Only among the frontier guards, were there military warriors due to the frequent wars. In the Central Plains, there would be military warriors only amid civil strives. That was when the soldiers came out to participate in the fight for the throne.
The Hedong Army, led by Li Keyong, was modeled after the Northern Army, notably the Shatuo Army. They went on rampages all year round, fought against the imperial army during the reign of Qianfu, and then participated in the settlement of Huang Chao. Under his command, there were not only military warriors but also military generals.
Based on war experience, only Zhu Wen, who experienced eight years of the Huang Chao Uprising and incessantly fought north and south, was qualified to be compared with him. Thus it could be seen that the Pinglu Army, which only went on a campaign during the Huang Chao Uprising, was of little importance.
Since the demise of Xuanzong and the Last Emperor acceded, civil s
His advisors' words were reasonable. After hearing that, Li Keyong slowly nodded and looked better. As long as Li Cunxiao could defeat Liu Dazheng and arrive in Qinzhou City, the situation would indeed be as his advisors said. Li Keyong looked around and glanced at the Grand Guardians, saying coldly, "If you can be enterprising and reach the realm of the military general like the 13 Grand Guardians, Qinzhou City won't get into trouble." Many generals, who heaved sighs of relief, felt ashamed. Being criticized by Li Keyong thus, they felt embarrassed and humiliated. Some people blushed deeply and immediately pleaded to get out of town to fight against the Pinglu Army. Li Keyong felt satisfied that he managed to boost their morale. He waved his hand and said, "If you decide to die, you'd better get ready. When the 13 Grand Guardians lead their large army here, we shall collaborate from within with forces from outside to let Li Ye know what we
If Li Cunxiao heard Li Keyong's words, he would vomit blood from anger. He hadn't lost a lot of battles for many years, and he hadn't dropped the ball at critical times. But the situation was obviously different now. When Li Cunxiao led his troops here to support, he saw that the opposing side had taken the position vantage point. They had tens of thousands of Pinglu troops form defensive barriers. Liu Dazheng had the attitude that he wasn't looking for merits, and he only didn't want to be blamed. And when Li Cunxiao saw the situation he snorted out of disdain. All of Liu Dazheng's troops were Pinglu Army's elites, and there were 50,000 of them. They outnumbered Li Cuxiao's Yizhou reinforcements by 10,000. Plus, they were in a defensive formation, which was very difficult for Li Cunxiao to breakthrough head on. But things in the world were mostly relative. Things that were considered difficult were easy for Li Cunxiao. He ordered the army t
The army attacked the city from all sides. Two hours or four later, the troops of the Hedong Army in the streets of Qinzhou City were already submerged in the armored ocean of the united forces. From the top of the watchtower, Li Ye walked forward with his hands clasped behind his back. Lotuses appeared from beneath his feet with every step, and he walked straight into Qinzhou City. His footsteps seemed to be slow but in actual fact, he was moving quickly. The Ground Immortal Realm and Sky Immortal Realm masters who had fought fiercely in the sky gradually stopped fighting. The thick clouds and lightning flashes dissipated, and the sky gradually returned to a peaceful and warm blue color. Beams of sunlight shone through again. The Immortal Realm and Sky Immortal Realm masters from Land Buddhism were retreating one after another. Willing or not, their city had been breached, and they were unable to do anything anymore. The Great Cultivators o
"Originally, I wanted to ask whether you wanted to live or die, but now, I don't think I need to ask anymore. Then, I think all of you should know what you should do next." All the people present were the famous big shots in Qinzhou, and none of them were stupid, so they certainly understood what Li Ye meant. In the final analysis, he wanted nothing more than money and food. It was a matter of course because this was what it was called the military disaster. Wherever the troops went, vegetation and livestock would die, and ordinary people would suffer great losses. When the so-called Imperial Army went out to battle, they needed to raise food most of the time. Since the troops couldn't produce food, they naturally had to ask ordinary people for it. What Li Ye meant was that they had to give money and food to the troops. Moreover, Qinzhou had to constantly offer food to support the logistics from now on when the Imperial Army sent troops to t
Hearing this, the general people would blush and become uneasy, but obviously, Li Ye wasn't this kind of person. He was brazen-faced. He said earnestly, "I was thinking about something, so I didn't notice..." Li Ye believed what he said because the first step to deceive someone was to deceive himself. But from Song Jiao's expression, Li Ye knew that she didn't believe it, no matter how much he believed it. Knowing that he couldn't muddle through with this barefaced lie, Li Ye changed his mind. He decided to use the trick which was effective every time. Immediately, he smiled and said, "What's more, your cultivation will soon reach the Spiritual Master Realm, so it's normal for me not to notice that. With your mind and experience, once you achieve the Spiritual Master Realm, you will be extraordinary!" As expected, women liked nice words, and even the mature women had no exception. Getting Li Ye's flattery, Song Jiao immediately became happy.
