Chapter 71: Destroying the Enemy
Yang Tian rode on the horse and thought of Fedoya's beautiful face. Long Feng was nagging something unknown in his ear: "The so-called enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I attack, the enemy tired, and I disturb me... This is what you should do when your military strength is not as strong as the other party, and the most effective principle of eliminating the enemy's military strength."
Yang Tian shrugged and said, "Brother, our military strength is not weaker than them now. Is it necessary to use these troublesome tricks? They don't know how to come to us hundreds of miles away. Maybe the emperor was so scared that he transferred them back to help him. Where can I get to bother us?"
Long Feng patted his head fiercely and whispered: "If we forced the people passing by to let the news and say that we were going to attack their imperial capital, would they chase us desperately overnight? If they really did this and ran for hundreds of miles, would it be a tired enemy? Then, should we destroy them?"
Yang Tian felt a little more energetic and pointed at the shadow of a vague city ahead and said, "But in the plan, we should fight this city, don't we need to fight and concentrate on setting up ambush?"
Long Feng shook his head: "It's still necessary to fight. Have you forgotten? We have the nobles who have lost their country to help maintain order, but the Black Cloud Empire must rely on a certain army. Every time we clear out the garrisons in their city, the Black Cloud Army behind them must leave a certain number of soldiers to garrison, which will reduce the pressure on us a lot... Of course, it can also make the people in this city release rumors."
Yang Tian calculated: "Unormal, they should arrive here in three days. Then, we have to clean up the city within two days, otherwise it will be troublesome." Long Feng nodded and said in a mixed voice: "It doesn't matter. Didn't the old monk Heitian bring two thousand disciples with him? The maximum number of troops garrison here is 10,000, and he may surrender after being scared."
In fact, at this moment, the Black Cloud Army was still hesitating and did not know which direction to pursue it. Six million soldiers were like a huge monster slowly crawling on the ground, and it was rare to find a feasible measure. Strogen, Tungulas and Feng, who was recovered from injury, didn't know what to do? Will it be pursued? So how many routes should it be divided into? Will it be eaten by other powerful troops? In which direction to chase it? Should the Celestial Army attack the Black Cloud or just conquer the continent under its feet?
No one could answer this question, so the Black Cloud Army was still hesitating. It could not walk fifty miles a day and slowly headed south. It looked helplessly at the slaughtered villages, and could not find any living people to ask for information.
Yang Tian’s 500,000 troops were not prepared to siege the city. They camped straight in the north of the city, and the two hundred artillery carried by the army bombarded out in a mess, making the ground in front of the city wall dusty, and the momentum was amazing. The 15,000 occupying troops of the Black Cloud Empire were all pale on the top of the city. They were just the second-line reserve troops of the Black Cloud Empire. Have you ever seen such a scene?
The old ghost of Heitian walked up and rushed into the sky with two thousand disciples. Then, he sent out a large number of fireballs at the same time. The city wall that was not very strong was immediately shorter than two feet. Yang Tian drove forward proudly and shouted loudly: "Damn it, listen to the people in the city, open the door and surrender, we can let you go, otherwise, no one will be left. Do you think your troops can resist my subordinates with such a small amount of force?"
As if to prove Yang Tian's words, the soldiers in the back of the Fourth Front Army continued to drive in a steady stream of time, with dust flying, and amazing momentum. The city gate slowly opened, and more than 10,000 garrisons of the Black Cloud Empire put down their weapons and walked out hesitantly.
Yang Yan winked, and a team of soldiers rushed up and drove the more than 10,000 people quickly behind the camp. The army rushed into the city and set up two camps outside the city.
At night, Yang Tian brought a group of generals to have fun in the tavern in the city, teasing the maids in the tavern. Yang Tian casually yelled in his stuttering black clouds's official words: "Eat, drink, rest, and go tomorrow, go to the imperial capital of the Black Cloud Empire, kill their emperor, steal their queen and princess, and empty their vault."
Zeng Guoxuan shouted with his tongue: "Damn, what's the use of those more than 10,000 prisoners? I cut them all. When their country is destroyed, they will all be chopped down. All the people in the Black Cloud should die, chop them, chop them." Several generals who were also drunk but pretended to be very drunk walked out with a crazy laugh. Soon after, the screams of the prisoners were heard in the night sky. The generals ordered the prisoners to be dragged into the city and executed them, while hanging their heads under the eaves, shouting loudly: "Cut them first, and then attack the land of the Black Cloud Empire, and let your emperor go down to accompany you."
