Mythical big man, champion soldier saint

Chapter 657 The temple plans to expand its troops! 【Ask for votes】

"To be precise, there are some things that only Queen Mother Xi can do. I have already told her to get started."

Huo Qubing added, stopped communicating with Zu Long through the air, and looked at Cao Qiao who walked in.

"Da Sima, there is news from Feng Huan."

"The enemy is heading west towards Shendu. At their speed, they will enter the Shendu border around early morning or dawn."

Huo Qubing said: "Have you been prepared for the body poison?"

"The Han troops stationed locally, in conjunction with the local troops, have made all preparations."

"Tell them to make full use of the national borders and expand the depth. Don't think about defeating the enemy in one battle. Don't invest too many troops in the early stage."

Cao Qiao agreed, and someone would go down and deliver the order.

It is worth mentioning that as the leader of the Brahman sect, Kongsamadhi personally rushed to Shendu after chasing Youji, replacing Huo Qubing.

"You go out with me."

Huo Qubing stood up and walked out, accompanied by Cao Qiao and the imperial guards.

Huo Qubing promoted the marching strategy, blessed the marching, and rode the horse like flying.

The group of people were traveling toward Chang'an in the southwest. On the road, they could occasionally see cracks in the ground and dilapidated scenes of overturned trees.

There were also cities along the line, whose walls collapsed and there were cries in the city.

This is all the result of the Immortal Master and Immortal Slave deliberately releasing their power and causing wanton destruction in the battle.

Some cities were struck by their power, and city walls and buildings collapsed, causing numerous casualties among the people.

Huo Qubing dismounted and walked into a city, where there was a constant stream of crying sounds.

Many people were not prepared at all and died under the impact of natural disasters.

Huo Qubing walked into the city and saw a woman sitting on the ground with her child in her arms.

Not far away is the body of a middle-aged man.

"The deceased did not know the mother and daughter, but when something happened, he subconsciously pushed the woman and child around him away, and he was killed by the falling city wall. His family has been notified and they will come to identify the body later."

The speaker was Dong Zhongshu, who was wearing a green shirt.

He came to check on the people's attack situation on behalf of the emperor, and happened to meet Huo Qubing.

Even though he was used to seeing life and death, Huo Qubing still became silent and did not say a word when these common people who had no ability to resist were implicated and died.

"This kind of situation has not happened to us big men for many years." Dong Zhongshu said.

The city was in ruins and the people were crying, as if they had gone back to the time when the Huns entered the Central Plains and plundered them many years ago.

Killings were carried out, cities were massacred, and in some cases entire towns were burned. Old people would be gathered together and all beheaded.The strong men and women were taken back to become servants of the Huns, to reproduce and work for them.

Dong Zhongshu didn't know why, but his back was a little rickety and his eyes were red. He asked: "The Champion King and the Immortal Lord are fighting. What's the outcome?"

"His strength is still stronger than mine, but he can't kill me. I can't do anything to him right now."

Might is justice. When the power is so strong that it exceeds the limit defined by the law, the only thing left is to see whose fist is stronger.

Huo Qubing silently exited the city.

He returned to Chang'an in the evening, but did not enter the city. Instead, he went to the military mansion outside the city to pay homage to the souls of the Han soldiers.

At dusk, Huo Qubing entered the imperial mausoleum.

He came to the Underground Great Wall and looked at the world outside the Great Wall from the top of the cliff-like Great Wall.

About two hundred miles outside the Great Wall, there is a location that Huo Qubing once visited. It is the entrance route for the Xi people to enter and exit Yamato Island...

It was already midnight when Huo Qubing returned to the Shanggu County camp from the imperial mausoleum, so he contacted Liu Qing first.

My daughter-in-law had just returned to Chang'an and was taken to the palace.

The same goes for Zhuo Qingke, nothing serious.

After chatting with Liu Qing for a while, Huo Qubing buried his head in the battle map.

He first wrote down the words between 120 million and 130 million at the location of Yamato Island.

In the western grassland, a word of 60 was marked.

Queen Mother of the West said after returning from her ancestral land that the Xi clan's current available troops were around 480 million.

It has successively passed through Yamato Island and sent troops to various places. It has exceeded half of its total strength and is still increasing its troops.

These soldiers and horses are scattered in Yamato Island, grassland, Daoyi and Zhuya County, and now they are divided into Shendu.

There are still millions of troops on the western front, led by the generalissimo, who have captured vast areas on the southern coast of the Mediterranean, including Carthage and other places.

