Chapter 81 Boring stalemate
No one expected this to be the result. In two months, neither the Celestial Empire nor the Black Cloud Empire dispatched a single soldier. With the help of the Grand Duke of Cres, the Celestial Army built countless earthen castles thirty miles from the "Luhun" mountain pass. The continuous earthen castles extended densely, and countless Celestial soldiers were conducting daily practices inside.
Vaster did not mean to dispatch an army. In his idea, the Celestial Army must span the entire Black Cloud Continent to replenish food. He could slowly wait for tens of millions of people in the Celestial Empire to collapse after they were consumed. Why bother to fight them to death?
But in fact, the Celestial Empire did not have such concerns. Cres had already begun to form his own Cres Kingdom. Relying on the support of the Celestial Army, he and his private army had already annexed the lord land of several nearby Black Cloud Empires, and firmly grasped one-third of the land of the Black Cloud Continent. Natural food and grass and all the materials needed were continuously supplied. Only Vaster was still dreaming on the city tower.
The trouble for the Celestial Army was that there was no good way to deal with the perverted city wall at the "Loud Soul" Pass. After thinking for a long time, Wen Yuan could only come up with a solution. The Celestial Army left behind to train a little more city defense force, and then let the fleet place them directly from the sea into the rear of the Black Cloud Empire, and make trouble for them in the rear. At that time, it would be clear that Vaster would still be willing to leave. Wen Yuan also issued a transfer order, asking the rear to quickly create a large number of zha medicine and shells to come up. Only such a way can be dealt with in such a city wall.
Another morning, Wen Yuan stood on the earthen wall of the earthen castle and frowned and looked at the dark city wall thirty miles away. Qiong Daotian and a few people were turning huge stone wheels back and forth around the neighborhood to make efforts. Although it was a stalemate now, he could not lose his kung fu.
At this moment, I heard the shrill trombone sound in Yang Tian's camp. About 200,000 people lined up in a neat row to get out of the castle gate, and dust was everywhere towards the "Lost Soul" mountain pass. In front of the square formation, Gnu, holding super-large weapons, wearing heavy armor, and more than 200 members of the stormtroopers. As for Yang Tianze and Long Feng, riding alone, following more than ten feet behind, it was obvious that they were watching the fun.
Wen Yuan shouted suddenly: "Governor Yang, Governor Yang?" But the distance was too far, and it seemed that it was impossible for Yang Tian to hear his greeting. Even if Yang Tian heard it, he would not pay attention to him, right? Qiong Daotian was stunned and was stunned, holding a stone guy weighing thousands of pounds, and muttered: "I know you are very bored, but there is no need to ask the soldiers to die. Are you waiting for the medicine and shells in the rear to come here?"
Wen Yuan shook his head, suddenly laughed again, and murmured: "You kid is still the same immoral, why are all recruits recruited by 200,000 people? No one of his subordinates needs to... Damn it, anyway, the morale of the soldiers is almost gone, so it's okay to make some big noises every day."
He suddenly turned his head and ordered the generals behind him: "Call two hundred artillery pieces and follow the brigade. After each artillery fires ten shells, he will retreat. Concentrate the firepower and bombard it a little. I'll see how strong their city walls are."
The team of troops quickly advanced, and in just two hours, they reached less than a mile in front of the "Loud Soul" mountain pass. Sparse arrows began to shoot down the city wall, but the strength was not very strong. Yang Tian ordered: "Stay on the spot, darling, drink some water and eat some dry food, and see if they can come out."
The soldiers were already scared and ran over without any siege equipment. They watched the unparalleled city wall in front of them, as well as the muzzle and arrows inside the city wall, which were only 200,000. Even if the Heiyun Army did not resist, they would be exhausted if they climbed up the ladder.
Gnu was already yelling at the people on the city: "Damn it, a big man came out from above and answered. Don't hide in the city like a group of women who can't move their legs and tremble... Damn, a man will play with me..." After saying that, he deliberately shook off his black iron armor and showed off his exaggerated muscles that were like big steamed buns. Then he punched in the air, and a burst of "crackling" air burst out in the air.
Yang Tian's army shouted loudly, especially those more than 200 members of the stormtroopers. What good birds are they? They fight and scold people all day long on the streets of Shengjing, and immediately poured out the greetings of the Celestial Empire that they mastered in black clouds. Although the translation level is not high and the words are not meaningful, they still have a clear view of the meaning of having a super friendly and physical relationship with Vaster's mother.
Including Gnu, the group of big men had sufficient energy and their voices resounded through the sky, enough to make black cloud soldiers a mile away hear these wonderful sentences more than two hundred feet high. Although due to Vaster's relationship, the soldiers on the front of the city did not dare to laugh, the soldiers stationed inside the city wall had already burst into laughter.
