Chapter 177: The Battle Situation in the South
Li Ye, who was standing with his hands in his hands, looked at the battlefield, his eyebrows and eyes were calm and peaceful. The two armies have reached the critical moment of dividing the victory and defeat, and as a veteran general on the battlefield, he is naturally very clear. The details of the small array battle, and the general trend of the advance and retreat of the large array, were all included in his eyes.
If the Great Food Guards didn't have a way to deal with the soldiers' generals, today's victory would belong to the Tiger Guards. No, it would be more accurate to say that the victory of the two armies belonged to the Tiger Guard. From now on, there will be no more guards in front of you.
However, after many years of fighting on the battlefield, the opponent has a bit of success, Li Ye can generally see eight or nine at a glance, and he doesn't think that victory will be so easy to get - although the two armies have fought so far, no matter who wins, it can't be said that it is easy.
Because of the battle method of breaking the formation with human lives, the Great Food Guards have now left a corpse, no matter how you look at it, there are no less than 10,000 corpses, spread on the ground like a carpet, and it looks magnificent from a distance. Although the casualties of the Tiger Guards were only one-tenth of the opponent's, at this time, they had already used all the means to press the bottom of the box.
Li Ye glanced up at the sky, the sun was in the west, and it should be almost the hour. There is not much time left for the day.
Just when he looked up at the sky, Li Ye's heart moved.
Judging from the position of the head of the city, the sky was as blue as a wash, and the black qi chain network opened by the black-robed ghost-faced monk of the Great Food Guard was nothing more than a black cloud in the low sky. It can cover the large array of 10,000 people, but it is not worth mentioning compared to the entire sky.
And at this moment, high in the sky under the blue sky, there are gray flowing clouds emerging, stratus clouds like combs.
At the same time, in the formation of the Great Food Guard, except for the monks who were fighting, a strange chanting sound sounded, such as Taoist chanting, like a monk chanting, carrying the sound of wind and thunder, and the momentum of morning bells and dusk drums.
Those Crescent Moon monks had an aura like fireworks. Maren, who was in the sky above the Great Food Guard, opened his arms and robbed to hunt. More than 100,000 people, as if they had become fire men, burned themselves, and illuminated the god Mullen.
The gray clouds under the sky have covered the sky and the sun, surging like boiling water, tumbling like waves, not knowing its breadth, without seeing the end, like a canopy.
Li Ye felt the coercive aura that was as thick as a mountain, it was a force that was so powerful that it could be indescribable, as if it could change the day, and with one blow, it could turn the sea into a mulberry field.
Li Ye is no stranger to similar powers, and he has also seen them when he was recovering Tibet in the past. However, at that time, he took the mortal monks on the expedition, and the immortals above the immortal realm did not accompany him, and the immortal power never clashed with each other, so Li Ye and the others were suppressed by cultivation.
Now that the Immortal Realm monks are all out, and there is a large army by their side, the situation has been very different.
Li Ye didn't appear to be suppressed in cultivation, so he just felt the strength of the other party, simply tough. He maintained the posture of raising his head with his hands down, and the fingers of his right hand behind his back kept curving, like a cook about to kill a sheep, and his hands were itching to hold the slaughtering knife.
But he held back after all.
In the blink of an eye, with a wave of Malen's sleeves, in the sea of gray clouds, countless clear rays of light shot down, dense as locusts and slender as willows, accurately falling on the crescent moon monks who prayed sincerely.
The original aura flames on the Crescent Moon monks' bodies suddenly converged, and they were replaced by oval-shaped clear light shields, which protected them like eggshells.
With a loud shout from Maren, a clear light mask rose from each monk's body, forming dazzling enchantments according to their location and the size of the battle array.
With the strength of the various soldiers of the Tiger Guard, they fought against each other and complemented each other.
The Crescent Moon Sect monks, who were originally weak, immediately felt as if they had eaten the Supreme Elixir, their faces were red, their ears were red, and their eyes were blazing. They erupted from their throats with a strange cry that resembled a night owl, and rushed into the battle formation of the Tiger Guards who were attacking them.
The collision of divine power and the power of the battle array aroused a dazzling light, like a small sun, exploding on the battlefield, and yellow sand clouds rose.
