Chapter 88: Brutal War
Just when the armies on the two wings of the Feng Kingdom were fighting bloodily with the two thousand cavalry of the Xuanwu Kingdom, Shen Lingxi led the five hundred cavalry to rush to an open area.
"General Yuwenlong, our cavalry is surrounded by the Feng State army. The battle looks unprecedentedly fierce, and our men are about to lose their hold!"
A centurion saw that his brothers had been besieged by the Feng Kingdom, and from the chaotic spell attacks in the sky, it could be seen that the soldiers of the Xuanwu Kingdom were suffering a large number of casualties, so he asked Shen Lingxi very anxiously about his next strategy.
Of course, Shen Lingxi knew that the soldiers of the Xuanwu Kingdom were being consumed in large quantities, in fact, this was what she wanted, but she didn't want to flee with the remaining five hundred cavalry, she wanted to win this war.
Only by winning this war can she not reveal her identity, and she can continue to replenish her troops, and only then will she have the opportunity to continue to consume the forces of the Xuanwu Kingdom next time.
Generally speaking, the territory of Fengguo is the largest on this continent, and the population is also the largest, although Xuanwu has strategic resources such as Xuanwu ore, but after all, the land is mostly mountainous, so the number of people is far from being comparable to Fengguo.
As for the war between the Xuanwu Kingdom and the Feng Kingdom, Shen Lingxi felt that only by constantly consuming the living force of the Xuanwu Kingdom would this protracted war stop one day.
The current Fengguo court is chaotic, and the power is controlled by the queen, but fortunately, at the beginning of the founding of the Fengguo, the strategy of sharing the world with the scholars was implemented, so although the queen controls the imperial city and the court of the Fengguo, but the following facts are all prestigious and conscientious scholars.
Therefore, in the battle of the entire Feng Kingdom against the attack of the Xuanwu Kingdom, it was actually the group of scholars and doctors of the Feng Kingdom who carried out every guard action.
Of course, if it weren't for the internal problems of the Feng Kingdom, the Xuanwu Kingdom would not dare to launch such a blatant attack on the Feng Kingdom.
And Shen Lingxi, as the most powerful undercover agent of the high-level undercover Xuanwu Kingdom, Shen Lingxi felt that only by trying his best to climb up in the Xuanwu Kingdom and consuming the strength of the Xuanwu Kingdom while winning the war, could he have the ability to turn the tide.
This is what Shen Lingxi has to do now, so Shen Lingxi doesn't care at all about the constant casualties of the Xuanwu soldiers.
Hearing the centurion's inquiry, Shen Lingxi just looked at the Xuanwu army that was gradually swallowed up by the Feng country's army, and it took a long time before giving the order.
"The time has come, we will now attack the left flank of the Feng Kingdom's army. Don't think about rescuing the brothers who are surrounded, I just want to use them to firmly attract the attention of the Feng army. What you want to do is to directly defeat the left flank of the Feng country's army, and I want the head of the Feng country's general. ”
Shen Lingxi sat on the horse and ordered coldly, she noticed that the flag of the Feng State army was fluttering on the left flank, so she decided to attack the left flank of the Feng State army, and strive to kill the Feng State generals, so that although the Feng Kingdom has an advantage in numbers, but without the main general, the army's morale will definitely be in chaos.
In this way, winning this war is not a sure thing.
The centurion saw that Shen Lingxi was indifferent to his words, and his heart was anxious, and when he suddenly heard Shen Lingxi's order, he realized that the general was observing where the enemy's main general was.
I admired Shen Lingxi very much for having such a calm and calm attitude at this extremely urgent time, so he raised his saber and shouted loudly: "Follow the general's orders, brothers copy the guy for me, we rush up and take the enemy's main general back to General Yuwenlong, brothers give me ......"
The centurion led his hundred cavalry to charge first.
Shen Lingxi didn't stop the centurion, but just pointed in the direction that the centurion rushed up.
"Well, you guys rush up together. The head of the main general of the Fengguo army must be given back to General Ben. ”
Shen Lingxi had no intention of rushing together to fight desperately, so he left the ten horsemen as escorts, and the other soldiers followed the centurion and rushed towards the left flank of the Feng Kingdom's army.
Shen Lingxi rode on a horse, standing on a higher hillside, leisurely watching the fierce fighting armies of the two sides in front of him.
She has already sent all the soldiers she can use, and the outcome of this battle depends on whether these Xuanwu soldiers are brave enough, and even if Feng Guo is all defeated by this army, it will actually be able to replenish the troops again soon, after all, the population of Feng Country is much larger than that of Xuanwu Kingdom.
Therefore, for Shen Lingxi, the Feng Kingdom can afford to consume, but the Xuanwu Kingdom cannot afford to consume it.
