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Chapter 385 Ripe Fruit [Congratulations on reaching a million words]

Under the command of the veteran Neredo, the coalition forces have maintained a very good formation.

They lined up in a long line of four, carrying spears and wooden shields, and walked up the Huahuan Mountain Road one by one.

It wasn't until the broken troops entered the relatively safe ridge road that Neredo felt relieved.

Orientals are not easy to deal with!
This is what his sovereign told him in private.

Kathgar had privately warned his marshal that the level of equipment of those Easterners was higher than that of the entire Ammu region.In fact, apart from the weapon factor, Kathgar judged that one oriental could fight against two coalition soldiers.

The advantage of the coalition forces is not as great as everyone imagined. If they are attacked by the Easterners, the coalition forces may collapse.

So on this road, Neredo arranged for all the ministries to walk very slowly and carefully, and the advantages of numbers and terrain must be firmly in hand.

Neredo's caution did not stop there. After the whole army entered the Huahuan Mountain Road, the spies did not stop exploring the slopes on both sides, especially the places with deep vegetation.

"Everything is calm as before, my lord marshal!" Neredo felt relieved by the spies' return.

It seems that those Easterners don't have any good ideas about their mountain march.Seeing that after a while, the strategy of the Easterners to surround the spot to fight for aid will completely fail.

Of course, after leaving the mountains, there are still two sections of the road that are in danger of being raided by cavalry, but Neredo has already made complete preparations.

The highlanders have always been known for their defense in the Ammu area, and there are as many as 500 archers in the coalition army!The last two sections of plain terrain can be moved slowly during the day.

Under the bushes on the east slope, which the coalition spies hadn't taken into account, a slight electromagnetic wave came, and several traps made of disposable lighters were quietly triggered.

Hundreds of fire points made of kerosene suddenly ignited in an instant.

At the beginning of June, the southeast wind was strong, and the highlanders who were marching on the ridge just noticed a series of black smoke rising, and the fiery red flames climbed up the middle of the vegetation on the east slope.

The tall trees, bushes, and grass on the entire east slope instantly turned into a sea of ​​flames.

The southeast wind licked the ridge like a monster with fire rolls.

Allied forces were in chaos.

The soldiers fled to the west slope in a panic, and some of them simply slid directly from the grass on the west slope to the bottom of the valley to the west.

"No!" Neredo looked around nervously, "There can be no Eastern ambushes around! The spies have patrolled countless times!"

Kathgar also looked in the direction of the valley worriedly, and finally reminded his marshal.

"Be careful with our luggage, quickly organize people to move the grain carts from the ridge to the valley!"

Neredo immediately asked his lieutenant general to grab food and grass, and he himself organized two hundred soldiers, crossed the valley, and searched for the western highlands of the valley. He was worried that some enemies really escaped his own search. At this moment Just on the western high ground, preparing to attack the coalition forces who were driven into the valley.

Fortunately, it was all a false alarm.

"We can't camp here anymore!" Neredo convened the generals of the coalition army to discuss, "The mountain fire has blocked the water source, unless we stay here to eat ashes until tomorrow night."

"Tomorrow night?" The generals would not agree with this opinion, "Even if we wait until tomorrow night, the stream will be full of dust and coke, making it undrinkable!"

"Or we can leave the mountains and go west five miles to the riverside, there."

"That's where we will be buried!" Neredo said in a deep voice, "I bet the Eastern cavalry and infantry were there long ago, waiting for us to send them to our door."

"Then what should we do? It's summer, and the soldiers can't live without water!"

"My opinion is," Neredo looked around the generals, "everyone gritted their teeth and marched for fifteen miles. The whole army turned to the northwest direction. There was a mountain there, and several streams flowed through it. Although it is not too high, it is also a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. We will repair there for a day or two, and after finding out the movements of the Easterners, we will decide how to advance."

"agree!"

"Agree~!"

"Okay, everyone grit their teeth, the Easterners will never guess the actual marching ability of our highlanders!"

Among the [-] coalition troops, only a few unlucky ones were burned by the flames, and some were twisted when they slid downhill. The overall combat power was still very complete.

After a short rest, the whole army quickly crossed the western valley and headed northwest, covering their mouths and noses against the dust in the sky.

In the sky, a Wu Renji hovering silently projected all this on the distant screen.

