“Based on the current visual estimation, at most, we can hold on for another three days!”
Fu Baoguo closed his eyes tightly, and for a moment he felt that all his strength was exhausted. If he hadn’t tried hard to support himself, he would almost collapse to the ground!
Hundreds of thousands of lives have been thrown here. Could it be that they will not be able to defend it after all?
Originally, Fu Baoguo only thought that Tiegu Pass could be held for at least twenty days under his command!
Unless he was faced with a tragic situation where there were no soldiers available, Tiegu Pass would never fall. Even if Han Shanhe had great abilities, he could only attack and defend in a disciplined manner here!
After fighting for a while, reinforcements continued to arrive, especially the arrival of the Western Army, which made Fu Baoguo feel more confident.
In particular, the military intelligence informed that the old Marshal Qiu Jianhan also led the army here, and at most one day would be enough to reach Tiegu Pass!
This gave Fu Baoguo more hope. He was confident that he could hold out until Marshal Qiu arrived, unite his troops and fight the cold mountains and rivers together. Then the Yu Tang army only needed to hold out until Lord Jiuzun came to help, and the eastern line would be completely stable.
Or they could just hold on and fight to the death, dragging down the million-strong Dongxuan army until both countries could no longer sustain the war, and the war would naturally end!
Even if Dongxuan attacked with all its national forces, Tiegu Pass also had all the troops on the eastern line, the elite troops on the western line, and the reinforcements of Marshal Qiu. Its strength was not much inferior, especially since they still had Tiegu Pass as a reliable barrier. After all, the defensive side had the advantage in the battle. If the losses continued, Dongxuan would suffer more according to the current casualties ratio!
In this battle, Yu Tang’s chances of winning had risen from the initial 10% to the current 30%, and the wind had turned!
But…
Fu Baoguo found that his assessment was just wishful thinking. Han Shanhe was indeed the most recognized general in Tianxuan. I wonder if he had been planning this from the beginning. If so, he would be too terrible!
The shocking changes in the wall of Tiegu Pass made Fu Baoguo lose all hope!
The old marshal’s troops were about to arrive, and the situation would be reversed. But at this most critical moment, a flaw appeared and the wall had problems. In such a position, there was no way to repair it!
“Is it God’s will to destroy me? God wants to destroy Yu Tang?!”
Fu Baoguo sighed.
…
“Opportunity!”
The opportunity that Han Shanhe had been waiting for for a long time finally came!
“All troops, press on! We must take down Tiegu Pass in the next day and night!”
Han Shanhe issued an order: “At any cost, no casualties! Even if all 300,000 soldiers participating in this battle die, we must take down Tiegu Pass!”
All Dongxuan soldiers were puzzled by Han Shanhe’s crazy order.
But puzzled as they were, this order was strictly implemented.
Everyone went out to prepare, determined to fight to the death.
Zhan Ge looked at his teacher: “Teacher, the situation we are most happy to see has appeared. There is a big problem with the opponent’s city wall. It is foreseeable that Tiegu Pass will become a bag, but this should also be the time when the opponent’s resistance is the strongest. At this time, a full-line attack will inevitably increase huge casualties… This…”
There is no need to pay such heavy casualties at this time!
Zhan Ge was full of doubts about this.
“Speed is of the essence in war. We must seize Tiegu Pass before Qiu Jianhan arrives, otherwise… there will be no such opportunity now!” Han Shanhe sighed softly.
“It can be delayed for at least a month… there are pros and cons.”
“The general trend is leaning towards us. Even if that old man Qiu Jianhan arrives, can he reverse the situation?” Zhan Ge still looked puzzled.
“Zhan Ge, you are also a military expert. Don’t you really see the current situation clearly? If it weren’t for the flaws in the opponent’s city wall at this delicate moment, the situation of this battle would have been completely reversed, and the general trend would not be on our side!” Han Shanhe said in a deep voice.