Vaster's face turned ashen, raised his eyes and looked at the camp in the distance, and finally showed a cold smile: "Didn't the knights of the 'Dark Soul' kept clamoring to avenge their commander? Send them out. If 90,000 cavalry cannot deal with these infantry, they don't have to embarrass the empire." Several generals of the "Fallen" legion next to them understood: "The power of the last full direct legion is weakened, and the empire's military is our world, right? Besides, since there is the support of the 'they', the combat power of a mere 'Dark Soul' is nothing."
Vaster was fully fighting spirit, and made a huge sound wave towards the Celestial Party under the city: "You, retreat, leave a battlefield, and our warriors will come out to duel with you... You can see if they are women..." His last sentence deliberately sent out to the "Dark Soul" legion that was gathering in the city, making the knights of "Dark Soul" one by one, and they held the weapons in their hands tightly.
Yang Tian whispered: "Boss, this is not good. If they dare to come out, they will definitely be super elite. Damn it, just these 200,000 garbage soldiers, wouldn't they still give others side dishes?"
Long Feng said indifferently: "It's good to die. Anyway, you said that these 200,000 people were not recruited from your territory, and it doesn't matter if they die? It just so happens that they can cause some trouble for other governors in the future, right? Hahahaha... Ask the artillery team behind to open fire directly above their city gate to see if they can kill some of their senior generals."
Yang Tian made a gesture, pointed at the middle of the two towers directly above the city gate, immediately turned the horse's head, supervised the infantry brigade in front to slowly retreat, leaving a battlefield of more than three miles long.
The steel gate that was hundreds of feet wide and ten feet thick at the mountain pass slowly opened upwards. There were thirteen such city gates. Looking at the dense arrows on both sides of the city gate, I am afraid that the only person who wants to rush in is the word "death".
Yang Tian whistled: "Damn it, aren't they tired of pulling up such a heavy iron gate? How much coolies do they need to use to pull it up?"
Long Feng shook his head: "It's not human power, it's something like a magic circle. Relying on the power of magic crystals to open these iron gates... Well, I didn't expect that all the mages in the Black Cloud Empire were idiots. Although they couldn't go on the field to fight, playing these things was a good player... If possible, you'd better be able to recruit some."
Yang Tian smiled: "Haha, is it recruiting a mage? It seems that it should be your business, right?"
Long Feng bounced his finger: "Really? Maybe, probably... Hey, to be honest, how are you going to do in the future? Are you sure? With that territory, you should be able to achieve your goal smoothly?" Five small black fireballs appeared on his fingers, aiming at the "Dark Soul" Legion rushing out of the city gate and wearing dark gold armor.
Yang Tian stepped back more than a hundred feet away and said with a slutty smile: "This should be fine, hehe... it's better to retreat a little to avoid being blind and hurting me... Hey, I said, "Soldier, why don't you fire a fire?"
The artillery team reacted and opened fire at the top of the city wall directly above the city gate. They had already adjusted the azimuth of the gun and just fired. The knights of the "Dark Soul" had just run out more than 10,000 people, and two hundred shells exploded above their heads. Two hundred shells hit almost the same point, and smoke and dust shots were everywhere. Large huge rocks fell down, causing blood and flesh to fly across the city gate. The huge stones tightly blocked the door. The pile of stones that were more than one person could not get out, and people outside could not get in.
Yang Tian laughed wildly: "Brothers, come on, they are only 20,000 people outside, chop them hard, fuck me..." Before he finished speaking, he saw the cheap 200,000 soldiers who had already rushed up. The 20,000 "Dark Soul" knights outside the city gate were not panicked at all, and lined up into a long queue, rushing towards the 200,000 new soldiers who were not in a formation at all.
Gnu roared with excitement, and was about to rush forward with a big sword, but Long Feng had already appeared beside him, and his two fingers pressed gently on his shoulders. Gnu's huge body could not move at all. Long Feng smiled and said, "Don't you need to go up, teach these recruits a little lesson so that they can't think they are invincible in the world." The deeper words were not said: "Anyway, I just wanted them to die a few more. If you go up, the 20,000 knights are not enough for you to chop alone, and there is no effect at all."
Fortunately, when the knights of the "Dark Soul" came quickly, the intermediate commanders of the recruits finally thought of the tutorial for training, and commanded the soldiers to set up long and short spears on the ground, with different angles, and some were made into a defensive gun array. The soldiers holding machetes behind them waved the steel knives in their hands and cheered wildly.
