587. Recovery of Liangzhou

After the loss of Jianya Mountain, the official army under the leadership of Ma Huaiyi, the commander of the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry Corps, went to Liangzhou City in an all-round way. At this time, Liangzhou City was defeated by the six saber-toothed dragon brothers, and the dragon beast demon was almost wiped out. In order to further strengthen the defense of Liangzhou City, the Xuexiao Heavenly King sent five generals, the canine-toothed wolf, the sharp-toothed wolf, the beast-toothed wolf, the hunting-toothed wolf, and the thunder-toothed wolf to Liangzhou City to garrison, and ordered them to delay time at all costs, hold on, and wait until Kunlun Mountain annihilates the Kunlun ancestor, send reinforcements, and launch a counterattack. This promise is actually very difficult to achieve, and it will definitely be in the Western Regions Kunlun Ancestor's strength cannot be underestimated. As a canine-toothed wolf who led the whole army, he knew in his heart that this battle was to do his best to fight a decisive battle with the people and the officers and soldiers from all walks of life, and hold on at all costs, and the longer it dragged on, the better it would be for him.

In this way, after receiving the military order of the Xuexiao Heavenly King, the canine-toothed wolf led his brothers into Liangzhou City, intensified his efforts to prepare for the battle, and prepared a large number of rolling wood and stones on the city tower, waiting for the enemy to kill.

As the commander of the whole army, the canine wolf knows that he has a great responsibility. Faced with the problem of defending the city of Liangzhou, he knew in his heart that the enemy army had learned from the experience and the help of the high-ranking disciples, and it was a matter of time before the city was broken. Instead of defending Liangzhou City, it is better to give full play to the combat advantages of wolves, beasts and demons, and encircle and destroy the enemy outside the city, after all, only attack is the best defense. For this reason, he was determined to let the beast-toothed wolf lead the people of the city to form an elite cavalry, as long as they could withstand the attack of the official army and delay the enemy's attack, it would be a great achievement. In this way, the beast-toothed wolf was called to his side and discussed the matter together.

When the canine-toothed wolf saw his beast-toothed wolf brothers, he said, "It seems that we need them this time." After hearing this, the beast-toothed wolf said, "Brother is talking about the werewolf army?" The canine-toothed wolf replied: "It is they who have moved to Hexi all these years and laid a solid foundation for the Xuexiao Heavenly King to dominate Hexi. After 20 years of desperate and bloody battles, all the orphans who no one took care of were trained to become talents, and now it is to play their role, let them and our children and grandchildren, form a cavalry elite, fortify in the north of Liangzhou City, and constantly attack the official army grain road, block their contact with the Guannei, and achieve the purpose of trapping the officers and soldiers to delay time. ”

After listening to the words of his elder brother canine-toothed wolf, the beast-toothed wolf said in a loud voice: "Brother is really a good plan, I have never thought about such a long-term brother. When my brother adopted these orphans, I thought that my brother loved to eat children's meat, and now it is better to use them to fight against the Tang Dynasty officials and soldiers, so I will lead them out of the city and station, waiting for the fighters to annihilate the Tang Dynasty officials. In this way, after several conversations and communication, the beast-toothed wolf understood his brother's intentions, and led the werewolf army out of the city to prepare for the battle.

The terrain of the plain north of Liangzhou City is open, which is conducive to cavalry combat. The beast-toothed wolf has cultivated a group of outstanding generals in the human wolf army, and they are all brave and good at fighting, riding Hui war horses, ready for a decisive battle with the official army.

As the commander of the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry Legion, Ma Huaiyi wanted to recover his city the most, so he personally asked Generalissimo Zuo Di for his life, asking the army in his hand to march south and recover Liangzhou City. Generalissimo Zuo Di knew that he was from Liangzhou, so he agreed to let him be the vanguard general and lead the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry of his headquarters into Liangzhou City. He asked Master Huaizhi to lead the high-ranking disciples to help him go, preparing to open the way for the army to recover Liangzhou City.

In this way, General Ma Huaiyi got the opportunity to recover Liangzhou City as he wished, and led all the masters and apprentices to Liangzhou City together. As a result, he was blocked by the werewolf army on the plain, and Ma Huaiyi was surprised when he saw these werewolves. Look carefully at them all like wolves and not wolves, like people and not people. Dressed in fur, armed with crossbow arrows and spears, they are burly and powerful. And they are all good at riding, even their war horses are relatively tall, and at first glance they are a strong cavalry army.

In the face of such an enemy army, Ma Huaiyi, as a vanguard general, hesitated a little, and in order to test the combat effectiveness of the enemy army, he asked the deputy general Ma Fei to lead 5,000 elites to launch a tentative attack, wanting to know how strong their combat effectiveness was. In this way, General Ma Fei led 5,000 elite soldiers to launch the first round of attacks on the human wolf cavalry legion.

