Volume III, Chapter 582
The general's face was gloomy, and he said coldly: "If you dare to talk nonsense and lie about the military situation, I will kill you!" As he spoke, he raised the spear in his hand.
The red soldier was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a thud, and said urgently: "The general spares his life, the villain is not lying, the general spares his life-"
At this time, the other red soldiers also ran over and said in a gossipy voice: "General, the city is indeed mixed with the Jin army, and when I patrolled to the vicinity of the mansion of the county chief, I found that the streets were all Jin troops, and the mansion of the county lord seemed to have been occupied by the Jin army. β
Even if the dozens of Red soldiers who fled said this, the general still didn't believe it, the city defense of the Red Dragon Altar was stronger than the iron plate, and it was impossible for the Jin army to get in, let alone a large number of Jin troops, it was simply impossible! He looked around at everyone, sneered, nodded, and said: "Okay! Didn't you say that there was a Jin army? Then take Ben General to see it, if you lie, Ben will not be spared!"
"General, you can't go! Tell your lordship, there are too many people in the Jin army......"
"Shut up!" the general yelled, pushed away the red soldiers who were blocking in front of him, and walked forward, while sneering: "I think you are frightened by the enemy troops outside the city......
Before he could finish speaking, he heard another messy footsteps in front of him, and he raised his eyes to look ahead, and well, another group of soldiers ran from the end of the street to this side.
The generals were ruthless and angry in their hearts, and the brothers in front fought bloodily regardless of life and death, and killed the enemy troops who were several times their own strength outside the city, but these soldiers who had no battlefield in the city were in chaos first, how could this be reasonable!
He walked forward quickly, and shouted: "Stand up for me, don't you see the Jin army as ......?"
Halfway through the conversation. Suddenly stopped, only to see that the first person to run in front of him was actually a warrior, covered with white armor, and holding a long and narrow knife in his hand.
He was shocked, and in his impression, there should be no underworld warriors among the soldiers left in the city. What's more, this person is still a warrior who can complete the transformation of the beast armor.
He swallowed the second half of the sentence back into his stomach and asked, "Who is coming from ahead?"
No one answered his question, only to see the underworld warrior take three steps and two steps, rushing to him in the blink of an eye, the long knife in his hand swinging out, and immediately slashing at the Heavenly Spirit Gai of Huashan.
Oops! It's the enemy! The general's heart trembled, and he didn't have time to think about where the enemy came from, so he instinctively raised the spear in his hand. Hard-hit the opponent's heavy knife.
"Click!"
There were two crisp sounds in a row, and the powerful and heavy sound of the underworld warrior directly smashed the spear in the hand of the general, and the blade was castrated, and it slashed at the shoulder of the general, and the knife was so powerful that it directly split the general's body in half diagonally.
The sword light was gone, and the blood light appeared! The two halves of his body burst into a cloud of scarlet blood mist in the air.
Without even looking at the two halves of the corpse, the Underworld continued to rush forward with his sword. At the same time, he shouted: "I am Hou Yuan, the partial general of the First Army, if you don't want to die." Lay down your arms!"
His voice, coupled with the fact that he had just slashed to death the Red Army's partial generals, frightened the Red soldiers in front of them so much that their faces changed greatly, their souls scattered, and people fled in all directions screaming, like lost dogs.
Where are they running fast Hou Yuan. The latter rushed out in a few steps, and then chased after the two red soldiers, and the big knife in his hand waved horizontally, only hearing two sounds of pounce and pounce, and the two red soldiers were cut off at the same time. Half of his body fell to the ground, and his lower body ran forward a few more steps before falling, blood and white intestines flowing to the ground.
Hou Yuan didn't kill him alone, behind him, there was Xu Bai, one of the partial generals of the First Army, and thousands, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Jin Army.
Just when the Red Army was going all out to resist the Jinxin Red Alliance Army outside the city, the main force of the Jin Army suddenly killed them from behind, which was a conceivable blow to the morale of the Red Army.
Not to mention that the soldiers of the Red Army were dazed by the sudden killing of the Jin army, even Wei Wuji was a monk who was the second of Zhang, he couldn't understand how so many Jin troops entered the city, and when did they come in, could it be that they fell from the sky?
But it was useless to pursue these now, and Wei Wuji could only stubbornly command his own soldiers who were resting under the city walls to quickly line up to defend against the Jin army rushing from behind.
