Chapter 19: The Battle of Horse City (2)
The commanders of both sides saw this scene, the difference is that the expressions of the two are completely opposite, Pang Longye looked excitedly at the high dust in the distance, from which it can be vaguely seen that the city wall of Macheng has become history, although now the loss of the Chu army in the east city is still an unknown, but from the intelligence point of view, this section is the weakness of the Chu army's defense, at least more than 20,000 people are in this place, in other words, if a qiē shun lì, now it seems to be quite a shun lì, then the enemy should have killed about 20,000, plus civiliansI don't know how many people died in this first round of attacks, and I don't think there will be less than soldiers. With 300,000 against 80,000, and with the superiority of high-end troops, there is no suspense in this battle. From then on, the battle of the Harvey Empire against the Chu State was fought on the ground of the Pingchuan River. All that's left is to see how much Xavi will pay to end this fight. Compared with Pang Longye's excitement, Xiang Zuoding fell into an insurmountable fear, not for the casualties of the soldiers, not for the fall of Macheng, but for himself, at this time he sat on the ground, constantly repeating "It's over." Two words, but at this time he absolutely did not think that there had been an officer he did not trust to give him a proposal, a few officers ran out of the room, looking at Xiang Zuoding who was paralyzed on the ground, and did not know what to do, at this time their reaction was like some people who had never been trained, and their faces were full of surprise.
Kong Ming was awakened by the vibration on the ground, and when he woke up, there was still some blur in his head, and he didn't figure out what was going on at once, and muttered in his mouth: "Where did the earthquake happen?" shook his head, scratched his head with his hand, and just wanted to call the guards in to ask what happened, but saw a person shouting and rushing in, and Kong Ming's gate was still taken aside by the person. "What's the noise?" said Kongming angrily at the dark shadow. In the midst of Kong Ming's roar, the one seemed to come back to his senses, and his body was fixed, but he didn't stop and hurriedly said: "The regiment commander is finished, the regiment commander is finished!!" Hearing the guard's words, Kong Ming reacted at once, knowing that something big must have happened, otherwise it would not have made a guard so at a loss. But Kong Ming didn't panic, but said lightly: "What's over?" The guard saw Kong Ming talking like this, and immediately reacted, "Regiment Commander, the east gate is finished." The east gate is finished. ”
"What's going on?"
"That...... That ......" The guard said for a long time, but he didn't say it clearly, Kong Ming stood up and walked towards the guard, Kong Ming's action made the guard more nervous, and the words were even more urgent, but he couldn't say anything, when Kong Ming passed by the guard, he froze, and then didn't say anything just patted his shoulder lightly with his hand, and then walked over and walked out directly. The guard thought that Kong Ming was going to do something to him, because Kong Ming's two feet had already made many people believe that Kong Ming's violent style had been recognized in their hearts, but they found that nothing had happened, and their hearts couldn't help but settle down, and then said: "Regiment Commander, the east gate let the enemy give ......" Before he finished speaking, he found that Kong Ming had already walked out of the room, and hurriedly followed, saying as he walked: "Commander, the east gate let the enemy's magic blow away!" Kong Ming walked to the open space outside the house, the magic in the east has ended, but the elements of the fire system can not be dispersed at once, looking at the yellow dust mixed with the fire element in the east, Kong Ming couldn't help but let out a sigh in his heart, he knew that this was the beginning, not the end, the next days would be even more difficult, sure enough, just when the magic in the east had just ended, the magic light in the west city also began to flash. But apparently the magic power there is a notch lower than that in the east, but it will also cause a lot of trouble for the defense of the West City. Afterwards, Kong Ming found out why the enemy was divided into two attacks instead of attacking at the same time, because attacking at the same time would cause the greatest killing effect, because the enemy's troops to the west were more than a minute slower than the east to reach the intended magic attack point, but just this little more than a minute made the effect between the two worlds different. Because the mage defending Xicheng reacted, although he didn't hear any sound or see any enemies, one of the experienced mages still didn't care about casting his farthest range and most powerful magic scroll on the empty place outside Xicheng. His attack completely disrupted the deployment of the Harvey Empire in the west, not only because under his attack, the enemies in the west were completely exposed, although the people of the Harvey Empire had a silent enchantment, but those could not protect against the attacks of magic, and his magic attacks also caused a great damage to those enemies who were not prepared at all, and many enemy magicians also died because of this, including several magicians who were ready to cast magic scrolls, and at the same time, the deployment of the enemies in the west was all disrupted, because unlike the east, the magic of the Harvey army in the west was cast in a hurry, so the destruction of the west gate is far less strict than the east gate, and even the city wall is not too damaged, and the death of the soldiers is not much because of the preparation. If the attack on the east side met Pang Longye's prediction in advance, then the battle situation on the west side was completely beyond his expectations, but in any case, the outcome of this battle from the beginning was doomed because of the gap between the main generals of the two sides.
Kong Ming looked at the magic fluctuations in the west, the expected collapse of the sky and the earth did not come, but seemed to attack and defend each other, and the boulder and the sea of fire formed by the magic in the east have disappeared, leaving a piece of dust in the sky, Kong Ming knows that the enemy will definitely take the opportunity to attack at this time, this is a good time to attack, Pang Longye can't miss this opportunity, now is not the time to be stunned. In one direction, the soldiers who were standing in a daze shouted: "Bugler, immediately blow the horn of the whole regiment for an emergency assembly, hurry, immediately." ”
"Dada!!"