When the werewolf legion saw the officers and soldiers coming, they all flew to their horses, shot at the officers with crossbow arrows in hand, and then launched a full-scale attack. Ma Fei is a pioneer general beside General Ma Huaiyi, with excellent martial arts. But this time, after he personally commanded the main force to enter the werewolf army, he suffered an unprecedented heavy blow. I saw that those werewolves were strong in martial arts one by one, and after flying to the side of the official army, they opened Xue Peng's mouth and started to bite. One by one, the methods were extremely cruel and suppressed the momentum of the officers and soldiers. After several fierce battles, the officers and soldiers suffered huge casualties and had to quickly withdraw from the battlefield. Seeing the retreat of the official army, the beast-toothed wolf did not continue to attack, and led the werewolf legion to continue to build a cavalry defense line to delay the enemy's attack.

After Ma Fei retreated from defeat, he saw Marshal Ma Huaiyi and said: "I have never seen this kind of fighting, they are simply not human, like wolves and beasts, more than half of my casualties have to be defeated and retreat." After hearing this, Marshal Ma Huaiyi realized that this time he had met a real opponent. In order to recover Liangzhou City, no matter how difficult this battle is, we must persist and fight. He called Master Huaizhi and his senior disciples to his side to discuss the current difficulties encountered and how to solve them.

When Master Huaizhi learned that a werewolf army had appeared here, he was puzzled. He asked his disciples what was going on with this werewolf army? Only this Divine Night Monkey had heard about this, so he said to the Master, "I heard about it back then, but I have never seen it. These werewolves are all wandering orphans of the Tang Dynasty. After losing their parents, they were adopted by canine-toothed wolves, and as time went on, the children grew up from a few thousand to tens of thousands. I heard that they are all carefully trained and cultivated by canine-toothed wolves, and they seem to be humans, but in fact, they are like demons and non-demons, like people and non-humans, with strong martial arts and temperament like wolves, which are elusive. After listening to the words of the Divine Night Monkey, everyone knew that they were in real trouble this time. If it is the demon master's Buddha body mana, it can play a role, but as a result, they are human beings and not demons, but they have become wolf demons, and even the master's Buddha body mana will not work against them. And the disciples must not kill at will, that is to suffer the retribution of heaven. How is this good, you can't kill, you can't kill it. Now everyone is in trouble.

Seeing that the masters and apprentices could not kill indiscriminately, Ma Huaiyi, as the commander of the whole army, said to the generals: "Since ancient times, the Taoist soldiers have come to block the water and cover the earth, since the enemy army is so cunning and uses such despicable and shameless means, then we don't have to be polite, the generals will listen to the order to divide the troops into three ways, and go out with me to fight, this time the general will personally go out and lead you to teach these werewolf soldiers a good lesson." After hearing this, Xuantong Liu'er said to the master: "We can't kill the living, but we can capture them alive by our means, no matter what, catch them first." After hearing what the senior brother said, all the senior disciples agreed with the master's opinion, and in this way, they all turned into officers and soldiers, holding magic weapons, and helped the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry Legion to fight together.

This time, the official army divided into three armies and killed the werewolf legion. Seeing that the enemy army had launched a full-scale attack, the beast-toothed wolf divided the werewolf army into three detachments and launched a counterattack. After several desperate attacks, the two sides quickly tore together. In the face of all this, Xuantong Liuer led his junior disciples to use the immobilization technique to immobilize all the werewolf soldiers, so that they lost their combat effectiveness and cooperated with the officers and soldiers in battle. As a result, the beast-toothed wolf saw that there were high-ranking people in the official army to help, so he used his skills to rescue the werewolf soldiers. As a result, he completely exposed himself, and all the high-ranking disciples killed him one after another, and finally tied up the beast-toothed wolf, and after hundreds of rounds of fighting with him, Master Huaizhi, who came to help behind, seized the fighter plane, recited the spell of demon suppression, and put it into the demon subduing purple gold bottle, thus defeating the attack of the werewolf army.

After the werewolf legion outside the city suffered a crushing defeat, the canine-toothed wolf sent the hunting wolf out of the city to assist the werewolf legion in continuing the battle and blocking the attack of the official army. In order to completely defeat the official army outside the city, the wolf led the werewolf legion to carry out a tactical attack on the people and the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry Legion, which made Marshal Ma Huaiyi fall into passivity again.

In the face of such an enemy, Marshal Ma Huaiyi served as the commander of the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry. He was determined to get rid of the hunting wolf desperately, so he proposed a strategy to lure the enemy deep into the encirclement and annihilation in one fell swoop. This time, based on the tactics of the hunter-toothed wolf to fight guerrillas, he proposed to use himself as a bait to ambush in the valley.

