Sometimes the victory or defeat of the battle is determined by the moment at the beginning, and whoever takes the initiative at that moment will win the battle, because in that moment, the attacking side is organized, planned, and organized, but the attacked side, because of the suddenness, all the people will be in a state of surprise, and this state of surprise makes them lose a lot of things when they react, soldiers, command, firepower, Weapons, in fact, the most important thing is to lose the confidence to win. In this case, it is clear at a glance whether a well-trained army is well trained or not, and this depends on the discipline and training of an army, both of which are indispensable. A well-trained army can reduce losses in most cases, while an untrained army will collapse in an instant. And ambush warfare is undoubtedly a classic example of this kind of combat.

----- conspirators

The reaction of the Harvey army was unexpectedly slow, and it was like a slow-moving snail, I thought that as a border army, the speed of reaction should be very fast, just like the ambush among Kong Ming and others last time, but this army in front of me made Kong Ming understand what is the style of an official, or this army did not want to take Guan Pingkou, but was pretending, waiting for some people to come. However, no matter what they were waiting for, Kong Ming would not care, because today was destined to be a bloody battlefield.

"Commander, the information we got from reconnaissance is that this army is coming from Fangneng City, more than forty kilometers away from Guanpingkou. There are about 10,000 of them. "The second group of cars took the road. Kong Ming asked the 2nd Regiment to take on the task of reconnaissance.

"How can there be only 10,000 people?

"The news we received, Zheng Lao told us, saying that yesterday they specially went to Fang Neng City to send a letter saying that there were only about 8,000 enemies attacking Guan Pingkou. It is on the basis of this fact that the enemy comes. Che replied.

"That's not right, if that's the case, then they can't be so few now? 10,000 against 8,000, they can't form an absolute advantage!" Li Yao, the fourth regiment leader, said in surprise.

"Hehe, you have miscalculated, you know, 8,000 people attacking a Guan Pingkou fortress, there will be some losses, there is a way to kill a thousand enemies, self-loss of 800, not to mention that we are on the one side of the attack, the loss should be stricter, based on the calculation of 3,000 soldiers in Guan Pingkou, then we may lose more than 3,000 people, so in their image, we should lose a little more, if we add the resistance of the residents, our losses are even more severe, so now they should think that we are still in the battle with Guan Pingkou, so the slower they are, the more we lose with Guan Pingkou。 Fifth Regiment Commander Duns said.

It can be seen that ignorance of military intelligence will kill people, and when the calculation is not counted, it will also kill people. Lian Ping said.

"How many Harvey troops are there in Fang Neng City?" Kong Ming asked.

"I don't know if we don't have any information about it, so I don't think there will be too much, right?" replied.

"The intelligence thing must be accurate, if you don't know whether the intelligence is accurate or not, you must indicate it, otherwise you may miss a fighter plane, or you may fall into a crisis, so this kind of intelligence must be clarified. Kong Ming said.

"Yes! In the future, we will definitely separate this kind of information. Che Yuyan replied that this is indeed the case, in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, how many people have broken their heads for the matter of intelligence, and some people in the post and telecommunications industry have lost their heads, and this is the result of the lesson of blood. Kong Ming looked at the situation and said: " Car, find a few people to wait in the enemy's rear, change into their clothes, and when they retreat, follow them to blend in, figure out the information inside, we need to know the specific information inside, how many Harvey troops, troops, the place of the barracks, the place of the city lord's mansion, etc., everything must be known clearly, two days, we have to estimate whether we can defeat it, otherwise we will leave that place and go to other places to find fighters, and we will resolutely not fight the battle that we are not sure of. ”

"I'll arrange it. ”

"The others are back in the group, waiting for my orders to strike together. ”