It's just that not all the generals of the Xuanwu Kingdom can realize this.
So Shen Lingxi only needs to win this war, and she can go back and continue to be her general, and her soldiers, presumably Tuoba Jun will give her another one soon.
After looking at the hillside for two hours, watching this battlefield like a meat grinder with cold eyes, Shen Lingxi only felt that the smell of blood was getting stronger and stronger.
Gradually, the army on the right flank of the Feng Kingdom has completely eaten the thousand Xuanwu soldiers who were surrounded.
On the left flank of the Fengguo army, because of the sudden addition of five hundred Xuanwu cavalry, the few remaining Xuanwu soldiers who were surrounded were still struggling to resist.
In this case, the left wing army of Fengguo gradually became more and more difficult, although the number of people accounted for the majority, but the local Xuanwu cavalry had more advantages.
As a result, the left flank of the Fengguo army began to be unable to support it, and a tendency to defeat and flee gradually appeared.
On the way to retreat backwards, the military flag of the commander of the Feng Kingdom was finally caught up by the cavalry of the Xuanwu Kingdom, and the soldiers of the Xuanwu Kingdom who killed the red eyes swarmed and rushed towards the main general of the Feng Kingdom.
It is obvious that the end is already doomed, and the main general of the Feng Kingdom army was trampled into pulp by the soldiers of the Xuanwu Kingdom in the trampling of countless horses' hooves.
It's just that a quick-eyed soldier quickly cut off the head of the chief general of the Feng Kingdom, and picked up the bloody human head in the air, showing off to the soldiers of the Feng Kingdom in the distance.
The soldiers on the left flank of Fengguo were the closest, so when they saw that their master was about to be killed, they could no longer hold their feet, so they began to flee one after another.
The Xuanwu cavalry followed closely behind, slaughtering the fleeing Fengguo soldiers frantically.
The right wing of the Feng Kingdom army had already eaten the thousand Xuanwu soldiers at this time, and was about to turn around and join the Feng soldiers on the left flank.
But he suddenly found that the left wing was defeated by the soldiers of the Xuanwu Kingdom, and the soldiers of the left wing of the Feng Kingdom fled everywhere.
The right-wing Fengguo army was a little dumbfounded, but soon noticed the fact that their main general had been killed.
As a result, the entire Feng State army on the battlefield was in turmoil, even the right-wing Feng State army that ate a thousand Xuanwu soldiers was no exception.
As a result, the Feng army, which was significantly more numerous, began to retreat rapidly in the direction of the rear of the Feng State.
However, the soldiers of the Xuanwu Kingdom, who were relatively small, rode on horses and chased after these soldiers of the Feng Kingdom who fled in a panic.
After leaving behind the dead bodies in a place, the Fengguo army finally retreated to a city and could not hold out.
And there are very few soldiers on the side of the Xuanwu army who still have combat effectiveness, it can be said that the Xuanwu army won this war, but the price paid was too heavy.
Seeing that the soldiers of the Feng Kingdom retreated into the city one after another, the soldiers of the Xuanwu Kingdom could no longer help these soldiers of the Feng Kingdom, so under the leadership of the last centurion, the Xuanwu Army began to gather the remnants and returned to the vicinity of the hillside where Shen Lingxi was located.
At this time, the battlefield that experienced a big war was strewn with corpses, and some soldiers who were not dead were still wailing, and this scene was like hell on earth.
"The Fengguo army has been completely routed by us, and now they are hiding in the city and dare not come out. General, what are we going to do next?"
The blood-stained centurion dragged his tired body back to Shen Lingxi, and behind the centurion was a soldier who was also covered in scars and blood.
From the tired and sad expressions of these soldiers, Shen Lingxi saw their loneliness, the victory of this war did not make them much joy, but the grief of losing a lot of Paoze brothers.
Shen Lingxi saw the expressions of these people in his eyes, and thought to himself: "You invaders, it's not your own fault that you have today's fate. Nothing to sympathize with!"
With an expressionless face, Shen Lingxi gave the order to clean up the battlefield and collect the troops.
So the soldiers who could still move began to collect some of the abandoned magic weapons on the battlefield, and the most important thing was to check if there were any of their own people who were still alive, and carry them onto stretchers or horses.
So Shen Lingxi took this remnant army back to the army garrison in Donghua County.
Tuoba Jun had already learned the result of this battle from Tanma, and Tuoba Jun was still quite satisfied with the fact that with an army of 3,000 people, he could completely defeat the army of 5,000 Feng Kingdom.
As a battle-hardened general, the loss of soldiers is inevitable, as long as such sacrifices can be exchanged for the expected results, then this result is a good result.
Therefore, Tuoba Jun did not blame Shen Lingxi, who was expressionless and heavy, but patted Shen Lingxi's shoulder and comforted him softly.
