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Mukui City burned in the fire, and the city was already completely silent. The largest city in Jianchang Prefecture had turned into a dead city.
Zhao Min was breathing like a bellows, and big drops of sweat flowed from his chin. He sat down on the dead body next to him, took his own water bottle and poured it down.
Blood and water mixed with tears flowed down. The losses in this battle were too great...
In this battle, not only the 2,000 God Guards as the logistics force participated in the battle, but also various auxiliary arms in the army participated in the battle. Only then did they use the powerful lethality of gunpowder shells to break open this small city.
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Human vitality is so tenacious that even though the city had been bombarded by ballistae, after the city gate was blown open, there were still countless Dali soldiers rushing over, shouting.
Zhao Min picked up Zhao Ti's half-drawn head from the ground. The brain matter inside had been mixed with the blood and only an empty skull was left. This was a son of Duke Shouyang. Duke Shouyang wrote a letter specifically asking him to take better care of Zhao.
body.
What else can we do besides fighting among the rebels? Zhao Ti is fighting, and he is also fighting. Even though he is watching Zhao Ti being hacked to death by the rebels, he can only howl loudly but cannot take a step forward.
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Three of the ten men from the Zhao family who were following him died, and now they are all lying in a pool of blood, showing no signs of dignity.
After struggling to drag the three corpses over and surrounding him, Zhao Min found that his head was empty. If the scarred Zhao Ting hadn't reminded him, he would have almost forgotten his responsibilities as the head coach.
"Blow the trumpet and assemble!"
Zhao Min still issued the military order, and Zhao Hao raised the horn with his intact right arm and blew it vigorously. At this time, he was Zhao Min's deputy general, which was what he should do.
The low sound of horns hovered over the dilapidated Mukui City, adding a sense of desolation to the Mukui City where corpses were scattered all over the ground.
Countless Song troops who were lying gasping in the blood stood up from the pile of dead bodies one by one, and instinctively gathered towards the sound of the horn like zombies.
Zhao Zhe thought he was dead for a time, but the pain that spread throughout his body told him that he was still alive. The cotton lining of the armor was filled with blood. He wanted to take off the armor and feel relaxed, but his hands were like chickens.
The claws were twitching and uncontrollable.
Zhao Yannian was relatively relaxed, because he was in charge of the ballistae and the Eight-Niu Crossbow, which were long-range attack methods anyway. Although he gave up the ballistae and the Eight-Niu Crossbow in the end and participated in the flesh-and-blood fight, compared to Zhao Min and the others, he still had an easier time.
Be more comfortable.
The consequence of the large-scale application of firearms is that after a city is captured, the city will be completely destroyed. Zhao Yannian looked at the dilapidated city walls and the city walls with big holes everywhere and said to Zhao Yan: "There is no way to defend here.
We must evacuate quickly. According to the news brought by those merchants, a Dali army of 8,000 people left Nongdong Mansion the day before yesterday, and the target is probably us."
Zhao Min nodded and said: "After the army is sorted out, we will retreat into Xilin Mountain. There is a temporary walled city built by merchants on the left side of Xilin Mountain where we can rest."
Zhao Yannian saw that Zhao Min was really exhausted, so he went to help the army. Suddenly, he heard Zhao Min behind him say: "Why don't you ask where Zhao Ti, who is often left by my side, is?"
Zhao Yannian was stunned for a moment and turned back to look at Zhao Min and said: "The damn bird will look up in the sky and it will not die for tens of millions of years. Saying this at this time is not in line with your status as a general. The general has already written a letter to reprimand you for this mentality. If you can't change it, we will die."
There will be more people.”
When Zhao Yannian saw Zhao Yannian walking away, he put the half-empty skull at hand on Zhao's broken head and said to Zhao Hao: "Use strong fire oil to burn the bones of the brothers who died in the battle. We can only take the ashes back. Go and prepare."
Well, time is running out."
Zhao Hao's tears had left two white marks on his dark cheeks, which looked extremely ridiculous. However, neither Zhao Ting nor Zhao Zhe were in the mood to laugh at Zhao Hao at this time, and they themselves looked no better.
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After the team of 6,000 people gathered together, Zhao Hao obviously found that a large number was missing, but the burning piles of fire and oil had changed from one or two to hundreds or thousands...
When he saw the merchants at this time, Zhao Hao no longer meant to look down on these people, and the other surviving Zhao clan members also no longer had this mentality.
Shopkeeper Sun, who was born with a smiling face, had a gloomy face as if he was crying. He only handed the empty porcelain jars to the soldiers who were gathering the ashes one by one.
"Is there any letter you need me to take back?"
Zhao Hao shook his head. Now he no longer felt like telling his relatives how he was fighting in Jianchang Mansion. He just took out a cracked jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Shopkeeper Sun and said: "Tell my family that I am still alive."
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Another group of wounded soldiers were taken away by the merchants, but the number of wounded soldiers in this group was too many. Hundreds of fully loaded flatbed carts squeaked eastward along the road along the mountainside.
