Chapter 122: The First World War (I)

As if completely unexpected, the army of the Doge's Palace would come out from this direction, and the defenses of these bunkers were extremely weak, except for sporadic machine-gun fire and artillery fire, but they were soon overwhelmed by these main forces.

At the last moment of their fall, they detonated a massive amount of explosives buried in the bunker, killing hundreds of enemies.

Leng Xiyue looked at this scene from afar, and instead of having a sad look on her face, she was very happy.

Hooked, fish hooked.

There are only a few routes that can be attacked, either hitting the front or taking a detour, and playing the front so stupid and stupid people will not choose, so they can only take a detour.

As for where to get around, it's hardly a question to think about.

This point was just substituted for the attacker, and it took a few minutes to deduce it.

The best policy that these insects think is actually just a middle policy, and it is extremely easy to be countered, as for the best policy, it is naturally a seemingly troublesome route, whether it is from the Heaven Dou Empire or the extreme north, after coming in, it is a large plain, and that is an extremely deadly threat.

But these worms have already activated a million puppet army, and the daily consumption is extremely high, will they choose this long-taking solution?

Obviously, it was impossible, so from the moment she knew that the other side had begun to gather troops, Miho Nishizumi thought that this war was a sure victory.

This can't be regarded as stupid, after all, they have already let Huang Yan speak in advance, which is like a sharp sword, if the Governor's Palace does not activate a sufficient number of troops in time to deal with it, then sooner or later they will be stabbed through by the armored division, so it is useless to activate less.

And the activation is more, just like now, even if the defense can be dispersed to the entire area under the actual control of the Governor's Palace, the consumption is still so terrifying, and even have to pay the cost of logistics, they have and only one way, that is, to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible, and continue to seal the army after the war, so that there is no need to continue to pay for military rations and other terrorist expenses.

And that's why every step of their way has become predictable, as it is now.

At this time, Miho Nishizumi was leading his 20,000 armored division and 40,000 main infantry artillery divisions to set up a position in the third line of defense, and when the enemy penetrated deep into the second line of defense, he could give them a big surprise.

The bunker in front has long been replaced by Leng Xiyue's defense, replaced by puppet soldiers, rather than a 'nail' for defense, it is more like a fixed-point explosive bag - after all, which bunker will directly bury so many explosives, and explode directly when the enemy captures? This is simply suspicious.

But at this time, Luo Yuanji didn't care about these at all, he thought that as long as he rushed in, then victory was already within reach.

An army of millions.

In addition to the 500,000 main force, there are 500,000 reserves behind them who will also follow along the forest one after another, so many people, I am afraid that even if they are drowned, they can drown the enemy's poor troops of about 100,000.

Compared to Luo Yuanji's self-confidence, Leng Xiyue also didn't feel too much pressure, since the enemy had decided to attack through this forest, this meant that the width of the battlefield would not be too large... In layman's terms, the enemy army will not be deployed too easily, at least under the arrangement of Nishizumi Miho, they will not be given enough buffer zone to reorganize these hundreds of thousands of troops into a formation suitable for attack, and this area is also a funnel-like terrain, with some hilly terrain, which is more suitable for defense, and the original third line of defense is just enough for 60,000 people to build a perfect line of defense. ….

This means that the enemy's formation will be relatively dense when charging after rushing out of the forest, and it will not have the conditions to outflank it when fighting on the plains, which is undoubtedly extremely convenient for the use of machine guns and artillery, and with the density of fire from thousands of vehicles, this will undoubtedly become a meat grinder.

She was methodically arranging the logistics to ensure that her troops didn't run out of guns, and that almost all of the ammunition that could be shot out was concentrated here, except for the regular ammunition that was indispensable for the Icecrown Barrier, and even the newly produced ammunition from the factories in Stormwind would be shipped quickly, all for this campaign.

Just as Leng Shizuki and Miho Nishizumi were making the final deployment, the figure of Tianmeng

But from far and near, he flew over: "Host, I'm back, the fake news has been delivered, if nothing else, I can still give them a little scare later."

As the so-called drama is done in a full set, Leng Xiyue of course knows that a piece of information can't make the other party fully believe, so he simply sent Tianmeng to the extreme north first, directly eliminated all the enemy's reconnaissance soul masters, and transformed them into puppets to go back to report the fake news, and now it is close to the decisive battle, even if the enemy gets the real information, it doesn't matter, Tianmeng should naturally come back to prepare for the decisive battle.

