Three Three Six: Doomsday! The final strangulation!
In the battle three days ago, Zhiwei suffered a disastrous defeat. He vomited blood and fainted. After waking up, he immediately decided to stay behind and continued to besiege Windlei Castle's defense line to contain Sauron's main force.? < [? [ < ]
After three days of rest, I was able to get up and walk.
Tonight, I was shocked to hear bad news again, twice.
First, all the bridges on the Tianshui River behind were destroyed, the army guarding the river was annihilated, and the army's retreat was blocked.
Then, the army's food and fodder were attacked by Sauron's griffons from the air, and were burned to the ground.
Stimulated by these two pieces of bad news, Zhiwei couldn't bear it any longer. He spat out a mouthful of blood again and fainted!
In fact, the burning of Liangcaocang Camp was very serious, but not serious, and it was not too serious either.
Although Duke Wei has not recovered well these days and is low in energy, he still has many elite civil servants and generals under his command. He has also predicted and deduced the situation in which grain and grass may be burned, so he has separated some of the grain and grass and put them in various major
In the military camp.
They also sent thousands of soldiers to dig holes in the ground and hide food and grass in them.
Therefore, although most of the food and grass were burned, after all, there are only more than 60,000 people left in the army, and the scattered food and grass can barely last for ten days, enough to last until Turing Tuo's army arrives.
These elites can take the lead in storing grain and grass in a scattered manner to ensure that the army does not go hungry. However, they cannot predict the people's hearts and how much harm the burning of grain and grass will have on the morale of the army.
That night, after learning that the retreat was blocked and the food and grass were burned, the mighty army became panic-stricken, and the rumors became more and more outrageous.
There was even a small-scale mutiny, and an army of several thousand people ignored the superior's orders and insisted on crossing the river to escape.
Of course, this small mutiny was eventually suppressed by experienced generals. After all, this army had been led by Zhiwei for many years, and it was still united and did not cause serious consequences.
But no matter how comforted the mid-level and high-level generals were, and no matter how much they refuted rumors that there was enough food and grass, the surviving 60,000-strong army was still in panic, and their morale was extremely low.
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The day after the food and grass of the Zhiwei army were burned.
At this time, Duke Turingtuo's 200,000-strong army was still 1,400 miles away from Tianshui City and would arrive in about eleven days.
It was already dark, and the mighty 60,000-strong army was sleeping.
Dozens of dragon shooters stared at the sky. Thousands of soldiers patrolled everywhere, full of absolute vigilance.
And just then!
"Swish, swish, swish..."
Sauron's gryphon air strike is coming again!
This time it’s no longer four or five, but fourteen!
Because a few days ago, Sauron asked Gao Yin for more gryphon beasts because of a secret letter from the flying harrier.
Today, the ten gryphon beasts supported by Gao Yin have flown to the Fenlei Castle defense line.
There are only about twenty gryphons in the entire Kingdom of Raging Waves, and now he has transferred most of them.
Therefore, there were a total of fourteen gryphon beasts in this wave of air attacks on Zhiwei Camp.
"Throwing gunpowder packets from the sky again!"
The dozens of dragon shooters in the mighty army are going crazy. They are so awesome that they can hit targets hundreds or thousands of meters away.
But it was late at night, and I couldn't see my fingers. And when shooting upwards into the sky, due to gravity, the momentum would be exhausted within 400 meters at most, and the arrows shot would have no power at all.
These damn griffons are flying at an altitude of four to five hundred meters.
When launching an air strike at this height, the Griffin Knights didn't expect to hit anything, they just threw the gunpowder packets around.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
The military camp of the mighty 60,000-strong army was exploding everywhere, one after another, shaking the sky and the earth.
There was panic everywhere.
Moreover, the most terrible thing is that these griffins specially select cavalry camps to bomb.
The originally powerful army of 150,000 had 20,000 cavalry.
After the great battle a few days ago, there were only about 60,000 troops left, but the 20,000 cavalry were almost intact, which was the largest combat effectiveness of the mighty army.
