Chapter 1255, Winter Song (44)

Latest website: February 16, 2014, sunny and windless.

This is a rare day of good weather, perfect for spending time outside in the sun on a cold winter day.

However, the sun had just risen, and the coldness inherited from the night had not yet been completely dissipated. Black troops appeared on both sides of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou at the same time, and the edges could not be seen at a glance.

Woo~~~

As the shrill horns resounded through the sky, the Condor Army responsible for guarding the Colorful Bridge on the Jingzhou Yangtze River section immediately rushed out of the military camp at a trot, and then began to form formation amidst the commander's orders.

After hearing the horn sound that represented an enemy attack, Ning Yuan immediately walked out of the cabin of the magic battleship, then took the reins of the Silver Pegasus from the guard and mounted the horse to take off.

Ning Yuan came to Colorful Bridge on February 12th.

After bidding farewell to Li Yufeng that day, Ning Yuan led the guards to Zhuxi County in the Daba Mountains.

In Zhuxi County, Ning Yuan did not see any intention of withdrawing from the Northern Expeditionary Allied Forces stationed there, so he diverted to Nanzhang County.

After seeing that the defenders of Nanzhang County had left the county with food and supplies, Ning Yuan led people to Yicheng.

When Ning Yuan led the guards to the sky above Yicheng, the entire Yicheng was already in chaos.

I saw that the four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Yicheng were completely open, and the granaries in the city were all unattended. There were people carrying grain everywhere inside and outside the city.

At this time, no officers and soldiers could be seen inside and outside Yicheng, only ordinary people who kept pouring in and out from the granary gate.

When facing the unattended granary and the white rice inside, people's eyes can no longer tolerate anything.

Regardless of whether they are men, women, old or young, as long as they can walk, they all carry containers that can hold food in their hands.

The strong man walked out of the city with a full bag of white rice on his back, his face glowing red.

Women and the elderly who were weak carried smaller flour bags, filled them as much as possible, and then walked quickly towards home.

Those women and old people were accompanied by a large group of little kids with snotty noses.

Although the little boys were not strong enough to carry the bags on their backs, they had great ambitions. Each of their pockets was filled with white rice.

They covered their pockets with their hands and followed the adults excitedly, their faces filled with happiness.

Every time they walked for a while, they would subconsciously look down at the pockets of their clothes, for fear that the rice inside would be knocked out.

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Yicheng is the most important granary of Xiaoli Tang, where more than 70% of the entire Xiaoli Tang’s grain is stored.

After seeing the current scene in Yicheng, Ning Yuan was finally 100% sure that Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu planned to completely abandon the entire Hubei region, otherwise Yicheng would never have seen such a scene.

Originally, Ning Yuan felt slightly apologetic about killing Li Yufeng when he arrived near Jingzhou.

When he saw that Li Yufeng would rather scatter all the food and supplies stored in Yicheng to the people than leave them to him, that trace of apology immediately disappeared without a trace.

Now he was very heartbroken, and there was a bad breath in his heart that could not be dispelled. Even if Li Yufeng died ten thousand times, he could not dispel the bad breath in his heart.

Knowing that he was unable to change any situation, Ning Yuan quickly left Yicheng with his people, and then went straight to the Colorful Bridge in the Jingzhou Yangtze River section.

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After arriving in the Jingzhou area, Ning Yuan immediately called for the Seraph scouts who were patrolling nearby. Then under the guidance of the Seraph scouts, Ning Yuan quickly found the Elf Cavalry Legion that arrived here faster than them.

After confirming the identity of the Elf Cavalry Legion in the distance, Ning Yuan flew around Jingzhou several times with his men.

By carefully observing every move in Jingzhou and combining it with the intelligence constantly coming from the Seraph scouts from the south of the Yangtze River, Ning Yuan quickly analyzed the enemy's intentions.

Before, Ning Yuan just thought that the enemy wanted to retake the Colorful Bridge, and then used Jingzhou as the forward position to fight with his own army on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Now it seems that the enemy is more courageous than he imagined.

Judging from the various signs of enemies in the Jingzhou area, it seems that Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu do not even intend to take Jingzhou. They seem to want to take the troops and people in the Jingzhou area to the south of the Yangtze River.

If the enemy wants to use the Jingzhou area as a forward position, then even if they successfully recapture the Colorful Bridge, they will keep it. After all, if the enemies on the south bank of the Yangtze River want to go to Jingzhou, they can only pass through the Colorful Bridge.

