Horse on the World

Chapter 663 Reinforcement
Chapter 660: Reinforcement

The sharp blade easily pierced the opponent's belly, and the warm liquid sprayed out, making his hands feel a little slippery. Tang Hu wiped his blood-stained hands on his body expressionlessly, and kicked them away. The opponent who became a corpse looked up and glanced ahead.

The bloody smell on the battlefield is very strong, but Tang Hu can't smell it anymore. These days, he has been exposed to this strong smell every day, and his sense of smell has long been used to it, just like staying in a latrine for too long, he can no longer smell it. The smell is generally the same.

The attack and defense of the harbor did not last long, and the sea-of-crowd tactics were not effective in every battle. When a hundred-shot crossbow was moved to the line of defense, facing an opponent with poor equipment, it sprayed out almost impenetrable air. When arrows rain, any attack is futile.

He sacrificed his life and blood beyond his psychological limit, but the result was far from what he expected. Hope turned into despair, and any general would feel powerless. Overseas isolated islands have never experienced such a cruel war, and even in their dreams, they never thought that the war would have such a one-sided form. Their psychological defense finally began to collapse. Half a month after the attack and defense of the harbor, the two Can no longer fight.

Compared with them, Zheng Zhiyuan, Song Ming, Tang Hu and others are all generals who crawled out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood. Over the years, they have experienced countless battles that are more tragic than they are now, especially Tang Hu, who Survived several times.

After discovering that the opponent showed signs of collapse, Zheng Zhiyuan ordered the entire front to start a moderate counterattack in due course.On the entire front line, from time to time, after an attack retreated, groups of Dingzhou soldiers rushed out of the line of defense, biting the opponent's tail and chasing wildly.

He Aimin ordered to retreat. On the road leading to Luoyang, there are still many checkpoints. They used tens of thousands of lives to stop their opponents here for half a month. This half-month time is extremely precious, and the abandoned checkpoints behind them It was quickly repaired, and military strongholds were built in dangerous places. Although they were not very strong, they were still a line of defense after all.He Aimin decided to lead his troops to retreat and retreat to the checkpoint.

He Aimin felt confused about the future. As a high-ranking general, he knew how vast the territory of that huge empire was in that distant place. Is there a future?This time I faced an army of only ten thousand people, so I let myself go back in a disastrous defeat. If the opponent came with fifty thousand or one hundred thousand, would Da Zhou still exist?
Wei Zhihua suffered many injuries on his body. This young general was growing rapidly during the war. Looking back at the harbor, he also loves the people in his heart. Maybe it won't be long before everything will be over.

Tang Hu stepped onto the last step of the fortress in front of him. Opposite him, an old man with white beard and hair was holding a spear in his hand. With eyes of extreme hatred flashing, he stared at Tang Hu like a wolf.

There were about two hundred guards in this fort, except for this old man, none of them exist now.

"Put down your weapons and surrender!" Tang Hu put his two knives together, held them in his left hand, and reached out to the old man, "You are very brave, but for you, this war is over."

The old man's body shook even more, Tang Hu took a step forward, "Put down your weapon, any resistance is futile, don't waste your life!"

Tang Hu answered with a wolf-like howl. The old man was still trembling, but he held his spear tightly and stabbed Tang Hu fiercely.Tang Hu's body was turned slightly to one side, and the two swords in his left hand hit the spear shaft. The old man immediately lost his center of gravity, staggered past Tang Hu, and fell to the ground.

There was the sound of a long knife piercing the flesh from behind, and a soldier following Tang Hu inserted the long knife into the old man's vest without hesitation. With a long hiss, the old man kicked his limbs for a while, and there was no more sound.

Turning his head and glanced at the old man lying in a pool of blood, Tang Hu sighed, put his knife back into its sheath, walked to the edge of the fortress, pressed his hands on the wall, and looked towards Luoyang. Over there, there were countless trees like this fortress.

Da Zhou, who is located on an isolated island, has issued a national mobilization order. In this mobilization order, Da Zhou rarely explained to the people where they came from, the identity of their ancestors, who their opponents are, and what do they want to do?When everyone knew that they were rebels of a huge empire, and within the scope of their opponents' extermination of the nine clans, the whole Great Zhou began to boil. Men, women, young and old, all carried hoes, harpoons, and sticks, and walked onto the battlefield. .These unprotected civilians filled dozens of fortresses on the way of the Dingzhou Army to Luoyang, resisting desperately, making every step forward of the Dingzhou Army feel extremely difficult, and the casualties are increasing day by day.

The Dingzhou army is still as brave as ever, but when they are faced with groups of ordinary people, when their enemies are old people, half-grown children, and even women, the soldiers are very confused , they are more accustomed to fighting against roaring, ferocious enemies, either you die or I fight alive, even if they die in battle, they will feel honored, but now, they are still advancing, but every time they win Lost the excitement after the victory, the scene of the cheers shaking the battlefield after the war, I haven't heard it for a long time.

Tang Hu stood on the top of the fortress, watching the soldiers below the fortress silently tidying up the battlefield, carrying away the dead and wounded comrades in arms, and recovering the shot feather arrows and crossbow arrows one by one.The corpses of the opponents were piled together, then firewood was placed, greased, lit, and burned.

