Chapter 25: The golden cicada sheds its shell
Friends are not suspicious, and enemies are not moved. Xun and stop the cup.
Press: Fight the enemy with friends and sit back and watch the situation. If there is another enemy, it must go and survive. Then the golden cicada is out of the shell, not in vain, but also with the method of doppelganger. Therefore, the army turns, and the banner and golden drum are like the original formation, so that the enemy does not dare to move, and the friend does not doubt, and the enemy returns after the enemy has been destroyed, and the friend and the enemy know it, or still do not speak. However, the golden cicada is out of the shell, and when facing the enemy, he draws the elite to attack the other formation. For example, Zhuge Liang died in the army, and Sima Yi pursued him. Jiang Wei Lingyi is against the flag and drums, if he is to Yi, Yi will retreat. So he left the camp on his behalf. Tan Daoji was surrounded, but ordered the sergeant Xijia, dressed in white clothes and Xu out of the periphery, Wei was afraid of ambush, did not dare to force, but returned.
The golden cicada of the thirty-six plans is out of its shell
However, what annoyed him even more was that the Holy Magister, the supreme mage of the magician, also fell in this battle. Speaking of which, this is thanks to the Arrow Master, he has been threatening the Holy Mage with arrows, so that the Holy Magister has to keep the protective shield open, and at this time, the Mage Master stepped over, and several Snow Wolf Mercenaries rushed in front of him, if the Holy Magister's protective shield can prevent the divine arrows attacking from afar, then when several Great Swordsmen came to him together, he was doomed to a tragic end, because he was a mage, not a Sword Master, so under the attack bonus of the two sides, he fell directly。 And this was the part that Kong Ming was most worried about at first, because no one knew the horror of the Holy Magister better than a magician, but when a Holy Magister could only use the wand in his hand as a sword, it was when he fell. Seeing this, Kong Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but seeing that the results of the battle were so great. Kong Ming knew that this time the victory was in sight. An army. Once there is a matter of stepping off the front, it will impact the rear army. Then this army will definitely lose their ability as an army in some situation. Because for the backlash of their own army, without a certain buffer of time and space, it is almost impossible to get them back together, and at this time, it is the time when an army is the most vulnerable, if he sees this situation and does not know what to do, then he is in vain. With Kong Ming under his command, all the cavalry, including the mage regiment and the bow and arrow regiment. In order to give them the strongest posture to fight, Kong Ming equipped these two types of troops with war horses, and all of them went out of the city to join the battle, of course, the war horses had to go through the city gate, otherwise they would not have the ability to jump from a height of ten meters, although that was an easy thing for the snow wolf.
The battle seemed to be sealed in an instant, and the vast majority of the Harvey Army's mages had already died under the swords of the Snow Wolf mercenaries, although many mages fought for close combat. They have summoned their magic pets all kinds of different magical beasts, making the entire battlefield a garden of various magical beasts for a while, but you must know that the magician in order to subdue a magical beast. It must be defeated by itself, so under normal circumstances, the level of the monster will not exceed the level of the magician. And Warcraft is also a means of melee combat for mages. It is also their advantage. But more mages are crushing their own people's Warcraft pets to death, all in all. It's that most of the magicians are dead, and the snow wolf mercenaries are facing many magical beasts at once. The tearing is still going on, the battlefield has reached a white heat, the Harvey army is constantly falling and retreating, the face of the third prince has turned white, the only thing he has to do now is to curse that guy who has a bad idea, why would he invite this guy Kong Ming to be the commander of this mercenary? Haven't you seen this guy's qualifications, and now let him pay to hire such a guy to form an army that will defeat him. He thought that everything would go through a passing field as before, and then lead a large number of people to do military merits, increase his qualifications, and prepare for the battle for the throne, but now he knew that he was overshadowed. It must have been one of his opponents who figured out this trick of his, and then tricked Kong Ming from that comfortable place in the imperial capital to this place and gave him eye medicine. As a prince, the third prince was not thinking about the gains and losses of this battle at the moment of defeat, but the conspiracy and trickery behind it, which is the difference between a soldier and a politician, and it is also the most important factor why a Zhengzhike can't win a soldier on the battlefield. But obviously, now is not the time to think about it, because if the situation is allowed to develop like this, he will really be defeated. He looked at the people on the left and right, and said: "Order, the rear army to both sides, make way for the magicians to communicate with the returning infantry, and the cavalry division to prepare, and as soon as they pass, quickly enter the battle, in addition, order the other four magic divisions to quickly move to this side and join the battle at any time." ”
It is relatively easy for a fully formed army to convey and carry out orders, because their communication is almost without any problems, but for a defeated army, communication itself is a very bad thing, because at that time everything is already chaotic, and the only thing that can be known is that all the defeated soldiers will flee in one direction, which is the direction where their headquarters are located, because that is also the only place where they can survive. Of course, the fastest ones who survive may have a zài problem, because that is generally the object of law enforcement by the law enforcement team, and there is also a problem with the survival of those who run behind, because they are the target of the attacking side, and only the middle ones can generally survive, because when the law enforcement team is dispersed by the defeated soldiers, even the people of the law enforcement team are running away, who has the ability to care about them, and the latter will still be fighting against the enemy for a while and a half, or they will compete with their own people, everyone is just to survive. An army without a command cannot be called an army, because this kind of army is very fragile, and once attacked, it can be crushed at the first blow, and it will be defeated.
