Three hundred and seventieth chapters lure the enemy (a)
The main force of the demon barbarian vanguard suffered consecutive setbacks on the Eastern Front. When Wu Jinglin arrived at Guanhe City to ask for a lecture, he had retreated to Yandang Lake, four hundred miles south of Guanhe City.
Tianshui County abandoned the land thousands of miles north of Hengshan. The embankments of major rivers such as Tonghe, Tiandanghe, Guanhe have been disrepaired for a long time and have been completely abandoned, making the thousand-mile plain between Henghe and Yuchengling become a lake with dense water networks. After spring every year, there are groups of various geese, birds and birds living here.
Therefore, this thousand-mile plain between Hengshan and Yucheng Ridge is also called Yandangyuan.
There were more than a hundred large-scale lakes in Yandang. Yandang Lake is the largest one, and it is the main lake of Yandangyuan. The lake area is 100 miles wide from north to south and 200 miles long from east to west. It is connected to the Tiandang River and the incoming water from the river. There is a river channel at the east entrance to lead it out and flows into the Tong River.
There is the abandoned city of Yandang City that Tianshui County gave up in the east of the lake. Now there are only broken walls standing in the deserted Yandangyuan.
Yandangyuan, which has dense lake networks, is frozen tightly after winter and is no longer an obstacle to the passage of the army.
Even though the main force of the demon barbarian vanguard had more than 50,000 soldiers retreated to Yandang Lake and no longer directly threatened Guanhe City, they did not directly go to Guanhekou, where Longxiang Camp gathered at this time, but there were still a small group of demon barbarian elites wandering deep in Yandangyuan and scouting the marquis.
The demon man also had elite cavalry who acted quickly and drove demon birds to fight. The Fengyan airship still had to cover up the peaks on the western foot of Qintong Mountain as much as possible. Therefore, the generals who picked up and sent the comrades' army to the Gu Peak of Tonghekou, and could only travel back and forth one day.
As the head commander of the comrade army, Liao Yunkui only boarded the airship with more than a thousand comrade army soldiers at noon on the fourth day. At this time, the scouts released by the comrade army also reconnaissed the main force of the comrade army, and also drove from the east bank of Yandang Lake to the lonely peak of Tonghekou.
The airship quickly rose to a certain height and galloped towards Yucheng Ridge, leaving several trajectories in the blue sky.
Chen Hai and others have never seen Liao Yunkui, but in order to express their respect, they still sorted out a simple schoolyard on the north side of the lonely peak of the river to facilitate the Fengyan airship to land more smoothly.
With a loud crane sniff from afar, the huge figure of the Fengyan airship slowly emerged from the southwest.
"If I hadn't met with you, who would have thought that there would be such a magical weapon in the world?" Wu Jinglin exclaimed.
Although he has seen the magical airships many times, every time he sees the airships take off and land, carrying huge momentum, he is very excited and deeply impressed by Chen Hai's amazing talent.
In Chen Hai's opinion, the Fengyan Airship caused by the principle of hot steam balloons has nothing mysterious. The Fengyan Tianji compound ban involved in the core component is even only a yellow-level top-grade magic weapon. However, this really breaks through the imagination of Yanzhou people, and it is no wonder that it always causes such fuss at the beginning.
Everyone looked at each other and smiled, without saying much.
The airship seemed slow and fast, and soon came to the heads of the crowd and slowly descended. The powerful airflow released blew the people's clothes and flew.
After the settlement, a middle-aged man wearing black spiritual armor floated down first, and his cultivation level in the Daodan realm was not concealed. Chen Hai and his men hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "I have met Guard Liao!"
In terms of military system, Chen Hai's status as the commander of the Jingying Army was higher than that of Wu Cheng. However, some people in the Jingxian clans, or Yanran Palace, did not want Chen Hai to be too powerful in the local area, so that Longxiang Camp was controlled by the county government, so that Chen Hai's general was lower than Wu Cheng's, but he was still above the deputy capital of Tianshui County such as Liao Yunkui.
Liao Yunkui took Chen Hai's arm and said, "Before Guanhe, there were still demon barbarian soldiers who could not go there. Wu Duwei was worried that demon barbarians would be cunning and attacked important towns and changed hands, so he sent my comrade army to help Chen Hou defeat the demon barbarians!" At this moment, Liao Yunkui still did not announce the internal disputes to the public for the sake of the decent Huayang Sect.
Chen Hai smiled slightly, but did not say anything, but just asked Liao Yunkui to accompany them to climb the lonely peak and see the situation of the Tonghekou Dazhai being built.
Yucheng Ridge starts with Duanlong Ridge and goes to Zhanma Ridge, extending for nearly a thousand miles.
Although it is known as a thousand-mile ridge, it is mostly cliffs of the lonely mountain, and most of them are only two or three hundred meters high. It is really not a dangerous place. It is no wonder that Tianshui County gave up the Yucheng Ridge defense line back then.
Now the location where Chen Hai and his friends chose to build a village in Tonghekou is only slightly steep. In the early years, Tianshui County built Tongkou City here, and later it was destroyed by the demon barbarians, leaving only an intermittent broken city wall.
