Chapter 431

"Back, back!"

In any case, Huang Chengjian can't wait to die.

The 500000 elite soldiers are led by him, but they are not his, but Lord Zheng's. He is just the temporary leader!

So how dare he run away alone at such a time, regardless of the lives of his soldiers?

Snake has no head. At present, the army is suddenly attacked. If he, the highest commander on the spot, pats his ass and leaves, it will be a heavy blow to the already low morale.

It's not impossible to destroy the whole army.

So, even if he escaped his life, how should he explain to Lord Zheng?

Even if he can't die this time, waiting for him is still the consequence of being sent to a military court.

In the end, don't you still die?

In the end, instead of dying on the battlefield, he will be sentenced to desertion and die shamefully on the gallows. Not only that, he will also implicate his family, his wife and children, his old and young, and his Huang family, all of whom will be copied for his sins.

So, does Huang Chengjian dare to retreat?

He didn't dare.

At this moment, instead of retreating, he had to try his best to retain the army. If he could protect one more soldier, his guilt would be lighter.

Lord Zheng once sent a loud arrow to him to give up attacking the city!

Huang Chengjian regretted this. Just because of a thought difference, he didn't listen to Zheng Yuanyun's order, but chose to forcibly attack the other party's gate at this time.

However, in exchange for such a result?

I thought other people's troops were insufficient. They can let them play at the left gate, but at this time, where's the fucking shortage?

The garrison on the left side of the city is clearly no lower than the main gate, and there are also many configurations of stone catapults.

After all, the order to call in the gold and withdraw the troops was still issued. In the intense gongs and drums that sounded like a death knell, the soldiers who knew something wrong were also frantically rushing back.

But the way to attack the city, which was obviously easy when it came, was so difficult when it retreated.

At each step, a brother fell to the ground with an arrow. At each step, there was a falling stone explosion burning with flames.

In a short journey, the soldiers of Qingyang Empire walked out of huangquan road. Yes, it's huangquan road. They feel that one foot is in the sun and the other foot is in the underworld.

The cries around me could not be heard clearly. The sound of falling rock explosion sounded so unreal and ethereal, like ringing in my ears and like a dream.

"Fight back, fight back!"

Huang Chengjian roared wildly in the back array.

Just as the leading troops were sprinting, he also ordered the catapult troops to press forward, but the light cavalry was too fast and the team was out of touch for a moment.

But it didn't matter at that time.

After all, the offensive at the head of the city is dispensable. The scattered falling stones and sporadic arrows can't cause any substantive casualties to their troops.

Therefore, the stone throwing troops pushed forward slowly, which did not affect Huang Chengjian's troops to bombard the other party's gate.

But at the moment, he urgently needs a catapult to repel his soldiers to retreat, but

However, the reason why the catapult troops were dispensable at that time was that Huang Chengjian didn't have many catapults available at all.

He made a surprise attack after beating around.

What is a raid?

If the speed is not fast enough, how can it be a surprise attack?

In order to get to his destination as soon as possible, and because Huang Chengjian's troops are mainly light cavalry, when he was ordered to come, there were not many stone catapults for him, and he didn't need them very much.

However, now he needed it. Turning around, he found that his own catapult was only a hundred. Compared with the dense catapults at the other side's city head, Huang Chengjian thought of the saying that eggs touch stones for no reason.

It's a pity that he can only harden his head!

Fortunately, the retreating soldiers attracted most of the firepower at the head of the city, which enabled the catapult troops to quickly advance to the area where they could attack the head of the city.

Although the artillery fire was not satisfactory, it somehow delayed the other party's offensive and won a trace of escape time for their soldiers.

But it's just a volley.

Huang Chengjian's catapult is from bottom to top. It is inevitable that the attack distance will be shorter. In order to reach the city, of course, they can only venture to advance to the other side and get their distance.

As a result, the firing immediately attracted the attention of the opposing catapult forces.

There was no need to deliberately target. Only one-third of the catapults were distributed at the head of Tianyuan City, aiming at Huang Chengjian, and there was a round of volley. He could only watch his poor little catapult troops die in the sea of fire.

It's gone!

Helpless, Huang Chengjian only had time to remember his subordinates, and then turned his attention back to the battlefield.

How much more time has it taken?

When he looked back, he could still see only his own soldiers trapped in the gunfire.

"You, go back and tell Lord Zheng to ask for support!"

In desperation, Huang Chengjian had to jump into the battle and immediately jumped down. He rushed to the messenger to report to him at a very fast speed. At this time, the messenger with a stunned expression roared.

He thought very clearly that if he only depended on himself, he might not be able to get out of trouble. At present, only Lord Zheng can ask for help.

Although there are not many troops on Lord Zheng's side, it is because there are not many that he can't tolerate the losses here.

At present, he only asked Lord Zheng to come to the battlefield as soon as possible and gather all the troops on both sides, so as to recapture as many soldiers as possible at this moment.

Soldiers!

Huang Chengjian's heart is dripping blood. In the past, he didn't look at the bottom soldiers. Now it is the only resource they generals desperately want to leave.

If there are generals and no soldiers, what war will we fight?

"Come on, come on!"

Seeing that the messenger was still stunned, Huang Chengjian, who was angry from his heart, wanted to kick him back.

"By the way, ring arrow!"

He was also angry. He forgot the ring arrow with faster transmission speed. He quickly grabbed the bow and arrow from his own Messenger, drew out a special arrow and played with it in a hurry, and engraved the signal of requesting support into the ring arrow.

However, Huang Chengjian, who was anxious, would not know that his last hope at the moment was... He had already retreated when he had just begun to attack the city.

He would not know that even if he chose to take the lead in running away regardless of the lives of the soldiers at this time, Zheng Yuanyun would not blame him for this afterwards.

Because Zheng Yuanyun actually made the same choice long ago.