Ma Tingyun, Lu Ci and others quickly ran up the city wall. At this time, the sky was already glowing with fish belly white, enough to bring the entire Eagle Ridge into sight.
I saw hundreds of corpses piled up on the wasteland two hundred steps away from the fortress. These corpses had long been severely decomposed. Many Beixi soldiers, their faces wrapped in white cloth, were digging out carloads of rotting corpses. Pour together.
There are two more corpse piles like this!
Judging from the clothes on the corpses, these were all Beidi soldiers who died on the battlefield!
Ma Tingyun immediately realized that this was Qin Feng's mind-attacking tactic, and his eyes suddenly became solemn.
"Sure enough, Qin Feng has decided to attack the fortress. He will use these rotten corpses to disturb the morale of our troops first, and then launch the attack when the morale of our troops is broken!"
"This Qin Feng will do anything to capture the fortress!"
Lu Ci, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but get angry when he saw this.
He punched the arrow stack with his fist and shouted angrily: "This is unreasonable!"
"As the saying goes, the dead are the most important, but Qin Feng actually dug up the body, which is really shameful."
"Who is willing to rush out with me and snatch the body back?!"
As soon as this statement came out, the generals present responded one after another.
After all, these corpses were all heroes who died in battle, and perhaps many of them were the former brothers of Lu Ci and other generals.
Unprecedented anger spread on the city wall. Everyone was filled with righteous indignation, roared angrily, and decided to take the initiative to attack out of the city.
Ma Tingyun quickly raised his hand to stop the angry crowd.
"Don't panic, everyone, this is Qin Feng's mind-attacking tactic, don't get his way!"
"As long as we stick to the city, we will be invincible. If we rush out of the city, we will definitely face massive casualties."
Lu Ci had long disliked Ma Tingyun.
At this time, he was completely furious: "General Ma, if on ordinary days, you make other people's ambitions destroy your own prestige, then that's it."
"Now that bastard Qin Feng actually dug up the corpses of soldiers who died in battle and transported them to the city. If we don't take the corpses back, how can we comfort the heroic spirits all over the sky?"
"Besides, the soldiers on the city wall are all seeing it. If they huddle in the city and watch with cold eyes, wouldn't it chill the hearts of the soldiers?"
Ma Tingyun certainly knew that Qin Feng's dirty tricks had a great impact on the morale of the city.
Something must be done to stabilize the morale of the military.
However, leaving the city rashly is the last resort.
After thinking about it, Ma Tingyun had an idea. He turned around and shouted: "Everyone, please listen to me. Don't gossip about things outside the city."
"Whoever dares to shake the morale of the army will be punished on the spot!"
Originally, the generals felt that Ma Tingyun was timid and afraid of getting into trouble, and he only knew how to shrink back, which was really like a general's demeanor.
At this time, seeing the corpses of the sacrificed soldiers being dug up before they were cold, Ma Tingyun, instead of taking the initiative to boost the morale of the army, continued to shrink and suppress them.
Compared to Qin Feng, Ma Tingyun is really more shameful.
Lu Ci simply stopped talking and raised his arms and shouted: "If you are willing to follow me out of the city, come with me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Ci walked towards the city.
Three generals followed closely behind.
Seeing this situation, Ma Tingyun tried his best to stop him: "General Lu, calm down. Qin Feng is the best at manipulating people's hearts. There must be an ambush outside the city."
Lu Ci didn't look back: "As a soldier, the best destination is to be shrouded in horse leather. Even if we die, we will never disgrace the soul of the Beidi Army."
"Unlike some people, who are as timid as mice and don't even have a bit of masculinity!"
Although Ma Tingyun's official position was higher than everyone else, as a defender of the fortress, he really had nothing to do with these tough generals who crawled out from the dead.
They watched helplessly as Lu Ci and others gathered a thousand cavalry at the city gate.
Having no choice, Ma Tingyun had no choice but to run back to the city wall and carefully observe the situation outside the city. In addition to three piles of dead bodies 200 steps away, Qin Feng's first-line camp was 300 steps away.
In addition to besieging the troops in the other three directions, Qin Feng divided the troops on the front battlefield into three large camps.
Three hundred steps away, there was a camp, with a dozen tents in total, scattered in a row.
Four hundred steps away was the Second Battalion. They counted a total of twenty tents, and there were also cavalry stationed there.
Eight hundred steps away, there is the third battalion, which is also the center camp of the frontal battlefield. All the main troops are hoarded in the center camp.
This arrangement resulted in Qin Feng's front being very deep, but the first forward battalion and the second reinforcement battalion were only a hundred steps apart, while the second reinforcement battalion and the central camp were four hundred steps apart.
Such a long depth means that even the light cavalry cannot penetrate the entire defense line in one go.
Once the first forward battalion is attacked, the second battalion of reinforcements will immediately send cavalry support, which can be reached in just a hundred steps or a few breaths! On the contrary, any enemy who wants to sneak attack the second battalion of reinforcements will be intercepted by the first battalion.
The entire front line is airtight. Lu Ci and others take the initiative to attack. Once the two sides get entangled, what awaits Lu Ci is disaster!
However, Ma Tingyun could no longer stop him, and watched helplessly as Lu Ci led a thousand cavalry, filing out of the city gate and heading towards the pile of corpses.
Two hundred steps, for the cavalry, is just a few moments of breathing.
However, the Beixi soldiers who transported the corpses were all holding "single horses" around them, and they seemed to have been prepared for a sudden attack by the Eagle Ridge defenders.
The moment Lu Ci rushed out of the city gate, the Beixi soldiers who were transporting the corpse had already put down their wooden carts, got on their horses, and fled towards the forward camp a hundred steps away.
Before Lu Ci could reach the pile of corpses, Beixi soldiers had already returned to the forward camp.
"A bunch of rats, shameful!"
Seeing the Beixi soldiers fleeing, Lu Ci cursed angrily, but had no choice but to shout to the cavalry beside him: "Find a way to bring the body back to the city!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the deputy general next to him responded with great embarrassment: "General, I'm afraid it won't work."
"These corpses have been buried in the ground for a long time, and they are all rotten."
"Not to mention, it is difficult to gather them together. Even if they are pulled back one by one using wooden carts, the corpses are rotten and the stench is unpleasant, which can easily lead to plague."
Hearing this, Lu Ci looked at the rotting corpses piled up on a hill and had no choice but to give up.
"In that case, bury it on the spot!"
"One team is on guard, the second team is roaming, the third team and the fourth team are dismounted, digging holes to bury the bodies."
Following Lu Ci's order, the four cavalry groups performed their duties and got busy.
At this moment, Ma Tingyun on the city wall discovered that the Beixi soldiers hiding in the forward camp had rushed out one after another, each armed with a heavy stone bow!
"not good!"
Ma Tingyun shouted at the top of his lungs: "General Lu, the enemy archers have set up an ambush, come back quickly!"
