Seeing that the situation has changed dramatically, the morale of Dongxuan's side has been unprecedentedly high. No matter the general or the soldiers, everyone seems to have been pumped up, screaming and rushing up.
On the Yutang side, they were watching all this with gritted teeth, and many people's eyes were red.
All they could do was watch the other side's actions, complete the strategic goals bit by bit, and gradually conquer the city that was a natural hazard for their own side. It really made every Yutang soldier feel aggrieved to the point of death.
This taste is too unbearable!
It's simply worse than cutting one's own flesh with a dull knife!
Qiu Jianhan, who had already known that Tiegu Guan could not hold on, was not completely inactive. He evacuated all the wounded soldiers and civilians in the pass early. When the wounded soldiers were leaving, they cried loudly.
Many soldiers cried and begged their comrades: Let me stay!
Although I don’t have a hand, if you give me a knife, I can still hold an enemy back!
"Let me stay!"
"I won't leave! Even if you beat me to death now, carry my body up the city wall, and directly build it with stones inside, I can still raise the height of Yutang by half a foot!"
The wounded soldiers begged.
But Qiu Jianhan and Fu Baoguo had iron-faced expressions, unwavering and uncompromising!
"You have meaning only when you live. You are the seeds of Yutang, or you can cultivate new seeds! You are nothing if you die!"
"Military order: Live! No matter what, you are not allowed to die! If anyone dies, I will never recognize you as our comrade again!"
"As long as you live, the Iron Bone Pass of Yutang will still be there! You will be the Iron Bone Pass!"
"The so-called Unbreakable Pass has never been about the Iron Bone Pass itself, but the Yutang Eastern Army stationed here. It's you Eastern Army soldiers!"
Marshal Qiu burst into tears: "Stay alive for me! Brothers, you must live. Live to see our Yutang counterattack! Live to help us train new recruits! Live... to look after our beautiful mountains and rivers for us!"
Seeing the old marshal's tears, all the wounded soldiers fell silent and said no more.
The wounded soldiers began to evacuate one by one, and they evacuated extremely quickly!
They had to move quickly to leave a broad road for the army behind them.
In order to prevent these cripples from blocking the road and blocking the movement route of the army.
"Even if I can't be loyal to the country with my brothers here, I can't be a drag on the army!"
"We still have a mission. Even if the Iron Bone Pass in front of us falls, there will still be another human-shaped Iron Bone Pass for us!"
"Dongxuan, damn invader, wait until you cross another iron bone barrier!"
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Time passed little by little, and on the ninth day, Dongxuan's established strategic deployment was basically completed.
The gentle slope below is only three feet high from the top of the city.
Such a height can be easily climbed by warriors with a certain foundation. Dongxuan's army has therefore gathered experts; all Dongxuan's martial arts masters, army masters, and sect masters have all been gathered together.
As for Yutang, they are also gathering advanced practitioners.
Both sides are doing the same thing.
Only advanced cultivators can deal with advanced warriors. In the current situation, warriors who have never been welcomed on the battlefield are actually more popular than ever before. The key to this battle is here!
And on this night.
Qiu Jianhan ordered to go down and divide the more than 500,000 barrels of kerosene he had collected during this period and the more than 500,000 barrels of kerosene he had mobilized before the expedition into five waves, and even scattered the first wave.
On this gentle slope, a thick layer of fire oil flows.
Many of them flowed down the gentle slope, thick but never stagnant. The entire gentle slope stretching for dozens of miles was covered with kerosene!
But within a moment, a pungent smell filled the air.
At this moment, the kerosene on the city was still pouring down continuously.
When Han Shanhe saw such a large amount of kerosene, his face was filled with uncertainty. He actually didn't give the order to attack for a long time!
He knew very clearly that this was the last move Qiu Jianhan had reserved!
The real last resort!
As he said, he could think of Qiu Jianhan and think of everything he could think of, and so could the other party, so this situation was already in the budgets of both parties!
As long as the soldiers of Dongxuan can break through this sea of fire hell composed of kerosene, Iron Bone Pass will belong to Dongxuan!
But when the matter came to a head, Han Shanhe still hesitated.
What I saw before my eyes was no longer simply kerosene that stretched for dozens of miles, but kerosene covering dozens of miles in radius!
A whole piece, all of it!