Two hours later, on Hongshi Mountain, fifteen miles northwest of Huahuan Mountain Road.

"Thank you that it's summer," King Kathgar stood in front of the tent and looked down the mountain. "It's getting dark slowly. Otherwise, if the whole army sets up camp in the dark, I doubt that those Easterners will miss this opportunity."

"Yes, my lord!"

Neredo was covered in sweat. After the camp was established, he inspected the defense and then reported to the king.

"Your Majesty, below the mountainside, I have already set up enough secret sentries. Please rest in peace tonight."

Kathgar nodded, and suddenly asked him another question.

"Do you know why the hillside caught fire so quickly?"

"Sorry, Your Majesty. Apart from believing that it must be related to those Easterners, we don't have any clues yet."

King Kathgar looked around again.

"Where is our food?"

"The top of the mountain!" Neredo pointed to the top of the mountain surrounded by large armies.

"If that's the case, I can indeed have a good night's rest."

The startled and tired coalition army fell silent after a hasty dinner, and a large number of soldiers fell asleep.The soldiers in charge of defense are always vigilantly observing the situation below the mountainside, and will never let go of any suspicious signs.

Of course, they couldn't see that in the buried pits on the top of the mountain, hundreds of catties of black powder, gasoline, kerosene, powdered sugar, and charcoal covered thousands of catties of wood chips, and there were several old Nokia Y mobile phones converted receiver.

Above these pits, the coalition forces piled up food.

In the middle of the night, Kasgar, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly felt that the mountain below him was shaking.A loud thunderous sound vibrated in my ears, and then the fearful cries of countless people rang out.

"earthquake?"

Kathgar didn't care about putting on clothes, and rushed out of his tent barefoot.

As soon as he came outside the tent, a scorching breath rushed towards him, almost suffocating him.

Huge flames illuminated the entire coalition camp.

The location on the top of the mountain turned into a sea of ​​flames, and all the food of the coalition army became the nutrient of the flames, and the bewitching flames soared ten feet high.

Another big fire!
None of the hundreds of people responsible for guarding the food could escape, and no one dared to rush into such a fire to rescue food.

Thousands of people looked at the huge torch in fear and fell into deep fear.

"Orientals know magic!"

Rumors immediately spread throughout the barracks, and the morale of the soldiers was dropping at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Neredo rushed to the king's side and supported the crumbling Casca.

"Neredo, are we finished?"

"No! Your Majesty!" Neredo shook his head calmly, "We still have a chance!"

As if seeing a life-saving straw, Kathgar firmly grasped Neredo's hand.

"what chance?"

"We need to get into chaos immediately, let those Easterners see our weakness and confusion, and then let them attack us overnight! Let's fight them again, maybe there is a chance!"

The chaotic crowd was fighting each other, and a large number of people ran around like headless chickens.

The entire coalition barracks seemed to be in hysterical madness.

But outside the barracks, on the mountainside, only the mountain wind was caressing. Neredo led two thousand elites to hide in the tents, waiting for their swords. As a result, the shadows of those Orientals did not appear until the sky was bright.

Zhang Zhe slept soundly in the camp of Yunshang County dozens of miles away.

He was not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with the coalition forces, because the coalition forces that had lost all their food and grass would be a dead end at this moment.

With the current position of the coalition forces, even if they advance at full speed, it will take more than two days to reach Taoshan City, and it will take at least ten days to reach a place with enough food if they retreat.

Zhang Zhe had already figured out the only way for the coalition forces to survive. They could only break up into pieces, disperse into small groups, and go to nearby farms and private households to eat.

In doing so, it can also avoid being completely wiped out by the Yunshang army.

But in the past few days, the cavalry of Yunshang County dispersed in groups of a hundred and forcibly drove away all the residents within a radius of fifty miles.

The [-]-man cavalry team had already dispersed around the mountainous area, waiting for the coalition forces to break through.

"Only disperse immediately! Each breaks out!"

Despite Neredo's insistence, the coalition continued to wait another day at Red Rock Mountain.But at night, all the soldiers' food was consumed, and the whole army was hungry all night.

After waking up early, there was a quarrel in the Chinese military tent, and all the soldiers looked at the Chinese military tent with some unfriendly eyes.No one wants to starve to death, even if they die, they will choose to be a hungry ghost.

This time, even King Kasgar could not suppress these foreign generals.

