The screams before death, the cries of despair, the sound of a blade piercing into a human body, and the sound of a human body being thrown to the ground. Countless sounds entered the empress's ears, but she didn't seem to hear them.
At this moment, she was sitting on a fine horse. Her hair was untied at some point in time, and her fine black hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall.
Corpses were all around the fine horse.
One of the corpses was a middle-aged general with glaring eyes. He was the commander of the 25,000 soldiers. However, his identity didn't help at all at this moment. Instead, it became the reason for his death.
The Great Xia commander was dead, and the soldiers began to flee in disorder. However, their running speed was far slower than the winged cavalry's pursuit. When they realized that no one could escape death in front of them and that no one would care about them if they fled to the sides, they quickly fled to the sides. The battlefield was in chaos.
The aboriginals ruthlessly bit off a huge chunk of the 25,000 soldiers' battle formation while the rest fled to the sides.
"Your Majesty!" Countless blood-covered soldiers stopped in front of the empress and regrouped.
"Advance," the empress said coldly as she turned her head and looked into the distance.
The winged cavalry pounced on the 10,000 soldiers outside the east gate of Liao City like a wave. They had just received the news and organized their troops when they were attacked by the winged cavalry.
"Listen, what's that sound?" On top of the city wall, the soldiers and commoners of Liao City, who were covered in blood and didn't even bother to clean up the minced meat on their faces, opened their eyes one by one and asked.
"It's the reinforcements!" someone shouted.
"Reinforcements? The reinforcements are here! " Upon hearing this news, everyone immediately became spirited. One by one, they climbed up from the ground and held onto the city wall to look outside.
"Too few!" Someone was disappointed when he saw the number of reinforcements in the distance. A little over 1,000 soldiers was indeed too few. One had to know that there were close to 100,000 Great Xia soldiers surrounding Liao City. Even if these 1,000 soldiers charged into the city, it would be much more effective than fighting outside.
However, just as this thought flashed through his mind, someone shouted excitedly, "It's the winged cavalry! The winged cavalry is here! "
Although there were only 1,000 winged cavalry warriors, their strength was comparable to that of an aboriginal army of 10,000 soldiers.
This wasn't the only important thing. There was also the significance of the winged cavalry.
The winged cavalry was here. Was Her Majesty coming?
The people on the city wall looked around and quickly saw a person in red riding slowly from behind.
"Is that His Majesty?" Many people only saw the red dot in the distance, but they couldn't see who it was. They could only guess that it was His Majesty.
After all, the winged cavalry had already killed their way into the 10,000-strong army, and a red figure was slowly following behind them. Other than the empress, no one else would have thought of it.
"Her Majesty is here with the winged cavalry!" Such cheers gradually spread from the east gate to the center of the city, the north, and the west. The whole city fell into a state of ecstasy.
A general wearing leather armor quickly rushed to the east city wall and looked in that direction with a pair of binoculars in his hand. His face fell into an ecstatic expression. "It's really His Majesty!"
At this moment, he had an urge to take those who could still move and charge out immediately.
I have fought alongside His Majesty in the future!
However, when he glanced around and saw the deep exhaustion beneath the ecstasy on everyone's faces, he suppressed this thought to the bottom of his heart.
When the empress and the winged cavalry swallowed more than half of the 10,000-strong army, only a few thousand escaped. The empress turned to look at the blood-stained city wall and continued to say coldly, "Advance!"
When the empress and the winged cavalry arrived at the north of Liao City, they just happened to see the Great Xia army slowly retreating. There was a speed bump that was more than 100 meters long between the two sides that was filled with caltrops.
More than 1,000 winged cavalry warriors and 5,000 aboriginal soldiers were fighting fiercely with the Great Xia army in the west of Liao City. This caused Great Xia, which had already lost more than 20,000 soldiers and 30,000 soldiers, to voluntarily retreat.
That night, the empress and the winged cavalry met up with Li Qianqiu's army in Liao City.
The winged cavalry only lost a few dozen soldiers, and Li Qianqiu's 5,000 soldiers from the Protectorate of the Center were only left with 4,000.
Great Xia only withdrew 40,000 soldiers, and the number of injured soldiers they later regrouped was close to 70,000. 30,000 Great Xia soldiers died in battle.
On the same day, the Great Xia army from Yusheng City continued to advance into the depths of Dayao. Two days later, 200,000 Great Xia reinforcements crossed Ziyue City and approached Liao City.
At the same time as the Great Xia reinforcements, 5,000 soldiers from the Protectorate of the South set off in the direction of Lan City. They were prepared to intercept the 80,000 Great Xia soldiers who were advancing into the interior of Dayao from Yusheng City.
At this point in time, Great Xia had already invested 700,000 soldiers. Of the 500,000 soldiers that were deployed for the first time, 200,000 were sent to besiege Tiesuo Pass and Shun City, and the remaining 300,000 soldiers were sent to the 80,000 soldiers from Yusheng City and 70,000 soldiers outside Liao City. There was a total of 150,000 soldiers, as well as an unknown number of Great Xia practitioners from the sects.
According to the estimates of the Protectorate of the North, there should be about 10,000 soldiers. Among them, the weakest were at the Man Wheel level, and there were many Earth Wheel experts. Even though they couldn't compare to the aboriginal warriors of the same level in terms of strength, the combat power of both sides was greatly reduced.
Unless they encountered an elite unit like the winged cavalry, they would be able to cause considerable damage to the majority of the aboriginal army. This was especially so when they were mixed in with the ordinary Great Xia soldiers and suddenly appeared in small teams during the battle. They were especially threatening.
The war had only started for half a month, and 150,000 soldiers had already been lost. The war in this world was more brutal and bloody than what Ren Baqian knew.
After all, the lethality of those experts was too great, and the ordinary people on Earth couldn't compare to them. An ordinary person might not be able to lift his arm after swinging his sword for 15 minutes, but a Man Wheel expert could swing his sword for two hours. An Earth Wheel expert wouldn't feel too tired even if he killed for half a day.
On the side of the aboriginals, only 22,000 of the 30,000 soldiers from the Protectorate of the North were left, 4,000 of the 8,000 reinforcements from the Protectorate of the North were left, and the civilian casualties in Ziyue, Liao City, and Yusheng City were more than 10,000.
Every day, Ren Baqian listened to the communications at the frontline through the radio station and took notes of the current war loss ratio. Excluding those killed by the winged cavalry, the current war loss ratio between Dayao and Great Xia was 1: 10. If the casualties of the aboriginal civilians who had considerable combat power were included, it should be within 1: 10 or even 1: 5.
Such a war loss ratio was acceptable for Great Xia, but it was unacceptable for Dayao.
One had to know that Great Xia still had 550,000 soldiers, and the aboriginals could only mobilize the 22,000 soldiers from the Protectorate of the North, the remaining 4,000 reinforcements from the Protectorate of the South, and the 5,000 reinforcements from the Protectorate of the South. Even if the winged cavalry were to be used as an army of 10,000, it would only be slightly more than 40,000.
Great Xia's confidence didn't only come from these 700,000 soldiers, but also from the 500,000 new soldiers that were being prepared.
As for Dayao, they had 20,000 new soldiers and another 20,000 new soldiers that were being recruited.
If the war loss ratio was 1: 10, the gap between the two sides' military strength would get bigger and bigger.
This was also the first time that Ren Baqian realized that there was actually such a situation where the enemy's casualties were one-tenth of the enemy's, but their losses were actually more severe than the enemy's.
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