Love books, it will make your life easy: it will help you understand the complex thoughts, emotions and events in a friendly way, it will teach you to respect others and yourself: it will inspire wisdom and hearts with the love of the world and love for humanity.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

The city wall threw clay pots, fire arrows burned the defense line, and special armor-piercing arrows, and this set of combination punches of Uesugi Jinghu caused a lot of casualties to the barbarian warriors of the Third Lucy Legion, and also made Valk, who commanded the army, scramble.

Valk, who was not a commanding general, faced the current chaos, what he did was not to find an opportunity for the iron artillery gunners to participate in the battle and inflict heavy losses on the enemy, but to personally lead nearly 3,000 reserve soldiers under his command to directly kill the front in the form of reinforcements.

Simple-minded and well-limbed are common synonyms for barbarian generals, such as experienced generals like Eggers and resourceful generals like Bronno, which are rare in the entire barbarian world, and Valk, who is known for his bravery, is obviously not among them.

Walker, who was known as the two great warriors of the Lucy Kingdom along with Willed, was naturally not in vain for his bravery, and he did not know how to dispatch troops to command the battle, and after leading his army into the enemy's army, he killed all the enemies that appeared in front of him like a tiger entering a flock.

How could the Uesugi army's 8,000 soldiers, even if they were assisted by 4,000 bows and arrows, be able to withstand the charge of 12,000 heavily armed barbarian warriors? In hand-to-hand combat between the two armies, Valk's troops had an absolute advantage from the beginning.

Looking at the two armies fighting under the city wall, the general who was still flattering and catering to Uesugi Jinghu just now looked worried: "Lord, the morale of the enemy army does not seem to be declining, should we send troops to reinforce General Ando?"

Uesugi Jinghu said in a calm and indifferent tone: "The enemy army has invested nearly 13,000 troops, and our army has invested 8,000 troops, and now the enemy has suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and our army has only suffered less than 1,500 casualties, why should we send reinforcements?"

It is true that the enemy's casualties exceeded 2,000, but the 500 or 600 killed in battle were not killed in battle, and that was the credit of the archers; as for the more than 1,000 officers and men who were wounded by the enemy, as long as they did not lose their mobility, how did they look like wounded in desperate fighting? On the other hand, less than 100 of the enemy's soldiers were killed or wounded, and more than 1,000 of them were already killed or wounded, which can be said to be heavy casualties!

There are countless generals who complain in their hearts, and they don't dare to say a word of rebuttal on their lips, as a general who is not high or low in status, after his lord has made a decision, all he can do is to obey the order with low eyebrows.

Is Uesugi Keitora the kind of stupid and short-sighted person who deceives himself? The answer is necessarily no. How could he not see the problem that even the general beside him could see? It's just that he didn't want to say more about it, having already made arrangements.

Knowing that the combat strength of his own soldiers was inferior to that of the enemy, Ando Daiki never imagined that the combat strength of the enemy and our armies would be so far apart; even if he personally commanded a few generals to take the lead in charging and killing, the fierce and powerful enemy army still rushed and retreated from his army.

Seeing that the 8,000 soldiers under his command were almost less than 6,000, Ando Daiki, who could not sit idly by and watch his army collapse, no matter how much he didn't want to use the deployment too early, he had to use the last step prepared by his lord in advance under the aggressive offensive of the enemy.

Determined to make up his mind, Daiki Ando issued several orders one after another, and as these orders were issued, the four thousand archers who were waiting for them suddenly turned around and withdrew to the castle wall not far behind them, and the eight thousand spears and arrows who were in charge of protecting the bows and arrows retreated to the two wings parallel to the bows and arrows under the command of two generals, exposing the front of the bows.

Faced with such a scene, the 4,000 bows and arrows were not able to defend themselves at all, almost no different from a lamb to the slaughter, and in the face of such a scene, he mistakenly thought that the enemy archer troops were going to withdraw to the city, and gave the order to storm with red eyes.

When he personally led the army to charge and kill the enemy, Valker's sanity was not lost, because he did not use the iron cannon gunners indiscriminately, and left the iron cannon gunners with 2,000 soldiers to protect them, but the current turn of events made his mind quickly fill with anger.

Watching the enemy archers, who had killed hundreds of their own brethren, retreat into the city unharmed, Valk could not, nor could his warriors, who suddenly became furious, rushing forward like a tidal wave.

Although the former Luci tribe has been replaced by the current Lucy Kingdom, the concept of tribe cannot be eliminated in a short time, and in the hearts of Valk and his warriors, each of them is a family brother to each other, a relative whose blood is thicker than water!

The barbarian land is desolate and barren, so that the barbarians have always struggled to live on the food and clothing line, so the barbarians who take the tribe as the unit of production and life are very united, and no matter what kind of struggle may occur between them and other tribes, each tribe is peaceful within itself.

In the former Luxi tribe, among the barbarian warriors in the same settlement, the relationship between the famous brave warriors like Valk and other ordinary warriors of unknown origin is also very close, because the upright barbarian warriors always believe in strength.

Valk is a powerful man, and he will protect every person and warrior in his settlement, but ordinary warriors are not as strong as Valker, and they will loyally follow Valker's side, obeying every order he gives right, whether it is right or wrong.

The army built on the basis of this tribal concept is very similar to the nature of the Hunan army group and the Huai army group in China's modern history, and the strong combat power of such an army is only one aspect, and the more important thing is that they have an enviable unity.

The soldiers of the 3rd Lucy Legion, who were united in their hearts, crushed the thousands of ashigaru under the command of Daiki Ando with a fierce attack at the cost of casualties, and then pursued in the direction of the retreat of the archers, and at this time, the four thousand arches and arrows were still two hundred meters away from the castle wall.

Ando Daiki's subordinates, who had already been defeated, had lost at least 2,000 ashigaru in the battle just now, and Ando Daiki, who had been unable to save the defeat by temporarily forming a war supervision team, could only personally lead his personal guards and some samurai to kill the enemy army who rushed forward head-on.

Valk, who only had retreating enemy archers in his eyes, didn't pay any attention to Daiki Ando, who was trying to stop him; with only one or two hundred enemies who were not able to do anything, a random wave of warriors rushing over could solve them, so where did Valk need to be distracted?

After chasing within range of the archers on the walls, Valker did not care about the arrows pouring down from the walls, and led his soldiers to rush at the enemy archers who had no time to escape.