Chapter 995 We haven't lost yet!
It was a broken city, not very small, but it may have been too long since no one lived in it, and the city walls collapsed a lot, which looked particularly desolate. On the bare earth city, there was a red battle flag of Daning that was just as incomplete as it was flying, and it looked so sad in the setting sun.
Chen Leng hid behind a yellow grass, raised his eyes and looked carefully at the Tucheng. On the city wall, he could vaguely see the Daning soldiers patrolling back and forth, and there were no enemy troops around, which surprised Chen Leng.
Instead of approaching Tucheng rashly, he retreated back, searched a relatively high sand dune and climbed up, looking down into Tucheng. Although he could not see the whole picture of Tucheng, he could barely see the number of Ningjuns in the city, which seemed even more strange.
Only a few dozen miles away is the camp of the Anshu people. From the scale of the camp, at least tens of thousands of people are stationed here. In this dirt city dozens of miles away, at most, there are only a few thousand Ningmen. Why are the Anshu people watching like this?
Chen Leng looked at the resting man's war uniform, thinking that he was like this, even if there were really Daning's army in Tucheng, he could not enter in openly.
Wait until it gets dark.
Chen Leng lay down on the dunes, and the sand made the back hurt. But strangely, the wound felt a little comfortable.
After walking through the desert for seven or eight days, I already knew the specialness of the cold and cold place. The temperature is not low now, but after dark, the temperature will soon drop. By the middle of the night, the low temperature can make people wonder if it is in the same world.
A piece of dry cake came out of my arms and ate it with water. My stomach was a little satisfied. In fact, it was not considered a meal at all, it was just something that could fill my stomach.
After it was dark, Chen Leng stood up and touched Tucheng. Perhaps few people knew better about the way the Daning army was deployed. Before it was dark, they carefully observed the terrain and could see where there would be a secret whistle.
It quietly approached a clump of dead grass. This clump did not take root here. God knows where it was blown by the wind, but this clump of dead grass had not moved for at least an hour. Of course, it was obvious that there was something wrong with the cold and cold ones.
From behind, he could not help but make a slight sound when he stepped on the sand. So as soon as he arrived behind the scout, the scout immediately rolled to the side, and instantly raised the crossbow towards Chen Leng. Chen Leng had already predicted his direction and reached out to grab the crossbow. The Daning scout was obviously stunned for a moment, and his hand was still in the air.
"Don't do it, Ningren."
Chen Lengshu said: "See my face clearly."
Chen Leng pulled down the mask. With the moonlight, the Daning scout looked carefully at Chen Leng Yiran half-believing and half-doubting: "Are you really Ning?"
"I am the Navy General Chen Leng."
"impossible!"
The scout was about to draw his sword after hearing this. How could the Navy General Chen Leng appear here?
"Trust me."
Chen Leng took off the iron plate and was still at the scout's feet: "Look at it quickly, I'm going to go into the city."
The scout picked up the iron plate and looked at it, but still couldn't believe it: "Where did Duke An join the army?"
"Anyang-Navi."
Chen Leng squatted down and said, "I'll save you."
The scout approached and looked at it. He had never seen Chen Leng before, but he knew that this face was Ning Ren's face, which was very different from that of the people in the Western Regions.
"Take me in."
Chen Lengyi lowered his voice and ordered, pointed to the crossbow hanging on his body, then turned around to look at his black-lined knife to the scout: "Do you know how heavy my knife is?"
"Legendary: The General Shen Leng's black thread knife weighs 100 pounds."
"That's a blind rumor, only more than forty kilograms."
Chen Leng took off the black thread knife and handed it to the scout. The scout reached out to take it and sank his hand down.
"Is he really a general?"
"Take me into the city first."
A moment later, in Tucheng.
A bonfire was lit in the open space in the middle, and a fifth-rank general knelt down in front of Shen Leng on one knee: "General, I am guilty of being a crime, I am unable to bring all my brothers out."
Chen Leng reached out and pulled him up: "What's your name?"
"The Beizhi is Yao Yuan, the fifth-rank general of the Shanbei Road warrior."
"You general is gone?"
"Yes... the general led our Xin Guards soldiers from Shanbei Road to advance to the court of the King of Houque. On the way, we encountered tens of thousands of Houque soldiers and defeated them in one battle. General Mo led us to chase them all the way. But we didn't expect that it was bait. We were ambushed by the Anxi people. The Xin Guards soldiers were besieged and killed for four days and four nights. The army was killed. General Mo did not fight. I took my subordinates to fight and fought. I also gathered hundreds of people along the way, and retreated while fighting. After retreating, I found that there was no way out at all."
Yao Yuan looked at Chen Leng, his eyes red: "General Mo personally led his own military camp to cut off the rear for us before he died in battle. Some of the brothers of Xin character guards broke through and were rescued by the brothers of Geng character guards, and some of them met with the Wu character guards who rushed over from another direction. However, in that battle, the Xin character guards... were killed, and at least 26,700 people were lost."
