Chapter 431: Soldiers Coming to the City
For a long time, Wang Cheng's battles have been mostly raids and blitzkriegs, and the men and horses he led are not very many, hundreds or thousands, and the most recent one is only 30,000 troops.
At seven o'clock in the morning, when more than 80,000 people and horses all gathered in the open space in the west of Anping County, Wang Cheng was suddenly full of pride, and his childhood dream came true.
In fact, when he was very young, he had a dream of being a general, and even boasted in front of his father that he would one day be a general.
Instead of fighting him, his father encouraged him, because his father also had a dream of being a general.
However, dreams are dreams after all, and in the end, they are basically shattered by the cold reality.
My father served in the army for more than ten years, but in the end he was still a soldier, and finally, like most soldiers, he retired from the army and went home, and then started from scratch.
Fortunately, my father worked in a cooking class, learned some crafts, and with the country's preferential treatment of veterans, he opened a restaurant, and the business was quite prosperous, enough for the whole family to eat and drink.
But Wang Cheng knew that his father was unwilling, as can be seen from his father's teaching him military physical boxing and some other military skills, so when he filled in the college entrance examination, he directly applied for a military school.
He will never forget his father's expression after learning the news that he had been admitted to the military academy, his eyes were red, and he was so excited that even his voice changed.
It was also from that moment that he slowly realized that all fathers in the world are almost the same, and their unrealized dreams will be pinned on their children, who are not only the continuation of their bloodline, but also the sustenance of their spirit.
Wang Cheng stood on the platform, looked up at the air, and whispered to himself: "Dad, Mom, have you seen it?" I have really become a general, and I hope you will bless me in that world and bless me with a great victory! ”
He silently closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them again, his gaze became extremely determined.
He looked at the soldiers in the audience, and the more than 80,000 soldiers in the audience were also looking at him.
In addition to the Lingzhou Army and the Imperial Forest Army, these more than 80,000 soldiers were transferred from the counties of Yicheng County, as well as some soldiers who surrendered.
It can be said that most of the soldiers and horses in Lingzhou are in his hands, which can be described as the general trend.
However, he still did not dare to be sloppy in the slightest, because the opponent he faced was Ning Hou, a hussar general who made the soldiers of all countries fearful.
Therefore, he wants to use all his troops and horses to pay the highest respect to this opponent, the great enemy of life and death, that is, to break all his illusions and send him back to the West!
Then he began his pre-war mobilization, and once he made an impassioned statement, it finally turned into two words: "Victory!" ”
"Victory!!"
"Victory!!"
……
Wang Cheng shouted "go out", and more than 80,000 troops began to march.
The cavalry was at the front, dragging ten behemoths behind the cavalry, which were catapults, followed by crossbowmen, heavy shieldmen, pikemen, and other troops.
The army of more than 80,000 people is like a giant beast in the wilderness, with extremely strong oppressive force, and the dust is flying everywhere it passes, the insects and birds are scattered, and everything retreats.
Wang Cheng put on a brand-new Rukai, sat on Qinglei's back, and after a night of rest, his state was adjusted to the peak.
Next to him are the veteran general Gu Yanzhang, the Lingzhou general Fu Yi, and the captain of the Imperial Forest Military Academy Wu Feilong.
Wang Cheng began to arrange the task, and first said to Wu Feilong: "Feilong, you choose some good players from the Royal Forest Army, and it is best to have eyesight, one step ahead of the army, go to the front to investigate, and open the way for the army." ”
"Yes!"
Wu Feilong took over the task and rode his horse to the front of the army, which was where the cavalry was located.
Wang Cheng said to Fu Yi again: "General Fu, the soldiers of the Tiger Hill Battalion are all trained by you, you are most familiar with them, how about your current army in this decisive battle?" ”
When Fu Yi heard this, he was shocked, he knew very well what such an arrangement meant.
The risk is naturally great, and it can even be said to be dangerous, but it is also the most likely to make a big difference.
Obviously, Wang Cheng is ready to hand over the first work to him. Once he makes great contributions, with these merits, it is enough to offset his great sin of defecting to Ning Hou.
"The last general dares to die without service?"
Fu Yi solemnly saluted Wang Cheng, and then excitedly drove his horse away.
arranged two people in a row, and Wang Cheng didn't say more.
Gu Yanzhang on the side was a little unhappy, and said angrily: "Fu Yi and that Wu family kid have tasks, why did Wu Anhou forget the old man alone?" ”
Wang Cheng hurriedly explained: "How dare Wang Cheng treat the old general slowly? Wang Cheng has never commanded so many soldiers and horses, and the Chinese army has to be personally commanded by the old general, so the matter of killing on the battlefield is still left to Wang Cheng. ”
"Wu Anhou is too modest."
