The Devil's Tribulation

Chapter 191 Broken City

Under Yinghua City, the Chu army had just cleared the city walls when they saw the Great Zhou army gathering again, and they hurried over to report. Wang Xingyuan originally thought that the Great Zhou army would not attack the city until tomorrow at the earliest, so he sent scouts out to find out the strength of the Great Zhou army. He always felt that the Great Zhou army could not possibly have 50 troops. But the scouts had only been out for two hours and had not returned yet, and Sun Erleng had already started to attack the city. Wang Xingyuan kicked the personal soldier who was still sleeping beside him and shouted, "Get up, the enemy is attacking the city!"

Wang Xingyuan stood on the top of the city wall, looking at the dense Zhou army below the city. The flags stretched for dozens of miles, and it looked like there were hundreds of thousands of troops. The morale of the defenders on the city wall was low. In the previous battle, many Chu soldiers were already timid. Wang Xingyuan knew that if this continued, it would be very disadvantageous for the defense of the city, so he shouted: "I have contacted Marshal Ji. Yinghua City is very important. Marshal Ji is on the way with his army! As long as you hold on for three days, reinforcements will arrive! I will decide now! Kill one enemy and reward ten taels of silver! Kill three and you will be promoted to sergeant! Kill ten and you will be promoted to troupe leader! If you have the ability to kill a hundred, I will give you my position!" Finally, some of the soldiers guarding the city laughed and shouted: "General, are you serious!" Wang Xingyuan smiled and said: "The promise made before the battle! It is absolutely true! Let's fight bravely!" The soldiers on the top of the city wall began to cry out.

Sun Erleng narrowed his eyes and said, "This Wang Xingyuan is quite capable. He has raised the morale of the Chu army! However, when it comes to morale, my army has never lost! Fan Sheng!" Fan Sheng stepped out of the line and said, "I am here!" Sun Erleng asked, "Are you ready?" Fan Sheng said, "Ready! Come on! Push it out!" More than 20 young strong men came out of the crowd, pushing a siege vehicle. Sun Erleng took a look and laughed, "Great!" Sun Erleng looked at the young generals and shouted, "Ren Bin, come here!"

Ren Bin hurriedly ran to Sun Erleng and said, "General!" Sun Erleng said, "I'll give you this car. If you can break open the city gate, I'll give you the first credit for the vanguard battalion! If this car is burned, I'll..." Ren Bin replied, "No need for you to do it, General. I'll chop off my own head!" Sun Erleng looked at Wang Xingyuan on the city wall and said fiercely, "This time I'm going to break in!"

There are two roads between Tongming City and Yinghua City. One of them is called Tonghua Road. It is the widest road between the two cities. In order to open this road, the two cities spent a lot of manpower and material resources. Ji Guozhu sat on the rock and looked at the Great Zhou army camp on both sides of the intersection with worry. The personal soldier comforted him, "General, go and have a rest. It's better if they don't dare to come." Ji Guozhu turned his head and glanced at the personal soldier and said, "If someone else led the army to attack, I would have been lying on the bed and sleeping soundly. The opponent is Wei Qing. I don't believe he can't deal with it."

As they were talking, another guard suddenly came to report: "General, there is a change in Yinghua City!" Ji Guozhu stood up and asked hurriedly: "What's going on?" The guard said: "Wang Xingyuan, the defender of Yinghua City, sent someone to report that hundreds of thousands of troops from the Great Zhou are besieging Yinghua City, and asked the general to rush to help!" Ji Guozhu's face changed and he shouted: "Impossible! The 200 million troops of the Great Zhou Central Army are on these two roads. How could there be hundreds of thousands of troops attacking Yinghua City!" Just after he finished speaking, he seemed to remember something and hurriedly said: "Bring the map!"

The guards immediately opened the map they carried with them. After checking it for half a cup of tea, Ji Guozhu suddenly smiled and said, "Look, there is a small road here. I walked this road when I was young. It was very difficult to walk. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of troops passing through here, even 20 or people would be difficult." After saying that, he looked at a few guards and continued, "If there really is an army in Yinghua City, there are defenders in the city, so there will definitely be nothing wrong! Wang Xingyuan has followed me for many years, how could he not judge it? I'm afraid he was deceived? Did anyone say which general of the Great Zhou was leading the army?"

The guards hurried down and brought the messenger. The messenger saw Ji Guozhu and knelt down and said, "General! Hurry up and rescue Yinghua City. General Wang can't hold on any longer!" The guards immediately shouted, "Shut up! Answer whatever the general asks!" Ji Guozhu asked, "How did Wang Xingyuan judge that the other side had hundreds of thousands of troops?" The messenger said, "Outside the city, there are densely packed troops. They are all the Great Zhou army. The flags are even stretched for dozens of miles. And the Great Zhou army started to attack the city as soon as they arrived. When we broke out, the Zhou army was attacking the city wall fiercely. Now we don't know what's going on."

Ji Guozhu asked, "Who is leading the Zhou army?" The messenger said, "It's that One Axe Demon God, Sun Erleng." Ji Guozhu laughed and said, "I conclude that the enemy has only 200 troops at most. Go back and tell Wang Xingyuan to fight boldly! Don't be fooled by the illusion in front of you! The million troops in the middle of the Great Zhou are confronting me here. It's impossible for so many troops to go over there!"