"Mom, if I hadn't been concerned about face, I would have given myself a knife so that I could go home." Zhao Ting spat out the blood in her mouth and said in a daze.
Zhao Zhe whispered: "We only have three thousand brothers left now. In two months, three thousand brothers have died and been seriously injured. Logically speaking, the battle damage has been more than half, and we should evacuate. Why is there still no such thing among the generals?"
Is this order issued?"
Zhao Hao said coldly: "The military order we received is to pacify and recover Jianchang Mansion. If we don't capture Mukui City, it will be over. If we want to go home, we must drive out all the Dali troops entrenched in Jianchang Mansion."
That’s all.”
"I thought I was dead just now. Really, if the shot from that skinny monkey in Dali hadn't slipped through my waist and ribs, I would have been dead by now."
"You'd better treat yourself as a dead person!" Zhao Min, who was passing by Zhao Zhe, said coldly. Seeing that Zhao Zhe was still in a daze, he added, "I told you a long time ago, welcome to hell!"
Zhao Hao kept up with Zhao Min and asked as he walked: "We are not afraid of death, but our gunpowder shells and crossbow arrows need a lot of replenishment now. Without these two things, our entire army may really die in the battle."
Jianchang Mansion."
Zhao Min smiled ferociously and said: "Don't worry, there will be gunpowder bullets and crossbow arrows. What you have to learn now is how to survive. You don't need to worry about the rest."
Zhao Ting came over and said: "I know those merchants are our heavy troops. I just want to know where the commander has at least 8,000 troops. Why can't our battle losses be replenished? The more we fight, the fewer people we fight. This is not a battlefield.
It’s a common practice.”
Zhao Min stopped and looked at Zhao Ting coldly: "What's your last name?"
"My surname is Zhao!"
"What's your last name in this world?"
"My surname is Zhao!"
"Since your surname is Zhao, and everyone in the world is surnamed Zhao, who are you counting on to fight for the country surnamed Zhao?"
Zhao Ting smiled awkwardly: "I'm not saying that I don't want to fight anymore, I just thought that the commander-in-chief still has enough manpower, why don't we use them?"
Zhao Min raised his head and looked at the green mountains to the east and said lonelyly: "Jianchang Mansion has never been a battlefield. This is a huge training ground. We are just pieces of stubborn iron in this huge training ground. We need to be defeated by the war."
This huge hammer can be used to make swords only after being struck over and over again. Some of them were destroyed by the iron hammer, and some were disabled. Only the iron hammer that withstands the iron hammer can finally become the sharpest sword in the Song Dynasty.
's sword.
In this trial field, the commander-in-chief is just a bystander, a craftsman who crushes iron ore and turns it into iron."
Zhao Hao took a step forward and said, "Are you saying that we don't have any backup at all?"
Zhao Min smiled and said: "Of course it is, otherwise how could I say this is hell?"
Zhao Zhe and Zhao Ting immediately felt a chill rising from their tailbones, and couldn't help shivering. The warm sun in the sky seemed to be unable to bring any warmth.
The reason why they are able to persist until now is that they believe that Yun Zheng will not stand by and watch. As long as they are really in danger, the commander-in-chief will definitely send troops to rescue them from the abyss just like he did in the battle on the grassland of western Yunnan.
Now I suddenly find that my biggest support is gone, and my heart suddenly feels empty and has no foundation at all.
Zhao Min smiled at this time, patted Zhao Ting on the shoulder and said: "According to my estimation, we should not be able to encounter such a tough battle as attacking Mukuicheng. From now on, our combat posture will be guerrilla.
If you pass, fight, if you can't beat, leave, never be reluctant to fight."
Zhao Hao smiled bitterly and said: "We only have three thousand people left. It's impossible not to fight like this. If we continue to fight head-on with the enemy at this time, we are looking for death."
Zhao Min laughed and did not explain. He strode towards the front of the team, patting the soldiers on the shoulders constantly, encouraging everyone to walk faster. If they reached Xilin Mountain earlier, they could rest earlier. He also said that the merchants were here
A huge warehouse was left there, with everything in it, including wine.
After the life-and-death battle, there was another arduous march. Today, there are less than a hundred animals left in the Divine Guards. The remaining animals still need to carry the spare parts of eight-oxen crossbows and crossbows on their backs. Therefore, even the main general
Zhao Min and Zhao Yannian could only walk, no one was an exception.
At sunset, the exhausted Divine Guards had no time to grieve for their dead comrades. They were completely defeated by exhaustion. After a hasty dinner, almost all of them lay down in the Xilin Mountain camp in the shortest possible time.
The sound of snoring on the bamboo bed was thunderous.
Zhao Hao was so exhausted that he never dared to close his eyes. He always felt that an enemy was peeping at him not far away. He wanted to shout or roar, but when he came to his senses, he tightly covered his mouth.
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