Chapter 1403
Enemy Army Sieges the City [4]
Chapter 1403 Enemy Army Sieges the City [4]
"Hurry and chase them! We can't let Commander Jiang kill all the enemy soldiers. We need to leave some alive to pass on that ancient rumor!" Commander Xiao Ling was afraid there were enemy soldiers nearby, so he didn't dare to say directly that the rumor was being spread.
But the enemy troops cannot be wiped out, otherwise Dong Xin and the other enemy troops would have been let go for nothing.
With a clatter, the soldiers hurriedly spurred their horses and galloped into the depths of the forest.
The mountains and forests in the Northeast region are all large, deep, and old, which allowed the enemy to hide and dig tunnels.
However, the mountains and forests here are flatter than those to the south, and those with good riding skills can ride freely in the forest.
Xiao Lingqianhu and his men were all seasoned veterans of the battlefield, with excellent tracking and horsemanship skills. They quickly found Jiang Dalang and his men by listening to the rumbling sounds.
Whoosh-!
Boom!
The small ball containing the sharp weapon rolled into a tunnel and exploded inside.
"Commander Jiang, Nan Ge has run away?!" Commander Xiao Ling understood why Nan Ge was running deep into the forest after seeing them blow up the tunnel entrance.
The enemy has a tunnel entrance here.
"Hmm." Jiang Dalang nodded, his face slightly gloomy, clearly unhappy that the truck had run away.
Commander Xiao Ling breathed a sigh of relief, dismounted, and whispered in his ear that they should spare prisoners to spread rumors among the enemy and create chaos within their ranks.
This plan was devised by Jiang Dalang and his group.
Jiang Dalang wasn't really a teenager; he knew how to think long-term and immediately said, "Yes, I will inform my soldiers to let the tiger return to the mountain."
but……
“These rat holes scattered all over our land must be cleared out.”
……
Whoops!
Inside the tunnel, Nango, leading the three remaining dead soldiers, slid diagonally deeper into the tunnel, their buttocks aching from the scraping, but they were already numb.
They had blast wounds, burns, and knife and arrow wounds on their faces and bodies, and every part of their bodies hurt more than their buttocks.
Bang bang bang bang, as they slid to the bend in the tunnel, the four of them bumped into the tunnel wall and were in pain again. They were dizzy and their vision was blurry.
"Who goes there?!" shouted a soldier from the Eastern Desert at the end of the tunnel bend.
Thump thump!
Nan Ge and the dead soldier struck the small drum they carried with them. Upon hearing this, the Eastern Desert soldiers inside the tunnel knew it was one of their own and immediately ran over to take a look, only to be quite frightened.
"Nango, you nobleman, how did you get so badly injured? Quickly, save him!" One of the ten Eastern Desert soldiers immediately knelt down, and the others put Nango on his back.
The man crawled on his back, carrying Nango deeper into the tunnel.
Whoosh, boom!
The small ball of weaponry exploded deep inside the tunnel. Due to the trench effect, both its power and sound were amplified, giving the Eastern Desert soldiers inside the tunnel a big fright.
Nan Ge was so frightened that he screamed, "Ahhh, that grain ghost is coming! Run... hiss!"
Nan Ge's face was almost charred from the explosion. Speaking in large movements pulled at his facial muscles, causing him excruciating pain that nearly sent him to heaven.
“Nango is truly a nobleman!” The Eastern Desert soldier hurriedly took out the divine medicine and handed it to him: “Nango is truly a nobleman, please use five parts of the divine medicine, it can relieve your pain.”
Nan Ge was in excruciating pain, no longer caring about the dangers of the miracle drug. He poured the powder into his mouth and swallowed it whole: "Let's go."
The soldiers from the Eastern Desert carried him deep into the tunnel.
"This tunnel is no longer safe. Go through the back and head to South Tunnel No. 30," Nan Ge ordered.
This South Tunnel No. 30 is the most secretive, safest, largest, and most interconnected tunnel. "Yes." The Eastern Desert soldiers immediately responded, and everyone was quite happy... They had heard the commotion on the surface, and this tunnel was no longer safe. They didn't want to die here; they still wanted to share in the land of the Great Wei and enjoy their fortunes.
"Let's go!" After resting for a while and eating some food, Nan Ge was escorted away by the Eastern Desert soldiers.
Before leaving, he maliciously left behind a packet of highly poisonous pills, which he lit and let burn inside the tunnel, intending to poison the Wei soldiers who entered.
