The short distance of more than 20 zhang seemed to be a dead end to the Ghost Gate Pass for the Yan soldiers in the front row.

There were not only dozens of strong archers on the first wall, but nearly a hundred, who were divided into three groups by Li Chengen to shoot in turn, almost forming an endless curtain of arrows, converging into a beam of light in the narrow terrain of the canyon, and continuously shooting at the Yan army that charged forward.

Before they got close to the wall, the Yan army suffered a large number of casualties, and the light armor they wore could not stop the rain of arrows of the Seven Star Army, because those strong archers used armor-piercing arrows, commonly known as armor-piercing arrows.

The arrow of this arrow is conical, the front tip is thick in the middle and slightly thin in the back, and the rod is made of bamboo, which is specially used to penetrate the armor of soldiers, and can easily shoot through light armor within 30 zhang.

The 4,000 people in the vanguard front army were the elite of the Yan army, and the armor-piercing arrows of the Seven Star Army brought them great pressure, but this pioneer infantry did not slow down and continued to charge forward strongly.

The front of the Yan army was less than five zhang away from the wall, and Li Chengen gave an order, and the strong archers quickly ran to both sides, continuing to suppress the Yan army on the side walls, and at the same time, the archers of the Yan army had also appeared in Li Chengen's sight.

They stood behind the death squads, shooting at the Seven Star Army's strong archers, trying to relieve the pressure on their comrades.

It's just that there is a big difference in the damage caused by the two sides - the standard bow and arrow equipped by the Yan army is difficult to penetrate the armor of the strong archers of the Seven Star Army by shooting from the back, but the Seven Star Army is preparing a special armor-piercing cone arrow, although it is not outstanding in the conventional suppression effect, but it is extremely suitable for the current situation on the battlefield.

The two armies are extremely close to each other, and the Seven Star Army occupies a geographical advantage, which can maximize the power of the armor-piercing cone arrow.

After paying the price of forty or fifty Xiandeng elites killed, the Yan army finally touched the vicinity of the wall.

Du Min naturally didn't launch a strong attack with a slap on his head, and the scouts of the Yan Army had already roughly figured out the situation in the canyon, at least making the first line of defense of the Seven Star Army clear.

The wall was not high, and the simple ladder made by the Yan army yesterday could help these elites cross over, but when they approached the wall, a group of even more burly seven-star soldiers appeared above, each holding a spear in their hands.

Under the command of Li Chengen, hundreds of spears were pierced almost simultaneously, and the neat and uniform movements presented a sharp beauty.

Some of the Yan army were poked out of a bloody hole on the spot, the skin and flesh turned out were hideous and terrifying, and the blood flowing out like a spring stained the ground under their feet.

Someone turned sideways to avoid it, and the warriors of the Seven Star Army swept along the momentum, knocking it directly down the ladder, although this height would not hurt them, but it would affect the people behind them, and then delay their attack.

Lee Seung-eun stood in the center, leading the others to repeat extremely simple stabbing movements, without any bells and whistles, but such neat and simple movements can cause a lot of damage.

Under his leadership, the Seven Star Army has always maintained the suppression of the Yan army, even if the Yan army successfully climbs the wall, it will immediately encounter the siege and killing of the sword soldiers around the pikemen, and the long and short cooperation will form an extremely solid defense line.

The sound of fighting gradually echoed in the canyon, and the two armies fought extremely fiercely around the first wall.

Outside the canyon, Du Min stood on the mound of dirt, looking at the battle situation in the valley with a gloomy face.

After several successive defeats, the generals of the Yan army did not dare to continue to despise the army in the mountains, which had been formed for a short time, and the other party not only had a large number of men who had experience in martial arts and were not afraid of life and death all year round, but also gradually became a brave army with a distinctive style and good at tough battles under the organization and training of Lu Shen.

Du Min was very clear about this, and he had never verbally questioned the judgment of other colleagues, but he was still not convinced, or he wanted to prove the strength of his subordinates with a sigh of relief.

The terrain of the canyon was extremely restrictive to the Yan army, making it impossible for them to give full play to their superiority in strength, although Lu Shen only had a few thousand men in his hands, he did not need to put everyone into defense.

Time passed bit by bit, and the faces of the generals and commanders around Du Min became more and more gloomy.

"Mingjin."

Du Min suddenly opened his mouth and ordered.

The herald was slightly stunned, and quickly reacted, and after a while, the sharp sound of gold resounded through the four fields, and the elite of the first in the valley did not dare to disobey the military order, and accelerated the retreat outside the valley.

The Seven Star Army did not take advantage of the situation to pursue, which was within Du Min's expectations, after all, once it lost the protection of the canyon terrain, the Seven Star Army could not be the opponent of more than 10,000 Yanjing coalition troops.

At the same time as the Yan army retreated, on the eastern slope of the valley, Lu Shen stared at the corpse of the Yan army outside the first wall, and ordered: "Let Li Chengen retreat with the front army, and order Deng Xingcai and Chu Zhu to lead the right army to take over the defense." ”

A young man in his twenties replied aloud: "Obey! ”

He took a few of his peers to rush to give orders, Deng Xingcai and Chu Zhu immediately led more than 500 people from the right army to the front of the second line of defense, and Li Chengen waited for them to arrive, and led hundreds of people from the front army to retreat.

