Chapter 19: Attack on the Northwest (Part II)
It was just dark, and it was about 5 o'clock.
The soldiers of Chengguo walking on the road reached an agreement at the request and arrangement of the commander-in-chief:
Their group of soldiers was divided into four teams, the first of which was led by the commander to attack the capital of the northwest country with 20,000 soldiers; The second team was appointed by the commander with the oldest soldier, Li Lang, as the general, and led 15,000 soldiers to attack the second largest city of the Northwest Nation and the location of the soldiers of the Northwest Nation; The third team was led by another brave and skilled soldier Liu Mang with 10,000 soldiers to block the only way and passage to the two cities, and the last team and the remaining 5,000 soldiers were arranged by the commander to be on standby outside the city under the leadership of a soldier Zhang Yu, a strategist soldier...
At this time, a large number of soldiers of the Chengguo ethnic group had quietly come to the vicinity of the gates of several important cities near the Northwest ethnic group, but they were not noticed by the other party...
After getting closer, the soldiers of the two attacking cities of the Chengguo ethnic group directly set up a number of cannons, and the muzzles of the cannons were directly aimed at the gates of the two northwestern countries...
At the same time, the army of 10,000 soldiers also quietly went around the city from the outside, approached the important sections of the two cities and the sides of the road that must be passed, and then also drove the cannons, and the muzzles of the cannons were aimed at the houses of the various buildings of the two cities and the landmark buildings, and their shells were divided the most.
By the unified order of several commanders-in-chief, they then lit the fuses of the artillery ...
"Boom"
The shells that flew out fell directly at the city gate and exploded...
And when the soldiers on duty at the two city gates had just reacted, several more shells came and fell on multiple positions on the city wall gatehouse at the same time...
At the same time, the artillery fire ignited by the soldiers who circled the city was fired at various buildings and houses in the city...
"Boom, boom"
When the shell fell, it exploded, directly blowing out multiple large gaps in the two city walls and buildings such as gates and houses...
But the artillery on the side of the Chengguo ethnic group still did not stop, and the general commander continued to direct the firing of artillery and ammunition...
The gunpowder shells continued to shoot at the gates of the two cities and all the buildings inside...
At this time, although the sky was still cloudy, it was still a little dark, so the soldiers in their northwest country could not see any traces of each other clearly, and the soldiers guarding the two city walls could only retreat when they saw this...
In a short time, the city walls and gates of the two important cities of the Northwest Nation and the buildings and houses inside were blown to pieces by the shells, and the soldiers who were going to report to the King of the Northwest Nation were also killed by the ambush set up by the 10,000 soldiers carried by Liu Mang on the way to the capital...
And this bombing also woke up the kings and soldiers of the Northwest Nation from their sleep.
When King Zhao woke up from his sleep, at this time, the sound of the cannonball continued to ring in his ears...
And at this moment, suddenly two soldiers broke in,
He also got up quickly and changed his clothes...
One of the soldiers reported to him and said:
"Report, my lord, the gatehouse of the city wall of our capital city has been attacked by a sneak attack, and now it has suffered heavy losses."
Another soldier also reported to him at this time:
"Report, my lord, our road to the walls of the capital has also been blocked, and now their enemies have installed cannonballs and ambushes on both sides of the road, and the people we are going to come to support have also suffered heavy losses."
And at this moment, a cannonball fell directly above the house where the king was, and detonated...
"Boom"
With a bang, the roof of their room was directly overturned, and then a raging fire ignited... Along with the raging fire, the ruins of the room where the king was located also fell down one after another...
"King, let's get out of the way."
One of the soldiers said.
At this moment, a burning beam suddenly fell from above, and then smashed directly on the soldier, not only killing the soldier on the spot, but also igniting a raging fire on him...
After seeing this scene, the king and another soldier hurriedly walked outside...
Outside, the king saw that the shells from the outside continued to fall on the houses and other buildings in front of them, and then there was an explosion, accompanied by a raging fire...
And he saw that some of the soldiers in front of him were picking up buckets to extinguish the fire, and some of the soldiers were engulfed by the fire and turned into burning people rolling on the ground...
And at this moment, another cannonball fell on the open space where the king was standing.
