Chapter 504: The Death of the Expeditionary Force (5)

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The general was beheaded alone, and the Imperial Expeditionary Force did not dare to call for battle again, so they had to honestly shrink in the camp, waiting for the next order to attack the city.

In the evening, a cavalry with five or six thousand civilians arrived at the camp. The people were driven behind the camp tent, and after being loudly reprimanded by the officers of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, they directly carried a large number of long ladders towards the Yuguguan city wall, and it seemed that the Imperial Army did not even have the idea of wasting a little food, and planned to take the city at night.

Although they had been reminded by their respective generals, the defenders on the city walls were still apprehensive, and although the faces of the thousands of people who were driven away could not be seen clearly, it could be seen from the body shape, hair, color and clothing and walking posture that most of them were old people, women and children. The thought of raising the butcher's knife against these people made the hands of the soldiers on the city wall tremble.

Luo Han noticed this, patted a soldier on the shoulder and said, "This is the battlefield, the end of life, the imperial army forced them to come, just let them die." It's the Imperial Army that kills them, not you, don't be pressured. Think about the tens of millions of people behind you, you fought to keep them alive, and if we lost the Jade Drum Pass, they would also be guillotined by the Imperial Army at will, just like these people. Cheer up, remember who you are now, and kill any enemies who try to enter the level. Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

The soldiers were moved by Luo Han's words and unconsciously shouted.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

In the camp of the Imperial Army, the leading general of the Garo Empire couldn't help frowning when he heard the shouts on the city wall: "This cold wind is really a troublesome opponent. ”

The general of the Mahadha Empire next to him gritted his teeth and said, "If it weren't for him, our Mahadha Empire would not have suffered such heavy losses." When I break through the Jade Drum Pass and catch him, I must drag him behind my mount and run five hundred miles. ”

The general of the Shitian Empire said: "I knew that he was so powerful, I should have taken some time to wipe him and his team in the first place. ”

"You can't kill him, we checked the details of him, he is a legend that has recently appeared out of nowhere, helping a small country rise in less than a month, defeating a large country and replacing it. He didn't have any deeds before that, and we all agreed that he was a demon clan. He doesn't show much now, it's just that he wants to run away because he is afraid of the punishment of the god of war, and you can't stop him at all. ”

Several generals looked at the person who spoke, this was a middle-aged man with a cobra wrapped around his neck, his name was Snake Fang, and he was the head of the demon clan powerhouses of the Hiro Empire.

Snakefang smiled grimly as he looked at the people who were getting closer to the walls and the Imperial soldiers who were following closely behind.

"Look at our trick, how do you take it."

Encouraged by Luo Han, the soldiers near the city wall became more convinced, and they told themselves that those people under the city wall were not ordinary people, but special troops forcibly recruited by the imperial army, even if they did not volunteer, they were indeed enemies.

The archer took up his longbow and began to shoot indiscriminately. The unprotected civilians fell one by one, and immediately some fled in fear, but they were greeted by the bloody blades of the Imperial soldiers. There is no room to escape from the narrow valley road, and if you don't want to die immediately, you can only charge in the face of the rain of arrows.

Soon, the driven people rushed to the city wall, and a long ladder was set up at the head of the city, driven by the desire to survive, these people began to climb towards the city wall.

When it came to the end, the soldiers under the city walls still hesitated. Luo Han had no choice but to rush forward, push away a long ladder, and shouted: "For victory, kill!" ”

Luo Han's example woke up the coalition soldiers, and immediately some soldiers did the same, pushing the long ladder at the head of the city away. These long ladders erected by the people are not fixed at all, they fall down when they are pushed, and the people above follow the long ladder and fall down, the lower ones are fine, and the higher ones directly fall and break their heads and bleed, and some die on the spot.

When the killing began, the coalition soldiers no longer cared about anything, and returned to their normal fighting state, constantly pushing the long ladder away and letting the people above fall down.

It wasn't until the Imperial soldiers in the back arrived and began to fix the long ladder that it was a little better. But at this time, it doesn't matter how many coalition soldiers are killed, killing one is also killing, killing a hundred is also killing, as long as someone dares to climb up, one shot is over.

Luo Han's heart fell to the ground, and he looked out of the city, but he frowned a little. The Imperial army dispatched only 10,000 troops this time, and of course more troops could not be used for the narrow drumming and city walls. But strangely, most of these 10,000 people remained out of the range of the archers, and only about a thousand soldiers rushed to the city.

