Chapter 686, turning defeat into victory
Mathur saw that victory was in sight, and the recalcitrant enemy army was about to be annihilated. However, at this moment, there was a rumbling footstep under the city wall, and Mathur was shocked, looked up into the city, and saw thousands of Ming soldiers rushing up the city wall under the leadership of a Ming general. Matur was greatly annoyed, and immediately thought: The enemy has only two or three thousand men to support, and I have eight thousand, I will definitely be able to defeat them!
As soon as he thought of this, he immediately shouted loudly to dispatch troops, mobilized the troops who had freed up their hands and rushed to the city wall ladder to break the Ming army that came to help.
The soldiers and horses of both sides roared and collided on the wide staircase of the wall. Huyan will show that he is in the lead, and all the soldiers follow closely behind, wielding weapons and moving forward! The Tianzhu soldiers were killed by them and staggered, screaming again and again, and one by one the Tianzhu soldiers fell down from the city wall ladder! Mathur also wanted his troops and horses to break the Ming army that came to help, but they couldn't even resist the offensive! The Tianzhu soldiers were terrified, retreated again and again, and the Ming army rushed to the city wall in one fell swoop!
Seeing that the situation was not good, Matur immediately led a detachment of men and horses into the battlefield. Mathur saw Huyan Bixian, and Huyan Bixian also saw Matur, and the two of them roared in unison and rushed towards each other. Huyan Bixian raised the broadsword, Mathur raised the scimitar, and the two war knives roared and tore through the air and slashed at each other! Syllable! With a loud bang, the two war knives slammed together, and both of them were shocked! Immediately, the eyes of both of them welled up with excitement, it was the excitement of meeting their opponents!
The two of them fought fiercely among the people, and every move and style was powerful, as if they could open mountains and crack rocks; The two knives kept colliding, and the huge impact sound was exceptionally clear even on this noisy and noisy battlefield!
The soldiers of the Yanyun Army rushed into the middle of the Tianzhu Army, and it was like a small stream of water rushing into the middle of a much larger stream, and they were instantly surrounded by that big stream. The Tianzhu army relied on the strength of the crowd, screaming and attacking frantically, and the Tianzhu people thought that with the advantage of their own troops several times, it would be easy to defeat the Ming army! The situation is very unfavorable for the Ming army!
However, the Ming army is the Ming army after all, and in the face of an enemy several times its size, it is fearless and desperately counterattacks. Kill one step at a time, step on the corpses and blood of the enemy and keep moving forward! The flying sword light reflected the crazy and fierce faces, and the blood in the sky set off the increasingly frightened expressions of the Tianzhu people! The roar of the Ming soldiers was like a tiger like a wolf, and the screams of the Tianzhu soldiers became more and more terrible!
Huyan Bixian and Mathur have been fighting for more than 30 rounds, and the two sides are still evenly matched. Huyan will show that the more he fights, the more brave he becomes, the big knife in his hand dances like a dragon, but Mathur is getting more and more frightened, he has never encountered an enemy on the battlefield like the enemy in front of him, and the enemy he has encountered in the past has been killed by himself within twenty moves, but the enemy in front of him, fierce and abnormal, the sword is superb, the more he fights, the more courageous, more than thirty rounds, let alone defeat him, it seems that he feels more and more powerless!
After more than a dozen moves, Huyan Bixian's attack turned out to be even more powerful! Like a landslide, like a lightning flash! Mathur is staggered left and right, his knife skills are messy, and his steps involuntarily keep retreating! Suddenly, I only heard Yang Zhi's angry shout, like a thunderstorm! Mathur was startled and pale! Huyan will show a knife to sweep the past, and it really has the power to sweep thousands of armies! Mathur hurriedly slashed the scimitar downward, trying to fend off the opponent's shocking blow!
Syllable! The two weapons collided suddenly, and under the agitation of Mathur's heart, he only felt a strong force sweeping over, powerful and indescribable, and it was impossible to resist at all! The palm of the hand was immediately unable to hold it, and the scimitar flew out of his hand! Mathur was shocked! Huyan Bixian stepped forward and continued to attack! Matur was already in a state of dissipation, and when he saw this, he hurriedly turned around and fled for his life! The two of them chased and ran on the city wall!
At the same time, the brave Ming army had already killed the Tianzhu army in fear and retreated. The soldiers of the Tianzhu Army were really frightened when they saw that General Mathur, the most courageous general on their side, was killed by the other party's fierce generals! Immediately, they couldn't hold on anymore, they shouted one after another, turned around and ran for their lives! The originally fierce and bloody battlefield was chaotic, and the Tianzhu people threw away their armor and ran down the city wall under the chase of the Ming army, trampling on each other and falling down the city wall, and there were at least hundreds of people who died!
