At about six o'clock, Li Boxen ordered all the soldiers and led twenty people to the edge of the barrier.
It was almost completely dark at this time, and the two camps of Xuan Tu's army on the wilderness were lit with fire, making them particularly conspicuous. According to the military manual of the Sui Dynasty, the commander of the camp had already ordered people to cut down trees to build a wall, and also dug trenches outside the wooden wall. The obtained earth and stone were compacted inside the wall, and horses were set up outside the trench. There are two layers of patrols outside the Juma, and there are torches burning at Baibu. Four archery towers were erected in the stronghold, with crossbowmen on them.
There should be five hundred men in each camp. Excluding the patrols and outposts on the outside, there should be nearly 400 defenders in each battalion. The distance between the two camps was about four miles, and it only took the rangers about a quarter of an hour to cross this distance. Li Bochen saw a blue flag of command erected in the nearest camp, and a black flag of command beside it. This meant that the commander of the camp with 500 people was temporarily acting as the commander-in-chief and acting commander of the thousand-man army. responsibility.
He said in a deep voice: "Everyone, the war will begin soon. Do not act rashly without my order."
Everyone responded in a low voice in the darkness.
He added: "Brother Sui, please open the barrier for me."
Sui Buxiu also wore armor at this time, and he was the most powerfully dressed among the group. But at this time, he only said: "Okay."
Then he recited the mantra secretly and made fingerprints with his fingers. After waiting for a moment, he said: "Twenty steps ahead, the barrier has been opened. I will seal it again when you come back."
Li Boxen nodded and looked towards the entrance of the secret realm in the valley.
For a moment, there was no sound in the wilderness, and it seemed that even the wind did not dare to make any noise.
After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, there was still no movement. Li Bochen was a little anxious, but still kept a straight face and only held the handle of the knife. Chang Qiuwu suddenly whispered: "Junhou, I have something to say."
Li Boxen stared into the distance and said, "If it's not something important, I'll send you my message and we'll talk about it later."
Chang Qiuwu hesitated for a while and then said: "In the Xuantu military camp——"
Li Boxen suddenly raised his hand and said: "Look there - keep an eye on it!"
Everyone looked towards the mouth of the valley, but saw only darkness. After a while, some shaking figures were slowly distinguished. After another two or three breaths, the reflection of some iron tools could be vaguely seen. Then I heard a sudden burst of roars, footsteps, and horse hooves.
A black line started from the entrance of the valley and advanced towards the camp. After seven or eight breaths, countless soldiers were seen running towards the Xuan Tu Army camp, their roars shaking the sky.
Li Bochen's expression did not change, but the soldiers behind him were startled. Zhao Bo, the tenth general, couldn't help but said: "How many people are there! Junhou, didn't you say that Zhu Hou only has about two hundred people?"
Li Boxen smiled in his heart, but only said: "Looking at the formation, there are only more than a hundred people."
Then he said in his heart: "There are probably two to three hundred monsters."
Zhao Bo stopped talking. I probably didn’t expect that a mere hundred people seemed so many. They just said that they could equal ten to one, but now they have to weigh whether ten people will be afraid standing in front of a hundred people.
The soldiers rushed towards the Xuantu military camp. At this time, some people could be seen riding horses, while others were just walking. At first it was a line, but gradually it became one piece, and then divided into successive ones. Then, some people who were left behind began to be knocked down by monsters, and their voices were gradually drowned out by the roars of wild beasts.
They were actually still far away from them at this time, but they could smell the slight smell of blood in the wind, and could even hear the rumbling of the land in the distance. No one spoke for a while, but Li Bochen said: "Look out. There are monsters in the secret realm of Thunder Cloud Cave where Zhu Hou is hiding. Now Zhu Hou has sent some people to lure those monsters to the camp."
He turned to look at the soldiers behind him and saw that some of their faces were a little pale.
Then he added: "I've seen those monsters, and they don't run very fast. It's about two miles from the mouth of the valley to the main camp. For an ordinary person wearing armor and holding a sword, it only takes a quarter of an hour at most."
"But now those who were knocked down by monsters in the back were probably because they were afraid and their legs and feet lacked strength."
At this point, the screams of people before death became more and more clear. He listened for a while and said: "Actually, this is nothing. If a monster from the North Plains rushes over, you will feel your feet shaking and your ears filled with thunder. You will be trampled to death before you are bitten to death."
At this time, Zhu Hou's hundred or so people were probably only sixty or seventy left. More than thirty were cavalry and more than forty were strong soldiers. They were all running desperately, but they were only two meters away from the main camp of Xuantu's army. Three hundred steps.
Li Bochen turned to look at Zhao Bo again and saw that his mouth was tightly closed and his eyes were unblinking. He said, "General Zhao, tell me, can the soldiers in the camp stop those monsters?"