Harvey's rear army gave way to the passage, but because the two armies were really too close, a part of the rear army was also caught up in the rout. Seeing this situation, the snow wolf mercenaries were even more excited, and just as they were about to continue to attack, they only heard the snow wolf mercenaries' retreat horn sounded. The Snow Wolf mercenaries had no choice but to retreat. Both sides ended the first real confrontation between the two armies in a way that neither side knew. Kong Ming was afraid that the Harvey army would chase after him, so he was in command of the time. The Snow Wolf Demon Cavalry retreated almost slowly, until the two sides were truly separated. And after the Snow Wolf mercenaries had completely entered Fang Neng City, Kong Ming breathed a sigh of relief. However, as soon as Kong Ming relaxed, several division commanders came over to ask for guilt.
"Commander, why don't you let us continue to attack them, knowing that this attack can completely defeat their invasion!" Dunce said in an extremely annoyed manner, although he had lowered his tone, but everyone knew that he was very dissatisfied with Kong Ming's command. This itself is a deficiency of the mercenary system, although it is possible to restrain subordinates with military discipline, but sometimes, it is completely unrestrained. Just like when they're angry. Several other people also have opinions about Kong Ming, and Yi Yiyi is completely looking at Kong Ming's command on the side, and she is also very dissatisfied with Kong Ming's point, but she didn't say it, but her expression has completely come out, and Kong Ming knows that these are hidden worries among the mercenaries. Kong Ming looked at a few of them. After thinking about it, he pointed a magic lens in his hand at them, only to see that the correspondence during this period of time was recorded on it, and several eye-catching messages read: "Dongfang has found countless Harvey cavalry approaching Fangneng City. The West found that an extremely large number of infantry was approaching the city of Fangneng ......". Looking at these messages, they were speechless, and Yiyi looked at Kong Ming strangely, even she had been beside Kong Ming and didn't see Kong Ming looking at the magic mirror. Kong Ming said: "Che Li." Looking back at our records and losses, the rest of us are now back in the ranks. The wounded were quickly treated, and 300 men of the 1st division went to clean up the battlefield below. When going down, according to the general rule, both sides will not attack each other's cleaning team, let them pay attention to this, I know that there is no such rule among mercenaries, but there is one on the battlefield, in addition, as long as our soldiers are taken back, and the magic equipment on the enemy's magician is taken back, the action must be fast, because this is related to our future battles, let a few magicians also go down. In this way, the collection is a little more comprehensive. ”
Everyone didn't have any other reaction when they saw Kong Ming talking like this, but the killing just now was really very pleasant, and now after stopping, they suddenly felt a little tired, although for them like seventh-level powerhouses, it was an incredible thing to feel tired, but the fact is the fact. After the others were gone, Yiyi said, "You just lied to them. ”
"What?" Kong Ming asked strangely, not knowing what Yi Yiyi meant by this.
