Chapter 420: Keep Going
Outside Mingyuan City, Deng Lin cautiously went out of the city with two guards, although Li Mingyang had clearly ordered him to guard the city before, but now he still couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart and chased him out.
Thinking of the battle just now, Deng Lin still has a lot of emotion, the Sharp Knife Team is worthy of the name of the Sharp Knife, when they all thought that this battle would be a protracted battle, and they were even ready to support at any time, but the result was to see a real killing, a real victory in the strict sense.
When he fought the world with Li Hong in the past, Deng Lin felt that his vision was already extremely high, especially after Li Hong received the funding of the Long Tingjun, they fought several big victories in succession, but when he saw Li Mingyang fighting, he finally knew why Li Mingyang could be the king of the county, and Li Hong was only a duke.
The 30,000 monks almost only lasted for half an hour, and even Deng Lin felt that he still remembered something wrong, maybe those monks didn't even hold on for half an hour and completely collapsed. For the first time, Deng Lin also knew why the Sharp Knife Clans were called the Sharp Knife Clans, and on the battlefield, they were like sharp knives, cutting through the enemy's formation. Those Lanhai County monks had already performed very well, and the battle formation was very orderly, but the fighting style of the Sharp Knife Team could only be described as unreasonable.
Thousands of Void Spirit Realm monks, together with the real ghosts, attacked together, and after a few charges, the Lanhai County monks no longer had a formation at all, followed by endless killing. Deng Lin finally understood why Li Mingyang wanted to take the real ghosts to fight together, the strength of those real ghosts is not very strong, probably only the strength of the second and third levels of the spirit realm, such strength is originally difficult to achieve anything in the war, but under the command of Li Mingyang, these real ghosts are the best shields. Those true ghosts charged with the monks of the Sharp Knife Clan, but they didn't kill the enemy, they just stood by the Sharp Knife Clan.
It seems that the cooperation between the Void Spirit Realm monks and the real ghosts in the Sharp Knife Team has become intimate, the real ghosts will not block the attack of the Void Spirit Realm monks at all, but they will often block the attacks of those Lanhai County monks, and even sometimes Deng Lin will see that some Void Spirit Realm monks will directly kill the real ghosts in front of them in order to attack, and then the offensive penetrates through and directly kills the other party.
As the so-called one force will drop ten meetings, the fighting style of the Sharp Knife Team is exactly like this, their violent methods are really jaw-dropping, but this is only for those of them who are watching the battle, for those who are killed Lanhai County monks, they are a great disaster.
In half an hour, most of the 30,000 monks were lost, and the rest of the monks were fleeing, but Deng Lin knew very well that these people did not want to escape at all, but there was no way to surrender. Halfway through the battle, they had already seen the direction of the battle, and after the sharp knife team slaughtered these low-level monks over and over again like cutting meat, and after the pair of swordsman brothers killed all the senior generals of the enemy army vigorously, the Lanhai County monks already knew that this battle would be lost, no one thought that the Central Plains monks would be defeated so completely, think about it carefully, it seems that the sharp knife team has no casualties, if you really want to count, it is just that those real ghosts have been killed and injured.
But even if he knew that the general trend was gone, those Lanhai County monks wanted to surrender, but Li Mingyang didn't give them the slightest chance at all, and chased and killed all the monks who wanted to surrender all the way out. Their destination was that stronghold, and it was believed that there would be a real massacre waiting for those Lanhai monks just outside the stronghold.
Sure enough, when Deng Lin and his people arrived, those deserters had already fought with the 10,000 Lanhai County monks who were surrounded outside the stronghold, but what was waiting for them was not the rescue of reinforcements, but the more fierce killing of Li Mingyang and the Sharp Knife Team with these people.
In this battle, the Jinzhu Army won a complete victory.
Even though the sharp knife team killed very strictly, but after all, it was impossible to cut the butcher knife to everyone, in the late stage of the war, the remaining thousands of monks basically did not have any idea of resistance, and some even simply threw away the flying sword in their hearts, just asking for a surrender, after seeing such a situation, Li Mingyang did not choose to continue the slaughter, so he let those who did not want to fight again surrender to the Jinzhu army.