The sound of artillery behind sounded again, and shot one by one toward the city wall above the city gate. The senior officers such as Vaster flashed out like dark green lightning long before the second round of shells flew, hid far away in the safe fortifications behind. Then they turned more than twenty turns inside the city wall, watching the showdown between the 20,000 knights and 200,000 infantrymen through the narrow muzzle.
The first blood fountain sprayed out, and hundreds of knights who rushed too fast were picked up by the spear, but their impact also caused the recruits to fall a large area. The galloping knights on the left and right suddenly turned their horses' heads lightly, as if they were coming in this direction just now, as if a cone stabbed into the queue of these recruits.
The new recruits cheering on both sides watched the enemy in front of them suddenly turn, and then rushed into the nearby friendly troops. Before they could react, a dark golden knight rushed over, and the scimitar in his hand drew out the light of the knife light and chopped off his head.
Yang Tian moaned: "Damn it, fortunately I suddenly remembered to check their combat effectiveness. If it was a time for a grand showdown in the future, my team would have to be loosened by them. Damn, where is there any combat effectiveness? Still, there is no way to compare with the soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty. If you fight against the soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty, how miserable it is to die."
Long Feng understood what he meant and said lightly: "No one is born a warrior. Didn't you slowly become what you are now? Although they can't do it now, are they still a group of idiots a hundred years later?"
Yang Tian felt a little bit energetic and said gloatingly: "No matter who he is, this group of recruits were recruited from the 'City of Paradise'. Anyway, it is thousands of miles away from my current territory. If it dies, it will not affect me. Damn, if they are not successful, they must be killed by these 20,000 people, and we will run away."
The sound of cannons in the rear stopped, and each cannon fired ten shells. There was only a small gap at the top of the city wall above the city gate. The power of the shells is still a little weaker for these city walls built from a whole piece of huge rocks. In the battle formation, the recruits who suddenly became unafraid of death due to fear had already crazily accumulated 20,000 knights of the "Dark Souls" into a group. The soldiers surrounded them, stabbed them with long spears, and chopped them with machetes. The knights of the "Dark Souls" were like a huge rock, but were exploited by these new recruits who were like water.
Many knights with extremely skillful skills killed their opponents, but the spearman behind the enemy stabbed his lower abdomen without hesitation... Yang Tian began to boast again: "Damn, who said that heavy armored cavalry can have ten infantry in a single line? Now that 20,000 is it that it won the slash? "
A member of the stormtrooper asked stutterly: "Boss, it seems that when one person cuts ten, if more than ten thousand people, it will be useless."
Yang Tian spat at him: "Damn, do you want to talk too much? But it seems that I am good at training. Such garbage can kill 20,000 elite knights."
The so-called "odds kill elephants" are the "Dark Soul" knights who have lost the impact of horses can only drag their heavy armor and the recruits who are as many as ants to chop against each other. In a short while, after destroying more than 30,000 new recruits, their bodies were also built on the ground. At the gate of the city, the knights who did not rush out of the "Dark Soul" roared. If they were present, how could these garbage soldiers have the opportunity to display? They were simply desperate to cut the huge rock in front of them with their fists and weapons, trying to open a passage. Some knights who were too angry had even left the war horse, took off their armor, climbed onto the stone wall that was as high as this man, and prepared to rush out to fight.
Long Fengyin smiled: "Do you want to come out and avenge your companions? As you wish." Five small black fireballs that had been playing with in the palm of your hand for a long time flew out of their hands, and formed a huge deep purple fireball in the air, smashing hard on the stone wall at the gate of the city. A dazzling light flashed, followed by a huge explosion.
The first iron gate at the "Lost Soul" mountain pass was slightly distorted by the huge explosion force. In the city gate passage that was hundreds of feet long, thousands of knights of "Dark Soul" were left untie, and some fragments of the remaining limbs were sprayed onto the new recruits more than two miles away, causing some soldiers with poor mental qualities to vomit violently.
Long Feng said relaxedly: "Sorry, I'll use a little bit of strength." The artillery soldiers behind him had opened their eyes wide and couldn't speak. Long Feng's attack seemed to be much more harmful than the damage caused by their two thousand shells.
However, before they could even amaze, the red-eyed "Dark Soul" knights rushed out like a dark golden python, and rushed to the stunned new recruits in an instant, and the sharp scimitar slashed down fiercely.
The first knight who slashed out the scimitar immediately turned his horse's head and rushed over at a 45-degree angle. No one rushed into the team of the recruits. The knight behind him followed and then rushed out in the other direction. The recruits had no time to react. When they were still preparing to retreat like they had just now to form a pocket to wrap the knights, they were shocked to find that these knights had pierced the wings of their pockets and rushed from behind.
