Chapter 1437
Siege, Lifting the City
Chapter 1437 Siege, Retreat
"Anyone who isn't afraid of death, follow me, Old Tang, to the trap to rescue them! We must bring Zhong Baihu and the others back!" Tang Qianhu, who had been saved by Zhong Baihu, was now willing to risk his life to save him as well.
"And our Commander Jiang, we must save him too! He's still so young!" said Commander Hua, who had been to Taifeng Town before.
clang!
"Shut up, all of you! Listen to Commander Zhen!" Commander Mu roared, then clasped his hands in a gesture of supplication: "Commander, I am a fallen soldier, willing to lead fallen soldiers into battle to save lives. I am not afraid of contracting the plague... Mu Er, shut up! You have no right to speak now!"
"..." General Mu was furious, but he was very obedient, after all, every extra word he uttered could mean the death of another comrade.
Commander Zhen immediately said, "Those elite soldiers who have brothers at home to support their parents and are not afraid of contracting the plague, step forward! Commander Tang, get back. The death of another commander is a major loss, and our army will be ridiculed to death."
Commander Tang was speechless and had no choice but to retreat, as there was no time to waste arguing.
Finally, they assembled a force of 500 elite soldiers, led by Lao Tao, a centurion, and Mu Da, the chief commander.
"Grab your weapons and charge!" Old Commander Tao shouted, already spurring his horse onto the moat bridge.
Bang bang bang bang bang! More than 500 cavalrymen spurred their horses and charged onto the bridge. In just a few moments, the thirty elite soldiers of the Great Wood Banner crossed the bridge like flying celestial horses. Like arrows of light, they pierced into the chaotic battlefield on the riverbank in the blink of an eye, and then charged slightly towards the area where the enemy forces were more numerous.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
The warhorses rammed precisely into the enemy soldiers, sending them flying; their hooves trampled heavily on the enemy, causing these beasts to vomit their internal organs.
General Mu and his men dared not stop for a moment. As they leaped from their horses, they grabbed an enemy soldier and slashed his neck from behind with their daggers. Before the enemy could even feel the pain, General Mu had already drawn his axe and was already hacking at him.
Clang, clang!
With a few swings of the axe, he cleaved through the seams of the enemy's armor. As the armor plates shattered, the axe chopped into the enemy's flesh and bones. He then leaped into the air, pinning the neck of the enemy who was trying to ambush him with his legs. Using the body of the enemy being chopped by the axe as support, he transferred all his strength to his legs and feet, and then exerted a fierce force...
boom!
The ambushing enemy soldier was twisted and fell to the ground, and his elite Wei soldiers immediately finished him off with a swift, slicing motion, sending the ambushing enemy soldier to meet his maker.
Clang! Weapons clashed. After blocking another enemy's attack, General Mu and his men worked together, slashing and slashing, and delivered several more blows to the enemy.
"Form ranks, spread out your troops, and occupy the position so that you can unleash your skills to kill the enemy!" Commander Mu shouted, and as he spoke, he also seized the opportunity to throw two small firearm balls into the area where there were more enemy troops.
Boom boom boom!
The explosion injured at least five enemy soldiers, and the thunderclap startled enemy soldiers within a few meters, causing them to freeze in shock.
Jiang Dalang and his men seized the opportunity and immediately pounced on the stunned enemy. After a bloody battle, they finally carved out a three-meter-wide vacuum.
He then immediately threw sharp balls around.
Rumble rumble rumble rumble!
They injured the enemy troops closest to them.
"Reinforcements have arrived! Charge backwards! Take Commander Gan with you!" Jiang Dalang shouted as he ran toward Commander Gan, who was already lying on the ground.
During the chaotic battle, the enemy deliberately grabbed the arrow that was still stuck in the cheek of Commander Gan.
With a ripping sound, the skin on one side of his cheek was peeled off to his chin... Fortunately, Commander Gan was skilled enough to kill the enemy soldiers, but the intense pain, the huge depletion of his strength, and the old wounds caused him to collapse from exhaustion.
"The enemy forces on the rear are already weakened. Join Mu Da and the others to fight our way back to the city. Do not linger in battle, or you will be executed!" Jiang Dalang shouted, grabbing a warhorse that Mu Da and the others had ridden. He took the unconscious Commander Gan from Xu Sanjun and threw him onto the horse.
