Chapter 365: Huang Taiji's wishful thinking, unfortunately it hits the mark
"Da Wei, Xiao Wei, Da Wu, Xiao Wu!"
In the backyard of the Huigou Village Lord's Mansion, Li Dingguo took out four marrow cleansing pills and threw them at the four Saker Falcons one by one.
Looking at these four eagles of the most noble bloodline, they couldn't wait to swallow the marrow cleansing pill in one gulp and neighed at him with joy.
Three months ago, when Li Dingguo returned to the island in the middle of the lake, his base camp, he collected rare elixirs used to refine a batch of marrow cleansing pills and refined another batch of marrow cleansing pills.
He was originally thinking about how to distribute the nine marrow cleansing pills in a furnace. Now that he had obtained these four top-level spirit birds, it was just right to give them each one first.
Once the bloodlines of these four Saker Falcons can undergo another transformation, the two Saker Falcons in the late stage of level five should be able to successfully break through to the peak level five realm.
Those two little Saker Falcons should also be able to successfully break through to the early stage of level five.
This is very important for the Renaissance Army, which urgently needs a level 5 spirit bird.
Li Dingguo has not had time to study the imperial seal of the Chinese nation that was taken back from Huang Taiji.
If nothing unexpected happens, this acquired artifact of top grade is definitely not as simple as it seems.
The reason why the Great Qin Dynasty was called the Immortal Qin was because it was not a mortal dynasty, but a dynasty of divine destiny.
At that time, the Great Qin Empire had countless powerful people in the realm of spiritual cultivation, and there were peerless masters everywhere who could fly and hide in the ground. It was the most powerful dynasty in the world at that time, without a doubt.
At that time, the Chinese people truly stood at the top of the world.
After the mysterious collapse of the Qin Dynasty, the Chinese nation gradually declined.
Even the powerful Han Dynasty that came later was far inferior to the glory of the Qin Dynasty.
Ever since the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the spiritual energy of this world has been in a continuous decline, until now, when the Dharma Ending Age has arrived.
It is impossible to say that there is no huge secret in this.
As the most powerful national treasure of the Qin Dynasty, the imperial seal is naturally not as simple as it seems.
Li Dingguo planned to take time to study the imperial seal carefully after the end of this round of war with the Tatars led by Huang Taiji.
The four Saker Falcons, two large and two small, each took a marrow cleansing pill, then flew to several large trees nearby and lay down to refine it.
"Whoosh!"
At this time, Da Jin suddenly flew from high in the sky and used divine thoughts to convey a message to Li Dingguo.
"Humph!"
"Huang Taiji, your weakness is obvious. You chose the path of trying to turn the tables and headed straight for Huigou Fort."
Li Dingguo's face turned cold, he snorted coldly, and thought to himself, "Since you are here, you must be prepared for a big defeat!"
"We, the Restoration Army, have already set up a pocket formation. If you come in headfirst, you are simply overestimating your own capabilities!"
After the large fleet of the Later Jin Tartars was destroyed in one battle, Li Dingguo had already secured victory.
The 800,000-strong army led by Huang Taiji himself sounds intimidating, but with the current strength of the Fuxing Army, they are not afraid of the other side at all.
The enemy had already arrived a hundred miles away, so Li Dingguo immediately leaped out of the back garden and arrived at the meeting hall in a moment.
"Great Commander!"...
When Cao Yongxiang, the leader of the Qinglong Corps, and Li Mei, the leader of the Royal Guard Corps, saw Li Dingguo flying over, they were immediately cheered up and hurriedly greeted him.
The soldiers of the Fuxing Army stationed in the border town of Huigou Fort are from the Qinglong Corps and the Royal Guard Corps.
The remaining four legions have been ambushed around Huigou Village as planned.
Li Dingguo, Cao Yongxiang and Li Mei would not be surprised by Huang Taiji's choice.
Because Huang Taiji had a big weakness, which was: he could not let the prestige that he had built with great difficulty be destroyed.
After losing for a while, he will definitely think about making a comeback.
Otherwise, it would deal a heavy blow to the morale of the Later Jin soldiers.
With his side having great hopes of victory, Huang Taiji had few options left.
Either they immediately leave the territory of the Fuxing Army and cause trouble for the Ming Dynasty to make up for the losses as soon as possible.