"Very well, Miho, it's time for these people to see our true fighting power."

Leng Xiyue looked far away, and could already observe the enemy's traces with the naked eye, and the cavalry unit as the vanguard had already rushed to within five thousand meters.

The cavalry of Douluo Continent is actually not a type of army that can only ride horses in the traditional sense, in fact, this establishment is quite chaotic, almost including the navy, land and air forces, but conventionally, there is only the army and air regiment.

Among them, the basic units with the lowest combat effectiveness are the ones who fight on horses, and the powerful ones are all riding real soul beasts to fight, these soul beast races are very numerous, what tigers, leopards, bears, wolves, and some rare races like wulongs are available, and they look extraordinary, and the speed is far from being comparable to that of unconventional cavalry, and they are generally composed of elite soul masters, and the cavalry composed of these beasts and soul masters has a strong sense of oppression when they charge, far from being comparable to conventional cavalry.

In addition, there is also the Griffin Legion, which is also the current mainstream legion of various empires, belonging to the Air Force, with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and the number of them is really overshadowing the sky and the sun, and it is extremely terrifying.

The value of these griffins in the Douluo Continent is equivalent to that of horses in the feudal era, and they already have a complete set of breeding systems, and in the northern provinces, the breeding of griffins is extremely prosperous, and they are often exported to the empire.

If it is in the coastal or large lake area, there will even be a cavalry regiment with aquatic soul beasts as mounts in the cavalry formation, and any dolphin, seahorse, sea snake, shark and the like can be domesticated and used as mounts.

As soon as they entered the battle, these griffon cavalry flew up and rushed directly to the position.

Far away, the rumbling sound can be heard on this side of the defense line, the earth even shakes for it, and the sky is a terrifying scene that covers the sky and the sun, even with the blessing of various advanced weapons, this kind of charge is enough to lead the vast majority of people to lose their fighting spirit, subconsciously drop their weapons and flee, just as the ancient legions faced a large-scale cavalry charge. ….

However, none of the 60,000 people present were afraid, they just quickly came to their positions, adjusted the weapons in their hands, prepared for battle, and waited for the superiors to issue combat orders.

In fact, if Leng Xiyue thinks, with the population of the area she controls now, of course she will not only pull out an army of 100,000 people, and according to the national conditions of the Northland, she can even incorporate eighty percent of the people into the army system, but this is not necessary at all, she only needs the elite to compete with the Governor's Palace, and each of these 100,000 regular troops is an elite, and it is impossible for them to be selected into the regular army if they are not elites.

In addition to the anti-soul cannon and the armor-piercing shells specially made to deal with the heavy armor enemy, the number of anti-aircraft guns is also quite large, and these anti-aircraft guns can also be used as anti-soul cannons in addition to air defense, which is very convenient.

The seemingly terrifying Griffin Charge is actually just a large group of medium-armor or even light-armored units, which is very worthless under this kind of high-intensity and dense anti-aircraft fire, and can even be described as vain.

So, when the two armies collided and could be observed with each other's eyes, it was not Leng Xiyue's Northern People's Army that wanted to run, but the cavalry regiment that was charging in the Governor's Palace, looking at those all kinds of dense artillery and even subconsciously wanting to turn around and escape.

Almost everyone realized that this could be a trap, because no one would have placed such a large number of main forces in such a place in advance, which could only mean one thing, the enemy had long expected them to attack from here.

And this kind of terrain is undoubtedly extremely suitable for ambushes.

Since it had been predicted for a long time, this meant one thing, no matter whether the final result was victory or defeat, they were all those who charged ahead

It is certain death.

A wordless fear instantly spread in this cavalry corps as the vanguard, but retreat?

Behind is the Chinese army where Luo Yuanji and most of the infantry legions are located, many Title Douluo elders are among them, if there are deserters, they will definitely be forcibly killed in order to stabilize the morale of the army, and even their wives and children will be liquidated afterwards, and they will be reduced to slaves, and their fate will be miserable.

Of course, with the cruelty of the Governor's Palace, as long as he died, it was only a matter of time before his family and property were eaten and wiped clean.

