Chapter 232: The Puppet Army
Once the war began, the atmosphere in a short period of time had been depressed to the extreme, watching the red and yellow banners of the Southern Tang Army fluttering in the distance, the officers and soldiers of Dingnan above the city pass felt tremendous pressure.
"Buzz...... "Countless flying insects, snakes and ants are attacking the defensive shield of Dingnan Pass, and this defensive array is being tested at this moment.......
When he first designed this defensive cover, Hong Zhao had a lot of intentions, which was able to resist the impact of the other party for a few days and nights! But at that time, the defense object was not insects, snakes, ants, and other things!
The Southern Tang army fought with the Dingnan army so many times that both sides were very familiar with each other, knew how the other side would attack, and knew how to defend themselves.
However, at that time, the opponents were Hong Zhao and Shen Tuhu, but now the opponent is someone else, and according to the information obtained by Sedum, the current leading general of the Southern Tang Dynasty army is the newly promoted Shang Hu! The deputy general Duan Minghui! The real behind-the-scenes commander is their new emperor Li Jinglong.
The opponents here are Xu Fengchun and Hu Dingguo, who are guarding the city army in Dingnan Pass, but the actual commander of the three armies is Sedum.
This is equivalent to the layout of the chess board of the two sides, everyone has set up a position, but everyone has hidden the means.
In the small building of Nanping Mountain, Yuan Qingshan stood by the window, silent, holding his beard with one hand and putting the other hand behind him, his fingers were constantly shaking!
At this time, a hand reached over and grabbed the hand, Yuan Qingshan turned his head and saw that it was Zhu Mingxu!
"I'm used to it, and I can't change it for a while!"
"Brother Yuan, why don't you play chess with me!" Zhu Mingxu let go of his palm, just now, at this moment, he had already probed the situation in Yuan Qingshan's body, what he didn't expect was that the cultivation in Yuan Qingshan's body had really dissipated, but there was infinite vitality!
Even he couldn't help but admire the magic of Sedum's elixir, after Yuan Qingshan went through this catastrophe, he had countless longevity.
But his Shouyuan obviously can't go through the toss of opening and calculating, and he still has to pay attention to him at all times.
Yuan Qingshan sighed and said: "If I don't play chess anymore, I will always lose to you, and I will lose the power of calculation, and my chess power will not be good!"
Zhu Mingxu smiled and said, "Swing the chess pieces, win or lose!"
So the two sat down and placed some chess pieces on the chessboard at random, and then Yuan Qingshan pointed to a row of black chess pieces on the chessboard and said: "This is Dingnan Pass" and then pointed to a bunch of white chess pieces on the opposite side and said: "This is the army on the opposite side!"
The black and white chess pieces are mixed together, these two places are obvious demarcations, Zhu Mingxu nodded and said, "It seems that it should be like this!"
"How long have you been following the prince?" Yuan Qingshan suddenly asked.
"It's been almost a hundred years!" Zhu Mingxu picked up a white chess piece and stared at the chessboard.
"Back then, the Immortal Master Pavilion sent you here to play a chess piece in Dingnan Pass, and also because you were born in the South China Sea, did you have the mission of the Southern Tang Dynasty?"
Zhu Mingxu nodded again and said, "It was indeed planned and arranged like this at the beginning. ”
"After so many years, you have always liked to hold white chess, but now you have turned into black chess, so it is better to change!"
After Yuan Qingshan finished speaking, he turned the chessboard in front of him, and the situation on the entire chessboard changed with it, yours became mine, mine became yours!
Zhu Mingxu put down the white chess in his hand, picked up a black chess piece and put it on the chessboard and said, "Do you mean to do it now?"
Yuan Qingshan nodded and said: "The prince is not here, the prince is in Dingnan Pass, these white chess pieces should not exist anymore!"
"Those are not important!!" Zhu Mingxu nodded at the Dingnan Pass where the black pieces were lined up and said: "The white chess here is the most critical, but you can't tell which ones are white chess, and those black chess pieces are dangerous and important!"
Yuan Qingshan frowned and said, "So what should we do?"
"Bai Jianzhou should be able to listen to you, it's useless for the Flying Cavalry to stay in Dingnan City, it's better to push it forward!" Zhu Mingxu said: "I will go to Dingnan Pass in person, whether I can play the world or not, I'm not sure, but do your best." ”
"Brother Xian, this is going to be ......!" Yuan Qingshan seemed a little surprised, but then he seemed to understand something, sighed and said: "Brother Xian, take care of yourself, after this crisis, I think the prince should be fine." ”
"Maybe ......!" Zhu Mingxu raised his head and said: "Where the prince is, he also has a role there, I hope I don't do it too much!"
Yuan Qingshan smiled: "He's still young, but it's ......!" Yuan Qingshan suddenly thought of something and glanced at the long window of the study outside the door, where there was a faint woman reading.
A smile appeared on the corner of Yuan Qingshan's mouth: "It seems that everything is not bad, ask for me, when will the prince return?"
