Chapter 685: Why Are We so Anxious to Fight Each Other? (7)

Below Nanzhang City, the battle has entered a white-hot stage. The Zhao State regular army under the command of Li Mingjun is finally several levels higher than the Dai County soldiers. Although there are only more than 6,000 soldiers, they still force the 10,000 Dai County soldiers under Qin Lei to turn back. After a day of fierce fighting, the battle has been pushed back from the front of the Zhao army camp to the Nanzhang City.

The Zhao army has divided the Dai County soldiers into three independent parts, and all three battlefields have great advantages. If the Dai County soldiers had not obtained a large number of weapons from the Eastern Expedition Army, they would have been unable to hold on.

Qin Lei led about 3,000 people and tightly guarded the road leading to the city gate. Seeing that the Zhao army rushed towards his camp like a raging tide, his lineup would shrink with each attack. He couldn't help but worry, where is the Eastern Expedition Army? Where is the agreed Eastern Expedition Army cavalry?

Qin Lei was struggling to hold on, and Li Mingjun was also having a hard time. The tenacity of the Daijun soldiers was far beyond his expectations. Until now, they had not collapsed, but became more and more tenacious, just like a stone. After the big waves washed away the outer layer of floating matter, the elite inside finally appeared and showed as hard as iron.

He originally planned to use the powerful attack power of the Zhao army to defeat the Daijun soldiers with the momentum of rolling back the pearl curtain and then seize the city gate, but the battle has become a stalemate until now. Although his army has a great advantage, it is not something that can be accomplished in a short time to completely defeat the opponent.

Qin Lei has retreated to the foot of the city, but he has no intention of retreating back to the city. Even if he deliberately slowed down the offensive and gave him the opportunity to retreat into the city, he still wanted to fight, which made Li Mingjun feel more and more cold. Qin Lei seemed to be waiting for something.

But what was he waiting for? He had no reinforcements to wait for.

Li Mingjun was puzzled. The two armies that went out have not returned to join the battle yet. If the two armies can rush back in time, this battle can be over.

What are Wu Quan and Qiao Lei doing? He was extremely angry.

"General Li, there is news from General Qiao Lei." A personal soldier ran up to him, and behind him, a guy dressed as a civilian followed closely.

"Aren't you Qiao Dezhi, the personal guard beside Qiao Lei? Why did you come back alone? Where is your general?" Li Mingjun has a very good memory. Although he has only seen Qiao Dezhi a few times, he still recognized him at a glance.

"General Li, I'm afraid my general can't come for a while." Qiao Dezhi stammered.

Li Mingjun's face darkened instantly, "What is he doing? Is he treating military orders as a joke? Or does he think my knife can't kill people?"

"It's not that I won't shake!" Qiao Dezhi's face showed panic,

and his hands shook wildly, "After my general received the military order from General Li, he rushed all the way, but was surrounded by countless people in Shazhen, 30 miles away from Nanzhang, and could not move forward or backward. General Qiao Lei explained the righteousness and spoke until his mouth was dry, but these people refused to retreat."

Li Mingjun was furious: "Is the army under Qiao Lei's command just for fun? Can't even deal with a group of people?"

Qiao Dezhi was embarrassed, "How dare my general do it? General Zhao Shang is still in the death camp and his life or death is unknown. If General Qiao dares to attack the people, how can General Zhao let him go easily? Besides, the soldiers are blocking the army with old people, women and children, how can they do it?"

After hearing this, Li Mingjun was stunned. He never thought that Zhao Qi would plant the seeds of disaster for him today in order to deal with Zhao Shang. Qiao Lei did not dare to kill the people for fear of planting disaster for himself, but he did not think that if he lost the military opportunity, he would not be spared by military law?

Since Qiao Lei was stopped like this, what about Wu Quan? Could it be that Wu Quan was also stopped by the same means? But Wu Quan is different from Qiao Lei. Wu Quan is a general of Lord Zhao Qi's line, so he naturally does not have such worries. Why hasn't he rushed back until now?

Li Mingjun felt something was wrong. The two armies that went out could not come back in time to join the battle. Was it a coincidence or was it someone's deliberate act?

Clenching his fists tightly, Li Mingjun had already had the idea of ​​retreating. Today's battle was a little strange. Qin Lei was uncharacteristically aggressive and took the initiative to attack. The two armies that were sent out could not come back to help. Qin Lei, facing such a dilemma, actually fought to the death. Everything was too abnormal.

Turning his head and looking at the battlefield situation, his army's advantage was too obvious. The opponent had been pressed to the root of the city wall, and the formation was also extremely flattened. It was about to form a breakthrough. If there was only one breakthrough, the opponent would collapse across the board. Could it be that he gave up like this?

He was really unwilling.

"General, look!" The guards around him suddenly shouted, their voices trembling.

Li Mingjun turned his head suddenly. Under the night sky, torches were everywhere, slowly moving towards Nanzhang from a distance. Judging from the number of torches, there must be tens of thousands of them.

Li Mingjun was shocked. Nanzhang, did reinforcements come?

Horse hooves rang loudly, and several scouts came running from different directions.

