"Everyone, the future of this battle is uncertain. If you can help me, please guard the palace gate for me. Please!" Cao Ning bowed.
The Nine Ghost Officers looked at each other, and Tuo Muling immediately helped Cao Ning up: "Brother Ning, you're welcome, this is our duty, don't worry, as long as we are here, we will never let Xiaoxiao step into the palace gate."
Step by step."
The Nine Ghost Officers were originally established to protect Hades, not to mention that now they have received so many gifts from Cao Ning, of course they all responded with patting their chests.
"If that's the case, then I'm relieved!"
Cao Ning nodded happily and agreed!
Half an hour later, when the three armies were in formation, Cao Ning stood on the deck and waved his hand: "All troops attack!"
Helmsman Sun Ce was the first to respond: "Set the sails and set sail!"
Toot, toot, toot!!!
The trumpet sounded, and the three armies moved!
With the black flagship clearing the way, the 150,000-strong army immediately advanced toward the southeast in mighty force.
...
At the same time, King Qin Guang, who led his army to raid the camp, was unstoppable, and in an instant he smashed Donglan's Dinuo defense line composed of 300,000 soul troops.
Facing the helpless soul army, the underworld army sang triumphant songs all the way without even encountering any decent resistance.
But just sixty miles into the hinterland, soul beasts appeared all over the mountains and plains, suddenly surrounding them from all directions.
Not only that, in order to seal the victory in one fell swoop, Xiao Yan directly mobilized the 200,000 heavy armors under his command that had never been used, and then there were 300,000 spearmen waiting in full formation.
They used the soul beast as a shield wall, connected it with heavy armor, and followed closely with spearmen. They formed a huge pocket deep in the valley, waiting for the underworld army to get in.
"No, we are ambushed, Your Majesty, we are ambushed!"
The veteran general Lian Po hurriedly issued a warning, but it was already too late.
Half a million underworld troops were like headless flies, plunging into the pockets prepared by Xiao Yan and others in advance.
Facing the soul army encircling them from all directions, the underworld army was suddenly in disarray and was forced to shrink its defenses.
"The enemy is three hundred paces away and can't move forward!"
"The distance is enough, order the musketeers to fire indiscriminately, and kill his forwards first in the first round."
"etc!"
Just when Xiao Yan gave the order to shoot, Di Xi hurriedly ran over to stop the musketeers from firing.
"Don't shoot!"
Di Xi grabbed Xiao Yan's collar and roared angrily: "Asshole, didn't you see that there are still my 100,000 troops in the encirclement? Are you going to kill them too?"
"Let me go!"
Xiao Yan pushed Di Xi away, pointed at the encirclement and shouted: "Open your eyes and let me take a good look!"
"Our military formation is complete. If you let your 100,000 defeated troops come in, our formation will immediately be in chaos."
"When the time comes, not to mention your 100,000 people, even those of us present will also suffer."
"Musketeers, don't pay attention, fire for me!"
"Leave no living creature in front of you, destroy them all!"
Xiao Yan ignored Di Xi at all, and with an order, the musketeers who had been ambushing the soul beasts for a long time immediately picked up their AKs and fired wildly.
"Xiao Yan!!!"
Di Xi was furious!
Although he was very angry, he had to admit that Xiao Yan's decision was correct.
This is why Di Xi only talked about it but had no intention of taking action.
In fact, speaking of it, what he is doing now is nothing more than showing off to his surviving subordinates.
In order to win over people's hearts, he had to do this, otherwise he would not be able to command the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops.
The dense bullets were fired indiscriminately, and the ballistas guarding the commanding heights on both sides fired tens of thousands of arrows. In just one attack, a large number of soul troops fell.
"Damn it, are these people crazy? Why are they killing their own people?"
The underworld army was constantly being suppressed, and the situation became increasingly critical. The soldiers at the forefront were unable to rush forward, and their morale was already suppressed to the extreme at this time.
King Qin Guang was extremely angry. Seeing a large group of soldiers falling down in front of him, his heart felt like a knife.
If he hadn't underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, he wouldn't have created such a critical situation.
Lian Po, who was standing by, quickly persuaded: "Your Majesty, now is not the time to care about these things. Judging from their posture, I am afraid they are determined to encircle our army here, and we must break out as soon as possible."
"Breakout?"
Although King Qin Guang was very unconvinced, he really couldn't stand the stalemate anymore.
The soul beasts have not yet attacked, and the opponent is only relying on muskets and crossbows to attack. If the soul beasts rush into the army, the consequences will be disastrous.
So he gritted his teeth and waved his hand: "Oh... that's all, that's all, General Giant, open a hole for me to cover the retreat of the army!"
"The general will get the order!"
The tall giant spirit will immediately gather the three thousand surviving giant spirit soldiers under his command, turn around and pounce on the beast wall that has not yet been fully formed behind it.
"You guys, charge me. Even if you bite with your teeth, you have to bite the enemy away before they encircle him."
"yes!"
Encouraged by the Giant Spirit General, the three thousand Giant Spirit Soldiers went crazy and launched a fierce attack behind them.
The unformed soul beast army formation was violently attacked.
"No, they are going to run away!"
Xiao Yan, who was in charge of the command, noticed King Qin Guang's intention and immediately issued an order for the entire army to attack.
"The whole army attacks, press on me!"
Following the order, one hundred thousand soul beasts that had been preparing for attack immediately rushed into the underworld army. Their huge size and impact caused huge casualties among the underworld army.
Although the speed of the heavy armored soldiers following them was a bit slower, it did not affect their ability to harvest the lives of those soldiers who had been ravaged by the soul beasts or were still lingering.
After several hours of fierce fighting, the weakly defended rear was torn open by giant spirit soldiers, and the underworld army rushed out.
By this time, only less than 200,000 of the 500,000 underworld troops had survived, and the number of casualties was still soaring.
Those wild beasts were extremely fast and constantly caused huge casualties to the soldiers in the rear row.
"Damn it, we can't keep fighting like this... Xiaoqiying, attack with me!"
A young general in the team witnessed with his own eyes the tragic scene of the rear army being torn apart by spirit beasts. If they kept chasing them like this, they would undoubtedly be gradually cannibalized and divided.
Thinking of this, he immediately led his troops to fight back.
When Wei Qing in the team saw this, he hurriedly shouted: "Qu Bing, come back here!"