The first impact caused these recruits to lose 20,000. However, as Yang Tian said: "Who is their supreme commander? It seems that his mind is pretty good, and it can be useful."
The new recruits had already dispersed in a team of hundreds of people, allowing the "Dark Soul" knights to rush into the gap of their small team. Then, all the soldiers gathered wildly in the middle, slashing and killing all the way, forcing the "Dark Soul" knights to run at high speed into their own team, limiting their movements, like a huge sponge, absorbing the surging rapids.
Yang Tian applauded softly: "No, not bad, this commander is a talent. Remember him and go back and transfer him into our own army to train well."
Long Feng sneered: "Sorry, your talent seems to have been killed by the other party's commander, so it is impossible to transfer him into your team to exercise." Yang Tian suddenly opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak.
Waving his hand, Long Feng ordered the artillery team behind him, "Master Wen asked you to come here, that is, he would leave after firing a few shots, right? Why are you still delaying here? If they kill all the infantry and rushed over, we won't care about you." The artillery commander, who could see the excitement, quickly gave an order and retreated to the trunk group behind him.
Blood splattered everywhere in the battlefield, and from time to time, Shenjun's war horses fell to the ground with blood holes. Often, more than a dozen new recruits rushed towards three or five knights, hugged their thighs and dragged them down. After they fell to the ground, they picked up their weapons and slashed them hard. In this process, several soldiers were often cut into crippled or their heads were cut off by the knights beside them.
Vaster looked coldly at the troubled "Dark Souls" Legion and said coldly: "Put down the city gate, they are no longer saved." Behind him, the generals of the "Fallen" Legion showed grim smiles, while the generals of the other conventional legion had no worries and their orders were quickly passed on. Thirteen thick iron gates slowly lowered, cutting off the possible retreat of the "Dark Souls" knights.
The former deputy commander of the Dark Soul Legion, who was commanding in the battle formation and acting as a temporary legion, looked at the city gate with a daze. While he was thinking about why, a thin soldier stabbed into his throat with a shot. After his body fell to the ground, more than a dozen new recruits who had learned to distinguish the rank of the Black Cloud Empire pounced on him and snatched his head... This was a great achievement.
The morale of the "Dark Soul" Legion fell instantly, and more than 50,000 people survived, and they were as stiff as chickens who were snatching cold, and were chopped down by soldiers who were far less powerful than them. In the end, very simply, 20,000 knights took the initiative to dismount and became prisoners. And 200,000 new recruits under Yang Tian were only 100,000 intact at this moment.
Yang Tian laughed: "I really have to thank the commanders in their city, otherwise we would have lost this game."
Long Feng nodded: "So, in the future, you should pay attention to your subordinates fighting for power... It seems that the guy who answered on the city tower just now was a green body, right? These people were wearing dark golden armor. Doesn't that fool know that he must cherish every combat power in the war?"
Yang Tian murmured in a low voice: "If possible, I would be willing to sacrifice Lao Qiong... It's a pity that his elder brother is too strong. Unless I kill him secretly, he may be able to rush out even if he is surrounded by thousands of troops, right?"
Yang Tian loudly ordered the fierce competition for military merits - that is, the recruits who were cutting off the heads of those high-level knights and snatching their military rank logo: "Clean the battlefield quickly and be careful that 300,000 revenge knights rushed out of the house, and you will be dead." patted the head of the horse under the seat, Yang Tian said maliciously: "Is your legs faster than horse legs?" After saying that, he showed a vicious smile.
The soldiers who were fighting for the badges of several intermediate generals realized the truth and stopped, but no longer robbed the credit. Under the orders of the officers, the whole team gathered and rushed to the direction of their wounded soldiers, and led the captives to quickly run towards their camp.
Four hours later, Yang Tian stood straight in Wenyuan's simple hall to report the situation: "Two hundred thousand new recruits came out, nearly 70,000 high-level knights were eliminated, and 20,000 were captured... Well, he lost 93,000 soldiers and was injured more than 7,000."
Wen Yuan gently tapped the table: "The prisoners' confessions have come out. They are actually one of the five major legions directly under the Royal Royal of the Black Cloud Empire. Unfortunately, they were betrayed by the commander of another legion, Vaster, who is now the supreme commander of the Black Cloud Army... Hehe, that's fine, otherwise your 200,000 army would not be able to escape back."
Yang Tian said seriously: "Master, it's not that my command ability is not good, but that these new recruits are too weak. They taught them for three months and trained here for another two months, but their combat qualities are still too slow. I asked to exchange my 100,000 new recruits for 20,000 "Tiger and Wolf Army" soldiers."