This Harvey army still makes Kong Ming feel very strange, because Kong Ming has been dealing with the Harvey Army for more than a day or two, but in two years, the ferocity of it makes Kong Ming's image of it very clear, but now this army makes Kong Ming think of two words ---- rubbish. There is such a big difference between the armies of the same country, which makes Kong Ming really a little unbelievable. The Harvey Army walked on the main road, there were more than twenty kilometers in Fangneng City here, and they walked for about three hours, this speed was really too slow for these cultivators, you must know that a third-level swordsman, if he advanced at full speed, he could walk fifteen kilometers in an hour, and the normal march also had ten kilometers per hour. But now they're just slowly rocking along the way. The so-called shaking, while walking and looking left and right, they are not observing the vigilance, but constantly enjoying the scenery on the side of the road, some of their long swords are carried on their backs, some are hanging, and some are carrying, all kinds of strange, all postures. And the cavalry is even more so, some lead the horses, some the cavalry is sleeping, some let the horses graze on the side of the road, and the banner is even more exaggerated, and it is impossible to see which team belongs to which banner. When they marched, they were neatly spaced large and small, a large road where two carriages could run in parallel, some in a column of five men, some in a column of two people, or even one in a column, and this army was a mixture of cavalry and infantry, with the cavalry in front and the infantry in the rear. Seeing this situation, Kong Ming decided to change the original plan slightly, which would definitely be more conducive to the battle, so Kong Ming ordered that when the first and second regiments attacked their cavalry, the other teams attacked at the same time, instead of attacking together after the middle attack. But Kong Ming obviously didn't take into account the time for this intention to be conveyed, or because of the urgency of time, Kong Ming's intention was frustrated, and the whole battle was carried out according to Kong Ming and the others' original plan. This is the accident in the war, that is, the reason why you should not change the plan of a battle lightly in the battle, only at certain battle nodes, the plan of changing the battle will be carried out, otherwise the battle process of a qiē is almost according to the original plan, because there are not only the reasons of the commander, but also the reasons for transmission and execution, and because of the complexity of the battle, many intentions have not been fully implemented. And the more simple the army, the more important the pre-war plan.

This is an untrained army, or an army without strict training, this is Kong Ming's preliminary judgment, for such an army, Kong Ming is the most favorite to encounter, because such an army has no combat effectiveness, no matter how much, it is just a flock of sheep for Kong Ming. Although it was the first time that the mercenary army had fought this kind of battle since it was reorganized, Kong Ming had very strict requirements for the discipline and training of mercenaries before that, and even so strict that every step had to meet the standards. Although it is a new army, the soldiers in the army are experienced veterans, which is not available in many armies in the first battle, and it is also a characteristic of mercenary troops.

Seeing that most of the people of the Harvey Army had entered the ambush circle, Kong Ming raised his hand, and after the ten magicians next to Kong Ming saw it, he pointed the magic wand in his hand to the sky, and at the moment when Kong Ming's hand fell, ten small fireballs flew into the sky and exploded in the sky. The sound is not very loud, but the color is very noticeable. At this moment, all the mercenaries became excited, they watched these Harvey soldiers enter the ambush area, their hearts have been excited, and because they are afraid that these people will escape, they forcibly endure these excitement, and the smell is really uncomfortable. And seeing those small fireballs flying out is like seeing a signal of delicious food waiting to be eaten, and it quickly rushes out of the hidden place. After the magician group saw these ten fireballs, they continued to pour out those magic scrolls that had been prepared to the Harvey soldiers on the road in an instant, which is not suitable for the use of oral magic at this time, because the use of oral magic, not only is it a long time, but also the magic fluctuations caused by it are also very easy for the enemy's magicians to discover the location of the army, and the most important point is that the use of magic scrolls in battle can save mana, which makes the magician's survivability in battle can be greatly improved. Countless fireballs, flame walls, flames, ice balls, wind blades, corrosion, wood thorns, lightning and so on at the highest level of seven, and the lowest level of magic covered the front and rear of the entire Harvey army, and this sudden blow made the entire Harvey army fall into a kind of short circuit, and for a while they didn't react, what happened. His face was full of horror, the horses began to tear, and some of the recruits even fainted to the ground, and the most satisfying thing about this moment was that nearly a thousand Harvey soldiers had fallen forever, while the others were completely in a state of confusion, and this was a good time to attack. The 20,000 demon cavalry rushed out of the hidden place at once, and it seemed that the mountains were all over the place, as if they had suddenly emerged from the ground, and the spectacular scene made the trembling Harvey soldiers give an even more fatal blow.

