Seeing that the Qi troops continued to increase, and his own reinforcements could not arrive, King Wu was angry and asked Zhang Xun viciously, "What about Ji Zheng!" Where is he! Where is it! Where is it?! ”

"Report to the king, General Ji should be about to arrive. 【】”

"Didn't you say you could get there in the afternoon?! It's going to get dark now! Where is he! ”

"Probably...... Perhaps they were pinned down and blocked by the Qi army, delaying ......"

"Delay?! Delay until tomorrow and we will all die! King Wu was already hysterical, completely not taboo the eyes of the soldiers around him, and wantonly vented the panic in his heart, "The attacks of the Qi people are becoming more ferocious round by round, and the reinforcements are not coming, I ask you!" ”

"Yes...... The king ......" Zhang Xun wanted to pull King Wu away to prevent him from transmitting this uneasiness to the soldiers, but King Wu seemed to have completely fallen into madness, and just cursed resentfully.

"Ji Zheng, this heartless thief! It was the king who kindly took him in at the beginning! Now he doesn't want to repay the favor, and he doesn't come to the rescue for a long time! It's disgusting! This king must put him to justice! Certain! ”

Just when King Wu was scolding, a burst of drums suddenly sounded from the Qi army's position, and with the sound of drums, the Qi army quickly adjusted its formation, and the arc front was like a death sickle, preparing to harvest all the Wu soldiers.

"Quick! Take the king away from the front line! The people of Qi are about to launch a general attack! ”

The guards escorted King Wu and took him away from the front line. Subsequently, Zhang Xun then quickly organized the remaining forces and prepared to resist the final attack of the Qi people.

Yu Ke stepped forward and said to Zhang Xun: "General! The front line is dangerous, you withdraw to the camp command! ”

Zhang Xun shook his head, straightened up, and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Brothers! This is the final general attack of the Qi army, they will inevitably end the battle before dark, we have no way to retreat, survival is in this battle! Brethren! Fight to the death! Fight to the death! ”

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

The soldiers shouted in unison, resounding through the sky.

Zhang Xun pulled out the blazing sword and personally pushed it to the front of the formation. However, at the moment when his eyes jumped, he seemed to see a familiar face, and when he looked closely, he found nothing, only a back figure with two knives on his back.

As the sun sets, the sky is darker, and on the blood-red battlefield, the soldiers and horses on both sides are waiting for each other, and the battlefield before the war is silent and quiet.

Suddenly, the Qi army's position sounded the earth-shattering war drums, and the earth suddenly shook. Zhang Xun held the blazing sword tightly, and he could clearly feel the resonance from the war drum from the hilt, such a drum not only boosted the morale of the Qi army, but also piled up the fear in the hearts of the brothers. Zhang Xun was anxious, if he blindly defended passively and waited for the Qi army to charge, he would inevitably fall into a great disadvantage, and he must disrupt the offensive rhythm of the Qi people and strive to take the initiative.

I saw Zhang Xun standing forward, stepping up a high slope, waving his sword and shouting, "Brothers! Come on! ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Xun stepped on a war horse and took the lead in rushing forward, and when the soldiers saw this, they also followed and charged. 20,000 men marched forward at the same time, and the roar of rage drowned out the noise of the war drums, and even the earth trembled. The Qi army was disrupted by this unreasonable charge, and did not know how to respond for a while. Because the Qi army put up an attack formation, it did not arrange a bow and arrow array, and seeing that Zhang Xun led people to rush up, the Qi army hurriedly organized the archers to release arrows.

The arrows had just flown out of the Qi army's position, but they saw a cloud of dust rising from the center of the battlefield, and the two thousand war horses were flying towards the Qi army's front. The war horse first broke into the position of the Qi army with lightning speed, and knocked the enemy in front of him into a bloody and bloody air, Zhang Xun led the cavalry to rampage, they relied on the speed of the horse to slash sideways, or beheaded, or stabbed, and the front line position of the Qi army was rushed to pieces in an instant.

