The half-step gods in Lanling Palace all sneered. They were very confident in Langya's elite cavalry.
This cavalry is part of the millions of elite cavalry specially dispatched to the border by Emperor Langya. Its combat power is extremely terrifying and cannot be resisted by the infantry in the Yushan City defenders.
Just in terms of equipment, there is a gap between the two.
If the defenders of Yushan City were inside the city and relied on the city walls to defend themselves, these cavalry would not be of much use.
However, we are currently outside the city.
Although the one hundred thousand defenders were selected elites, trying to block Langya's elite cavalry was tantamount to wishful thinking.
Just when they were waiting for a good show with sneers on their faces.
Jun Wuxie had already rushed towards the Langya elite cavalry, which was like a torrent of blood-colored steel rolling over the earth and sweeping towards a hundred thousand elite soldiers.
The runes bloomed under his feet, and with every step he took, it was like shrinking into an inch, pulling up an afterimage.
When Langya's elite cavalry was still a kilometer away from the battlefield where one hundred thousand soldiers were, he had already rushed in front of the hundreds of thousands of galloping cavalry.
He carried it with one hand, and golden blood overflowed from his body, spreading around like golden water patterns.
At the same time, he continued to move forward, flicking his fingers to create a sword wave.
The sword wave surged forward like a gentle wave of water, but in an instant it turned into a sword wave, spread in a fan-shaped area, and swept forward violently.
Buzz——
Caused by the sword wave, the space buzzed, as if the heaven and earth here were trembling.
The commander and other generals who led the cavalry at the front all had cold eyes, thrust forward with their spears, and the light from their spears burst out.
In their opinion, these golden sword waves can be easily wiped out.
Unexpectedly, their spear light collapsed the moment it came into contact with the sword wave.
Such a scene shocked them.
"Get out of the way!"
The cavalry commander roared, jumped up, and waved his spear, forming a spear array to resist the impact of the sword waves.
Qiang——
The impact of the sword wave caused the spear in the commander's hand to tremble rapidly, causing his jaw to burst and blood to flow out.
His whole body flew backwards under the impact of the sword wave, knocking down a large section of the cavalry behind him.
At the same time, the wave of swords swept past, covering twenty to thirty meters horizontally and tens of meters deep, and all Langya's elite cavalry screamed in agony.
Their bodies were all chopped off, starting from the chest.
This is a shocking scene. The wave of swords sweeps past, and within a radius of tens of meters, there is a blood mist in the air.
The mounts under the beheaded cavalry were frightened, neighing and running around in panic.
"Don't panic, it's just one person, let me form a formation to attack him!"
The cavalry commander roared, commanding the cavalry to form a battle formation, quickly bypass him from both sides, surround him, and launch fierce attacks from all directions.
Jun Wuxie completely ignored them. His body was overflowing with golden blood, making it impossible for them to attack him. They were blocked by the air waves several meters away.
He stepped on the runes and walked among the Langya cavalry. He flicked his fingers frequently, and waves of swords swept across all directions.
The Langya cavalry screamed in agony.
Every time the sword wave swept out, a large area of Langya cavalry was cut into two pieces.
Their armor, which they claim to be strong in defense, is in vain.
Their proud cavalry charge was useless.
Jun Wuxie was like a killing god, and he was in a deserted place among Langya's elite cavalry army.
He doesn't have any drastic moves.
It was just a snap of the fingers from start to finish.
Each finger will harvest the lives of a large number of Langya cavalry.
As the casualties of the Langya cavalry increased rapidly, the remaining cavalry had lost their fighting spirit.
They kept charging, but they were unable to cause any damage to the target, and could not even get close. Instead, they left layers of corpses around the target's body within a radius of dozens of meters!
The ground was full of plasma, and the broken corpses and internal organs strewn all over the ground stimulated their minds and made them almost collapse!
A few hours passed, and the area where the cavalry was located was covered with corpses. In some places, they were piled up like mountains of corpses.
Almost half of the 200,000 cavalrymen were killed or injured.
"Woo-"
At this moment, the horn sound of Langya Lord's retreat signal was heard in the distance.
For a moment, the Langya cavalry ran back like crazy as if they had received an amnesty.
The same was true for the Langya infantry, which had already been in disarray. Each one of them didn't even want their weapons, they just wanted to run faster.
For a time, Langya's army was defeated, like a bereaved dog, extremely embarrassed.
"No! I am not willing to give in!"
A heart-rending roar came from somewhere on the battlefield.
That is the half-step god of Lanling Palace.
He was already scarred, and was hit by Nalan Jingyi. The sword energy penetrated his chest, leaving two puncture wounds, one through the lungs and one through the heart.
