It took more than ten days for Li Huo to gather an army from Xiliang City, totaling 80,000 people!
After arriving at the base of the Xiliang Army in the Chaos World, he extracted 20,000 soldiers and 30,000 farmers from the base and asked these people to be responsible for logistics and transportation.
The supply line required for logistical transportation of more than 100,000 people is very high, and thanks to the fact that the base has already built a very strong logistics supply line, otherwise the sudden appearance of these 80,000 soldiers may cause problems with food and grass.
The base continuously delivers food and grass to the army surrounded by the enemy. The mountainous area guarded by the Xiliang army is very wide. The coalition wants to completely surround the mountainous area. This is simply impossible and impossible to achieve.
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Therefore, the food from the base can still be sent to the surrounded army, but they need to be careful and careful not to let the people from the coalition discover them.
However, it is not an easy task for the coalition forces to discover them. After all, the troops escorting the grain and grass are the most elite troops in Xiliang. They have super high mobility.
Coupled with the Xiliang scouts, they can detect the coalition forces from far away. It is not ordinary difficulty for the coalition forces to discover them or cut off their supply lines.
So every once in a while, the base will escort a large amount of grain and grass to the mountainous area, and sometimes also transport a large amount of weapons and equipment.
This is why the armies in the mountainous areas don't have to worry about the loss of arrow feathers. Anyway, they have logistical supply lines, and the weapons and equipment they need will be continuously delivered to them.
"How is the situation on the front line now?" The Templar generals are still in contact with Li Yi and the others who are surrounded. Li Yi sends battle reports from the front line from time to time to let the Templar knights understand the battle situation on the front line.
Only by understanding the situation on the front line can we find opportunities and fighters!
So when Li Huo arrived at the camp, he was like a Templar general, asking about the situation on the front line.
General Templar said: "The front line is now like a huge meat grinder. Troops from both sides are constantly being sent to the front line. Our position refuses to give way. The other side has a large amount of cannon fodder and is using those cannon fodder. The regular army is also using the cannon fodder."
Go ahead and consume the effective strength of our army!”
"With the current strength of our army, the number of enemy troops, and the current rate of losses, it will be impossible for both sides to end the battle in less than a month!"
Li Huo frowned when he heard this: "Does it take so long?"
The troops he mobilized were all troops stationed around Xiliang City. It was okay to mobilize them in a short period of time, but if they were mobilized for a long time, they would have a great impact on Xiliang City.
Moreover, the ghosts in the ghost domain are still very restless. Once the ghosts find out that the number of guard troops around Xiliang City has decreased, the other side will definitely send more ghosts to harass the defense line.
So they can't stay here for too long!
But according to what the Templar General said, this war will not reach its final stage in less than a month. The choice before them now is to directly insert themselves into the enemy's rear.
Let this war become more intense and end it early.
However, this choice may cause a large number of casualties to the Xiliang army. The number of enemies is far greater than theirs. Until now, they still have no way of knowing how many troops there are on the coalition side.
Standing behind the enemy is not only a Buddhist sect, but also their former ally, the most powerful force in the Xuanjie, the Daqian Dynasty.
Without the emperor's order and the emperor's acquiescence, would Buddhism dare to fight against Xiliang?
Therefore, they have to prepare for the worst and list as many imaginary enemies as possible. They would rather make their enemies extremely powerful than weaken them.
Another option is to continue to wait for the opportunity, waiting for the coalition forces to reveal the flaws to them, but in this case, they don't know how long they will have to wait!
So Li Huo felt that he was riding a tiger and it was difficult to get off. He had already spent a lot of time on the road, and now he didn't know what the situation was like in Xiliang City.
As the policy maker of Xiliang City, he is the one who knows the forces surrounding Xiliang City best. Not even Prime Minister Li, he knows how many enemies and troops there are around Xiliang City.
Because many armies are not recorded on the system page, a general needs to personally understand and explore to find out those forces.
Over the years, the situation he has faced in Xiliang City is no worse than that of people in other places. Those forces in the Central Plains have never given up exploring the biggest secret of Xiliang City.
That is what race and where did those Xiliang headquarters soldiers come from? The physique and height of the Xiliang headquarters soldiers really surprised them.
The average height of each soldier is more than two meters. The Xiliang soldiers already have an advantage on the battlefield just because of their size. Coupled with the strong combat effectiveness of the Xiliang soldiers, their execution ability puts countless elite soldiers to shame.
So they have been looking for where the Xiliang soldiers came from to see if they can win the loyalty of these Xiliang soldiers like Li Xiang.
Even if they can't win the loyalty of the Xiliang headquarters soldiers, they still have to explore where this race is. The unknown enemy is really terrifying.
And as the number of soldiers in the Xiliang headquarters increases, they even suspect that the Xiliang soldiers are not from the Xuanjie side, or that these people come from a certain secret realm, from a small world attached to the Xuanjie.
Only in this way can we explain the origin of these Xiliang soldiers, otherwise they would not believe that there could be such a group of Xiliang soldiers outside this desolate Northwest Pass.
After all, if a person wants to grow taller and taller, the most important thing is nutrition. Without enough food, it is impossible for a person to become so strong and tall.
In the desolate land outside the Northwest Pass, before those ghosts appeared, there were cracks in time and space everywhere. Even the great masters did not dare to approach those places easily, because you never know when a person who can tear you apart will appear around you. The cracks in your body.
So before the ghosts appeared, that area was a restricted area. Except for some wild beasts that survived by chance, there were no other creatures. Even those weeds and trees didn't have many roots growing there.
Can such a large ethnic group survive in such a place?
