Chapter 213: Hanging Alone Behind Enemy Lines
The coalition army marched westward, the eastern corps lost its city and land, the court and the military generals were silent, and no one was willing to clean up the mess, or no one had the ability to reverse the defeat. When Duguying completely stabilized the defensive line, sent troops to recover dozens www.biquge.info of main cities that had been occupied, and was busy deploying troops to deploy defenses, the song floated to the palace like snowflakes, allowing the eastern army to take advantage of the situation to attack, recapture Qili County as soon as possible, and wash away the shame of the empire that had not been seen for a century.
The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone beat, Dugu Ying's hand pressed on the table, and it was difficult to hide her anger, and the guards entered in response, making her angrily reprimanded, and her eyes were fixed on the military orders spread out on the table. In Qili County, it fought with the coalition army city by city, attracting the King of Linfeng to send more cavalry reinforcements, besieging the city and consuming the enemy's strength, creating conditions for the northern corps to counterattack.
For the order of the military department, Duguying has always regarded it as a dispensable suggestion, she has the right to act cheaply, and her anger lies in the fact that the order not only has a vermilion quasi-word, but also has the seal of the Pingrong Palace next to it, how can there be such a precedent for the military order, if the deployment is from the king, why not convey it by holy decree, what kind of secret is hidden after changing the strategy of quick victory.
The four major corps of the empire, the western and northern armies, are strong, and the cavalry battalions are far more than the eastern and southern ones, after all, they have to resist the elite cavalry of the Xiangyun King and the Linfeng King, and the northern corps, as a breakthrough set by the military headquarters, has almost twice the military strength of the eastern corps.
The failure of the sneak attack on Hongyi City disrupted the overall strategy of the military headquarters, and the British king's overseers had no results at all, even if the eastern corps contained the enemy, could the northern corps solve the problem of the Linfeng king? The Xiaocai battalion could not leave Kyoto lightly, and the British king dared to ask for the secondment of two battalions, so that the king sternly refuted and then refused, from which it can be seen that he had no confidence in the northern war situation.
The king's order is difficult to disobey, the military order is like a mountain, Duguying has all doubts in his heart, but he still hurriedly adjusted the deployment and began to form a siege corps, giving up the elite soldiers interspersed in a roundabout way, raiding behind the enemy to seize the pass, so as to cut off the retreat of the coalition army in order to win or lose a battle The strategy of quick victory and quick victory, making the broken military camp lonely behind the enemy.
"If I am Xiaoyuanzi, I will simply lead my troops to join the king of the East China Sea, and at the worst I will be awarded a few islands by a general. Raising his hand and throwing the military order back on Duguying's table, Hua Yue was upset for Gao Yuan, ignoring Duguying's ugly face, and then untied the saber on his waist and threw it down in his hand, and sneered: "Wang Jian, hehe, Cuihua Palace has made me inappropriate, the escort envoy and Qili County Sima, please ask the general to ask Gao Ming." β
"Big sisterβ"
"I went to Donghai County to look for Xiaoyuanzi, and my brother also wants to return to the fiefdom, if the Dugu royal family has the courage and is not afraid of the western and southern coalition forces, he can leave my brother and sister behind. β
Yu Wenjie wanted to persuade and block, let Hua Yue retreat with a palm, and threw Wang Jian to Ling Huqing, Hua Yue turned around and left, Duguying crawled on the table, and didn't say a word, ashamed of the royal family's ruthlessness, and even more worried about the future of the empire.
Hua Yue and Qin Rufeng led their soldiers to quietly leave the camp, which could be regarded as a second favor for the imperial county lord before leaving, if the generals knew that the two had parted ways with the royal family, the morale of the newly recovered army of the Eastern Corps would drop to the bottom again.
Only by having an absolute advantage in the field and having enough troops to protect the rear and flanks can the siege corps avoid the sudden impact of the iron cavalry, and the eastern corps does not have an effective means to restrain the cavalry group assault. In desperation, Duguying organized the heavy infantry into an army, relying on a dense defensive formation to resist, which was actually using the lives of countless sergeants to consume the cavalry of the coalition army. Each city seems to be victorious, but the casualties are far more than the enemy, when advancing to the city of Qili County, the remaining veterans in the corps have been less than thirty percent, fortunately finally occupied the field advantage, the advantage of the empire's sufficient soldiers to maximize the advantage, the king of Linfeng has sent tens of thousands of reinforcement cavalry, in the city to overwhelm the flow of heavy infantry, and at this time the war has been going on for more than two years, the four corps have started the war, the empire and the prince of the county have suffered huge losses.
