Siboro had given an order not to disturb the people "as much as possible", but those Templars still cared about "as much as possible" at the moment, and they vented all their grievances on Lanting City. Almost all the inhabitants were gathered together, protected by the last soldiers who had retreated to the city, but the high wall that once protected them had become a low wall outside the courtyard, and they did not know how long they could hold out without the benefit of the city's defenses.

Everyone was silent, and the men held iron tools in one hand while comforting their wives and children; The women's eyes are firm, and if this is inevitable, they keep their innocence; The children felt the solemn atmosphere of the adults and stopped crying.

Lanting City was noisy and silent, and the winners and losers were once again two extremes in the firelight.

Feng Yu came to a refuge point under the exchange of remnants, where the last few hundred soldiers were gathered, and most of the others had already dispersed.

Feng Yu was ready to surrender and apologize, no matter what, he didn't want the people of Lanting to be implicated again. Xia Yingyang followed his promise to Ma Xiong, and he and another group of soldiers were still entangled with the Templars.

It's just that whether it is Xia Yingyang or Feng Yu, they are just a corner of the gravel in the river, they can paddle the river, but they can't prevent the river from meeting again. Like a stone throwing water, although there are ripples, it is finally calm.

The defeat has risen and cannot be stopped. The defenders of the Orchid Court were in a state of confusion, and the Templars had forgotten their humanity.

At this moment, a crisp female voice called them out.

"What are you doing?" It's not a question, it's a shout. It's like a hostess teaching a rude person in the house.

Xu Lingling's voice immediately attracted everyone's attention. Everywhere she looked, everyone subconsciously shrank back. Just one glance, everyone was ashamed of themselves, and they didn't dare to raise their heads to meet her gaze.

In the north of the city, the young general who had just arrived from the north on a fast horse did not repair because of physical exhaustion, but immediately chose to recapture the city gate, and then immediately entered the city and threw himself into the battlefield.

When Lin Ji entered the city, he looked up at the city gate that he had seen countless times, and suddenly found that this time he looked at it a little differently. But he couldn't tell the taste.

The first to support Lanting City was the vanguard led by Lin Ji, who had three horses in one person, and they worked fast all the way, and finally arrived at this moment.

Lan Ting is broken, but it has not yet completely fallen into the hands of the enemy.

"Raise the flag!" Lin Ji commanded his men.

The cross banner that had just been planted at the city gate was cut down and replaced by the national flag of the Imperial Lin clan, the handsome banner of Zhao Fu in the northwest, and the lone wolf military flag of the Lanting Iron Arm Army.

Lin Ji himself also carried a military flag, he left a part of the men and horses to wait for the arrival of the large army at the city gate, and he drove towards Lanting City with the rest of the soldiers.

Lanting City had just broken and had not yet been fully occupied by the Holy Sect, and there were still many people, including Xia Yingyang, who were making the last resistance.

The Cult was in such a hurry to get the Orchid Court into his hands as quickly as possible that the Templars were scattered throughout the city. This gave Lin Ji a great opportunity, and Lin Ji took his men to kill all the way from the north of the city to the front of the city lord's mansion.

Si Boluo had temporarily relocated the entire Templar command center into the City Lord's Mansion, and in his opinion, this would become the center of gravity for the future fight against Zhao Fu's troops, but what he didn't expect was that he would usher in these thousands of cavalry before the remnants of the Lan Ting in the city were cleared.

The City Lord's Mansion of Lanting City is a small city in the city, Feng Yu knew that after the city was completely destroyed, a large number of Templars would definitely be recruited here, so he consciously withdrew with the remaining soldiers - there were not many people left, instead of fighting a meaningless death fight here, it was better to find an opportunity to break through when the Holy Sect digested and absorbed Lanting City, and maybe save some people.

Si Boluo can be said to have taken the City Lord's Mansion without a single soldier, and now Lin Ji is standing in front of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Boss......" Behind Lin Ji, an Iron Arm soldier who knew him well called him.

"Are you scared?" Lin Ji knew what he was trying to express.

"No, of course I'm not afraid, it's just ......" The soldiers of the empire should be fearless, and the soldiers of Lan Ting should be even more fearless, and the soldiers denied it again and again.

