Chapter Twenty-Three: Fierce Battle
In the entire western part of Wangmai, Luoshui City was in the middle position, and at the same time that Ye Linhui had fought an incomparably wonderful battle, Duan Xingyun and Feng Xiaoyang in the southern battlefield were already tense and were only waiting for a battle, and in the northern battlefield, Zi Zheng also looked at a battle book in front of him with a smile on his face.
"Hmph, Yan will be Wanzheng...... What kind of game is this? When you come to the north, you have to give this king a war letter? He also told me that they have 30,000 people, but didn't they find out that there are only 10,000 troops in Hengguan? My master defeated your heavy cavalry, and this king may not be able to fight one and win more with less!"
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If you want to talk about how Duan Xingyun fought this battle, Duan Xingyun himself knew that he was a lazy second ancestor, he had practiced martial arts as a three-legged cat, and he had never read the war book and battle strategy well, let alone commanding an army of 50,000 to fight, even commanding 30,000 people was difficult to work with. If it weren't for the fact that his father Duan Yaoqi was the generalissimo of the Xia Kingdom, according to Duan Xingyun's ability, he would also be the commander of the 10,000-strong army, and he would have been the deputy commander with the army, and he would have thought of directly leading the 50,000-strong army when there was a need to divide the troops.
In fact, the old general Duan Yaoqi didn't expect that this was the case now, originally he just asked Duan Xingyun to follow Xiao Ming to the battlefield and mix up some military exploits, who would have thought that now he would have to face the 50,000 army of the Yan clan alone.
However, what Duan Yaoqi didn't expect was that Duan Xingyun had already colluded with the Yan Clan, even if he had the ability to defeat Feng Xiaoyang, I'm afraid he wouldn't do that.
The battle between the two armies of Duan Feng is about to start, and the Northern Snow Shadow King Purple Tribulation is also ready to let go of a blitzkrieg to win more with less.
Soon, the war on both sides had come to an end, and the war report was quickly spread to the entire Wangmai.
In the south, Duan Xingyun's command error (and perhaps the release of water), the 50,000-strong army was defeated by Feng Xiaoyang, with more than 30,000 casualties, and the remaining usable combat power was less than 25,000 wounded soldiers. At this time, Xingyun had fled with the remnants to Pengzhou in the south of the Xia Kingdom, and Feng Xiaoyang's troops followed closely behind.
In the north, because most of the local trees were pine, the army's battalion was naturally built with pine trees from local materials, and Zi Zheng took advantage of the wind direction of that day, and five thousand burning arrows shot Yan Jiangwan Zheng's ambition to pieces. Then I saw the purple-armored Snow Shadow King Prancing Horse raising his sword, with a small team of less than fifty people, taking advantage of the fire from the side to kill it, and successfully beheaded Wan Zheng under the knife. A mountain battle of 10,000 to 30,000 won a big victory.
This battle changed Zi Zheng from an unknown prince to a world-famous commander, and also opened the prelude to the "Battle of the Snow King Zhenxi" that was widely spread in later generations.
The entire Wangmai, the northern, central, and southern battlefields have been opened, and the battle of Wangyan Season has gradually become white-hot.
Ye Linhui learned the news of the Purple Tribulation's victory, and decided to send an additional 30,000 people to the north to support the Purple Tribulation. At that time, the imperial court decided to let Zi Tribulation take 10,000 people to Hengguan, just to prevent the Yan Clan from coming to attack the north, since the Yan Clan is really here now, it is necessary to send additional troops to Zi Tribulation.
Xiao Ming was slightly puzzled by this decision at first.
"Ye Shuai, such a major event, there is no need to report to the Snow Emperor?"
Ye Linhui smiled and said: "Xiao Shuai, the affairs in the army, regardless of the king's orders, are all sent by the generals." ”
Xiao Ming was stunned when he heard this, and left Ye Linhui's handsome tent without saying anything else.
The army of the Yan clan on the opposite side was continuously reinforced by the Demon Gate Valley, and there were still 60,000 soldiers in complete state on the opposite side of Luoshui City. If you count the soldiers who can still go to the battlefield with minor injuries, there may be more than 80,000.