After the fierce battle, both the light of divine power and the strength of the soldiers' battle array were mostly weak, but the two sides were still dimensional
Hold the minimum momentum. The strength of the Tiger Guard's battle array remained intact, and the Crescent Monks still had the light shield on the individual's body.
The Crescent Monk and the Tiger Guard soldiers engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and the fight was inextricable for a while, with many casualties on both sides. Relying on the strength of the battle array of soldiers that had not yet dissipated, the Tiger Guards attacked fiercely, and although the Crescent Monks were passively defensive, they could barely resist by relying on the shields on their bodies, and they were no longer trampled on as weeds.
The fight was half loud, and the two sides did not distinguish the winner, and the battle once again reached a stalemate.
Until sunset.
Ma Lun's face changed, and the communication god asked: "An hour is about to pass, and the strength of the Tang Army's battle array is obviously very weak, why is it not dissipating?"
He had already seen that if the Tiger Guards were not blessed with the power of the battle array, they would not be able to stop the shielded Crescent Moon Monks. But now, because of the integrity of the battle array, the Crescent Monks still suffered more casualties, even though they had individual shields.
The divine power shield on the Crescent Moon Monk's body was no longer too strong to assemble that kind of overall enchantment, and now he was almost passively beaten. If this continues, they will not be able to overcome the Tiger Guards.
The true God did not answer.
At the head of the city, King Qi frowned and said, "The power of the True God of the Crescent Moon Sect is really not to be underestimated. If the Tiger Guard Army hadn't had more than 200 generals, every 500 people would have the power of the generals to rise up in battle, and the large and small formations would be connected to each other, supporting and invoking each other, which greatly enhanced the staying power, but I was afraid that the power of the battle array would have already collapsed. ”
By now, she had seen that although the strength of the Tiger Guards was still there, it was barely maintained. Although it will not be consumed quickly, it can no longer have the power of its peak, and it is impossible to crush the Great Food Guard.
If the fight continues like this, even if the Tiger Guards can achieve some results, they will not be able to really defeat the Great Food Guards.
Li Ye's hand behind his back has regained his calm, "Competing with the combat strength of the two armies, the Tiger Guards have defeated the Great Food Guards." But the other party has the help of the True God of the Crescent Moon Sect, and this battle can barely be considered a draw. ”
Speaking of this, he waved his hand and ordered, "Mingjin retreats." ”
The sky will be twilight, today's battle, it will be the end, although the night battle is not necessary, but after all, there is no need for that.
Hearing the sound of golden gongs in the city, Mullen quietly breathed a sigh of relief and ordered: "Collect the troops." ”
He no longer had any confidence in this battle, and even the power of the true god could not defeat the power of the military battle array led by a famous soldier general and presided over by more than 200 military generals, and he had this feeling of palpitations on the battlefield for the first time.
In today's battle, the Great Food Guards suffered unprecedented casualties, and nearly 10% of their troops were lost in the first formation, which was definitely not a normal war. If today's way of fighting continues for a few more days, then the casualties of the Great Food Guards will reach three or four percent.
It was a horrible, hellish sight
If in every battle, three or four percent of comrades will be killed or wounded, then for the officers and men of the army, it will definitely cause everyone to be in danger and panic, and lead to the collapse of the army's morale. No one can fight in the face of such a serious life-threatening crisis.
Soldiers fight desperately to survive, not to die.
Even if the Crescent Sect monks had faith and were enthusiastically willing to sacrifice their lives to the true God, it was only for the sake of getting more wealth and better life opportunities—at the level of Qi cultivators, no one was stupid.
One or two battles can be fought like this, even if there are ninety percent of the dead and wounded.
But if it has been such a battle all along, before the battle has even begun, everyone knows that in every battle in the future, there is a half chance that they will die, and if a battle that does not know how long it will be won, and how long it will last, and every day there will be casualties and 10% of the soldiers, then no army will be able to hold out.
The army needs to win, and the soldiers need to live.
If this could not be done, the casualties would not be so large.
Therefore, after the troops were collected, the first thing Mullen said to the Great Food Guards was "The Tang Army can't hold out for long, as long as we fight hard, they will inevitably be defeated by us!"