Gu Yanzhang naturally didn't really take this to heart, and said: "Actually, many big battles don't use so many soldiers and horses, and those who can use a small number of soldiers and horses for strategic purposes are the ones who can really use soldiers, and Wu Anhou is a real soldier who knows soldiers." ”
Wang Cheng naturally knows this statement, and he has been practicing it.
He is a person who has been trained in modern warfare and knows very well the truth of "elite soldiers and strong generals." If there are too many soldiers and horses, the base will be large, and in many cases, the casualties will also increase.
In addition, there are two bad effects, one is that the military expenditure is large and the burden is heavy, and the other is that in places where information transmission is not developed, large corps operations will delay fighters because of the lag in information.
The army has been moving forward, from Anping County to Tiandufu City is only a hundred and ten miles away, and it can be reached in half a day if you march quickly.
At noon, Wang Cheng ordered the army to stop and repair, make a fire and cook, so that all the brothers could fill their stomachs.
Just as he was on his patrol, Wu Feilong hurried over on a fast horse.
Seeing his solemn face, Wang Cheng immediately realized that something must have happened, and hurriedly asked him to speak.
"My lord, in the morning I sent two teams of fast horsemen to investigate the situation in the west first, and none of them have returned so far." Wu Feilong said.
"Did you send someone to check?" Wang Cheng asked.
Wu Feilong nodded and said, "An hour ago, another team of men and horses was sent, there were two martial artists in the team, and the rest were Qi and Blood Realm warriors, but they haven't come back until now." ”
Wang Cheng groaned: "You mean, they have met the masters of Ninghou Mansion?" ”
"As it should be." Wu Feilong nodded.
Seeing that Wang Cheng lowered his eyebrows and was silent, he then asked, "My lord, do we want to continue to send people to investigate?" ”
Wang Cheng thought for a moment, invited Gu Yanzhang over, and told him the specific situation.
"I sent three teams of people before and after, one hundred and fifty people, and four martial artists, even if they meet Wu Zong, there is a great chance of escaping, and the old man thinks that they are more likely to be ambushed." Gu Yanzhang speculated.
"The old general has a point."
Wang Cheng nodded, he thought for a moment, and said: "Since there is an ambush ahead, we can't rush into the army anymore, so we just set up camp near here, which will trouble the old general." ”
Gu Yanzhang nodded and did not excuse himself.
Wang Cheng then left here with Wu Feilong, and then ordered 3,000 cavalry and headed west.
Everyone ran all the way for twenty or thirty miles, and suddenly, Wang Cheng stopped everyone.
"My lord, why did you stop?" Wu Feilong was puzzled.
Wang Cheng looked up at the sky and said meaningfully: "The sun is gone." ”
"The sun is gone?"
Wu Feilong was confused when he heard it, is the sun missing a major situation?
"Don't you think it's strange that we could see the sun all the way when we came, and now it's suddenly gone?" Wang Cheng said.
Wu Feilong still didn't understand, and tried to ask: "What do you mean, the disappearance of those three teams of centaurs has something to do with the disappearance of the sun?" ”
"So to speak."
Wang Cheng didn't sell it anymore, and said, "We should have broken into a certain prohibition." ”
"Forbidden?"
Wu Feilong naturally knew, after all, he still had a Dao access control device in his hand.
However, he also knew that it was too demanding to place a prohibition, and even if a great monk of the Out-of-Body Realm wanted to impose a prohibition, it would have to cost a lot of money.
Besides, the scope of this prohibition was so great that they didn't even know when they had broken in.
"Who would have given such a widespread ban? Could it be that he is a powerhouse of the Divine Journey Realm? Wu Feilong said.
Wang Cheng said in a deep voice: "Yin Tong old man. ”
"It's him!" Wu Feilong was taken aback.
He naturally heard the name of the old man Yin Tong, and he had heard of it before Wang Cheng mentioned it to him.
The old man of Yin Tong is the head of the Three Corpses Sect, and the Three Corpses Sect has been inherited for nearly a thousand years, and many powerhouses of the Fugue Realm have come out of it.
Thinking that it was the prohibition laid by this person, Wu Feilong suddenly grinned at the corners of his mouth and took out a magic bell from his arms.
Wang Cheng saw this Dharma bell and said, "This is the Dao access control device you said?" ”
Wu Feilong nodded, put the magic bell to his mouth and whispered a few words, and then threw it into the air.
"Whoa!!"
The Dharma bell turned into a golden light, and in the blink of an eye, it came to the air dozens of meters high.
The next moment, the fist-sized magic bell bloomed with golden light, like a round of sun.
What had looked like a mist had been shrouded in fog suddenly brightened up, and the sky suddenly cleared.
I saw that there was a jade coffin in the air at a height of several hundred meters, and it was the mortuary coffin.
