Chapter 242: Calculating the General Attack (I)
For ten consecutive days, the attack from Jialing Pass was either above board or sudden, making the Star Luo Empire's side miserable.
They also had to defend and have to fight, although they camped outside, saving a lot of back and forth effort, but also let the army directly expose the sight of Jialing Pass.
This made Jialing Pass even more unscrupulous in attacking and harassing the large army encamped outside the Star Luo Empire.
Since there was no majestic city to rely on, the Star Luo Empire could only be in a very passive situation all the time.
During this period, the Star Luo Empire also tried various methods, such as rectifying the army, directly sending people to shout and provoke in front of Jialing Pass, in an attempt to let the Heaven Dou Empire's army go out of the pass and fight them head-on.
For example, when the Heaven Dou Empire was out of the customs, they intended to leave their army behind and annihilate them all.
However, these methods were useless, and the people who went to Jialing Pass to scold were directly shot into hedgehogs by the senior generals of the Agni Army.
Although the ambush set up killed and injured a part of the Heaven Dou Empire's army, it was still killed by Lu Yuan and his troops.
Only then did the Star Luo Empire discover a very terrible thing, their army that claimed to be more powerful than the Heaven Dou Empire was useless.
And the Heaven Dou Empire also played the only point that they were stronger than the Star Luo Empire.
That is the crushing of top combat power.
The reason why the Star Luo Empire's military strength is much stronger than that of the Heaven Dou Empire, but it can only compete with the Heaven Dou Empire, is not only because of the Martial Spirit Palace's interference over the years.
There is also an obvious gap in the number of soul masters and combat effectiveness.
For example, in the past few decades, the Star Luo Empire has never heard of any powerful Titled Douluo appearing.
And the Heaven Dou Empire's Title Douluo is simply endless, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, Thunder Douluo Yu Yuanzhen, Sword Douluo Chenxin, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, the former Hao Tianzong Sect Master and Great Elder, and Tang Hao.
They and the forces behind them were all bred in the land of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Although not all of them serve the Heaven Dou Empire, they all interfere in the affairs between the two empires.
For example, among the three sects, only the Poison Douluo Seven Treasure Glazed Glass Sect shares weal and woe with the Heaven Dou Empire.
However, even if only Poison Douluo and the Seven Treasure Glazed Glass Sect advanced and retreated together with the Heaven Dou Empire, it was much better than the situation where the Star Luo Empire did not have a single Titled Douluo.
In the past, it was usually the Seven Treasure Colored Glass Sect that accompanied the army of the Heaven Dou Empire to attack and defeat the army of the Star Luo Empire.
In particular, the Title Douluo of the Seven Treasure Liuli Sect (including the statement of Sword Douluo's father) left a deep impression on the army of the Star Luo Empire.
Although Lu Yuan does not have the cultivation of Title Douluo, his combat power performance in this battle of the two empires makes people feel the same as Title Douluo!
Even compared to the effect and lethality, the army of the Star Luo Empire had the illusion that he was even stronger than Title Douluo!
On the one hand, it is Lu Yuan's berserker posture that seems to be tireless and not afraid of siege, and on the other hand, it is his strange spatial teleportation and godly means of reforging Zhennanguan.
This made the army of the Star Luo Empire a headache and frightened.
In addition, the frontal army could not help but get the army of the Heaven Dou Empire that retreated behind Jialing Pass.
The Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire are like two martial arts masters fighting in the ring this time, except that the Star Luo Empire is a Southern Fist Grandmaster with great boxing skills, strong strength, and unparalleled frontality, while the Heaven Dou Empire is a Northern Leg Grandmaster with fast legs, clever motives, and only fast and unbreakable.
In such a situation, it is equivalent to the Heaven Dou Empire hiding under the defense tower, and if the Star Luo Empire wants to fight the Heaven Dou Empire, it has to take the risk of crossing the tower.
It was easy to be counter-killed by the Heaven Dou Empire with the damage of the defense tower.
Therefore, the Star Luo Empire did not dare to cross the tower.
The Heaven Dou Empire took advantage of this opportunity to come out from time to time to beat up the Star Luo Empire outside the defense tower.
When he was done, he retreated under the tower.
Although it was never possible to knock down the Star Luo Empire with one blow, the Star Luo Empire would be injured because of this, and the accumulation of injuries would be aggravated.
And the most uncomfortable thing is that the Heaven Dou Empire has the protection of the defense tower, but the Star Luo Empire does not.
The Star Luo Empire has never been able to help the Heaven Dou Empire, so it highlights a grievance.
In this situation, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Star Luo Empire will become more and more bad.