Seeing that the war subsided, Deng Lin sighed with emotion, and immediately only the Jinzhu Army monks in the stronghold came out to clean up the battlefield. Thanks to Deng Lin coming now, otherwise the monks in the stronghold would not even dare to go out of the city at all, just now during the big battle, they obviously had the opportunity to go out of the city to fight the monks of the Sharp Knife Team to fight those Lanhai County monks, but they didn't.
First, they saw that the Sharp Knife Clan's combination of real ghost fighting methods was too terrifying, and the killing methods were too bloody, and secondly, because they actually didn't know where these monks came from, after all, the monks guarding here were not all like Deng Lin who knew Li Mingyang, and not everyone could recognize them as soon as they saw the Sharp Knife Clan.
Of course, the main thing is that they are afraid, they are afraid that once they leave the city, they will be killed together, and those real ghosts themselves also have a great deterrent effect on ordinary monks.
"Congratulations to the prince, this battle is really beautiful. In the past, Deng Lin would also be used to saying such flattery, after all, it is always better to be tactful, but this time he did not come for tactfulness, but really admired Li Mingyang, this battle was a hearty victory that Deng Lin had never seen in his life.
More than 2,000 people killed 40,000 people and dropped thousands of people, and it took less than two hours to do this, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Deng Lin would not have believed it at all. Deng Lin is also a veteran of the battlefield, and it is generally impossible to distinguish the winner in a short period of time with tens of thousands of people. It takes a certain amount of time for tens of thousands of monks to arrange their troops just to arrange their troops, and once the situation of defeat develops, the generals may make some adjustments, but if they find that they can't beat the other side at all, then the losing side will definitely start to flee as much as possible, at least to ensure that the casualties are reduced on the basis of defeat.
However, the Sharp Knife Clan is simply an extremely perverted being, and it is a matter of convenience for bookmark Void Spirit Realm monks to kill and change Spirit Realm monks, and thousands of Void Spirit Realm monks have amazing lethality and mobility, these Lanhai County monks have only been defeated for more than an hour from the end of the battle to surrender, but their generals have been directly killed, so naturally they can only obediently wait to be slaughtered.
Looking at the situation in front of him, thinking about what happened before, Deng Lin could only smile bitterly, although this battle was hearty, but it is estimated that it will be difficult to spread it, after all, there are too few people who have seen this battle, and even if he tries his best to publicize it, not to mention whether the Lord Ghost King likes to be in the limelight like this, even if he really does it, how many people will believe it. Tens of thousands of monks were slaughtered in more than an hour, and who would believe such a thing?
Seeing that Li Mingyang seemed to be thinking about things, Deng Lin could only wait patiently by Li Mingyang's side, and after a long time, Li Mingyang suddenly said: "Which city is bordering us in Lanhai County?"
"Huh?" Deng Lin was also secretly thinking about things, and when he heard Li Mingyang's words, he was stunned for a moment, and then he realized what Li Mingyang was asking, and after thinking about it, he said: "The nearest city is Liaohe City." β
Although he didn't expect Li Mingyang to suddenly ask this question, he still explained to himself: "Liaohe City is not a big city in Lanhai County, and it is not even as prosperous as our Mingyuan City, but as a gateway to Tianren County, Liaohe City is a fortress-type city, although it is as dangerous to defend as our Mingyuan City, but because Lanhai County has no stronghold that can be controlled here, Liaohe City can also be regarded as their stronghold city, and there are about 30,000 permanent troops in the city, if you look at the number of monks, it can be regarded as a big city." β
What Deng Lin said is not contradictory, if you look at it purely from the prosperity of the city, Liaohe City is not too large in scale, and there are not many sources of spirit stones, the most important thing is that it cannot control the surrounding spirit stone veins, so it is actually not a big city, but judging from the number of monks in the garrison, the city that can station 30,000 monks can definitely be called a big city.
But Li Mingyang suddenly smiled and said contemptuously: "Now there are definitely less than half of the monks in Liaohe City. β
"Well, it's possible. Deng Lin also guessed before that some of the so-called rogue monks cruising on the border must be stationed in Liaohe City, and it is even more likely that they will completely draw troops from Liaohe City to act as rogue thieves, and then return to Liaohe City to replenish after the battle. But thinking of Li Mingyang's question, Deng Lin couldn't help asking, "Lord Wang, are you going to do it?"
"These guys are so uninteresting, so they can only be really quiet if they know what pain is. Li Mingyang said naturally.
