Chapter 577 7 battles and 7 victories
Chapter 577: Seven Battles, Seven Victories
At noon, at the foot of Jiutou Mountain.
Dark clouds were like ink, pressing down on the earth layer by layer. The withered wild grass shivered in the cold wind. The Jiu Tou Mountain was looming in the clouds. Gusts of cold wind swept by, the branches and leaves of the trees swayed, and a few jackdaws perched on the treetops were suddenly startled.
The Kangtai army was arrayed on the plain in front of the mountain. On the wooden general platform, Mo Ju looked into the distance, feeling a sense of pride in his heart.
"With 140,000 troops at our disposal, as long as we win this battle, it will be a natural progression. How can King Dashun seize our military power and compete for supremacy in the world? From now on, all members of the guild must obey my orders and fight!"
"Start the war!"
"Start the war!"
"White Tiger Camp, move out!"
As Mo Ju waved his hand and gave orders, the soldiers at the front of the 14-man army moved to both sides, revealing a series of paths.
Boom boom boom!
A five-meter-tall Mohist weapon that looked like a giant tiger walked out of the array. Ten bandits sat between the card slots, responsible for controlling this war weapon. Smoke and dust splashed, and the Mohist giant tiger roared to the sky. Then the second, third, and fourth Mohist tigers appeared, until finally, a total of five hundred Mohist giant tigers appeared.
"Attack!" Mo Ju ordered.
call!
The giant tigers of the Mohist school stepped forward, but their speed was not fast. These guys were like tanks, always leading the army formation. Three 10,000-man Mohist armored army formations began to advance, smoke and dust rose into the sky, and the heavy shields in the front were connected in a row, like a moving city wall.
At the foot of Jiutou Mountain.
Jiang He retracted his gaze. It was obvious that there were a considerable number of sentient beings players among the enemy army. They were highly organized and attempted to make up for the lack of quality of the bandits with technology.
"Ten rounds of rapid fire, release the arrows!"
The order was given, and six thousand cavalrymen raised their bows in unison. The sharp sounds of the taut bowstrings echoed and overlapped, and accompanied by the trembling of the bowstrings, one by one, the final flame arrows rose into the sky. After ten consecutive times, the front end of the black meteor group began to fall.
Boom boom boom!
Black flames erupted continuously.
There were a lot of gaps in the army of ten thousand people. The soldiers stained with black flames fled indiscriminately. Sixty thousand arrows turned into a rainstorm, easily shattering shields and armors, and killing thousands of enemies in a few breaths. If it were not for the fact that continuous long-distance shooting would significantly consume arm strength, the continuous rain of arrows alone would be enough to bury the enemy.
Figures wrapped in black flames were running around, and the other bandits dodged when they saw this. The three thousand-man black-armored army formations collapsed immediately.
"Charge forward!" Mo Saw shouted.
The next moment, the players of the guild took action. Thirty players sat on the giant tiger that came to support them. When the "armor control technique" was activated, the three armies of soldiers wearing ink armor suddenly stopped fleeing. The armor forcibly controlled their bodies and they suddenly charged forward.
The attack was disorganized, but as violent as that of a wild beast. More than 20,000 defeated soldiers attacked the Ansai infantry formation, like a river bursting its dike, extremely mighty.
On the wall of the military camp, Jiang He gave the order:
"Two hundred cavalry will move out, and eight thousand infantry will squat in battle formation."
The crows flew out, and in less than half a quarter of an hour, the order was passed on to the hands of each evil hundred households.
When the enemy attacked, all the evil soldiers in the infantry formation squatted down, and a cavalry team of 100 people on each side launched a charge, with ten people facing each other. This force with a special mission pulled ten long and light thorn ropes.
Whoohoo!
The long rope of thorns passed over the heads of the evil infantrymen and strangled the chests of the bandits. The epic sharpness of the thorn hand made the long rope destroy the ink armor in an instant.
The attacking bandits were reduced to corpses and retreated at an even faster speed. Pulled by the long thorny ropes, more and more bandits gathered together. By the time the resistance made it difficult for the cavalry to advance, the offensive had completely ceased.
