Such a tragic battle situation has never appeared in the West Army’s many years of fighting.
After all, the enemies they face are different, and there is an essential difference between the armies of Dongxuan and Ziyou.
The army of Ziyou Empire is the best in the world in terms of individual combat capability, but it has never had the upper hand against the Yutang Army, which has excellent teamwork. The Yutang West Army, which has always had the upper hand against the Ziyou Army, always feels that its own combat power is the best in Yutang. Before, the commander of the West Army had the order to send reinforcements from the West to seize the first army of Yutang, but at this moment, when they saw the situation on the East Front with their own eyes, the elite soldiers on the West Front were shocked!
Tens of thousands of corpses… but in one battle!
Sun Zihu entered Tiegu Pass in a daze, but was immediately warmly welcomed by the garrison commander. Fu Baoguo Gengshi personally went out to greet him and entertained him with the highest standards.
Holding Sun Zihu’s hand, Fu Baoguo had tears in his eyes.
Tiegu Pass really needs reinforcements now!
Or it should be said that Tiegu Pass always needs reinforcements, but at present, the need for reinforcements is imminent. Without support, Tiegu Pass will be difficult to defend and will be in danger of being destroyed at any time!
Facing the extremely fierce attack of Hanshan River, Fu Baoguo’s 400,000 troops are decreasing at a speed that makes him heartbroken. Now there are less than 250,000 soldiers who can fight!
And these 250,000 people also include 150,000 iron cavalry who cannot participate in defending the city; and 30,000 secret troops of Fu Baoguo.
In other words, there are only 80,000 people left who participate in defending the city on a daily basis!
Almost every one of these 80,000 people is exhausted and exhausted. They can only hold on and may collapse at any time.
Fu Baoguo’s face is pale, his eye sockets are deeply sunken, and his whole body is almost thin; he has always paid attention to his appearance, but now his face is full of beard stubble, and he looks like a middle-aged uncle who is extremely down and out.
However, the concealed murderous aura on his body still proved that Fu Baoguo was still holding on, still insisting, and still abiding by the agreement made by Yu Yunyang that day!
“Marshal Fu, you have worked hard! Sun Zihu led 150,000 brothers of the Western Army to come to participate in the war. The Western Front Reinforcement Army will obey the command of Marshal Fu, and will follow his orders and words without hesitation!”
Those who can become the elite in the army are basically veterans. After just a glance at the battlefield, Sun Zihu and the 150,000 Western Army have a considerable understanding of the current battle situation, and they admire the Eastern Army with all their heart!
Yu Tang First Army is well-deserved and worthy of its reputation. There is no false reputation under its reputation!
Marshal, your wish for us to take back Yu Tang First Army is really not very likely, at least we lack confidence!
The battle has always been a two-way battle!
Being able to beat the enemy so badly, our own efforts are definitely not much better!
“Brothers, you have worked hard.”
Fu Baoguo smiled warmly and happily: “Brothers, you have come a long way and have worked so hard. Just looking at your clothes is enough to tell the problem. Have a good meal tonight and then go to bed. Don’t worry about the war. Everything will be done after you have recovered your spirit. In the future, we will need to rely on you, but not now!”
“Yes.” Sun Zihu is also a man who knows about soldiers. Naturally, he knows that Fu Baoguo’s words are sincere and he really cares about the Western Army.
He led these 150,000 brothers to march all the way. Although they arrived a day and a half ahead of schedule and their morale was particularly high, their physical strength had reached the limit. Everyone was exhausted. If they were forced to participate in the war like this, they would probably be slaughtered.
That’s not coming to help, it’s coming to die!
This night of rest is really necessary, it is necessary!
Originally, the reinforcements who had come from such a long distance, plus the need to get familiar with the war, the terrain, and the situation, would need at least two days of rest to fully recover and even integrate.
But Sun Zihu and Fu Baoguo both understood that Han Shanhe would never give them this buffer time!
Sure enough, on the night when the reinforcements arrived, the Dongxuan army, under the command of Han Shanhe, launched an offensive against Tiegu Pass again, and it was an unprecedented super offensive!
The 300,000 Dongxuan troops participating in the battle were divided into six waves by Han Shanhe, and there was no gap in the continuous and fierce attack, and the sound of fighting was deafening.
