Born short-lived

"It's gone?" Wang Sheng wondered, "Could it be that the gray pigeon didn't keep up because it was marching too fast."

Dong Sheng shook his head: "I don't know. In short, let those few keep an eye on it. If there is no movement in half an hour, come and tell me."

The terrain in the northwest area is rugged. If the Nie family army really took some unknown shortcut, then it is not surprising that the gray pigeons in the sky could not be found for a while. Besides, there was fog in the mountains last night, let alone looking for reinforcements. Where is it? For a long time, the images in front of Dong Sheng's eyes were all black and hazy, which made him almost think that there was something wrong with the white crystal lens.

From the very beginning, Dong Sheng has always had an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart—this kind of uneasiness is not nervousness, it is normal to be nervous on the battlefield, and Dong Sheng has long been used to that feeling, and he has never felt that it is what it is It's a bad thing, but this feeling of unease is something he hasn't tasted for a long time.

It just felt like something was going to happen for no reason.

He lowered his eyes and pondered carefully, and went through his overall arrangement in his mind again, and couldn't help thinking: Could it be that he missed something...

Seeking victory in a losing battle is to pay attention to not using a potential dragon. He thinks that this time he has exhausted all his plans and made every step. After all, it is not easy to force an army of 30 spirit ghosts to such a situation with less than 50 troops. After thinking about it, he couldn't think of any other leftovers.

The past life has already gone to deliver the order for him, Dong Sheng is in the back row of the central army, watching from a distance the army of spirit ghosts surrounded by Hua Xu's army on the plain.In order to prevent the spirit ghosts from counterattacking and breaking through, the Northern Xinjiang defenders did not dare to rush forward to encircle and suppress them, and the Sha'an spirit ghosts surrounded inside are now surrounded by soldiers on three sides and the sea on the other, and they dare not act rashly.

The two sides have been at loggerheads ever since.

"Don't mess up the formation!"

Hua Xu's army, which is not considered huge in itself, is divided into three sides to surround them. These formations inevitably look thin, but if you insist on careful study, you will find that the formation is flawless—and the encirclement is following the other The uniform firepower was gathering little by little, as if a giant python was vigilantly staring at the prey in its arms, and slowly strangled it to death without any haste, with an extremely cold calmness.

With the giant shield in front, the heavy artillery in the middle, and the armor in the back, although it is not rushing to attack, it can easily break the enemy's conical formation.

The spirit ghost was exhausted little by little by the psionic heavy artillery, but the Huaxu army surrounding it has not damaged a single soldier.

The sky was getting darker gradually, and the banners in the army were blown by the wind. Dong Sheng looked up, but unexpectedly, a cloud was rolling down from the southern sky, but in a blink of an eye, it had already covered them On the top of the head, it immediately cast a thick shadow on the earth.

The sun that had just risen was covered by dark clouds, and the wind gradually tightened, blowing the Huaxu flag embroidered with Xuantian rising sun pattern, fluttering, as if the mountain rain was about to come and the wind filled the building.

The vast eastern plain is vast, and from the perspective of gray doves in the sky, the black defenders of northern Xinjiang are like iron pillars poured with molten iron, tightly enclosing a group of trapped beasts between them and the sea.

"Your Highness, it's going to rain heavily." Just as the soldier beside him said that, a drop of water floated onto the white crystal lens in front of Dong Sheng's eyes.

It is not uncommon for a sudden heavy rain in this season without warning.

A few more drops of water floated down from the air and hit Dong Sheng's cold armor. When it flowed away, it was still covered with wet blood on the armor, and cut deep and shallow ravines, revealing some of the original color of the armor.

Soon, the torrential rain covered the roof like a curtain, and the bean-sized raindrops crackled on the ground. The image on the white crystal lens in front of my eyes flickered for a few times, and then disappeared without a trace, leaving only the The plain battle formation in front of the eyes seen by the white crystal lens.

Dong Sheng took off the lens and looked at it, it was soaked by rain.

An accompanying member of the Jiang family who was also in the back row drove his horse to report that the gray pigeon could not bear the water and had already been soaked by the sudden heavy rain.

"It's all broken?"

