Chapter 623: Deadlock

Chapter 623: Deadlock

   Chapter 623

  The sunlight did not show up for a long time, and the fog was only able to dissipate until around the afternoon. The narrow roads in the mountains and the military flags of the city walls finally showed their completeness.

  The fog between heaven and earth disappeared, replaced by heavy blood.

  "His grandson, the enemy army south of the city has been repulsed!"

  On the west tower of the city, the boy in armor and saber nodded: "The poor are not chasing--"

It was verified that the siege in the south was so loud, but only 10,000 horses were dispatched. The real thunder and rain were small, and then the damaged soldiers and horses were thrown away. The remaining wounded soldiers of the other side were all the rest. It is useless to escape back into the camp.

  What's more, there is nowhere to go.

  The most important thing at the moment is these enemy forces to the west.

  The reinforcements of the battalions have arrived one after another, and the more than 50,000 enemy troops that had the upper hand have gradually shown fatigue.

   In order to cover people's eyes and ears, he rushed to swiftly under the thick fog all night, and the **** battle came to the present. Not only people, but even war horses are too close to bear.

   In the sound of slaughter, the light of blood covered the sky, and the sky gradually darkened.

  "His grandson, General Xiao is back!"

  The long lights have been hung on the corners of the tower, and the pine oil torches have been burned, and the night breeze will sometimes blow up, stirring the flames and flickering, flashing bright and dark all around.

   Xiao Shoujiang was supported by a soldier to the tower.

  "General Xiao was injured?" Wu Zhao stepped forward, supporting his other arm.

   "It's okay, it's just a gap in the back!" Xiao Shoujiang didn't care.

  At first, he led his troops forward. The enemy was a widow. He had to rush to the front in order to strengthen his morale. He had just cut down the leader of the two armies and had time to dodge in the future, but he was murdered behind him.

  The armor was on his body, the wound was not too deep, and he didn't care about it, so he killed for most of the day with the wounds. It wasn't until the reinforcements came and seeing the situation turned around that I felt "Hey, it hurts", and when he touched his backhand back, he reacted, "Oh, I was stabbed earlier."

   Seeing that his blood-stained face turned pale, Wu Chao immediately said: "First help General Xiao to return to the camp to treat his injuries."

  What do you bring to climb the tower at this time?

"The subordinate is here to report the letter from the same generation!" Xiao Shoujiang smiled "hehe", he didn't care about the injury at all. Seeing that the people on the left and right were about to stand him down, he hurriedly said: "The grandson of Ma Duanlian can't hold it. Now, it must be withdrawn. According to the arrangement of the grandson, people have been ordered to guard the exit of Xishan. This time they have to go without returning!"

  This battle was dealt with in a timely manner, and the situation was reversed. At the moment, the door was closed and the dog was beaten. It was a great deal!

  The most important thing is that this is the first battle!

  If there is a big victory in the first battle, the morale of the court will be smashed!

  Thinking about these, Xiao Shoujiang will inevitably be excited.

  In contrast, Wu Chao's nodding movement was a bit perfunctory, and he waved his hands to several people, motioning to take them back quickly.

  Shoujiang Xiao, who hadn't finished speaking, was forcibly taken down the tower like this.

  Wu Chao looked at the undulating mountains in the distance.

  This battle is indeed very important. It is to establish prestige and pave the way for the future.

  So, these soldiers and horses are bound to stay.

There was a slight deviation from Xiao Shoujiang’s expectation. Ma Duanlian did not retreat for the time being. He kept leading the army until late at night. After exhaustion, seeing that there was no chance of winning, it was really difficult to support, and he had to order the entire army to retreat. .

After   , it is convenient to mountain.

  Although I know that this retreat is very likely to face a new predicament, but now I can only retreat to the mountains.

   "General, I can't get out...Every exit is guarded by Wu's army!"

  In the mountains, several soldiers who went to explore the road turned back, and what they brought back was news that shocked everyone.

   Marching all night, and struggling to fight to the present, even those who have never been injured are exhausted.

  Fighting and fighting for a long time, all you see are blood and limbs. For most people, this is originally a violent damage to the visual body and mind.

   After being numb, it stopped for a while, and there was endless emptiness and fear.

  Suddenly heard that the exit has been blocked, and many people are on the verge of emotional collapse.

   "There are interceptors in front, and chasers are approaching behind! They are obviously trying to chase us to death by winning the pursuit!"

  "When the troops were dispatched...didn't the general say that he had an 80% chance of winning!"

  Why did these Wu Jiajun move so fast?

  Not only has not been diverted by the offensive from the south of the city, but also all the battalions and horses have been transferred here in such a short period of time!

  The plans and tactics they had originally set were gradually broken by the opponent...

