Looking at Fernando's calm look, Vilford was secretly worried. Anyone who knows Fernando knows that the calmer he is, the more anger he is in, and even the next moment may be a crazy move.

This is a complete madman who does not make any decisions in order to achieve his goal, but he insists on establishing the illusion of gentlemanly and politeness in front of outsiders.

"We will definitely succeed, Vilford, do you believe it? You will have an independent Catalonian country, and I will also have the entire southern and Far East of the Empire." Fernando said calmly, with a light flashing in his eyes.

"But I want to save my life, something glory or independence, without life, everything is hard to do." Vilford looked at Fernando who was in a state of state. He panicked for no reason in his heart and said secretly in his heart.

The current situation is obviously a state of anxiety, but Fernando is so confident. Vilford also reminded him that according to the organization of the Imperial Team, even if there are not many formal soldiers, there should be reserve military and civilians in the city.

Of course, Fernando also knew that the empire had a reserve military and civilian organization, and it was also calculated that the importance of Zhennan Pass and the number of indigenous residents must be at least 30,000 systematically trained reserve military and civilians. Such a huge reserve figure has not yet moved.

Of course, Fernando was not worried that these military and civilians, military and civilians, were still civilians after all, and soldiers who had never been on the battlefield were never good soldiers. These military and civilians could fight with strong fortifications, but if they were facing the Western Alliance soldiers head-on, or in this cruel battle, as long as a section of the city wall was broken through, the morale of these military and civilians would be reduced to the extreme.

What he was worried about was that at the most critical moment of the war, the Han soldiers used these military and civilians to use suicide tactics to exchange their lives for their lives, and the loss rate of their subordinates would inevitably surge.

Fernando's inference was not wrong, but he did not calculate that these military and civilians were not in the city, but dug the tomb for him and his men in the Grand Canyon of Lancang River dozens of miles away.

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"There is half an hour left." Jiang Zhuying's eyes were red, and her black cowhide armor and a blue battle robe were covered with blood.

At this moment, Xu Huanzong's body had been snatched from the city by the Han soldiers. From the beginning to the end, Jiang Zhuying did not take a look at Xu Huanzong's body. She now just wants to kill more enemies to avenge Xu Huanzong.

According to the plan he and Li Ruoxi previously arranged, at 12 noon on July 16, 999, Li Ruoxi would open the gates and release water no matter what the outcome of the war and the dam.

If the plan is successful, the coalition forces will be under the city and will be flooded by the seven armies and end up in ashes. If the plan fails and the city is broken, the Han soldiers and the coalition forces will be flooded together, and the jade will be broken on the spot. The worst result is that Fernando cannot hold on, and most of the north of the Lancang River will be flooded at that time. The flood will definitely come. In the rain for days, even if Li Ruoxi and the others do not destroy the embankment, the embankment that consumes 30,000 military and civilians in Zhennan Pass and all the gunpowder in the warehouse will not resist the erosion of the flood and collapse the embankment.

At that time, although the Western coalition would suffer certain losses, as long as they could retreat to the higher hills in the south in time, most of them could be preserved, and the Han soldiers would be defeated without fighting.

Of course, since the Western coalition has fallen into the trap, the third possibility is almost non-existent. Now it is only half an hour before the agreed time between Jiang Zhuying and Li Ruoxi, and the battle that began in the early morning has lasted for more than five hours.

At this moment, both sides were exhausted. Whether it was the Han soldiers or the Western coalition expeditionary forces, what supported them to continue fighting was will and **.

The Han soldiers' honor is for the glory of their fathers, wives and children behind them, as well as the Han children; the Western Alliance soldiers' honor is even simpler, for the shining gold and silver behind the city walls.

But no matter how different the difference is, both sides are already in a difficult situation at this moment.

If the Han soldiers retreat, the city will be lost and the elders will be humiliated; if the Western coalition forces retreat and most of the siege equipment have been destroyed, the failure will be a chance to breathe, and the Han soldiers may even take advantage of the situation to attack and counterattack. You should know that the Western coalition forces cannot stay on the other side overnight, and the way to retreat is just a floating bridge. If they are pursued at this time, it is easy to cause unimaginable consequences.

Of course, the Han soldiers, especially the top leaders of the Han soldiers, definitely did not want the coalition to retreat at this time, so they adopted a rubber-like tactic, that is, to resist to the death, but always leave room for space, which also made it more difficult for Han soldiers who were already at a disadvantage to support them.

Now in the eyes of the Western Allied Forces, the Han soldiers have been fighting to the death, but their strength is obviously getting less and less. They always feel that the city can be broken in the next moment.

Under such a feeling, the coalition soldiers endured their fatigue and fatigue, while continuing to desperately use siege cars to crash into the car, and the cloud ladders attacked the city walls of Zhennan Pass in turn.