The camp of 20,000 cavalry stretched across several miles. Between 20,000 and 30,000 war horses gathered together. There was no need to aim at all. The gunpowder packets were just thrown down.
The war horses were the least courageous. After the bombardment, tens of thousands of war horses were frightened and ran wildly.
Tens of thousands of war horses were frightened, and the formation was so astonishing. It was like a stormy sea, rushing wildly.
The entire Zhiwei camp was smashed into a mess.
I don’t know how many soldiers died under the hoofs of horses.
The 60,000-strong army stayed awake all night, desperately trying to avoid the frightened horses running around. They also had to worry about being unlucky and dying if a gunpowder bag exploded around them.
The bombing lasted for four hours and stopped at almost dawn.
It took tens of thousands of cavalry several hours to suppress the frightened horses and return them to camp and calm them down.
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Early the next morning, Zhiwei woke up and discussed how to deal with Sauron's nighttime air raid harassment.
The deputy commander of the army said: "Your Excellency, Sauron's air raid last night caused more than 600 direct casualties. However, more than 3,000 soldiers were trampled to death by war horses, and nearly 2,000 war horses were damaged!
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Upon hearing this loss, Duke Zhiwei's heart convulsed with pain.
Zhiwei frowned and said: "Tonight, Sauron will definitely launch another air strike. How to deal with this situation? If tens of thousands of war horses are frightened again, the entire camp will be destroyed again."
The general below was quiet for a moment.
Then, Ji You said: "Father, can we disperse the cavalry into various camps like food and grass? Our entire camp spans dozens of miles. If Sauron launches another air attack, even if the war horses are frightened, the scale will be much smaller."
Suddenly a commander of ten thousand cavalry said: "No way, the cavalry must be large-scale to be able to exert its power. If the cavalry is dispersed among the battalions, if Sauron goes out of the city to start a battle, our 20,000 cavalry will not have time to assemble, and the consequences will be disastrous!"
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Youyou said: "If we don't do this, the horses will be frightened by the air raids for several nights. How many cavalry will we have left by then, and how much combat effectiveness will we have?"
As soon as these words came out, Wan Qizhang was speechless.
A war horse is a very delicate thing. If it is frightened several times in a row and does not eat well or sleep well for several days and nights, its combat effectiveness will basically be lost.
Moreover, tens of thousands of war horses were frightened last night, and they collided and trampled, killing thousands of soldiers and damaging two thousand horses.
If these war horses attack the camp several more times, at most 4 or 5 days later, all the more than 20,000 war horses will be destroyed.
Zhiwei gritted his teeth with hatred. Because the number of gryphons was too small, they were completely flashy things. No one would really use them on the battlefield, so they were more of just the king's honor guard.
But I didn't expect that Sauron's sky-shattering thunder combined with the griffin beast would exert such a huge power.
What's even more outrageous is that the more than twenty gryphon beasts in the Kingdom of Raging Waves are completely in the hands of King Zhi Bian, and none of them are in the hands of Zhi Li.
At this time, even if there were four or five gryphon beasts in Zhiwei, Sauron would not dare to be so arrogant, and every air raid would be like entering an uninhabited land.
He wanted to send a message to Zhili, asking him to find a way to get a few gryphon beasts, but after thinking about it, he gave up and destroyed Suo Clan. Because Zhili had to either borrow from Yinzhou or the Yan Empire. Wait for Zhi.
Turingtuo's army had already arrived at Tianshui City long before they got the gryphon beast.
Of course, you can also borrow it from the Divine Dragon Temple. But the entire Shendu Divine Dragon Temple, that is, two or three gryphon beasts, will have serious consequences if they are compromised by the power of the Divine Dragon on the battlefield!
Taking a deep breath, Duke Weiwei ordered: "Just follow Jiyou's method and disperse more than 20,000 cavalry into six or seven camps. This way, even if the war horses blow up the camp, it will not cause such big consequences. And every night
, the cavalry must guard their horses while they sleep, cover their ears, and comfort them at all times.”
"Follow your orders!" said the two Ten Thousand Horsemen.
Although it is harmful to disperse 20,000 cavalry into different battalions, there is no other way to choose the lesser of two evils.
