Chapter 1436
Siege, Rescuing Da Gan [2]
Chapter 1436 Siege, Rescuing Da Gan [2]
The Rong royal family, who had been watching the battle from nearby, saw that Commander Gan had already fled to the moat, while a large number of Wei soldiers rushed out from the other side of the moat. The expression on their faces, hidden behind their veils, was extremely unpleasant.
He raised the small command flag, made of red gold and engraved with a faceless god pattern, and said, "Issue the order of the royal family in charge of the battle, ordering all non-commanders in the front line to enter the poisoning position and kill the grain-gathering Wei's commander, Gan."
“This man is fierce and brave. Xihe’er and the others died at his hands. And right now he is most bloodthirsty. If we can’t even kill him, everyone will have to apologize to the gods!”
"Yes, sir!" A small cavalry unit of the supervisory team hurriedly took the small supervisory flag and went to convey the new order.
The cavalry charged like lightning, and the distance between the two places was not far. They rushed to the poisoning position in no time.
Upon hearing this, the squad leader of the supervisory team, Dong Mangfu, Xi Qinerqin, west Yan, and others were greatly alarmed, thinking that the Rong royal family had sent someone to reprimand them for being perfunctory and negligent in battle. They hurriedly knelt down and performed the rites of a god.
After hearing the command, he felt relieved: "The people of God obey!"
This time, however, they dared not be perfunctory or reduce their troops; they acted according to orders.
Thump thump thump!
"Divine command! All heroes of the Eastern Desert below the rank of general, assemble! Your chance to serve the god has come!"
After a string of nonsensical and superstitious ramblings, he sent these soldiers to their deaths.
The army of the three tribes, plus some of the fourth prince's trusted soldiers, numbered quite a few, nearly ten thousand.
The Fourth Prince's trusted soldiers were still extremely excited, shouting: "Charge into the poisoning position, capture Commander Liang Wei alive, skin him to make a drum, eat his flesh and blood, to avenge the Fourth Prince's death at the hands of Commander Liang Wei!"
"Heroes of the Eastern Desert, be loyal to the gods, go!" The members of the divine messenger's command team shouted this as they held up small command flags.
Bang bang bang bang bang, tens of thousands of soldiers rushed toward the poisoning position, the commotion so great that the land trembled slightly.
Alita and his men, who had already been ordered to enter the poisoning position, heard the commotion and turned around. When they saw a large number of soldiers entering the poisoning position, their eyes lit up, and they seemed to have gained dozens of courages, daring to surround Commander Gan and his men again.
They had tried to surround them before, but Commander Gan and his men were too fierce. More than fifty royal guards were killed, so they had to temporarily avoid their attacks.
"You worthless bastards, let's see where you can run this time!!" Alita pointed at the moat, then at the poisonous sacs in the sky: "If you try to escape across the river, you'll be letting the plague sacs pass through, and you'll be derelict in your duty!"
After he finished speaking, the Eastern lackey shouted it out in the name of the Great Wei.
Da Gan and his men looked at the large number of enemy troops rushing into the poison-poisoning position, but they showed no fear. Instead, they laughed loudly: "Hahaha, you Eastern Desert people are really useless idiots. You need to mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers to kill fifty of our dead soldiers. You still have the nerve to call yourselves heroes?!"
"You're not heroes, you're brainless! Sending your troops into the plague-deploying area, are you trying to kill these people?"
"Good, good! This move will help our Wei army kill the enemy. It will benefit our Wei army. Let your enemy troops charge into battle to kill my Great Gan. Even if my Great Gan is turned into meat and food, it will be a life for ten thousand of yours. It's a death that's not too bad!"
Seriously, even Commander Gan was stunned by the enemy's mindless actions... He never expected that before he died, the enemy would deliver the achievement of killing ten thousand men.
He couldn't help but want to express his gratitude.
This?
"What did he say?" Alita asked the Eastern lackey, who was terrified but dared not hide anything and dutifully translated it for him.
"That bastard Liang Wei!" Alita was so angry he was practically fuming. He gritted his teeth and forced out an order: "Surround them! Once our tens of thousands of reinforcements get close, we'll fire arrows and kill this Liang Wei!"
