Chapter 445 Li Dingguo's back-up plan, counterattack arrives
Ningyuan City, on the east gate tower.
"Brother, our city defense formation is about to collapse!"
You Shiwei looked at the city defense formation that was already crumbling under the continuous attacks of the Tartar army, and shouted to You Shilu anxiously.
Ever since their eldest brother died in battle more than ten years ago, the two brothers have helped each other and taken up the banner of the You Family Army.
Although they have now joined the Fuxing Army, and private armies are not allowed in the army, the two brothers are still in high positions and have power, and the You family's development has reached a new level.
After all, as generals of the Ming Dynasty, the two brothers only had 30,000 to 50,000 soldiers under their command.
Now as the commander of the main army of the Renaissance Army, You Shilu has more than 400,000 elite cavalry under his command. Even You Shiwei, who has just joined the Renaissance Army, has a newly formed 300,000-strong Qiongqi Legion under his command.
The military merits and benefits of the Renaissance Army can be exchanged for rare training resources that they had never dared to think of before. The two brothers are only one step away from breaking through to level six.
The Fuxing Army, which is rising more and more rapidly, is about to occupy half of the former Ming Dynasty. If nothing unexpected happens, it would be very normal for both brothers to be granted titles of nobility in the future.
"Humph!"
"The city defense formation has been broken, so what?"
You Shilu looked calmly at the enemy outside the city and said calmly, "We now have 700,000 soldiers from our two legions, and they are all in peak condition. We can form a formation and attack at any time!"
"As long as we hold on to Ningyuan City for another two days, the commander-in-chief will surely come to support us. At least, defending Ningyuan City will not be a problem."
"Mang Gurtai and Yuetuo want to capture Ningyuan City, I'm afraid they are overthinking it!"
"The only problem is that the three black dragons in the sky are watching us covetously. They have suppressed the spirit birds in our army and prevented them from leaving the city. The enemy has temporarily blocked the transmission of battlefield information."
The Taotie Army led by You Shilu was formed about half a year earlier than Cao Bianjiao's Pixiu Army.
In the past two years, they have experienced countless grassland wars and destroyed thousands of grassland tribes of all sizes. They have long been trained into a super powerful elite cavalry corps.
Compared with the elite soldiers of the Later Jin Tartars, they are not inferior at all, and their equipment is even a level higher.
Even when facing a Tatar army that was several times larger than his own, You Shilu was not at all inferior.
The two blue flags and the bordered red flag legions of the Later Jin Tartars wanted to defeat the two main combat legions led by the You brothers in a short period of time, which was simply a daydream.
"That Manggurtai has already broken through to the early stage of level six. Plus, there are two mid-level level six and one early-level level six dragons outside the city. They will cause us quite a bit of trouble."
You Shilu looked at the three black dragons flying in the sky above Ningyuan City, and the intimidating figure sitting on them, and said with some annoyance, "It's a pity that I haven't felt the energy of breaking through to level six yet, otherwise, our army wouldn't be under such great pressure."
It's not just him. Among the thousands of Qi Refining Realm generals in the Taotie Legion and the Qiongqi Legion, there are nearly ten people besides the two brothers who have reached the peak level of level five.
However, no one from their two major legions has been able to take this final step.
This is also the most obvious gap between the enemy and us.
Today, all the main combat corps of the Renaissance Army are equipped with at least one level five spirit bird.
But this previous advantage turned into the biggest disadvantage in this battle.
There was no way. The three level six dragons hovering over Ningyuan City had too great an air advantage.
"Awei, you will immediately take charge of the Qiongqi Legion. Our two legions will launch a joint attack and go out of the city to counterattack the Tartars before the city defense formation is breached. We will try to allow the city defense formation to recover some of the power of the earth veins so that the enemy will not breach it so quickly."
You Shilu, who had experienced many battles, would certainly not be so passive as to let the Tartars' conspiracy succeed. He had already made a plan, and he spoke to his brother with a serious expression.
Four days have passed since the Tartar's three-flag army attacked Ningyuan City.
To be honest, the fact that their city defense formation could hold out for so long had exceeded You Shilu's expectations. Even if it was broken soon after, it was normal.
Without the city defense formation, will the Fuxing Army not be able to fight?
Obviously this is impossible.
Just as the two brothers were perfecting the plan to lead the army out of the city for a counterattack and were preparing to disperse, the nearby void shrouded by the large formation in the city suddenly fluctuated, and a golden light suddenly emerged from the void.
The visitors were Da Jin and Li Dingguo who arrived in time.
