Chapter 63: Death (3)

  "No wonder you were able to kill Lei Bu!" Chen Lan also descended the mountain with the army, looking at Liu Mao's remaining five men daring to charge forward, couldn't help but nod in approval. The praise was only temporary, and soon Chen Lan's face turned cold again. "Lü Fengxian, you and I had no connection, but first you took Eight Public Mountains from me, and then killed my second brother! Now I'll let you taste the feeling of losing a great general!" Chen Lan waved her arm, "Pass down the order, kill them! Whoever presents the golden armor and head will be rewarded with the third seat!"

  "Yes!"

  After the city management army, it's not just the 100 close guards cavalry, but also those heavy infantry. It was Liu Mang who opened up the formation that allowed them to avoid being slaughtered by the Yu Zhou cavalry.

  "Brothers of the logistics camp, save the general!" Cheng Yu had no one else to use now. The city management army could not retreat, and once they retreated, it would be a complete defeat. But if they didn't retreat, Liu Mang would definitely die, so Cheng Yu pinned his hopes on these defeated logistics soldiers.

  None of them are motivated, they have been intimidated by Yu's cavalry, and now that they have a chance to live, you want them to risk their lives again?

  "Brothers, think about who saved you, who let you live on!" Cheng Yu shouted in a hoarse voice "If it weren't for the general, you would all be dead now, dead!"

  Still no one moved, and even in the crowd, someone shouted: "What's the point of letting us go? We barely survived, and now you want us to go die? You generals are not good people either! So many of our brothers died at your hands!"

  "What's the point of letting us go die! You go instead!"

  "We won't go! We won't go!"

  A soldier from the rear guard of the city garrison was about to pick up a knife and slash at the logistics soldiers who had sneaked in from behind. "You scoundrels, you scoundrels! The general risked the entire army's destruction by opening the phalanx formation to let you in, and you don't even show any gratitude. You dare to speak ill of the general? The general has killed many of your kind, but what kind of people were they? They charged into the military formation, they deserted in the face of battle, how are deserters treated on the battlefield? If the phalanx had been dispersed by you, you would have all been killed by those cavalrymen. This was a veteran soldier who had survived from the city of Xiapi, and also an old acquaintance of Cheng Yu's.

  "King Hao, stop!" Cheng Yu took away King Hao's knife. The city management army in front had already lost two rows, one row after another went up, and one row after another was dispersed and eliminated. The Henan cavalry was also having a hard time fighting, and now both sides were simply fighting for their lives.

  A long spear of a city guard army pierced the body of a Yu State cavalryman, and this Yu State cavalryman also sent the big knife in his hand into the body of the city guard army before he died.

  The city guards were vomiting blood from their mouths under the impact of the cavalry's charge, with black blood mixed with shredded flesh, which were fragments of internal organs. Even with today's medical standards, they couldn't be saved, let alone in an era where a single knife wound could cost you your life.

  These city management soldiers also knew they couldn't survive, so every soldier spat out blood and used long guns and big knives to exchange a life with these Yu state cavalrymen. Without long guns and big knives, there were still hands, and even after their hands were chopped off, there were still teeth - as long as they didn't die, they would definitely bite out a piece of flesh from these Yu state cavalrymen.

  The huge loss of the city management army made all the dissatisfaction with the logistics camp soldiers vent out.

  "Let's become a cavalry officer! Let's retreat, retreat! We'll go rescue the general, rescue the general!" This was what everyone was thinking.

  "Can't retreat, can't retreat!" Cheng Yu's response was only these three words. He also wanted to save Liu Mang, he wanted to save Liu Mang more than anyone else. Without Liu Mang, there would be no Cheng Yu himself. It was Liu Mang who brought him out of Xia Pi, and it was Liu Mang who gave Cheng Yu the motivation to live on and take revenge.

  But he can't withdraw! Liu Mang's order is for him to be nailed here like a nail.