The Purple Tribulation has received two reinforcements from Ye Linhui's side and the national capital, with a combat power of more than 50,000, just guarding the Hengguan, there is no problem, and there is no need to take the initiative to attack.
Southern. After more than ten days of escape, Duan Xingyun had already led the remnants to Pengzhou, and the guard general Peng Wanli arranged for Duan Xingyun to be stationed in Pengzhou, and he carried the banner of blocking the Yan clan in the south. Pengzhou is further east is Liushan, if the Yan clan breaks Pengzhou and crosses Liushan, then it is a horse Pingchuan, pointing directly to Starlight City.
Peng Wanli remembered that Lei Ting had sent a message to him not long ago to prepare for war, although he didn't know anything at the time, he still gave an order to the army according to Lei Ting's meaning. The spies were released far away to pay close attention to the front line, and only then did they send troops in time to rescue Duan Xingyun.
And Feng Xiaoyang stayed in place after the unsuccessful pursuit, and waited for the reinforcements of the Yan clan, and the 80,000 army approached Pengzhou in this way, and Xiao Ming, who got the news, couldn't sit still anymore, and handed over Luoshui City to Ye Linhui, and he rushed to Pengzhou to support with 30,000 people who could still fight in Xia State, and in this way, the defenders of Luoshui City were suddenly a little insufficient.
Once Luoshui City is broken, it will be easy for the Yan Clan to attack any country, and at the same time, as long as the defenders are left by the river, it is not easy to be surrounded by another country. Because of the importance of Luoshui City, even if Ye Linhui's army skipped people, he didn't dare to support it, and his side divided his troops to go to the purple tribulation, and there were only about 50,000 people left, so he hurriedly sent people to deliver the letters, and urgently transferred 20,000 Ye Zi's army from the capital to Luoshui City.
And in Pengzhou, even if Xiao Ming ran non-stop with his people, it would take about a month to rush to Pengzhou, after all, the action of the 30,000 army was not fast enough to count the weight of grain and grass.
And this month, Peng Wanli and the original army in the city plus the remnants of Duan Xingyun totaled less than 40,000 people, and they had to block the attack of the Yan Clan's menacing 80,000 people.
It had been nearly three months since the start of the Wangyan War, and later this group of supporting Yan troops had already entered the battlefield very late. As for the reason why they arrived late, they were very slow with all kinds of siege equipment. At this time, all the troops of the Yan clan have converged with the equipment troops, and it can be said that the threat to the city has reached a new height.
And Pengzhou City, as a city located in the interior of the country, the city wall is not very high, only about eight meters, the ladder can easily climb to this height, the troops of the Yan clan are equipped with complete siege equipment at this time, Peng Wanli is almost ready to die.
Sure enough, Feng Xiaoyang stabilized the camp, and two days later launched a powerful attack.
I saw Feng Xiaoyang, who was dressed in black armor, sitting on his war horse with a confident face, quietly watching the soldiers who received the order to launch an attack on Pengzhou City. Countless stone bullets whistled and flew towards the city wall, and the defenders withdrew from the top of the city wall under the command of Peng Wanli to hide, but some boulders flew over the city wall and smashed directly on the defenders' heads. There were not many casualties among the defenders under this wave of attacks, but the destruction of the city wall was already obvious, if it weren't for the fact that the Yan army hadn't had too many stone bullets when they first arrived here, I'm afraid this wave of attacks would not be so easy to survive.
Then there was a team of soldiers carrying the ladder over, the steel knife was bitten in the mouth, and the blood-red eyes climbed up, but in the cold weapon war, the difficulty of defending the city was much lower than that of the siege, and the defenders used bows and arrows and rolling wood and stones to block the impact of the Yan army wave after wave, Feng Xiaoyang saw that he could not attack for a long time, and ordered to collect the troops.
From that day on, Feng Xiaoyang's troops would have small-scale harassment at both ends for three days, a large-scale attack every five or six days, and after more than twenty days, the city wall was already crumbling.
