The first thing Li Neng did after raising his troops was to surround Tianqi City. The city had once been his fiefdom, and he knew it all too well. The city was not prosperous when it was in his hands, it could only be described as shabby, but in Lide's hands, it looked a little bit different, even the city walls were rebuilt.
The reason why Tianqi City was chosen to attack was because it was the easiest city to obtain. It is not far from Rivet City, and the defense facilities are not perfect. There were only a few archers on the city wall looking down. Li Neng sent his own archers to shoot a few rounds of arrows, and almost no one dared to look down casually.
This made Li Neng feel at ease. After a little thought, he launched a stormy attack on Tianqi City by encircling three and missing one. He doesn't know how many defenders are left in Tianqi City, but he is sure that all the troops in Yuxi City combined are not as many as his own, so this command is so smooth, he hasn't fought such a comfortable battle for a long time up.
Selaginella, who got the striker, fulfilled his due responsibilities. On the day he went to the battlefield, he secretly inserted a small white flower into the clothes on his chest before putting on the heavy armor. He knew that no one would come to mourn him when he died, so he held a simple funeral for himself while he was still alive.
But unexpectedly, he knew that his army was very fragile, but the opponent's coming was even more fragile.
With the help of the large formation left by Fang Shisan, the army in Tianqi City still put up a frenzied resistance, shooting and killing dozens of soldiers under Li Neng's command, but the vanguard army led by Selaginella also climbed up the city wall. When Selaginella stood firm, he clenched the long knife in his hand, thinking that what would greet him would be a thrilling hand-to-hand fight, but he didn't expect that there was no one in front of him at all.
The soldiers who stayed behind in Tianqi City collectively broke through the west gate, abandoned the city and fled.
On July 17th, 333, the day the troops were raised, Lineng conquered Tianqi City.
After this big victory, Li Neng opened the bank of Tianqi City, and distributed part of the money to the soldiers neatly. Selaginella also got a small silver coin, and he put the silver coin in his pocket. Li Neng held a banquet in the city to celebrate this beautiful victory. The main participants in the banquet were the school officials, the elite troops, and those masters lent to Li Neng by Li Yi. alone. He was sitting in the corner, and it seemed that no one had remembered that he put his head on his belt and mustered up the courage to be the first to rush up the city wall. The school officials praised each other as if they were the protagonists of today's victory.
Li Neng was a little drunk, and was still toasting those masters, and said while toasting:
"Yuxi City is no longer a concern. The casualties and injuries of the army have long been difficult. The only thing to worry about is how many people can fight. That Alaiya is a famous talented swordsman in Yunyang. Thanks for your help..."
The leader among the masters had a beard and said disdainfully while drinking fine wine:
"What kind of genius swordsman, this time she has to kneel on the ground and kowtow to beg for mercy!"
The atmosphere of the banquet reached its peak here.
Selaginella left the banquet first on the pretext of not being able to drink enough, and returned to his barracks with his swollen head, but found that the soldiers were all sitting outside, their faces full of gloom.
He only felt that most of the wine in his body was sober at once, and he went up to inquire about the situation, only to realize that the reward money distributed to everyone today was all confiscated by the army borrowed by Li Yi, and the other party justifiably said that they are poor people. It's useless to spend money, and you have to rely on these elites to support you in tough battles. It's only natural for rookies to pay money to save their lives.
Selaginella rested her hand on the knife at her waist calmly, hesitated for a moment, but still didn't move.
He showed a hearty smile, took out the silver coin from his pocket, and said:
"Come on, I'll invite everyone to drink."
When he left, the white flower pinned to his chest fell to the ground and turned into mud.
The next day, Li Neng announced that because Selaginella left the barracks without permission yesterday, he still let him take his subordinates as a forward.
Selaginella didn't refuse either, but when he led the soldiers out, he calmly glanced at Liyi's elite troops, with a cold edge in his eyes. None of his soldiers complained, they followed Selaginella and walked to the front of the army formation.
On the same day, Li Neng led the army to conquer Lieyang City.
This battle was much more difficult than imagined, but it did not encounter too much trouble. Li Neng still adopted the strategy of encircling three and missing one. He did not station a large number of troops in Tianqi City, leaving only less than 200 soldiers to stabilize the situation there, and then led most of the troops to continue the crusade.
Li Neng is very clear that the number of defenders in Yuxi City is seriously insufficient, and his own number is the biggest advantage. If too many people are assigned to garrison the newly recaptured Apocalypse City, the pressure on Lide will be greatly reduced, and it is likely that he will be able to breathe. So Li Neng still attacked Lieyang City vigorously, and this time the resistance he received was greatly improved. Obviously, Fang Shisan had already deployed defenders in Lieyang City in advance.
The battle lasted for two days, and more than one-third of Selaginella's men were killed or injured. This is also because Lieyang City's resistance is limited, and it only knocks down those who attack the top of the city and has no spare energy to shoot arrows. Li Neng thought about it for a while, and felt that this was a matter of course: it took much more time to train archers than pawns. Nine out of ten archers in Yuxi City died in the war against the demons. Soldiers are only good at hand-to-hand combat, and defending the city is a field they have never touched before.
Two days later, Lieyang City was broken, and Li Neng led his army into the city.
All night long, Li Neng sweated profusely. He felt that he had vented all his grievances. All he could think about was how to torture his former younger brother after the war and how to kill his subordinates. Those capable ministers and officials took over and came to their side.
Two days later, news came from Yuxi City: After losing two cities in a row, Fang Shisan was in a hurry and went out of the city late at night to inspect the army. On the way, he was ambushed by an assassin and was seriously injured. Li De demoted Fang Shisan and ordered her to recuperate from her injuries. The army of Yuxi City was given full responsibility to the deputy commander Lu Ge.
The source of the news is a nail that Yunyang planted in Yuxi City a long time ago, there is nothing more reliable than this.
So Li Neng let out a long breath and couldn't help laughing. The sun was just right and there was no cloud in the sky. Thousands of soldiers stood silently in the suburbs in a murderous phalanx. Li Neng walked up to them in high spirits, glanced at the elite troops whistling, at the expressionless ordinary soldiers, and at the Selaginella family with tired faces. He raised his hand high and gave an order pointing to the final outcome:
"Let's go, go straight to Yuxi City!"