Zhu Mingxu also looked outside the door and said to Yuan Qingshan: "I really didn't expect this kind of change, maybe what you said is really the meaning of the Heavenly Dao!"
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Dingnan City has received the news of the attack of the Southern Tang army at the front pass, which made the people in the city finally panic, and some people even used the excuse to cause chaos, arson everywhere and lure a large number of people to the streets, storm the official yamen, and rob the shops!
But then Bai Jianzhou led the Shenwei Flying Horse into the city quickly, and the war horse galloped on the streets of the city, quickly extinguishing the chaos everywhere and arresting many people!
These people were frightened in front of the expressionless flying cavalry, but before they could cry, they were immediately beheaded in the street and their heads were cut off! Blood was sprinkled all over the street!
The thunderous means immediately shocked the young people, and then, Bai Jianzhou left a part of the flying cavalry army to assist in the defense of Dingnan City, and the brigade of men and horses escorted 50,000 prisoners of the Shence army, and began to think about Dingnanguan to help.
The battle situation in Dingnan Pass has reached a critical moment, when the first wave of insect troops, after the impact of the protective shield, the center of the Guan's internal warfare took action, when the hub was converted, the entire protective shield suddenly lit up with red and yellow flames!
Immediately, most of the insects, snakes, and ants attached to the defensive cover were burned to death! But the Southern Tang army pounced on the second wave of insects and insects in time to strengthen the previous impact.
The yellow-red flames were not a specific fire, the temperature was not high, but it was extremely scorching, and it could quickly burn the beetles and flying insects to death, but the snakes that reminded them of the thickness began to burrow into the earth.
"Knock knock knock ......!" The war drums in the camp of the Southern Tang army rang out loudly, and the team began to press up!
It was some giant made of wood, several feet high, and it was very stiff to walk, but because of its huge body, and the fact that it had several floors of platform fences inside it, it was full of soldiers!
"Boom ......!"
A large number of war elephants, giant tigers, bears and other fierce beasts also appeared, all of them were made of stiff wood and iron, and behind them appeared a large number of soldiers with stiff faces, each holding huge weapons, and their bodies were neatly arranged forward.
"Puppet army!
The soldiers on Dingnan Pass began to shout, in the past, when fighting with the Southern Tang army, the other party was very good at using puppet soldiers, but it was the first time that so many puppet beasts still had puppet soldiers.
Sedum was the first to rush to the observation post and see those puppet armies with his own eyes! When he saw those puppet beasts and puppet people, he understood that it was all related to the Mingjia Daoist he had met before.
But the red ones in the puppet army are obviously low-level goods, far inferior to those puppets around the Mingjia Dao people! Even the Tsing Yi puppets they hid are inferior.
They were all very simple puppets, except for being rough and hard, they were completely consumable, and the presumptuous purpose was to consume the defenders on Dingnan Pass.
The puppet army moves very slowly, slowly moving forward with the war drums behind them! It will take some time to reach the protective shield, but these things are different from the insect army, and the damage to the protective shield is very fatal!
If they were allowed to approach the city wall of Dingnan Pass, I am afraid that the thousand-foot-long city wall would be breached in an instant! However, behind the wall of Dingnan Pass were two huge iron gates, which would be safe in a short period of time.
Where the protective shield center in Dingnan Pass City was, all the soldiers were waiting nervously, waiting for this next order!
With the second order from the commander, several large men stepped forward and pushed several bronze handles!
A large number of insects fell one after another, and under the death of countless beetles, a thick layer of black beetle corpses was laid on the ground!
Countless beetles, insects, and flying insects have died, and many snakes have also died on the ground, and most of them have escaped, and these snakes have directly found the cracks under the cliff and drilled into them, and some have disappeared into the soil!
Under this second wave of attacks, the protective shield finally became dim, and the sergeants in the center of the city and the key positions were repairing those damaged parts in the science department, and they also needed to replenish the spirit stones that had been depleted of energy!
These spirit stones are all money!But now they don't care so much!
But at this moment, behind the officer who was standing on the high platform and commanding his subordinates, the two guards glanced at each other, the light in their eyes flashed, and they suddenly took out their daggers, stepped forward and stabbed the officer in the back of the heart!
"Ah——!h
"You ...... You guys!" fell to the ground before he finished speaking, and died with a whimper.
The two guards laughed evilly, stepped forward and kicked the officer off the high platform, and then said to his accomplices: "Do it!"
There was even someone answering the sound below! Immediately after that, several round black balls were ignited and thrown into the key position of the center!
It didn't take long for a few violent explosions to come, and the center of the entire defensive shield was suddenly destroyed, and after the outer defensive shield flickered violently, it disappeared like a water wave dissipated!
This situation immediately attracted the attention of the guards of Dingnan Pass, and someone immediately reported to Xu Fengchun that Xu Fengchun knew, and Xu Fengchun was surprised!
"Brother Dingguo, you go to the defense center to have a look! the others come with me!" General Xu roared angrily and immediately ordered.