I saw that Xue Jun's Queyue formation moved to the open space outside Xiangyangling City. The scimitar cavalry of Xue Jun's vanguard had already chased the retreating remnants of the army, crossed the suspension bridge, and madly hacked at the crowd.
But they were soon killed at the city gate by the royal cavalry.
After a while, Xue Jun's siege vehicles, ladders, ramps, battering rams, and trench bridges had all arrived at the battlefield, and a large number of soldiers were still pouring in from behind.
It seems that they have prepared no less than 80,000 troops and are ready to attack the city!
Rumble!
A huge rock flew from afar and hit the city wall, causing the ground to shake and the soles of the feet to go numb.
Chen Xu watched as Song Lin and Pei Zhiyuan escorted a group of remaining soldiers across the suspension bridge. They did not forget to dodge and kill the pursuing scimitar cavalry, dodging the flying arrows. The remaining soldiers who did not have time to run were constantly chopped down and shot.
The scene was thrilling.
"Cavalry, defend in front of the trench, lower the drawbridge, and let their vanguard troops rush over to meet the attack!" Li Fei stood on the city wall, busily directing the soldiers to take their positions.
Chen Xu ordered, "Fill the jars with cattails, reed catkins, straw, and gravel soaked in kerosene, and use the catapult to hit them."
Li Fei urged the soldiers and ordered, "Get ready!"
Seeing that the main force of Xue's army had already arrived at the city, and that Wang's cavalry was guarding the trench behind the drawbridge, they deployed the Queyue formation in front, and the catapults and siege crossbows behind were already in place.
Huge rocks and arrows kept raining down on the city walls, and the crossbows from Xiangyang Pass responded fiercely.
People kept falling to the ground, and more people kept coming forward.
Chen Xu watched the enemy push the Queyue Formation's crossbow cart into the fire net and said, "It's almost there."
"Archers, prepare your fire arrows, angle upwards, and release!"
Thousands of arrows with sparks of fire were released into the sky and landed densely on the open space where Xue Jun was.
Seeing this, Xue Jun quickly sent out a shield team to try to resist the rain of fire.
But as soon as the rain of fire fell to the ground, it ignited the kerosene on the ground. The flames suddenly shot up and formed lines of fire and fire nets on the ground.
Combined with the kerosene straw thrown by the catapults and the flying cattails and reeds, tongues of fire instantly shot up from the dense crowd.
The mighty Xue army siege team was suddenly thrown into disarray, and the enemy commander quickly retreated to put out the fire.
The infantry of the Queyue formation were already trapped in the center of the fire net. Because they were surrounded by huge crossbow carts, their movement was extremely slow.
Most of the soldiers were unable to escape and were burned to death or shot to death by rain of fire and arrows.
There was a tragic scene and wailing in front of the battle line. The enemy saw the fierce rain of fire arrows and the flying straw and cattail flowers filled with kerosene. The fire on the battlefield spread out of control. The generals of Xue’s army had to give up the siege and ordered the rear troops to evacuate the battlefield in a hurry.
However, tens of thousands of infantrymen and heavy siege equipment in the Queyue formation were abandoned on the battlefield and engulfed in flames.
"Good, good, good! You gentlemen are really amazing. We have suffered several losses in this infantry formation. This time we finally broke their formation. It's really satisfying!" Li Fei looked at his soldiers who had almost no casualties and had broken the Queyue Formation that had lost tens of thousands of soldiers. A smile finally appeared on his originally serious face.
Shen Xu breathed a sigh of relief. Right now, the royal army was in urgent need of a victory to restore their declining morale. Now that they had broken the Queyue Formation, they had the morale to defend the city in one go.
She said calmly, "Command the battalion to deploy the next step of the operation."
Song Lin and Pei Zhiyuan brought the remaining soldiers and wounded into the city gate and hurried to find Chen Xu to reunite. Just now, the enemy also shot arrows and boulders at the city wall. The battlefield was brutal and it was unknown whether Chen Xu was injured.
Seeing that the young woman was standing safely in front of the tent, the two men finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm not used to fighting in such heavy armor." Pei Zhiyuan took off his helmet and wiped the blood-stained sword with a handkerchief. "Brother Song, it's a pity that you don't join the army with your martial arts skills."
Song Lin was not used to fighting in armor. He wiped the blood off his face and asked, "Why don't you join the army?"
Pei Zhiyuan answered truthfully, "I only know how to wield the Embroidered Spring Blade. I'm at a huge disadvantage against cavalry, spears, and axes. I can't win."
"There are still things you can't handle. You just killed someone quite cruelly."
Pei Zhiyuan covered his eyes and shook his hands, saying, "No, no, not as cruel as your beautiful young lady. Brother Song, you must never do anything to let her down in the future, otherwise she will have a thousand ways to kill you, roast you with fire, drown you in water, anything."
But Shen Xu rolled his eyes at him, strode up to Song Lin, and asked with concern: "Husband, are you hurt?"
"No." Song Lin ignored Pei Zhiyuan. Seeing her coming up, he smiled gently and praised her, "Did Xiuxiu come up with this fire plan? It's amazing."
Shen Xu nodded and took his hand, "Let's go into the tent to discuss matters."
The group returned to the command tent, where several generals were immersed in the long-awaited victory.
Shen Xu asked, "How many soldiers are left in the city now?"
Li Fei reported truthfully: "Including the wounded, there are still 120,000."
"The wounded and civilians are to be evacuated. Food supplies are to be reduced by half. 90,000 troops are to be deployed to support Tianmen Pass, Yudu City, and Luomu Fort."
"What!" Several generals were very confused. These fortresses were far away from the front line. Why should the main force be transferred to these places?
One of the generals asked, "Lady Female Prime Minister, are we going to abandon Xiangyang Ridge?"
General Li Fei of Xiangyangling immediately said, "No! Once Xiangyangling is abandoned, even if the entire army is stationed at those passes, we will definitely not be able to stop Xue's 300,000 troops. We only have 200,000 soldiers left."
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