After a while, Zhao Bo said: "I'm afraid... I can't stop him."
At this time, all the monsters in the valley have probably been lured out. I saw an endless black shadow in the wilderness, extremely fast and flexible, with terrifying momentum. Li Bochen then smiled and said, "Let's take a look."
When Zhu Hou's men approached the camp a hundred steps away, they heard them shouting. Ordinary people can't hear clearly, but Li Boxen can hear it slightly - some people are shouting "let me in" or "help".
But the camp gate was closed tightly, and when they were within a hundred steps away, they were first greeted by a wave of arrows. Seven or eight of the thirty or so riders in front fell down immediately. The remaining people hurriedly reined in their horses, as if they didn't know whether to continue forward or run to both sides.
Li Bochen then said: "If I were a member of the camp, I wouldn't fire this wave of arrows. Anyway, these people can't rush into the camp gate, so it's better to leave the arrows to the monsters."
As he said this, another wave of arrows shot out from the camp. The cavalrymen hurriedly beat their horses and fled to both sides. The infantrymen who followed saw that the situation was not good and also split to both sides.
But then the monster caught up. At this moment, there were torches set by Xuantu's army on the ground around them, which clearly illuminated the appearance of those monsters - many of them were human figures like the old woman and the white tiger last night. From a distance, they might just look a little weird. But the descendants of the monster are scary and look like ghosts.
Hearing the breathing of the soldiers behind him become a little faster, he turned his face slightly to look at Chang Qiuwu and Fang Bao, and his expressions were a little awe-inspiring. Sui Bujiu, on the other hand, looked calm and calm like him, without panicking.
Li Bochen thought to himself, he must be thinking the same thing as me now - what do these things mean compared to the monsters in Beiyuan?
Some of the cavalry and infantrymen escaped, while others were killed by the monsters. Li Bochen counted ten times in his heart, but the third wave of arrows had not yet been fired. After counting five more times, a piece came out sparsely.
He said: "The people in the camp must have seen these things now, but they are also a little panicked - in fact, if you look carefully, these things are not only scary in appearance, but compared with the warriors wearing armor and holding swords who are bent on taking human lives, which one is more Scary? Of course it’s the latter.”
"So at this time, if you are afraid you will die, only by keeping your mind calm can you win."
After a while, someone said: "... Your Majesty is right."
The monster rushed to Juma. But they were more flexible than people. Except for some who were squeezed up by others, most of them avoided it, jumped over the ditch, and began to climb up the wall. The wall of the village was about four meters high. As soon as the first wave of monsters climbed halfway, they heard the sound of rumble drums in the camp.
One wave of crossbowmen probed the top of the wall and shot arrows down. The other wave immediately switched to shooting downwards, killing dozens of them instantly. But as more and more monsters climbed up, a few wooden sticks with iron spikes suddenly swung down from the top of the wall, and another section was swept away in an instant.
A slightly larger monster behind saw the situation and roared angrily. With a flick of its legs, it jumped four to five meters high and landed on a log. The hammering wood was swept by several strong men holding iron ropes on the wall. This time, it slowed down a bit. The monster took advantage of its strength and jumped up onto the wall. With a wave of its hands, it was covered in blood. The little demon climbing up the wall behind it got free time, and suddenly jumped up five or six more times, occupying a space on the top of the wall.
At this time, I saw a general jumping up in the stronghold, holding a long gun. He volleyed a little to the left and right, and immediately pierced the two little demons. When it hit the ground, it swept again and hit the big demon hard. The big demon didn't have a stable footing and was knocked down all of a sudden.
Soldiers gathered around the general and killed all the remaining little demons.
The big demon fell to the ground, seemed very angry, and jumped up again. But before it could reach the top of the city, a dozen feather arrows flew out of the village, piercing it into a hedgehog and falling to the ground.
Seeing this scene, Li Boxen said, "It's time to hold on."
After he said this, he glanced at Fang Yu. Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment before saying, "General, why is this?"
ha. He really knows his own mind. Li Bochen then said: "These things have no armor or siege equipment. They only rely on their flesh and blood to rush up. If they want to take down the camp, they must either have ten times more soldiers, or the people in the camp will be in disarray." .”
"But you see now that the defense forces in the camp have responded properly and have gradually calmed down. Then these monsters have no chance of winning. If we wait a little longer, the soldiers in the camp will attack to wipe out the remaining enemies. Everyone, I want you to do this now Can you be like them in the camp?"
No one spoke for a while, and Li Boxen said: "Many of the soldiers in this battalion were recruited locally. When it comes to military courage and courage, I am afraid they may not be as good as you. Maybe it is because of the usual training that we are here now. . Many of you have traveled around the world, and you should have seen the bloody storms. But how are those 'bloody storms' compared to the scene in front of you?"