When the Red Army had the city wall to rely on, and with the advantage of geographical advantages, the Jin army, which was several times its size, did not fall behind Jin, but at this time they had no one to rely on, and could only fight face-to-face hand-to-hand combat with the Jin army, which dwarfed each other.
The chaos in the Red Dragon Mandala soon attracted the attention of the new Red Army attacking the city outside the city, and soon, the New Red Army spies brought the news back to Baihe, saying that there was a sudden fierce fighting in the Red Dragon Mandala, and it seemed that there was a change in the city, but the specific situation was not clear for the time being.
Hearing the spies' report, Bai He's body trembled, and he was dumbfounded on the spot. He was not shocked by this good news, but remembered Ding Feng's promise to him, when the time comes, the heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals will come to help, is it that Ding Feng is not talking nonsense, but he really has a spell, and he really invited the heavenly soldiers and generals?
He was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses, glanced timidly at Ding Feng beside him, and then turned back abruptly and asked the attendant behind him, "Now...... What time is it?"
"General Huiyu, it's time to do it!"
"Ahh
In the past, he had never believed that there were such things as witchcraft and spells in the world, but now that the facts were in front of him, he couldn't help but not believe it, he swallowed his spit with difficulty, and said to Ding Feng: "Ding...... General Ding, this ...... This ......"
Ding Feng grinned at him, and said with a relaxed face: "Brother Bai, didn't I say it, when the time comes, the heavenly soldiers and generals will come down to help our army break the city, and now the overall situation has been decided, and in a few moments, the enemy army in the city will collapse and be annihilated!"
"Oh, General Ding is really a god!" Bai He turned over and dismounted, arched his hands affectionately and solemnly, and bowed deeply to Ding Fengbi.
Ding Feng actually has such the ability to summon heavenly soldiers and generals, no wonder the first legion of the Jin Kingdom can shock the world, no matter who has such ability, he can command the army to be invincible and invincible!
At this time. The spies of the New Red Army rushed in like a marquee, and reported the battle reports to Baihe one by one.
There was a fierce battle in the Red Dragon Mandala, and the defenders of the Red Kingdom were in a state of confusion, and now the army was in turmoil!"
"Report - report to the general, more than half of the Red Army defending the city has retreated from the city wall, and now the defenders have little resistance. Our soldiers may break through the city defense at any time!"
"Report - report to the general, the soldiers of our army and the Jin army have broken through the city defense on the left side of the city gate, attacked the city wall, and are chasing the Red Army!"
"Newspaperβ"
The next battle reports were all news of the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance Army breaking through the Red Army's city defenses continuously, and Bai He listened to it with joy while his mouth couldn't close together, and he sat on the horse and danced excitedly.
It is the so-called defeat like a mountain! Such a strong Red Dragon Altar, such a tenacious Red Country defender. After more than two months of hard fighting, they have not been able to step on the city wall for half a step, and now what is happening, they have been successfully broken through by their own side one after another, occupying the Red Dragon Altar, and completely annihilating the defenders in the city, which is already close at hand.
He shouted to the heralds around him: "We have heavenly soldiers and generals to help, and now the heavenly soldiers and generals have descended from the sky and killed the enemy soldiers in the city to lose their armor. Pass on my generals' orders, all our soldiers. We must step up to break the city, and this time we must go all out and take the Red Dragon Altar!"
"Yes!"
"Wow-"
All the heralds also came to their senses at this time, shouted in unison, and then urged their horses one after another, and galloped towards the battlefield ahead.
The war has been fought to this extent. With the victory in hand, Bai He's awe of Ding Feng was beyond words, and he smiled embarrassedly: "I offended Brother Ding a lot just now, and I hope that Brother Ding will have a lot of Haihan, don't be surprised!"
When I saw him, I almost didn't want to bow and worship. Ding Feng laughed secretly in his heart, this Baihe is really easy to deceive, he really believes that he can summon heavenly soldiers and generals. He shook his head secretly, but said with a serious face: "Brother Bai said that you and I are brothers, you and I are brothers, and you and I are our own brothers, so polite, it is too outspoken." β
"Brother Ding is so broad-minded, it's really embarrassing brother!" Bai He said with a red face.
Let's say that in the Red Dragon Mandala, under the internal and external attacks of the two armies of Jin Xin and the Red Army, the Red Army of 100,000 people completely collapsed, people even had nowhere to escape, and tens of thousands of Red Army troops were pressed under the city wall.
