Just when the sharp arrow was about to hit Qianxue, a powerful hand grabbed the arrow directly. The arrow was only a dozen centimeters away from Qianxue's forehead.
Leng Yan used his palms hard and broke the sharp arrow in half and threw it on the ground.
"Lieutenant...this matter seems to be a bit out of order." The deputy whispered into Leng Yan's ear.
Leng Yan knew that what the deputy general meant was that Qianxue intervened in the war as a warrior.
There is an agreement between empires that unless the country is destroyed, warriors cannot join the war without permission, because that would be unfair to ordinary warriors.
At this time, Qianxue Fuqin did use her inner strength, and it was indeed against the rules, but in Leng Yan's eyes, she was Daolin's woman, and her starting point was for her own warriors.
"I know, let her go once." Leng Yan took a deep breath and said.
When the deputy general saw this, he didn't say anything and quietly stepped aside.
"The enemy on the left has rushed halfway up the mountain..." the messenger quickly reported.
"Get ready to roll the wood and fall the rocks..." Leng Yan looked at the mountain on the left. Indeed, because of the gap in the defense, the Lieyang Empire had taken a huge advantage in one fell swoop.
As the command flag wavered, the defenders on the left began to throw rolling logs and falling rocks down the mountain.
Rolling logs and falling rocks are the most powerful weapons to resist charges. Their own weight plus the acceleration of falling and rolling, the power has to be said to be very terrifying.
On the hillside, the soldiers of the Lieyang Empire who desperately rushed upward were hit hard by the rolling logs and falling rocks that came from above. Some people were directly knocked out, and the people behind them rolled up and down together.
Screams...crash sounds...continue to sound. Now that the crisis on the left mountain peak has been alleviated, the regrouped Shenwu soldiers draw their bows and draw arrows again.
The black clouds once again continued to fall with the power of destroying the world. The soldiers of the Sun Empire slowly retreated in desperation, and the advantage they had gained before disappeared in an instant.
The left and right sides were fine, but the most brutal situation was the Central Army, which had an army of 200,000 fighting against the opponent's elite army. Although it was cavalry versus infantry, the numerical advantage could not be made up by horses.
After the Shenwu Empire's cavalry charged several times, they were semi-surrounded by the opponent in a formation. The horses could not run away, and they lost their original advantage.
"Order! The Chinese army retreats!" Leng Yan ordered.
"Buzz...!"
"Buzz...!"
"Buzz...!"
The horn sounded, and the dull sound reached the ears of the cavalry. They knew that the advantage of this first round of charge was gone. Instead of wasting their lives in vain, retreating was the wisest choice.
The leading army of the Shenwu Empire turned into the rear army. With the speed of the cavalry and the cover of the archers above, they quickly got rid of the infantry of the Lieyang Empire.
One regiment after another passed through the mountain gate and returned.
"Count the wounded!" He ordered coldly as the heavy mountain door closed.
"Buzz...buzz...buzz..." In the distance, the sound of horns also sounded in the Lieyang Empire's base camp, and the soldiers of the Lieyang Empire retreated one after another, slowly receding like the red sea water at ebb.
"Send the order! The whole army rests on the spot! The medical team goes up to rescue the wounded. What is that boy's name... Zhang Liang, let him take his thousand-man team to protect him and clean the battlefield by the way." Leng Yan ordered.
Not long after, a thousand-man cavalry escorted a white medical team out of the mountain gate.
Zhang Liang was riding on his horse, looking at the earth stained red with blood, feeling uncomfortable in his heart.
The main task of the Thousand-Man Team is to protect the medical team, and the secondary task is to recover arrows that can be reused.
Dense piles of arrows were recovered, and the flatbed trucks alone pulled thousands of them. This was only part of the equation. Some of the arrows were shot into the enemy's body and stuck in the bones and could not be pulled out. Some were cut into two sections by the enemy and could no longer be used.
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The injured who survived were given emergency treatment by the medical team, and their wounds were bandaged before being taken back.
Zhang Liang looked at his comrades who were screaming in pain, his eyes getting redder and redder, and he wished he could rush into the enemy camp alone and kill them all.
After all the searches for the wounded were completed, and almost all the crossbows and arrows were recovered, the thousand carts began to transport the bodies of those killed in the battle back and forth.
"Immortal heroic spirit, bless my divine martial arts!!!" Seeing the cold and blood-stained corpses lying on the cart, some of which were familiar to him, Zhang Liang took a deep breath while riding on the horse and shouted to the sky.
"The heroic soul is immortal, bless my divine martial arts!!!"
"The heroic soul is immortal, bless my divine martial arts!!!"
"The heroic soul is immortal, bless my divine martial arts!!!"
Screams came one after another, above and inside the Great Wall. Hundreds of thousands of people shouted at the same time, the sound was earth-shattering and the momentum was like a rainbow.
Qianxue couldn't bear to look any longer and turned her head to one side. War is like this. War is about killing people. They deserved their death. They were fighting for the empire, their loved ones, and the future.
The carts lined up in a row and slowly headed towards the mountain gate.
On the Great Wall, all the soldiers kept banging their weapons, making dull sounds.
Entering the mountain gate, the knights who had participated in the battle before were already lined up to welcome him, with firm eyes and tall postures.
"Welcome the martyrs home! Goodbye!!!" Leng Yan had already come down from the Great Wall at some point. He was standing on the side of the road and knelt down on one knee.
As he knelt down, two hundred thousand people knelt down at the same time. Their eyes were red, and some couldn't help but shed tears.
The cart slowly passed by among them, and their eyes followed them all the time. Infected by them, the 80,000 warrior reserves in the rear also knelt on one knee to watch the heroic spirit.
The 200,000 soldiers on the Great Wall had to stand guard, so they could not turn around or kneel down. They could only look in the direction of the Lieyang Empire, and the suppressed anger in their hearts made their bodies tremble slightly.
A soldier couldn't bear it anymore. His eldest brother was from the 30th Corps, and his second brother was from the 32nd Corps. He didn't know if his brother was okay at this time, so he felt depressed and screamed in the direction of the Lieyang Empire.
A lung-splitting roar.
Under his influence, all the soldiers opened their mouths to release the anger in their hearts. The two hundred thousand people were like wounded wolves, licking their wounds with tears while exposing their sharp fangs at the enemy.
"Send all the heroic spirits to Zhenguo Park for burial, and let them watch us protect the rivers and mountains!" Leng Yan stood up and said.
On the east side of the Hewu Mountains, there is another peak. This peak is not high, but it occupies a large area. There is a huge stone tablet on the top of the mountain, with the word "Zhenguo" engraved on it.
Under the stone monument are densely packed tombstones. These are the soldiers who once guarded the west gate of the Shenwu Empire and were buried here after their deaths.
"Sorry to disturb the rest of the heroes... I am Zhang Liang from the 32nd Battalion of the 3rd Corps. I am sending my comrades here to rest in peace today!" Zhang Liang bowed deeply to the tombstones and said.
A breeze blew by, as if these heroes were responding.
"Burn!" Zhang Liang waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him began to dig holes and carve monuments.