Country and Beauty

"At the start, General Cheng did take the initiative on the battlefield, but what he did not expect was that a few ordinary enemy soldiers mixed with the generals, and General Cheng An was caught off guard, which was why he was killed by the enemy general!" The soldier who came to report quickly replied.

In ancient times, generals loved to charge in and cut off enemies' heads with their sabers. A high-ranking officer's own martial prowess was much higher than that of ordinary soldiers. Normally, ordinary soldiers would not even be able to defeat a high-ranking officer in a direct confrontation, which might cause the leader of the soldiers to have a sense of belittlement. A high-ranking officer with exceptional martial prowess would suddenly launch an attack amongst the soldiers. Xie Shang was deep in thought and did not say a word as he considered his plan.

"Young master, hurry up and make a decision, we have no time to lose!" Moreover, the enemy forces were numerous, and defeat was only a matter of time. According to Xie Tie's perspective, the most important thing right now was not to preserve the food and fodder, but to save Xie Shang's life. This was the best choice he had. This was definitely not the time to be a hero and act like a hero. Xie Tie's martial arts were not weak, so he could be considered an officer of at least Qin Army's first rank. However, Xie Tie had a humble background and did not even have the family name of a slave. Since Xie Kun had given Xie Tie the surname, Xie Tie was naturally deeply grateful to Xie Kun. As Xie Kun's eldest son, even if Xie Tie lost his life, he would still protect Xie Kun's safety.

"If this goes on, we will definitely die!" Xie Shang said to the soldier: "Go back and tell the regiment leaders to place the rations in front of the formation in the valley into a wall of fire. Then, you'll retreat to the valley and immediately set up a defensive formation to defend the valley. Even if one of them is alive, we can't let the enemy in! "

The messenger immediately left.

Xie Shang looked at the endless flood of fresh horse in front of him. If this continued, as long as the wutong tank was exhausted of its crossbow, even with their three thousand strong army, it would be impossible to stop the attacks of over ten fresh horse.

Xie Shang turned around and asked, "How many crossbows does the wutong tank have left?"

The soldier said, "Less than six thousand!"

Xie Shang gritted his teeth, but he still suffered from the chaos. knew that if the enemy acquired this weapon, it would not be difficult for them to copy it. If the enemy equipped this weapon, it would definitely be a calamity for the Qin Army, so Xie Shang ordered again: "Immediately line up the wutong tank without this arrow, ignite the oil of fire and burn them, then everyone else will retreat back to the valley."

With Xie Shang's order, the Qin soldiers began to get busy.

In truth, Murong Ke was also trying her best to resist the urge to vomit blood as she gave the order to attack. One must know that even though fifteen thousand fresh horse s died, they didn't even get a chance to touch her fur. Back then, when Murong Huang was at the war of the rami cordis, almost a million soldiers and civilians were massacred by the Black Shirt Army, so Murong Ke thought that his father must have possessed a demon, hence she gave Xie Fei an opportunity. It was only today that he realized that his father was not incapable at all, but that the enemy's weapon was too abnormal.

General, the weapons of the Qin Army are too powerful, and their range is too far, we can't even reach them before we were shot to death, not to mention using our mounted weapon techniques to attack them, I don't dare to send more soldiers to charge, we are only waiting for the general to make his decision. Murong Ke's assistant general, Mu Yinggen, quickly said to Murong Ke.

Murong Ke said expressionlessly: "Although Qin Army's heavy crossbows are powerful and have a long range, but these kinds of heavy crossbows are definitely not as easy to manufacture as ordinary arrows. Furthermore, the number of heavy crossbows shot at the same time is eighty to ninety, so the amount of arrows used must also be shocking. Furthermore, the intelligence did not mention that the Qin Army had this equipment, it seems to be a newly invented weapon by the Qin Army. Army and Qin Army's regular army also did not mention this weapon during their battle, and it just so happened to appear amongst the transport troops, which means that this weapon is still in the experimental stage, there is no need for a large number of Qin Army troops, and they definitely do not have many crossbow bolts, and I realised that this kind of heavy crossbow has a fatal flaw, it can only hit the ground for three feet (an ancient foot of twenty-three centimeters). This way, not only can we reduce the casualties, we can also quickly get close to the enemy. As long as we can get close to the Qin Army, that's our chance. "

Mu Guugen thought that Murong Ke's words were reasonable, nodded and said, "Yes, General. I will go and arrange it right away!"

"Wait!" Murong Ke looked at the situation on the battlefield, and said to Mu Yu Genji: "Hurry up and send someone to clean up the battlefield, so that we don't affect our next attack."

Mu Fengyuan looked carefully at the battlefield and was instantly speechless. The corpses of the fresh horse s that were shot by the Qin Army's giant crossbows, along with more than ten thousand corpses and dead horses piled there, practically piled up the empty space between the two armies. Blood was flowing everywhere, it could really be called a river of blood.