But in any case, rather than a meaningless death that will be eaten and wiped clean, dying on the way to the charge is more like a loyal minister, in case the Governor remembers that there is still a probability that the family will be lost, so that the morale of the people rises again, and there is a great momentum of not fearing life and death, and he howls and urges his mount to rush forward.

Seeing that the cavalry regiment was getting closer and closer, Miho Nishizumi was not in a hurry, just staring at the enemy's distance with her eyes, as if she was calculating the best strike distance.

Seeing that the overwhelming enemy army had entered the best distance, and the nearest was even more than a thousand meters, Miho Nishizumi waved his hand and shouted, "Fire!"

After receiving Miho Nishizumi's order, it took a very short time for the junior officers to use a special soul guide used to send signals to spread this command throughout the army, and after the grassroots soldiers got the order, they soon saw a real earth-shaking cannon roar. ….

At a distance of one thousand meters, in fact, machine guns and conventional weapons can already cause effective damage, and they did rain bullets on the nearest enemy at the first time, but this was completely covered by the sound of artillery, and three thousand howitzers were fired at the same time, which was really the roar of death, and the enemy's charging formation was really not worth mentioning compared to it.

With a burst of sound breaking through the sky, the enemy's long charging procession was broken by force, and the distance from 5,000 meters to 15,000 meters instantly turned into the harvest ground of the god of death.

A heavy artillery blast can send more than ten people to the sky at the same time if you are lucky, and five or six can be sent away if you are unlucky, and no one knows whether the next shell will fall on you, and you don't know whether this shell can tear down a fortress and use it to fight them these mosquitoes, or a regular medium howitzer.

If it is a medium artillery, there is often a glimmer of life, and it can almost struggle on the ground for a while, at least it can recall its own life as an inappropriate person, if it is a heavy artillery, it really doesn't even have time to leave a last word.

At this moment, Luo Yuanji's pre-battle declaration of ambition was so ridiculous, it was impossible for a non-defensive Contra to go out completely under this kind of heavy artillery bombardment, what could resist the heavy armor troops of artillery? I'm afraid it's a joke, even the bombardment of medium artillery is enough to kill them.

This is most likely an impossible war to win.

The Doge's Palace was not unaware of the existence of such a weapon of mass destruction, but it never imagined that there would be such a large number, and if the number was small, the casualties caused by the charge would be completely manageable.

Many people are aware of this problem instantly, but only when they are dying.

All the soul masters have activated their martial souls, and they want to use what they have learned all their lives to find a glimmer of hope under this kind of bombardment, but there is no way, the soul masters of the sensitive attack system can quickly pass through the bombing area and go directly to the front line, while the strong attack department can only wait for death, or run.

"Spread out! Disperse!"

In the buffer gap of less than ten seconds in the middle of the first round of intensive shelling, some commanders quickly realized the weakness of this artillery bombardment and shouted hoarsely.

In their opinion, this kind of attack will definitely not last long, each time is a huge attrition, then, as long as the team is dispersed enough that a single heavy cannon can only destroy a few or even no people, this is a success.

As everyone knows, Leng Xiyue prepared hundreds of thousands of shells, even if he only kills with one shot

One person is enough to produce extremely terrifying results...

What's more, in this place, no matter how scattered they are, they can't be dispersed anywhere, everywhere is the range that artillery can cover, they are as if they are in captivity, either go to the front to die, or go to the back to die, in short, it is impossible to escape death.

And those who go to the front line, they will still run into a defensive line composed of various machine guns and small artillery of the anti-soul division, compared to random bombing, this is a completely hopeless charge, even if it is a heavy armor like a bear and an elephant or even a dragon with a hundred years of cultivation, it can only be solved by a few flat fire anti-soul master cannons, and most ordinary soul masters are not even selected by the artillery as the target capital, they are strafed by machine guns, or even just unfortunately hit by stray bullets, they will not die or be disabled. ….

The distance of a thousand meters is like a moat, which cannot be touched by any means, and even half of it cannot be walked.

Under this terrifying firepower, every step forward will pay a huge price, and the same will be the retreat, because Miho Nishizumi has mastered the distance too perfectly, firing at such close range, not only will it not allow the enemy to break through the defensive line, even if a large-scale rout can destroy seven or eight out of ten in the follow-up artillery bombardment, no matter what, these main army corps will not be able to return alive.

