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"Yes!" Nie Ze nodded and said: "Alright! Tomorrow, we will fight to the death with the enemy again! "
That night, without saying a word, the next day, Battle-tested Army once again forcefully attacked the remaining five camps of the Mo Army. On this day, the battle situation was basically the same as the day before. Even though there were a lot of Mo Army in the camp, they still retreated as a result of the battle, not wanting to fight to the death with the Battle-tested Army at all.
Five camps, Battle-tested Army only took half a day's worth of effort to successively attack and the defeated Mo Army retreated in a fluster. In a single breath, they left the boundaries of Panling.
The enemy troops could not withstand a single blow, the battle progressed so smoothly, the morale of the Generals And Soldiers of Battle-tested Army was high, their fighting spirits were high, all the generals proposed to Nie Ze, and continued to pursue the defeated Mo Army, taking this chance to completely destroy the main force of the Mo Army.
Nie Ze actually wanted to give up on him, but he was after all, an experienced and experienced commander. The battle between the enemy and the Panling was too abnormal, the location was extremely important, the terrain was steep, and they had constructed such a perfect defense in advance.
He called Chen Xiu, Tao Yuanfeng, Zhang Cheng, and Guan Dai, the four vice commander-in-chiefs over, then expressed the doubt in his heart. His concerns matched with Chen Xiu and the other three immediately. They also realized that the battle had gone too smoothly, so smoothly that it was abnormal.
Chen Xiu said: "General, it is clear that Mo Army does not plan to fight to the death with my army, so my fighting spirit is not strong, so it will be defeated with a single strike, and looking at Zeping County, the best defensive location is the Panling. The enemy uncharacteristically abandons this place, there is only one possibility."
Guan Dai continued: "It's precisely the strategy to lure the enemy in."
"That's right!" Chen Xiu nodded his head and said: "Looks like Mo Army is trying to lure our troops into the depths of the Zeping County. At that time, our army will go in alone, and the logistics supply will be hard to guarantee.
"However," Guan Dai frowned: "Our army is not a lone army! After our army, there are still Pingyuan Army and two legions. Will there still be a problem for our army's logistics support to be provided by these two legions? "
"This ?" Chen Xiu was momentarily at a loss for words, what Guan Dai had said was not unreasonable, although Battle-tested Army was the vanguard, and there were still Pingyuan Army and Feilong Army behind them. If Mo Army was used to lure the enemy deeper, it would be a huge mistake, and this was not to lure the enemy deeper, but to lure the wolf into the room. He pondered for a long while, and faintly said: "Unless Mo Army uses a strategy to lead the enemy deeper in, and then stealthily makes a detour back to Panling, cutting off the reinforcement of Pingyuan Army, and at the same time cutting off our troops' retreat path."
Hm! Guan Dai secretly nodded, that was very possible. After all, they were not familiar with the environment of Zeping County, and it was very easy for the main force of Mo Army to avoid their side's eyes and ears, and to circle back to Panling.
Nie Ze who had been silent all this while suddenly burst out into a loud laughter while listening to their analysis, and said: "If it's really like this, then Mo Army will cause a fire to burn the body, and you will definitely lose."
"Oh?" Chen Xiu and the rest were all startled, and asked: "General, what do you mean by that?"
Nie Ze revealed a sly smile, and said faintly: "My People of Zhen Country's army has always been undependent on supplies. Everyone should still remember, back then when the Wind Bestowal Alliance combined their forces to suppress the Feng Country, an army from my People of Zhen Country went deep into the borders of the Feng Country, and almost attacked the Yan City. At that time, there were only a hundred thousand people, and it also went deep into the heart of the Feng Country.
Chen Xiu and the rest looked at each other, muttering in their hearts, Why didn't you finish your words? That year, the Chastity Army almost reached the Yan City, but what happened? The entire army, including the main generals, were annihilated in the center of the Feng Country, not a single one escaped.
Of course, Nie Ze quoted this battle example, which also showed that the Chastity Army did not rely too much on supplies. The reason was simple, the Chastity Army was too barbaric, they could plunder too much, like a plague of locusts.
"Then, from General Nie's point of view ?" Chen Xiu and the rest asked.
"Since the Mo Army is deliberately guiding our troops to enter, then, let's make the best of it and turn the entire Zeping County upside down!" Nie Ze said with a cold smile.
Nie Ze fought with quite the spirit of fighting to the death, and at the same time, he also had a clever mind. To his opponents, he was undoubtedly an extremely terrifying enemy.
Even though Battle-tested Army knew that it was a strategy to lure the enemy deeper, it still went past the Panling like a sharp knife, and stabbed straight into the heart of the Zeping County.
Passing through the Panling, they then entered Pan Zhong County. There were three types of town within the Pan Zhong County: Stone Bridge, Xin Tian, and Dingshan.
The defeated Mo Army troops were currently retreating in the direction of Dingshan City, but the Battle-tested Army s did not dare to directly chase after them. According to the military's investigation, there were a large number of local troops of Mo Country stationed at both the stone bridge and the new field. If Battle-tested Army struck directly on Dingshan, the two sides of the bridge and the new field would send troops to attack their own side, which would be extremely disadvantageous to the situation with regards to the Battle-tested Army.
