Chapter 261 Receive Remnant Soldiers
The wind and snow dissipated under the power of Yunqi bombs.
The earth sees the sun again, the sky is blue and vast, and the warm sun is shining outside Beifeng City, just like in ancient times.
The frozen blood and frozen bones on the brown ground tell of the war and death that just happened here.
After the snow clouds dissipated, the temperature warmed up briefly, and the blood ice on the ground began to melt, turning into nutrients and seeping into the soil.
In the coming year, the flowers and plants here should be quite lush and beautiful.
But next year things will be invisible to most people here, because the war is not over,
The huge Beifeng City whose north wall collapsed has now turned into a huge flesh and blood mill, constantly devouring the lives of the living.
The momentum of the barbarians was like a rainbow, and the 300,000 frontier troops of the sect also tried their best to make the last resistance.
But the barbarian offensive wave after wave, stretching like a sea tide.
As a big soldier with no background, Li Zixiang has been in the northern border for five years since he came to the northern border from the martial arts school under Lingshui Palace.
Compared to those veterans who have been in the northern border for more than ten or even decades, his five years are not long, but it just happened to be a good time for the barbarians to invade the south.
War is both a danger and an opportunity.
When he first saw these tall, burly and hideous aliens on the battlefield, Li Zixiang actually had a natural fear in his heart, but gradually he found that his fear was a bit funny.
These barbarians are all silver-like pewter gun heads, which look like they will shatter when touched by the Dayan frontier army.
What a bunch of idiots.
Can't beat it again and again, but still want to come south to invade Dayan, isn't this an idiot?
Every time he goes to the battlefield, he can get a lot of military exploits from this group of dark-skinned fools.
Give him a chance to succeed without any background or family background.
In just five years, he has changed from a **** to the current Dubo.
He is not considered a senior official in the army, but he has about fifty brothers under his command.
In addition to saving enough for his own cultivation, he can also go to Goulan to meet his old friend. He has even made an appointment to redeem her body when he saves enough money so that she can give birth to a fat boy for him.
But at this moment, all these thoughts have disappeared.
On the 4th watch the day before yesterday, the generals who had kept them standing still for reinforcements suddenly issued an order for them to start a fire immediately and prepare to move out of the camp.
Although he was puzzled, he still did it, because those generals definitely thought of much more than this big bastard.
And as he thought,
at dawn
Those high-ranking generals once again used the magic of the fairy family to open the eyes of God and drive away all the **** snow clouds in the sky.
The barbarians surrounding the camp were directly exposed within their line of sight.
Very close.
It was about ten miles east of their camp.
Li Zixiang thought it would be a fierce battle, and he was even a little excited because of it.
After all, these barbarians are all military exploits. If he gets more military exploits, he may be able to be promoted to a general next year.
As a porter who used to work as a coolie on the pier, this was something he couldn't even imagine.
But there is always a certain gap between ideal and reality.
The generals gave the order not to prepare to meet the enemy, but to avoid the barbarian army and form an army to enter Beifeng.
This disappoints Li Zixiang, who is eager for military exploits, because in fine weather, unless the barbarians seek death, it is impossible for the extinct to choose to confront their 300,000 army head-on.
However, if there is a loss, there must be a gain, and soon the general's order made Li Zixiang excited again.
As the frontier army subordinate to Lingshui Palace, Li Zixiang became the vanguard of him entering the city.
The barbarians will inevitably leave some defenders in Beifeng City. As long as he attacks the top of the city, it will be a great achievement.
But alas,
From the very beginning, the script of the battlefield seems to be out of control.
The barbarians threw countless stone-throwing weapons and fell on the marching road of their forward army formation, but this is not a problem for the army formation that has become a large army.
The soldiers resonated, and the tide-like Qi and blood directly smashed all these flying things into powder.
And the barbarians are dying.
In clear weather, they dared to pursue the large army that had formed a camp.
Countless barbarian wolf riders rushed directly into the waiting army like moths to the flame.
War is imminent.
Li Zixiang thought that the generals would let them change the formation immediately.
The front army turned to the rear army, deployed troops, and lined up to attack these desperate barbarians head-on.
But the general chose to fight and retreat, and let them, the former army, take the head of Beifeng City as quickly as possible.
Military orders are like a mountain, and Li Zixiang can only follow them if he doesn't understand them.
After several hours of fierce fighting, they successfully defeated the small number of barbarian troops entrenched on the top of the city and captured the northern city wall.
Thirty thousand pioneers entered the city to clean up the remaining barbarian troops in the city, and the 100,000 Chinese army quickly cleaned up the city wall. The quartermaster quickly arranged some simple defense equipment on the top of the city, ready to meet the troops entering the city.
As time goes by,
As the forward among the forwards, Li Zixiang was already in the city, and the brothers beside him fell down one by one.
The spiritual knife in his hand was curled because of the hard black skin of the barbarians, so he randomly picked up the dead comrades on the ground.
Under the blessing of Qi and blood in the military formation, even if he only has a sixth-rank cultivation, he can't hard-wire every five-rank Soul Condensation.
Li Zixiang couldn't remember how many barbarians he killed with one knife after another, but the black blood had already stained all the armor on his body black.
Time seems to stand still at this moment.
The earth-shattering roar made the ground of the entire Beifeng City tremble, and almost everyone looked back to the direction where the sound came from.