"You deceived them before the battle, there were not 50,000 people at all, it should be 100,000, just after you sent the troops just now, until the battle started, I kept counting, 10,000 archers, 10,000 magicians, 30,000 infantry in front of the Harvey army, this is already 50,000, but they still have many soldiers in the back, about the same number as the number in front, so it should be 100,000, if you add the 40,000 cavalry you said, then it should be 140,000. And you only said that it was 50,000 people, why did you lie to them?" Yi Yiyi was furious, thinking that she didn't say it just now for Kong Ming's face, and also wanted to see how Kong Ming should bear this battle, but what she didn't expect was that Kong Ming actually won like this, and it was simply neat, and what she didn't expect was that Kong Ming still maintained a calm mood when she won this kind of victory, so now she is also venting the taste of being deceived. The five sages behind looked at this situation, and they were also dissatisfied with Kong Ming's deception of their master, but after all, they were old and refined, and they didn't say anything.
"You're wrong. Kong Ming said lightly.
"What did I do wrong?" Yi Yiyi is now completely like an aggressive rooster, catching Kong Ming and starting to attack.
"The Harvey Army is not 50,000, not 100,000, not 140,000. Kong Ming said.
"How much is that?" Yi Yiyi asked subconsciously.
"Three hundred thousand. After hearing Kong Ming's words, the people who heard it nearby all took a breath of cold air. Yi Yiyi's face suddenly deteriorated a lot, and her anger also dropped.
"You're not kidding?" she said unconvinced.
"Hehe, when have you ever heard that a field army will leave so many people to defend some cities? According to the Harvey military system, the city defense army is the city defense army, and the city defense army is mostly composed of locals. The field army, on the other hand, is responsible for mobile defense or offense. Kong Ming explained.
"So they came in a full 300,000? You say 50,000. You liar!" Yi Yiyi said in annoyance, if she had just been angry. Then now it's the anger of this concealment of Kong Ming, but there is not much left, and she also thought clearly of the reason why Kong Ming said panic. "Are you afraid that they won't have the courage to fight after hearing this number?" Yi Yiyi thought of a reason for herself to give Kong Ming to get out.
That's just one of them, not the main reason. Kong Ming looked at the place in front of him where tens of thousands of people had died, the place where the magic had risen just now had dissipated, and the snow wolf mercenaries were there to collect their corpses and loot. And Harvey also sent some men to clean up their dead people. Yi Yiyi also looked over, and then asked, "What is the main reason?"
"If we had abandoned Fangneng City in the first place, we might not have made it to Guanping Pass and let them ambush us. Two days ago, we received information that 40,000 Harvey cavalry had been stationed between Fangneng City and Guanpingkou, so in some ways, our retreat had been blocked. Kong Ming said.
"Impossible, a lot of civilians have left there, if there is a Harvey army, how can they let them go, even Guan Pingkou has nothing to do. After hearing Kong Ming's words, Yi Yiyi retorted.
Kong Ming shook his head and said, "For the sake of secrecy." Only a few intelligence officers and I knew about this, and even the others were kept in the dark, just for the battle just now. If this battle is won, then all of us can get out. If you lose, you lose. It's also an all-or-nothing gamble. ”
"Why do you say that?" asked Yiyi.
"Because we have too many recruits, if we encounter enemy troops on the way. Especially an army like the Harvey, which has tradition and some combat experience, these people will soon collapse. And the vast majority of them will die under their butcher's knives, but if there is a fight here. Then a qiē is different. Kong Ming said.
"What's the difference?" Yiyi knew the difference between a recruit and a veteran, not only in training, but also in obedience. But for this kind of her, who came from the imperial capital of Huayuan, how would she know, even if she has read it from books, but some things can not be known from books, and they will only become their own after practice, otherwise they will never become their own. That's what is easier said than done.
"The fundamental difference between a recruit and a veteran is not in training, but in whether or not they have gone through the battlefield of life and death. A veteran who has not been on the battlefield, even if he has been in the army for decades, is a recruit for a person who has only been in the army for one day, but has survived on the battlefield. That's the fundamental difference. And among our mercenaries, 30,000 have not passed the test of battle, this is a very dangerous signal, if we take these people to a field battle, then nine times out of ten, even we will be filled in, and only within the tall city walls can they maintain their pitiful little dependence. So we have to fight here, and the victory of this battle is directly related to our future. In fact, the most important point is that I want to catch all their magicians here, so that we can have a crucial role in our future actions. Ku Ming explained.
"Why?"
