At the beginning, more than 800000 officers and soldiers entered the base area.
When these officers and men came to the base areas, they did not understand the situation at all. According to their past experience, they aimed at the major cities and market towns, which was just a job!
As a result, after several battles, not only several cities and market towns were not defeated, but the teeth collapsed, resulting in the loss of more than 200000 people and horses, leaving only more than 500000 viable forces!
Only then did the officers and soldiers realize that they had made mistakes in their strategy and began to adjust quickly. Instead of attacking the cities and market towns in the base areas, they began to sweep, burn, kill and plunder the rural areas everywhere!
Because the individual combat ability of the reserve and the militia is far less than that of the officers and soldiers, and the field combat ability is not good, they can only hide in cities and market towns and watch the officers and soldiers wantonly destroy their homes, but have no way!
Now, the joint command of officers and soldiers is trapped in Ruiyang city. After receiving the notice, the troops scattered all over the city immediately begin to gather and fight against Ruiyang city in order to solve the siege of Ruiyang city.
However, within 200 li of Ruiyang City, there are almost all paddy fields. The troops can't move forward in the paddy fields at all. They can only move along the official road to Ruiyang City, but there are market towns and cities stuck in the throat on every official road. If the reinforcements want to support Ruiyang City, they must break through these barriers.
However, all of these checkpoints were carefully built by the heavenly soldiers. They have strong defensive ability. If the officers and soldiers want to break through these checkpoints, they can only fight the tough battles they are most reluctant to fight!
The rhythm of the war returned to the hands of the heavenly soldiers. The reserves, the militia, and even the ordinary people twisted into a rope. Relying on solid fortifications, they stubbornly blocked the officers and soldiers. All the officers and soldiers were firmly nailed in front of the cities and towns. Although the sacrifice was huge, they could not cross the thunder pool one step!
The siege lasted five days!
In five days, Ruiyang city and the surrounding small cities and market towns were all in a mess. There were wars and wars everywhere!
At the beginning, the reserves and the militia were only passive defense. With the advance of the war, the enemy's sacrifice became greater and greater. They began to take the initiative to wipe out the enemy with flexible tactics!
When the war broke out in the base area, the fighting around the base area did not stop for a moment. There were less than 300000 troops in the three major field corps and millions of officers and soldiers fighting hard. Although they had the advantage of geographical advantage, the fighting was still extremely hard!
This is a totally unequal battle, because the reserve and the militia of the heavenly soldiers are fighting with the enemy in the base area, so the three major field corps have lost their ability to replenish blood. One soldier who died in the battle will lose one, but the enemy's troops have been coming in a steady stream!
In the final analysis, it is because the base area of Tianbing is too small and the population is too small!
All the forces of Tianbing, including the members of Xinghe fleet coming from the first space, and the experts of Tiandu sect led by Bai Huanfeng, all joined the fight!
Even Li Qingyu and Zhou Xianguang took the lead. They were so busy every day that they didn't even have time to take care of their hair and beard!
More than half of the three major field corps have been lost, and many units have been eliminated as a whole!
The war situation in the base areas improved, and 500000 officers and soldiers were gradually eliminated, which greatly relieved the pressure on the peripheral forces. They once again consciously diverted the enemy, released some of them into the base areas, and handed them over to Liu Jiayi and others.
However, even so, because the thirty-six families are still deploying troops and recruiting all the way, the pressure on the external forces is still huge, and many troops are almost on the verge of collapse!
At the most dangerous time in Xiangyun base area, Fengrui base area suddenly became powerful and broke through the encirclement of officers and men, and completely defeated the officers and men who went to encircle and suppress them!
Xiangyun base is almost unable to survive, but Fengrui base completely defeated the Tianbing who besieged them!
Such a sharp contrast is not due to the poor command ability of Li Qingyu and Zhou Xianguang, nor to the poor combat effectiveness of the troops in Xiangyun base area. It's because the pressure on the two bases is very different from the beginning!
From the beginning, the leaders of the 36 families didn't pay attention to the Fengrui base. They thought that they were just a group of miscellaneous troops. It's not enough to worry. As long as Li Qingyu and Zhou Xianguang were eliminated, the rebels in the Fengrui base would disappear naturally!
The first wave of 36 families recruited 3.6 million troops, of which 3 million troops were sent to Xiangyun base area, and only 600000 troops were sent to Fengrui base area. Later, the 36 families constantly deployed troops, especially focused on Xiangyun base area, and there were not many troops to reinforce Fengrui base area.
But they didn't know that there was a fundamental mistake in their judgment of Fengrui base area!
The garrison of Fengrui base is not a miscellaneous army, but the fourth field corps which has been reorganized. Except that the number of people is not as large as Xiangyun base, the strength of other aspects is not weaker than Xiangyun base, or even stronger than Xiangyun base!
As far as the Supreme Commander is concerned, they have clever Jiang Yichen and Xu Gaoyuan. Together, they are no less capable of commanding battles than Li Qingyu and Zhou Xianguang. As far as the xuanjing masters are concerned, they are much more capable than Xiangyun base!
Before the officers and soldiers besieged Fengrui base area, 1800 experts who had been treated in the death forest rushed to Fengrui base area one after another and were incorporated into the fourth Corps.
These 1800 people used to be dead prisoners in the iron and steel prison. They were abandoned to martial arts cultivation. It was Li Qingyu who released them and sent them to the death forest for rehabilitation treatment. Therefore, these people are loyal to the heavenly soldiers!
There are 1800 xuanjing masters, most of them are xuanjing Dacheng and dayuanman. There are few xuanjing peepers, and there are more than 20 real Longmen masters!
This is already a terrible force!
Such a force, even if placed on hundreds of thousands of battlefields, even if subjected to tremendous suppression, they can also gallop in the military array, invincible!
In addition to these super experts, Fengrui base also has modern weapons, guns and ammunition, howitzers, mortars and so on!
But the thirty-six families have not taken such a terrible force seriously. It's not surprising that they were defeated by the enemy!
The army that besieged Fengrui base area was completely defeated, and the news spread to the battle base camp composed of 36 families, which suddenly seemed to detonate a bomb!
A group of people gathered together and quarreled with each other for a long time. Some of them shirked their responsibilities and some of them were behind the scenes. After the quarrel, all the people sat down to discuss how to deal with the Fengrui base area.
The big men in the base camp were divided into two groups. One group advocated sending more troops to continue to encircle and suppress the Fengrui base area. They must be completely eliminated. Once they are let go now, they will surely become a greater disaster in the future.
However, the other faction thinks that Xiangyun city is about to collapse. They need to concentrate their main forces to completely destroy Xiangyun base area, Li Qingyu and Zhou Xianguang, and then they can turn around and attack Fengrui base area again.
If we divide our forces to attack Fengrui base now, the strength of attacking Xiangyun base will be weakened. Maybe Fengrui base will not be destroyed and Xiangyun base will turn over!