His blood spurted out wildly, his body was crumbling, blood was dripping from his mouth, and he stared at Nalan Jingyi with fierce eyes.
“What we want, no one can stop us!
Nalan Jingyi, you will inevitably die! "
After the words fell, Nalan Jingyi slashed his head with a sword and chopped off his head.
From the headless neck, blood rushed out like a fountain, and the headless body fell to the ground.
"Yes, you are going to die and no one can save you."
Nalan Jingyi said calmly, and then used the sword to kill the other two half-step gods, joining Feng Ling and Feng Wei on the battlefield.
The two half-step gods were also at the end of their strength. They suffered dozens of wounds on their bodies and turned into bloody men.
Even though he was wearing Langya Army armor, the armor was in pieces.
Seeing Nalan Jingyi coming to kill them, they roared wildly like trapped animals.
However, the battle between trapped beasts still cannot change their situation.
After Nalan Jingyi joined the battle, they were quickly killed by the sword.
"Stop chasing!"
Jun Wuxie's voice sounded in the distance.
He stopped the defenders who had been chasing for several kilometers and still wanted to continue chasing Langya Army.
"Master, why don't we take advantage of the situation to pursue them and annihilate them in one fell swoop?"
A group of generals returned with their soldiers and asked in confusion.
"I have my own plans."
Jun Wuxie did not explain.
He wants to fight a protracted war, not to annihilate all the Langya army every time.
Taking your time slowly is the way to go, he needs time.
Moreover, the Langya army has already run far away. If they continue to pursue them like this, if they join up with the retreating Langya army from other roads, then the pursuing defenders will be in danger and will be dumped.
"Master!"
Feng Ling and others ran over. Although each of them looked pale and consumed a lot of energy, their faces were full of excitement.
This time, they actually killed three strong men who were half-step into the realm of gods.
This is something they never dared to imagine before.
Because the half-step god has already touched the threshold of the god realm.
That realm has quite a suppressive effect on them. Trying to kill a half-step god with a low realm is like a fantasy.
But today they did it!
"are you tired."
Jun Wuxie smiled lightly.
Nalan Jingyi, Feng Ling, and Feng Wei all shook their heads.
"You go back to the city lord's mansion first to adjust your breathing."
Nalan Jingyi nodded, and then left with Feng Ling and Feng Wei.
Jun Wuxie asked the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, especially the mounts left behind by the Langya cavalry, and bring them all back to the city.
Cavalry mounts are very important and are valuable resources.
It only needs a little taming to expand your cavalry team.
Returning to the city wall, he asked Qi Zhenshan about the situation of the fortresses in various places.
Qi Zhenshan said that the situation was very good, especially the 393 defense line. With the addition of the Rune War Crossbow Bed, the Langya Army there would leave corpses all over the ground every time they charged, and less than a third of them rushed to the front of the defense line.
Moreover, those Langya troops were so frightened by the rune war weapons that they had no fighting spirit, and the situation of the battle was completely reversed.
The Langya Army of 393 has now retreated.
The Langya army in other places was unable to attack for a long time and suffered heavy casualties. Many places have already retreated.
Jun Wuxie nodded and looked at other sections of the city wall, where the offensive and defensive battles were still going on.
Due to the presence of rune warfare weapons, the number of people who can rush to the city and climb the wall of Langya Army will be greatly reduced every time.
This allowed that although there were not many defenders on the city wall, they were able to stab them all off the siege ladder.
From the beginning of the siege to the present, no Langya army has successfully climbed the city wall.
"Master, these Langya troops are really determined to attack the city, with so many casualties.
I don't know what kind of benefits that old thief King Lanling gave Emperor Langya to make them do this. "
“It must be the territory including Yushan County.
But these alone were not enough to make Emperor Langya willing to pay a huge price.
The biggest reason that drove Emperor Langya to do this was to take the opportunity to control the borders of our dynasty.
As long as they firmly control the border, they can use it as a springboard to engulf the dynasty.
Yushan County was the dynasty's biggest barrier on this line of defense.
Losing such an important town opened the door to the dynasty.
There is no such advantageous defensive terrain behind. "
"I see, so Emperor Langya wants to take advantage of this opportunity to seize the territory of my entire dynasty?
What a wolfish ambition, he has such a big appetite!
That old thief, King Lanling, even sold Yushan County to the Langya Dynasty for the sake of the throne. Didn't he think about the consequences? "
Jun Wuxie shook his head, "How could a person as cunning as Prince Lanling not think of the consequences?
He knew very well what Emperor Langya really wanted.
