Although Guo Heila was fierce and majestic, it was night after all. His companions saw blood all over him under the flames. I don’t know how many of them were his or how many of them were from the enemy. They all thought he was seriously injured. Guo Heila was a warrior under Shi Le’s command. Since Wang Yang died in Tuanbai Valley in battle, the Xiongwu in the army ranked first. Once he retreated, the thieves on the entire front were forced to retreat several steps. Although he roared loudly and shouted everyone to cheer up again, it was difficult for him to regain the decline for a while.
Shi Le rebelled as a herd slave. At first, he had only eight companions. After only two years, he was able to gather thousands of people and roam across the rivers and the south. This was certainly because Shi Le was very determined and could kill people, but in essence, it was all because the court had done rebelliously over the years, forcing the people to live in poverty.
Guo Heiluo was like this. He was originally an ordinary fisherman in Yanzhou. Because his family was cruelly slaughtered in the war in Tai'an for two years, he became angry. Among the so-called "Eighteen Cavalry" of Shi Le's subordinates, most of them were forced to survive and became bandits. And these people were often particularly fierce when fighting with the officials and soldiers of the court.
Two confidants came up to persuade Guo Heili to bandage the wounded place behind the formation, but he slapped him on the face and said, "Damn it, I won't retreat! I won't retreat! I will kill them all!"
With the roar of thunder, Guo Heilii went into battle again and rushed to the front line of the confrontation between the two armies. He danced the iron bar in his hand like a windmill and loosened the defense of the Qihuo Army. But the result was no different. After a moment, he retreated back to his original place in a mess. There were a lot of scars on his body, and there were a few that could almost kill her. Although he was still full of energy when he roared loudly, he really couldn't fight again for a while.
The Qihuo Army is indeed a strong and brave force, far beyond the reach of the ordinary Jin army. However, Shi Le's troops were unable to deploy their troops due to the terrain, so they could only fight to the death head-on. In just a moment, they lost more than two hundred people.
With Guo Heiluo's second retreat, the originally extremely fierce battle gradually eased. After more than two hours of unstoppable battle, Shi Le's subordinates finally felt tired. Their physical strength was at its limit at this time, and the mental pressure brought by continuous combat was gradually eroding their fighting spirit.
Without anyone issued an order, Shi Le's subordinates and the Qihuo Army retreated a little, and separated three or five feet apart with long spears and halberds. After still holding up the weapon of alert, dirty faces looked at each other hatred. At such a distance, you could even hear the other's breathing sounds, and the murderers who killed their comrades were talking in their familiar local accents.
"Brother, if you continue to fight like this, your brothers will suffer heavy losses!" Hu Yanmo was the general who initially led his troops to fight with this Qihuo Army. His troops were slightly more loss than Guo Hei. He returned to Shi Le anxiously, threw his helmet, pointed to the blazing flames in the city and said, "Why can Ji Sang's troops plunder all their lives, and we have to bite this hard bone?"
The Huyan family is a surname Hu, and some of them are written by Huyan. The four surnames Xubu, Qiulin and Lan family were famous clans of the Southern Xiongnu. After hundreds of years of relocation after the Huns entered the border, many of the former famous kings and chiefs were ruined, and their descendants were crippled among the people, Huyanmo was one of them. Even though this former noble Xiongnu family became a bandit who robbed the family, he was still arrogant and arrogant, and he did not take Ji Sang, the leader of the Hebei bandits seriously.
But Shi Le could control him.
Hu Yanmo shouted randomly, but Shi Le didn't touch her, but just squinted her eyes and looked up and down. His eyes were very deep, and when he narrowed his eyes, he gave people an unfathomable feeling: "Hu Yan, have I ever ordered the withdrawal of troops?"
Hu Yanmo was stunned: "Brother, I have no other intentions, just..."
Shi Le suddenly shouted with a stern blow, "Have I ordered the withdrawal of troops?"
Hu Yanmo replied loudly: "No!"
"Since I have never ordered the withdrawal of troops, how dare you come back as a commander? Are you afraid to fight?" Shi Le drew his sword and slashed a wall beside him, and sparks suddenly shot up: "Go! Unless I order the withdrawal of troops, even if you die in battle, you will not take a step back!"
Hu Yanmo felt that the cold sweat all over his body soaked the armor, and he roared wildly: "Abide by the order!" He turned around and rushed back to the battlefield.
