Chapter 40: The Second Confrontation of Old Enemies
The fire continued to burn towards the city, Kong Ming continued to observe the city's reaction, and the people next to Kong Ming also felt the extraordinariness of this city, and did not discuss the things in it as before, but continued to observe like Kong Ming. On the other side of the fire, Alexander was also observing the fire.
"General, shall we send some men over to extinguish the fire, or the whole city will perish once the fire is completely burned. One of the staff officers asked.
"No, if they can't avoid even such a trivial matter, how can they win the next war? The city is destroyed, we can build it again, but once we miss this battle, then it will be difficult to catch Kong Mingke. Alexander said.
"I never thought that the person who was drinking with us at that time was so powerful, and I knew that this was the case, and when I killed him with a sword, there was nothing to do. A general next to him said. He also drank wine with Alexander in the imperial capital with Kong Ming, and it seems that he had hooked shoulders with Kong Ming, the brothers screamed one by one, and the wine was also drunk one by one, and all the oaths had been said, so it was almost a matter of worship, but in a blink of an eye, they were directly on the battlefield.
"Hmph, it's not that some people want to be crazy about war exploits, so they have to ask him to come out and be the leader of a mercenary, and then kill him on the battlefield to make a name for themselves. Another general next to him said. In fact, the matter of Kong Ming, after Kong Ming escaped the siege of the three princes, it was completely spread in the imperial capital, and even his staff member Sun Zhixing was very vivid and vivid in how he was entangled in a hundred battles and asked Kong Ming to be the commander of a mercenary army, and at the beginning of this matter, the emperor also praised the wisdom of the three princes, and they could eliminate those disturbing mercenaries in a way they didn't know, why not do this? But as Kong Ming's achievements became more and more brilliant, they all walked up on the corpses of the soldiers of the Harvey Empire. even opened the door of the entire Harvey Empire, and all of a sudden, the shape of the Harvey Empire turned sharply, especially after the 300,000 Harvey elites were stunned and let Kong Ming grind it out, the entire imperial capital was shocked, you must know that this is the biggest loss that the Harvey Empire has suffered in decades, all the controversy is directed at the three princes, and at those who have such bad ideas, and the emperor's tone is also sharply down, scolding the three princes. It's not good to choose someone to be this commander, but to choose a person who is teaching in the imperial capital to do this job, now it is equivalent to letting the tiger return to the mountain, and it is not an ordinary tiger, and the entire northern part of the Harvey Empire will be in trouble. And the third prince, who is the main person, is also because of this incident. He was summoned back to the imperial capital as soon as possible, and he went directly through the Guò Magic Teleportation Array. Can't stop at all. Everyone knows that if nothing changes, his right to inherit the throne has already been deprived of it in disguise.
"Hehe, of course, I just think that there will be no harm in knowing each other after a fight in the Chu State, and I didn't expect to meet on the battlefield. It can be seen that people's circumstances are really impermanent. Alexander said on the side, in fact, this is not necessarily an opportunity for him, you must know that as a nephew of an emperor, many times he will be suspicious of other princes. And he is even more so, this time if it weren't for the fact that those generals couldn't be separated, this commander wouldn't necessarily fall on him.
The Harvey army in the midst of the fire is now under the leadership of various squad leaders to dig holes in the ground of the house with fighting spirit and then drill into it to survive, it can be said that human wisdom is really infinite. That is to say, it didn't take long for an underground city to be formed in the entire city of fire, and of course, there were also people who dug sewage outlets or water pipes because they were in a panic, making the entire tunnel wet. But even so, from the outside, it looks like there is no one in the city.
Kong Ming's eyes were full of Yan Sù, the intelligence a few days ago showed that Liaocheng was a city that could only enter but not exit, and now no one appeared, this kind of thing would be reminiscent of where it was placed, all the mercenaries felt different, not because they opened the defense of Liaocheng, but because after opening it, they found that there was no one inside. Shaking his head, he said, "It seems that we have met a master." ”
"What master?" asked Che Yu.
