Chapter 822: Desperate Survival
"Holes? What is Kong Ming Lantern? The defeated soldier looked stunned and couldn't understand what Guan Ping was saying.
The two hundred soldiers and horses left behind in Yinping City were originally local county soldiers, and they had been stationed in Yinping City for most of their lives, of course, they had never seen or even heard of Kong Ming lanterns.
Guan Ping was different, he had previously followed Liu Bei on the front line and participated in every war against Su Zhe.
Naturally, he also witnessed with his own eyes the scene when Zhuge Liang used Kong Ming lanterns to launch an aerial fire attack on Wei Ying.
Although the fire attack ended in failure because Su Zhe summoned heavy rain, Guan Ping was deeply impressed by Zhuge Liang's invention of the "Kong Ming Lantern" that could fly in the sky.
At present, these defeated soldiers mentioned that the ball that can fly can also breathe flames, and immediately let Guan Ping contact Kong Ming Lantern.
"What does that thing look like, you can draw it for me!" Guan Ping shouted again.
The soldier had no choice but to pick up a wooden stick and draw on the ground the Kong Ming lantern he had seen.
"How so? That Su thief actually converted the Kong Ming lantern into a flying lantern that can carry people? โ
Guan Ping looked at the picture on the ground and muttered to himself, and the whole person was shocked to the point of losing his soul.
Although the picture drawn by the soldier is out of shape, it can still be distinguished, it is indeed a Kong Ming lantern, but it is even bigger than the Kong Ming lantern.
"By the way, Ma Jun, that traitor, helped the Su thief create the divine thunder cannon, could it be that this Kong Ming lantern was also made by him for the Su thief?"
Guan Ping's thoughts raced, and he suddenly guessed something.
Immediately afterward, he was even more shocked.
What shocked him was not that Ma Jun had created the Kong Ming Lantern, but that Su Zhe's "whimsical world" had come up with the idea of transforming the Kong Ming Lantern into a flying vehicle that could carry people, carrying his soldiers, crossing the sky above the Sword Pavilion, and coming all the way to attack his Yinping City.
Even if the direction has not deviated at all, it has really succeeded?
For a while, Guan Ping fell into a deep shock, shocked by Su Zhe's unbelievable whimsy.
"Major General, no matter what, this Yinping City is lost, what should we do?" The adjutant general next to him shouted in panic.
Guan Ping woke up from the shock, and suddenly looked around, only to see that the soldiers around him were all in shock and panic.
They were not only shocked by the Wei army's miraculous air raids, but also panicked by the fall of Yinping City.
Because Guan Ping saw that the camp was very close to Yinping City, the Wei army was blocked in Yinping Road, and there was no way to threaten the grain road, so the grain and grass needed by the whole army were all transported daily from Yinping City.
That is to say, they do not have half a day's spare food in their hands, and they all rely on the daily supply of Yinping City.
At present, Yinping City was raided by the Wei army, and they immediately fell into a situation of running out of food, and the surplus grain in their hands was not even as good as the Wei army in Yinping Road.
Guan Ping shivered and shouted urgently: "Leave a thousand soldiers and horses to guard the camp, and the rest of the men and horses will immediately recapture Yinping City with the general!" โ
He didn't have time to think about it, turned over and got on his horse, then called to open the camp gate, and led two thousand panicked soldiers to kill Yinping City.
He realized the gravity of the situation.
Once he ran out of food, his 3,000 men and horses would crumble and crush without a fight.
At that time, the 7,000 soldiers and horses of Deng Ai in Yinping Road could walk out of Yinping Road by the way, meet with the sneak attack Wei army, and completely seize Yinping City.
Yinping was lost, Deng Ai's 7,000 soldiers and horses had enough food and grass, and to the south could threaten the flank of the Sword Pavilion, to the east, they could directly approach Yangping Pass, and to the west, they could even directly attack the counties of Longxi, and the consequences were unimaginable.
