Chapter 486 Refusing to Help Someone in Dire Need

Qin Yuanzhi grew increasingly alarmed as the battle progressed; these knights-dressed enemies were truly bizarre.

Qin Yuanzhi knocked two undead knights away in succession and then severed the arm of another knight with his saber, but the three of them quickly rushed back, and no blood gushed from the wound of the one-armed knight.

After Qin Yuanzhi finally chopped off the neck of a dead knight, he finally suppressed his fear. If the knight was still alive without a head, he planned to turn around and run away. He had a bunch of wives and concubines at home who were counting on his favor!

"Qin Cheng... take a team to the back to guard the breach in the city wall, then have the brothers slowly retreat out of the city. Also, send someone to inform the other commanders, and it would be best if they could occupy the south gate..."

"But young master, what will happen to these monsters if I leave with my men?"

"What do we do? We'll use lives as the only option! What else can we do? Go now!"

The crowded streets restricted the Great Xia army's formations, and also limited the terrifying impact of the undead knights. If such an unkillable force of knights appeared on the plains, it would be possible for them to wipe out an entire army.

However, although they could not be killed even after half a day, Qin Yuanzhi sent nearly a thousand heavily armored infantrymen to block several adjacent streets at all costs. Although his own men kept screaming in terror, they bought the entire Doujin Army a crucial opportunity to retreat.

Wang Yushi had stayed at Qin Mo's residence several times, and when she went fishing with Qin Mo, they discussed the training of the army. Qin Mo's intensive training model of "more sweat in peacetime, less bloodshed in wartime" inspired her a lot, so the training intensity of the Royal Guard was always more than twice that of the Imperial Guard of Da Xia.

Although the intensity was not as high as the daily drills of the Da Yuan Army, the various retreat patterns were well practiced. When Qin Yuanzhi commanded the Dou Jin Army to begin their retreat in turn, there was no panicked escape. Instead, they supported each other and retreated in an orderly manner while fighting.

Qin Yuanzhi held the breach in the south city wall and waited for the other three Imperial Guards and Imperial Army to retreat. During this time, he also led his personal guards to meet An Sheng's army. However, when they finally managed to retreat, they were overwhelmed by countless bad news, and their hearts ached as if they were being torn apart.

"Commander Qin... My Commander Sun died in battle... He encountered a monster... Waaaaah!"

"Commander Qin, thirty percent of my comrades in the Anwu Army are trapped in the city... Alas..."

"My lord, we've lost four thousand brothers fighting the Jin army, and there are still shouts of battle echoing from within the city..."

Suppressing his grief and indignation, Qin Yuanzhi gritted his teeth and said, "I know you all still want to fight your way back, but the enemy's situation is unclear. Do we have any chance of winning if we go in?"

In fact, the commanders and deputy commanders of the other three armies understood the reasoning Qin Yuanzhi was giving, but they couldn't accept the sudden loss of so many brothers.

Moreover, there were shouts of battle coming from inside the city, which meant that his own brothers were still fighting inside. In the army, it is very easy to cause dissatisfaction among ordinary soldiers by leaving them to die. Most of the common soldiers do not know how to weigh the pros and cons, and only know that their commanders are ruthless and do not treat the common soldiers like human beings.

“Each of our four families will send some people to occupy this gap in the city wall, leaving a way out for our brothers inside!”

In the end, this was all Qin Yuanzhi could do. If the Great Xia army trapped in the city were to break out, they would definitely head towards the gap in the city wall. If the enemy blocked this gap as well, then there would truly be no way out.

The enemy inside the city launched a fierce counterattack against the Xia army that had breached the city wall. They had been passively taking hits and laying out their plans for so many days, but now the Xia army had escaped, and they were truly unwilling to accept it.

"Brother Qin, that eunuch Wang is here!"

"Strange, isn't he the most afraid of dying? Why is he on the front lines today?"

Qin Yuanzhi and his men were directing their troops in battle when they saw a group of Imperial Guards coming from the east. Judging from the banners they were carrying, it was Wang Yan, the supervising commander of the imperial army sent to the western expedition.

Emperor Zhaowu had placed a supervisor in each of the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Guards, and Wang Yan was the leader of these supervisors. He usually stayed in the back of the camp and never took any risks, but today he strangely went to the south city wall where the sounds of battle were deafening.

Wang Yan quickly ran to the south city wall and stopped a few feet away from Qin Yuanzhi and the others.

"Where are the commanders of the four armies?"

“…”

The three commanders and one deputy commander were speechless. "Are you blind?! Four perfectly healthy people are standing right here, and you're asking 'Where are you?'"

"Where is the commander of the four armies?" Wang Yan's sharp voice rose several octaves.

The commanders exchanged disdainful glances, all knowing that Wang Yan was deliberately putting on an act, waiting for everyone to step forward and pay their respects, hoping to intimidate them with his imposing presence.

"What? Aren't the commanders of the four armies—Doujin, Doumu, Anwu, and Ansheng—present?"

Wang Yan was anxious inside, but his face remained calm and expressionless. He controlled the distribution of money, food and military merits in the army. He often put on airs like this in the past. Although the commanders of the various armies cursed in secret, no one had ever responded like today.

He didn't realize that more than 20,000 of his brothers from the four armies were trapped in the city today. The commanders were in a state of grief and indignation, so how could they be in the mood to be perfunctory with you?

"Commander Qin, my steward is asking you a question! Why are you not answering? You should know that Steward Wang is the military supervisor appointed by His Majesty. Are you showing contempt for His Majesty?"

Seeing that Wang Yan was about to lose face, his underlings behind him couldn't stand it and jumped out to accuse Qin Yuanzhi and the others.

"What are you talking about? We were ambushed in the city just now. The gunfire damaged our ears, and we can't hear what you're saying!"

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