Chapter 4: The Great War Begins

Looking at the opposite side of the camp to rest, Li Jackal, the captain of the jackal battalion, began to command. 30,000 soldiers entered the fortifications and began to defend, including 10,000 archers in the rear, sending a team of 100 men to prepare to destroy the previously built embankment.

In the rear trench, Li Wolf, the captain of the wolf battalion, led 30,000 sword and shield soldiers to respond.

Three miles on both sides were the Tiger Battalion and the Leopard Battalion, each leading 20,000 cavalry to interfere with the enemy and wait for an opportunity to move, just in case. In the city, Zhou Keyuan and Ji Changkong sat in the town and dispatched them in a unified manner.

"I don't know what's going on now?" Ji Rufeng, who was in the city, said to Zhou Hanbei. "There shouldn't be a fight tonight, they just arrived, and they are tired." Zhou Hanbei responded.

Somehow, Zhou Hanbei was a little excited at the moment, probably thinking that he could go into battle to kill the enemy, and the blood in his bones beat uneasily.

At this time, in the camp tent of the Great Wilderness, the pioneer general Tuoba Hong is Zhou Keyuan's old opponent, and he is also a master of the Xuan Miao Realm, and the five realms of the Xuan Miao are hidden in the body, and the five organs correspond to the five elements, and they can know the realm of the Mysterious, but Tuoba Hong is the four organs of Qi refining, and Zhou Keyuan is mystical and complete, and it is estimated that they are about to touch the next realm.

"What's going on on the other side now?" Takubahiro asked.

The man who looked like a lieutenant replied, "At present, the spies sent by our side have crossed the river, but they have not been able to come back, and they only know that the other side has built a defense, and the number is about 20,000 or 30,000. ”

After listening to this, Tuoba Hong lowered his head and thought, such a person wants to stop me from crossing the river, it is simply wishful thinking, I just don't know what tricks they have. "Tell them to hurry up and make pontoons, and tell the archers to be ready to shoot at the opposite side."

"Yes." The lieutenant clenched his fists and withdrew.

Early in the morning of the second day, the sound of the soldiers of the Great Wilderness rushing and killing resounded throughout the river, and one by one they carried the pontoon bridges to the river.

The Zephyr army here is in full array, if you want to say why don't you use archers to stop them from building bridges, because they are not in range, then why don't you shoot in front, because there are also archers on the other side, and there are more than us, you go into their range, just like this person is not to bring them food.

They could only wait for them to build a bridge and rush over, and the infantry would come forward to block the bridge and fight them in close quarters, so that they would not be able to shoot anymore, for fear of shooting their own people.

Li Jackal waited, ready to rush and kill at any time, it was almost over, and the river more than fifty meters wide was not built for a long time. And at this time, people in the Great Wilderness began to come ashore.

"Kill, the archers are on standby, and the rest of the people are rushing with Lao Tzu." Li Jackal took the lead with the spear.

"Kill, kill these bitches." A soldier shouted.

At this time, the two armies were close to each other, "poof", Li Jackal overturned one with one shot, more and more enemy troops came ashore, and more and more people joined the battlefield. "Give Lao Tzu back!" Li Jackal crossed the spear, pushed forward, pushed it hard, pulled out the spear, and swept with a strong slam, instantly pumping five or six people into the river.

Elsewhere there are people constantly falling, people falling into the river. The Zephyr army is also crazy, and it is to do it when it comes up, because there are not many pontoon bridges, and there are more than 30 of them, each of which can take five people side by side, that is to say, less than 200 people go ashore at the same time.

But there were many of them, and at the beginning, because they went ashore first, and some people opened the way to buy time for the people behind, so there are currently nearly 1,000 people fighting on the shore.

Blood stained the river and its shores, and the Zephyr River was soon filled with brutal slaughter, and a terrible wail resounded through the heavens and the earth, as if falling into purgatory on earth.

Li Jackal's breathing was a little short, there were too many people, and he was also hung with colors, blood kept flowing, gritting his teeth and insisting, "Brothers, hold on, it can be delayed for a while." Li Jackal roared as he stabbed.

"Hey, don't worry, boss." A small soldier next to him slashed over a person and said.

One person was stabbed in the body, "Lao Tzu will pull one when he dies", and after speaking, he fell down with the enemy.

This happens everywhere.

"Mingjin, collect the troops." The first lieutenant of the Great Wilderness said.

retreated, this wave was defended, Li Jackal hurriedly ordered a retreat, counted the casualties, and immediately arranged for personnel to bandage the wounds. "Boss, the casualty count is out." A soldier bowed his head.

"How much?" Li Jackal gritted his teeth and asked.

The little soldier choked up and said, "More than 2,100 people died, more than 600 were seriously injured, and more than 900 were lightly injured. ”

"His grandmother's." Li Jackal slapped hard, and the wound that had just been bandaged oozed blood, "What about the Great Wilderness?" ”

"About 5,000 people." The soldier said.

In such an hour, we can only fight more than 26,000 people, and there are more than 290,000 on the other side. This is really difficult to guard, immediately Li Jackal made arrangements, first let people send the seriously wounded soldiers back, and then call the archers to prepare for battle, the hundred-man team is ready to standby, and the fighters eat and rest before.

