The pontoons were still ignited, and yellow and blue flames sprang up from the planks and ships, and soon devoured the parasitic things they depended on, like the outstretched hands of dying people, grasping at everything that could be grasped. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Above the flames, the air was somewhat distorted by the fire.

The flames converged and fused with each other, and soon grew larger, and an unbearable heat wave ensued. The sea of fire separates the pontoon bridge into two worlds, no one can exceed half a minute, the steaming air and water vapor, and the souls of the dead soldiers rise into the air together, and the hot and unbearable heaven and earth, there seems to be a trace of cold air penetrating out, and the ice is cold. It was almost noon, and the scorching sun was already uncomfortable, and the robes under the armor had already been attached to their bodies, and the soldiers could drip water between their actions, where could they still endure the baking of the fire, the so-called sword mountain and sea of fire, and the fire oil pot, nothing more.

The smell of burning wood did not cover up the smell of blood, the smell of blood-stained wood and the hull in the sea of fire was indescribably weird, repeated black smoke rose in the flames, corpses, severed limbs, viscera, minced meat, combined with battle robes and armor, kept curling up under the fire, the skin and flesh cracked inch by inch, the muscles gradually scorched, the corpse oil dripped, the edge of the scarlet iron armor was red, the scene and taste of the human flesh being cooked were not too different from mutton and pork, and the thick nausea lingered.

The scene in front of me has a shocking power, like the sound of the river waves lingering in the mind, and like a nightmare in the middle of the night, which makes people upset. Such a torturous scene makes people want to gouge out their eyeballs and not look at them, cut off their noses and not smell them.

Wu Sheng lay on the side of the boat before he could vomit, he was smoked by the fire, he looked back and saw the sea of fire burning in an instant, he could no longer care about the discomfort in his stomach, he got up from the side of the boat, climbed onto the pontoon bridge with his hands and feet, followed the Shuo Fangjun comrades who retreated quickly, and ran hysterically towards the riverbank.

He ran too late, when he jumped to the shore, the robe on his legs had already burned, he hurriedly rolled into the mud and sand and rolled back and forth, with the help of his comrades on the left and right, he finally extinguished the fire, and then looked at the knees up and down, there were already abnormal red hot marks, and the bubbles were several, which was particularly eye-catching, but Wu Sheng didn't care about these, and couldn't help but look at the burning pontoon, with a frightened look in his eyes.

There are still some wounded on the pontoon, or the soldiers who have not had time to evacuate from the sea of fire, or they are swallowed by the sea of fire, or they are bitten by the flames, the latter is better, they can still escape, even if they jump into the river, there is a glimmer of life, the situation of the former is extremely miserable, no matter how they flutter in the sea of fire, they can't get up, and no one will save them, the whole person is gradually burned black, even the painful struggle movements seem so stiff, gradually, people outside the field can only see the outline of their body limbs, The miserable howls of despair and pain pierced the sky, making people feel cold hands and feet, and finally, these bodies involuntarily curled up into a ball, without sound and without movement, and the human oil burned out of the flesh and body in turn contributed to the burning momentum of the flames, and the corpses burned quietly in the sea of fire, turning into a part of the sea of fire, and the sound of the crackling of bones could not be transmitted far.

Wu Sheng didn't finish vomiting, seeing this scene, he couldn't help it anymore, and hunched his back and limbs on the ground and gagged, but although his stomach kept spasming, there was nothing to vomit in his abdomen, only a stream of clear water and yellow water, sticky like snot, extending from his mouth to the ground, he retched extremely his neck and head, the green tendons were bursting out, and even the eyeballs seemed to pop out of the sockets because of too much force.

Many of the Shuofang soldiers on the riverside were speechless in the face of the pontoon bridge, they looked at the hellish situation there, and silently shed tears. But soon, they wiped away the tears from their stained faces and turned around to line up under the order of the colonel.

War doesn't need tears, no pity, no sorrow, no sentimentality, not even the past, no future, nothing to do with the battle, they don't have time to be agitated, the only thing they can do is to prepare for the next fight.

War requires a war machine, not a man with feelings.

Wu Chun came to Wu Sheng's side at some point, patted him on the back, and when Wu Sheng stopped for a while, Wu Chun said with relief: "Good job!" ”

Wu Sheng showed a wry smile and wanted to speak, but before he could make a sound, his stomach and intestines spasmed, and the pain made him lie on the ground like a shrimp, and all the words in his mouth dissipated, so he could only shake his head.

Wu Sheng knew that Wu Chun's three words were not to praise him for his bravery in battle, but to say that it was good to be able to walk down from the battlefield alive.

The soldiers of the Dingyan Army rushed to the sea of fire one after another, and bags of river sand were thrown out, covering the flames.

Shuo Fang army ignited the pontoon bridge in a hurry, this is also no way, although they have the upper hand, will be difficult to repel a distance, but the difficult army in the end is outnumbered, itself is not lacking in brave and light death, soon can organize a counterattack, the gap in the middle is not enough, they burned the pontoon, but to burn it at one time, but it is impossible, and it has to be carried out a few more times.

