Chapter 52: The Soldiers' Sorrows

Batu rode his horse and wore heavy armor to watch the battle far away from the warband, looking calm and majestic, but there was a gentle knock between his armor, which was a trembling of terror, almost inaudible in the noisy sound of battle, except for himself and the eight generals around him.

The eight generals didn't seem to hear the impact of the first page on the head of the house, their duty was to protect the head of the house, and whether the head of the house was bold or timid was not the focus of their attention.

The offensive and defensive battle in front of the broken camp was very intense, and after Batu's guard battalion joined, the chaos of the Mengyuan army gradually calmed down, and some calm officers began to mobilize men and horses to join the battle group one by one, and the Mengyuan soldiers who recovered their composure began to exert their normal combat power.

There were less than 50,000 soldiers in the coalition camp, but most of them hit near the tent, and once they were mobilized, it was more than enough to besiege and kill more than 100 Tang troops.

The centurion desperately slaughtered to the breach of the camp, and there were less than 20 brothers killed with him, and there were more than 100 brothers left, who had already died in battle and were trapped in more than 40.

The centurion did not dare to retreat, and as soon as he retreated, the remaining forty brothers would be completely trapped in the coalition camp.

He alone held the seven or eight feet wide breach and did not retreat, blocking the onslaught of the Mengyuan warriors, and soon there were several wounds on his body, if it wasn't for his strong martial arts to avoid the fatal position, I am afraid that he would be killed on the spot.

More than a dozen people who had escaped from the camp refused to leave, and wanted to replace the centurion to guard the breach, but the breach position could only accommodate one person to hold it, so anxious that everyone was stunned and cried out in grief.

"Little second brother, take it down, let's go down!"

"Heavenly Thunder Fire!"

The centurion roared angrily and swung the knife in his hand like a windmill, slashing several enemies in a row, and also being shot twice, but he didn't care about the wounds on his body, and the knife in his hand continued to be as fast as lightning.

His knife has a strange style, not the standard knife in the army, but more narrow and long, which is good for chopping.

When Batu saw the knife, his whole body became cold, and when the knife he slashed into his back was like this, his back began to ache again.

Wang Xiaoer's hand wielding the war knife suddenly froze, he was shot in the leg, and the bones were deeply visible, although he cut off the opponent's head with a knife, but he knew that he couldn't walk today.

With his martial arts, an injury to his upper body is not necessarily fatal, as long as his legs are still good, he has a chance to escape, but if his legs are broken, he has no chance.

Wang Xiaoer did not have sadness and despair in his heart, he cut off the spear on his leg with a knife, pulled it out and used it as a crutch, let out a long howl and rushed towards the more than 30 brothers who were trapped.

"Brothers, let's fight and die together today!" Wang Xiaoer let out an earth-shattering roar, causing several people to dodge backwards.

The trapped Tang army saw that the centurion had been killed again, and they knew that they would definitely die in this battle today, but they hoped to delay the enemy for a little longer, so that the brothers who were killed had a better chance to escape.

They roared in unison, and the battle formation, which had never been scattered, quickly approached the centurion, for the casualties of the movement immediately increased, and by the time they and the centurion converged, only seventeen remained.

They surrounded the centurion in the middle, and a big man roared angrily: "Wang Xiaoer, you are a Wang Badan, why do you have to come back after you escaped, are you a hero?"

Wang Xiaoer held the broken gun and gasped and said: "I also want to escape, but when I think that I won't be able to drink with you in the future, I will soften, if it is a blood-clothed god of war, I will definitely not leave my partner to escape alone." ”

The big man roared angrily: "Fart, the blood-clothed god of war, he has already gone to the south to enjoy the blessings, only you fool will worship him so much, today our brothers will die here together!"

Wang Xiaoer laughed and said, "Come on, let's also be a bloody god of war." ”

Suddenly, there was an explosion sound at the breach of the camp that shook the ground, and the powerful air wave lifted all the thick wooden pillars that were used as the walls of the village within a radius of dozens of zhang, and the soldiers of the Mengyuan Army within a range of fifteen zhang near the break of the camp were all knocked to the ground by the air waves, wooden pillars, soil, and stones.

Wang Xiaoer and the remaining dozen or so brothers fell to the ground together at the moment of the explosion, avoiding the doom of direct death.

The sound of the explosion frightened all the war horses in the Mengyuan camp, and the feces and urine flowed everywhere, and they scurried around.

The Mengyuan soldiers were not much better, most of them were dizzy, they thought that the god of thunder was angry, but why was the god of thunder angry in the winter, they couldn't figure it out and could only kneel down and pray.

After a few breaths, a dense sound of horses' hooves came, and the more than ten people who had just followed Wang Xiaoer out of the encirclement followed Vice General Huang and others who retreated in advance.

They took the horses that were hidden in the woods before, and directly swung their horses into the camp of the coalition army, galloped to Wang Xiaoer's side, and picked up the brothers who were still active on the ground and put them in front of their saddles.

After Vice General Huang rescued Wang Xiaoer, he yelled: "Don't fall in love with war, save your brother and leave." ”

After speaking, Deputy General Huang turned his horse and rushed to the outside of the camp.

Wang Xiaoer lay down in front of the saddle and said, "General, have you sent the news back?" The power of the thunder fire this day is too great, much more powerful than the one we tried before. ”

Vice Admiral Huang scolded while desperately beating the horse: "The news has already been passed back by my brothers, don't worry." Your kid almost died, and you still care about the matter of the thunder and fire, Lao Tzu is convinced!"

