Chapter 240: March on the battlefield, only ten people remain!
The Westerners' musket positions were completely scrapped, and if the Westerners were ruthless at this time, the results would be huge if they smashed the artillery into their own crowd, but the Westerners did not do this.
Although these ordinary people are only the bottom of the existence for Westerners.
But after all, there is a priest in the army who represents the Holy See, and the Holy See needs faith and will not let the military do these things.
The strong men in the Western camp have also appeared, and even the commander of this Western army has served as the brunt of it.
After seeing Liu Xin and Xiao Qi's speed and Rokuro's treacherous methods, he immediately understood. This is a group of Zhengyang's top masters.
No one in the legion could deal with this group of people except him and the deputy commander.
He was a legion commander of this expeditionary force, and he was also a baron, arrogant by nature, and the concept of aristocratic blood in his bones made him think that the Zhengyang people were just a group of mud-legged people, no different from the indigenous barbarians who had been conquered before.
Although Zhengyang has a strong man who can match their top masters, when it comes to fighting, even if it is a strong man in the same realm, Westerners still have an absolute advantage, and this group of Zhengyang people doesn't seem to take their physical quality too seriously.
All of their strength is based on their formidable martial arts talent and the subtlety of their fighting methods.
But like the commanders of the expeditionary force like them, each of them is the strongest and most elite warrior in the family, and their martial arts will be a little less subtle, but not much worse, but their physical fitness will be much stronger than Zhengyang.
One against two, one against three is not a difficult thing, in the previous battles, these commanders of the Westerners have also discovered this problem, and this problem has been completely magnified, every time they encounter the opponent's enemy generals, these commanders of the Westerners will not hesitate to use their own force.
As long as he can win the battle, it is also an honor for himself and a manifestation of military merit, so the burly army commander with curly hair and beard didn't say a word, and rushed out when he found Liu Xin and others.
But when he really faced Liu Xin, he would realize how shallow his knowledge was, and how ridiculous his previous thoughts were.
The situation of the battle was really defeated, and the curly-haired bearded commander was directly beheaded by Liu Xin.
There was immediately a commotion in the rear of the Westerners' army camp, and the deputy corps commander, who originally wanted to step forward to fight and was not ready to carry out the order of the corps commander, saw this scene and immediately shrank back.
Things in the army of the Westerners are almost visibly declining, and the priest in the back is still there shouting loudly, it should be some kind of way to boost morale, but it is useless, because Liu Xin did not stop there, but continued to kill towards the rear, he wanted to kill seven in and seven out here!
The soldiers in the rear felt Liu Xin's emotion, and the burning battle intent exploded instantly. The 5,000 cavalry still fought valiantly, and there was no retreat at all.
Even if you die, you have to die with a few enemies, which just confirms the sentence shouted by the soldiers at the border here before, die on the battlefield and defend your homeland!
At this moment, the morale of the soldiers of Zhengyang's army is like a rainbow, and they see death as home!
Westerners, on the other hand, are facing such a ferocious army, like a sheep in wolf's clothing encountering a ferocious lion, although this lion is terminally ill and has little strength, but his counterattack still makes this wolf in disguise, who is still a sheep at heart, feel fearful.
The blind self-confidence of Westerners is deeply ingrained in their bones.
They consider themselves to be the noblest beings in the universe on this continent.
Therefore, he is very arrogant and confident. In the process of conquering other nations and other races in the past, they did not encounter decent resistance, so that their strength could be demonstrated, which is also the origin of their arrogance, this kind of arrogance cultivated for hundreds of years is not something that can be solved in three days and two ends, they are already arrogant to the bone, but I believe that Zhengyang will let them know what the consequences and costs of arrogance are.
Liu Xin, Liulang and Xiao Qi were like sharp knives, stabbing into the vital points of the Westerners' positions, and constantly penetrating in.
Soon, the soldiers of the Westerners began to abandon their weapons and run away, they were armed with muskets, but they could not fire in the direction of their own people, and these muskets became basically useless burning sticks, and in addition to the burning sticks, the most practiced by these soldiers was to run in formation.
Running formations, running formations, exercising your physique, allowing yourself to run for a long time, and now this ability has evolved into escaping.
And the first to run away was the priest, the so-called guy who gave his soul and life to the gods, and was the first to escape.
