Chapter 753: Temptation (I)
The sun gradually set to the west, and the sky was covered with layers of red lotus-like sunset.
The sand and dust under the city of Jinsha City are full of hustle and bustle, and the black pressure is a large army, layer by layer of soldiers, blood and light, and the enemy has completely surrounded the back of the city, surrounded by the west.
Since noon after the fall of the railway station in the north of the city, the defenders have completely retreated into the city, defending with the help of a large protective array.
Lu Ming stood on the city wall, calmly, and his face was solemn.
Dozens of thick puffs of smoke rose from outside the city, and the flames were faintly seen rushing out, obscuring the black smoke.
After a long time, Lu Ming said hatefully: "These thieves!"
The most prosperous place in the southeast three counties of Yingzhou, the rice fields in the Jinsha area are abundant, and the people are still good at business, at this time, the villages and towns everywhere can only give up, let the old garden be plundered by the demon army, and burned to the ground.
Fortunately, most of the people had already mobilized and retreated into the city, and a few who were too far away could only flee north, carrying the old and the young to drive the livestock, and all other supplies could not be taken care of.
There are not many people who have spirit stones, but there are also some people, Lu Ming ordered the people to destroy the spirit stone resources as soon as possible, but few people can bear the pain and destroy them immediately according to the order, or they simply don't think about it, or hide in the cellar with luck and wait for the future to come back and dig.
This basically can't escape the inspection of the foreign magician, and it is directly made the enemy's trophies, which makes Lu Ming hold back his anger after knowing about it, but he has nothing to say......
The poor are easy to abandon, and the rich are difficult to give up, who is not the same?
"Lord Lu, look, another batch of baggage convoys are carrying supplies south!" another subordinate official city shouted.
"Oh?" Lu Ming strode up to the side, his eyes flushed red, staring at the outskirts of the city.
The enemy army has no flags, no drums and trumpets, it seems that it is simply a communication with the divine consciousness of the sorcerer group, its attack and aggression are like fire, and the reaction is very fast, after the forward stragglers tried to encounter an attack by the leaf fire and thunder matrix, they did not lose much and became alert, and retreated out of range on the spot.
Until now, he has refused to step into the firing range of half a step, and on the vast plains outside the city, the layers of military formations under the banner are murderous, eyeing the city, and they are not attached to the siege of the city, as if they are waiting for the defenders to go out of the city to fight a field battle, and the standard siege tactics are to send reinforcements.
The fireworks above and below the city were steaming, and the feathers and arrows were falling and in a stalemate.
Suddenly, a striking bright line appeared in the distance of vision, and it seemed that there were about hundreds of carts, all of which converged on the official road in the southeast direction, and there was an endless stream of transportation, and the specific materials could not be seen from afar, but the fluctuation of the aura was very strong, and it could not be kept from which wealthy family hoarded cellar or chamber of commerce warehouse.
"They didn't want to break through the city, they didn't encircle the point to send reinforcements, they just wanted to rob?"
Some of the generals were aware of this, and their eyes were a little frightened as they looked south along the direction of the baggage convoy and looked at the river where the enemy ships had been spotted earlier.
That's a fairy ship, restoring the legend of the peak combat power, who can resist in Yingzhou?
It seems that there is only Taiping Lake Longjun, who is the father-in-law of Han Hou, but this old man's body is still fighting outside the world, and he is too busy to take care of himself, can he take care of his son-in-law?
At this moment, many people realized that there are times when there is no backstage and when it is unreliable, and in the end, they can only rely on the power they really control.
After the subtle change in people's hearts, the voice of the captain of the city colonel made the sound of war preparedness everywhere even louder, and no one wanted to die if he could live well.
"There was a batch in the morning, a batch at noon, and now it's the third batch......," Lu Ming said, estimating the military strength in the county town in his heart, and glanced back at the officers: "Who can go out to battle and destroy this batch of convoys?"
Several generals from the former county government looked at each other, and the county lieutenant spoke first: "My lord, the main special train is close to ten miles, and the reinforcements from the left and right counties are breaking through the line to block the enemy, why not ......?"
"You have a point. Lu Ming nodded, and said with a straight face: "But don't forget the purpose of the enemy's collection of materials, if this continues, the immortal ship may be repaired at any time, wouldn't this be contrary to the task given to us by the main bus?"
One sentence made everyone speechless, it is natural for a soldier to eat food and sell his life, no one dares to say no, but no one takes the initiative to ask for war.
The county soldiers who show this kind of appearance can't beat the outside soldiers, and their strength and morale are not good.
Do you still have the soldiers of the lord's prince's mansion coming?
Lu Ming looked disappointed, stepped down from the city with footsteps, and was looking for a room along the street, when he bumped into Zhang Fangbiao and Sun Ce, who came back from inspecting the north wall.
The two of them seemed to be prepared, and when they stopped Lu Ming on the street, they said: "I just saw that the enemy's baggage convoy was outside the city, and my department is willing to go out of the city immediately to intercept and kill!"
"General Zhang has 2,000 cavalry, and he can still break through with speed, and General Sun's 3,000-step bow battalion, why don't you defend the city first?"
According to the latest Di Bao, the fire tail arrow was just developed and installed last autumn, and it is said that it can achieve the effect of the rhubarb crossbow array in the lower earth, but it was only tested once when the state city was captured, and there was a lack of sufficient scale of verification.
"No need, the new spirit stone is here, and the city protection array is difficult to break for a while...... With cavalry charging and cooperative cover, it is better to pay half the price of casualties than to destroy this convoy. Sun Ce responded to the county guard's words, and led people down with a fork of his hands.
