After more than a dozen battles in a few days, Chen Zui and the others were also injured to varying degrees. Several of his classmates had been seriously wounded, but fortunately none of the soldiers who had died in the past few days had been among them.

In tonight's raid, the three of them did not participate in the front line, but were left behind to support. When there was no one at night, Chen Zui asked them again what they thought of the raid. Will Yinchuan be able to win tonight?

Li Chengjing was silent at first, and after looking around, she shook her head and said, "I think tonight's raid will definitely end in failure, and this battle is not so easy to end."

Chen Zui said in surprise; "How do you tell?"

Li Chengjing said in a low voice: "From Yongning to Liangtian Fort, we have won too smoothly, and most of the ones we won back are an empty city, the savings in the city have long been looted by the enemy, and the looted property must be hoarded in Yinchuan, the enemy's main force is also in Yinchuan, Yinchuan is already solid at the moment, how easy it is to raid, not to mention that with the experience of the past, the same when they will not go to the second time." ”

Duan Shaoling agreed with Li Chengjing's point of view and nodded slowly. They just know that they can't say it with their position, but they will be charged with shaking the morale of the military.

Li Chengjing could guess tonight's failure, and they would definitely be ordered to support the front line, and the three of them simply didn't sleep tonight.

From three to four o'clock in the morning, they heard the deafening sound of gunfire ahead, and the sky was shining with fire. After another hour of fighting, there was a rapid and long horn from the front, which was a call for help, as Li Chengjing expected, the battle ahead must be tight.

Chief Shi ordered 3,000 soldiers and horses to rush to support, and Chen Zui and they were all among them. When they arrived at the city, the two sides fought very fiercely, the ground was full of corpses, the enemy army had already prepared, the soldiers under the city confronted the crusading army, and the soldiers on the city condescended to assist in the attack.

The 20,000-strong army led by Zheng Dashuai not only took less than half of the advantage, but was controlled by the enemy army for a long time, and was already at a disadvantage. The horn was urgently sounded, and Commander Shi, who stayed in the barracks, led the troops to support.

With their outstanding performance on the battlefield, the three of them were all promoted to the position of company commander, and each had nearly 200 soldiers under him. Li Chengjing saw that the enemy army was strong, and proposed that the three of them each lead their soldiers to attack the east and west, so that the enemy could mess up his position.

The three of them led the soldiers into the battle circle and did not meet the enemy head-on, pointing left and right, flowing back and forth, seemingly rampage like wild horses on the loose, each time they just broke the siege for Zheng Dashuai's soldiers and horses, and made the enemy unable to grasp their whereabouts.

Chen Zui saw that this plan worked, and looked up to see that the soldiers in the city were attacking the ground urgently, and more than 100 people were divided into two groups to attack the city from both sides.

At this time, the sky was not clear, and their plan to attack the east and west had greatly troubled the enemy, and when they met the enemy head-on, they came to harass again, but they were running around like poisonous snakes, elusive.

The enemy generals saw that the reinforcements of the crusade army had arrived, and their morale gradually rose, and they fought like this again, they really couldn't take too much advantage in the dark, and ordered them to retreat to Yinchuan. When they retreated, they were in an orderly manner, the soldiers gradually gathered together, Li Chengjing and they could no longer harass them, and Zheng Dashuai knew that if they chased down, they would definitely lose, so they could only withdraw their troops and leave the battlefield with hatred.

This raid suffered heavy casualties and was futile, Zheng Dashuai miscalculated, and he was really angry in his heart, but he did not show it in front of the three armies, and ordered to treat the wounded, deploy soldiers, and strictly prevent the enemy's surprise attack, and the majesty was as usual.

In this fierce battle, three of Chen's drunken classmates began to die on the battlefield. The rest of the people, whether they have deep friendships with them or not, think of training together on weekdays, but at this moment they are lying cold in front of them, separated from life and death, all of them are sad and tearful. At the same time, they began to feel precarious in their hearts, and they had a fearful premonition that they would be the next to lie here.

Duan Shaoling encouraged that everyone must unite in the next battle, and no one can fold on this battlefield.

After the defeat of this raid, the tide of the battle took a sharp turn and the two sides reached a stalemate. Zheng Dashuai only asked for support from above, and on the other hand, he discussed with the generals how to break the enemy, and at the same time, he had to stabilize the current situation before reinforcements arrived.

As everyone knows, the enemy's vitality is also greatly damaged, and they only have the ability to defend the city, and the two sides have temporarily entered a stalemate.

At the end of May, the weather became more and more hot, and it was unusually dry, most of the soldiers and students could not adapt to the weather here, and their skin began to appear dehydrated and then itchy.

If this continues, as long as the enemy army holds on to Yinchuan and refuses to fight, it will last for more than half a month, and the crusading army will retreat without a fight.

Chen Zui and Duan Shaoling are both from villages and towns, the climate and wind and sand of Pingle Town are not as good as here, they have lived since they were young, their skin is naturally more heat-resistant and dry than ordinary people, especially Chen Zui, who has been working and wandering in the mountains for many years, and he can adapt to the climate here, followed by Duan Shaoling.