He leaped onto his horse, turned it around, seized an enemy's spear, and wielded it with lightning speed. With a few sweeping thrusts, he cleared away the surrounding enemy ranks, then with several thrusts, the spear tip aimed straight for the enemy's eye socket. With a final flick, he sent the enemy flying and tossed him into the distance. He immediately spurred his horse towards the bridge. "Retreat to the city immediately! Those who linger will be executed!" Jiang Dalang shouted, charging into the enemy forces attempting to block the way back to the city.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Several enemy soldiers were knocked away, and the remaining dozens of enemy soldiers, seeing this, were so frightened that they instinctively rushed to both sides to avoid Jiang Dalang's attack.
Liang Weijiang is too terrifying. She can even kill the Fourth Prince. They have no chance of surviving from Liang Weijiang!
"Retreat! Retreat quickly! Those who linger will be executed! Tens of thousands of enemy reinforcements are almost here!" Jiang Dalang shouted, and the soldiers who heard him repeated the shout, fearing that if the Wei army was a few steps too slow, they would be trampled into mincemeat by the rapidly approaching enemy reinforcements.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
The sound of tens of thousands of enemy cavalry galloping filled the air. Seeing that Jiang Dalang and his men were about to break through and return to the city, the enemy's officers and soldiers shouted: "Charge! Kill Liang Wei Jiang! Kill Liang Wei Gan Qianhu! This is the closest our army has ever been to them. If we miss this opportunity, we will have to wait until the massacre of the city to kill them again. Charge!"
The shouts of hundreds of soldiers and officers were deafening and extremely jarring.
dong dong dong dong!
On Commander Zhen's side, the war drums sounded loudly. Commander Zhen said, "Have Lao Gao, Lao Fan, and Commander Bai prepare to use catapults and other sharp weapons to bombard the enemy and help Da Gan and the others return to the city!"
As he spoke, he led his troops forward to meet Jiang Dalang and the others.
The warhorses were fast, and they ran together on both sides. Before long, they met, but Jiang Dalang and the others shouted in unison, "Get out of the way! Stay away from us! We might catch the plague!"
This?
Commander Zhen and all the Wei soldiers who heard this were completely speechless.
"They're doing this to the enemy's ancestors! It's inhuman! They've made us afraid to even support our comrades!"
"Make way! Let General Chu set aside a row of houses for Commander Jiang and his men... Army doctor, assassin army doctor, come quickly! Save Commander Gan! Commander Gan is covered in blood!"
Commander Zhen shouted, but even from a distance, he dared not look at Commander Gan for long... It seemed to have no face left, covered in blood, with soft, fleshy things hanging down, but not completely fallen off yet.
In short, ouch, he felt excruciating pain.
Clatter, clatter, clatter. Soon, ten elite medics arrived at full speed, carrying Commander Gan down from his horse. When they saw his face, even those of them who were used to seeing all kinds of injuries gasped in unison.
It's terrifying. Not only is my face disfigured, but my cheekbone was also pierced, and you can see bone fragments.
Then he hurriedly checked the back of his cheeks and the back of his neck.
"Fortunately, the carotid artery was not damaged, there was no major bleeding, the wound is fresh and non-toxic, there is a 50% chance of survival!"
"Boiling cotton thread, heating needles, sewing up wounds... The wound is too big, it needs to be sewn up quickly. If it's sewn up in the city, a large chunk of flesh will probably fall off!"
If this piece of skin on my cheek is torn off, my face will look terrible, and it will also hinder wound healing, so it will have to be stitched up.
Although cotton thread cannot be absorbed by the skin and must be pulled out when removing the thread, which is very painful, it was the most convenient sewing thread that the ancients could come up with.
Therefore, there were already instances in the Wei army of using cotton thread to sew up large wounds.
Soon, the military doctors sprang into action, cleaning Da Gan's wounds, applying heat to the needles, and boiling the cotton thread in a copper pot with boiling water.
After boiling for a hundred minutes, the wound was almost cleaned and then stitched up by an experienced military doctor.
Without stopping, Jiang Dalang asked Zhen Qianhu for a batch of weapons and then spurred his horse back to help the other Wei troops who had not yet retreated.