Deng Lin didn't understand why Li Mingyang said this at first, but when he saw Li Mingyang's actions later, he finally understood what Li Mingyang was going to do. On the day after the big victory, there was a team of monks from the Heavenly Beings County rushed over, this team of monks was not as good as the Sharp Knife Clan, but all of them were composed of Qingling Realm monks, and the monk team composed of 10,000 Qingling Realm monks was also quite outstanding, if it weren't for the stronger Sharp Knife Clan team to compete here, this team of 10,000 Qingling Realm monks would definitely make everyone's eyes shine.
Leading this team of monks is also a famous general, in fact, the people who fought with Li Mingyang have already become famous generals in the Central Plains through the battle with the King of Shu, although Xu Xin is now back in charge of the Linglong Sect, but because of the huge drawback of the lack of talent in recruiting disciples in the Linglong Gate, she took people on an expedition. Just when Li Mingyang led people to sweep away the "thief" forces in Pingyuan County and Lanhai County, Xu Xin also led people to repel the "thief" in Xiliang County.
However, because Xu Xin did not have the kind of monk army of the Sharp Knife Clan, he could not do the kind of Cheng DΓΉ of Li Mingyang's thunder blow after all, but he still brought a thousand prisoners.
Counting Xu Xin's attack, in just a few days, the Jinzhu Army has been equivalent to defeating all the "thieves" of the county king who made small moves in a three-sided attack, counting the prisoners brought back by Li Mingyang after exterminating the thieves outside Pingyuan County, and now the number of thieves in the three sides has reached nearly 10,000. Deng Lin originally thought that it was just a big war here, but he didn't expect that after this battle, the surrounding bandit forces had been completely quelled.
In this way, after these bandit forces are quickly disintegrated, the county kings of the surrounding three counties will definitely be stable for a while, and it is estimated that it will be impossible to play so blatantly in two or three years, after all, there are three or four gangs of thieves with the size of tens of thousands of monks at every turn, and anyone can see what is going on.
But Li Mingyang is not satisfied with this at all, what he wants is naturally the stability of the surroundings, but it is not short-term stability, but long-term stability. He knew that a county government could not be free of war forever, in order to compete for resources, or simply to train troops, there would definitely be a big war on the border, but he didn't want to be dealt with like this, those county kings would play such dirty methods, and it was also because they looked down on Tianren County, since this was the case, Li Mingyang had to let them understand what violence was.
Nearly 10,000 captured monks thought that they would get a chance to live, and these people had heard some rumors about Li Mingyang, who was certainly a terrifying killer, but somewhat of a woman's kindness, and when they surrendered, they also hoped that Li Mingyang would be merciful and then let them go.
But he didn't expect Li Mingyang to suddenly take out a lot of crimson pills, and then before they could react, they were all forcibly held hostage and swallowed the pills. Deng Lin looked at Li Mingyang curiously, but this time he was very wise not to ask again.
After everyone had eaten the pill, Li Mingyang said to these captive monks: "I know that you are all just acting on orders and coming to my Tianren County to make trouble, but since it has fallen into my hands, you will act according to my rules in the future." This elixir is not toxic for the time being, but if you can't eat the antidote within a day, you will die of poison. β
As soon as these words came out, the captives instantly became very excited, and some even scolded Li Mingyang, saying that they had already surrendered and were to be fed poison.
After Li Mingyang rarely killed a few people who took the lead in shouting at will, he said coldly: "First of all, I have never accepted your surrender from the beginning to the present, because you are afraid of death and don't want to fight, you know this in your own hearts. This battle is to give you a chance to live, I will attack Liaohe City in a while, you give me the lead, whoever can survive after the siege, I will give poison to whomever you like, and then you can go wherever you like, I will even give you a spirit stone. β
"Do you understand?" Li Mingyang asked in a loud voice, and after getting the weak answers from those people, he said indifferently: "If you want to survive, just fight for yourself and go." β
Seeing Li Mingyang take nearly 10,000 captive soldiers and the people of the Sharp Knife Clan on the road together, Deng Lin smacked his lips, and suddenly smiled and said: "Who said that the ghost king is benevolent, who dares to mention this sentence to Lao Tzu in the future, see if Lao Tzu is not in a hurry with him." β