"Hehe, a magician is not a swordsman, and the cultivation of a magician requires more than just a few books, but a lot of energy. Suffice it to say, it costs more than ten times as much to train a mage of the same level as a swordsman. This is the consensus of all people on the continent. And once their mage is hit hard, then we will have more options for action in the future, until their new mage master comes. But by the time they realized it, the price they had to pay was already high. ”
"And what about after this battle? Now that the enemy is about to surround us, how can we get out of here, you must know that there are enemies in front and behind. Yi Yiyi spoke about the issues that all people are concerned about now.
"Do you know what a golden cicada shell is?"
"Golden cicadas coming out of their shells?"
"Hehe, after the cicada crawled out of the ground, it occupied a place in the tree, and then people looked at it, until one day, a person walked over curiously and looked at it, and found that it was just a shell of the cicada, but the real cicada had already gone. And we are the cicada now, whether we can get out of here or not depends on it. ”
"How do you leave?" Yiyiyi asked anxiously.
"Hehe, the secret of heaven must not be revealed. Kong Ming said mysteriously.
That night, in order to prevent the Harvey Army from attacking Fangneng City, the magic circle of the entire city was opened. There was a light above the city, and the soldiers in the city were constantly searching, and the shouts came and went, which made Harvey's soldiers look very annoyed, knowing that they had just lost a while today. Harvey's scouts were even more observant of it, for fear that something would go wrong.
In the early morning, at the north gate of Fangneng City, a fog spread from outside the north gate, and soon the entire north gate was submerged. Bands of mercenaries rose up the slopes inside and outside the city walls and descended slowly, careful not to make a noise and burn the whole operation to fire. The snow wolf has a bone in its mouth, and the horse has a branch in its mouth, and the human has a leaf in its mouth, and all the people or monsters have a thick cloth tied to their feet, and even if they kick the ground hard, there will not be much sound. At the head of the city, there are constantly people shouting, as if someone is constantly staring at the outside and is very vigilant. At this time, on the city heads around the city, a small number of special division people are constantly putting some clothes on top of the straw men one by one, and then using ropes or other things to make those people look like they are all moving, and some directly use magic to summon magical creatures one by one, turn into human appearance, and walk around. From the outside, it looks like it's a constant search. And the whole city seemed to fall into silence all of a sudden, and all the snow wolf mercenaries were concentrated at the north gate. And it seems that all of a sudden, all the mercenaries turned into cavalry. Kong Ming asked the people of the Snow Wolf Division to bring the people of the Infantry Division together, that is, a snow wolf carrying two people, and carefully walked along the route that had been reconnoitred in advance. An hour later, when the fog cleared, the whole city was still shouting, but the mercenaries in the city had already left the city, and all that was left there was some artificial disguise and magic fluctuations.
At dawn, the sun had not yet risen, and the autumn fog had covered the entire position, and the third prince got up early, as a strong contender for the throne, he had to maintain self-discipline at all times, and only in this way was he a talent in the eyes of his old emperor. Looking at the fog in front of him, the third prince couldn't help but feel better, after the fog, if it is not a heavy rain, it is generally a big sun, such a time, when the sun shines on Fangneng City in the afternoon, it is the easiest to attack the city. And last night, his 270,000 army finally surrounded the entire Fangneng City at around two o'clock in the morning, he didn't believe that Kong Ming could escape from the palm of his own hand? Moreover, in order to deal with Kong Ming's cavalry, he transferred all the cavalry that was originally used to intercept and kill the mercenary army, and on the outside, he could pursue the fleeing mercenaries at any time. The sun slowly rose, and the fog slowly dispersed, and when all the fog dissipated, the third prince saw the mercenaries walking around the city wearing tattered clothes, and couldn't help but say disdainfully: "These mercenaries are really a group of poor ghosts, they are almost winter, and they are still wearing such tattered clothes." "Slow, why is it in tatters, you know, the mercenary army clothes they saw yesterday are also uniform, like this sleeve flying in the air, and the soldier is still standing unswervingly, this is almost impossible, even if he doesn't care, the people next to him will say about him. Thinking of this, the third prince hurriedly called a magician over and used the eye of reconnaissance to see what was going on. After taking a closer look, the third prince suddenly shouted: "It's numb, it's fooled." (To be continued......)
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