"The commander-in-chief has arrived!"
“That’s great!”
You Shilu had seen the little golden dragon in the base camp outside the Great Wall, so he knew why the commander-in-chief took so long to arrive. He was overjoyed and rushed forward to greet him.
"Meet the Commander-in-Chief!"...
Under the leadership of You Shilu, hundreds of Qi Refining Realm generals from the two legions flashed in front of Li Dingguo and greeted him in unison.
"Excuse me."
Li Dingguo held up his hands and motioned for everyone to stand up. Then he sensed the situation of the Ningyuan City defense formation, looked up at the three black dragons hovering over the city, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Fortunately, I didn't come too late this time. I finally made it."
"The crisis in Jinzhou City has been resolved. The six black dragons there have been dealt with. Now it's the turn of the remaining three here."
"Everyone, return to your respective armies immediately and make the best preparations for the attack!"
Li Dingguo immediately gave the order, "After we get rid of the three black dragons, I will personally lead the Taotie Army out of the city to fight back, and make the arrogant Tartars pay the price they deserve, and resolve this crisis."
"I have already notified Wan'er who has returned from the trench to Dengzhou to lead the main force of 700,000 naval officers and soldiers to come directly across the sea to provide assistance!"
"In a month at most, we will be able to reach the sea area south of Jinzhou City! If the Tartars have not withdrawn by then, they will be in trouble!"
Li Dingguo knew better than anyone how great a threat a huge navy that was invincible on the southeast coast posed to the Tatars.
The Liaodong coastline is hundreds of thousands of miles long, allowing landing operations to be carried out at any time and anywhere, and a fatal blow to the Tatars can be launched at any time.
If Huang Taiji's main army fails to retreat in time, the Tatars will be the ones in trouble.
The offensive and defensive momentum of both sides will soon be reversed!
It was precisely because of this round of war with the Qing Dynasty that nearly half of the main forces of the Fuxing Army were tied up, which led to the Ming Dynasty court, which was beginning to move its capital southward, being able to easily complete this round of extremely difficult capital relocation work.
Li Dingguo was also very helpless about this. With the current strength of the Fuxing Army, it was not enough to fight against both the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty at the same time, and it was inevitable that they would lose one while focusing on the other.
This is probably because the remaining great fortune of the Ming Dynasty is protecting the Ming royal family.
According to the latest report from the Military Intelligence Department, the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty court and a large number of northern official and gentry families have formed a huge fleet of more than 10 million people. They have left the capital and formed an ultra-large fleet in Tongzhou, heading south along the Grand Canal.
Hongmei personally led the Suzaku Legion to take over the empty capital and surrounding areas, and ordered the Qilin Legion to follow the Ming Dynasty's fleet for thousands of miles, gradually taking over large tracts of northern Zhili area that had been abandoned by the enemy.
The Fuxing Army wanted to stop the enemy, but due to lack of manpower, they could only watch tacitly as this huge migrating team quickly moved south along the Grand Canal.
In order not to affect the war situation with Huang Taiji in Liaodong at this time, the Fuxing Army even gave up the intention of using a large naval fleet in Qi and Lu to block the official large fleet of the Ming court in the Grand Canal.
There was no way. As the Ming court moved south, many aristocratic families moved their families, and the total number of warriors alone exceeded three million!
There are thousands of Qi Refining Realm masters among them. It is impossible for one or two legions of the Renaissance Army to successfully intercept them.
The main reason for this is that nearly half of the main forces of the Fuxing Army and almost the entire navy are tied up in Liaodong.
Of the two, compared with the Ming Dynasty, it is more important to force back Huang Taiji's army and prevent it from causing harm to the areas within the Great Wall.
Of course, having paid such a huge price, Li Dingguo would not stop there. This time he came with the intention of severely punishing the Qing Dynasty.
The trump card was to transfer the 700,000 main naval forces under Commander Wan'er to Liaodong in the north.
Come and don't go indecent.
The enemy can come, and I can also go.
If such a huge naval fleet went north and did not stir up chaos in Liaodong and make Huang Taiji extremely anxious, it would be because Li Dingguo was incompetent!
Huang Taiji, who seriously underestimated the naval power of the Fuxing Army, will soon learn a painful lesson that he will never forget!
"General Wan'er is about to lead 700,000 naval forces to Liaodong?"
You Shilu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said excitedly, "That's great!"
"I have long wanted to witness the splendor of the navy officers and soldiers crisscrossing the southeast coast, and this time I can finally fulfill my wish."
