The fighting started again, even more fiercely than when it rained just now. The coalition forces launched waves of non-stop attacks. From the mountainside to the top of the hill, there were fighting figures everywhere.
The sky was full of arrows flying towards the top of the hill, and the shields of the formation-breaking soldiers were already covered with feather arrows. Although Lexi was still trying her best to organize the Sky-shattering Bows and usable crossbows to fight back, compared to the number of coalition forces, they still appeared to be much weaker.
In the air, the Rebel Army had already taken advantage of the rain break to move out again, shooting at the coalition forces clustered at the foot of the mountain in waves. But as Wu Gen said, there are still too few people in the Rebel Army. Although the coalition forces now dare not take off to intercept and kill the Rebel Army, the casualties caused by it are really not enough for the huge number of coalition forces. Worth mentioning.
Casualties were increasing rapidly, and the Union army was forced to retreat step by step, towards the top of the hill. Many caves on the mountainside have been captured, and the people in the caves were gradually driven out and retreated to the top of the hill to defend their position.
The coalition's attack was knocked down again. Wu Gen wiped the blood from the broken knife in the muddy water, kicked the corpse of the Lu family soldier in front of him, and looked around. There are few people on the mountain, and even people like Wu Gen and Baoxiang have to participate in the fight.
Nowadays, the number of soldiers on Linqiu is severely reduced, with only more than 600 formation-breaking soldiers left. The worst situation is in the west, which is guarded by the soldiers of the Northern Army who were originally hiding in the cave and the archers who lost their crossbows. Anhai is responsible for the specific command. . After this wave, there were already 50% casualties. The rest were also exhausted and didn't know if they could withstand the next wave of attacks.
"Those Yanshi are all ready." Wu Gen turned to look at Baoxiang and took a sip of the wine that smelled of blood.
"All the Yan divisions have been transferred to Linqiu to defeat the coalition forces from Yueda. Xue Xin has nothing to worry about. We are ready to send another thousand people here for support." Baoxiang panted.
"There are not many people left in Huali City. If the coalition forces attack the city, Xue Xin will be in danger." Wu Gen said with a bitter smile. Now that the situation is critical, he can only demolish the east wall to repair the west wall. "As for Yanshi, that's Our last resort should not be used unless it is absolutely necessary. We must cooperate well with Cong Yue and Yang Zheng and launch them together to force the coalition forces to retreat. How about those military strongholds under Linqiu."
Lexi hurried over. He had been staying on the top of the hill and could see the situation in the military stronghold. "It's not good. Now that the rain has stopped, the Gu family's rockets can be used again and they are attacking the military stronghold. If the west side of Lin Qiu is lost, they will You will face a situation of attack from two sides.
Zhang Tong's territorial wall was also fought extremely hard. Because of the rain, the Ba family's methods were even more effective. The first earth wall had completely collapsed, and the second wall was also damaged in many places. Once the earthen wall is lost, the back of the military stronghold will be exposed, and our access to Huili City will be cut off. "
Wu Gen looked at the scattered soldiers on the hill to the west, bit his tongue and said: "Send a letter to Xue Xin and ask him to send people quickly. Leave five hundred to Wu Yang and send five hundred to Linqiu. There won't be much space on Linqiu." People. Today is a tough day. The coalition forces are toughing it out, and we are toughing it out too. Whoever can hold on will win."
"Yes." Lexi responded quickly.
Woo hoo, the sound of horns came from the distance again. This was the coalition forces preparing for the next wave of attacks.
First, the Cang family suppressed them with a dense rain of arrows, and then the crowd of people rushed towards the hill again. This time, the transformed soldiers of the Lu family gathered together, focusing on the south, and the ordinary soldiers of the Ba family and Lu family on the east. Responsible. 33
As for the west, the soldiers of the Gu family wearing white armor were in small groups, taking turns to cover the front and firing rockets upwards. For a while, thick smoke rose from the hill.
Wu Gen stood on the top of the hill, looked at Xue Xin's men from the north who were maneuvering here, and sighed, it was too late. The Ba family had captured a section of the earth wall, cutting off the north-south passage. Zhang Wuyang was leading an all-out counterattack in an attempt to reopen the north-south traffic.
If we take a detour from the west camp, there will be a lot of chaos there, and people from the Gu family have already broken into the military camp. With so many people passing by, it would probably make the military camp even more chaotic.
In this wave, the people on the forest hills have to hold on by themselves. After looking at the Yanshi who had been carefully guarded on the top of the hill, Wu Gen decided to wait and not use their methods for the time being.
