Chapter 4348 Good News and Bad News

It took Phantom a while to recover from her daze. She looked at the Longbei Mountain position that was recaptured by the Red Feather Army in a blink of an eye, and was once again shocked by the power of the black gunpowder possessed by the Tiannu Kingdom.

It was not until this moment that she truly realized that her overall deduction of the Longmen War and future human wars was wrong.

She underestimated this new gunpowder weapon, and its power was far beyond everyone's imagination.

The explosion at Longbei Mountain, whether it was God's will or coincidence, occurred at dawn when night and day met.

This explosion broke the darkness and ushered in a new dawn.

This dawn not only opened a new day, but also opened a new era.

Phantom ordered the army to retreat. After the shocking explosion just now, Phantom knew that Longmen could not be taken in a short time.

After counting, the high-level officials of the heavens were silent. On Dragon Back Mountain, the heavens lost 18,000 mad warriors, 6,000 giant warriors, and more than 50,000 skeleton warriors.

With just one explosion, the heavens lost more than 70,000 people, almost one-fifth of the heavens' southward vanguard.

While both sides were licking their wounds, news spread to the camps of both sides.

For the human world, it seemed to be good news.

For the heavens, it was all bad news.

First of all, the plan of Phantom Split to annihilate the human cavalry did not come true.

Last night, in the north of the Dark Wood Wasteland, more than two million human troops blocked the pace of the Storm Legion with their flesh and blood, allowing the human cavalry, who had no fighting spirit and combat power, to breathe.

After several hours of assembly, the human cavalry gathered in the south of the Dark Wood Wasteland.

The number of human light cavalry after assembly was about two million.

Moreover, during the process of assembling, the Red Feather Army and the Southern Xinjiang warriors awakened their fighting spirit. The human cavalry, which was originally like a lost dog, launched several counterattacks against the Storm Legion that was chasing behind, causing certain casualties to the Storm Legion.

Secondly, Qu Jiuyuan's troops stationed at Tianying Pass sneaked out of the pass last night. This well-equipped Zhenxi Army, which can be called the ace of the human infantry, disappeared after leaving the pass.

Not only could Zhao Zian not contact them, but even the aerial scouts of the heavens could not find their traces.

This million-strong army seemed to have disappeared with the night.

Zhao Zian was furious and ordered the Sun Bashan troops, who were close at hand, to replace Qu Jiuyuan's troops and be responsible for guarding Tianying Pass.

Qu Jiuyuan's troops took the initiative to attack and then disappeared from sight, which made Phantom alert.

The reason for such vigilance was related to the news from the north.

The ancient city of Dawu, less than a hundred miles away from Longmen, was suddenly attacked by human infantry at dawn today.

Those human infantrymen sneaked into the vicinity of Dawu City during the darkest time before dawn.

Dawu City has now been occupied by the Heavenly Army and has become a transit station for the Heavenly Army to move south.

A madman corps stationed outside the city was attacked.

Suicidal attack.

No one would have thought that there were still human infantrymen outside Yumen Pass.

And it was before dawn, the madman warriors were all asleep, and there was not even a sentry.

The human infantrymen, each of whom was tied with a powerful black fire bomb, went directly to the camp of the madman corps, ignited the thunder and fire bombs on their bodies, and pounced on the sleeping madman warriors.

In the explosion, more than a thousand madman warriors were killed and thousands were injured.

For Phantom, there was an even more terrible news.

That is, after dawn, the scouts of the Six Wings Corps in the air found a battlefield relic in the northwest of Longmen.

The relic of that battlefield was very strange, with blood everywhere, but not many bodies.

In the middle of the battlefield, the heads of nearly 600 Storm Legion knights were cut off and piled up into a pyramid-shaped Jingguan.

The heads of nearly 600 six-legged evil beasts were also made into Jingguan.

On the battlefield, traces of buried bodies were found. There were about 1,000 bodies, all of which were dark men wearing leather armor.

According to analysis, the enemy who slaughtered this Storm Legion last night should be the disappeared Southern Xinjiang Beast Cavalry Corps.

The reason why Phantom attaches great importance to this cavalry encounter is that on the battlefield, there are the heads of the Celestial Cavalry and the six-legged evil beasts, but not their bodies.

Moreover, large areas of blood and more than 3,000 horse heads were found in the sand valley.

This is not a regular encounter, it is premeditated.

Phantom is almost certain that this kind of thing will continue to happen in his rear in the future.

Now he not only has to think about how to capture Longmen, but also how to deal with the 300,000 Southern Xinjiang Beast Cavalry who have bypassed his rear.

There are 300,000 beast riders wandering around in the back garden, which is like a thorn in the throat, and must be removed.

Phantom also knows that the purpose of these 300,000 beast riders is to block and delay the main force of the army heading south.

However, Phantom does not think they can really do it.

After all, there are 3 million main forces, and the Southern Frontier Beast Riders cannot be stopped.

However, the speed and combat power of the Southern Frontier Beast Riders are not much worse than that of the Storm Legion. In order to ensure the main force of the army heading south, Phantom can only order all infantry to enter the ancient cities of the Western Regions as much as possible.

At the same time, he also dispatched 100,000 Storm Legion and tens of thousands of Berserkers to head north to ensure that the main army would not be harassed by these Southern Border Beast Riders on the way south.

None of the news today is good for Phantom.

But it is indeed good for the human world.

Zhan Ying's series of actions behind enemy lines greatly restrained the power of the Heavenly Realm Army and relieved a lot of pressure on the Longmen battlefield and the Dark Wood Wasteland battlefield.

Zhan Ying did not intend to use the Southern Border Beast Riders to fight the main force of the Heavenly Realm. After passing Dawu City, Zhan Ying divided the 300,000 Beast Riders into seven routes, each with about 40,000 people.

These 40,000 people were divided into seven groups, each with about 6,000 people.

These 6,000 people were further divided into seven teams, each with about 850 people.

The combat units of the Heavenly Realm are generally hexametric, with 60 people in one armor and 400 people in one symbol.

The number of the Heavenly Realm Army that came down to the world this time was huge, all of which were reinforced symbols, about 600 people.

Zhan Ying divided the beast cavalry into teams of 850 people, so that even if they encountered an enemy reinforcement symbol, they would still be able to fight.

After multiple subdivisions, the 300,000 beast cavalry became seven routes, 49 groups, and 343 teams.

As for breaking up the whole into parts, every general would do it, and there was nothing special about it.

However, Zhan Ying's breaking up the whole into parts was very special. He divided each route, each group, and each team of the Southern Xinjiang beast cavalry into their own activity areas. Even if they encountered the enemy, they could not easily leave their own activity areas.

No one knew why Zhan Ying did this.

After all, the biggest advantage of cavalry is high mobility.

The activity areas now divided for them limit the mobility of the cavalry.

Wanyan Ku and the chief of the Dayan tribe, including the senior leaders of the Southern Xinjiang beast cavalry, all had huge opinions on Zhan Ying's tactics.

But Zhan Ying did not explain much, just said: "If you want to complete this blocking mission, you must not question my orders."