Chapter 176: Slipping through the sky
So, in the end, he could only reluctantly beckon the guards beside him and retreated to the rear.
As for stepping through the sky, after deliberately avoiding Zhang Xiangwu, he rushed all the way to kill, and after killing several cavalrymen, he killed the pikemen and musketeers who were still treating the wounded.
The pikemen and musketeers haven't had time to recover from the blow! It turned out that those rebels had come back with heavy losses, and where could they continue to resist when they were demoralized! If you don't say it, keep running! Anyway, this time, the main general Zhang Xiangwu was also leading the guards to escape, and there was no shame in them escaping.
The two gangs of men and horses fled one and the other chased, because they were the best at crossing mountains and mountains in this complex terrain, so even if there were no cavalry, they could chase the officers and soldiers all the way.
After more than 2,000 people were killed, the remaining officers and soldiers began to throw away their armor one by one, trying to reduce the weight on their bodies as much as possible, trying to increase the speed of escape and get rid of these rebels.
This trick is really useful, after all, those rebel soldiers are very poor, and after looking at the weapons and armor dropped by the officers and soldiers, they can't help but pick them up, and some people will fight for a piece of equipment. This greatly slowed down the pursuit of the rebels, so that many officers and soldiers successfully threw off each other.
In the end, because of the timely arrival of 5,000 air forces, those rebels did not dare to continue the pursuit and hid back in the mountains and forests.
And these air force soldiers who were ordered to come to relieve the siege did not venture into the mountains and forests to pursue the other party, but stayed where they were, waiting for the arrival of the imperial marshal Agukos.
After Agukos arrived, he listened to Zhang Xiangwu's report on the battle, and was so angry that he slapped this subordinate on the spot, slapping the opponent's cheeks and immediately swelling half of his cheeks, and two teeth in his mouth were also knocked off.
In Agukos's opinion, his subordinates really had a puddle of mud that could not support the wall, and the reason why he assigned those newly manufactured firearms to the opposing vanguard troops was to familiarize the soldiers with their combat methods in actual combat.
As a result, Zhang Xiangwu commanded a good army in a mess, and he failed to give full play to the real combat power of the new army of firearms, and after reluctantly repelling the rebels, he pursued rashly because of greed for merit, resulting in a great defeat of the troops.
According to statistics, there are more than 10,000 vanguard troops, and now only about 3,000 remain, and the rest are not killed by the rebels, but they have fled. And most of the firearms have also been captured by the rebels, so can Agukos not be angry! If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Xiangwu had been with him for many years and had always been loyal, he would have directly let this guy be dragged down and cut down.
And Zhang Xiangwu also knew that he had lost this battle too badly, so even if his brain was still buzzing after being slapped by Agukos, he still struggled to get up, and obediently knelt in front of the other party.
On the other hand, after they found out that the enemy's air forces appeared on a large scale, they also knew that they could not continue to pursue and kill, so they decisively retreated to the mountains and forests, and then Tapo Tian took his subordinates and prepared to return to the city happily with the officers and military equipment of those guys.
As a result, on the way, they met a group of players, this group of players had the appearance of more than a hundred people, and they were also recently contacted by the Desert Flying Eagle, preparing to go to the Blue Dragon Empire.
These players from Orlan Star thought they had met their fellow countrymen when they saw a group of bandit rebels actually carrying muskets and pulling artillery! So he took the initiative to show up and wanted to recognize each other.
As a result, after some communication between the two sides, these players knew that they were making a fuss, and this group of guys was indeed a group of natives from the Xuangu Continent, but they had just defeated a group of officials and soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire and captured these equipment.
And these muskets and artillery of the Golden Eagle Empire are obviously the equipment of the Blue Dragon Empire to prevent it.
In order to be able to manufacture these firearms in such a short period of time, the Golden Eagle Empire must have spent a lot of effort, but this was the first time to go into battle, this new army of firearms was defeated by a rebel army, and the equipment was basically robbed by the rebels, presumably the commander of the Golden Eagle Empire was also very angry at the moment, and the next step would definitely lead a heavy army to encircle and suppress this rebel army.
Seeing that the two sides were barely on the same side, these players kindly reminded the rebel leader a few words, telling the other party not to go back, so as not to be surrounded by the officials and troops of the Golden Eagle Empire.
Tapotian also felt that these players were reasonable, he had captured so many new weapons of the officers and soldiers in this battle, the other party's commander must be very annoyed, and he would definitely send heavy troops to destroy him next, and he might not even have a chance to beg for mercy at that time.
So for the sake of his own life, he asked these players for advice on what he should do next.
Faced with Tapotian's inquiry, one of the players took out a copy of "On Guerrilla Warfare" and handed it to the other party, and told Tapotian that this guerrilla warfare was the most suitable way for him to play now. As long as you fight according to the methods mentioned above, then at least in the short term, you will not be wiped out by the officials and troops of the Golden Eagle Empire.
After saying goodbye to these players, Tapotian opened the booklet with great curiosity, ready to see what was written on it, and it would be so admired by those players.
It's also amazing to say, the language and script used on this Xuangu Continent are actually the same as those on the Orlan Star side, all of them are Chinese and Chinese characters, so there is no problem with the communication between the two sides at all.
