Chapter 864: Regret
Jiang Xingquan looked at the about four or five hundred guards blocked in a dead end, his eyes flashed with blood red. Ten days have passed, and the fierce battle has lasted for ten days. The guards are still trapped here. The two powerful troops are like beasts, slashing and biting each other, and only then are willing to face the death place. Jiang Xingquan has only more than fifty soldiers left under his command. He also encountered several other teams. Several teams gathered together to form a team of 300 people, because Jiang Xingquan is the highest-level officer among these people. According to the military regulations of the Northern Army, he has automatically become the highest commander of this temporary team.
Today, they saw the opportunity and blocked the troops of the guards who had no exit at all. Several demon-subduing crossbows stood quietly at the exit, and the ferocious crossbow arrows flashed with sharp cold light, aiming at the guards who were terrified inside. No matter how elite troops or soldiers who were not afraid of life and death, the fear of death would still inevitably arise from their hearts when they were facing a desperate situation.
These days, countless guards died under the Demon-Subduing Crossbow. They had amazing strength. They had more than ten powerful crossbows at one shot. Moreover, in this battle, the distance between the two sides was so close, and the combat environment was narrow. There was no other way except to resist with human lives.
Jiang Xingquan touched the trigger of the Demon-Subduing Crossbow in his hand. Almost at the same time, the Xiaowei, who was in a desperate situation, shouted and rushed out like crazy. The crazy howling temporarily threw away his fear from his heart. He looked at the Zhengbei Army, but the inside was empty.
The first demon-subduing crossbow immediately burst out with a whistle, and dozens of afterimages flew past, and the sound of the thunderbolt sounds sounded. The dozens of people running in the front were immediately shot to the ground, and often several soldiers were strung onto a crossbow arrow.
Without any hesitation, the one behind continued to pounce forward. This was to use his life to earn time and use his own death to win the opportunity for his comrades to fight with the enemy. The demon-subduing crossbow rang out in succession, shooting the team inside into pieces, and tearing out several flesh-and-blood alleys that were squeezed together.
"Kill!" Jiang Xingquan waved his sword and rushed out like a cheetah, and walked into the other party's team along this flesh-and-blood alley.
The violent collision of weapons, screams, and screams, sounded in this dead end that was almost a deep.
An hour later, when Jiang Xingquan walked out of the dead end with a bloody horizontal knife that had almost been used, there were less than 200 soldiers of the North Army following him, and nearly 100 more people died in this battle. Jiang Xingquan's arm was soft and had been completely broken. As he swayed along with his walking pace, his exquisite iron helmet was cut open a long crack, revealing the bloody bandage inside. In the past few days, he had been injured.
Looking back at this flesh-and-blood alley, Jiang Xingquan sighed and bowed deeply to his dead comrades in the alley, "Brothers, I'm sorry, I'll take your bodies back. But don't worry, I will come to accompany you in not long, brothers, on the road to the underworld, we will not be lonely. When we win in the future, the prince will come to clean up our remains. I hope that by then, the wild dogs will not eat us so much that there is no residue left." He straightened his waist, haha
He laughed a few times, "It's all dead balls, but we don't care whether the wild dogs eat or not. It's a merit to be able to fatten these things. Maybe these wild dogs will be eaten by our brothers in the future. After all, it's still cheaper for their own brothers. Let's go, brothers, go!" Jiang Xingquan threw away the single knife in his hand, picked up a knife from the ground, inserted it into his waist, and picked up a long spear as a crutch, limping and the remaining soldiers disappeared into the thousands of ravines.
The main force of the Xiaowei Base Camp has also arrived here. The camp has been magnificent for more than ten miles, but what makes these war-produced guards depressed is that every day when the brothers who go out to fight come back, they always have fewer people. Almost all the soldiers who come back are injured and dejected. The soldiers who have not yet fought are very shocked. Over the years, except for the heavy losses that had suffered when they fought in Taizhou, their morale has not been so low for many years.
Congliang stood in the big tent, with a map hanging in front of him, which was where they were at their feet. These days, this map has expanded day by day, and every day, some places will be added. The dense marks on the drawings make the layman feel dizzy when he sees them.
"Yuting, come and take a look!" Hearing the footsteps, Congliang raised his head and happened to see Zhang Yuting walking into the tent dejectedly.
"General, we have lost hundreds of brothers today!" Zhang Yuting said with shame to Congliang.
"Don't worry about this for now, come to see me!" Congliang waved his hand and pointed to the map.
Zhang Yuting walked over and carefully looked at the hanging map.
