After being praised by Shangguan Yuan Rang, Nan Ye was also very excited and asked: "General Yuan Rang, what should we do with these prisoners of Ning Army?"
Shangguan Yuanrang glanced at him and said, "Follow the old rules."
"Old rules?" Nanye didn't know what the old rules were and looked at him in confusion.
"Our army does not have the extra strength and energy to guard so many prisoners, so we must execute them all!" Shangguan Yuanrang answered simply.
Put them all to death?! Nan Ye was secretly stunned and frowned. In his opinion, the enemy would no longer be an enemy as long as he laid down his weapons. It was too cruel to massacre prisoners who had lost their ability to resist and their will. He pondered for a moment and felt embarrassed.
Said: "Should I report it to the king first and let the king make a decision?"
"No need." Shangguan Yuanrang said coldly: "Even if we report it to the king, the king's decision will not be any different."
"But……"
"Where did you get that nonsense? Follow my orders and execute all the surrendered Ning troops..." Before Shangguan Yuanrang could finish his words, a man galloped up from behind, Lotte.
Lotte came on horseback, and the soldiers of the Feng Army retreated and made way for a passage. He rushed directly to Shangguan Yuanrang and Nanye, then hurriedly reined in the horse, and the horse turned around in a circle before coming to a stop.
Shangguan Yuanrang was stunned and asked: "Letian, why are you here?"
"General Yuan Rang!" Letian raised his hand on horseback and said seriously: "The king has an order to take all the captured Ning troops to the new army's formation and use them as human shields!"
Shangguan Yuanrang was startled, then he looked up and laughed, patted his head, and praised: "The king is still thoughtful." Instead of killing all the prisoners, it is better to push them to the front of the formation, Ning Jun's arrow formation
Great, then let them shoot their own people first.
He turned to Nanye and said: "Nanye, do you hear me clearly? Act according to the king's order!"
"yes!"
After Lotte passed the message, he cupped his hands to Shangguan Yuanrang, turned his horse's head, and retreated to the Chinese army behind.
Five thousand prisoners of the Ning army were divided into two parts by Nanye. One part was placed in front of his own formation, and the other part was taken to the front of Li Sheng's formation. The five thousand people became the hostages of the Feng army, and they also became the hostages of the Feng army.
As a shield for the Ning army, as long as the arrow array is released on the city, the first people to be shot will be Ning Jun's own people.
Tang Yin's methods can be called despicable, but in his concept, as long as he goes to the battlefield, there is no noble existence. There is only one purpose in fighting, which is to obtain the maximum victory at the minimum cost. If this is violated,
It can only show that the commander of the three armies is an unqualified commander.
The battlefield is originally a life-or-death hell where no matter what the means.
Seeing Feng Jun pushing all his surrendered soldiers to the front of the formation to serve as human shields, the bows and arrows raised by Ning Jun were lowered one after another, and the bow strings were slowly loosened. For a while, people didn't know whether they were going to fight or not.
Don't shoot any more arrows in your hand.
When his own arrows stopped shooting, Lin Han was furious and shouted to the left and right: "Why don't you shoot arrows anymore? Why are you standing there? Keep shooting arrows!"
"Sir..." A Ning general said in a trembling voice: "Feng Jun... Feng Jun pushed all our brothers in front of the formation to serve as shields..."
Lin Han was not blind. He could clearly see what Feng Jun was doing. However, if he tolerated the lives of his surrendered soldiers at this critical moment, the battle would not be fought. He shouted angrily: "Those who are afraid of the enemy surrendering,
According to military law, they should be killed. How can these damn troops surrender and mess up our tactics? Fire arrows! Keep firing arrows! Anyone who shows mercy will be punished according to military law!"
He gave the death order, and the Ning soldiers below did not dare to neglect any more. They raised their arrows and drew their bows again, and shot arrows at the Feng Army camp on the left and right sides.
Ning's army kept firing arrows, but the five thousand soldiers of Ning's army who surrendered suffered a lot. They had no shields and no weapons. They were tied together in groups by the wind army. They couldn't escape even if they wanted to. They just watched their own arrows.
The rain falls from the sky, there is no way to stop it, there is no way to avoid it, you can only grit your teeth and hold on.
Although the steel helmet and armor on Ning Bing's body was strong, it could not prevent the arrows from being fired. He only heard the sound of arrows piercing the armor in the crowd, and then there was a cry, because Ning Jun was tied up.
Some of the people together had been shot into hedgehogs, but the people on both sides did not fall. The bodies were still standing, bearing the piercing blows of more flying arrows.
The tragic scene in front stimulated the nerves of every new soldier behind, and also made them deeply realize that once they choose to surrender on the battlefield, no one will treat themselves as human beings anymore, not even as good as pigs and dogs, no matter the enemy.
Still his comrade.
Having a human shield blocking the arrow array in front did reduce the casualties of the new army to a great extent, and also made the movement of the trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows at the back smoother.
The battle is still going on. It has been going on for more than two hours now. More than ten of the New Army's trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows have been damaged due to the continuous operation. The stones and crossbow arrows prepared in advance
There are fewer and fewer, and there is a trend of insufficient quantity.
