Chapter 329: Ruthless

"No..."

Tiemuta's order took Tuobawen by surprise; he spoke up to stop it, but it was already too late.

The Curved Blade of a Northern Di wolf-rider swung down, and a Xiliang soldier immediately had a bone-deep wound on his face as fresh blood gushed out.

The Xiliang soldiers let out bursts of miserable screams.

"Kill!"

At this moment, the Northern Di Cavalry roared, pulling tight their reins one after another and charging toward the Xiliang soldiers.

Under the sunlight, their Curved Blades flashed with a metallic luster, fluttering incessantly.

Crimson blood splashed toward the sky amidst the dancing of the Curved Blades.

The Xiliang soldiers were stunned by the sudden attack from the Northern Di.

After being dazed for a long time, they finally came to their senses.

In a state of panic, they immediately turned back toward Tongguan.

But at this time, Xiliang soldiers were still continuously fleeing from within the city.

The Xiliang soldiers outside wanted to get in, while the Xiliang soldiers inside wanted to get out.

The two waves of men and horses squeezed together at the city gate, deadlocked.

"Kill, kill them all." On horseback, Tiemuta grew increasingly anxious as he watched this scene.

Whether or not they could occupy Tongguan meant whether the Northern Di could seize the initiative in the war against Great Song.

Now that Tongguan was within reach, he would absolutely not let this opportunity slip by.

"Great King Tiemuta, tell your soldiers to stop; you cannot slaughter our Xiliang soldiers like this, we are allies now." Stunned for a long while by the brutality of the Northern Di, Tuobawen spoke again.

"Shut up!" Tiemuta roared, "As long as I can obtain Tongguan, what does it matter if these people die."

Tuobawen's face turned pale, and he dared not speak again.

Now that the Northern Di were strong and the Xiliang were weak, although he felt angry in his heart, he could only endure it for the moment.

Inside the pass.

Under the offensive of the Wangfu Army,

the Xiliang soldiers completely collapsed.

Within the city, no more Xiliang soldiers dared to launch a charge against the Wangfu Army.

Led by their commanders, the soldiers marched with long strides toward the North Gate.

The interior of the North Gate was getting closer and closer to them.

But just at this moment, they discovered something was wrong.

The fleeing Xiliang soldiers seemed to be blocked at the city gate, squeezed together densely.

Seeing this, Chang Wei and the commanders climbed to the second floor of a restaurant in the city and took a Monocular to observe the position of the city gate.

They discovered that at this time, Xiliang soldiers were squeezing toward the inside of the gate, and every one of them had a look of extreme terror on their face, which was why the soldiers inside the city could not flee out of the city.

"Could it be that Xiliang reinforcements have arrived?" Guan Tong was by Chang Wei's side.

At this moment, they were still five hundred meters away from the North Gate and could not judge at all.

"Immediately speed up the march, gather the Artillery, and aim them at the city gate." Chang Wei's expression was grave.

The suddenly fleeing Xiliang soldiers were now desperately trying to flee back.

The first possibility was what Guan Tong said, that Xiliang reinforcements had arrived.

They were being forced back.

And the second possibility made his heart sink, which was that the Northern Di main army had arrived outside the city.

Seeing Chang Wei's serious expression, Guan Tong suddenly thought of the Northern Di main army heading toward Tongguan, and his heart also turned cold.

Responding with an 'aye', he immediately went down from the restaurant and ordered the scattered Artillerymen to aggregate together while on the move.

At the same time, he ordered the Flintlock soldiers not to continue marching slowly in strict formation, but to run.

The order was given, and the soldiers rested their Flintlocks on their shoulders and jogged all the way toward the North Gate.

At a distance of over two hundred meters, they stopped, reorganized their formation, and pressed toward the Xiliang soldiers.

The Artillerymen also deployed the Artillery at the place directly facing the gate.

Seeing the Yan Wang's soldiers arrive, the Xiliang soldiers were even more terrified and charged forcefully toward the North Gate.

The Xiliang soldiers coming in from outside were squeezed into retreating repeatedly.