The next day, when the sun rose, the Yan army in the distance also bared its fangs. But seeing the wind and smiling, the black armor long knife stood in front of the troops. After careful consideration, Peng Wanli decided to lead the army out of the city to face the battle, and the city wall really couldn't withstand smashing.
When Xiao Ming heard the shouting of killing in the distance, he temporarily divided three thousand lightly armored elite soldiers and galloped away like lightning. But Xiao Ming was always a little late, when he arrived, Peng Wanli, who was not far away, looked at Xiao Ming and showed a reassuring smile, he couldn't lift his arm, he let the enemy's war knife fall on his neck, and he lost consciousness forever with a whirling feeling.
After Xiao Ming's army arrived, they quickly repelled this wave of attacks from the Yan clan. Originally, it was the Yan army that was already tired, and it was not a cavalry, and the Xia army did not have that sense of fear, so the retreat was very smooth.
And Xiao Ming has plenty of equipment to defend the city here. For a while, it was difficult for Feng Xiaoyang to create a threatening offensive against Pengzhou, and because of the number of people, Xiao Ming did not dare to take the initiative, and the southern battlefield was stalemate here.
It's just that what the bloody soldiers on the front line don't know is that during this period of time, some high-level figures in Wangmai reached an agreement under the running of Lin Yukong, who was the first to enter Wangmai.
Because Duan Xingyun had already been tied to this thief ship, Lin Yukong first chose to contact Xia Huang Xia Xun. After that, he went to the Snow Country to contact Chen Qingwei, one of the generals who stayed in the capital of the Snow Country.
The agreement reached by these people is that the Yan clan will not take the land of Xia Country again, but in order to show the Snow Country, they will not withdraw the Fengxiaoyang tribe that has entered the land of Xia Country. After the Snow Country was defeated, the Xia Kingdom would take one-third of the country's territory, and the remaining two-thirds would be governed by Duan Xingyun and Chen Qingwei assisted Lin Yukong.
And the Purple Tribulation there, because it has already experienced more than a dozen battles, it is in urgent need of replenishing troops. Speaking of which, Zi Tribulation didn't plan to fight so much, but Lin Yuluo, the general of the Yan clan who rushed to the Hengguan battlefield not long ago, was still young, earnest, and had some unusual ideas, so he was bent on fighting, Zi Tribulation naturally had no reason to be afraid, and the two sides had only made more than a dozen contacts.
It's just that these dozen battles have been fought, and basically every time the purple robbery has the upper hand. Although Lin Yuluo has a lot of ideas, he is always a little clever, and he was easily seen through and beaten back by Zi Tribulation, but the replenishment of the Yan Clan's forces is really fast, and Zi Tribulation has no chance to pursue at all.
During this period, the Purple Tribulation also had a big victory. Speaking of which, Lin Yuluo also died by himself. On that day, the defeated Yan army lost its armor and took off its armor, and it took a lot of effort to play this scene, and finally led to the purple tribulation and led people to chase and kill, and at this time, the Yan clan released the fire bull that had been prepared for a long time.
I saw that the tail of the cultivators who must have been snatched by the Yan clan from the surrounding people's homes was on fire, and the sharp knives tied to the horns rushed towards this side in a panic, and Zi Zheng was really startled, and ordered in a hurry: "No matter what you order, light a fire for me in front of you, and there is dust!"
The ploughing cattle who rushed over found that not only was there fire in the back, but also fire in front, and it seemed that the fire in front was more fierce in comparison, and the smoke and dust raised also frightened these ploughing cattle even more, and under greater fear, the ploughing cattle turned their heads and turned back and ran back in the direction of the Yan clan. The Yan clan couldn't see what kind of operation the Snow Country had made at all, and if they had time to react in the future, they would be full of grief. After the battle, the Snow Shadow King sighed and said, "Alas...... Cows and horses are all our good friends, and those who betray their friends have no good end. ”
After agreeing, Chen Qingwei asked to go with the army sent to Hengguan with the imperial court to support Zijiao, and Lin Yuluo only waited for Chen Qingwei to arrive.