Chapter 11: The Ultimate Counterattack
Fancheng, chickens flying and dogs jumping, chaotic.
Fleeing city dwellers can be seen everywhere, either pushing daily necessities in wooden carts, or families holding hands and fleeing for their lives in a panic, including children who are separated from their loved ones and crying, and elderly people who are faltering.
Suddenly, the fleeing people stopped their steps and stared blankly ahead.
Soon a wide passage appeared in the crowded avenue.
The Xuanyuan army was in front, and the soldiers were behind, with a steady pace, marching rapidly towards the city wall.
The dreaded sword on weekdays was extremely reassuring in the eyes of the people at this moment, and the sound of heavy footsteps spread through the ground into the hearts of every city citizen.
"Soldiers, hard work! Take care!"
In the crowd, I don't know who shouted, and then, everyone knelt down and wept.
The pace continued, as if it had not been affected in any way, however, many of the soldiers on the march had red eyes.
The most touching thing was the members of the three-step battalion, dressed in prison clothes, dazzling, but they did not see contempt in the eyes of the people, but strong gratitude and respect.
For the first time, for the first time, they felt a strong sense of mission, and they could finally stand in front of others and tell everyone that they were no longer prisoners!
"Father. In the crowd, a child was stunned for a moment, and then excitedly shouted: "Grandma, mother, it's father, look, where is father, father, father!"
Zhao Tianhu turned his head to look at his wife and children in the distance, especially when he saw his wife holding the child and smiling at him, he couldn't help but turn his head, his reddened eyes were full of tears.
On the city wall, the banners are bulging, the archers stand straight and proud, and on the side, there are several pots of arrows, and the arrows are like archers, and there is not much left!
In each notch of the wall, there were several swordsmen dressed in prison clothes, and their task was to prevent the enemy from attacking the city wall at all costs.
Although the painting style of the knife hand is incompatible with the surroundings, the murderous aura exuded by it is not much worse than that of the regular army!
Xuanyuan Junhou slowly retracted his gaze, looked at the enemy army in the distance without movement, and said slowly: "Sir, you are right! These prisoners can indeed become a sharp knife!"
"If a person knows that he will die, he must not be afraid of death, and if he is not afraid of death, he will have nothing to fear! Where the soldier is, the essence of war! A prisoner on death row is actually the sharpest knife!" Huang Puhua sighed.
It's a pity that no matter how sharp the knife is, it can't solve Fancheng's predicament!
Xuanyuan Junhou looked at the remaining thousands of soldiers, the black armor blended with dark red and was in tatters, and his heart was not more desolate. "Sir, you should also go! Fancheng is well connected in all directions, and with the wisdom of Mr., he will be able to find a hiding place, and when the army of the royal capital arrives, the crisis can be solved. ”
Huang Puhua smiled and said softly: "Huang Puhua's only fortunate thing in this life is to be appreciated by the general, if this useless body can live and die with the general, the rest of the wish is enough!"
Xuanyuan Junhou was silent.
Enemy battalions.
"What are you talking about?" Li Yunlong was furious, staring at a general from another country and said, "You dare to try it again?"
"Why don't you dare?" The partial general's expression was cold, and he said indifferently: "After besieging Fancheng for a few days, the soldiers of my Northern Netherworld have suffered countless casualties, but your country has not suffered much damage. ”
"Fart, what do you mean that the damage is not great? I have lost more than 100,000 soldiers in the Dongsheng Kingdom, can't you be blind and can't see?" Li Yunlong was so angry that his face turned blue, and suddenly, his expression changed again, and he said urgently: "What did you just say? General Chen? Do you mean that Chen Ping retired from the army?"
"General Chen has long expected that your country has ill intentions and wants to use this to consume our troops, how can you do what you want. ”
"Fart. ”
"Then please ask General Li to wait for my general to arrive, and then explain to him why a small Fancheng could not be taken after more than ten days of continuous attack, but it caused more than 100,000 casualties among the officers and men of our army, so he retired first. "The partial general is also very individual, and he will go as soon as he says, without dragging his feet at all.
