Jiaohua

Chapter 1584: The worst that can happen is that you are finished

More than 30,000 people shouted in unison on the open snowfield. The volume was astonishing.

A lieutenant asked in a low voice: "What are they talking about?"

Zhai Jinsheng and Cheng Jieshi shook their heads.

They couldn't understand the Northern Yuan dialect.

Captain Liu said, "They are talking about revenge."

"Revenge?" The deputy general laughed. "These bastards, killing them is revenge, they deserve to be killed!"

Zhai Jinsheng raised his head and looked anxiously towards the highest enemy tower.

There were only Shen Lie and the deputy general of Qingji Pass on the list.

Suddenly, Zhai Jinsheng saw a slender figure below, climbing up along the stone wall of the fortress. His figure was light and flexible, and his speed was extremely fast.

Zhai Jinsheng thought he had seen it wrong.

Following his gaze, Cheng Jieshi and the two deputy generals on his left and right also looked in that direction.

"General Ali!" a deputy general called softly.

"Don't make any noise, don't disturb her." Zhai Jinsheng immediately scolded him.

But the girl obviously would not be disturbed.

She crawled all the way to the enemy tower where Shen Lie was, looking at them and smiling brightly.

Zhai Jinsheng and the others were stunned. In this situation, they had no idea what expression to express.

After a while of distraction, the girl had already climbed up swiftly. She seemed too lazy to climb the last few steps, so she grabbed the stone and flew up with her lower body, and then she flipped up with a head-hanging hook.

Captain Liu exclaimed: "General A-Li is amazing!"

The noise coming from behind made Shen Lie and the deputy general of Qingji Pass turn around.

Xia Zhaoyi dusted off his hands and walked over quickly.

Shen Lie came forward and held her hand: "Where's your coat?"

"It affected my physical ability, so I took it off and hung it on the horse's back."

As he spoke, Xia Zhaoyi opened his eyes and looked outside.

The phalanx soldiers were separating in rows, and in the vacant central space, the soldiers were carrying long ladders that had been spliced ​​together and passing through.

Xia Zhaoyi said, "I recognize this uniform. These are Yi Shurong's soldiers. They have traveled a long way to get here, but they didn't rest. As soon as they arrived, they attacked the fortress. Don't they want to die?"

The deputy general of Qingji Pass said, "They are lucky. They happened to run into us when we were short of troops! General Ali, what's going on? We have so many people. They came here to give us their heads!"

"We can't help it. We just let them get lucky," Xia Zhaoyi smiled at him, "We'll just fight."

"Generals, let me be honest. Do we really want to fight? I think we can retreat first. There is no need to defend this place."

Xia Zhaoyi nodded: "We have to fight. If we give away such a good fortress and want to take it back, tens of thousands of people will die. We have to endure a little hardship now and hold on until General Sun comes back. General Sun's army can suppress them and fight them. By then, not many of these 30,000 soldiers will survive. Even if we have to suffer a little, it doesn't matter. At worst, we will be finished!"

Hearing her say the word "finished", Shen Lie held her hand tightly, but did not look at her. His deep black eyes looked at the soldiers who were running towards him carrying ladders.

"Ali, the person who wants you and I to die on the same day does not exist."

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and said, "Let's go. I haven't fought a real hard battle yet, so let's just treat this as practice! I'll deal with the archers and trebuchets, and you can take care of the people on the wall!"

Shen Lie raised his hand and took off his heavy cloak.

Under the cloak, the waisted winter coat made him look thin and tall.

Shen Lie looked at her, his eyes seemed to be filled with stars, his smile became heroic and unrestrained, with a hint of madness.

"Back then in Peifeng, I only saw Zhao Yu fight in the city defense battle. I didn't have the chance to join him. Let me try today!"

"Just do it!" Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile. The soldiers who first came with ladders were undoubtedly the most unlucky ones.

The snow was covered with thorns and brambles. If someone accidentally fell, the ladder would likely drag down other people as well.

However, the Northern Yuan soldiers were well-trained. When they saw someone fall to the ground in front of them, soldiers would immediately run out from behind to replace him.

The substitute grabbed the ladder and continued to run forward, regardless of whether or not he would step on the back of his companion who had fallen to the ground. Their only goal was to move forward without hesitation, and to get the ladder to the bottom of the wall.

Just the waves of people using their legs to step over the spikes and thorns to pave the way turned the snow into a bright red.

But this was just the beginning. After reaching the range of the archers at Qingji Pass, they faced their second wave of tests.

Then came the falling rocks.

The defenders of Qingji Pass were short of manpower and had no way to boil oil, so they could only throw stones down.

The commander of this Northern Yuan army was none other than Meng Jinci, whose entire family was exterminated by Xia Zhaoyi.

Meng Jinci sat on the horse, his eyes red as he frantically searched for the figure of a young girl on the high wall.

Two hours after Xia Zhaoyi led hundreds of Xia family army wounded soldiers away from the main force and rushed to Qingji Pass, Meng Jinci received the news.

Over the years, the Han army dug out countless pairs of eyes that they had planted, but there are no way to dig out all the eyes.

Every human being has weaknesses.

Financial benefits can be used as bait, family and relatives can be used as threats, and if that doesn't work, you can set a trap.

Upon hearing that Xia Zhaoyi was carrying wounded soldiers, Meng Jinci chased after him directly. He was sure that the wounded soldiers were slow and could not run fast.

Who would have thought that these were all wounded soldiers?

He thought the wounded man was paralyzed, covered in blood, and was being carried on a stretcher with his neck tilted.

As a result, the wounded soldiers of the Xia family army only caught a minor cold, or had broken fingers or sprained ankles.

Chasing all the way in the dry and heavy snow, Meng Jinci finally reached Qingji Pass.

This place has always belonged to Shang Taiyu.

Shang Taiyu has not taken any action against Qingji Pass in recent years because there is no more money to be made.

After taking it down, what else can be looted from the entire Zhitu?

Later, Shang Taiyu was angry because Qingquan Town was massacred and Yingxing Fort was destroyed, and wanted to take revenge on Qingji Pass. However, he was already constrained, and fearing a fire in the rear, he was attacked by the Xia family army led by Ali.

Now, Meng Jinci came to this pass which was very important to the Han people, but found that there were almost no people there.

This is bizarre and ridiculous.

Have the Han people become so decadent? How dare Ali be so arrogant?

Well, he'll just try and see if there's anyone there.

If there is no one, just take it.

One ladder after another was raised to the foot of the wall after overcoming numerous difficulties.

Dense groups of Northern Yuan soldiers began to climb up.

In the distance, catapults that could only be built on site slowly rose up on the open snowy field like terrifying beasts.

Soon, Meng Jinci found the girl who made him grit his teeth and wished he could eat her alive on the city wall.

It's easy to find her, as she shoots three arrows in a row each time, and never misses.

The girl used a parapet as a cover, and she was able to draw the bowstring of the arrow very quickly, without even aiming, and could just shoot.

But what’s the use? No matter how good your archery skills are, the range is limited.

Once the catapult is ready, it will be aimed directly at where she is!