  "As a marshal, our brothers have sacrificed, is there any meaning for us to stay here? Is it just to save these useless people? I've had enough!" Another old soldier shouted.

  "Endure it if you have to! The tenth row of long guns, prepare to suppress the front!" Cheng Yu roared.

  The people of the logistics camp are all speechless now, if there were no urban management army blocking here, I'm afraid it would be them who died now. If there were no urban management army, do they still have the chance to speak here?

  "Bang!" A loud noise.

  "What are you doing, Cheng Sima?!" an old soldier shouted. The front row of city guards rushed forward and clashed with the Yu state cavalry. Behind them, except for Liu Mao, the second-in-command of the city guards, Cheng Yu suddenly knelt down with a thud. Some soldiers tried to stop him but were driven back by Cheng Yu.

  "General!" The logistics camp soldier asked in puzzlement.

  "I'm begging you, brothers of the logistics camp! I'm begging you on my knees, please save our general! The Yu state cavalry that you're afraid of has been blocked by us, blocked by our city defense army. As long as our city defense army is here, as long as I, Cheng Yu, still have a breath left in me, we will absolutely not let the Yu state cavalry take half a step forward. You only need to face the bandits who are fleeing down from the mountain behind you, just save our general! The Eight Public Mountains have already been broken through by our lord's army, Chen Lan's army is already defeated, as long as we hold on for a little while longer, our lord's army will come and rescue us. Cheng Yu bowed his waist again, this old mother has died, this Xiaoyi city has been broken, this man who had faced death without bowing his head once again lowered his waist, lowered his noble head, and bent his straight knees."

  "We, we!" The hearts of the logistics camp had already moved. Cheng Yu was just a lieutenant general, but he was also the lieutenant general of an army, and could be considered as a general-level existence. But now such a person actually knelt down for them.

  "Let's just go!" someone whispered.

  "Go if you want to go! I won't go, I don't want to send myself to death!" Some people are still not satisfied. If one army loses its courage, even the elite troops will be useless, let alone these logistics soldiers.

  "You're all useless trash! You're only fit to stay behind others, you're only fit to kneel down and be killed by others!" Cheng Yu also angrily shouted.

  "We are not trash, we are not losers!" The logistics battalion, although only a second-line unit, was also not short of hot-blooded people, and was suddenly stirred up by Cheng Yu.

  "You're not cowards, go! Without General Liu, you are now just a corpse, a pile of rotten mud!" Cheng Yu couldn't hide the anger in his heart. If this battle continues, the City Guard Army might be destroyed, but what's the point? Without Liu Mang's City Guard Army, can it still be called the City Guard Army?

  Although the city management army has not been established for a long time, every city management soldier puts their general in the first place. From the words of their general "same life and death, shared wealth and honor", from the songs led by their general! The song may be something they will never encounter in their lifetime. From the wine and food given to them by their general, even if it's just a small piece, even if it's just a light sip, but this is their general after all?

  In a chaotic world where human life is worth less than that of dogs, it was their general who gave them a sense of what it means to be human.

  The logistics camp fell silent, and Cheng Yu looked at these logistics soldiers, also giving up. He gritted his teeth, ready to let the city management army retreat, he wanted to go save General Liu, without him, there would be no city management army, even if the whole army was destroyed, they would all die together, sharing life and death, wealth and honor!

  "I'm going!" A sturdy fellow from a transport corps stepped out.

  "I'm going too!" Another one.

  "And me! I'm not a waste nor a coward!" There's always someone with hot blood among the soldiers.

  "Grandma's here too! What's just one life? I owe that general a debt, no big deal, I'll pay him back!"

  "Go together, go together! Death is just a single knife cut!"

  "Thank you, thank you!" Cheng Yu was so excited that he didn't know what to say. A thousand words and phrases were condensed into a single "thank you". His forehead knocked against the ground until it turned red, swollen, and bleeding, but he couldn't feel anything.