"Yes!" The hundreds of soldiers under his command responded in unison. Commander Da Gan understood, and he ordered his soldiers: "Signal the flags for the capital city, and tell the people inside that although the enemy eats meat rations, they are selfish cowards. Therefore, as long as our Great Wei army and people dare to fight to the death against the enemy, even if the Northeast Province falls, we will surely win this battle!"
Two soldiers took down two flags from their backs and waved them to convey similar signals.
"What did he say?" Alita asked again, his mindset very unstable. Even if Commander Gan had cursed his whole family, he still wanted to know; he didn't want to be clueless.
The Eastern lackeys translated it.
Alita angrily retorted: "We, the heroes of the Eastern Desert, slaughtered your pass camps and your Tianmang Prefecture, and are about to slaughter your capital city. When we slaughtered the city before, your people of Liangwei surrendered one after another to save their lives, and even offered us their daughters to beg for their lives. They were terrified of dying. You still want to defeat us?"
Enough with the nonsense. Are you going to kill me or not? If you won't, we will.
With a splash, Jiang Dalang and his men entered the moat through a tunnel, emerged from a tunnel entrance on the side of the moat, waded ashore, quickly set up small catapults, and, using the riverbank as cover, launched weapon packs at Alita and his men.
With a whoosh, packets of sharp weapons flew over the heads of Commander Gan and his men, heading straight for Alita and his group.
Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!
Like a thunderclap in a clear sky, the explosions continued unabated, killing, wounding, and disrupting Alita's army.
"Commander Gan, run to the capital city quickly!" Xiao Yi shouted loudly, "Our Commander Jiang said, don't be afraid that you have been infected. At worst, you can stay in the barbican and avoid contact with people, but run to the capital city first!"
Zhong Baihu had already led the remaining troops towards Da Gan Qianhu and his men.
"Stop! Don't come any closer, you'll catch the disease!" shouted the commander of the Great Gan tribe.
Zhong Baihu, who was fearless, laughed and said, "Our mission now is to save you. If you don't run, you'll be wasting our time and becoming a burden to us!"
"All royal soldiers, charge forward and kill Liang Wei, I want him dead!" Alita's voice, filled with blood and foam, came from behind him. He had been pierced in the eye by a small iron nail from a sharp weapon and was blind in one eye.
"We've been at the poisoning site for over fifteen minutes and are very likely to have contracted the plague. Before we die, we must act heroically and earn merit for our descendants in the war to destroy Wei!"
Knowing he might die, Alita became even more courageous. Ignoring the excruciating pain in his right eye, he swallowed the divine medicine and, leading a large group of royal soldiers who had also taken the medicine, as well as slave soldiers, raised their weapons and charged towards Commander Gan and his men!
Compared to their cowardice and desire to survive when they were driven into the poisoning zone by the divine messenger's oversight team, this spontaneous attack was a true fight to the death.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Arrows rained down from the sky, and even the most capable and experienced Wei soldiers suffered over a dozen wounds.
"Da Luo!" Commander Gan leaped towards Commander Luo, saving his life, but his own cheek was pierced by a large arrow.
The large arrow, with an arrowhead two fingers wide, pierced the cheekbone directly from the back of the left cheek, breaking through the bone. The pain was so intense that Commander Gan wanted to die for a moment.
"Fourth Death Squad, form ranks and protect the commander; Second Death Squad, build a double human wall and kill the enemy!" Commander Luo shouted, pushing Commander Gan aside and handing him over to the Fourth Death Squad before joining up with the soldiers of the Second Death Squad.
Quickly form two layers of human walls. The dead soldiers in the back wall will place their crossbows on the shoulders of the dead soldiers in front and aim at the best-dressed enemy soldiers, such as Alita and centurions.
Whoosh-!
Whoosh-!
Whoosh-!
As the crossbow bolts pierced the eye sockets of three centurions, the remaining royal soldiers also charged into the small position of Commander Gan and his men from both sides.
Click, click, click!
There were no tactics involved, only the most primitive hack-and-slash exchanges, which made Commander Zhen and his men, who were rushing over, extremely anxious.
"They're all mixed up now, can we use sharp weapons? Won't they hurt our people?"