Chapter 358: The End of the Crossbow
After a while, under the leadership of Lu Jin, all the generals of the Kunpeng Army had no choice but to salute Lin Xu and say "yes", and then they reluctantly got up and left the big tent.
But under those faces that seemed extremely complicated in hesitation, all the generals were making their own calculations in their hearts.
Everyone knows that behind his "yes" to Lin Xu, I am afraid that countless lives will be lost, and maybe even he will die under this decisive battle.
But they also understood that if they didn't say "yes", then Qian Long's head would immediately have his own head next to him.
After a short day of rest, when the sun rose the next day, more than 30,000 Rong troops appeared again outside the remnants of the Huangyin city wall.
And when the besieging Rong soldiers climbed over the collapsed city wall and saw the scene in Huangyin City, they found that the corpses of the soldiers killed and wounded in the fierce battle the night before were still lying on the ground.
In just one day, the Qin army had no way to clean up all the corpses of nearly 20,000 horses, although allowing the corpses to decompose was very likely to cause a plague, but in the current situation of life and death, who would care about these trivial things.
Because there was still a lot of wood and fire oil in Huangyin City, after setting fire to the corpses of countless Rong soldiers in the trenches, the Qin army seemed to ignore the other corpses.
And the reason why the corpses in the trench were burned was completely because Tang Yuan wanted to make the trench deeper.
Facing the purgatory-like scene on earth, the soldiers who had just been transferred here from outside the eight heights yesterday to attack the city slowly advanced towards the place where the corpses gathered in front of them with pale faces.
As they walked, they observed, wondering where they would be safer after the battle.
But during the observation, what they saw in their eyes were more of countless mutilated corpses, countless charred and curled up in human remains.
Only half of the head was cut off.
After he died, he still bit a bloody ear in his mouth.
One hand was obviously pinching the other's neck, but the other hand was lying quietly on the ground not far away.
The countless strange-shaped corpses made these soldiers who had experienced the great battle for the first time all terrified, and when thousands of people walked into the Huangyin city wall, some people in the black crowd collapsed directly to the ground, crying slightly.
Behind the trench that the soldiers faced, countless Qin soldiers also looked at them, and even under this blue sky with exceptionally abundant daylight, the soldiers on both sides could see each other's faces clearly.
"Shoot the arrows."
Seeing that the soldiers of the Rong army came to the trench again, Zhu Lihua coldly gave an order.
Suddenly, the arrows that covered the sky and the sun were fired towards the other side of the trench, and the soldiers of the Rong army who were slowly moving forward only fell to the ground screaming in an instant.
"Run!"
Shortly after the first round of arrows fell, someone shouted in the crowd, and the Rong soldiers, who had just come close to the trench, immediately retreated like a tidal wave.
For a while, the soldiers in the rear of the Rong army who had been shattered when they saw countless dead bodies were all completely defeated.
The archers of the Qin army were still full of bowstrings waiting for the military order to shoot arrows, but when they saw the backs of the Rong troops behind the trench scrambling to flee in fear, their faces showed surprise and puzzlement.
They wondered why the soldiers were no longer brave after just one day.
Why is it that in just one day, those soldiers who braved the flames and were hit by several arrows in their bodies but still shouted and charged would become cowards.
Although it was incomprehensible, the facts were in front of us: for a moment, apart from the collapsed walls to the trenches, except for the hysterical cries of a few wailing wounded soldiers, not a single one of the thousands of soldiers could be seen.
Seeing the soldiers strangely looking at the abnormality on the other side of the trench, Zhu Lihua also shook his head with a wry smile. He saw that Xi Zihui, who was puzzled, was about to ask him a question, so he took the initiative to smile and said:
It seems that Lin Xu even took out the belongings at the bottom of the box.
Is it really time for the final battle? ”
Xi Zihui was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then after thinking about it for a while, he understood the meaning of Zhu Lihua's words, he frowned and walked in front of Zhu Lihua, knelt down on one knee to the coach, who was nearly ten years younger than himself, and Zheng Sheng said:
"It is the glory of Xizi to be able to follow the great people of Zuo, and it is the blessing of Xizi to be able to serve Daqin and die. If the Rong army is attacking today, please let me not protect the left and right.
Xizi is going to kill the enemy.
The greater person on the left knows the grace of the encounter, and will repay it in the next life.
Please accept my bows. ”
Xizihui solemnly kowtowed to Lihua, but Lihua smiled faintly: "Does General Xizi want to abandon me and leave first?" If the Rong army is attacking, I also ask General Xizi to help me. ”
With that, he drew his sword and handed him to Xizihui.
Xi Zihui stretched out his hand to take the sword of Zhu Lihua, and then held back the tears in his eyes and nodded with a smile and stood up.
At this time, the two horses beside Zhu Lihua didn't know how many Rong soldiers they had bitten to death last night, and the white wolf covered in blood also seemed to understand something, and looked at Zhu Lihua and lowered his head and whimpered.
