Chapter 248 Cracks
(Fixed. All chapters fixed.
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Pooh! A flying sword pierced through Chen Jin's shoulder. The short battle was extremely fierce. The protective magic weapon on Chen Jin's body couldn't stop the attack of the magic weapon flying sword at all; if it wasn't for the support of Jindanqi Zhenyuan, Chen Jin would have become a hornet's nest long ago.
"Run!" Without any hesitation, Chen Jin immediately made a decision, bursting out his real energy, making Yang Yishan and the others unsteady; He rushed out of the encirclement of Anyang without returning, and rushed out of the distance of a hundred feet.
At this time, Chen Jin had the opportunity to look back at the situation, and what he saw made Chen Jin dumbfounded. The battle was no more than a cup of tea, but there were less than 3,000 people left on my side, and they were chased away by Anyang soldiers to flee for their lives.
Chen Jin made a decisive decision, quickly gathered the remnants, some of the elite, formed a complete defensive formation, and retreated.
In front of the defensive formation, several layers of defenses were formed with genitals, weapons, and talismans to block Anyang's crazy attacks. After retreating for more than three miles in this way, the defense line of Nanyang County could be seen from the rear, and Anyang gave up the attack.
When the Anyang army could no longer see anyone, all the remaining soldiers of the Nanyang army, about 2,000 soldiers, completely relaxed, and many of them fell to the ground as soft as noodles. In less than a moment of the war, many elite soldiers in Nanyang County were depressed.
The general on the right, Chen Jin, was also a little depressed, quietly looking at the defeated soldiers under his command. In just a moment of war, only less than 2,000 of the 6,500 elite remained. The army did not collapse, thanks to the firm will of the cultivators. If ordinary people had more than 60% casualties, they would have collapsed long ago.
Looking around, Chen Jin found that among the survivors, there were only less than two hundred of them in the foundation building stage! Apparently, Anyang deliberately beheaded a master in the army of Nanyang County.
Suddenly, Chen Jin found someone shaking himself, "General, Anyang is back!"
Chen Jin looked up, damn it, Anyang really came back!
"Continue to retreat! Keep the formation!" Chen Jinqiang supported his already tired body, barely commanding the battle. The shoulders and thighs were pierced, the breath of the magic weapon was raging in the meridians, the whole body was lacking in true energy, and Chen Jin was also at the end of his strength.
Suddenly someone said: "General, let's send a distress signal to the rear!"
"Don't!" Chen Jin gritted his teeth, "Don't interrupt the rear arrangement."
In fact, there was no need to send out any distress signals. From the watchtower of the border defense in Nanyang County, someone had already seen the defeat of Chen Jin and others, and saw Anyang come back again. It's just that the far water can't quench the near thirst; when Nanyang County in the rear responds, Anyang's second surprise attack has been successful.
After a series of killings, Chen Jin only had time to take away more than 50 masters of the Foundation Establishment Stage to escape, and the rest were all beheaded. No one expected that Anyang dared to kill a carbine in front of the frontier defense of Nanyang County; the exhausted, loose defense, and lax vigilance of Nanyang County's remnant soldiers had almost no ability to resist.
When Chen Jin returned to the defense line of Nanyang County, he would naturally face the anger of Kong Donglai, the governor of Nanyang County. "I asked you to fight guerrilla warfare and harass the enemy. Are you fighting head-to-head with the enemy?"
Yes, Kong Donglai asked Chen Jin to harass the enemy instead of confronting them head-on. All the generals around, large and small, looked at Chen Jin, wanting to see how Chen Jin would answer.
Chen Jin endured the exhaustion and pain, "My lord, we met halfway. Anyang has already occupied the commanding heights and waited side by side. At this time, there is no other way to go except head-on. If we escape at this time, the casualties will only be more serious." .”
Kong Donglai was furious: "Will there be only fifty people left?"
The question was so sharp that Chen Jin couldn't refute it for a while. Yes, no matter what, out of the 6,500 elites, there are now more than 50 people left! The 1,500 master foundation builders trained so hard in Nanyang County were wiped out like this.
Therefore, in any case, Chen Jin's failure this time did indeed deal a huge blow to Nanyang County and damage a very important military force.
If the more than 1,500 masters in the foundation-building period did not fight directly, but harassed behind enemy lines, it would definitely cause huge turmoil in Anyang, but now everything is gone!