Some people on the Oran side speculate that this may be because of the relationship between the two worlds because of the development fleet, there has been some contact since a very early age, and then there is an exchange of various substances, resulting in the small alien world of the Xuangu Continent being assimilated by the Oran Star in a subtle way, and the 'sinicization' of language and writing is one of the changes that has occurred.
In short, since the two worlds use exactly the same text, Tapotian can also understand the words in that book.
Speaking of which, he used to be a good young man who was diligent and eager to learn and want to be motivated, otherwise, he would not have known how to read when most of the human beings were illiterate.
It's a pity that the ascent channel of the Golden Eagle Empire has long been controlled by those demonized beasts and some human lackeys who have taken refuge in them, so if they want to move up, there is no way out!
So after several setbacks, he decided to go up the mountain and become a bandit after becoming a beggar who couldn't afford to eat.
Originally, he thought that his life would pass like this, but he didn't expect that he would encounter such a great change in the Golden Eagle Empire in his lifetime, giving him, the bandit leader, a chance to turn over, and now he has become the leader of a rebel army with more than 20,000 horses.
After reading a booklet given to me by those players, I had a feeling of sudden enlightenment, and I suddenly realized what I should do in the future.
He immediately ordered the army to turn around and march deeper into the mountains, without returning to the city.
This decision to break the sky saved his life, because at this time, his base camp Dakang Town was already surrounded by more than 20,000 air force regiments, these are the elites specially sent by Agukos, in order to completely wipe out the rebels who dared to defeat his vanguard troops, and at the same time snatch back those lost firearms.
In Agucoth's opinion, the rebels, after grabbing so much loot, will definitely return to their lair to celebrate, and then the air force he sent at the first time will be able to catch the other party.
As a result, he didn't expect that the rebels just didn't take the usual path, and under the leadership of the leader of the Breaking Heaven, they plunged deeper into the mountains.
As a result, the air force sent by Agukos waited for several days in vain, and did not see a single rebel in sight until Agucos arrived with his men.
Although it is a pity that we were not able to destroy the rebels and get those firearms back, it is also a credit to be able to subdue the towns and villages occupied by these rebels.
So Agucos gave the army that had been driving for several days a break, and he began to write a war report to the little emperor Ling Feng, telling him that he had successfully recovered several towns occupied by the rebels.
At the same time, Guo Dafu led the army and had already arrived at a big city belonging to the Hanhai Empire.
When he had just landed with his army, the towns he occupied were all coastal areas for the sake of defense.
In this second march, he had much more troops in his hands, so he dared to march a little inland.
According to the spies sent by Da Er in advance, this big city called Iron Fence City has as many as 200,000 defenders and more than 800,000 people.
Before Guo Dafu took so many towns in one go, the Sea Dragon Emperor was also very distressed, so in order to prevent the other party from continuing to occupy his own towns, he had been expanding his army frantically some time ago, and a large number of young people were forcibly recruited by him, and after a little training, he was incorporated into the army.
As for firearms, the Sea Dragon Emperor also asked his subordinates to imitate them, but the Sea Dragon Emperor was much more cautious than Ling Feng, and did not put those firearms troops that had not been thoroughly trained into the battlefield at the first time, and the troops stationed in various cities now used the previous cold weapons.
Like this barred city, there are still a bunch of ballistas on the top of the city, not artillery.
Guo Dafu couldn't ask for this, after all, if the other party was really equipped with artillery, it was really possible to cause some casualties to his own troops.
But with these ballistas, there is no threat at all.
Under the watchful eyes of the defenders in the city, Guo Dafu asked his artillery to start building artillery positions unhurriedly outside the range of the enemy's ballistas, and one artillery gun after another was placed in place.
The defenders in the city also knew that once the other side completely built the artillery position, then it would be their end.
Therefore, after some discussion, several generals in the city decided to take the initiative and fight to the death. If they can successfully destroy most of the opponent's artillery with this raid, then they will have to fight next.
After unifying the opinions, the gate of the Iron Fence City suddenly opened, and a heavy cavalry unit rushed out of the city gate first, obviously, the Hanhai Empire also made its own heavy cavalry troops during this time.
Compared to the kind of firearms that he was completely unfamiliar with, this cavalry unit still belonged to the cold weapon unit, so even the Sea Dragon Emperor, a somewhat conservative old antique, agreed to the suggestion of his subordinate Qinglong Empire's heavy cavalry unit.
However, unlike the Blue Dragon Empire and the Golden Eagle Empire, the heavy cavalry mount of the Hanhai Empire is a fierce beast called the Land Walking Monitor Lizard. This kind of fierce beast has extremely thick limbs, extremely fast running speed on land, and has good endurance that most lizard-like fierce beasts do not have, and the most important thing is that there is a trace of thin earth dragon blood in the body, so it is very optimistic about the Sea Dragon Emperor, and he personally ordered the general, making it the heavy cavalry mount of the Hanhai Empire.
Because there is a thin trace of earth dragon blood in the body, the strength of this land monitor lizard is not low, and when it becomes an adult, it is generally able to have about eight battles after tomorrow. Therefore, there are not many of them, and there are only 1,000 such heavy cavalry troops in this iron fence city.