Your Majesty the Empress, I am really not a traitor!

"kill--"

The loyal Holy See army launched a tidal charge.

Even from a distance, such a charge is terrifying.

There is still a big difference between the Holy See Army and the army of a small country like Samanjan. Among other things, these people have almost a full stack of faith bonuses. Although their protection is far inferior to that of the Paladins armed to the teeth, they wear those leather Armor, thin iron armor, they actually faced Daxia's heavy crossbow without hesitation and killed them.

However, their road to charge is not destined to be peaceful.

From both sides of the entire Daxia army, the light cavalry began to attack. They urged the horses under them to gallop on this piece of land that was easy for them to gallop, and soon circled around the enemy's flank.

Naturally, the Holy See Army was not to be outdone, and the cavalry of the Holy See Army rushed out at the same time. They held long spears and went straight to Daxia's light cavalry.

However, the moment the cavalrymen of Great Xia saw these cavalrymen holding spears, they turned their horses and ran away as if they saw a plague god.

"Where are you going!"

A small number of cavalry turned around and ran away when they saw the flamboyant Daxia cavalry. Immediately full of confidence, they urged their horses to catch up.

"Don't chase!"

The commander hurriedly took the microphone made of magic crystal (spirit stone) and shouted to try to stop the cavalry, but when he went to order the cavalry not to pursue, it was already too late.

Facing the cavalry pursuit of the Holy See army, the light cavalry of Daxia suddenly turned around, holding hard bows, and aimed at the cavalry who were chasing up.

The arrow pierced the sky, and the cavalrymen fell to the ground like kites with broken strings, and a considerable number of them fell to the ground directly following the horses.

Daxia's light cavalry can indeed charge, but charge has never been the main task of the light cavalry. It is obviously asking for trouble compared to melee combat by relying on the saber in hand and the spear in the hands of ordinary cavalry or even heavy cavalry. Light cavalry is best at In fact, it is long-range cavalry harassment and surprise attack on infantry positions.

But now, the cavalry of Daxia showed their ability to mount and shoot.

Seeing that the Samanjan soldiers who were chasing were shot down one by one, the light cavalry turned around and shot arrows again.

"Don't keep chasing!"

Realizing that the situation was wrong, the captain of the cavalry immediately made the correct judgment.

They are indeed not heavy cavalry, but they can be regarded as standard regular cavalry for charging into battle. They have a certain amount of armor protection on their bodies and horses, which brings strong protection capabilities while sacrificing part of their mobility.

And the enemy is light cavalry. If they really want to run, it is impossible for the Holy See army to catch up. If the enemy repeatedly controls the distance to ride and shoot, it will not be worth the loss.

The extremely weakened Holy See Army finally pushed the offensive to Da Xia's side.

The brutal melee combat began.

Although the total number of the Holy See Army is much smaller than that of Daxia's troops, it is not a small number after all. Facing an attack of this scale, the soldiers of Daxia first fired two or three rounds of hand crossbows at their waists, Then he uttered a deafening battle cry in the face of the enemy's charge.

Handover of the two armies.

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On General Li Shijing's side, after a short period of rest, Li Shijing counted his current strength and supplies.

It can be said that the battle to capture Shiqiao City is still going on.From the current point of view, capturing Shiqiao City is basically equivalent to mastering the main traffic route of Samanjan. If the stone bridge behind Shiqiao City is occupied, then Samanjan's current army in Henan will be trapped in logistics supplies. severe shortage situation.

And if you want to capture Shiqiao City, the focus now is how to destroy the vital strength of the enemy defenders, so you must pull them out to fight.

Fortunately, judging from the current situation, the defenders of the Holy See and Samanjan are already in a hurry.

They knew very well that they could not leave Stonebridge City, but letting them watch other cities fall one by one like this was also a huge pressure on the soldiers defending the city.

When Li Shijing took down the last city near Shiqiao City, Shiqiao City was already in extreme panic.

Supplies and soldiers are being brought in continuously, but these cannot solve the problem. If those cities cannot be taken down, the combat troops in the south will be in great danger.

After thinking over and over again, the defenders in the city decided, on the one hand, to ask the rear to increase the strength of sending troops for support, and on the other hand, to use the laborers in the city to strengthen the defense of the entire Shiqiao City to be more difficult to destroy. Now, they finally began to consider the front ability to fight.

