The city lord came immediately after getting the news, and after Ye Heng identified himself, he told the city lord that his party was going to support Gupingzhou, and the road was slightly repaired here, and he entered the city to replenish and leave immediately. Only then did the city lord order to open the city gate and let Ye Heng and Lan Jiayue enter the city.

Ye Heng saw the city lord and asked him to help recruit some cooks and buy another batch of grain. The city lord happily agreed, and it only took half a day to help Ye Heng do everything, and even organized more than a hundred warriors to go with Ye Heng.

Ye Heng thanked the city lord, set off again with a team of nearly eight hundred people, and finally arrived in Guping Prefecture after six days of rapid marching. Along the way, more and more refugees were encountered, and they left their homes in droves. When the refugees learned that Ye Heng was going to support Guping Prefecture, some enthusiastic young people took the initiative to join the team to defend their homeland. In this way, Ye Heng's team grew stronger and stronger, and eventually exceeded 1,000 people.

Guping Prefecture was already devastated at this time, mourning all over the wilderness, and learned from the refugees that almost the entire Guping Prefecture had fallen, and the imperial court's reinforcements had not come for a long time, and now only the ancient city of Heping City was still holding on to it. Without assistance, it is estimated that these two cities will be difficult to hold on.

When the team came to Pingcheng, they saw from a distance that the periphery was surrounded by a large number of troops, and the city was being besieged at this time. In the battlefield, the sound of killing shook the sky, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the walls of Pingcheng were constantly damaged, and the rebels swarmed into the city from the damaged place, like wolves and tigers!

The defenders in the city blocked left and right, and people kept falling, seeing that there were more and more rebels in the city, and Pingcheng was in crisis, a roar suddenly came from the south direction, and a team of soldiers and horses roared and rushed out, under the leadership of a general covered in blood, like a spear straight to the back of the rebels!

There were thousands of people in this team, almost all of them were wounded, and although they were all wearing the uniforms of the Suncheon Empire's army, they couldn't find a clean and complete one, obviously having experienced a brutal battle!

Seeing this, Ye Heng turned to the team behind him and said: "Brothers, the time has come to kill the enemy and serve the country! I know that many of you have not killed anyone, if you can't do it, we will have more soldiers and civilians die in the hands of the rebels! Now, you don't have to treat these rebels as human beings, just see them as beasts that suck our blood, eat our flesh, and gnaw our bones, if you don't kill them all, they will not have any scum left of us!"

"Brothers, take out your weapons, follow me to kill the enemy, charge!" Ye Heng gave an order, his feet slammed into the horse's belly, and the fire cloud rushed out like arrows from the string! Lan Jiayue and the students of the Heroic Martial Arts Academy followed closely behind, rushing towards the rebels!

The leader of the rebel army was thrilled to see that his subordinates had successfully entered the city and would soon capture this stubborn and stubborn lonely city, and for him, this was a great achievement! Gupingzhou was swept all the way by them, and most of the army of the Shuntian Empire was wiped out, and the remnants finally retreated in the ancient city of Hepingcheng, but compared with the ancient city, Pingcheng is easier to defend and difficult to attack, so it will persist until now.

The leader of the rebels has received news that the ancient city has been taken two days ago, and only Pingcheng has not been conquered in the entire Guping Prefecture. As long as they capture Pingcheng today, they will hold the two large states of the Suncheon Empire and become a powerful force on the separatist side, and then as long as they cooperate with the coalition forces in other directions, they will gradually encroach on the territory of the Suncheon Empire, and the overthrow of the Suncheon Empire is just around the corner!

Just when the leader of the rebel army was in high spirits, he suddenly heard the sound of shouting and killing that resounded through the sky, and his face changed greatly! I saw that two teams rushed out from the south and northeast directions almost at the same time, and due south was an army belonging to the Shuntian Empire, which seemed to be a group of remnants of the defeated army, but it was murderous, and it caused a large number of casualties as soon as it rushed into the army of the other side!

The northeast is a new force that can't see the way, although they are all young people, but the lethality is extremely strong, especially the first one, killing into his army is like entering no one's land, with a wave of a long knife, there will always be a piece of subordinates falling! The young people behind him are equally brave, rushing into their own camp, killing people like cutting vegetables, ordinary soldiers are not their opponents at all, and few subordinates can support a few moves!

Where would the leader of the rebel army think that such a change would befall him, and in a hurry, he immediately commanded his army to intercept and kill the two teams, so that the intensity of the siege was immediately slowed down, and the pressure on the defenders of Pingcheng was sharply reduced. When the defenders saw that someone was coming to support, their morale soared, and they counterattacked the rebels who broke into the city, gradually destroying the rebels!

The two teams outside the city rampaged through the enemy formation, and the rebels who had been killed lost their armor and were crushed! The leader of the rebel army found that the resistance to them would only increase the casualties, and although he was unwilling, he still had to withdraw his troops!

Hearing Mingjin, the rebels besieging the city immediately retreated, and the rebels who attacked the city retreated in a panic, but they were cut off by the defenders of Pingcheng and annihilated them all!

The two teams outside the city quickly converged and rushed towards Pingcheng. The defenders of the city immediately opened the gates of the city and cheered the heavens to welcome the arrival of reinforcements!

"Bang dang!"

When the two teams entered the city, the gates of Heijo closed again with a loud bang.

Watching the two teams disappear into the city gate, the leader of the rebel army gritted his teeth with hatred and said viciously: "Don't be complacent too early, I, Wu Jing, swear here that the day the city is broken will be the time to slaughter the city, and the Pingcheng chickens and dogs will definitely be killed at that time!" 596

After speaking, Wu Jing led the army to retreat ten miles and began to set up camp, and at the same time sent people to report the battle situation to the above, explaining the reason for the failure to capture Pingcheng.

