Chapter 25: A Thousand Miles Raid (2)
Two days later, in the afternoon, a kilometer west of Lingshui, Kong Ming and several battalion commanders were watching Lingshui City on a high ground. The West Gate was very lively, Kong Ming calculated slightly, within an hour, there were three teams into the Lingshui, two left from the West Gate, each team was not many people, about two hundred, there were Yan Army and Hawei Army people, it seemed that they were not familiar with it.
"What do you think?" asked Kong Ming suddenly.
"They were very well defended, but there weren't many defenders in the city. The second battalion commander said.
"How do you tell?" asked Brooke Sloop.
"Look at the defenders of the city, they are very alert, but they are a little far from each other, and there are a few wounded soldiers among them. This proves that there are not many people in their city. ”
"That alone doesn't prove anything!"
"Yes, that alone doesn't prove much, but look at the faces of those who are leaving. The second battalion commander said.
"Nothing seems to have changed?" Xiao An said questioningly.
"Yes, it is precisely because there is no change that there are not many soldiers in the city. Because if there are a lot of soldiers in the city, then even if they don't appear on the street, the evil spirit of the soldiers will be emitted intentionally or unintentionally, affecting the pedestrians on the road, just like every time we leave the barracks, our faces are always unconsciously relaxed. And you can see that their faces have not changed much, which means that there are not many soldiers here, and there are not many inspections on the streets. The second battalion commander said.
"Hehe, you can see that this seems to be more complicated than the magic we studied!" Brooke sighed.
The other battalion commanders also knew in their hearts when they heard the second battalion commander's explanation, and they couldn't help but relax the expressions on their faces, after all, if there were so few people, there would not be much difficulty in the assault, and the casualties would drop accordingly. Kong Ming nodded, as a former scout, this is also an instinctive idea, but there is no doubt that there will be its reliance on such a safe place here. Only a saint-level powerhouse would let them be so relieved to let an important city put so few soldiers, which is also a problem. Kong Ming turned to Brooke and said, "How's the situation in Magister City?"
I saw Brooke say something to the back, and after a while, a water magician came over and saluted Brooke, and then, I saw him whisper a few magic spells, and waved the magic wand in his hand to the ground, and a twenty-meter square Lingshui City was displayed with a three-dimensional map, whether it was a house or a warehouse, and even there were people walking on the street in that picture. Everyone looked at the three-dimensional map carefully, constantly measuring, and fell silent for a while. Kong Ming pointed to the map and said: "According to intelligence, there are about 3,000 people in Lingshui City, excluding the mobile troops, of which 2,000 are guarding the four gates, focusing on the east gate, where the troops are a little more, and the remaining 1,000 are guarding the warehouse near the west gate of the city, from the intelligence point of view, the highest level there should be a seventh-level powerhouse, but I personally have reason to suspect that there should be an eighth-level powerhouse in it." ”
After hearing this sentence, everyone's relaxed mood suddenly gathered up again, the destructive power of an eighth-level powerhouse is not in doubt, if it is a sword master, it is better to say, if it is a holy demon master, then his lethality to the army is very powerful, and it is even more deadly.
"What a reason. One of the battalion commanders asked.
"Intuition. Kong Ming didn't explain.
"What bullshit intuition! There was a small voice muttering in the middle of the crowd, making Kongming's face unhappy, but now he could only pretend not to hear it at this time.
"Assign the task below. The Magic Battalion was responsible for destroying the West Gate at the first moment of the battle, and then followed the Second Battalion and burned all the supplies in the warehouse, the first battalion entered the city and killed the east gate immediately after the city gate fell, the second battalion killed the warehouse, and the third battalion followed after the magic battalion. The battalion directly under me followed me and advanced with the first battalion, and I and a few other great swordsmen were responsible for entangling their saint-level masters, and the other battalions immediately moved closer to the first battalion after burning down the warehouse, and rushed out from the east gate. The offensive will begin tomorrow at 4 a.m. Do you still have any questions?"
"Why don't we occupy the water?
"We don't need to do that, we don't have so many people, and we can't hold it, otherwise we will have to bear the enemy's million-strong army. Okay, let's get moving. ”
At 4 o'clock in the morning, three miles outside the west gate of Lingshui City, twenty magicians were carving a magic array under Brooke's arrangement, which was a long-range magic array that could be used to extend the distance of magic, and it was the most commonly used magic array in war. In front of the magic array, a group of magicians were casting magic to cover out the fluctuations of the magic elements of the magic array, and further ahead, several battalions of Chu troops were waiting there. Time passed little by little, Brooke and ten magicians stood on the magic array and kept chanting incantations, Kong Ming saw that it was almost there, and then commanded the army to move forward slowly, Kong Ming wanted to let the enemy arrive at the city gate at the moment when the magic was completed, and then launch an attack. All the men and horses of the army had a cotton cloth wrapped around their feet, but as they got closer to the west gate, the voices grew louder. Hearing these voices, Sergeant Harvey on the West Gate kept sticking out his head to see what was going on, was it Harvey's domestic army coming to help?, but when they felt a wave of magic rushing towards them, they finally knew that this was not reinforcements at all, but an enemy army that did not know where it came from. At this moment, "Enemy attack!"
"Enemy attack!"
"Enemy attack!"
"Enemy attack!"
The sound continued to spread to the night sky, and the sound of the alarm also sounded at the same time, waking up the entire Lingshui City, and everyone could not imagine how an enemy army could appear behind them.
At the same time, the earthquake centered on the West Gate continued to spread in all directions, and the city gate, the walls on both sides, and the nearby houses all collapsed in an instant, and most of the people in this area were killed by magic, and the dust caused by magic rose to the sky. And at this time, the Chu army also happened to reach the edge of magic. When the magic stopped, Kong Ming quickly drew his sword and shouted forward, "Charge!!"
"Charge!!"
"Charge!!"
"Charge!!"
The voices kept ringing around, and several battalion commanders began to act according to the plan. Kong Ming followed the first battalion behind. Just as Kong Ming had predicted in advance, the Harvey army was completely surprised by such a surprise attack by the Chu army, and did not expect that an enemy army would appear from their rear, and when a battalion trampled through the razed West Gate and rushed towards the enemy camp, many enemy troops were killed by the Chu army before they woke up from their sleep, and the Chu army rushed straight away like a hungry wolf that had killed into the flock. A battalion went straight along the main road. Kong Ming followed them, while the Chu troops pouring in behind rushed to their own targets as planned.