Nissa City is the largest city in the northeast of the Great Food, and the seventy or eighty thousand monks and huge supplies that Garrigi brought out from there are the absolute core of the first batch of monks to arrive in the east. If this team ceases to exist, it means that at least thirty percent of the first batch of recruited monks and supplies will be gone.

Without this 30% of the strength, the strength of the second line of defense has been greatly reduced.

Because of this, Mullen was furious when he heard the news.

He grabbed the collar of the talking monk, sprayed the other party's face, and roared: "Didn't Garrigi say that Tang Dynasty Xizuo had been ambushed by you a long time ago, and had lost the ability to act on a large scale?

The archmonk's face turned pale, but he didn't know what to say. Aren't they confused, aren't they shocked? Even now, they haven't figured out the questions that Mullen asked, and they're just as shocked in their hearts.

These people didn't fight with Gariji, so they were able to get away with it, but because of this, they didn't hear what Xu Ge said to Gariji.

Not getting the answer he wanted, Mullen threw the monk away, only to feel his heart blocked. The thought of how much the battle would affect him made him irritable and anxious.

Just as he was barely steadying his mind and continuing to hurry, he encountered two more great monks who were covered in bruises and flying in embarrassment.

So Mullen heard of the second attack, the monks suffered heavy losses, and their supplies were burned to the ground. This team was not as large as Nissa City's, but there were tens of thousands of people, and it was also because of the day and night journey, which gave the Western Regions Merchant Houses the opportunity to take advantage of their exhaustion to attack.

This time, Ma Len finally couldn't hold back, and was so angry that a mouthful of blood spurted out.

By the time Mullen returned to Farman City, the heart of the second line of defence, he had already received news that three teams had been attacked. The first batch of conscripts and supplies that should have reached the second line of defense had already lost nearly half.

The great monk who came to report the news of Maren was killed on the spot, so he couldn't help but continue to vomit blood.

Fortunately, in the next few days, there was no more bad news, and several other teams arrived at Faman City with the recruited monks and supplies, which gave Malen some comfort, and he had the heart to retreat and cultivate and recover from his injuries.

At this time, both Ma Lun and Xi Luchi knew very well that because only half of the first batch of conscripted monks and materials arrived in the east, the combat strength of the second line of defense was very weak in the early stage, and the battle must be very difficult, and it was even very likely to be broken through by the Tang army in one fell swoop.

Malen was ready to give up on Farmand City, a decision that made him so painful that he had to do so.

The loss of the first batch of monks and materials is irreparable, but as long as the second and third batches of conscripted monks and materials can successfully reach the eastern border and reach the third line of defense, Da Shi still has the strength to block the Tang army.

The only difference is that the war will spread to the hinterland of the Great Eclipse, and the price paid by the Great Eclipse is even greater.

At the same time, Mullen strictly ordered the Great Temple, especially the Supervisory Yuan, to exert all their strength to wage a war against the Tang Dynasty in all the cities in the rear, and to hunt them down at all costs. In order to facilitate the actions of the Great Temple, he gave the other party the greatest authority when facing local officials and forces without being hindered in the slightest.

The strength of the Tang Dynasty's meticulous work had already made Ma Lun tremble, and the other party's influence on the war was far beyond his previous expectations, almost making him unable to calm down for a moment. Before that, he never thought that he would be able to do so much and do so much harm to the frontal battlefield.

In such an extraordinary period, in the treatment of the Tang Dynasty, it is better to kill 3,000 by mistake than to let go of one.

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"In detail, Mullen's conscription order can mobilize millions of monks and enough war supplies to last for several years. If the monks and supplies enter the battlefield as scheduled, and let the Great Food completely arrange the defensive line, it will be difficult for us to deal with. ”

On Mulu City, Li Ye looked at the army marching westward, and talked about the battle situation with King Qi beside him, he had already received Xu Ge's report on the actions of the Western Regions Commercial Bank.

Some time ago, the Western Regions Trading House concentrated its forces and attacked the six teams heading to Faman City. Three of them were successful, one failed, one had limited success, and one was forced to give up, with the result that half of the first friars recruited by Mullen were lost, but not completely destroyed.

The Western Regions Commercial Bank also paid a lot of price for this, and in the failed and limited operations, only the great monks retreated quickly when they saw that the situation was not good, and most of them escaped quickly, and the Qi cultivators were basically killed on the spot.

In Xu Ge's original plan, the first batch of monk materials recruited by Ma Lun was to be destroyed, and for this reason, she mobilized all the five hundred great monks who had entered the Great Food East Realm before, except for the part left for Zhang Changan.

He has presided over the Western Regions Commercial Bank for many years, and Xu Ge knows very well that once the Western Regions Commercial Bank starts a large-scale operation, it will inevitably cause a counterattack by the Crescent Moon Sect Grand Temple and the Supervision Yuan, so the first wave of operations is the least difficult and the easiest to succeed. After that, the Western Regions Comptoir will reduce the frequency of its actions.