Li Chengjing's arms and bodies all showed signs of peeling and itching, but she forcibly endured it, and at this time she regretted not bringing the clothes given by Zou Baoyi, otherwise she could slightly resist the ultraviolet rays here if she wore them inside. Military academies everywhere do not accept female students, there is only one female soldier here, Li Chengjing, and Zheng Dashuai is also curious, but he has no intention of asking such trivial things.

Minister Xie was going to ask Zheng Dashuai for instructions to let Li Chengjing and the military doctors and nurses camp together, but Li Chengjing refused on the grounds that it was inconvenient to go out to fight, and chose to get drunk with Chen and them in a dormitory, and always slept in clothes at night, and only she knew the embarrassment.

By the tenth day, 10,000 reinforcements had arrived, and five days had passed, but Zheng Dashuai had never deployed any battle plan, and was still in such a stalemate with the enemy. Because of the persecution of the weather, the soldiers began to retreat, and the morale of the army was already unstable.

One day, Chen Zui asked Li Chengjing if she had a plan to break the city, Li Chengjing smiled and did not answer, she firmly believed that this battle would be won.

After another four or five days, the skin of the officers and men of the three armies was even more dry and itchy, and some of them had cracked their epidermis, and those herbs could no longer do anything. Obviously, reinforcements had arrived, but Zheng Dashuai did not give any battle plan for a long time, and finally provoked a mutiny among the soldiers on the seventh day.

In the early hours of the morning, some soldiers quietly fled the barracks while it was dark.

The soldiers on the night patrol should have shouted to stop them when they saw someone fleeing, and many of them already had the intention of fleeing in their hearts, but they didn't have the courage to escape. When the deserters saw that the crowd had been shaken, they made another statement that hit their hearts directly, so that the number of people who fled was even greater.

Even in this case, there were still many loyal soldiers and generals who immediately led their troops to stop them when they found someone fleeing. Since the deserters want to escape, they are prepared for the worst, they would rather be beaten to death than suffer endless torture here, everyone fights to the death, and there may not be no way to live.

The deserters were wiped out and fled in all directions, fleeing and fighting, and the guns continued to fire around the barracks, and the battle against the rebels eventually turned into a civil war for the crusading army.

Zheng Dashuai and others were shocked to find that the soldiers mutinied, and gave the order to go down, pursue the deserters, and deal with them with military law.

Chen Zui and Duan Shaoling also led their men and horses to pursue the deserters, and those soldiers admired Chen Duan and the others a lot, and bluntly said that they didn't want to wait for death here, hoping that they could raise their noble hands and let them live, and even wanted to move the two to go with them.

The two understood that even if they were reluctantly captured at this moment, they could no longer do their best for the three armies, even if they were killed. So they quietly let some people go, and whether they will run into the hands of others depends on their creation.

After all, the number of deserters accounted for less than half of the three armies, and Zheng Dashuai gave another order to kill, except for a small number of people who Chen Zui had the intention to let go, they had fled far away, and the rest were basically annihilated. By dawn, corpses were strewn all over the field, and the remaining soldiers had suffered numerous casualties.

To quell the mutinous soldiers, Zheng Dashuai counted the remnants of the rest of the army, and the remaining soldiers were all depressed and had no fighting spirit.

Just as Zheng Dashuai was giving a speech on stage, suddenly the police whistle sounded, and the sound of killing in front of them shook the sky, and the sound of gunfire kept coming towards them. It turned out that Pan Chong's spies detected that the crusading army had a lesion, and killed each other overnight, taking advantage of their loss of troops and the hearts of the people, Pan Chong personally led an army of 30,000 to annihilate the crusading army in one fell swoop, and then recaptured Yongning, and waved his army south.

In a hurry, Zheng Dashuai gave the order to meet the enemy. After a night of civil war, the three armies were already physically and mentally exhausted, and the army was discouraged, how could they fight? And Pan Chong's morale was at its peak, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and the crusading army fell behind as soon as they clashed, suffering heavy casualties.

After fighting for more than half an hour, Zheng Dashuai saw that the three armies were invincible, and if they continued to fight, they would inevitably be annihilated, so he ordered the three armies to retreat quickly in the direction of Liangtian Fort. The crusading army fled all the way, and was trampled and killed by the enemy. They fled for nearly twenty miles, and Pan Chong's army also pursued them for nearly twenty miles, chasing and fighting all the way, trying to wipe out the crusading army in one fell swoop.

At this time, Pan Chong's army had already caught up, surrounded the crusading army, and cut off their back way to escape, and the crusading army was already a trapped beast fight. Pan Chong was about to give the order to annihilate the enemy, when suddenly the sound of killing shook the sky, and the strange troops from all sides came out, surround Pan Chong's army heavily, and attacked the crusading army inside and outside.

Pan Chong had already realized at this time that he had been tricked, it turned out that all this was a game set up by them, and last night they pretended to be a civil war, deliberately pretending to be demoralized, causing him to lead the army to attack early in the morning, and pretending to be defeated, leading them all the way here. The soldiers who pretended to mutiny were already waiting in ambush here.