The frightened riders fled back to their own barracks. One man ran into the commander's camp as fast as he could, knelt down and shouted: "Sir, the Xia people have shot all the vanguard Wei who tried to persuade them to surrender under the gate of Bazhou."
"Since I've been shot, you should go with me." Marshal Lei just said coldly.
The life of a soldier is like an ant without a nest, or like a piece of green grass on the roadside, ready for anyone to trample on.
The most pitiable thing was the soldier who reported the news. He didn't even have the courage to seek life for himself. All he could do was panic until his whole body trembled.
"Pull him out and kill him."
Several guards, like cold-blooded beasts, easily carried the pawn who reported the news out of the camp. Even to the point of death, the soldier could not understand that he did not die in the fighting on the battlefield, but was killed by his own sword.
"Send the order, the whole army attacks."
The generals cupped their hands and replied: "Take your orders."
The black army marched towards Bazhou City in the shape of several long snakes. The Orbin Empire's nearly half a million troops must take over Bazhou today.
When the army approached the city, the distance between the two armies was only thirty to fifty feet, and there was a moat in front of the city wall that was more than ten feet wide. The Orbin Army has set up countless siege crossbows and thousands of trebuchets.
Just listening to the command from Marshal Lei from behind, the war drums beat, the long hairs shot by the giant crossbows, the boulders thrown by the trebuchets and the cans filled with fuel flew towards the city of Bazhou like demons. Suddenly the sky lost color, and the only sound was the sound of flying spears and boulders rubbing against the air, 'Buzz...'
In an instant, countless houses in Bazhou City were destroyed, causing countless casualties. The impregnable city wall has also been blasted with many deep holes and cracks by huge rocks.
After a round of long-range attacks, the war drums sounded again, and countless infantrymen moved like densely packed ants. Several people or groups carried rafts to the moat and threw them into the river. They wanted to use the fastest way to build many rafts. A bridge across the river.
When the army was spread out two to three feet, they suddenly heard the sound of killing on the city wall. Thousands of bows and crossbows were fired in a matter of seconds, and tens of thousands of Orbin soldiers became dead souls under the arrow feathers.
Seeing that the enemy was counterattacking so fiercely, the commander named Lei ordered the front line to continue throwing stones and spears to attack from afar. Here, the infantry raised their shields and pushed forward to build the bridge. However, they were faced with a rain of arrows. How could the shields as big as dustpans protect them? It only reduced the death rate.
An hour's storming could only complete the rafting of the moat, but tens of thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded. General Lei, who was supervising the battle on the high ground behind, saw that he could not attack the gate of Bazhou City for a long time, and he also had a lot of worries in his heart.
Although he did not care about the lives of his men, he did not care about his own life. If many soldiers were killed in the battle of Bazhou, even after the city of Bazhou was conquered, what would he use to expand the territory for his king after suffering heavy losses.
The most ridiculous thing is that he knew that the enemy's reinforcements had entered the city, but he still chose to attack by force, vowing to capture Bazhou with great ambition.
Attacking will add countless dead souls. If you retreat, all the previous sacrifices will be in vain. It perfectly fits the saying that ideals are full but reality is skinny.
In a dilemma, he finally chose to withdraw his troops. But those soldiers lying in a pool of blood on the raft could no longer retreat, and there were countless others floating on the river and sinking into the river.
When night fell, the number of people in the city had been counted, and there were less than 80,000 people capable of fighting. The two brothers Yunzheng and Yuntong stood on the city wall, looking at the darkness in front of them, smelling the cold smell of blood in the wind, and smelling the miserable wail of the soldier who was not dead yet. The two brothers were speechless. Brothers fighting tigers, father and son are just who they are at this moment.
After a long time, Yuntong said: "Brother, how long can we hold on?"
Yun Zheng remained silent.
Yun Tong muttered for a while and asked again: "Do you think the king will send troops to support us?"
Yunzheng looked at his younger brother who was standing side by side with him, smiled and patted his shoulder, and replied: "The king will send troops. According to the current situation, it should be okay for us to hold out for ten days. The king's reinforcements will definitely arrive within ten days." , so don’t worry.”
"But," Yuntong did not continue.
Seeing that Yun Tong was silent, Yun Zheng smiled and asked, "But what?"
Seeing his brother asking questions, Yun Tong had no choice but to answer honestly: "We are marching in a hurry. Each of the soldiers has only prepared three days of solid food. We have spent two days on the road, and there will be no food to satisfy our hunger tomorrow."
"You silly boy, you have only been guarding Bazhou for a few days. Are you still afraid of running out of supplies?" Yun Zheng said with a smile.
Yuntong could only scratch his head in embarrassment and did not answer any more.
"Okay, you should go and rest first. You may not know when they will come to attack us."
When Yuntong heard what his brother said, he was a little surprised and asked: "They suffered so many losses during the day, how dare they attack at night?"
Yun Zheng put his arms on the parapet, "Everything is possible if the soldiers follow deceitful tactics. So go and rest quickly, and send an order to the whole army to rest quickly. There will be a battle in the middle of the night."
Yuntong replied: "Yes, brother, you should take a rest earlier."
"Go." After Yun Tong left, Yun Zheng called the generals of the night watch soldiers on the city wall and ordered: "Take two teams of people to the outside of the city to light a bonfire. Remember that the fire must burn for more than 10 hours. We must have a bonfire tonight. Cheer up, and when the ugly hour comes, you will have to shoot ten rockets in different directions outside the city in half a cup of tea."
The young general cupped his hands and replied: "My subordinates give orders."
After saying that, Yun found a quiet spot on the city wall, backed a chair against the parapet, closed his eyes and meditated.
Sure enough, at the end of the Chou period, with the light of those rockets that were still burning and a few unburned bonfires, the sentry clearly saw someone flashing past, and the sentry shouted: "Enemy found, enemy found."
The sentry only shouted twice, and countless oil cans filled with fuel were thrown out of the city at the same time. Thousands of burning rockets shot out from the top of the city wall, and then the sky was filled with arrows. The enemy troops who came to attack the field were all lightly armed at the moment. They were unable to resist at all for a while. They could only hear the wailing of countless people echoing in the sea of fire.
The front line reported back to Marshal Lei, but the sneak attack was fruitless and he was ambushed by the enemy. He lost more than 30,000 troops.
At this second, Marshal Lei panicked and couldn't sit still. If he continued to fight like this, it wouldn't take long for these soldiers to finish fighting him. He was afraid that his mistakes would ruin the glory he had gained over the years, including his life.
However, when he truly became the commander-in-chief of an army, he would not go to war according to his wishes. However, he would be so incompetent.
Marshal Lei had no choice but to order the troops to retreat again, but at the same time, what he wanted in his mind was to kill the counselor who proposed the night attack.
In the early morning, under Fu You's order, Feng Wulin's 100,000 forward troops served as the left route army, and Gexin's 100,000 center forward troops served as the second route army. The two armies simultaneously bypassed the mountain road of Bazhou City and returned to Orbin Country. The rear of the army can be in position in one day.
Fuyou camped five miles behind Bazhou City and took command.
