It took Phantom a while to recover from her dazed state. She looked at the Longbei Mountain position that was recaptured by the Red Feather Army in the blink of an eye, and was once again shocked by the power of the black gunpowder possessed by the Heavenly Lady Kingdom.
It wasn't until this moment that she truly realized that her overall deduction of the Longmen War and future human wars was wrong.
I underestimated this brand-new gunpowder weapon, its power far exceeded everyone's imagination.
The explosion in Longbei Mountain, I don’t know if it was God’s will or a coincidence, it happened at dawn at the junction of night and day.
This explosion broke through the darkness and ushered in a new dawn.
This dawn not only opens a new day, but also opens a new era.
Phantom ordered the troops to retreat. After the shocking explosion just now, Phantom knew that they would not be able to capture Longmen in a short time.
After counting, the senior officials of Tianjie were silent. On Longbei Mountain, Tianjie lost 18,000 madman warriors, 6,000 giant warriors, and more than 50,000 skeleton warriors.
With just one explosion, Tianjie lost more than 70,000 troops, which was almost one-fifth of the strength of Tianjie's southward forward.
While both sides were licking their wounds, news spread to both camps one by one.
It seems to be good news for the world.
It's all bad news for the heavenly world.
First of all, the Phantom's plan to divide and annihilate the human cavalry did not come to fruition.
Last night, in the north of the Darkwood Wasteland, a human army of more than two million people blocked the pace of the Storm Legion with their flesh and blood, allowing the human cavalry that had no fighting spirit or strength to breathe.
After several hours of gathering, the human cavalry gathered together in the southern part of Darkwood Wasteland.
The assembled human light cavalry numbered approximately two million.
Moreover, during the assembly process, the fighting spirit was awakened by the Red Feather Army and the Southern Xinjiang soldiers. The human cavalry, which was originally like a bereaved dog, launched multiple counterattacks against the Storm Legion that was pursuing them, causing certain casualties to the Storm Legion.
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Secondly, Qu Jiuyuan's troops stationed at Tianying Pass sneaked out of the pass last night. This well-equipped Zhenxi Army, which can be called the ace of the world's infantry, disappeared after leaving the pass.
Not only was Zhao Zian unable to contact them, but even the aerial reconnaissance troops from the heavens found no trace of them.
This million-strong army seemed to have disappeared together with the night.
Zhao Zian was furious and ordered Sun Bashan's troops, who were close at hand, to take over from Qu Jiuyuan's troops and be responsible for guarding Tianying Pass.
Qu Jiuyuan's initiative to attack and then disappear from sight made Phantom wary.
The reason for being so vigilant has something to do with the news coming from the north.
The ancient city of Dawu, less than a hundred miles away from Longmen, was suddenly attacked by human infantry at dawn today.
Those human infantrymen took advantage of the darkest period before dawn and quietly sneaked into the vicinity of Dawu City.
Dawu City has now been occupied by the Celestial Army and has become a transit point for the Celestial Army moving south.
A legion of madmen stationed outside the city was attacked.
suicide attack.
No one would have thought that there were human infantry outside Yumen Pass.
Moreover, it was before dawn, all the mad warriors were sleeping, and there was not even a sentry.
The human infantrymen, each with powerful black fire bombs strapped to their bodies, directly touched the camp of the Madman Legion, ignited the thunderfire bombs on their bodies, and pounced on the sleeping Madman warriors.
An explosion killed more than a thousand mad warriors and injured thousands more.
There is even scarier news for Phantom.
That was after dawn, the scouts of the Six-Winged Air Corps discovered a battlefield ruins in the northwest of Longmen.
The ruins of that battlefield were very strange. There was blood everywhere, but not many corpses.
In the middle of the battlefield, the heads of nearly six hundred Storm Legion knights were cut off and piled into a pyramid-shaped temple.
The heads of nearly 600 six-legged evil beasts were also made into Jingguan.
On the battlefield, traces of buried corpses were also found. There were about a thousand corpses, all of which were dark-skinned men wearing leather armor.
According to analysis, the enemy that massacred the Storm Legion last night should be the disappeared Southern Border Beast Cavalry Legion.
The reason why this cavalry encounter was taken very seriously by Phantom was that on the battlefield, there were the heads of the celestial cavalry and the six-legged evil beasts, but not their bodies.
Moreover, a large amount of blood stains and more than 3,000 horse heads were found in the sand valley.
This is not a regular encounter, this is premeditated.
Phantom is almost certain that this kind of thing will continue to happen in its own rear areas in the future.
Now we not only have to think about how to capture Longmen, we also have to think about how to deal with the 300,000 Southern Border Beast Riders that have circled around our rear.
There are 300,000 beasts riding around in the back garden, it's like they're stuck in the throat and they have to be cleared away.
Of course Phantom also knew that the purpose of these 300,000 beast riders was to block the main force that was delaying the southward march.
However, Phantom didn't think they could really do it.
After all, the main force is three million, and the Southern Border Beast Riders cannot stop them.
However, the movement speed and combat power of the Southern Border Beast Riders are not much worse than the Storm Legion. In order to ensure that the main army moves south, Phantom can only order all infantry to enter as many ancient cities in the Western Region as possible.
At the same time, he also mobilized 100,000 Storm Troopers and tens of thousands of berserker warriors to head north to ensure that the main army would not be harassed by these southern beasts on its way south.
None of today's news is good for Phantom.
But it is indeed good for the human world.
Zhan Ying's series of actions behind enemy lines greatly restrained the power of the Heavenly Army and relieved a lot of pressure on the Longmen battlefield and the Darkwood Wasteland battlefield.
Zhan Ying had no intention of using the Southern Border Beast Riders to fight the main force of Heaven. After passing through Dawu City, Zhan Ying divided the 300,000 Beast Riders into seven groups, each with about 40,000 people.
These 40,000 people were divided into seven groups, each with about 6,000 people.
Zhan Ying divided these 6,000 people into seven teams, each with about 850 people.
Combat units in the heavenly realm are generally based on the hexadecimal system. One armor has sixty people, and one talisman has four hundred people.
The celestial army in the lower realm this time is huge in number. They are all strengthened talismans, about 600 people.
Zhan Ying divided the beast cavalry into a team of 850 people. Even if they encountered a strengthening talisman from the enemy, they would still be able to fight.
After multiple subdivisions, the three hundred thousand beast riders became seven routes, forty-nine groups, and three hundred and forty-three teams.
When it comes to breaking things down, every general can do it, there's nothing special about it.
However, Zhan Ying's splitting into parts is very special. He has divided each route, each group, and each team of Southern Border Beast Riders into their own activity areas. Even if they encounter enemies, they are not allowed to leave easily.
That area of activity.
No one knows why Zhan Ying did this.
After all, the greatest advantage of cavalry is its high mobility.
The activity areas now divided for them limit the mobility of the cavalry.
Wanyanku and the Dayan clan chiefs, including the senior leaders of the Southern Xinjiang Beast Cavalry, all had huge opinions on Zhan Ying's tactics.
But Zhan Ying didn't explain much, just said: "If you want to complete this blocking mission, you must not question my order."