Deng Tong fought to the death because he had the idea of ​​atonement, and to some extent, he was simply seeking death.

For a long time, Deng Tong has been the most determined and fierce supporter of the young general Lei Xiu. Yesterday, Lei Xiu's death in battle hit him more than others. Deng Tong only felt that if he had not failed in the battle when facing Cao's army, the young general would not have had to fight himself, and would not have been harmed by the inexplicable raid. The strong guilt torture him, leaving him without the face to face others, and even less face to face himself.

With this idea, Deng Tong fought almost madly, without considering his own safety at all. He and his subordinates advanced and retreated violently with the Cao soldiers. Sometimes, they surrounded each other to protect each other and fought against the Cao soldiers; sometimes, they attacked each other, causing the team to be separated again.

The Cao soldiers rushed into the fence with mercy. Each time they attacked, they either caused casualties or injured Deng Tong's troops, or died in battle. Every time, Deng Tong and others used a more fierce counterattack to drive Cao's soldiers back outside the fence.

Everyone was red in their eyes, and they no longer had fear and hesitation in their minds, but only the murderous intent of fire was left. The two armies strangled together wildly. At first, their feet in straw sandals or leather boots were still densely placed on the ground wet with blood; soon after, they had to fight on their comrades or their newly dead bodies.

Deng Tong was brave and his subordinates were also tough and brave. As the battle continued, Cao's army seemed to have lost its strength, and the troops they put into the fence gap gradually decreased.

Lei Yuan could hear Fan Feng standing behind him relieved and whispered: "Okay, okay, don't worry, don't be afraid, we can win."

Immediately he heard Li Zhen’s somewhat angry words again: “No need to say it, stop talking!”

Fan Feng is five years older than Li Zhen, but this kid is always a little irritable, like a child who never grows up. However, Li Zhen has become more and more steady in the past few days, following Lei Yuan all day long, but he has rarely spoken.

"This won't work... Should Deng Tong retreat a little?" Lei Yuan frowned slightly.

Deng Tong was not ineffective, and it can even be said that he was a little too effective. It was obvious that this combat plan was to block and lure the enemy into depth... If Deng Tong directly forced Cao's army to retreat, then there would be nothing to lure the enemy into depth. Once Cao's army retreated, I don't know when the next attack would be. Everyone was restrained on this ground and sat on watching the passage of time. This was not the result that Lei Yuan needed.

However, when the two armies are fiercely confronting each other, there is only one line between retreating and failure, and failure and collapse are only one line between failure and collapse. How easy is it to retreat in front and back?

"No need... Deng Tong will be unable to withstand it soon!" He Song suddenly sternly said: "Everyone is on guard!"

Guo Jing reacted almost instantly, and his face turned pale: "Hook rope! They use hook rope!"

Many people in the Cao army's army held iron hooks and carried long ropes. It was these hook ropes that Cao army used to pull the first fence down on both sides, thus opening up the attack path.

However, how many hooks and ropes were used to pull the two fences? Four, five, or six? The Cao army carried more than these! Since there were more hooks and ropes and they had not been used on the battlefield, what use did they use these things for?

There are more than twenty miles of winding mountain roads in Tianzhu Mountain, but the real point is the Rigujian Pass, which is the steep and narrow stone staircase in front of the platform that only allows two people to climb side by side. Once the attacking party enters the platform, no matter how brave the attacking party fights bravely, the subsequent troops will not be able to follow up quickly, so it will inevitably decline again, exhausted three times, and eventually pushed off the platform.

The large number of hooks and ropes carried by Cao's army this time are really useful. When the soldiers at the forefront fought bravely, many soldiers carrying hooks were concentrated along the stone stairs. They used weapons such as sledgehammers and heavy axes to nail the iron hooks into the rock cracks on the side of the stone stairs, then hung the long ropes, and tied them to the iron hooks below. In this way, a guardrail was set up next to the stone stairs, so that Cao soldiers climbing on the stone stairs had auxiliary power, which was very different from the state where they could only grasp the rocks with both hands. In this way, their speed of passing the stone stairs was more than twice as fast as before?

However, the Cao army did not change the previous combat method. Until the gap was opened on the fence, the number of Cao army invested was dozens and nearly a hundred, which was no different from before. The subsequent troops gathered at the end of the stone stairs like the last attack and built a small crane wing formation with shields.

Due to the shielding of the shield, everyone, including Lei Yuan, did not notice that the number of Cao's army gathered far exceeded that before. Until He Song suddenly noticed this: the number of Cao's army densely behind the shield formation could no longer be covered by shields!

Everyone understood that when these Cao troops, who were concentrated behind shields, entered the battle, it would be a fierce attack like thunder.

"Everyone stood up! Check the weapons and prepare for battle!" Lei Yuan immediately shouted loudly.

With Lei Yuan shouting, the soldiers who were originally sitting alone stood up. Some of them drew their swords in their hands and slashed forward twice; some of them stabbed upwards with guns, and finally became familiar with the weight and length of the spear; some whispered to each other. That was because these soldiers who were urgently reorganized together needed to seize the time to get familiar with each other's combat habits and determine the way to cooperate.

