Chapter 4: The Battle of Hengduan Mountain (Part II)
Northern City is the northernmost city of the Great Lie Empire, with walls as high as three feet and six feet! The thickness is one zhang two! You can't see the beginning and the end of the length! It can be described as an impregnable wall, which was built to defend against the sixteen states of the Northern Regions, and now it plays its role.
Like a ghost, Murong Feng and his army suddenly emerged from the darkness and quickly launched a fierce arrow rain attack on the city wall, and the cloud ladder was also set up outside the city wall by the fearless warriors.
"Report, more than 10,000 soldiers from the Northern Regions are suddenly attacking, they are already attacking the city, the offensive is very fierce, and the front line is in an emergency!"
Gan Lin personally came to the city wall and fought against these fierce people from the Northern Regions with all the soldiers.
At first, the panicked and timid soldiers saw their own military division standing with them in the most dangerous place regardless of the danger, and they also became emboldened, and they fiercely fought the enemy with arrows, bows, crossbows, rolling stones, logs, spears and other weapons.
Gan Lin kept issuing orders, she led a team of 100 guards, running on the long city wall, where the most dangerous and urgent, she immediately appeared.
Murong Feng frowned and looked at the rushing figure on the high city wall, every time his own soldiers were about to climb the city wall along the cloud ladder, but they were quickly killed by her and the elite guards behind her, which greatly boosted their morale and weakened their morale and sharpness.
"The general once said: once you are vigorous, then you will decline, and then you will be exhausted. The enemy army seems to be fierce, but it has not really captured the city wall several times or three times, as long as we grit our teeth and hold on for a while, they will definitely retreat! ”
Hacking a soldier from the Northern Regions to death with a knife and throwing his body off the city wall, Gan Lin shouted loudly at the right time, inspiring the soldiers who were still fighting to kill the enemy, and her performance was seen by everyone, and the soldiers had already been infected by her, and one by one the sheep turned into jackals, extremely fierce.
A tall general in armor and a black robe walked around the city, as if he was in a hurry and entangled.
"Lord Lieutenant, the military division is brave and well-commanded, now we are about to hold it, now do we want to go out and engage the enemy head-on and kill their spirit!"
A centurion found Hu Lai, his expression was excited, he was a little inflated, thinking that the people of the Northern Regions were exaggerating and wanted to make great contributions, so he wanted to seize a good opportunity to perform.
"Well, it's a good idea, open the city gates, fight the enemy head-on, and let them see the demeanor of our great martyrs!" Hu said and ordered the soldiers defending the city to open the city gates.
"My lord, the general strictly ordered: it is forbidden to open the city gate without his order!"
The defenders did not succumb to the oppression of him and the thousands of soldiers behind him, and stood firm inside the city gates.
"The general is not in the city now, how can he know the current form, the fighter plane is fleeting, hurry up and open the city gate, otherwise you can't afford to miss the fighter!" Hu Lai was full of threat, and even took a few steps forward, trying to put more pressure on the soldiers defending the city.
"Lord Lieutenant, please obey the general's orders!" Although his strands trembled, the soldier still stood straight in front of the door, not giving in the slightest.
"Hurry up and open the door, or Lao Tzu will beat you!" Behind him, a centurion shouted, menacing, and wanted to go up and open the city gates.
At this moment, Gan Lin, who rushed to hear the news, said sharply: "Stop, Dubo, are you disobeying the military order?" ”
The centurion was so frightened that he stopped, stood still and did not dare to move, disobeying the military order! This is a capital offense in Rukawa Kaede's army!
"Advisor, you're here, it's time to open the gates, and our valiant warriors are going out to crush the enemy from the front! The general is nowhere to be found, and you are now the supreme commander here, what do you say? ”
Listening to these threatening words, Gan Lin realized that something was wrong, and Hu Lai wanted to rebel! But the current situation was critical, there were more than 10,000 soldiers in the Northern Regions who were not afraid of death, and there were more than 5,000 soldiers who followed Hu Lai to leave the city, she panicked for a while, but fortunately she still kept her sanity and remembered what the general said to her when he left.
