Chapter 459: Desperate Daishan, his escape route blocked
"Rumble..."
There were rumbling sounds of cannons at the four city gates outside Shengjing City. All the ministers gathered in Prince Li's mansion, the noise was deafening, and everyone was talking anxiously.
"quiet!"
Ebilun, the commander of the Imperial Guard, had just received instructions from Daishan. He shouted loudly, stopping the noise in the hall.
Ebilun's father, Eyidu, was one of Nurhaci's right-hand men. Together with Fei Yingdong, he was the most valued by Nurhaci.
Although both of them have passed away for many years, most of their descendants hold important positions in the military.
Among them, Ebilun has the potential to surpass his master and is one of the main generals guarding Shengjing City.
"Ebilun, how is the mobilization of the military and civilians in the city going?"
Although Daishan was anxious, he remained calm and asked, "Now that the Fuxing Army's million-strong army is attacking us, we are at a disadvantage in all aspects. We can only rely on Shengjing City's defense formation to defend and counterattack, and only then will we have a chance of winning."
Well, in fact, Daishan knew very well in his heart that he was just deceiving himself.
Li Dingguo personally led the army to attack, so it was impossible that he was not fully prepared. Moreover, the Fuxing Army's surprise attack on Liaodong happened to take advantage of the fact that Huang Taiji and the main force of the Later Jin were not in Liaodong, so it had a huge advantage.
"Reporting to Prince Li, the 600,000 troops in the city are already in place. The sons of various families have gathered together to form several reserve armies. Once the battle is needed, they can be ready to go at any time."
Ebilun looked solemn and bowed to report, "However, there are too many spiritual energy cannons of the Renaissance Army outside the city, and they are attacking non-stop. Our city defense formation has held out for three days, and it is estimated that it will soon be broken due to energy exhaustion."
He couldn't even imagine what kind of terrible situation would happen once Shengjing City lost the protection of the city defense formation.
In the past few years, countless soldiers of the Later Jin clan have died at the hands of the Fuxing Army.
What is most worrying is that for the Later Jin clan, the Fuxing Army adopted a policy of killing all of them regardless of whether they were military or civilian, old or weak, women or children.
If Shengjing City was breached, there would be no doubt that all the soldiers and civilians of the Later Jin clan in the city would be slaughtered!
"What should I do?"
"The problem is that the Fuxing Army led by Li Dingguo is too powerful. We may not be able to defeat them!"
"Let's fight those Han people to the death! Even if I die, I will bite a piece of flesh off their bodies!"
"The key is that those level six spirit birds in the sky have blocked the transmission of military information between us and the emperor. Now we have no external reinforcements!"
"We, the warriors of the Qing Dynasty, are no pushovers! Let Li Dingguo see what we can do!"...
Hearing that the city defense formation could not hold out for much longer, the civil and military officials present became anxious and started shouting and saying all kinds of things.
"Everyone, now that things have come to this, there is no point in saying more. Let's follow the plan and prepare to fight the enemy to the death."
Whether Daishan is willing or not, the capital of the Qing Dynasty has already faced its greatest test, and there is no other way but to fight to the death.
"Whoosh!"
At this time, a figure flew in from outside the gate and landed in front of Daishan, and hurriedly reported, "Prince Li, our plan to evacuate the core members of the clan through the tunnel has failed!"
The visitor was none other than Chuo Henuo, one of the sixteen core ministers under Huang Taiji: Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Bordered Red Banner.
He continued with a pale face, "The Fuxing Army has set up a super large formation around Shengjing City. It has a clear innate aura and is obviously made up of a set of innate artifacts. It has locked up all the space above and below the ground in Shengjing City!"
"I personally led a 100,000-man army to test the strength of the enemy's formation, and found that its power was even greater than our Shengjing City's defense formation!"
"The first group of retreating people, consisting of the concubines in the imperial city and the core children of each family, has been blocked in the tunnel. Should we let them return to the imperial city and wait for orders?"
Chuohenuo was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding generals of the Later Jin clan and was loyal to Huang Taiji.
However, at this time, he, who had reached the peak of level five cultivation, was already at a loss.
When Huang Taiji was expanding Shengjing City on a large scale, he spent a lot of manpower and resources to build a tunnel leading from the imperial palace to the mountains and wilderness outside the city.
This was the last escape route for the dignitaries in Shengjing City at the critical moment of its survival.
Originally, it was because of this last way of retreat that Daishan was able to remain calm and be sure to protect the Qing royal family and the core members of each family.
However, the bad news brought by Chuo and Nuo completely broke Daishan's psychological defenses.
"what?"
He, who had been sitting firmly in his high position, suddenly stood up and said in horror, "What kind of foundation does the Fuxing Army have? Is it a set of innate divine weapons such as formations that can surround Shengjing City?"
