Chapter 359: This Is War!
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After Gao Yunce was slightly stunned for a moment, he immediately turned around and left with a salute to Lihua, and went to the front line to arrange.
And Zhu Lihua looked at Gao Yunce's back and said proudly: "Throughout the ages, have you ever heard of such a tragic battle as my Huangyin War of Resistance, and have you ever seen such a fearless soldier as my Qin army?" β
After Zhu Lihua's words fell, more than 100 pro-army generals and military attachΓ©s beside him knelt behind Zhu Lihua in a burst of inner agitation.
The battlefield in front of him was full of flesh and blood, and after a long battle, hundreds of Rong troops had rushed through the trench from the ladder.
Without the suppression of arrows, the soldiers of the Qin army could only use their flesh and blood to resist the repeated attacks of the enemy step by step.
Unlike the day and night before, the Qin army was occasionally able to rely on its own bravery and rush over the ladder to suppress it.
But after countless fierce battles, the tired Qin army at the end of the ladder today can only struggle to prevent the Rong army's melee infantry from completely occupying the "beachhead".
The port of each ladder is a hellish miserable situation of Shura, countless soldiers of the two armies are fighting and scuffling together, there are stumps and broken arms everywhere, and there can be flying brains and flesh everywhere.
You grabbed me by the neck, and I grabbed your eyes with my hands.
Thou shalt plunge Changge into my chest, and I will crush thy skull with an axe.
Here, there is no pity, no sympathy, and no equally human intolerance.
Yes, it's just your life-and-death persistence and your determination to die together.
Finally, with Gao Yunce's order, the soldiers who were ready next to the trench poured fire oil on the side of the trench, and the huge logs that were neatly stacked.
Later, the soldiers of the Qin army set fire to the wood, which had been used for rolling logs, and immediately pushed them under the trench.
Seeing the smoke of the wood fall into the trench, the soldiers of the Qin army on the side of the trench even saw the soldiers of the Rong army with frightened eyes under the trench wail in despair.
The fire burned from the moment it rolled down the trench because of the oil.
Even though the countless soldiers under the trench tried all kinds of ways to extinguish the fire at the first time, they couldn't get close to the wood that was getting bigger and bigger.
What's more, the Qin army on the trench seemed to be like crazy, and they kept throwing all the wood under the trench.
The only thing the soldiers under the trench could do at the moment was to desperately climb up the cliff on their side.
However, the narrow trench was now filled with black and panicked people. So how could they all escape from the trench by a few ladders?
The fire grew bigger and bigger as the wood was dropped, and the hot air seemed to be burning.
The soldiers of the Rong army kept wailing and instinctively retreated, hoping to climb the ladder before the others.
But when everyone had such a plan, fewer and fewer people were able to escape up the ladder.
The soldiers huddled together with all the desire to live, and clung to each other, grasping for their extravagant hopes, stretching their necks and standing on their toes.
At last, stirred by a strong wind blowing down the trench, the flames of the fire roared like an evil dragon, engulfing the countless wailing soldiers of the Rong army in its great red mouth.
"Ahh
Lin Xu, who was watching the battle at the city wall, watched the flames in the trench suddenly rush to the surface, and the whirring fire roar instantly suppressed the screams in the trench and could no longer be heard in the slightest, and immediately screamed.
He saw that those whom he had sent to meet the soldiers in the trench had to flee from the trench howling and crawling.
Even the distant city wall himself was burned by the heat wave and couldn't open his eyes.
Finally, after hearing Lin Xu, who was exhausted and had been holding on, finally screamed again, he reached out and tightly covered his chest and passed out on the ground.
"Marshal, marshal!"
Lin Xu slowly opened his eyes, looking at the generals with dark faces who had been burned by the flames and their armor and clothes and smoked, and finally asked with difficulty when he couldn't see the generals he was most familiar with:
"What about Lu Jin?"
"Marshal, General Lu has lost his life." A general said to Lin Xu with a crying voice.
"Has everyone fled back? Wait for the fire to be extinguished and we'll attack again! β
After Lin Xu's words fell, he suddenly saw that the generals in front of him lowered their heads one after another, as if they didn't intend to respond to their decision at all.
Lin Xu's eyes widened, and a nameless fire in his heart instantly surged into his mind, he just wanted to open his mouth to scold, but he heard the general who was supporting him cry and said:
"Marshal. I can't fight anymore.
The brothers suffered too many casualties to fight any longer.
The marshal knew that only 16,000 brothers could escape after this half-day bloody battle. β
"What!"
After Lin Xu heard the general's words, he immediately opened his eyes, looked at the person who spoke incredulously, and then two lines of tears burst out of Lin Xu's eyes.
He stood up calmly with the support of the generals, but found that the soldiers of the Kunpeng Army beside him outside the city were all ragged and dark-faced.
They looked at themselves numbly, at the manager they once believed in.
