Chapter 10: Coercing the Son of Heaven to Kill the Princes (5)
Two quarters of an hour earlier, a large number of oil ladles had passed through the wall of fire, and special fuel had been blasted out of the trenches in large quantities, igniting the sand under the feet of the two armies. The men and horses on both sides were retreating towards the rear at great speed, and even so, there were still a lot of casualties on both sides of the fire wall. When the main forces in the front of the two sides rushed back, within a distance of nearly ten meters around both sides of the fire wall, there were charred corpses in one place. There were still some people on the ground who had not died directly, and after climbing two steps backwards with difficulty, they could no longer move. There was a foul stench from the charred corpses, like a hellish scene. By the force of the explosion alone, the total casualties on both sides amounted to at least 500 or more.
And the wall of fire, after the oil drum blew up a large amount of fuel in it, suddenly dropped to the ground. But after the most powerful explosion, the wall of fire rose again to a height of about half a meter. Before this explosion, it was obvious that the generals of the Underworld had not expected this hand of the generals of Xing Yang City. The power of the explosion was so great that the flames caused by special fuels were able to burn even on sand. Looking at the half-meter-high wall of fire, General Xiao Zhili, who was hiding behind him, coughed violently a few times and shouted, "Extinguish the fire!"
"Give me the back to carry water and put out the fire!!"
The soldiers of the Underworld in the encirclement were afraid. The emergency retreat had disrupted the formation in the rear somewhat, but it had not retreated to a particularly long distance. However, the other party had already retreated to a safer area, and if they threw the oil ladle into the trench and caused an explosion, their danger would be far greater than that of the army of the Qin Mountain Kingdom!
Soon, the enemy moved buckets of water from the rear as fast as they could, and poured them into the trench. A large amount of water vapor overflowed from the long trench in the form of a cloud, greatly obscuring the view of both sides. The soldiers of the Underworld were well aware of what the Qinshan Kingdom was going to do next, and immediately mobilized a large number of manpower to rush towards the inside of the trench to defend it.
On the side of Qinshan State, in the army that retreated to the rear, the two hussar generals took the lead and were at the front. Seeing this, General Murong Yu shouted, raised his horsewhip, rode in the lead, and led the soldiers behind him, without planning to give the country a little time to breathe, and continued to rush towards the water mist.
"Kill ——"
Soon, there was a fierce fight in the mist, and the soldiers of the Western Territory also swarmed up under the leadership of the two lieutenant generals of the Western Territory. In front of the trench, fierce fighting was raging.
In less than a moment, the mist dissipated. The large number of soldiers who were still guarding the rear saw a scene that made their blood gush - many strong soldiers had already crossed the trench and fought with the soldiers who were rushing up from the other side. More and more soldiers jumped directly into the trench, but did not sink too deep, and struggled to climb upwards and participate in the battle.
The depth of the trench has been measured, and it is definitely not something that can be easily climbed by one person. Gao Qingshi stroked his beard and was thinking in confusion, when the actions of the soldiers of the Western Frontier provided an answer for him—every time a soldier was pierced by the opponent's spear, he would use his last breath, but instead of making a move towards the other party, he jumped desperately into the trench.
The people in the back... Stepping on the blazing corpses of his comrades, climbing up the trench, and sending it to the soldiers of the Hades Kingdom with a hundredfold and thousandfold anger!
The valley of corpses, the ocean of blood. There will come a time when it will be filled. No one looked frightened, and when they jumped down the trench, they were willing to use their last breath to fill in the trench with their own flesh and blood, and build a battlefield for their comrades!
All the generals were stunned. Such a plan had never been discussed beforehand. It must have been a temporary idea that these soldiers from the Western Frontier came up with. And many of the soldiers in the East who followed closely chose the same way of sacrifice when they were certain to die.
"General Pei!"
"Rescue General Pei!"
"Kill all the barbarians!"
The earth-shattering shouts pulled Gao Yushi back to the battlefield at once. The generals of the north and the south all stood beside him, staring nervously at the generalissimo, waiting for his orders.
