Chapter 576 Battle outside the city
Chapter 576 Battle outside the city
The night passed.
The Ansai cavalry was dispatched nearly ten times.
The casualties of the vanguard army were not heavy, but the army, which was mainly composed of bandits, obviously did not have the elite quality to sleep peacefully in batches. Most of the bandits did not receive the assembly order, but remained on tense alert in the military camp until dawn.
At the beginning of dawn, Elder Yue paced back and forth in the military tent. Three attempts to seize the gate at night all ended in failure. He wanted to attack the city in an all-out manner, but once his forces were dispersed, the enemy cavalry would be defeated if they rushed out. If he only attacked from the front, even if all his men died, he might not be able to reach the top of the city under the rain of arrows from the archers.
"The enemy commander wants to compete with us on the level of elite troops."
"With thousands of casualties overnight, in another ten days... no, before that, the vanguard army will collapse due to lack of rest. Two days and three nights is the limit."
"Are we going to retreat just like that?"
Elder Yue was somewhat unwilling to leave like this. He could fully imagine what a laughing stock he would become. If he didn't care about these things, he would neither take the initiative to ask for a fight nor lead the vanguard army to approach Xuancheng first.
"Pass on my order to gather the veterans from all the divisions. Those who have made outstanding contributions to the military strategy will be generously rewarded by this elder."
Elder Yue ordered that this critical moment was not the time to be reserved about one's status. If necessary, he did not mind brainstorming. After all, the greatest credit for victory would still go to him.
All the generals gathered together at once.
……
The top of Xuancheng city.
A crow circled and descended.
"Boss, that demon cult elder won't be able to hold out for more than three days." Wu He reported, "He has summoned the generals from all the tribes."
Jiang He touched his chin and said, "It's the early days of the bandits' rise, and these guys don't have much experience in leading troops. It seems we can be bolder."
There was a huge gap between the bandits and their generals and the Northern Wei border troops, but it was foreseeable that the source of the bandits' military strength meant that they had a lot of room for trial and error.
"Two thousand cavalrymen will be in the front, led by me personally."
"Two thousand cavalrymen will stay behind, and let Zhuang Ya lead the troops to harvest the crops."
"One thousand cavalry on each side to double-team."
"Send out scouts to keep an eye on the area around Xuancheng."
After the order was passed on, the Ansai Cavalry showed amazing organizational skills. In just a quarter of an hour, all the units were ready.
The city gate opened, Jiang He squeezed the horse's belly lightly, and as the horse sped up, a strong wind blew towards them.
"Boss, on the east side of the enemy camp, eight out of ten centurions have gone to the central army tent."
"understood."
Jiang He turned his horse around. The absence of middle-level generals meant that the enemy in the east could only organize a resistance of a hundred people, and that was under the premise of not sleeping for a day and a night.
Looking down from the sky, two thousand Ansai cavalrymen were like arrows drilling towards the east side of the vanguard army. The battlements of General Jinxiuhui's stronghold were set on fire, and the cavalrymen rushed in and started with two rounds of volleys.
Shhhhhh.
A rain of arrows enveloped the military camp in front, and several centurions were shot dead. Jiang He was the first to charge into the battle formation, slashing vertically with his black knife, and using the Dragon Spear Technique - Broken Dragon Spine to smash a hundred-meter-wide hole in the ground, and thousands of bandits were reduced to mud.
The strongest and only line of defense was broken. Two thousand cavalrymen charged into each battle formation of one hundred men in turn, using the strong to attack the weak and the many to defeat the few. One charge was enough to declare the destruction. The Ansai sharpshooters who were specifically responsible for mounted shooting hunted down officers, and more and more bandits fled in all directions.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the eastern part of the military camp was in chaos. The dark masses of Ansai cavalry swept across the land, and fear was spreading rapidly.
In the rear army of Ansai, a little girl in white was sitting on horseback, with a hundred of the most elite skeleton dragon riders acting as guards. She beheaded a dozen people on the side with one sword. The task of the rear army was only to reap the defeated soldiers of the front army.
