Infinite Throne

   Chapter 928 Spring is blooming, when returning home

  Shenwu soldiers and horses are all elites.

   Their horses are top warhorses that eat royal horse food.

  The warhorse traveled thousands of miles a day and rested the next day. After rushing for thousands of miles, the reinforcements arrived at Lumen Pass on the 13th day of the eighth month of the Jisheng calendar.

  The 20,000 iron cavalry, the armor on their bodies reflects the cold light in the sun, but it is difficult to hide the dust and exhaustion on their bodies.

  …

   "It's reinforcements!"

   "Reinforcements are coming!"

   "Lumenguan is saved!"

   "Woooooo! Mother!"

   "Xiaodie, if I can go back alive, today next year will be your wedding night!"

   Someone was crying and thinking about the bridal chamber.

   "When the spring flowers bloom in the coming year, it will be the time when I, Song Batian, will return home!"

  Some people are very simple and just want to go home.

  …

   Seeing 20,000 elite Shenwu troops coming to help from Qingdu, the officers and soldiers guarding the city at Lumen Gate, they were all excited, men and men hugged each other, you and I cried together.

  The boy doesn't shed tears easily, but he hasn't reached the sad part.

   After verifying the identity of the reinforcements, the young city lord of Lumenguan, Ling Yunzhi, knelt down in front of General Shenwu with trembling hands.

   "General of Lumenguan, Ling Yunzhi, see General Shenwu!"

   They naturally have to fully verify the identity of the reinforcements.

   In case someone pretends to be the Shenwu Army, and he foolishly opens the back door and lets the enemy enter the city, then Ling Yunzhi has really become a sinner through the ages. Even if he apologizes himself, he has no face to see the old man under Jiuquan.

   Twenty thousand people rushed into the city.

  The city gates closed again.

After   Lumen Pass, there is a canyon, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

   But in front of Lumen Pass, it is a plain area, with both offense and defense.

  If the enemy is evenly matched, the plain area is suitable for war horses to raid. As soon as the city gate is opened, the cavalry will attack and leave with a single blow, which is convenient for guerrilla attacks.

  Being at a disadvantage, the location of Lumenguan is a bit awkward.

  …

  The news that General Shenwu arrived at Lumenguan with 20,000 elites, let alone one night, had spread all over Lumenguan in just one hour.

  City Lord Ling had always suspected that there were eyeliners placed by the other party in the city, so he kept closing the city gates and set up a defensive net of bows and arrows in the air to prevent any news from being revealed to the enemy.

  The army stationed in the East King, twenty li outside the Lumen Pass, camped and built a defensive line.

   The two sides have faced each other for more than a few months, and they are familiar with each other.

  Ling City Lord originally wanted to make a temporary camp in the city first, settle down a full 20,000 soldiers, and let them rest for a while.

  The white-haired general Shenwu snorted coldly: "There is no reason to rest before the enemy! Quickly gather all the generals to discuss the important matters of destroying the enemy!"

Xia Xiaoman, who was disguised as a man, was temporarily serving as the deputy general of General Shenwu. She also nodded her head with a calm face: "Now that the news of my arrival at Lumen Pass has not yet come out, I can take this opportunity to fight back and kill him by surprise. !"

   "Hahaha!" The Shenwu General, who had originally reprimanded Ling Yunzhi with a stern face, couldn't help but laugh when he heard Xia Xiaoman's witty remarks: "Well said! Counter-kill the other side...a wave!"

  Ling Yunzhi didn't notice the lieutenant next to General Shenwu.

  Looking at the skin and tender meat, it looks like they have never been on the battlefield.

   But when the lieutenant took off his helmet and spoke, Ling Yunzhi suddenly felt that the white-faced young general looked a little familiar.

  Ling Yunzhi met Xia Xiaoman...when she was a child.

   At that time, Xia Xiaoman still called his brother-in-law in a milky voice, chased after Ling Yunzhi's buttocks and said, "My second sister's golden cabbage is so good, why is it being slapped by a pig?" Yunyun.

   After a lapse of four years, Xia Xiaoman had grown a lot, and wearing armor with her hair tied in a bun, Ling Yunzhi didn't think about the eldest princess at all.

   Furthermore, the news of Xia Xiaoman's death spread all over the circle, Ling Yunzhi had long thought that Xia Xiaoman was dead.

  …

  …

   Temporary combat tents were temporarily set up under the city walls.

