Chapter 132 Natural and Man-made Disasters
The Yanshui City in the territory of the Cao family should be a day of drum music, this is their annual pancake festival. It's a happy holiday, but people are in a state of panic.
The reason why they are so depressed is the army of demon clans outside the city.
Originally, the army of the demon clan would pass through the territory of the Li family, but because of the Cao family's inexplicable inaction, they even played tricks on a few families, which completely angered several alliances. This matter seemed to be noticed by the demon clan, so they simply detoured to the Cao family's territory.
The demon army, which is accustomed to fighting against the wind, except for the first battle after suffering losses under Cao Jindun, is basically like a bamboo, and has won successive battles.
In its current form, everyone thinks that it is only a matter of time before the city breaks. The only thing that can make people's hearts feel a little at ease is that although Cao Jindun was defeated, the main force was still in the city. After all, at this moment in the city, not counting the temporary Dingfu, there are only 30,000 regular defenders, and tens of thousands of strong berserkers on the opposite side.
The defeat of the Cao family army was only a matter of time.
In the military camp in the city, Cao Chengxing was sitting alone in the tent, looking at the sand table in front of him in a daze.
Compared to the opposing army, Salt Water City can almost be said to be an undefended city. Cao Jindun, the Cao clan's most capable fighter, only won one victory, and then lost consecutive battles.
The Cao family's forces could not be compared with the big family, and there were only 20,000 standing armies, and now the 30,000 are all patchwork, and the rest are all recruits or Dingfu. According to previous estimates, no matter what, the Li family, which can pull out seventy or eighty thousand soldiers, will be in the limelight, and who would have thought that it would really bypass the Li family and come here.
There are only 30,000 people, and the combat power cannot be compared with the soldiers under Cao Jindun's command at all, but these people are not berserker opponents, what can they do.
Salt Water City is the only city with a city wall in the hinterland of the Cao family, and even their governance office does not have a city wall. It can be said that the capture of Yanshui City means the demise of the Cao family.
Originally, according to the habit of the demon clan, it should be to rub the salt water city and turn to the northwest. Who knows, the Cao family did not learn to "drop" grain, grass and supplies when retreating. This annoyed the demon generals, who thought it was deliberate, so they simply knocked out Salt Water City so that they could get their supplies.
Cao Chengji and Cao Chengxing did not have less contact, but they also did not think of a better way, and the envoys who went to Li's house to ask for troops went one after another, but there was no reply.
"Damn, I want to see my Cao family's jokes, there is no good thing, I have to refuse them at the time, otherwise I may be discarded after being used now. ”
"Elder, you are the representative of the Cao family, this kind of rhetoric, it is better to say less. ”
"Bah, the clan is about to be wiped out, and it is said that these are for Raushzi. If I can make the Cao family turn evil into good fortune, I can pretend to be a big-tailed wolf every day. ”
"The elder is ...... heavy"
"It's the second brother and Cao Yuande who are not angry, and they should offend them well, if one is not good, they will offend a few families. At the moment, I don't even know a few people in reply, you say, how?"
"Actually, I have a proposal, but it's really not suitable for use. ”
"If you don't say it earlier, Lao Tzu's hair is gray, you just remember, say it quickly. ”
"Actually, it's not difficult, we use calamity to ......"
"Shut up!"
"But there's no other way......"
"That can't either!"
"I knew you would say that, but it's not up to me to say that, the head of the house has ......already ordered it," the deputy said, pulling out a warrant.
"Hmph, second brother, I just don't have a position. Although the Cao family has a mediocre reputation outside, he has never beaten the people's ideas. At the moment, it is good not only to fight their ideas, but also to fight for their interests, but also to drive them to wander, what a intention!"
Speaking of which, the Cao family is okay with their own people, but compared to the big clan, they are still stingy.
He slapped the warrant on the table, and he could see that he was very angry, and he seemed to be really fighting against himself. His eyes were full of hideousness. In the end, he still sighed, "Please come and see Cao Jindun." ”
Cao Jindun came to the tent and looked at Cao Chengxing with a sad face.
"Golden Shield, now, there is only one way to stop them. ”
Cao Jindun naturally knew what he was talking about, but as a city shepherd who ruled the people, he naturally would not agree.
"Was it the decision made by the head of the house?"
"Not only the head of the family, but also a few important elders, and, on the contrary, the people who were most eager to start that project were the people who asked for advice. You see, this is already the biggest public opinion outside of this place. ”
If there is anything that can stop the war, it is a scourge between heaven and earth.
Since ancient times, there has never been a shortage of digging through rivers or using the technique of pulling heaven and earth to create natural disasters to stop the soldiers.
Since the rise of the human race, this kind of tactics have not been used less, the original decisive battle, if it were not for the plan of the ancestor of Jiuli to disturb the demon clan with a fog, the Xuanyuan clan relied on this southern car to identify the direction, and accurately inserted into the internal division and defeat of the demon army, and the final victory would definitely not be on the side of the human race.
Later, it was even more common to dig through the great rivers several times, but as the human race grew stronger and stronger, its strength increased, and the population increased. It is no longer a good idea to dig up the river, but the lower reaches of the southeast river have always been sparsely populated, although it is the land of fish and rice, the place of beauty, because of this concern, it has not been the best choice for the people.
As the Lingyun Frost Pavilion became more precise in its control of ice and fire, and with its mastery of fire, local calamities such as ice and fire were used to replace the power of the rivers.
For now, however, the only way to solve the problem may be to continue to reuse the old methods. Compared with the demon clan, the Cao family's cultivation is one level lower as a whole, and when it comes to spells, it is better to send them to death directly.
Three days later, the demon clan has not been able to capture the city, the Cao family dug up the Huai water, the water dragon rolled, and the fields were flooded countless for a while. Even Saltwater City has become a world of fish and turtles. The demon army also suffered greatly, most of the baggage was trapped in it, unable to pull it out, and many of the soldiers who rushed into the battle also drowned due to lack of preparation.
After this battle, although Salt Water City was saved, the epidemic brought by it also killed three adults, and all the crops on Cao's territory were lost. The flooding Huai water directly cut off the connection between the Cao clan and the remaining cities, and the demon clan lost its baggage, almost a past when the cities were burned and robbed.
The Quartet Alliance was blocked by the flood, so they could only go around to the territory of the Li family and wait, and by the time they returned, the demon army had already broken through the barrier of the Li family's local armed forces.
The final resistance battle began, because the demon army was rested, the combat power did not decrease but rose, and finally the berserkers were stunned and rushed into the territory of Faming Temple.
The Quadripartite Coalition ended in failure, and in the whole process, the biggest loss was the Cao family, who did not participate in it, almost half of the militia members died, the harvest was lost in a year, and many injuries and illnesses were lost.
If it weren't for the three families who were busy blocking the demon clan army, maybe they would have turned around and killed the Cao family, what the Cao family did was really not what the right way was to do at the moment.