families to form gangs and compete secretly in the army.
Without warning, in the evening of this day, the Baoshu guard Feng Jiyuan received a summons for help from Kong Xiang County!
The Feng family has long publicly announced their support for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and the three princes fully support His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, which is something that everyone in the world knows.
However, although behind Baoshu Pass is an impassable continuous mountain range, and countless lofty mountains and mountains are scattered, it can also be regarded as a small barrier in the inland of Tianxuan, similar to the military importance of the geographical location of Luoyue and Datong, not the most important, but also indispensable.
Without receiving the military order from the King of Zhenxi, Feng Jiyuan could not leave Baoshu Pass without permission, but now that the county town of the three princes was besieged by the Feidu Legion, how could he ignore it?
Fortunately, it didn't take long for a message to fly again.
This was the official military order of the king of Zhenxi, ordering him to immediately lead people to aid Kongxiang County.
At this moment, Feng Jiyuan immediately ordered 30,000 soldiers and horses and rushed to Kongxiang County overnight.
He didn't pay attention to how the king of Zhenxi learned that Kong Xiang County was in trouble, and his heart flew to the bodies of several beauties in Kong Xiang County.
The reason why he was in a hurry to rush to reinforcements was precisely because the third prince gave him several Kong Xiang beauties very generously.
The original young Kong Xiang beauty.
Kong Xiang woman is very famous in the western counties, very good at singing and dancing, graceful figure, soft as boneless, voice as light as a lark yellow warbler, once happy with it, it will be unforgettable.
If it weren't for the tens of thousands of troops, with the temperament of the wind and the source, he would have rushed to the wind a long time ago, why would the long journey be so hard?
He didn't think that what was said in the summons for help was that nearly 100,000 cavalry troops descended from heaven to surround Kong Xiangjun, this matter was originally a bit weird, when did the cavalry appear in the Feidu Empire?
Just those stupid big guys with tall cows and horses, who can ride horses and shoot arrows?
Feng Jiyuan was a little funny.
The 30,000 horses he brought this time were all good in the army. The armor is well-armored, and everyone rides Tianxuan's best war horses, all of them are good at riding and shooting, and charging into battle is like walking on the ground.
Even if there were really 100,000 flying troops there, Feng Jiyuan would be completely sure that he would defeat them in one fell swoop!
The bluestone road leading to Kongxiang County was a bit narrow, and it could only accommodate three people to ride together, so the battle line of the 30,000 troops was very long.
This is a big taboo in the march, but at this moment, Feng Jiyuan has no time to think about it at all, and he is too lazy to think about it.
He didn't believe that there would be any daring Flyer who would dare to sneak up on him somewhere, even though the Flyers were only good at close combat!
The night wind is a little cold, but Feng Jiyuan's heart is very eager.
He kept telling the heralds to order the armies to speed up.
On the winding mountain road, the entire cavalry army stretched for six or seven miles.
No one noticed that on either side of the canyon somewhere in front of their route, there were sergeants hidden there.
Flying Sergeant!
If the name of the imperial city of the Tianxuan Empire is an eagle, its left and right wings are Bashan County and Icheon County.
In the Tianxuan Empire, only these two counties are not lords by the prince, and the lords are not from the Tie Clan.
The lord of Bashan County is called Dongfang Yamato, that is, the ancestor of Dongfang Drifting, one of the four young marshals.
Originally, among the descendants of the Dongfang family, Dongfang Piaoling's qualifications could only be regarded as average, but he was extremely smart and lucky.
I don't know how he got mixed up with the young master of the Lichuan single family, Jiang Sanshao who flew across the Jiang family, and Yun Fengliu, the young master of the Meng Dianyun family, and they also became brothers. Among the four, Dongfang Piaoling was actually the weakest, because he hadn't been able to enter the threshold of cultivation at all, but for some reason the other three kept respecting him as the boss. Therefore, the family had to send him to participate in the Immortal Selection, and he was successfully selected by the Soul Casting Sect.
Compared with the other three brothers' profound family education, Dongfang Piao Zero has no advantage at all.
The reason why the Dongfang family is regarded as the largest military family in the Tianxuan Empire is because the family's military exploits are too prominent.
The Dongfang family has never had a cultivator who is so strong in cultivation, but there has never been a shortage of excellent military commanders.
Good military literacy is something that every child of an Oriental family has been deliberately cultivated since he was a child. And in this regard, Dongfang Piaoling is undoubtedly the best in this generation.
