Chapter 185: The Siege of Fort Elbuk (Part II)

At this time, more than fifty miles away from Fort Elbuk, Li Rufeng was leading the army to advance in the snow, after all, she also knew that Jiang You was facing the siege of hundreds of thousands of troops, and it must be very hard to defend, and most of the other party's subordinates were poorly trained and poorly equipped militiamen, so the casualties at this time were definitely not small, and she didn't know how many defenders were left to fight.

Li Rufeng was now afraid that Jiang You's troops there would be insufficient, so he wanted to lead his troops over as soon as possible to avoid Fort Elbuk being captured.

However, because she was in too much of a hurry, she didn't have time to send too many scouts to reconnoiter the situation ahead, and a small group of enemy scouts hid under the snowdrifts and successfully evaded the detection of their forward troops, and discovered the arrival of Li Rufeng's army.

After discovering that so many reinforcements were coming from the enemy, he hurriedly mounted his fast horse and rushed back to the camp to report to the king of Yarogerke.

King Yarogark couldn't help but feel very depressed when he learned that the enemy reinforcements had arrived, and there were more than 70,000 horses, after all, after so many days of attrition, he could feel that the defenders of Fort Elbuk were about to run out of ammunition and food, and at the same time, the casualties were definitely not small, and the remaining defenders were also very tired, as long as he was given a few more days, he would definitely be able to take this castle.

But he didn't expect the enemy's reinforcements to come at this time, in order to consume the strength of the defenders in the city these days, his own loss of troops is not small, just the regular soldiers have killed more than 60,000, as for the people, more than 100,000 have been killed, as for the wounded soldiers, now there are only about 200,000 soldiers in his camp who can be immediately put into battle, and in the face of the more than 70,000 fresh troops that the enemy has just arrived, King Yarogrk is not sure of victory.

Therefore, although he was very unwilling, King Yarogerk was still ready to lead his army to retreat.

In order to prevent the defenders of the city from discovering that his side had withdrawn, King Yarogark even asked his soldiers to set up a large number of straw men in the camp overnight, and put some broken leather armor and cloth armor on these straw men, pretending to be soldiers standing guard.

After all this was done, King Yarogark began to quietly retreat from the camp with his army.

If it is replaced by Jiang You, in the face of King Yarogerke's arrangement, there will definitely be no flaws, but today it is the veteran Di Ligang who replaces him in the vigil, he follows Viscount Sol to fight in the north and south, it can be said that he has encountered any kind of enemy, and in the face of the opponent of King Yarogerke, he is also not careless.

The reason why Di Ligang was able to find the flaw was because he found that the soldiers standing guard in the enemy camp seemed to be like zombies one by one, and they didn't move for a long time.

This is obviously very abnormal, especially in this kind of icy and snowy night, if a person does not move for most of the day, then it is likely that he has been frozen, otherwise, in order to avoid his hands and feet being frozen, he will always move from time to time.

But now the soldiers standing guard in the enemy's camp have not moved for half a day, and their bodies are already covered with a thick layer of snowflakes, and they are about to become a 'snowman'.

Although the distance was too far for Dirigang to directly see that the enemy soldiers were scarecrows in disguise, he had already sensed that something was wrong.

In order to verify the conjecture in his heart, Di Li Gang quickly informed Jiang You and Reyeke of the news, and at the same time quickly gathered two thousand elite soldiers, secretly opened the west city gate, and then quietly spared the city under the cover of night, and approached the enemy camp little by little.

At this time, most of the soldiers in the camp had been evacuated by King Yarogerke, and only about 8,000 people remained, carrying some heavy items such as heavy catapults and had not yet left the camp completely.

Because the main force has been withdrawn, naturally there are no soldiers standing guard, only a large number of straw men in the large camp.

This led Di Ligang to lead the army to within ten meters of the camp and was not discovered by the other party, but Di Ligang, with his excellent eyesight, found the enemy people who were slowly withdrawing from the camp with a large pile of supplies.

At this time, Diri Gang had already realized that the main force of the enemy army should have quietly withdrawn, and Dirigang, who felt that he had been tricked, was furious, and immediately roared and led his 2,000 soldiers into the enemy camp.

After entering the camp, Di Ligang also saw that the soldiers standing guard inside were all straw men, and the tents were all empty, but the fires had not been completely extinguished, and it should be that the group of people had added firewood again before leaving, hoping to deceive them for a while longer.

When the people saw that the enemy was suddenly killed, they were so frightened that they dropped their baggage carts one by one, screamed and began to flee.

It's no wonder that these people are so demoralized, after all, in the process of attacking the city these days, there are too many soldiers and people killed in battle, and the corpses are piled up layer after layer under the city of Elbuk, if it weren't for the cold weather now, so many corpses might have caused a plague.

It is precisely because they have personally learned the power of the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire that as soon as these poorly equipped civilians saw the enemy soldiers coming, they had no idea of resisting at all, and they all ran away one by one.