The west of Tongkou remnants of the city is lined with the back of the lonely peak. Chen Hai built a new village on the basis of the remnants of the city and flew to the lonely peak more than 400 high. Liao Yunya and the others saw only the busyness at the foot of the peak. The Longxiang Army and the Tianshui children were busy strengthening the camp and repairing the city.
Especially the generals and soldiers of Longxiang Camp did not feel any concerns about hanging alone outside the Hengshan defense line.
It was already dusk at this time, and the setting sun shone with billions of afterglows, setting off a tragic scene in the remnant city and the lonely peaks.
Since the decision to send troops, a depressed aura in Liao Yunkui's heart has not dissipated. At this time, he is approaching the forefront of fighting with the demon barbarians, feeling the state of the soldiers before the war, and the depressed aura has turned into a passion. At this time, he can no longer help but whistle.
The roar grew higher and higher, and the more it spread farther and farther away, the busy soldiers stopped their work. I wonder why people like Liao Yunkui suddenly roared wildly, but in a blink of an eye, ordinary soldiers could realize that Liao Yunkui's continuous roar was unusual. Then they saw the cold sky that was cloudless just now, fish scales like dense clouds gushing out of nowhere, and they rotated layer by layer, forming a huge funnel cloud.
The top of the funnel cloud covers the sky for a hundred miles, but the bottom is as small as a tiny one, and it falls on the top of the lonely peak.
There is no trace of wind leaking out between heaven and earth.
Many generals and soldiers looked at the strange scenes in front of them in amazement.
With the roar, Liao Yunkui's momentum also slowly rose, and the aura emitted from Liao Yunkui's body became more mysterious.
Huang Shuang, Wu Meng, Zhou Jun, Su Yuan and others all looked at Liao Yunkui in surprise and thoughtful; while Grandma He, who was flying in the distance and personally monitored the movements of the demon barbarian vanguard army, also looked back in surprise at this time, at a height of thousands of miles.
On the distant Yaoman Village on the north bank of Yandang Lake, Muller, who was drinking, felt a tight heart. He groaned, and the skull cup in his hand broke. His eyes passed over the tent, hundreds of miles of snowfields, and looked towards the mouth of Tonghe River.
After a stick of incense, the whistling stopped.
"Congratulations to Commander Liao!" Chen Hai, Huang Shuang and others bowed and congratulated him.
Liao Yunkui, at this moment, felt that his whole body was extremely light and his heart was more transparent and clear. He slightly moved his spiritual consciousness within a radius of dozens of miles, and his slightest slightness was revealed, which was more than twice as wide as before.
He has been in the middle realm of Daodan for more than 30 years, but his wars have been unfavorable for years outside and cannot bear the trouble. In order to make the children of poor families have a glimmer of hope, they have been slept with each other and exhausted their scheming, so his cultivation has been stagnant.
However, I didn't expect that at this moment, I stood on the lonely peak and accumulated all my depression. The Taoist thoughts turned to the wishful wishes, and it was difficult to curb and entered the late stage of the Dao Dan realm in front of everyone.
Although the Taoist elixir is perfect and the cultivation of the Taoist womb is not based on the principle of reason, there is finally hope.
Liao Yunkui smiled and said, "I can't help but feel in love, I hope Mr. Chen doesn't think it's strange."
The soldiers of Yuchengling below couldn't help but cheer when they knew that they had strong support.
At this time, a group of about a hundred dragon-shing cavalry came from a distance.
These people were covered in blood and looked tired. In front of the war horse, there were one or several ferocious demon barbarian heads hanging. However, in the end, a few soldiers on the horse were not sitting on their feet, but tied them on the horse's back with ropes. They thought they had died in the battle with the demon barbarian's small scout!
"Hanjiang, come and see Lieutenant Liao." Chen Hai shouted. It turned out that Qi Hanjiang led a team to clean up small groups of monster scouts or wandering scattered soldiers.
"At the time, at the city of Hengshan, the demon barbarians were defeated. I led a large army to pursue and defeat the demon barbarians. A small group of demon barbarians could not achieve momentum, but they could not calmly gather them together. Every day, I would send generals to lead elite cavalry to attack and kill scattered soldiers everywhere. In the past few days, I have gained a lot." Chen Hai looked at Liao Yunkui in confusion and explained.
Qi Hanjiang flew over to Gufeng, first saluted Liao Yunkui, and then Chen Hai reported the results of the battle.
After the report, Qi Hanjiang said worriedly: "Although there have always been acquitted in the past two days, the small monsters I encountered are becoming more and more difficult to chew. It can be seen that the small monsters around Tonghekou are no longer the scattered soldiers and yelling soldiers who had been dispersed before, but the main force of the demon barbarian vanguard, who took the initiative to send elite scouts to our side!"
Chen Hai looked at Qi Hanjiang's face full of dust, and could not hide his tiredness. He also knew that today's sweep was very hard. After comforting him, he asked him to rest first.