Either they fight to the death with the Fuxing Army and decide the winner.
"Cao Yongxiang, Li Mei."
Li Dingguo said directly to the two men, "The Great Jin just sent back a message saying that Huang Taiji has led an army of 800,000 cavalrymen and arrived a hundred miles west of Huigou Fort."
"With the speed of all of them being elite cavalry, they will be able to reach the foot of Huigou Village in about a quarter of an hour at most."
"You must immediately command your soldiers and prepare for battle."
"The firearms battalions of your two legions will be the main attacking team this time. You must be ready to fire as quickly as possible."
"I have set up a large-scale third-grade formation in this important town of Huigou Village. The Tartar army wants to rush in, but they can't break our protective formation without an hour of uninterrupted attack!"
"Can the 800,000 soldiers led by Huang Taiji withstand a concentrated fire attack from the firearms battalion for an hour?"
"Ha ha……"
Li Dingguo sneered, "It is impossible to do it without paying more than half of the casualties."
"When they have been tortured enough by the Firearms Battalion, we can start our siege plan."
For this battle, Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army had already made various preparations several months ago, spending a lot of manpower and material resources.
Now that the enemy has come to our door without knowing the consequences, how can we not teach them a profound lesson?
If possible, it would be ideal to annihilate the 800,000-strong Tartar army in one fell swoop.
"Yes! Commander-in-Chief!"...
When Cao Yongxiang and Li Mei heard that the Tartars had really come to their doorstep, their eyes suddenly lit up and they stood up to accept the order.
Now, the soldiers of the Qinglong Legion and the Royal Guards Legion stationed in Huigou Fort have already prepared for battle.
Cao Yongxiang and Li Mei immediately took the order and left to reunite with their soldiers and make final preparations.
……
"Stop the whole army!"
Thirty miles due west of Huigou Fort, following an order from Huang Taiji, the 800,000 Tatar cavalry soldiers stopped advancing.
"Khan, ahead is our target, Huigou Fort."
Fan Wencheng reported to Huang Taiji, "However, this once dilapidated frontier fortress has now completely changed."
"It looks like not only has the town expanded several times in size, but the walls have also become more than twice as tall and thick."
"This Li Dingguo has done a great job. He has completely renovated and expanded a small border town, which has consumed a lot of manpower and material resources."
Looking at the huge city vaguely visible ahead, even the knowledgeable Fan Wencheng was amazed.
Such a solid and tall city is almost as big as Shengjing City in Liaodong.
Both the height of the city wall and the area it covers are amazing.
"We have obtained a lot of intelligence that all the towns and cities occupied by the Restoration Army are now undergoing comprehensive construction and transformation."
Although Huang Taiji was Li Dingguo's enemy, he could not help but admire his generosity. "I heard that Li Dingguo had very strict requirements on the sanitary environment of the military and civilian living areas in his jurisdiction, which was different from any other era."
"If Li Dingguo were not our mortal enemy, how good would it be if he could work for us?"
"In terms of people's livelihood, he does better than anyone else."
"Not only are we incomparable, even the Ming Dynasty is far behind."
Huang Taiji was not just an ordinary Khan, he was a hero in every aspect.
The person he admired most was Cao Cao, the Emperor Wu of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He regarded him as his idol since he was a child.
Huang Taiji imitated Cao Cao's courage and ability in identifying and employing people in every aspect.
Today's Huang Taiji, except that he is not a Han Chinese, actually has a style of doing things that is somewhat similar to Cao Cao, enough to be called "Little Mengde".
Unfortunately, Li Dingguo's actions were irreconcilable with the Later Jin clan, and it was impossible for him to be used for his own purposes.
Between the two, one side must be destroyed, there is no second choice.
"Great Khan, the enemy city's defense formation has been activated. I'm sure our arrival has already been noticed by the defenders."
Aobai interrupted and said, "The protective light shield activated by their city defense formation covers ten miles outside the city. We can't get close to the city wall unless we break through the opponent's city defense formation." "This Li Dingguo is worthy of being a true demon genius. Just like the legend, he really obtained the ancient formation inheritance and transformed the city defense formation into such a powerful one!"
"All the city defense formations we have seen before, including the capital of the Ming Dynasty, only covered an area of three miles outside the city wall. They are far less magical than the city defense formation in front of us."