Duan Zhichun, who was watching the battle on the hill far away outside the city, was shocked and angry when he saw this scene, and couldn't help but scold: "It's really useless!" It's so useless! Then he couldn't help but sigh: "Da Ming Xiaorui, the division of tigers and wolves, is really worthy of its reputation!" A crony next to him said with a pale face: "This, this is not the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty, I really don't know how terrifying the legendary directly subordinate legions, the First Legion and the Xuanjia Army will be?!" The crowd couldn't help but look afraid.
After seeing the signal rocket sent by Matur, Kshatriya ordered the army to attack head-on, and on the other hand, he was full of anticipation for the scene of Yanyun's city defense being broken through by his own army from the inside and falling apart. However, time continued to pass, and the sight he had hoped for never appeared, which puzzled Kshatriya and at the same time had a faint worry in his heart.
Suddenly, there was a commotion on the hillside. Kshatriya retracted his thoughts and looked up the hillside, only to see his own frontal attacking force once again in vain and retreating. Kshatriya frowned.
A general next to him craned his neck to look at the city on the mountain in the distance, turned his head to Kshatriya and said, "Generalissimo, the sound of fighting in the city has disappeared. ”
Kshatriya frowned and muttered, "Something is wrong! If the Kshatriya defeated the Ming army, how could the Yanyun army on this side still be able to deal with our attack so attentively without the slightest hint of panic? And it's so quiet in the city! There was obviously a fierce fight just now! Could it be that ...... Kshatriya didn't want to continue thinking about it, he didn't want to believe it, or his self-esteem made him unwilling to believe that the eight thousand elites of the Great Tianzhu, under the leadership of the first brave general under his command, Matur, were unexpectedly unable to break through the city defended by only 10,000 people. However, if you don't want to think about it, it can't change anything, and there is no second explanation for the situation in front of you, except for the defeat of Matul's 8,000 elites or even the total annihilation of the army.
However, Kshatriya still had a fluke mentality, he thought that maybe there was something he didn't know about the current situation, maybe in the next moment, the frontal Ming army would collapse because of Mathur's surprise attack. Thinking so, he ordered the army to continue the attack. By this time, the night had completely fallen, and a bright moon hung on the top of a high mountain in the distance. The shouts and war drums sounded loudly again, and the Tianzhu army no longer knew how many times they had charged the city on the mountain. The rain of fire flew all over the sky, and the fierce battle began again. However, there was still no suspense in the ending, and the attacking Tianzhu army was once again forced to retreat.
Kshatriya looked at the city on the hill and saw that it was still very quiet, and the sight he had hoped for did not appear. At this point, Kshatriyas finally let go of their illusions, knowing that Mathur's strange army had indeed failed. Kshatriya was depressed and annoyed, but he felt a little helpless, hesitated, and ordered the army to stop the attack, and return to the camp. This was the end of the battle, which lasted all day.
In the tent of the Tianzhu Army, the atmosphere was very dull. Kshatriyas and their generals could not accept the outcome of the war as it is today.
General Singer said: "Don't be discouraged! The reason why it is in vain today is simply because the enemy occupies a very favorable position! If it were an ordinary city, it would have been broken for a long time at this moment! ”
Everyone nodded in understanding, and Kshatriya exclaimed, "Singal is right, that's it!" The cowardly Han people only relied on the dangerous terrain to resist our Great Tianzhu army! Then he scolded angrily: "They are all cowards, they will only hide in the city, and they dare not come out to fight us!" The generals of Tianzhu shouted and scolded one after another, and it could really be said that they were angry for a while!
A group of people yelled and cursed for a while, vented, and quieted down. I have to face the current practical problem, how to break through Fengyu County? Everyone racked their brains and thought hard, but they couldn't think of any good way, and there was silence in the big tent for a while. Finally, Kshatriya said: "Let's wait for the news of Mathur to come before deciding on the strategy of marching!" The generals felt that the generalissimo had a point, and nodded their heads.
Kshatriya glanced at the generals and said, "All go down and rest." In today's battle, everyone has worked hard! The generals bowed to Kshatriya, and Yuguan withdrew from the tent. In the blink of an eye, Kshatriya was the only one left in the tent. Kshatriya frowned.
The next morning, the soldiers of the Tianzhu army saw that Mathur had returned to the barracks with thousands of embarrassed soldiers. Seeing such a scene, you don't need to ask, you know what the result is.
When Matur came to the Great Tent and saw Kshatriya, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart. Hurriedly took a few steps forward and bowed: "Generalissimo, I'm back!" ”
Kshatriya asked with a cold face, "You were defeated?" ”
Mathur was so ashamed that he wanted to find a hole to get into, and he hung his head and nodded. Even if Kshatriya was about to have a seizure, he couldn't have a seizure. I only felt that his hundreds of thousands of troops had been attacking head-on for a whole day, and the losses were not small but in vain, and he only commanded 8,000 men and horses to make a surprise attack, and the failure seemed to be reasonable.