At this moment, below the platform, behind the mountain road outside the field of view, suddenly a powerful drum sounded across the mountains, and the birds in the distance were frightened by a large group of birds. Lei Yuan and others even felt that the ground under their feet was trembling with the roar of the drum.

Guo Jing, He Song, and Ding Feng all changed their faces: "It's coming!"

Amid the rumbling drums, the Cao army soldiers under the shield were quietly watching Zhang Liao. The half-squatted Zhang Liao also looked at these familiar subordinates.

The explosion of running half an hour ago caused too much consumption to Zhang Liao. Until now, his eyes were covered with terrifying blood, and his arms and chest and back were covered with countless blood spots caused by the bursting of fine blood vessels. This loss is almost harmful to life, and even if he has been recuperating for a long time, it is difficult to fully recover.

Not to mention the connection between the left shoulder and clavicle, where the joints are already dislocated and the slight shaking of the arms will cause severe pain.

However, Zhang Liao let his arms hang naturally, as if he had no feeling at all.

Everything is not important, what is important is victory. Zhang Liao stood up and stood up, under the cover of flying stones and arrows, holding up a heavy, ring-headed sword about four feet long.

So, the shield formation opened with a bang. More than two hundred elite Cao's army, with strong soldiers, shouted and launched an attack!

When the Cao army soldiers, who were originally crowded at the fence, saw them rushing towards them, they retreated to both sides, giving them room to charge.

Previously, in order to cut off the attacking ranks of Cao's army, Deng Tong led the sword and shield hands to wedge horizontally along the direction of the fence. The sword and shield were conducive to the formation fighting, and indeed quickly wiped out the Cao army inside the fence. But this also led to the fact that when the Cao army warriors in heavy armor charged, the sword and shield hands were completely unable to force them to retreat.

Amid the violent collision and roar, the queues of both sides collided without delay.

The two sides are so close that they can beat each other with shields; and after the long sword pierces into the human body, there is almost no time to retract them, and the new enemy will pounce fiercely. So the sword holder has to let go and pull out the short sword on his waist to stab each other.

The Cao army roared and collided, and even forced through the gaps in Deng Tong's troops, and then continued to rush back and forth; the originally clearly distinct stalemate front was broken instantly, like a dam being washed away by a torrent. Although Deng Tong refused to retreat and fought back to back, they could not stop the Cao army's assault. The Cao army was scattered into several small teams, continuing to go deeper, and fighting in a crisscrossing battle; not long after, the spearmen lined up behind could no longer hold on.

Deng Tong and his subordinates leaned against the second fence and fought and retreated to the right side of the gap. In the fierce confrontation just now, all the original queues were disbanded, so these subordinates were not his personal guards, but a few strange soldiers. Now Deng Tong looked up and saw the reflections of armor and weapons shining around, and he could not find where his subordinates were. Sometimes, bright red blood would flow down to block the view, because a long wound was cut on his forehead, and the blood flowed along his thick temples, dyeing the armor red.

The troops of the Huainan heroes were not from the military commanders. The soldiers' armor and clothes were casual, and they could even be said to be disorderly. Therefore, many Cao soldiers rushed over from Deng Tong and others, but did not notice that among these slowly retreating enemies, there were important front-line commanders.

But this luck did not last long. With the clanging sound of armor, a team of elite Cao troops wearing black beast-faced and black fish-scale iron armor rushed into the interior of the first fence. The Cao army general with red feathers stuck in the pen suddenly stopped. He noticed Deng Tong who was trying his best to shout orders.

Deng Tong let out a low roar like a prey noticed by the hunter. He knew very well that the Cao army general Zhang Liao was the general of the bandit, and he knew that he was definitely not Zhang Liao's opponent.

The strong sense of fear made Deng Tong's huge body tremble as if it was being rushed by electric current, but there was a strong sense of joy surged out from deep inside him, making him feel that he had added endless strength. In an instant, Deng Tong thought of himself as a bandit since he was a child, so he was very cunning. Even the sect leader Lei Xu usually only regarded him as a rough fool; only the young general Lei Xiu regarded himself as an arm or even a friend.

Since the young general has left, what else can repay the young general's kindness better than death in battle? What else can wash away your shame than death in battle? What's more, you die at the hands of famous generals in the world and die as much as possible! Death without regrets!

"I am Deng Tong! Zhang Liao, can you dare to fight?" Deng Tong roared wildly and strode forward.

"What are you?" Zhang Liao stationed the tip of the knife on the ground, and looked at the big man rushing towards him in a mad manner, sneering slightly.

Just as the two were about to fight, a loud noise suddenly came from not far away from them, and two fences fell to the ground, stirring up a piece of smoke and dust. It was the soldiers of the Cao army who continued to exert force with their iron hooks and long ropes, and opened a gap in the center of the second fence!

This situation immediately attracted Zhang Liao's full attention. He left Deng Tong without caring and charged into the second fence along the surging crowds.

As the fence fell, the Cao army made a shocking cry, and Deng Tong's troops and Chen Xia's troops were all very depressed. After all, they were just vassals of local tyrants, and after all, they were defeated soldiers who had been attacked continuously for several days and retreated. When the situation was dominant or even tied, they could fight bravely with the inspiration of the leaders. But the situation gradually became unfavorable, and some people began to turn around and flee, even scattered together.
Chapter completed!