"Retreat, retreat quickly!"

No matter what, Huang Chengjian couldn't sit still and wait for death.

These 500,000 elite soldiers are commanded by him, but they are not his, but belong to Mr. Zheng. He is only the temporary commander!

So, how could he dare to escape alone regardless of the lives of his soldiers at this time?

A snake cannot survive without a head. Now that the troops are suddenly attacked, if he, the highest commander on the scene, just slaps his ass and leaves, it will be another heavy blow to the already low morale.

It is not impossible that the entire army would be annihilated.

In this way, even if he escaped with his life, how should he explain to Master Zheng?

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

In the end, isn't it still death?

In the end, not only will he not die on the battlefield, but he will be sentenced as a deserter and die on the gallows in disgrace. Not only that, he will also implicate his family, his wife and children, his children, and his disgrace.

Everyone in the family would be beheaded for his crimes.

So, does Huang Chengjian dare to retreat?

He didn't dare.

At this moment, not only could he not retreat, but he had to try his best to retain the army. If he could save one more soldier, his guilt would be lighter.

Lord Zheng had sent him a ringing arrow to make him give up the siege!

Huang Chengjian deeply regretted this. Just because of a mistake, he did not obey Zheng Yuanyun's order, but chose to forcibly attack the opponent's city gate at this time.

However, what we got in exchange was this result?

I thought that other people's troops were insufficient, so I could let them use it at the city gate on the left. But now, looking at it, where is this shortcoming?

The defenders on the left side of the city were obviously no lower than those at the main city gate, and there were also quite a few trebuchets.

Ming Jin's order to withdraw his troops was finally issued. Amidst the intense gongs and drums, which sounded like a death knell, the soldiers who knew something was wrong were also rushing back crazily.

But the road to siege the city, which was apparently easy when coming, turned out to be so difficult when retreating.

With every step, a brother was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground. With every step, there was a falling rock explosion burning with billowing flames.

In a short journey, the soldiers of the Qingyang Empire walked out of the Huangquan Road. Yes, it was the Huangquan Road. They felt that walking along it, they clearly had one foot in the world of heaven and one foot in the underworld.

The shouts all around can no longer be heard clearly, and the sound of falling rocks and explosions sounds so illusory and ethereal, as if it is ringing in the ears, and it is like a dream.

"Fight back, fight back!"

Huang Chengjian roared crazily in the back row.

Just as the vanguard was charging forward, he also ordered the catapult troops to press forward. However, the speed of the light cavalry was too fast at that time, and the team was temporarily out of touch.

But at that time it didn't matter.

After all, the offensive on the top of the city was unnecessary. The sparsely thrown rocks and a few scattered arrows could not cause any substantial casualties to their troops.

Therefore, the stone-throwing troops advanced slowly, which did not affect Huang Chengjian's troops from bombarding the opponent's city gate.

But at this moment, he urgently needs a catapult to repel his own soldiers from retreating, but...

However, the reason why the catapult unit was dispensable at that time was because Huang Chengjian did not have many catapults at hand.

He made a surprise attack after a detour.

What is a raid?

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

In order to reach the destination as quickly as possible, and because Huang Chengjian's force configuration was mainly light cavalry, when he received the order, there were not many catapults for him, and he did not need it very much.

However, now that he was in need, he turned around and saw that his own catapults only numbered a hundred. Compared with the dense slings coming from the top of the opponent's city, Huang Chengjian was reminded of the saying "an egg hits a stone" for no reason.

It's a pity that he still has to bite the bullet!

Fortunately, the soldiers who were retreating attracted most of the firepower from the city head, which allowed the catapult troops to quickly advance to the range where they could attack the city head.

Although the artillery fire fired was not satisfactory, it still delayed the opponent's offensive and gave our soldiers a little time to escape.

But it was just a salvo.

Huang Chengjian's catapult fires from bottom to top, so the attack distance will inevitably be shorter. In order to hit the city head, of course they can only risk advancing to a distance where the opponent can attack them.

As a result, this firing immediately attracted the attention of the opponent's trebuchet troops.

There was no need to deliberately target it. Only one-third of the trebuchets were separated from the top of Tianyuan City, and a round of volleys were aimed at Huang Chengjian. He could only watch his pitiful trebuchet.

The troops perished in the flames.

It’s gone!

Helpless, Huang Chengjian only had time to remember his subordinates for a moment, and then returned his attention to the battlefield.

How much more time did this delay?

What he could see when he turned around was still his own soldiers trapped in artillery fire.

"You, go back quickly and tell Mr. Zheng to ask for support!"

In desperation, Huang Chengjian had no choice but to jump off his horse and rush to the messenger who came to report the message to him at an extremely fast speed. At this time, the messenger who also had a dumbfounded expression on his face shouted loudly.

He thought very clearly that he might not be able to get out of trouble just by relying on himself. The only person who could ask for help at the moment was Mr. Zheng.

Although Mr. Zheng's troops are not many anymore, it is precisely because they are few that he cannot tolerate losses here.

At the moment, he can only ask Mr. Zheng to come to the battlefield as soon as possible and gather all the troops on both sides so that he can snatch back as many soldiers as possible at this moment.

Soldier!

Huang Chengjian's heart was bleeding. In the past, he would never take a serious look at the low-level soldiers, but now they were the only resources that generals like them desperately wanted to keep.

With generals and no soldiers, what kind of war is there to fight?

"Hurry, hurry!"

Seeing that the messenger soldier was still stunned, Huang Chengjian was so angry that he wanted to kick him back.

"That's right, Loud Arrow!"

He was also so angry that he forgot about the faster sounding arrows, and hurriedly grabbed the bow and arrow from his messenger soldier, then took out the specially made arrows and hurriedly played with them, carving the signal for support into the sounding arrows.

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However, how could the impatient Huang Chengjian know that his last hope at this moment was actually... that he had already retreated when he just started to attack the city.

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