In Pingcheng, the leader of the defenders hurriedly ran down from the city wall, and after seeing the reinforcements, he greeted him with a big smile, and couldn't help hugging Ye Heng, expressing his gratitude very excitedly! Pingcheng was besieged for more than half a month, and he has not seen the arrival of reinforcements, at today's life-and-death moment, the reinforcements fell from the sky and relieved the siege of Pingcheng, how can he not be grateful!

It's just that when the leader turned his head and saw another support army, his face changed greatly, and his eyes became very sharp!

"Li Quan, thank you for your relief from the siege, however, you are not welcome in Pingcheng, take your people and leave, even if we die here, we will never abandon the city!" said the leader of the defenders coldly.

The team of Emperor Shuntian who came to support everyone was ashamed, no one answered, their general was Li Quan, his throat rolled several times, and he said to the leader of the defenders with a sad expression: "Gao Lang, I'm sorry, I listened to the slander, causing an irreparable situation! Now that the ancient city has been broken, and our army has no shame to retreat to the rear, we have decided to live and die with Pingcheng, the city is in the people, and the city is dead!"

"Li Quan, what the hell are you doing earlier? Pingcheng doesn't need you to be pitiful, you get out of Laozi!" Gao Lang punched Li Quan in the face, Li Quanhao received a punch without dodging, and the left side of his face bulged in an instant, and blood flowed down the corners of his mouth.

"Captain!" The reinforcements saw that Li Quan was injured and shouted that they were about to step forward, but they were stopped by Li Quan.

"Gao Lang, I, Li Quan, should not have listened to slander and arrested General Peng by mistake! When the ancient city was destroyed, General Peng had already died with the rebels in order to cut off our army, and I, Li Quan, owed him a life! Today, no matter if you beat me or scold me, we, the soldiers who came down from the ancient city, will never leave Pingcheng, and I only ask you to spare our lives, not because we are afraid of death, but because we are afraid of death, but let us keep our lives and fight the rebels, and we should repay General Peng's life-saving grace!" Li Quan said loudly with red eyes.

Hearing the news of General Peng's death, Gao Lang looked up to the sky and cried out, kneeling on the ground, his face red with blood, showing a sad look, and finally slammed his head on the ground, covered his face with his hands, and roared sadly: "General Peng, big brother, go all the way!"

Hearing Gao Lang's roar, the defenders of Heicheng immediately understood what was happening, and they all gathered in this direction, their faces full of sorrow, tears shining in their eyes, and anger in their eyes!

Li Quan's subordinates immediately surrounded him in the middle and looked around nervously. Li Quan pulled his subordinates away and walked towards Gao Lang.

"Gao Lang, this is General Peng's sword, please accept it!" General Li Quan raised a long-handled broadsword in his hand and said: "This is the relic of General Peng that we obtained from the sneak attack on the ancient city yesterday, but unfortunately we did not find General Peng's body, General Peng died to save us, we have nothing to repay, we can only protect Pingcheng for him and fulfill his last wish." ”

Hearing this, Gao Lang stood up from the ground, stared at the big knife in Li Quan's hand with his eyes, and then carefully took it, gently stroking the blade without saying a word.

"Gao Lang, the fall of General Peng is completely my fault, if the war is over, I, Li Quan, am lucky to still be alive, I should build a monument for General Peng's grave, and apologize for my sins in front of the grave! This is an extraordinary time, forgive me for not putting my life in your hands!" Li Quan said with a solemn expression.

"Li Quan, get out of Lao Tzu! Don't pretend to be righteous and awe-inspiring in front of Lao Tzu, even if all the soldiers and civilians in Pingcheng are killed in battle, they don't need your help! If it weren't for your insistence on capturing General Peng, how could the rebels capture Gupingzhou so easily? How could there be only one lonely city left in Gupingzhou? General Peng, who has worked hard for the sake of the empire, has worked hard and painstakingly, why do you suspect that he is collaborating with the enemy and treason? At the beginning, all the basins were put on General Peng's head, and now he is asking for forgiveness so easily, I tell you, it is impossible! Gao Lang suddenly yelled hoarsely.

Li Quan opened his mouth twice, but finally didn't say anything. The reason why he was suspicious of General Peng was entirely because someone provided him with evidence of General Peng's collaboration with the enemy. At the critical juncture when the rebels are frantically pouring in, there is no room for any mistakes, and it is better to believe what they have than to believe that they are not! Not to mention that General Peng is the supreme governor of Pingcheng, and if he defects to the enemy, the ancient city of Gupingzhou will be attacked by the enemy, and he Li Quan cannot afford to gamble!

It's a pity that it was his prudence that buried the great rivers and mountains of Guping Prefecture! General Peng has been in charge of Guping Prefecture for most of his life, and he knows better than anyone how to deploy troops, how to make use of the terrain, how to defend the city against the enemy, and so on!

When the rebels suddenly attacked Gupingzhou, Li Quan immediately arrested General Peng for questioning, and the command of the battlefield was completely determined by himself, completely disrupting General Peng's deployment for several decades, and only then was the rebels quickly captured most of Gupingzhou.

Li Quan finally realized that he had been deceived, and when he went to look for the person who provided him with evidence, the building was already empty! Li Quan was so remorseful that he finally stopped interrogating General Peng and acquitted him. It's a pity that he understood too late, the rebels still attacked the ancient city, and at the last moment, General Peng stopped at the north gate of Li Quan's withdrawal with one person and one sword, and used his life to help Li Quan's troops win time to retreat.

At this point, where is the proof needed? Will a collaborator and treason give up his life to stop the enemy? Will a collaborator and treason raise a butcher's knife against his defector? Will a collaborator and treason be desperate to keep the fire for the empire?