Chapter 42: The Battle of the Vanguard

"But 150,000 people are not something we can afford. After all, we only have more than 200,000 men, and there are many new recruits and soldiers who have just joined the Harvey Army. ”

"So in the afternoon, we must choose a different method of fighting, with a view to annihilating the enemy on the beachhead. If it really doesn't work, then we can just keep them on the river and don't let them go ashore, but this kind of confrontation is not a good way for us, because more and more people will come, and there are only so many of us. Kong Ming looked back.

"Is there any other way?" asked Yiyi.

"Hehe, the way of war, with the right fit, with the odd victory. This one doesn't work, we can take another path, and I can't fill this place with hundreds of thousands of brothers for a so-called victory. Kong Ming said in deep thought.

"Can the other mercenaries help? And the door of this Harvey Empire is also opened by us. Yi Yiyi asked unwillingly.

"Hehe, it is precisely because of this that many mercenaries are very wary of us now, they are already good if they don't fall into the well, and they still want them to help us, they are afraid of being swallowed by us now, and it is too late to prevent us, so who cares about the life or death of our mercenary army? And what they want most now is for both of us to lose, only then will they have the opportunity to occupy these territories. Kong Ming smiled bitterly, this is human nature, every mercenary army has grown up like this, even those mercenary troops who have defected to the snow wolf mercenaries would not have been willing to join the snow wolf mercenary army if it weren't for the people behind them to let them join Kong Ming's hands.

"What should I do?" asked Che Yi from the side.

"Hehe, that's a good question, what should we do. Kong Ming said with a smile. What to do is really good, this is a question that needs to be pondered. If it is said that the victory of 80,000 over 300,000 at that time was to take advantage of the carelessness of the Harvey army and the special situation of the city with its back to Haicheng on a special terrain. So now there is almost nothing to rely on, allies, allies defend themselves, and the enemy is too strong, this is no longer a battle above the level, the terrain can do some articles, but this is only a temporary measure, sooner or later the enemy can break through this natural danger. What should I do?

In the middle of the night, Kong Ming quietly disappeared from the barracks with 40,000 troops, including 10,000 people from the 6th, 7th and 8th divisions, a total of 40,000 troops. At this time, Yiyi took over the command of the mercenary army, and announced to the outside world that the commander was thinking about the battle arrangement. And these 40,000 troops were not discovered by the outside under the cover of those mercenary armies who were constantly presetting the battlefield, and in order to prevent this news from leaking out, strict control was implemented in the entire military camp. It is required that three people must be together at all times, even for the division commander. In this case. The movement of the army of forty thousand was best concealed.

Kong Ming led an army of 40,000 men from a relatively gentle and unflattering place in the upper reaches of the river, secretly crossed the river, and hurried away in the direction of the Harvey army.

A day later, in the middle of the night in a forest, Kong Ming and the three division commanders kept looking at the barracks in front of them, which was the barracks of Harvey's forwards. The Snow Wolf Mercenary Army slowly touched it from dozens of miles away.

"Judging by the previous reconnaissance. This army was the first army of the Fifth Army, with a total of 100,000 men, and the commander was Pang Deqing, a very experienced veteran general, who is said to have served in this army for 50 years. They were the oldest generals, having fought many battles, but this time they were the left vanguard of the Harvey's army, and the rest of the army followed. Che Yu whispered, you must know that this is a very important time, as a pioneer officer of the legion, the old general must be a cautious person, and it can be seen from the magic mirror that the military camp they arranged is very particular, and there are many traps outside the camp. And the sentinels are also very attentive and conscientious.

