Chapter 678: Three Three Six: Zhi Wei Doomsday! The final strangulation!_3
Not only that, but many soldiers began to desert!
They couldn’t stand the torment any longer, some diving straight into the Tianshui River, intending to swim across and escape.
However, on the opposite bank was Yan Yan’s force of eight thousand.
These soldiers either drowned in the river or were shot to death with a barrage of arrows before they even reached the shore.
Since they couldn’t escape across the river, they fled towards the mountains on either side.
At first, a few dozen, a few hundred escaped, but as time passed, more and more fled.
Duke Zhi Wei’s hair had turned half-white, caught between half-consciousness and waking, often sitting up abruptly and asking, "How much time has passed? How much longer until Tuling Tuo arrives?"
Sometimes, although less than half an hour had gone by, it felt to him as though a whole day had already passed.
In response to the soldiers starting to desert, he hardened his heart and dispatched his most trusted samurai to guard every mountain pass, immediately executing any deserter on sight.
Then he would murmur repeatedly to himself, "Hold on for a few more days, just a few more days, and the Tuling Tuo Army will arrive!"
In the meantime, Duke Zhi Wei sent carrier pigeons to Baiyun County, requesting the provincial city’s troops attack Yan Yan’s forces across the river.