  Deputy General Ma Duanlian held a knife in his hand and slid his side. His hair under his helmet was messy, his eyes were almost red, and he said in a hoarse voice: "It's up to people to get things done, and it's up to the sky to get things done."

  When he saw the enemy's reinforcements coming in time, he already knew that the strategy had been seen through.

  Ningyang City is heavily defensive. This time a surprise attack from the west is the easiest way to win!

  If Ningyang City can be won in this way, it will surely shock King Yan and the Xu family!

  And if this battle is defeated, the defeat will be the face and prestige of the court...

  In the sky...

The soldiers beside    heard these four characters, and felt that they could not see any hope.

  If things happen in the sky, are they in such a situation that they don’t even want to take care of Daqing anymore?

  The atmosphere was sad and anxious. After a whole hour passed, the sky gradually lit up, but there was no movement at the entrance and exit of the mountain.

  The hairy moon on the top of his head has disappeared, and the voices of people in the silent mountain are noisy.

  "General, Wu Jiajun did not chase him..."

  Ma Duanlian's eyes are unfixed.

"They won't enter the mountain anymore..." He looked at the direction of the forest exit ahead, and asserted: "The terrain in the mountain is complex, and the odds of winning are unpredictable... They want to trap us in this forest without a single soldier. In."

  He chose to attack from the west because there are mountains to the west, the weakest forces, and the most overlooked——

  At the moment, this mountain has become a land-blocking tiger, a huge cage, which traps them...

  True is also this mountain, and defeat is also this mountain.

   "No wonder... no wonder they only guard the entrances and exits!"

   "General, what shall we do now? Is it possible to wait and die like this?"

   "Let's just kill it! It's better than dying in this mountain!"

   "Yes, kill it!"

   echoed the sound of harmony, but more soldiers chose to be silent, waiting for the general's decision.

"Don't act rashly. Take a rest here for a day, and then discuss countermeasures after recovering your strength." Ma Duanlian looked around his tired faces and confessed: "Make a fire, put the wounded soldiers in one place, and use horses. The wound medicine carried on his back treated the wound, and another person was sent to find the source of water, and the water was taken for the wounded soldier first."

  As for food, I was concerned about the speed of the march. Each person only brought two pancakes. I can only deal with it for a while. After a short rest, I will let people find some mountain fruit prey in the mountains.

  Everyone obeyed orders, and each division of labor followed suit.

   Soon, the fire ignited, the light of the fire dissipated the last ray of darkness in the mountain, the morning sun also slowly rose, and the warmth spilled over the world, making people feel at ease.

Many soldiers lay there and fell asleep. Ma Duanlian sat by the fire and looked at a young soldier not far away, who was leaning on the boulder. The soldier was still holding half of the unfinished naan in his hand. He was already asleep first.

  The wounded soldiers groan hard to endure.

   "How many people are left?" Ma Duanlian asked the subordinates beside him in a dumb voice.

   "Back to the general, I have just counted them. There are still more than 36,000 people left, of which nearly 1,000 are seriously injured, and the slightly injured are redoubled..."

  Ma Duanlian heard that he clenched the handle of the knife in his hand.

  In other words...more than 10,000 troops were lost on this day alone!

"At the time of the battle, the subordinates watched the arm crossbows and bed crossbows they used. They were all amazingly powerful and in a style that had never been seen before... and there were soldiers holding fire guns! Privately manufactured a large number of weapons and firearms... the Wu family rebelled. It’s been a long time since my heart!"

  Ma Duanlian listened with a heavy heart.

  He also saw it.

  Especially those fire guns...

Fire guns have been in existence since the previous days, and they are not a rare thing. Because they are extremely labor-intensive, not only time-consuming and silver-consuming, it is also very labor-intensive if the operation is slightly improper, and it is not easy to hurt the enemy, and it has never Is used on a large scale.

  And what the Wu family used yesterday was obviously restructured by a master craftsman...

   "...It's so **** rich!" Hearing this, someone on the side "pooh".

  Rebellion is really the anti-dharma of the poor and the rich!

  In the evening of that day, halfway through the hour, Ma Duanlian made people look for a relatively empty place, and ten clusters of screaming fireworks exploded in the night sky.

  "His grandson, they burned the fireworks in the mountains, so it should be shown to Hu Kun and the others."

  In the West Camp, there are soldiers who have entered the account.

  Wu Chao, who was sitting behind the case, let out an "um", the pen in his hand did not stop, and said, "Don't worry about it."

  Ma Duanlian is asking for help from Hu Kun.

  Not to mention that Hu Kun can't see it anymore, even if he can still see it, he may not dare to come after such a defeat.

  The soldier answered "Yes", and did not say much for a while, but when Wu Chao put aside his pen, Shicai said again: "General Xiao just sent someone to ask Shi Sun, what arrangements are there tonight."