Li Cunxiao was a little stunned and soon understood Li Keyong's meaning. He immediately knelt and said, "I'm willing to sacrifice my life for you and Hedong and fight against Li Ye until I die!" When Qinzhou was defeated and Hedong was in despair, Li Cunxiao's promotion to the senior general of Militarism had a great effect on the morale of the armed forces and the stability of people's hearts. In order to reduce the impact of the defeat of Qinzhou as far as possible, Li Keyong would definitely publicize this matter widely and let all the people know that there was a senior general of Militarism under his command so as to stabilize the overall situation of Hedong and to prepare for the subsequent battle. Li Cunxiao's cultivation was already higher than Li Keyong's. It was a taboo that a minister was stronger than the master. So Li Cunxiao immediately declared his loyalty so that Li Keyong would not suspect him. "Good! I always
The encirclement of Yizhou was initially completed. The outermost ditches were finished, and at the same time, the troops carried out the defensive formation and fully prepared to trap the enemies and defend. About 400,000 imperial troops were attacking Hedong. Apart from the defense army of Qinzhou and Liu Dazheng's west army, about 250,000 soldiers of the east army were now gathering in Yizhou. There were about 300,000 in total in the Hedong Army. After the battle of Qinzhou, there were over 10,000 casualties. And there were also a lot of casualties in the battle of Fenzhou. Apart from the non-mobile forces of each county and the northern border defending army, Li Keyong could only mobilize more than 200,000 soldiers at will. Among 200,000 mobile troops, there were 70,000 under Li Cunxiao's command in Yizhou. Li Keyong had returned to Taiyuan and he could send reinforcements at any time. From the current situation, the odds were against th
At the Commissioner's Government Office, Li Keyong looked at the letter in his hand silently for a long time, and his expression was capricious. The civil officials, advisers and trusted subordinates who were sitting on both sides looked at Li Keyong on the main seat nervously, they were afraid to breathe. Li Cunxiao, for whom Li Keyong had great expectations, had seventy thousand troops and assumed at Yizhou City. He had a private correspondence with Li Ye even when the war was so intense! In Li Ye's letter, a large part of the content was persuading him to surrender. His words were extremely cordial and enthusiastic, full of admiration for Li Cunxiao, and the rich conditions of commitment made the onlookers envious! Not only that, Li Siben, whom Li Keyong arranged in Yizhou to help Li Cunxiao, was actually monitoring him and reporting his actions back to Li Keyong. The Imperial Army had been attacking the city for many days, but they didn'
Seeing the steep appearance of the black rhinoceros elite cavalry of the Returning Righteousness Army, Buddha Zi was already very shocked, and when he realized that a large swathe of cultivators were in black, stepping on the rolling yellow sands and rolling towards Yangguan, his eyes were about to stare out.He knew that Dunhuang's Returning Righteousness Army, could possibly support Yangguan, but those 5,000 light cavalry yesterday afternoon were already the limit of the troops he thought Zhang Huaishen could mobilize.The reason why he was so sure of this was because before initiating the Battle of Yangguan, the Sect of Release had already secretly contacted Sohun and said that they would work together inside and outside.Originally, this matter seemed redundant to Buddha Zi, who didn't think that the tiny Yang Guan, with a mere 10,000 generals, could hold back his army of 50,000 cultivators. In Buddha Zi's view, this is completely flat to give Suo Xun a rich an
The remaining sun was like blood, but it spread a layer of golden radiance to the inside and outside of the Yangguan.Off the wall below has been a bloody piece, almost can not see the rammed earth and yellow sand, not to mention the flow of blood in the body, only hanging in the female wall of broken limbs, broken everywhere in the bowels of the intestines, doubly so shocking. With this layer of gold rendering, even showed a few points of holy meaning.It was a pity that the sun set in the twinkling of an eye, and when countless fires appeared inside and outside of the Pass Wall, the bursting aura light clusters, flashing sword aura blade lights, overflowing colorful auras, and countless warriors running and fighting in either bright or dark light, with shadows and shapes like ghosts, set off the dilapidated and majestic Pass City as a ghost city.Li Ye knew the battle wouldn't last much longer.The monk regiment has been killed and wounded more than half, t
The reason why he told Suo Zhang's this, Suo Xun's purpose was clear to gain his wife's understanding and support. After all, Suo Zhang was Zhang Yichao's daughter, and her prestige among the Zhang family members was not low.This is something that Sohun has been doing all along and has basically been confirmed, if not, he wouldn't be telling his wife this right now, but would have imprisoned her instead. To emphasize it again right now as the big event is being unleashed will help to strengthen his wife's morale.Putting on his armor, Sohun came to the council chamber.The dignified subordinates and staff in the residence had already waited for many things, and his close generals in the army, including some of the Guazhou-based Returned Army Provisioners Great Cultivators of the Real Life Realm had also been notified to rush over.Launching a mutiny and mastering the Returning Righteous Army was a major event that Suo Xun had been planning and preparing for