Zhan Ge’s face changed, and he said solemnly: “Teacher, the current situation is clearly that we have the upper hand. Even if there is no flaw in the city wall, it is only a matter of time to capture Tiegu Pass. Why is it so?”
Han Shanhe shook his head and paused before saying: “This battle has gathered the entire country of Dongxuan. Although it is a huge momentum, there are also many hidden dangers on our side. If the four-nation alliance had not decided to besiege Yu Tang, I would never have proposed such an extreme. If Ziyou could kill Yun Zun in one fell swoop, he would not even have to be killed. As long as he was trapped, the four parties would attack at the same time, and Yu Tang would be destroyed in a short period of time.”
“But in the battle of Ziyou’s capital Zilong City, Yun Zun not only broke out of the siege, but also completely shocked Ziyou’s high-level officials. Because of that battle, Ziyou Emperor also realized his own shortcomings and resolutely ordered the Ziyou army that had already set out to retreat. So far, Yu Tang’s western line is worry-free for a short period of time.”
“There is also the southern front. After Yun Zun left Zilong City, he unexpectedly rushed to the southern front and joined the battle forcefully, causing a great setback to the Yuan Dynasty. Although the total strength of the Yuan Empire was not damaged much, the morale had dropped to the bottom line and there was no ability to fight again! In the north, with Tie Zheng personally in charge, it can be said to be as stable as a mountain, so the so-called four-way battle situation, the only one left to capture Yu Tang is our eastern front.”
“However, Fu Baoguo’s strength greatly exceeded my expectations. The iron cavalry harassment strategy he arranged, taking advantage of every opportunity, has caused a considerable impact on our supply line. The western front reinforcements that have just arrived have stabilized the precarious Tiegu Pass. If we wait for the reinforcements of the old man Qiu Jianhan, I can assert that even if Yun Zun does not join this battle, the consumption of each other will continue. Even if Yu Tang is defeated, my Dongxuan will definitely be dragged down! Now, do you still think the situation is really in our favor?”
Zhan Ge’s face changed drastically, and he was cold for a moment
“Taking Tiegu Pass in the most extreme way will certainly cause many more deaths, but it buys us time. If we really wait for Qiu Jianhan to come and then want to take Tiegu Pass, I’m afraid… it will cost 400,000, or even more… and there is still time.”
“Why? The flaw already exists and cannot be reversed!” Zhan Ge was puzzled.
Could it be that Han Shanhe can repair the city wall when he comes?
Han Shanhe did not answer, but just sighed.
The heavy snowstorm fell again.
And in the snowstorm, the war drums in the Dongxuan Army camp suddenly sounded! Countless enemy troops rushed up like a tide. The long siege ladders were like a forest!
“Han Shanhe discovered that he has begun to attack this point!”
Fu Baoguo shouted with all his strength: “All brothers who can move, whether it is the East Army or the West Army, defend with all your strength!”
“So many people together? There is no need to do this!” Sun Zihu was shocked.
“Hanshanhe’s attack this time will be an unprecedented full-scale attack, an extreme offensive!” Fu Baoguo closed his eyes: “We must also go all out! Otherwise… before the old marshal arrives, Tiegu Pass will be lost from our hands! If that happens, Yu Tang will really be in danger!”
This is a battle destined to be tragic!
And this day is the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month!
Many years after the war, everyone in the two countries remembered this day.
Because this day has become a common festival for the two countries.
In Dongxuan, it is called: Fighting Soul Festival.
In Yu Tang, it is called: Loyal Soul Festival!
Every time this day comes, the whole country of Dongxuan Empire will be silent and rest for one day.
And every time Yu Tang comes on this day, the whole country will be in mourning! Incense and candles fill the sky!
This battle was so fierce that later on, whether it was Yu Tang or Dongxuan, even those elite veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles and survived hundreds of deaths, and the iron-blooded men who had long been accustomed to life and death, all cried while fighting!
It was too miserable!
At this moment, there was a fierce battle on the top of Tiegu Pass.
No, it was not almost, it was a fierce battle all the time!