"Is this waiting for them to create an opportunity?" Luo Han only thought of this one possibility for a while. After all, with their current siege equipment, if they can't drive the people to the city, no matter how many people are invested, it will only increase casualties.

The killing under the city walls continued, not only the coalition soldiers were killing, but the Imperial soldiers were also constantly killing the people who wanted to escape in despair, and it seemed that there was only one way to get to the city, many people tried to climb the steep cliffs to survive, but the Imperial soldiers would not give them a way to live.

As it grew dark, fewer and fewer people were driven away, and they did not even touch the battlements at the head of the city once, so that the soldiers on the walls unanimously refused to rotate to prevent the other companions from being tainted with sin.

Finally, the last unarmored man pounced on the Imperial soldiers in despair and fell under the butcher's knife. Then, the Imperial soldiers actually retreated. With no hope of ascending the city, the Imperial soldiers who played the role of executioners under the walls turned around and ran, and the Imperial troops outside the range retreated in advance.

The archers took up the walls and began to fire their wrath at the executioners. After leaving behind a hundred corpses, the Imperial soldiers fled the firing range.

It's over.

The coalition soldiers who had participated in the defense of the city sat on the ground, and after a guilt-ridden massacre, everyone was in a very low mood.

Luo Han didn't say anything, and after ordering someone to replace them to guard the city wall, he returned to his own residence in Guannai.

At dawn the next day, Luo Han climbed the city wall and saw that the corpses under the city wall had not been removed, only the corpses of those imperial soldiers had been taken away, and it was obvious that the imperial soldiers were too lazy to waste their strength on these people.

The piles of corpses made the city walls a foot shorter, Luo Han shook his head, these corpses are not young and strong, most of them are old, weak, young and disabled, and it is really worrying to watch.

"Forget it, help them get rid of it." Luo Han waved his hand, and a group of soldiers descended the rope ladder to the bottom of the city wall, put a rope around the corpse, and the soldiers on the city wall pulled it up, and then sent it to the place where the coalition side disposed of the dead.

The Imperial Army, for its part, was silent, and apparently had no interest in stopping the Coalition from doing so.

It took a long day to dispose of the bodies of the civilians who had been driven by the Imperial Army. Luo Han replaced a group of well-rested and physically well-equipped soldiers to guard against a sneak attack by the imperial army. But the Imperial Army did not make any moves.

For five days in a row, the Imperial Army was closed to the camp, and the trialists who went to inquire about the situation discovered a strange phenomenon, the part of the Imperial Army soldiers blocking the valley mouth basically did not leave the tent, and they did not have much contact with the Imperial Army outside the valley. If it weren't for the fact that the city gate of the Jade Drum Pass had been sealed, it would be extremely inconvenient for the large army to go out of the city, and Luo Han really wanted to sneak attack.

However, the pressure of the coalition forces has not decreased, because the siege equipment of the Imperial army has finally arrived, and various large siege equipment such as storm vehicles, ladder vehicles, and catapults will greatly reduce the difficulty of the Imperial army's siege.

However, before the Imperial Army could attack the city, something happened within the coalition army.

At first, a soldier vomited and diarrhea and was weak, but because it was an exception, he didn't pay attention. But soon, the symptoms spread explosively, and a large number of coalition soldiers contracted the disease at the same time, and the doctors accompanying the army reluctantly announced that there was an outbreak of plague in the army.

Luo Han immediately mobilized doctors from behind the Yugu Pass, and at the same time carried out a double quarantine, on the one hand, to isolate the infected from those who did not become ill, and on the other hand, to prohibit the soldiers of the Yugu Pass from leaving, so as not to spread the plague.

Naturally, more than 100,000 coalition soldiers will not all be stationed at Yugu Pass, in addition to the troops who remain in the rear to support, there are also manpower on the mountains on both sides to prevent the imperial army from breaking through lightly. There are only 50,000 soldiers in the Yugu Pass, and even if they are all abandoned, the coalition forces can still defend the city. But what is the source of infection now? How does this plague spread? Will the new soldiers be infected after the evacuation of these 50,000 soldiers? These are all questions. So now Luo Han can only rely on the uninfected soldiers here to defend the city.

Soon, the doctor's conclusion came out. It was a plague that had never appeared before, and all of its properties were unknown to them, the only thing they knew for sure was that the plague would have an incubation period after infection and would not become ill immediately. The good news is that the plague is not fatal, but rather debilitates the infected.

