Chapter 741: Closing the Net
In order to fight for control of Beixiang City, the leaders of the coalition forces issued an order to attack with all their strength almost simultaneously. In their eyes, Zhao Yun and the others trapped in the city have become grasshoppers after the autumn, and they can be defeated with a single blow.
Coincidentally, Shang Ji also thinks so, but he thinks that the defeated coalition army!
After issuing the order to attack in full force, the leaders of all factions stayed in the tent, waiting for information on the next step. Judging from the battle report, the coalition army is progressing smoothly, and the defenders of Beixiang City can be described as losing and retreating, and if they continue to fight according to this situation, they will be able to capture the city lord's mansion in the afternoon.
The smile on Huang Dai's face was the brightest, and the army with the best progress at present was his subordinates, which made Huang Dai breathe a bad breath!
"Whew-whew-whew-"
"What sound?" Li Jing, who was in a bad mood, suddenly heard a dull roar, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and immediately shouted.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies and gentlemen! Oh no, the enemy ...... Enemy attack! ”
As soon as Li Jing's words fell, he saw several captains wearing different military uniforms running in in a panic and shouting in unison.
"Li Li, tell me clearly, what's the situation? Where is the enemy? How many centaurs are there? Li Jingteng stood up and asked with some uneasiness in his heart.
"Heavenly ...... In the sky, strange beasts ........." Li Li gasped and explained, seeing that Li Jing still looked puzzled, he immediately stepped forward, took Li Jing's hand and said, "Uncle...... Uncle, danger, go quickly, there's no time to explain! ”
"What a mess, I'm under the protection of a million army, what ............ can I have"
"Boom, boom—"
Before Li Jing finished speaking, he heard a violent explosion around him.
"Uncle, let's go!"
Li Li was in a hurry, no longer explained, and forcibly pulled Li Jing up and left. The other city lords' guards followed suit, covering their respective lords to leave the tent.
Li Jing, who was a little flustered, half-pushed and half-followed Li out of the big tent, subconsciously looked up, and suddenly his pupils shrank suddenly!
I saw that the sky was densely covered with giant eagles several feet long, and red arrows shot down from time to time on the giant eagles, and each arrow would come with a burst of fire, and the handsome tent was their key target, and it was already a mess at this time!
At the same time, the four main cavalry of the Black Armor Xuan Cavalry, the Flame Cavalry, the Yan Tiger Cavalry, and the Greedy Wolf Cavalry attacked the coalition forces from four directions, while Shang Ji led the infantry and the 300,000 main force composed of 40,000 Black Armor Xuan Cavalry to quickly approach from the front.
The resistance in Beixiang City also suddenly became fierce, and even launched a large-scale counterattack!
Previously, because Zhao Yun deliberately showed weakness, the coalition army won one victory after another, and because the various departments competed for each other's merits, the organizational system of the coalition army almost completely failed.
At first, nothing was noticed, after all, the coalition forces had been winning. However, once Zhao Yun launched a counteroffensive, the various units of the coalition army, which had lost their effective organizational capabilities, immediately fell into the predicament of fighting their own battles.
And because of the harassment of the Feifeng Fire Cavalry, the highest command structure of the coalition army was almost paralyzed, and the coalition forces that had already invaded the city fell into a dilemma of having no basis for advancing and retreating.
Some of the city's armies tried to withdraw from Beixiang City, while others planned to hold on and wait for reinforcements, which further exacerbated the chaos of the coalition forces, and made Zhao Yunshuang, who led 40,000 elite cavalry back and forth, to burst!
Zhao Yun was responsible for leading the elite cavalry to defeat and divide the enemy army, and the task of destroying the rout army was handed over to the player army that followed closely behind.
Of course, the final result of the decisive battle depends on the Pingzhou army outside the city. Beixiang City is only a medium-level city, and the total number of troops attacking Beixiang City is only three or four hundred thousand, and the main force of the enemy army is still stationed outside the city.
With the strength in Zhao Yun's hands, it is almost to the limit to deal with the enemy army in the city, and the enemy army outside the city still has to rely on Shang Ji.
The city lords of the cities fled from the attack range of the Feifeng Fire Cavalry in embarrassment under the escort of their personal guards, and there was already a sea of fire around the tent, looking at the fire of the Chinese army's big tent, the hearts of the coalition troops immediately became turbulent.
In fact, the top of the coalition army did not suffer serious losses, and in order to ensure that the Feifeng Fire Cavalry did not suffer too high casualties, Shang Ji deliberately ordered high-altitude harassment. In this case, it is unlikely that there will be any fatal blow to the top of the coalition forces.
However, although he escaped a catastrophe, he didn't want to recover in a short time because of the command chaos caused by this.
These coalition leaders still don't know who is attacking, let alone that 600,000 elite troops are surrounding them.
Li Jing waved his hand irritably, looked at the Flying Phoenix Fire Rider who was still hovering in the sky, and roared in a low voice: "Can anyone tell me where this army came from, why did it suddenly attack us!" ”
The generals under his command looked at each other, Li Jing didn't know, and these lower-level generals didn't know either.
After a long while, a military general suddenly spoke up: "City Lord, could these birds also be thieves?" Reinforcements from the thieves in the city? ”
At this time, the army belonging to Li Jing in the city finally contacted him and reported to him the news of the overall counterattack of the defenders in the city.
