Amidst the rumbling of war drums, the war resumed in the south.
On May 19, 7742 in the Imperial Calendar, the Blackstone Empire's 200,000 elite troops plus 50,000 lowered soldiers, totaling 250,000, attacked the Zhanlong Pass deployed by Xu Jiantao.
Outside Dragon Slaying Pass, banners covered the sky, and countless Blackstone Empire troops were already wildly preparing for war.
Each of them looked at this pass that stood between two mountains with ferocious expressions on their faces, and their eyes were full of greed.
Zhanlongguan, during the ancestral period, a dragon descended from the sky and devoured the people.
Later, a prince who guarded Bailing City killed him here with one sword.
Therefore, the city built later was called Zhanlongguan, and even, The head of the giant dragon hangs in front of the meeting hall of Lian Zhan Long Pass, although it is just a low-level pseudo-dragon.
"It's finally here."
At the gate of the city, a group of generals of the Qin family stood in line.
Among them, the man wearing the commander's armor was Xu Jiantao.
He pressed the handle of his sword, trembling slightly.
He looked at the enemy army in the distance under the city with a pair of tiger eyes, but all he saw was the ferocious black stone.
The imperial troops marched in unison There are spears nearly three meters long, and each spear has a head pierced on it.
Those heads are the imperial soldiers who followed Yao Yuan and died in Linghan City.
In addition, there are also the heads of many common people.
Looking at it, there are at least 10,000 heads connected together.
Xu Jiantao's palms trembled even more, and deep hatred surged from his eyes as he said: "Beasts, these beasts, the thieves of the Black Stone Empire are not human beings, they are a group of uncivilized beasts."
On the side, the deputy general nodded: "Your Majesty, the Blackstone Empire's bandit army has arrived.
It seems that the damage they suffered in the last battle was not as much as we imagined.
The main force is still around 200,000, and they have also enslaved Lingkong Province and the state.
The county's garrison turned them into our vanguard.
How do we fight this battle?
We can't use magic crystal cannons to attack the former brothers Pao Ze."
"Let's act with caution.
Moreover, our magic crystal cannon shell reserves are already very empty.
Most of the shells cast in Lanyan City and Dongshuang City have been sent to Luohekou, Yunzhong Pass and Qihai City, leaving us with insufficient 10%, I’m afraid we won’t have any more shells to use after three or five rounds of shelling, so we’ll save what we can.”
"Without magic crystal cannon, how can we stop the Blackstone Empire?"
"Use bows and arrows, arrow boxes, and ballistae."
Xu Jiantao clenched his fists and said with determination in his eyes: "Use everything you can.
Behind us are more than a dozen states of Lingnan Province and tens of millions of people.
We must not let the beasts of the Black Stone Empire pass by, otherwise you and I will be the same."
The sinner of the Qin Empire.”
"But" The deputy general's voice trembled slightly as he said: "We only have 50,000 troops, most of whom are new recruits.
The training time is less than a month.
How can we withstand 200,000 elites?"
"Don't shake the morale of the army."
Xu Jiantao glanced at the deputy general with cold eyes and said: "It doesn't matter even if you and I die in battle, but we can't lose His Highness Yu's people, we can't lose the people of Longdan Camp.
After all, those who guard Zhanlong Pass This is the Longdan Camp, our strongest army in Great Qin.
Stop saying those cowardly words, the soldiers of the Longdan Camp are never afraid of war and death.”
"But the prince" "Stop counting the arrows, recruit the civilians in the pass, and ask all their craftsmen to come to the city, cut down the birch forest in the back mountain, and help us make arrows.
In addition, take out the flag of Gentian Camp. , hang it up for me.
I want my brothers to know that they are members of the Gentian Battalion.
Even if they die in battle, they will go to hell with me as soldiers of the Gentian Battalion."
"Yes, Your Majesty" The sound of war drums became more and more intense, and the army outside the city was ready to move, but there was no movement until the afternoon.
When the soldiers at the gate of the city were almost impatient to wait, another drum rhythmic sound of urging battle finally came, and the battle of the Blackstone Empire The formations gave way one after another, and what appeared from behind them was a group of Qin soldiers wearing khaki clothes.
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"Coming" A captain of ten thousand men gritted his teeth and said: "Do they want the surrendered soldiers to go ahead and die?
If the Qin family doesn't kill the Qin family, they are forcing us to submit, despicable Baili Qin?"
Xu Jiantao took a deep breath: "Don't shoot arrows when you surrender."
"yes" The deputy general was stunned: "Aren't we going to defend the city?"
"No, Mamoru."
Xu Jiantao squinted his eyes: "Take a closer look to see if there is anyone you know in the army."
"have" A chief said loudly: "Junhou, the black-faced man walking at the front is called Zhang Xiaosi.
He is a fellow villager of Xiaosi.
He was sent to guard Linghan City last year and was later captured."
"Junhou, I also recognize a few people.
That one and that one used to be part of the garrison of Bailing City.
They were later transferred to Xuzi Port to join the navy."
The shouts rang out one after another, which also allowed Xu Jiantao to discern some subtle information.
It is true that the people of the Blackstone Empire are cruel and violent.
They will never let their own people die first, so they organized the 50,000 soldiers to attack the city first. , these surrendered soldiers did not have any decent weapons at all.