Luo Han immediately found Xiaoyao and chasing the moon, and the first thing he said was: "This group of scum really has no bottom line!" ”

Xiaoyao wondered: "What are you doing?" ”

Luo Han took a deep breath and said, "I thought it was cruel enough for that guy to force the people to die. But I didn't expect that this group of scum actually used biological and chemical weapons. Lao Tzu was 100% sure that they had done this plague, and that the people who were persecuted had already been infected with the plague, and they never expected these people to go to the city from the beginning. They deliberately let these people die under the city and did not collect their bodies, just so that we could take their corpses into the city and incinerate them, infect our soldiers during the transportation process, and use the incubation period to pass them on to more people. ”

Xiaoyao's eyes widened, and he muttered, "No wonder, that camp at the mouth of the valley doesn't communicate with the imperial army outside the valley. The camp must have been occupied by the part of the Imperial Army that drove the people in the first place, and the real purpose of blocking the valley mouth was to isolate it from the rest of the Imperial Army. ”

Chasing the moon nodded: "It is precisely because this plague does not kill them that they are willing to do such a thing." The temporary loss of combat effectiveness of one or two thousand imperial troops was quite acceptable to them. High contagion, incubation period, and not yet lethal, these three points together can hardly be called a coincidence. It's simply anti-human. ”

Luo Han waved his hand and said, "I will definitely kill them." But before we can do that, we need to deal with the current crisis. Since this plague was spread by the other party, the other party should know the time of the outbreak. If they attack at the weakest time for the defenders of the Sekinai, we will most likely not be able to stop it. ”

Xiaoyao nodded: "It's really troublesome." ”

Chasing the moon said, "I have a question. Since this plague is so contagious, aren't they afraid of being infected during the siege? You must know that we still have 120,000 troops in the Year of the Monkey in Yuguguan, and if they are infected, we can reverse it at any time. ”

Luo Han shook his head: "Two methods." The first is to use only some people to enter the pass, and take the Yugu Pass at the cost of temporary damage to part of the combat power, this plague has an incubation period, and they can completely clear the obstacles in the mountains before the outbreak and let other armies cross the Yugu Pass. On the other hand, since the plague was spread by them, they may know how to prevent it, or wear a mask, or take preventive medicine in advance, or isolate themselves from direct contact. Since they dare to use it, there must be a solution to it. ”

Xiaoyao nodded: "Indeed, it is impossible for them to release the plague without preparation, knowing the contagiousness of the plague. ”

Chasing the moon thought for a while and said, "Since they all used biological and chemical weapons, it shows that they are determined to win." Maybe our previous plans could be modified a little. ”

Luo Han's eyes lit up, and he said happily: "You mean that?" ”

Chasing Moon nodded: "Well, that's it." It is guaranteed that the Imperial Army will not be able to eat and walk around. ”

After thinking about it for a while, he said with a smile: "If it can be successful, I hope that the Imperial Army can be bolder." ”

Chasing the moon said: "If the plague breaks out now, we will have a complete lockdown news and invest more manpower to speed up the planning process." In addition, the plan needs to be adjusted somewhat, so I'll go back and revise it carefully. ”

Luo Han stood up and said, "Brother Chasing the Moon, I'm tired." ”

Chasing the moon said: "You still have to worry about the plague, you must not let the plague spread outside the Jade Drum Pass, otherwise even if our side succeeds, it may fail in the end." ”

"Don't worry, I sent all the people of the storm to the exit, and let the thunderbolt say that the mages of various countries will be in charge, and it will never be spread."

The outbreak was so violent that nearly a thousand people joined the ranks of the plague almost every day, after the first few hundred people showed symptoms. All the doctors could do was minimize their suffering, while repeatedly emphasizing that the plague would not be fatal, but despair still spread throughout the gates.

While Luo Han was staring at the city wall to guard against an attack that the imperial army might launch at any time, he was on strict guard and blocked the news, and the Jade Drum Pass was only allowed to enter but not leave for a while. Except for the soldiers who were assigned to defend the city walls, everyone had to stay in the tents. And in this case, the trialists climbed the mountains on both sides with more than a thousand soldiers every day, not knowing what to do. Even if some of these people are infected, they will be separated from other infected people, and even doctors are a fixed group. In addition, the national divisions of various countries also spared no effort to arrange various reconnaissance arrays to prevent the Imperial Army trialists from spying on intelligence.