As a result, Nie Ze decided to take the stone bridge first and then the new land. In the end, he would fight a battle to the death with Mo Army at Dingshan City.
The iron smelting industry was very developed, and every year, the output of the limestone would be transported to all parts of the Mo Country, where it would be used to build city walls and palaces. In the Mo Country area, it could be considered one of the more important town.
The Mo Country had been arranged in the stone bridge with a local army of over seventy thousand people and there were also around thirty thousand people.
Since the Stone Bridge City itself was rich in Green Mountain Rocks, its defensive capabilities were not difficult to handle. Not only were the walls made of Green Peak Rocks, even the stone slabs on top of the walls were made of Green Peak Rocks.
To forcefully break through the stone bridge was not easy, but to his Battle-tested Army, it was also a hard battle. In this battle, there were no tricks or tricks, so Battle-tested Army used all the attacking equipment that he could use.
When they were attacking the city, Trebuchet s were at the back firing stone bullets and crossbow arrows, suppressing the garrison on the city walls. The Generals And Soldiers of Battle-tested Army s lined up in a phalanx, pushing forward.
On one side, there was an attack that could only advance but not retreat. On the other side, they could only fight with their lives on the line and had nowhere to retreat to. The soldiers on both sides used all their strength and fought from morning until night.
During this period, the Battle-tested Army attacked one group while the other was repelled one group. It was the same for the defending troops as well, one person pulling down the city walls with the array formation, in the blink of an eye, all the casualties were gone. Even if it was the top of a regiment, it was quickly over half of the casualties.2
The corpses of the officers from both sides piled up high in the city.
When night fell, even Chen Xiu, Tao Yuanfeng, Guan Dai and the other four vice commander-in-chiefs who could not resonate with the People of Zhen Country could not continue fighting. The casualties of the soldiers were simply too great, if they did not withdraw and rest, the entire army would be in danger.
The four of them came together to look for Nie Ze, asking him to withdraw his troops and fight again tomorrow.
Hearing that, Nie Ze's eyes became red, and shouted at the four of them: "Without my orders, no one can retreat! If anyone dares to speak the words' retreat 'again, I shall punish them according to military law! "
With just one sentence, he made Chen Xiu and the other three speechless. The latter could only bite the bullet and continue commanding the soldiers to fight.
Nie Ze knew in his heart that the battle was difficult, the losses sustained by his own side were heavy, the enemy's losses were not light, and his own side was exhausted, but the enemy's strength would be even greater, it all depended on who could clench their teeth and persevere till the end.
The fierce battle continued for an entire night. When the sky gradually brightened on the second day, the attacks from the Battle-tested Army still had no intention of stopping. The People of Zhen Country warriors who had fought for an entire day and night continued to rush forward like wild beasts.
At this moment, they looked down at the stone walls of the city. The stone walls were filled with corpses, and the corpses were piled up almost two meters high outside the city.
Even after fighting to this extent, they were still unable to break through the stone bridge. Chen Xiu and the rest came to Nie Ze again, requesting him to stop. This time, Nie Ze's tone was even worse, he practically roared as he scolded the four of them, and then released a statement. If they couldn't defeat Shi Qiao, the four of them would immediately meet him.
It was only on the night of the second day that the Battle-tested Army tore apart the city walls of the stone bridge. The Generals And Soldiers of Battle-tested Army, who had long since lost his mind and had already killed so many people, had charged into the Stone Bridge City, carrying out an even bloodier massacre of the city guards and the common people.
Now, Chen Xiu and the others could finally understand why the People of Zhen Country had so easily massacred a city. Those who survived the intense battle could be considered lucky. They had experienced how to linger outside the gates of hell, saw that too many of their comrades were lying on the ground beside them, and they needed their enemies to vent the hatred in their hearts, as well as their enemies to vent the fear in their hearts, so it was natural for the massacre in the city to take place.
The battle at the Rock Bridge City was the most disastrous battle since Battle-tested Army had invaded. Just the number of severely injured soldiers that were sent to the rear was over twenty thousand, and the number of soldiers buried under the stone bridge city reached a total of thirty thousand. As for the number of lightly injured soldiers, there were countless of them, unable to be counted.
With this battle, the number of people that died in Battle-tested Army directly increased to fifty thousand. Fortunately, in the end, Shi Qiao City was successfully won, so the casualties in Battle-tested Army could be considered to be of some value.
The stone bridge was a large town that had hundreds of thousands of citizens within it, so it was impossible for the Battle-tested Army to control the entire city in one go.
Originally, Battle-tested Army had planned to organize the troops to chase and kill. However, at this time, it was Nie Ze who ordered them not to chase and kill the citizens of Mo Country. At the same time, he also ordered a troop of over ten thousand elite soldiers to take off their armor and change into the clothes of the citizens of Mo Country.
The citizens of Stone Bridge City were fleeing towards New Tian City, the city closest to them. The ten thousand Battle-tested Army elites disguised themselves and followed the escaping crowd to New Tian City. As a result, before the Battle-tested Army attack on New Tian City, they had first planted a sharp knife in New Tian City.
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