At this time, the magic began to stretch to the back edge of the entire Harvey soldiers, the wolf roared, the magic soared into the sky, and the sound of explosions spread in all directions, and the magicians of Harvey immediately fought back with some scrolls at this moment, but they only sent a spell, and let the mercenary archers cover the whole place with a rain of arrows. A minute is just a minute, the mercenary's magic horse directly rushed into the team of the Harvey army, if it is calculated in terms of combat power, then each snow wolf in this magic horse can be regarded as a third-level swordsman, because they are all organized by the third-level snow wolf, and they are magical beasts, they can cast talent magic, the snow wolf's talent magic is the wind blade, before rushing into the Harvey soldiers, those snow wolves are covered by a wind blade, after these few times, the Harvey soldiers who can stand are only two-thirds of the original, about 6,000 people, many of them are still damaged by magic attacks, the mercenary army directly pressed into it with an overwhelming force of 40,000 to 6,000.

The place where the two soldiers handed over, began the most tragic hand-to-hand killing, only to see that in the middle of the battle, there were constantly blood stains rising into the sky, and the light of the fighting spirit was intertwined, and the archers behind the magic horse were constantly shooting arrows into the camp of the Harvey soldiers from the gap between the teams, and the magician was constantly attacking the rear of the Harvey soldiers with magic scrolls, where the enemy was most concentrated, and it was also the place where the enemy kept the most rigorously, and it also had the most powerful power of the enemy. There were more than a dozen great swordsmen and five or six mages there, and Kong Ming couldn't understand why these great swordsmen and mages didn't use them in battle to reduce the casualties of those soldiers, and use this place for defense. Maybe the great sword master is indeed rare in the army, and the magic master is like a god to let them offer, but, for mercenaries, the general mercenary group leader is a big sword master, not counting other people, because only a mercenary group led by a great sword master can survive in all kinds of dangers, otherwise don't go to those dangerous landlords, if you go, most of them will be wiped out, this is a practical combat experience that has been summed up after many generations, and the mercenary army itself is a combination of various mercenary groups, even if it is the magic horse brought by Yiyiyi, most of them are carefully selected, at least a fifth-level swordsman, and a magister has more than thirty, so this kind of combat power makes Kong Ming really have nothing to worry about in this battle. But Kong Ming's mistake caused the mercenary army to suffer more losses, because Harvey's great swordsmen and magisters are together, which can be regarded as concentrated, and if they want to capture that place, they must have twice as many troops, so that the losses of the mercenary army will be less. And at this time, there was no arrangement, the front was the world of those captains and regiment leaders, looking at the enemy in front of him, Zhao Ming muttered in his heart, not afraid that they could not be eliminated, they, but afraid that they would jump off the wall in a hurry, so that his team would lose more, thinking of this, Zhao Ming kept asking those archers around him to shoot arrows to that place, only in this way could he drag the enemy's hands and feet, otherwise, the attacks of more than ten great swordsmen and five or six magic masters would increase their losses. Soon, the three regiments next to Zhao Ming also saw the situation here, the two regiments themselves were adjacent regiments, so they secretly transferred more than 20 powerhouses at the level of the Great Sword Master from one side of the attack, and let them hide among the ordinary soldiers, showing that they were not high-level cultivation, and quietly approached, over there Zhao Ming saw several deputy captains of Wei Qian leaning over here, and they were also reverent, thought about it, and knew the reason, he whispered a few words to a few signal soldiers around him, and those few signal soldiers went separately to find the powerhouses of the Great Sword Division level to come over。 And at this time, Wei Qian's side was also like Zhao Ming's side, constantly letting the archers shoot arrows at this place, and even letting the magicians keep putting magic here. For a while, this place suddenly became the focus of attention of both sides.

Kong Ming saw that the firepower and battle here were several times that of other places, so he turned his eyes here. Several Harvey's magistors held up a semicircular shield, light blue, it can be seen that this is a water-based protective magic, but this kind of protective magic is not the same as the shield of the fighting spirit, the shield of the fighting spirit is protected at the same time, the swordsman can also release the fighting spirit with a sword or fist, and the same is true for the magician's protective shield, but this simple magic shield is different, it belongs to the type of two irrelevant ones, that is, it can neither be entered from the outside, nor can it be released from the inside, it is pure protection, unless it can be broken。 However, now I don't know if it's because the people inside are afraid of death, or if they don't want to help the soldiers who are fighting for them outside, more than a dozen great swordsmen and five or six mages actually hide in a ball like a turtle, and they actually ignore what is going on outside. The people inside nervously looked at the bloody scene outside, and one person actually said something that made Kong Ming really cry and laugh.