The griffin legions in the sky are even more desperate, compared to the charge in front and the random bombing zone in the rear, they have become real live targets, not to mention those anti-aircraft cannons that can explode accurately in the air, even some sniper weapons of ordinary infantry can accurately point them out, griffin knights don't even have the armor of those land heavy cavalry, in this case of charging, it is really quickly broken into pieces, turned into a rain of blood.

If it is an ordinary war, in this situation where it is completely impossible to achieve any results, the commanders of each part will basically choose to retreat, preserve the vital forces as much as possible, and withdraw from the long-term consideration, the commanders above will not only not punish this behavior, but will even reward the commander with the largest number of retained people after understanding the facts, even if the emperor who is not a person will retain such measures.

But in the northern provinces, no one would, or no one dared to do so, because everyone was brought together, and even came to the war at their own expense, and the mounts they rode were all their own private property, and they were forced to come by the authority of the Governor's Palace.

In such a team, cohesion is naturally almost non-existent, and there are even conflicts of interest between many people, unity? No way.

The brutal rule of the Governor's Mansion for more than a thousand years has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and human life is often the most worthless thing, even most soul masters and powerhouses have already decided that they will die sooner or later, and every day of life is a pleasure, but looking at the entire continent, they can only go to the killing capital except here, compared to the two, of course, it is more comfortable here.

As a result, the commanders of the various units have given up commanding their troops, because they no longer know whether to advance or retreat, in this kind of pocket formation, it is absolutely impossible to rush out, it is impossible to run, and it is most likely to die when they go back, therefore, many people simply choose to commit suicide, so that they can still leave dignity, those who are just temporarily cobbled together, or even do not obey discipline at all, let them decide their own fate.

The deaths of these commanders did not add any more confusion to the entire Legion, and they continued to scurry around like headless flies until they were killed headlong.

As the first wave of the enemy's relatively strong charge was gradually disintegrated, the follow-up attack can only be described as sparse and lala, taking advantage of this opportunity, the various units also hurriedly changed their weapons, and many guns were almost scrapped under the intensive attack just now, but these losses are not worth mentioning compared to the huge results.

The armored forces, which were originally used as a defensive supplement, also made a cautious charge under the command of Miho Nishizumi, and the shelling area was slowly pushed forward to ensure a very thorough sweep.

The whole process has been a long time, in fact, it has only been ten minutes since the first shot was fired, and in the crushing of low-level tactics by this advanced weapon, Leng Xiyue not only felt that ten minutes was short, but felt a little long. ….

In fact, the entire front was not completely without losses, and the attacks launched by many long-range soul masters still caused about dozens of casualties, which was unavoidable, although she had already used the special ice cubes formed by the Ice Emperor as a formation in advance

line's defensive barrier, but there will always be some attacks coming from a more tricky angle, which can be regarded as unguardable.

However, death is not something to be feared by these warriors, and every dead warrior will be engraved on the monument of Stormwind's rebellion, and it will be remembered by every who comes after them, which is actually the supreme honor.

Even with such huge casualties, the enemy's powerhouses above the Title Douluo level have never appeared, and they have not even interfered with the rout of the large army, which depends on an iron rule that people have summarized in the war in the past 10,000 years for the soul master.

Title Douluo is the closest existence to a god in the entire continent, and everyone knows that they have the ability to slaughter ordinary armies, and in an unequal battle, that is indeed the case.

But if in a reciprocal battle, for example, in the current situation, the Governor's Mansion has a Title Douluo, and Leng Xiyue also has a Title Douluo, although there is a difference in quantity that is nearly doubled, but the quality has a certain advantage, and the combat strength of the two sides is almost 4:3.

In this case, the side that takes the lead in sending Title Douluo will almost certainly fall into a disadvantage, because you don't know where the enemy is hiding, whether he will hide somewhere on the battlefield in advance, whether he will suddenly appear and kill you when you interfere in conventional warfare.

For example, now the Governor's Mansion has sent five Titled Douluo to contain the defeat, but if Leng Xiyue hides all the Titled Douluo in advance, or simply buries them in the ground, and when they come to directly carry out a sneak attack, it is normal for all five Titled Douluo to be surrounded and killed, even if they directly gather fire and kill one in seconds, the loss will exceed nearly 100,000 troops.

