Chapter 11 The Burning of Lookout Ridge

Wangling is just a small hill in the west of Macheng, a little more than a kilometer away from Macheng, the avenue from Macheng to Zhecheng is more than 300 meters, about 300 meters high, the mountain is full of woods, the slope is relatively gentle, it is just about 50 meters high from the top of the mountain, it becomes steep all at once, some places even have 90 degrees, you can see the panorama of Macheng in this place, so it is named Wangling. Today, this place is destined for the Chu army and the Yan army to remember its existence.

At this time, it was half past seven in the morning, and on the Wangling Ridge, there was a large group of Yan Army's guards who were constantly searching there, carefully looking at every place, for fear that there would be a little inappropriate local people. They didn't care about this search, but drove the animals in Wangling everywhere. Looking at the animals running around, the captain of the Guards, although he didn't kill those animals, let them run around, experienced officers knew that the presence of animals in a place could indicate at least two problems, first, there were no dark magicians in this place, and second, this place was relatively safe and not polluted in any way. After the Guards had finished searching, they stood guard around Wangling. At about ten o'clock, a group of men and horses, surrounded by a group of guards officers, walked to the top of Wangling. One of them, a middle-aged man wearing the armor of a general of the Harvey Imperial Army, surrounded him in a semicircle by a group of high-ranking officers and magicians, with black hair, black skin, a pair of triangular eyes, thick eyebrows, and a trace of determination in his eyes looked at Ma Cheng for a while, and then turned his gaze to the Chu army that was being surrounded. There was a hint of excitement on his face that could not be concealed, as if it was all under his control. The officers around him continued to blow endless praise to that person, he was the planner and executor of this war, Harvey's general Pang Longye.

"It seems that this time the Chu army is in a catastrophe. Next to Pang Longye, a sword saint said that he was by Pang Longye's side, a sword saint appointed by the emperor himself, to prevent those assassins from assassinating Pang Longye on the battlefield, so that the command was frustrated, and Pang Longye himself was also a sword saint, plus a sword saint who was already by his side, there were three sword saints in total. In order for this battle to proceed smoothly, the Harvey Empire also sent three Holy Magisters, twenty Great Magisters, and more than a hundred other mages of all levels to support the war, which can be said to have invested enough.

"General, what a calculation. The other Juggernaut said. The rest of the people echoed the words of the two, these praises made Pang Longye have a trace of pride, after all, except for last night's surprise attack of an unknown enemy, which caused some losses, the other situations were almost the same as they expected in advance, they not only defeated the Chu army that attacked Fenglin, but also advanced more than a hundred kilometers, directly under Macheng, as long as it was here, and with more strength, the main force of the Chu army was eliminated here, then if you advance to the enemy in the future, there will be a lot less resistance, and it can be said that the victory or defeat is determined in a battle。

"Hehe, this is just the beginning, there will be more exciting ones later, give orders, let all departments, appropriately step up, so that the distress personnel of the Chu army can go out suddenly, and the main force is not allowed to move. Pang Longye is obviously a little dissatisfied with the fact that the people in this ** city do not come out to save those who are surrounded, after all, this is a key part of the plan, if the enemy troops in Ma Cheng do not come out to rescue, then he will lose some of his back hands, which is obviously not what he wants.

At the same time, Kong Ming also stood on the west gate of Macheng, not far from him, it was Xiang Zuoding, the commander of the Chu army, and around Xiang Zuoding were the chief officials of the various departments in the city, Kong Ming, as the acting commander of the swordsman battalion, was also called here, although he had just returned. Under the city gate, there were 10,000 cavalry ready to go, and because this attack was sudden, Xiang Zuoding did not send other troops out to fight except for the cavalry.

"How many enemies are there?" Xiang Zuoding suddenly asked.

"There are about 20,000 people surrounding us, and about 20,000 people are behind Wangling, all of them are cavalry, and from the eagle's eye, the enemy's command post seems to be in Wangling. An officer not far from him next to Xiang Zuoding replied cautiously. This is the intelligence officer of the Chu army, mainly responsible for the intelligence of the Chu army, he has just taken office as Xiang Zuoding's intelligence officer, because his predecessor has removed Xiang Zuoding because of intelligence errors, and Xiang Zuoding also used the time of these two days to clean the entire intelligence system from top to bottom, and isolate those who are suspected to prevent the same mistake from being made again. The Eagle Eye is just a kind of magic for magicians, it can see things within a certain range through a magician's spell, and these things can also come out on top of a crystal ball, which is a common means of detection.

