Chapter 1053

On February 26, the second year of emperor Liedi, Chen Hai personally led the elite of 300000 horse infantry into Tongbai mountain in the west of Weibo County, and collided with the elite of the West Road magic soldier who wanted to pass through the north foot of Tongbai mountain and cross Jitian canal.

On the one hand, the magic soldiers on the west road have to cross the Jitian canal to meet the magic soldiers on the East Road before the river ice thaws.

Once the river ice thaws, it is not only difficult to cross the Jitian canal more than ten miles wide in Weibo county. From Weibo county to the East, the lakes are crisscross. In addition, last summer and autumn, the demons infiltrated the North Bank of Wantao to destroy the dam and lead to torrential floods, forming a large flood area, which will also be a piece of mud.

This also makes it difficult for the East and west magic soldiers to break through in the direction of Lingzhou even if they meet smoothly in the east of jitianqu, as long as they drag them until the river ice thaws.

On the other hand, the Beiling army should resolutely block the Western magic soldiers to the west of the Jitian canal, so that after the river ice thaws, it can completely trap more than two million Western magic soldiers by using crisscross ditches and lakes.

Then, before the coming of the next winter, the Beiling army will have eight or nine months to easily and completely wipe out more than two million magic soldiers and more large-scale miscellaneous demons on the West Road, so as to achieve the strategic purpose of effectively weakening the strength of the demon family!

Both sides know how important the contact war at the north foot of Tongbai mountain is. Both sides almost rushed to the foot of Zhixian peak at the north foot of Tongbai mountain to fight at the same time.

Xianfeng is the main peak at the north foot of Tongbai mountain. The terrain around it is flat, but Xianfeng is also the place of spiritual pulse.

If anyone can control zhixianfeng first, he can control the local battlefield within 200 miles. At the same time, he can also control a small section of jitianqu waterway more than 100 miles east of Tongbai.

The vanguard of the Beiling army led by Chen Hai and long di cangyu is mainly composed of 200000 elite infantry and 60000 elite Armored Cavalry. It is equipped with 2000 heavy Tianji chariots and 4000 light Tianji chariots. In addition, it also has four warships, namely, yuxu, Lingyun and chongyun, 12000 elite Royal birds and 12000 sword guards.

In addition to 400000 elite magic riders, there are 40000 elite winged demons, including thousands of powerful demons such as magic Jiao, giant skeleton demon and spider body demon.

From the standpoint of Chen Hai and the Terran generals, as long as they can defeat or annihilate the elite magic soldiers, they can almost scare the magic soldiers on the West Road to the west of Jitian canal and dare not advance eastward; In the view of the demon clan, as long as the elite of the Dragon army led by Chen Hai is annihilated, it is impossible for Beiling prefecture to gather such elite combat power in a short time. From then on, they will completely fall into the disadvantage of being beaten passively, and they can even withdraw to the south bank without hurry.

Therefore, from the beginning, the two sides were inevitably destined to turn the battle of zhixianfeng into a battle of adding oil.

At the beginning, a small group of soldiers and horses of both sides met in front of zhixianfeng mountain and made a tentative contact, but they soon put their respective elite forwards into the battlefield in batches, trying to control zhixianfeng before the other party. The war situation revolved around the competition for zhixianfeng.

At the same time, the elite combat forces that can move quickly are constantly transferred from the rear, so as to win the advantage of crushing the other side at the north foot of Tongbai mountain.

In fact, when the more than 2000 Zhang high zhixianfeng was completely collapsed, and the spirit vein terrain of zhixianfeng was completely destroyed, neither side could substantially control zhixianfeng

At the beginning of World War I in Xianfeng, the magic soldiers on the East Road were less than 5000 miles away from jitianqu and Tongbai mountain. It only took four days to gather the elite magic riders and advance westward to meet them at the north foot of the east of Tongbai.

However, the war that broke out at the foot of Xianfeng at the north foot of Tongbai mountain developed too fast and too rapidly. From the initial test, the two sides added oil step by step, and finally the local decisive battle that both sides could not stop, it only evolved in a short period of one and a half days.

Seeing that the casualties of the Longxiang army were too heavy, pointing to the rugged terrain at the foot of Xianfeng mountain, and the role of the Tianji chariot was limited, the horse infantry, relying on the shield halberd and heavy loaded crossbow, suffered great casualties under the back and forth charge of the magic horse, while the follow-up troops and horses were too slow to reinforce from Lingbi county and Tianshui City, Chen Hai finally decided to ignore the casualties in front of the enemy and before the great wing magic elite was suppressed, He used the wind flame airship to send troops to Tongbai mountain in advance.

From Tianshui city to zhixianfeng battlefield, from Lingbi county to zhixianfeng battlefield is almost 3000 miles. The terrain is open and unobstructed, which is conducive to the transit of wind flame airships and the frontal interception of a large group of wing demons.

Although there are many large and small remnant cities between Lingbi and Tianshui, they were abandoned and guarded as early as winter, and no one was stationed, let alone established an orderly defense.

This means that from Lingbi to zhixianfeng, and from Tianshui to zhixianfeng, they use wind flame airships to send troops. Once they are intercepted, there will be no solid cities that can take advantage of danger for three thousand miles.

Moreover, they can't land on the ground to form an array against the enemy.

The air bag of the wind flame airship is too easy to be damaged. It will land on the ground in case of obstruction, which means that no army and horse can be delivered to the foot of zhixianfeng mountain in the shortest time.