After two years of campaigning, the Eastern Corps suffered more than 300,000 casualties, and the blood of the soldiers washed away the childishness on Duguying's face, and he could no longer see the slightest naughty female student's demeanor, and the decision to kill made the smile seem reluctant, only occasionally came the news of the broken barracks, it would bloom into a moment of brilliance, and in the dead of night, tears wet the corners of the quilt, but there was a joyful laugh in the dream.
Although the news sent back by the secret agent is not accurate, no one doubts the fact that Gao Yuan is still leading the troops to fight, but the results are getting smaller and smaller, from attacking the capital city to capturing the town, from gathering and destroying the East China Sea baggage transport battalion to scattering and attacking several transportation lines, the last result is only to burn down a granary, and there is no news in March since.
Coastal City, in the ruined city tower, Gao Yuan leaned against the female wall and looked at the night sky in the west, Li Changgong held his shoulder with one hand and handed the wine glass to his mouth with the other, took a sip of wine and gasped, the laughter was so weak that he couldn't reach a few steps away, and his arms hung on the ground and didn't move.
"Hehe, blame me for being too careless this time. β
"Escaped half a life from the ambush of the three martial arts, and if he wanted to be someone else, he had already let Lao Tzu cut it with a knife, and came back to go undercover after betrayal. β
Gao Yuan tilted his head with difficulty, looked at the wine jug, Li Changgong picked it up and dangled it in front of his face, raised his neck and drank it to the sky, and scolded with a smile: "It's too difficult to steal the jug of wine, Captain Fang scolded me several times." Putting down the empty wine jug, Li Changgong pulled the quilt on him, lowered his voice and mocked: "For more than two months, people have seen and touched it all over and over again, hehe." β
"Lao Tzu made friends carelessly-"
Taifeng Yicang, storing hundreds of thousands of quintals of grain, Gao Yuan had long been eyeing it, but the defenders were too tightly defended, and several sneak attacks were unsuccessful. Knowing that the grain was about to be transferred to the front, the troops hidden in the children's camp regrouped, and the broken military camp took advantage of the rainy night to launch a strong attack on the granary.
Gao Yuan and Mei Ruoxue led several martial arts schools, climbed the city wall along the ladder in the rain of arrows, rushed all the way and finally opened the city gate, Li Zihui led the people to swarm in, dozens of people were killed and wounded under the bow and arrows and the defenders were mixed together, the defenders could not distinguish friend and foe in the dark, and the broken military camp had already been prepared, and the sergeants shouted in the local language of the East China Sea from time to time to identify them, and the defenders reacted to the general trend.
"The archer mark remains, and the other marks are quickly withdrawn. β
After pouring oil in the grain depot for too long, Gao Yuan ordered loudly in the courtyard that he had fought behind enemy lines for two years, and more than 1,000 people had died in the barracks, and the remaining 2,000 people were all elite soldiers.
The standards were ordered to retreat, and soon disappeared in the rainy night, and when the archers ignited the fire, Gao Yuan led the guards as usual, and was about to leave when the mutation protruded, and under the light of the fire, three old men suddenly appeared, and rushed towards him without saying a word, so fast that the guards did not have time to take out their short crossbows.
Suddenly encountering a big change, the reaction was purely instinctive, Gao Yuan drew his sword and swept out, retreated backwards in the symphony of blades, and kicked Mei Ruoxue away with one kick, just allowing her to avoid the fatal blow.
"Withdraw!"
The long knife in his hand cut through the rain curtain, and Gao Yuan pounced forward with one foot, blocking the killing moves of the Martial Sect on both sides when several guards fell, but he couldn't avoid the eagle claw hand of the Martial Sect in front of him, letting him grasp it on his shoulder, and the enemy was going to capture it after only two face-to-face fights.
"Shoot!"
The three Wu Sects saw that they were done, and before the corners of their mouths could show a smile, they saw countless rays of light shooting in their faces, and the Wu Sects on both sides slid back and slid back, and the Wu Sect in front of them could not avoid it, and slapped their palms on Gao Yuan's back, wanting to use his body to block the arrows, and Gao Yuan threw himself to the ground, allowing a few short crossbows to cut through the soft armor on his back.
The martial arts sect on the front is the highest among the three, but more than ten poisonous arrows were inserted into the chest when he was reversed, and he didn't understand why his body was not as agile as the martial arts school until he died, and the two martial arts sects who escaped by luck felt a chill in their hearts after catching a glimpse of their partner's corpse, and their stomachs were pierced by a long knife, and the person was dead and there was no blood on the wound, and the speed of Gao Yuan's knife could be seen how fast, so fast that Wu Zong didn't feel pain before he died.
", or die. β
Gao Yuan stood up with a long knife, glanced at the two martial arts sects a few feet away, the words were more cold than the night wind and cold rain, four or five steps in front of his feet, there were the corpses of three personal guards, the dignified martial arts sect would plot to hurt people, saying that the corpse had actually become a pile of broken bones and flesh, how could he suppress the grief and anger in his heart.