Because the sky was very dark, and the snow outside the city was very thick, Di Li had just chased and killed for a while with 2,000 soldiers, but he only killed more than 500 people and captured about 1,000 prisoners.

Seeing that the remaining enemies had completely fled, Di Li had no idea of continuing the pursuit, but quickly returned to the city with his troops, and at the same time asked Jiang You to inform Li Rufeng that their enemy troops had withdrawn at night.

Li Rufeng was also very surprised after receiving this news, she didn't expect the enemy army to retreat so decisively, but she soon understood that it should be the news of the arrival of her own reinforcements that was known to the enemy commander, so the other party would withdraw so quickly.

In order not to let himself and his soldiers run in vain, Li Rufeng quickly adjusted the direction of the march, preparing to rush to block the retreating enemy army on the way to retreat to the Kingdom of Vekia.

After a night of difficult marching, Li Rufeng found that there seemed to be an enemy army in front of her when the sky was slightly bright, she wiped the snowflakes on her eyelashes and looked at it, and found that it was indeed the enemy army, and the other party's speed seemed to be faster than her side, at this time, more than half of the enemy troops had passed the road, and only about 100,000 enemy troops had not passed.

"Damn! Give me chase! Leave as many enemy troops as you can! Li Rufeng roared and then led more than a thousand cavalry under his command to chase and kill, although the cavalry under her command was less, but there were four generals to follow her to attack, these four generals were Hu Sanniang, Zhu Long, Zhu Hu and Zhu Biao.

With these four generals with strong cultivation on the side, Li Rufeng dared to lead more than a thousand cavalry to kill the enemy army directly.

Due to the wind and snow, the enemy army only discovered Li Rufeng and them at this time, and the king of Yarogerke hurriedly sent 5,000 cavalry to take the initiative to meet Li Rufeng and them, wanting to stop this enemy army and buy time for his army to retreat.

However, as soon as the five thousand cavalry sent by him came into contact with Li Rufeng, they were slashed and killed by Li Rufeng like chopping melons and vegetables, and the rest of the cavalry were suddenly too frightened to step forward.

The enemy did not dare to step forward, but Li Rufeng led Hu Sanniang and a few of them to continue to advance like chopping waves, and the enemy cavalry along the road continued to fall off their horses.

"Damn it! You're all shit! Block me, stop them! King Yarogark roared as he sent five thousand cavalry to support.

At this time, Li Rufeng's infantry on their side also rushed over under the leadership of four generals, these four infantry generals were Xue Yong, the big insect Xue Yong, the faceless Jiao Ting, the money leopard Tang Long, and the gibbon Hou Jian.

Although the strength of these four people was not as strong as Hu Sanniang, they joined the Qinglong Empire earlier than Hu Sanniang, so at this time, their cultivation had also reached the realm of transforming strength, and their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

"Kill!" Xue Yong, the sick insect holding a simple knife, was the first to enter the enemy formation, the sword was as light as electricity, and every time the knife was swung, it would inevitably split an enemy cavalry off the horse.

The gibbon Hou Jian followed, holding a spear, which was the most suitable weapon against the cavalry, and Hou Jian only needed a light shot to poke the enemy cavalry off his horse.

The faceless Jiao Ting and the money leopard Tang Long in the back are both strength-type warriors, among which Jiao Ting is holding a big axe, and when he goes down with an axe, he will often split the enemy army in half with men and horses.

And Tang Long is holding two golden gourd hammers, each hammer will smash the enemy to the bones, even if the opponent is wearing heavy armor, it is useless.

With the cooperation of these infantry who arrived later, Li Rufeng quickly defeated the 5,000 cavalry who had come up with new reinforcements, and then continued to kill the enemy infantry without stopping for a second.

Seeing this, King Yarogark was so angry that he personally led the two most elite Vekia knights under his command to kill him, and collided head-on with more than 1,000 cavalry led by Li Rufeng.

"Slut! Give me death! "King Yarogark held a moonblade axe in his hand and slashed at Li Rufeng.

However, Li Rufeng just waved the eyebrow knife in his hand lightly, and knocked the moon blade axe from the opponent away, and then slashed the king of Yarogerke off the horse with a backhand.

Looking closely, you can see that the armor on his chest has been split with a long crack, which is the result of Li Rufeng's mercy, otherwise this knife will not only be split, but even his chest will be split.

Before he could get up from the ground, King Yarogerk, who was dizzy, was captured alive by two cavalrymen of the Blue Dragon Empire who arrived later.

When the Vecchian knights saw that the king had been captured, they immediately became anxious, and one by one they rushed over in a frenzy, trying to save the king of Yarogerk.

But Li Rufeng and Hu Sanniang and the four of them were dead in the way, those Vekia knights came to kill one by one, and soon they were killed all over the ground, and the follow-up Vekia knights were difficult to continue to move forward because of the large number of human corpses and horse corpses piled up in front of them.

And Xue Yong, the sick insect, led the infantry at this time, unknowingly surrounded these enemy cavalry, and began to shoot and wound these cavalry with artillery and muskets from the left and right flanks and the rear.