Chapter 595
Changsun Yuanhong almost died under Tang Yin's dark fire and was seriously injured. He was carried back to the Ningjun camp by his subordinates to read the full text. Although he was unable to fight anymore, his consciousness was still clear. He looked pale, looked around, and asked feebly: "Have Wei Zheng's reinforcements arrived?"
"General...General! It is reported that Wei Zheng is still in the camp outside Qingyuan City and has not left!" A general replied cautiously.
Hearing this, Changsun Yuanhong's face became even paler. He closed his eyes in pain and said faintly: "Wei Zheng is harming me!" After speaking, he sighed, and then said: "The valley has been sealed by our army. The Feng Army outside cannot know the situation, so the news of my injury must not be spread, otherwise, the Feng Army will definitely attack and our army will be in danger!"
After hearing this, the surrounding Ningyue generals' eyes turned red and they almost cried. Changsun Yuanhong was already injured like this, but he didn't care about his own life or death at all. He was still thinking about the war and the entire army. How can people not be moved by our soldiers?
Seeing everyone's eyes were red and their faces were bare, Changsun Yuanhong grinned and gasped: "Why are you sad? It's just a minor injury, but it can't save my life. It's just that Tang Yin is cunning and plotted against me. This time it's my wife." I was careless, wait until next time, I... cough cough..." Before he could finish his words, he couldn't help but cough violently.
The surrounding generals were frightened and hurriedly gathered around, shouting: "Call the military doctor! Call the military doctor quickly!"
Changsun Yuanhong's consciousness began to blur. Before he fell asleep, he still said intermittently: "The valley... is the focus of the war... If we don't kill Tang Yin... our army will be in danger... If we don't kill Tang Yin... Ning Guo will be in danger..."
When Dr. Ning arrived, Changsun Yuanhong had already passed out. When people saw the wound on his lower back, they all took a deep breath. The double fire burned into their bodies. It was no longer painful. But people simply cannot survive. If it weren't for Changsun Yuanhong's profound cultivation and the ability to protect his internal organs and vital points with his spiritual energy, anyone else would have died long ago.
Changsun Yuanhong was seriously injured, which was a big blow to the morale of the Ningyue Allied Forces. People understood that paper could not contain the fire. Sooner or later, the Feng Army would know that the general was injured and must break through it within this time. Valley, capture and kill Tang Yin. After Changsun Yuanhong was injured, the Ning army's attack on the valley became more fierce, and it was a fierce attack day and night, regardless of casualties.
The next battle became more difficult for Tang Yin.
On the day when Changsun Yuanhong was injured, until noon the next day, Ning's army never stopped attacking.
Wave after wave of Ning's troops poured into the canyon like a tide, and then even the Vietnamese troops who were not used to infantry fighting joined in to cooperate with the Ning's army's attack. Hamel personally supervised the battle and even divided his Vietnamese soldiers into groups of five, and then tied them together with a long rope. The five of them advanced and retreated together, either killing the enemy or dying on the battlefield. Once they dared to retreat after being defeated, all five of them would be killed. put to death.
Under this barbaric and cruel military punishment, all the soldiers of the Vietnamese army fought hard and rushed forward bravely. The momentum of the Vietnamese army affected the Ning army, and the morale of the Ning army was also greatly boosted.
The opponent's human sea tactics caused Tang Yin's defense line to retreat again and again. Often, as soon as the personnel behind had built the stone wall, the brothers fighting in the front could no longer hold on and were forced to retreat.
The fierce battle between the two sides also started from the middle of the canyon to the end of the canyon. At this point, the Feng Army has no way to retreat. If it retreats, it will have to retreat into the open valley, losing the narrow space as a barrier to resist the enemy. How can the Feng Army withstand the attacks of so many enemies?
The desperate battle allowed the soldiers of the Feng Army to unleash their full potential. The battle between the two sides at the end of the canyon could no longer be described as intense. It was tragic and tragic.
The corpses of the Ning and Yue allied forces soon leveled the stone wall built by the Feng army. The soldiers of the Ning and Yue armies stepped on the corpses and swarmed up. Tang Yin and his soldiers all went up to the wall to fight, and batches of enemy soldiers came one after another. They were killed and thrown off the mountain of corpses. Similarly, soldiers of the Feng Army were chopped to the ground or torn off from time to time.
The heavy armored cavalry who rolled down were besieged by the enemy's soldiers. Countless swords were slashed on their bodies. Even the thick armor was deformed. Blood flowed out from the gaps in the armor. Some soldiers' armors were damaged by the enemy. After being forcibly removed, Feng Jun, who had lost the protection of his armor, got up from the ground and continued to fight. When the knife in his hand was cut off, he used his fists and teeth to tear at the opponent. In the end, he was stabbed to death by countless Ning troops and Yue troops.
The battle was going on endlessly, and the people on both sides of the war had forgotten the existence of time. The only thought left in people's minds was killing. In the second half of the canyon, the ground can no longer be seen. There are corpses scattered on the ground, and the blood has gathered into bright red blisters in the low areas.