The mayor and the administrators of the city were trembling in fear and hid in the secret rooms of their mansions. They were also the ones who surrendered after occupying the place, and they were somewhat inclined toward the Black Cloud people. In the Longfeng Plan, these guys who betrayed their motherland were also the most important links. Therefore, at least two thousand heads were thrown into their mansions through the courtyard wall. Several military staff members shouted loudly outside the wall, and several soldiers set off fire.
Before dawn, Yang Tian's army set out, with no left-behind soldiers, and 500,000 people quickly left the city that had been intimidated all night. Upon arriving, more than a dozen fast horses rushed out, looking for the main force of Heiyun who were unknown where they were, so as to spread the news that the Celestial Army was preparing to attack Heiyun's local area.
For four consecutive days, the same thing happened in the next three towns, about two hundred secret messengers were sent out, and Strongen finally got the first report.
Feng frowned and pondered: "Are they going to attack our local area? Is it possible?" He was not anxious at all now. Anyway, it was when Strogen was in charge that the Celestial Army had crossed the defense line, and he was really not anxious at all. It would be best that Strogen and Tungulas were both cut off their heads, so it was his turn to command this army. As for the local defense, although it was a little weak, there were still two armies guarding the imperial capital, and nothing would happen. Let Strogen, a bastard, be anxious.
Nineteen secret letters of the same content came in a row. Almost all the messengers were rolling and crawling to the three giants. Strogen, who was already in doubt, couldn't sit still anymore. With an order, more than 6 million black cloud army rose up on the ground, abandoned some useless supplies and other supplies, divided them into twenty routes, and chased towards the direction where Yang Tian's front army was advancing.
Wen Yuan was in the central army, Wen Yuan asked in confusion: "It's strange, why has the army of the Black Cloud Empire not yet moved? The spies still haven't found anything?" The generals were also puzzled: "If this continues, we will really rush into the 'Wind Canyon' and can lead our troops straight to the Black Cloud Empire."
If this continent is regarded as a sand table, then Yang Tian's legion would be like a fragrant bone running in front and behind, twenty crazy evil dogs chased after it at a faster speed. However, the disadvantage of the legion being too big finally appeared. In addition to the three legions, they could also coordinate and advance together, and the other nineteen army lost contact with friendly forces at all. They just rushed to the "Wild Horse Plain" according to Strogen's orders to intercept the abominable, damn aliens who dared to attack the sacred and great imperial capital.
Each unit sent a large number of vanguard troops, mobile rangers, scout teams, etc. Slowly, due to the different terrain, the formation of this huge Black Cloud Legion was a little loose. The team of 150,000 people in the front was approaching Yang Tian's main force in less than a day. The two teams with a total of 400,000 people in the east had a journey of more than nine days. Inadvertently, they bit the tail of Qiong Daotian's team again.
Qiong Daotian smiled and sent a liaison force to contact the nearby friendly forces, that is, the "Tiger and Wolf Army" led by General Long, a group of Western continent cavalry. He was preparing to swallow the enemy and the large army in one bite while it was dispersed.
Yang Tian's worst hooligan nature slowly showed up. In order to gain the greatest preparation time for his army, every time he passed by a gathering place for the people, he forced the people to destroy all the roads, big and small. However, in order not to let the people have too much resistance, he took out a large sum of gold and silver as compensation. These roads were everywhere, which really made the black cloud army behind him miserable.
A brigade of 50,000 people was assigned by Yang Tian. Their task was to bait. No matter what they did, it would attract the Black Cloud Army behind their front army to keep it away from the Black Cloud team and eat it in one bite.
According to the scout's report, Yang Tian had already known that the enemy behind him was no more than 200,000. He calculated the troops at his hands. Without consuming too much combat power, Yang Tian was still very confident to eat this army. The place of battle was a river valley where Yang Tian and the others were ambushing.
This is a small mountain range that extends from the Qifeng Mountains. The red soil is like dry blood stains. A river channel that is only three miles wide flows to the southeast. It is about 200 miles long. There is a small river in the middle of the river. It is just in the dry season in spring, which is just suitable for fighting.
The 350,000 Yang Tian's subordinate army was ambushed on both sides of the river, and 100,000 people were scattered twenty miles away as mobile troops, preparing to intercept possible support from the other party. They did not ask them to bring the Heiyun Army to the rescue, but they could only drag them for a day. The order Yang Tian gave them was: "I allow you to lead the team to escape in the battle. As long as you don't bring the pursuers here, you can lead them anywhere you like... Remember, life is the most important thing, don't fight to the death."