"Who are they? How many are there?" Li Mingjun asked anxiously.

"General, it's not the army, it's the common people, countless common people, men, women, young and old." The scout's face was also pale.

"Common people?" Li Mingjun was angry and anxious.

"They all carry weapons, sticks, hoes, forks, kitchen knives, guillotines, and some even just hold rocks. General, what should we do?" The sentry rider was also a little worried.

Li Mingjun turned back bitterly and looked at Qin Lei, who was still fighting to the death, "Old man Qin, are these the reinforcements you are waiting for?" Although he scolded Qiao Lei before for not sending troops to suppress these people, things fell into place. When it comes to his own head, Li Mingjun does not dare to drop the butcher's knife. As Qiao Lei said, Zhao Shang's example is before him. Maybe Zhao Qi's knife will not fall on his head now, but he really wants to do this This is a huge leverage over his head. In the future, if his political opponents want to deal with him, this will be the best attack weapon.

Not everyone can bear the crime of massacring tens of thousands of people. After things have changed, who can still remember the process of today's battle. People in the court and the Zhao Kingdom will only remember Li Mingjun and Li Li raising the butcher knife. , killing tens of thousands of unarmed people.

"Withdraw troops!" Two words came out from his mouth with difficulty.

The sound of the golden gong for withdrawing troops resounded throughout the battlefield. Hearing this sound, Qin Lei finally let out a long breath, "Enter them and counterattack!" He shouted sternly, "Counterattack across the board, don't let them escape easily."

It is easy to attack, but it is not easy to escape easily. Especially now, the battlefield is strangled into a mass. You are among me, and you are among me. If you want to retreat smoothly, how can it be so difficult? easy. What's more, when they heard the gong sound of Zhao Jun's retreat, the morale of the Daijun soldiers was immediately boosted. When they saw the fire all over the mountains and plains heading this way, they thought that reinforcements had arrived, and their courage increased even more. Amid loud shouts, a full-scale counterattack began on all fronts.

Zhao Jun's stable battle line began to become chaotic, and disorder began to spread from point to surface.

The infantry led his more than a thousand cavalry, seizing this opportunity tightly and cutting into the battlefield with lightning speed. The chaotic battlefield gave the cavalry too much free space. Their horses galloped, their sabers flew, and their feathers flew. Arrows were like locusts, turning the already chaotic battlefield into a pot of porridge. Bai Yucheng gathered his 500 special forces soldiers and joined the battlefield. These 500 people had already changed into the military uniforms of Zhengdong Kingdom. , like a sharp blade, cut through Li Mingjun's still intact Chinese army like a broken bamboo, and fought all the way towards the fluttering Chinese army flag.

Li Mingjun finally understood what Qin Lei was waiting for. They did have reinforcements, and they were the elite of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. Looking at the chaotic battlefield, he saw that the army that had completely separated from his command was being attacked everywhere by the Eastern Expeditionary Army and Daijunjun. The soldiers joined forces to strangle him, and his heart was filled with despair. He was unable to save himself from this battle.

Slowly lifting his spear, he rushed straight towards the Zhengdong soldiers who were clearly aiming at him. He would die if he died, and he would have to use a cushion on his back before he died.

Bai Yucheng rushed towards Li Mingjun aggressively and killed the general. This was a rare honor. He hadn't tasted this feeling in several years. How could he let it go? Blood Road rushed in front of Li Mingjun. Li Mingjun was riding on a horse, condescendingly, and shot Bai Yucheng fiercely. Baiyucheng let out a hey, stepped aside, smashed the middle of the spear with his big knife, opened the spear far away, and retracted his arm. Dragging sideways and clicking twice, the knife cut off the front hooves of the war horse. Li Mingjun fell upside down and fell off the horse. Bai Yucheng laughed loudly. He went up to him and slashed down with his knife. Unexpectedly, an arrow flew from a distance. Shang Li Mingjun, who had not yet completely fallen off the horse, was hit in the forehead by the arrow. He fell to the sky and landed on the ground, where there was still life. Bai Yucheng saw that the cooked duck had wings and flew away, and he couldn't help but became furious. , Huo Di turned around, only to see the infantry not far away waving the long bow at him, and he was even more angry.

"Infantry, I'm not done with you!" he roared, waving his sword.

In the Battle of Nanzhang, Li Mingjun's entire army was almost wiped out, leaving only Qiao Lei who was stopped. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately led his army to Xiling to join Zhao Qi. However, Hu Liang, who was maintaining the grain road, did not react as quickly as he did. After the infantry gathered the cavalry, they defeated them one by one along the way. The five thousand grain protection officers and soldiers were annihilated on the road in batches without even being able to assemble together. Tan Chunhua, who was attacking Jianli, heard that the next battle in Nanzhang City was led by Li Mingjun. After the entire army was destroyed, he was shocked and immediately led the army that besieged Jianli to retreat. At this time, he had suffered heavy casualties in Jianli and only had more than 3,000 soldiers left. How could he dare to fight with the soldiers of Daijun.

In an instant, the battlefield situation changed position. Zhao Qi's 30,000-strong army was cut off from its retreat and became a lone army in Xiling City.P