All the teams in the Kaishan Camp are on standby like Su Le.
Since the war outside the city began, all the elite battalions and cannon fodder battalions of the Xia Army have been put on emergency standby, ready to be dispatched at any time.
The battle on the city wall didn't look very optimistic. Just now, a merchant army's dragon cannon hit Tongde Pass directly. The dragon cannon almost destroyed a street, and there were hundreds of people around it.
Houses were destroyed by the earthquake, and residents in the city were affected, causing numerous casualties.
All the soldiers have their hearts tied to the city wall.
Although the lives of soldiers are worthless, no one really likes to go to the battlefield.
Tongde Pass has never been breached since its establishment. Although the merchant army is coming fiercely, the Xia Kingdom still has Prince Xia Yanbing personally sitting on the guard. It can be said that the determination of guarding the pass is not small.
Therefore, both the common people and soldiers still have great confidence in Tongde Pass.
But the speed of development was beyond everyone's expectation.
On top of the city wall, rays of light soon rose. Some of those lights were firelight, and some were produced during the process of condensation of vitality. This showed that the merchant army had successfully climbed onto the city wall.
Immediately afterwards, the elite battalions on standby in Tongde Pass began to continuously deploy to the city wall, while the cannon fodder battalions also moved forward one by one.
The soldiers of both sides were constantly engaged in a war of attrition on the city wall. The strong faced each other head-on, and the soldiers fought bloody battles with each other.
In this fierce fight, the two elite battalions of the merchant army finally succeeded in breaking through, rushed into the interior of Tongde Pass, and opened the city gate at the bottom. Then the merchant troops outside the city swarmed in, and Tongde Pass
fall!
Tongde Pass, which had stood for countless years, was finally breached for the first time.
Tongde Pass was full of ordinary people fleeing, while the soldiers were divided into teams and started hand-to-hand combat with the merchant caravans in the city.
The entire Tongde Pass was in chaos.
Su Le led the Kaishan Camp towards the pass, but there were too many people fleeing in the opposite direction along the way. Su Le had to jump on the roof, wave the camp flag, and let the soldiers of the Kaishan Camp follow him.
Since it was a street fight, Su Le split up the entire Kaishan Camp very simply.
The Kaishan Formation founded by Su Le is not as good as the Qibing Bagua Formation on a large scale, but it can produce good results in small-scale wars and street battles.
Each team is commanded by a captain, who leads twelve soldiers to form a mini Kaishan Formation. The combat effectiveness of these twelve men is not very powerful, but after the twelve soldiers form a mini Kaishan Formation, the combat effectiveness is greatly improved.
Su Le stood on a high place, constantly waving the camp flag and directing the soldiers to fight.
Walking from Tongde Pass to the city, it is generally in the shape of a funnel, narrow at the front and wider at the back.
Originally, after the Shang soldiers broke through the Tongdeguan city wall, soldiers began to pour in, and a large part of them were soldiers from elite battalions.
However, due to the relatively narrow pass, the elite battalion cannot form an impact, and there is no way to maximize the combat effectiveness of the elite battalion.
However, Su Le's Kaishan Formation was able to perform extremely well in such a complicated situation. Compared with the other Xia Army battalions that were constantly retreating, the Kaishan Battalion actually blocked back in the opposite direction!
However, there are many roads in the city. Su Le led the Kaishan Camp to block two-thirds of the roads on the left, but there were still a lot of roads on the right. Therefore, many merchants saw that it was difficult to rush to the left, so they had no choice but to attack on the left.
They took a detour and rushed into the city from the right, but instead wrapped up Su Le's Kaishan camp.
While Su Le was directing the battle, a figure kept jumping on the roof. Finally, the figure jumped in front of Su Le, and it was Xia Shuang who came.
In today's battle, Xia Yanbing, as the prince, personally participated in the hand-to-hand combat at the top of the city. Naturally, Xia Shuang had no reason not to participate.
However, as the pressure on the city wall became too great, Xia Shuang and Xia Yanbing were escorted by the warriors and withdrew.
As soon as Xia Shuang withdrew, he saw Su Le commanding the Kaishan Camp and blocking some Shang soldiers on the left.
To be fair, the performance of the Kaishan Camp was really outstanding. If there were ten more battalions like the Kaishan Camp, they could completely block the Shang soldiers at the pass.
It's a pity that there is only one Kaishan camp and only one Su Le!
Xia Shuang's graceful figure kept moving above the house, and soon jumped in front of Su Le and said: "Get back."
"Retreat? Why?" Su Le asked.
"Can't hold on any longer!"
If Su Le climbed the city wall, he would understand what Xia Shuang meant when he said he could no longer defend it.
An Ruyi was outside the city, tightly entangled with Xing Long, while the old man behind Xia Yanbing fought evenly with the old ghost He Feng.
What was left was that Li Buyi commanded the siege. Shang soldiers from outside the city were still pouring in. Elite battalions from both sides were engaged in hand-to-hand combat in a small environment. Overall, the momentum of the Shang army was unstoppable.
