It seems that no one in the world still remembers Ye Xiaochuan.
In just one month, the group of young people who ventured to the Sea of Forgetfulness to search for the Wood God's treasure to fight against the catastrophe seemed to have suddenly disappeared from the world.
No one will talk about them anymore.
Nowadays, what the common people in the world talk about after dinner are almost all about women and war.
March twenty-three.
This day is destined to be recorded in history and permanently preserved in the Jade Slip Cave.
After a month and a half of fighting, the second line of defense at Niangzi Pass collapsed today.
The first line of defense, Qiankong Cliff, which had been blocked by the Skyfire Beast for more than forty days, also fell into the hands of the enemy.
Broken city walls and piles of corpses.
An Wenxiu, the commander of the Tianjie Middle Army, finally reached the top of the Niangziguan Fortress that he had dreamed of.
Marshal Xu Kai, leading 360,000 remaining soldiers, retreated to the third line of defense at Niangziguan, Laojun Cave.
Laojun Cave is located thirty miles south of Niangziguan Fortress, relying on the mountain topography to form a fan-shaped defense.
However, the defense line of Laojun Cave only had more than three million elite soldiers stationed there.
The defensive area of the fan-shaped defense line is too wide, with a width of seven miles.
Everyone knows that the Laojundong defense line cannot last for forty or fifty days like the Niangziguan Fortress, and it is estimated that it cannot even last ten days.
News of the fall of Niangziguan Fortress spread throughout the world.
The people north of the Huangyan River became more panicked than ever before.
They began to evacuate to the south.
No one went to the capital.
Because everyone knows that there is no danger to defend the capital. Only by going south and constantly going south can we survive this unprecedented catastrophe.
The loss of Niangziguan Fortress is a signal and a sign.
This catastrophe is finally going to hit the interior of Middle-earth.
At this moment, all the civil and military officials in the imperial court looked very panicked.
Some people suggested that if Xu Kai lost the dangerous fortress, he would kill the nine tribes. Others said that Xu Kai's strategy was wrong from the beginning. At the beginning of the battle of Niangzi Pass, Xu Kai buried millions of elites outside Niangzi Pass.
As a result, the third, fourth, and fifth lines of defense at Niangzi Pass were obviously insufficient in strength.
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Only a few people, including the old commander Zhao Xianfeng, spoke for Xu Kai.
The defeat in this battle was definitely not Xu Kai's fault, but a historical necessity.
Niangziguan is not as majestic as Shanhaiguan, and it is not as dangerous as Yumenguan. After the Qiankongya defense line was suppressed by the Skyfire Beast with fireballs, Niangziguan Fortress lost the containment of Wengcheng and directly faced the attack of the main army of the heaven. Xu Kaineng was on the second line of defense.
It is extremely difficult to hold on for more than forty days
It’s valuable.
The situation is very tense now, and this is not the time to kill someone on the spot.
Now there are five lines of defense in Niangziguan, and there are still three lines of defense in Laojun Cave, Chengtian Cliff, and Fenglong Mountain.
Everyone at Laojundong’s defense line did not have too many illusions.
Chengtian Cliff is different. There is a line of gorges fifteen miles long, which is considered a very solid natural barrier.
There is no good military strategy for this catastrophe. All the terrain can be used to kill the enemy's vitality.
Therefore, both Your Majesty and Xu Kai regard the Chengtian Cliff Defense Line as the ultimate battle.
As for the fifth Fenglongshan defense line, it is more than a hundred miles southeast of Niangziguan.
That is a line of defense that only exists in speeches and has little actual effect.
Your Majesty mobilized another four million troops from militiamen from various places to support the Niangziguan battlefield.
Everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before the Niangziguan is broken. How could His Majesty, the wise Emperor, not know this?
The reason why they continue to send troops to Niangziguan is just to buy time.
Preparations for the capital of Jinling had been made many years ago. Now the crown prince has taken the best young officials in the court to Jinling to prepare for the fall of the capital.
It takes a lot of time to push through the natural dangers of the Huangyan River and drag the catastrophe into the second winter by flooding it.
It is only late March, the ice and snow in the Kunlun Mountains have just begun to melt, the rainy season has not yet arrived, and the water flow in the Huangyan River is not large.