Soon, the Wu infantry also rushed through the half. At this moment, countless arrows fell from the sky, like a deadly black rain poured over the heads of the infantrymen. A large number of infantry fell to the ground, and the others stepped on the corpses of their comrades and continued to move forward, carrying two rounds of arrows, they finally killed in front of the Qi army and fought bravely with Zhang Xun to kill the enemy.

The two armies were staggered, hand-to-hand combat, corpses were piled up like mountains, and blood flowed like rivers.

Zhang Xun knew that he was outnumbered, and if he delayed, he would inevitably be wiped out, and if he wanted to win, he must capture the thief and capture the king first. He looked around, and found the general flag of the Qi army from afar, only to see that the general flag had a "Guo" character written on it, Zhang Xun did not remember that the Qi country had a general surnamed Guo, and he didn't know where this was sacred, but no matter who he was, if he wanted to win, he must be beheaded.

Who knew that at the moment when Zhang Xun was in a trance, a Qi soldier suddenly swung his sword and slashed, cutting off the front legs of the war horse under his crotch, the horse fell in response, and Zhang Xun also fell off the horse and fell in a piece of blood. The Qi soldier jumped in front of Zhang Xun in a big stride, raised his short sword and stabbed him in the chest.

Zhang Xun turned over and dodged, and the short sword stabbed into the dirt, and he took advantage of the soldier's sword to draw his sword and stabbed the blazing sword into the soldier's waist, and the blazing sword pierced the armor and pierced deeply into the soldier's side. Zhang Xun screamed, and slashed the Flame Blazing Sword outward, and the Blazing Sword burst out from the back of the soldier's waist, almost tearing it into two pieces.

Zhang Xun had just stood up, and two more Qi soldiers slashed at him, he dodged and slashed sideways, cutting one of them over, but he didn't want to show a flaw in his back. Another Qi soldier grabbed the flaw and stabbed him in the back with a sword, seeing that the blade had penetrated the back armor, at this time, a flash of lightning flashed, and the short sword suddenly lost its strength and fell to the ground along with the palm, and it turned out that the Qi soldier's wrist was cut off by the Qi Brush.

The Qi soldier knelt on the ground and shouted, blood gushed from his wrist, Zhang Xun turned around, only to see a figure flashing, and with a wave of his sword, he cut the head of the Qi soldier to the ground.

Good skills! Zhang Xun couldn't help but admire, he finally remembered who this familiar person was, seven years ago, it was this person who led a group of assassins to wash Yiyang Village in blood.

"Blue Gate?!" Zhang Xun shouted at the figure.

But the figure didn't answer, just guarded Zhang Xun's side tightly.

A cavalryman rushed to Zhang Xun's side, Zhang Xun hurriedly stopped him, and shouted to the cavalry at the top of his voice: "You go and give orders!" Assemble the cavalry! ”

The cavalry just nodded, but was stabbed through the back of the heart by the halberd, Zhang Xun had no choice but to turn over and get on the horse to give the order in person. After a rush, only dozens of cavalry were gathered, and although the strength was weak, Zhang Xun had to make a desperate bet. He put away the blazing sword, picked up a halberd from the ground, and then held the halberd in front of the horse, and then, with an order, he led dozens of cavalry to launch a fierce charge towards the general's flag.

This abnormal movement was immediately noticed by the Qi army, and the Qi State General Qi quickly withdrew backwards, and a large number of Qi troops shrank to the core, immediately trapping Zhang Xun and others. Zhang Xun tried many times, but he couldn't break through the encirclement at all, and in desperation, he could only lead people to retreat.

The two armies continued to fight, with numerous casualties, and the battlefield was littered with corpses, and five or six hills were raised, which were connected to each other to form an undulating mountain range.

