Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Final Battle (Part II)
After the heavy rain overhead had stopped for a long time, the thick dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and a bright ray of sunlight quietly cast onto the ground and shone on a ballista that had been completely damaged, while neither of the warring sides below was looking.
On the wooden beam at the edge of the ballista, there was a hand covered with blood and mud, and the owner of this hand was quietly leaning on the side of the ballista, with a trace of pain on his face, and his eyes were closed, and he could no longer wake up.
Covered with devastation and corpses, this is war.
And on the tower in the distance, a bloody battle with hand-to-hand combat is still going on, but anyone can see that in fact, the army of Liangguo has been losing and retreating, and it is only a matter of time before it is defeated.
The huge advantage in numbers determines everything, even if the patriot loses a lot of losses and kills before ascending the tower, but at this time, he can still win the final victory.
As a nobleman of the heavens and the prince of the country, Gu Cang, who would not have personally gone into battle to fight with these mud-legged people who were as cheap as grass, had already replaced the sword he was holding in his hand with a simple knife that he picked up from the ground casually.
He had been taking the lead just now, letting go of his hands and feet, and his sword qi was vertical and horizontal, killing more than thirty people in a row, and even the sword body of the stainless steel sword was already full of damaged jagged teeth, and it could no longer be used.
This shows that the fierce battle just now has caused him to be completely unable to kill and injure the enemy in front of him while taking into account the protection of the sword in his hand, avoiding the fragile parts of the sword body and reducing the slashing action.
But Rao is that he has already tried his best to kill the enemy, but for the whole war, it is just a drop in the bucket, and it will not affect the overall situation at all.
Because the fighting between the two sides in the city was so fierce that even the logistics troops that were originally used as medical treatment and carrying the corpses had all taken knives into battle, which led to the corpses in many places in the city, because there was no one to carry them, they had piled up into shocking hills.
Gu Cang, who was holding a treasure knife and panting, stood on the pile of corpses at his feet with Wanyan Keni and others who were sweating profusely, and looked around a little blankly.
The stumps and severed arms covered the city, and the blood flowed and mixed together, and it was as uncomfortable to trample under the feet as it was in the mud.
On the castle tower behind, the crossbow arrows, bows and arrows, etc., have been inserted in countless numbers, and the huge stones thrown by the catapult are quietly embedded in the city wall, or on the head of the city, just like ordinary decorations.
On the battlefield in the distance, tens of thousands of enemy troops were still rushing over, passing through the land full of feathered arrows and the corpses of their comrades, crossing the trenches completely filled with corpses, and following the ladders that had taken an unknown number of lives to build, shouting loud trumpets full of patriotic dialects, and climbing up with a hundred times more spirit.
Countless enemies have come up from below, more and more, more and more, and the places they occupy are getting bigger and bigger.
This time, it seems that they are really going to lose, and although they have tried their best, it seems that they can't change their predetermined ending.
The time will come when manpower will run out.
"God bless Da Liang, my fate is mine! Don't be afraid!
Gu Cang was really unwilling to give up like this, not to mention that he had no reason to give up.
There are two ministers in the world, but how can there be a reason for two kings to shine together?
A courtier surrenders or a courtier, but can the emperor surrender?
Not only him, but he is also unwilling to give up as a person who cares about Liangguo and is proud of Liangchen, such as Wanyan Keni and others, they are not willing to give up, they think in their hearts, as long as they work hard and hold on for a moment, maybe a few other defense lines will win, then there will be reinforcements coming, as long as there is not until the last moment, as long as there is still one person in Liangguo, the victory or defeat is not really clear.
In a desperate situation, people either choose to give up, or they need to find a reason for themselves to continue to fight, even if they know that it is impossible, but they always have to give themselves a reason not to give up, isn't it?
"God bless the Great Cool!
The crowd roared and roared, completely ignoring that they were already exhausted, as if they had gained strength out of thin air, and continued to rush forward with the footsteps of others.
They greeted the golden sunlight that pierced through the thick dark clouds and fell from the cracks, and the picture seemed to be frozen at this moment!
If you know you can't do it, you're not a fool or a hero!
The sword collided, and the sonorous sound sounded, which was the pride of the battlefield alone!
Wanyan Keni scolded, held the knife fiercely, and pushed forward with all his strength, the patriotic soldier whose strength was less than one-fifth of him, lost the opportunity, and was taken by its momentum, and was shocked in his heart, and the strength he exerted was less than half of the original, and he was pushed back step by step, and suddenly his feet were in chaos, and he sat directly on the ground.
"Die!"
Wanyan Keni showed no mercy, even if the man below was staring at a pair of eyes full of fear, looking only sixteen or seventeen years old, he still stepped forward and simply took off the man's head with a sharp knife.
"General, be careful!"
But in the end, he was still tired, his reaction and perception of the things around him were not as good as before, and there were several people next to Leng Buding, he didn't notice it for a while, but fortunately the guards who had walked thousands of miles with him saw that their generals were in danger, regardless of their own safety, and hurriedly flew to save them, which was able to block the enemy.
"Ahh
A personal guard was anxious to save Yan Keni, accidentally exposed a flaw, and was slashed on the shoulder by the enemy, and the latter was not a fuel-efficient lamp, the other hand pressed the blade of the knife, and pulled it down, and saw a rain of blood spilling out, and an arm that was still trembling was chopped off by Qi Gen.