However, perhaps because he was afraid that he would suffer a loss in comparison with the outstanding children of the other three military families, the family specially sent him into the Xiuzhen Sect, but it really had the intention of making up for his shortcomings.
The Great War between the Three Kingdoms is unfolding, and it is the tradition of the Eastern Family, which has not been called up by His Majesty the Emperor, to be in a state of intense preparation.
They are always on their watch, waiting for the Holy One's impulse.
However, this time they did not wait for the holy decree, but waited for a person.
The reborn Orient drifts.
When Tie Anxing and Tie Anle rushed to Hidden Dragon Pass with a group of followers, a great war had already broken out.
At the headquarters of the Zhenxi Army in Bau County, the two brothers met the emperor uncle Zhenxi Wang Tiezhenxi, who was in the power of the world!
According to the meaning of the holy decree, this time the dispatch and command of the Zhenxi army, the king of Zhenxi will hand over all the power to Tie Anxing!
This is a major test for the Holy Lord's Tie'an Xing, just imagine that nearly a million people are handed over to a young man who has never commanded a major battle with full authority to dispatch and command, which is a very risky event in itself!
The king of Zhenxi just gave Tie Anxing an an explanation of the golden marshal's order and the list of generals of the entire Zhenxi army, the distribution of military strength in the pass and the contact information, and left the marshal's mansion by himself, and he didn't know whether to find a place to cultivate or return to the capital.
But in this way, the power of the million-dollar Zhenxi Army was suddenly all in the hands of His Royal Highness the Prince!
He's not a completely mediocre person, and although his lust for beauty makes him unmotivated, he knows better than anyone what this battle means to him!
He's got to win, and he's got to win pretty!
Each of their princes actually received a secret decree.
The secret decree of the six princes is actually the same, that is, whoever can take the head of any imperial monarch can immediately ascend to the throne after returning to the capital!
The head of the monarch, how easy is it to say?
Not to mention that the eastern and western fronts are currently in a defensive posture, which imperial king does not stay in his own imperial city, guarded by powerful cultivators, protected by powerful guards, and wrapped in a strong city?
This edict does not specify that the princes must go to the capital of an empire, but the most important problem at the moment is to block the attack of the enemy country!
Whoever fails to do this is probably equivalent to falling on the starting line during the race, and there is no chance of turning over!
The crown prince's staff has always been numerous, there are more than 3,000 cultivator guards alone, and the highest cultivation of these guards has even reached the middle and late stages of the Yuyu Realm, and the salary expenses of these guards alone every year are amazingly large. However, there is no doubt who has the power to dominate this competition.
Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, everyone understands this truth.
The three princes also brought the more than 3,000 cultivator guards they had raised to the Hidden Dragon Pass and handed them over to Tie Anxing for unified command.
Gou Jian of Beishang County, a subordinate that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince relied on very much, naturally followed him, and the powerful swordsman Ding Wu was also indispensable with him.
Dozens of people led by Gou Jian formed the military staff of the prince's core, and the current situation was being hotly discussed at the moment.
The twelve military passes of the Zhenxi Army were very cleverly constructed, and any flying army that wanted to cross the territory of Tianxuan had to pass through these passes first.
As an excellent leader with great power, what he needs to see is the result, not the process, this is the style characteristic of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Tie Anxing, and his senior military staff officers are naturally very clear.
In terms of importance, the five passes in the south undoubtedly need to be guarded, and in comparison, the three passes in the north are dispensable.
The Ice and Snow Wasteland and the Death Desert are two natural barriers, and if the flying army wants to kill the Mongolian City, I am afraid it will not be so easy.
Moreover, Mengcheng is the territory of the five princes, hehe, even if the enemy army fights hard to kill Mengcheng, isn't there still the five princes?
If something goes wrong, he has to carry it.
Almost under the guidance of this core purpose, the military staff of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince quickly came up with a decent military plan.
Since it is already known that the commander of the Feidu who is now attacking the five major passes such as the Hidden Dragon, the Iron Cavalry, and the Wild Eagle is His Royal Highness Xuanyuan Hao, the Prince of the Fit Empire, then the Zhenxi Army should concentrate its superior forces here, as long as it can defeat Xuanyuan Hao in one fell swoop or capture him alive, presumably the Feidu Empire will be in turmoil, at that time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will lead the Zhenxi army all the way west, straight into the Kyoto of the Feidu, wouldn't it be better than anyone else?
