Chapter 352: When the Situation Suddenly Turns Critical (3)
Looking at the Youzhou soldiers marching towards the city of the extreme east, Ling Yi knew that tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
Han Ce still chose to attack the city, he was going to take the city before Yanbei's cavalry sneak attack, and then fight back against the cavalry who came to sneak attack. Ling Yi said slowly.
"What shall we do?" asked Zhang Cheng.
Ling Yi thought for a while and said: "Brother Zhang, you lead the ruffian to investigate the movements of the Yanbei cavalry, we will first go to the city of the extreme east to watch the battle, and report as soon as there is information!"
"Yes!" Zhang Cheng took the order and led the veterans of the ruffian Yitun to gallop towards Yanbei.
Ling Yi also led the others to move slowly towards the city of the extreme east, they couldn't change Han Ce's decision, let alone stop the war, all they could do was watch the battle from the sidelines.
When they came to the hillside where they watched the battle last time, it was already close to Zishi, and the guards of the city in the extreme east of the Northern Wilderness seemed to know that Han Ce would come to attack the city tonight, and the entire city gate was covered with soldiers and defensive equipment, and the lights were bright, waiting for Han Ce's side to come and attack the city.
Han Ce's side lined up in formation, and the drums thundered, and with a charging horn loudly tearing through the night sky, the Dongsheng soldiers attacked.
The first attack was a volley of archers and ballistas, which suppressed the attack of the Far Eastern, giving the infantry pushing the ladder carts a chance to rush forward.
Then with an order, the catapult also began to attack, this time Han Ce's catapult put a boulder with gunpowder, or directly replaced it with a fireball, which was preparing to forcibly attack the city of the extreme east.
"Zheng Zheng Zheng ......" only to see gunpowder boulders and fireballs flying towards the city of the Far East.
At this time, the infantry had also rushed to the city wall, and they began to climb, with the help of ladders, climbed to the city wall, and the shouts of killing were deafening.
"Boom, boom!" The sound of the explosion also continued to explode with the gunpowder boulder into the Far Eastern City, and the Far Eastern City became full of flames, and the houses in the city began to burn fiercely.
Today's siege was much more fierce than the last time Ling Yi watched the battle, and Han Ce had already shown all the means he could use to press the bottom of the box, and for a while, Dongsheng's momentum was vigorous, and the attack was swift.
However, the Northern Wilderness was also prepared, the soldiers standing at the head of the city wall kept poking the soldiers who climbed with the help of the ladder through their spears, even if a few Dongsheng soldiers rushed to the city, they would be killed by the defenders of the Northern Wilderness on the city wall.
Beihuang was just like last time, constantly pouring oil on the city, and then constantly throwing torches, and for a while, the ladder cars that attacked the city in Youzhou were lit a lot.
The city was on fire, and outside the city was also in flames, and the battle became more and more intense.
Seeing the cruelty of the siege battle again, whether it was Ling Yi or the other brothers of Ruffian Qu, they were still shocked, and the firelight, blood and shouts of killing made the Ruffian Qu brothers who watched the battle all their blood boiling.
From the constant footsteps of the war horses under them, you can know how excited and warlike their hearts are.
The siege battle lasted for more than an hour and was not yet clear, Han Ce's army could not capture the city tower, and the defenders of the Northern Wilderness could not repel the Youzhou soldiers who were attacking the city.
"How many Youzhou soldiers have died so far?" Ling Yi asked, looking at the mountains of corpses piled up.
Hao Jun replied with a sigh: "This time, no less than 3,000 soldiers have fallen under the towers of the city in the extreme east, and how many families can't wait for their sons, husbands, and fathers to come home!"
"This is the sorrow of the war, countless families have become ruined because of the war, if the Youzhou army enters the city, how many ordinary families in the Northern Wilderness will become nowhere to live, or even ruined?" Zhang Cheng, as a veteran, is used to seeing life and death, but he still doesn't want to see such a scene.
"What we have to do is to defend our family and the country, do our best in our hearts, don't let killing occupy our hearts, killing people is easy but saving people is not so simple, stick to our hearts at all times!" Ling Yi said to the people around him.
The brothers of the riffraff are all people who have suffered from the war, and their families have either died in the war or have been separated and do not know where to go, so they can listen to what Ling Yi says.
Just as Ling Yi and the others were talking, they saw a sneaky army slowly touching the gate of the Far East City, which naturally couldn't escape Ling Yi's eyes.
I saw that this group of people didn't know what to do in the hole of the city gate, and it took a while to leave the city gate.
As they left, the ramming car that was still attacking the city gate also retreated.
Looking at this strange move, Ling Yi knew that Han Ce was going to forcibly break through the city gate!
However, the Northern Wilderness seemed to be prepared, and just when the mysterious troops arranged the gunpowder and so on, they saw that the city gate and the surrounding city walls were covered with a faint film of light.
Others couldn't see what this was, but Ling Yi, who had already fought with the Martial Saint, naturally knew that it was the appearance of the Martial Saint's Sage power, and that the Martial Saint had protected the city gate and city wall in his Sage power.
"That defensive Martial Saint has made a move, I wonder if Han Ce's gunpowder can break through the Martial Saint's Saint's momentum?"
