The two sides fought head-on for the first time. The battle started at Chen hour and was not over until Wei hour.
After dark, the Rong people lit dozens of bonfires outside the city, and the fires soared into the sky. The soldiers charged towards the city wall in the dark.
Li Xingzai stood at the top of the city and watched this scene coldly. The way the Rong clan fought, it was hard to tell that they had any strategy. Maybe they had no so-called strategy at all and were fighting all night just to show an attitude.
The attitude of being willing to fight to the end with Jiangnan soldiers and exchanging lives for lives.
Incidentally, Li Xingzai was determined enough to fight for this.
Li Xingzai lit the brazier at the top of the city. At the top of the city, everything was the same color.
Neither side was afraid of the dead, nor did they care about the dead. The Rong people rushed forward in a swarm. Li Xingzai was commanding the three armies at the top of the city. There were also dead people at the top of the city and below the city. For a time, half of the city wall was stained red with blood.
The so-called battle between kings means constantly adding human lives to the pile. One general's success will cause thousands of bones to wither, and the rise of an emperor will surely leave unparalleled bones at his feet.
This fierce battle lasted until dawn the next day. It was dark, the embers of war were everywhere in the city and outside the city, and there was the smell of burnt blood in the air.
Even Li Xingzai was yawning. He was exhausted from supervising the battle day and night. However, the momentum of the Rong tribe's attack on the city did not let up at all.
The flames of war have not yet dissipated, and the Rong tribe charged one after another. Li Xingzai frowned as he watched this scene, and thought to himself: Are the Rong tribe's people beaten to death? Don't they know they are tired?
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Qi Jiguang stumbled over and said, "Things are a little weird."
"What happened?" Li Xingzai asked.
"Fighting all night, our army is exhausted. But the Rong tribe still has no intention of truce and seems to want to continue fighting." Qi Jiguang said: "Through careful observation, my subordinates confirmed that the ones attacking the city now are not the same as those attacking the city at the beginning.
A wave of people. They divided the soldiers into three parts, one part fights, and the other two rest and recover. Therefore, they can always maintain the fighting momentum."
"That's it." Li Xingzai observed carefully and found that, as Qi Jiguang said, the people attacking the city now were not the same team as the ones attacking the city at the beginning.
I thought that the Rong tribe's attack on the city was just a one-man attack without any strategy. It turned out that I was wrong. The Rong tribe's strategy was to fight on wheels, killing Li Xingzai all the way.
Qi Jiguang said: "Your Majesty, it is not an option to continue like this. We have fallen into the enemy's trick of exhausting our troops. When our army is exhausted, the three tribes of the Rong tribe will attack together, and we may not be able to stop it. Your Majesty, if we don't
Let’s divide our troops.”
"Divide the troops?" Li Xingzai frowned: "But our troops are not as large as Nohara Huo."
Although he refused to give up the initiative, Li Xingzai was now on the defensive side. In any case, he had given up part of the initiative to Nohara Huo. Nohara Huo could leisurely formulate combat strategies, but Li Xingzai could only defend passively.
This strategy of exhausting troops was effective, but Ye Yuanhuo also suffered heavy losses.
Having just met Li Xingzai, he put on a decisive stance to test Li Xingzai's determination.
Li Xingzai's determination was stronger than Nohara Huo thought.
After only a moment, Li Xingzai had a countermeasure in his mind.
"We cannot divide our troops. We cannot follow the enemy's rhythm." Li Xingzai's eyes were like burning coals: "Concentrate all our troops and fight to the death with the Rong tribe."
Qi Jiguang was surprised. He did not expect that Li Xingzai not only did not divide his troops to rest, but instead gathered all his troops and rushed to the city gate.
"Your Majesty, doesn't this fall into the enemy's plan?"
Li Xingzai shook his head: "Attack with all your strength and hit them hard. As long as the losses caused to them are large enough, the enemy's tactics of weakening the troops will naturally be useless."
Li Xingzai kept his word. He said he would fight the Rong clan in Luofeng City, and that was where he would fight. He said he would attack with all his strength, and he meant he would fight with all his strength.
Being so determined to go his own way, Qi Jiguang could only do things with his head.
"Your Majesty, you have not slept all day and all night. You need to take care of yourself. My subordinates cannot stay here."
"Soldiers are fighting on the front line, how can I sleep in the rear." Li Xingzai looked in the direction of the Rong tribe: "I am here to defend the city. If the Rong tribe does not retreat, I will not leave the city."
He ordered people to fetch wine and distributed it to the soldiers guarding the city. They all drank the strong wine and once again went to the battlefield to fight with the Rong tribe.
A certain reckless man just drank a large bowl of wine, and then he was pierced through the chest by a heavy arrow from the Rong tribe. Someone immediately hit him at the position he was responsible for, and he died on the spot before he could hold on for long.
People are constantly dying, both on the city and below. Nohara Huo dared to formulate such a strategy because he wanted to risk his life with Li Xingzai, but he did not expect that Li Xingzai, a descendant of the royal family, was more of a scoundrel than him at heart and would not even take a life.
thing.
The manpower was sometimes poor, and the soldiers stood bravely on the top of the city without fear of death. Their strength became weaker and weaker, and they could only take advantage of the intervals between battles to sleep for a while.
But every time he saw Li Xingzai's upright figure, the soldier cheered up and joined the battle again.
Nohara Huo's life is not easy now. Such a plan to wipe out the family is really costing lives. He has eight tribes under his command, and each tribe is composed of countless small tribes.
Such a brutal fighting style was the annihilation of the entire tribe. Battle reports kept coming to Nohara Huo, and Nohara Huo was under increasing pressure.
"Hasn't the momentum of defending the city weakened at all?" Nohara Huo said: "I really underestimated Li Xingzai."
"Your Majesty, please withdraw your troops for now. In the long run, we have many ways to destroy the city. With such a sacrifice, the soldiers must mutiny." Bai Wushuang said.
After a long silence, Nohara Huo nodded slightly.
This battle lasted for three full days, which was beyond everyone's expectations.
When the Rong tribe stopped attacking the city and slowly retreated, a huge cheer came from the top of Luofeng City.
"Your Majesty, the Rong tribe has retreated, retreated." Qi Jiguang was also a little excited. According to Li Xingzai's method, he finally managed to hold on.
"Is it over?" Li Xingzai shook his head slowly: "Not yet. It's not up to him to decide whether it's over or not."
Everyone was stunned and didn't understand the meaning of his words.
"Where is Ma Chao?" Li Xingzai suddenly shouted.
Ma Mengqi did not go to the battlefield in the past three days. Although he had the urge to kill the enemy, Li Xingzai kept suppressing him, and he did not know why.
"You lead 10,000 people and attack the rear of the Rong tribe. Don't let them leave safely."
Everyone was agitated: Li Xingzai still wanted to fight.
Ma Chao looked excited, clasped his hands in fists and said, "I obey my orders."
Li Xingzai turned around, looked at him and said, "You have to get your lost face back by yourself."
Ma Chao gritted his teeth, saluted Li Xingzai, said goodbye and left.
Li Xingzai stood at the top of the city, looking at the direction in which the Rong army was retreating, and muttered: "Come when you want, leave when you want, do you really think I'm easy to bully?"