The Yan army's offensive did not stop there, Du Min dispatched troops, and soon a second group of Yan troops rushed into the canyon and charged the wall again.

This time, it still did not break through the first line of defense set up by the Seven Star Army in the canyon.

Until Lu Shen asked the various units of the Seven Star Army to change their defenses in turn, the Yan Army was never able to advance an inch, and the balance of the battlefield seemed to have been tilted towards the Seven Star Army, at least today the other party could not pose a real threat to the defense line in the valley.

However, Lu Shen's expression was not very relaxed, he noticed that the speed of the Yan army's rotational attack was accelerating, and the Yan army that rushed into the valley later became more and more familiar with the defensive methods of the Seven Star Army, and the casualties continued to decrease, so he couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly.

The young man named Kong Sixue next to him plucked up his courage and said, "Captain, the Yan army should be about to retreat, right?" ”

Lu Shen glanced up at the afternoon sunshine and said slowly: "You go and tell Ran Xuanzhi Hall Master now and ask him to send someone to transport the prepared things." ”

"Obey!" Kong Sixue responded awe-inspiringly.

At the same time, outside the canyon, Du Min looked at the six hundred people standing in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "You have followed me many years ago, although you are not brothers who are related by blood, but the word love and righteousness are not weak at all. I have always regarded you as my own, and I have never treated you badly, and now our army has encountered a hard bone, and the others have tried their best, and only need a sledgehammer to smash through the defenses in the valley. ”

The soldiers of the Yan army all looked at him with solemn faces.

These 600 talents are the core subordinates that Du Min has been cultivating for many years, and they have not participated in the previous rotation offensive, and they have been hidden by Du Min to the end, waiting for the most suitable time to make a final decision.

Du Min clenched the handle of the steel knife and said word by word: "Who dares to go with me to the battle to kill the enemy?" ”

Almost at the same time, six hundred people shouted a word from between their teeth: "I! ”

Du Min glanced back at the big camp in the south, then turned his head and gritted his teeth and said, "Then follow me!" ”

The generals next to them were obviously a little surprised, but after seeing Du Min's cold gaze, everyone closed their mouths tightly in unison.

Du Min exhaled a breath of turbid air and walked towards the entrance of the canyon to the north with six hundred tiger ben.

The marching drums were beating again, this time with a slightly different meaning.

Du Min wore armor and a helmet, his burly body contained endless strength, he rushed into the valley surrounded by more than ten personal soldiers, and six hundred subordinates silently and resolutely surrounded him in the middle, and trotted towards the position of the Seven Star Army dozens of zhang away.

They gradually accelerated as they ran, bringing with them a wind of slaughter.

From the valley mouth to the front of the village, the Yan army was not hindered in any way, Du Min's cold eyes revealed a strong killing intent, and at the same time there was a bit of determination.

The strong archers of the Seven Star Army had already retreated, and they had not appeared in the first two Yan Army charges, which was a fact that Du Min had already confirmed.

Although he was reckless, he was not a fool, and of course he would not do his best at first, so in the first five attacks, he saw with his own eyes that the Seven Star Army had exhausted their means, and even if they had endless armor-piercing arrows, those archers would not be able to maintain sufficient physical strength all the time.

The opportunity to break the formation is at this moment.

When he was only more than ten zhang away from the wall, Du Min let out an angry roar, and pointed his long knife at the defenders on the wall: "Kill!" ”

Hundreds of roars echoed him.

"Kill!"

The main force of the vanguard for most of the day burst out with the invincible momentum of the blocker, and the warriors who rushed to the front helped up the simple ladder that fell to the ground, and the comrades behind immediately jumped up in a big stride, Du Min looked up at this time, and suddenly found that the Seven Star Army on the wall of the wall was retreating backwards.

He couldn't help but look puzzled.

At this time, the Yan army's charge was like an arrow from the string, and dozens of soldiers were already ready to jump onto the wall.

Suddenly, there was a sound.

It was a strange sound, like a bitter winter wind, or a muffled thunder before a summer rainstorm.

It sounded from afar, from far and near.

Yan Jun looked up one after another, only to see countless tightly sealed clay pots falling from the sky, and they could only avoid them one after another. These battle-hardened soldiers subconsciously thought that this was a city-defending device similar to rolling wood and stone, but the clay pots were not large in size and did not seem to have great lethality.

An astonishing number of clay pots fell into the Yan army's formation, most of them fell to the ground, and a small part fell on the Yan army, but they didn't cause enough damage, at most they were just sore.

However, the shattered clay pot splattered a large pile of strange liquid.

Du Min's pupils shrank suddenly.

The next moment, the arrows rained down like locusts, shooting from behind the wall, but instead of the armor-piercing arrows fired by the strong archers before, they were rockets burning with pine oil.

There were hundreds of rockets, and the strength was not strong, and the main force of the Yan army could have been dismissive, but at this time, everyone's hearts were filled with inexplicable and strong fear.

This rain of arrows was like a fiery red cloud, descending on the Yan army's array.

A Yan sergeant watched as the rocket fell, falling at his feet, touching the object that had been spilled on the ground after the clay pot had been shattered, and then the blazing flames exploded suddenly!

In the valley, a raging fire spread in an instant, annihilating hundreds of the main force of the Yan Army, which Du Min regarded as a killer weapon!

(End of chapter)