The member of the Jiang clan said helplessly: "...Your Highness, forgive me, it's my negligence, the imitation feathers have gaps, can seep through, and can't stop such a heavy rain at all... I was supposed to watch the sky last night, today should be a The weather is fine, but I don't know... it's the minister's carelessness, the minister's incompetence..."

Dong Sheng made him speak so that his temples were throbbing, and he quickly raised his hand to stop: "Okay, the matter has come to this point, there is nothing we can do, go and see if there are any remedial measures, if not, immediately send someone to find reinforcements."

The doorman walked down the steps, and quickly agreed to come down, but after he agreed, he felt something was wrong: "Hey, Your Highness, we have suppressed the enemy army here, why bother to ask for reinforcements?"

"Then you go and go, what are you talking about?" Dong Sheng's mind was full of all kinds of weird things since the dispatch of troops, and he didn't have the heart to waste words with him, so he just gave him a fierce and cold look, "We missed the opportunity of the war, Gu Wei You are asking."

Dong Sheng's face was covered with smoke, dust and blood at this time, such a fierce attack really made the disciple think that he had seen a ghost in broad daylight, or a Shura ghost, so scared that he didn't dare to say anything else, and hurriedly drove his horse to do something.

However, as soon as he left, he whipped his horsewhip and ran towards Dong Sheng quickly, holding a roll of letters in his hand. As soon as he got close, he slapped the letter in Dong Sheng's hand regardless of military etiquette. Li, anxiously said: "The main battalion at the rear sent a message, saying that the Xijiang scout who came to report the progress of the reinforcements died earlier."

"What?" Dong Sheng's eyes widened, his back felt cold, "Dead?!"

Rebirth said: "It's suicide."

Dong Sheng quickly opened the letter and read it. It turned out that they committed suicide not long after they left.

— This is a dead man!

At this time, the scouts who happened to be watching from the west rushed to report that there was a large army coming up from the west. At first, they thought it was reinforcements, but when they got closer, they found out that it was Sha'an Xiyu's Northwest Garrison.

Dong Sheng suddenly understood that all the inextricable things from before flooded into his mind like a flood, making him feel dizzy and cold while forcing him to make a decision—at this moment A wrong step, or a slow step, are all abysses.

He forced himself to calm down, and asked in a calm and trembling voice amidst the shock and anger, "The enemy army here...how many people are left?"

The palms of the dead hands were also sweating, he clenched his fists and replied, "It's more than a hundred thousand."

"Then don't worry about anything, encircle and suppress immediately."

At this time, there is no need to take full blame. Although letting go and accelerating the encirclement and suppression will increase the damage of one's own side, it will also give the enemy a chance to die and survive. If they go all out to break through at this time, the defenders of northern Xinjiang may be damaged. How many troops.

However, if the enemy army cannot be wiped out before the Northwest Sha'an garrison arrives, and the army of spirit ghosts is holding them back in the east, and the Sha'an people's main force is in the west, then it may not be just a matter of losing troops.

Dong Sheng figured it out, why the reinforcements had been delayed so far, why the Xijiang scouts would commit suicide after reporting the military situation, why the gray pigeons lost track of the reinforcements...

He hasn't returned to Huajing for so long, there must be many things that happened under his nose, so it's not surprising to catch up with one at such a juncture.

Thunder billowed in the dark clouds, mixed with the sound of heavy drums on the plain, and every hammer seemed to hit a person's heart, deafening.

"kill!"

The spirit ghosts protected their master and son in the center like a thick wall, and the last psionic bomb hit the "wall", and there was another burst of blood and flesh flying everywhere——however, this one was bombed. There was a gap opened, and spirit ghosts rushed up one after another to fill the gap.

This was probably the last order they received—to protect the general to the death.

Enwei was covered in blood, unkempt, and huddled in the protective circle of spirit ghosts and personal soldiers in extreme embarrassment.His eyes were red and bloodshot, and he was haggard like a dead man in just one night.

Tens of thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind, his bloodless lips trembled, and he suddenly let out a loud howl of collapse, and grabbed the lapel of General Shaan beside him, with a ferocious expression like a mad dog. He glared fiercely at the general who was caught in his hands, and roared like crazy: "This is all your idea! Your idea! What you say doesn't pass three levels! What you say double-checks! What you say Evacuate east! We're all going to die now!! We're all going to die!"