"A very interesting man, I think we should know how many enemies there are in it by now. Kong Ming said.
"How much?"
"It should be similar to us, they don't dare to confront us head-on, which means that this is an army with no cooperation, I think it should be a patchwork, but unfortunately, I don't know who their commander is, if you know, you can't judge it through some things!" Kong Ming sighed, of course he didn't know that the person opposite him was the guy who had drunk together, and even if he knew, he couldn't guess something, because after all, they were just a few drinks at the wine table, and they weren't the kind of people who were often together, but because Alexander deliberately observed Kong Ming during that time, plus Harvey's intelligence, he knew a little more about him, but because of course Kong Ming's identity was a magic teacher, he almost didn't reveal anything about the military aspect.
"Ordered Teng Qinglong to send a regiment to conduct fire reconnaissance from the other direction by means of one touch and go. After Kong Ming finished the order, he looked at the battlefield again, and did not enter much, and one of Teng Qinglong's regiments also began fire reconnaissance, only to see that they were like the previous regiment, slowly approaching Liaocheng in the other direction, and then repeating the same action again, when a qiē was completed, another turned around and returned to the main force, and at this time another regiment also began a new round of fire reconnaissance. More than an hour passed in a blink of an eye, and the mercenary army carried out four rounds of fire reconnaissance, and half of Liaocheng was caught in the sea of fire, Kong Ming was waiting for the reaction of the Harvey army, and on the other side, Alexander was also waiting, and then watching Kong Ming's reaction, so both sides fell into a strange cycle, the mercenaries on the one hand, constantly sending troops to test, and the Harvey army on the other side was also waiting, waiting for the mercenary army to enter Liaocheng, so that the cavalry of the mercenary army was limited to the minimum power. The breaking point often lies in which of the two sides is more insistent.
Kong Ming looked at Liaocheng, which was already half a sea of fire, and said to Che Yi: "Send the Aerial Demon Rider to reconnoiter the direction around us. If there is any situation, it must be reported. ”
The magic horses in the air flew into the sky, and more than a dozen magic horses were observing the sky above the entire battlefield. After all, Kong Ming wanted to see the reaction of those Harvey. Alexander, on the other side, finally exhaled. Don't be afraid of no reaction, as long as there is a reaction, you can find out their weaknesses and fight back. Another half an hour passed, and half of the walls of Liaocheng were demolished by the mercenary army, and half of Liaocheng was also caught in flames, but the Harvey army still did not react at all. Kong Ming shook his head, thinking that the commander of the Harvey Army was really ruthless, and he insisted on asking a Liaocheng to be buried for a battle, but it was not the same thing to look at it like this. And now Kong Ming doesn't know where his forces are, how they are distributed, and what their intentions are, although he knows that they are in it, but he hasn't figured out their configuration for a moment. For a moment, Kong Ming would not throw an army of 100,000 into this.
"Where the hell are their people hiding?" Kong Ming muttered as he spoke.
"It can't be underground, is it?" said Yiyi.
This sentence really lit up in Kong Ming's eyes, maybe sometimes when thinking about problems, he always thinks about the place he is used to. Instead, they ignore some of the most mundane things. And Yi Yiyi's words made Kong Ming's eyes light up suddenly, and he thought about it and said, "Let Wen Yue come over for a while." ”
A few minutes later, Magician Master Wen Yue came to Kong Ming's face, "Commander, what are your instructions?"
"Can earth magic collapse the underground caverns?" asked Kong Ming, even though Kong Ming was also a magician. But after all, he is not an earthly magician, and he is not very clear about many of them. And Wen Yue, as a magician master, still knows a lot about general magic.
"The 'Earth Shaking Mountain Shake', which is one of the earth magic above the third level, can attack a large area from the surface to about three meters below, and the damage to the terrain is relatively strict after that. Of course, because this magic is relatively out of the way, it has a certain attack power on the buildings on the surface, and it does not have much effect on the people standing on the surface, so if necessary, only the magician himself will take action, because the magic scroll in this area is not prepared. Wen Yue replied.