If the enemy plans to retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, the Colorful Bridge will be in danger.

Because the best way to prevent the Condor Army from entering the area south of the Yangtze River is to destroy all the Rainbow Bridges, then deploy bunker defense groups along the coast and set up continuous beacon towers.

After losing the convenient access of the Colorful Bridge, the Condor Army had to use ships if it wanted to cross the river.

At that time, the Jiangnan strategy formulated by Ning Yuan will also be greatly affected.

Because in addition to the great difficulties that the Condor Army will encounter when crossing the river, the transportation of grain and grass supplies is also a big problem.

With the Colorful Bridge, it will be very convenient to transport grain and grass supplies from the north to the south of the Yangtze River.

Without the Rainbow Bridge, the difficulty of logistics and transportation has increased hundreds of times, which will greatly affect the speed of the Shenying Army's attack on the Jiangnan region.

Thinking of this, Ning Yuan decided to stay here on the Yangtze River and personally command the upcoming battle to defend the bridge.

During these few days in the Jingzhou section of the Yangtze River, Ning Yuan spent every day thinking about what means the enemy would use to launch an attack on the Divine Eagle Army guarding the Colorful Rainbow Bridge.

Currently, the Divine Eagle Army has nearly a thousand small magic warships deployed in the Yangtze River section of Jingzhou, including 50,000 aboriginal owl warriors, 50,000 elven marksmen, and 100,000 murloc warriors. The Tenglong Army’s mixed flying legions are still there. There are 350,000 people and 200 dragon warriors.

It stands to reason that a force of 550,000 troops should be more than enough to defend a bridge, not to mention that they still have the advantage of the home field. As long as the situation is not right, the 200 dragon warriors hidden under the Yangtze River can make clouds and rain at any time.

The reason why the Northern Expedition Alliance lost troops and generals several times in the past was mainly due to the clouds and rain of the dragon warriors, which artificially created an environment conducive to the Mermaid Legion's operations, and at the same time greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the enemy army.

Under the ebb and flow of one and the other, the mermaid army, which was as comfortable as a fish in water, effortlessly defeated the enemy whose combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

This kind of environmental warfare method is almost unsolvable near the Yangtze River. No matter how many troops the enemy sends, as long as there is a heavy downpour, the mermaid army can win with less.

In a war of attrition, the Condor Army still has 350,000 Tenglong troops here who can die generously at any time.

Fighting against the elite, one hundred thousand mermaid warriors can defeat enemies several times their size in a storm.

Fighting for defense, there are 50,000 elven sharpshooters and 50,000 owl warriors guarding the Colorful Bridge. If they want to take back the Colorful Bridge from their hands, the enemy will have to pay a huge price.

It stands to reason that with this triple insurance, the Rainbow Bridge should be very safe, but for some reason, Ning Yuan always feels uneasy in his heart.

However, no matter how he analyzed it, he could not find the reason for his uneasiness, because the data did not lie. From the intelligence constantly sent back from Jiangnan and Jiangbei, Ning Yuan did not find any secret weapons from the enemy.

Today, the Condor Army has not yet opened the land passage between Nanyang Basin and Jingzhou.

With the land route not yet open, the number of the Condor Army in the Yangtze River Basin has been approaching saturation, and Ningyuan can no longer send more troops here. Therefore, Ning Yuan can only choose to take it as it comes and wait for the Condor Army to break through. Xiangyang City, kill Jingzhou area.

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The success or failure of Xiangyang City is related to the success or failure of the Northern Expedition Alliance's plan to seize the bridge. Of course, the Northern Expedition Alliance will not give the Condor Army a chance to attack the friendly forces on the north bank of the Yangtze River from behind.

When all the elite legions sent by the five Jiangnan families arrived in the area from Babao Town to Mishi Town, Dongfang Ming, who was responsible for commanding the battle, immediately ordered the army to attack the Shenying Army stationed near the Colorful Bridge.

The south bank of the Yangtze River.

At the forefront of the Northern Expedition were the player suicide squads composed of 300,000 players.

There are all races among these 300,000 players. They hardly have any armor on their bodies, and they hold all kinds of weapons in their hands.

The purpose of Dongfang Ming's group in leading the battle was to fight a war of attrition with the Condor Army on the riverside, and then decide the next tactic based on the Condor Army's units participating in the battle.