When the soldier in front of him saw this, he immediately pushed the king aside, threw himself on the cannonball, and said to the king:
"Retreat, King..."
"Boom"
With a bang, his body was blown up by the cannonball, and he was completely dead...
And the shells are still falling here one after another...
It turned out to be at the gate of the city, but after it collapsed with the bombing, the shells of the soldiers of the Chengguo ethnic group at the gate pushed directly into the city, and then began to bomb the city indiscriminately...
In a short time, all the buildings and houses of the two cities were blown into ruins by the dense cannonballs, and then a raging fire burned the city...
Then, in a short time, the two cities were engulfed in flames.
As the artillery shells were almost used up by the soldiers of Chengguo, and the sea of fire was about to burn in front of them, but at this time, the sky was almost dawn.
As a result, the commander-in-chief directly ordered all the soldiers of Chengguo to retreat...
The remaining 5,000 men formed crossbowmen and surrounded the retreating soldiers of their kingdom...
So under the cover of the left and right ends of the bow and crossbow, most of the soldiers began to retreat to the territory of Chengguo...
And until the evacuation was only the cannon, this was after the last retreating soldiers were directly destroyed with a cannonball, and then evacuated as well.
After all the soldiers had evacuated, the remaining 5,000 crossbowmen were ready to retreat......
When they retreated to the territory of the Chengguo ethnic group, the sky was also dawning at this time, and all the Chengguo soldiers were evacuated back to the territory of the Chengguo ethnic group, and then all rushed to the emperor's official residence under the arrangement of the commander...
After this sneak attack, the 50,000 soldiers of the Chengguo ethnic group, under the wise guidance and arrangement of the commander, destroyed and destroyed two important cities of their northwest ethnic group with the advantage of zero casualties, turning them into two seas of fire... It also destroyed most of the soldiers of their Northwest tribe in the two cities.
It was dawn, and a group of soldiers sent by the emperor before was now on their way to the various ethnic groups to spread the news that the Northwest ethnic group had secretly released the ghost clan to the mainland to plague the mainlanders.
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The official residence of the emperor of Chengguo.
At this time, the emperor and many ministers were drowsy in the official palace, the purpose of which was to wait for the triumphant return of the soldiers of the national race...
At this moment, a soldier suddenly broke in from the outside, and when he came in, he saw the emperor and his ministers sitting on the ground and leaning against the wall and drowsy...
After seeing this scene, the soldier walked gently to the emperor, and then leaned close to the emperor's ear, and then whispered:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, we have returned triumphantly from winning the battle of the national race"
At this time, after the emperor heard these words, he thought it was a dream, sleepwalking, the scene in this dream, he hurriedly opened his eyes, and saw a soldier next to him in his ear, only then did he realize that it was not a dream just now, so he looked at the ministers under the stage, at this time all the ministers under the stage were leaning against the wall and sitting on the ground drowsy...
So he whispered to the soldier:
"It's true"
"Back to the emperor, it's true, they are on the way back, if it is false, the little one is willing to die to apologize"
The soldier said.
After hearing this, the emperor could no longer suppress the joy in his heart at this time, and then stood up directly and said loudly to everyone in the audience:
"Ministers, wake up, we have won, we have won, we have won"
After hearing the emperor's words, all the drowsy ministers in the audience also got up and said in unison to the emperor:
"Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live"
"Then Aiqing, how about we go to the city to meet our Chengguo soldiers outside the city and return triumphantly?"
The Emperor said,
"Obey"
The ministers said.
So the emperor and his ministers went out of the city...
As soon as they arrived outside the city, the emperor and his ministers saw their soldiers marching towards the city...
At this time, the emperor and the ministers watched the triumphant return of the soldiers, and all of them showed joyful smiles on their faces.
The soldiers in front of them were still led by the commander, and after seeing that the emperor and the ministers were in front of him, the commander ordered the soldiers behind him to speed up their pace and walk quickly towards the emperor and them...
"Your Majesty, we have won the battle..."
At this time, the commander said to the emperor passionately......
Then, under the emperor's arrangement, all of their soldiers went back to the official palace to reward and appreciate...
On the side of the Northwest Nation, after a long time, the fire was gradually extinguished.
And when the fire was extinguished, the city of their capital was littered with scorched ruins and broken houses and buildings, as well as soldiers and civilians who had been burned to death...