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After giving Liao Yunkui a detailed introduction to the situation near Tonghekou, Chen Hai invited him, Wu Jinglin, Liu Chun and others to go to the Central Army to discuss the war.
In the central army's large tent, someone had already lit a torch, and the brazier in the tent crackled, driving the biting cold air out of the tent.
More than ten people sat around the stove, and Chen Hai said to Grandma He who was personally involved in the enemy relationship with the scout:
"Grandma He, please tell you the current situation first."
Grandma He responded, pinched her hand and the topographic map from Hengshan to Yuchengling slowly appeared in the middle of the tent with a light curtain.
"The demon barbarian vanguard was originally divided into two parts to advance to Hengshan defense line. The eastern line was killed by us and abandoned his armor. After escaping west, he joined forces with the war soldiers who retreated south on the west line, and rested on the west bank of Yandang Lake, but he started moving again yesterday. A cavalry, who was very fast and had advanced about 150 miles away from the mouth of Tonghe River, was stationed in a remnant village. The main force was expected to arrive the day after tomorrow."
A thick red line is displayed on the topographic map, extending to a point more than 150 miles from the lonely peak of Tonghekou.
"At that time, there will be 50,000 soldiers in the west of our demon barbarians," Chen Hai looked at the enemy situation displayed by Grandma He silently, and then pondered for a while: "The fourth and fifth battle camps of Longxiang Camp, plus the nine thousand Liao Duwei, there are only more than 20,000 elite troops available, but it is not concealed that Liao Duwei, although the heavy crossbow is very sharp, the heavy crossbow bullet reserve is less than 30,000 and cannot be used easily. Therefore, even if the main force of the demon barbarians in the north cannot come, it is still quite difficult for us to resist the 50,000 combat power of its vanguard."
“How to deal with it?”
Liao Yunkui looked anxious and helpless. If Wu Cheng was willing to order 100,000 troops and cooperate with the Dragon Xiang Army with extraordinary combat power, the chance of victory would be very high.
But now more than 20,000 human generals and soldiers rely on the remnants of the village with no defense to fight against the 50,000 monster and cruel warriors, which is a huge difference in strength.
Chen Hai looked at the ups and downs and told his plans to Liao Yunkui and others.
"Tomorrow, I will lead the Fourth Battle Battalion here in person," Chen Hai pointed to the remnant village, which had already been stationed by seven or eight thousand demon barbarian soldiers at this time, and said, "The Tong River collapsed almost every year. The slightly lower west bank has long become a land of lakes and mud, especially the thirty or forty miles below this remnant village, which has become a swamp that devours humans and beasts for a hundred years. Now it is in the middle of winter, and the land is frozen, and nothing can be seen, but if we can remove the Fengyan Tianji Compound Ban from the chariot, the Fengyan Airship will temporarily remove it,
Buried underground in advance, and then send a team of troops to lure the main force of the seven or eight thousand demon barbarians out of the remaining village and lead them to the swamp. At that time, the ban will be triggered and the frozen soil will melt. With the clumsy body of the demon barbarian soldiers and the riding beasts, they will inevitably be inconvenient to move into the mud. We can annihilate this demon barbarian soldiers and slapped their spirits again. Then even if more than 40,000 demon barbarian soldiers surrounded Tonghekou, they will definitely be in fear and dare not attack and fight wildly. And we will slowly respond to the battle until the beginning of next spring, which should be no problem..."
Everyone thought for a while and responded.
"At that time, the responsibility for seducing troops will be borne by my Tianshui County children." Liao Yunkui asked for battle at this time.
"In the past few days, our Longxiang Army and the Demon Barbarians have been fighting continuously. We already have a good understanding of them. We are very familiar with disturbing the enemy and seducing the enemy. The Tonghe Estuary is the foundation for us to defend the enemy outside Yucheng Ridge, and we cannot fail. Moreover, the camp here is not fully repaired, and there are also Wei Liao and Brother Jinglin here to take charge, so I can be at ease to lead my troops to fight." Chen Hai tried his best to persuade Liao Yunkui to give up his desire to fight.
After discussion, it was finally Liu Chun who represented Liao Yunkui and led a Tianshui County soldiers to participate in tomorrow's ambush battle to lure the enemy; then Liao Yunkui, Wu Meng and Wu Jinglin led the Fifth Battle Battalion of Longxiang Camp and the Tianshui County soldiers to stay in the remnants of Tonghekou Village.
It was not dawn, but Yuchengling Village had already come alive.
The torches were reflected in the city, and the fourth battle battalion was gathered on the school ground in an orderly manner.
Chen Hai sat on the thick back of a red-haired beast, looking at the solemn troops of the Fourth Battle Battalion and some of the Tianshui County soldiers. In this battle, he could not use heavy crossbow bullets, which had a very limited reserve of heavy crossbows, and could only adopt conventional traditional tactics. Perhaps many of these fresh lives will disappear today.
Chen Hai took a deep breath and ordered the army to set off. He saw a group of soldiers boarding the horse out of the city, rolling forward like a stream of iron covered in the night.
On their heads, Grandma He led a group of battle birds to cut through the night sky.
Chapter completed!