It's not that it's risky or arrogant, for Hanchen like Sun Ce, it is normal for a county to guard the county is the largest military, political and economic, but they are also with their own tasks as a guest army, and they have discussed the need to intercept the enemy's transport convoy, and they are reporting to the county guard Lu Ming instead of asking for instructions.
Just look at the team has been on the street in the whole line, the hooves of the war horses look a little uneasy, the veteran's face does not fluctuate, the cavalry just pacify the horses, arrange the saddle and reins, check whether the iron palms on the horses' hooves are firm, the crossbowmen under the leadership of the commander check the compound longbow and heavy crossbow, adjust the counterweight according to the feel of the rhubarb crossbow used to the soil, and determine whether the aiming position of Wangshan is in place.
The atmosphere was calm and solemn...... We're about to go, and time is pressing.
Say it's a fight?
Lu Ming was stunned, he was used to the incompetent officialdom style of his subordinates, and he was not used to such a strong fighting spirit army...... In troubled times, it is still like this, and the army has a greater sense of security.
When the team drove past one after another, and walked far away around the corner, he remembered something, stomped his feet and said: "Hey, this is not only a Taoist general, but also the lord's wife and uncle, how to explain it?"
A familiar voice sounded in his ears, with a smile: "Oh, how is Brother Lu going to explain to me?"
“...... Lord!" Lu Ming was surprised and delighted, and his heart was settled.
"Don't make a sound, I can't rest assured, I'll bring the real group over to have a look first. ”
Ye Qing came over with some people in civilian clothes, and the dragon qi was not hidden, he actually just arrived, but he didn't think that Sun Ce's tactical awareness was wrong, and he looked at Lu Ming and said.
"The headquarters has already defeated the demon army of 1,000 people intercepted at the northern railway station. ”
"The Demon Army is worthy of being a Demon Army, according to the news I have obtained, this is called the Terracotta Army, it is not afraid of death, and its strength is all level 4 of Qi refining. ”
"But the shortcomings are also obvious, relatively stiff and inflexible, if you don't change your orders, you would rather die and charge. ”
"Our army gathers fire, first kills the magician, and then kills the commander, and the rest can be calmly annihilated. ”
"Now on foot, you can surround this enemy with a delay of another half an hour...... Ye Qing said flatly, this is a flaw that was discovered after killing for several years in the previous life, and it was obvious at this time.
The first time to grasp the enemy's vital point and decisively annihilate it, the lord is really a god, Lu Ming decisively closed his mouth, and walked behind him with a few steps, his eyes gradually turned to the end of the street.
In this short time, thousands of cavalry and archers were lined up one after the other, and the gates of the city were rumbling open, revealing the tide of enemies outside.
............
Boom -
The large array like a tortoise shell let go of the line, the heavy city gate was pulled up, the iron horses rushed out, everyone looked grim, the cold and translucent breastplate was marked by the frog, and the spear was inserted vertically on the narrow sac sleeve on the saddle side, as long as you stretched out your hand, you can pick it up, it looks like a steel forest.
At this time, the blessing of a piece of military energy flashed, and I saw a forest of cold spear tips flashing with starlight, one after another - the intelligence showed that this was the unique "Breaking Army Star Rune Spear Array" under the command of Han Hou, which was suitable for foot and cavalry, and only the elite of the Dao soldiers could use it.
"Haha, if you let the city lord seduce you with this strategy!"
"Two thousand men and horses? tsk, this still can't help but stop the baggage convoy, and they are all afraid of the power of the mothership after repair. ”
"The equipment is not bad, it will be picked up later, the war horses are just here, we are short of cavalry......"
In the Outer Territory Army Formation, although the Loose Cultivator was responsible for connecting the upper and lower levels, he was not very disciplined, and he was already laughing and talking.
After the generals were refined into terracotta warriors, their eyes were shining red, and reason and blood devouring were combined, and they all looked at the army in front of them with scrutiny.
"It's an iron army!" just one glance, the soldiers knew that for this kind of competition of the same level, the red light in their eyes was even brighter.
Ning Yuan's mind is more complete, basically similar to a living person, seeing this, he pondered.
I heard that tens of thousands of soldiers can be gathered in the whole state here, and a few thousand in this county town is not bad, it seems that the family has exhausted its ...... Fortunately, this enemy general is impatient and rash, otherwise it will not be good to wait for the enemy's reinforcements to increase.
The female cultivator who had been following Ning Yuan's side was wearing silver armor at this time, looking heroic, and she couldn't help but look at the new opponent, her dark eyes were a little puzzled, and she still remembered that the first wave of her battle in the morning was this cavalry army, which suddenly came out of the waterway and almost made them rush into the formation, but they still broke through in the rain of arrows.
Now that he is not afraid of death and runs out, what is there to rely on?
"Don't underestimate it, this batch is said to be the elite of a hundred battles killed in the ground, in the morning your strikers have also fought once, at least the equipment is very thick, ordinary arrows rain can't shoot, they will be released into the range of the arrow array, remember to use arrows, you can't save ...... at this time"
Ning Yuan ignored those arrogant loose cultivators, and only reminded his subordinates that he didn't know the actual power of this cavalry in close combat, and there were still few examples of being overturned by Dao generals with powerful cavalry?
Compared to the saturation firepower of the arrow array, the cavalry's lightning charge was inherently used to complete a miraculous reversal.
"In the encounter in this domain, I may be interested in the belonging of this army, but now the task of the Immortal Venerable is important, and I am not interested in designing to subdue the enemy, or the main force will form a formation, this time all the magic arrows will be replaced, and I will be shot directly on the spot!"
Ning Yuan pointed at the cavalry and announced his fate.
"Archers out of line, form an arrow formation!"