"That knows, but the strength of the Martial Saint is not something we can guess, this Martial Saint has resisted several attacks from Han Ce, so it should be no problem this time!" Ah Hai said on the side.
"Let's take a look, I see that the amount of gunpowder this time is quite large, and there may be unexpected results!" Ling Yi said, looking at the location of the city gate.
There was a loud "boom", and the dark night sky was lit red by the skyrocketing firelight, and even Ling Yi and the others, who were far away on the hillside, were so illuminated that they couldn't open their eyes.
The fire dissipated, and I saw that the gates, which were supposed to be breached, were still standing, and nothing had changed except for the fact that the gunpowder had burned black.
"This martial saint is too strong, isn't it?" Sun Ze said incredulously: "It's not the same level as the one we met, it's terrifying!"
"This should be the real strength of the Martial Saint, the Martial Saint we fought against was too light of the enemy, and he didn't see us in his eyes, otherwise we would have died in Yanbei Town a long time ago, how could we still have the opportunity to come here to watch the battle!" Hao Jun also sighed at the strength of the Martial Saint.
The other brothers were also shocked and excited, they were naturally taken aback when they saw the power of the Martial Saint powerhouse for the first time!
"You say, does Han Ce have the strength to fight against this Martial Saint?" Sun Ze was most concerned about the fight: "If we go up again, do you think we still have a chance to make a move?"
"Big brother, this is a high-level martial saint, what do you think, last time it was just a fluke, do you think all the martial saints are so careless? Don't talk about this martial saint of the Northern Wilderness, even if it is Han Ce, although it is only a first-grade martial saint, it is not something we can compete with!"
"Hey, when will I be able to really fight with Martial Saint?" Sun Ze looked at the direction of the city gate and muttered to himself.
"With the talent and strength of the eldest brother, he should be able to reach the Martial Saint level soon, and when the time comes, he will be able to challenge these older generation of Martial Saint powerhouses!" Hao Jun comforted on the side.
"Hehe, when the time comes, let's challenge all the older generation of martial saints together, and have a good look at their strength!" Sun Zele said hehehe: "Are you interested in challenging my master with me?"
Hao Jun replied on the side: "Damn, big brother, you are a great martial artist, are you thinking of challenging an old martial saint like Dean Kong? Don't be too ambitious, my goal is to find a chance to clean up that Han Ce first and beat him so that he doesn't even know his mother!"
"This is a good proposal, when the time comes, let's clean him up and let him know how powerful we are!" Sun Ze's face was full of longing, and they would be able to cultivate to the level of a martial saint tomorrow.
Listening to the chat words of the two people in front of them, everyone was speechless, saying that they were not ashamed to speak, they really have such talent and ability.
"Look, Han Ce panicked, he stepped up his attack!" Ah Hai reminded.
Everyone looked at the battlefield, and sure enough, the soldiers of Youzhou strengthened their attacks, and attacked the city wall as if they were not killed, regardless of the cost, just blindly attacking.
"What is Han Ce doing, he knows that he can't do it, but he still has to work hard, this is too disdainful of the soldier's life, it's too hateful!" Ah Hai cursed on the side.
This is not like what a great general can do, if other people have to not only attack the city, but they will at least think about their own brothers, this is just a senseless sacrifice.
At this moment, Zhang Cheng came with a horse and shouted: "Lingyi, the cavalry of the Northern Wilderness has been killed!"
Ling Yi, who was still watching the battle, heard Zhang Cheng's voice, and instantly secretly said that it was not good, he didn't expect the Northern Wilderness cavalry to come so quickly, it seems that Han Ce attacked the city wall at any cost, and he should have just received news that the reinforcements of the Northern Wilderness cavalry had arrived. He wanted to quickly capture the city in the far east, otherwise it would be a situation where he would be attacked on his back.
"Ruffian Qu listens to the order, all of them have it, check the mounts and weapons, and prepare to attack with me!" Ling Yi commanded, and then asked Zhang Cheng, "What's the situation now?"
Zhang Cheng hurriedly reported: "We explored all the way along the transportation road of grain and grass, and only went out for less than a hundred miles, and we saw that the nearest granary had been ignited by fire, and the most important thing was that there were many Northern Wilderness cavalry stationed along the way, which had cut off Han Ce's retreat to the Yanjing checkpoint!"
"Is it so fast? The speed of the Northern Wilderness cavalry is too fast, right? I thought it would arrive tomorrow, but I didn't expect that they would all be killed here tonight! How many troops do they have in total?" Ling Yi asked.
Zhang Cheng replied: "There should be no less than 100,000 troops blocking the road, and there are still many cavalry chasing Lu Anshuang's troops, and the entire grain transportation route has been controlled by the Northern Wilderness!"
"Who is leading the team?" Ling Yi continued to ask, "What kind of strength?"
Zhang Cheng replied: "The Northern Wilderness Cavalry is a team led by a martial saint, I don't know who it is!"
"Martial Saint again, how many Martial Saint powerhouses have been sent out by this Northern Wilderness? This Han Ce is going to die this time!" After listening to Zhang Cheng's answer, Sun Ze was also secretly surprised, the foundation of the Northern Wilderness was too strong.
Ling Yi didn't dwell on this, but continued to ask, "Do our reinforcements have a stream?"
Zhang Cheng shook his head and said, "From the state side, there is no news yet!"