"Butler, what do you say they are here for? If it's a robbery, how about we give some money for them to let us go? ”

"Master, they seem to be those robbers who came from Guanpingkou yesterday, looking at them, don't they look like robbing money?" said a man who looked like a housekeeper. As he spoke, his legs were still shaking.

"Then they always have a plan, you go and tell them, as long as they let me go, whatever they want, I am willing to give. His voice trembled even more.

"General, how can you be like this, now is the time when you need to show up for the Empire, and you are disgraced by this short-heartedness. "A great sword master is righteous and righteous. As he spoke, he looked at the outside sternly, he actually knew that if there was no accident in this battle, he would definitely lose, and he just thought that if the people in the city knew about the situation outside, they should be able to send some reinforcements out to meet it, maybe there would be a chance to turn defeat into victory. It's a pity that his box of wishes is destined to fail. Because of this battle, it only ended in more than half an hour, and the end was far faster than Kong Ming imagined.

"Commander, wouldn't this be too cruel?" Yi Yiyi asked on the side, she was not the kind of person who had not seen the world, nor was she the kind of pampered person, and she had seen some people who died in battle, but she had really never seen a slaughtering battle like today, so she always felt a little uncomfortable.

"That's what the battlefield is, deputy commander, to be merciful to the enemy on the battlefield is to be cruel to your own people, you only see the side of them being slaughtered, but you don't see the other side of their slaughter. Kong Ming sighed, war must kill people, if there are no dead people, how can it be called war, it is just the hope of the literati and ink writers.

"However, if you can kill less, kill less, they are all raised by parents, and it is not easy for anyone. Yi Yiyi said.

"There is a little truth to this, signal soldiers, heralds, surrender and don't kill. ”

"Yes!"

Yi Yiyi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, in the contact, he always thought that Kong Ming was a person who was easy to kill, if this was the case, then it would undoubtedly be a torture for her to work together in the next few days.

"The commander gives the order, surrender and don't kill!"

"The commander gives the order, surrender and don't kill!"

"The commander gives the order, surrender and don't kill!"

"The commander gives the order, surrender and don't kill!"

"Surrender or kill!"

"Surrender or kill!"

"Surrender or kill!"

"Surrender or kill!"

"Surrender or kill!"

This slogan can be described as earth-shattering, as those mercenaries shouted, those Harvey soldiers who were still resisting put down their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground, and raised their hands. After the Harvey soldiers all over the mountains knelt down, there was no one to resist anymore, even the general who was protected by the magic shield gave up his defense, knelt down and surrendered, who else would resist?

The mercenaries around are cleaning up the battlefield, and those captives are scattered to guard, this is Kong Ming's order, because the Harvey army was defeated too quickly, which this Kong Ming did not expect, so the original infiltration plan was completely ineffective, and now the only way to know the details of the city is from those Harvey officers, and at this time, the mercenaries have room to play, after all, the person who licks the blood on the knife edge, where has not carried out the work of the side offering. Soon after, the situation in Fang Neng City was directly summarized into Kong Ming's hands. Looking at the information in his hand, Kong Ming slowly thought, do you want to take it down?

Fangneng City, located in the middle of the plain, surrounded by a moat, the river is thirty meters wide, only four bridges are connected to the city, the city wall is thirty meters high, built according to the standard fortress, there is a magic array on the city wall, for protection, when the Guanping mouth is attacked, it has been fully opened, and overhauled, the magic crystal in the city can support three months, this is also a standard reserve, and now it is just to take precautions, take intermittent opening, so that it can be used for a longer time, there is a magic teleportation array in the city connected to other towns. There are 100,000 square kilometers around the city, there are 300,000 residents in the city, and the Harvey army was originally 30,000, but now there are only 20,000 people, divided into four military camps in the southeast, northwest, and northwest. Most of the 20,000 Harvey troops were civilians recruited from nearby places. It has not been trained several times, but it is enough to deter civilians. The lord of the castle has no combat experience except for a few battles with the bandits, and the army has no combat experience.