The world of rebirth

Since it is now a time of war, the situation ahead is almost daily written by a special person and submitted to the palace as a battle report.However, when there is no urgent military situation, most of them are rushed at [-] li and [-] li. Although there are constant reports of grain depots and village people's homes being burned and looted, there has been no large-scale fighting.

Wen Zhen always felt a little uneasy. Since Meng might dare to lead 5 people to declare war on the big merchants, it is impossible for them to occupy a place and remain silent. This is not in line with the habits of the Fengwu people.What's more, when they are short of food, they need to make a quick decision to grab enough food and grass to avoid weakness in the future.

His premonition soon became a reality, as soon as he settled down on February [-]th, a galloping horse ushered in at the closed gate of the palace.The eight hundred li urgent battle report from Naturalization reached Wen Zhen in the shortest time possible.

After reading it at a glance, Wen Zhen slapped the table in shock and said angrily, "It's unreasonable, Li Zi is arrogant."

After seeing Wen Zhen's angry face based on Mr. Li's practice in these years, the heart is also jumping wildly. The thunderous anger that is hidden under the wind and rain has never been seen since the emperor took power. , Li Deming glanced at the battle report on the table, not even daring to vent his anger.

Wen Zhen turned his head to look at him with a cold face, "Xuanzhong Pavilion elder, six ministers, and minister in charge of the guards."

"Hey." After Li Deming responded, he quickly went out to order people to pass on the message.

Li Deming didn't know what happened until everyone arrived.

Chief Assistant Zuo Shiheng has been in poor health recently, and with his son having an accident, he seems to have aged a lot.

"On February [-]th, Liangcheng's all-way grain pressing team was attacked at the foot of the mountain. Master Ning set up an antler camp, using grain carts as a barrier, killed a thousand enemies and retreated to Yinshan Mountain. Meng or himself led [-] troops into the mountain to pursue them, and they have already lost. Its trace. On the [-]th, Mu Danshu led five hundred cavalry to Guihua to ask for help, and issued a warning. Before the Guihua garrison left the city, there were a large number of large merchant cavalry cruising nearby, and the prince's food was coming, so he had to go back to the city Strengthen your guard. On the [-]th, [-] cavalrymen from Dashang raided Ulanqab, plundering countless grains and grass, and the prince retreated to naturalization."

The focus of this battle report is obviously in the last sentence!Even if Li Deming doesn't know how to use soldiers, he can tell from the battle report that the people from the big merchants have occupied Ulanchabu, which is obviously a naturalization of the sword.

Looking at the tightly clenched fists of Ning Jingxian, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Li Deming knew that he was not only worried about Guihua City, but also worried about the missing Mr. Ning.

Ning Shangshu is definitely not the only one who is nervous about this news, the emperor is probably even more anxious, wishing to kill and naturalize immediately.The two people in distress, one is his son, the future successor of the Great Xia Empire, and the other is the sweetheart who is always on his mind, so how can the emperor not be in a hurry!

The emperor originally planned to leave Beijing on the 20th, and then let the prince return to Beijing quickly.Now that things have changed, I am afraid that the elders of the cabinet are here to agree on the increase of troops in the middle.

Li Deming guessed Wen Zhen's thoughts very accurately. The first sentence Wen Zhen said was to increase the original [-] troops in the middle to [-].Adding a full [-] troops is not such a simple matter, which puts great pressure on logistics.

He originally thought that the elders would argue about this, but he didn't expect that the emperor's request would be passed soon. The only thing that needs to be discussed is how to spend the extra military expenses and where to deploy the personnel. If there is no difficulty, so many people have already been arranged on the scale of the emperor's personal conquest.

After all, Li Deming's knowledge is limited. What he saw from this battle report was not comparable to the group of old foxes in the house, so he couldn't see the urgency of it.

First, the emperor's going to naturalize had already been arranged, and the prince is also there now.If the emperor refuses to go, Da Xia's face will be lost.And if the emperor has lost his naturalization before he arrives there, that would be the biggest joke in the world.Since Da Shang wants to be close to naturalization, even if Da Xia bites the bullet, he will fight a decisive battle there.

Second, Guihua City is the most majestic city on the entire grassland, and it is also the only big city.This beautiful city with eight buildings and glazed gold and silver halls was built in imitation of Yuan Dadu in the previous dynasty. The locals call it Hohhot, which means blue city.This place can be said to be the commercial and political center on the grassland. If it is occupied by a big merchant, it will cost an extremely terrible price to attack it, and it will become a nail in Daxia's body, which cannot be missed.