We have to wait until July and August, when the rainy season comes and the Huangyan River is at its most turbulent, to dig the embankment so that the flooding method can be used to its full potential.
If the Heavenly Army is allowed to capture the entire Niangziguan defense line before May, within half a month, the Heavenly Army will be able to capture the capital city which has no natural dangers to defend.
In terms of time, there is still more than a month left.
Therefore, for more than a month, human lives must be used to fill it.
One hundred thousand a day, four million troops in more than a month.
This is the emperor's plan.
It was completely worth sacrificing four million troops in order to drag the war into winter.
Because once winter comes, the combat power of the Heavenly Legion will be greatly reduced, especially the Destruction Legion, which has basically entered a state of hibernation. The Storm Legion will also be unable to march on a large scale in the harsh winter.
This has given the world a few months of breathing space.
Zhan Ying also learned the battle report that the second line of defense at Niangziguan had completely collapsed.
At this moment, Zhan Ying has returned to Changbai Mountain, and he is not very interested in this battle report.
Xu Kai was able to hold on to the gate for nearly fifty days, which already made Zhan Ying look at him with admiration.
According to Zhan Ying's prediction, the third Laojun Cave defense line was just a decoration.
The final decisive battle between Xu Kai's Army and Tianjie An Wenxiu's Army was at the fourth Chengtian Cliff defense line.
The fifteen-mile-long Xianxian Gorge on Chengtian Cliff will become a meat grinding ground for both sides.
Zhan Ying estimated that the brutality of the Battle of Chengtian Cliff would be comparable to the Battle of Yingzui Cliff ten years ago.
But there is a prerequisite.
That is the fighting will of the coach.
Ten years ago, the coach of Yingzuiya was the King of Hanyang who had never been on the battlefield. After the war, Zhao Shiqu's strength was exhausted.
As an old commander, Xu Kai's fighting will naturally far exceeds that of the young Zhao Shiqu.
But Xu Kai is too old. If Xu Kai falls in the battle, no one can control the tens of millions of troops at Niangziguan defense line.
Zhan Ying handed the battle report to Wanyanku and said, "Have the reinforcements from the Tianjie Middle Army been dispatched?"
Wanyanku nodded.
"How do you know?" Zhan Ying said calmly: "It took An Wenxiu nearly fifty days to break through the second line of defense at Niangziguan. His middle army only had 600,000 troops, and now he has lost more than half. He wants to attack again.
To attack forward, the 200,000 troops in his hands alone are not enough
OK.
If it fails, Xu Kai will counterattack.
The only thing An Wenxiu can do now is to occupy the favorable terrain of the second line of defense and wait for reinforcements from heaven. He will not continue to attack the third line of defense in the short term.
Phantom is facing Niangziguan, which is controlled by Zhao Zian personally. She will not deploy too many troops to support the battle at Niangziguan.
The main force from Heaven rushing to aid Niangziguan should be drawn from Heaven’s east-route army.”
Wanyanku fell to the ground in admiration and said: "Everything is as you expected. Just received the news that Tianjie has dispatched 400,000 troops from outside Shanhaiguan to Niangziguan, and is expected to arrive in ten days.
In the entire northern Liaoning region, there are a total of 1.5 million main troops, of which 500,000 are stationed in northern Liaoning to contain our northern Liaoning army, and there are only about one million outside Shanhaiguan.
Now that 400,000 yuan has been taken away from the Shanhaiguan battlefield, should we take the opportunity to launch an attack from behind? First attack several large cities in northern Liaoning to relieve the pressure on Shanhaiguan and Niangziguan."
Zhan Ying shook his head and said: "The time for a full-scale attack has not yet come. However, the main task of our Liaobei Road army is to contain the Tianjie Army from behind. It would be unreasonable to do nothing.
This commander-in-chief orders General Li Shaocheng to lead 300,000 light cavalry between Langya Valley and Niangziguan to harass the Tianjie East Route Army Corps at Niangziguan, which is sent to support them.
Remember, it’s just a harassment, don’t be too eager to fight, slow down the enemy’s pace for twenty days, and then he can withdraw.”
After conveying the military order, Zhan Ying asked the royal monk who protected him to take him to the Black Forest to inspect his big project, shipbuilding.