Throughout the rest of the day, the Weiwei camp went through another struggle, with 20,000 cavalry and nearly 30,000 horses beginning to disperse to various camps.
The 20,000 cavalrymen who originally formed a fist were now like sprinkling pepper, a little sprinkled here, a little sprinkled there. They were scattered over dozens of square kilometers of camps.
After finally finishing the cavalry and dispersing the battalions, it was already dark!
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After nightfall!
After struggling all day and night, the Zhiwei army fell asleep.
Not surprisingly, Sauron's air raid came again!
However, this time only five griffons came!
"Boom boom boom..."
Continuous bombing.
One moment the gunpowder packets were thrown down, and the other the kerosene barrels were thrown down.
The dispersion of the cavalry among the various battalions was indeed effective, and there was no longer a situation where large-scale war horses were frightened and bombed the camp.
At most, hundreds or thousands of war horses are frightened and running around, which is relatively easy to control.
However, it was impossible for the mighty army to sleep. There were constant explosions, making it impossible to fall asleep.
Of course, if it's just a noise, it's easy to deal with it, just plug your ears with cotton. The key is that the explosion will shake the earth, and no one knows whether the thunder will explode above their heads in the next second.
As soon as I fell asleep, my body was reduced to ashes and shattered into pieces.
Under this kind of fear, even the most heartless person cannot sleep.
Moreover, Sauron is even more despicable!
This air raid will never end.
The fourteen gryphon beasts were divided into three groups, and each time they bombed for four hours.
Twenty-four hours a day, non-stop bombing!
Of course, this also has a great impact on our own soldiers within the defense line of Tianlei Castle. Therefore, the 25,000 cavalry of Sauron's army have withdrawn dozens of miles away.
The defenders in the castle slept with cotton stuffed in their arms every night.
Fortunately, the explosion was several miles away from the Fenlei Fort's defense line, and there was no need to worry about the thunderbolts falling overhead. Although it would cause insomnia, it would not make it impossible to sleep.
But Zhiwei's 60,000-strong army was in dire straits. Twenty-four hours a day, there was no time to sleep at all.
Sauron's fourteen griffons bombed and harassed them in batches twenty-four hours a day.
This made the mighty army live like a year, as if they were in hell.
Duke Zhiwei could no longer get out of bed. He had lost a lot of weight, and his originally black hair had turned white.
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Three days and nights!
Sauron's air raids lasted for three days and three nights. Even if the fourteen griffin beasts were fed with good beef every day, they had lost a lot of weight!
Duke Weiwei's 60,000-strong army was truly in hell.
I couldn't sleep well for three days and nights. Almost everyone had dark circles under his eyes and his bones were broken.
At this time, there is no need to worry about running out of food and grass, because thousands of horses have died and there is not enough meat to eat.
However, they had not slept for several days and nights, and could not eat anything at all. The soldiers on patrol felt dizzy, their legs were weak, they were covered in cold sweat at every turn, and they could not hold the weapons in their hands.
Not only that, but many soldiers began to run away!
They could no longer endure such torture, so they either jumped into the Tianshui River and planned to swim across the river to escape.
But on the other side of the river is Yan Yan's eight thousand army.
These soldiers either drowned in the river or were shot to death by random arrows before they even reached the shore.
Since you can't escape across the river, you can escape to the mountains on both sides.
At first, dozens or hundreds of people fled, but later more and more people escaped.
Duke Zhiwei's head was a little gray, and he was half-conscious and half-awake. He often sat up suddenly and said, "How long has it been? How long will it take for Turing to arrive?"
Sometimes, even though less than half an hour has passed, he feels that a day has passed.
When the soldiers began to flee, he was determined to kill him and sent his trusted warriors to guard each entrance to the mountain. If a deserter was found, he would immediately kill him.
Then he kept saying, "Hold on for a few more days, hold on for a few more days, and the Turingtuo army will come!"
On the way, Duke Zhiwei sent a message to Baiyun County, asking the county to send troops to attack Yan Yan's army on the other side of the river.