Third, since Meng is going to hunt down and kill Ning Yunjin, it means that the main force of the big merchant army is not there. No one believes that an infantry team of more than 2000 people in the hands of a civil servant can compete with the Mongolian army who has led troops for many years. It may be how long it takes to entangle, but as long as it can be delayed for one more day, it will be a little easier to eliminate this big merchant army without a coach.

Just because of these three points, no one is willing to procrastinate. If it weren't for the emperor's travel time, he couldn't change the time at will, and wished that the emperor could leave immediately!

The capital only thought that Ning Yunjin was in a desperate situation, but they didn't know that his situation was much better than others imagined.

Since he dared to formulate such a plan, Ning Yunjin was always somewhat sure of it, and he didn't want to make a joke of his own life yet.

Their troops are not ordinary miscellaneous soldiers, but the elite of the Eight Banners. Even if they are not as good as the Vanguard Battalion, their equipment configuration and combat effectiveness in the entire Great Xia are second to none, and none of the civilian men recruited from Liangcheng County A farmer who only digs the soil.

In places like this near the border, the folk customs are extremely tough, and even men without adulthood are qualified soldiers with swords and guns.Because people who knew the prince had released true and false rumors in Datong, Ning Yunjin had already prepared in his heart. Most of the recruits from Liangcheng County were strong men, and he even replaced the horses pulling the cart with healthy ones at his own expense. horse.

Men on the prairie know how to ride horses and hunt. Put them in soft armor, match them with bows and arrows, and become a light cavalry.

His original thought was that as long as he was separated from the prince, he would not have to bear the double pressure—after all, the temptation to capture the prince alive was extremely great for the Da Shang people.If it was only for food and grass, even if the big merchants attacked, they would not work hard. In this way, there might be a chance to earn some credit.

Generally speaking, the cavalry on the grassland will be divided into two or three thousand groups to take care of each other, instead of gathering together.If he only encountered 5000 people at most, relying on the terrain in the mountains, Ning Yunjin really wasn't afraid of them.

But I didn't expect Ning Yunjin to be unlucky this time. Those true and false arrangements didn't make Meng or tempted. He directly took [-] soldiers and horses to detour from the mountainous area to surprise naturalization, just like Ning Yunjin and the others. A group of people met.

In the eyes of the big merchant soldiers who were almost hungry and red-eyed, a team with a small number of people and a large amount of food and grass was like a piece of fat, and the two sides went to war without saying a word.

Fortunately, although Ning Yunjin is careless on weekdays, he is cautious when facing wars. Since he entered the Yinshan Mountains area, he has sent spies from time to time, and even asked the soldiers and civilians to cut down trees to make antlers.

The so-called deer-repelling horns are many sharp and strong tree trunks tied together. It is named after its shape like antlers, and it is specially used to resist cavalry attacks.This simple and effective tool is very famous, so no one complained that Ning Yunjin's request increased the weight of the march. After all, compared with this trouble, his own life is more important.

It was precisely because of Ning Yunjin's two cautious actions that when the [-] cavalry rushed to them, they discovered that the opponent had already circled an antler camp on the outside, and used grain carts as a barrier on the inside. The terrain is not suitable for charging. Facing such a tortoise shell, they can only attack around the slowly advancing antler camp.

When the cavalry lost their unstoppable charging power, the only competition left was the bows and crossbows of the two sides.Even though the Fengwu tribe is famous for their strong bows, riding and shooting, the Fengtian tribe and the border folks are not inferior in comparison.

In particular, Ning Yunjin was holding a five-stone bow, which was almost flawless. The arrows and arrows could hit people's eyebrows, and their strength was so great that they could even bring down a strong man in iron tower wearing soft armor to the ground .

After a rain of arrows, because Ning Yunjin had grain trucks as a barrier, they exchanged [-] dead and wounded for thousands of Fengwu people, and successfully retreated into the Yin Mountain.

It is a great irony for the Fengwu people who think highly of themselves to have injured more than a thousand people.When they captured the Urad Banner, they didn't suffer such a big battle loss. Not to mention the leader of the army, Meng was furious, and there was an endless stream of generals who asked for a fight and asked to pursue them.

After learning that the man who shot the arrow was Ning Yunjin, Meng or immediately decided to pursue it himself, and changed the planned attack into an attack on Ulanqab.

Ning Yunjin also guessed Meng's intention of using troops since he retreated into the Yin Mountain. After all, the biggest military target in the vicinity can't think of anything other than naturalization.So he negotiated with Mu Danshu, and he led 800 cavalry to detour to break out of the encirclement. deal with.

The Yinshan Mountains are rolling and undulating, and the closer to Guihua, the steeper the terrain.It is not the kind of mountain with dense forests, but an ancient fault-block mountain with steep southern slopes and gentler northern slopes.