They were either rusty halberds or broken iron swords.
The clothes on their bodies were all improvised from common people's clothing.
They had no real military appearance.
It can be said.
"Here's the order, no one is allowed to shoot these surrendered soldiers."
Xu Jiantao smiled faintly and said: "I should thank Baili Qin for sending me 50,000 reserve troops to prepare orders.
When these surrendered soldiers approach the city gate, they will immediately open the city gate and let them in."
"yes" "Don't do it, Junhou."
The lieutenant general said with an angry look on his face: "Does Junhou want to get into the predicament of killing the dragon?
Once we open the city gate, the soldiers will definitely rush in.
It will be difficult to close the city gate again.
The Blackstone Empire's tiger and leopard cavalry are following them and charging into the city.
What can we do to resist them?"
"Don't worry, they won't rush over."
Xu Jiantao said confidently.
"Why" Xu Jiantao smiled: "Vice Commander Wang, do you still remember the task that I ordered you to lead out of the city three days ago, dig a pit every tens of meters for several miles outside the city, and then fill it up to keep fresh soil on top?"
"I know, but what does that have to do with anything else?"
the lieutenant general was stunned.
"Of course it does matter.
We don't have any extra magic crystal cannons to deploy underground artillery formations, so I ordered you to dig tens of thousands of pits outside the city just to deceive soldiers.
Baili Qin must also be able to see these deep pits. , he doesn’t know what I’m thinking, as the saying goes Chao had been bitten by snakes for ten years and was afraid of well ropes.
They didn't know if the artillery array was really buried outside Zhanlong Pass, so I concluded that Baili Qin did not dare to send troops to follow the soldiers into the city, so I opened the city gate with confidence and boldness.
Let’s take in these Qin army brothers who were forced to surrender.” "" The lieutenant general suddenly realized it, and his face was full of surprise: "Your Majesty is really like a god with his troops.
No wonder my subordinates know about it.
I will do it right now."
On the city, there were orders forbidding shooting everywhere.
Sure enough, none of the tens of thousands of defenders at Zhanlong Pass fired an arrow.
When the soldiers came to the pass tremblingly with their swords in hand, Xu Jiantao jumped and landed on the battlement.
Above, show your own With military rank, he shouted in a low voice: "I am Cangnan Hou Xu Jiantao.
I know that you were forced to surrender the bandits.
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Today, I will give you a chance to re-loyal to the empire.
Come to the city for me.
Don't crowd and stampede.
Divine soldiers will descend from the sky to cut off your empire. " The soldiers below the city were stunned.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak" The iron rope twisted, the city gate slowly opened, and the gate of Dragon Slaying Pass opened just like that.
The eyes of the surrendered soldiers suddenly opened up, as if seeing the sun again.
The ups and downs of life came too fast.
A moment ago, they thought they would die humiliatingly under the sword of their own family.
But now, they were forgiven so quickly.
Everyone hurriedly As they dashed into the city, the five gates of Zhanlong Pass opened at the same time, and they entered the city very fast, like a tidal wave.
"Aim all the magic crystal cannons a thousand meters away to serve as the rear guard for the brother armies of Lingkong Province," Xu Jiantao ordered loudly.
The barrels of the magic crystal cannon were aligned in the distance and raised their heads.
In the main camp of the Blackstone Empire, Baili Qin, Baili Yan, Fu Yu, Han Shu and others stood on the high platform, looking at what was happening in the distance, but seemed powerless.
"They are turning on and off to accept the surrender of pawns."
Bai Liyan frowned: "Xu Jiantao, this bastard, does things unexpectedly.
Why does he dare to switch on and off so boldly?
Isn't he afraid that we will take advantage of the situation and kill him?"
"He dreams about us covering him up."
Baili Qin said coldly: "There are tens of thousands of well-marked artillery pits outside the city.
As long as our army kills them, he will be able to kill tens of thousands of our imperial warriors without any damage.
Huh, he is really planning what he wants."
"Ancestor, are we just going to watch 50,000 surrendered soldiers go back like this?"
Bai Liyan was a little unwilling.
"Those who achieve great things must learn to be patient.
Fifty thousand soldiers are just a bunch of chickens and dogs.
They are not worth mentioning at all.
How can we wait any longer if we leave it to Xu Jiantao?
As soon as it gets dark, we immediately dispatch elite soldiers with shovels, under the protection of shield soldiers.
Go down and dig out the pits to dig out their magic crystal cannons.
Don’t go with too many people and destroy them one by one, leaving Xu Jiantao with nothing to do.”
"Yes, Marshal is wise."
Fu Yu nodded.
In the blink of an eye, night fell, and thousands of Blackstone Empire elites rushed straight to the front of Dragon Slaying Pass, avoiding the shooting distance of the archers, and began to dig big holes with shovels, but they dug one big hole after another, and each big hole was dug several meters long.
Deep, but there was nothing.
Suddenly everyone was at a loss.
Naturally, this confusion quickly aroused the anger in the Chinese army commander's tent.
"bastard" Baili Qin shattered the table with one palm, and said with a pale face: "How dare Xu Jiantao, a thief, tease me like this?
I will cut him into pieces to relieve the hatred in my heart."
Fu Yu raised his sword: "Marshal, please let me attack the Dragon-Zhan Pass overnight."
"Okay, let's go" "yes":