Xuantong Liu'er and the other brothers agreed with him, so they arranged everything in the valley, and asked Ma Huaiyi to lead dozens of followers to walk back and forth in the valley every day, and put grain and grass in the valley to attract the attention of the tooth hunter.

These days, the officers and troops did not continue to fight, so that the hunting wolf could not find a favorable fighter. After several reconnaissances, the Tooth Hunter Wolf found that the enemy commander Ma Huaiyi often went in and out of the valley, and there was grain and grass in the valley, so he decided to attack the grain and grass and capture General Ma Huaiyi in order to force the official army to leave Liangzhou City, which can be described as a bold idea. After making up his mind in this way, he launched a troop deployment for the valley and made preparations for a surprise attack on the valley.

The tooth hunter led the werewolf legion to reconnoiter on the outskirts of the valley, and saw that Ma Huaiyi had few troops around him, so he seized the fighter plane and attacked decisively. Kill Ma Huaiyi in an all-round way. As a result, as soon as they entered the valley, the back road was blocked by the masters and apprentices. Seeing Master Huaizhi appear here, the Hunter Wolf realized that he had been tricked. After all, he was a generation of wolf beast kings, so he led the werewolf army to launch a comprehensive rush and prepare to break through. At this time, the Tianshan Snow Monkey unexpectedly flew away, and then showed a thousand bodies and thousands of magic skills, entangled him to death, and finally they fought together for hundreds of rounds, and was seized by Master Huaizhi and put into the Demon Suppression Purple Gold Bottle. The rest of the werewolf soldiers were all captured. Then, in order to control this legion, the Tianshan snow monkey turned into a tooth-hunting wolf, returned to the werewolf legion, and prepared to cooperate with the official army to annihilate the werewolf legion in one fell swoop, so according to their military plan, the next military operation was launched.

In this way, the soldiers of the werewolf legion thought that it was the Toothhunter Wolf Beast King who came back, so everything obeyed his arrangement, and under his leadership, they entered the encirclement of the official army, and finally were all fixed by all the masters and apprentices, and were captured and imprisoned by the officers and soldiers. In the face of these werewolves, the Tianshan Snow Monkey had no choice but to return to Heavenly Court, ask Taishang Laojun for help, and use the elixir to let these werewolf soldiers regain their senses and become a sound Tang man.

In the end, with the help of Taishang Laojun's mana, the 50,000 werewolf soldiers were rescued. Then they all joined the official army, and together with all the masters and apprentices and the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry Legion, they fought at the foot of Liangzhou City and prepared for the attack.

At this time, there were only three generals left in Liangzhou City, including the canine-toothed wolf, the sharp-toothed wolf, and the thunder-toothed wolf, with less than 100,000 troops. The enemy's army, together with the later Zuojia army and Zhangjia army, totaled 300,000 people, and surrounded the city of Liangzhou. The battle was about to begin, and in the face of all this, the canine-toothed wolf had already felt that the troops in the city were insufficient, so he pressed the people of the whole city on the tower, and as long as the officers and soldiers dared to go further, they would start slaughtering the city on the spot.

Seeing that the wolf beast demon used such inferior methods to persecute the officials and soldiers, Master Huaizhi decided to let his disciples start a night raid and fly into the city under the cover of night to rescue the people. As long as the people are rescued, after opening the four gates of the southeast, northwest and northwest, the officers and soldiers of each other will rush up and attack Liangzhou City. After everything was agreed upon, under the command of the Shenxia Night Monkey, the night raid on Liangzhou City was in full swing.

After flying into the city under the cover of night, the high-ranking disciples protected all the people. Then he flew towards the four gates and quietly opened the city gates. After Generalissimo Zuodi saw the fighter plane, he led the whole army to rush forward and directly entered Liangzhou City.

The canine-toothed wolf, sharp-toothed wolf, and thunder-toothed wolf knew that the enemy was best at this move. However, with their ability, they couldn't prevent all the high-ranking disciples at all, so they had to lead all the wolf beast demons to fight to the death, and finally after a night of fierce fighting, the wolf beast demons were all annihilated by all the masters and apprentices. The three canine-toothed wolf brothers fought to the death until dawn before they were taken away by Master Huaizhi. In the end, with the help of Zuo Jiajun and the people who learned from the scriptures, Ma Huaiyi recovered Liangzhou City and rescued all the people.

Thinking of his military exploits, Emperor Xuanzong finally appointed Ma Huaiyi to continue to serve as the assassin of Liangzhou City, and assisted Zuo Jiajun, Zhang Jiajun, and Master Huaizhi to continue the military preparations for advancing west to recover Ganzhou City. More on that below.