The Wu army suffered heavy losses, leaving only two or three thousand men, while the Qi army still had more than 20,000 troops. Zhang Xun and the others had their backs against the corpse mountain, and there was no way out. Seeing that the general trend had gone, he hurriedly commanded the troops to retreat, but before the troops could bypass the corpse mountain, the Qi army suddenly changed its formation and outflanked it from both wings. The Qi army surrounded on three sides, forming an encirclement in the blink of an eye, besieging the remnants of Wu soldiers under the corpse mountain.

The Qi army stretched out its blades and pressed forward step by step, and the encirclement slowly contracted, pinching the remaining Wu soldiers into a ball. Several Wu soldiers wanted to break through, but as soon as they rushed up, they were chopped into pulp with knives.

The Qi army continued to advance, and the encirclement was gradually shrinking. The Wu soldiers were surrounded like a pool of stagnant water, and the soldiers on the periphery wanted to retreat, but they were squeezed by the people inside, and they were killed by the Qi army if they were careless; Someone inside accidentally fell, and then was trampled under his own feet, and there was no chance to stand up.

The sun had set, leaving only a blood-red light and shadow, and the remnant sun had irrigated the filthy blood on the mountain of corpses, and countless hideous stumps stretched out to the sky, like flourishing trees growing wildly.

Zhang Xun wiped away the blood that flowed from his hair to the corners of his mouth, took a deep breath, and the smell of blood suddenly filled his nasal cavity. He screamed, trying to command the desperate soldiers, but as soon as he could get out, he was drowned out in a cry of pain.

The end is settled, and this may be the final sunset.

Zhang Xun looked relieved, he raised his blazing sword and slowly walked to the periphery, ready to personally attack the encirclement. And at this moment, several Wu soldiers suddenly turned around and fled in the direction of the corpse mountain, they were so panicked that they knocked Zhang Xun to the ground.

Zhang Xun fell in a pool of dirty blood, just wanted to get up, but was stepped on, he tensed his muscles, and tried to stand up again, but half of the person flew from the sky and smashed on his body, Zhang Xun picked up the half of the person, only to see that the person had no legs, only the upper body was left, desperately holding Zhang Xun for help.

Zhang Xun couldn't be rescued, he couldn't even stand up, Zhang Xun turned around with difficulty and looked in the direction where the soldiers were running. The Wu soldiers had completely dispersed, and hundreds of Wu soldiers were like ants, desperately climbing up the corpse mountain. However, when the first soldier to climb the mountain of corpses thought he would finally be able to escape, he was shot into a sieve by a volley of arrows.

Then, all the soldiers who climbed the mountain of corpses were shot, and some of them rolled down the mountain, while others directly turned into rocks, accumulating the mountain of corpses. The Qi soldiers climbed up the corpse mountain from the other side, and they killed the Wu soldiers who wanted to escape from the corpse mountain one by one, even those who were lying in the corpse pile and pretending to be dead.

Zhang Xun clenched the blazing sword and plunged the sword into the dirt, he tried his best to stand up, but before he could sit up, he was trampled down by the panicked crowd, countless footsteps stepped over him, dead people piled up on him layer by layer, his vision became narrower and narrower, due to the compression of his chest, it became more and more difficult to breathe, he felt that his consciousness seemed to be blurring little by little, and the noisy shouting and killing sound around him also turned into an empty buzz.

At this moment, in the last gap in front of him, Qingmen suddenly reached into a hand, and he grabbed Qingmen's hand desperately, which was his last hope. Qingmen pulled upwards hard, Zhang Xun also tried his last breath, stretched out the corpse squeezed on his body, and with a heart-rending scream, Zhang Xun finally stood up.

He climbed up through the crowd, and when he finally poked his head out of the crowd, he was like being saved from drowning, and he poured a breath of air, and his chest that had been suffocating for a long time surged wildly. He gasped and continued to climb up, the people around him drooped their heads, long out of breath, but they were squeezed by the crowd and couldn't fall. Qingmen was also trapped aside, and even though his martial arts were strong, he couldn't use them. Zhang Xun pressed the shoulders around him to prop up his arms with difficulty, and pushed half of his body out of the moving head, and only then did he clearly see the panorama.