Kshatriya calmed himself down and asked, "How did you lose?" Did they detect the attack before they launched it? If so, why do you send out signal rockets? ”
"They didn't find out, we made it to the wall!" The crowd frowned. I only heard Matur continue: "They, they, they ......," and said three of them in a row, but did not say what was below, as if it was difficult to speak.
Kshatriya frowned and shouted, "Say! ”
Mathur was so excited that he didn't dare to hide it, so he told the story of the battle in one by one. When everyone heard that the hundreds of defenders of the Ming Dynasty had dragged them down and 8,000 people could not break through, they all looked incredulous. They didn't want to believe that the Han people's combat strength would be so strong no matter what, and more than ten times their own troops were actually blocked by them! They originally thought that under the condition of equal strength, it would be impossible for the Han people to compete with their own Great Tianzhu army anyway, but now they heard that their own Great Tianzhu 8,000 elites were actually blocked by the five or six hundred Ming army on the top of the city and could not break through, which made them willing to believe!
Kshatriya's face was gloomy and he asked, "What happened later?" ”
Mathur continued his narrative until their eight thousand men were defeated by two or three thousand of them and drove them off the wall. Kshatriya and the others looked solemn, although they were very unhappy in their hearts, but they also felt that in this battle, Mathur and his eight thousand elites had actually done their best, and it was really difficult for the Ming army to resist bravely, which caused the entire raid plan to fall short in the end. Although they all had such thoughts in their hearts, they didn't want to believe it, and then they all took it for granted that Mathur was exaggerating, the Ming Army couldn't be so powerful, and he was just looking for an interface for his incompetence!
Mathur raised his head, looked at Kshatriya, bowed down with a look of shame and said, "Generalissimo, my defeat this time has frustrated the power of the Great Tianzhu Army, and I really deserve death!" I don't have any complaints about how the generalissimo punishes me! But I must tell the Generalissimo that I and the 8,000 soldiers have really done our best! We do our best to fight bravely for victory, and everyone is worthy of being the warriors of Datianzhu! But those Han Chinese were so fierce, even more fierce than any enemy we had ever seen before! They are not afraid of death at all, and they are fighting bloody battles one after another, even if they are seriously injured in victory, they still fight to the death with our army, and even die with our army! ......" When everyone heard this, their faces couldn't help but change slightly.
Hearing Mathur calm down his agitated emotions for a while, he continued: "Generalissimo, we were all wrong in the past. We think that the Han people always like to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, because they are cowardly and incompetent. But after this time, I found that it was not like that! The courage and ferocity of the Han people are like the evil ghosts of the hell of Abi, which is unbelievable! I think that the reason why they developed the idea of benevolence, righteousness and morality may be that their sages wanted to restrain their fierce wildness with this thought! ”
There was silence in the tent, and some people wanted to refute Mathur's words, but they couldn't find a reason to refute them, and they all knew that although Mathur was usually very arrogant, he was always ashamed of telling lies, and he would never tell lies. What he said should be the real situation, but such a real situation is really unacceptable.
Kshatriya pondered for a moment, glanced up at Mathur, and said, "It is indeed not your sin to lose this battle!" Seeing that Mathur had injuries on his face and body, he said, "Go down and heal your wounds!" When Matur saw that the generalissimo did not punish him, he was grateful, bowed to Kshatriya, and was about to leave.
"Wait a minute!" Kshatriya suddenly called.
Mathur stopped, bowed and said, "Generalissimo, please command!" ”
Kshatriyas stood up, walked up to Matur, and admonished: "Remember, the truth of this battle must not be passed on!" It is only said that the enemy army does not only have 10,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Fengyu County, but tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and they discovered you in advance, you were ambushed, and finally desperately broke out of their encirclement of tens of thousands of people! That's the truth of the matter! Mathur looked surprised and asked, "Generalissimo, why?" I can't lie! ”
Kshatriya said: "This matter is related to the ultimate success or failure of this great war, and we must do it!" That's an order! ”
Although Matur didn't quite understand why his lie would make or break the battle, since it was the generalissimo's order, he had no choice but to obey it. He bowed down and retreated.
Kshatriya turned to the generals in the tent and said, "This order to Matur is also to all of you!" Remember, the truth is that tens of thousands of enemy troops ambushed our 8,000 elites, and I don't want to hear the second statement in the barracks! Some of the generals understood Kshatriya's intentions, and some were still at a loss, but whether they understood or not, since it was the order of the generalissimo, the generals bowed down and obeyed.
Mathur returned to his tent, and the military doctor came, carefully cleaned Mathur's wounds, and then applied medicine. Mathur's injuries were not serious, and the medication did not affect his movements.