The one who ran was unscrupulous and unscrupulous, not only ran away by himself, but also called his entourage, and there were more than 100 people.
Liu Xin naturally didn't take care of such a team.
If the other party wants to escape, let them escape. Liu Xin always firmly believes in one sentence, that is, the defeat is like a mountain.
As long as the other side starts to run away and begins to rout, then it will be advantageous for their own side.
In the end, this Westerner army, which was small in number, but also had seven or eight thousand men, was completely routed and fled all the way.
These Westerners fled quickly, and Liu Xin did not give the order to pursue the enemy, after all, the poor Kou Mo chased. Westerners have an advantage in escaping because they are wearing leather armor.
The combination of leather armor and muskets is undoubtedly correct, but it also brings a huge weakness, that is, when in close contact with the Zhengyang soldiers, the armor worn by the Zhengyang soldiers can effectively resist the sporadic shooting of the muskets at close range, and at the same time, the muskets in the hands of the enemy will also become flame-like weapons at this time, which cannot cause effective damage to the Zhengyang soldiers wearing armor.
When the Westerners were completely defeated and fled, Liu Xin chased out with 5,000 cavalry and turned back after three miles.
They were greeted by the cheers of the remaining soldiers at the border gates.
But Liu Xin didn't feel any excitement, because even if it was an abnormal victory, it was still a residual victory.
Because first of all, almost all of the more than 10,000 soldiers defending the border were killed under the artillery attack of the Westerners.
There are even many of them who were buried in the walls when they collapsed because they held on to the walls.
Liu Xin organized a rescue, and in the end, less than 100 people were rescued from the ruins.
Thousands of people were buried alive under the rubble!
From this battle, Liu Xin discovered a weakness of the Westerners' army, that is, the arrogance in the bones of the Westerners, so that there is a severing relationship between their commanders and their front-line soldiers.
As long as the commander of the Westerners is solved, then the soldiers of the Westerners fight, and everything will be disintegrated.
The morale was broken, and it was also a good opportunity for Zhengyang to attack.
With all the wounded soldiers, Liu Xin finally left this border pass, which has become a ruin!
And the same scene happened at almost all the border gates on the Zhengyang border at the same time.
And what is somewhat strange is that the five major governors of the five military governors led their own armies to support the major border passes.
Among them, only two armies finally defeated and repelled the Westerners, one of them was Liu Xin, and the other was Jiang Chong!
Of course, the main reason for this phenomenon is not that the two young men are more competitive than the other veterans.
It's because young people are more motivated and enthusiastic.
The first thing that comes to the minds of the veterans is to reduce losses and maintain the vitality of Zhengyang.
But in any case, the border pass of Zhengyang is full of holes, and Westerners can easily enter from anywhere.
In such a situation, even Emperor Zhizhi was in the Zhengyang Kingdom, and the Duke of Qin, as the first commander in Zhengyang now, immediately issued his own supreme directive.
Scouts of about 30,000 or 40,000 men were sent to scatter in all corners of the border passes, with a few to a dozen people as different units, and their task was to keep an eye on every move outside the border passes on the grassland, and to report any trace of Westerners.
And what Qin Guogong, as the only fast mobile force, had to do was to quickly support according to the news reported by the scouts.
And the five armies of the five military governors, their task is to hold on to various places.
Among them, the two earliest armies to support the border pass had already undergone a major change, led by Shangguan Ba and Du Yuanjin respectively.
The five armies formed a border made of flesh and blood.
This means that they will have to meet the enemy's artillery in the meat area in the next battle, but for Liu Xin, this is a favorable way.
Because of the border city, they had to protect the safety of the city.
In the current complex situation, the security of the city walls among the Westerners' artillery is undoubtedly a burden and a drag on the soldiers.
The most terrible thing for Westerners is the fixed-point attack, you stand there, he bombards with artillery, no matter how many people you stand there, even if you stuff the entire Zhengyang people in that place, the Westerners can blow them all up with artillery fire.
If you want to avoid the damage caused by this way of fighting in the West, you must change this centralized form to a decentralized one, so as to avoid your own losses to the greatest extent.
Not long after Qin Guogong formulated the corresponding countermeasures, the onslaught of the Westerners followed.
Westerners cavalry sorties, and the appearance of musketeers greatly enhanced their mobility.
