Lingbi City is located in the south of Pengcheng, the capital of Western Chu. It has jurisdiction over nineteen counties and towns and more than a hundred villages. It is named "Lingbi" because of its "beautiful mountains and rivers and stones as beautiful as jade".
It can be said that if there are mountains in the area under the jurisdiction of Lingbi City and a checkpoint is built, it will be a fortress where "one man can guard the pass and ten thousand people cannot open it".
Xialou County is located in the north of Lingbi City and is one of the transit points between Pengcheng and Lingbi City. A small city-level city is enough to stop tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of rogues and rebels. It is obviously not qualified to stop millions of regular troops.
, let alone three million Dali Imperial Guards.
After receiving the order from Emperor Li, Ding Yanping, Duke of Wei State, bit the bullet and led his army northward, preparing to face the fifty million army led by Zhou Yin, the great commander of Western Chu.
Although Ding Yanping believed that he was no match for the Western Chu reinforcements, Emperor Li ordered him to fight even though he knew he was losing. Besides, the three million Imperial Guards were not without the power to fight, and they could at least contain them for several days!
However, Ding Yanping would not be stupid enough to fight in the plains with fifty million Western Chu reinforcements. Instead, he chose to fight in Xialou County.
Xialou County covers an area of only more than a hundred square kilometers, has a population of only a few hundred thousand, and the city is only a dozen meters high. However, it is surrounded by hills and forests, and there are eight famous peaks. The highest peak, Lingjue Mountain, is a thousand meters high (
The original altitude is 189.7 meters, the increase here is).
This kind of terrain is not conducive to fighting an army of tens of millions. The three million Imperial Guards fighting here will not be surrounded and killed by the fifty million Western Chu reinforcements.
The enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered. Try to reduce the ground area as much as possible, which is the best location!
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Ding Yanping led his army to arrive, and in less than half an hour, they easily captured the county town of Xialou. It can be said that it was effortless.
Then the promotion and deployment began, with various formations set up on the four-sided city walls, obstacles and fortifications built in the streets and alleys, etc.
The hills outside Xialou County, large and small, were "extravagantly" built with military-grade secret treasures, and used as forts to temporarily serve as military garrison areas. Depending on the size of the garrison, the troops ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
There is also a Buddhist Lingjue Temple in Lingjue Mountain, which is the highest in altitude. There are more than 700 Buddhist disciples among them. They can be ignored in the face of the Li army, but they were quickly slaughtered!
This mountain has the largest number of troops stationed at 300,000. There is also a Tianji City and four Tianji Palaces, forming the "Five Elements Everlasting Formation". Coupled with the terrain, the defense is super strong. It has been able to hold back 50 million reinforcements from the Western Chu for a long time.
Maybe, it should be possible to delay it for ten days and a half!
That's right, Ding Yanping didn't have the confidence or idea to successfully block the Western Chu reinforcements. All he did was try to delay as much time as possible. This is why he guessed the purpose of Emperor Li's order!
The Li army arrived in Xialou County more than a day earlier than the reinforcements from the Western Chu army. Ding Yanping had no time to make too many preparations, and the reinforcements from the Western Chu army had already arrived!
Three million Imperial Guards were dispersed in various hills, arteries and Xialou County, the main force and base camp, and the rear area was in Xialou County.
Ding Yanping personally led one million Dali imperial guards to the mountain road between Lingjue Mountain and Wangji Mountain. A Tianji Palace blocked the entrance of the mountain and formed a formation to fight!
Thousands of people fill the fields, and tens of thousands of people fill the city.
Millions of Imperial Guard troops were deployed all over the mountains and plains. Not only were they blocking the mountain roads, but the forests on both sides were also densely packed with bodies. The iron-blooded evil aura filled the air, making the place with beautiful mountains and clear waters look quite forbidding and dangerous.
However, compared to the 50 million Western Chu army that stretches directly to the sky, stretching as far as the eye can see to the left, right, and front, the military power is like a dark cloud covering the sky, which is a bit unsatisfactory!
