The Sacred Ding - Chapter 1043
In winter, it was cold and freezing, and lakes, streams and rivers in the north were frozen one after another. However, the roaring Wantao River and nu Chuan River were vast and turbulent, and the thinner ice could not freeze at all. Until mid November, the two giant python like Wantao River and nu Chuan River, which seemed difficult to tame, were finally completely sealed by the thick ice until the next spring, Only when the river ice melts will it regain its prestige again.
The demon clan’s long prepared winter offensive against Beiling Prefecture was also fully launched at this time.
In November, although tens of millions of demons were transferred to the south line, some soldiers and horses were left on the east line and the north line, driving a large number of miscellaneous demons to infiltrate into the territory of Beiling Prefecture and kill wantonly.
Even if Chen Hai was forced to leave a large number of defense troops on the north and east lines, civilian casualties remained heavy.
After all, the area south of heimao desert and west of Zibai mountain is too vast.
Once the demons are scattered and infiltrated, the local defense forces can’t keep millions of villages watertight.
Sometimes after the whole village and village are slaughtered, the nearby county government sends troops to suppress it. It’s also quite troublesome for some clever demons to drill into the deep mountains and forests and want to capture and kill.
However, in any case, no matter how severe the situation on the north line and the east line is, it can barely be maintained, and the demon clan drives miscellaneous demons to infiltrate in the north line and the east line. The main purpose is to contain a large number of troops of the Beiling army and make it difficult to fight south.
The focus of the demon family’s winter offensive against Beiling Prefecture is on the south line.
In early November, the demons gathered more than ten million troops on the southern line, including five million demons in Wuhou mountain and Yinhun mountain, forming a double attack on Taihua mountain and Lingzhou (danxiadu).
Taihua mountain and Lingzhou line are the connecting points of the eastern and southern defense lines of Beiling state, which can also be said to be the core of the magic defense system of Beiling state. Once lost, the main force of the magic soldiers can advance north along the Western foot of Zibai and west along the North Bank of Wantao River, which will force the Beiling army to completely abandon the vast area between Wantao River and nuchuan River and shrink the defense line to the north of nuchuan river.
At that time, not only will the connection with Anxi Prefecture be cut off, but the whole Beiling Prefecture will also be compressed into a long strip from east to west and narrow from north to south, and the defense situation will be doubly bad. At the same time, the Terran habitat north of the Nu Chuan river will also be infiltrated and destroyed, and the production situation such as farmland planting will be further severe.
Taihua mountain and Lingzhou are places that must be guarded. Facing the heavy military threat of the demon clan, Chen Hai is also forced to hoard 2.5 million heavy troops in Taihua mountain and Lingzhou to guard against it. Nearly 20 heavenly kings such as Ji Jiangye and Xi Tongguang gather here to ensure that the defense lines of Taihua mountain and Lingzhou will not be torn apart by the demon clan before the river ice thaws.
However, the Anxi defense forces and the Vietnamese Army stood still behind the Tianqi defense line, and Chen Hai had only two million soldiers and horses to use. It was absolutely impossible to keep the 40000 mile defense line from Lingzhou to hailing, and to block twice as many magic soldiers to the south of the Wantao river.
In addition to Taihua mountain and Lingzhou, in the area south of the Nu Chuan River, Chen Hai can only concentrate his limited troops on the defense of Hailing, Tianshui, Wu Chang and other key cities with heaven and earth protection array.
Apart from hailing, Tianshui, Wuchang and other limited metropolitan cities sheltered by the heaven and earth protection array, there are more than 6000 county-level cities between the Nu Chuan River and the Wan Tao River, which are under the jurisdiction of 24 counties (24 town envoys). However, let alone small county-level cities, that is, large cities at the county and town level, will give up at any time.
At this time, the only thing that can make people feel slightly gratified is that in summer and autumn, the infiltrating magic school and magic generals dug dams, which caused torrential floods in the plain area between the Nu Chuan River and the Wantao River, destroyed a large number of houses and farmland, and displaced hundreds of millions of ordinary people. However, some civilians were evacuated to the north of the Nu Chuan River in advance.