Many Yu Tang soldiers who had been struggling to hold on and exhausted, even used up their last bit of strength. When they saw the enemy rushing to the top of the city, they rushed up with their flesh and blood, hugged the enemy, rushed down the 15-zhang-high city wall together, and fell into meat patties together below!
This was the last resort, to die with the enemy, to go to hell together, and in the end, they were unwilling to lose money!
At this moment, people were falling from the top of the city like dumplings, and the shouts and killing were intertwined and endless.
The surging hot steam rushed up to the sky, and it actually melted the heavy snow that was falling directly in the air, turning it into drops of rain.
But even if it rained from the sky, it could not dilute the blood on the ground!
On such a cold day, countless soldiers were shirtless, with dishevelled hair, fighting in a nearly crazy manner.
Exposing a body full of scars!
The scars of soldiers have always been medals of honor, and they were all revealed in front of people at this moment!
They really didn’t care about the enemy or ourselves, they all fought like crazy!
The drums were deafening!
Fu Baoguo shouted at the top of his lungs: “Iron Cavalry! Go to battle!”
In order to relieve the pressure on the city wall, the Iron Cavalry had to go to battle.
Once they went out, they would fight to the death!
“For Yu Tang!”
“For my parents!”
“For my brothers!”
“Kill!”
The tightly closed city gates were opened with a bang, and the Yu Tang Iron Cavalry rushed out with the force of a raging dragon, smashing the Dongxuan soldiers who were attacking the city into pieces and making them defeated. However, the Iron Cavalry was immediately trapped in the sea of people of the Dongxuan army!
There were too many Dongxuan soldiers in front of them, and even with the charge of the Iron Cavalry, they could not disperse, break, or move!
The dense rain of arrows fell like a torrential rain. At the moment of falling, whether it was rain or snow, they were blocked outside by the rain of arrows!
The Iron Cavalry rushed back and forth in the enemy formation like a raging dragon, trying their best to disrupt the rhythm of the siege reinforcements.
The Hanshan River headquarters on the other side responded quickly. The old rival Black Cavalry was already ready and waiting for the arrival of Yu Tang Iron Cavalry!
During this period of time, Yu Tang Iron Cavalry has been in the limelight. The Black Cavalry has long been jealous. Seeing that the Iron Cavalry finally entered the front battlefield, they naturally rushed up at the first time, and the two sides started the most extreme fight!
A big man of the Iron Cavalry led his three brothers and was separated from his team by the enemy. He fought hard and was invincible. The surrounding Black Cavalry fell down, but at least 20 to 30 bodies fell in an instant. However, his three brothers also fell off their horses one after another and turned into meat paste.
Seeing that the big man of the Iron Cavalry was left alone, the enemies who had already killed red eyes swarmed around him, intending to cut him into pieces together. Unexpectedly, the big man suddenly raised his knife to the sky on horseback and roared like thunder: “Stop!”
The surrounding Black Cavalry were all stunned when they heard this, and they all stopped their hands at the same time!
After fighting till now, no matter the Iron Cavalry or the Black Cavalry, even though they already hated each other, they also admired each other to the same extent!
Iron Cavalry, worthy of the name of invincible!
Black Cavalry, worthy of the title of warrior!
Faced with the strongest enemy ever, who ordered to stop at the last moment, the officers and soldiers of the Black Cavalry took back their swords and guns without any agreement.
The big man stood proudly on his horse and laughed loudly: “The Black Cavalry is indeed an elite force qualified to fight with my Iron Cavalry brothers for a lifetime! Just because you stop now, I think highly of you.”
He raised his sword diagonally and said lightly: “The three brothers who followed me to charge the battle are my three brothers who were born from the same mother. Now, they are all gone. As the eldest brother, I can’t let them fall into the underworld where even their parents can’t recognize them, right?”
“So, let me tidy up their appearance.”
After saying that, he jumped down as if no one was around, strode forward in the forest of Black Cavalry, searched for the bodies of his three brothers, and dragged them out one by one.