What Ning Yunjin and the others walked was the wide valley formed by the erosion of the water between the mountains. Fortunately, since this area has been a major traffic road over the years, the large rocks have been cleared, otherwise they would have There's really no way to get through.

Although Ning Yunjin has never been to this area, he has carefully studied the map nearby and questioned the guide from Liangcheng County in detail. The old site of the Great Wall.

The so-called Great Wall of Zhao was built during the period of King Lingwu of Zhao. It was built from Hebei to Langshan, and a section of it was on Daqingshan to the north of Guihua.In this way, Ning Yunjin and the others fought and fled, and finally succeeded in occupying an ancient Great Wall site with a "y"-shaped bifurcated terrain before Meng or they formed an encirclement circle.

It has been said in the art of war since ancient times that to siege a city needs to be surrounded three times. Even if the Great Wall built by relying on this rammed earth is not comparable to the real city wall, it cannot be easily attacked by Mongolian or their cavalry.

First, they didn't have enough food and grass to besiege each other, and second, they didn't have enough siege equipment, so they could only stare blankly at this situation.

Ning Yunjin and his party arrived at the Great Wall on the night of NO.18. Although he was chased for a few days, he was in good spirits.Mengor didn't bite the bullet and order a storm the first day, so the next morning he lay on the city wall, chewing dry food while teasing Mengor in the city.

"Hey, are you hungry? Even if you are not hungry, don't let the horse be hungry!" He pretended to be very satisfied, and said very cheaply, "I don't mean that you Fengwu people love horses. The horse is like life, why not only don't feed the horse, but also eat horse meat!"

What he said made some soldiers on the opposite side almost shed tears, and some leaders were even more ashamed and angry, wishing they could rush forward and directly catch and hack people to death.

If it wasn't for the lack of food, how could they choose to kill the beloved horse to eat meat? It's really unbearable to have their scars opened like this and sprinkled with two handfuls of salt!

Although Meng or was also short-tempered, he loved and hated Ning Yunjin who was covered with a layer of golden warm light under the morning sun. It was his greatest regret that such an outstanding person missed him at the beginning!

Scolding battles before battles were a must-have in battles in ancient times. He stepped forward on his horse and said loudly, "Ning Sanyuan's mouth is really powerful, but I don't know how to serve men. I am curious that you won that night! Who is the cheapest after the beauty!"

As soon as Menghe finished speaking, even the people on Ning Yunjin's side looked at him with curiosity and gossip.After all, no one knows the power of beauty!

It's okay if he doesn't say it, but when he said it, the old and new hatred went straight to his heart!

If it wasn't for that night, how could there be troubles between himself and Wenzhen.Ning Yunjin, who was so angry that he was unreasonable, laughed back angrily, "It's not you anyway! Although I know that you are secretly in love with the third prince, but if you are seven points thinner and three levels more handsome, you can cut off the part of your lower body by the way. Tuo, maybe I will consider it next time."

It is common for the army to say dirty jokes, and his words immediately made the soldiers on the city wall laugh out loud.

Being ridiculed by Ning Yunjin as an eunuch is the only way to have a chance to kiss Fangze. His face was red and white with anger, and he said angrily, "I don't know that an elegant person like Ning Sanyuan can be so vulgar!"

Ning Yunjin spread his hands helplessly, "I can't help it, I'm afraid you won't understand if you speak too elegantly."

Talking about it, Meng was probably the tried and tested opponent of Ning Yunjin, he was choked so speechless, he retreated into the formation and ordered a strong attack.

Without siege equipment, if you want to break through the city wall, you can only use your life to pile it up, but Ning Yunjin's side is not much better. Although they have oil and water, the amount is only enough to eat, even if a part of the oil is used as a defense It is used for the city, but the water cannot move, otherwise I am afraid that I will not be able to hold on until the rescue is not available.

In the morning's attack, three or 400 people were left behind, and Ning Yunjin also suffered more than 100 casualties. This kind of battle damage does not seem to be high, but their number is too small, and they will collapse if they consume a few more times up.

Ning Yunjin has discovered that the real threat to the soldiers on the city wall is mainly a few generals headed by Meng He. They are all powerful, and they can be seen as inheriting the power of a thin bloodline.Usually soldiers use three-stone bows, but these people all use four or five-stone bows. Bows and arrows such as Baibu are extremely lethal, and ordinary soldiers have no way to resist them.

Seeing this situation, Ning Yunjin no longer personally went out to kill the enemy, he handed over the command to Mu Danshu's deputy, and instead went back to the camp to fiddle all afternoon.

In the early morning of the next day, although he looked a little haggard, he took out a box of small wood chips and asked people to put a piece every ten feet.People who have experienced battles are no strangers to such things. Originally, he had gained a lot of military morale because of his amazing force and resourcefulness. After seeing this thing, the soldiers even felt admiration for him.