"Tell all the people to go to the snow wolf, prepare to start the assault, and when you approach the barracks, immediately cast your magic, make sure to plunge the enemy into chaos at the first time, and then attack in a triangle, go straight to the enemy's military headquarters, strive to destroy the enemy's military headquarters as soon as possible, carry out the decapitation operation, and do not let the Harvey army be commanded, in this case, they will be our meal." Get moving. ”

Under the cover of night and forest, all the snow wolf mercenary army rode on the snow wolf, and then began to slowly increase the speed, although it was said to be in a forest, but this kind of terrain was originally the place for the snow wolf to move, without the slightest hindrance, and the footsteps of the onslaught mercenary army could no longer be concealed. In the surprise of the enemy sentry, 40,000 people rushed straight into the barracks of the First Army of the Fifth Harvey Army, and at this moment those Harvey soldiers understood that the real difference between training and war, these are the lessons of blood that can only be exchanged for experience, for the legions that are less than combat, few people will take them seriously, they can set up all kinds of traps outside in accordance with the army's combat regulations, but they did not pay full attention, and even after some officers checked it, they let those veterans fool the past, saying that they would dig later, saying that they were so far away from the battlefield, and so on, and all kinds of reasons, these settings were completely empty talk,These are also discovered by Kongmingtong guò's careful observation,Otherwise, they will also be fooled.,Of course, a few of them must have done it seriously.,But the snow wolf is an animal that lives in the mountains and jungles.,For these traps without the slightest disguise.,It's just a dispensable thing.。 At the moment when the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army arrived at the Harvey barracks, countless magic fell from the sky, protruding from the ground, covering the entire front of the barracks, and the sleeping Harvey soldiers who were unsuspecting all died in their dreams, and the Harvey soldiers who were patrolling just blocked it, and let the mercenaries who rushed up with them swing their swords to kill.

Pang Deqing never imagined that the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army would arrive here so quickly, and the information he had just received showed that the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army was setting up a battlefield on the other side of the river, and wanted to defeat them there on the beachhead, and Marshal Alexander also said. They will fight to the death against the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army there, and from then on, there will be no Snow Wolf Mercenary Army in the world. They are still five days away from the river here, and it will take two days to make peace at full speed with their war horses, so they are still in a relatively safe area for the time being, and the reconnaissance from the aerial magic horse also shows that there is no large-scale movement of troops near here today, and even the snow wolf mercenary army has not seen the scouts. Therefore, he just routinely checked the defensive measures today, and felt that it was okay, so he didn't pay attention to it. Nor did he let the soldiers, who were already as tired as Wang Ba, get up and work again, and he also went to sleep, and he had to march tomorrow. But what he never expected was that the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army actually came, and it was so fierce. Without the slightest warning, he attacked directly. This kind of battle really caught him off guard. When he rushed out of the tent before he had time to put on his armor, he saw a scene that he would never forget, the entire direction facing the snow wolf mercenary army was a huge fluctuation mixed with magic and fighting spirit, the sound of killing kept coming, and the speed of the mercenary army's advance really surprised him, but it was only a few minutes. A whole half of his army had been wiped out by this attack, and he had not had time to return to get a piece of clothing to wear, and he had not even had time to get dressed, for the vanguard of the entire Snow Wolf mercenary army had already stormed almost before his tent. Two saints who lived next to him came to him and protected him. He was stunned at this point, for no army had ever come to his tent with such a quick assault in his war career. Dozens of great sword masters' fighting qi slashes rushed directly towards him, and the soldiers and various things that stood in front of him in the middle turned into flying ashes in the first time, and the two sages were about to block the fighting qi slashes that rushed over, but they saw the four saint-level fighting qi slashes coming towards them, and there was also a group attack magic that firmly locked them and the places near them, which also included Pang Deqing and his guards in it, and in an instant, the saint-level magic fell from the sky, and the two saints could only hold up the fighting qi cover, hoping to be able to get through, they did suffer a magic and four fighting qi slashes, but they had already tried their best, but they can only maintain their own lives, and the people around them are not so lucky, and they all die in the attack of magic and vindictive slashing, including Pang Deqing, the self-appointed and most unsafe commander of the First Army who has been in the army for more than fifty years.