"If anyone asks tonight to open the gates of the city and go out to battle the enemy, he must be a spy! Don't fight with him, just open the door, lead the loyal soldiers to retreat to the inner city, and someone will cure him when the time comes! ”
"Open the gates!" Gan Lin took out the general order and ordered the guards to defend the city.
The heavy iron door was slowly opened, and the sound of rattling was particularly harsh, even muffling the sound of fighting in front of it.
Murong Feng saw this scene and knew that his internal response was beginning to exert his strength, he raised his arms and shouted, all the soldiers roared away, and the cavalry was even faster and rushed straight to the city gate!
Gan Lin and a group of soldiers saw the menacing Northern Regions cavalry up close, and they panicked for a while, but the iron gate had been completely opened, and it was too late to close it, so she was ready to mobilize the soldiers to fight to the death!
"Kill!"
Hu Lai turned the horse's head, raised the big knife, and shouted loudly.
There were also many unknown generals and soldiers who followed him, only to see that he suddenly slashed to death the soldier guarding the door just now, and said loudly: "Brothers, there is no way to be fierce, and there are frozen bones on the stinky road of Zhumen's wine and meat!" People with lofty ideals such as us should be cautious to consider their own future and destiny, and there is a way: good birds choose trees to perch. Now that General Murong Feng is wise and powerful, he will definitely be able to lead us to rescue this empire that is heading for the abyss, and together with me, we will fight into the city, and it depends on everyone's choice at this moment for glory, wealth and death! ”
"We are willing to follow Hu Duwei and conspire for a great cause!"
The centurion, who was the first to offer to open the gates, was the first to take a stand, and almost all of the more than 5,000 men expressed their willingness to follow him. The cavalry of the Northern Regions outside the gate was already approaching the city gate, and their speed was really fast.
"Okay, you are really a wolf ambitious, all loyal soldiers please come with me and kill this group of traitors!"
Gan Lin was furious, quickly gathered the remaining more than 3,000 soldiers, opened up a position with them, and retreated to the inner city to hold on, this is their last line of defense, once lost, it means that the front line collapses and the war is lost!
"Welcome young master!" Hu Lai dismounted and knelt on one knee.
"Hahaha, well done, brothers, rush!"
Riding the "dark clouds cover snow clouds" thousands of miles of good horses, Murong Feng praised Hu Lai with satisfaction, this inner city is a small castle, and the difference between the outer city wall is simply heaven and earth, and they are fully confident that they will take it.
"Haha, this broken city, even if you climb, we can also climb up, the archers are ready, first come to a rain of arrows to erode it, the chariot is ready, directly break through this wooden door, kill it, the gold and silver treasures, beauties and wine inside are at your disposal!" He continued.
That's when the change happened again.
The gate of the outer wall was suddenly closed, and the centurion suddenly appeared on the wall at some point.
"Shoot the arrows!"
A large number of fierce soldiers suddenly appeared on the city wall where a small number of soldiers were originally sent by Murong Feng, and then, a burly and tall young general came to the main city wall.
He had been lying in ambush not far from the city with two thousand elites, and now he finally came out.
For a while, one after another wails and screams sounded, thousands of soldiers in the northern region and five thousand rebels from Hu Lai were trapped in this small open space between the outer city and the inner city, surrounded by fire, the fire blocked their way to the inner city, they were like a group of hungry wolves surrounded by traps, with no skills but nowhere to go!
They were flanked by the archers and slingers of the Great Flame Kingdom on the inner and outer walls, and became a living target, and the fire besieged them, and the situation was extremely critical!