In an open space, he twisted his battle robe that had long been soaked in blood, spat, and wiped his brothers’ faces, but the more he wiped, the redder they became, and the more he wiped, the less he could see the true faces of the three people.
“Go on!”
A black cavalry general suddenly shouted, pulled off the white towel from his neck and threw it over, and another black cavalry soldier also took off his water bag and threw it over.
“Haha, thank you very much! I’m grateful to you…” The big man used a white towel to wipe the faces of his brothers clean, then stood up silently and said loudly: “When you get there, remember to tell parents that we came together to fight for the country and defend Yu Tang. It’s an honor to die on the battlefield!”
“We didn’t embarrass parents! The only thing that I’m sorry for parents is that the four brothers didn’t leave any bloodline for our Qiao family!”
“This is all my fault as the eldest brother. You went to serve parents, and I, your brother, didn’t have to go. Such a serious mistake, if it goes, it will only embarrass parents!”
Before he finished speaking, he laughed loudly, his white teeth exposed, blood and water flowed from his chest and abdomen, but he seemed unaware.
The burly body turned over and mounted the warhorse again, pointing the long sword in his hand grimly: “Black Cavalry warriors, thank you for your towels and water bags! However, as the invaders and the invaded, who of you will accompany me, Boss Qiao, on the road?!”
The Black Cavalry general’s face was as hard as iron, with an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes. He shouted: “You, Boss Qiao, are a hero, and our Black Cavalry brothers are not cowards. However, now it is a battle between two armies. We Black Cavalry will not be stupid enough to fight you alone! Arrow!”
At the command, the Black Cavalry around drew their bows and strings at the same time, and the arrows locked on Boss Qiao.
As the general said, we Black Cavalry are not cowards, but we know that the enemy will die, so we will not risk losing an extra person to go on the road with you. We are not that stupid!
In the midst of Boss Qiao’s earth-shaking laughter, the rain of arrows poured down like a waterfall!
Boss Qiao’s laughter has not stopped, and the sound is still in his ears. The long sword in his hand has turned into a flash of lightning and flew out of his hand. At the same time, he and his horse had turned into a black hedgehog!
Iron Hedgehog!
The long sword was like lightning, and it passed over the heads of the black knights present at a high speed, splitting a black knight ten feet away into two halves, including his horse!
In a desperate struggle, he still wanted to take someone else’s life with him. Since he was determined to die, how could he not make enough money!
“Salute!”
The black knight general gave an order, and all the black knights around him raised their hands at the same time and saluted their enemy.
In the last moment of his life, he chose to let these black knights in front of him go because they gave him time, towels and water bags.
That last life-threatening sword was unstoppable, and no one present was confident that they could stop it!
At the last moment, Boss Qiao chose to throw the knife out, killing the enemy in the distance, but not killing anyone around him!
It was his last return gift!
Boss Qiao, who looked like a human hedgehog, was still breathing. He stood silently with his horse and his burly body still sitting upright on the horse, his back always straight. As blood dripped, he twisted his neck with his last bit of strength on the horse’s back, as if he wanted to look back and see the fierce battle at Tiegu Pass, but his last action and last wish suddenly froze!
No movement!
Completely no movement!
The Black Cavalry general urged his horse forward, saluted silently, and whispered: “Don’t worry, at least at this moment when you die in battle, Tiegu Pass has not been broken!”
With a bang, Boss Qiao fell to the ground with his horse, as if his last wish had been fulfilled and he died without regrets!
…
The Iron Cavalry had only one mission to fight that night, which was to charge into the enemy’s formation and reduce the pressure on the city wall to the maximum extent!
A total of 5,000 Iron Cavalry rushed into the enemy’s formation, no one retreated, and no one escaped!
Everyone fought to the last moment!
The leader had the highest cultivation and the strongest combat power among the five thousand cavalry. In the end, he charged left and right in the Dongxuan formation alone, and was unstoppable. Wherever he went, his spears were like rain and his swords were like thunder. There was no general who could match him!