After waiting quietly for two days and two nights, eating, drinking, defecation and sensation were all solved by his hidden place, which made Yang Tian and the other young men suffer. Looking at the dried vegetable pancakes and dried food dumplings, they almost vomited them out. Several young men were so hungry that their eyes turned green and turned their hungry eyes to Gnu, as if there was a large piece of beef sauce there.
Finally, the sound of horse hooves came from the entrance of the valley. Fifty thousand defeated soldiers rushed in, and in addition to a few big flags, they were also slanted to the sky. The spears and swords were dragged to the ground, and the tassels on the helmets were twisted and twisted. After a while, the 50,000 people were divided into three long snake formations and passed through the widest part of the river valley. They walked carefully, so the 150,000 black cloud army that were chasing wildly behind quickly chased after them.
The 50,000 troops of the Celestial Empire carefully passed through the valley and continued to run out of five miles. They immediately turned around, rectified the formation, set up spears and crossbow arrows, and a murderous aura began to spread quietly.
The commander of the Black Cloud Army was not a fool. Seeing this terrain and the abnormal behavior of the enemy who had just fled in a panic, he quickly issued an order: "Retreat and withdraw from this valley." But it was too late. More than 30,000 vanguards had rushed into the river beach that the Celestial Army had carefully passed, stepped on some stones that should not have been stepped on. Balls of fire gushed out from under the ground, and each ball of fire took hundreds of lives.
The commander's eyes were almost red, and he gritted his teeth and ordered: "The back team converted into the front team, retreated, don't worry about the forward, retreat, retreat, retreat..." His order had ended here. An incredible sharp arrow passed through his heart, and nailed him to the ground through a layer of heavy armor. Hundreds of powerful sharp arrows were shot out. In the blink of an eye, the middle and upper-level generals of the Black Cloud Army had almost lost.
Then, accompanied by the buzzing sound of bees, a large number of crossbow arrows and bows poured down from the dense forests on both sides. There were also long arrows emitted by giant crossbows that often penetrated a soldier and then penetrated deeply into the body of a person behind.
Hundreds of thousands of infantry ran out, and they had only one order: "Run down and block the entrance before the Black Cloud Army escaped." They ran wildly, regardless of whether they were flat or rocks at all, whether they stepped on some strange things, or whether their armor began to relax during the Rain. Their only purpose was to run five miles before the Black Cloud Army came back to their senses and completely block the entrance of this section of the river valley.
The Heiyun Army discovered this situation. A group of more than 30,000 people in their back team rushed towards the entrance with red eyes and shouted wildly: "Brothers, come on, don't let them block it, otherwise we will die."
The black flames burned, and black fire dragons seemed to have their own consciousness, chasing the butts of the Black Cloud Army burned wildly, causing many soldiers to turn into coke in the howls, slowing down their running speed. The dull cannon sounded, and raindrop-like shells covered the direction of the Black Cloud Army's advance. In the rain of bullets, the Black Cloud soldiers ran wildly for the only hope of escaping. Often a shell exploded beside them and smashed them.
The water of the small river in the valley had turned black and red, and pieces of fine meat slowly flowed with the river water. Suddenly, the cheers of the Celestial Army came from the entrance. The two troops advanced head-on and had completely blocked the entrance. The guns of the forest were tilted up, and behind them was a large sword array like snowflakes.
The Black Cloud soldiers suddenly stabilized. They had been well-trained and had been through the war quickly gathered in the valley to form small round formations, and shouted: "It's a hero, let's come down and fight us to the death."
The young men of the Guards Group burst into laughter, and a strange voice shouted downwards: "Damn, little brats, I won't be dead heroes. A living rogue is much more noble than a dead hero. Fuck you, do we idiots come to fight you for the death?"
The denser rain of arrows fell down, and the artillery fire began to intensively bombard the middle section of the valley. Countless fireballs, wind blades and even huge stones were shot down densely under the drive of the disciples led by the old ghost of Hei Tian. The dragon wind hangs in the dense forest like a god of death, and a faint green huge wind blade swept out wildly. Each wind blade almost tore off hundreds of soldiers from the Black Cloud Army.
The shells exploded in a small circular array, and the broken limbs and arms kept bursting out with the flames. The mines buried under the ground were still playing a role, often exploding in dense crowds. A team of small, only 10,000 people slowly appeared at the entrance, galloping into the passage where the infantry made way, and began to launch a final impact on the already scattered Black Cloud Army.