"Okay, I didn't expect you to be a step ahead, I already expected that I had an internal response, and I arranged everything in advance, and this firewood was also prepared by you a long time ago, admire and admire! Sure enough, he is the master's disciple! ”
Although Murong Feng was in deep danger, he was also proficient in swordsmanship, and he shot down the arrows that shot at him one by one, of course, he was more blocked by his guards with his body, he suppressed the anger in his heart and kept calm.
"Hahaha, don't dare to be, don't dare to be, I've heard for a long time that Murong Gongzi is talented, a hero, I don't make some preparations early, I'm afraid that I am the one who is in danger at this time, I deliberately used the tactics of 'showing weakness to the enemy', 'luring the king into the urn' and 'closing the door and beating the dog', otherwise I'm afraid I can still let you be fooled."
"Brothers, stay calm and form a large circular formation one by one, the strong soldiers outside raise their shields, and the archers inside look for an opportunity to fight back!" Murong Feng roared, the effect was remarkable, they were worthy of well-trained soldiers, and soon formed one circular iron formation after another, and the casualties were reduced in an instant.
Seeing that the enemy was in a different formation, he made the best response, and Rukawa Kaede also reacted quickly.
"Fire Attack!"
As a result, flaming rockets and a large number of torches were thrown into the enemy's circle, and their formation was destroyed again, and the casualties increased rapidly! Half an hour later, thousands more of them fell! The rest are also injured, and there is a smell of roast duck on their bodies, which is very unbearable.
"Rush through this wall of fire, open the gates, and retreat!" Murong Feng was also in a blood-stained white robe at this time, and his hair was scattered, but the desire to win still made him fierce.
The blazing fire was like a beast, staring at them fiercely, and although they all wanted to rush out, they had tried before, and if they touched the slightest trace of this flame, they would soon burn themselves to death.
One man could not take it any longer, he roared and rushed towards the flames, and the screams were heard, and a man covered in fire was devoured, and as soon as he broke out of the ring of fire, he fell to the ground and died......
Just when they were all desperate, life appeared.
Thunder suddenly erupted in the sky, and soon a torrential rain fell, extinguishing the flames, which were several feet high......
After another fierce and cruel hand-to-hand fight, the two young generals Liuchuan Feng and Murong Feng finally intersected in close combat, and the two fought dangerously.
The steed "Black Tiger Pony", who had followed Rukawa Kaede for three years, was pierced by the opponent's sword and died! And the handsome Murong Feng was also cut on the cheek by his sword, and a hideous scar was bloody from his forehead to his chin, fortunately he reacted quickly, otherwise this sword would have split his head in half at that time!
"Hahaha, the sky will never stop me, good you Liuchuan Feng, today's humiliation, he will be returned a hundred times in the future, retreat!"
Without sighing, Murong Feng led the remnants to finally withdraw from the city wall, and Hu Lai also followed him and retreated together.
Rukawa Kaede stopped the idea of the soldiers pursuing, they also suffered heavy losses, and they didn't have the strength to have another duel, he secretly sighed that the gap between the two armies was too big, and everyone else was steamed and roasted by the fire for more than half an hour, and as a result, the remaining troops about the same as their own side were almost defeated on their side, if they hadn't defeated the opponent's main general at a critical moment, the situation might have changed again.
Gan Lin comforted: "There is no way, but our empire is indeed poor, these temporarily recruited soldiers are almost all poor people who do not have enough to eat, weak in health, without discipline and will to fight, and the other party is a well-trained Northern Regions powerhouse who is accompanied by swords and horses all day long, and it is already a great victory to achieve this victory." ”
On this night, the blood flowed like a river, the corpses were all over the field, and the world was discolored!
On this night, the general's battle robe was stained with blood, and the neighing of the war horse resounded in the night sky of the north!
On this night, countless heroic souls let out a silent roar, they guarded the borders of the empire!
This is a classic in the history books of the Great Lie, a great battle in which the few defeated the more and the weak defeated the strong, known as the "Battle of Hengduan Mountain"! Countless outstanding generals in later generations have carefully read and studied him, and all of them have great respect for this wise young general!