At this time, everyone remembered that Mr. Ning was not only the first champion in Daxia to win three consecutive yuan, but also a land worshiper, a land sacrificer who studied under the great master!

The reason why his actions cheered up the soldiers so that they would not fall into the despair of being besieged was related to the special features of this world.

Different from the time and space where Yangcheng lives, in this world where there are too many dead people, countless resentment and hostility will be generated, which will have various negative effects on ordinary people, and even have extremely terrifying hallucinations in severe cases.

And why people who have awakened the power of blood are respected by people and protected by the country, because only one sacrifice to ghosts and gods can get rid of such influences. Back then, Ning Taoxu made military exploits by haunting the battlefield, and he did these things.

As for the more advanced bloodlinesmen who can even use this hostility to protect their own soldiers, Ning Yunjin once enjoyed that kind of treatment when he participated in the war, and he still remembers it, so when he left Datong, for the sake of He has collected enough mahogany to be prepared, which is also one of his biggest killers.

The soldiers thought that the small wooden chips he made were the most commonly used exorcism flags, which could save them from being harmed by hostility.But in fact, what he made was the soul-fixing banner, which could absorb the resentment on the battlefield, and then use it with the soul-calling spell when it gathered to the apex.

At first, Menger didn't notice the problem, but on the morning of the 23rd, he finally noticed something was wrong.These days, I always feel that I can attack the seemingly weak city wall with a little more effort, and the soldiers guarding the city wall seem exhausted, and their movements are a little stiff, as if they can win with just one attack.

But this is the point, but it seems that there will never be a way to achieve it.Obviously, the number of people on his side is superior, and he harassed the other side every two hours in rotation, but now it seems that the soldiers on his side seem to be a little more tired.

When they came out this time, they only brought more than ten days of military rations. Even if they lived frugally, now even the main account of Menghe had no dry rations, and they could only eat freshly slaughtered horse meat.Today's Fengwu people have become a nation on horseback, and eating horse meat is a huge psychological burden.

While eating without taste, he listened to the soldiers chatting.At this time, an experienced old man in Meng or his own soldiers muttered curiously, "It's strange, so many people have died recently, and I haven't seen any hostility."

With a twitch in his heart, he stood up in shock, and even dropped the horse meat in his hand to the ground!The history of Ning Yunjin flashed in his mind, and the three words of the land sacrificer were simply a great irony branded in his heart.

As a royal monk, he might just be a priest of ghosts and gods, but he has not lost the knowledge that should be learned at all, so he naturally knows how far a priest of land worship can do.

He was preparing to gather troops to launch a strong attack at all costs, but at this time a gust of wind suddenly blew up on the city wall, and then it seemed that the sky was overcast.

Meng or shouted, "Prepare for battle, prepare for battle!"

His voice was so loud that he even unconsciously used a technique similar to a lion's roar, resounding through the entire valley, but Ning Yunjin grinned when he heard it, "It's late!"

Before dawn, Ning Yunjin had people prepare the altar, on which there was a bronze tripod, while he himself bathed and changed into white clothes, chanting spells silently, and when he was stunned or yelled, he would wake up early The entire soul-calling ceremony has been completed.

The soul-calling ceremony is not to call out ghosts as in Maoshan Taoism, but to release all the hostility from five to ten miles away from the performer.This valley was originally an ancient battlefield, and it was absorbed by the Dinghun Banner before, which is why there is such a big movement.

At that moment, the originally silent world seemed to be touched, making this area seem to be covered by dark clouds, and the atmosphere was deep.

This kind of hostility will not directly hurt the opponent's soldiers, but using online games as a metaphor, it seems to be a debuff with a fear effect, which can directly arouse the most fearful thing in people's hearts.And when people are extremely frightened, they will lose their minds, and even have hallucinations similar to death. It is most effective when two armies are fighting.

However, not everyone can achieve this kind of ability, only the top earth sacrificers or sky sacrificers can display it!After all, even if the right time and place call out such a huge hostility, if you want to control it so that it does not have an effect on your own soldiers, such a precise control ability cannot be achieved by mere sacrifices to ghosts and gods.

There was still a little hesitation in Menggu's heart, he wanted to bet that Ning Yunjin would not be able to control it, once the magic was out of control, it would not be his own disadvantage, and after all, they had the advantage in numbers.He already guessed that Ning Yunjin must have prayed for those soldiers these days, otherwise those ordinary soldiers would not have such good energy, as long as...

Just as he was struggling, the soldiers on the city wall rushed out, brandishing their weapons, and rushed directly into the chaotic camp of the Fengwu people.Like reapers in the field, they cut down the life of their panic-stricken enemies.