Xie Shang saw that they were just cleaning up the corpses and took advantage of this time to retreat. Although the Wu Hou Battle Kingdom was a four horned carriage and their movement was not slow, but compared to the light cavalry soldiers of the Xianbei member, they did not have the advantage in speed. Xie Shang then had the soldiers slowly move the wutong tank s with the crossbows, preparing to continue the battle. But, he did not want the soldiers to shoot at the fresh horse s who were dragging corpses back, let them clear the battlefield first. Very soon, the corpses on the battlefield were all dragged away, but the grass on the ground no longer had its original green color. In its place, everything on the ground had been dyed red.

Murong Ke also noticed the movements of the Qin Army. Murong Ke said: "Not good! Qin Army wants to run, and send my orders, the entire army is coming! "

Murong Ke waved her big hand, and immediately, the fresh horse raised her weapon and shouted out slogans that she did not understand, and rushed towards Qin Army.

Xie Shang cursed inwardly. At that moment, the wutong tank had only advanced a distance of less than 300 steps, the entire army had to retreat, and if the wutong tank did not make it to the valley in time, they would probably be caught up by the fresh horse. Otherwise, in a short fight, the enemy would outnumber the Qin Army by ten times, and by then, it would not be a matter of who wins.

The three thousand Qin Army Cavalry soldiers shot at the entire fresh horse, and along with the constant shooting from the Qin Army Cavalry, the number of soldiers that were struck down by the arrows also increased. These corpses landed on the battlefield, blocking the path of the other soldiers, and the number of fresh horse soldiers that were able to rush past became fewer and fewer, and even after rushing past, they were quickly killed by the light cavalry crossbow.

However, the fresh horse still managed to rush into the range of their archers. The fresh horse began to display their astonishing riding shooting capabilities, and casualties began to appear on the surface of the Qin Army.

Xie Shang immediately ordered the burning of the abandoned wutong tank, but even so, the Qin Army was barely able to resist. To stop the fresh horse from charging in was not something that could be done by relying on just thirty or so ignited wutong tank. Before Xie Shang could even catch his breath, a bloodied light cavalry soldier rushed over from behind Xie Shang and said: "General, although the brothers at the back are fighting with their lives on the line, it's just that there are too many enemies, causing us brothers to suffer heavy casualties, we can't hold on much longer, if the general does not retreat to the valley, there will be no point in resisting the brothers behind us."

Seeing that the situation was not good over there, Xie Shang quickly asked the soldier: "Do you know how many enemies are there?"

"There are about twenty to thirty thousand people. They are not using their machetes to fight against their brothers, but instead cutting down the trees in the mountain as a weapon. The brothers don't even have a chance to fight with them, they'll be knocked off their horses using long wooden sticks."

"Alright, you should go down to rest first and bandage the wound. I will personally lead people to help them." Xie Shang led the troops and immediately retreated.

Seeing that the Qin Army was retreating, and that they had suffered a huge loss, the soldiers did not want to continue, as if they had all eaten an outdated aphrodisiac, they revealed sinister faces as they shouted and rushed towards the Qin Army.

Fortunately, they were all four legs against four legs, so no one could do anything to them.

Due to the Qin Army Cavalry trying their best to resist, a large majority of the wutong tank had finally entered the valley. However, Xie Shang counted and felt heavy. Other than the three thousand man team that Xie Shang had brought and lost five to six hundred people, more than half of the seven thousand men that were left behind were dead or injured. There were only forty-seven wutong tank left.

At this time, Xie Shang was in the middle of a fierce battle, he had expended a lot of energy and his mind was starting to feel heavy.

However, fortunately, the fresh horse and Shi Le Army did not have any advantage. Even now, they were extremely exhausted. Shi Le and Murong Ke both looked at Xie Shang as they entered into a dead end on three sides of the mountain. The two of them did not want to lose anymore troops and so, they did not give the order to attack.

In Murong Ke's tent, a few tens of thousands of captains and several tens of thousands of captains were already frightened stiff. Seeing that Murong Ke's face did not look good, they did not even dare to take a deep breath. It was truly embarrassing, as a hundred thousand fresh horse against three or four thousand people from the Qin Army actually did not have any advantage. They knew that the number of casualties in the Qin Army was extremely small, so they were sure that there would not be more than a thousand people.

Murong Ke said: "Have you calculated the outcome of the battle?"

"General, more than 212,300 people have died in our army, and no less than 10,000 have been injured!" Mu Juegen timidly said in a low voice.

"What?" My huge army of one hundred thousand still has seventy thousand men left? Murong Ke could not help but ask.

Mu Jinglei did not dare to directly answer Murong Ke's question, as it might attract Murong Ke's wrath.

