Chapter 1019 Tit for Tat
"This is how I planned..."
In the conference hall, Ruan Tianque began to explain his battle plan.
There is only one week left for Annan. If he wants to break Daxia's three-way attack, he must face each other, take the initiative to attack, and have a head-to-head battle with Daxia.
In addition to mobilizing 900,000 professional combat players, they also need to rely heavily on the strength of the imperial guards.
Ruan Tianque analyzed: "With the combat power of the Great Xia Army, if we want to win the battle, we must deploy at least three times as many troops." The leaders of the guild deeply agreed.
After negotiation, the deployment of the three armies is as follows.
In the south, 200,000 Imperial Guards and 200,000 combat players will face off against the Second Army of the Great Xia Imperial Guard and the Second Army of the City Guard.
To the east, the 200,000 imperial guards and 200,000 combat players are also fighting against the First and Third Legions of the Daxia Imperial Guards. The 160,000 troops in Haiphong City are mainly used to defend against Daxia's sea attack.
To the north, 200,000 forbidden troops and 400,000 combat players, a total of 600,000 troops, will face the First Army, Third Army, and Fifth Army of the Great Xia City Guards.
After the arrangement, only 200,000 imperial troops and 100,000 combat players remained in the royal city of Hanoi.
Ruan Tianque was full of confidence, "As long as the three roads are stable and the king's city is located in the rear, we can naturally rest easy, so there is no need to keep too many troops stationed."
That's how things settled down.
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On April 22, Annan's counterattack officially kicked off.
The 600,000 Royal City Forbidden Army and the 800,000 Battle Players walked out of the Royal City Hanoi in a mighty manner.
Before leaving, Annan players held a grand swearing-in ceremony at the gate of the city.
"If you don't destroy the enemy army, you will never return home!"
The sound of the oath was roaring like a mountain, like a tsunami, resounding through the sky, and caused a sensation in the entire land of Annan.
This is the will of a country.
After receiving the news of Annan's initiative to attack, Daxia immediately adjusted his combat strategy. The North Route Army and the South Route Army stopped attacking the city and occupied the territory, and turned to stay in place, waiting for the arrival of Annan's counterattack army.
For Da Xia, this was a tough battle. Neither Huo Qubing nor Shi Wansui wanted to increase their losses before the big battle, so they chose to recharge their batteries.
At the same time, the Daxia Third Route Army began to strengthen the construction of the garrison, raising food and grass as much as possible, and making the most comprehensive preparations for the upcoming war.
When Annan got the news, he naturally had a different interpretation.
"Big Xia is scared!"
For a while, the crowd was excited and morale was boosted, sweeping away the previous haze. The three-way army even accelerated their marching speed unconsciously, eager to fight the enemy as soon as possible.
The first to collide is the north.
On the afternoon of the 25th, Annan's 600,000 troops came to Xuanguang City. Twenty miles north of Xuanguang City is Pingxiang City, where the Daxia North Route Army is stationed.
The two sides each occupy a small town and start a confrontation.
Annan's side naturally didn't think so. The army rested all night, and immediately left the city to take the initiative to attack Pingxiang City.
It's a pity that they still underestimated the elite of Xia.
According to the unified deployment of the headquarters, Shi Wansui replaced the attack with defense, and insisted on defending the city. No matter how Annan chose it or how harsh his words were, he just remained unmoved.
Annan wants to fight, so attack the city!
The cost of siege is too high, and Annan is naturally not stupid and will not be fooled.
In this way, the battle on the first day was anticlimactic and ended without a problem.
On the twenty-seventh, Annan's army could not sit still, because news had just come from Hanoi that another group of merchant ships had left Beihai Port and were heading towards Annan.
There is no doubt that this is the second batch of expeditionary forces in Daxia, and there is not much time left for Annan.
Nothing but strong attack!
Holding the determination of success or benevolence, the 600,000 army generals launched a fierce attack as soon as they came up, and Annan's soldiers were densely packed at the foot of the four walls.
If every Annan soldier had a pair of good teeth, he might be able to eat Pingxiang City raw.
Annan's onslaught was like a storm, powerful and heavy; it was also like a stormy sea, continuous, wave after wave, from morning to night, without any intention of stopping.
It's a terrible thing when an army goes mad.
Even an elite city guard army would suffer heavy casualties under such a perverted onslaught. Fortunately, the city guard army also has 210,000 people, so it is not so easy to be breached.
There is no retreat for both sides, and the war must naturally become cruel.
Pingxiang City was like a gigantic blender, which involved the soldiers from both sides and smashed them to pieces, causing blood to flow into rivers.
The khaki city walls were dyed bright red within a day.
"Are these guys crazy?"
Even Shi Wansui, who is as brave as Shi Wansui, has never seen such a battle. The opponents of the city guards this time are really different from ordinary people. All of them disregard life and death, and they can only kill the enemy.
Some Annan soldiers rushed to the top of the city. Seeing that they were about to be stabbed to death by the city guards, all of them rushed forward, hugged a city guard soldier, jumped down the city wall, and died together.
Taking down the aliens is also all with red eyes, changing ways to climb the city wall, galloping across the enemy line, fearless of death, and even rushing into the crowd on purpose, just to kill a few more enemies.
They didn't even think about going back alive, they only had enemies in their eyes.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The killing intent condensed by the 600,000 troops turned into substance, forming an incomparably huge blood-colored red cloud, covering the sky above Pingxiang City, churning up and down.
As the war deepened, the red cloud became bigger and bigger, thicker and thicker, and its color also changed from light red, to light red, then to red, and finally to a dazzling deep red.
Red is oppressive, red is coquettish.
Under the stimulation of the bloody red cloud, Annan's army became more and more crazy, their eyes were red, and some soldiers even went into a state of berserk, turning into blood-devouring monsters.
The war is raging and no one can stop it.
Such an enemy is really frightening, so Shi Wansui had no choice but to go to the front line in person, show off his heroism, and cheer for the soldiers of the city guards, so as to maintain the morale of the soldiers.
But at the end of the day, more than 20,000 city guards died in battle.
Such a short period of time, such a large number of casualties, is really very rare for the Great Xia Army.
The price Annan paid was that nearly 80,000 people were killed in battle, and the corpses piled up at the foot of the city wall completely blocked the moat, which made people horrified.
After the system is updated, NPC corpses will not be refreshed.
These corpses were piled up at the foot of the city wall, and became a great boost to the subsequent siege army. They stepped on the mountain of corpses formed by the corpses of their compatriots and enemies, and launched a more violent attack on the defenders at the top of the city.
Whether it is Annan's guards or combat players, they have all turned into ghosts at this time, without humanity.
It wasn't until night fell that they could no longer see each other that Annan's army finally woke up and retreated to the camp like a tide.
Retiring troops was only a stopgap measure. Annan's soldiers shouted: "Fight again tomorrow, and we will never die!"