Shi Le gritted his teeth and looked at the surrounding terrain, and pointed at another road far away with the tip of his knife: "Zhang Yue! You lead 500 people in that direction. If there is fire there, pass through the fire scene; if there is an enemy there, kill the enemy!" He said word by word: "Our time is very tight. No matter how much casualties there are, you must take down Jianchun Gate within two minutes!"
Zhang Yue was also one of the "Eighteen Cavalry" who started Shi Le. He also married Shi Le's sister, so he was extremely favored and dared to speak. Although Shi Le ordered, Zhang Yue said with a voice: "Brother! Those soldiers are elites who have been carefully trained by Brother Wang Yang for several years. They are the foundation of our Jie people! Brother Wang Yang has already died in Tuanbai Valley for the Huns. Do you want to destroy all his hard work in Yecheng this time?"
These words were very rude. Shi Le suppressed his anger and looked around, such as Ji Bao, Lu Ming, Liu Zheng, Wu Yu and others. Although they had never spoken, they all showed a look of approval.
Shi Le understood in his heart: the attack on Yecheng was purely to take the Huns from the fire. Everyone's initial wish was: since they succeeded by luck, they would just plunder and retreat. But now, they have experienced two full hours of fierce fighting without stopping. In two hours, they attacked the city gates of Yecheng regardless of casualties, and the 3,000 people in their troops have quickly dropped to less than 2,500. At this moment, nearly 300 brothers have been lost around Jianchun Gate! Such a cruel battle has not received any reward, which has made these fierce horse thieves tired.
However, Shi Le was unwilling to give up. He gritted his teeth, as if a ball of fire was about to erupt in his chest. The Jin army in front of him was only a thousand people, and Shi Le's subordinates were more than twice as many as his subordinates. Even if one life was exchanged for another, after destroying this enemy army, he could still retain the power of nearly two thousand people, enough to capture the Jianchun Gate and completely seal the Jin army outside the city into aid!
"If Wang Yang was still there, how could he be as timid as you are?" Shi Le raised his foot and kicked Zhang Yue down heavily. He understood that Zhang Yue would say this, which was definitely not his personal intention. He gritted his teeth and stared at the generals around him: "You are only thinking about money, women, what I want is Yecheng! Yecheng!"
He clenched his fists and roared, "Would you like to run around all your life? Do you want to be regarded as thieves forever? Do you understand? If you just want to rob one day, then we will never be a horse thief! If today is in a bustle, it is the time when dragons and snakes rise together. I, Shi Leshi Shilong, also want to do a great career! I want Yecheng! I only need Yecheng in my hand, we..."
Zhang Yue turned over and got up and hissed: "If it were for you, brother, we would have nothing to say even if we shed the last drop of blood. But brother, have you ever thought about it? Even if you capture Yecheng, you will be the leader of Ji!"
As soon as Zhang Yue said this, Shi Le's face changed immediately. He looked around the people around him and suddenly felt a little dizzy. He supported the ground with a long knife and gritted his teeth and said, "Zhang Yue, I was originally a tenant from Wuxiang, Bingzhou, and I was plundered and sold to Chiping as a herd slave. I was promoted by Ji Dazhu, and I was able to gather in Xiaoshan Forest for a few years. Even my surname was given by Ji Dazhu... If you want to provoke Ji Dazhu and I, don't blame me for not thinking about brotherhood."
"But..." Before Zhang Yue finished speaking, Shi Le waved his knife and slashed. The sharp blade stroked against Zhang Yue's cheek and cut off a few strands of his hair. Zhang Yue's face was pale, his lips were trembling and he wanted to say something, but he did not dare to say more in the end.
Shi Le said coldly: "Zhang Yue, please retreat. Zhixiong and Kong Dun, you can bring people to support you! Hurry up."
Kong Dun was also a famous warrior under Shile's troops. He looked at Zhixiong and shouted: "Yes!"
Shi Le was about to issue another order when suddenly one of the "Eighteen Cavalry" was responsible for reconnaissance of the enemy situation, Zhao Lu, who was responsible for reconnaissance of the enemy, knelt down and reported: "Chief, countless torches came from outside Jianchun's gate, and the sound of people shouting and neighing horses one after another! I'm afraid that the whole army of begging for life gathered together!"
"The whole army of the beggars gathered together..." The expressions of the left and right generals were shocked and they said in unison: "It's so fast!"