At the turn of spring and summer, it was the season of rampant plague. After a battle, whether it was the enemy or us, the dead bodies were quickly cremated. In the small wooden box with his name, he planned to send it back to Dingzhou and enter the Hall of Heroes in the future.

There are still more than a hundred miles away from the capital of Luoyang in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Dingzhou Navy Marine Corps and sailors have a total of more than 10 landing combat troops and have suffered more than [-] casualties.As the day goes deeper into Taiwan Island, the casualties will further increase.According to reports from the spies, almost all the people of Dazhou have gathered near their capital, and tens of thousands of people are building a defense line day and night.Tang Hu believed that when they arrived at the city of Luoyang in the Great Zhou Dynasty, they would face a battle ten times and a hundred times more tragic than now.

"Master Tiger!" A shout came from behind, Song Ming walked up to the top of the fortress and saluted Tang Hu.

"How about the casualties of our brothers?" Tang Hu asked.

"It's okay, more than [-] brothers died, and nearly [-] were injured!" Song Ming didn't have any joy on his face, "Master Tiger, this battle was won, alas!" Song Ming shook his head, not knowing what to say.Standing at their position, they could vaguely see a fortress in the distance.

"Let the brethren rest and rest, don't move forward today, let's start tomorrow!" Tang Hu said.

In the distance, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes. The two raised their heads and saw a gallant horse flying towards them from the direction of the harbor. With a red flag on their backs, they knew it was a messenger.

"A new order has arrived! Lord Tiger!" Song Ming said.

The messenger galloped to the base of the fortress, got off his horse, and strode up to the top of the building, "General Tang, General Song, and General Zheng ordered you two to return to the advance camp immediately after you have arranged your defense."

"What happened?" Tang Hu asked.

"Did the reinforcements come? How many people are there?" Song Ming asked.

"Two generals, our reinforcements have arrived. Commander Deng personally led his troops to come. The main force of the navy is here, and the Qiyuan is here. A high-ranking official has also come to Dingzhou." The orderly said excitedly.

Song Ming and Tang Hu looked at each other. It seems that Marshal Li attaches great importance to this place, and he must take it soon.

In the evening, the two returned to the harbor quickly, and were immediately picked up by a small boat on the Qiyuan.

The Qiyuan is Deng Peng's flagship. At this time, in the spacious conference room of the Qiyuan, Deng Peng and another person dressed as a civil servant are listening to Zheng Zhiyuan's detailed report on the war.The two stepped into the cabin, Song Ming didn't recognize the civil servant, but Tang Hu did, it was actually Yan Nanfei, one of the three grand masters.

"I've met Lord Yan, I've met Commander Deng!" Tang Hu saluted the two of them, and Song Ming quickly followed.

Both Yan Nanfei and Deng Peng stood up. Although their official positions were much higher than Tang Hu's, Tang Hu's status was rather special, and they held him in high regard, so they couldn't be complacent. Accept Tang Hu's big gift with all sincerity.

"The two generals have just returned from the front line. Let's let them tell the two adults about the specific front line battle, Song Ming!" Zheng Zhiyuan understood what was going on, so he asked Song Ming to tell by name.

"Yes!" Song Ming said respectfully.Briefly narrating the battle on the front line, Song Ming said: "My lords, there are small forts all over the road to Luoyang, the core of the Zhou Dynasty, and most of the people stationed in these fortresses are local people except for a small number of regular troops. , although the combat power is not strong, but the will to resist is extremely strong. We have also tried to persuade them to surrender, but it has no effect at all. Now our casualties are increasing day by day, mainly because the soldiers have psychological resistance. After all, we kill Almost all of those who died were civilians, not soldiers!"

"Shut up!" Zheng Zhiyuan reprimanded: "No matter who they are, as long as they take up weapons, they are our enemies."

Yan Nanfei held up his palms, stopped Zheng Zhiyuan, and said, "General Song, let me ask you, with the current progress, how long will it take us to take down this so-called Luoyang City?"

Song Ming shook his head, "My lord, I don't know. Every fortress has to go shopping to win it. It may take several months, because Taiwan Island is so big after all!"

"Now that the main force of our navy is assembled, I will also bring all the marines. Will it take so long?" Deng Peng frowned. He didn't want to leave Yan Nanfei with the impression that the navy was ineffective.

"General, the key point is that the people on Taiwan Island don't know what medicine they have taken. They are all soldiers, men, women and children. Anyone who can hold a weapon has gone to the battlefield. We roughly estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of people on Taiwan Island. Juming, even if there are hundreds of thousands of pigs, how long will it take to kill them if we stand there?" Song Ming lowered his head and said in a low voice.

"We haven't spent such a long time here!" Yan Nanfei shook his head, "You may not know that in order to draw out General Deng's navy, the commander launched a war against Lu Fengchun in Weizhou, pinning down the southern army. Sailor, but this time will not be very long, let me tell you the truth, if you count our round trip time, the time left for us to solve the island is only ten days at most!"

"Ten days, we must get what we want!" Yan Nanfei said firmly.

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