Wen Yuan refused: "Don't even think about it. The 'Tiger and Wolf Army' is now an assault brigade under the Central Army. You can't let it go in your hands... Those recruits are cannon fodder anyway, so you can do whatever you want. If you have nothing else, just rest, General Qiong stays."
Yang Tian made a grimace and left with a smile. This time he went to fight rashly without receiving the order. He originally thought that he would be fined for half a year for military pay, but he didn't expect that because he killed an opponent's powerful legion, he still had some contributions and made a profit...
Wen Yuan's face showed a hint of ugly appearance: "Two thousand shells did not cause much damage to their city walls. What do you think?"
Qiong Daotian said viciously: "Get him millions of pounds of zha medicine, dig a tunnel to blow up their foundation, and they are still proud."
Wen Yuan smiled bitterly: "We brought only 200,000 kilograms from the Celestial Empire, and then we made another 50,000 kilograms here, but the craftsmen have lost more than 2,000 people, millions of kilograms. Hehe, it is rare to create them in less than two years. Could it be that we were glaring at them here for two years? Don't say that Your Majesty is angry, I will be ashamed to commit suicide."
Qiong Daotian licked his lips: "But this is the most direct way... Otherwise, the rear trains the recruits to move faster? If three million soldiers can be invested to make trouble in their rear, their defense at the "Lost Soul" pass will be greatly weakened."
Wen Yuan knocked on the case: "We dare not move now. If our army all went to the north of the Heiyun Continent, by boat, bypassed this mountain range, and landed directly on that continent, the Heiyun Empire could fully attend the Black Cloud Continent and our current rear base camp, and nothing we had worked hard to manage would disappear."
Qiong Daotian was also very distressed: "I hope God will help you, just split the mountain range with lightning... Can Lao Buddha Heitian?"
Wen Yuan laughed and shook his head repeatedly and said, "How is it possible? Lao Fu himself is a human being. After all, he is not a god. I hope he can... Hey... the current plan can only wait for the new recruits in the rear to achieve results soon, but the strength of the Black Cloud Empire has also been strengthened bit by bit, and the prospects are worrying..."
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Three days later, Yang Tian looked at Wen Yuan's orders to him with a big head. This time, all the millions of new recruits in the army were assigned to him, saying that he wanted to exercise the combat capabilities of these new recruits in actual wars and that he would not have the situation of scattered formations like the previous few days ago.
Without any help, Yang Tian had to take turns to get up early in the morning with hundreds of thousands of soldiers every day. When the weather was still cooler, each carried a big leaf, brought enough water, and ran outside the city wall to curse. He greeted him from Vaster's daughter to his thirty-seven generations of ancestors, hoping that Vaster would send a few more people out to fight lively.
But Vaster sat on the top of the city and laughed at the soldiers of the Celestial Empire. The recruits of each Celestial Empire had a big leaf on their heads, and were honestly arranged in a square formation and sat on the ground in a daze. The top of their heads was the hot summer sun. Occasionally, there were a few people who were not in good health who fell down due to heatstroke.
Vaster was not in a hurry and finally removed the last thorn in his eyes. In Xingdu, the commander of the "Dark Soul" seemed to be healed, but his army was either wiped out or surrendered to the enemy. Even if he came to the front line, he could not compete with him for power. The food, large military equipment, shells, fire and other items in the rear were constantly transported. The civil servants opened countless caves and tunnels in the vast valley behind the city wall, which could accommodate all soldiers and supplies. Now it was impossible to be broken here.
At first, the only military force problem that made Vaster a little worried was also well solved. At first, the unqualified militia among the remaining eight million troops had all been transferred back, and those who were replaced were well-trained recruits, whose combat power was comparable to those of the enemies outside the city. In addition, this might be the most solid and majestic city wall in the world, so there is no need to worry about the enemies outside the city.
What's more, hundreds of thousands of enemy troops come outside the city to perform juggling every day, which makes Vaster happy. Although the scolding is a bit ugly, Vaster, who has just been promoted to Duke of the Empire, will not send people out to fight like this... Vaster deeply feels the benefits of the war. Isn't his father now promoted to the title of prince because of his military power? This is the first prince with a foreign surname in the empire in thousands of years...
Therefore, when the Celestial Army had no choice but to "Lost Soul" mountain pass and Vaster refused to fight, the two sides slowly stalemate. If it weren't for the food and grass support of the old man Cres, the Celestial Army would have really been like the plan of the senior management of the Black Cloud Empire, and had to withdraw because of hunger.
Chapter completed!