The Star Luo Empire itself knows it, so ......
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid we can only retreat this time......" Wang Qianjian sighed and said to Dai Qingxiao, who was sitting silently above.
Dai Qingxiao was unwilling, "But if we retreat like this, won't we all be busy all this time?" β
"Yes...... Wang Qianjian smiled bitterly, "but Your Majesty...... Now the situation is stronger than people, now that the morale of the army is low, we have no natural danger to defend, and there is no possibility of storming Jialing Pass, we can't hold the next offensive of the Heaven Dou Empire, not to mention ......"
He paused, "If today's attack by the Dou Empire is like a blunt knife cutting our flesh, if we don't have any way, the state of the army will only get worse and worse, plus the current Heaven Dou Empire claims to have assembled two million troops, even if this number is discounted, our number of troops is not advantageous." β
"Once the state of the army is sluggish and loses its last advantage, the Heaven Dou Empire will take this opportunity to launch a general attack, not only will we have to retreat, but we will also have to pay hundreds of thousands of casualties before we can withdraw to the territory of the empire!"
Wang Qianjian's face was serious, this was the worst result of the Star Luo Empire, if he lost his wife and broke his troops, not only would the territories of the four kingdoms he occupied vomit out, but he would also increase the casualties.
At that time, it was really a loss for Santi to touch the wiresβa loss.
In fact, not only Wang Qianjian understood this truth, but even Rennes, who had always been more radical before, did not come out to put forward contrary opinions to Wang Qianjian at this moment, but his face was full of seriousness.
The current situation is that the Star Luo Empire's frontal army cannot display its strength and cannot give full play to its advantages.
And the Heaven Dou Empire relied on the natural danger of Jialing Pass and the super battlefield lethality of Lu Yuan to defeat the Star Luo Empire without the power to fight back.
Even Wren himself had broken an arm, and Wang Qianjian was seriously injured by Lu Yuan, so who could still fight with Lu Yuan in the Star Luo Empire at this time?
Dai Qingxiao's brows were furrowed, his eyes were erratic, and he was still unwilling to give up retreat in this situation where tens of millions of catties of grain and grass, baggage, and nearly 800,000 casualties had already been lost.
"You ...... Is there no other way? He asked, still a little unwillingly.
Wang Qianjian and Ren both shook their heads, not only them, but even the dozens of generals of the Star Luo Empire behind them this time were silent.
Dai Qingxiao sighed, "In that case...... That's ......."
"Ready to retreat."
Zhu Lanxi beside him looked at him at this moment, although Dai Qingxiao was now burly, as if he was still the once invincible and domineering emperor, but at this moment his figure revealed a trace of loneliness and twilight.
Not only Dai Qingxiao, but even Wang Qianjian and Ren, who were once high-spirited and known as the three peerless generals of the Star Luo Empire, looked extremely depressed at this moment, and they no longer had the previous high-spirited and indomitable momentum.
Because they met a young general who was stronger and more courageous than them, and suddenly realized that they might be old.
In this world, there are generations of talents, each leading the way for hundreds of years......
Perhaps, it is time for them to raise the next generation of the empire.
In this way, the Star Luo Empire quietly issued an order internally to prepare to withdraw the army to the Star Luo Empire, and everything was going on quietly.
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However, at this time, in the Jialing Pass.
"I think it's time for a general offensive." Lu Yuan looked at the Jialing Pass in front of him with blazing eyes, and said firmly.
"A general attack?" The marshal of the Oka Kingdom Army, Horreston, shrank his head and said timidly, "It's too early to launch a general attack now, it's only been ten days." β
He obviously still had a shadow when he faced the frontal army of the Star Luo Empire, when he was one of the commanders of the United Army of the Four Kingdoms, and the Star Luo Empire swept away the front of the United Army of the Four Kingdoms with a single attack.
After that, the United Army of the Four Kingdoms was slaughtered like a chicken by the Heavy Armored Army of the Star Luo Empire, and the picture of a direct rout made him even more frightened.
Now it was really difficult for him to have the confidence to lead the army and launch an offensive against the Star Luo Empire army in the front.
Lu Yuan ignored him at all, looked straight at Ge Long and said, "After the implementation of the ten days of exhausting strategy, I know very well how much trouble it has caused to the Star Luo Empire in these ten days. β
The flank attack has always been the responsibility of the raid team led by Lu Yuan at the beginning, the Heaven Dou Royal Knights, and the Sky Shadow Army.
In particular, Lu Yuan's ability to turn on spatial teleportation made this plan of flank attack further proposed after the tired strategy was proposed.