Mathur recalls the scene of fighting with the unknown Ming warrior on the city wall, and he can't help but feel palpitations.
The military doctor put away the bottles and cans, and said to Mathur with a smile: "It doesn't matter if the general's injury is there, it will be fine soon!" Then he frowned, and said with some concern: "Unlike General Nemo, he is very badly injured,......
Mathur was taken aback and asked urgently, "Nemo is injured?" What's going on? ”
The military doctor briefly explained the matter of the two generals' heads-up yesterday. Mathur was not surprised to hear that Dalong had been killed by his opponent and that Nemo Star had been defeated by his opponent, and muttered, "This is a very normal result. Then he raised his head and asked, "Where is Nemo recuperating from his wounds?" The medic said, "It's in his own tent." ”
Mathur immediately got up, left the tent, and ran towards Nemo's tent, looking very worried on his face. It's no wonder that the eight gods of Tianzhu are like brothers and sisters, and when they suddenly heard that one of them was injured, they were naturally concerned and worried!
Mathur hurried to Nemo's tent. I saw that a military doctor had just changed the medicine for Nemo's wounds. Nemo Xing was so badly injured that the change of dressing was very painful for him, and he was pale and sweaty with cold sweat.
The medic cleaned up and stood up to leave. When he saw Mathur coming over, he hurriedly saluted and went down.
Mathur walked over to Nemo and crouched down. Although he had heard that Nemo was seriously injured, he still couldn't stand the shock when he saw it now. Nemo Star was wearing only a pair of shorts, and his upper body was wrapped in a thick bandage, which could be seen to be a cloud of blood, with a strong smell of herbs and blood, which was very pungent.
When Nemo saw Matur, he cried out weakly, "Matur, it's you." ”
Mathur nodded.
Nemo said, "I was worried about your safety, but now that I see you, it's really, really good!" After saying this, he was already out of breath.
Mathur sighed and said, "I picked it up." Our army was ordered to raid the rear of Fengyu County from the small road, and everything went very smoothly, and they were caught off guard, but the next situation was something I didn't expect before! Speaking of this, Mathur's rough face showed a hint of fear, and he continued: "The Ming army is unexpectedly fierce, and the five or six hundred defenders are desperately fighting back in a hurry! Our 8,000 elites were blocked by them! Subsequently, nearly 3,000 enemy troops arrived and launched a counterattack against our army! I thought I could win, but I was defeated! Alas, those Ming people are really as fierce as demons! Nemo remembered what had happened to him and nodded sympathetically.
Mathur said self-deprecatingly, "You know? I was almost killed by a great Ming warrior on the walls of Fengyu County! ”
Nemo's eyes widened in disbelief and said, "How is this possible?" You are the second ranked god general among our eight god generals, who can defeat you except the Great Brahma! "The Great Brahma in Nemo's mouth is the head of the so-called Eight Divine Generals, and the Great Brahma is his title, not his name. Like Matur, Matur is his name, and Draco is his title. Similarly, Nemo's title is Kinara, the seventh of the Eight Divine Generals.
Mathur shook his head with a wry smile, and frowned: "I'm afraid that the Great Brahma can only fight to a tie with the Great Ming Warrior I met!" ”
Nemo looked incredulous.
Mathur frowned and said, "I think our expedition this time, I'm afraid the result will not be as optimistic as expected." In the end, we should be able to win, but I'm afraid it will be a terrible price! Nemo Star frowned and muttered: "The Great Ming is sharp, there is no advance or retreat, the world is invincible." ”
Mathur was stunned for a moment and asked, "What?" ”
Nemo said, "This is a poem I heard some merchants transmit earlier. It is said that the Ming army is brave and invincible, and no one can beat the world! I used to think it was just a joke, but now I can't take it anymore! He glanced at Matur and said, "Tianlong, the Ming warrior who fought against me yesterday, although he killed Dalong, but compared to me, he is still inferior!" Mathur's eyes lit up with confusion.
Nemo Xing frowned, showing a look of fear, and continued, "I fought him for more than a hundred rounds, and I saw that he was about to be defeated! But at this moment, he actually took the initiative to take a blow from me, and when I thought I was distracted by victory, he suddenly launched a strong counterattack, and I was caught off guard and was hit in the chest, and I was also seriously injured! Celestial Dragon, have we ever encountered such a fierce enemy in the past? Mathur frowned and shook his head, "Never!" Nemo Star laughed mockingly, "I was defeated by a great Ming warrior whose martial arts were inferior to mine, and Tianlong, you led eight thousand elites but were defeated by the opponent's less than three thousand men!" The strength of the Ming army can be seen! It's ridiculous that everyone still doesn't want to admit the strength of the Ming Army, and they wishfully think that our combat effectiveness is much higher than that of the Ming Army! ”
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.