"It doesn't matter, the loss this time is a bit big, but the loss on the Feng Country side is even greater. This is the first time you've led a soldier on your own, and it's still a good result to have such a result. I think that the first time I led the troops to fight, I didn't perform so well as you! I can only blame the Feng State army for being prepared, which is why we have suffered such heavy losses. I think it's all the ghosts of those pervasive secret guards in the Feng Kingdom!"
Tuoba Jun already knew that the news of Shen Lingxi's sneak attack on Feng Guo's army was known by Feng Guo, but the source of this news leak could not be found, of course, Tuoba Jun would not know that it was the righteous son in front of him who leaked the news.
After comforting Shen Lingxi, Tuoba Jun let Shen Lingxi go down to rest. After all, he had just experienced such a cruel war, Tuoba Jun didn't want to leave any shadow in Shen Lingxi's heart, in Tuoba Jun's opinion, Shen Lingxi had the potential to be a general, so he would definitely be able to become a qualified general in the future.
Shen Lingxi was indeed a little tired, the first time she experienced such a bloody and cruel battlefield, it still made her feel a little uncomfortable, especially looking at the corpses of the soldiers of the Feng Kingdom all over the ground, she still felt a little guilty in her heart.
These lost lives were all her compatriots, and perhaps there were soldiers from Runan.
"Father, the news of this sneak attack on the Feng Kingdom army must have leaked. The Fengguo army was obviously on guard, so our vanguard detachment suffered heavy losses. Later, in order to rescue this vanguard detachment, I had to give the order to attack in a hurry. It's a bit of a loss, and I'm still to blame for my lack of experience!"
Shen Lingxi did not argue, but hurriedly admitted his fault to Tuoba Jun.
Tuoba Jun nodded in understanding and said: "I didn't expect this situation, and Feng Guo's recent magic weapons have made great progress, and the current Feng Kingdom's army is no longer as vulnerable as before." So I can't blame you, of course, if I were you, in that case I might have given the order to attack. You can't sit idly by and watch your vanguard detachment being besieged! Okay, you go back to Donghua County to rest for a few days, don't think so much, once you succeed, your bones will wither, this is also normal!"
Tuoba Jun was able to become the number one general of the Xuanwu Kingdom, of course, he also had to step on countless corpses to have today's status, so for the loss of soldiers, this Tuoba Jun really didn't particularly care.
Shen Lingxi heard Tuoba Jun say this, so he continued to pretend to be lonely, and then rode back to the general's mansion in Donghua County to rest.
On the second day after returning to Donghua County, Shen Lingxi went to the Dan Pharmacy where Zhang Xueqin was located and told him everything about the situation on the battlefield.
It also said the reason why he needed to defeat the Feng State army, but for the fact that thousands of Feng Kingdom soldiers were killed and wounded, Shen Lingxi expressed his willingness to be punished by the Feng State Secret Guard Organization.
Zhang Xueqin told Elder Zhang Tiande about this situation, and Elder Zhang Tiande said that there was no way to do this.
It is very rare for Shen Lingxi to be able to inform the Fengguo army in advance to prepare for the battle, after all, it is the general who is fighting, standing in Shen Lingxi's identity, there is no better way to solve these things done by the Fengguo army, so there is no mention of the punishment of Shen Lingxi.
After Shen Lingxi admitted her mistake to the Fengguo Secret Guard Organization, she didn't expect Elder Zhang Tiande to understand her so well, so she felt even more guilty about these sacrificed Fengguo soldiers in her heart.
Turning his head, Shen Lingxi took two million taels of silver, which were all filial piety sent by Liu Yonghe, the president of the Yonghe Chamber of Commerce, some time ago.
Shen Lingxi handed over the two million taels of silver to Zhang Xueqin, hoping that the secret guards of the Feng Kingdom could use the money to comfort the families of the fallen Feng State soldiers.
Zhang Xueqin was also a little moved when she saw Shen Lingxi blaming herself like this, to be honest, from Shen Lingxi's point of view, this rout of the Feng Kingdom army was a must, so there was no need for Shen Lingxi to be so sad.
Seeing that Shen Lingxi was able to take out two million taels to compensate the families of the sacrificial soldiers of the Feng Kingdom, Zhang Xueqin felt that Shen Lingxi still had a soft heart under his cynical appearance, so his good impression of Shen Lingxi increased a few points.
After Shen Lingxi handed over two million taels of silver to Zhang Xueqin, she returned to the General's Mansion and closed her door, she needed time to forget the shadow in her heart brought by this cruel war.
If she could, Shen Lingxi hoped that the war between the Xuanwu Kingdom and the Feng Kingdom would end as soon as possible, but she knew that she still needed to continue to work hard to achieve this.