But immediately, the Xiliang soldiers going out from the inside turned around and squeezed back inside.

"Xuhai, Luopeng, you each lead five hundred Heavy Cavalry to charge toward the city wall, occupy the north city wall, and see what the situation is outside?" Chang Wei shouted.

These two young men were both Heavy Infantry Colonels.

Receiving the order, they each took their subordinate soldiers, one charging west and one charging east toward the north city wall.

Because the South Gate had been breached, the north city wall no longer had any need for defense for the Xiliang soldiers.

Fleeing for their lives in panic, there were simply no Xiliang soldiers left on the city wall.

It was just that at the stairs leading to the city wall, there were still fleeing soldiers crowded together.

When the two charged toward the stairs, the Xiliang soldiers saw them coming with murderous intent and were immediately frightened into fleeing in all directions.

Xuhai and Luopeng were stunned for a moment, then ignored these demoralized Xiliang soldiers and climbed straight up the city wall.

Looking down from the city wall, Xuhai's expression changed drastically.

At this time, on the Grassland outside the city were Northern Di soldiers as far as the eye could see.

These Northern Di soldiers were currently slaughtering the Xiliang soldiers.

The ground was now covered everywhere with the corpses of Xiliang soldiers.

With less than three hundred meters to go, the Northern Di Cavalry would be able to reach the city gate.

"Whoosh..."

Just as he was observing, a sudden burst of dense, whistling sounds came through the air.

A wave of arrows seemed to fly over from the Northern Di army.

"Dodge the arrows!" Xuhai was on the west side of the city wall, directly above the Northern Di Cavalry.

The soldiers who heard this and reacted quickly immediately flattened themselves onto the ground of the city wall.

Those who reacted slowly turned around, leaving their backs exposed to the Arrow.

"Clang, clang, clang..." A series of metallic clashing sounds rang out.

After the rain of arrows, the Plate Armor covering their backs was covered in small dents from the arrowheads.

"You go and report to the General!" Xuhai said to a Small Banner.

The Small Banner immediately took his fifty soldiers and returned from the city wall to the main army.

"It really is the Northern Di." As Xuhai's men sent back the news, Chang Wei's eyes narrowed.

Bai Shang said, "Damn those Northern Di, they've come at the right time; let's make them cry for their parents first."

Chang Wei shook his head, "Do not be reckless. The Northern Di want Tongguan, and we want Tongguan too. We cannot fight just for the sake of fighting; we have already sacrificed many soldiers in this entry into Jin."

"Yes, General." Bai Shang rubbed his head, "But what do we do now? If these Xiliang soldiers are driven back by the Northern Di and charge at us, it will be troublesome."

Chang Wei naturally understood this.

There were currently five or six thousand Xiliang soldiers crowded at the city gate.

If these people charged over, with the Northern Di soldiers following behind, there would surely be another bloody battle.

Therefore, before the Northern Di reached the city gate, they had to close the main gate.

"Send men to tell these Xiliang soldiers to surrender, otherwise we will begin a massacre," Chang Wei said.

He then said to Guan Tong, "Have the soldiers continue to advance and stop thirty meters in front of the Xiliang soldiers."

Acknowledging the order, Guan Tong commanded the soldiers to signal with Flag Language while also ordering the Cavalry to ride back and forth to relay the message.

At this moment, the Flintlock Large Horizontal Formation advanced again, and the Artillery was also pushed forward.

At the same time, a unit of Cavalry rushed near the North Gate, continuously shouting that those who surrendered would not be killed.

Under the shouting of the Cavalry, only a small number of Xiliang soldiers dropped their Weapon and, as requested, hugged their heads and crouched along the western cliff wall.

But the majority of the Xiliang soldiers were still trying to escape the city.

Because of the noisy clamor, they could not hear the screams of the Xiliang soldiers outside the city.

Before long, the Wangfu Army arrived at their designated positions.

At this moment, Chang Wei decisively issued the order, "Kill all the Xiliang soldiers!"

As a commanding general, at such a critical moment, he had to be cold-blooded and ruthless.