Great Wilderness Military Camp, Tuoba Hong frowned when he saw the casualty statistics, but he didn't say anything, after all, with that kind of terrain, he couldn't be blamed at that time.

"Arrange for the wounded to be treated, and then find something to make a pontoon." Tuoba Hiroshi gave an order with an expressionless face, "No matter what method is used, I will see a bridge that can cross a thousand people built in one day." "The captain was ordered to go down and make arrangements.

At this time, in West Wind City, Zhou Keyuan and others also received the news, "In just one hour, more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded. Ji Changkong's face was sad, Zhou Keyuan's face was expressionless, as steady as Mount Tai, don't panic at this time, don't affect the army and the people.

"What do you say from the capital?" Zhou Keyuan asked.

Ji Changkong wiped the sweat from his face and replied, "Over there, the 200,000 forbidden troops and the 150,000 in the north will be transferred over and distributed to us and Wufeng City." The east and south could not be moved, for fear that someone would take advantage of the situation. ”

"Hey, that's the only way, Daxia promised us that it was mid-September, and it won't be delayed at that time." Zhou Keyuan said to himself.

Fortunately, on the first day, the Great Wilderness only attacked once, because he had to collect materials to make a pontoon bridge and give the Zephyr army time to rest. Early in the morning, I saw that the Great Wilderness began to build a new pontoon bridge. This time, Li Jackal asked them to come first, entered the range of the archers, and began to shoot indiscriminately.

"Archers prepare." Li Jackal shouted, after ten breaths, "......release arrows" 10,000 archers, listening to the shouts of the opposite side of the charge, one by one sharp arrows roared by, and the rainstorm of arrows flew through the armor and military uniforms. Screams rang out, and blood splattered through the air.

After two rounds, I am afraid that six or seven thousand people were shot, but the enemy troops were not afraid of death, and they still came like a tide. "The archers will shoot one more round, and the swordsmen will be ready to charge with me." Li Jackal shouted, "After the archers finished shooting, they changed into melee weapons and immediately rushed over to block them. ”

"Brothers, rush!" Li Jackal took the lead and followed the enemy to kill one piece in the first place.

Seeing each other, a pair of blood-red eyes flashed with hatred on the hideous face, and the smell of blood wafted in the air getting stronger and stronger. The earth was strewn with corpses, and rivers of blood flowed like rivers.

"Raised by a son of a bitch, give Lao Tzu to die." A soldier shouted.

The whole shore was filled with the sound of swords clashing and roaring.

Both sides were angry, the brothers around them kept falling, some were crying and killing, and some were madly rushing into the enemy's formation, rushing in without their lives.

Seeing that more and more people were coming ashore in the great wilderness, Li Jackal ordered the embankment to be blown up, only to see an arrow flying into the sky, and after a while, only to hear a "boom", the earth was shaking.

"Retreat from the rear, let's break the rear." Li Jackal roared.

"Boss, you go first, we'll break it." The soldier next to him shouted.

"Why do I want you to break off? This is the order, and those behind you should retreat quickly. Li Jackal, covered in blood, pulled out his spear from the enemy's body and shouted. Hurry up, or it'll be too late. ”

Then they knew that if the flood would come down, everyone would have to die.

The Great Wilderness army was shocked, what the situation, how did it feel, and the ground was shaking. I saw that the opponent's rear kept retreating, and the front was still desperately resisting.

Not good, looking at the flood rolling in the distance, like a herd of frightened wild horses, unstoppable.

"Run, the flood is coming"

", you're crazy."

"Fuck, you're so shameless."

There was shouting and scolding everywhere, and they did not resist, threw down their weapons and began to flee in all directions.

The Great Wilderness Army, which had not yet crossed the river, also began to retreat, and Tuoba Hong clenched his fists, and the green tendons on his temples squirmed like earthworms, looking very angry.

"Zhou Keyuan, you old horseman, I don't share the sky with you." Tuoba Hong roared in a low voice, "When the city is broken, I will take your dog's life and avenge my son." ”

At this time, the raging flood was mixed with trees, and the gravel rushed down from the upper reaches into the already churning river, and the rumbling sound shook the hearts of the onlookers as much as possible while lapping against the shore.

There was a lot of mourning everywhere, and many people didn't know where they had been washed away, and the bodies couldn't be found. Watching the remaining soldiers of the Zephyr Army retreat, they were powerless to chase and could only watch from afar.

By the time they all retreated to the second line of defense, the wolf camp was guarded, all of them were covered in wounds, their blood had dried up, and their weapons had disappeared, all of them listless, their eyes blank.

Li Wolf looked at them like this, his eyes were red, and he suddenly asked, "What about your boss?" Why are there only so many of you? ”

None of the soldiers answered him, all of them looked dazed.

"Boss, boss...... "Wow, a soldier cried bitterly,

"Boss...... In order to...... After giving us a break, he ...... Whining...... sacrificed"

"We can't even find the body......," said another soldier

This cry came up emotionally, and many people began to cry. In this retreat, there are less than 6,000 people who can come back. Of the 30,000 people, less than 6,000 will come back.

Li Wolf wet his eyes, and secretly swore in his heart that he would avenge his eldest brother, "Arrange people, treat the brothers first, send the brothers home when they are finished, and notify the city by the way." Turning his head, he wiped his eyes and said, "I'm sending some brothers to look for them and see if there are any survivors." ”