Arrows flew from all directions, and kept falling into the camp of the Red Army, screaming one after another, and the Jin Army in front of them was even tighter, killing the red-eyed Jin Sergeant holding a steel knife, frantically slashing the enemy in front of him, and the Red Sergeant fell row after row.
The Red Army generals who were on the top of the city gate were all dumbfounded at this time, including Wei Wuji, looking at the dense enemy troops inside and outside the city, people's faces were as pale as dirt, and the cold sweat had already soaked their clothes.
In the huge city gate building, dozens of generals, civil officials, and dozens of people, none of them spoke, and now, people don't know what else to say, and they all have a sense of imminent disaster.
This lifeless and crazy atmosphere was finally broken by a red soldier who ran in a panic to report the news.
The soldier ran to the ground with a rolling belt, and when he reached Wei Wuji's approach, he knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, the Jin army and the new and red armies have begun to attack the city gate tower together, and the enemy army has a large number of troops, and the brothers below can no longer resist it, my lord, make a decision!"
Wei Wuji was stunned for a moment, and then, he laughed on his back, and while laughing, tears also fell down, and he said in a trembling voice: "Heaven must not me! Heaven must be me Wei Wuji!"
"My lord, we fought the enemy!" the surrounding red generals drew their swords one after another, and saluted Wei Wuji in unison, and then turned and rushed towards the bottom of the city gate.
The participation of these red generals in the war could not change the overall situation, at best, it was a temporary block of the pace of the Jin army and the new red alliance army, so that they could not immediately enter the city gate tower.
Wei Wuji naturally understood the truth, the battle situation was at this point, and there was no chance to turn it around. He walked to the arrow stack with heavy steps, pressed the wall with both hands, looked down and looked out, looking at the mountains inside and outside the Red Dragon Altar, he muttered and trembled: "The rivers and mountains are picturesque, it's just a sigh, my generation is incompetent!"
As he spoke, he raised his hand and drew a torch stuck in the wall, turned around, and said to the remaining civil officials: "I would rather die than be humiliated by the Jin army and the new Red army, if you want to live, go and surrender to the enemy now!"
Everyone present heard this. They all knelt on the ground and said with tears in their eyes: "We are willing to live and die with adults, live and die together!"
"Ha Lu Ha ......" Wei Wuji looked up and smiled again, shook his head and said, "If I can put life and death out of the way like all my lords, why would I be today?" he said, throwing the torch in his hand to the ground. Then he threw the oil lamp next to the torch.
The oil from the oil lamp flowed out, and the sticky fire ignited, and only a snort was heard, and a large piece of wood on the ground burned.
Wei Wuji was like crazy, and kept throwing the oil lamps around him to the ground, laughing wildly as he fell: "The red man is afraid of death, the red man is incompetent, Ha Lu Ha ......"
"Ha Lu Ha...... God is unfair. God is unfair to give me the heart to serve the country, but not to give me the power to serve the country...... Ha Lu Ha ......"
In the blink of an eye, the city gate tower turned into a sea of fire, and more than 20 officials of the Red Kingdom, including Wei Wuji, were finally spared and all died in the sea of fire.
Wei Wuji was born as a disciple of Shi Huai, and it was only with Shi Huai who inherited the throne that he became one of the court of the Red Kingdom. It is one of the "chicken dogs" in "one person attains the Tao and the chicken dog ascends to heaven".
A minister like him who was born from the grassroots, and only because he chose the right master, he soared. He was very despised by those traditional magnates, but Wei Wuji's ability, personality, and loyalty were far better than those nobles of the Red Kingdom, but it was a pity that a towering tree that had rotted to the roots, even if it occasionally grew new branches and leaves. It will also wither and wither quickly.
There has always been no shortage of talents in the Red Kingdom, such as the fierce general Guan He, the commander Wang Han, and the civil official Wei Wuji, all of whom are outstanding heroes. However, these heroes are dead and dead, and those who flee are fleeing, and those who remain in the court of the Red Kingdom are in charge of power, but those who are like tumors of traditional nobles.
The disadvantages of hereditary monarchy and hereditary power are vividly manifested in the current Chi Guo body.
Ding Feng took advantage of Peng Cheng's defection to capture the border town of Chilongtan in the western part of the Red Kingdom in one fell swoop, which not only opened the door to the Red Kingdom for the new Red Army, but also made it logical for the Jin State to occupy the entire territory of Surabaya County.
The loss of Surabaya County was a heavy blow to the Red Kingdom, the western barrier was gone, and now, only Xu was left in Haowan County to support the overall situation.
