Chapter 313 The Enemy's Roar
Youzhou, outside Shuofeng Pass.
The setting sun was as red as blood, dyeing the vast wasteland outside Shufeng Pass into a glaring dark red.
The wind whimpered as it blew by, raising dust mixed with the strong smell of blood and gunpowder, which slammed into the mottled and solidified dark brown bloodstains on the city wall.
There were already corpses everywhere under the city wall.
Broken swords and spears, shattered shields, and dead horses piled up layer upon layer, creating a suffocating picture of hell.
Broken limbs and arms were everywhere, and the trampled corpses that were beyond human recognition exuded a strong smell of death in the twilight.
Several huge gaps were tearing the originally indestructible wall apart, as if it would collapse completely at any time in the next wave of impact.
On the city wall, all the defenders were injured, their armor was torn, and their faces were covered with blood and dust.
But their eyes were like those of ferocious lone wolves, staring intently at the enemy troops outside the pass that were surging like a black tide.
They were the most elite "Iron Pagoda" of the Northern Di coalition. Both the soldiers and the horses were wearing heavy armor, with only pairs of eyes filled with cruel and murderous desires exposed.
Following the heavy cavalry were the light cavalry and infantry, as dense as locusts and armed with scimitars.
The enemy's troops stopped two hundred meters outside the city wall.
Just like in the past, they shouted at the top of their lungs for war.
The waves of obscene words were more violent and vicious than ever before, carrying naked humiliation, piercing the hearts of every defending soldier on the city wall.
"The cowards of Shuofeng Pass!"
A series of rough sounds like the friction between sand and stones were driven by internal force, drowning out the neighing of war horses and the clanging of iron armor, and clearly hitting the top of the city wall.
"Did your eggs get blown away by the cold wind of our Northern Di grassland? Or did you crawl into women's crotches to drink milk? Hahaha!"
Immediately afterwards, another group of even sharper and more sarcastic voices rose up, their target directed at General Luo Yuan:
"Luo Yuan! Old dog Luo! Look at your feet! Look around you! All your soldiers are dead! Crushed and stomped on by us like bugs! You're hiding behind a broken rock, don't you even have the guts to collect their bodies? What kind of a lousy general are you? I think you're nothing more than a 'North Wind Rat'! A rat that only knows how to shiver in its hole!"
On the top of the city wall, the soldiers gritted their teeth, veins bulged on their hands holding their weapons, and anger almost burst out of their eyes.
Several young soldiers couldn't help but lean forward to curse back, but were held down by the veteran soldiers beside them.
Everyone's eyes subconsciously turned to the silent standing figure.
General Luo Yuan stood at the highest point of the city wall, leaning on a long sword with a rolled blade. His armor was already tattered, and a deep knife wound on his left shoulder that was so deep that the bone could be seen was still bleeding.
He looked at the steel torrent below the city wall that seemed to be crushing the heaven and earth, listened to the obscene words that resounded through the sky, and remained silent.
Luo Yuan's face was hidden in the shadow of his bloodstained helmet, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
Only the hand pressing on the gap in the arrow embrasure had its knuckles turning pale from excessive force.
The enemy's shouting and cursing did not stop, but intensified, and began to touch upon the most unbearable taboos and pain points.
"Luo Yuan! I heard that twenty years ago, when your beautiful sister was abducted by our Khan, she cried like a lamb to be slaughtered?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, that delicate skin and tender flesh, lying under our Khan every day and making lewd noises."
"The Khan got tired of playing with her and gave her to us soldiers. It tasted really good! But it's a pity that you, as her brother, couldn't even save her! You're useless!"
"And your brother! That General Luo Hailuo! Wasn't he known as the 'Iron Wall'? How did he end up hanging behind our horses like a dead dog and dragged for ten miles? His bones must have been ground to pieces, right? I heard he was calling your name before he died? Hahaha, was he calling for you to save him? Or was he calling for you to collect his body? What a pity, you can't even collect his bones!"
These words, like a dagger filled with poison, cut into the deepest wound in Luo Yuan's heart.
The soldiers on the city wall could feel that the general's body, which was originally as steady as a mountain, seemed to be trembling slightly.
An angry growl rolled in the defender's throat.
However, the enemy apparently felt that this was not enough.
The Northern Di King Ashina Duoji, riding a tall black horse and wearing a gorgeous fur robe, came to the front of the battle.
He took off his helmet, revealing a rough and ferocious face.
Ashina Duoji played with his helmet and continued to insult Luo Yuan in the stiff but malicious Central Plains dialect.
"General Luo!"
He dragged out his voice and jokingly said, "You spineless coward! All you can do is hide in the wall and tremble! You're not fit to be a man! Much less a general! In this life, you're destined to watch your loved ones and your subordinates being slaughtered by us like pigs and dogs! Hahahaha! If you have the guts, come out like a man! Let me, your grandfather, see if there's a ballless eunuch hiding under your cowardly skin! "
"Eunuch! Eunuch! Eunuch!" Tens of thousands of the Northern Di coalition forces roared in unison as if they had found the most exciting drumbeat. The sound was so overwhelming that dust fell from the bloodstained city walls.
This uniform shout full of extreme humiliation completely ignited the anger of the defenders at the pass.
"General!" Ge Jiyong, the father of Princess Ge Jinhe of the City, rushed to the city wall.
Half of his face was covered in blood, and his eyes were as red as blood.
"I beg you to open the city gates! Let's have a good fight! The men of Dayan would rather die standing than live on their knees! How can we allow Di Gou to insult and shout like this outside the pass!"
Behind him, several generals, also covered in blood, stepped forward one after another, their chests heaving violently, their eyes burning with flames of humiliation.
The enemy's foul language over the past few days has been like a poisonous thorn piercing the heart of every man of blood.
Luo Yuan turned around suddenly, his eyes sweeping across the generals who requested a fight like a knife.
He pointed at the endless enemy troops outside the pass that were spreading like a black plague, his voice trembling with suppressed anger and pain.
"A fight? A pleasure? Open your eyes and see clearly! That's 500,000, a full 500,000 main force! And we only have 200,000 left! 200,000 soldiers rushing out, it's not a pleasure, it's suicide! It's letting 200,000 brothers fill that bottomless pit of blood! It's letting 200,000 mothers send their children off! It's leaving 200,000 children without a father!"
In front of Shufeng Pass, the earth has been stained with bloody battles time and time again.
Relying on their absolute numerical advantage, the Northern Di army attacked the pass wave after wave, regardless of casualties.
Even though there were more than 200,000 corpses left at the pass, the offensive never stopped.
The defenders of Shufeng Pass also paid a heavy price, with more than 80,000 casualties. The remaining 200,000 soldiers were forced to retreat to the third line of defense built on the steep mountain terrain.
This is also the last and most solid rock barrier.
The remaining 300,000 Northern Di troops attacked this iron wall for half a month, but they did not make any progress except for tens of thousands of corpses in front of the pass.
After a long siege and with morale low, the Northern Di King Ashina Duoji finally withdrew his troops temporarily to rest.
But just over ten days later, Ashina Duoji tried his best to recruit other tribes to supplement the camp.
On the other hand, Dayan is vast and the roads are long, and the reinforcements have not arrived yet.
Now, the main force of the Northern Di outside the pass has swelled to 500,000 again, while inside the pass, only 200,000 exhausted troops remain.
If the other party uses the same old trick again, filling the gap with a sea of people at all costs...
Even if the north wind blows and the mountains are dangerous, there will be a day when they are buried in a sea of corpses and blood.
Therefore, we must never go out to fight again!
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