  Wu Chao sounded a little funny.

  It’s such an hour, Xiao Shoujiang hasn’t even fallen asleep yet?

  And the same question was asked last night.

   "No arrangement, wait patiently."

  In the middle of the night the next day, Ma Duanlian deployed in the mountains and sent a team of elites to break through the weak defensive area, but failed to do so.

  Another day, some soldiers in the mountains cooked their horses and ate them without authorization, but they used military law to deal with more than ten people.

  On the sixth day, a rain fell suddenly, the rain became stronger, and the mountain breeze roared, like a mourning horn.

  More than 30,000 soldiers, most of them have no way to hide.

  After this rain, more than two thousand people fell ill.

  This is the end of the crossbow, coupled with the shortage of food in the mountains, under intense vigilance all day long, a chill invades the body, it is almost difficult to resist.

   Marching assault, it is common to bring some medicine on horseback, but it is absolutely impossible to prepare medicine for the treatment of wind and cold.

  Also, it is only ordinary medicine for wounding, and it is not effective if there is no military doctor around to treat it——

  Blade and arrow injury, firearm injury, wind chill, high fever...

  Every day, new bodies are buried in the mountains by Ma Duanlian's orders.

   "Why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet! If this continues, we are afraid that one of us will not want to leave here alive!"

   "Since the plan of the day was seen through, General Hu feared and suffered heavy losses..."

  "What about the court? The daily signal for reinforcements has been continuously released. It has been nine days. The surrounding counties, counties, and prefectures must have known...Doesn't even the government and court care about our life or death!"

  "……"

  Suddenly fell silent around, almost no one could see any hope.

  Government, court...

  Can they still wait for the reinforcements sent by the court?

  Or does the court have abandoned them?

  A soldier fell to the ground, looking like a lost soul.

  Everything they did was to obey military orders and fight for the court for your majesty. Now that they have lost the battle, don’t they even have the qualifications to live?

  An atmosphere of despair almost enveloped the entire mountain forest.

  In late autumn, frost is everywhere, wild fruits and weeds are hard to find, and occasional hunting of birds and beasts is unsustainable.

  I tried to break out again in the past few days, and tried all the sneak attacks, but it was like a copper wall and iron wall erected outside, and they couldn't shake it even if they tried their best.

  These things go on, waiting for them to die from illness or starve to death.

  "General, 314 bodies were buried today..."

  Outside a low cave, Ma Duanlian nodded almost imperceptibly as he listened to the report from his subordinates.

  Today is already the eleventh day.

  All the strategies he can think of have been tried.

  On the contrary, at this point, he felt that Wu Jiajun was too kind.

  If Wu Jiajun intends to start, he must go only to enter the mountains to kill.

  He had no sleep last night, and once thought, if he were Wu Jiajun, what would he do now?

  Now this situation is not even unfamiliar to him. Just a few months ago, when he had not been transferred to Ningyang by the sacred decree, he had suppressed the chaotic people in Dun County. At that time, the chaotic people were also forced into the mountains by him.

Thinking that these people are familiar with the terrain in the mountains, they are good at setting traps, and they are also good at guerrilla. In order to increase the chances of winning, he poisoned people in the upstream waters early. kill.

  Now, they can at least drink a sip of clean water.

  Thinking about these, Ma Duanlian felt hard to tell.

  "General...what are we going to do next?" The subordinate looked at Lieutenant Ma, who had turned pale by the side of the day, with a faint expectation in his eyes.

  It can be seen with the naked eye that the much older Ma Duanlian moved his pale and chapped lips, unable to speak for a while.

  Reinforcements have not arrived...

  Lack in the mountains in the deep autumn, not to mention people, or even horses...

  In contrast, Wu Jiajun has plenty of soldiers and Ma Xiaoyong, and Ningyang is leaning behind him, which means a steady stream of supplies.

  What else can he do?

   "General!"

  At this time, a soldier rushed over and saluted on one knee. He held a letterhead in his hand: "The Wu family's army has just brought people into the mountain, and sent this letter, saying that it needs to be handed over to the general to open it!"

  Wu Jiajun? !

  Recently, the mountains seem to be separated from the outside world, and they have become a world where one party is alone and locked. No news has come in. This even makes them often feel a sense of deadly silence that "no one will care until they die."

  At the moment, I heard that the Wu family sent a letter, and for an instant it was like a huge boulder thrown into the water, finally causing the dead water to move.

  But why did the Wu family send someone to deliver the letter? !

  At this time, the winning or losing is almost determined, why should the opponent make more moves?

  Ma Duanlian took apart the letter paper very quickly.

  On the letter paper, those few lines of handwriting are clear and powerful...

  In an instant, Ma Duanlian’s eyes were almost locked on the particularly eye-catching four characters——

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