"Bring me the enemy's deployment plan. ”

After hearing Xiang Zuoding's words, the intelligence officer brought over an up-to-date map of the battlefield, and the surrounding officers, including Kong Ming, also surrounded him. This is a magic map, on which all the latest situations are reflected, and the magician's hawkeye constantly reflects the enemy's situation, and the magic map is constantly changing, in other words, it is an active map. More than ten people looked carefully around the map, Xiang Zuoding pointed to a place, which was the place where the Yan army surrounded the Chu army, and said: "General Ma Bao, you take about 8,000 men and horses from your headquarters, start from here, and attack the enemy's encirclement as quickly as possible, and then come back quickly." ”

"Yes!" replied one of the officers. Then Xiang Zuoding pointed to another place and said:

"General Liu Li, you take 3,000 men and horses from your headquarters, just wait here, and when General Ma returns, you will respond. ”

"Yes!"

"Act now, I think Yan Jun must have been waiting for a long time, hehe. This time they will definitely suffer a big loss, hmph, my army of 60,000 is not so delicious. Xiang Zuoding said fiercely. After the two generals went down, the city gate was quickly opened, and a group of men and horses quickly passed through the city gate and rushed towards the Chu army, which was surrounded by enemies. At this moment, all the people are paying attention to the army that is rushing to the Chu army, the Chu army that is trying to break through is also ignored at this moment, the supreme commanders of both sides are looking at the elite of this Chu army, for the Chu army, whether they can save the besieged army depends on the combat effectiveness of this army, and for the Yan army, if they can destroy this army, then their mushroom tactics will be half of the success, and everyone knows that these 8,000 people are just an explanation of the Chu army to the besieged army, this assault is not only a combat action, but also a mental action。 It can be seen from the eagle's eye that at the moment when the Chu army rescued out of the city, the Yan army's attack on the besieged army immediately slowed down, and the defense in the direction of the Chu army suddenly strengthened a lot.

After the Chu army left Macheng, in the process of rushing towards the enemy, it gradually completed the deployment of the cavalry's charge formation, although the shape in front was not suitable for the cavalry's charge, but in order to maximize the cavalry's combat effectiveness, they still became a shock formation. At the front were a team of great swordsmen, flanked by a flank of high-ranking swordsmen, and flanked by ordinary knights.

On Wangling, Pang Longye showed a smile on his face and said with a smile: "Haha, the Chu army has finally come out, and for the rest, let's watch it here and make dumplings." Ah Liang, I think this battle will be a brilliant battle with the Shadow Technique, and it will be very meaningful. ”

"Yes!" replied a mage in a water mage robe next to him. For Pang Longye, everything is ready, and all that remains is to gently raise his hand and pick the fruit that belongs to him, which is not too difficult than eating the next bite of rice. Kong Ming quietly looked at the Chu army who was killing the Yan army, and his eyes occasionally turned to Xiang Zuoding not far away, so that he did not feel any nervousness because of the strength of the enemy, but with a smile on his mouth, Kong Ming didn't know what this meant, it was a kind of qiē in control, or just a statement, for these Kong Ming are not very clear, but there is an inexplicable stability with Xiang Zuoding's smile, into Kong Ming's heart, Kong Ming looked at the people left and right, the expressions are varied, there are nervous, relaxed, and some unclear expressions, but without exception, the eyes are looking at the eight thousand Chu army led by Ma Bao。