Before this expedition, Oboi had never taken Li Dingguo seriously. It was not until his own Khan was defeated by Li Dingguo and the large fleet including the logistics battalion and the firearms battalion was annihilated that he completely changed his opinion of Li Dingguo.
He had been feeling regretful ever since he suffered a heavy loss over Lingshan Island in Jiaozhou Bay two years ago.
This time he came with the idea of killing the opponent with his own hands, but he didn't expect that Li Dingguo was already a level six strong man, and he was immediately deflated.
No matter how invincible he is among his peers, he can never be a match for a level six warrior in a one-on-one fight.
"Hey!"
Aobai sighed with great regret and said, "If I had known earlier that Li Dingguo was so powerful, I would have ridden my natal spirit beast, the Great Flood Dragon, to the west on this expedition. There wouldn't have been so many troubles."
He was a straightforward man who said whatever he thought without considering Huang Taiji's feelings for the moment.
In fact, it was not just Oboi who was regretting, Huang Taiji was the same.
A slight difference in thought can lead to completely different results.
Huang Taiji originally wanted to wait until the Great Jin was established a year later, and then officially confer the title of the Black Dragon King clan as the national guardian beasts, so that their fate would be completely bound to that of the Great Jin, and there would be no need to worry about their karma, and then allow the Black Dragon King clan to follow the army in the future.
Who would have thought that Li Dingguo would be so incredibly powerful?
It would be nice for a fourteen-year-old genius boy to break through to the sixth level of cultivation, but his natal magic weapon is too powerful.
Over the years, Huang Taiji acquired a large number of ancient books through the big Shanxi merchants.
Some of the rare copies contain records of legends from ancient mythological periods.
Now he can conclude that the dark yellow artifact bell of Li Dingguo is the dark yellow Chaos Bell, one of the ten innate artifacts in the universe.
His own innate artifact, the Xuanyuan Water Controlling Flag, is very powerful, but it is a big level lower than the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell.
The two are not innate treasures on the same level.
There is also the huge dark yellow cauldron, which looks no worse than the dark yellow Chaos Bell. It must be the Human Emperor Cauldron held by the Human Emperor among the three supreme emperors of Heaven, Earth and Man.
Even Huang Taiji was envious of Li Dingguo's great luck.
This is also the reason why he did not tell everyone that Li Dingguo had two innate divine artifacts.
Huang Taiji was determined to obtain Li Dingguo's two natal artifacts, and he was determined to get them even by any means necessary.
Aobai was not wrong just now.
The black dragon that signed a life blood contract with Aobai is currently in the late sixth level of cultivation. Except for the Black Dragon King who is at the peak of the sixth level of cultivation, it is the second largest dragon in strength among the nine dragons of the black dragon clan.
If he had brought his natal spirit beast, the giant dragon, here, defeating Li Dingguo would have been a piece of cake.
Of course, this is when you're fighting alone.
If Li Dingguo leads an army of 10,000 people to attack, even a late level 6 dragon would have to temporarily avoid him.
However, any big dragon can not only swim in the water, but also fly in the sky, which is enough to defeat Li Dingguo.
"Okay, Aobai, stop talking!"
Huang Taiji's expression remained unchanged when Aobai mentioned his pain point, but he felt the same pain in his heart. He was extremely regretful and interrupted him, and ordered, "Let the soldiers immediately form eight military killing formations with 100,000 people in a group!"
"A quarter of an hour later, our army will launch a strong attack on this enemy city!"
"Although the Renaissance Army's psychic cannons and psychic crossbow carts are numerous and powerful, they will not be able to break through the blood and blood smoke shield of our army formation in a short time."
"I want to see how many soul beads, magic cores, and demon beast inner cores Li Dingguo has to consume!"
"As long as we use up all their strategic reserve materials, this enemy city will fall without a fight!"
As expected of Huang Taiji, he came up with a plan to break the city after just a little thought.
He had an extremely sharp eye and was absolutely right.
This is also the best way to break the city at present.
The Fuxing Army led by Li Dingguo was very different from all the opponents the Later Jin clan had encountered before, including the Ming official army.
It is simply impossible to use military morale or spies to break into the city.
In the area under Li Dingguo's jurisdiction, spies and insiders from all parties had basically been wiped out by Li Dingguo's orders.