Facing the unarmored legion composed of a large number of players, the Divine Eagle Army directly sent the Tenglong Army to fight without thinking.

Player versus player is the most ideal situation, after all, the player legions sent by both sides are used for consumption.

After receiving the commander's order, more than 300,000 Tenglong Army players immediately took off collectively, and then flew directly towards the rushing Northern Expedition Alliance player army.

After Dongfang Ming sent out the player suicide squad, he kept paying attention to the situation on the opposite side. When he saw that the Condor Army had indeed sent the Tenglong Army to challenge, he immediately signaled a flag bearer to wave a flag with a strange vehicle painted on it.

As this special flag was waved, thousands of specially made wooden vehicles rushed out of the Northern Expedition Alliance camp.

The top of the wooden cart was covered with thick black cloth, making it impossible to see what was on it.

Each wooden cart was pushed and pulled forward by twenty players. In a short time, thousands of wooden carts arrived on the battlefield where the enemy and our players were fighting.

At this time, the battlefield had already turned into a mess.

Since the Tenglong Army was composed entirely of angel warriors and owl warriors, while the Northern Expedition Alliance had mostly warriors on the ground, all kinds of arrows were flying randomly when the enemy and we met.

On the Tenglong Army side, the angel players are responsible for using crossbows or short bows to carry out long-range attacks, while the owl players are responsible for melee dives, using their sharp claws to attack the enemy's skull.

Facing the Tenglong Army's aerial attack, the Northern Expedition Alliance players responded in a variety of ways.

Players with bows and arrows stopped on the spot and bent their bows to nock the arrows.

Players who had no money to buy bows and arrows took out fist-sized river pebbles from their backpacks and pockets, and then threw the river pebbles high into the sky with all their strength.

Some players who did not expect to prepare river pebbles in advance directly threw the weapons in their hands at the enemy.

When both the enemy and ourselves completed their first wave of attacks, countless screams suddenly came from the ground.

Although many unlucky ones in the Tenglong Army were directly hit by bows, arrows, pebbles, swords and other weapons, their casualties pale in comparison to the accidental injuries caused by the Northern Expedition Alliance.

The air defense methods of the Northern Expedition Alliance players are indeed very effective, but they have forgotten about the gravity of the earth.

When the objects they threw fell to the ground due to gravity, the companions below were immediately in bad luck.

Many people had their heads smashed by objects that suddenly fell from the sky, and many people were even killed directly on the spot.

"mob."

After seeing the "wonderful" performance of the Northern Expedition Alliance, the player cannon fodder army, Ning Yuan's eyes were full of contempt.

However, just when Ning Yuan thought that the Tenglong Army would wipe out this enemy cannon fodder army with minimal casualties, thousands of wooden carts covered with black cloth were pushed to the battlefield area.

When Ning Yuan's attention was drawn to those wooden carts, they suddenly stopped.

As the black cloth covering it was lifted one by one, the things hidden under the black cloth immediately revealed his true face in Lushan.

When Ning Yuan saw clearly what was hidden under the black cloth, he immediately secretly yelled "Not good".

However, before he could react further, the items on the wooden cart had already been launched into the air.

As the black object drew a perfect parabola in the air and fell to the ground, all the Dragon Army players in his path also fell to the ground.

When thousands of such parabolas suddenly appeared and then disappeared, the sky that was originally shrouded in dark clouds suddenly became brighter.

"Pass my military order and order all Tenglong Army soldiers to land and fight immediately."

Seeing that the enemy only launched a round of parabolas, the number of Tenglong Army players in the sky was reduced by two-thirds. Ning Yuan was shocked and could only reluctantly order the Tenglong Army to give up their air superiority and land collectively.

It turned out that what was hidden under the black cloth was a powerful ejection device and several devil players with sharp horns.

When the demon players were launched into the air diagonally forward by the ejection device, the demon clan's own forbidden air domain directly brought the Tenglong Army players covered by the domain along the way to the ground.

I don’t know how the Northern Expedition Alliance’s ejection device was developed. Every parabola is flat and far away.

In addition, the height of the parabola is always maintained at about 25 meters before falling, so where the parabola passes, it is basically difficult for Tamron Army players to survive.

After the demon players flew over, the Dragon Army players along the way lost their ability to fly and fell straight to the ground.