As he roared, he rolled down tears uncontrollably, his expression seemed crazy, and he kept repeating in his mouth: "We will die, we will all die..."

"Master Knight!" The general pressed his shoulders that were shaking like chaff, "Reinforcements are coming soon, we have 30 reinforcements, and they will have nothing, they are the ones who will die, listen carefully, They are the ones to die!"

"It's us! We!" Envi yelled wildly. "We will die soon! We can't wait for reinforcements! Don't you dream! We will all die here... I want to go back to my Sagriye, I want to go back to my Sagriye..."

The general held the back of his neck firmly, and forced him to look directly at himself with his head: "Master Knight, my friend, believe me, we can all go back, we can go home, go back alive, you can go back alive Sagriye, meet your family."

Enwei tremblingly heard him mention the word "family", and seemed to calm down for a moment, but immediately there was a louder shout of killing outside, which scared him to squat down on the ground again, holding his head and shouting : "They're coming! They're coming!"

The northern border defenders exhausted all the white crystal spirit stones. After the heavy artillery, there was a rain of arrows all over the sky, and then thousands of cavalry jumped up.

A light-armored halberd soldier who rushed up first let a spirit ghost who rushed forward directly pull the halberd off the horse, and then threw it backwards into the pile of spirit ghosts. Suddenly, dozens of spirit ghosts jumped up towards the man with their mouths wide open.

"Ah—" The cavalryman's screams came to an abrupt end amidst the sound of tearing silk, and in the blink of an eye, it had already been torn into countless pieces and became the belly of the spirit ghost.

This scene was seen by the comrades in the back, who shouted violently with blood-red eyes, and before one of the spirit ghosts turned around, they all raised their halberds and stabbed at it.

Black and red blood splattered all over the ground and fused together viscously, forming puddles of blood with the rain, so that those who rushed up behind could let the blood soak up their ankles.Hundreds of thousands of northern border defenders were almost forced to become Shuras, fighting desperately with real monsters. For a moment, the entire land seemed to be enveloped by endless screams and screams. Drowning in the same seemingly endless rain.

And the huge fig leaf of the rain curtain can't hide the bloody smell that soars to the sky.

Just a quarter of an hour later, the army of spirit ghosts that had been consumed all night was almost slaughtered.

Behind the northern border defenders themselves, there was also the sound of iron hooves trampling the ground faintly. Looking back, the Sha'an army had already arrived in sight.

Wang Sheng picked up a dagger on the ground and threw it at the golden brown-haired Shaan knight in the middle, and the general next to the man held his head and threw him to the ground, narrowly avoiding the blow, but The knight was already frightened and softened.

The deep sound of Mingjin came from the army formation in the northern border.

At this time, the army was pushed up from behind, and it was originally in an outflanking formation, so there was no way to fight back. Fortunately, the immediate obstacles were cleared, and even if they retreated, they would have no scruples, so they simply gave up all attacks , Desperately retreating south along the eastern plain.

The ancestors of the Shaan people were nomads, so riding and archery is almost a talent that has been integrated into the blood of this nation. Not only is the pursuit speed so fast that it is frightening, but when Hua Xu looked up, he saw that there were dense rain of arrows in the heavy rain. slammed down on them.

"Shield!!"

Dong Sheng swung his sword to block dozens of cold arrows, but one of them got out of the rain curtain unexpectedly, and then sank into his shoulder unexpectedly.

"Your Highness!" Not far away, several guards holding shields galloped towards him, covering him behind with a "barrier" composed of five shields. One of the guards even threw his own shield After handing it to Dong Sheng, before he had time to say anything, he was hit by an arrow on his accidentally exposed back. The man's face was distorted in pain, and his body went limp and he rolled off the horse.

As soon as Dong Sheng stretched out his hand and didn't grab it, the soldier disappeared from his sight.

After noon, Dong Sheng led the northern border defenders back to Zijing Pass, Sha'an's army stopped chasing and stationed outside the pass.

[The author has something to say: la la la la, I finally finished writing this paragraph, the defenders of northern Xinjiang were still tricked by their own people, let's see what happens next. 】