Li Jing pondered for a few seconds, his eyes lit up, and he shouted excitedly: "I understand, this is the enemy's trick, wanting to attack us to win a respite for the defenders in the city, and then risk breaking through!" ”
"Send the order, let the army in the city stand by and wait for reinforcements, notify the various city lords, stabilize their positions first, and then deploy large bows and crossbows to shoot down these pesky flies!"
Several other city lords soon received a summons from Li Jing, acknowledging his speculation, and agreeing to jointly allocate bows and crossbows to shoot or expel the Flying Phoenix Fire Rider.
However, not long after the order was issued, there was an urgent military situation - the army found that the enemy's elite cavalry was attacking here!
Before the coalition high-level could make new arrangements, warning signals came one after another, and large forces of cavalry rushed to the south and east.
And to the west, a whole 300,000 army pressed up with a majestic force!
At this time, the top level of the coalition forces was a little panicked, and it also exposed the fatal flaw of the coalition forces' consultation and command - the inability to make a unified decision in an emergency!
The six big city lords are six different forces, and it is okay to say that when they besiege Beixiang City with absolute superiority in strength, they are confused when they encounter a large-scale counterattack by the Pingzhou army.
Some people advocate meeting the enemy, some people advocate retreat, and some people advocate negotiation and consultation, in short, they can't come up with a plan that everyone can accept.
And the Pingzhou army didn't care about these messy things, the three auxiliaries and one main four-way army rushed up in one go, and there was a great posture of fighting the country.
After a heated debate, the coalition finally came up with a plan at the last minute - try it first!
However, it was already a little late to make a decision at this time, and the coalition forces were originally attacking the city and arranged in a siege formation. And the Pingzhou Army rushed over from the rear, and with the low efficiency of the coalition forces, there was no time to make formation adjustments.
That is, the soft backs of the coalition forces were completely exposed to the attack range of the Pingzhou army.
The first to come into contact with the enemy was the Sun Cavalry led by Tai Shi Ci, and the hastily arranged army could almost be said to be crushed in the face of the charge of the Sun Cavalry, Tai Shi Ci held a spear as if entering no man's land, and the fiery red energy was splashing like the sun.
On the other hand, because Liu Meng was ordered to contain the possible reinforcements from Lequan, the remaining 30,000 greedy wolves rode to Gezhen as the commander. Because it is not an exclusive special class, it cannot exert 100% combat effectiveness, but the combat power of Gezhen itself makes up for this deficiency to a certain extent, and the attack of the greedy wolf rider is not inferior to the flame rider.
The one responsible for the attack in the east was 40,000 black-armored Xuan cavalry, and the leader was Zhou Yun. Although he is the weakest individual combat power among the four road commanders, the strong combat power of the Black Armor Xuanqi can completely make up for this small flaw.
Speaking of which, the weakest comprehensive combat power is the Yan Hu Cavalry led by Qin Ping, not only is it only an A-level low-grade military general (with the help of the Heaven Breaking Pill breakthrough), but the Yanhu Cavalry under his command is only a Xuan-level high-grade special troop, which can be called a shameful existence among the five main cavalry.
Fortunately, the enemy army in this battle is not a hard bone, and the average fourth-order army has no qualitative gap between the sixth-order Xuan-level special troops and the sixth-order ground-level special troops, that is, the speed of defeat is a little slower!
The main army in the west was unhurried and marched at a constant pace, but with the military might of 300,000 high-ranking troops, even if it was all foot soldiers, it could be overwhelming. The more than 100,000 demoralized troops hastily organized by the coalition forces faced the main force, and the two rounds of arrow salvos directly collapsed, and even short-handed combat was avoided!
This made Shang Ji, who still had the impression of fighting on the Xianbei Demon Army, who was not afraid of death, stunned, and wondered if he was too cautious. Judging from the current situation, there is no need to make so many arrangements at all, and the Death Coalition can be wiped out in one day!
Although such thoughts came to his mind, Shang Ji had no intention of changing the established strategy and insisted on continuing to implement a conservative combat plan.
The cavalry of the three sides continued to compress the enemy's living space, while the main force pressed forward from the front with a dignified momentum.
During this period, coalition forces launched surprise attacks from different directions in an attempt to break through. However, there are flying phoenix fires riding in the sky to reconnoitre, and any movement of the enemy army cannot be concealed from Shang Ji, whenever the enemy army tries to break through, Feng Wuwei and Shura Wei, the two top strategic reserves, are already waiting there.
Shura Wei personally defended it, not to mention a fourth-order army like the coalition army, even Shang Ji personally led the Black Armor Xuanqi to rush over!
After half a day of fierce fighting, the Pingzhou army advanced steadily and steadily, advancing in all directions, accompanied by interspersed encirclement tactics, and finally divided the coalition army into four parts at sunset.
No, to be exact, it is five parts, and there is still a part of the enemy army in Beixiang City. It's just that the situation of this part of the enemy army is not very good, and the hundreds of thousands of troops who have lost their unified command into the city are in chaos. Zhao Yun used the Silver Dragon Iron Cavalry as a sharp sword, and forcibly divided the hundreds of thousands of troops into more than 20 parts, large and small, and the player army cooperated closely with Zhao Yun to destroy the enemy army that was divided and surrounded.
It is a foregone conclusion that these hundreds of thousands of troops will be completely annihilated!
Similarly, the total annihilation of the remaining 1 million coalition troops outside the city is also a foregone conclusion!