After a whole night of fierce fighting, both sides have reached the end of their strength, especially on the Fengjun side. The weapons in people's hands can't be found intact, the tips of the spears have been ground flat, the swords and sabers have been cut off, and there are many soldiers. Take out all the arrows in the quiver and make weapons. Fortunately, the soldiers of the Ningxia and Yue armies were also exhausted, and the ferocity of the attack was not as fierce as before. The fighting of both sides became weak. Compared with yesterday's vigorous performance, today's battle was more like slow motion.
At this time, even Tang Yin couldn't stand it anymore. His physical strength was seriously overdrawn. He felt that his heart was about to burst. His throat was hot and hot, as if the blood in his body cavity would burst out at any time. But he had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue to fight. He knew very well that as soon as he left the battlefield, his brothers below would not even see the last glimmer of hope. At that time, his defense line would be immediately broken by the Ning army.
So he had to fight. Tang Yin estimated that if the Ning army's attack continued uninterrupted that day, and continued to fight like this, his side would definitely not be able to resist, and it would be a matter of time before the defense line was broken. However, what made Tang Yin and his men breathe a sigh of relief was that the Ningyue coalition retreated at noon.
The retreat of the Ningyue army was not due to heavy losses, but the Feng army on both sides of the north and south launched an attack on the camp at this time.
The Ning army's camp blocked the entrance to the canyon. The Feng army outside didn't know the situation inside, but they could hear the fierce fighting in the canyon. They could also guess that Tang Yin and his group were outnumbered and the situation was precarious. In order to relieve the pressure on Tang Yin and his group, the Feng army knew that it was unwise to attack the Ning army's camp, but they still took the initiative to attack.
The Feng army didn't know that Changsun Yuanhong had been seriously injured, so they attacked cautiously, mainly to contain him, so that the Ningyue coalition could not go all out to attack Tang Yin. Regardless of whether the Feng army's attack was fierce or weak, after all, there were more than 200,000 people, and they were attacking from the north and south. The Ningyue army dared not be negligent in the slightest. All the soldiers participated in the battle and strictly guarded their own camps.
The Feng army only advanced to a place 50 steps away from the Ning army camp and stopped moving forward. They set up a shield formation on the spot and started shooting at the Ning army in the camp. The Feng army was also worried that if they attacked the Ning camp, Changsun Yuanhong would suddenly rush out. They would not even have a person who could match him. If they were killed and in chaos, they would not be able to retreat, and the loss would be incalculable.
They did not launch a head-on attack, which was exactly what the Ningyue coalition wanted. The two sides were inside the camp and outside the camp, shooting back and forth, but no one could kill the other, and they were just slowly consuming.
Fighting like this was not good for both sides, and the one who benefited from it was Tang Yin in the canyon.
The Ningyue coalition used their energy to deal with the Feng army outside the camp, which gave Tang Yin and his soldiers a rare rest time. People took advantage of this free time to bandage their wounds, eat and rest, and replenish their physical strength. Now, Tang Yin's guards have been basically wiped out, and there are only about 300 heavy armored cavalry left, and most of them are injured.
The medicines brought with the army had long been used up. For those injured soldiers, they could only wrap their wounds with rough cloth strips. In addition, the dry food in the army had been eaten up. At this time, the dead horses that Tang Yin had stored in advance came into play, and people could eat horse meat. There was no grass in the valley, and no dry firewood could be found. People tore off the clothes from the bodies of Ningyue soldiers, lit them up, and used them for barbecue. Food was easy to solve, but the lack of water was too uncomfortable. There was no water source in the Dead Valley. The worst thing was that it had not rained in the warm and rainy Hedong in the past few days. People had shed a lot of sweat after a long battle, and they could not get water for a long time. You can imagine how it felt.
Now there was no water left in the Feng army, and everyone was thirsty and their lips were peeling. Tang Yin frowned secretly. If this continued, even without the enemy coming to fight, everyone on his side would be thirsty to death.
In desperation, Tang Yin could only order to kill his own war horses and quench their thirst with horse blood.
In that era of cold weapons, war horses were one of the most precious war resources. No one would be willing to kill war horses unless it was absolutely necessary. Now Tang Yin and his group were really in a desperate situation, and they could only drink horse blood. At first, people only killed wind horses, but the blood of a war horse was only enough for a dozen soldiers to drink. Soon the wind horses were killed, and then the soldiers of the Feng Army could only turn their attention to the more precious Pabu horses.
For the heavy cavalry, Pabu horses were their other half of life. Without Pabu horses, they would lose the meaning of existence. Every time a war horse was killed, the soldiers felt as if a knife was cut into their hearts.
The Feng Army was struggling to support, and the main force of the Ningyue coalition was also held back by the Feng Army outside the camp, and the two sides were deadlocked.
Five days passed in a flash. During these five days, the Ningyue coalition did not make a decent attack on Tang Yin and his group in the canyon, but only occasionally sent a small force to harass. On the sixth day, the situation suddenly changed dramatically.