In other words, even if Leng Xiyue did not deploy like this, but directly asked all Titled Douluo to organize a cluster, and sneak attack the base camp when you split out '2, or '1.5, and use your own '3 to besiege' 2, or '2.5, you can also achieve terrifying results, or that sentence, if you don't gather fire in seconds, you will run, and after a while, seize the opportunity and then another, this is completely unguardable, because the mobility of Titled Douluo is too strong.

Even if you attack with the whole army and launch an attack, that's good, I don't want my base camp anymore, start to change homes, our Title Douluo is to avoid fighting and not fighting each other, looking for opportunities to slaughter conventional troops, you kill yours and I kill mine, kill hundreds or thousands of people in one move, and slowly all the regular troops on both sides will die, at most there is a gap of one or two thousand, is it useful? Obviously, it's useless, because both sides are Titled Douluo, and your regular troops are not even enough to control the occupied area.

If it is a more radical king, simply let you continue to advance, my emperor doesn't even want his own life, and directly let the master kill your emperor at your family, and slaughter all your family's relatives, see who loses.

This situation has been confirmed in history, that is, the battle for the founding of the Star Luo Empire two thousand years ago, and most of the subsequent wars have confirmed this.

After a long history of war, people have summed up this iron law, that is, the side that sends the Title Douluo first, even if it is stronger, will definitely suffer a big loss, and then there is an unwritten rule, that is, the Title Douluo-level powerhouse will be independent of the regular battle, to avoid the situation getting out of control, the regular troops and the Titled Douluo-level powerhouse will fight their own way, which can be regarded as for the good of both sides, even if it is really fired, in order to avoid their own side falling into a passive situation, they will still maintain a certain sanity. ….

After all, the battle between the two sides at the Title Douluo level will also directly determine the outcome of the conventional battlefield, don't look at the current regular battle results, if one side loses the battle at the Title Douluo level, it will also be a one-sided defeat.

Therefore, when Luo Yuanji, who had just left the forest with the Chinese army, received that almost all of the former army had been killed in battle, which could be described as one out of ten, he was actually relatively calm, but his trembling hands betrayed his heart.

300,000 main legions.

These 300,000, converted into regular troops, such as the puppet legions around him, may be comparable to a million, or even more.

But now, in just ten minutes, all of them are gone, and the strength base of so many wicked people contained in the northern provinces to defend the rule of the Governor's Mansion has also disappeared invisibly, which is equivalent to breaking the ridge beam.

If a person loses the ridge, he is a cripple, and almost anyone can step on it in the future, no matter what, go north

The province, the Viceroyalty to be exact, has completely lost its hegemony on the continent.

As for the rest of these Title Douluo? It looks like there are almost twenty of them, a lot, but how many are hidden behind the empire? Could there be some hidden forces? Where did all those Title Douluo who had obviously registered their own titles, but suddenly disappeared? Will they suddenly appear in the Heaven Dou Empire's almost inevitable army after this, and share the Governor's Mansion together?

Thinking of this, Luo Yuanji's forehead was bruised, his face turned red, and he opened his mouth, as if he was talking, but he didn't make a sound.

A few seconds later, he activated his martial soul, and a phantom of death appeared behind him, and then without hesitation he released his ninth soul skill to the soul master who escaped to report the news next to him, and the red soul ring behind him lit up, directly extinguishing it into a wisp of black smoke, the person didn't even make a sound, he silently vented the anger in his heart in the most cruel way.

The surrounding group of old men looked at this scene, and also recalled the news of the death reprieve, they came here, which one has no enemies on them, and the existence that can be identified as enemies is naturally the same level of existence, once these enemies gather together after confirming the decline of the Governor's Palace, plus the joint attack of the empire and some sects that want to get a piece of the pie, it is foreseeable that the demise of the Governor's Mansion will be a matter sooner or later.

After a short catharsis, Luo Yuanji raised his head reluctantly, his eyes were no longer the cynical and playful look he had earlier, replaced by the scarlet gaze of the demon god who came into the world, and the hideous expression.

Then, in a hoarse voice, he said hysterically to everyone around him:

"Kill, everyone, all the elders, come with me, kill those beasts!"

Yehua's heart is clear