Seeing that the Buddha son had gone berserk, the monks began to attack Yangguan regardless of the casualties, countless cultivators of the high qi practicing stage swooped down to the place where the turquoise blue star feathers were emanating from, and Zhang Huaishen went to work with arranging for the good fighters in the Returning Righteousness Army to start a battle-within-a-battle with the opposing side around the magic weapon bed and crossbow formations after he had reported a word to Li Ye."The magic weapon bed crossbow is indeed an unrivaled weapon in the sand, if the number can be doubled, the range will be able to cross-cover all the open space in front of the pass, and as far as defending the city is concerned, the Tang army can be invincible. This kind of artifact, is really unbelievable!" Chu Nanhuai was overwhelmed with emotion.This statement of his kept the crowd nodding.Li Ye, however, did not comment.No matter what kind of world, the impr
Seeing Zhang Huaishen and the great cultivators behind him, the Ming King immediately changed his face and screamed out in a dark voice, all of a sudden his fighting spirit was completely gone and he drew himself up and was about to fly away, while at the same time shouting sharply to the other Vajra Realm great cultivators, "Stop him!"Li Ye would not let him have his way, activating his Step by Step Sword Style to cut down the several Vajra Realm members in his way, and unfolding his stance to hurriedly chase after the Ming King.Some of the surrounding Vajra Realms were confronted head-on by Zhang Huai Shen and the others, and had no choice but to catch and fight with them, while the other part hurriedly chased after Li Ye from the two flanks in order to cope with the Ming King.Seeing that there were still two Vajra Realm high ranks in front of him blocking the way, and that the Ming King was fleeing so fast that he was about to arrive behind the Monk Corps For
Li Ye's aura had been consumed so much that he was left with 30% to 40% of it, and if the Sect of Release was ruthless, he would only have enough to sustain a battle.But the truth was, he couldn't spell out all of his aura, or else there wouldn't even be any room for him to get away.The situation was already very difficult at this point, and Li Ye was still about to face the situation of being at the end of his rope no matter how much he saved.Thinking about it, the next battle could only focus on relying on the power of the magic weapon bed crossbow.With this in mind, he called Peng Zushan over and asked him if he could further refine the use of the magic weapon bed crossbow to make it more useful.Peng Zushan said bitterly, "Your Highness, not to mention boosting the power of the magecraft bed crossbows, it's good that they can still be used in the next battle. In this battle just now, two of the ten mana bed crossbows broke, one was destroyed by
Quantitatively speaking, the deaths and injuries of thousands of monk soldiers did not have an essential impact on the monk corps, at least the white sea of them running towards the Yang Pass wall once again was still so turbulent and surging that they could not be seen at a glance.Between battles, Peng Zushan ran up to Li Ye, red-faced and stammering, and asked if King An could repel a few more attacks from the thief vultures if he had the chance, so that they could do a few more siege impacts, and the magical weapon bed crossbows on the barrier wall, and the various magical weapon bows that they had modified, would be able to play a greater role.Because the magic weapon bed crossbow had just been equipped, their previous estimation of the power and range of the bow was inadequate, the placement was flawed, and there were shortcomings in the crossbow's cross-coverage, leaving room for improvement in the lethality inflicted on large-scale siege armies.Now after
As soon as the sword style was activated, Li Ye's figure disappeared into thin air, and the thirty-odd Vajra Realm members simultaneously felt a chill go straight to their heads, as if they were falling into an abyss. That was the sign of extreme danger descending, and they couldn't help but all change their colors drastically.The leader of the monks just roared "disperse", just to see in front of the companions of several people neck blood spray, round head spinning flying into mid-air, no matter how hard the following words, can not say a word.Suddenly he found his vision spinning in the sky, as towering towers, crumbling walls, tidal waves of monks, blue skies, and even a white-gold sun slipped past his eyes one after another. Finally his sight returned to his companions, and he saw that they were looking at him in the same way that he had looked at the monks whose heads were suddenly flying across the room.Steeply, he noticed that a headless body that was be
The siege began suddenly, 50,000 monks and soldiers holding Zen staffs, dharma swords, shields and other blades and weapons, the rising tide of the sea like a violent sweep towards the pass; the siege began logically, because they had gathered outside the pass for a long enough time, and the generals and soldiers of the army of the Returning Righteousness at the head of the pass had long since finished preparing for the battle.Long days of winter sunshine, the four fields of sunshine, rolling smoke and dust at the feet of the monks and soldiers who could not see the edge of the sea, wave after wave tumbling up, this is the yellow sea of mud and sand, without half an exaggeration.The gateway trembled, a fine dust swirled up half an inch from the rammed earth walls, and a wisp of fine sand poured down.In the trembling is not only the Yangguan, the land outside the same, neat footsteps over the sound of war drums, as if a burst of thunder, Wood a face will be throu