Enemies were everywhere, and new scars appeared on his body continuously. But he didn’t care at all!
At the critical moment of the battle, he looked around and found that the black cavalry had regrouped, but his comrades were silent.
He roared and suddenly turned his horse’s head, roaring like thunder: “Han Shanhe! Give me your life!”
One man and one horse, like an arrow, actually attacked the central army camp where Han Shanhe was!
He actually rushed to the main camp of the commander alone in the army of millions!
Such an unwise move, but no one dared to laugh and ridicule, only to see his hooves like thunder and his spears like lightning!
Still, he was invincible, as fast as wind and lightning!
As he rushed forward, more than 70 Black Cavalry soldiers were killed on his way forward!
“Arrows!”
A loud shout came from afar, and instantly thousands of arrows rained down from all directions. It was a large-scale indiscriminate offensive, and many Black Cavalry soldiers gathered around the Iron Cavalry General were also covered!
There was no way around it. The Iron Cavalry General charged forward, and although he was far from threatening Han Shanhe’s life, the Dongxuan leaders could not let him go on like this, otherwise it would have a greater impact on their side. Even if some Black Cavalry soldiers had to be sacrificed, they would not hesitate.
Seeing the rain of arrows coming, the Black Cavalry General did not dodge, raised his gun and roared for the last time: “Iron Cavalry is here! Who dares to violate my mountains and rivers?!”
The crazy rain of arrows turned the Iron Cavalry General into a monument on the road of charge!
Even though he was dead, the warhorse still maintained the posture of charging, and the knight on the horse still stood upright, holding the long spear tightly in his hand.
His eyes full of hatred were still staring at the direction where the flag of Han Shanhe was flying!
His mouth was slightly open, as if he was going to roar like thunder again: “The Iron Cavalry is here! Who dares to violate my mountains and rivers?!”
“The Iron Cavalry is here, who dares to violate my mountains and rivers?!”
A black knight general shuddered for no reason.
“Who is this? He rushed down all the way and killed more than 400 of my brothers! I wish I could kill this beast with my own hands!”
No one answered.
“Give him a good burial!”
A black knight soldier slowly stepped forward and helped the iron cavalry general off the horse, but saw that his spearman was flashing with cold light in his hand, and no matter how hard the black knight soldiers tried, they couldn’t pull it out.
In the other hand, his sword was also held in his hand, and he couldn’t let go of his fingers no matter what!
He used his life to interpret a sentence: Whether I live or die, I will always fight to the end, and never change until death!
“Bury me with my horse and sword together!”
The Black Cavalry general finally couldn’t help shedding tears.
Who can not admire such an enemy!
…
The sound of fighting suddenly became fierce.
On the top of the city, drums suddenly sounded.
In the midst of a rain of arrows, the burly figure of Fu Baoguo, the highest commander of Yu Tang in Tiegu Pass, suddenly appeared at the highest point of the city!
“I am Fu Baoguo!”
Fu Baoguo’s thunderous shout suddenly stirred in the wind and snow, and the sound shook the world!
The whole battlefield was heard everywhere!
“I’m here!”
“Life and death are here!”
“Fight!”
However, there were only a few words in these two short sentences, but the Yu Tang side suddenly became excited!
The commander-in-chief came to the battlefield in person!
Standing in the most dangerous place, watching our battle, what else can we hesitate about!
Fight! Fight to the death! Fight to the end!
“Fight to the end!”
“Protect my homeland!”
“For my comrades!”
“For my parents!”
The soldiers roared like thunder, and their bodies, which were originally sluggish due to fatigue, suddenly became agile and their combat power increased greatly, as if they were assisted by God!
In the Dongxuan Army.
“God-killing bow! Go all out and shoot Fu Baoguo!”
Countless arrows from the God-killing bow merged into a surging river, drawing a dark mark in the air, and attacking Fu Baoguo crazily!
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