Call of the Other World: Rebuilding the Glory of Zhenbei

Chapter 32: The flag is still there, but the losses are heavy

At this moment, on the city wall, Guo Linzhi and others were staring at the Yellow Turban Army outside the city.

The Yellow Turban Army outside the city finally retreated after leaving behind thousands of corpses. They successfully defended Tianlang Pass again today.

Seven days, seven days have passed.

During these seven days, the number of Yellow Turban refugees continued to increase, from 10,000 on the first day to 60,000 on the fifth day. By the seventh day, a full 100,000 Yellow Turban troops had gathered at Tianlang Pass.

From the first day until now, they have been fighting almost every day, and they are fighting at an overloaded level.

Of course, the Yellow Turban Army now has less than 100,000 soldiers, and even less than 70,000 soldiers left.

As for the missing 30,000, they were of course buried under Tianlang Pass.

Of course, the defenders of Tianlang Pass killed 30,000 enemies, but they also suffered heavy losses.

Originally, there were less than 15,000 soldiers at Tianlang Pass, but now there are only 8,000 left, and almost all of them are injured.

In order to reduce casualties and better guard the city, Guo Linzhi had called on the people in the city to help defend the city a few days ago. Women and children helped to carry supplies, while the young and strong were responsible for throwing rolling logs and radium stones when the Yellow Turbans attacked the city wall. It can be said that Guo Linzhi had squeezed every bit of labor inside the pass, but even so, Tianlang Pass had reached the end of its rope.

But the big flag with the word "Guo" on it, symbolizing the sovereignty of Tianlang Pass, still stands!
Since ancient times, as long as the flag is alive, the people are alive; when the flag dies, the people die, and the flag is the soul of the army.

Even if the Yellow Turban Army concentrated their firepower and severely destroyed the military flags, making them tattered and ragged, it seemed that they would fall to the ground in an instant.

However, this tattered and crumbling flag of Tianlang Pass, under the sworn protection of the Tianlang Pass defenders, fluttered in the wind above the wall of Tianlang Pass like a tenacious grass standing in the wind.

"Deputy General Guo, after seven consecutive days of life-and-death battles, how much losses have our troops suffered now?" Guo Linzhi asked Guo Ju who was standing aside.

These days, he has been busy with military planning for the defense of Tianlang Pass and has no time to check these things carefully. He can only hand them over to Guo Ju, who is the deputy general and has good ability to defend the city.

"General, in the past few days, our Tianlang Pass army has faced crazy attacks from enemies that are ten times our size. We have killed a total of 30,000 enemies and lost 7,000 of our own. Now we only have 8,000 people left, but almost everyone of these 8,000 people is injured!"

"In addition, a large number of auxiliary troops were lost, or killed by the attacking Yellow Turban soldiers. In general, our army suffered heavy losses."

Guo Ju reported to Guo Linzhi, but he said: "Although this battle was extremely tragic, it also showed the majesty of the men of Zhenbei Youzhou. Facing an enemy ten times as strong, we were still able to inflict a 1:5 casualty ratio. Even the famous generals of the past could not compare to this!"

When Guo Ju said this, his eyes were full of respect for Guo Linzhi. If he hadn't been in charge of Tianlang Pass, Tianlang Pass would probably have completely fallen under the iron hoofs of more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops!

The Yellow Turban Army is not scary, what is scary is the god-level commander in the Yellow Turban Army. This time, the Yellow Turban Army not only sent Qin Hao, who had double pupils, to conquer Youzhou Road, but even the trio of violent bandits Zhang Hua and other elite personnel came out. This is enough to show that Zhang Jue and the mastermind behind the Yellow Turban Army are afraid of the Zhenbei Army.