When Chu Jun was still a hundred meters away from Yan Jun, the situation suddenly changed, and I saw that a piece of fire suddenly appeared on Yan Jun's head, and Kong Ming recognized it at once, it was the fire magic "Meteor Fire Shower", and there was not just one, but three superimposed together, magic is not as simple as one plus one equals two, once a magic is formed, then the second magic is based on the first one, and the magic has a certain layer, in other words, one plus one is greater than two. And the three magic were cast in turn, and the maximum effect was achieved, only to see those Yan Jun who were about to release arrows, and suddenly fell into a large sea of fire, the entire front of more than 200 meters and the depth of more than 600 meters, were caught in the sea of fire, from there there continued to come out of the tragic shouts, under the seventh-level magic, only the sixth-level swordsman or the sixth-level swordsman with the equivalent level of ability can survive, because this kind of magic is a face kill, effective for ordinary personnel, for the sixth-level swordsman is completely resistant, but it will be very wolf-bèi。 Only this round of magic casting, so that Ma Bao's army and those besieged armies directly face to face, Ma Yu quickly divided the army into two parts, respectively, to set up the Yan army on both sides, so that those surrounded Chu army from the middle. A qiē looks so smooth, remember that it looks smooth, as if it has been demonstrated many times, the Yan army began to attack towards the passage after a moment of daze, and the reinforcements of the Chu army blocked their attack, the vanguard of the surrounded Chu army, after the reinforcements opened the passage, they desperately moved closer to Macheng, and ran towards Macheng like flying, but after the advance of the breakthrough army passed, something different from the expected situation finally appeared, that is, between the vanguard and the Chinese army, a group of civilians, a group of people who had not passed through the battlefield, that is, the family of the city lord of ZhechengFor those of them who have already fallen into a dead situation, suddenly there is a glimmer of life, how much power will that bring to people? They also desperately rushed to the passage, rushing towards Macheng, but the things in their hands were still not thrown away, their horse skills were so rough, their movements were so slow, in a word, because of their appearance, the entire breakout army was divided into two parts, one part was the front army, almost reached the bottom of Macheng, and the remaining part was still blocked in the passage, the passage instantly let these people who did not obey military orders and did not understand military affairs blocked, the efforts of 8,000 people instantly turned into ashes, not only that, those people were still in the collision, the formation of the reinforcements on both sides of the Yan army was scattered, from this moment on, an orderly breakthrough, turned into a fleeing. After seeing this situation, the faces of all the people in the Chu army changed, and those Yan army command posts above Wangling were smiling, no one thought that their plan would go so smoothly, and it was just because of the civilians who didn't know where to go. At this time, the passage is undoubtedly the place that both sides pay the most attention to, although the distance is more than two thousand meters, but with the strength of Kong Ming and the eagle eye of the magician, the command posts of both sides are watching the chaotic scene in the passage. On both sides, the reinforcements of the Chu army stubbornly resisted the ferocious attack of the Yan army, and the formation had been disrupted by the chaos that appeared behind them, and they could only do the most primitive and direct battle with the Yan army, without the support of their teammates, those reinforcements were like sheep staring at by wolves and a trace of resistance, and the soldiers of the Chu army fell one by one, but there was still an irresistible thrust from behind, so that they continued to press towards the enemy, and later even the Yan army was dragged into this chaos. The arrows in the sky continued to shoot into the passage, there was no effective resistance, civilians and soldiers were constantly shot to death in the passage, no matter how everyone fell, it would make the crowd squeeze up behind them to trample mercilessly under their feet, all the people were constantly moving forward, forward, only forward, no one stopped, no one wanted to stop, and later, even if he wanted to stop, it became impossible, the army without organization was a flock of lambs, wailing kept coming, but the slaughter continued. From that eagle's eye, Kong Ming saw a beautiful woman, who was pushed down by a person behind her, and then drowned in a piece of footsteps. This scene was unexpected by both sides, but it did not stop either side, this is the war, once it starts, it will not stop because of a unilateral stop, this is the cruelty of war. If Kong Ming is used to the confrontation between armies in the war, then it is the first time he has seen this kind of scene intertwined with civilians, which makes his heart continue to set off huge waves, and his hands are unconsciously clenched tightly, feeling that the veins in his hands seem to jump out of his hands. The atmosphere around me was as heavy as walking in mercury. This is not only the case here for Kong Ming, but even on the top of Wangling, Pang Longye and his officers have not reacted much, after all, most of them have not seen this kind of scene for the first time, but the knot magician is not good, many people spit out directly, even if they did not vomit, their faces became a little white, and their reactions appeared directly on a crystal ball in front of Kong Ming and the others. Seeing this situation, Xiang Zuoding waved it down with one hand, and before Kong Ming and the others knew what was going on, they directly saw that the picture of the crystal ball drowned out the infinite flames. Kong Ming looked at Wangling in the distance and found that Wangling had been burned down by a fire. This is Xiang Zuoding's final hole card - burning Wangling. It was also a turning point in this battle. It turned out that after Xiang Zuoding came to Macheng, he directly observed the terrain here, and found that Wangling could see the defense of the west gate of the entire Macheng, so he decided that the enemy would establish a command post here, so he placed four seventh-level fire magic here-Hell Flame here in advance. The characteristic of this magic is that it can form a sea of fire, and the intensity and area of the fire depend on the level, the seventh-level hell flame, which can cover a radius of three hundred meters, and as a scroll, it can be remotely detonated. In an instant, they plunged the entire Wangling into a sea of fire, and the handsome banner of the Yan army fell in an instant.