On the one hand, the operation will cause the Western Regions Commercial Bank to lose a lot of manpower, whether it is success or failure, casualties are inevitable, and hundreds of people show their heads among tens of thousands, even if there are external forces in the team to cooperate, the difficulties are still very great, and it is impossible to think about the casualties;

On the other hand, it is also to concentrate the remaining forces and ensure Zhang Changan's follow-up actions.

That is the time when the Western Regions Commercial Bank really showed its skills in this war and caused real mass damage to the Great Food.

Now, the first wave of actions of the Western Regions Commercial Bank has mixed results, and Xu Ge deliberately took the fold of asking for guilt. It's just that Li Ye knows the difficulties and risks of taking action, and he doesn't mean to blame Xu Ge. The effect of the other party's actions actually met Li Ye's expectations.

The second line of defense in the eastern border of Dashi is already very weak in front of the Tang army, and as long as the Lingnan Naval Division Marine Army is converged, coupled with the unparalleled ability of the Chang'an ship to attack the frontal attack, it is very likely to break through quickly.

"Mullen plans to recruit a million monks, although the number is huge, but the combat power of ordinary monks is still very different from that of a monk army that has been trained and fought for a long time.

"Originally, relying on the strategic column of the Great Food Eastern Territory, cooperating with the Guards, the Standing Army, and the newly recruited monk army, I was able to have time to hone and become an elite in the continuous defensive battle.

"But now, as long as we can quickly break through the second line of defense of the Great Eclipse and speed up the attack, the monks gathered by Mullen will not have time to grow. Moreover, there is also a big difference between the monk army and the Qi cultivation monk army.

"Really talk about it, except for it

The Chang'an Forbidden Army of the three armies of Wolf Tooth, Tiger Guard, and Yulin has a lot of monks, and they are all equipped with standard armaments and have been on the battlefield for a long time. Head-to-head, it is not as difficult as imagined to defeat those new recruits on the battlefield. ”

When King Qi said this, his eyes were full of light, and he had obviously seen the prospect of a good development of the battle situation. She is obviously more optimistic and confident.

A few days later, the army arrived at the front line of Faman, and the Lingnan Naval Division Marine Corps, after clearing the flank threat, also rushed to join the army.

At the moment, the soldiers are fast, so although the soldiers are on the front line of Mulu City and have just experienced the big battle, Li Ye only let the soldiers rest for half a day that day, and launched an offensive against Faman City the next day.

The second line of defense centered on Faman City, the city and fortifications have been built, but the military supplies have not kept up, many of the defenses are just empty shelves, and because the monks have not been in place in time, the combat effectiveness of the Great Food is very poor.

However, Ma Lun was resolute in his fighting spirit and forced the existing soldiers to fight hard, but he did not let the Tang army capture the defensive line in three or five days.

The Don army had ten days.

Ten days later, the Great Eclipse Army, which had suffered heavy casualties, was forced to withdraw to the third line of defense.

"Originally, the second line of defense should have lasted at least three months, or even longer, and when all the monks and supplies arrived, we had to make a roundabout surprise attack, and launch a large-scale attack on the territory of hundreds of miles, looking for opportunities to counterattack, so that the Tang army was overwhelmed and overstretched.

"Now, all of this is out of the way, and we have to retreat to the last line of defense......"

On the way to retreat, Xi Lu was worried, "Caliph, what should we do now?"

Mullen glanced at the defeated army on the ground under his feet, the ranks were not neat, many of the soldiers were drooping their heads, the faces of the monks were solemn and painful, and their morale had reached the lowest underestimation since the war.

Maren gritted his teeth and said: "Don't panic, although the second line of defense has only been held for ten days, the city fortifications of the third line of defense, I have already ordered to repair almost completely." Most of the monks and supplies we have recruited are about to arrive, and we have the strength to defend the third line of defense!

"Tell the soldiers, the Tang army has few soldiers, the deeper we go into the border, as long as we block them, the more difficult it will be for them to fight, once the cold winter comes, the opponent's offensive is bound to slow down, we have time to gather all our forces and fight back in a desperate situation! We have not been defeated, we still have hope!"

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"Commander Zhang, do you really want to go with us? The danger is too great! You just need to follow behind, and I will definitely go all out if you take any action!"

"Needless to say, I must be in the ranks, you can arrange for me to be an official position in the baggage battalion. ”

Sai Dianchi saw that Zhang Chang'an had made up his mind, so he could only do as he was told. He had persuaded the other party several times, but the other party refused to disclose the slightest superfluous information.

At present, Saidianchi and his conscription team have left Susa City for hundreds of miles, and are now heading east. With him was Mohd, one of the five elders of the Great Temple, and a team of the chief priest under his command.

They had just converged in Assassin City yesterday, and now the team was very strong, with more than 200,000 monks, and they were the absolute core of the third group to arrive at the Eastern Battlefield.