"Dada!!"
"Dada!!"
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Hearing Kong Ming's order, a few buglers who stood there and watched the magic in a daze finally reacted, and hurriedly took out the military horn from their arms and several people kept blowing it, and the sound spread far away, not far away, after those battalions and companies heard it, they also began to blow the company's special horn sound, but after a while, the entire station of the three regiments sounded the emergency assembly horn, and all of a sudden all the people moved, and under the influence of the three regiments, several other cavalry regiments also began to sound the sound of emergency assembly. The whole regiment was in chaos, and the cavalrymen were constantly putting on their armor and looking for their own spears and horses. Commanders at all levels continued to push their troops, and after more than 30 minutes, the entire cavalry regiment was finally assembled. Kong Ming looked at these gathered soldiers, still sorting out their equipment, the sound of killing in the distance kept coming, and the continuous collision of magic and fighting spirit dazzled the entire eastern sky very beautifully, which was the last bloom of many people's lives. The sky gradually brightened in the midst of the dazzle, and at this moment, the light of the earth and the darkness between the defenders of Macheng were connected in this way.
Kong Ming led the troops into an impact column, lined up in the middle of a road about thirty meters wide, and gave way to a passage that could lead to three or four people, quietly looking into the distance, the Harvey army that was constantly impacting the Chu army's stragglers, couldn't help but have a trace of killing intent in his heart, and there were constantly stragglers from the center of Kong Ming's team, and Kong Ming could see a kind of fear and loss in their eyes. An hour has passed, and the Harvey army still hasn't attacked here, and Kong Ming hasn't received any orders, it stands to reason that there should have been an order down a long time ago, at least let the troops know what to do, but Kong Ming sent no less than ten groups of signal troops, and there is still no news at all, Kong Ming can't help but have a bad premonition in his heart, why is this happening? At this moment, there was a "report-!!" Coming from behind Kong Ming, Kong Ming looked back and saw two signal soldiers galloping on horseback, although they were still far away, Kong Ming still saw a trace of something bad on their faces. When they came to Kong Ming's eyes to report, Kong Ming knew what was wrong.
"Report to the regiment commander, the people at the division headquarters don't know where they are going, they don't say where they went, and it is also a mess over there, it is said that the division commander led the division directly under the team to the first regiment, but when we arrived at the first regiment, the people of the first regiment are said to have moved towards the south gate. And ......" The signal soldier paused, and then stopped.
"What else?" asked Kuming.
"Uh-huh......!"
"Say it quickly!" Kong Ming asked again in a deep voice.
"Also, those who still haven't had time to leave the division headquarters said that it seems that General Xiang fainted when the enemy was attacking the city, and was sent back to the capital by the Weihou Tongguò teleportation array, and several army commanders and division commanders followed, and now there is no one in the whole city to command anymore. ”
"Hmph, rumor, how can the commander of a team leave his team? Kong Ming reprimanded. Regardless of whether there is such a phenomenon or not, but now is not the time to make irresponsible remarks, otherwise the morale of the soldiers may collapse at any time, and then everyone will really fall into a situation from which they will never recover, and the gains will outweigh the losses. What Kong Ming didn't know was that what the signal soldier said was a half-truth, it was really Xiang Zuoding who really went back to Chudu through the guò teleportation array, and what was false was that there were still many commanders like Kong Ming who were waiting for instructions from their superiors without a command. And Xiang Zuoding actually asked the enemy's spies to take them away from the teleportation array while he hadn't replied, half-persuading and half-pulling, of course, he himself wanted to escape this inevitable battle, and he was accompanied by several military commanders, sword masters, and holy demon masters. This is what Kong Ming didn't expect, Kong Ming never thought that although this battle was a must-lose, it was actually lost from his own top. After waiting for another ten minutes, the signal soldiers sent by Kong Ming came back with three groups, and the news brought back was much the same, the enemy was in front of the enemy, and Xicheng was still fighting against the enemy, and was entering the stage of stalemate, and was retreating towards the south gate, the establishment was being disrupted, and the defenders of the south gate and the north gate were retreating outward, it was said that this was Xiang Zuoding's last order before leaving, but for various reasons, it was not conveyed to some grassroots teams like Kong Ming, and this order was passed on by many people, and when it came to Kong Ming, it became a retreat, giving up Macheng, no matter what method, return to Chu State, and then recruit。 This order that made Kong Ming cry and laugh was still conveyed in a way that was close to a rumor, it can be seen what the chaos is now, Kong Ming knows that this order must have been passed down, but it has not been passed to the front, if you don't leave now, then once the army in front collapses backwards, it will be too late to leave, and judging from the current situation, this order is nine times out of ten correct, not the enemy's rumors, after thinking about it, Kong Ming sent an order to the army behind him:" All the teams changed into teams, in the order of the first battalion, the second battalion, and the third battalion, and moved towards the north gate, follow me. After the pass, Kong Ming took the lead and galloped towards the north gate, and the team behind followed.