Shengjing City covers an area of hundreds of miles and is undoubtedly the largest city in Liaodong.
Theoretically, it is impossible for a cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm to use innate divine artifacts to set up a large formation and surround it.
Daishan could not have imagined that the Fuxing Army actually had such a powerful trump card.
The other party obviously wanted to wipe out all the soldiers and civilians of the Later Jin Dynasty in Shengjing City in one fell swoop.
"Let them return to the Imperial City and prepare to fight the Restoration Army together."
Daishan was depressed for a while, then waved his hand and ordered, "Chao Henuo, you and Narza will be in charge of commanding the battle with the Fuxing Army this time."
"If there is a chance, try to lead your people and soldiers to escape from Shengjing City and go to Goguryeo to join the emperor."
Narcha and Chuoheno are the two deputy commanders-in-chief of the Bordered Red Banner besides its leader Yuetuo. They are also at the peak of level five and are representative figures of the Later Jin clan who are good at fighting.
The two red flags have always been controlled by Daishan and his son. This time, Huang Taiji led the Zhenghong Banner and the two yellow flags to the expedition, leaving the Yinhong Banner to guard Shengjing City.
Except for the leader of the Bordered Red Banner, Yuetuo, who accompanied Huang Taiji to Goguryeo, all the soldiers stayed in Shengjing City and were jointly governed by Daishan, Narcha, Chuo and Nuo, who were in charge of the defense of Shengjing City.
As everyone present, including Narcha and Ebilun, accepted the order and left with complicated expressions, each of them went to prepare for the battle with the Fusion Army, Daishan was the only one left in the hall.
"Hey……"
He let out a long sigh, then fell onto a large wooden chair, where he sat motionless, his face turning blue and red.
"This time it's really over!"
"Not only Shengjing City, but our Houjin clan will also be completely wiped out..."
Dai Shan thought about it and finally came to this conclusion.
It doesn't take much thought to guess that the Later Jin clan, having lost its Liaodong base and tens of millions of soldiers and civilians, was actually tantamount to the destruction of their country.
Even now, there are still two million main combat troops and millions of logistics soldiers in the territory of Goguryeo. Even if Huang Taiji established the Goguryeo Dynasty, the foundation of the Later Jin clan was dug by Li Dingguo. No matter how talented and ambitious Huang Taiji is, he will still be unable to make a living without rice.
Moreover, the disappearance of the foundation of an imperial dynasty is far from as simple as it seems.
At least Huang Taiji and the remaining Later Jin soldiers were destined to suffer the backlash of national fortune, with disastrous consequences.
I have to say that Li Dingguo was very decisive this time.
By seizing the opportunity in one fell swoop, they were about to bring the Qing Dynasty down to an irretrievable point.
……
"Not bad!"
Li Dingguo, who had just arrived outside Shengjing City, rode on his Dajin to check out the Xiantian Sea Covering Formation that Hongmei had arranged using the thirty-six Dinghai Divine Pearls to surround the entire Shengjing City. He couldn't help but praise, "This set of Xiantian magical formations that come with this life artifact is the strongest formation I have ever seen, bar none."
It’s not that the innate formation within the Human Emperor Cauldron is not strong, but that the power types of the two are different.
The Dinghai Shenzhen Pearl is a set of magical artifacts, and there are numerous of them, which can be used to arrange a large innate formation with a very large coverage area.
The innate formation within the Human Emperor Cauldron is a single formation within the internal space of a divine artifact. It is perfectly capable of being used for refining elixirs or purifying captured innate divine artifacts, but if used to set up a formation in the outside world, it is far inferior to the Dinghai Divine Pearl.
Of course, if one could gather a complete set of the legendary Five Directions Flags, the resulting Five Elements Formation would be no worse than the Sea-Covering Formation, or even a little more powerful.
However, it is almost impossible to gather all the innate five-sided flags. Innate top-grade artifacts of this level are often scattered and fall into the hands of people with strong luck.
Even Li Dingguo probably doesn't have enough luck to complete this set of innate divine weapons.
The universe has its own rules of operation. Even though the world where the nine provinces of China are located is extremely special, it is impossible for all the top artifacts to fall into the hands of Li Dingguo or the Fuxing Army. That is unrealistic.
However, given the development and growth trend of the Renaissance Army, it is still possible that one or two of the treasures like the Innate Five-Directions Flags will be obtained by the core generals of the Renaissance Army in the future.
Apart from anything else, the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag in Huang Taiji's hand is something that Li Dingguo must obtain.
"Grand Commander, I have to thank you and Wan'er for the acquisition of this set of Dinghai Divine Pearls. It took me more than half an hour to set up this innate magical power formation, and it finally succeeded in successfully encircling Shengjing City."
Hongmei smiled and said, "With my current cultivation level, I can use this Dinghai Divine Pearl to form a formation that can cover an area of 100 miles at most."