In the astonished eyes of all the frontier soldiers,
The giant wall of the Northern Seal that stood in front of the barbarians for thousands of years collapsed.
The landslides and ground cracked, the rubble flew, and the smoke and dust from the collapse enveloped half of Beifeng City.
What frightened all the grassroots generals was that the connection between the small army formed by them and the commander was also broken at this time.
The originally imposing military spirit was in turmoil at this moment.
The collapsed huge wall blocked the more than 100,000 soldiers who were about to enter the city outside the city. The loss of contact with the coach made the super large army formed by the 300,000 frontier troops fall into a war of their own.
The originally orderly battle situation began to become chaotic, and the balance of the war also began to tilt at this moment.
An hour later, Li Zixiang successfully climbed up to the south city wall, and looked back into the city.
Under the clear sky, there is the huge city of Beifeng full of gunpowder.
The screams of the fellow robes can also be faintly heard on the south wall.
collapsed
"Li Tou."
"Li Tou."
"Li Tou!"
A cry from beside him awakened Li Zixiang from his memories, and he looked around subconsciously.
Surroundings were no longer the giant city of Beifeng, but a vast white snow field. The blurred snowflakes falling from the sky almost completely obscured their sight. A dozen soldiers wrapped in coats sat quietly cross-legged to rest around, while the tree he was sitting on Standing beside him was a young man wearing ordinary frontier armor.
Looking up at the person coming, Li Zixiang forced a smile:
"Li Xia, what's wrong?"
The visitor was a young man in his twenties, who had just graduated from the martial arts school and came to the northern border this year.
Li Xia wrapped his warm coat slightly tightly around his body, and said in a low voice:
"Tou Li, General Hou just sent a letter saying that we will arrive at Houting County soon, let me wait to prepare and start moving forward."
Li Zixiang was silent for a while, looked back at the soldiers with low morale around him, and asked, "We...are we getting rid of the harassment of those barbarian wolf cavalry?"
Li Xia showed a smile on his youthful face: "Well, General Hou said that Wu Chenghou's reinforcements have arrived in Houting County, and the barbarians probably dare not pursue them."
Hearing this, Li Zi also relaxed slightly to Xin, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, and he said with a sincere smile:
"That's good, that's good."
It has been four days since Beifeng was defeated, and the armies broke through separately, with the barbarian tribes chasing after them.
At the beginning, the weather was sunny, and they were able to fight and retreat, but the weather only lasted for two days, and the blizzard came again, and their remnants of less than 20,000 soldiers were targeted by a barbarian snow wolf.
After two days of pursuit, they left thousands of brothers dead in the snow field.
Of the fifty brothers under him, only these ten or so are left.
Fortunately, Houting County has arrived, and they are finally safe
After the entire army learned that Hou Ting was coming, the morale that had been sluggish finally picked up a bit, and there was a glimmer of hope in the bewildered eyes of the grassroots soldiers.
Food, weapons, and safety can all be guaranteed there.
Under this belief, they marched for two hours, and their remnants finally arrived at the foot of Houting County.
But the situation after arriving was a little different from Li Zixiang's imagination.
There is no hot water, hot food, or warm rooms here, and even the tall and heavy city gate of Houting County has no intention of opening it.
Li Zi subconsciously thought that the defenders treated them as barbarians, and hurried to the front of the army column.
He saw General Hou and the young female general from the other army standing under the city wall.
The two of them raised their heads, as if they were talking to the people on the city wall, but they should be using sound transmission, and they couldn't hear the conversation between them at all.
In contrast,
Two figures in red clothes were standing on the city wall of Hou Ting, looking down indifferently on the remnant soldiers who had tried their best to escape here.
Time passed by, and the city gate still had no intention of opening. Even some advanced cultivators in the army saw through the wind and snow that the defense equipment on the city wall had quietly aimed at them.
And at this time,
A warm and jade-like male voice was blessed by Yuan Qi, and passed from above the city wall to the ears of every soldier below the city:
"General Hou, General Luo, as long as you agree to this condition, we will open the city immediately to welcome your army into the city. I don't have much patience, and fifteen minutes should be enough for you to consider."
condition?
When Li Zixiang heard this, his eyes became more puzzled, and he glanced at the two generals in front of the formation.
But I saw that the expressions of the two generals, a man and a woman, were so dark that water could drip from them.
In contrast, the soldiers who had already begun to whisper, the remnant army whose morale had gradually stabilized gradually became chaotic at this moment.
In doubt, Li Zixiang performed his exercises and raised his eyes to look at the two figures on the city wall.
The man on the city wall seemed to have noticed something, and glanced over with smiling eyes, but left in a flash and flirtatiously.
Xu Yuan withdrew his gaze and wrapped his coat around his body, and asked half-jokingly:
"Qing Yan. Isn't the condition you gave a bit too much?"
Li Qingyan's red lips curled up. He was in a good mood. With a snort, he rolled his eyes at the man beside him:
"Is it enough to hand over all the Sumeru rings and ordnance supplies?"
Xu Yuan breathed out a mouthful of white mist, looked at the remnant soldiers below, and said faintly:
"Yesterday, there was news from Yuan Hao that he has successively received about 30,000 rout soldiers. Overall, we can probably receive about 70,000 to 80,000 remnants for reorganization. It feels really good to be an empty-handed white wolf." , tsk tsk."
(end of this chapter)