The cold wind was fierce, and the field was still covered with a thin layer of snow, and the golden sunlight shone on the soldiers who were slowly moving forward on the snow, shining on them as if they were gods descending from the earth.

However, these "gods" were not as brave and fearless as they imagined, but their bodies trembled a little when they walked.

Winter, winter, winter!

The thunderous sound of the huge war drums urged the soldiers to move forward.

Hearing the signal from behind, among a group of soldiers, the knights on war horses ran back and forth, shouting loudly.

"Today, you will wait for this battle, and after this round, you will be full of wine and meat after you go back, and you can rest for two days."

"The general has an order, those who ascend first will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, and when they come back alive, they can be incorporated into the barracks of the headquarters and separated from the camp first."

"The general has an order, in this battle, the former lives, and the retreat dies. If there is no military order, those who dare to retreat will be killed. ”

A loud command, under the repeated shouts of these knights, fell into the ears of these soldiers.

The soldiers below who were struggling to move forward in the snow, looking at the knights galloping on horseback, their eyes flashed with fear and longing, and some even flashed with hatred.

But whatever the mood, when the knight's gaze swept over, or the horses swept by, the soldiers lowered their heads and did not dare to look more.

The experience of the past few days has told them that if they offend the team leaders and battalion leaders who have the duty of supervising the war in front of them, there is only one result, and they will be sent to the first row in front to be attacked by the most fierce round of the thief army.

And this arrangement, for the vast majority of soldiers, means death.

Nobody wants to die.

They didn't want to, so they chose to be honest and obedient at this time.

The camp of the thieves in front of them will soon arrive.

The soldiers who were arranged to attack the first formation also showed a hint of determination on their faces at this time.

There is no way out of running away and mutiny. Because in the rear, there are many times the number of troops on their side, and those are the warlords.

Dare to resist and escape, the Warlord team lost a few rounds of arrows, and it was a hornet's nest.

On the contrary, he attacked forward, obeyed orders, and maybe survived.

If you are lucky, you can even be regarded as a warrior, promoted to the first camp, become a member of the overseer team, and live a good life.

This is what many people have seen with their own eyes these days, and it is the only hope in their hearts.

The gate of the thief's camp is still closed, but in front of the door and under the corner of the camp wall, a thick layer of corpses has been laid.

These are the corpses of colleagues and thieves who have died in the past few days.

In the middle of winter, the corpses lie on the ground, and after a while, they will freeze into popsicles, and there is no need to worry about the plague caused by the accumulation of too many corpses.

Therefore, no one on either side arranged to collect the body.

When they approached the camp at a distance of about 100 zhang, it was estimated that they were almost within range of the enemy's arrows, and the army did not continue to move.

The officers of the war supervised the array of their subordinates, and then looked at the worried faces one by one, and gave orders with cold expressions.

"The first team, the second team come forward, attack!"

Hearing the order, the soldiers rushed up with a shouting and rushing up the ladder, rushing the cart, and even simply carrying a bamboo ladder.

In front of it was a small stockade of five hundred people.

Two hundred soldiers, scattered on the battlefield 100 meters wide, just covered the area of this wall.

And when he was charging, Lu Yuan's lineage, who acted as the supervising team in the back, also began to form an arrow formation, and fired three rounds at the camp in front of him, providing long-range support to the charging soldiers.

Hundreds of arrows were missed, and three waves before and after, like raindrops, hit the camp.

Some of the thieves above didn't have time to dodge, and they were immediately missed by the arrows, and were either nailed to the ground, or they were taken away and fell off the wall.

Finally, when they dodged three waves of arrows, the thieves crawled out to meet the enemy tremblingly under the shouting and scolding of the generals.

The soldiers who had arrived at the camp first had already reached the wall, and some of the fast ones even climbed up the stairs and ladders to the top of the wall.

Then the two sides met, needless to say, one was an official and the other was a thief, and they fought with knives.

However, the number of thieves in the camp is still too many.

After fighting with the soldiers of the first formation for a while, the thieves finally drove the officers and soldiers down after nearly 100 people died.

The dozens of officers and soldiers who survived, in the midst of the defeat, fled crying and screaming.

Then, when he returned to the rear, he was stopped by his own team, and then he took a tenth of the survivors and killed them on the spot.

Those who have been ordered to retreat without an order will be dealt with by military law.

And one out of ten kills is a popular slash in the army. That's where it comes in.