Although these elite cavalry corps are invincible and can gallop across the northern prairie, they are complete outsiders when it comes to naval warfare.
No matter how arrogant these commanders of the main army corps are, they dare not look down on the revived navy.
Others may not be clear, but the core generals of the Fuxing Army are very clear about the position of the navy in Li Dingguo's heart.
It is no exaggeration to say that Li Dingguo attached more importance to the navy than to the huge army.
In the preliminary plan for future development formulated by the military, the navy is the real protagonist in future wars and the foundation for the Renaissance Army to go all over the world.
After conquering the Qi and Lu regions and destroying Zheng's army, the scale of the Fuxing Navy has reached an astonishing level!
After losing its nine level six dragons, the Qing Dynasty will no longer pose any threat to the Renaissance Navy.
No matter what, the crisis in Ningyuan City has not been resolved yet, and we have to get through this difficult time first.
With the soldiers' intensive preparations, half an hour later, the soldiers of the two legions were ready for battle.
"Whoosh!"
Li Dingguo flashed into the super-large military formation consisting of 400,000 soldiers of the Taotie Legion and took over the central command of the formation.
The seven-clawed golden dragon, his natal beast that was in tune with his mind, looked indifferently at the three black dragons hovering over Ningyuan City. A hint of anger flashed in his eyes, and he opened his mouth and let out a dragon roar, sweeping towards the three black dragons thousands of feet in the sky!
"hold head high……"
There is no surprise that the real power of the dragon is a dimensionality reduction attack on any dragon.
"No!"……
As the dragon roar swept past, the three black dragons that were originally showing off their might in the sky suddenly froze, and even the blood and energy in their bodies seemed to be frozen. They could not even move on their own, and immediately fell from the sky with a blank mind!
"How is this going?"
"Quick! The situation has changed, fly away quickly!"
Manggurtai, Yuetuo and Amin, who were sitting on the backs of three dragons, were so frightened that they screamed continuously and were completely confused.
They had no divine weapon to protect them, and under the onslaught of the dragon's roar, they felt dizzy and almost lost control of their own blood and internal energy. They didn't care about the rapidly falling spirit beast, the dragon, and leaped up one by one, flying in the air towards their own army formation outside the East City.
As long as they are not stupid, they can guess that the Fuxing Army has launched a countermeasure against the dragon, the guardian beast of the Later Jin Dynasty, and it is a very deadly one.
For four consecutive days, he rode on his natal spirit beast, the dragon, and showed off his might in the sky above Ningyuan City, making the other side think that they had completely gained the air advantage and their vigilance was greatly reduced.
Who would have thought that the enemy had such an incredible killer weapon, and the first move was a king bomb!
"Dong dong..."
Almost at the same time as the dragon's roar sounded, a dark yellow bell that was over 800 feet in size shot up into the sky from Ningyuan City. It instantly penetrated the city defense formation and came to the front of the three black dragons that were rapidly falling in the air.
"Human Emperor Cauldron, collect!"
As a huge cauldron several hundred feet in size emerged, the huge mouth of the cauldron turned and quickly took in the three black dragons one after another.
Li Dingguo's powerful spiritual thoughts activated the innate formation within his lifelong divine artifact, the cauldron, and suppressed the three dragons immediately. At the same time, the huge Xuanhuang Chaos Bell spun in the air, drew an arc, and then shot towards the Tatar army outside the East City!
Another military killing formation led by brothers You Shilu and You Shiwei had activated their killing power and transformed into a 700-foot-tie beast, which rushed out of Ningyuan City and rushed towards the densely packed Tartar army outside the East City!
The Xuanhuang Chaos Bell activated by Li Dingguo himself came later but arrived first. Before his two armies arrived at the battlefield, a series of deafening bell sounds had already swept onto the battlefield!
As the saying goes, a new trick can be eaten everywhere.
After Li Dingguo deliberately activated the passive magical power of the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell to suppress time and space, the two armies of 100,000 men at the forefront of the Tartar army were successfully imprisoned for a moment by the raging sound of the bell.
It was at this moment that the soldiers of the Later Jin Tartar paid a heavy price for their arrogance.
"Oh!"
The Xuanhuang Chaos Bell that followed was over 800 feet long and swept through the two Tartar armies in an instant!
"puff!"……
Without any surprise, the two Tatar army formations were immediately blown up one after another, countless blood mists spread out, more than 100,000 Tatar soldiers died, and the rest were spitting blood, and were blown everywhere by the huge shock wave!
(End of this chapter)
