Chapter 255 Battle in the East, 2

"Quick, faster! If you can reach the Xiandai River tonight, each person will be rewarded with 50 taels of gold!" Nangong Zhi gritted his teeth and gave such a generous reward, just to stimulate the soldiers to march quickly.

However, the state of the soldiers does not seem to have changed much!

Is 50 taels of gold much? Of course not a lot, 50 taels of gold is 500 taels of silver, which is 500,000 copper plates!

But with Anyang as a good example, fifty taels of gold is not enough.

There have been rumors circulating in the military:

A: Gold is useful. Look at the soldiers in Anyang. Everyone has a set of magic-level armor. It is said that the masters in Anyang’s foundation period all use magic weapons. How much does it cost? Thousands of armors. Twelve taels of gold'.

B: Hurry up and die. Anyang has magic weapons, flying swords, machine guns, cannons, and airplanes. What do we have?

C: Shh... keep your voices down. I just did the math, one person is fifty taels of gold, and one hundred thousand of us will be rewarded with five million taels of gold! This is possible! I heard that Nanyang County collected taxes for the whole year last year and scraped the land, but it was only more than two million taels of gold.

Ding: If we are all dead, there will be no need to pay the money.

Everyone turned their heads together: Damn, that's the truth!

Ahead, Nangong Zhi had black hair, but he was helpless. This is war. Once confidence is lost, the mental state of the army will "fly down three thousand feet, rushing to the sea and never returning." Listening to the rumors going too far, Nan Gongzhi had no choice but to give everyone a hope: Let's rob Anyang's treasury. It is said that there are tens of millions of taels of gold in stock!

Finally, the soldiers were fascinated by the wealth, and the gossip was temporarily suppressed.

On the other side, in Dongyuan County Government Office, Quwo, and the city lord's mansion, Yuan Yong's face was full of sadness. The eldest son, Yuan Cai, was beside the eldest prince, serving as a general in Guangling County; the second son, Yuan Zhao, was driven back to the imperial capital by Li Xian, and was accompanying the second prince, the emperor in name only, counting ants in the palace. Neither is guaranteed.

Now, the situation of the Yuan family's base camp, Dongyuan County, is extremely critical. Yuan Yong never thought that the situation would be so dire. Three days ago, Shifang besieged Anyang; three days later, Anyang's five-way army attacked Dongfang and occupied the Xiandai River, completely cutting off Dongyuan County and Luliang County.

There were not many soldiers in Dongyuan County, there were only 200,000 elite soldiers—not counting civilian husbands.

Now, 100,000 elite soldiers are under siege in the north. It is said that tens of thousands of people are killed and injured every day.

In the midst of extreme anxiety, someone suddenly reported that it was an envoy from Nanyang County who had delivered a letter.

"Please!" Yuan Yong's eyes lit up immediately, sending a letter at this time must be good news! Sure enough, when he opened the letter, Yuan Yong laughed, "One hundred thousand elite soldiers from Nanyang County are here to help!"

But looking at it, Yuan Yong's mood began to sink. The letter sent by Nanyang County is very detailed: including Songzhou County is unreliable, retreating without a fight, Anyang is very powerful, Nanyang County has lost 250,000 troops (Slightly exaggerated point). In the end, the words changed, indicating that at most we can only keep Dongyuan County, and Luliang County is basically useless-Anyang is too powerful.

After being silent for a while, Yuan Yong finally smiled, "No matter what, I finally got my chance. Yuan Jinjiang obeyed the order and led an army of 100,000 to go northward to attack the 30,000 elite soldiers led by Yan Zhengqing. If he doesn't want to break through the blockade, at least let Yan Zheng Qing and Anyang have no power to intercept the 100,000 troops of Nanyang County, so that the 100,000 troops of Nanyang County can reach the direction of Xiandaihe smoothly.

At that time, 200,000 troops will cross the river together and start a decisive battle with Anyang. "

"Yes!" Yuan Jinjiang replied, turned and left. (The name Yuan Jinjiang first appeared in Chapter 62. It was the name that the dead Kong Donghua said when he lied.)

Perhaps Yuan Jinjiang's military talent can only be regarded as a general, like Chang Lin and Wang Jian; compared to handsome talents like Beichen Yuqing, Yan Zhengqing, and Nan Gongzhi, it is naturally incomparable. But the home will win because it is reliable and can fully implement Yuan Yong's strategy. And for a general, that's enough.

The 100,000 elites that the Yuan family had prepared long ago, which was also the last family property, advanced rapidly under the leadership of Yuan Jinjiang. In order to hurry up, they didn't even recruit civilian husbands, nor did they have time to recruit them. Each soldier carried three days of dry food by himself, and just set out on the road. More food and grass, just transport it slowly.

But having said that, for a cultivator, even in the Qi refining period, it is not a big deal not to eat for three days; it is just that if continuous high-intensity battles, a little food must be added.

