Wumuchi stood outside the entrance of the ravine, his whole body looking as if petrified.
The hideous smile on his face had long since frozen, replaced by boundless shock, fear, and heart-wrenching pain!
He watched helplessly as the most elite warriors under his command were not killed in the charge, but were swallowed up, burned, and turned into charcoal by the sudden hellfire!
The flames shooting up into the sky reflected in his eyes like the mockery of a devil.
"No--!" Wumuchi let out a wild beast-like roar. He almost rushed in regardless of everything, but was held back by the personal soldiers around him.
"General! We can't go in! The fire is too big, going in will mean death!"
"My soldiers! My two thousand brave warriors!"
Wumuchi's eyes were red, his heart was broken, and blood was almost dripping out.
In just a short while, out of the more than 2,000 vanguards who rushed in, only a few were able to escape alive!
Moreover, they were all injured and looked crazy, obviously frightened.
The remaining 3,000-odd Beidi soldiers who had not yet entered the ravine were also frightened out of their wits by the sudden and horrific scene. They retreated one after another and could not be stopped no matter how the officers tried to suppress them.
They were not afraid of swords or death, but this way of dying by being burned to charcoal was beyond their psychological endurance.
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At the foot of the mountain, Shi Yong, who had been paying close attention to the movements on the mountain, saw the thick smoke rising into the sky and the faint flames, and heard the faint and shrill howls that could be felt even from a distance.
"What's going on in the mountains? Could it be that Master Pei saw us coming and is plotting against the Tartars?"
Shi Yong slapped his thigh fiercely, his face lit up with excitement. "Brothers! We've taken the mountain! The Tartars are in chaos! Follow me and charge for a while to support General Pei!"
"kill!"
The 3,000 Hedong reinforcements, who had been holding back their anger for a long time, were like tigers released from a cage, launching a fierce attack on the Beidi camp, which seemed to be in some chaos because of the setbacks suffered by the friendly forces on the mountain and the shaking of their morale.
Arrows rained down, cavalry charged, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
Baru, the deputy general of Beidi who was in charge of interception, had just had 5,000 men transferred away by Wumuchi. He was feeling the strain on his forces and heard that the camp in the rear had been attacked and the main force on the mountain had suffered a crushing defeat. The morale of the army was immediately thrown into chaos.
Under the fierce attack of Shi Yong's troops, they barely held out for a while, but after losing hundreds of people, they had to shrink their defense line and retreat to the camp to hold on.
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