And the king looked left and right at this time, and the scene of their capital had become like this, and his heart was full of anger and pity at the same time.
And at this moment, a soldier ran up to him and reported to him:
"Report, King, after our investigation, it has also been clarified that this situation in our city is not caused by the beggars of the ghost clan, but also a sneak attack on us carefully planned by other ethnic groups."
At this time, another soldier also ran over to report to him:
"Report, my lord, I found two undestroyed cannons at the gate of our city."
And at this time, another soldier also ran over and said:
"Report, King, we checked along the footprints, and found that these footprints led to the territory of the Nacheng ethnic group, and at the same time, it was also transmitted from the Nacheng ethnic group."
At this time, the king of the Northwest Nation was extremely angry, and then said at this time:
"Quick, let's also organize our forces and fight back against their country..."
Then he gritted his teeth and said:
"Give me another edict declaring war on them"
"Yes, yes, yes"
The soldiers next to him replied timidly, and after replying, they left in a hurry...
At this moment, the kings of the various ethnic groups on the Tianxuan Continent already knew that it was their Northwest Nation that secretly released the information that the ghost clan had returned to the mainland.
Under the leadership of the largest and most powerful ethnic nation on the Tianxuan Continent, the Li Kingdom issued a special invitation to each ethnic group country, but except for the northwest...
In the palace of the official residence of the Chengguo ethnic group,
The Emperor, who had already rewarded all the soldiers, was about to arrange the next task for the soldiers and ministers...
And at this moment a soldier ran in with a letter, knelt down and said to the emperor:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, a letter from the Emperor of Liguo"
"Bring it in"
The emperor said to him,
So, the soldier immediately handed the letter to the emperor on the stage.
After the emperor took the letter, he immediately read it in front of everyone:
"Your Excellency the Emperor of the Chengguo Race, for the sake of our survival in the Tianxuan Continent, and also to better deal with the enemies of the ghost clan who were released to the mainland by the Northwest Nation Race, and also for the safety of your Chengguo Race, now we are leading the Li Kingdom to gather the kings of your various ethnic groups to hold a discussion tomorrow in our Li Guo Mansion Palace, I hope you can be there, thank you. King of the Liber Ethnic Nation - Chen Zu Shou"
After reading it, at this time, the prime minister of the Chengguo ethnic group took the lead and said:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, this has also fulfilled the wish of our ethnic group, that is, to form an alliance against their Northwest Country, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you must go"
And another minister also stepped forward at this time and said:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, this is an important meeting of my Dacheng ethnic group, I must go, I must go"
At this time, the emperor looked at the two ministers and said:
"I'm definitely going to go, and for the sake of our nation, I don't have to go."
After saying that, all the soldiers at this time showed joy and smiles on their faces.
And the emperor said at this time:
"Next, their Northwest Nation Clan will definitely counterattack and invade the territory of our Cheng Nation Clan, and the three masters of the Waterfall Mountain are still the second day, and all these kinds of locks..."
Before the emperor could finish speaking, the commander of the soldiers stepped forward and said:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, please don't worry, in today's battle of our soldiers attacking their Northwest Nation Race, we have already wiped out one-third of their Northwest Country's strength, and it will definitely be expensive to set it up again, not to mention, people's hearts are panicking, even if all the soldiers of their Northwest Nation are here, so what, the army of soldiers of the subject country is now online, plus Your Majesty the Emperor, your rewards are like brave men, even if their Northwest Country soldiers come, they will definitely not be our opponents, The ministers will go and adjust all the soldiers to guard the several important roads where the tribes of the Northwest Kingdom enter our territory of Chengguo, and then use the cannons and crossbows on these roads to prevent them from sneaking up and protect the safety of our Dacheng tribes. ”
After hearing the commander-in-chief's words, the emperor smiled happily at this time:
"Hahahahahahaha
And the commander of the soldiers continued:
"Please Your Majesty the Emperor really don't worry, you go first and send the soldier team that is still stationed on that mountain, and the ministers will plan to send 10,000 troops to guard that mountain to ensure the daily cultivation of the three masters."
"Good"
The emperor said at this time, then looked at the commander and said:
"Okay, Lord Commander, it's really a blessing for the people of our Dacheng nation to have you, so do what you want."
