Chapter 707

Casualties were increasing, but the offensive of the Pingyuan Army was getting more and more fierce. Soldiers stepped on the piled corpses of their comrades and rushed to the wall of the stockade, fighting with the Ning Army. If their weapons were broken, they would use their fists and feet, and if their fists and feet were broken, they would use their teeth. The Pingyuan Army, which was more ferocious than wild beasts, frightened the Ning Army and made them retreat step by step. Soon, all the Ning Army on the stockade wall were beaten down and retreated back to the stockade.

Seeing this, Wei Zheng hurriedly organized his troops to launch a counterattack and issued a death order, saying that they must recapture the stockade wall and drive the Feng Army out at all costs.

In the face of Wei Zheng's strict military order, the Ning Army regrouped and began to counterattack the stockade wall.

It was easy for the Ning Army to retreat, but it was difficult to attack back.

The Pingyuan Army occupied the stockade wall and looked down from a high position, giving the Ning Army a head-on blow to the counterattack.

The counterattacked Ning Army attacked three times, but they were all repelled by the Pingyuan Army. In the end, the Pingyuan Army, with red eyes, counterattacked and launched a head-on confrontation with the opponent in the Ning camp.

Without the advantage of terrain, the Ning army could not stop the Pingyuan army from charging like a tiger descending from the mountain. The soldiers in front fell row after row, and the entire camp was constantly pushed back.

The Ning army became more and more chaotic, but the Feng army became more and more courageous. The soldiers in the front were covered in blood, and they could not tell whether it was their own or the enemy's. Many of them were even pierced with steel swords, spears, and arrows. Their physical strength had long been overdrawn, and their lives had reached the limit, but they just relied on their willpower to stand firm, continue to fight, and chase the enemy in front.

Such an army is not only feared by the Ning army, but I am afraid that any army in any country would be terrified.

Watching his own soldiers being killed by the Pingyuan army and crying for their parents, and the army was in disarray, Wei Zheng urgently sent out the supervision army to shoot all his own soldiers who retreated.

In the passive situation, Wei Zheng's iron-fisted military law played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army. The soldiers of the Ning Army were afraid of the Feng Army, but they were more afraid of the Supervisory Army behind them. Going forward meant death, retreating meant death, and both sides meant death. People naturally chose to die in a blazing manner rather than in a cowardly manner.

With the appearance of the Supervisory Army and their killing spree, the Ning Army, which was almost driven crazy by fear, completely fell into a frenzy and launched a fierce counterattack against the Feng Army.

The counterattack of the Ning Army caught the Pingyuan Army off guard to some extent, and the soldiers who were in the Ning Camp were forced back to the wall of the stockade.

Then, Xiao Muqing climbed the stockade wall in person regardless of the danger and commanded the soldiers of the entire army to fight. The Pingyuan Army immediately launched a second round of suppression and attacked the interior of the Ning Camp.

The battle has now become a head-on confrontation, without any tricks, and it all depends on their true strength.

On the battlefield, soldiers from both sides fell in rows. If you die a thousand, I will die eight hundred. The corpses on the ground were piled up layer by layer, and the blood had dyed the Ning Army camp blood red.

Now, it was extremely difficult for the Feng Army to take every step forward, stepping on the corpses of countless companions and enemies. When the battle between the two sides became stalemate, Xiao Muqing once again used his death squad.

There were not many soldiers in this batch of Pingyuan Army, only two thousand people, all of them were lightly dressed, bare-chested, holding a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, passing through the crowd of their own soldiers and rushing into the Ning Army camp.

Two thousand death squads rushed into the Ning Army, like a tiger into a wolf pack, chopping and killing anyone they saw. In the blink of an eye, two thousand people turned into red people, their bodies dyed red by the constantly spraying blood.

Under their barbaric, crazy, and desperate attack, the originally neat Ning Army camp was in chaos. As a result, the Ning Army could only concentrate its forces to deal with the Pingyuan Army's death squad that rushed in. As a result, the overall formation became more chaotic.

Two thousand people did not last long under the siege of more than 100,000 people, and eventually all died under the chaotic blades of the Ning Army. However, relying on their containment, the Feng Army pushed the Ning Army's camp more than 30 meters away, and gained enough space for the soldiers behind them to enter.

Wei Zheng, who was supervising the battle, was sweating profusely at this time. He couldn't understand why the Pingyuan Army's combat effectiveness was so strong. He even couldn't help but doubt whether the soldiers who made up the Pingyuan Army were still human. If someone stood up and said that the Pingyuan Army was a group of demons and monsters, he would definitely agree with both hands.

Although the enemy had only tens of thousands of soldiers left, and his side still had more than 100,000 soldiers, he could still judge that his side was doomed to defeat by looking at the situation on the battlefield. There was no other way, so he could only mobilize all the Ning troops from other parts of the camp to work together to stop the charge of the Pingyuan Army.

With the arrival of another 50,000 Ning troops, the total force had reached 200,000, but even so, the Ning army still did not have the upper hand, and only fought on par with the Pingyuan Army in a short period of time.

While Wei Zheng was thinking hard about how to defeat the enemy, a spy suddenly reported that a Feng army appeared in the north and west of the camp, with an unknown number of people, and was now rushing towards his camp at full speed.

Hearing this, Wei Zheng's head buzzed and he almost fell to the ground on the spot. The South Camp, North Camp and West Camp, where he had just gathered the soldiers from all over the camp, were attacked by the Feng Army again. Where did this Feng Army come from? What should he do?