Baiyun County also obeyed and immediately gathered two to three thousand people.
However, this time, Duke Zhiwei had assembled an army of 150,000, which had drained all the soldiers of the entire southeastern province, leaving only a shabby second-line army.
The two or three thousand people in Baiyun County were completely wiped out by Yan Yan's thousand cavalry in less than half an hour. They fled with howling ghosts and wolves.
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Sauron's shameless bombing has entered the fourth day!
At this time, Turingtuo's 200,000-strong army is still more than 800 miles away from Tianlang Pass and will arrive in almost six days!
Duke Zhiwei always thinks about time, six days, six days, six days!
Just six more days and this hellish life will be over!
However, as time went by, Duke Zhiwei's heart became colder and colder, and that uneasy despair spread throughout his body.
What he regrets most now is no longer the rush to attack Fenglei Castle's defense line, but why he didn't retreat to Baiyun County after the defeat.
That way, although you are completely defeated, you will not die.
You couldn't even save your life, but you still made yourself a king. You were so greedy for profit. Did you decide to stay at the position and continue to besiege Fenglei Castle's defense line?
You are completely driving yourself to death!
Although there are still more than 50,000 troops on hand, these 50,000 troops have not slept for days and nights, and cannot even stand still. How can they still have the strength to fight?
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The second half of the night on the fourth day of bombing!
Suddenly, Sauron dispatched all fourteen griffons, and once again dispatched a giant gunpowder bag weighing four to five hundred kilograms.
Moreover, this time, instead of going deep into the Zhiwei Camp, they bombed the outer edges of the camp.
There was a burst of indiscriminate bombing against the wooden walls, fences, ravines, horse barriers and other fortifications of the camp!
This bombing lasted for three hours. Nearly 100,000 jins of gunpowder were thrown, and then nearly 100,000 jins of kerosene were thrown.
After daybreak, the bombing stopped!
Looking at the fortifications of the Zhiwei Camp, they were completely reduced to ashes and turned into flat ground.
Everyone knows that the final battle has arrived!
Because, the continuous bombing stopped.
For four days and four nights, explosions continued to sound, and now it finally became completely silent!
Zhiwei fell into complete uneasiness. He knew that Sauron was going to put the final noose on him.
This is the last quiet moment before death!
"Assemble the army, assemble the cavalry..." Zhiwei ordered loudly!
Sauron's final attack is coming, the final strangulation is coming!
but……
The whole camp was scattered, and countless soldiers were lying asleep, and they couldn't be woken up!
I haven't slept for several days and nights. This is a rare silence. Once I fall asleep, I, the King of Heaven, will not be able to wake me up!
The officers beat and kicked them, trying desperately to wake up the sleeping soldiers.
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And at the same time!
Within the defense line of Wind Thunder Castle, Sauron's 25,000 cavalrymen who had been resting for nearly ten days were making their final assembly.
Among them, there are 20,000 cavalry from Rouran City and 5,000 cavalry from Tianshui City!
These days, more than 20,000 cavalry have retreated for more than ten or twenty miles without being disturbed by the explosions. They have recuperated and become fat and strong. Their hearts are full of fighting spirit, like hungry beasts that want to come out of their cages to bite people.
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Sauron stood at the highest point of the castle, looking at the endless, densely packed and sturdy cavalry!
"Rumble, rumble..."
Dozens of strong men turned the winch at the same time.
The defense gate of Fenglei Castle, which had never been opened, was slowly opened.
The huge door, which is more than two feet thick, is covered with thick iron sheets and weighs ten thousand kilograms.
There are two such huge doors, one on the outside and one on the inside!
Two huge doors were opened, like a devil opening its mouth!
"Attack, annihilate the Zhiwei army, and kill Zhewei!" Sauron roared!
The shocking war drums sound!
Twenty-five thousand cavalry rushed out from the Fenglei Fort defense line like a tide and rushed towards the Weiwei Camp.
"Boom boom boom boom..."
The 25,000 cavalrymen charged at the mighty 50,000-strong army, but it was like a stormy sea, like a tiger out of its cage!
The final stranglehold on Zhiwei!
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