Chapter 260: The Dead End Is Settled
In this moment of panic, there is only a noisy hissing in the ears of these Dongxun soldiers, as for the order of their own general, is it not a joke?
The command system has long since been blocked by boulders at the entrances and exits of the valley, and their hearts have fallen to the bottom, and they have little hope that they will be able to pick up a life.
In their hearts, there will only be panic and fear, especially after seeing the rain of arrows in the sky that can take their lives at any time, the fear in their hearts has occupied all of their inner emotions, they, ah, when death comes, who can really stabilize their emotions?
When the emotion of death lingers around them, even the most determined person will sooner or later waver in his beliefs due to the surrounding environmental factors.
That Totsumi general is such a person.
After he turned over and dismounted and raised his shield to cover his body, he twisted his head to watch the soldiers under his command fall one after another under the rain of arrows because of their slow reaction, and the look in his eyes, from the initial perseverance, slowly fluctuated.
Especially after discovering that the guards around him had also fallen, he could no longer suppress the panic that was slowly rising in his heart.
Yes, he was starting to panic too, and he didn't know what else he could do to save himself and his soldiers from escaping from this hellish place.
But do nothing and just sit and wait to die?
The Dongxun general gritted his teeth, it was absolutely impossible for him to sit and wait for death, so he roared, and in an instant, the internal force in his body burned up.
Two looming auras appeared beside the Totsumi general, who was now like a little golden man with a blazing glow all over his body, and his internal force was escaping from all over his body.
"Oh? I really can't imagine that in this kind of place, you can still meet a grade monk, hehe, it looks like it should be a third-grade monk. ”
On the hillside, beside the overseer, a strangely ugly-looking dwarf couldn't help but exclaim a little in surprise after seeing the powerful internal force emanating from the Dongxun general in the valley
"However, this level of internal force alone is far from being able to do anything to deal with it, heh, in this valley today, unless it is a monk from the ninth grade, otherwise, these 20,000 Dongxun soldiers, our army is bound to eat."
Strange things happened, this ugly-looking man spoke in a slurred voice, and after saying these words, the Nanli soldiers and generals standing next to him didn't even have any emotional fluctuations in his words, even the Lord of the Overseer.
It was as if they hadn't even noticed that there was a short, ugly-looking man beside them.
"Anyway, this is also 20,000 people, and it shouldn't be difficult to find a few usable corpses from these 20,000 people, in this case, it shouldn't be difficult to find a few usable corpses from these 20,000 people, in this case, my lord, I can also explain."
The ugly-looking short man smiled sinisterly, he stretched out one of his palms, and his palm was thin and slender like a bamboo stick, some flat, and some withered.
And after this ugly-looking short man said these somewhat terrifying words, the Nanli soldiers around him, including the prison lord, all seemed to have not heard this sentence, and their expressions did not change or fluctuate at all, yes, but the short man licked his lips and laughed sinisterly, and his voice was as if his throat had been cut, no matter how he heard it, he always felt a little uncomfortable.
After a while, the ten rounds of salvo arrows were finally finished.
When Xiang Yan poked his head out again to look down, he could only see that in the valley, there were wailing Dongxun soldiers and some cold corpses all over the ground.
As for those who really raised their shields to avoid this encounter, among the 20,000 Dongxun soldiers below, there were only less than a thousand.
Even the general who burst out of his whole body's internal strength, the fate at this time was not much better.
It's just because, his whole body is now nailed into the valley by the crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow, and half of his body is a little torn through by the crossbow arrows, and ah, what makes people feel even more sad for him at this time is that even though he is dead, the internal force of his body still tries his best to form a small area in the valley that is not very effective in defense.
However, it was also thanks to his internal force barrier that made most of Dongxun's 20,000 soldiers not directly shot, but picked up a life, either lying on the ground and wailing, or showing a hideous face that could not hide the fear in his heart, and wanted to look through the shield at what kind of face the Nanli soldier on the valley was now.
Unfortunately, all they could see was the indifferent and ruthless faces of the archers from Nanli on the hillside, and they could no longer see any expressions.
"That guy, it's a pity, it seems that he is a well-established monk, but I didn't expect that in the end, he was forced to die in this nest because of the incompetence of the main general."
Xiang Yan naturally observed the tragic death of the Dongxun general at a glance, although now that the two of them were enemies, he should not have to say such words, but now that the Dongxun general was dead, Xiang Yan and him would not have any conflicts of interest and position.