In the big tent, soon only the generals of the Dongsheng Kingdom were left.
"General, my subordinates have long said that the Northern Underworld is unreliable, they don't really cooperate with us at all, according to what their subordinates have seen, they are deliberately consuming our troops, let's retreat!"
"Retreat!" Li Yunlong smiled very desolately, and said slowly: "Liu Zong, have you ever thought that this expedition of more than 300,000 yuan, almost all the elite of the kingdom, and more than half of the soldiers will be lost, so how can they hand over to the king? That is the capital crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan! We have no way to retreat!"
The generals were silent.
"Come, whole army, this time, I will take Fancheng at any cost. ”
"Yes!"
The rallying horn slowly remembered, and the soldiers, who were physically and mentally exhausted, rose numbly.
This battle has been fought for too long!
If they have a choice, they don't want to fight any more, and they don't want to continue to swing their butcher knives at their relatives and friends!
It is worth mentioning that more than 100,000 soldiers in the Northern Underworld did not participate in the war, but instead of participating in the war, they also retreated dozens of miles, and now, only more than 100,000 soldiers of the Dongsheng Kingdom are left.
On the city wall, Xuanyuan Junhou looked solemn and said loudly: "Soldiers, I know you are all tired! Bear with me! Bear with me! Let us finish this last battle, and on the Temple of the God of War, we will drink and sing together!"
"The god of war is glorious, and the deceased is glorious!"
More than a thousand Xuanyuan soldiers roared in unison, and an innate murderous aura swept away.
Although a general of another clan did not understand the meaning of the slogan of the Xuanyuan clan, he was infected by the atmosphere and couldn't help but roar: "Defend the kingdom, fight to the death and never retreat!"
"Defend the kingdom and fight to the death! Defend the kingdom and fight to the death!"
At this moment, regardless of surname, high or low, everyone is just a soldier, a soldier who sticks to the city wall to defend the country and protect the people!
Li Yunlong began to understand why Fancheng was so difficult to conquer, because he was not facing a group of defeated soldiers, but the heart of a city!
The army and the people are of one heart, and righteousness lasts forever, such a kingdom is the real country that will last forever!
If he had a choice, he would rather not lead the invasion, but unfortunately, like the soldiers, he had no choice.
The horn of the attack, dull echoes.
In the wilderness, the overwhelming enemy army roared and rushed.
On the city wall, the Marquis of Xuanyuan slowly pulled out his long sword and roared violently: "Soldiers, use the swords in your hands to let them know what they are facing, and let them know what we are! Whoever falls before his sword is cut is not worthy of being a soldier of Huaxia." ”
"Kill!"
The monstrous momentum fused with a fierce murderous aura that slammed straight into the heavens and the earth.
The rain of arrows fell silent after a few waves, and without the help of the archers, the enemy army quickly rushed up through the siege ladder.
Long knives flew and wailed.
The members of the three-step battalion have not participated in any military training, and it can even be said that they have no skills to speak of! Each of them will only rely on brute force and will to keep repeating a single action, raising a knife, and slashing.
All the enemy troops who emerged from the siege ladder were slashed with a sword.
Siege ladders were once again refreshed with fresh blood.
Like a torrential rain, there was an endless stream of corpses, and in the blink of an eye, a thick layer was piled up under the city wall.
When the manpower was poor, not to mention that none of the members of the three-step battalion had undergone physical training, many of them slashed and slashed more and more slowly, the city fell one by one, and countless enemy troops climbed and rolled up.
At this moment, the fighting skills pale in comparison!
In the sea of people, it is only physical strength, endurance, and willpower, and the enemy and the enemy are like emotionless machines, repeating simple slashing and slashing, as long as they do not fall, they will continue to cut each other until one of them completely lies down.