After hearing the news, the commander-in-chief Nan Gongzhi and the left general Kong Zhiying were also speechless. From a military point of view, Chen Jin's failure this time was not only a personal failure, but also a military failure-it was unfavorable to dispatch troops, which affected morale; on the contrary, it encouraged Anyang.
Originally, the morale of the two sides seemed to be quite different, especially in Nanyang County, where the morale was better. If more than 1,500 masters of the Foundation Establishment Stage just disappeared, what kind of blow would that cause? ! This is a master in the foundation building period, not in the qi refining period.
Qi refining period is over, and there are a lot of them on the street, but those in the foundation building period are very rare, and almost all of them are the mainstay. Now that 1,500 mainstays have been cut down, the impact on the army of Nanyang County is unimaginable!
Chen Jin looked at the various eyes around him, feeling silent in his heart. Unexpectedly, he didn't open his mouth to explain, nor did he tell everyone that all the weapons used in Anyang's foundation building period were magic weapons.
At this time, if you say to everyone that "all the weapons used in Anyang's foundation building period are magic weapons", you will definitely be sprayed in the face-you are blaming yourself.
With this thought in mind, Chen Jin stopped talking nonsense, and just silently endured all kinds of eyes and all kinds of ugly words. In this short period of time, Chen Jin was branded with dozens of labels - coward, fool, coward, defeated in battle, vegetarian in the corpse...
Finally, Nangong Zhi sighed: "My lord, victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs. So far, the veteran has lost 27 times, but the number of victories is only 22 times."
Kong Donglai was still furious, successive failures and failures had pushed Kong Donglai to the limit. Kong Xiang, a wise man, is now detained by the Wang family. Nanyang County lacks a top think tank; Seeing that it continues like this, it will not be far away for allies to be stabbed in the back.
But Nangong Zhi persuaded Kong Donglai to give face. After all, Nangong Zhi is the commander-in-chief of the three armies; although he is not from the Kong family, there is no such commander in the Kong family. Generals are easy to find, but commanders are hard to find.
The commander-in-chief is the same as the prime minister, it is really inappropriate to find such a talent.
Only then did Chen Jin speak, and he said to Nangong Zhi: "General, the flying swords used by more than 2,000 foundation-building masters in Anyang are all magic weapons! Their defenses are a complete set of high-level magic weapons."
The corner of Nangong Zhi's mouth twitched: Chen Jin, you are really confused. You should be speaking directly to Kong Dong, not me. If you do this, you are putting the old man on the fire, how will Kong Donglai treat me!
Without turning his head, Nangong Zhi could feel the fleeting malice sweeping across his back. The most taboo thing in the army is this kind of phenomenon. In the eyes of generals, there are no officers, only commanders. What is this, this is a sign of rebellion! A rebellion by a scholar will fail in ten years; a rebellion by a general will be successful 30% of the time;
After Chen Jin left, Nan Gongzhi obviously felt a slight change in Kong Donglai's attitude; he no longer had absolute trust in himself, but became a little vigilant.
Kong Donglai took a deep breath, suppressing the irritability in his heart, "Mr. Nangong, what do you think we should do now?"
Nangong Zhi said without hesitation: "There are two ways. First, press up regardless of the cost, take advantage of the Anyang army's unstable foothold, and attack with all our strength now; in this way, we have a 70% chance of winning; but it may be tragic win.
Second, withdraw the troops and ask Anyang for peace. With Anyang's current industrial and commercial development strategy, we will not lose anything, and we can even use this to get closer to Anyang, get a lot of arms from Anyang, and strengthen ourselves.
Afterwards, slowly and gradually, Songzhou County was conquered in the north and Guangling County in the west; after Songzhou County and most of Guangling County were captured, Wuyang County was conquered in the north, and then turned back to attack the remaining Guangling County. In this way, at most twenty years, great things can be accomplished. "
This second strategy is not just a military strategy, but a national development strategy, and it is really the best strategy. Nangong Zhi also wanted to restore the rift between himself and Kong Dong.
"Then let me think about it again." Kong Donglai did not directly accept Nangong Zhi's suggestion as in the past.
Nangong Zhi was anxious, the opportunity to fight was fleeting, how could he hesitate at this time. However, seeing Kong Donglai's slightly irritable expression, he finally sighed and left.