Book 39 - Chapter 9 – Battle of the Ancient Castle (1/2)
The three stood on the highest watchtower of the Helian Fort, living high and looking down on the ene their siege
Earlier they thought that they still had a ray of hope to stay alive, but now they knew that that hope had already disappeared, the only opportunity reht until their last breath
The eneth was estimated between thirty-five thousand to forty thousand; such strength was enough to flatten the prairie; even crisscrossing the Central Plains, no one would be able to stop them
At the bottom of the hill where the Helian Fort was built, the unifor about as if in a e up to the top of the hill
They had considered breaking through the siege, but all the escape routes were sealed off There was nothing outside the Helian Fort that could prolong the time they killed or be killed
Not too far away, the Golden Wolf banner was flying in the evening breeze froenerals were sitting high on horseback, talking and pointing to their direction; needless to say, they y to kill them as quickly as possible
The eneroups asseer combat unit These units spread out as far as the eye could see, covering every single strategic point in the prairie, for the Helian Fort; a display of h to scare anybody out of their wits
The entire prairie was lit up by torches, only Helian Fort, standing on the hilltop, was hidden in the dark, outside the reach of the torches’ light
Ba Fenghan said, “East, west, and north, three slopes are steep and full of rocks; only the south slope is most suitable to attack with the fast horse Shaoshuai and I are in charge to defend the south slope, the rest will be left to Ziling to deal with”
Kou Zhong said with a sigh, “No wonder Xieli can call hihty over the prairie The speed and wonder hich he dispatches the troops and horses, it is indeed the first time that Xiaodi has ever seen When our headache is over, it will be Tuli’s turn to have a headache Tell me frankly, Old Ba, do you still hate Tuli now?”
Sht no do I have the leisure to hate anybody outside the battlefield If with heart and soul, with allto th hich Xieli is going to attack Tuli, won’t it be hile?”
Xu Ziling spoke indifferently, “Kou Zhong, in your heart right now, do you have any special thought of so dejectedly replied, “The first person ca, only then did it turn to Zhizhi; before, I also thought about Chuchu If Xiaodi died in this battle, who uess would be Chuchu This thought makes my heart feels extreme depth of sorrow”
“In han said, “But listening to Shaoshuai’s speech, which evolved from the bottom of your heart, I suddenly had to search deep within rossed in the way of the sword, I as in life? In the end, a I a that would cause anybody extreme depth of sorrow The brotherly love between the two of you is so that I never dreahter and said, “Listening to the tone of your voice, it see to look for that Dai Wa’er [baby; re involuntarily, Ba Fenghan said, “Go to your granny; death is near at hand, Xiaodi is still afraid of extre about it, I did not have the courage to act Ay! It’s a ain before I die, to offer ies for the hurt she has suffered”
Kou Zhong was greatly delighted He looked at Xu Ziling, and saw that his pair of eyes e up his handsome face to stare into the vast starry sky over the battlefield Could not help being shaken, Kou Zhong asked, “Ling Shao, who are you thinking of?”
As if he had just been awakened froaze toward Xieli, Tonyukuk, Zhao Deyan, and the others “Come!” he said
The sound of hoof beats rumbled in the sky Froroup of a hundred riders, darting back and forth across the hill, dazzling the eyes, while at the sahan said, “Shouldn’t the first dish set the prairie on fire?”
Pulling the Moon in the Well, Kou Zhong lifted it high above his head; laughing calht Xieli’s Golden Wolf Arret! The first dish, let Xiaodi take care of it As long as we can hold out until daybreak, it will be enough to becoenerations”
Xu Ziling said, “The ene wheel tactics The first fire should be released before we exhaust our strength”
“You guys are the guests,” Ba Fenghan said, “The first dish should be mine to take care of It see this season where the air is heavy with spring ard, and aht when leaving the Central Earth are still well-preserved Ay! I hope half of them have not lost effectiveness; that would be extreain The other team of five hundred ether, and took out their sabers and hatchets, and then, the hatchets rising and the sabers falling, they cleared away the tall grass and shrubberies all around the hill, as if they already knew their grand plan of setting the grassland on fire
Watching this, the three were dumbstruck and did not kno to deal with it
“It’s the Xiang kid!” Xu Ziling said
The other two cast their gaze in Xieli’s direction Surprisingly, Xiang Yushan was showing hi the enemy ranks, separated from Xieli by only one person, Zhao Deyan From this, it could be seen that he was very i hated it so much that his teeth itched; he said, “Even if I die, I want to pull this deserved-to-be-chopped-a-thousand-tirave, Ba Fenghan said, “Now it’s only the enemy who can come to set fire to burn us, but it’s difficult for us to retaliate Next moment the ill come from the northeast If they set the two slopes, east and north on fire, although the blaze may not threaten us directly, but the thick smoke blown by the ill roll in, the enee of the thick sht directions If we could hold out for the time needed to drink a cup of hot tea, it would be considered a already”
The three looked on hopelessly as the vacant and vast grassland all around were constantly turning into bare ground, yet they clearly could not do anything about it
They were unafraid of the thick sht would be blocked, surely they would not be able to prevent the ene surprise attack into the castle, and their horses would be the first to suffer a cala said, “Shall we kill our way into the eneethis head, Xu Ziling said, “That will be our Plan B Only inside the unique environment of this Helian Fort e be able to display the superiority of using-the-few-to-strike-the-many tactic Thetime without success, Xieli and the others will come to attack personally, and then our death will beis right Let o down to cover all s toward the east and the north sides with felt and various bits and bobs, to prevent the s the fort When the enemy attack, ill set the other two sides on fire, I hope we could buy so, he leaped down froate tower platforround floor via the broken-down stone steps inside
The bugle horn sounded again The Golden Wolf troops, ere clearing up about thirty zhang bare ground all around the fort hill return to the horseback, and retreated to four directions, and then another five-hundred-man team took up their place, neat and orderly
The Golden Wolf banner began to advance toward the around the hill stopped Wherever they were stopping under the slope of the hill, they waited with stored up rew tense very quickly
Withdrawing the Moon in the Well, Kou Zhong laughed toward Xu Ziling and said, “Don’t you feel proud? The grand Tujue Supre theenenificant three persons If death can be divided into glorious and not glorious death, this ti up to the sky, Xu Ziling said, “We are not without any way out at all If another thunderstoruished, perhaps we could take advantage of the darkness to break the siege”
Kou Zhong sighed and said, “Now it is at most only three sichen from daybreak, yet there are only a few thin clouds in the sky Even if I don’t kno to read the wind and read the clouds, I know that there is no chance of rain When the sun is out, our barely-there advantage will be lost, and then our allotted share will only be taking the beating”
And then his pair of eyes emitted a determined look, he said, “If we can hold out until daybreak, even if I die, I will have no regret!”
Xieli and a group of his high-ranking generals moved to the south slope and reined their horses to stop Xieli let out a burst of shaking-the-heavens long laughter, the no-less-than-forty-thousand Golden Wolf Army on the prairie immediately roared in response The entire prairie see
Kou Zhong took one step ahead, he shouted in Tujue language, “What’s so funny? If you have guts, why don’t you, Xieli co? Let your subordinates see that if we are not under the--the-few situation, how useless you really are”
The ht i up violently