"The victory we have achieved in this battle is entirely due to the bravery and desperate fighting of all the soldiers. The people in Tianlang Pass also paid a terrible price for this." When Guo Linzhi said this, he bowed deeply to the dead soldiers!
Seeing this, all the generals saluted to the dead soldiers and civilians!
Looking at the heavy losses suffered by the soldiers and civilians of Tianlang Pass, even Guo Ju, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, felt a little confused about the future of Tianlang Pass. Why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?
In this life-and-death tug-of-war that lasted for several days, although the defenders of Tianlang Pass achieved the result of killing 30,000 enemies with their fearless spirit and the unity of the military and the people, their own losses cannot be ignored.

Especially, after the arrival of the reinforcements behind the Yellow Turbans, they changed their original steady offensive and adopted a desperate offensive at any cost! Under such circumstances, the casualties of the Yellow Turbans were naturally greater than usual, but correspondingly, the 15,000 Tianlang Pass defenders were not much better.

Precisely because the Yellow Turban refugee army did not care about casualties at all, the situation of the defenders of Tianlang Pass became increasingly difficult.

After all, people get tired easily. Even an iron man can't stand several days of high-intensity fighting. What's more, the leading general of the Yellow Turban Army is Qin Hao. Although he is talented, he has no substantial effect. However, his military command should not be underestimated.

Especially Zhang Hua, the adopted son of Zhang Jiao. Although his command ability is not as good as Qin Hao's, he is far more ferocious and is determined to attack the city at all costs!
"Damn Zhang Hua!"

"Damn Qin Hao!!"

"Damn Yellow Turban bandits!!!"

It was precisely because of this that the defense of Tianlang Pass was so difficult. Originally, there were only 15,000 regular defenders. At the beginning, under the continuous attrition of Zhang Hua, the main general, only a few thousand people were left.

Of course, if we only look at the casualty ratio of both sides, the Yellow Turban Army must have suffered heavy losses, but Guo Linzhi knows that wars cannot sometimes be calculated in this way.

Because in the battles of these days, the defense force within Tianlang Pass has been greatly weakened by the Yellow Turban refugees!
After all, no matter what, at this time, there are only about 8,000 soldiers guarding Tianlang Pass, while there are still 70,000 to 80,000 Yellow Turbans outside the pass, and the number is still increasing.
Of course, if it was just because of the huge disparity in the number of troops, Guo Linzhi would not worry about it at all. After all, the terrain of Tianlang Pass is here. As long as the defense equipment of Guanzhong is sufficient, even if the Yellow Turban Army repeatedly adopts such a desperate fighting method, Guo Linzhi believes that he can take it!

But the most crucial thing was that at this time, Tianlang Pass had been under continuous fierce attacks by hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban refugees for several days, and the casualties among the soldiers and civilians were too great, and the morale of the soldiers and civilians gradually declined.

After all, among these 100,000 Yellow Turban Army, there are four divine generals, tens of thousands of elite Huangtian soldiers and Qin's private army. The combat effectiveness is not just composed of refugees and bandits.

Take the remaining 8,000 people for example. Even if they survived, almost everyone was injured. If Guo Lin had not called on the noble families in the interior to transport a lot of healing herbs before the battle, many people would probably have died from their injuries!

Even the arrow stocks in Guanzhong had been used up long ago. The newly made arrows each day were not enough for the archers to use for several rounds. Even the houses in the city had been almost demolished. Except for the children who lived in the last house, everyone else rested near the city wall so that they could be ready to resist the next attack by the Yellow Turban bandits at any time.

It can be said that Guo Linzhi has squeezed out every bit of labor inside the pass, but even so, Tianlang Pass is about to run out of steam.

Therefore, in order to better guard Tianlang Pass, Guo Linzhi directly called on all the people in Guanzhong to donate money and manpower!

Finally, when the last ray of sunset fell on the horizon like blood, it gradually sank into the endless darkness.

The entire Tianlang Pass was tinged with a tragic atmosphere.

The traces of the battle have left deep marks on this land.

It was as if the tragedy of this moment would be frozen forever in the long river of time.

(End of this chapter)