Murong Ke was startled for a long time, then said weakly: "We can't blame you, we warriors are weak and weak, but it's a pity that the Chinese are powerful with our weapons, our sons were killed before they could even fight with them, they used this kind of weapon to defeat us."

At this time, Xie Shang planned to rely on the terrain that was not too advantageous to the valley to guard this place, but Xie Shang never would have thought that out of the hundred plus soldiers that he sent out to report, not a single one of them rushed out.

The next day, after a bloody battle, Qin soldiers fought with all his might. Blood gushed out from his severed arm and arm, the battle was extremely tragic, he did not surrender or flee, his blade struck and rolled, he used his teeth to bite and his stone to smash, the battle reached its climax. Many of the wounded soldiers had even thrust their broadswords into their stomachs, killing Yan Zhaojun on their backs. Xie Shang was no longer able to reverse the situation when facing off against Yan Zhaojun tens of times the strength. From the bottom of the valley all the way to the top of the valley, there were only corpses of Qin Army s at a distance of 300 steps. Xie Shang had been shot three times, although it did not harm his vital parts, the wounds had already congealed. At this time, Xie Shang was already unconscious because of his injuries. Other than him, who was still breathing weakly, he looked like a dead man. Xie Shang was currently dressed in the armor of an ordinary soldier, while a Xie Clan general, who pretended to be dead, beside him, secretly sized him up.

Xie Tie was dressed in Xie Shang's general uniform, his entire body was currently covered in blood, his sinister wound was constantly dripping blood, his thigh was pierced by a spear in the middle until it became a mess of flesh and blood, he was still using his steel blade to support his crumbling, tall body, he resolutely looked at the Yan Zhaojun soldiers encircling him.

Although Xie Tie had already used up all his energy and was bleeding profusely, all the soldiers of Yan Zhaojun stared at Xie Tie in shock. Xie Tie's saber was trembling slightly, this black brute actually managed to kill nearly one hundred soldiers with his own strength, such a valiant fellow was enough to stun almost all the soldiers of Yan Zhaojun.

Shi Le looked at this tough guy who refused to surrender, his eyes full of respect. Shi Le shook his head and sighed: "Such a talent, in the end, cannot be used by me, what a pity!"

Murong Ke looked at Xie Tie with admiration, but as his enemy Xie Tie had to die, she shouted loudly: "Forward ~ ~ Kill ~".

The soldier straightened his scimitar and approached Xie Tie expressionlessly. Because he had lost a large amount of blood, he could vaguely see sharp scimitars approaching him one after another. He raised his head and laughed out loud, "My lord, I didn't protect my Young Lord well, I hate you ~" Xie Tie used all his strength to stab his scimitar into his chest.

Other than Xie Shang, only three other people from the ten thousand cavalrymen and seven thousand citizens of Qin Army survived. One hundred and thirty thousand loads of food, eight thousand artillery shells, one hundred and fifty thousand ballista arrows, and a hundred thousand wutong tank s had all been reduced to ashes.

Xie Fei was unable to wait for the food in Xiangguo City, so he was so angry that his face turned green. The seventy thousand soldiers did not have any extra food left, only a day's worth of rations left. This meant that from tomorrow onwards, Xie Fei's seventy thousand odd soldiers and several tens of thousands of war horses would begin to starve. Most of the weak, sick, and injured elderly people that were left behind in the Xiangguo City under Shi Le's beautiful policy would not be able to gather much food at all, whereas Xie Shang's food delivery team should have arrived the day before yesterday. Xie Fei flew into a rage, "What's going on, why did Xie Shang lose the information? Our army doesn't have time to wait, and it will take at least twenty more days before we can send more food from the Qin State to the Xiang Kingdom. Shi Yue has sent his guards to investigate this ~"

Without needing Shi Yue to investigate, Hong Zhan said dumbfoundedly, "I just received the secret report that Xie Shang encountered an ambush from Shi Le, Murong Ke, and nearly a hundred and fifty thousand troops. The entire army is already dead. It was said that Xie Shang died in a battle and would rather die in a miserable way than surrender. Even if it were ten thousand soldiers, all of them would still die in battle and there wouldn't even be a single escaping soldier as captive. Your Highness, we have already been cut off by Shi Le, so Shi Le and Murong Ke should have already sent out an army to stop General Chen An from rescuing our army. " When everyone heard this, they were shocked.

Xie Fei was obviously extremely calm. He closed his red eyes and asked with a slightly hoarse voice: "Did you all die in battle? As expected of my soldiers, I will get back at Shi Le one by one, humph ~ "

Xie Fei, on the other hand, felt ashamed of Xie Kun. Xie Fei's tiger eyes were filled with tears as he punched onto the ground. He gritted his teeth and said, "Pass down my orders, from today onwards, all the armies of Qin State are not to accept any surrender from the Xianbei member or the Capricorn Tribesmen. Kill them without mercy!"