Huo Qubing thought: With the Xi tribes dispersed in so many places, the gap between the local strength and the concentrated strength of the Han army has become smaller and smaller.

"A little bit more..."

There were three large-scale confrontations between the enemy and us. In the first battle along the coastline, the Han army deployed hundreds of thousands of elite troops, but the Xi tribe suffered losses between two and three times.

Considering the offensive and defensive momentum, the battle losses on both sides were considered normal.

The second time, Huo Qubing planned a strategy, introduced his opponents into the grassland, and turned from defense to attack. The Han army won a great victory and killed nearly half of the Xi people who entered the grassland.

However, during this period, the Xi tribe continued to increase their troops, and the number of soldiers and horses on the grassland returned to the approximate number before the war.

As long as the Han army relaxes a little, they may raise troops to invade the Western Regions at any time.

The Xi tribe currently amassed on Yamato Island is probably equal to the total number of troops that Han can use to fight.

Huo Qubing calculated: The Xi tribe has many soldiers and consumes a lot of money. They also need logistics.

But according to Queen Mother Xi, the source of their vitality has undergone special changes after the appearance of the ancestral stone.Only a small amount of blood or other essence is needed to maintain life.

Of course, eating normally can achieve better results.

The Xi tribe marched on the sea and evolved the black energy of their troops, which could reduce their own weight, but they also needed to use boats to cross the sea.

They were severely short of ships to transport troops.If they specifically attack their ships, they can trap the Xi tribe in one place, making it impossible for their troops to cooperate in tandem.

Huo Qubing listed the Xi tribe's advantages and disadvantages, combat characteristics, and experience gained after several battles.

This is the basic skill of a military strategist, calculating details and deducing ways to defeat the enemy before the war.

Huo Qubing fought in the past and could often deliver fatal blows to his opponents.

He has an excellent view of the overall situation and sees most of the loopholes at the strategic level, so he can decide the outcome in one battle.

After he became famous, he rarely did such detailed pre-war homework because he didn't need to.

But the next stage of the battle is particularly important. It is a major battle in which millions of enemy troops are defeated.

Huo Qubing deduced it carefully in his mind, and then wrote out the calculations to analyze the enemy and ourselves.The strange thing is that when he was making calculations, the formations in the divine palace were intertwined, promoting the art of doubting soldiers, and combining the mirage and dragon illusions to create enemy and friendly soldiers, transforming them into battlefields, and conducting simultaneous deductions to find flaws in the Xi clan.

"The enemy has many armies, but good generals are scarce, and we are almost at the point where there are no generals available.

Continuous attacks on his generals are the best beheading strategy against the crowd tactics..."

"First use poison to lure the enemy, let their soldiers and horses go deep, and then start a counterattack, attack comprehensively, and destroy the entire Xi clan."

Huo Qubing's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

He looked towards the southwest where Shendu was: "Tonight's battle with Shendu... will largely affect the subsequent strategic trend."

Body poison.

General Li Xi of the Han army stood at the head of a small town on the eastern border of Magadha with a gloomy face, looking out into the darkness of the night.

In the past, Li Xi spent most of his time following Wei Qing, serving as the deputy commander guarding the border.

He is a veteran who has been on the battlefield for many years. In the entire Han army system, except for Wei Qing and Huo Qubing in the first echelon, he is second only to Li Guang, Cheng Bushi, Zhang Cigong, Gongsun Ao, Gongsun He, Su Jian, and King Hunxie , similar to King Tu, is in the second echelon.

All the confidant generals under Huo Qubing were able to prove their courage to fight and were all experts on the battlefield.

But in terms of qualifications and military power status, he is weaker than the above people and ranks in the third echelon.

Li Xi joined the army when he was young and served the late emperor Han Jingdi.

When Emperor Wu ascended the throne, he led troops with Wei Qing to conquer the Xiongnu many times, and later guarded the border towns.

After the Han Dynasty was poisoned, he would send a general to take turns commanding the troops every year to assist in the defense. Li Xi came here only a year ago.

He is past middle age, thin and has the temperament of a Confucian general, but after years of fighting, he also has a killing edge and wears general armor.

The lieutenants beside him, Xu Ziwei and Zhao Shiqi, are also famous figures in history.

Among them, Xu Ziwei is quite young and a little immature. Historically, he will be the doctor of the Han Dynasty in the future, that is, the commander-in-chief of the imperial army.

