At the city walls, the sound of killing was overwhelming.
“Granny ……”
Lieutenant Wei killed a soldier climbing up the ladder, wiped a handful of blood from his face and cursed as he looked at the enemy troops pouring over in the distance.
No one saw how these people came over, and when they found out, these people had already set up ladders and climbed up the city wall.
“This won’t work ……”
Song Yin decapitated an enemy, blood was still dripping down from the tip of his sword, “We’re too passive if we keep fighting like this, I’ll take a group of men and counter-attack out to kill them by surprise.”
“No, that’s too dangerous.”
The enemy didn’t know how many people there were, to charge out like this would undoubtedly be a sheep into a tiger’s mouth.
“I’ll go out through the east gate and go around behind them. After I give the signal, you guys will also lead the men out and we’ll attack back and forth, so they won’t be able to come back.”
Thinking of the time he fell and Song Yin was saved by this method, Lieutenant Wei gritted his teeth, “Fine, you bring 5,000 men over, I’ll meet them on this side.”
Song Yin descended from the city wall, ordered five thousand men and headed for the east gate.
Shortly after he left, Shen Yan arrived in full armour and hurried up to the city tower, picking off an enemy who had climbed up with his sword and asking, “What’s going on?”
“They attacked by surprise, and by the time our men found out they had already reached the city walls. Don’t worry, General, Song Yin has brought 5,000 men to go around to their rear from the east gate; when he gives the signal, we will lead the fight out and leave all these men behind.”
Half an hour later, the enemy gradually slowed down their attack, but no secret signal was seen coming, and a bad feeling rose in Shen Yan’s heart.
Lieutenant Wei also felt that something was wrong, going out from the east gate, two quarters of an hour to get around behind the enemy, but Song Yin has not moved yet, it can’t be ……
His heart jumped violently, “General, give me 10,000 men, I want ……”
Before he could finish his words, he heard the soldier shout in surprise, “The enemy has retreated, the enemy has retreated!”
Several people looked, and indeed the enemy had retreated, retreated quickly, as if they were rushing to another place to attack the city.
Another place, Shen Yan’s heart tightened, “Lieutenant Wei, give you 10,000 soldiers and horses, quickly go to the east city to meet Song Yin, Vice General Liu, take 20,000 soldiers and horses and follow me out of the city.”
The two men responded and followed him down the city tower at a fast pace. Just halfway down, they saw a soldier covered in blood coming fast on a horse, his shaky body could roll off the horse at any moment.
Seeing Shen Yan from afar, several men shouted at the top of their lungs, “General, we have been trapped, their target is Colonel Song.”
As the words left his mouth, he could no longer support himself and rolled off his horse.
Immediately, someone came forward to help him up, and as he held on to his last breath, he pointed in the direction of the eastern city, “Quickly, go and save the people!”
Five miles outside the eastern city, five thousand men were surrounded by tens of thousands of people, and Song Yin was also being held back by several enemy generals.
They were coming for Song Yin’s life, and their strikes were ruthless, hitting the vital points, not giving Song Yin the slightest chance to breathe.
One of them saw the opportunity to leap up and slash at Song Yin’s face with his sword, while the rest of them attacked from behind. Song Yin’s head tilted slightly, allowing his opponent’s sword to land on his shoulder, and then he picked the man in front of him with his spear, and rolled on the ground, narrowly avoiding the attack from behind.
The large knife was still on his shoulder and blood was flying out along the blade, causing Song Yin’s body to tremble in pain.
Naturally, the other side saw this and attacked again. No matter what, they would have to kill Song Yin today, and without his formation, they would not have to die so many times in every future attack.
But before they could get to Song Yin, the sound of horses’ hooves came, shaking the ground and shaking the mountains, and the faces of several people turned pale as they withdrew their attacks, looking reluctantly at the dust flying in the distance.
“Retreat!”
One of them squeezed a word out of his teeth, even if Song Yin didn’t die, with such heavy injuries, he wouldn’t be able to go into battle in a short period of time.
The enemy retreated.
The soldiers collapsed to the ground.
Song Yin also softened his body and sat down slowly on his lance.
Before his horse stopped, Lieutenant Wei leapt off his horse and darted to Song Yin, looking at the blood all over his body and the large sword on his shoulder, his hands were shaking and he shouted at the top of his voice, “Military doctor, military doctor!”
The medic ran over with the medicine box on his back and drew a cold breath when he saw the big knife on Song Yin’s shoulder.
“What are you still standing there for? Pull out the knife.”
If he hadn’t known that pulling out the knife would kill Song Yin, Lieutenant Wei would have done it already.
The military doctor put down the medicine box, quickly took out three bottles of hemostatic medicine from it, uncorked them one by one and stuffed them into Lieutenant Wei’s hand, held the hilt of the knife with both hands, nodded towards Lieutenant Wei and then pulled it out violently, while blood spurted, Lieutenant Wei sprinkled all three bottles of hemostatic medicine on the wound.
The army doctor threw the large knife aside and took out gauze to carefully bandage it again before sitting on his buttocks and wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.
Song Yin’s face was pale and his body was shaking
Shen Yan walked over, “Still holding up?”
Song Yin nodded slightly, “Please, General, ask someone to send me home.”
“Lieutenant Wei you send him back.”
Lieutenant Wei carefully lifted Song Yin up, turned to carry him on his back, and with the help of the soldiers got on his horse and rode slowly to take him back.
Just as he reached the entrance of the Song family’s mansion, he saw Xiao Si coming out of it, a basket in his hand and muttering something under his breath.
Xiao Si also saw them and immediately dropped the basket in his hand in shock and darted under his horse, “Young master, what happened to you?”
Song Yin had fallen into a coma and was lying on Colonel Wei’s back.
“Quickly help me down.”
Xiao Si fumbled and carefully helped the man down, shouting as he helped him inside, “Go and call for Doctor Yao, Young Master is injured.”
Immediately, a subordinate ran and crawled to call for someone.
Butler Gu also heard the sound and ran over, seeing that his young master was covered in blood, his eyes went black and his body shook a few times.
Lieutenant Wei carried Song Yin to the main room and carefully put him down just as Doctor Yao rushed in with a medicine chest on his back, pushing aside Xiao Si who was kneeling in front of the bed and blaming himself, his trembling fingers squeezed Song Yin’s wrist and after a long time, he let out a long breath, “It’s just excessive blood loss, no life threatening.”
Housekeeper Gu staggered a little and leaned his back against the bed frame so as not to let himself fall down.
“Shears!”
Xiao Si climbed up and darted to fetch the shears. Doctor Yao cut the clothes on Song Yin’s body, carefully treated his wound and re-bandaged it, glaring at the butler who had not yet slowed down a bit, “What are you still standing there for, why don’t you hurry up and make ginseng soup for young master.”
When the housekeeper went out, he also got up, “I’ll go get the medicine and boil it, Xiao Si, keep an eye on the young master, if there’s anything wrong with the young master, tell me quickly.”