Xiang Yan only felt sorry and angry about what the Dongxun general had.
Because the way the general of Dongxun should have died like a real general on the battlefield where the two armies were fighting, instead of being trapped and dying in this cage prepared for them without even the slightest strength to fight back.
In this way, it is really too insulting to this Dongxun general.
"This is really in response to the old saying, will be incompetent and tired of the three armies."
Xiang Yan said this with some disdain, his current evaluation of the current military master of the Dongxun army has reached such a bad level, just because he saw a general who should not have died here.
"Lord Wang, why don't you speak?"
As soon as Xiang Yan turned his head and saw Zhou Dunyi's face turned out to be ashes, he felt that something was wrong, after he just opened his mouth to ask Zhou Dunyi.
I saw that Zhou Dunyi's face was a little grim, he took a few deep breaths, as if he was calming his mind, and after a long while, he opened his mouth slightly and said softly
"There is nothing to do here, but there are more than 10,000 Dongxun soldiers in the valley?"
Xiang Yan shook his head again and again after hearing this, their ten rapid fire this time was not only archers, but even the bed crossbows had eighty crossbows, after this bombardment from the rain of arrows, he just poked his head out and looked down, although he didn't know how many Dongxun soldiers were killed and wounded, but there were still some combat power that could stand up, in his opinion, at most, there were only about five or six thousand people left.
Of course, the number of surviving Dongxun soldiers will definitely not be only these five or six thousand, because the baptism of the arrow rain just now caused more wounded rather than corpses.
"In that case, order the siege, and after three days, move the boulder and enter the valley."
After Zhou Dunyi said this with a somewhat tired expression, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his temples, fortunately, after he gave the order just now, he could no longer see that familiar face.
It should be that I have lost my eyes a little and mistaken others.
She has been missing for so long, how could she suddenly appear in the Dongxun army.
I have been a little tired for a while, how did I become like this, it seems that after this incident, I still need to cultivate myself for a while on the way to the war.
It should be because of the killing aura on this battlefield that his mind was a little lost, so he misidentified her.
"This, trapped for three days???"
Xiang Yan didn't know how to respond to Zhou Dunyi's inexplicable order, because in his opinion, those Dongxun soldiers in the valley had completely lost the will to fight after experiencing the baptism of arrow rain, and at this time, they could easily rush in and wipe out the remaining Dongxun soldiers, and the process would be effortless, and as for their battle damage, it was even more negligible.
But, but Zhou Wangye, he actually ordered to be trapped for three days?
What the hell is this trying to? Why is the timing so good now, Lord Zhou, he even ordered those Dongxun rout soldiers to be trapped in the valley for three whole days.
After all, in Xiang Yan's eyes, this is completely unnecessary, this order of Zhou Wangye is like a faint move, if something happens within three days, their encirclement and suppression this time will be the same as the encirclement and suppression under Yueyang City not long ago.
However, for the reason that there was no reason to trust Zhou Wangye, Xiang Yan didn't think long before agreeing, and without saying a word, he whispered a few words to the herald behind him, and then turned around and stood behind Zhou Dunyi again.
This time, Lord Zhou always feels a little more and more indecisive, not as in the past, he has ordered things to be done neatly, what the hell is this, is there something that he doesn't know?
In Xiang Yan's mind, some pictures have been made up in his mind, after all, he has been by Zhou Dunyi's side for so many years, Zhou Dunyi has never been like this under any circumstances, indecisive, and has never been Zhou Dunyi's character.
But this time one after another, Zhou Dunyi has always been indecisive and thoughtful, without the decisiveness and neatness of the past, now it seems that Zhou Dunyi always seems to be worried about something, and he does not dare to make a decision.
"Lord, shall I wait, will we camp in place?"
Xiang Yan cleared his throat, he pursed his lips, looking at the appearance of the prison army lord not far away, although he still felt a little wrong in his heart in the face of Zhou Wangye's reaction, but seeing the current appearance of this prison army, Xiang Yan still felt a little happy in his heart.
"Leave fifty men on each hill, take turns every two hours, and the rest will retreat five miles, camp in place, and after three days, enter the valley again."
Zhou Dunyi's expression was a little tired, his current mind was not at all on the war, where his heart and thoughts had drifted, I am afraid only he knew.
"Yes."
Xiang Yan nodded, and soon he gave orders to the herald.
Immediately afterwards, the Nanli soldiers who were originally scattered on various hills and halfway up the mountain began to slowly retreat, and on each hill, only fifty soldiers were left to monitor every move in the valley.