After killing a group of deserters, the second group of soldiers behind them all looked awe-inspired, and then, at the urging of the officers, went to attack the camp as the second round.

The fight on the battlefield has always been life and death. Even the soldiers within your own camp are up to you.

This was true of the soldiers who came to the camp first, and even of the soldiers of the Overseers.

If the soldiers who arrived in the camp first are dead, the thief camp has not yet been breached. Then the time comes, it's the Overseer team.

No one can stay out of the situation until the enemy is defeated.

……

The army in front was killing fiercely, and in the rear, on the high platform, Lu Yuan also pressed his sword and looked at the battlefield in the distance.

"Master, according to the current progress, by the afternoon of this day, we will be able to break through that small village." On the side, a lieutenant looked at the battlefield for a while, and after understanding the situation roughly, he couldn't help but say.

This captain's name is Gu Wei, and he is one of the registered disciples accepted by Lu Yuan, and his strength is third-rate in the rivers and lakes.

In fact, in the entire army, all the school captains and battalions were basically served by Lu Yuan's registered disciples.

These relationships maintained by the master-apprentice title are the foundation of his ability to ensure control over the army.

Lu Yuan turned his head, glanced at Gu Wei, nodded and said, "That's true." However, after five days of fighting, the seventh battalion of those miscellaneous soldiers who first boarded the army went to the third battalion, and more than half of them died, so I am afraid they will not be able to fight for a few battles.

Moreover, the casualties were so serious that the soldiers who boarded the army first were afraid that they would not be able to bear it and would mutiny. ”

He knew what he meant by mentioning these things at this time, a disciple of his own kind.

Because the entire seven battalions of the Xiandeng Army were all taken care of by Gu Wei. Now that they have been fighting for five days, the Xiandeng army has suffered heavy losses, with more than half of them killed and wounded.

But the results were also brilliant.

In five days, the Xiandeng army broke through the eight camps on the outskirts of the thief army, killing and wounding nearly 3,000 thieves, and almost emptied the periphery of the Qixingmen traitor camp in one go.

And according to Lu Yuan's principle of rewarding meritorious service in the past, Gu Wei made such a meritorious service, and the reward was indispensable.

"Master, rest assured, if I ascend the army first, I will fight to the last man, and I will not retreat from the battlefield." Gu Wei saw that his master raised questions, and immediately assured.

For him, it was not his own descendants who died, but some miscellaneous militias.

These miscellaneous soldiers, even if they are all gone, are not important to themselves.

On the contrary, if you can use the lives of these miscellaneous soldiers to exchange a credit for yourself, it will be a big profit.

This is a sure-fire deal, and of course it is positive.

"Then the matter will be left to you. In three days, give me five more camps. ”

Lu Yuan nodded, and then said, "But don't force those first soldiers to death." You tell them that as long as you break five more camps, then those who survive will be incorporated into the lineage of the general, and they will be exempted from the status of the first to ascend.

He also rewarded each of them with twenty taels of silver to reward his bravery. ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Gu Wei again, muttered for a while, and said, "When you finish fighting the five camps, you can go to your senior brother and receive the full set of exercises of Liuyun Palm from him." ”

"Thank you, Master." When Gu Wei heard this, his heart was suddenly overjoyed, and he hurriedly bowed down.

"Get up, you and I don't have to be so polite." Lu Yuan glanced at him and said, "As long as you work hard for your teacher, I won't treat you disciples badly." ”

"Yes." Gu Wei stood up, then thought about the reward, and immediately said, "Then the disciple will go to the front to supervise the battle." Master rest assured, within three days, the disciple will break through the five camps of the thief army. ”

"Well, go ahead." Lu Yuan responded, waved his hand, and watched his disciple retreat, then continued to turn his head and look at the battlefield ahead.

The battle ahead was still fierce, and now it had rushed to the fourth formation of the first soldiers.

Under the fierce attack of four rounds, more than half of the thieves in that small village have been killed and wounded, and there are not even people standing on the wall. Even the walled gate began to crumble under the impact of the rushing car.

Breaking five camps in three days can still be completed for the first army.

"It's just that in this case, wait for three days to pass, after these rounds. I'm afraid there are less than a thousand of those who survived. Lu Yuan counted the casualties of these days, and couldn't help but be silent.

From the original 7,000 people to the remaining 1,000 people, such horrific casualties are undoubtedly extremely terrible.

For those who ascended the army first, it was even more cruel.