"But... retreat now..." Su Le was quite satisfied with the results achieved by the Kaishan Battalion. At least the Kaishan Battalion had secured all the roads on the left side of the pass.
"If we don't withdraw, we will have no chance. You are willing to die here, but I am not willing!" Xia Shuang said angrily. This Su Le can be said to be a tactical genius, but why can't he turn his head sometimes?
Since His Highness Xia Shuang said so, Su Le naturally had no choice but to do it. So Su Le waved the camp flag and ordered the soldiers to retreat.
The retreat of the Kaishan Battalion was still very fast, because they had been blocking the left side, so the streets behind were almost empty, so the soldiers naturally retreated very quickly.
"But where to evacuate?" Su Le asked.
"After Tongde Pass, our Xia Kingdom's second largest city is Daqing City."
Xia Shuang was also very confused at this time. If Tongde Pass was not broken, the situation would be very simple. It was just a matter of guarding the pass, and everything would be stable.
But the Tongde Pass was broken, and the Xia Kingdom was now in considerable trouble.
It's not that Xia State is afraid of this team from Shang State, but Xia State is a country, and a country itself will have contradictions of one kind or another. Normally, the forces of all parties have reached a delicate balance. As long as this is not broken,
The condition is basically no problem.
But once this balance is broken, problems arise, and other forces will be ready to take action.
In the south of the Xia Kingdom, there are still problems with the native barbarians, in the east there are rebels hiding in the sea, and above the imperial court, the traitorous ministers of Rao Shifan are in power. Now that Tongde Pass is broken, the situation will become extremely delicate.
Xia Shuang had many important things to do, so he didn't stay too long at Su Le's place. After finishing speaking, he turned around and left.
Su Le led his team and retreated all the way to the rear until they exited Tongde Pass.
The mountains in Western Xinjiang are winding and rugged, but after passing Tongde Pass, they gradually level off and finally turn into an endless plain.
However, this kind of plain is not suitable for planting. It is said that it is because there is too much salt. Everywhere you look, there is a bare patch of land. Even on the mountains, there are large tracts of bare land.
Therefore, this plain was called a barren wasteland. Going all the way east from the barren wasteland, you can reach the Daqing City that Xia Shuang pointed to.
Along the way back, fleeing rebels and soldiers can be seen everywhere. When encountering stragglers, Su Le usually directly absorbs them into the Kaishan camp. Although the Kaishan camp does not suffer much losses, it still needs to be replenished with soldiers.
And those rioters may be the most miserable people in this war.
Many rioters collected gold and silver when they fled, and some of the rioters were quite valuable.
They have money but do not have the power to protect it, so these rioters become the targets of robbery.
As for the robbers, they were the stragglers who were defeated by the Xia Kingdom.
Soldiers and bandits are members of the same family. Most of the soldiers are penniless. After a defeat, they have no home to return to. They all run away anyway. It is better to grab some money and then escape. Ordinary people have no power and cannot be the opponents of the soldiers.
, so I saw the corpses of many civilians along the way.
Therefore, these rebels are the most pitiful. They did not die in the hands of the caravans, but died in the hands of their own country's army.
In comparison, the situation in Kaishan Camp was much better. With Su Le's restraint, no one dared to do this.
After running ninety miles to the east, they found a water source. Su Le ordered the soldiers to rest for a while at this water source before continuing on their way.
They ran all the way without much rest and rest. The soldiers were all exhausted. When they saw the water source, they all fell directly into the water and drank the water in big gulps.
Su Le also walked to the river, took a sip of water, and drank a few sips. The soil here was salty, but the river water was very sweet.
Just when Su Le had finished drinking water, another team came from behind. When Su Le saw the leader of the team, his face suddenly darkened. If he was alone now, I'm afraid he would turn around and turn back.
Leave, but it will take a certain amount of time to mobilize such a large mountain camp, and it is already too late to leave at this time.
The visitor is Yang Biao.
Yang Biao was also injured. As a high-level warrior, he also participated in the battle after the city wall was broken.
Yang Biao originally targeted Li Buyi as his opponent. Both of them were late warriors. Although Li Buyi was one level higher than Yang Biao, Li Buyi had been injured in the previous fight with Xing Long, so Yang Biao wanted to take advantage of this.
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But what Yang Biao didn't expect was that Li Buyi was so powerful. Under Li Buyi's fierce attack, Yang Biao had almost no power to fight back.
After finally escaping from Li Buyi's hands, Yang Biao was also seriously injured.
The failure of Tongdeguan was a huge blow to Yang Biao.
Yang Biao was the deputy commander. Although Xing Long was responsible for his main responsibility, he, Yang Biao, could not escape the accusation of dereliction of duty.
Now all the effective forces in Tongde Pass have retreated to Daqing City, preparing to build a second line of defense to deal with the merchant army's layer upon layer advance.
Yang Biao was accompanied by several warriors. They didn't even look at Su Le at first, but Yang Biao saw Su Le's camp flag on horseback and immediately noticed Su Le.