They couldn't help it either. The day these plains were occupied, the danger of Samanjan was getting closer.

Chapter 31 is just a prelude

The battle between the two armies on Qin Ji's side soon came to an end.

One thing to admit is that the combat capability of the Holy See army is indeed much higher than that of the Samanjan army. Not to mention anything else, it is only the casualties of Daxia soldiers caused by the subsequent bombardment of spells released by the clergy. It can prove a point.

They are able to precisely control their holy arts to the point where they can kill as many Great Xia troops as possible without accidentally injuring friendly troops. This alone is something that many countries cannot learn.

Groups of mage units bombed the enemy from the rear of the army. This approach was actually very similar to the artillery in Qin Ji's original world, but unlike artillery, cannons were mechanical, controllable, and precise.And there are often more variables in spells. If you are distracted and chant wrongly or the magic power (called mana in the church) is not controlled precisely enough, it is easy to blow up your own people.

However, the church did not have such a problem. Even when the troops of the two sides were mixed together, these priests also projected a lot of firepower to the place where the soldiers of Daxia were most dense.

This time, the Red Yuan Army won.But winning is not perfect.

The Chiyuan Army left a lot of corpses on the battlefield, and it is roughly estimated that there could be thousands of them. Although the Vatican Army had much more casualties than their own, this is indeed the current single battle of the Chiyuan Army. The biggest loss ever.

"Shall we continue the pursuit?"

Having completed his task before, the satellite who returned to Qin Ji asked.

"Don't chase. Chase now, and our losses will be even greater."

Qin Ji gave such a judgment.

The army of the Great Western Kingdom has shown the consequences of rash advances to the army of Daxia before. These Holy See troops are actually not low in combat. Their failure this time is actually just the time for the Holy See Army to mobilize troops for the rear.

The war on the plain was over, and the army of the Holy See suffered heavy losses. The next thing the Great Xia army had to do was to immediately re-divide the originally assembled troops into several parts, cooperate with the Great Western Army to divide and encircle the enemy, and cut off the enemy's external contact. In this case, the enemy's occupied area is eaten one by one.

No way, Samanjan is a mountainous terrain, and the battlefield as a whole is complex. After a big fight on the plain, if you continue to chase deeply, you will chase into the mountains.

Qin Ji is very clear about the risks of complex warfare in mountainous areas for the attacker.

Therefore, if the enemy uses the complex terrain of mountains and hills as a cover to defend the Daxia army, the best way for Daxia to break the situation is to control the plain area and divide the enemy army, forcing the enemy army to lose the logistical supplies and supplies that support them to continue fighting. manpower.

Although Samanjan has the support of the Holy See, the Holy See can only help Samanjan to a certain extent and strengthen the army of Samanjan. It is impossible to use all the church's armed forces to deal with Daxia.Even if a small part of the Samanjan army can break through the siege, it will be difficult to cope with the follow-up pursuit of the Chiyuan army.

If you have the ability, Samanjan will confront us for a few months to see if you can sit still after some of your richest places fall into our hands.

After Qin Ji ordered the troops to stop chasing, the troops immediately began to clean up the battlefield, and some of them built a defense zone, and Qin Ji immediately began to transfer the other part to the direction of General Li Shijing.

After all, it is certainly a good thing to win on the main battlefield now, but if you win Stone Bridge City, then it will be an excellent move for Great Xia. will become useless.

Diane also received orders, or advice.But this time, the suggestion to her seemed a bit beyond her imagination: Qin Ji hoped that Dai Ni would lead the troops to attack Huang Tiecheng again.

After receiving this advice, Diane decided to follow the ally's arrangement after careful consideration. She reorganized the army and started the siege of Huang Tiecheng again.

The entire siege process was much easier than before. Because of the enemy's geographical advantage, the troops responsible for the attack from Daxi Kingdom suffered a lot of losses, but they also almost wiped out the Samanjan troops in Huangtiecheng.This time, the defenders' combat will and combat level are far inferior to the previous one.

With a high probability, the Holy See Army has already transferred most of the troops that can be mobilized on the front line. This kind of mobilization is not unreasonable, because when the Holy See Army has increased significantly on the main battlefield, Qin Ji did not dare to rush too aggressively into the mountains. bingo.

But in this way, other cities that were originally occupied by the church weakened their defensive capabilities. When the army of Daxi Kingdom entered Huangtiecheng, where they had suffered heavy casualties, many of them had participated in the previous siege battle. The soldiers couldn't restrain themselves, and began to wave their knives at the people in Samanjan.