The mountain of corpses is towering, and the stagnant water is difficult to flow.

Zhang Xun raised his head in despair and looked at the gradually dark sky, and several stars began to shine. I heard that a general would turn into a star in the sky when he died, but I really didn't know which one I would be.

Suddenly, a star flashed in the sky, and the star was beating and glowing red. Zhang Xun looked at the star, and the red starlight instantly spread out, connecting into a crimson patch on the horizon.

That's not the stars!

That's a myriad of flames!

The area of the flame continued to expand, illuminating the sky in the blink of an eye. Immediately afterward, a trumpet sounded, and the flames swept in as if they had encountered a dry grassland.

Under those flames, 10,000 soldiers rushed towards the position of the Qi army, and the Qi army was caught off guard, unable to parry at all, and in an instant, it collapsed into an army, and the army was defeated like a mountain.

The flames quickly burned in front of Zhang Xun's eyes, and the encirclement that was originally as fierce as a python was instantly swallowed by the flames, struggling to turn into a puddle of ashes, and the Qi army was in chaos and scattered and defeated. Zhang Xun waved his sword and shouted, leading the remnants to take advantage of the situation to chase and kill, beheading countless people.

Half an hour later, the sky was completely dark, and countless stars climbed into the night, quietly admiring the masterpieces of the world.

Zhang Xun was like the corpses around him, lying motionless on the ground, he was exhausted and physically and mentally empty.

Ji Zheng walked over, lay down beside Zhang Xun, looking at the starry sky, Ji Zheng couldn't help but sigh: "There is too much suffering in the world, when will the people be able to enjoy peace forever like the stars?" ”

Zhang Xun didn't speak, just breathed tiredly.

"Brother Xun, do you remember what we talked about when we first came out of the mountain?"

"Hmm......" Zhang Xun snorted weakly.

"At that time, I was really ignorant, and I thought that as long as I had firm beliefs and unremitting efforts, I would definitely be able to achieve my ideals, but I don't know how much it cost in the process."

"The cost is always inevitable......

"yes...... It's hard to avoid. If the price is too great, and it is something you once cherished the most, should we continue to hold on? ”

"I don't know...... But I think you should stick to it, because the person I know you is like that and will never give up. ”

"Hehe, hehe." Ji Zheng smiled bitterly, then closed his eyes and said, "Thank you, Brother Xun." ”

"I'm going to thank you, Xiao Ji, this is the first time you've pulled me back from the ghost gate?"

"How do I know?"

"The third time, the first time is in the country of Chen, the second time is in the country of Lu, and this time it is in the country of Qi, Xiao Ji, if it weren't for you, ......"

Zhang Xun hadn't finished speaking, but was suddenly interrupted by Ji Zheng, "Don't talk about Brother Xun, it's all over......"

"Thank you, Xiao Ji."

"No, brother, I'm sorry......"

After the Battle of Ailing, the Qi State lost Yigu and suffered heavy losses in its troops, so it had to withdraw all its troops to Linzi for defense.

The coalition army cleared the Yigu in three days, and the main force of 80,000 finally entered the pass, and then King Wu led the remaining more than 80,000 people to continue to march to Linzi. King Wu ordered the siege of Linzi City, and two months later, the Qi State surrendered.

After this battle, the allied forces of Wu, Lu, Chen, and Yue lost a total of 80,000 troops, of which Wu suffered the largest loss, with nearly 50,000 dead and wounded. Although the Qi State paid a lot of gold, silver, grain and grass, it was hardly worth mentioning compared to the consumption of this great war.

At this point, the princes and nations were terrified when they heard of Wu, and Wu finally became the new overlord of the land of China. [This chapter was first published. Love. Yes. sound., remember the URL ()]