Suddenly, Wu Gen was stunned and looked to the west of Lin Qiu. The south and east are already in close contact with the enemy, and the fighting is very fierce, but the position of Anhai in the west is much calmer.
The people of the Gu family stopped on the mountainside, but did not attack. They were just wary of the movements of the Northern Army on the mountain. Immediately afterwards, a general dressed obviously as the Ba family came out.
An Hai quickly went up to him, bowed his knees to this man, leaned over and said something. Soon, the man nodded, and An Hai waved his hand. Nearly a hundred Northern soldiers walked out of the team, dropped their weapons, and followed An Hai down the mountain dejectedly.
The remaining soldiers of the North Army looked at the top of the hill with a confused look on their faces. Someone followed him and walked a few steps down, but then turned around and came back.
Seeing this scene, Wu Gen's scalp suddenly exploded. He didn't know that An Hai surrendered the coalition forces on the spot. Judging from the situation, he must have secretly established contact with the Ba family, and then turned against the enemy.
Once he leaves like this, the entire western side of the Northern Army will be exposed to enemy attacks. Even the military stronghold located under the forest hills will also be attacked by the enemy from a high position, and the entire defense system is at risk of collapse.
Although it was already stretched thin at this time, it could still be maintained anyway, and Wu Gen still had a back-up plan. An Hai's move abruptly removed the backbone of the system.
Without saying a word, Wu Gen took his sword and rushed to the west of Linqiu. There were still hundreds of people left there, and they could not be allowed to surrender or be surrounded and killed without a leader. At the same time, Baoxiang and others also reacted, roaring and running towards the west hillside.
Swish, swish, countless rockets were fired at the Northern soldiers who did not follow. Many of them were caught off guard and shot to the ground.
"An Hai, you are looking for death." Wu Gen roared as he ran, and the Sky-shattering Bow in his hand fired continuously at the soldiers of the Gu family. When Lexi on the top of the hill saw this, he also woke up. He was so angry that he quickly asked the archers holding sky-shaking bows to fight back against the Gu family.
Against the backdrop of dense rockets, Wu Gen finally came to his men. His body was covered in thick smoke and his armor was in tatters. He shouted to these people who were already beaten and dizzy, "Get back up."
Someone finally woke up and followed Wu Gen to intercept his opponent while slowly retreating towards the top of the hill. Baoxiang showed four arms and roared at the Gu family soldiers who were trying to besiege Wu Gen. There were seven or eight arrows hanging on his fat body.
At the same time, Meng Shun also quickly separated half of the formation-breaking soldiers guarding the south to meet Wu Gen and others nearby. And he stood in front of the remaining 100 people in his family, shouted loudly, no longer stood firm, but led his men to charge back towards the Lu family soldiers in front of them.
Meng Shun is a tiger general who is very stable in fighting. It is rare to see him so moved. As long as he sits in the formation, he will give people inexplicable confidence, and the soldiers who break the formation will not fall. But now even he has taken the lead into the enemy army, which shows that the situation has reached a precarious situation.
On the forest hill, all three front lines were retreating slowly. Wu Gen had no less than a dozen wounds of various sizes on his body. The clothes in his armor were tightly stuck to his body with blood and water. There were layers of blood stains, both from his enemies and from his own. One arm was hit hard and was unable to hang down, so he could only respond to the enemy with one arm.
Baoxiang was covered in blood, his helmet was deformed from the blow, blood was falling from his head, and one eye was completely covered in blood.
The long knife in Meng Shun's hand had been broken. After tearing apart a Lu family soldier, he retreated to the top of the hill with his remaining twenty-odd men, commanding the two hundred men to the east to retreat slowly.
Due to the loss of the west side of Lin Qiu, he not only had to divide his troops to support, but also had to lead his remaining men to fight alone. No matter how tough the formation-breakers were, they could not withstand the waves of attacks from the opponent. The formation-breakers in the south were almost all killed or wounded.
At this time, the Northern Army had all retreated to the top of the hill. Except for the north, it was surrounded by enemies on three sides.
On the forest hill, there were densely packed people everywhere, including those from the Lu family, the Gu family, the Ba family, and even the Cang family who abandoned their horses and climbed up on foot. Everyone knows that today's battle has reached the final decisive moment.
Wu Gen stood on the top of the hill, reached out and took off his helmet, blood slowly flowing from his head. Looking up, the huge forest hills are full of enemies.