The two arrows cut the vanguard of the bandits wantonly. In the central army tent, Elder Yue ran out with a look of rage, unable to hold back his roars.
"You useless bastards! You can't even stand a fight! I'm ruined by you useless bastards!"
A captain who was a former surrendered soldier hurriedly said, "General, there is still room for maneuver in this battle. Please immediately organize a defense line in the rear and gather the fleeing soldiers. As long as we can hold on, it will only be a minor defeat, and the foundation will not be damaged!"
Just as he finished speaking, Jiang He led two hundred cavalrymen to make a detour from the rear of the enemy army. A large flag shaped like an Ouroboros fluttered in the wind, and the centurions who originally had some fighting spirit suddenly turned pale.
"Failed!"
"The enemy troops from Xuancheng are coming to support us!"
"The generals are all dead, run!"
The next moment, the rear army collapsed and the defeat was completely irreversible. They fled and were chased all over the mountains. The two Ansai thousand-household teams held the defense line tightly in the face of a group of bandits who were desperately trying to survive. The result of not being able to surround three sides and leave one side open was that they suffered large-scale casualties for the first time.
"The escape is more violent than the siege."
Wuhe was circling high in the sky. He commanded the Ansai cavalry to split into teams of hundreds and move out like a pack of wolves in an effort to defeat the last resistance of the enemy at each node.
In front of Xuancheng, the killing and slaughter began.
"I haven't lost yet!"
"As long as we kill the enemy commander, we can turn the tide."
Elder Yue had a ferocious look on his face, and a brilliant moon rose behind him, then merged with himself. His whole body released strong moonlight. He was a sub-hero of the fourth realm, with a brilliant moon body that was extremely sharp and powerful.
Whoosh!
Elder Yue held his arm horizontally, his palm edge like a knife, he stomped on the ground and rushed forward, aiming directly at the man in white shirt who was hacking and killing indiscriminately.
"Take your life!"
Jiang He turned around and punched, a torrent of pure force surged, four phantoms of heavenly dragons entangled with each other, surrounding a small black sword, and instantly hit Elder Yue.
The power of the fourth-level Heavenly Dragon blasted Elder Yue to death, and the natal sword took away the essence of Huiyue's body. No trace of his body was left, only a hundred-meter-deep ravine created by the huge force.
[Hint: By absorbing the power of the moon attribute, your natal sword Xingyue is promoted to the immortal level]
"Humor." Jiang He rode his horse forward and continued to hack and kill.
……
November 19th.
On the western route of the Dashun Army, Kangtai's vanguard army suffered a great defeat after arriving in Xuancheng. The Ansai Iron Cavalry captured and killed 30,000 people, and their own side lost 1,300 cavalry. After making up for the losses, Jiang He began to use evil alchemy to create 8,000 evil infantrymen.
The next morning, six thousand cavalry, eight thousand infantry, a total of fourteen thousand soldiers left Xuancheng and headed north, and lined up at the foot of Jiutou Mountain, preparing for a decisive battle with the main force of Kangtai's army.
Three days later, under the leadership of the Moshu City branch guild, the main force of the Kangtai Army arrived, but the number was beyond imagination.
At the foot of Jiutou Mountain, in the military camp.
Jiang He looked at the map, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked casually:
"How did Mo Ju get 70,000 troops? There are 140,000 troops in total. Now King Dashun probably wants him dead more than I do."
Wuhe replied, "Boss, he recruited the former Xuancheng deserters, first rewarded them generously in public, and then ordered them to disband on the spot, saying that when they return to the team, he will be made a centurion if he can summon a hundred men, and a thousand men if he can summon a thousand men. He will give corresponding official positions and supplies to the number of people he summons. The Xuancheng deserters are all locals, and they will respond to his call in the nine counties of Xuanjun."
Jiang He pondered and said, "That means there is a way to make up for the lack of elite troops."
The battle outside the city was over, and his mission had achieved some phased results. This time it was just another battle.
[Reminder: The Ten Thousand-Man War has been completed (3/3) — Joint Promotion Mission]
[Hint: Level 3 War (7/)——Main Mission ②]
(End of this chapter)