The resistance of the Black Cloud Army completely collapsed. Although every soldier was still resisting, at most, three or five teams of them could resist the crazy impact of tens of thousands of cavalry?
Less than two hundred black cloud soldiers were still moving in the valley. Yang Tian suddenly waved his flags a few times and transferred the cavalry team away. Jiang Chunshui moved his fingers lazily and shouted loudly: "Brothers, you can't let other brothers say that our Guards regiment do nothing, right? There are so many enemies below, brothers, come on..."
He carried the tiger down the mountain and the dragon went out to sea, waved the best battle sword and sword, and wore the best armor on his body. Thousands of young men rushed down the hillside wildly and rushed towards the more than two hundred people, with cracks everywhere in the armor, and was in a trance and ineffective physical strength.
It was nothing more than a one-sided massacre. Many young men complained: "Boss, your flag is dancing too slowly. Few soldiers have made us happy. Let's keep a few more next time."
Yang Tian simply said: "It doesn't matter. I will keep them a team of people next time to ensure you are comfortable." No one dared to say anything. In terms of strength, it is okay for the guards to kill a team of Black Cloud soldiers, but they don't want to get a knife on their butt, right?
The 100,000 soldiers at the entrance sent five thousand people up and began to carefully clean up the battlefield, collect all valuable things, and cut off all the black cloud soldiers who had not yet died. Yang Tian proudly began to rectify the troops, put away the hidden objects in the dense forest on the hillside, and yelled: "Damn, I'm the first skill in sending troops. Look, except for more than a hundred unlucky people who were knives, they easily killed 150,000 of them. Damn, I'm such a genius..."
The baggage officer mercilessly interrupted his cowhide: "Sir, the shells we carry have been consumed in this battle..."
Yang Tian was stunned for a long time, touching his nose with great shamelessness and saying nothing. Long Feng laughed wildly: "Damn, if you hit so many shells, do you think it is your command? Even if you give me one million cannons in the plain, I can kill their 100 million troops. It's really..." Seeing that there was chaos here, several young men ran over to join in excitedly.
Qiong Daotian's side really fought a big battle. He and the "Tiger and Wolf Army" joined forces to surround and divide the Black Cloud Empire. The army of 400,000 people inexplicably caught up with him. 750,000 to 400,000. The two sides fought for three days. The Black Cloud Empire lost 200,000 corpses, abandoned 50,000 seriously injured people, and retreated in a mess. The Celestial Empire lost more than 80,000 people, and then in order to revenge, it ruthlessly massacred the 50,000 seriously injured prisoners.
Wen Yuan of the Central Army felt something was wrong and began to instruct the Nine Front Army not to be too far away from each other, and at most it could only be separated by four days. However, a 300,000-strong Black Cloud Army had suddenly penetrated, separating Yang Tian's army from the Central Army. Yang Tian was three days apart from this Black Cloud Army, and was advancing together.
The Black Cloud Emperor Capital has received a secret report: "The army of the Celestial Empire has developed, breaking through the defense line of the Marquis of Strolongen and rushing towards the empire's homeland." Immediately, the Black Cloud Empire was in a turmoil, and various families were fighting each other and frantically exploiting and excluding political enemies. The matter of who is responsible and who is the sinner has been broken up. How to deal with the Celestial Army has been ignored.
Yang Tian's army was less than 800 miles away from the "Wild Horse Plain", but a large number of Black Cloud Army appeared on both sides and behind his army. Who told him to shout the most? The Black Cloud Army, who was eager to protect his master, followed him all the way. There were not even a single fly around the other Eighth Route Front Army. They attacked cities and villages along the way. They were so unhappy. The local autonomous governments also emerged like mushrooms after the rain, and they issued the declaration of independence that was friendly to the heavens for generations and irreconcilable with the Black Cloud Empire.
The Black Cloud Empire has lost most of its control over this continent, and Yang Tian has also lost contact with the central army. The more than 5 million Black Cloud Army is really like a black cloud, and it is about to devour his pitiful 500,000 people. Long Feng had already felt everything. He kept laughing in his heart, and did not remind Yang Tian to see the situation himself. He urged the soldiers to move forward desperately, move forward, and move forward again with a mentality of watching the show...
In the deepest and deepest demon realm, a series of snoring sounded, and several guys watching the fun began to bet with great dissatisfaction: "I bet that this boy Yang Tian is dead this time, ten thousand pieces of magic jade." "I bet he can hold on for three days, and then run away desperately, ten thousand pieces of money."...
Chapter completed!