"Obey"
The commander said.
Then the emperor shouted to his father-in-law next to him:
"Someone, give the commander 10 gold bars, take them from the treasury, and then take 20 gold bars to use as the military expenses for the defense of our clan country, and give them to the commander-in-chief, I said."
"Yes"
The father-in-law said at this point, and then went down.
"Minister, thank you, Lord Longen"
The Commander said,
"The Emperor's ......"
That's what all the ministers said at this time.
Seeing that all the ministers in the audience were so sincere to themselves, at this moment the emperor was full of pride in his heart, so he announced:
"Retreat"
So, everyone gradually retreated.
Then he stepped on the carriage to go to the Liguo ethnic group...
After the emperor left, at this time, the 30 gold bars that the father-in-law took were also handed over to the commander-in-chief, and after the commander-in-chief took the 20 gold bars, he only took 1 of the other 10 gold bars, and then asked the father-in-law to return it...
After that, the commander began to arrange and prepare the soldiers:
He first sent one-third of the 40,000 soldiers to the roads that the northwestern ethnic groups had to pass to the Chengguo ethnic groups, and then brought gunpowder racks of artillery ammunition from the treasury on this road...
Then the remaining two-thirds of the soldiers were arranged to rest, recuperate, and then change the guard...
Then he sent 10,000 soldiers to the waterfall mountain to defend it...
In the ethnic groups of the Northwest Country,
At this time, their king wandered on the ruined and charred ruins, and when he saw this scene behind the scenes, he felt very uncomfortable.
And then a soldier ran up to him and reported:
"King, I received the news, now they have sent people to the other races in the Tianxuan Continent to spread the news that we have released the ghost clan, and now their various races have hated us to the bone after hearing about it, and I also heard that their Li ethnic group has now sent that invitation letter to the king and emperor of each ethnic group, and the emperor of the Li ethnic group is ready to invite everyone to discuss how to deal with our northwest ethnic group."
And at this time, another soldier also ran over and reported to the king:
"Report, King, now all our soldiers have been assembled."
The king looked up at the two of them, and then said:
"Okay, now we will inform you, let's now arrange all the soldiers at the intersections of the various roads on the border of our Northwest Ethnic Groups, and now our main towns will guard our territorial homeland, and then give me the investigation of the emperor of the ethnic groups of the Nation, and then find an opportunity to assassinate him, this is our current task"
"Yes, yes"
The two soldiers replied, and then retreated.
In Waterfall Mountain, the 10,000 soldiers sent by the commander of the Chengguo clan have arrived at Waterfall Mountain at this time, and after arriving at Waterfall Mountain, according to the commander's intentions, half of them are standing guard with the original soldiers of General Wu, and the other half are resting, and their soldiers of Chengguo surround all corners of this mountain...
And after a while, before the soldiers of their Northwest Nation who were sent here to guard had passed, they found from a distance that the mountain had been surrounded and stood by the soldiers of the Northwest Nation Clan, and their own soldiers were too small, so they did not fight, but retreated, intending to go back and report to the king...
At this time, a soldier of Chengguo who was standing guard at the top of the mountain saw this situation, and immediately left his post to report the situation to the commander who came to the mountain together, and the commander was discussing matters with General Wu in the room at this time...
The soldier pushed the door open and reported the situation to the two.
The second is to immediately discuss this matter, and finally decided to just defend the mountain and not go to attack...
The soldiers of the Northwest who had been sent to guard this waterfall mountain all went back at this time, and then went to the king, and after finding the queen, they also reported the situation to the king.
When the king heard this, he felt incredible, why did they rather send heavy troops to guard this mountain, could it be that this mountain hides an ulterior secret, but it is the territory of our northwest ethnic group.
The king felt that he had to go to the scene to see the whole truth.
So a new team of soldiers was assembled, led by the king himself, and went to the waterfall mountain in a mighty way.
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At the waterfall mountain, the commander then talked to General Wu about the time when the kings of the Nali tribes invited the kings and emperors of the various tribes, and among them, the emperors of their national groups were also invited to go with them.