Tie Anxing is very satisfied with this plan.
So, soon, one after another summons began to be sent out from the Great Marshal's Mansion in an orderly manner, and the targets were, of course, the guards of the twelve passes.
Soldiers, to obey military orders as their duty, this is a 10,000-year-old tradition inherited by the Tianxuan Empire, even if any general knows that the current commander is no longer the king of Zhenxi, what does it matter?
And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was full of ambition, took the 100,000 personal soldiers of the Great Marshal's Mansion with him, and led a cadre of staff, guards, and a number of 120,000 cultivators sent by several big families to support, and rushed to the Hidden Dragon Pass with murderous spirit!
By the time they arrived at Hidden Dragon Pass, the war was already in full swing and very tragic!
The fierceness of the battle in front of them completely surpassed the cognition of the Tie Anxing brothers.
And their arrival just stopped the decline of the defenders of Hidden Dragon Pass, otherwise the consequences would be really unpredictable.
The cultivator guards of the two princes and the cultivators sent by several major families to assist were almost nearly 20,000 people.
The cultivation of these 20,000 people is uneven, but the victory is in the large number of people.
If there are too many ants, they can bite an elephant to death, let alone a cultivator?
A cultivator who cultivates to even the fourth or fifth level of the Bright Moon Realm can defeat ten enemies on the battlefield, and he will never fall easily, this is the terrifying thing about cultivators in war.
Hidden Dragon Pass is the place with the largest number of defenders, with a total of nearly 300,000 defenders!
However, the Feidu army came to attack only more than 50,000 people.
In less than two days, these more than 50,000 people actually took the lives of nearly 100,000 Tianxuan defenders!
What's even more terrifying is that the price they paid was only more than 2,000 casualties!
After this huge contrast was learned by Tie Anxing, he was furious on the spot!
If it weren't for the fact that he was still afraid that almost all the guards of the twelve passes were the emperor's uncle's confidants, he was afraid that he would have been killed indiscriminately!
What is the use of such a commanding general?
However, when he learned about the situation, the anger in his heart gradually subsided.
The Hidden Dragon Guard will be called Yang Qiming, after all, he is a child of the Yang family from the capital, and Tie Anxing has to give him some face.
It turned out that on the first day, the enemy army set up a position in front of the pass, and Yang Qiming personally led 20,000 elite cavalry out of the pass to meet the battle.
The two sides agreed to fight five battles between the generals.
As a result, Tianxuan lost five generals in a row, and his morale was greatly hit.
On that day, the enemy army did not launch a siege offensive.
Who knows, that night, the ten heavily guarded munitions warehouses in the customs were suddenly poured out of the strange fire and burned clean!
At this time, the 300,000-strong army was completely in extreme panic and confusion.
Without military rations, without provisions, and without the replenishment of weapons and equipment, how should this battle be fought?
Before dawn, the other party actually began to attack the city with dense fireballs, those fireballs can only be released by cultivators, although there are not a few cultivators in the 300,000 army, but the fatigue and panic of the night made many soldiers die in the fireballs!
Eighty percent of the 100,000 soldiers lost in Hidden Dragon Pass died under the dense fireball attack that lasted for nearly two hours!
At this time, Yang Qiming was shocked to find that although the enemy army came here with only 50,000 people, there were at least hundreds of cultivators with extremely strong cultivation in the middle, and these hundreds of people could release fireballs all the time, as if they had some kind of magical secret art, or had been blessed by a powerful magic weapon!
Otherwise, the break is unlikely to last that long.
In desperation, Yang Qiming led the more skilled cultivators in the defenders to rush out of the city and launch an attack on the enemy formation, but the opponent's enemy formation seemed to have been in some powerful prohibition, and they couldn't break through that defensive prohibition at all!
Who knew that just as they were about to evacuate, a pair of elite cavalry soldiers wearing excellent armor that were not afraid of swords and with amazing strength came out of the forbidden, and they rushed and killed in their ranks, if it weren't for those cultivator sergeants fighting back desperately, I was afraid that even Yang Qiming would fall into the melee!
In that rush, the Tianxuan defenders lost more than 20,000 people, and just at that time, the prince led the army to arrive.
Tie Anxing was furious, smashed the wooden table in front of him into a pile of scraps, and shouted loudly: "Someone is coming!