Under this high-intensity impact, the crisis only appeared on the west wall, and gradually appeared on the south and east walls. As for the north wall, because facing the empire, there was another Fucheng on the side, and no coalition soldiers launched an attack yet.

At this time, the shortcomings of the Han army's weak military strength were fully exposed.

Originally, for the sake of safety, Jiang Zhuying and Zhang Yu only sent more than 10,000 people under Zhang Yu to the city wall, but after being placed on all four sides, they found that the pressure was too great and could not withstand the Western coalition's revolving attacks.

Especially after losing nearly 3,000 people, Jiang Zhuying and Zhang Yu had to take the risk of surrendering to the ones who had just surrendered. It turned out that Jiang Kaishan's nearly 20,000 subordinates were included in the battle sequence and began to continue to invest in various city walls. These Han soldiers were still quite successful. Except for a few Jiang Kaishan's loyalty who were killed on the spot that night, the rest of the people were actually bewitched by Jiang Kaishan. They also saw that the old legion Zhang Zhen had awakened and announced Jiang Kaishan's rebellion. They also met the legendary new generation of empire heroes Lei Dongfeng and Jiang Zhuying. They had actually returned to the empire.

This time, facing the general attack of the Western Allied Forces, these soldiers were already local people from Zhennanguan, and there were family members and elders behind them, but they fought with all their hearts and strengths.

However, in order not to arouse Fernando's suspicion, Jiang Zhuying and Zhang Yu did not dare to put all their troops into the battlefield at once, but instead invested them in batches to the most critical areas, finally hindering the coalition's offensive.

But in this way, the critical areas become more and more critical and there is a danger of complete collapse at any time.

In this case, Jiang Zhuying, in addition to personally leading the troops to expel the Western Alliance soldiers who climbed the city wall, sent almost all his officers to supervise the battle on all sides of the city walls.

There were constant news of the death of Han soldiers and officers, but all this did not bring any benefits to the Western coalition except for arousing greater determination to resist the Han soldiers.

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"Is it almost twelve o'clock? Vilford, I'm passing my order. Except for the ten thousand people reserve brigade left behind in the camp, the other three ten thousand people brigades will be put into the battlefield. The battle must end before 2 o'clock in the afternoon!" Fernando finally issued the final order.

"Strike!" Vilford looked at Fernando helplessly, waved his hand, and the last three 10,000-person team behind him rushed towards Zhennan Pass.

The continuous cut of the battle flags representing officers above the Han barracks on the city wall made Fernando realize that the Han soldiers were on the verge of collapse.

Thirty thousand Western Allied Forces soldiers who had been temporarily nourishing their energy at the ferry crossing rushed to the south gate of Zhennan Pass.

This time, Fernando no longer had any feint attacks or conspiracies. He just wanted to use this most advantageous force to smash all resistance in front of him.

Whether it is a city wall or a ** or a spirit.

The effect of adding 30,000 living forces was obvious. In less than twenty minutes, the Han soldiers, whose southern frontal wall was originally the strongest defensive force, began to appear in large sections of defense blanks. A whole team of coalition soldiers continued to crowd up, and the Han soldiers above also fought to the death to make the final resistance.

Fernando even concentrated all the remaining siege cars and collision cars, constantly hitting the city walls and gates.

Especially at the city gate, a group of cars collided like giant beasts, hammering on the city gate. The Han soldiers on the city wall kept throwing down tincture oil and torches, destroying the enemy's attack.

But a collision car will be destroyed, and a new one will be pushed into a blink of an eye, and the coalition infantry held high a large shield and desperately guarded the attack of the robes.

One, two, three, and hundreds of times, there were finally cracks in the city gate in the southern part of Zhennan Pass that was covered with large nanmu and covered with steel sheets.

"Try harder, the first guy who rushed into the city will receive five hundred gold coins!" Fernando roared.

With a loud "crash", with another violent impact, the southern gate of Zhennan Pass was finally completely broken into two halves, attacking up and down, and the coalition forces finally saw hope for victory.

A collective cheer broke out in the Western coalition. But soon they couldn't laugh. Because they were shocked, the city gate was filled with rising cloth bags, which were all the way to the top of the city gate. And at the other end of the city gate, there was a huge wood city gate that looked fragile but was out of reach.

A Western Alliance soldier curiously stabbed the bag in front of him with the spear in his hand, and the river sand and gravel flowed out along the cracked hole.

I quickly transport these sandbags away and smash the city gate inside.

The ten thousand men in charge of command in front of the formation said angrily.

But just as these soldiers began to drag out and carry these heavy sandbags, a louder "slam" sound suddenly came from their ears.

This sound sounded like thunder rolling in the sky, or like a galloping horse, constantly pouring into everyone's eardrums.

At this moment, if you stand a few hundred meters high, you can see rain and fog. In the Lancang River channel where the mountain walls are sandwiched a few miles away, a white wave visible to the naked eye is roaring towards the lower reaches of the Lancang River.
Chapter completed!