"Ahh
Such a severe pain, how can it be bearable, the guard covered the wound of the broken arm with one hand, only felt that his eyes were black, he didn't know the direction at all, he just stumbled back, and finally was held by Gu Cang on the side, he held the long knife in his hand, and slashed forward in a semicircle, the knife wind was pressing, and he instantly forced back the attacking enemy.
Gu Cang didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly beckoned to the front: "Hurry back and form a formation!"
After this moment, he finally saw the situation in front of him clearly, or he was finally willing to face up to what was happening in front of him, and if he continued to fight like this, it would only increase the casualties, and it would not benefit his own side.
The enemies in front of him are seeing more and more, piled up in front of them layer by layer, and they are already unstoppable, if they want to come hard, it is useless, the building will fall, and it is beyond the power of man to stop it, at least it is not that he can straighten it out with such a little manpower, so he hurriedly called Yan Keni and the others, wanting to form a defense and retreat first.
In the distance, Xie Houyin, as the commander-in-chief of this battle to defend the country, stood on a three-story platform, and slowly moved forward by the joint efforts of the soldiers below, at this moment the enemy was completely out of time and manpower to use trebuchets and ballistas, and there was no chance to threaten him, so he could naturally approach the city wall in the distance generously.
Gu Cang and the others, who had been performing well over there and fighting bravely to kill the enemy, had actually noticed it a long time ago, and he also understood the truth that the thief captured the king first, so he had commanded more people to participate in besieging those people before.
It's a pity that the ammunition stored in these ballistas and catapults under his command has been almost exhausted, and the soldiers on both sides are now all entangled, once the catapults with extremely poor accuracy are used, the enemy may not kill a few, but will cause heavy losses to his side, so he does not want to use this kind of big killing weapon that may change his advantage at the moment.
"Here come the guns!"
He pondered for a moment, then suddenly stretched out his hand to the side and snorted lightly, and the guards on the side suddenly frowned and said, "General, Your Majesty said before, you must not go into battle in person!"
When Xie Houyin heard this, he turned his head, his eyes were extremely cold, and he said coldly: "Here, I am the biggest, go and fetch me the gun!"
As soon as the guard met his majestic eyes, he didn't dare to look at him at all, and hurriedly lowered his head, and didn't dare to say what kind of disrespectful words to His Majesty or anything like that, but he clasped his hands into fists and said a low "um", which was considered to be an agreement, and then quickly turned around and went down the stairs next to the high platform, ready to get a weapon for him.
He didn't dare to go directly to the rear camp to report to His Majesty the Emperor, not to mention that this matter could be big or small, not to mention that with Duanmu Shuofeng's temperament, as well as his appreciation for Xie Houyin and the degree of dependence on him in this battle, it was impossible to do anything about changing the commander in battle, and more importantly, it was not good for him to play this small report, but it offended the big people on both sides, so he didn't know how to die.
As for the reason why Xie Houyin suddenly thought of bringing a spear, it was that he suddenly remembered a past incident that happened a long time ago.
The little prince of the Liang Kingdom, the one-eyed young man, once said a word to him on the border, with such an arrogant and arrogant attitude.
"This shot, even if I Gu Xuan, repay you for letting me go that day!"
He Xie Houyin has always been known for his stability, and the only time in his life that he was so angry that he almost wanted to turn around and fight for life and death with him was to follow the reckless Wei Chidian to ambush Gu Xuan and others and failed, and almost died in his hands.
In the final analysis, in fact, even he knows that most of the resentments that have been remembered for so long are actually because of women, Gu Xuan not only made him lose face for the first time in front of his beloved woman, but also easily stole her heart, and took advantage of her kindness without guilt.
Such a hateful "rival in love" spared his Xie Houyin's life in such a disgusting way, and anyone who has high requirements for himself, pursues perfection, and is extremely confident in his heart will feel very angry.
Letting him go in that way is just another kind of humiliation!
But it doesn't matter, he Xie Houyin, has personally commanded the army to destroy the Liang Kingdom, the once glorious Great Liang Empire, which overwhelmed the surrounding countries, is about to cease to exist, and at this moment, where is that coward hiding?
He didn't choose to lead the troops down the road before, and took down the eye-catching Huangsha County by the way, first, because of the war, he was caught off guard by the border fortress of Yanzhou, and it was definitely much more cost-effective to revitalize the whole situation than to go around that bullshit Huangsha County, and there was another point, that is, he also wanted to let the other party taste the humiliation he had at the beginning.
Sparing your life is like letting go of an insignificant ant, and he wants to let the arrogant and arrogant little prince also experience this feeling of being despised.
What are you, I'm not rare to kill you at all, that's all.
He must have known his record, broke through Kanmeng'an, slaughtered the bloody army, and took the second largest Yanzhou in the Liang Kingdom, covering an incomparably vast area, without much effort.
So it's normal for him to disappear, he definitely won't dare to fight him on a frontal battlefield, he doesn't deserve it at all!
In hand-to-hand combat before, it doesn't matter if you don't notice losing to him for a while, Xie Houyin has already seen it, many things are stuck in the past, and it is unreasonable.
And now, he also wants to end this war with his own hands the way the other party treated him!
He Xie Houyin, he also wants to try, with a spear, the feeling of shooting the enemy commander!
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First of all, I wish you all a happy new year, a prosperous family, and a prosperous Year of the Pig!
It's true that there are a lot of things to do with relatives at the end of the year, and the update is not satisfactory, I'm so sorry, don't scold me for the New Year!