Diane didn't want to deal with this behavior at first, because in this world, it is very common for the winning party to punish or even massacre the losing party. Samanjan has done such things, and so has Daxi Kingdom.

However, such behavior was soon stopped by Da Xia.

Qin Ji personally wrote to Dai Ni, asking her to deal with the soldiers who slaughtered the people, otherwise, Daxia would consider taking over Huang Tiecheng by himself.

Dani was upset.

The soldiers had been holding back a lot of grievances for a long time. If they didn't let them vent at this time, it would have a great impact on the morale of her soldiers. However, at Qin Ji's request, she had no choice but to resist.

Huang Tiecheng was fought by the soldiers with great painstaking efforts. If they disagree, giving up Huang Tiecheng will be tantamount to giving away their hard work...

In the end, she agreed to such a request.A group of soldiers who wielded the butcher's knife were executed, and a group were flogged.

It's frustrating, but I have to do it.

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Early winter.

The winter nights in Samanjan are extremely cold and the wind howls.But even so, in the land of Samanjan, the messengers are still running wildly.

They brought a letter from General Li Shijing to Qin Ji.

"Report to Taiwei, Li Shijing, General Li sent an urgent report that our army has successfully captured Shiqiao City, including the stone bridge. Before that, our army had several frontal battles with the enemy in the plain area near Shiqiao City. The enemy suffered heavy losses and had no choice but to retreat to the city, our army took advantage of the victory to pursue and seize the city!"

The messenger briefly stated the main information, and Qin Ji, who was still resting, started to do it all at once, opened the letter and read it carefully.

"Okay, good job."

Qin Ji nodded, then looked at the map behind him.

At present, most of the enemy's troops on the front line have been identified. Qin Ji roughly connected the marked positions together, and then drew a mark on one of the positions.

"Next, I'm afraid it will be a battle to the death."

Winning a few battles won't change anything.

The Holy See Army has yet to reveal its true fangs, and the advance army they sent is just a sham before the poisonous snake's attack.

Chapter 32 Worshiping the Ancestors

The First Emperor's Day.

On the "Zulong Mausoleum" in Daxia, Xia Yuxiao looked at the hills that were already full of fallen leaves.

The Zulong Mausoleum is a large mausoleum for the burial of successive emperors. Unlike many folk tombs in Daxia, the Zulong Mausoleum is extremely large in scale, but there are no above-ground palaces or spiritual seats.If it weren't for the soldiers who were specially used by the royal family to guard the mausoleum, it would basically look like an ordinary mountain from the outside.

However, Xia Yuxiao knew that the hills outside were just an illusion.

The entire hill is actually the seal of this huge group of tombs of the emperors of the past dynasties. Underneath, the emperors of the past dynasties have their own underground palaces. Most of these underground palaces were built by the emperor himself before his death. It has been accused by countless people of wasting people and money.

Of course, it is true.

Xia Yuxiao first knelt down at the gate of the mountain - the exquisitely carved archway, holding a stick of incense in her hand, respectfully inserted it on the incense burner, then sprinkled the wine on the ground, and then stepped into the gate of the mountain.

Almost all the dragon guards around her stayed outside, and the only one following Xia Yuxiao in at this moment was Song Jingqing.

The moment Song Jingqing stepped over the mountain gate, she felt an inexplicable pressure all over her body.

Both psychological and physical pressure.

Xia Yuxiao turned her head and glanced at her: "Can you keep up?"

"no problem."

Although the pressure was high, it was not too difficult for Song Jingqing.

The emperor nodded, then turned around and walked on.The two of them walked silently until they reached the real foot of the mountain.

Here, a magnificent temple stands here. This is a resplendent and magnificent hall. The temple is empty, enshrining the emperor's tablets and some ministers of the past dynasties.Every minister here is now a household name in Daxia, a big figure who exists in nursery rhymes and countless sage stories.

Xia Yuxiao once promised Qin Ji that he would enter the Taimiao.And this is the real Taimiao.As for the one in the Zongzheng Mansion, it can only be regarded as the ancestral hall of the ancestors, and the Taimiao here is often used for the grand activities of worshiping the ancestors.And the courtiers who can enter the Taimiao are all talents who have the latitude of heaven and earth.