Therefore, Guan Ping had to take advantage of the fact that the soldiers had just eaten a full meal and had not been destroyed by the lack of food, and forcibly recaptured Yinping City.
"There shouldn't be many Wei troops who sneak attacked, and Deng Ai's kid shouldn't have expected that his friendly army would sneak attack Yinping from the sky, and he shouldn't take advantage of the situation to attack my camp, I just need to recapture Yinping City as soon as possible, and when Deng Ai's kid reacts, lead the army back to the camp......"
Guan Ping was naturally comforted, his mood calmed down a lot, and his face ignited with a hideous murderous machine, urging his soldiers to rush towards Yinping City.
West of Yinping crossing, Wei Ying.
In the camp, an atmosphere of despair spread like a plague.
A hungry and tired soldier was carefully eating what little ration they had left.
This is almost their last food, and at most they will have to run out of food for tomorrow, and then they will have to drink the northwest wind.
Deng Ai walked silently in the camp, looking at the gloomy faces, his mood became deeper and deeper, and his brows became deeper and deeper.
He knew exactly what was going on in the minds of the soldiers.
No matter how elite they are, even if they are loyal to Dawei and the Son of Heaven, they can't make them more productive than a bowl of rice.
Once they run out of food and their fighting spirit, their beliefs will crumble, and they have only two options to survive.
Either surrender to the Han army at the crossing and beg for work, or scatter and flee, each seeking a way to survive.
No matter what the result is, there is only one result for him Deng Ai:
Die!
It doesn't matter if he dies, it's a pity that he betrayed the trust of the Son of Heaven in him and failed to win Yinping, even if he died, he died with regret and self-blame.
"Yin Ping fire, Yin Ping fire, Your Majesty, you are so godly, can you really let Yin Ping fire up?"
Deng Ai stood at the camp gate, looking at the direction of the Yinping crossing from a distance, with words in his mouth, and the persistence between his eyebrows was quietly passing.
He had already begun to doubt, and he began to waver in his belief in Su Zhe.
He really couldn't think of any way to make Yinping City set fire to the Son of Heaven, whom he feared as God, so that the enemy would be in chaos without a fight.
"That's it, even if Your Majesty can't do it, I, Deng Ai, will fight to the death, and it won't be in vain Your Majesty's kindness to me......"
Deng Ai clenched his fists, secretly determined in his heart, and his eyes were already burning with the determination to die generously.
With a long breath, he turned to go back to the tent.
Just as he turned his head, he suddenly turned back again, his eyes widened, and he looked anxiously in the direction of Yin Ping.
Smoke!
He saw billowing smoke rising from the rear of the enemy camp, in the direction where Yinping City was located.
Yinping City is on fire!
Yinping City is really on fire!
In an instant, Deng Ai's face swelled with endless ecstasy, so excited that he burst into tears and danced with his hands.
"Yinping City is really on fire? How did Your Majesty do it? How exactly did Your Majesty do it? How is this possible......"
Deng Ai muttered to himself, surprised to the point of incoherence, and couldn't figure out how this miracle happened.
In the camp, the soldiers of the Wei army who saw the fire in the direction of Yinping City also crawled out of despair and fell into a cry of surprise.
"Because Your Majesty is a god, that's why you can do anything!"
Deng Ai finally gave a reasonable explanation, and in addition to the ecstasy in his heart, he couldn't help but feel ashamed of himself.
He regretted that his will was wavering, and he even doubted the words of the Son of Heaven.
After some self-blame, Deng Ai kicked open the camp gate and shouted: "Brothers, the Son of Heaven has taken Yinping City for us, and the enemy's army will definitely collapse. โ
"Fight the way of Yin Pingโ"
"Fight the way of Yin Pingโ"
The 7,000 hungry Wei soldiers instantly burned like a chicken blood, and their fighting spirit was like a fire, pouring out of the camp like a tide, and swept towards the Han army outside the city.