"Lord Commander, the army is running out of food and grass, what should we do?"

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the commander of the logistics corps, Foodnand, looked at Dirk who was sitting on the main seat with trepidation, and asked cautiously.

"Slaughter all the horses used by the logistics department to haul and transport food and use them as military rations!"

Hearing this, Dirks said without any hesitation.

"Yes, Lord Commander. ”

Foodiand whispered, and then took the command.

"Lord Commander, the infantry corps has suffered heavy losses, after three days of fighting, there are only more than 10,000 infantry corps left, do we still want to continue to attack the city?"

The commander of the infantry corps, Francesco, frowned and asked Deckerske with a wistful expression.

"Now that the matter has come to this, do we have any other way to retreat? If we can't break through the Shanhai Pass and return defeated, all of us will be sanctioned by the Supreme Council of the Western Underground World, what will happen to us, I don't need to say more, right?"

Dirk's face was gloomy, he looked at Francesco and the others, and said coldly.

"The archers have run out of bows and crossbows?"

Then, Dexke turned to look at Alan, the commander of the Archer Legion, and asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, Lord Commander. ”

Alan nodded and replied, in the past three days, the archers have shot almost all the arrows in order to cover the infantry legion's siege.

"Allen, tomorrow after the archers have shot all the arrows, they will abandon the bow and arrows, equip the big round iron shield and iron spear, and turn into infantry to attack the city!"

A cold glint flashed in Dirkske's eyes, and he said in a deep voice.

"Yes, Commander!"

Lake was heartbroken, and quickly nodded yes, he knew that Dirks was trying to see the dagger, and he was desperate.

Otherwise, the soldiers of the archers, who are good at long-range attacks, will not be allowed to act as melee infantry to attack the city.

"Lake. ”

Dirks shouted as he looked at Ryker, the commander of the cavalry corps, who was standing aside.

"Your Excellency, the lower officials are here. ”

When Lake saw Dirks calling him, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied.

"Lake, if tomorrow's siege still doesn't go well, then all the soldiers of the cavalry legion of the day after tomorrow will dismount and attack the city as infantry, and then all the horses will be used as the army rations for the day after tomorrow. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, we only have two days, and if we can't capture Shanhaiguan after two days, we will have to retreat, so I hope that in these last two days, you will take Shanhaiguan at all costs. ”

Deckers said finally, stood up, looked at all the legion commanders, and said sharply.

"Yes, Commander!"

The legion commanders also felt the tremendous pressure, and they looked at each other and replied in a deep voice.

At five o'clock the next morning, the sky was a little bright, and the siege of the Red Cross Army began.

After arriving at the Shanhaiguan city wall, the soldiers of the archery corps also dropped their bows and arrows, replaced them with large round iron shields and iron spears, and climbed the ladder towards the Shanhaiguan city wall like the soldiers of the infantry corps.

Chen Jian and the dead soldiers of the Chen family are still stationed on the city wall at a distance of one thousand meters, and in the past few days, because of the crazy attack of the Red Cross Expeditionary Army, they have hardly rested.

Only when the Red Cross Expeditionary Army stopped attacking the city did he hurriedly eat the hot porridge and steamed buns sent by the logistics, and then rested and slept on the city wall.

Sometimes I slept soundly, but I was woken up by my companions, because the Red Cross Expeditionary Force had begun to attack the city again, so I immediately woke up and killed the enemy with weapons in hand.

There were originally more than 1,000 dead soldiers in the Chen family, a few days ago, when defending the city, there were 300 casualties, and when performing the task, nearly 100 people were lost, and more than half of the casualties were lost in the past few days, and now there are more than 1,000 people, there are only three or four hundred people left, I don't know how many people can survive in the end?

This is the cruelty of war, but in order to defend the country, some sacrifices are necessary.

Although Chen Jian was a strong cultivator in the Jindan Realm, he felt a little unbearable after several days of fighting, but he still gritted his teeth and fought on the front line.

He felt that if he killed one more enemy, he would be able to kill one less person, and every time he killed one more person, he would be able to destroy one of the opponent's living forces, and as long as he killed more, the more hope he could have of winning the battle.

Chen Jian roughly estimated that he had killed nearly a thousand soldiers of the Red Cross Expeditionary Army in the past few days, and no enemy could climb up from the thousand-meter city wall where he was stationed.

Woooooooo

The earth-shattering horn sounded, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Red Cross Expeditionary Army once again surged towards the walls of Shanhaiguan like a tide.

Because the archers of the Red Cross Crusade, as if they didn't want money, shot arrows at the city walls.

Therefore, the warriors of the Chinese Kingdom hid behind the city wall one after another, not daring to show their heads, until the arrows disappeared, and they knew that the enemy army had begun to attack the city.

So, without saying a word, they threw the equipment used to defend the city, such as boulders, hot oil, and rolling logs, down the city walls, and smashed them hard at the enemies who kept climbing up the ladders.

On the fourth day, the Red Cross Expeditionary Army's offensive was still fierce, but it still did not capture Shanhaiguan.

On the fifth day, the Red Cross Expeditionary Army's offensive became more violent, but the resistance of the Chinese warriors was also more stubborn.

The lord of Hua told everyone that they had burned the grain, grass and supplies of the Red Cross Expeditionary Army, and the more fierce the Red Cross Expeditionary Army's offensive, it meant that they were about to run out of food, and as long as we could hold out to the end, the Red Cross Expeditionary Army would definitely give up the siege and retreat.

As the lord of China said, on the fourth day, the Red Cross Expeditionary Army killed all the horses of the cavalry corps as military rations, and all the cavalry turned into infantry, took iron shields and iron spears, and frantically attacked the city.

"Oh no! our fortification equipment is gone!"

Suddenly, a Chinese warrior shouted loudly, the boulders, rolling wood, and hot oil around him were all gone.

"I don't have it either. ”

The same is true for other Chinese warriors.

"What?

When the lord of Hua Guo heard this, he hurriedly asked.

It turned out that after so many days of perseverance, the materials prepared before the war had been exhausted.

"There are no defense equipment, everyone must grit their teeth and defend it, no matter what, we must not let the enemy break through the first line of defense. ”

The lord of Huaguo gritted his teeth and said to all the Huaguo warriors.

As a result, a fierce battle broke out on the wall of Shanhaiguan, and without the threat of defending the city, countless soldiers of the Red Cross Expeditionary Army easily climbed the city wall.

However, it was violently counterattacked by the Chinese warriors, and the battle became even more intense.

(End of chapter)