If he could, Lu Yuan actually didn't want to do this, forcing those who went to the army first. After all, even if it is a miscellaneous card, it can be regarded as a soldier of the imperial court and belongs to its own camp.

And every soldier who first boarded the army was a living human life, and it was cruel to bury them on the battlefield like this.

"But I can't help it." Lu Yuan sighed.

The reason why this cruel decision was made was mainly because the thief army on the opposite side was too timid.

Since he led the army to the battlefield, the rebels of the Seven Star Gate began to shrink into the camp, and they did not dare to come out to fight at all.

And the entire army of the Seven Star Gate, even after experiencing the previous fiasco, lost 5,000 people. But the rest of the people, roughly counted and estimated, there are still seventeen or eight thousand left.

With so many armies, there were more than thirty camps alone, stretching for miles.

In addition, the opposite side is a rebellion of the Jianghu sect, and there are many martial arts masters in the army, and the remaining strength is still not to be underestimated.

With these forces, if he just insisted on not being able to defend and relied on the camp to defend, then Lu Yuan really didn't have much to do, and he could help the other party.

After all, let him take the master to attack the opposite side, but there are more masters of the Seven Star Gate than on his side, if you really implement this kind of decapitation tactic, who will kill who is not certain?

Besides, it was impossible for Lu Yuan to risk this kind of risk with his own life.

And invited the Seven Star Gate to conduct a decisive battle, but the other party refused.

Then choose and choose, and in the end, there is only one way to attack.

That's why there was the appearance of the first army, and there was a brilliant record of breaking through the eight villages in five days and beheading 3,000 thieves.

"I don't believe it, just the rabble of rebels on the other side. Even if you rely on the camp and have a defensive advantage, how long can you hold out under the huge casualties? ”

Lu Yuan is now struggling with the rebels of the Seven Star Gate.

Compared with the other side, who can't hold it first.

There is always a value for the casualties that the army can bear. With the casualty bearing capacity of each army today, it is often more than one or two percent of the casualties before it collapses.

On his side, he can rely on the oppression of the Pioneer Army to pass on this value.

But on the rebel side, there is no other army to pass on the pressure.

Therefore, now Lu Yuan broke through one or two camps every day, killing and injuring hundreds of huge oppressive forces, which was evenly distributed to the entire Qixingmen rebel army as a whole.

Now there are 3,000 dead, and for the total number of 17,800 rebels, it is only a little more than 10% of casualties, and it may be able to withstand it.

But if you kill for another three days, break five camps, and kill so many 2,000 people, the casualty number will reach more than two percent.

If you count the 5,000 people in the previous time, it is more than forty percent of the casualties, nearly half.

Moreover, these 40% of the huge casualties were caused in just 10 days.

"Nearly half of the battles were killed in ten days, even if it is an iron army, how can it collapse?"

Lu Yuan didn't believe it, those thieves still couldn't fight with iron, and they could fight him to the last person.

If the other party can really do it.

There was nothing to say about that, Lu Yuan was willing to bow down.

At that time, there is no need to fight with the other party anymore, and directly lead the troops to retreat, what about Changning County to the other party?

But can these Seven Star Thief rebels really do this?

He didn't believe it anyway.

It's a ninja war that can win.

Whoever can endure greater casualties will win.

……

In fact, not only Lu Yuan didn't believe it, but even the Seven Star Gate rebels themselves didn't believe that they could survive to the last person at all.

Because at this time, they are already a little unable to hold on.

"Master, those court officers and soldiers don't treat themselves as human beings at all, no, they are not afraid of death at all.

attacked one wave, and then changed to another wave.

In just two hours, three hundred of my five hundred men have been killed or wounded, and less than two hundred remain. ”

In the Qixingmen military camp, in the big tent of the Chinese army, an elder of the Qixingmen wearing armor was kneeling on the ground, crying to the head of the front door.

The man who was originally beaten with iron would not blink an eye when he received a sword on his body.

But at this time, it was forced to be like this.

But I don't blame this elder for being like this, it's really miserable.

In just half a day, he died not only three hundred subordinates, but also three apprentices, a son, and several sons and nephews of the same clan.

These are all his favorite juniors, but these promising young people have been consumed in just two hours on today's cruel battlefield.

This huge blow suddenly made this elder, who had always been known for being a tough guy, collapse.

And when the other people in the tent saw this scene, they were also concerned and sad.