The fifty-fold difference in quantity is not the difference between a strong man and a child, or the difference between a tiger and a sheep. It is estimated that the difference is between a prime man and a teenager. Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, and it is difficult to compare them.
"In front of me is..."
Facing the vast army blocking the way across the mountains and plains, the march of the Western Chu army slowed down, and the whole march was endless and vast as far as the eye could see.
Surrounded by his personal guards and generals, Zhou Yin came to the front of the formation, looked at the enemy troops arrayed for battle, looked to the left and right and asked!
"The Lijun Army is right in front of us!"
A Western Chu general responded repeatedly, and quickly added: "I didn't expect them to intercept here. Shouldn't we attack Lingbi City with all our strength?!"
"Don't you know how to read the flag? I want to ask which legion of the enemy is in front of you, who is the leader, what is its size, etc."
Zhou Yin glared at the speaker angrily and asked continuously!
The Li army is all over the mountains and plains, and there are many flags. On one side is the word "ding" in ancient seal script, and on the other side is the word "li" in ancient seal script. Isn't it obvious?
"..."
The generals of Western Chu were silent. They really didn’t know Duke Ding Yanping of Dali Weiguo, and there was no such figure in the intelligence!
What do they say about this?!
It's not that the intelligence capabilities of the Western Chu Immortal Dynasty are too poor, but that the time is too short. Ding Yanping is from the Southern Territory, and he first arrived in the Central Territory not long ago. No matter how strong the intelligence capabilities of the Western Chu Immortal Dynasty are, they will not be able to reach the Southern Territory for the time being!
"Looking at the enemy's military power, military uniforms, quality, etc., it should be the Dali Imperial Guards in the intelligence. The size is about one million! As for the leader... there is no such person in the intelligence!"
A scribe in a scholar's hat and a scholar's shirt took the initiative to explain. After a pause, he quickly added:
"However, judging from the fact that this person has just entered the Sanxian Realm, he should not be an important person or famous general in Dali. As expected, the enemy army in front of us is responsible for delaying our army and buying time for the Li army to capture Lingbi City!"
"Um!"
Zhou Yin asked around, just "brainstorming and checking for gaps". He already had his own opinions, and did not refute the opinions of the military advisors accompanying him. He nodded in agreement and decisively ordered:
"An army of one million, no more, no less. If you want to hold our army back, even the Imperial Guards can't do it!"
"If our army can afford it, it depends on what the Li army can afford! I would like to see how long the enemy can delay..."
"Send the order, and the whole army will attack... charge across the entire line, on mountain roads, hillsides, woods, trails, etc., and march at the same time. The enemy troops will be piled up to death, and those who are lazy... will be killed!"
"Here!"
"Winter, winter, winter, winter..."
With a single order, thousands of drums sounded in unison, and the sound of the drums was so loud that it kept ringing in the mountains and forests, buzzing endlessly!
The army of Western Chu, which was already marching endlessly, looked like a vast and boundless wave, rolling forward...
Not to mention the mountain road in front of us, even Lingjue Mountain and Wangji Mountain on the left and right were completely covered by the vast army, looking like an isolated city about to be submerged and destroyed by the huge waves!
Since Lord Li is stalling for time, what the Western Chu army has to do is to defeat or repel and intercept the enemy as soon as possible and rush to Lingbi City's aid!
There is nothing wrong with Zhou Yin’s ideas and tactics!
"war!"
Ding Yanping is a brave general who is good at fighting. Even though we are outnumbered and the enemy is outnumbered, we are not afraid to fight. We give orders bravely!
The sound of drums shakes the mountains, and the shouts of killing shake the sky!
In addition to the inherent formations and battle formations, all the Dali imperial guards faced the vast and endless Western Chu army without fear of death...
The light of the sword, the shadow of the sword, the sharp arrows like rain...
Scarlet blood and ferocious corpses covered the prosperous mountain forest at an extremely fast speed...
These millions of people who left the army and made plans in Dingyan Plain are not just cannon fodder, they are also victims that cannot be saved!
Including himself and the following two million Great Li Imperial Guards, they were also prepared to sacrifice themselves heroically to buy time for Emperor Li to attack Western Chutian!