The messenger wanted to say something, but was pulled out by the guards. After the messenger left, Ji Guozhu's face darkened and he said, "Wang Xingyuan is a waste! I trusted him so much and left Yinghua City to him to guard. When the enemy had tens of thousands of troops, he panicked!" The guards hurriedly said, "General, Yinghua City cannot be lost, otherwise our 200 million troops will have no place to stay, let alone supplies."

Ji Guozhu pondered for a while, and finally decided: "Send an order! Zeng Xuhui will lead the Yingwu Guard to reinforce Yinghua City, and tell Zeng Xuhui that if Yinghua City is lost, he will commit suicide!" The personal soldiers took the order and went down. Ji Guozhu secretly said: "Wei Qing, you want to disrupt my position, but I will not be fooled!" Yingwu Guard is Ji Guozhu's personal army, with only 3 people, but Ji Guozhu determined that the enemy would not be too many. To reinforce 3 people, the most important thing is to let Zeng Xuhui replace Wang Xingyuan, he no longer trusts Wang Xingyuan.

Under Yinghua City, corpses were everywhere. Sun Erleng watched the siege vehicles hitting the city gates again and again. The soldiers on the top of the city walls were beaten down as soon as they went up. The Yongzi Battalion had already lost one-tenth of its troops. This was the trump card army given to him by the Third Prince. If they were all defeated here, how would he explain to the Third Prince? Sun Erleng felt uncomfortable, and Wang Xingyuan even shouted until his throat was broken.

The morale was boosted at the beginning, but now, after two hours of siege, the morale was slowly suppressed by the Zhou army. This army was the most powerful army Wang Xingyuan had ever encountered. They had attacked the top of the city several times. If they hadn't used their numbers to suppress the people, the top of the city would have been occupied long ago. Only these people could be arranged on the top of the city, otherwise Wang Xingyuan wanted to pull the remaining 100,000 people up to defend the city.

Sun Erleng and Wang Xingyuan both knew that this was the critical moment. Whichever side could not hold on first would have their will crushed first, and then they would be scattered, terrified, and run around like headless flies. Sun Erleng gritted his teeth and shouted, "Dare Camp! Go!" Sun Erleng turned around and said, "Cavalry, get ready. As soon as the city gate opens, follow me and charge in!" These were the last 10,000 cavalrymen, and the other 30,000 or so were attacking the city.

As soon as the Ganzi Battalion arrived, Wang Xingyuan immediately felt the pressure mount. He shouted with a hoarse voice: "Hold on! The reserve troops, hurry up and hold on for me!" However, the combat power of the physical training soldiers was too strong. The reserve troops, who were about to come up, were suppressed again. The personal soldiers pulled Wang Xingyuan and shouted: "General! Run, we can't hold on! Run quickly!"

Wang Xingyuan yelled frantically, "No! Even if I die, I will die on the top of the city wall! I cannot let you down!" The soldiers shouted, "General! We still have the inner city! Let's go and defend the city lord's mansion and wait for your reinforcements!"

Wang Xingyuan immediately woke up and said anxiously: "Yes, yes, yes, quickly organize the troops and retreat to the city lord's mansion! Quick, quick, quick!" A group of body-building soldiers who climbed up the city wall immediately rushed towards the city gate. After a while of hacking and killing, the soldiers guarding the city gate could not stop them at all and were defeated in a few blows. Several body-building soldiers immediately opened the gate to welcome the army into the city! When the Chu army saw that the city gate was opened, they no longer had the courage to rush up and fled for their lives.

Seeing the city gate wide open, Sun Erleng laughed wildly and said, "Follow me, charge in! Anyone who doesn't kneel down will be chopped off!" Sun Erleng took the lead and rushed into the city, shouting, "Hurry up and find Wang Xingyuan. We can't let him escape to the City Lord's Mansion to organize defense!" A personal soldier immediately took a kneeling Chu soldier and asked, "Which direction is the City Lord's Mansion?" The Chu soldier pointed in a direction tremblingly, and Sun Erleng immediately led his men to chase after it.

Wang Xingyuan finally organized more than 20,000 people and rushed to the city lord's mansion. They were almost there. Suddenly, a deafening shout of killing came from behind. A general in the lead, holding a huge axe and riding a red horse, came galloping! He shouted: "Wang Xingyuan! Where are you running! Take my axe!"

Wang Xingyuan was so scared that he dared not take his axe! He shouted, "Stop him! Everyone else, follow me into the city lord's mansion!" More than a hundred riders immediately rushed towards Sun Erleng. The dozen or so guards around Sun Erleng shouted, "General, go ahead! Leave these to us!" After the guards said that, they rode ahead of Sun Erleng, raised their swords and chopped down seven or eight people with a few swings.

The other personal soldiers were not weak either, and they immediately blocked the approaching cavalry. Sun Erleng did not hesitate, and rode on his big red horse, chasing after him with a whoosh. He shouted, "Wang Xingyuan! Where are you running to! Look at the axe!"

Wang Xingyuan turned around and found that more than a hundred cavalrymen could not stop Sun Erleng for a single second. He was so scared that he hurriedly raised the spear in his hand and blocked it across his chest. With a "swish" sound, Wang Xingyuan looked at the broken spear and the wound on his chest in disbelief, pointing at Sun Erleng and said, "You're worthy of your reputation..." Sun Erleng did not give him a chance to say anything, and then he chopped off Wang Xingyuan's head with another axe. He held the head with one hand and shouted, "Wang Xingyuan is dead! Surrender and you won't be killed!" The Chu army was all frightened and they dropped their weapons and knelt down to surrender.