The Yecheng trench army has been completely defeated, and even if it is 100,000 troops, even if it is 100,000, is not enough to fear. The only one who can still make the situation for the Jin people inside and outside Yecheng is the only one who can make a comeback for the Jin people. Everyone present understood this. But they originally thought that the news of Sima Teng's successor was spread out, such as the Qihuo army, which was formed by refugees, would inevitably disperse. But no one expected that the Qihuo army not only had a confusion in the establishment, but also caused great trouble to their own side.
There were only about 300 people who were fighting against their own enemies on the wall platform; and there were nearly a thousand people who had just stopped Hu Yanmo and Guo Hei's two powerful generals attacked fiercely... At this moment, has this fierce refugee armed force already killed the entire army? Their actions were so close!
Shi Le took a step forward and said in a deep voice: "Do you see clearly? It turns out that there are so many people?"
Zhao Lu just climbed up to a high platform near Jianchun Gate to explore and could see with his own eyes. At least thousands of pine open torches outside the city kept approaching Jianchun Gate, like a fire dragon hoisting back and forth. The sound of horse hooves like thunder and the sound of armor colliding with a large number of soldiers running were even more clearly visible! He bowed his head and said, "There is no false words, and there are a lot of people and horses!"
Shi Le suddenly turned around and beat back and forth several times, showing a hesitant expression.
During this period, the garrison soldiers and generals he arranged at Zhongyang Gate also sent people to report: "The army gathered all over the city!" Then the Guangyang guards reported urgently: "There were cavalry who rushed straight to the city, turned east, with no less than thousands of troops!"
"Brother, the Qihuo Army is all the Bingzhou people who followed Sima Teng to the east. They want to avenge Sima Teng, which is much harder to deal with than the Dajin official army. Why should we bear it to the death..." Zhang Yue couldn't help but say again: "Brother, even if we don't mention the affairs of Ji Da, our troops alone will not be enough to fight against the Qihuo Army!"
Shi Le looked at him coldly, silent.
At this moment, the situation in Yecheng was no longer under his control. Even with Shi Le's decisiveness, he felt powerlessness coming like a tide. In Yecheng, Ji Sang's troops were busy burning, killing, and plundering, and these mobs had no intention of cooperating with the battle. On the east wall, Lu Yao from the Jinyang Army confronted Xie'an with hundreds of people, vaguely threatening his retreat. The combat power of the Qihuo Army was much stronger than he imagined, and outside the city, their main forces had been fully mobilized...
Shi Le sighed and said to Liu Zheng: "You go and report to the head of Ji, and you will say that the reinforcements from the Jin people are coming, and I, Shi Le, cannot resist it. It is to leave or fight. Please ask the head of the head to issue an order as soon as possible."
"Yes!" Liu Zheng took a few people to ride a horse and went there. It was embarrassing. Since Ji Sang himself was busy robbing everywhere, no one in Shi Le's army knew where the head of the Hebei horse thief was. It was not so easy for Liu Zheng to find Ji Sang's place, and he was just talking about it.
Liu Zheng had left, and the rest of the generals were still holding their breath waiting for Shi Le to order.
Shi Le held the hilt tightly, and was silent for a while before saying, "Let your brothers retreat. The situation is so chaotic tonight, even if the Jin people enter the city, they dare not act rashly. Everyone should urge their brothers to prepare, tomorrow..." He stamped his feet: "When the head of Ji Dajia sent an order, make a decision!"
Seeing a bright color appearing in the sky to the east, the war around Jianchun Gate finally came to an end.
In the wilderness outside the city, Tian Lan, the captain of the beggar, plunged the torch into the soil, then collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath: "Can't run anymore...can't run anymore!" He suddenly remembered something again, jumped up and patted the soldiers beside him on the shoulders: "Send the order, don't extinguish the torch!"
Looking around, the dark plains were lit with flames as bright as stars. According to the military tactics, every ten people marching at night was held by Shi Chang. However, Tian Lan's group of people held two torches in their hands, and with the strength of five hundred people, they disguised an army of ten thousand people!
After all, the Qihuo Army was stationed in scattered places, and no matter how it was, it would be impossible for the entire army to be dispatched in just two hours. Only Tian Lan's 500 men were showing off their power outside the seven gates of Yecheng.
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Chapter completed!