Thick smoke rose and filled the entire forest. The Wu Zi Ya flag fluttering in the wind is already broken and tattered, and it seems that it will fall in an instant. Dead bodies were lying on the ground on the hillside, bleeding continuously, but no one came forward to clean them up. The thick smell of blood and smoke mixed with each other filled the air, making it pungent and unpleasant.
The most direct consequence of Lin Qiu's comprehensive defensive retreat was that the military camp behind the earth wall suddenly faced attacks from high altitudes. Two of the three military strongholds have been breached, and the soldiers are retreating steadily, moving closer to the last military stronghold.
Baoxiang got up from the ground tiredly. There was a deep wound in his abdomen, and blood was still flowing out. He was severely injured, and his four arms had been reduced to two, and he could no longer maintain his appearance.
"Are you going to use flying thunder?" Baoxiang leaned on a slightly straight slope and gasped for air.
Wu Gen looked gloomy and looked at the coalition forces who had stopped shooting arrows but were continuously narrowing the encirclement. "Wait until they pile up more people and then use flying thunder. This way more people will die."
"Don't take An Hai's matter too seriously. Not everyone is not afraid of death." Baoxiang hesitated for a moment and then advised.
Wu Gen remained silent, his eyes fixed on the coalition forces who were cautiously climbing up. "After using the flying thunder, if the coalition forces still attack Linqiu, lead your people along the north slope to meet up with Wu Yang, and take Ji with you." Yan and the others are moving closer to Huali City. We cannot suddenly retreat westward now. The team is too scattered and can only be defeated one by one. They must be reorganized before they can be completed."
"And you."
"After Meng Shun and I are cut off, no one will be able to escape unless someone embroiders it on us." Wu Gen calmly wiped the blood off the broken knife with a piece of black cloth.
"That's nonsense. Let me run away and you block the sword. Get out of the way. If you want to break the queen, I will break it. You hurry down and organize the troops." Baoxiang's face turned red with anger.
Wu Gen smiled hard and patted Baoxiang's helmet, "Okay, let's evacuate together. We have to evacuate. Lexi, send a message to the falcon soldiers in the air and ask them to convey it. After the thunder, Niu also All the mastiffs and wolves were dispatched, regardless of life or death, to attack the coalition forces and cover the retreat of our troops on Linqiu towards Huali City.
Yang Zheng was also notified to launch a simultaneous fire attack, and he led an attack on Lu Lie's Chinese army from Yue. Now I have seen that most of the coalition forces are concentrated here. If Lu Lie is frightened, some of his troops will be withdrawn if there is no chance.
At Ji Yan's place, taking advantage of the chaos on the forest hills, the troops quickly moved towards Huali City. Since we can't beat him, we just give up on Lin Qiu. "
Lexi opened her mouth twice and finally accepted.
The coalition forces stopped when they were still more than fifty steps away from the Northern Army and formed a circle, but did not move forward to attack.
A general of the Gu family in white armor came out and saluted Wu Gen, "Wu Zhenfu, I am Gu Baicao from Qianhu of the Gu family. I met Zhenfu on the order of the young master. Now our six families' coalition forces have Surrounding your army and continuing the fight will only hurt lives.
My young master has always respected Zhenfu, and I just want to advise you, there is no point in working for the Ji family, it is better to switch to our coalition forces. If the big thing is successful, there will be no difficulty in having one more Wu family in Iron Hand Province. "
Wu Gen laughed when he heard this, winked at Baoxiang, stood up and walked to the front of his team, "Thank you Gu Yangsi for me. I appreciate his kindness. Tell him that Wu Gen is not a person who betrays his friends. Since he promised his brother There is no such thing as double-dealing or giving up halfway."
Gu Baicao was about to speak, and a man walked out from the side. It was the general of the Ba family who was escorting An Hai, "Wu Zhenfu, I am Ba Yan, a member of the Ba family. The so-called person who knows the current affairs is a hero. Now the army is surrounding me. If the governor continues to fight, it will only cost the life of his son. My young master has ordered the governor to think twice and leave him useful, so as not to have another chance in the future."
Wu Gen's face darkened and he said coldly, "Call An Hai over. I want to ask him a question."
Ba Yan was slightly startled, but he still nodded in agreement. Wu Gen was already surrounded anyway, so he couldn't do any tricks.
After a while, soldiers of the Ba family came up with one person in charge. It was An Hai who had just surrendered to the enemy.
Some people died, but not completely...