Fu Baoguo did his best to divide the defenders into three waves, and took turns to take the lead; many soldiers were really exhausted. While carrying stones and walking… suddenly fell to the ground, it was not because of exhaustion, but because of exhaustion.
Fu Baoguo’s face was as hard as iron, and his heart was as hard as iron. He knew that he had to hold on to this hurdle. If he couldn’t hold on, Tiegu Pass would definitely be broken. On the contrary, with the help of the Western Front Reinforcements, he could continue to deal with Hanshan River!
“Marshal, dispatch the Iron Cavalry and Baoguo Army to help defend the city.” Many Iron Cavalry generals and Fu Baoguo’s secret troops came to plead, crying: “We can’t fight like this anymore! The brothers defending the city are almost exhausted!”
Fu Baoguo’s face was as solid as a rock: “No! Now it’s time for you to rest, all of you go back and sleep! We can still hold on here! We don’t need you to intervene!”
The faces of the generals of the two elite troops were almost full of tears.
“Brothers can’t stand it anymore. Seeing our comrades dying in battle, we are exhausted and may collapse at any time… But we eat and drink well every day and sleep well, and do nothing… Brothers are going crazy.”
Fu Baoguo said coldly: “Going crazy? No, you are not really crazy! Then you have to keep holding on! There will be a day when it is your turn. If you don’t sleep well and rest well now, when you are unlucky, don’t blame me for not reminding you! Now, I order: Get out! Even if you are really crazy, there are things that make you crazy! Get out!”
Several generals left with their heads down.
It’s not that Fu Baoguo really has a heart of steel and doesn’t want to use the cavalry and secret troops to defend the city, but… he can’t!
The defense line of Tiegu Pass must be defended.
But facing the offensive of Hanshan River, Fu Baoguo had already made a plan in his mind.
Tiegu Pass, I’m afraid it really can’t be defended for long. Even if it survives this pass, with the help of the reinforcements from the western front, the time it can hold on is still limited. Once Tiegu Pass is breached, the 30,000 secret troops and 150,000 cavalrymen will be the foundation for Fu Baoguo to build another Tiegu Pass!
If the defense of the city is consumed at this moment… then it will be the biggest waste!
The greatest power that cavalry can exert is always on horseback!
Never in defending the city!
Sun Zihu brought his army to live in the empty military camps in the city.
These military camps were originally full of people, but now, nine out of ten rooms are empty, and people are rarely seen!
Seeing the clean and tidy military camps empty; the small tables and chairs in the tents, and the handwriting left by the soldiers; the fragmentary writings on them, the 150,000 elite Western Army soldiers all cried like children.
“On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, we arrived at Tiegu Pass. We fought for our country. Ten of us discussed our affairs. We arranged the suicide note and military pay today. However, none of us thought we would die, and we laughed and joked all night.”
“On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the battle started today, but we did not go out to fight. In the afternoon, we saw many of our comrades’ bodies being brought back and burned. The brothers were silent, and you could hear a pin drop in the whole barracks.”
“On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, we went to fight. Three of our brothers died in the battle. When we returned to the tent, there were only seven of us left. We cried bitterly.”
“On the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, we fought, and two of our brothers died in the battle. There were only five of us left, and we cried bitterly again, mourning our dead brothers.”
“On the eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month, only Sun Dabiao and I came back, but this time we had no tears, not because we wanted to cry but had no tears. We arranged the tablets of our brothers, took out the silver to buy wine, and got drunk all night. We told our brothers not to go too far, and wait for us, because we will return to the team later.”
“On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Sun Dabiao died in the battle…”
There was a small book in the tent where Sun Zihu was, which only recorded up to the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month, and there was no more news after that.
Presumably, the writer had died in the subsequent battles.
This should be something recorded by a military secretary.
It took only ten days for a team of ten people to get here from the third day of the twelfth lunar month to the death of all members.
There were six days in which they did not fight.
A lot of words were torn off the back of the small book, which should be the suicide notes written by the soldiers.
The last page was the one that said “Sun Dabiao died in battle”, and there were still a few words on the back.
The handwriting was very messy, as if it was erased after it was written.
Sun Zihu tried hard to distinguish, and when he distinguished it, he suddenly burst into tears.
Those were four words.
“I want to go home…”
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