The Beiling army finally deployed more than 4000 Fengyan airships in Tianshui and Lingbi.

The magic soldiers gathered almost all the wing magic elite, magic Jiao, magic owl and so on for crazy interception. Finally, nearly half of the wind flame airships were destroyed and fell in the middle.

These wind flame airships carried nearly 600000 or 700000 soldiers. In a hurry, they all fell to the ground with the wind flame airships. Almost 200000 soldiers fell to death before entering the battlefield; Tens of thousands of troops and horses failed to form a defensive formation immediately after falling to the ground. A large number of light Tianji chariots were killed by the sharp winged demons, which were smashed and difficult to reuse.

After making such a heavy sacrifice, more than 800000 troops and more than 3000 light Tianji chariots were successfully delivered to the battlefield on the second and third days of the zhixianfeng war, and finally assembled in the northwest corner of zhixianfeng, forming a trend of encircling the demon family vanguard troops and horses entering the zhixianfeng battlefield.

At this time, in addition to a small group of elite combat forces, more than 400000 elite magic riders on the East Road are still two days away from the zhixianfeng battlefield, and the main force of the magic soldiers on the west road is slower and farther away.

On the night of the 29th, Chen Haili launched a general attack on the vanguard of the magic soldiers on the West Road with his assembled superior troops. In addition to the small number of magic soldiers and Demons led by shangmou and Qiushan, he wiped out 400000 elite magic horses at the foot of zhixianfeng mountain.

In this battle, nearly 500000 people were killed in Beiling army, and the casualties were heavy, even on the demon clan. Lingyun and chongyun in four floating warships were completely destroyed. Nearly 1000 senior generals above daodan territory were killed. More than 12000 elite Royal birds were killed in the battle bird camp, and less than 3000 were killed in the end. However, the significance of this battle is not trivial.

Tongbai mountain is located on the west side of Jitian canal, stretching more than 1500 Li from north to south. The south foot is about 1000 li away from Tianshui city. There are countless lakes in the middle. Tianshui garrison troops re control several cities south of Tongbai mountain. Taking advantage of the warmer weather, they break through the ice on these lakes in advance, and in fact block the west road. The magic soldiers bypass the East Road from the south side of Tongbai mountain.

Tongbai mountain stretches for more than 1500 miles, and the mountain is magnificent and steep. As long as the Beiling army establishes a solid stronghold at the north foot of Tongbai mountain, it has actually completely separated the eastern and Western magic soldiers.

Although it only takes five or six days for the magic soldiers on the West Road to go south from Wantao River, the problem is that the magic soldiers on the west road go south directly and are too close to Tianshui city. In the downstream direction of Tianshui City, the river ice of more than 3000 miles has been destroyed in advance.

As the weather gets warmer, the river channel with the damaged ice layer can no longer freeze into solid ice.

Although the magic soldiers on the west road may make a detour to the southwest, the navy of Tianshui garrison, six green whale class armored iron ships, can also continue to sail downstream to destroy the ice. At the same time, they will also meet with the Navy warships and 800000 horsemen marching eastward from the downstream Hailing City.

When the elite demons are lost and there are no reinforcements on the south bank, it is impossible for the demon family to cross Henan before the river ice completely thaws, although there are still 1.78 million troops and horses to the west of Jitian canal.

It refers to the first battle of Xianfeng. In order to intercept the wind flame airship of Beiling army, the elite of wing demons went crazy. It was a great victory, which made nearly 300000 Beiling army die outside the main battlefield. However, nearly 50000 elite of wing demons were lost before and after the demon clan, which made the demon clan lose the ability to control the battlefield airspace, The Beiling army also has tens of thousands of wind flame airships to deliver troops and materials between the Nu Chuan River and the Wan Tao River.

In a hurry, all the miscellaneous demons and captured people were evacuated to the south. Once they were blocked on the North Bank of Wantao, their supply became a problem. Finally, the magic soldiers on the West Road decided to retreat to the east foot of Jingshan, which is more than 3000 miles away from Tongbai mountain in the East.

While gathering more northern demons and capturing more people at the east foot of Jingshan mountain to prepare for long-term resistance, the West Road magic soldiers hope that the East Road magic soldiers can make a difference and attract the main force of the Beiling army so that they can find a gap to break out.

As long as there are not a large number of green whale class and silver shark class warships blocking the river, 1.78 million troops and horses arrive at the North Bank of Wantao. Even if the spring flowers bloom and the river ice thaws, there is always a way to withdraw to the south bank.

However, Chen Hai did not do what the West Road magic soldiers wanted. In addition to transferring 700000 troops and horses from the north line to the West foot of Zibai to Lingzhou city to strengthen the defense of Lingzhou City, the North Ling army did not show its greed to swallow all the East Road magic soldiers.

In the next ten days, in addition to the more than 500000 soldiers and horses on the line from Tianshui to Tongbai mountain, Chen Hai used the wind flame airship to continuously gather groups of soldiers and horses around Jingshan from hailing, Wuchang and Wanghai in the northwest.

By the end of March, the East Road magic soldiers had surrounded the city of Lingzhou, crossed the mountains at the south foot of Zibai mountain and retreated Near Wuhou mountain. However, in Jingshan mountain to the west of Jitian canal, Chen Hai had gathered more than 4.6 million Beiling army troops to form an absolute encirclement of the West Road magic soldiers