"I'm afraid." Lin Ji forcibly twisted a smile, he turned to face the soldier, and then he pointed to his leg: "See, it's trembling." ”

Lin Ji didn't say it, his legs, or the legs of every Iron Arm soldier standing here, were trembling, but it wasn't that he was afraid of anything, but that he was really, too tired. Lin Ji and they accomplished a great feat, their speed was faster than the fastest speed that could be expected, nearly a day, this day's time was not a simple night march to catch up, but from every day's rapid march and then squeezed and accelerated, and finally arrived on this day. Lin Ji's legs were still shaking, and he was not used to the feeling of standing on the ground.

The joke wasn't very funny, so the soldier just grinned, his feet shaking, and it did take a lot of time for them to re-adjust to the feeling of "down to earth" when they sat on horseback for a long time.

Lin Ji knew that they were very tired, and the long and rapid march had almost exhausted everyone's physical strength, and it was a miracle to be able to stand here, but it was not enough. Lin Ji looked at the City Lord's Mansion, he didn't know what was going on in Lanting City now, he only knew that what he saw along the way were the corpses of friendly soldiers and those Templars who had now turned into corpses.

"I'm afraid it's too late." Lin Ji replied, his voice was so loud that every soldier of the Iron Arm Army could hear it clearly.

"This is our home," Lin Ji clenched his fists and said no more.

But everyone understands, what urges them to keep moving forward, what urges them to become more and more powerless and powerful to run thousands of miles? It's home, Lanting is their home, and the soldiers and civilians of Lanting are their family. They don't allow their homes to be destroyed, they don't allow their families to be mutilated, so they go faster and faster, so they stand here very tired and tired. But that's not enough, they also have to drive out the invaders, so even if they are tired, they can't rest yet.

"Brothers, do you know how many of our enemies there are this time? There are a lot, I don't know how many exactly, but we are back, that is, the Iron Arm Army is back, we are an army! They, too, have only one army, we, one-on-one! Lin Ji launched the final mobilization, and then pulled out his long straight knife.

All the Iron Arm soldiers drew their swords together, and not only the Castle Lord's Mansion was in front of them, but also the Templars who had been released from the Castle Lord's Mansion to defend the city.

The knife is already in hand, the enemy is in front of you, so what else is there to say, as long as you cut until you can't lift your hand again.

On the other side, the Templars who had just broken the city and had not had time to recuperate, they knew nothing about this "neat" and "imposing" Lanting army that had come out of nowhere, and they only thought that they had time to deal with the remnants of the defeated army and gathered to fight them to the death. They casually sent a group of Templars who were in decent condition to meet them. It just so happened that the Templars had been fighting for months to take the city, but they had not been able to get enough rest and vent, and at this moment the war-weariness was reaching its peak, and the fighting spirit was terrifyingly low.

On one side is the Iron Arm Army, who has drained their physical strength, and on the other hand, there are Templars who have no intention of fighting physically and mentally, neither side is better than the other. As a result, the battle became very simple hand-to-hand combat and mutual slashing, for them it was a luxury to turn sideways to avoid the opponent's attacks, but fortunately, the Iron Arm Army also had their special "Iron Glove", they dared to "exchange injuries for injuries" and "life for lives", coupled with the killing of the Lin Halberd, the Templars were gradually suppressed.

It was a surprisingly quiet battle, where the two sides were in silence bargaining for life and death, no one chose to escape, they fought in silence, and said goodbye in silence. The Iron Arm Army is tired, so tired that he doesn't want to exude anger, so tired that he doesn't want to open his mouth and spit out even a "ah" word; The Templars were tired, so tired that they no longer felt pain and souls, and they calmly carried out the orders to resist, calmly greeted the coming death, and no longer struggled.

Lin Ji couldn't remember how many steps he had taken, and he almost forgot what he was doing, he just used his knife to mechanically chop at the strange faces that blocked him in front of him. The only thing he remembered was the words that kept ringing in his heart: "Don't stop, don't stop." This is the life-saving mantra that Lin Hanyu taught him.

I don't know how many steps I walked, I don't know how many people I killed, I just couldn't stop. Finally, he suddenly heard someone shouting, "They're running, they're running!" He looked at the place where the sound was sound, and saw that there were so few people...... There are so few people still standing.