"Lancers, forward."
puff!
A thousand vicious infantrymen moved forward, and the four-meter heavy spears in their hands, which were originally intended to strangle the cavalry, stabbed into the crowd of people behind the long ropes one by one. Blood spurted out, and there were continuous howlings. The vanguard of the bandits suffered heavy casualties.
Within less than two quarters of an hour after the war started, more than 20,000 bandits were killed.
At this time, thanks to the expected sacrifices, the real main force of the Kangtai Army had advanced to the appropriate position.
"Firepower equipment, start!" Mo Saw shouted.
Boom boom boom!
Thirty-six catapults, like waterwheels in the fields, were rooted in the ground. Each catapult had five magazines. When these Mohist machines were in operation, flints flew across the sky like meteors.
shhhhhh!
Thirty-six attic-like rotating crossbow towers began to spin wildly, and arrows were flung out from the warehouses from top to bottom. Each rotating crossbow tower could fire thousands of arrows with terrifying firepower in a short period of time.
boom!
A flint fell and blew away the six evil infantrymen around them, and even the Dingdengyang steel armor on their bodies was completely shattered. The rain of arrows filled the gaps between the flints. When the flints disrupted the shield formation, the arrows killed a large number of evil infantrymen.
After several rounds of bombing, more than 3,000 evil infantrymen were killed, which was the greatest casualties of the "Hundred Riders Out of Yangzhou" campaign.
"Attack!" Mo Saw roared.
In just a moment, the fourth 10,000-man army of Kangtai collided with the evil bandits. A fierce fight of sword against sword and gun against gun began. The evil infantry showed amazing tacit cooperation and killing skills, and rows of bandits fell to the ground and died.
But at the same time, five hundred Mohist giant tigers leaped into the battle formation, causing great pressure on the evil soldiers.
In the military camp, Jiang He looked at the infantry battle formation outside that was advancing instead of retreating, and his face remained calm. In theory, advancing against the current at this moment would not only require tremendous execution, but would also cause greater casualties.
"continue."
"Understood." Wuhe urgently mobilized a hundred skeleton dragon riders to charge to the front of the battle formation in order to relieve the pressure.
The blade cut off the arm and the spear pierced the chest. After losing their weapons, the evil soldiers pounced forward and bit them. Several evil soldiers set themselves on fire with the Final Flame Arrows, and then crashed into the Mohist giant tiger to destroy it.
"Glory to the Maharaja!"
A fierce battle lasted half an hour.
The fourth battle formation of the Kangtai Army of 10,000 was destroyed, and only 3,000 evil infantrymen remained. These elite soldiers who had been tempered in the Land of Gluttony for ten years, although they were skilled and fearless of death, could not avoid suffering heavy casualties under the numerical advantage of the enemy.
On the general's platform, Mo Ju's eyes were bloodshot.
He knew very well that with one-third of the casualties, if the guild members had not worked hard to hold on, the bandits would have been defeated long ago.
"All four battle formations of the central army are moving forward."
"Eat this infantry for me."
"The rear army is commanded by the vice president and must be on guard against enemy cavalry raids at all times."
"Xuanwu City is open!"
The intensity of the battle reached its peak. Mo Ju did not intend to add fuel to the fire. He directly pressed the main force of the central army. Four battle formations of 10,000 people surrounded the evil infantry regiment. There was still enough strength to set a trap and wait for the cavalry to fall into the trap.
Faced with the Kangtai army which had an absolute numerical advantage, losing the elite infantry was tantamount to handing over Xuancheng.
As time passed, the casualties of the evil infantry increased sharply due to the exhaustion of weapons and damage of swords and armor. In addition, their killing efficiency also dropped sharply, and the casualty ratio decreased instead of increasing.
The fifth army of 10,000 people had not yet been destroyed, and the number of evil infantrymen had been reduced to barely a thousand.
But faced with such a victory, Mo Saw showed no joy at all.
"Variables, where are the variables?"
"Cavalry, why aren't you moving?"
"I can't possibly die in vain!"
