Chapter 32: The Bottom of the Eternal City

For everyone else, this big victory, which has not been seen for more than ten years, in Zhao Hengyi's opinion, is far from enough to ensure the safety of himself and the other comrades in the Xuanzi Battalion.

Yonggu City is close at hand, but even if it is in the middle of the moon, Zhao Hengyi still does not dare to pull out the village and withdraw.

Through today's battle, Zhao Hengyi has a clear and intuitive understanding of the combat effectiveness of the barbarians.

In terms of the quality of the soldiers alone, the barbarian soldiers were far stronger than the border army.

Moreover, the comparison of the records of the two sides in recent decades has long given the barbarian soldiers a psychological advantage that is difficult to surpass.

This advantage is reflected on the battlefield, which is the contrast in morale of the two sides.

And among the border troops of the Great Yan Kingdom, even the Xuanzi Battalion, who dared to fight against the barbarian army outside Yonggu City for many years, would feel frightened and want to run away in the face of those barbarian soldiers who were screaming and charging.

This is the evil result of the successive defeats of the army of the Great Yan Kingdom in the past few decades or even hundreds of years, and even in the defense line of this Yonggu City, except for the Xuanzi Battalion and the Wuwei Battalion of the headquarters of the commander Zhang Chaoyang, among the soldiers of the other battalions, the idea of the invincibility of the barbarians is deeply rooted!

The current situation is very clear, this year's drought on the grassland has made the barbarian army menacing, and the barbarians who regard the Great Yan Kingdom as their own granary will definitely not be satisfied with the random looting like in previous years and go home.

Once the barbarian army breaks through the defense line, a catastrophe will be inevitable!

Even, it is very likely to cause the complete collapse of the Great Yan Kingdom, a country that is rotten to the bone!

Perhaps at the beginning, the barbarians did not have the idea of annexing the entire Great Yan Kingdom, nor did they have such a great appetite.

But when those barbarian cavalry continued to break into the hinterland of the Great Yan Kingdom and found that this rotten country had no decent ability to resist at all, greed would lead the barbarians to bury this rotten regime step by step!

Similar things have happened more than once in history, and the results are unbearable for every Yan person!

Under the nest, Ann has finished eggs?

Even if Zhao Hengyi was extremely disgusted with this court and this Great Yan Kingdom, at the moment, he had to do everything he could to keep this Great Yan Kingdom from overturning.

Obviously, Zhang Chaoyang, a veteran in Yonggu City, has the same opinion as Zhao Hengyi.

Therefore, after the Xuanzi battalion won a big victory, Zhang Chaoyang did not let the generals retreat to Yonggu City to rest, but sent more supplies and a support army, in an attempt to completely defend the horn mouth.

If it were in previous years, Zhang Chaoyang might choose to shrink his forces back into the Yonggu City, relying on the advantages of the city to hold the entire defense line.

Even if the barbarian cavalry can bypass Yonggu City, they don't dare to go too deep, after all, the border troops in Yonggu City can cut off their retreat at any time, and those barbarians are just plundering the surroundings.

But this year is different, once the barbarian army rushes in through the horn, there will inevitably be enough manpower to besiege Yonggu City, and even launch a siege war!

Others don't know the details of Yonggu City, how can Zhang Chaoyang, who is a handsome, not know?

Don't look at the many soldiers hoarded in Yonggu City, when you really face siege warfare, when you really face those ferocious barbarian soldiers, this border city can't hold it for a few days!

After years of deducting military expenses and supplies, there is a serious shortage of materials in Yonggu City and even to defend the city!

The only way that veteran Zhang Chaoyang can think of, the only way he can count on, is to keep the bell at all costs!

Zhang Chaoyang didn't dare to imagine what a terrifying result would be caused once the details of Yonggu City were exposed in front of the barbarians!

And the reason why Zhao Hengyi, who was nailed to the bell, made the same judgment was entirely out of his own distrust of the border army.

What he saw and heard was enough for Zhao Hengyi to come to the conclusion he didn't want!

Zhang Chaoyang's lieutenant returned and brought a large number of soldiers from the baggage battalion for Zhao Hengyi's deployment, and the entire general battalion also made every effort to build the equipment designated by Zhao Hengyi.

There was even a battalion that assisted in the defense and took the initiative to take over the task of guarding the barbarian captives.

In Zhao Hengyi's eyes, these captives are worthless, each of these guys has the blood of the people of the Great Yan Kingdom on their hands, and according to Zhao Hengyi's previous plan, they are ready to be beheaded one by one in front of the defense line early tomorrow morning.

Such an unruly behavior made Zhang Chaoyang's lieutenant extremely stunned, and secretly wrote down this matter in his heart, and he would inevitably report to the commander when he returned to Yonggu City.

Under the reflection of the torches, the back of the Xuanzi camp was very noisy.

Under the busyness of the baggage soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, the big trees on the mountain beams on both sides of the horn ditch were constantly cut down, and then sent to the rear of the direction in a steady stream, and processed into various defensive equipment according to Zhao Hengyi's requirements.

In the face of the barbarian cavalry, it is not because of the strong combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Xuanzi Battalion, but because they all rely on targeted new weapons!

If you want to hold this line of defense at the bell mouth, Zhao Hengyi has to keep making newer weapons!

The trap and the thistle terrestris have already made the barbarians suffer, and presumably after tonight, the other party will come up with a way to deal with it.

And what Zhao Hengyi can do is to pull the barbarians to start a military competition, and the bets of the two sides are fresh lives!

The Xuanzi battalion army is full of morale, but Zhao Hengyi, who is the commander-in-chief, is very sober.

He knew that in order to keep the soldiers of the Xuanzi Battalion strong, in addition to encouraging everyone's fighting spirit through words at the beginning, the most important point was that he fulfilled his promise and took everyone to survive the first wave of attacks of the barbarians!

If you want to continue to maintain this hard-won morale, then Zhao Hengyi must keep winning and not lose once!

This Xuanzi Battalion, which has been plagued by Chen Yongzhong for two or three months, will definitely not be able to withstand even one failure!

If you lose once on the frontal battlefield, what awaits the Xuanzi Battalion will definitely be an uncontrollable collapse!

There was a sudden commotion in front of the defensive line, and the shouts of killing were heard immediately!

The archers of the Xuanzi Battalion, who had been waiting for a long time, shot rockets one after another, and the fire-starting things arranged in advance were ignited, and against the backdrop of the firelight, it was the barbarian soldiers who led the war horses and tried to sneak attack!

"Sir, as you expected, the barbarians are coming to attack at night!"

The general who reported the military situation looked excited, "A fire burned a lot of barbarians to death!" ”

Zhao Hengyi also looked happy, and asked the guards behind him to record the merits of the officers and soldiers who held the defense line tonight, and then let the general leave.

After the man left, Zhao Hengyi regained his composure, and instructed Zhang Can, the captain of the guard, with a tired face: "Brother Zhang, take the Kanyu map and I'll take a look, the lives of the brothers are in my hands, but I don't dare to make a mistake." ”

Zhang Can respectfully took the Kanyu map, in his opinion, this virtuous brother of his uncle is simply like a martial marquis possessed, and everything is the first!

The most rare thing is that this Mr. Zhao is good at singing, reading, and playing, and even dealing with the rough embryos in the camp, he can do everything without leaking...... What a talent!