Pei Baolong... Sure enough, he is a peerless general. He looked at such a western military force and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Gao Yushi took a deep breath and shouted with all his strength, "On the war elephant!!"
The two lieutenant generals in the south, Wu Shenye and Li Longzhi, each rode on a giant elephant with broken ground, surrounded by fellow soldiers. Each crouched on the elephant's back, each with a look of death on their faces. The soldiers of the North and South quickly dispersed in both directions, making way for a wide path. The two generals each shouted, and the Shattered Giant Elephant waved its two giant legs and rushed towards the direction of the encirclement!
"Listen to me, disperse!"
A sound sounded as if it was about to shatter the earth, and Liu Jiuyao, the left deputy general of the Western Territory, gave an order extremely quickly. With a single shot, he picked away the Pluto soldier in front of him, and retreated with his own soldiers to both sides with great speed.
The soldiers of the Qinshan Kingdom, who were fighting inside and outside the trenches, immediately understood what he meant. They all retreated as best they could, in both directions. However, the size of the two giant elephants was so large that some of them could not dodge, and they were still climbing in the trenches, and they were about to be trampled by the huge elephant's hooves and their heads shot.
Wu Shenye suddenly waved a bone whip in his hand, and the giant elephant actually reacted immediately. For a moment, it stopped in place very quickly, and its two front hooves were raised high and did not step on it. Instead, he shook the soldiers on his back. Wu Shenye yelled loudly, telling those who didn't have time to retreat to leave quickly. After a delay of about five seconds, the two giant elephants suddenly jumped violently and rushed directly towards the shield array that had been set up again in the encirclement of the Underworld Kingdom!
Each elephant raised his shield spear and added a strong shield to the two Shattered Elephants. The giant elephant rushed into the crowd, as invincible as the demon king came into the world. Between the rampage, with the hard work of the soldiers on the back, the encirclement of the front layer was easily smashed into a mess of mud!
Two giant elephants rushed into the battlefield, full of gold armor and the additional defense of the soldiers on their bodies, they were simply invulnerable. There was no way for the soldiers of the Underworld to assemble a slightly larger crowd in front of it. The soldiers of the Underworld even collapsed, and when rushing up to challenge the giant elephant was completely equivalent to sending them to death, they scattered like frightened birds.
And the soldiers of the two realms who followed the giant elephant and swarmed up, plus the soldiers of the northern and southern realms and the imperial capital also swept in at the same time, and many generals standing beside Gao Qingshi had already followed, chasing and killing with victory.
The front two layers of encirclement are completely as fragile as papier-mâché toys. More than half of the army of more than 8,000 men had already poured into the rear of the trenches. At this time, each remnant of the opponent's defeated army only needs a knife to solve it, and then throw the corpse of the barbarian into the trench and fill the trench with their remnants!
On the city wall, a large number of ** giant arrows were shot at the rear of the encirclement, and countless wails attracted miserable clouds in the sky, becoming the audience who held their breath in this battle.
The fire quicksand quenches the flame crossbow, the heavenly demon god drinks the barbarian bones, the bloody hoof steps on the funeral requiem, and the Qinshan Tiger is defeated by a hundred turns!
The big war reached its peak at this moment, unprecedented in months.
The third layer, the fourth layer... The defenses of the encirclement had begun to shatter at an incredible rate, and almost all the soldiers reached the other side of the trench and slaughtered the hostages in the center.
The numerical advantage is unimaginable. It was effortless to kill all the way, and the soldiers of the four realms and the elite of the God family were all elites, and the resistance encountered was simply not worth mentioning. Seeing that the two hussar generals who were killed at the front had already seen the last layer of encirclement in front of thousands of hostages.
This layer of encirclement seems to be very large. The soldiers of the Underworld who were guarding it did not seem to be affected by the front in the slightest. The soldiers guarding the front row are exceptionally tall. Neither of them was able to see the hostages in the rear through these people. The soldiers behind are still dealing with the scattered soldiers of the Underworld who fled like a whirlwind, and there is still a little distance from the fifth layer of encirclement. Most of them were still in the vicinity of the second and third layers of encirclement. Li Anliang seemed to think of something, and suddenly shouted.
