An Wenxiu, who was in charge of the Chinese Army, saw explosions and flames rising above the second line of defense at Niangzi Pass, and knew that his sneak attack plan tonight had failed.
He was surprised, and his eyes showed a bloodthirsty light.
Finally met a decent opponent.
In the battle in northern Shanxi last year, the army in the middle of the Heavenly Realm barely encountered a decent battle, and it eliminated millions of regular troops in the human world.
This caused the middle army to fall into a misunderstanding from top to bottom.
Human soldiers are vulnerable.
Xu Kai, the guard at Niangzi Pass, is a loser.
This kind of thinking of underestimating the enemy is still pervasive among the army in the middle of Tianjie.
After this defeat, An Wenxiu faced for the first time the man he was facing.
At the same time, it also made him understand that taking Niangzi Pass would never be as easy as they expected.
There is a saying in the art of war: one can make a great effort, then it will weaken, and three times it will be exhausted.
Now that the long sword has been unsheathed, it will not be easily withdrawn.
If the sneak attack fails, then turn to a frontal attack.
With the first line of defense, Thousand Holes Cliff, blocking it in front, the fireballs from the Skyfire Beast cannot be directly ejected to the second line of defense at Niangzi Pass.
It can only be attacked from the front via siege ladders.
Now there is only one way in front of An Wenxiu, and that is to destroy the catapult on the second line of defense at Niangzi Pass.
Destroying it from the ground is no longer realistic.
Now the breakthrough can only be achieved from the air.
He ordered that more than 40,000 six-winged legions under his command should be fully pressed, and all catapults on the human position must be destroyed before dawn.
As soon as the six-winged legion in heaven moved, the aerial knights in the human world also started to move.
Stationed on the front line of Niangziguan, there are two air cavalry troops.
One is the Tiannv Kingdom's Tianma troops, with a strength of fifteen thousand. For several months, they have been stationed in a grassland a hundred miles south of Niangziguan.
The other one is the Flying Feather Legion from Northern Xinjiang.
There are two actual controllers of Feiyu Legion.
One is Qilisi, the Barbarian Northern Demon God.
One is Zhan Ying, the commander-in-chief of the march in North Liaoning Province.
Because Yu Jizi, the real controller of the human world, has been thinking about weakening the strength of the Demon Cult for many years, and wanted to transfer the military command of the Manbei to the imperial court on the grounds that the foreign tribes in the North were not cultivators.
This is actually a good thing. Unified command is beneficial to the world.
Although Tuoba Yu was unwilling to hand over control of the foreign races in Northern Xinjiang, due to public opinion in the world and the fact that Yu Jizi had compromised with him a few months ago, he became one of the leaders of the alliance in the world.
In this context, Tuoba Yu agreed to transfer the command of Northern Xinjiang to the imperial court. Of course, Qilis, as the Demon God of Northern Xinjiang, still had the highest authority to rule over the forty-seven alien races in Northern Xinjiang.
Years ago, His Majesty appointed Zhan Ying as the highest military officer in northern Liaoning, and also handed over the command of the foreign tribes in northern Liaoning to Zhan Ying.
After the beginning of spring, Zhan Ying predicted that the future battlefield in northern Liaoning would not be fierce. Next, the focus of the competition between the two sides would definitely be Niangzi Pass.
Therefore, Zhan Ying mobilized a mixed air cavalry consisting of 40,000 Feiyu legions and 30,000 gryphons and eagles, and stationed them in a wilderness about 400 miles north of Niangziguan.
Once an air battle breaks out, these 70,000 Barbarian flying troops can reach the Niangziguan battlefield within an hour, and form a north-south pincer attack on the enemy with the Pegasus troops in the south.
Since the air cavalry troops from Northern Xinjiang entered northern Shanxi, they have indeed put great pressure on the Tianjie Middle Army.
This forced An Wenxiu to move the headquarters of the Six-winged Legion three hundred miles west to avoid being attacked by the Barbarian Air Cavalry.
This afternoon, after the battle at Niangzi Pass began, Manbei's 70,000 flying army rebelled and sent out 30,000 air cavalry to contain it. The other 40,000 air cavalry detoured to the east of Niangzi Pass a hundred miles away, forming a huge barrier to Niangzi Pass.
The trend of three-party encirclement.
An Wenxiu also knew that once the air battle began, the 40,000 six-winged air cavalry in his hands would not gain much benefit.
But in order to destroy the human catapult, he had no other better way.
The commander of the Pegasus troops is a relative of the female royal family, named Nyuyuhe.
I had participated in the Battle of Dragon Gate a few months ago and had some experience fighting against the Six-Winged Legion of Heaven.
There are two commanders of the Barbarian Sky Cavalry. The commander of the Feiyu Legion is the patriarch of the Feiyu Tribe whom Ye Xiaochuan met before and exchanged five kilograms of salt for the leader of the Feiyu Clan.
A mixed aerial cavalry composed of flying tribes such as griffins and eagle tribes. The leader is the leader of the eagle tribe.
In the Battle of Eagle Beak Cliff ten years ago, the Northern Xinjiang Air Cavalry and the Six Wings Legion also had several battle experiences.
When the main force of the Six-Winged Army of Heaven was dispatched, these three coaches immediately gave the order to press forward across the board.
Originally, several air cavalry forces only faced each other at a distance in the air without fighting.
Now it's finally in full swing.
If it were daytime, An Wenxiu would not be so rash.
It is night now, which is not suitable for large-scale aerial combat, and the power of the Pegasus troops' thunder rockets will also be much weakened.
As long as the enemy's catapult is destroyed, this air battle will be won.
This made An Wenxiu feel that he could give it a try.
He divided the 40,000 six-winged legions in his hands into four groups.
There are three Pegasus troops entangled in the air, the Feather Corps and the Mixed Air Cavalry Corps.
The last group is responsible for attacking the second line of defense at Yumen Pass.
The scale of this air battle was far greater than the Battle of Longmen a few months ago.
All forces are paying close attention.
Xu Kai had already made preparations.
Thousands of eight-oxen crossbows and hundreds of thousands of archers on the second and third lines of defense were all prepared for air defense.
It is not easy for the Six Wings Legion to break through the defense line and destroy the catapults.
The air battle in the distance has begun, and the offensive on the ground is not idle either.
Heaven is still sending a steady stream of skeleton warriors to climb the city wall, and hundreds of madman warriors are struggling to assemble siege ladders in the distance.
There was also a group of giant warriors carrying logs and hitting the city gate.
Xu Kai has a hobby, smoking dry cigarettes.
He held a huge gold pipe in his hand and looked at the dark sky.
Said: "Here he comes.
Let the sons and daughters prepare for the battle."
The initial defeat put Xu Kai under a lot of pressure in the past few months.
If the change of coach before the battle had not affected morale, the court would have replaced him long ago.
Xu Kai urgently needed a beautiful battle of annihilation to re-establish his prestige.
This battle is the moment for Xu Kai to prove his ability to the world.
His ambition is not small. Not only does he want to completely disrupt the enemy's attack, he also wants to eat up several full-scale Celestial Legions that have broken into the second line of defense.
He has this strength.
Until now, he has not revealed his secret weapon.
The six-winged giant bird no longer concealed its whereabouts, and thousands of giant birds flew towards Niangziguan from the northwest at low altitude.
They easily flew over the first thousand-hole cliff and dived rapidly towards the second line of defense.