With such a large number of people, it is enough to monitor the valley of more than ten miles.
"Xiang Yan."
Zhou Dunyi suddenly spoke, Xiang Yan was stunned at first, and then quickly replied
"The last general, what else does the prince command?"
"Help the orphan down the mountain, the lonely is a little tired."
After saying this, Zhou Dunyi had already put a hand on Xiang Yan's shoulder, he was really tired, not physically tired, Zhou Dunyi was just feeling tired.
is really because the appearance of that face seriously affected Zhou Dunyi's state of mind, breaking Zhou Dunyi's heart in an instant, so that he didn't have any thoughts to think about those who had and didn't, but only felt that he just wanted to be alone and stay away from these troubled things.
That's why Zhou Dunyi ordered to be trapped for three days.
He is not the kind of person who doesn't care about the overall situation because of his emotions, although he knows that he needs to recuperate alone now, but the overall situation is here, and the Dongxun army in the valley, they must eat it.
Therefore, these three days are not so much Zhou Dunyi's trapping, but rather a buffer period for himself to adjust his mood.
He only hoped that he could smoothly adjust his state of mind, after all, the next war had just begun, and after solving the matter on Dongxun's side, he would immediately lead his army north to Baiqi.
Those personal emotions can't tolerate him thinking nonsense here now, first solving the overall situation, helping Nanli stabilize the overall situation, and helping Uncle Fenghuang fulfill his wishes, which is Zhou Dunyi's current overall situation.
As for her, she must have just looked away.
I don't know if I don't doubt him, how I've been doing for a while, it is said that I don't doubt that they have also mixed up after they went north, but it is worthy of me, my tiger.
And after nightfall, the Dongxun soldiers trapped in the valley slowly gathered together, and they carefully observed the Nanli soldiers on the hill who had been monitoring them with torches.
These Dongxun soldiers, they are already scared to death in their hearts, where do they still want to fight now, if they are given a chance to live now, they will definitely choose to flee back to Dongxun and return to their homes, as for what kind of big soldiers, they still save their lives.
However, you must know that they are the forbidden army of Dongxun, and the instilled patriotic ideas of loyalty and patriotism are several times that of other armies in Dongxun, but now after experiencing this incident, they have not been destroyed like this.
"Captain, what do you say, what do these Nanli people want to do?"
Some of the Dongxun soldiers were by the fire, asking the Dongxun captain who was sitting in front of the fire to keep warm, and his face was pale and unshaped.
However, the captain of Dongxun just laughed miserably, looked up at the mountain, and then hung his head helplessly, and said with some lovelessness
"No matter what these Nanli people want to do, we're afraid we can only be here but ourselves."
Who would have imagined that their 20,000-strong Dongxun army had obviously only received a broken order from the middle-aged military lord, but when they passed through this valley, they fell into the trap that the Nanli army had prepared for them.
Hahahaha, the general is dead, most of the captains are dead, the army of 20,000 people, only a few thousand people can stand up now, this huge sense of gap, this captain of Dongxun, how can he control his state of mind now?
"We, now it's the fish on the board, Ren Nanli has been slaughtered, everyone, accept your fate, Nanli people's posture since the start of the war, but they have never shown the intention of accepting and surrendering troops, especially, the army led by the prince of Zhou himself, we, are of little value to Nanli people, since we are trapped here now, we only have one ending in death."
The lieutenant's mind was now overwhelmed by the fear of death, and he had known his fate since he was trapped in the valley in the first place.
Himself, but a grade monk, although it is only a grade, but it is also a strong man in the 20,000 Dongxun army, and at the beginning, he felt that he could rely on his own cultivation to fight out of the encirclement.
However, after seeing the general burn his internal strength, he was nailed alive in the valley by a crossbow arrow from the bed crossbow, and half of his body was damaged.
He already knew that the general of the third-grade cultivation burned his cultivation but could only fall into this fate, and he was a first-grade cultivator, but he was like this.
Are you a fool talking about dreams?
"Everyone, don't have some unnecessary illusions now, unless Lord Shen appears now, otherwise, our end is already a foregone conclusion."
The lieutenant said this coldly.
Although he said that he should not hold some unnecessary illusions, but when he said this, wasn't he also holding some moments when Shen Baoxu Divine Soldiers descended from the sky?
Shen Baoxu means a sense of security.
It's a pity, Lord Shen Jun is still unconscious.