The battle between construction and destruction is never-ending.

......

More than ten days later.

Under the wave after wave of attacks of the Dingyan army, the Shuofang army was forced to withdraw from the riverbank.

In the latter part of the war, the Dingyan army was already in a hurry, the commander reprimanded the general, the general reprimanded the school, the school reprimanded, and the tactics became unreasonable, the fishing boat was beaten into a fighting ship, regardless of the sharp arrows galloping and colliding, regardless of their own overturning boat also had to pull the Shuo army into the water, the boat did not overturn and stood up for hand-to-hand combat, the general led the battle, regardless of casualties and costs, the barbaric wind of the party people was fully brought into play, and they dared to rush onto the burning pontoon bridge in wet clothes, and the corpses on the Yellow River were against the waves, and the river was red, and in the end, it was already a shoal of the throwers, and it became a scene of the road.

Fighting but at the cost of several times the casualties, Liu Zhiyuan finally led the Dingyan army to cross the river and arrived on the west bank, and at this time, the Shuofang army had returned to defend the three cities of Dingyuan, Chonggang and Xinbao.

After Chai Kehong returned to Dingyuan City, he arranged the city defense on the city wall, not leaving an inch, that day and night, Kuai Ao counted the casualties, and hurriedly came to report to Chai Kehong, "After days of hard fighting, the casualties of the soldiers were quite large, and the total number of ...... was more than 800."

Chai Kehong looked at the wall from afar, and there was not much change in expression on his face.

Lu Jiang said in a heavy voice: "The first line of Dingyuan City, there are only more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, and two or three out of ten have been lost in more than ten days, this is still in the case of guarding the dangerous terrain at the end of the pontoon bridge, and the thief army will attack in a big way, and the three cities will start a full-scale war, and the casualties will increase day by day......

Chai Kehong raised his arm and neatly stopped Lu Jiang's words from going back, of course he knew that if it weren't for the strong armor and strong bows and crossbows of the Shuofang army, the casualties would definitely be far more than that, but so what, "The thieves invaded, and the three armies only fought." Needless to say, let's go down and prepare for the battle. ”

Lu Jiang and Kuai Ao glanced at each other, "The general doesn't ask Lingzhou for help?" ”

Chai Kehong said: "Asking for help? What help? What if the Dingyan army besieges the city and sends reinforcements? ”

Lu Jiang and Kuai Ao didn't say anything more, and retreated together.

Wu Sheng has a lot of wounds on his body, but most of them are small injuries that are not worth mentioning, and the real weight is at the root of his left arm, the opening is very large, and the doctor in the army gave him more than ten stitches, and he wanted to tie a strip of cloth to the back of his neck, but he refused.

"It's still far from a broken arm, and it's not a big obstacle." Wu Sheng took the water bladder handed by Wu Chun, raised his neck and poured a few sips.

Wu Chun sat down next to Wu Sheng and glanced at the wound on Wu Sheng's shoulder, "Now the doctor's method of healing is much more clever than before, I heard that the more than ten doctors sent this time have all been taught by the military doctor of the Yanwu Academy in Lingzhou, this technique is really good." ”

Wu Sheng said with a smile: "Captain Wu's archery skills are also extraordinarily clever, let me gain knowledge, with the number of enemies killed by Captain Wu over the past few days, I will definitely get a lot of rewards after this battle." ”

Wu Chun's words were not half excited, "No matter how much the reward is, you have to have the life to get it." ”

Wu Sheng paused for a moment, suddenly looked into the distance, and muttered: "War is nothing more than two outcomes, victory or defeat, and soldiers are nothing more than two destinies, life or death." It is really difficult to decide whether we win or lose and what we want to do, but what we can do between them can be fought for. ”

Wu Chun was stunned, looked at Wu Sheng with strange eyes, and said after half a sound: "It seems that this fierce battle for more than ten days has already made you have a lot of insights into the war...... From recruit to veteran, you've changed much faster than I did. ”

Wu Sheng smiled: "Experience has always made people grow, doesn't it?" For a warrior, after battle, as long as he does not die, he will become an elite. ”

Wu Chun nodded, he didn't extend on this topic, this principle is the same in everything. He stood up from behind the female wall and looked out of the city, his eyes gradually cold, "No matter what the war is, as long as a certain family has a bow in his hand, he must kill a few more thieves." ”

On this day, the Dingyan army arrived in Dingyuan City.

Liu Zhiyuan and Du Chongwei led a group of generals and colonels to go around the city and observe the city defense of Dingyuan City.

"A few days ago, the gentlemen all came to the city of Xiazhou, and now they can't stay in Changze County, and I don't know what Li Shaocheng's idea is, let alone how the court intends to dispatch troops and horses. Liu Zhiyuan said while watching.

"Our army invaded from the north, the soldiers and horses in the west of the river knocked on the southwest, the situation is under control, on the vast battlefield of three hundred miles in front of us, although there are many large and small cities, but under our tens of thousands of elite soldiers, it will not be more than a month, and then the combined army will capture Lingzhou, even if the imperial army comes, the general trend here is still in our hands." Du Chongwei said.