Wu Zong didn't say anything, his eyes looked at the guards, the blue crossbow bolts flickered in the firelight, and Wu Zong couldn't help them if he was on guard, and the two of them were sure to kill the guards after separating them, provided that Gao Yuan didn't stop them. During the raid, a knife opened the two people to attack, and when they counterattacked, they stabbed their partners, and the two martial arts sects asked themselves if they could do it, so the knife technique was beyond their imagination, and it should belong to another realm, thinking of this, the two glanced at each other, and then moved to the side, retreated a few feet and flew away.
"The three brothers were cremated on the spot. β
The corpse was wrapped in a cloak and thrown into the sea of fire, Takagaki and the guards saluted their deceased brothers, the long knife was sheathed and turned over on the horse, leading the guards into the dark night, more than ten days later, it was confirmed that no one was following and tracking, and Takagaki ordered to return to Marina City to hide. When he entered the city, he let Mei Ruoxue hold him in his arms, and under the serious injury, he forced his true qi to pretend to be slightly injured, and he almost ran out of vitality in his body for more than ten days.
When he woke up, he was naked, Mei Ruoxue was wiping his body, Gao Yuan's mouthful of blood gushed up his throat, and he was unconscious for a few days, almost dying, Li Changgong laughed at this every time after thinking about it, he didn't die in the hands of Wu Zong, but he almost let the gentleness of the beauty die.
"Gao Yuan, the cultivation is completely wasted, it doesn't seem to be a little sad?"
"Can sadness bring it back?" Gao Yuan didn't have the strength to talk much, looking at the night sky in a trance, Li Changgong was by his side to relieve his boredom, revealing the secret that had been held in his heart for months.
"The three martial artists who were ambushed in the granary, one died at the hands of you and the guards, alas, how could Lao Tzu not be so lucky, killing a martial artist to become famous all over the world. Don't turn your head sideways, don't be angry with you, hehe, the other two martial arts sects are also dead, Captain Fang heard some rumors, and let a masked woman stab him to death, I heard that it is still a fair competition, a fight of life and death. β
Gao Yuan's eyes widened, and he asked eagerly: "Weapon?" Li Changgong snorted a few words, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly and closed his eyes, how difficult it is to cultivate to the realm of the Martial Sect, how can there be a public duel without deep hatred, he instantly thought of a person, and the thought was immediately extinguished, even if the senior sister cultivated to break through and become a Martial Sect, how could she have this strength in a short period of time.
"Lao Tzu knows what you think, Senior Sister Huayue, hehe, I like it in my heart and it's hard to open my mouth, no, I don't dare to say it if I like it in my heart, the weapon used by the masked woman is a long sword, die." β
Fang Zhenhai once suspected that the person who shot was Hua Yue, she was avenging Gao Yuan, and Li Changgong pushed back with a few words: "Senior Sister Hua has to have this ability, she will go to assassinate the king of Donghai County a long time ago, and besides, you should always see Gao Yuan before the competition." β
Gao Yuan felt a little tired, his eyelids were about to close, Li Changgong slapped his palm on his face, but the sound became louder and louder, he let two slaps fly out, Gao Yuan opened his eyes when he heard the sound, Hua Yue Qiaosheng stood in front of him, blinking and smiling at him, which was a sign before he usually gave a lesson.
"Hmph, it's so well hidden, Binhai City, I ran back and forth a few times, Fang Zhenhai didn't reveal anything at all, giggles, if I hadn't met Li Zihui by accident, I really couldn't find it. β
Li Changgong covered his face and shouted injustice: "Senior sister, Gao Yuan said that he wanted to stare at the night sky to cultivate, let me supervise on the side to prevent being lazy, you fight-" Before he finished speaking, he took a few steps back, turned his head and slipped away, he only remembered what Fang had just said, and the two slaps were quite light, Hua Yue was afraid that the palm wind would hurt Gao Yuan, or his face would not be swollen for a few days.
"Senior sister. β
"Shut up. β
Hua Yue squatted down, let go of Gao Yuan's hand after a while, and asked softly, "How sure are you?" Gao Yuan knew that it was difficult to hide, and replied with difficulty: "You can always practice." β
"You will order tomorrow, don't act rashly in the broken barracks, let the sergeants rest in peace, this battle is coming to an end, you and the broken barracks have lived up to her Duguying. β
"I'll listen to Senior Sisterβ"
"Continue to practice, hmph, listen to me earlier, how could you be so seriously injured. β
The moonlight shone into the ruined city tower, Gao Yuan fell asleep, Hua Yue gently picked him up, and slowly walked down the city in the moonlight, the two hearts were very close at the moment, she seemed to be able to enter Gao Yuan's dream.