"How long does it take to cast a sixth-level spell like this?"
"Thirty seconds, of course, you can cast it while moving. ”
"You prepare fifty earth mages above level 5 to follow the next round of demon cavalry forward for fire reconnaissance. ”
Thirty minutes later, fifty earth mages above level 5 followed the new round of demon cavalry group towards Liaocheng. Kong Ming looked at it lightly, and let those people who were flying magic horses and magic mirrors also carefully observe Liaocheng in a sea of fire. This time, in order not to be surprised, the Demon Cavalry still maintained the same offensive rhythm without any offside.
Fifty magicians cast the 'earth shaking' shook a large area of land, for a while, in the scope of magic unprepared Harvey army and civilians are a large number of death, there are a small number of great swordsman level powerhouses can resist the attack of this magic alone, and because of human instinct, there are constantly great swordsmen rushing out of the surface from the ground, rising upward, this is completely a person's survival instinct, but their instinct completely shows Alexander's deployment in front of the snow wolf mercenaries. And the moment they crossed the surface, more than a dozen arrows were aimed at a person, and they were shot at them, and among them were also mixed with the attack of the great archer. After this round, the seventh-level powerhouse who came out was also completely dead, and now Kong Ming finally knew the intention of the Harvey Army, which was to lure the mercenary army into Liaocheng, and then use the familiarity of the terrain to attack the mercenary army, so that the magic horses of the mercenary army could not play their due effect. So Kong Ming started a new countermeasure, which was to attack directly with the magic surface, and mostly use the magic of 'shaking the earth and shaking the mountains'.
When the 'earth shakes the mountains' appeared, Alexander thoroughly understood that Kong Ming would not attack if he did not find out clearly, and now that they had figured out the intentions of the Harvey army, the remaining battle attempts were already impossible to achieve, so now only by entangling the snow wolf mercenary army and making the mercenary army suffer a greater blow with a fearless attack, will not let this arrangement fall into passivity. So all of a sudden all the Harvey troops ran out of the room and began to counterattack in a certain order, apparently, they had already arranged their countermeasures. And for a while. Kong Ming also got a more accurate figure of the Harvey army, about 100,000 people. The enemy is not terrible, what is terrible is the unknown enemy, and once they appear in front of them, then they will lose their greatest advantage, which is concealment.
In order to give full play to the power of the demon cavalry, Kong Ming did not let these mercenaries directly attack the Harvey army, although he knew the specific number of them, but you must know that he was facing a commander who was mainly stable, if the mercenaries were a passion. Even if they win the current battle, the ensuing battle won't make them much better, after all, they are dealing with the entire Harvey Empire with one team. The principle of saving troops must be implemented from beginning to end, otherwise there will be so many mercenaries there who will fight with an empire, and the mercenaries of fire reconnaissance will complete their tasks and return to their own team. The entire contingent of mercenaries began to press forward and stopped a hundred meters from the city walls. Now they are not facing the city walls. Rather, it is a blank area about a thousand meters behind the city wall, which is the effect of fire reconnaissance, and in the absence of the enemy's reaction, constantly challenging the enemy's bottom line, and when the enemy is exposed, the losses they have suffered are obviously irreparable. At this time, Che Yi came to Kong Ming from behind and said, "There are a total of sixty seventh-level powerhouses killed just now, and based on the enemy's establishment, then there should be more than 6,000 people buried on the ground just now. And the reconnaissance of the sky preliminarily judged that the enemy should be about 100,000. And the magic disk showed that the center of the enemy seemed to focus on more than a thousand seventh-level powerhouses, and their saints were about five people. ”
Once the hole cards are exposed, they are not hole cards, and once they appear in the empty mind, there will be a certain number, it seems that today is a fierce battle inevitable. At this time, a situation that was unimaginable to Kong Ming appeared, and the commander of the other party actually invited Kong Ming to talk in front of the array.