Others may not be able to see clearly, but Wang Cheng has "clairvoyance" and can see it clearly.
However, before he could make a move, the mortuary coffin turned into a streamer of light and disappeared in an instant.
"I escaped pretty fast!" Wang Cheng sneered.
The old man is getting better and better now, he used to chase him desperately and swear not to give up if he doesn't kill him, but now it's completely the opposite.
As the old man left with the morgue, the prohibition he had laid down naturally dissipated.
The sun that had been obscured by the ban reappeared, and everything around it was clear.
At this moment, Wu Feilong, who was on the side, pointed in one direction and said, "My lord, look! ”
Wang Cheng looked for prestige, and a hundred and ten meters in front of him, there was a corpse lying there.
"Let's go! Check it out! ”
Wang Cheng immediately rode his horse and hurried over, and Wu Feilong on the side also rode a horse to follow.
When they came to these corpses, their faces suddenly became extremely ugly.
These corpses were no more than one hundred and fifty, and the armor they wore was also the Mingguang armor made by the Imperial Forest Army.
To the infuriation of the two, these corpses had become dried corpses, and the qi and blood seemed to have been sucked clean by the vampires.
"It must have been the dog dwarf who did it! It is said that his morgue coffin can refine a large living person into a zombie, relying on refining people's qi and blood. Wu Feilong gritted his teeth and said.
After Wang Cheng heard this, he suddenly felt a chill in his back.
He could completely imagine what kind of torture these one hundred and fifty Imperial Forest soldiers had endured, and the qi and blood around them were forcibly stripped away, and that kind of pain was definitely not something that people could bear.
"This dog dwarf is really ruthless! This time I attacked Tiandu Mansion, and I must have slaughtered him if I had an opportunity! Wu Feilong was furious.
"Not bad!"
Wang Cheng nodded solemnly and said, "The new hatred and the old hatred are counted together, and he must not escape alive!" ”
If you want to say who among the people present hates the old man the most, it must be him.
The more than 1,000 lives in Mixi Town were taken away by this person, and if he really counted them, he wanted to kill the old man Yintong, even more than Ning Hou.
"Leave fifty brothers to collect the bodies of these Royal Forest Brothers, and let's continue on our way."
Leaving these words, Wang Cheng quickly turned on his horse and went straight to the west.
After seeing one hundred and fifty Royal Forest soldiers killed, he couldn't wait any longer, and now he was going to kill Tiandu City.
After more than an hour, Tiandu City finally appeared in everyone's sight.
The whole city covers an extremely wide area, more than ten miles long and wide, and it is boxy like a giant beast crawling on the ground.
The city was full of defenders, from the northernmost to the southernmost side, all of them in strong and stubborn formations.
In the concave and convex part of the parapet wall, that is, the arrow stack, there is a large bed crossbow, which is the iron arm crossbow.
Wang Cheng and the others stopped a few hundred meters outside the city, and did not continue to approach the capital city, because if they went any further, they would enter the effective killing range of the Iron Arm Divine Crossbow.
However, from such a distance, Wang Cheng still saw the situation in the city very clearly.
He saw the old man Yin Tong standing on the city tower, saw the Suzaku guardian Crane Yiming, saw General Zhu who abandoned the city and fled, and also saw Pan Meng in a red dress.
Of course, there are other acquaintances in the city, Tang Cheng, Huang Meiren, Zhang Wentao, Hu Yan and other Xuanwei captains are all among them.
Wang Cheng grabbed the reins and said suddenly: "You stay here first, don't move around at will, I'll take a look." ”
"Your Excellency!"
Wu Feilong stretched out his hand to stop him, but when the words came to his lips, he changed his words again: "Be careful, adults! ”
Wang Cheng nodded, and then rode his horse to the city.
As soon as the crane in the city saw Wang Cheng coming, he hurriedly reminded Pan Meng: "Madam, he's here!" ”
"He's coming!"
Pan Meng's delicate face suddenly showed a complicated look, there was nostalgia, remorse, and struggle, but in the end, it all turned into deep resentment.
As soon as she raised her jade hand, she waved it down and said, "Release the arrow!" ”
The next moment, a large number of crossbow arrows shot towards Wang Cheng.
Wang Cheng picked up the tiger head Zhan golden gun and knocked the oncoming crossbow arrows away one by one.
After the telekinetic cultivation broke through the out-of-body realm, the crossbow arrow entered within two hundred meters, and the trajectory was already completely mastered by him, and it was difficult to attack him again.
However, he didn't go deeper, because the closer he was, the more powerful and fast the Iron Arm Divine Crossbow became, and if there was that kind of "Floor Washing" type attack, he couldn't block it.
"Tomorrow, the city of Tiandu Mansion will be broken!"