At this time, General Wu immediately felt bad when he heard about it, and when he asked the emperor's companion who was currently going to the Nali country, he did not carry other soldiers with him, and General Wu instantly felt bad, so at this time, he asked the commander to immediately send troops to protect His Majesty's trip to Nali country.
And the commander-in-chief also told General Wu himself about this matter:
"It turned out that when the emperor decided to go to the Northwest Ethnic Group, the commander was the first to step forward and objected and said, let the commander lead the troops to follow him, but he was directly rejected by the emperor, and the emperor also said that their Northwest Ethnic Group would definitely try their best to gather the strength of the national ethnic group and murder themselves, and the more they led the troops, the more they would attract the attention of their Northwest ethnic group, and it would be safe to go alone and alone."
After listening to the emperor's logic, General Wu felt shocked.
So, he said to the commander-in-chief:
"You stay behind to guard this mountain, and I will go to protect the safety of His Majesty the Emperor."
But the commander couldn't resist General Wu, so he could only promise him to go.
So, General Wu led a small group of men and horses down the mountain and went to the route that their emperor Cheng Guo went to Liguo...
However, not long after coming out of the mountain, General Wu met a full 100 soldiers led by the king of the Northwest Ethnic Group, and all of their 100 soldiers were armed with bows and crossbows, long swords, cannons and weapons, and he only brought a mere 20 people on his side, plus he was only 30 people, and what he carried was only a long red tassel gun with an arrow...
After the frontal encounter, General Wu's soldiers did not flinch at all after seeing this, and directly took out the spear head and pointed it at them...
The soldiers behind the king had already drawn their crossbows at this time, and the arrows had been wound, and the arrows were all aimed at the 21 people in their area, just waiting for the king in front of them to give an order
At this time, looking at the battle, General Wu was a little timid and retreated.
This critical moment when the soldiers behind the king are ready to release their arrows. At this moment, several clouds of black smoke drifted directly in front of all of them...
Immediately after floating over, it exploded and spawned several beggars...
That's right, the ghost smokers of the ghost clan are here at this time...
Seeing this, General Wu motioned to the soldiers behind him to point all the arrows in the direction of the ghostly man...
And the king of the Northwest Nation also signaled at this time that the soldiers behind him also pointed the arrows of the crossbow at the Ghost Smoke Man.
At this time, General Wu also drew his sword at this time, and the sword was also pointed at the generated ghost smoke beggars, and the king of the Northwest Nation also took a spear from the hands of the soldiers at this time, and the head of the spear was also aimed at those ghost smoke beggars...
And after those ghost smoke beggars saw their battle, they still used their hands to prepare to gather the mana-flame ball.
Seeing this, General Wu took the lead in stepping forward and slashed at the ghost smoker with his sword, but the king and his soldiers did not move, but watched the play from the sidelines...
General Wu took the sword and slashed left and right, but it couldn't split their ghost smoker, even if he stood next to the ghost smoker, it was just air, and the sword could pass directly through the ghost smoker's body, but the ghost smoker's body was still intact...
And at this time, the ghost smoke man directly used the mana of his palm, and a ghost smoke man directly raised his palm at this time and slapped it at General Wu...
It's this beat,
slapped General Wu's body directly into the sky, and flew into the sky, but it didn't fall off...
When the people saw this, they became timid at this time.
Especially when the king of their Northwest Nation and the soldiers behind him saw the scene just now, they directly threw down all the weapons in their hands, and then all knelt down and kowtowed to the position of the ghost smoker...
And after losing General Wu, the 20 soldiers of them also knelt down in the direction of the ghost clan at this time, kowtowing...
But
At this time, the ghost smoke man threw the ball of flame in his hand at the soldiers of the Northwest Nation and the Cheng Nation who were already kneeling and kowtowing...
And at the critical moment, at this time, in the waterfall mountain in front of him, the monk stepped on the colorful auspicious clouds from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the clouds, and then quickly came here as if he was teleporting, flicked his fingers at the ghost man, and the ghost smoke man disappeared in an instant...
And right here, General Wu, who had just been bounced into the sky by the ghost smoker, also landed at this time...
And when the soldiers on both sides looked up at him, they found that there was a large cloud of black smoke gathered and wound into a thick rope above General Wu, which seemed to be tied in the sky above him, and at the same time seemed to be floating...