"Shengjing City is too big. I had to spend some time to set up this large innate sea-covering formation. Fortunately, the Jin Tartars didn't notice it during this period and didn't send anyone out to destroy it."
"This is undoubtedly God's will to destroy the Later Jin Tartars and eliminate these cancers in the world!"
After successfully setting up the Xiantian Covering Sea Formation to besiege Shengjing City, the Fuxing Army was already sure of victory in this siege.
Even if there were not thousands of psychic cannons here, the magical attack of this innate sea-covering formation alone would be enough to destroy the defenses of Shengjing City and completely blockade this Tartar capital, leaving the Tartar soldiers and civilians in it with no way to escape.
"By the way, Commander-in-Chief, how is the battle situation in Liaoyang City?"
Hongmei then asked Li Dingguo.
In the plan of a blitzkrieg on Liaodong, Li Dingguo was responsible for leading the Qiongqi Legion and the Qilin Legion to launch an attack on the two white flag Tatar soldiers guarding the city of Luoyang.
Since Li Dingguo has come to Shengjing City, it means that the battle situation is in our favor.
"The situation is similar to that in Shengjing City. The surrounding areas of Liaoyang City have been cleaned up by Wan'er and I, who have led the two main battle corps and the Second Fleet of the Navy."
"Brothers Dorgon and Duoduo led hundreds of thousands of troops to fight us head-on but were defeated and have retreated to Liaoyang City to defend it."
Li Dingguo said calmly, "Wan'er is now leading nearly one million soldiers, using thousands of psychic cannons, to launch a concentrated fire attack on the Liaoyang City defense formation. It is estimated that it will take another two days to break through the defense formation."
"I am concerned about the war here, so I came to take a look. The best strategy is to first capture Shengjing, the capital of the Tartars, and destroy the resistance of the Later Jin soldiers."
There is no more vicious scheme than to destroy one's heart.
Although the Later Jin clan is now at a disadvantage in Liaodong in all aspects, these barbarians are able to fight and dare to fight. They are willing to risk their lives to fight the Fuxing Army to the death.
In this situation, as long as the Tatars' capital is destroyed first, it will undoubtedly deal a devastating blow to the military morale of the Later Jin Tatars.
In that way, the difficulty of conquering the entire Liaodong and destroying the foundation of the Later Jin Tartars can be greatly reduced.
Anyway, the million-strong army led by Wan'er is enough to deal with the two white flags of Dorgon and the Duoduo brothers.
Although these two brothers both have a good innate divine weapon in their possession, Wan'er can suppress them both in terms of cultivation and divine weapon.
No matter how strong the soldiers of the two white flags were, they were no match for the million-strong main force of the Fuxing Army, so Li Dingguo was able to withdraw safely without worrying about changes in the battle situation.
What's more, the defense formation of Shengjing City will be broken soon. After Li Dingguo helps the soldiers capture the Tartar capital, it will be enough for Dajin to use his innate spatial magical power to rush back to Liaoyang City and he will not miss the big showdown with the brothers Dorgon and Duoduo.
"Commander-in-chief, please wait a moment."
Hongmei saw the Shengjing City defense formation that was already crumbling under the bombardment of thousands of her own spiritual energy cannons. A fierce look flashed in her eyes and she said to Li Dingguo, "I plan to use the Xiantian Covering Sea Array to blow up the opponent's defense formation in one fell swoop."
"In order to avoid wasting time, it would be a waste. We must prevent any accidents from happening."
After she collected the thirty-six Dinghai Shenzhen beads, a set of innate divine artifacts for the formation, she had not yet tried its full power mode. Now was a good time to test it out so that she could have a better idea of it.
More than 70% of the core descendants of the Later Jin clan are now gathered in Shengjing City.
Once this Tartar capital is captured and all the Tartar soldiers and civilians in it are killed, the vitality of the Later Jin clan will undoubtedly be destroyed and a devastating blow to the enemy will be dealt.
"Okay, let's do it."
"The sooner we capture this Tartar capital, the better it will be for our Renaissance Army."
Li Dingguo nodded, and then he and Hongmei went their separate ways.
He first explained the task to the big golden eagle, then flew to his own army outside the South City, ready to personally preside over a military killing formation composed of 200,000 soldiers from the First Fleet of the Navy, and later launch a violent raid on Shengjing City.
In any case, this is also a capital city with millions of Tatar soldiers and civilians, among whom there are more than a thousand Tatar Qi Refining masters.
These barbaric guys will never surrender.
Li Dingguo's next plan was to kill these Tartar Qi Refining masters as quickly as possible and carry out a decapitation operation as soon as the city was broken.
This will not only end the war as soon as possible, but also reduce the casualties of our own soldiers, killing two birds with one stone.
(End of this chapter)