Wang Xiaoer smiled and said, "General, my knife has fallen, you have to be worthy of me when you go back." ”

Vice General Huang's eyes suddenly became hot and said, "Bastard, is that knife so important? The Bloody God of War is just a legend, don't take it seriously." ”

Wang Xiaoer closed his eyes and said: "I saw his heroic appearance with my own eyes, although others are gone, but the legend of the bloody clothes will not be broken." ”

Vice General Huang suddenly choked up and yelled: "Brothers, add a few more whips, don't pity the horses, fleeing back is the most important thing!"

All the surviving Tang troops agreed with a bang.

It took a quarter of an hour for the Meng Yuan army to pacify the fleeing war horses.

Batu sat back on the war horse with the support of the general, and the war horse carefully bypassed the dead corpses, dirt, and wooden pillars on the ground along the way, many of which were bleeding from their facial features and had no external injuries, which looked very strange.

Batu drove his horse to the breach of the camp with a solemn face, and the gap in the camp that was only seven or eight feet wide had now become a big gap of more than ten zhang, and there were five deep pits seven or eight feet deep and more than one foot wide in the place where the wooden pillars were originally planted.

With such a big pit in such frozen soil, I am afraid that a healthy soldier will not be able to dig it out in three days, but Tang Jun didn't know what sharp weapon to use, so he chiseled through it at once.

A Meng Yuan general drove his horse to Batu's side and said: "Marshal, the Tang army has fled far away, and now I am afraid that it will not be able to catch up, so let's go back to the camp." ”

Batu pointed to the big pit on the ground with a horsewhip and said: "The Tang army has developed a terrible firearm again, this kind of sharp weapon that can attack the city and pull out the fortress will change the pattern of hegemony in the entire Dongshengzhou." ”

General Meng Yuan didn't seem to understand, but he still had lingering palpitations about the movements of the Tang army when it broke through the village.

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The White Lotus Holy Kingdom gathered nearly 600,000 troops on the southern border after the beginning of winter, led by the general Tian Hai, and has been preparing for war and refining troops for fifty days.

But the direction and intention of this army's operations have not been clear, Tian Hai asked the lord Qi Cong several times about the goal and time of this assembly, and Qi Cong asked him to continue to be stationed on the grounds that the situation was unclear and he still needed to wait.

This delay dragged on until early November, and the poor wartime supply system of the White Lotus Holy Kingdom became weaker and weaker at this time, and at present, only 30 percent of the soldiers have changed their new cotton clothes, and the remaining 70 percent of the soldiers are still in autumn clothes or shabby cotton clothes, and the food supply is gradually insufficient.

The sergeants and soldiers of the army could only eat one meal a day for more than 20 consecutive days, and Tian Hai had to change the training from one training every two days to one training every four days, and then a letter was written every day to ask for war, and the other two official documents were sent to the military headquarters and the household department to urge food and wages.

Because of the lack of food and salary, seeing that his morale was declining day by day, Tian Hai was extremely irritable.

Tian Hai was originally a general of the Tang State and a leader in the Tang Army's Young Zhuang faction, because of his lack of background and background, although he was capable and had great achievements, he was not concerned by the Tang military, and the opportunities for promotion in the future were limited.

He himself did not believe in the White Lotus Sect, but all his family members believed in the White Lotus Sect, and finally he was coerced into taking refuge in the White Lotus Holy Kingdom.

Because he was the first orthodox general of the Tang State to vote, the lord of the country, Qi Cong, showed enough respect and sincerity to grant him the title of general and let him command the army of the White Lotus Holy Kingdom.

Tian Hai did not disappoint the lord of the country, he repeatedly performed miraculous feats in the battle for the founding of the country and the battle for the defense of the country, and he was the minister of the White Lotus Holy State, and he was even more trusted by the lord of the country.

However, after all, the foundation of the White Lotus Holy Kingdom is weak, and most of the people from the lord of the country to the ministers and generals are the backbone elements of the original cult, and it is okay to fool the believers, but the ability to manage the country and fight on the battlefield is lacking a lot.

These groups of officials, mainly gangsters, turned out to be a bunch of lumpenproletarians, who got carried away as soon as they gained power, and took embezzlement and wealth as their own responsibility, and few people could share the worries of the country.

Tian Hai was a general who came out of the regular army system, and he did not want to go along with them, and he would naturally be excluded by them over time.

However, while these people squeezed out Tian Hai, they also knew that Tian Hai was the Dinghai Divine Needle of the White Lotus Holy Country, but they didn't dare to take him down directly, for fear that no one would be available in wartime.

The messenger of the lord Qi Cong arrived at Tianhai's camp in the evening, and announced that the war between the foreign countries and the three kingdoms of China had just begun, and the two sides had not invested too many troops.

At the same time, the military headquarters and the household department are urgently transporting equipment and supplies, which will be transported to the large camp in a few days, so that Tian Hai can actively reassure the soldiers and carry forward the spirit of arduous struggle to overcome the difficulties together.

After Tian Hai received the will, he asked the messenger to rest, and he was in a daze in the tent alone.

Adjutant General Liu Ping hurriedly entered the tent and said, "General, when will the military rations arrive? Many brothers are already sick with frostbite and hunger. ”

Tian Hai raised his head and looked at Liu Ping and said, "The envoy of the lord of the country has just arrived for a while, saying that let us work hard and overcome the difficulties together, and the supplies and equipment will arrive soon." ”

Liu Ping's face was flushed with anger: "A month ago was a day, and half a month ago was also a day, when will we be able to arrive? And where is the direction of our main attack this time? Did the lord of the country say it?"

Tian Hai said helplessly: "Say, continue to wait and see." The snipe and the clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman, and the lord of the country is so patient!"

Liu Ping said angrily: "Don't you know that the praying mantis catches cicadas and yellow finches are behind, and the 600,000 army is so short of food and clothing! Now there are hundreds of people who desert every day, and in the end, I am afraid that before the battle is fought, the people will be scattered!"

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