Including those local gentry families who were afraid of death and wealthy businessmen, they were all cleared out by the Restoration Army.
From ancient times to the present, Li Dingguo has done the most thorough job in this regard, even more than the legendary Huang Chao.
This is truly a case of leaving no one alive and killing them all.
"I will obey your order!"...
Seeing that their Khan did not disappoint them and had an easy plan to defeat the enemy, all the Tartar generals present obeyed the order in awe.
As everyone dodged and left, Huang Taiji swayed a few times and came to the front of the 40,000 dead soldiers of the Sauron tribe. He personally served as the main formation to deal with Li Dingguo who was in charge of the military killing formation and launched a counterattack at any time.
The siege method chosen by Huang Taiji was a bit like cheating, and he was completely trying to consume a large number of the enemy's soul beads and magic cores.
The Later Jin Tatars were composed of warriors and soldiers in formation. During the battle with the enemy's spiritual cannons and spiritual crossbow carts, once their energy and blood were almost exhausted, they could withdraw at any time to rest.
But the situation is different for the Fusion Army as the defending party.
Facing the enemy's super-large military killing array attack, no matter the city defense array, psychic cannon, or spiritual crossbow cart, they all need to consume a large amount of soul beads and magic cores to support them.
This went on for more than a dozen times. No matter how many soul beads and magic cores Li Dingguo had in reserve, they were not enough to withstand such drastic consumption.
It won't take just a few days for Huang Taiji to consume all the soul beads and magic cores stored by the Renaissance Army in the city. The enemy city will surely fall without a fight, allowing the Later Jin soldiers to form a formation and march straight in, successfully breaking through the city.
If Huang Taiji had used this unsolvable tactic a few times, Li Dingguo would not sit idly by and watch a situation that was extremely unfavorable to his side develop. It was inevitable that he would lead the army to form a military killing formation and launch a counterattack.
This is the development potential of the military killing formation, and one of the main reasons why it is stronger than the psychic cannon and the psychic crossbow cart.
In this big world, the major human forces have avoided being wiped out by those demons and monsters, and thus have gained enough space to survive, thanks to the city defense formations and military killing formations.
Otherwise, those powerful demons and monsters are not merciful and would have wiped out all human beings long ago.
……
"Ok?"
"Huang Taiji chose to use a large-scale military killing formation and force the entire army to attack the city?"
"The purpose of his doing this is..."
Looking at the 800,000 Tatar army far outside the city, who were forming a battle formation and preparing for an attack, Li Dingguo suddenly thought of something and his face changed.
With his vision and war experience, he who often uses Military Killing Formations to kill enemies, it is impossible for him not to think of the power of Military Killing Formations.
Li Dingguo would naturally think of what Huang Taiji could think of.
"Pass the order down, soldiers of the two legions' firearms battalions, prepare to fire ten volleys!"
"As soon as the Tartar army enters within 15 miles, immediately launch a concentrated fire attack!"
"When the enemy enters ten miles and approaches our city defense formation, all the spirit crossbow carts will launch ten rounds of concentrated fire attacks on the Tartar army formation!"
Li Dingguo had already prepared a corresponding countermeasure. He issued orders to the dozen messengers around him, "When the firearms battalion carries out the eighth round of concentrated fire attack, you will immediately raise the signal smoke to notify all the legion soldiers who have moved to the vicinity of the Tartars within a hundred miles to form a military killing formation and launch a siege on the Tartar army!"
"You want to use up all of our army's stored soul beads and magic cores, and then take advantage of us?"
"Haha... Huang Taiji, you think too much!"
"I want to see how your soldiers, after fighting our firearms battalion for ten rounds, can fight against our full might with the little blood and physical strength they have left!"
Li Dingguo had already prepared detailed response plans for Huang Taiji's various choices of fighting methods.
Now Huang Taiji chose the most unwise and brutal way of fighting, which was exactly what Li Dingguo wanted.
"Yes! Commander-in-Chief!"...
A dozen special messengers at the early stage of level four immediately took the order and left to convey Li Dingguo's latest combat order to the soldiers.
The commander-in-chief's current tactical adjustments are slightly different from the previous battle orders, and everyone must be notified immediately.
A war that was destined to go down in history had thus begun.
(End of this chapter)