However, this is only a little gratifying.
The area between the Nu Chuan River and the Wan Tao River is too vast. Apart from the area west of Hailing City, there is a territory of 40000 square miles.
In Beiling, the main force of the army is still sticking to the front line of Lingzhou, Tianshui and hailing. Even if it is repeatedly urged from the state government to counties and counties, a large number of civilians are unable to leave their homes, or have a sense of luck. The journey is slow and late, and they are still stranded in the south of the Nu Chuan river.
After parting with Fu Siyuan in Wuchang, Chen Hai rushed to Tianshui to assemble the Dragon army.
In addition to Chen Hai’s Pro camp Longxiang army, Beiling army has 500000 elite troops stationed in Tianshui, which can be said to be one of the cities with the most concentrated troops on the southern line.
Tianshui, in addition to being the county governance of Tianshui County, Xiajiang Du protection envoy’s office and Tianshui garrison envoy’s office are all located in Tianshui City, where Tianwei Zhenjun such as Qin Hushan, Wu Zhidong, Yuan Yanxue and Jiang Pei sit.
Tianshui is located between Lingzhou and hailing. It is just 20000 miles away from Lingzhou in the West and hailing in the East. It is backed by Linggui mountain, which stretches thousands of miles. Jitian canal divides the water of Wantao River from the east of the city and connects nuchuan River to the north. It may be said that it is the strategic place next to Lingzhou in the south line.
Before the outbreak of the magic robbery, Tianshui city was a super city with millions of people. After the collapse of the Tashan defense line, LV and other ethnic groups south of Wantao River fled south in a hurry. A large number of civilians crossed the river with a small number of clan children in Anxi to take refuge in Tianshui city.
Chen Hai was granted the title of king of Beiling Prefecture. The civilians in other prefectures and counties in Tianshui County stopped talking. The number of households in Tianshui City and the refugees stranded here has exceeded 2 million.
After the winter, people in all directions saw that there were large troops stationed in Tianshui City, and they crowded in one after another with their families, making the streets and alleys of this hundred mile male city crowded with refugees. The number of refugees was no less than 45 million.
Chen Hai stands on the top of the South Cliff of Linggui mountain, overlooking Tianshui city.
Although the last batch of blue whale class and silver shark class armored warships entered the water camp in the north of the city, carrying 100 or 200 million kilograms of grain and other materials into the city, too many refugees crowded in.
Chen Hai sidled with Qin Hushan and Wu Zhidong and said, “the city must implement strict rations supply at this time, so that it can last until next spring.”
“Is it possible for the demon clan to change its plan and attack Tianshui City?” Qin Hushan asked anxiously, taking back his vision from the South Bank of the surging river.
In addition to ghost ridge and Wuhou ridge, the demon clan has also established six large strongholds on the South Bank of Wantao, one of which is in Huju ridge, two thousand miles south of Tianshui city.
Since the beginning of winter, there have been millions of magic soldiers gathered in Huju mountain, and miscellaneous demons are overwhelming. Not to mention the Dragon Emperor cangyu, Chen Hai and Qin Hushan are two thousand miles away. They can clearly feel that the ghost Xi old devil is in Huju mountain from the strong evil smell of Huju mountain.
Chen Hai and his team had predicted that the magic soldiers would not attack several fortified cities of Beiling army on the North Bank of Wantao in the early stage. In the early stage, they would probably avoid a general battle with the main force of Beiling army. Instead, they would divide their troops north to a certain depth and then unite to occupy and destroy the cities on the South Bank of the Nu Chuan River on a large scale, but this is only Chen Hai’s prediction, The demon clan may not use troops as predicted by Chen Hai.