"——This is just a few centurions guarding the camp."
After a moment of silence, Zhao Bo said: "Junhou, we all know it. We shouldn't have boasted before."
Li Bochen smiled in his heart and stopped talking.
At this time, most of the monsters gathered around and spread out along the village wall. There were only two or three hundred people, and some were killed or injured. Now that they were dispersed, the pressure on the defenders inside the wall suddenly decreased. The drums in the village rumbled, the monsters were killed again, and some began to retreat in all directions. By this time, the defenders probably only had about a dozen casualties.
About a quarter of an hour later, when the monsters saw that they were unable to attack, some jumped on the ground and ate the corpses of their own kind. Others, in human form, started to run back.
At this moment, the sound of drums changed again, and the gate on one side of the village opened with a bang. The nearby monsters were about to rush in, but were immediately knocked down by four net-headed iron arrows fired from the door and bed crossbow. They had no fighting spirit to begin with, so when they saw this scene, they started to scatter like birds and beasts.
Then I heard the order - the soldiers of the Sui army formed a team, with the sword and shield bearers in front, the spearmen in the middle, and the crossbowmen in the back. They formed a team of 100 and pressed out.
Some monsters still refused to give up when they saw people, and rushed towards the formation, but they raised their swords and shields to block them, and then they all came out with swords and guns, and were killed immediately. Even though a few people had transformed into human forms, they could only overturn the first row, and were then picked up by several spears and thrown aside.
After all the hundred-man troops left the camp, they were divided into ten ten-man troops and each covered them. Then fifty more fine cavalry rushed out, divided into five teams of ten, and went back and forth to kill the fleeing monsters.
The soldiers behind Li Bochen stared blankly, but he was a little puzzled - are the soldiers in Xuantu City so strong? Looking at the combat power, military discipline, and morale, it seems that they are not making any concessions compared to the frontier troops.
At this time Chang Qiuwu said: "Junhou, when are we going to seize the car?"
Seeing the formation in front of him, he must have realized that those monsters were about to be killed and retreated. In fact, this situation was beyond Li Bochen's expectation - according to his original expectation, the Sui army's soldiers would be panicked for a while, suffer more casualties, and even be briefly invaded into the camp, and then retake the wall and pursue them again. suppress. But now the soldiers in this camp are ridiculously strong. Li Bochen even saw two ten generals using Lei Fa - with such cultivation, they only became ten generals in this army?
His heart moved and he couldn't help but said: "Fengzhi, what were you going to say to me before?"
Chang Qiuwu was stunned for a moment, then whispered: "I want to say that... there is Wei Zongshan in this camp. Wei Zongshan is a rebel general of our army. He was the commander of the capital before, but now he is the commander of the Sui army."
"He is in the spiritual realm."
Li Bochen's heart trembled - no wonder! I'm afraid there are more than 500 soldiers in this camp. A commander with 10,000 soldiers would have a battalion of 500 soldiers! The only good players he saw were the elite ones brought by Wei Zongshan!
He couldn't help but frown and said, "Why didn't you tell me before!?"
Chang Qiuwu looked left and right, thought again and again, and then said: "Junhou, I... I only found out at night... I forgot to mention it before."
Li Bochen's heart sank, he gritted his teeth and thought to himself, Chang Fengzhi, if you didn't say it before, why bother saying it now! ? You, you!
But he could only take a deep breath and said: "Okay. I understand."
After hearing what he said, Chang Qiuwu seemed a little at a loss and just said: "Junhou, I am also..."
But Li Boxen said: "All armies obey orders!"
The crowd behind them said: "Yes!"
"Follow me forward!"
After saying this, he strode out without listening to the footsteps of others. He took another step, and then heard Fang Yucang draw out his saber with a clang, and shouted: "Follow the Lord! Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"
More than a dozen people moved. Li Bochen walked dozens of steps in the night, when a small monster suddenly jumped out of the grass. Without even looking at it, he swung his knife and immediately cut it in half.
When he was more than a hundred steps away from the pursuing Sui troops and would be noticed if he went any further, he stopped and said: "Stop!"
"You are right here - if there are monsters, kill them without mercy. If there are large groups of Sui troops, retreat in hiding."
Then he whispered: "Here you come, protect me."
Chang Qiuwu followed him, his expression ugly. But after hearing these words, he was stunned, and immediately said: "Yes... follow the order!"
Li Bochen then sat cross-legged on the ground, and his Yin spirit came out of his body.
Chang Xiu has done something embarrassing, but he can't back out today. I originally expected Zhu Hou to temporarily turn the tide of the battle, but now it seems that he needs to work harder!