Mo Jue looked like a madman, but he caught a glimpse of the huge snake head shrouded in clouds and mist on Jiu Tou Mountain from the corner of his eye. His whole body suddenly turned cold and his face lost its color.
"Damn it!"
On the wall of the military camp, Jiang He waved indifferently.
Behind Jiutou Mountain, a 50,000-meter-long white giant snake swung its body, and its powerful tail swept across several miles, finally hitting the mountain hard, shattering it in an instant. Boom!
Countless pieces of debris fell from the sky. The power and impact range were in a completely different era compared to the Mohist catapults. A natural disaster-like destruction befell, and the debris smashed a large number of holes on the ground, directly destroying the fifth 10,000-man army formation and the evil infantry formation.
Boom!
Another mountain exploded.
The evil infantrymen who served as bait successfully lured the enemy into a trap. Stone fragments flew through the air and the main force of Kangtai's army collapsed. As the initiator, Zhuang Ya did not stop at all and swung his tail and blew up the mountain again and again. The attack positions had been measured in advance.
An overwhelming roar.
The broken stones smashed down, and the shields made of fine steel were twisted and deformed like thin paper. The bandits holding the shields were nailed into the ground along with their armor. The elite soldiers on both sides looked miserable. The hot rocks penetrated the armor surface, and the smell of burnt flesh mixed with blood filled the air.
In just a short time, all that was left of the main force of the Kangtai Army were broken limbs all over the ground, countless puddles of blood lay on the ground, and smoke and dust blocked the sky.
Mo Ju knelt blankly on the general's platform. His 40,000 direct troops were completely wiped out, and 80% of the guild players were killed. His ambition to dominate the world was completely buried under Jiutou Mountain.
On the wall of the military camp, Jiang He pointed forward.
"The Ansai cavalry will be dispatched to capture all the prisoners."
"understand!"
Deng Deng Deng!
The Ansai cavalry, which had been gathering strength, rushed out of the military camp, targeting the defeated soldiers in the front and center armies and the deserters in the rear army.
……
That night, the pursuit ended.
Thirty-two thousand prisoners, including some auxiliary soldiers who did not escape, were all disarmed by the Ansai Iron Cavalry, and then driven into the deep pit in the military camp one by one under the pretext of dinner.
Another team rushed down the deep pit. Realizing that the situation was not good, Mo Ju's eyes flickered. The shackles on his hands were nothing at the moment. He originally thought that after the enemy suffered huge losses, they would choose to incorporate this huge group of defeated soldiers, so that he would still have room to maneuver. But looking at the current situation, the answer is to be buried alive.
“That doesn’t make sense.”
The surrendered soldiers of Kangtai kept cursing, and fear was growing, but someone standing by the pit did not hesitate at all. The holy feathers fell, and the feather arrows with immortal strength and sharpness killed the prey one after another.
Mo Ju groaned inwardly. This was the moment when he was closest to the enemy commander. The guild was almost destroyed. In this desperate situation, he could only rely on himself.
"This cavalry is too elite, and the real tricky thing is that they are not afraid of death. I probably only have one chance to strike them with a sword, so I must go all out. But the problem is, I am a fourth-level sub-hero, why am I locked up with ordinary bandits?"
shhhhhh!
The feather arrows killed most of the bandits. Just as a new round of feathers were gathering power, Mo Saw stopped thinking and hesitating. He concentrated on jumping out of the deep pit and thrusting out with the long sword in his hand. The sword was surrounded by a long ink-colored dragon and had a powerful armor-breaking power.
"Life or death, this sword is the key!"
boom!
In an instant, two white fingers pressed down the sword.
The ink-black dragon collapsed, and a strange force attacked it. Mo Ju's face was horrified, and he was unable to stop the sword in his hand from falling out. This was the disarming force of the master of spearmanship.
"How can it be!"
Between the two fingers, destructive force was released along with the strong energy.
Mo Ju suddenly looked up, and through the reversed outrageous charm, he finally saw the face of the enemy commander.
"It can't be wrong!"
“Ba…”
Boom!
The surrendered soldiers of Kangtai's army were killed, and five phantoms of heavenly dragons were created, which smashed Mo Saw into pieces.