However, Jiang Dalang and his men weren't stupid; instead of entering the tunnel, they used poison to fumigate the area.
"Smoke the rats. No matter how well they hide, they still need to breathe. This secret military smoke will make them come out of the ground on their own." Jiang Dalang gave Wei Jun a bag of medicine.
The Wei soldiers divided the medicine, wrapped it in bundles of dry grass, lit them, and threw them into the tunnel to burn.
boom!
They also blocked the tunnel entrance and filled it with soil to prevent the medicinal smoke from flowing back.
"Commander, another tunnel entrance has been discovered two miles away!" A cavalryman under Commander Xiao Ling rode back to report.
"Here's the powder, use it to fumigate the tunnel!" Commander Xiao Ling handed the powder packet to the soldier, explained how to use it, and the soldier rode back to begin fumigating the newly discovered tunnel.
In half a day, within a radius of thirty miles in Dongshui County, thirty-one tunnels were all permeated with this so-called secret military medicine.
Dong Xin and his group had just fought a fierce battle with Zhao Qianhu and his group on the ground, and their original two hundred-plus men had been reduced to thirty.
If Commander Zhen hadn't arrived, these thirty men would have also died for the Eastern Desert!
After Commander Zhen whispered something to Commander Zhao, the reinforcement commander, Commander Zhao's attack on them suddenly decreased, allowing them to break through and escape into a nearby tunnel.
Before they could even breathe a sigh of relief, smoke began to drift into the tunnel...
Thump, thump!
Deep within the tunnels, the sound of military drums from the Eastern Desert could still be heard; these were the drums and bugles signaling all the tunnels to converge on the central tunnel.
"Let's go, assemble at South Tunnel No. 30!" Dong Xin ordered, immediately leading the team deeper into the tunnel.
Upon reaching the end of the tunnel, after surveying the ground and finding no Wei troops nearby, they hurriedly came to the surface and ran towards another tunnel entrance.
Just like a rat, sneaking around, sometimes walking on the ground, sometimes burrowing into the ground.
In the South No. 30 tunnel, the central tunnel, there is a large secret room. The Eastern Desert soldiers who heard the drumbeats all gathered here, but there were only 212 of them!
Many others were injured.
Those who were unharmed were all the Eastern Desert assassins who had been guarding the five major interception tunnels.
"Nango is a true nobleman!" All the soldiers of the Eastern Desert were shocked when they saw Nange... The nobleman who originally had the air of a nobleman from Liang Wei was almost a ghost. This defeat was too great.
"Where is the nobleman Asiya?" A soldier from the central region asked anxiously, not having seen Asiya.
Nango's burned face had turned from red to blackish-red, almost becoming a yin-yang face at first glance. Upon hearing this, his face contorted with rage, and he glared angrily at the questioner, which frightened the central soldier so much that he almost fell over, and a bad feeling arose in his heart.
"Could it be that you've abandoned the true noble of Ashye?" the Central Army soldier questioned, then tugged at a tuft of red hair on his head and said, "The Central Army is the most prestigious tribe in the Eastern Desert. Even if the true noble of Ashye isn't royalty, other tribes must protect him with their lives!"
The reason why the central region is the most prestigious is because the people of the central region are the descendants of the royal families of past dynasties!
"Guards, he's your meal." Nan Ge, like a demon king, issued this order.
As everyone knows, there is no camaraderie in the Eastern Desert. Upon hearing this, there was no obstacle whatsoever. He knelt down to express his gratitude: "Thank you, Nango, for bestowing meat and rations upon us, true nobleman!"
Then, ignoring the resistance of the central soldiers, they surrounded him.
"What are you doing? I'm a soldier from the Central Plains, and my ancestors were royalty! You..."
No one paid him any attention. Even the central soldiers under Asylum didn't help him... After the defeat, everyone needed to vent their pent-up frustration, so he was quickly killed.
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Thankfully, the Wei army hadn't arrived yet; otherwise, seeing this scene, they would have thought they had stumbled into the underworld.
But the Wei army is also advancing towards Tunnel No. 30 to the south...
"Report! Nan Gezhen, a noble family, has spotted six detachments of Wei soldiers about a mile away. They are sweeping through this area. We probably have to retreat!"
"We beg the noble Nango to lead us to join the main army so that we can continue our great cause of destroying Wei!"