However, from King Langya's perspective, he had no choice.
I guess he is very confident and thinks that he can solve these problems as long as he ascends the throne and controls the imperial power. "
"Report! Master, General, good news came from Fortress No. 3. The Langya Army has retreated across the board!"
"Report, Master, General, good news came from Fortress No. 15..."
…
One military intelligence report came after another.
As time went by, all the major fortresses and the Langya Army withdrew their troops across the board and stopped attacking.
The next day, the battlefield was cleared.
Reports of battle damage were reported from major fortresses.
In this battle, the defenders suffered more than one million casualties, including more than 100,000 killed, more than 600,000 seriously injured, and more than 300,000 slightly injured.
In total, more than seven million Langya troops were killed and millions of wounded soldiers were left behind. Now all of them have been captured and are being escorted back to the city.
"I, Qi Zhenshan, have never fought such a beautiful battle with great losses!"
Qi Zhenshan and all the generals were very excited.
This battle lasted for more than two days, with 10 million against 40 million, but the battle damage was 1 to 10, which is simply a miracle!
"Master, what's wrong with you? You seem unhappy?"
Qi Zhenshan and others saw Jun Wuxie's solemn expression, and the excitement on his face also faded.
"There is nothing to be happy about, we suffered millions of casualties.
More than 100,000 of them lost their lives forever.
Do you think you should be happy? "
"this……"
When Qi Zhenshan and others heard this, they couldn't help but feel sad.
Yes, even though they wiped out an astonishing number of enemies, they also sacrificed so many of their own soldiers.
Jun Wuxie said nothing more, turned and left.
Qi Zhenshan and others hurriedly followed.
All the way back to the City Lord's Mansion, Nalan Jingyi and Feng Ling hurriedly greeted them and asked about the casualties.
She knew that the specific figures should be calculated today.
Qi Zhenshan hurriedly handed over the statistics book.
After Nalan Jingyi looked at it, she was silent for a long time.
"General Huwei, in the past, how much death pension were given to your frontier soldiers after they died?"
"Your Majesty, the death pension for frontier soldiers is ten times the annual minimum living standard for a family of three in the imperial dynasty, which is the minimum living standard for ten years."
Nalan Jingyi frowned slightly and said, "In other words, each soldier killed in battle is worth 120,000 silver?"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"I give so much military expenditure to the border areas every year, why are the standards so low?"
Qi Zhenshan trembled all over, fell to his knees on the ground, and said in panic: "Your Majesty, calm down, I am guilty!"
"Okay, don't blame Qi Zhenshan.
In the past, he was a member of King Lanling, so he would act according to King Lanling's words.
Most of your military expenditures for the frontiers go into the pockets of King Lanling, but in fact the military expenditures for the frontiers are only a fraction. "
Jun Wuxie said.
Nalan Jingyi did not blame Qi Zhenshan, but only said: "From today on, the pensions for all fallen soldiers will be increased from the previous 120,000 silver coins to one million silver coins, including the soldiers killed this time.
Also, since I came to the throne, the pensions of all the soldiers who died in the border areas have been replenished by one million silver coins!
Let a reliable person handle it in person. If there is any corruption regarding pensions for fallen soldiers, I will ask you! "
"I accept the decree. I will personally supervise this matter and there will never be any problems!"
Qi Zhenshan patted his chest and assured.
"Back off."
Nalan Jingyi waved her hand.
"Is your mood so low because of the sacrificed soldiers?"
After Qi Zhenshan left, Jun Wuxie held Nalan Jingyi's hand and whispered.
Nalan Jingyi leaned into his arms and sighed: "In order to kill me, King Lanling led the Langya army to attack the city and sacrificed so many soldiers.
If I had been able to control the imperial power these years, King Lanling would not have had the chance to do such a thing, and they would not have died..."
"Jingyi, I know you are kind at heart and a good and kind emperor.
But some things are not as satisfactory as expected.
This matter is not your responsibility.
In the imperial capital, you have worked very hard over the past few decades, but King Lanling is so powerful.
It's not that you don't want to move him, it's that you can't move him.
Don't worry, we won't have such heavy casualties again in the future.
Before leaving the imperial capital, I designed the armor drawings and asked the Ministry of Industry to rush to produce the armor. Due to the huge quantity, they needed time.
A lot of new armors should be produced now.
Presumably the new armor will be delivered in a while.
By then, with the new armor, priority will be given to the soldiers in each fortress, and their defense will be improved by several levels. "
When Nalan Jingyi heard this, she looked up at him and suddenly smiled. Then she put her face against his chest and said, "It's great to have you, as if all the difficulties are no longer difficulties."
