Long Tenghai's order almost caused an uproar in the entire army.
It is true that this was a rare victory and a decisive victory, but the price it paid was too huge. The army lost more than 70%, and only 40% were left able to fight. The most important thing is that the elite The monks were basically unwilling to continue fighting. Each faction had suffered heavy losses in this battle. If the battle continued, their gains would be less than their efforts.
Now that the big victory has been won, who wants to continue to fight hard
But Long Tenghai had been dealing with them for a long time and had already figured out how to deal with them. He used his sharp tongue to convince the leaders of each faction that they only needed to follow and not fight. Only then did he reluctantly convince these monks. Set off with the troops.
As for the other soldiers, although they were exhausted to the extreme, Long Tenghai's more than ten years of management in the southeast had already made him the de facto uncrowned king of the southeast, and his orders were more effective than the emperor.
Under the huge pressure, these soldiers had no choice but to temporarily bury their happiness and joy of victory in their hearts, and endured the fear of the future to embark on the journey again.
After the troops marched a distance of thirty miles, they arrived at Sunshine City, which was two castles on the plain corresponding to the original name of Nanyang. It was originally a huge barracks and now its original appearance was completely unrecognizable.
Because it was so close, the huge energy shock wave made it look like a sand castle built on the beach. At this time, most of it had been destroyed. There were broken walls and ruins everywhere. In some places, there were dark red crystals, which were magic crystals. After the high temperature of the shock wave passed, the remains of some city walls and houses crystallized.
The troops did not go to Sunshine City because the jagged crystals were densely covered, and some places even turned into stone forests, like spike traps made by hunters, making it impossible to march.
The Valley of Gray Helmets is located one hundred and thirty miles northwest of Sunshine City. The troops threw away all their heavy equipment, even their helmets and armor. They only carried weapons, light armor, dry food and water. With the help of the monks, After marching rapidly for a day and a night, we finally arrived.
When they arrived, Daqi's five-clawed green dragon flag had been planted on the city gate of Gray Helmet Valley. The flag could be seen fluttering from a distance, and the morale of the exhausted soldiers was greatly boosted.
Li Chengfeng saw only a canyon in front of him, with rolling mountains on both sides. It was as if the plain was suddenly cut off by a barrier, and a rolling mountain range rose up from the ground. The mountains on both sides moved forward, and the terrain The narrower it gets, the steeper the cliff becomes, until at the bottom is a gray castle fortress.
There are two huge stone statues standing on both sides of the castle. One of the two stone statues is wearing a crown and holding a huge stone sword towards them. The other stone statue is holding a book in one hand and holding a crystal in the other. The shape of the boulder is obviously the foundation of the puppet country's founding.
And this is also the pass of the most important core hinterland of the puppet country. As long as you occupy this place, you will strangle the throat of the puppet country.
Long Tenghai led his troops, and a general at the head immediately came up to him and briefly reported the situation to Long Tenghai.
It turned out that the cavalry on their side were about to be overwhelmed by the opponent's central army formation after rushing into the opponent's army formation. At this time, an extremely violent and terrifying explosion suddenly broke out in the central basin. This explosion instantly The Generalissimo Vivian of the Puppet Kingdom immediately abandoned the soldiers and used the teleportation array to escape. The remaining soldiers were immediately horrified and their morale collapsed.
Seeing what they didn't understand, the cavalry immediately galloped towards Sunshine City. They squeezed the last bit of horsepower from their horses and barely escaped. When they came to their senses, they found themselves Already running to the vicinity of Grayhelm Valley.
The leading general's surname was Xu. Although he was frightened and inexplicable when he saw this situation, it was really strange and terrifying to see that the city gate of this pass was wide open, the suspension bridge was lowered but not taken back, and there was no one on the tower.
However, General Xu is also a veteran of wars. This kind of empty city strategy cannot scare him. He first sent a few soldiers into the pass. After confirming that there were indeed no soldiers on the wall, he immediately sent another twenty Soldiers entered the fortress to conduct further searches, and at the same time sent messengers to immediately return and report the news to General Long Tenghai, while he himself led the remaining main force of the cavalry to sweep around to see if there were any ambushes or fish that had slipped through the net. .
By the time Long Tenghai arrived, General Xu had already swept through the Gray Helmet Valley fortress and found no trace of anyone or any ambush.
But even so, Long Tenghai still felt uneasy, because the situation in front of him was too weird!
Why would the puppet country abandon such an important pass? Why is there no one here
Is it because the marshal of the Puppet Kingdom fled first, causing the chain to collapse, and then all the generals and soldiers guarding the fortress also ran away
Or is this a trap
Long Tenghai did not order the immediate occupation of Gray Helmet Valley. Instead, he ordered the soldiers to set up camp about five miles outside the fortress. At the same time, he sent a hundred elite monks and a thousand soldiers into the fortress to conduct a second carpet search. In order to prevent the puppet country from setting up any terrible puppets here.
But these more than a thousand soldiers and monks searched back and forth several times. Even after checking the fortress gates, moats, trenches and the two stone statues dozens of meters high inside and outside, they still found nothing. income.
Long Tenghai was still worried. He chose to divide his troops into three. One of them was stationed in the fortress, and the other was deployed in the direction of the fortress towards the Puppet Kingdom. The scout cavalry among them were scattered for hundreds of miles; as for the last part, He placed his troops ten miles away from the fortress in the direction of Nanyangyuan, and his tents were also set up outside the fortress.
Without him, he was really frightened by the final self-destruction of those puppets from the Puppet Kingdom.
If the other party buries so many machine puppets under this fortress and causes them to self-destruct while they are sleeping, then everyone will rise to the sky together, and it will be a disaster.
Although I know this is basically impossible, if I don’t fear 10,000, just be afraid of the worst!
After the general's troubles, everyone knew what he was thinking.
Even the general was so worried. What were the other soldiers thinking
Who is not worried
The soldiers who were placed on the outside were okay, at least they dared to sleep peacefully at night. The soldiers who were placed on the inside and in the fortress really had smiles on their faces. Relatives of all generations of the general.
"Senior brother, what kind of medicine is sold in this puppet country gourd?"
On the tower of the fortress, Li Chengfeng, Zhao Xiaobao and Han Tianxing were patrolling at night. After the three patrolled for a few times, Han Tianxing couldn't hold it anymore and asked in a low voice.
Li Chengfeng glanced sideways at Han Tianxing, shook his head and said, "How do I know? Don't force yourself. If you are still injured, go back and rest early."
Han Tianxing smiled bitterly and said: "I am sitting in the crater of a volcano in this fortress. I don't know when the bottom of my butt will suddenly erupt. How can I sleep like this?"
Zhao Xiaobao whispered: "Master, how about we say hello to the general, we'd better not be here..."
Li Chengfeng laughed and said, "How do you know where is safe now? Is it the majestic city of Gray Helmet Valley below us, or the hinterland of the Puppet Kingdom inside, or the general's camp outside?"
Han Tianxing's expression changed and he said, "Senior brother, what did you find?"
Li Chengfeng shook his head and said: "I don't know, I only know that if something goes wrong, it must be a monster! The Puppet Kingdom has opened the door to its hinterland, whether it is an empty city plan or not, this is definitely not a good thing..."
Everyone knows that this empty city plan is not normal, and the puppet country must have a back-up plan, but... what exactly is this back-up plan
Under such circumstances, can the puppet country still make a comeback