Now Wei Zheng was completely at a loss. It was not because he was incompetent or because he had mismanaged the army, but because the Pingyuan Army was too fierce and could not be dealt with by the Ning Army of 100,000 or 200,000.

There was no time to think too much, as the lives of more than 200,000 soldiers depended on his thoughts. Wei Zheng made a judgment in the shortest possible time that this battle could no longer be fought. If he waited for the Feng Army to break through from the North Camp and the West Camp, his army would be annihilated. He made a prompt decision and ordered the entire army to retreat and return to the inner camp.

The Ning army's camp was divided into the inner camp and the outer camp. The area of ​​the inner camp was not large. The 200,000 Ning army had to retreat into the inner camp, and even the tents inside had to be dismantled to make room. Of course, Wei Zheng did not plan to defend the inner camp, but to abandon the camp and escape. As long as the green mountains are there, there is no fear of running out of firewood. As long as people are not dead, there is a chance to fight back.

Under Wei Zheng's mobilization, the Ning army retreated to the inner camp in batches. 200,000 people were crowded in the narrow inner camp, people were close to each other, and it was difficult to find a gap in the middle. Wei Zheng did not pause for a moment, and immediately issued another order, all The army boarded the warships and went south along the Zhang River to escape from the attack range of the Feng army first.

On land, the Ning army could not beat the Feng army, nor could they run faster than the Feng army, but on the water, Wei Zheng was full of confidence. If the Feng army did not chase and kill, it would be fine. If they dared to chase and kill, they would definitely let them come and go without return.

It was not possible to get 200,000 people on board in a short time. The 50,000 Ning troops guarded the wall of the inner camp tightly, giving their companions as much time as possible to evacuate.

However, the Pingyuan troops who rushed into the Ning army camp soon found large offensive weapons in the camp - city-breaking crossbows, army-breaking crossbows, catapults, etc.

The Pingyuan troops gathered all the weapons that had just been used against themselves in one place and used them to attack the inner camp of the Ning army in turn.

The wall of the camp was not as strong as the city wall, so how could it withstand the attack of the city-breaking crossbows, army-breaking crossbows and catapults.

The crossbows pierced the wall and killed the Ning army behind them, while the catapults directly threw huge stones into the inner camp and hit the Ning army inside.

The Ning army was too numerous and crowded together. They watched the huge stones falling from their heads, but they had no way to dodge. For a while, screams and cries were heard everywhere in the inner camp, and Ning army soldiers who were smashed into meat paste could be seen everywhere.

Xiao Muqing didn't know what was going on in the inner camp, but after hearing the noise inside, he could guess what was going on. At this time, he no longer ordered the soldiers to attack the inner camp, which would only increase their casualties. Instead, he ordered all the soldiers to shoot arrows into the inner camp. The city-breaking crossbows, army-breaking crossbows, and catapults should not stop. They should shoot as many crossbows and throw as many stones as they could.

His order made the Ning army who retreated to the inner camp suffer. Those who could squeeze onto the boats first were lucky, while those who could not get on the boats in time were like being in hell. Wei Zheng left too many crossbows and boulders for the Pingyuan army, and they could not use them all. Under the continuous impact of the crossbows, the wall of the stockade had become riddled with holes, and countless Ning soldiers were nailed to death or injured. The rain of arrows from the Pingyuan army fell into the inner camp one after another, and the crisp sound of the arrows piercing the steel helmets and armors was endless. The most fatal thing was the boulders thrown in by the catapults. They could not be defended or blocked. Groups of Ning army soldiers were crushed into a ball with their shields under the pressure of the boulders.

Throughout the whole battle, the only place where Wei Zheng gave appropriate command was probably that the retreat to the inner camp was too hasty, which just proved the correctness of Xiao Muqing's combat strategy, using tenacious fighting power and hard willpower to oppress the opponent, and the opponent took the initiative to make mistakes.

The Ning army suffered much more casualties during the retreat than when they had a direct confrontation with the Feng army. When the Ning army fled the camp by warship, the inner camp was full of corpses, piled up into mountains, and blood gathered and flowed to the river bank, dyeing the bank of the Zhang River red for several miles...

The battle ended with the retreat of more than 100,000 defeated soldiers led by Wei Zheng. If we only count the casualties of both sides, we can't tell who is the winner. The casualties of the Pingyuan army in this battle exceeded 50,000, and the casualties of the Ning army were also more than 50,000. It seems that the losses of both sides are comparable, but the Pingyuan army successfully captured the Hexi camp and opened the eastern gate of Ningguo in one fell swoop. From Hexi County to the west to Ningdu Liangzhou, Ningguo has no strategic defenses. The strategic value of this is immeasurable.

Wei Zheng fled south by boat, but only ten miles away, he ran into the direct army that had crossed the Zhang River. At this time, Tang Yin had received the battle report from the sky eye and the ground network, and knew that Wei Zheng was defeated and fled. How could Tang Yin miss the opportunity to beat this enemy who ran under his nose.

He ordered his soldiers to take the Ning army prisoners and stop all the captured Ningguo warships in the middle of the river to intercept Wei Zheng and his group. Of course, it was impossible for them to intercept Wei Zheng's hundreds of warships with just a dozen dilapidated warships. Tang Yin's intention was also very simple, to disgust Wei Zheng.