"What kind of medicine are they selling?" said Yi Yiyi. Pre-array dialogue is a popular way in this era, and one of its main functions is to let the two sides know each other, and an incidental function is to show the so-called aristocratic temperament. Of course, now it's more about emphasizing its incidental functions, and the main function is to make them subconsciously forget about it.
"Hehe, then we'll see. Kong Ming smiled, and then led a few guards to the center of the team, and the fire on the opposite side had been extinguished by magic, and out of the smoke came a person who surprised Kong Ming.
"Haha, Master Kongming, it seems that we are still destined, I can't imagine that we can meet in this kind of place! It's really a place where you don't meet!" Alexander smiled, although he suffered a loss under Kongming's hands, but as a commander, he still has some responsibilities.
"Oh! It turned out to be the commander of the guard division, I haven't seen you for a long time, I didn't expect you and I to want to see each other in this kind of place, it's really emotional, I haven't thanked you for a glass of wine last time, and this time I still want to thank you for your hospitality at that time in this situation. Kong Ming didn't expect that the person who came would be Alexander, the two didn't have many opportunities to deal with each other, at most they had a hand-to-hand deal, drank once, and then broke up, where did they think that they would meet each other on the battlefield, but now depending on the situation, the other party should be waiting for him here, of course, the so-called friendship is forgotten.
"I don't need to thank you, I think I still want to thank Commander Kong Ming, if it weren't for your credit, I think I'm still in the imperial capital to invite you to drink, why bother making everyone sword to sword, soldier to soldier, even to say a word to let the magic amplify, it's really inconvenient." Alexander said.
"There'......s no way, I don't want to, but your three princes sent a Sun Zhixing to me all day long, and kept lobbying, that is, the gods want him to say that he is dead, and the dead are alive, what can I do? Kong Ming was very indignant when he mentioned this matter, and the sound of scolding was endless, and both sides were surprised for a while, especially on the side of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army, who was usually used to seeing Kong Ming's calm face, and at this time, Kong Ming was eager to ask for human blood and cut human flesh and felt very novel, and Kong Ming didn't know that his positive image in the hearts of those mercenaries fell down all of a sudden, and another amiable and pro-people appearance was erected. Alexander couldn't say anything when he heard Kong Ming's angry words, his original intention was to set up a friendship, and then see if he could let Kong Ming and them retreat without blood, thinking that if he further tricked Kong Ming into the imperial capital, it would be more complete. Although he knew that this was simply impossible, people could not resist the temptation, not to mention that this young man who was only twenty-one years old could lift him up to the sky in a few words, and then trample him to the ground. But thinking that Kong Ming's anger towards the three princes was so heavy, it was simply an endless stream of surging rivers, and the big waves were wave after wave, and I didn't know how the three princes offended Kong Ming, which made Kong Ming have such a big indignation, and what made people even more speechless. Both sides have some curious magicians who are extremely strict with their curiosity and secretly use magic to record this scene, wanting to show off in front of people, this kind of unintentional move also let everyone know about it with Kong Ming's growing reputation on the mainland, so that Kong Ming later saw that he was a little speechless at that time.
"Does this man have such a great hatred for the Third Prince?" said one of the generals beside Alexander.
"His hatred is so deep, this is murderous hatred. Where are those people saying that they just sold him once, I think he has been sold more than a dozen times. Alexander muttered as well.