Pang Deqing didn't know until he died, because the flag in front of his tent was the reason why he died the fastest. Because Kong Ming aimed the center of the central attack here as soon as he started the attack, and in order to achieve the effect of the assault, he didn't even leave a person as a reserve, in order to strengthen the effect of the central assault, he put the guard, which was composed of five sages and a thousand seventh-level powerhouses, in the front of the middle, so he naturally became the axis and focus of the attack of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army. In order to achieve the most sudden and fruitful first assault, the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army adopted a typical five-stage assault. When the two sides were about to make contact, the magic directly covered the Harvey soldiers in front, followed by the snow wolf's wind blade, then the mercenary's fighting slash, then the second row of mercenaries' snow wolf released the wind blade, then the mercenary's fighting slash, and then the magic. After two rounds of attacks, the Harvey soldiers at the front will basically disappear without a trace. And more than 20,000 people of Harvey's First Army in front of him were killed in this way in their sleep. The Harvey army in the back finally recovered from the blow of the snow wolf mercenary army, and began to pick up what could be used around them to counterattack, but after all, these people in front of them were slowly a lot, not to mention that they did not form any formation, so they faced a group of fierce demon cavalry, which was destined to be a tragedy. Although the people in front said that they had only resisted for less than ten minutes, it was enough for the people behind to react, and they could have formed a small formation to resist the attack of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army, but the sudden attack stunned many soldiers who had only been trained and had not been on the battlefield, and they didn't know what to do next, and those veterans who had fought many times were constantly urging those recruits to prepare to resist, but the threat of death seemed to be greater than the veteran's order, when one of the recruits couldn't stand such a shadow and turned to fleeHe noticed that the veteran, who had been in his care, gave him a disappointed look, then plunged a sword into his chest, and then ordered all the others to take up arms and prepare for battle. But. After all, there are not too many people who do this, more people flee with those recruits, and people's fear can be spread, when this kind of situation extends to the rest of the whole army, the first army is doomed, without the command of the army commander, the soldiers and officers behind do not know who to listen to, and those senior officers in the rear, some organize some ranks but let the chaotic soldiers be overwhelmed, most of the time. Once a military camp is bombed, it is doomed to failure, because most of them die at the hands or feet of their own people, not at the hands of the enemy, and once the camp is bombed. The defeat within them will crush the newly organized battle formations, because they are their own people. Kill is not. It is impossible to kill their comrades without an order, but if they don't, they will break their formation, and once the formation is broken and wants to form again, it will no longer be possible. You must know that there is more than one defeated and fleeing soldiers, in groups without any rules, it can be said that there is a steady stream, and it can no longer be resisted. Time. The soldiers of Harvey's First Army kept fleeing backwards, they could not care about anything else, they threw away everything that stood in their way, horses, armor, swords, and comrades, and they were terrified. It is a person's nature to fall into a well, and beating the water dogs is something that all people like to do, not to mention that this kind of thing is even more familiar to an organized army like the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army. Hordes of mercenaries were also killed, scattered all over the mountains, and the blood of soldiers on both sides stained the entire plain red.

Two hours later, the 100,000 Harvey First Army no longer existed, except for a few soldiers who escaped, the rest of the people became the soul of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army, which was also the first time since the establishment of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army that it did not contain prisoners of war, because the various armies of the Harvey Army were too close to each other, and if they wanted to do such a thing, they would be killing themselves, so before the first battle, Kong Ming gave an order not to leave any prisoners. And the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army was also tired, so all the mercenaries cleaned the battlefield a little bit as quickly as possible, and took away all the horses and magic horses of the Harvey Army, and killed everything that could not be taken away, and those armor, long swords, space rings and the like just cleaned up a little and quickly evacuated the battlefield. After dawn, reinforcements from the Harvey Army arrived, and everyone's eyes turned red at the sight of corpses and messes all over the ground. Alexander stood a little higher, the whole person tensed up all of a sudden, never like this moment, he hated the snow wolf mercenary army so much, never like this moment, he hated Kong Ming so much, never like this moment, he hated the so-called prince who had nothing to do in the imperial capital and invited Kong Ming to be the commander of the snow wolf mercenary army, never like this moment, he hated the three princes so much, never like this moment, he hated himself so much, why had he entered the battlefield This place of life and death is still so light on the enemyHe had never been so powerless as at this moment, the army of 100,000 men was wiped out in just a few hours, and less than 10,000 escaped, and this 10,000 people could not be of great use in the future battles, because Alexander saw that they had lost the confidence of victory, because their hearts had made the mercenary army frightened, and they no longer had the consciousness of a first-line battle. This qiē was nothing more than an unexpected blitzkrieg from the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army.