This also put a lot of pressure on Zhengyang, and for some reason, the Westerners launched an attack on Zhengyang, almost at any cost.
The support of the five major armies is difficult, and even Liu Xin's attempt to use the beheading plan has repeatedly failed.
This Western army, which was supported by the Duke of Shu with all its might, had 120,000 cavalry, including 10,000 Holy See Knights, all heavy cavalry!
These 10,000 people alone have the strength to deal with the 100,000 iron cavalry led by Qin Guogong, while the remaining 110,000 Western cavalry have provoked Zhengyang's five major armies one after another!
But at this critical moment, an army suddenly appeared, entangled the 10,000 heavy cavalry of the Holy See Knights.
This is an infantry, but it is a rare elite in the world, and its leader is the king of Xuzhou County, the third of the seven masters of Xuzhou: the "martial pig" Wuzhu master
"Tenglong" Lian Subo, "Fierce Horse" Ling Huyu!
There is also the chief killer "Chi Yu" Jia Tugou, who led the "Crouching Tiger" Flame Tiger - Qiu Capture Tiger, and "Wen Leopard" Kong Shanyi formed an assassination team to assassinate the top powerhouse of the Western cavalry!
In just three months, with the support of Xu Zhouwei, Qin Guogong and the Fifth Route Army were encircled, and finally the 110,000 Western Iron Cavalry were dismantled, but the heavy cavalry of the Holy See Knights also wiped out all the 30,000 elites of Xu Zhouwei!
Three months later, only ten people remained, and the rest were all killed!
"Tenglong" Lian Suber, "Fierce Horse" made Huyu die in battle, of course, there were many Western masters who accompanied them to the funeral, and the Viennese governor Adolf Sauerland, who had come with a Western envoy, died at the hands of Lian Suber.
That Holy See Knight's Instructor, William Bucksdale, died with Ling Huyu!
The Holy See Knights lost nearly eighty percent under Xu Zhouwei's bite, which can be regarded as a heavy blow!
At this time, Zhengyang's momentum was finally beaten out, countless people in the country asked for battle, the number of reserve troops has exceeded 300,000, as long as they are willing, the five major legions on the front line can be replenished in the first time.
But Emperor Xuyang pressed the matter.
It is said that the king of Xuzhou County held three sacrifices in the fief to commemorate the heroic souls of those Xuzhou Wei!
And because Xuzhou Wei was almost wiped out, it also caused the most dangerous person of Xuzhou Qijie to enter the grassland alone.
It is said that the Western army on the grassland was poisoned by him alone, and there were several masters of the high-grade Dacheng realm!
And this "poison dragon" Sang Yao was finally killed by Dugu Shidao, but Dugu Shidao was also poisoned by Mulberry Kiln because of this, and he had no choice but to retreat.
The battle on the front line entered a plateau in early summer, and the Western army had almost been disabled, of course, Zhengyang's losses were greater, but because of the efforts of many parties, the final battle loss ratio between Zhengyang and the Westerners dropped to three to one!
Although it is still a terrifying number, at least Zhengyang has proved that he is not a small indigenous country that is being bullied at will.
On this day, a letter of state from the West was delivered to the imperial capital.
Gaius. Prince Gust sent a truce.
Emperor Xuyang didn't even think about it after reading it, he directly tore it up and killed the envoy to the last person, even this person was ordered by Emperor Xuyang to cut off his ears and gouge out his eyes, because this is a Zhengyang person!
The mission of sending this person back to the grassland fell on Liu Xin, he took the initiative to ask for his life, Mi Yusong vouched for him, he was going to the grassland to find the real murderer who killed the Holy Sect!
And in order to protect Liu Xin, the ghost has reappeared, his strength has broken through, and now he is also in the Grandmaster Realm!
Mi Yusong advertised the rivers and lakes in his own name, and at this time, in order to meet foreign enemies, the so-called disputes between the rivers and lakes and the demons must be stopped.
The remnants of the Demon Dao can all be returned to the imperial court, and Mi Yusong swears in his own name that as long as he and Zhengyang resist foreign enemies together, no matter what you have done before, you will not be guilty of the past!
The Demon Dao masters are exhausted, and there are even thousands of masters, among which the number of top-grade Dacheng Realm has exceeded twenty!