Chapter 769

Nan Ye was also very excited to receive the praise from Shangguan Yuanrang, and asked: "General Yuanrang, how should these Ning army prisoners be dealt with?"

Shangguan Yuanrang glanced at him and said: "Follow the old rules."

"Old rules?" Nan Ye didn't know what the old rules were, and looked at him puzzled.

"Our army does not have extra troops and energy to look after so many prisoners, all of them will be executed!" Shangguan Yuanrang answered simply.

All executed? ! Nan Ye was secretly shocked and frowned. In his opinion, the enemy is no longer an enemy as long as he lays down his weapons. It is too cruel to kill the prisoners who have lost their resistance and will. He pondered for a moment and said in embarrassment: "Should I report it to the king first and let the king decide?"

"No need." Shangguan Yuanrang said coldly: "Even if I report it to the king, the king's decision will not be any different."

"But..."

"Where do you get those nonsense? Listen to my orders, and execute all the surrendered Ning army..." Shangguan Yuanrang's voice had not fallen, and a man came running from the back, Letian.

Le Tian came at full speed, and the Feng army soldiers retreated and made way. He rushed directly to Shangguan Yuanrang and Nanye, then hurriedly reined in his warhorse, and the horse turned around in place before stopping.

Shangguan Yuanrang was stunned and asked: "Le Tian, ​​why are you here?"

"General Yuanrang!" Le Tian bowed on the horse and said seriously: "The king has ordered that all the captured Ning army be taken to the front of the new army to serve as human shields!"

Shangguan Yuanrang was stunned, then laughed upside down, patted his head, and praised: "The king still thought it through." Instead of killing all the captives, it is better to push them to the front of the formation. The Ning army's arrow formation is powerful, so let them shoot their own people first.

He turned to Nanye and said: "Nanye, did you hear it clearly? Act according to the king's order!"

"Yes!"

After Le Tian delivered the message, he bowed to Shangguan Yuanrang again, turned his horse's head, and retreated to the central army behind.

Five thousand Ning army prisoners were divided into two groups by Nan Ye, one group was placed in front of his own formation, and the other group was taken to the front of Li Sheng's formation. Five thousand people became the hostages of Feng army and also became the shield of Feng army. As long as the arrow formation was launched on the city again, the first to be shot would be the Ning army's own people.

Tang Yin's methods can be called despicable and vulgar, but in his concept, as long as he was on the battlefield, there was no noble existence. There was only one purpose of fighting, which was to exchange the minimum cost for the maximum victory. If this point was violated, it could only mean that the commander of the three armies was an unqualified commander.

The battlefield was originally a hell of life and death, and no means were used.

Seeing that Feng army pushed all the surrendered soldiers of their side to the front of the formation as human shields, the bows and arrows raised by Ning army were put down one after another, and the bowstrings that were pulled were slowly loosened. For a while, people didn't know whether to continue shooting the arrows in their hands.

The arrow shooting stopped, Lin Han was furious, and shouted to his left and right: "Why don't you shoot? What are you all standing there for? Keep shooting!"

"Sir..." A Ning general said in a trembling voice: "Feng Jun... Feng Jun pushed our brothers to the front of the battle as shields..."

Lin Han was not blind, and he saw the actions of Feng Jun clearly, but at this critical moment, if he spared the lives of his surrendered soldiers, the battle would be impossible to fight. He shouted angrily: "Those who surrendered because of fear of the enemy should be killed according to military law. How can we mess up our tactics because of these damn surrendered soldiers? Shoot! Keep shooting! Anyone who shows mercy will be punished by military punishment!"

He gave a death order, and the Ning Jun soldiers below did not dare to neglect it anymore. They raised their arrows and drew their bows again, aiming at the Feng Jun camps on both sides and shot arrows.

The Ning army kept shooting arrows, but the five thousand Ning army soldiers who surrendered suffered. They had no shields, no weapons, and were tied together by the Feng army. They couldn't escape even if they wanted to. They watched the rain of arrows from their own side fall from the sky. They couldn't stop it and couldn't avoid it. They could only grit their teeth and endure it.

Although the steel helmets and armor on the Ning soldiers were strong, they couldn't prevent the strong shooting of arrows. There was only the sound of arrows breaking through armor in the crowd, followed by wailing. Because the Ning army was tied together, some people had been shot into hedgehogs, but the people on both sides did not fall down. The bodies were still standing, enduring more flying arrows.

The tragic scene in front stimulated the nerves of every new army soldier behind, and made them deeply realize that once they chose to surrender on the battlefield, no one would regard them as human beings anymore, and they would even be worse than pigs and dogs, whether they were enemies or their own comrades.

Having meat shields in front to block the arrow formation did reduce the casualties of the new army to a great extent, and also made the catapults and city-breaking crossbows in the back move more smoothly.

The battle was still going on. It had been going on for more than two hours. More than ten catapults and crossbows in the new army had been damaged due to continuous operation. The stones and crossbows prepared in advance were getting fewer and fewer, and there was a trend of insufficient quantity.