"If you recognize a thief as your father, you will die."
Jiang He was too lazy to continue paying attention to an ordinary player who had already died, and immediately began to binge on alchemy.
The Ansai Iron Cavalry threw the debris and corpses on the battlefield into the deep pit, including some flesh and blood smashed by the rubble of the mountain.
From the pit lake where the gluttonous black light accumulated, Ansai soldiers and skeleton horses crawled out one after another, a total of 19,000 people.
"Combined with the replenished Ansai Iron Cavalry, the total number has reached 25,000, and the original accumulation is complete."
[Hint: You won the 4-man war (7/)]
Jiang He climbed onto his horse. He had the title of a sleepless man, so resting was not necessary for him.
"Wuhe, you come to find prey."
"I understand." Wuhe Gaga replied.
Boom boom boom!
Twenty-five thousand Ansai cavalry rushed out of the military camp and advanced into the night like a tide.
……
November, the 20th year of Yongqing.
The great bandit King Dashun led an army of 370,000 to the north and surrounded the city of Yangzhou. The then Governor of Salt and Iron of Sixteen States, Prince Yong, a member of the Southern Liang royal family, led a hundred cavalrymen out of Yangzhou.
That night, they encountered the bandits "Shaotatian" on the road and Prince Yong defeated them.
He ambushed and killed five thousand infantry and cavalry.
At dawn, King Yong led two thousand Ansai cavalrymen and marched for dozens of miles to attack Xuancheng. At that time, there were more than 30,000 troops stationed in Xuancheng. The leader of the bandits, Jiu Tou Hu, was born with great strength and was a hero for the time.
King Yong defeated them and buried the bandits in Xuancheng alive.
King Dashun was shocked and angry, and immediately sent Generals Yue and Mo to lead an army of 100,000 south to recapture Xuancheng.
The real name of the general surnamed Yue is unknown. He was born in the Sun and Moon Demon Sect. He was frivolous and arrogant. He and Mo An were not on good terms, so he led a vanguard army of 30,000 to attack Xuancheng.
King Yong defeated them and captured and killed more than 20,000 people.
Ten days later, Mo led an army of 140,000 to attack Jiutou Mountain. Dark clouds covered the city, and the ground collapsed and the mountains were destroyed.
King Yong defeated them all and killed them within a radius of 20 miles.
Seventeen thousand Kangtai troops were successively destroyed.
In late November, Prince Yong led 25,000 cavalry to Raocheng, broke through the gate alone, and led his generals to rush in. The defending bandit leader "Zi Jinliang" and 40,000 bandits fled. Prince Yong personally led a thousand cavalry to pursue them, defeated them again, and beheaded Zi Jinliang.
The then commander of the rear army of Dashun, Hunshi Hou, was furious when he heard the news. He immediately mobilized three large armies, 18 bandit leaders, 90,000 bandits, and 30,000 private armies of aristocratic families to form a rear army to attack Raocheng.
When they reached Jiagu Pass, the Ansai cavalry attacked from the front and back, and after a fierce battle for half a day, Prince Yong was finally defeated.
Marquis Hunshi gathered his defeated soldiers and retreated outside the valley, but King Yong defeated him again. He charged left and right in the battle formation and was unstoppable. His generals covered their retreat, while Marquis Hunshi retreated alone. King Yong killed him from a distance and finally defeated him. He led his army to kill 70,000 bandits.
The two armies of the left and right were destroyed, and the Dashun army assembled three armies, a total of 250,000 bandits, and entered Yangzhou County in full force, besieging the city and holding on.
At the end of November, Prince Yong led 50,000 Ansai cavalry to the outskirts of Yangzhou County, recaptured Ansai County, and killed all the bandits in the city. In one month, he won seven battles and seven victories, traveled 800 miles, and defeated more than 300,000 bandits in the south of the Yangtze River. The whole country was shocked and his power covered ten states.
Because six dragons were circling around him as he walked, the bandits called him "Six Heavenly Dragon Kings" and were terrified at the mention of him.
(End of this chapter)