If the demon clan doesn’t have much patience and wants to solve the Beiling army more urgently, or sees that Anxi defense army, Nanzhao defense army and Vietnam Korean reinforcements are too weak to pose any threat to them, it is still possible to attack Lingzhou or Tianshui city of Taihua mountain regardless of casualties.
As long as you win any of these two important places, it will make the subsequent attack of the demon clan on Beiling simple and clear.
If it is expected that the main force of magic soldiers will attack Tianshui City, Chen Hai and Qin Hushan should evacuate all civilians from the city.
Once the main force of the magic soldiers besieged Tianshui City, Tianshui city only deployed a Wanxian evil killing array at the south foot of Linggui mountain. In fact, it is impossible to open the protective spirit shield at any time and protect Tianshui City in the protective spirit shield.
At that time, even if the magic soldiers can’t attack the city, in this level of war, most of the houses in the city will collapse due to the violent vitality shock and the movement like avalanche, and in the end, it is impossible for many civilians in the city to survive.
Of course, considering that the magic soldiers are likely to be separated and interspersed in the past, there must be no way to escape the elite magic soldiers by evacuating the civilians in the city to the north. They will only feed the magic soldiers interspersed to the North halfway.
In any case, the magic soldiers will not cross the river directly from the front of Tianshui city.
At this time, the ice layer of Wantao river was more than ten feet thick, and it was no problem that the heavy Tianji chariot rolled over it. But at this time, not to mention Chen Hai, cangyu and Qin Hushan, they made a move, and gathered more than 100 sword repairs in the spirit setting and Mingqiao setting, which could also collapse the ice layer one by one.
However, the gap between Lingzhou city and Tianshui City and between Tianshui City and hailing city is too large.
The three or four million magic soldiers and generals can be divided into dozens of shares and hundreds of shares to cross the river and gather again. At the same time, they also have the strong existence of the middle and upper borders of the heavenly demons, but Chen Hai can’t break down the Beiling army into dozens of shares and hundreds of shares to block along the river.
In particular, the old demons of Xinshan led the main forces of the reincarnation hall demons to the north from Yongjing and Fengyong mountain, which greatly increased the elite of the wing demons assembled in the north, and the scale reached more than 60000 again.
In addition to Lingzhou, hailing, Tianshui, Wuchang, xianhukou, Tianying City, Dongdu, Beiling and other major cities, there are only 8000 elite Royal birds in the Longxiang army.
In this case, Chen Hai couldn’t stop the main force of the magic soldiers from crossing the Wantao River in winter.
“There are already magic soldiers crossing the river in Yachuan, Zhujiang and meitongling…” Miao Fengshan received a message from his subordinates at this time. When he was about to tell Chen Hai, cangyu, Qin Hushan and others about the trend of magic soldiers to the east of Tianshui city.
Chen Hai nodded and said he knew it, but he had no intention of making any deployment adjustment for the changes of magic soldiers in Yachuan, Zhujiang and meitongling, nor did he lead the main force of the Dragon army eastward to delay the action of magic soldiers in meitongling and Zhujiang.
Ghost Xi old devil is in the tiger ridge in the south of Tianshui City, while Xin mountain stays in the ghost ridge and stares at the soldiers and horses left in the front line of Taihua mountain and Lingzhou in Beiling. Chen Hai has no three heads and six arms. If he wants to stare, he can only stare at the magic soldier in the tiger ridge under the command of ghost Xi old devil.
The magic soldiers in the tiger ridge did not hold back for long, and they marched eastward in the early morning of the next day.
Ghost Xi old devil obviously wanted to build a temporary stronghold on the north bank for the magic soldiers who had crossed the river in Meitong ridge four thousand miles away. Then he rushed over and threw these magic soldiers and Demons into the North Bank of Wantao according to the temporary stronghold of Meitong ridge, and launched a vigorous and complete winter offensive.
It’s also good news that the magic soldiers choose the river section to the east of Tianshui.
At least the city between Tianshui and hailing doesn’t need to consider being slaughtered by the demon clan for the time being.