Correspondingly, the gaps in the cliffs on both sides of Wohu Pass are getting bigger and bigger, and a large dent has been made by the wind army. The rocks above are crumbling and can no longer bear the heavy load.
Just when Nanye was about to send someone back to the Chinese army to ask if there were any stones and crossbow arrows, suddenly, the cliff in front of him made a loud cracking sound that hurt the eardrums. The crisp sound was so loud that it seemed as if
An invisible knife penetrates the person's ear hole straight into the brain, causing pain in the brain.
At the same time, countless pieces of gravel fell from the mountain. Immediately afterwards, the extremely huge rock above the depression in the cliff broke off, tilted downwards awkwardly, and then rolled down the cliff rapidly. Without landing,
When rolling down, it feels like the ground is shaking, and it seems that the whole Crouching Pass is shaking.
Such a spectacular scene, whether it was for Ningren or Fengren, whether it was for soldiers or generals, was the first time in their lives. The officers and soldiers of the new army opened their mouths wide, slowly put down their shields, and even *operated
The soldiers with the trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows also stopped their movements in unison and stared blankly ahead.
The new army at the head of the battle was like this, and so was the Chinese army behind. Tang Yin, who was so calm-minded, unconsciously straightened his body up while sitting on the horse, almost standing up with his feet in the stirrups.
For the Feng army in the distance, this scene is spectacular and rare, but for the Ning army in Crouching Pass, especially the defenders under the falling rocks, this is definitely a nightmare like being in purgatory.
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Rumble, rumble, rumble - the huge rock finally fell to the ground, and the violent earthquake that followed caused a large area of the New Army outside the city to fall down.
The war horse was frightened and screamed strangely. It lifted its front hooves off the ground and almost stood upright. It threw the Feng Army soldiers sitting on it off the horse one after another. Nanye was not spared either. He fell to a disgrace, but those who had been fixed were solid.
The trebuchets fell one after another, and the surrounding new soldiers screamed in fear, rolling and crawling outside. For a moment, people felt as if the sky was falling and the earth was falling. People in the new army camp screamed, "Horse!"
A mess.
If the New Army one mile away from Crouching Pass is like this, the scene inside Crouching Pass can be imagined.
The center of the rock did not hit the city wall of Wohu Pass, only the edge was scratched. But even so, the wall of Wohu Pass collapsed for more than ten meters, half of it was due to the impact, and the other half was due to the earthquake.
The Ning soldiers gathered above disappeared all of a sudden, or were smashed into flesh, or had their bones broken and tendons broken by the fall, and were submerged in the broken bricks and rocks.
The city wall that was not affected by the falling rocks was in slightly better condition, at least it did not collapse. However, many Ning Jun soldiers standing in front of the arrow stack were thrown out of the city wall by the violent vibration and fell outside the city. Lin Han who was above the gate tower also almost fell from it.
Fortunately, Ming Ning hugged his legs tightly when he threw him to the ground, allowing him to survive.
The army in the wind army.
"Ha ha--"
Tang Yin was the first person to recover from the shock. When he saw that the city wall of Crouching Pass was smashed open with a gap of more than ten meters wide, he couldn't help but laugh up to the sky and asked Qiu Zhen beside him: "Qiu Zhen
Really, has it been three hours since the war started?"
"Ah! Ah?" Hearing the king calling his name, Qiu Zhen came to his senses and looked at Tang Yin with a blank face.
Tang Yin asked again: "Is it three hours since the war started?"
Qiu Zhen heard it clearly now, made some calculations, and replied: "Back to the king, two and a half hours at most!"
"Okay!" Tang Yin stretched out three fingers and smiled at the generals around him: "I said that Crouching Tiger Pass will be breached within three hours. Now it's time to fulfill the promise." As he spoke, he drew out his sword.
, waved forward fiercely, and shouted: "Our soldiers listened to the order, the whole army attacked, captured Crouching Pass, and wiped out the Ning thieves, regardless of life or death! Kill——"
"Kill--"
Tang Yin gave an order, and the whole army moved up and down, shouting loudly, and thousands of troops and horses moved forward at full speed. At this time, it was no longer about maintaining the formation of the army and advancing forward. It was considered good to be able to maintain the formation of the army. In the past two
The 100,000-strong wind army launched a charge like a savage beast. Their morale was so great that they seemed to be able to devour the world. Their tiger-wolf attitude was enough to frighten the opponent into timidity without a fight.
If there is a danger to defend, Ning's army still has something to rely on. Now that the city wall has collapsed, looking at the overwhelming Feng army rushing towards them outside the city, everyone in Ning's army is stunned and their calves are twisted.
On the surface, the falling rock collapsed the city wall of Crouching Pass, but in fact, it destroyed the psychological defense line of the Ning army, causing tens of thousands of defenders to suddenly fall into a state of nervous breakdown.
Unfortunately, misfortunes never come singly. The collapse of one side of the city wall already made Ning Jun feel that a disaster was imminent. But at this time, a landslide also occurred on the cliff on the other side. Three huge rocks rolled down one after another, not only destroying the city wall by more than ten meters, but also
Even the barracks and military tents in the pass were greatly implicated, and many wounded soldiers who stayed in the barracks died in confusion.