In the early morning, in a forest more than 150 kilometers away from the battle site, Kong Ming arrived here at full speed with more than 40,000 mercenary troops after the battle, and when the 40,000 mercenary troops arrived here, they were surprised to find that there were already several divisions of mercenary troops staying here, and they were very hidden, and they were not found from the outside or from the air.

"Commander, we are all here, a total of three divisions, a total of 60,000 people, the rest of us are staying where you are ordered, attracting the attention of the Harvey army, and once Harvey attacks, we will put up a little resistance and withdraw immediately, and there will be no stop. Lu Hai said.

"What's the matter with her?" said Kong Ming, pointing to Yi Yiyi, who was drinking water not far behind him.

"There's no way, people can't do without you, saying that they are afraid that you will escape and forget the hired task. Duns scoffed.

"Why are you here?" Kong Ming looked at Yi Yiyi who came over and really had no choice, this person is nominally the deputy commander, but in fact he is the boss of this mercenary army, all the trophies and logistics of the mercenaries are handled by her, that is, this mercenary army itself is hers, and Kong Ming is similar to the CEO of a modern company, responsible for the operation of the entire company, and she is the chairman of the board of directors and has absolute ownership of the company.

"Oh, do I need your arrangements where I go?" Yi Yiyi glanced at him, and the others all left one after another without a trace of hesitation.

"You didn't notify me of such a big move, didn't you save it, or did you say that you don't want to do it now and want to leave?" Hmm!" Yi Yiyi was very dissatisfied with Kong Ming's arrangement for her, in fact, what Kong Ming didn't know was that she was a top student in a military academy, and half of the mercenary army under Kong Ming's current command were her original subordinates, if Kong Ming was this once he left, it would be unpredictable, after all, even the saints around Kong Ming were brought by Yi Yiyi.

"Hehe!" At this time, although the giggle was very silly, it was definitely the wisest choice for Kong Ming at this time.

Seeing Kong Ming's appearance, Yi Yiyi, who had been with Kong Ming for nearly half a year, knew that Kong Ming had already softened, and then said: "Didn't you say that in our war games, there are more defeats and fewer victories, why did you go and eat someone in a blink of an eye, oh yes, how many regiments have you eliminated?"

"First Army. Che Yi said on the side.

"How many regiments of the First Army?" Yi Yiyi asked before he could react at the moment.

"The entirety of the First Army of the Fifth Army Corps, close to one hundred thousand people. Che Yi looked at Kong Ming, and saw that he didn't say anything, so he knew that this commander probably didn't want to touch the angry head of the deputy commander now, so he replied on his behalf. Obviously, this number surprised all the mercenary troops who followed from behind, who would believe that a whole army of 100,000 people was killed by 40,000 mercenaries like this, and there were 400,000 troops following behind the 100,000 army, although those people were a little far away, but this kind of work of pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth is estimated to be done only by a madman like Kong Ming.

"Forty thousand against one hundred thousand, you are so bold!" Yi Yiyi gasped.

"Wrong, it should be said that it is 80,000 against 100,000, because the snow wolf must also be counted as a warrior, if you add the ratio of 10,000 of our magicians, it should be 100,000 against 100,000, after all, magicians can be counted as three of them, especially in this kind of group battle, it can be counted to the point of one against four or even five, because there are many magic that can overlap, and the lethality is even more amazing. "Speaking of war, Kong Ming regained his usual character.

"You're really a cow!" Yi Yiyi still hasn't reacted, although he said that when they annihilated the 300,000 army, he was on the side, but it was with Haiyuan City as a backer, and he could get too much support at any time, not like them, an army of 40,000 dared to pull out his teeth.

"Nothing, the soldiers are just fast, originally the essence of blitzkrieg, oh also called blitzkrieg is fast, the so-called invincible, only fast and unbreakable, as long as our marching speed is fast enough, and when we meet the enemy, we will not be discovered by the enemy, with the fastest speed and the greatest attack power as the knife, and break it in one fell swoop, then they will not die, and when their other armies react, we have long been out of the battlefield, in this case, even if they have more troops, what does it have to do with us?"

"So what do we do next?" asked Iyiyi on behalf of the others.

"Siege Wei to save Zhao. (To be continued......)

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