  Ling Yunzhi didn't dare to delay, he went into battle in person and spent just a stick of incense.

  Xia Xiaoman, General Shenwu, several generals, and Ling Yunzhi's confidants secretly held a battle meeting in the battle tent.

   at the meeting.

Ling Yunzhi pointed to the more than ten red circles on the map: "We have already ascertained all the enemy's garrisoned points, and we estimate that the troops of the garrison king outside Lumen Pass are now about 80,000 people. Come, our army resisted stubbornly, and fought several large-scale battles with the Eastern King's army on the plain, each of which was at a loss."

The others didn't speak, Ling Yunzhi quickly made a picture of the current situation at Lumenguan: "Originally, Lumenguan couldn't last that long, but just last month, the end general noticed that the enemy was sending troops on a large scale and mobilized them. Southeast, the last will find something wrong, and immediately send a scout to inquire about the news, and find this place..."

Ling Yunzhi tapped a few times in the area where rivers and plains meet in the southeast: "The army of the King of Zhennan and the army of the King of the East are fighting here. The King of the East seems to think that the battle of Lumenguan will be won. When we are in control, we will allocate a part of our troops to attack King Zhennan."

   "And the last time we attacked the city, three days ago, the army of the king stationed in the east brought thousands of ladders from the supply line behind him. They wanted to forcibly climb the city. In the end, I used kerosene to deal with it.

  Ling Yunzhi pointed to the spot marked with the Red Army camp, with an inconspicuous dotted line behind it, with a look of shame on his face: "The last general believes that the supply line of the Eastern King's army should be here, but the last general's scouts cannot approach."

   aside.

  Xia Xiaoman, who had been silent all this time, suddenly fell behind in Ling Yunzhi's tone, and asked with a frown, "Why can't we approach?"

"Inside the enemy army, there seems to be a mysterious cultivator to help out. At the key position of the supply line, the other party has set up a mechanism, and the scout of the last commander is found when he gets close. So far, there have been 23 out of 20 scouts damaged in the depths of the enemy army. ."

I see.

   The newly arrived reinforcements, including General Shenwu, Xia Xiaoman, and General Shenwu's henchmen, all had a preliminary understanding of the situation at Lumenguan.

  The battle report sent to Qingdu was vague, far less clear and clear than visiting the scene in person.

  Ling Yunzhi was able to defend Lumenguan for several months, and it was a great achievement that Lumenguan has not fallen, and there is no fault.

  Different from the King of the East and the King of the Peaceful West, the eastern region where he occupied is facing the sea, rich and fertile, and has accumulated unimaginable financial resources over the years. Once a war is fought, it is money and people who are fighting for it. The army that the King in the East has dragged to attack Lumenguan may only be the tip of the iceberg of the army he has.

   After a few months of consumption before Lumen Pass, the 80,000 elites stationed in the East were consumed, and only half of them were consumed, leaving about 60,000 people, which is also an extremely terrifying number.

   "How many elite soldiers are left in the Lumen Pass that can fight?"

   General Shenwu did not ask this question before, because he had seen countless wounded soldiers since he entered Lumenguan. Some tents could not even accommodate them, and the wounded soldiers at Lumenguan could only be wrapped in blood-stained gauze and cultivated outside the tents.

   It can be seen from this that if the Shenwu Army does not come again, it will only be a matter of time before this crucial Lumen Pass is captured by the Zhudong King.

   When General Shenwu sent out soul torture,

  Ling Yunzhi lowered his head, his face darkened, and hesitantly said a number: "Five, five, five..."

   "Fifty thousand?" General Shenwu was taken aback for a moment, and his intuition did not believe it.

This is impossible.

With 50,000 troops, coupled with the murderous 20,000 strong men of the Shenwu Army who were full of evil fires along the way, they can directly rub the feces on the opposite side, and they still need to stay in the city motionless, desperate Waiting for support?

  Ling Yunzhi shook his head helplessly.

  Xia Xiaoman: "Five thousand?"

   Ten times the disparity in strength, this is very hopeless.

  Ling Yunzhi took a deep breath and raised his head again: "Five hundred! The wounded in Lumen Pass are physically and mentally exhausted, and the bones of the deceased are cold, but there are only five hundred of the elites who can really mount and fight normally!"

   "This is the last elite soldier of my Lumenguan!"

   (end of this chapter)