“…… Forget it, talk about it so much. It's just a waste of saliva. Attack!" Kong Ming suddenly said something after talking for more than half an hour, which suddenly made the people on both sides a little uncomfortable, but after all, the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army was a person who had been with Kong Ming for a long time, and Kong Ming also made a small gesture towards the car when he was scolding, that is, to let the magician prepare to attack, and at this time, the few people who secretly recorded were directly ignored. The other magicians immediately prepared their magic, and when Kong Ming gave the order to attack, all the mercenaries moved and moved forward. For more than ten seconds, in the stunned eyes of the Harvey army, he rushed over, and as soon as he reached the range of magic attack, he directly released a continuous stream of magic, killing and wounding a lot of unsuspecting Harvey soldiers who were standing in front of him and listening to the scolding, and it was only at this time that Alexander reacted. What he didn't expect was that Kong Ming would arrange a qiē at such a time, and kill it directly without any previous words, and as soon as he came, dozens of pieces of magic were released without interruption, so that their Harvey army suffered heavy losses at once, and it can be said that at this time, they have lost their first move. It's too late to organize a real counterattack, and you know, the story isn't for nothing. Now Alexander really wants to slap himself, why do you have to engage in some pre-battle dialogue? The dialogue is just that, and what do you mention about the three princes, it seems that he has not mentioned the matter of the three princes, or Kong Ming took the initiative to mention it, and if he still doesn't know that he has been fooled, then it is not Alexander. But he reacted immediately and immediately ordered a free attack.
Battles were fought in every part of the city, and after being stunned for a moment, after the destruction of the Harvey army in front, a new line of defense was formed again not far behind, and the two sides began to fight over this place, and for a moment, the light and sound of magic and fighting energy flooded the entire city. Especially in every house occupied by the Harvey Army, after repeated battles, the blood of the soldiers truly stained every piece of land. And because of the passivity of Alexander's front command, plus each mercenary plus a snow wolf can be regarded as the combat effectiveness of two people, the mercenary army's side can be said to be more than 200,000 combat effectiveness, and the Harvey army has been greatly behind the mercenary army after two defeats, so this battle is just a stalemate for an hour, and the Harvey army retreated like a mountain, and Alexander and others, as the commander, left Liaocheng through the magic teleportation array in the first time.
Three hours later, the battle was over, the 100,000 Harvey army annihilated 50,000, the remaining 50,000 surrendered without anyone's command, and the entire Liaocheng also destroyed half of the battle between the two armies, and countless civilian deaths. On the mercenary side, more than 10,000 people were killed and more than 20,000 were wounded, mainly when the two armies first came into contact, with the most casualties. Fortunately, Kong Ming let the special column follow from the beginning, and he could make up for it as he fought to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the main force was not lost.
Walking on the road of Liaocheng, Kong Ming saw the civilians wandering around the house on both sides, a kind of confusion flashed in their eyes, they had heard the nobles of Harvey say before, the mercenary army is a group of inhumane guys, once they occupy Liaocheng, they will inevitably be ruthlessly cleansed, and now they are waiting for the fate that will fall, but they feel powerless to resist. At this time, a five-year-old girl ran towards Kong Ming from a woman's arms, and the guards next to her were about to stop her, but Kong Ming stopped them and let the child get closer, Kong Ming picked her up, and the adults over there couldn't help but tighten their hearts when they looked at her, the woman wanted to run over, but let a man next to her hug her tightly, and one hand tightly clung to her mouth, for fear that she would say some unfavorable words.
"Uncle, are you going to slaughter the city and kill all of us?" asked the little girl innocently. Her face, which resembled that of her parents, turned white at once, and she fell weakly, and when the struggling woman heard this, she suddenly gave up her resistance as if the sky had stepped down, and her whole body fell limply.
"Who sued you?" asked Yi Yi strangely.
"The lord of the city said!" replied the little girl innocently.
"Haha!" Kong Ming and all the mercenaries laughed, and this laughter made the civilians who heard it stunned, not knowing what they meant.
"It's our fault, well, the car will immediately put up the notice of Anmin all over the city. Okay, little guy, we are mercenaries, not murderers, not murderers, we only kill those nobles, we will not kill other people at will, and you don't care about these nobles, those people are our key targets, of course they will speak ill of us!haha!" Kongming's words obviously relaxed the surrounding civilians, and the person who seemed to be the leader of the mercenary army should be able to count when he spoke. After the notice was posted, the civilians in the city quickly settled down, and the nobles began to liquidate the mercenary army. The whole night was spent in chaos in Liaocheng, and the second battle between the old enemies ended in a victory for Kong Ming. (To be continued......)
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