"If I die, you two run to the mountains, and run west along the mountains, and you will go home."
It's just that I failed to fulfill your father's request, and it's a shame to think about it. ”
While gently touching the huge heads of the two white wolves, Lihua said to herself regretfully.
"If you two meet Xin'er in the future, tell him that I have done my best. Since the winner is Xiao Da Danyu, then it is up to him to save you.
In this life, everyone can be worthy of it, but the only person who is sorry is her. ”
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The brief truce soon resumed as everyone knew in their hearts, and when countless Rong troops poured into Huangyin City from the collapse of the city wall again, the soldiers of the Qin army once again filled their bows in their hands, clenched the Changge in their hands, and stared at the countless enemies on the opposite side of the trench with hatred.
"Shoot the arrows!"
As the order to release arrows sounded again in the Qin army, countless arrows flew towards the dense crowd of Rong troops.
For a while, the screams and exclamations were endless, and countless soldiers who had fallen to the ground with arrows let out a miserable wail after this round of arrow rain.
At this time, the first round of bows and arrows in the Rong army also began to be fired, and these arrows staggered with the second round of arrows of the Qin army in the sky, and when they shot into the array of the Qin army, many Qin troops also fell to the ground and wailed.
In a moment, the two sides of the men and horses fired more than ten rounds across the ravine, and at this time, the soldiers who had collapsed in the Rong army could no longer bear the tremendous pressure of death, shouted "Run", and were about to turn around and escape from this hell on earth.
But as another soldier not far from him raised his sword, the soldier who had just turned around was in a different place, which made the other soldiers who wanted to run hurriedly run towards the ravine again.
The same scene happened in every corner of the crowd that entered the Yellow Yin City, at every moment since the first round of arrow attacks.
At this time, the soldiers of the Qin army realized that the soldiers who had just escaped were the recruits of the Rong army, and when the Rong army re-attacked the second time, the soldiers of the Kunpeng army were mixed into the recruit team to supervise the battle, which stopped the trend of those recruits from fleeing.
However, as the archers of the Qin army were gradually suppressed by the larger number of Rong archers, and as the Qin army itself ran out of arrows, the Qin army began to retreat gradually, and then stood in front of the trench with a large number of resolute Changge soldiers.
Under tremendous pressure, the Rong army finally came to the side of the trench. Similarly, the Rong archers began to retreat, giving up the edge of the trench to melee foot soldiers armed with long ge, mace, and mace.
After the soldiers carrying the ladder hurriedly built the "bridge", all the soldiers seemed to want to vent all the depression in their hearts, and rushed to the other side of the trench with a loud roar.
Many of the soldiers knew that the trench must be full of danger, but they resolutely climbed down the ladder down the trench.
For the soldiers who chose to go down the trench, perhaps the trench with unknown risks was always much better than the surface full of dead people.
But they were wrong, and when they came to the bottom of the trench and found it full of charred corpses, they suddenly realized that this was a hell worse than the surface.
They want to turn around and climb back to the surface, but how can the constant flow of people allow them to make a new choice?
In desperation, they had no choice but to run to the other side of the trench, but some of them suddenly stumbled and fell into a trap filled with sharp wooden nails, and some of them tripped over the remains of their ancestors and were trampled by countless soldiers behind them and could not get up again.
Finally, when the traps were filled with corpses, countless soldiers were relieved and boldly climbed to the other side of the trench. But what awaited them were huge wolf fangs and fishing traps full of wooden nails.
The soldiers of the Kunpeng Army who had participated in the battle the day and night before were not willing to return to the hellish trench again, and instead of being burned to death in the trench, they would rather face the centralized care of the Qin army on the other side.
Therefore, among the soldiers who chose to kill from the ladder, the vast majority of them became veterans of a hundred battles, and the soldiers of the Qin army who were waiting to block the Rong army behind each ladder also felt very difficult.
Braving the attack of the rain of arrows, but also to block the impact of the soldiers whose combat effectiveness was significantly higher than that of those Rong soldiers the night before, although the soldiers of the Qin army were still brave and fearless, they were still a little unable to support it after all.
"Have you run out of arrows?"
After smiling at Gao Lihua, Gao Yunce nodded and said, "It's all over." The archers have become long-standing soldiers, ready to go to the front line at any time. ”
Zhu Lihua nodded, then glanced at the battlefield not far away, and then said fiercely as if he had made up his mind: "After a while, when the fishing ditch is broken, throw all the oil and wood into the trench for me." ”
Gao Yunce was slightly stunned when he heard this, and even everyone around him was stunned when they heard Lihua's words, and everyone knew in their hearts that they were afraid that their own coach was going to be ruined.
Although everyone had been mentally prepared for this ending for a long time, when they heard the order come out of the mouth of Zhu Lihua, everyone's thoughts were full of mixed feelings.