It only took Yuan Jinjiang half a day to lead the leading elite troops to fly three hundred miles to the Xiandai River, and chose the section where Yan Zhengqing was deployed.

There are two reasons for choosing the section of Yan Zhengqing's defense:

First, the blockade of the Ironclad is a bit stronger. The five ironclad warships deployed defenses for 50 kilometers, and the entire river section and the five to six kilometers along the coast were covered by artillery. For close range attacks, the ship-borne machine guns and cannons on the ironclad ship left a very deep imprint on Dongyuan County.

Second, Yan Zhengqing has 30,000 people here, but he has fortified the 300-mile-long riverside, and there are only about 7 people on an average of one foot of the riverside. The defense is so loose, as long as you hit the troops, it is easy to break through. Compared with the ironclad ship, the defense here is more sparse-at least it seems so.

And if you use some correct strategies, such as attacking the east and attacking the west, turning the tiger away from the mountain, etc., it will be easier to cross the river.

After comprehensive consideration, Yuan Jinjiang divided the team into two parts, a part of 30,000 people, who feinted to attract the opponent's attention, and a part of 70,000 people who were the main force. After the feint attack team has attracted enough Anyang defenders, the 70,000 men will look for opportunities to cross the Xiandai River and attack from behind the Anyang army.

Although it would be good for Yuan Yong to let Yuan Jinjiang hold back Yan Zhengqing's main force; but substituting offense for defense has always been a military strategy.

It's just a good plan, but the reality is cruel! As soon as he arrived at the bank of the Xiandai River, Yuan Jinjiang felt the aura of "the big formation that seals the sky and locks the earth". The biggest feature of the Great Formation of Sealing Heaven and Locking Earth is that it makes the aura within the range of the formation wither!

In other words, even if you are a master in the Nascent Soul stage, if you enter the range of the Great Formation that seals the sky and locks the land, you must walk obediently for me, and the flying sword can only be used to chop firewood in your hand. All combat methods, spells, skills, etc. related to aura will lose their effect!

Within this range, practitioners can only fight like ordinary warriors. Magical instruments and magic weapons can be activated by the true energy in the body and consume violently, but once the true energy is exhausted, the cultivator can only play hand-to-hand combat.

The Great Formation of Sealing Heaven and Earth is especially suitable for the defense along the river, and it is a defense of a tortoise nature, that is, the formation of Sealing Heaven and Earth needs spirit stones as the eyes of the formation. This formation is very powerful, but it also consumes a lot. One spirit stone can only cover one mile and persist for a day; to block the entire line for more than 300 miles, more than 300 spirit stones will be consumed in one day!

That's a horrific digital outlay.

"Enough!" Yuan Jinjiang gasped for a few times, trying to calm the shock in his heart,

Across the Xiandai River, Yuan Jinjiang and the Anyang soldiers on the opposite bank looked at each other from a distance; they even seemed to hear the ridicule from the other bank - as a master of the Golden Core Stage, Yuan Jinjiang was also a man with sharp eyes and ears.

He tried to send a few low-level spells to the opposite bank, but these spells disappeared as soon as they flew to the shore. Anything that is linked to aura, whether it is a magic weapon or a spell, within the Great Formation of Sealing Heaven and Earth, its power can only dissipate little by little.

Of course, the current Heaven-Sealing and Land-Sealing Formation is not very powerful because it covers too wide a range. At most, it can only limit the cultivation in the early stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage. Those who exceed the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage can completely rush through with the true energy in their bodies.

It's just that in an army, how many foundation-building masters can there be! Besides, there is no shortage of masters in Anyang, and everyone has a gun. A few masters in the foundation building stage charged, but they were just beating dogs with meat buns and simply sending them to death.

Yuan Jinjiang finally sighed after looking at several places in Jiang'an: "Stand on the spot!"

But the order Yuan Jinjiang received was not to cross the river to fight, but to watch over the Anyang army here to prevent the Anyang army from continuing to go south. By the way, wait for reinforcements from Nanyang County.

At that time, the two sides will merge, and 200,000 elites will cross the river together and attack on multiple fronts, and they will surely be able to break through the blockade in one fell swoop.

Passive waiting is not a good choice, it will delay the opportunity of fighting, and cause heavy casualties to Yuan Zhong's 100,000 elite men in the north; but at this moment, we can only wait.

But Yuan Jinjiang is a general after all, not an idiot, he will not wait indifferently; but he is constantly sending people to check, test, and even organize long-range attacks, even if he can't detect the truth, he must try his best to consume the formation.

In this way, Yuan Jinjiang and Yan Zhengqing fought across the river. Yuan Jinjiang has strong crossbows, sharpshooters, a few golden core stage masters, and a small number of masters in the middle and late stages of foundation building to attack frantically. And Yan Zhengqing has artillery and sniper rifles, and he will fight back violently.

Yuan Jinjiang was waiting for reinforcements from Nanyang County; Yan Zhengqing was also waiting for Anyang's military deployment. For Yan Zhengqing, the longer the river is blocked, the better.