The hundreds of soldiers who followed them quickly retreated behind them. Thunder, Murong Yu also thought of this layer almost at the same time. The site of the last explosion was within the third or fourth layer of encirclement, but they ......
Obviously, no one thought of that!
"Order! stop here first, if anyone takes a step beyond this place, cut off!"
They retreated to the third layer of encirclement, and immediately shouted at the soldiers behind them. Farther away from the fifth layer of encirclement, the barbarian guards on the other side were already extremely tall, and it was even more difficult for them to see the situation behind these people.
Murong Yu immediately raised his horsewhip and galloped towards the army in the rear. He was going to ask Gao Qingshi what to do next. You can't move forward until you get specific instructions!
Moreover, staying in this place also has huge hidden dangers.
At this moment, two loud voices sounded almost at the same time, behind the Qinshan Kingdom and behind the fifth-layer encirclement of the Stygian Ze Kingdom. Gao Qingshi and Wan Yan Sizhong's voices overlapped, but they mentioned one thing at the same time!
"General Qu, City Lord Wu, General Ying, prepare the chariot!
"Out of the chariot!"
The fifth layer of encirclement, moved.
The soldiers of the Underworld who were as tall as giants in the front row suddenly dispersed in an orderly manner to both sides. Murong Yu had just barely crossed the trench on horseback, and ran towards the hundred personal soldiers and some generals around Gao Qingshi. Li Anliang, who was at the front, was the first to see an incredible picture that Cong Rong had never seen in his life!
After the front side of the encirclement was dispersed, a large number of uncountable chariots appeared in the huge area behind them!
The first thing that shocked him was that these chariots were all in a huge pit in the fifth layer of encirclement. He immediately understood that the reason why the fifth layer of encirclement didn't seem to have any oddities at first was because the tall soldiers in the first row blocked everything out of the way!
Li Anliang even understood at once that even this was not enough to completely hide people's eyes. Just before that, there must have been rows of soldiers standing on top of this group of chariots. A large number of chariots went deep into the pit, and if they did not disperse, they could not be seen at all, and only the figures behind a row of tall soldiers could be faintly seen, which did not arouse suspicion at all. When Yan Sizhong gave the order to fight, they left from the top and entered the car at a very fast speed!
Coupled with the cover of the tall soldiers at the front, when he first came in, even a veteran like him didn't see the strangeness of the opponent's formation at all. They're hiding it so well!
And... Li Anliang could immediately determine that such a deep pit and so many chariots were arranged in just a few days. Because, not a single of the cavalrymen who escaped from the encirclement not long ago reported this strange thing!
Again..."monk"?
Look at the appearance of the enemy's chariot -
They are shiny and black without a trace of impurities... Sky Meteor Iron, if it is not Sky Meteor Iron, must be made of the same grade of mineral materials as it. The dense chariot shone a terrible glow into his eyes under the terrible sun. At the front end of the chariot of the Underworld Ze Kingdom, two thick black swords like fangs were installed on the front side of the chariot, and there seemed to be blood marks faintly appearing in the cold light, which made Li Anliang feel extremely uneasy.
Above the front of the car, two huge spears pierced out. At the very top, a baby-like object, but very small, is firmly attached to the top of the chariot.
Small... Thunder?!
The chariot was not very high, and he could clearly know that the soldiers were sitting in the car. It's not yet possible to determine how fast the other side will be. However, outside of the chariot, apart from the previous row of soldiers, there was not a single soldier of the Underworld.
Soon, more and more fighters also saw it.
I think of the chariots in my own house, which are very old in the most common shape of the Qinshan Kingdom, but not long ago, they have undergone a nationwide improvement.
It seems like... Li Anliang squinted his eyes slightly and looked carefully, and the height of the opponent's chariot seemed to be almost the same as theirs.