After the meeting, the soldiers from all the cities of various countries dispersed immediately and rushed to the plain outside the mountain with the fastest speed.

Everyone regards the former comrades-in-arms as opponents, because the food of those residents on the plain is also limited, and those who arrive first can naturally be "expropriated" first.

In order to avoid becoming the target of the Eastern Cavalry, they were all scattered, and the largest group was only more than 30 people.But they miscalculated the size of the cloud cavalry from the very beginning.

The [-]-man cavalry team pulled up a large net on the plain, and communicated with each other through walkie-talkies, and they began to clean up these stragglers either horizontally or vertically.

Amidst the sound of rolling horseshoes, skirmishers one after another were overwhelmed by the cavalry.

In just half a day, the cavalry on the clouds killed thousands of enemies and captured more than 3000 people like ducks.

The only one that didn't disperse was the army of Qicheng Kingdom. This hungry army was secretly moving towards Taoshan City along the edge of the grassland.

The 2000 people marched weakly, but they couldn't escape the search of Wu Renji.

However, all the hundreds of cavalry teams have been instructed by Zhang Zhe, and they have not taken care of this team for the time being, but give priority to defeating and capturing those skirmishers.

Both Neredo and Casca thought that instead of going backwards, it would be better to choose the closer Taoshan City as the target.

Their idea is simple and cruel - to rely on the escort of 2000 people to escort the kings, generals, and nobles with horses to a place close enough to Taoshan City, and then the horsemen will gallop directly to Taoshan City, and ordinary soldiers Throw it all to those horrible Orientals.

After cleaning up and capturing the other coalition forces, Geng Liang led a thousand cavalry to surround the faltering starving army before dark.

King Casca, Neredo and other nobles immediately left the army and fled towards Taoshan City on galloping horses.

They even took a cunning curve, using woods and streams as cover, in an attempt to avoid the pursuers behind.

Geng Liang didn't send a single soldier to chase these unscrupulous nobles and generals. He asked the soldiers to take out some rations and took over the 2000 people smoothly.

Khathgar's steed had been galloping all night, and both man and horse were extremely weak.

Fortunately, at dawn, the outline of Taoshan City finally appeared in the distance on the surface.

"Everyone, I swear in the name of the king of Qicheng Kingdom and the guardian of Taoshan Kingdom, that your bravery and loyalty will be rewarded by me!"

The embarrassed nobles and generals hurriedly adjusted their appearance, and immediately saluted the king "elegantly".

Suddenly there was a loud sound of horseshoes around them, and two hundred armored cavalry on the cloud slowly surrounded them.

This is half of the [-] cavalry in charge of "guarding" Taoshan City. Zhang Zhe used the walkie-talkie to mobilize these cavalry to "greet" after he found out through Wu Renji that these "guests" had arrived.

King Kasgar paled and threw the saber inlaid with precious jade on the ground. At this point, it is futile to continue to resist.

It seems that after no decent battle, Yunshang's army easily wiped out the coalition forces of the three countries, and captured the king and marshal of Qicheng Kingdom.

The [-] cities in Baibailuo, Fangdu, and Qicheng, which lost all their mobile forces, are like ripe fruits that have been peeled off. The bare fruits are displayed in front of the Yunshang Army, almost within easy reach.

Chen Guojin, an important stronghold of the Zheng army that used to defend the Dai army, has now been captured by the troops of Yang Zongji, who calls himself King Wei.

Yang Zongji, who had more than [-] soldiers, ceded all three areas of Yanbei, Yunyou and Haidong to the Beibei people through a secret agreement, stabilizing his rear.

The whole army of the puppet king of Wei quickly went south, first captured Qing County, and then captured Chen Guojin.

And on June [-]th, Dazheng's naval general An Deju, who was stationed at Fengyaodu, surrendered Wei Wang Yang Zongji, and the Yellow River defense line north of Chang'an suddenly collapsed.

And the last line of defense in the north of Chang'an, Han County, has been taken over by Han Danian, the king's department of Zhaoyang County.In addition to the [-] Zhaoyang Fan troops who were in charge of defending Han County, there were also [-] soldiers who fled south with them.

On June 21, the prince hosted Yang Shangyang with a very high standard.On June 22, Emperor Longde went to Lanxiu Palace with his sick body to visit Princess Shentu.

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