In the current situation, although the Yutang side is at an unprecedented disadvantage, if they want to forcefully capture Tieguguan, at least a considerable scale of offensive is needed. Without tens of thousands of people, there is no threat at all!
He gave the order and dispatched tens of thousands of troops to launch an offensive. He just waited for a while, but once those tens of thousands of troops rushed into the fire oil in front of them. As long as the fire breaks out, these tens of thousands of troops will have no chance of survival!
There is absolutely no hope of survival!
"Rocket!"
Han Shanhe still gave the order!
"Since the sea of fire is bound to appear, let us light the fire oil!" Han Shanhe smiled bitterly.
The dense rockets fell on the kerosene like a storm, and with a "boom", the flames instantly ignited into the sky; but in an instant, the stretching sea of fire immediately obscured the sight of everyone on both sides.
For a moment, a heat wave swept directly around for dozens of miles, and everyone retreated immediately, not daring to stay for a while.
At this moment, Qiu Jianhan's wild laughter came from the top of Yutang City: "Hanshanhe, you finally set fire! I thought you were stone-hearted, but I didn't expect you still have concerns. The so-called Hanshanhe's decisiveness in killing is also... It’s nothing more than that, nothing more than that!”
Han Shanhe smiled bitterly and shook his head, but said nothing!
Once the fire is set off, Dongxuan's army will not be able to rush over no matter what while the fire oil is burning.
The extent of the sea of fire formed by the thick kerosene is probably larger than that of a river of magma. And based on the current scale of the kerosene that can be seen visually, it will take a day and a night for it to burn out.
This day and night is enough to dissolve more than a foot of the frozen gentle slopes that Hanshan River has painstakingly accumulated over this period of time! Although Tieguguan Pass would also be damaged in the fire, or even almost destroyed, Qiu Jianhan didn't care at all now.
After all, Iron Bone Pass is destined to be destroyed. Whether it is destroyed or not is really not that important!
On the contrary, it would take Dongxuan's army at least two days to fill up the gentle slope of the ice layer, which was more than ten feet thick.
And two days later, this land will be covered with kerosene again!
Qiu Jianhan frantically collected more than 500,000 barrels of kerosene reserves. He even collected all the oil cans in the city, from the army's cooking to the people's homes, just for this crazy last ditch effort to maximize the Delayed city break time!
What's more, no matter how knowledgeable Han Shanhe is, he still doesn't know how much kerosene Yutang has prepared.
In any case, before the final fall of Tieguguan, Qiu Jianhan would need at least 100,000 Dongxuan soldiers and horses to be buried with him!
After that, it’s up to you, Hanshanhe, and the rest of us to fight to the death!
Qiu Jianhan looked at the rising flames, his eyes full of determination and cruelty.
Han Shanhe, if you don’t take in these 100,000 lives, how can you be worthy of my name, Qiu Jianhan, in the final battle!
"Fu Baoguo!"
"The general is here!"
"Order! You take all the cavalry and the Patriot Army and leave the city immediately and evacuate to the Western Mountains!" Qiu Jianhan said: "In these days, except for Tianxuan Cliff, all the peaks on the Western Mountains have been destroyed. I demolished it!"
"That's the last narrow place on the way to the border of the country. At that time, your cavalry and the national army formed another line of defense there. That's the second iron-bone pass of our Yutang! I'd rather fight to the end. We must not let Han Shanhe pass by easily even with the last soldier left!"
Fu Baoguo shed tears: "Old Marshal, the general thinks that it is better for the old marshal to do this. The general does not have complete control over the cavalry. Only the old marshal himself can control it to the maximum extent. Overall situation! The policy here has been decided, let the last general stay."
"Fuck your mother!" Qiu Jianhan was furious: "Get out of here!"
"I won't leave! I must not be the one who should leave!"
Fu Baoguo showed a rare disobedience with a resolute look on his face: "The general has already sworn an oath to heaven, and I swear to live and die with Iron Bone Pass! The old marshal is forcing me to break my oath by letting me go!"
"Make you an ancestor! I swear to you! What a mess! This is a battlefield and a military camp! Even if God is here now, you can only obey my military orders! If you don't respect military orders, you will be beheaded immediately!"
Qiu Jianhan was unreasonable: "Get out of here right now! I didn't let you live, but let you die in another place! Didn't you hear that there is also Iron Bone Pass over there? Why did you violate your bullshit oath? Come on!" , get out of here quickly... Why don't you get out of here?! I'll kill you!"
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