The city gate, after countless beatings, finally collapsed.
When Li Yunlong saw this scene, he shook his whole body and roared violently: "The whole army is attacking!"
"Kill!" the cavalry, with the infantry frantically rushed to the city gates.
There are not many guards at the city gate, only more than a thousand!
But these more than 1,000 people, all of them were not afraid, with iron shields and straight spears, staring coldly at the enemy troops pouring into the city cave.
"Kill!"
The sound of violent steel crashing and screaming resounded on the inside of the city gate, and the two sides fought for their lives at close range.
The number of soldiers in Huaxia was rapidly decreasing, the enemy was increasing, and the last line of defense was torn apart.
The earth is trembling, the city is shaking!
On the city wall, Huang Puhua looked back at the city, his eyes were extremely red, and he roared violently: "Reinforcements, reinforcements have arrived!"
On the main road, a horse takes the lead, but this horse is not a war horse, but a tall and mighty lion-shaped beast, on the back of the giant beast, the black armor spear is heroic, wearing a cloak, flying with the wind.
"Get out of the way!"
In the midst of the reprimands, the surviving more than 100 guards dodged left and right very tacitly.
The vanguard beast cavalry regiment, led by Xuanyuan Xue, slammed into the terrified enemy army like a cannonball.
As the saying goes, a stone stirs up a thousand waves, and the beast cavalry group is like a very hard boulder, smashing into the huge waves, and for a while, the enemy troops who poured into the city cave flew upside down at a faster speed.
Lee Yun-ryong's smile froze on his face, and his dull pupils were gradually replaced by fear.
"The beast cavalry regiment, it's not good! It's the beast cavalry regiment of Huaxia! Retreat!"
When the originally majestic cavalry of the Dongsheng Kingdom saw the beast cavalry group pouring out of the city gate, they were so frightened that they hurriedly tightened the reins.
In a moment of movement and stillness, tens of thousands of cavalry collided with each other and became a mess.
"Kill!" Xuanyuan Xue's beautiful eyes were frosty, spears flew, stabbing left and right, and swooping straight at the enemy cavalry.
At this moment, the cavalry of Dongsheng Kingdom suffered a catastrophe of complete annihilation, a giant beast was as fierce and invincible as an open hanging, swooping left and biting, or slapping or throwing, even people and horses tore tens of thousands of enemy cavalry open a gap, the Xuanyuan soldiers on the back of the beast spears flew, with the movements of the giant beast, quickly harvesting the heads, with the large-scale Chinese iron cavalry joining, the cavalry of the Dongsheng Kingdom quickly lost.
Cavalry versus cavalry, and the infantry naturally had shield soldiers to serve.
A team of shields bloomed on three sides, shields were furious, spears stabbed sharply, and each blow must have left a corpse, and the dense wasteland soon appeared in a vacuum.
The siege ladders were overturned one after another, and the enemy soldiers on the city wall fell without suspense with the addition of reinforcements.
The adjutant general who was watching the battle knew that the general trend had gone, and hurriedly said: "General, let's withdraw quickly, it's too late!"
"Withdraw!" Li Yunlong spat out a mouthful of blood under grief and indignation.
"Withdraw!"
The enemy soldiers who had been killed desperately fled back, and the soldiers who had no time to escape discarded their weapons and surrendered on their knees with their hands raised.
Xuanyuan Xue was unwilling to let Li Yunlong escape like this, pulled the reins, turned around, and shouted: "Soldiers, follow the pursuit of this general, be sure to kill every enemy who dares to step into the land of my kingdom, we must let everyone know that if you offend my Huaxia, you will be punished even if you are far away!"
"Kill!"
The giant beasts fused with the war horses and converged into a huge torrent, overwhelmingly killing the panicked enemy army.
From a distance, the cavalry was like a monstrous wave, slapping and sweeping every deserter, and soon, engulfing the crowd.