And at about the same time, Li Ye also said something similar to the Tiger Guard.
After calming and boosting morale, Mullen stepped aside alone and asked the true god how to fight the next battle.
After the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Army returned to the camp to rest and heal their wounds, Li Ye received a military report from Ah Shucheng.
Chen Qinglin's Yulin Army fought against the Great Food Guards there today, and the battle situation was similar to that of the Tiger Guards. The Yulin Army and the Tiger Guard Army have the same combat strength, and they have similar records, which is also expected by Li Ye.
"Today, more than 1,000 soldiers have been lost, which can be described as heavy casualties. Zhao Poyu bowed down on one knee in front of Li Ye to apologize, "The minister did not break through the battle formation of the Great Food Guards, and he has failed His Majesty's trust, please punish Your Majesty!"
He is the chief general of the Tiger Guards, and he has the realm of a famous general, but in the case of going into battle in person, he failed to tear through the formation of the Great Food Guards and create an opportunity for the troops to break the enemy, which is a great dereliction of duty in his own opinion.
In the absence of a broken formation and defeat of the enemy, there was always a Tiger Guard army with only 100,000 people, which lost more than 1,000 soldiers in one day, which also made his heart feel like blood.
An ordinary army of 100,000 will fight in a battle, killing and wounding hundreds of people in a day, that is the normal standard, as long as there is no defeat, there will be no thousands of casualties. If thousands of people are slashed and killed every day, after ten days and half a month of fighting, there will be no one in the military array.
In the era of cold weapons, millions of armies held each other for half a year, and hundreds of thousands of troops fought for more than a month, which was said to be huge, but in the case of no defeat on one side, the loss was at most tens of thousands.
Li Ye picked up Zhao Poyu, and said disapprerovitically: "I haven't paid attention to this casualty yet, let's fight again tomorrow!"
The war between the monks' armies is no longer a cold weapon war, but because the monks have a relatively strong defense and are not so easy to die, the casualties are quite small.
If it were according to Li Ye's experience on the earth, today's battle would have been full of corpses. After all, on the earth, although the power of the "scientific and technological magic weapon" in everyone's hands is strong, the warrior's body is too weak.
The Great Food Guards set up camp in front of Ku Tan City, because they were Qi cultivators, so they moved quickly, and they didn't give the Tiger Guards a chance to take advantage of it.
For the next three days, the two armies fought fiercely in front of Kunon City, and every day they fought from sunrise to sunset.
The Great Food Guards are eager to win, and the battle situation is similar to the first day, the Tiger Guard's Mo Sword Formation and the Soldier Battle Formation will appear on time every day, and the black-robed ghost-faced monks in the Great Food Guards will also welcome the true gods in due course.
However, with the experience of the first day, the casualties in the battle on the second day were much smaller, and what means did the other side have, now everyone has a way to deal with it, and they will not be suddenly slammed.
During these three days of fierce fighting, there were fewer casualties in each day than in the other.
But by the end of the day, many of the monks of the Great Eclipse Guards had been killed.
On the fifth day, the Great Food Guards were still attacking, but the offensive was not as good as a few days before, and the Tiger Guards were still mainly defensive, seeing the opportunity to counterattack, but the morale was not as good as at the beginning. At the end of the day, there were less than a thousand corpses on the battlefield.
After that day, the two armies rested for a day.
A fierce battle ensued.
By the tenth day, the attack of the Great Food Guards looked like it was perfunctory, and the spirit was seriously lacking, and everyone was waving their blades in front of the Great Shield Spear Formation, and there was no intention of fighting hard. The situation of the Tiger Guards is slightly better, after all, it is the defender, but it is not easy to counterattack.
There was no way, and the next day the Great Eclipse Guards stopped attacking again and began to rest again.
This time, they didn't fight for three days.
Li Ye stood at the head of the city and said to King Qi beside him: "The battle situation in the southern part of the Seven River Basin has completely reached a stalemate. Both armies were exhausted. Although the Tiger Guards have the power to counterattack, they have no spirit to win. If there is no new force to join, and the two sides will not make mistakes, it will be difficult to distinguish the winner in the short term. ”