Beauty and the Bodyguard

"Abandon the armor-piercing crossbows and form a formation. Cover each other and retreat!"

Liu Ziyu gritted his teeth. The value of the six thousand new armor-piercing crossbows was immeasurable. If they were to abandon them now, the chances of them being recycled were almost zero.

If it were some profit-seeking bureaucrats, they might feel that it did not matter if they sacrificed ten or twenty thousand Garrison troops, but they could not afford to lose the six thousand armor-piercing crossbows.

However, in Liu Ziyu\'s heart, human lives were much more important than the armor-piercing crossbow.

If they retreated with the armor-piercing crossbows that could not be used, the casualties would definitely increase greatly!

The order was quickly conveyed through the flag. The soldiers of Hongshang Commandery threw away the armor-piercing crossbows and took out their short knives and daggers for self-defense, forming a small battle formation.

Wu yucao, Fei daqiang, Ling Hanxue, and Li Yingjian all rushed to the front line and led their teams to resist the attack of the black magic Commandery.

Unfortunately, other than them, even the soldiers in battle formations could not cause much damage to the soldiers of the black charm Commandery.

The only thing they could do was to slow down the black magic Commandery\'s attack and buy more time for their comrades to retreat.

It was supposed to be a complete victory, but for some unknown, the tables began to turn.

Lin Yi floated in the air and looked down at the battle, not planning on interfering.

Wu yucao and the others were strong enough-even if they couldn\'t turn the tables, they could save their own lives. Lin Yi didn\'t need to worry about that.

As for the Army\'s casualties, these were all normal losses. Since they had encountered it once, there would naturally be a second and third time.

Lin Yi couldn\'t protect them all the time-they had to learn how to face strange enemies like this.

The situation on the battlefield was extremely tragic. The soldiers of Hongshang Commandery, who had just won a great victory, were fighting a bloody battle.

Although they were suppressed by the other side, they did not collapse. Under the leadership of a few generals, they fought to the death against the other side\'s violent attacks.

After retreating for a distance, there was a loud noise on the city wall. A large armor-piercing crossbow whizzed through the air and shot into the formation of the black magic Commandery at a speed that was difficult to be seen by the naked eye.

Even the soldiers of the black charm Commandery, whose strength had been greatly improved, could not withstand the attack of such crossbow arrows.

No, this could no longer be called a crossbow. It would be more appropriate to call it a cannon.

The black light that shot out from the top of the city wall drew a blood-red straight line in the middle of the black charm Commandery\'s formation.

However, not many soldiers of the black charm Commandery died. Only two died on the spot, and five or six were injured.

The black charm Commandery\'s violent attack suddenly came to a halt. After this period of fighting, they had recovered a lot from the confusion at the beginning of the medicine.

At this time, the large armor-piercing crossbows that constantly appeared on the top of the city wall made them feel even more pressured, and they subconsciously stopped chasing!

"Retreat! Loose formation!"

The general of the black charm Commandery was also very straightforward. He shouted as he retreated quickly.

In fact, it was the right choice to speed up the entanglement with the troops of Hongshang Commandery and form a chaotic battle so that the armor-piercing crossbows on the city wall would not dare to continue firing.

If they were lucky, they might even be able to rush into the city!

Once the urban combat began, the soldiers of the black charm Commandery, who had taken the medicine and had their strength doubled, would obviously be able to exert a greater advantage.

It was a pity that the general of the black charm Commandery did not have a clear idea. Seeing that the resistance of Hongshang Commandery was extremely fierce and the threat on the city wall was real, he had the idea of retreating for a while.

The two armies quickly separated. Without the worry of accidentally injuring their own people, the large armor-piercing crossbows on the city wall fired continuously, chasing and attacking the retreating soldiers of the black magic Commandery.

However, the formation of the black charm Commandery had been spread out as much as possible. Such a powerful single shot armor-piercing crossbow could not cause a large area of damage.

The soldiers of Hongshang Commandery took the opportunity to retreat into the city. After the city gate was closed, everyone was relieved.

However, after counting the casualties, the atmosphere became tense again.

Previously, when they annihilated the 20000 soldiers of the black charm Commandery, there were no casualties on the side of the Hongshang Commandery. It was a perfect victory!

However, in the next battle against the 10000 reinforcement troops of the black charm Commandery, 1500 cavalrymen of Hongshang Commandery died, 2700 infantrymen died, and less than 1000 people were injured ... Or uninjured!

Even Fei daqiang was slightly injured, but Wu yucao, Ling Hanxue, and the others were not spared. They all had varying degrees of internal and external injuries.

As for the 10000 casualties of the black charm Commandery\'s reinforcement Army ... If the final battle record of the large armor-piercing crossbow was not counted, the number of casualties was less than 200!

A great defeat!

Especially the great defeat after the great victory, it was especially demoralizing. The entire city had fallen into an inexplicable low pressure.

Everyone was thinking, if there were no large armor-piercing crossbows, would the black magic Commandery have broken into the city gate directly?

If that was the case, would everyone still be able to stay here?

Perhaps they had already fought to the death?

Just as the morale in the city was at its lowest, Lin Yi suddenly appeared on the top of the city wall, landing in front of Liu Ziyu and the others with a light leap.

"The defender-general of the state!"

"Marshal!"

"Marshal!"

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To this team, Lin Yi was the commander they acknowledged from the bottom of their hearts!

Liu Ziyu didn\'t have that kind of prestige yet.

Only Liu Ziyu addressed Lin Yi as the defender-general, while the others, including Wu yucao, still called him Marshal.

"Everyone has worked hard! Although he had lost the battle just now, it was not a crime! The black charm Commandery must have used some other means to break out a combat power beyond the normal level!"

Lin Yi greeted everyone with a slight nod before getting straight to the point, "It\'s already not easy for everyone to escape from the hands of this unknown enemy. As for the battle loss ratio ... You don\'t have to worry too much!"

It didn\'t matter if it was a consolation or an explanation-everyone felt a lot more at ease hearing it from Lin Yi.

"Ziyu, take these elixirs and ask someone to dissolve them in water. The injured brothers will each drink a bowl. It will speed up the recovery of their injuries!"

Lin Yi took out a bag of healing pills and gave it to Liu Ziyu. He then gave Fei daqiang, Wu yucao, and the others one each."All of you, eat this and recover as soon as possible."

There were too many injured people, and Lin Yi could only guarantee that everyone in his team would get one pill. The others could only share it.

Fortunately, their injuries were purely physical. After the medicinal pill dissolved into water, it would have a very good effect.

"Great general, should we first treat our injuries and then go find them to settle the score?"

Fei daqiang threw the pill into his mouth and chewed it like candy,""I\'m really angry thinking about it. My body isn\'t strong enough, and I\'m actually being bullied by these little guys! Great general, we can\'t take this lying down!"