Correspondingly, the gaps on the cliffs on both sides of Wohu Pass were getting bigger and bigger. A big pit was smashed out by the Feng Army. The rocks on top were shaky and could not bear the weight.

Just when Nan Ye was about to send someone back to the central army to ask if there were any more stones and crossbows, suddenly, the cliff in front of him made a loud snapping sound that pierced the eardrum. The crisp sound was so loud that it was like an invisible knife piercing into the brain through the ear hole, making people's brains hurt.

At the same time, countless pieces of rubble fell from the mountain, and then the huge rock above the cliff depression broke, tilted down heavily, and then rolled down rapidly along the cliff. Even when it rolled down, it felt like the earth was shaking, as if the entire Wohu Pass was trembling.

Such a spectacular scene was the first time for Ningren and Fengren, for soldiers, generals, and commanders. The soldiers of the new army opened their mouths and slowly put down their shields. Even the soldiers who were used as catapults and city-breaking crossbows stopped their actions and stared blankly ahead.

The new army that led the battle was like this, and the central army behind was also like this. Tang Yin, who was so calm, sat on the horse and unconsciously straightened his body upwards, and almost stood up on the stirrup.

For the Feng army in the distance, this scene was spectacular and rare, but for the Ning army in Wohu Pass, especially the defenders under the falling rocks, this was definitely a nightmare like being in purgatory.

Rumble, rumble, rumble - the huge rock finally fell to the ground, and the strong earthquake caused by the violent impact caused a large number of new soldiers outside the city to fall down.

The war horses were frightened, screaming, and their front hooves left the ground, almost standing upright, throwing the Feng army soldiers sitting on them off the horses. Nanye was not spared and fell to the ground, and the solid catapults that had been fixed fell down one after another. The new soldiers around were scared and screamed, and they rolled and crawled out. In an instant, people felt that the sky was collapsing and the earth was collapsing. The new army camp was in chaos with people shouting and horses neighing.

The new army, which was a mile away from Wohu Pass, was like this, so the scene inside Wohu Pass can be imagined.

The center of the rock did not hit the wall of Wohu Pass, only the edge was scraped, but even so, the wall of Wohu Pass collapsed for more than ten meters, half because of the impact and half because of the shock. The Ning Army soldiers gathered on it disappeared at once, some were smashed into meat paste, some were broken and buried in the broken bricks and rocks.

The wall that was not affected by the falling rocks was slightly better, at least it did not collapse, but many Ning Army soldiers standing in front of the arrow stacks were thrown out of the wall by the violent shock and fell outside the city. Lin Han on the top of the gate tower almost fell from it, but fortunately a famous Ning general hugged his legs tightly when he fell to the ground, saving him from the disaster.

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"Haha——"

Tang Yin was the first person to recover from his shock. Seeing the wall of Wohu Pass was smashed open with a gap more than ten meters wide, he couldn't help laughing and asked Qiu Zhen beside him: "Qiu Zhen, has it been three hours since the war started?"

"Ah! Ah?" Qiu Zhen woke up after hearing the king calling his name, and looked at Tang Yin with a blank face.

Tang Yin asked again: "I said, have there been three hours since the start of the war?"

Qiu Zhen heard it clearly this time, calculated it briefly, and replied: "Reply to the king, at most two and a half hours!"

"Okay!" Tang Yin held up three fingers and smiled at the generals around him: "I said that within three hours, we will break through Wohu Pass. Now it's time to fulfill my promise." As he spoke, he drew out his sword and swung it forward fiercely, shouting: "My soldiers listen to my orders, the whole army will attack, capture Wohu Pass, and completely wipe out the Ning bandits, regardless of life or death! Kill-"

"Kill-"

At Tang Yin's command, the whole army moved together, shouting and shaking the sky, and thousands of troops rushed forward at full speed. At this time, it was no longer necessary to maintain the formation of the legion and move forward. It was good enough to maintain the formation of the legion. The nearly 200,000 Feng army launched a charge like a flood and beast, with great morale, as if they could swallow the world, and the tiger-like appearance was enough to deter the opponent from timidity without fighting.

If there were a place to defend, the Ning army would still have something to rely on. Now that the city wall has collapsed, the Ning army is terrified and their legs are cramped as they watch the Feng army rushing in from outside the city.

On the surface, the falling rocks collapsed the city wall of Wohu Pass, but in fact, it destroyed the psychological defense line of the Ning army, causing tens of thousands of defenders to fall into a state of nervous breakdown.

Unfortunately, misfortunes never come alone. The collapse of one side of the city wall has made the Ning army feel that a disaster is imminent, but at this time, the cliff on the other side also collapsed. Three huge rocks rolled down one after another, not only collapsing more than ten meters of the city wall, but also affecting a large part of the barracks and military tents inside the pass. Many wounded soldiers left in the barracks died in confusion.