And the chariot of the form of Qinshan Kingdom, in fact, there is a chariot type very similar to it in the Central Plains - Zhuge Kongming attacked Chencang in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and used the chariot type called "Chongche", which is an excellent weapon for attacking the city and trapping the battle. Although it was a loss, it gave the whole world a glimpse of the power of rushing cars. Its structure is very large, often more than five floors high, and it is full of soldiers, and can even directly attack the defenders on the tower, so it should even be called a siege tower.
However, the "rushing car" of Qinshan Kingdom has gained great popularity due to the change of a certain form. And the Qinshan State Chong is even suitable for various combat environments, not limited to siege cities.
"Rushing the chariot, the big iron is on its end, the horse is armored, and the chariot is soldiered, so it rushes to the enemy city." This is the consistent feature of Zhongyuan punching cars. However, the scale of Qinshan Guochong is several times smaller than it. And it is not constructed in the form of a war tower, but is connected horizontally by two carriages that can accommodate five to ten soldiers. Covered with a layer of heavy iron "Xuanjin Ruins" unique to the south, there are two war horses in front. Of course, the chariots that can participate in this battle are equipped with at least strong horses that can travel 500 times a day. Layers of light armor are draped over its body. This kind of rush is perfectly adapted to such a field battle, and it is won by a single momentum!
Because, the iron ore of Xuanjin Ruins in the southern realm can be called one of the strongest and largest heavy iron in the entire northern continent. The "heaviness" of Xuanjin Ruins is not only in the density, but also in a kind of "iron". Even the gravity of the Heavenly Meteorite Iron could not be compared to the Xuanjin Ruins. Moreover, it only needs to be given the speed of this heavy loading, and it can be invincible.
"The horsetail has hidden bones, which pass through its veins. This is the hidden contract of the foal beast and the demon. The hidden bones are ethereal and difficult to find, stored in thousands of tail hairs, and those who do not understand their nature can never be found. ”
Three hundred years ago, a master of the Qinshan Kingdom who was extremely proficient in the art of Soma said something shocking. He said that there is a hidden bone on the horse's tail, which connects the blood meridians and even the soul of the whole body. This person is also a cultivator, the Dharma name Xiuyun Master, who died a hundred years ago when his longevity was exhausted. The royal family has always respected the cultivator of the clouds very much, and wants him to enter the palace to make a difference. It is also unknown what agreement he reached with the imperial family, but three hundred years ago, the Venerable Xiuyun opened a new military project for the imperial court, the "Yima Academy".
Young and gifted soldiers were selected from among the Praetorian Guards, and Master Xiuyun personally taught them the way of Soma. Gradually, the project lasted for three hundred years. In other words, among the military strength of the Qinshan Kingdom, there are also many soldiers who are proficient in the way of Soma. Therefore, this time to support the front line, there are quite a few such people.
The 400 soldiers from the Yima Academy were scattered into 200 rushing carts. In front of the gate of Xingyang City, the army of chariots under black pressure made people feel chilled. All black horses, covered in double light armor, watched the fierce battle behind the trench, ready to step on everything here.
In each vehicle, there is a soldier in a yellow uniform, who does not look like the others. At this moment, they held a torch in their hands, poked their heads out slightly, and gently stroked the tail of their horses with the other hand. There was no sound from the rear, and they were all waiting for the orders of the supreme generals who had retreated to the city tower.
And Li Anliang, who was in the innermost part of the encirclement, and the soldiers in the south, after seeing the chariots of the Underworld, their hearts were bottomless one after another.
Especially, the thunder above that!
Li Anliang shook his head. The veteran from Rong for many years already knows in his heart that Qin Shanguo Chongche is not the opponent of the other party!
Because, it has two huge flaws, but it has been completely caught by the chariots of the Hades Kingdom, and it has been completely restrained!
Looking at the chariot that the other party didn't know what power to use, it was slowly advancing. Li Anliang calmly commanded the soldiers to retreat, and after casually cutting off the head of a deserter from the Underworld Kingdom, a deafening battle cry suddenly erupted from the group of chariots that were slowly advancing. Li Anliang couldn't care much anymore, so he could only let the enemy and his chariots fight hard.
"Immediately send the order to the back, tell every general, every soldier! Immediately, immediately retreat! Get out of the chariot!"