Seeing one of his personal guards fall down, Li Ke no longer cared about being sad. He didn't have the time to be sad. He was already covered in blood. He had just been fighting on the front line. If he hadn't been pulled back by his personal guards, his life might be in danger.
The Xueyantuo army has now deployed its entire force, with at least 60,000 to 70,000 troops fighting on the periphery. In comparison, the Tang army has no more than 20,000 soldiers still able to fight, and there are nearly 7,000 wounded soldiers in the entire military camp.
An arrow fell from the sky and hit Li Ke's shoulder.
But Li Ke didn't care. He didn't have the time. Seeing hundreds of cavalrymen preparing to charge again in the distance, Li Ke and other people rushed to the camp gate, picked up the bows beside them and shot arrows at the distance.
A centurion on the opposite side fell to the ground, but because of the stretching force, Li Ke's wound was torn open. When he was about to take the second arrow, he fell backwards.
"Your Majesty..."
The people around quickly pulled Li Ke back. There were too many injured people in the entire army, and they must not let more people see this scene. If other people saw it, it might cause a shock to the morale of the army. We are hanging on by a thread now. If we lose this breath, the camp will soon be breached by the enemy. Once it is conquered by the enemy, no one present will survive.
"Your Majesty, please come down."
Deputy General Li Zhilong shouted to the sky. A deputy general nearby didn't understand what was going on, but he soon understood and shouted the same sentence with him.
The surrounding soldiers soon heard it. Although Li Ge was not on the front line at the moment, the surrounding soldiers did not know it. They could hear Li Zhilong's words clearly, which meant that the prince was fighting with us, and many people felt warm in their hearts.
Li Ke's personal soldiers were not fools either. After hearing Li Zhilong's words, one of them immediately put on Li Ke's armor, and then the surrounding personal soldiers moved closer to this person.
This created an illusion. Although the King of Wu had been injured and carried away, his flag was still there. Everyone thought that the King of Wu was still fighting. As long as our prince was still there, the battle would not be over, and we would continue to fight for the honor of the Tang Dynasty.
"His Royal Highness the King of Wu has issued an order: regardless of life or death, each person in this battle will be rewarded with ten strings of cash."
Li Zhilong also ordered his personal soldiers to spread this sentence everywhere in the military camp: There will always be brave men under great rewards. For ordinary soldiers, ten strings of money per person is not a small amount. In a society where rice costs one penny per pound, this money is enough for them to live a good life.
Xueyantuo camp.
"Continue to send troops to push forward. Send all the soldiers to push forward. Everyone must go to the battlefield tonight. If we don't kill them, even if we escape to Mobei, everyone's morale will be extremely low."
Xueyantuo Khan said loudly. At this moment, he was already blood-thirsty. At the beginning, it was the armies of various Turkic tribes, followed by some second-rate troops under his command, then the first-rate troops under his command, and finally his direct subordinates. Now they still have not broken through the Tang army camp. Instead, the number of casualties is constantly increasing, including some generals around him. They all died in the battle tonight, so they must win tonight. If they pay such a huge price and still have no victory, it is really unacceptable.
Several other Turkic kings are now also gritting their teeth and holding on. Many of their troops have suffered more than half of their casualties, but they also know that there is no way to retreat at this point. They have no way to make peace with the Tang Dynasty, so now they can only let their soldiers charge forward.
The armies of both sides seemed to have forgotten everything and rushed forward in rows. If one of them died, they would take his place. No one cared about the wounded soldiers who remained there. Now everyone had only one idea, which was to charge forward.
The grassland on the ground has been dyed red, and blood has covered a lot of grassland. If you look from a distance, the grassland is no longer green, and many places have turned red. This scene looks extremely weird, but no one is watching this scene. Everyone now has only one idea, and that is to win.
Some servants in the Tang army also rushed forward, and the casualties of the regular army rose sharply. These people were originally only responsible for carrying some military equipment, but now they also rushed forward with the weapons next to them. These people understood the principle of "lips and teeth are cold". If the Tang army camp was breached, according to the degree of tragedy tonight, I am afraid no one would survive.
Many war horses of the Tang army were pushed out. Now the cavalry did not need to charge. The construction equipment of the temporary camp had been destroyed several times, and they had nothing to repair it. They could only use these war horses as a temporary camp and let them stand in front of the Xueyantuo army.
You have to know that war horses are the second life of cavalrymen. When pushing these war horses out, many Tang Dynasty soldiers bit their teeth to pieces. They didn't want to put their second lives in front of them, but if they didn't do so, there would be no way to resist the enemy's attack. When the enemy rushed in, not only the lives of the horses would be in danger, but also the lives of the soldiers.
"Your Highness, we have run out of arrows."
The King of Wu had already finished bandaging his wound, but he had no way of staying behind, so he immediately came up with his men.
Although his body was still bleeding, King Wu Li Ke seemed not to feel it and immediately took his men to collect arrows in the rear.
If our bows and arrows stop, more and more enemy soldiers will rush over, and the outer defense line alone will not be able to stop them, especially the charging cavalry.
So at this time, the arrows stuck in the ground and on the corpses must be collected and then sent to the soldiers on the front line. Although there is still some blood and other things on them, it is better than nothing.
According to the quartermaster's preparation, this should be the amount they use for half a month, but it has now been used up. You can imagine how brutal the battle tonight will be.
"Pour oil on the horses' backs, stab them in the buttocks with daggers, and then rush out and set them on fire with rockets..."
Seeing the Xueyantuo cavalry ready in the distance, King Wu Li Ke issued this order in desperation...