"The terrain you asked about from these local villagers is generally good, but there are big problems with the subtleties. These people are not good at it. Come and see, according to the terrain they depict, we should turn around when we walk here, right? But the soldiers have proved with blood that this road is wrong. We are here, six or seven hundred brothers have died before we figured out this matter." Congliang said.
Zhang Yuting looked at the places marked with the same color on the map, and suddenly fènnu got up, "I'm going to kill all these bastards!"
"Who are you going to kill?" Congliang laughed and said, "Now I can basically conclude that there must be spies from the Northern Army among these people. This guide is very good at doing it. All of them are right, but at the most critical moment, it leads us to a dead end. Yuting, you don't have to look for these guys. Once these guys are definitely gone, the remaining people are real villagers and don't know anything."
"General, it's my problem. If I could find more locals and ask them one by one, maybe I would avoid these unavoidable losses."
"It's impossible to avoid it!" Congliang said decisively: "It's still going to die, but it can make the other party pay a bigger price."
"General, what should I do next?" Zhang Yuting said, looking at the map.
"Do you have to say it next?" Congliang laughed and said, "Aren't the map already said it very clearly? Don't be confused by those messy things anymore and go straight to this road. I think Quan Yifeng will concentrate all the main forces when he sees these and fight against us to the death on this road."
"Understood!"
"Let's go, these days, some of the things you sent are all fun. Let's go and have a look!" Congliang walked out of the big tent with his hands behind his back.
On the open space outside the big tent, there were dozens of demon-subduing crossbows, as well as some armor, swords and guns, short daggers, cavalry crossbows, etc., all of which occupied dozens of square open spaces.
He reached out and patted a demon-subduing crossbow beside him. The expression flashed through Liang's eyes was very complicated, with confusion, fear and worry, "This is a good thing, I really can't figure out. We are very talented and skilled craftsmen, so why haven't we made such good weapons!"
Zhang Yuting looked at Congliang in confusion, "General, it's just an armour, it's indeed very exquisite and powerful, even more than a bed crossbow, but it can't be used to control the situation of the war. In the end, it depends on people!"
Congliang waved his hand, "I'm not talking about this." He bent down, reached out and pulled out a smaller part on the Demon-Suppress, turned around and walked to the other one, pulled out the same part, raised the two exactly the same parts, and said, "Did you see any clues?"
Zhang Yuting shook his head.
Congliang took a deep breath and inserted the two parts back, "Yuting, I exchanged these two gadgets, but these two demon-subduing crossbows can still be controlled freely. This gadget is the most exquisite and critical part of the demon-subduing crossbow. Do you still understand what this means? Unified standards. Yun Zhao can actually make his craftsmen make all the parts exactly the same!" Congliang suddenly aroused, "So small, such exquisite parts can be exactly the same, so what do the rest of the parts on the demon-subduing crossbows count? What does this mean? It means that even if we destroy one, they pick up some parts and piece them together, they will be a subduing one again. What does this mean? It shows that the level of production of weapons in the North is far beyond our ability!"
From Liang's reluctance to bow his head, "I have heard that Yun Zhao gave ordinary craftsmen officials, raising a huge sum of money to reward inventions and creativity, and posting a list of recruitment to select talents. I have also ridiculed this person to do anything and do nothing. Now I understand that I am wrong!"
"General, this is just a slight finale and is not enough to change the general trend!"
"No, no, no!" Congliang shook his head repeatedly, "When there are too many subtle details, it is enough to subvert everything. This represents the strong production capacity of the North. We want to drag them to death, but how can we know if we will be dragged to death in the future!"
Congliang lowered his white-haired head. Looking at the depressed Congliang, Zhang Yuting suddenly felt something was wrong.
"General!" Zhang Yuting shouted uneasy.
Cong Liang raised his head and smiled at Zhang Yuting, "It's nothing, I just can't figure it out. In the end, the battle was still money. Yun Zhao maintained such a huge army with just the sixteen states in the north. And equipped them with such excellent weapons and armor?" He pointed to the armor scattered on the side, Cong Liang sighed: "It's stronger than ours!"
Zhang Yuting remained silent. This was a fact and he could not argue.
"General, the power of the northern land is born. Yun Zhao's words are connected, and the government orders are integrated, and the performance is effective. The law of doing things is indeed much higher than that of us!" Zhang Yuting thought for a while before he said authentically.
"The aristocratic family!" Congliang said, "It's a pity that I have never had the chance to go to the north to take a look, otherwise I really wanted to see how Yun Zhao did this." He shook his head repeatedly, very regretful.
"If you defeat Yun Zhao, you can go to the north to see it for as long as you want!" Zhang Yuting said excitedly.
Chapter completed!