So in these years, what Li Huo had to face were the spies sent by the major forces. These people were generally not weak in strength and had martial arts cultivation.
Their fighting power may not be very strong, but in terms of physical skills, they are indeed among the best in the world. Especially after they enter the jungle, the scouts trained by the Xiliang headquarters sometimes cannot catch up with these people.
Li Huo also grew up bit by bit while dealing with these people's incidents. At the same time, in the process of dealing with these people, he explored almost all the situations in the major areas around Xiliang City.
Most of the forces outside the pass have been unified by Xiliang, but there are still some small forces hidden in the wilderness. They will not be exposed, just like poisonous snakes, always hiding in the dark.
They looked at everything in Xiliang greedily. As long as they were given a chance, they would bite them without hesitation. Over the years, Li Huo had destroyed countless small forces.
However, these poisonous snakes from small forces are like grass on the prairie. Wildfires cannot burn them out, but spring breezes blow and they grow again. If you want to cut the weeds and eradicate them, you find that you don’t know where they are.
The people fighting behind them may be the big forces in the Central Plains, or they may be the forces that have been hiding outside the Northwest Pass.
Many people who were expelled outside the Northwest Pass did not want to stay around Xuanshui Lake, so they would stay away from Xuanshui Lake and take their people to other places to open up another place to live.
After all, outside the customs, as long as you have enough force, you can live well. As for necessary living supplies, you can use the natural materials and earthly treasures you collect in the wild and exchange them for them.
Anyway, no one outside the customs will ask you about the origin of these things. As long as you hide your whereabouts, no one will be able to discover where you are.
"Is there any way to end the war as much as possible?" Li Huo asked.
General Templar shook his head: "The general came here under orders and has been staying here. My lord asked me to obey your orders, and Manager Li Yi asked me to act according to the situation!
And given the current situation, there is really no way to break the situation."
"However, General Manager Li once said that although the coalition forces have many troops, their army is not composed of one force, but is composed of many forces.
The only purpose of their combination is to drive us, Xiliang, from our position as the overlord of Nanzhou Continent, so they work together, but there are still big gaps between their major forces.
Manager Li asked me to always pay attention to the movements of the coalition forces, just to let me observe again to see which armies have gaps between them and which armies can be separated!"
"Based on the general's observation these days, the coalition forces can be divided into three ranks, with the first rank being the trump card.
There should be three of this ace army on the coalition side. Two of them have been sent to the front line and have become the main force in breaking down our fortress. The remaining one should be stationed in the coalition camp.
The second-level army is the main force. The number of the main army is temporarily unknown, but it should account for about 1/3 of the entire army.
The third level is the largest army on the coalition side. Their combat effectiveness is weaker than that of the soldiers on the Mercury World. Many of them are soldiers recently recruited from the Blue Star World.
Many people appear to be civilians, and then they are recruited. It is very easy for things to happen when they go to the battlefield, so they become cannon fodder for the coalition forces. You can often see them rushing forward like ducks being herded, or being chased from behind.
The inspectors were killed or died on the way to the charge."
"If we can really make a fuss about it, we can only make some fuss about the relationship between the main army and the cannon fodder army."
These things were summarized by the Templar generals based on the information they collected and the various intelligence provided by Li Yi.
Li Huo nodded with satisfaction: "What you said is very good, the cannon fodder army and the main force!"
Li Huo fell into deep thought while looking at the sand table. On the sand table were the Xiliang army's defense and the coalition's attack. The flags of both sides were currently intertwined, which meant that the battle between the two sides had entered a white-hot stage.
Among the troops on the front line, there is me among you, and you among me. This battle field is incomparable, like a huge meat grinder, and a large number of troops are on the front line every day.
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"General Manager, there is news from the plains!" A scout quickly ran to Li Yi: "General Li Huo, under the order of the lord, has led 80,000 Xiliang troops and has arrived at the Templar camp!"
"Li Huo is here with someone?" Li Yi's first reaction was a little disbelief, and her second reaction was worry. She also knew what the current situation was like in the southwest.
"Li Huo is here, what should we do over there in Xiliang City?"
The scout continued: "The Lord is personally in charge of Xiliang City, but the movement in the ghost domain is getting stronger and stronger. It should be discovered that our army has been mobilized and the number of troops stationed around Xiliang City has decreased!"
"You go down and take a rest first!" Li Yi nodded, and then said to the guards following him: "Go, generals, please come!"
The lord is personally in charge of Xiliang City, which already shows that the situation in Xiliang is becoming increasingly unstable. If the situation in Xiliang is stable, the lord can directly ask Li Huo to come to support them, and there is no need to go to Xiliang City himself.
Guard the border.
The lord is guarding Xiliang City, which is to deter those ghosts and monsters. The lord needs to take action personally, which has already explained some problems.
So they have to plan some ahead!
Li Yi turned his gaze to the sand table and looked at the largest canyon on the frontal battlefield, which was also the largest passage leading to the mining area.
Currently, the most intense fighting between the armies of both sides is in this passage.
Because many artillery positions in Xiliang along this passage have been destroyed by the coalition forces, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion suffered a large number of casualties on the battlefield for the first time. This was the first time in the Xiliang army.
Catching a turtle in an urn is a strategy known to many people. This canyon is a very good place to implement this strategy, but the coalition forces do not accept this strategy.
The opponent is now fighting steadily. While advancing forward in the canyon, they also launch a fierce attack on the mountains on both sides. They are advancing hand in hand.
The people on the coalition side are not fools. If an army enters the canyon directly, the southwest army only needs to place a large number of archers on the high points on both sides of the canyon to kill the coalition soldiers in the canyon.
So while they were advancing in the canyon, they also had to capture the mountains on both sides.