Therefore, this plan was proposed, responsible, and implemented by Lu Yuan, which made him more aware of how good the implementation of the tired plan was.
After last night's assault, he sensed that the time had come for a general offensive.
That's why Lu Yuan put forward a plan for a general offensive at today's meeting.
"The Star Luo Empire has now collapsed, and its morale has reached an extreme, and they won't have much strength to fight back on the front." Lu Yuan said firmly, "Believe me, in the past ten days, they haven't been able to sleep well and eat a safe meal, how much spirit and strength do they still have to fight in such a situation?" β
Ge Long and the five military marquis next to him were thoughtful, but the marshal of the United Army of the Four Kingdoms was no longer as radical as before and always wanted to take back the territory of his kingdom, but shook his head.
Xin Yaocheng, the marshal of the Tiangong Kingdom, pursed his lips, his eyes flashed with hesitation, and said, "But this time is too short, I think it's better to continue to spend a while like this, and then launch a general attack......
"yes, yes, why rush?" The marshals of the four kingdoms all nodded yes in unison.
Only the Marshal of the Barak Kingdom had a flickering look in his eyes, and he did not echo the words of the Marshal of the other three kingdoms.
"Don't be in a hurry, the people of the Star Luo Empire are about to run away." Lu Yuan shook his head and said.
"Wouldn't it be better to run away?" Emerson, the Marshal of the Sidney Kingdom, was overjoyed and said, "When the time comes, the army of the Star Luo Empire will escape, and we will be able to win without a fight and take back our territory." β
"Yes, yes!" Horis was also bright-eyed, and said, "When the time comes, you have repelled the army of the Star Luo Empire, and we have taken back our territory without any casualties, which is a great thing for the country and the people." β
Lu Yuan shook his head, and in the puzzled eyes of everyone, he sneered and said, "Do you think that if the Star Luo Empire retreats like this, there will be no hidden dangers?" β
"What if they want to ambush somewhere in the territory of the Four Kingdoms, and directly kill you who go back before retreating, and then withdraw from the border?"
Suddenly, cold sweat broke out behind the marshals of the four kingdoms.
Lu Yuan looked at their frightened appearances, and said with a sneer, "After all, when I go back this time, they will return empty-handed, if it is me, even if I want to retreat, I will annihilate a large army of the enemy before retreating, so as to eliminate the hatred in my heart." β
"That's not a loss, isn't it?"
"Once you let them retreat on their own initiative, instead of being beaten back by us, there is a good chance that this kind of thing will happen?" Lu Yuan looked at the marshal of the four kingdoms and said with a chuckle.
"If the wolf is not crippled, you must guard against his attack before the night recedes, and if you want to have a comfortable night, you must beat the wolf to death, otherwise prepare for the possible attack of the wolf." He said lightly.
The marshal of the four kingdoms suddenly didn't dare to make a sound, and Horreston swallowed, "That...... We agree? β
Lu Yuan didn't continue to pay attention to them, but looked at Ge Long, "Marshal, what do you think?" β
At this moment, Flame Marquis Yanxian suddenly stood up and said to Ge Long, "Marshal, the last general thinks that Duke Celestial Shadow is justified in this, and this is also the time for us to launch a general attack against the Star Luo Empire. β
"You can't let them withdraw so easily."
If Dai Qingxiao heard Yan Xian's words here, he would definitely be so angry that he would blow his beard and stare at him.
What do you mean by "easy withdrawal"?
His Star Luo Empire has killed and injured millions of troops before and after this time, not to mention the manpower and material resources consumed for long-distance transportation of grain and grass and baggage.
If it is withdrawn like this, the Star Luo Empire will be bleeding profusely.
Yan Xian actually made a statement to Lu Yuan, last time Xuanwu Hou Shishan took the lead in asking Lu Yuan for credit, but it made Yan Xian feel that he was one step behind.
After all, it was obviously their Yan family who came first, and it was Lu Yuan, who was funded by their Yan family first, who helped Lu Yuan and Lu Yuan's clan, and even took the lead in expressing allegiance to Lu Yuan.
It's okay for the Seven Treasure Colored Glass Sect to win over Lu Yuan, but Shi Shan also took a step ahead of Lu Yuan to ask for merit in front of the Snowy Night Emperor at the last merit meeting.
This made Yan Xian uncomfortable.
So this time, he decided to take the lead in supporting Lu Yuan no matter what.
The main thing is a clear attitude.
At this moment, as if not to be outdone, Ishiyama also stood up and said to Ge Long, "The last general also feels that this is the time to launch a general attack. β
Sen Luohou looked at them and cursed secretly.
Then he also stood up and said, "The last general also feels ......."
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