Chen Leng patted Yao Yuan’s shoulder: “It’s good to be alive, I’ll find a way to take you out.”
He looked out: "The camp of the Sakura people is less than forty miles away. In addition to the Sakura people, there are at least four or five camps of the Western Regions who form semicircles with the Sakura people. Why didn't they attack?"
"They are waiting for our reinforcements to come."
Yao Yuan bit his cleaved lips, and there was a trace of blood on the tip of his tongue.
“Intentionally.”
He glanced at Chen Leng: "They were waiting for me to send someone to ask for help, and then besieged the team to rescue us. We have been here for more than ten days. The dry food we brought had had been eaten the day before yesterday. The brothers had not eaten for two days. Fortunately, there was a dark river in the Tucheng City. Digging sand can squeeze out some water. Everyone can hold on with the water. The Sadists did not intend to kill us, but planned to surround us like this. If our reinforcements come, they will immediately surround and fight. Before our reinforcements arrive, they will not move, and they will starve us to death sooner or later."
Chen Leng asked: "Have you sent someone to ask for help back? When will the Geng character camp and Wu character camp come?"
"I didn't send anyone if I'm humble."
Yao Yuan lowered his head: "I know I'm sorry to the brothers here now. I don't go to ask for help even if I cut off my brothers' life, but I can't go to ask for help. Geng Wei and Wu Wei are not easy to live. The troops are severely reduced and there is insufficient food and grass. Even if I try my best, I will just bury more people's lives in the yellow sand. I have told my brothers that I will not ask for help."
He shook his head: "I can't do this. We can die here, but we can't involve more brothers in dying here."
He looked at a few sandbags not far away, and there were many sandbags there: "The injured brothers couldn't get through, and the last few injured people were also dead the day before yesterday."
Chen Leng felt ache in his heart.
"General, how many troops have you brought to save us?"
Yao Yuan looked at Chen Leng, and there was a light of hope in his eyes flashing.
"Not many, La Liga City is besieged, and the general has no troops to call, so I only bring three thousand light cavalry."
"Three thousand?"
He was stunned.
"Three thousand?"
He asked again after a while.
"Three thousand."
The kettle in Yao Yuan's hand fell on the sand unknowingly, making a sound of killing.
He looked at Chen Leng, and the light in his eyes had disappeared.
"I thought the general could bring a large army and take us back to avenge the brothers... General, the three thousand light cavalry could not defeat the enemy at all. I sent scouts to investigate the surroundings. Most of the camps of the Western Regions were surrounded by the Western Regions. The main team of the Anshu people was here, at least 200,000, and the troops of the Western Regions who cooperated with the Anshu people all quietly retreated from outside the city of La Liga to come here. All of them included, the total strength of the enemy in this area should be no less than 300,000. The general only brought three thousand light cavalry and could not fight..."
"I know."
Chen Leng squatted down: "Look at how to fight."
He took out the cowhide map he carried with him: "Draw all the places you have already figured out."
Although Yao Yuan was already desperate, he still squatted down immediately. He was not very good at drawing. He said that Chen Leng would draw, and he would modify the inaccurate parts. Chen Leng's words were extremely ugly, but Chen Leng drew the map quickly, accurately and exquisitely. Not long after, a large area was added on the map.
After Yao Yuan discovered that the camp location of the Western Regions Alliance Army was marked out, Chen Leng looked at the map for a while and didn't speak.
"Do you know the location of Gengzi and Xinziying?"
"I probably know."
Yao Yuan marked the location of the two guards on the map again: "There shouldn't be too much deviation, but that was something that happened more than ten days ago. Now I'm not sure where we moved to. Our Xin guards have almost lost their troops. The Wu guards have reduced at least one-third of their troops, and the Geng guards are better, but they have lost at least three or four thousand troops. They should also be trying to find a way to break back."
"go back?"
Chen Leng saw it very clearly when he came. All the way back was cut off by the Anxi people and the Western Regions people. The enemy was waiting for the soldiers of Daning to jump in.
"You send someone to contact the generals of the Geng character camp and Wu character camp."
Chen Leng flattened the cowhide: "Send more people to separate two teams, one team at least three ten-person teams, make sure someone can send the news and tell them to meet in this place in ten days."
"here?"
Yao Yuan was stunned: "This is not the way back."
"As I said, the sent people told the generals of the two guards that from now on, all the Daning troops in Houque Kingdom will be controlled by me. If I cannot reach this place within ten days, I will chop off the heads."
He stood up: "I still have to go back and find a way to bring my team here, you guys are waiting here."
Chen Leng pulled up the mask: "I will not let my brothers be buried in the yellow sand. I will take you back with you."
He looked up at the moon, identified the direction, and walked out of the earthen city.
Chapter completed!