In just half a day of fighting, half of the soldiers died, Lin Xu of course knew that his soldiers and horses were really no longer able to fight, and the Kunpeng army was already on the verge of annihilation.
"Are you going to lose?"
Looking at his robes, Lin Xu wanted to roar to the sky, but in the end, apart from the sharp pain in his throat that was smoked, he couldn't make a sound.
Listening to the sound of horses' hooves shaking the sky behind him, Lin Xu just lowered his head and smiled bitterly, but did not turn to look at who it was.
"Marshal, although our army has suffered heavy losses, the enemy in Huangyin City is already at the end of its crossbows, and the marshal must not be discouraged at this time."
On horseback, Qiu Zi, who had fainted and couldn't get up because of the heavy losses of his tribesmen in the afternoon before yesterday, actually rode on horseback at this time, and looked at Lin Xu, whose expression and state were almost the same as those of himself the day before yesterday, said resolutely.
To be honest, he had never seen Lin Xu cry.
Even, he had never seen Lin Xu show even a trace of decadence.
But at this time, Lao Qiuzi suddenly saw a trace of immaturity that a young man should have on the bleak and dull Lin Xu's face.
Only then did he suddenly remember that the commander of the three armies of the Great Xia Kingdom in front of him was not yet thirty years old at this time.
"Alas!"
Lao Qiuzi knew that Lin Xu couldn't recover for a while, so he shouted at his own soldiers, and several soldiers hurriedly came to the front.
"How many men and horses are left in the whole army at the moment?"
"Counting the marshal's nearly 20,000 horses, there are still 50,000 people in the whole army."
After hearing this, Qiuzi pondered carefully, and then nodded.
He knew that among the less than 20,000 soldiers under Lin Xu's command, it would be good for the Kunpeng army to have 10,000, so that army had been completely disabled.
As for the rest of the thousands of terrified miscellaneous soldiers, Qiuzi didn't even want to put a trace of his thoughts on those people.
seemed to be speaking to the herald soldier, but when Qiuzi spoke, he always faced the stupid Lin Xu:
"The soldiers and horses under the command of the marshal have already beaten the Huangyin Qin army to the last trace of breath.
Go and tell Muto and Aron that if they are willing to follow my orders to lead an army against Huangyin City at this time, then I will recommend them to replace the dead Bemur and Ahuanu as the leaders of their tribe when the city is broken.
But if they continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and to be insane, the warriors of Itiz will attack them at once.
Although there are only more than 5,000 horses left, let them try and see if my Tiz warriors still have the strength to fight. β
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
Several herald soldiers, carrying the message from Qiuz, immediately rushed through the array of five thousand Tiz cavalry towards the remnants of Ahuanu and Bemur.
At this time, Lin Xucai, who heard Qiuzi's order, raised his head slightly, looked at Qiuzi with tears on his face, and smiled at the old man.
Looking at Lin Xu's appearance, how could Qiu Zi not understand the complexity of this smile, helplessness, embarrassment, confusion, loss, and deep loss after the confidence of winning a hundred battles was shattered.
"Xiao Dadan also lost the battle in my grassland, and after that battle, the warriors who could survive standing were less than one percent when they set off. In that battle, more than a dozen young leaders who were most valued by Xiao Dashan Yu were killed.
But if you look at today's Da Danyu, can there be a trace of a bear like you? β
After hearing Qiuzi's earnest words as he turned to leave, Lin Xu slowly lowered his head again.
He stood in the twilight sunlight, letting the dim sunlight pull his shadow longer and longer.
On this day and night, the Rong army did not attack the city again.
And looking at the wood burning in the ravine all night, it seemed that he was the same as Lin Xu outside the city, just staring blankly at the ruins, and did not say a word or a word in the company of the two white wolves.
"There are less than 10,000 brothers in the city who can fight."
After listening to Gao Yunce's words that approached him, he was still silent, and Gao Yunce didn't speak anymore or leave, but just accompanied Lihua to look at the gap in the city wall that let the moonlight shine into the city.
Gradually, as An Moran, Xi Zihui, Xin Tong'er, Li Ji, Tang Yuan, Liu Jaw and others came to Lihua's side one after another, the moonlight gradually faded, which also meant that the morning sun was coming.
Finally, he turned his head to look back, and when he saw his familiar robe and siblings standing tightly beside him, he smiled, he laughed unscrupulously, laughed heartily.
"It's all here?" Lu Lihua asked in a calm tone, as if he had started a routine with the generals on weekdays.
"It's all here."
"Here it is."
"I've brought them all."
"The brethren from the city have brought them down."
......
"What about the seriously injured brothers, have they all been arranged?"
"If you go back to the left, the last general has already sent someone to put all the horses in the city on the cart.
The 6,000 seriously wounded brothers had already left the city and were sent to Yaoping City.
The last general also sent a thousand brothers to escort them, thinking that they should have arrived at Huang Tiandang by this time, and are now moving to the ship.
As long as the brothers are on the boat, it is really safe. β