Chu Chen's speculation was not wrong, Xu Fang did withdraw all the main forces of the Red Army under his command to Pufeng, the county seat of Haowan County, with an army of more than 600,000 people, who had to eat and drink every day, and the amount of grain and grass consumed was astronomical.
Relying only on the county's own grain hoarding, it is far from being able to supply the food and drink of these many people, which requires the requisition of grain and grass from the surrounding towns, and at the same time, Xu Fang also moved the people in Pufeng City out on a large scale, and the county town with a population of hundreds of thousands was reduced to 50,000 people in just a few days, and they were all light and strong laborers.
Xu Fang was ready to fight for a long time in Pufeng and the Jin army, and he knew very well in his heart that Pufeng was related to the life and death of Haowan County, and Haowan County was related to the safety of the capital.
On the day he was stationed in Pufeng, he expressed his attitude to his generals, the city is in the people, the city is dead, and he swears to live and die with Pufeng, and will never retreat half a step again.
There will be a heart of death, and there will be no greed for life. As the commander-in-chief, Xu Fang can make up his mind so much, and the soldiers below are naturally all united in their hearts, ready to fight to the death with the Jin army here.
This day, noon.
The sun is shining, the sky is clear, and there are no clouds at a glance.
More than 30 Red soldiers walked leisurely on the country road near Pufeng, the road was not wide, and there were crops on both sides, and they could not even find a place to shelter from the sun and summer.
These red soldiers had no military appearance at all, their helmets were crooked, and many of them ripped off the collars of their uniforms, but even so, beads of sweat still flowed down their cheeks and necks from time to time.
"Why is it so hot today?" a soldier raised his eyes to look up at the sky, shook his head helplessly, and continued to walk slowly forward with heavy steps.
After turning a detour, there was a small thatched hut on the side of the road not far away, and the eyes of all the Red soldiers were bright, and they all quickened their pace and walked over.
When I came closer, I found that this was a tea shed, and the boss was an old man, and there was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl next to him, who looked like a grandfather and grandson.
Seeing that there were so many soldiers, Lao Suo came out at a trot, and said with a smile on his face: "Are you soldiers thirsty? Hurry, hurry, hurry, please inside, there is tea and watermelon in the shop." β
The little girl also came out, blinking brightly and widely, looking curiously at these decadent and condescending red soldiers.
The eyes of the red soldiers looked past the old man and the little girl, and looked into the thatched hut, but they saw nothing else, but saw the watermelons piled up in the corner, and everyone swallowed their spit in unison.
One of the good-looking red soldiers touched the breastplate, and after a while, he withdrew his hand and said with a wry smile: "Old man, we came out to patrol, and we didn't bring any money, or ...... Still won't go in......" As he spoke, he waved to his companions to the left and right, signaling for everyone to go.
"What does it matter if you don't bring money, now that the Jin people are calling, it's all up to you soldiers, come in and sit, the old man invites you military masters to tea." β
"That'...... What's so embarrassing?" said another red soldier with a dry smile, but his feet had gone into the tea shed uncontrollably.
One person took the lead, and the others were no longer polite and walked into the tea shed. There were more than 30 of them, and the small tea shed was crowded all at once.
Lao Suo was very enthusiastic, greeted the little girl, asked her to hand the tea bowl again, and poured the tea, and he himself picked out a few large watermelons, cut them into dozens of pieces, and distributed them to the red soldiers.
Under the scorching sun, everyone has already walked with dry mouths, and now there is tea and watermelon, where can they still be reserved, a few red soldiers only took three or two bites, and ate most of the watermelon, almost even gnawed off a piece of the melon skin, and the other red soldiers drank the tea in the tea bowl in one breath, and it was so hot that they fanned their tongues again and again.
Seeing this, the little girl couldn't help but burst out laughing, and the old man beside her also persuaded vigorously: "Slow down, everyone slow down, if it is not enough, there are still a lot of tea and watermelons in the shop." β
"Oh, old man, thank you so much!" The good-looking red soldier stood up, bowed to the ground, and said, "My brothers are too thirsty and tired, and if there is rudeness, the old man should be more considerate." β
"Master Jun is too polite......"
At this moment, a convoy walked to the south of the tea shed, and there were about ten carriages in it, and the people on both sides were people dressed in coarse linen and soldiers with bright armor.
Seeing this, the red soldiers in the tea shed also frowned, and then people put down the tea bowls and leftover watermelons, picked up weapons, and rushed out of the tea shed. (To be continued......)