The famous Guanglusai Great Wall was built by this emperor on the orders of Emperor Wu.

"Da Sima personally sent an order, saying that this battle is not easy to fight because the enemy is so numerous. It would be safer for the general to retreat to the rear." Zhao Shiqi, who is also a veteran general on the battlefield, advised.

Li Xi shook his head: "Da Sima issued a strict order. This battle is related to the subsequent situation between the enemy and ourselves, and is the top priority.

Since Da Sima has entrusted me with the important task of this battle, how can I accurately judge the situation if I don't come to see the enemy with my own eyes? "

"When Da Sima asked me, I said I was hiding behind me and didn't know anything. Where could I put my face?"

"When we fought against the Xiongnu in the early years, our army was at a disadvantage. Every time we went into battle, we always thought of dying on the battlefield. Now that we have strong soldiers and strong horses, I have to retreat to the back. It doesn't make sense."

Li Xi stared at the darkness outside the city with bright eyes.

Ahead is the easternmost border plain of Shendu, and the enemy will come from that direction.

In recent years, the Han Dynasty has expanded rapidly. Most of the surrounding small countries have been incorporated into the Han territory, and some tribes neighboring Shendu have been merged under the rule of Shendu.

Therefore, its border area is somewhat different from that in history. It is larger. The northeast corner is connected to the Han Dynasty.

"The scouts have gone to investigate a long time ago, why is there no movement at all?"

As he spoke, there was a sharp and piercing sound, and a loud arrow shot at the top of the city.

It was a loud arrow fired by a Han army scout.

When scouts are scouting for enemies, they usually don't make any noise to convey the message.

The use of sounding arrows to convey a message indicates that the situation is urgent.

The enemy has come!

The next moment, a small group of scouts appeared outside the city, galloping towards the city on horseback. Someone in the team shouted: "Get ready to meet the enemy, the enemy is huge!"

"Get ready to meet the enemy, the enemy is huge!"

the scout shouted repeatedly.

They circled the city and rode away to the rear before entering the city.

Instead of entering the city, the first thing is to send warnings and summonses to subsequent cities along the route.Another reason is that the enemy is likely to be chasing them very closely, so the scouts dare not approach the city gate for fear that the city will open to let them in, and the enemy will take the opportunity to rush into the city.

Li Xi, Zhao Shiqi, Xu Ziwei and others at the top of the city looked solemnly and looked in the direction from which the scouts came.

boom--

The soldiers and horses of the Xi tribe rushed out in droves under their gaze.

What's amazing is that before it appeared, it gathered black energy with military force and blended with the night. Li Xi and others could hardly detect it.

It wasn't until it started charging into the formation that it showed a terrifying momentum.

The Xi tribe's forwards poured out, forming a tidal flow of people.

They ran with all their might, covering the sky and the earth.

That kind of dense crowd, with their eyes emitting terrifying light and murderous aura like beasts in the night, is indeed very intimidating.

The Xi tribe in front rushed towards them at a speed comparable to that of a galloping horse, and the ground was shaking.

Crossbow arrows shot through the air at the top of the city, and the sound of trebuchets ejected rose and fell instantly.

In the blink of an eye, the Xi tribe's tribe who were at the forefront came to the city and made a loud noise, shattering the small city's defenses.

The war between the two sides entered a fever pitch as soon as it started, and there was no change.

The small town was crushed and flattened an hour later.

The Xi tribe did not stop and continued to advance westward.

The news reached the ears of the Immortal Lord just before dawn.

"Continue to increase the number of troops in Shendu and attack Shendu with all our strength."

The Immortal Lord personally ordered: "The ships brought back by the Commander-in-Chief from the Western Front should be sent to Yamato Island as soon as possible to increase the speed of transporting troops. Huo Qubing reacts very quickly. He must establish the advantage of being poisonous before he makes the next plan. .”

The same news was also sent to Huo Qubing's desk.

It was Cao Qiao who came over to report: "Da Sima, the Xi tribe has been poisoned."

"General Li Xi personally led his troops to engage the opponent on the front line and suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, Zhao Shiqi and Xu Ziwei protected him. His troops fought bravely and have now retreated to the second line of defense."

Huo Qubing lightly knocked on the low mat in front of him and said: "Pay close attention to the movements along the East China Sea to see if the enemy will increase its troops and how much!"

Cao Qiao took the order and retreated.

Huo Qubing let his thoughts sink into his body and contacted the Queen Mother of the Soldier Body on the other side: "How are the preparations?"

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