Chapter 674: Conquer
I saw a group of men and women being tied up on the city tower by the five flowers, and when I saw the Qin army appear, I immediately cried and screamed, some cried, and some scolded angrily.
"Huan Niang, save us!"
"You follow the rebellion, why do you want us to fill in our lives?!"
"Disaster Star, you have plagued the Bai family since you were born, and now you will plague us!"
Qin Jun's side was in an uproar, and even Zhao Wensong couldn't control his emotions, and shouted at Xiao Shaotang:
"His Royal Highness, I had to let that person go last night, how is it today?!"
Originally, he could have caught that person as a hostage, but now he was threatened by others in turn-
With His Royal Highness's affection for the princess, what else is there to fight in this battle today?
Zhao Wensong's heart was burning with anger, and the soldiers who came with him were even more aggrieved.
They ran thousands of miles and were invincible all the way, but now they are in this small Tongguan, and they are so stumped!
In today's battle, you don't have to think about it, being choked like this has no chance of winning!
Bai Chenghuan didn't need to look back to feel the thousands of eyes shooting behind her, and she knew what kind of disappointment and condemnation were in those eyes.
She stepped out of the ranks, and gradually walked under the city wall, looking up at the men and women who were crying upstairs, and the soldiers who were carrying them, all of whom were unfamiliar faces.
I didn't see the figure of King Jin.
She closed her eyes, and the regret in her heart flowed backwards.
She chose to believe him, but the person he chose was always his royal brother.
In that case, there is no need to see each other, and there is no need to say any more.
She turned her horse back and returned to the camp of King Qin.
"Xiao Shaotang, they are not my family, not any of them. ”
Although there were many men and women in the clan, she had seen them when she entered the genealogy, and those people had already left Yuzhou with Bai Bingxiong.
Although Xiao Shaotang has known the inside story for a long time, his heart has only been completely let go so far.
"Okay, I got it. ”
It seemed that the husband and wife had already had a good idea, he nodded to Bai Chenghuan, and suddenly shouted to the city tower:
"You don't have to shout!"
The majestic voice resounded up and down the city tower, the crying on the city tower paused, and the uproar under the city tower also stopped for a moment.
Qin Jun chuckled in his heart, it's over, the prince must be compromised!
After the people on the city tower reacted, they were even more arrogant and proud, and Zhang Qian laughed:
"If the prince of Qin has the ambition to be the lord of the world, he must have a generous and benevolent heart, these are the family members of the princess, as long as the prince of Qin retreats from the army, I guarantee that they will be safe!"
Xiao Shaotang raised his head and smiled slightly, shook his head and said:
"Zhang Qian, I'm afraid I'm thinking wrong!"
"Today, the princess of this world did not come, and the people of the Bai clan have already been brought to Ganzhou by my father-in-law, so these people are not the family of the princess at all!"
As soon as these words came out, Qin Jun was greatly excited, whether it was or not, His Royal Highness the Prince did not plan to back down!
The men and women who were escorted on the city tower never thought that there was such a possibility, and they all stretched their necks and looked desperately at the city tower-
But the Qin army, which is full of black armor under the city tower, where is there a woman?
As for Bai Chenghuan, who had just dangled under their noses, they couldn't recognize it at all!
Zhang Qianzong's face changed, and his voice became cold in an instant:
"What does the prince of Qin mean by this? Is it planning to deny the six relatives and trap the prince and concubine of the prince of Qin in a place of injustice?"
"The person who doesn't recognize the six relatives is not the son of this world, but the general!"
Xiao Shaotang's bright voice echoed in everyone's ears:
"They are not the family of the princess, but they are also the people of my Daqi, Zhang Qian is so cold-blooded and ruthless, he treats them as hostages, regardless of their life and death, and tries to threaten the son of the world with this, may I ask in Zhang Qian's heart, is their life so worthless?
"If this son of the world retires from the army today, won't it make a despicable villain like you proud, and let the people of Yuzhou continue to be worried and in dire straits? After all, if you can treat their lives as grass mustard today, you will be able to treat the lives of the people in the world as dust one day!"
Mr. Zhang Qian and those who heard this were stunned-
Speaking of which, instead of Qin Jun retreating, he has become that despicable villain who doesn't care about other people's lives?
Damn, who's threatening who?!
Zhang Qian always said that in the end, he is still a martial artist, it is okay to fight and scold people, let him quarrel with people in such a righteous way, he can say the sentence "generous and benevolent heart", it is already the result of a night of drafting!
He glanced back angrily, Hongnong County Ling Song Wende, who should have been competent for the city head to shout about this matter, had already slipped away!
"This treacherous thing!"
Zhang Qian scolded hatefully, and he didn't want to talk nonsense anymore:
"You don't talk clever here, you only say that you will not retreat today?"
"For the sake of the people's livelihood and the righteousness of the world, the son of this world cannot withdraw from the army!"
Xiao Shaotang replied in a sonorous tone.
This trick has completely lost its effect!
Zhang Qianzong instantly became angry:
"I didn't expect that the prince of Qin was really ruthless, since this is the case, General Ben will kill them today to sacrifice the flag!"
After speaking, he yelled at Qin Jun downstairs:
"The traitors of the Qin Palace, you and such a ruthless and unrighteous person who don't recognize your six relatives, come to see what will happen to you in the future!"
Even if he really wants to go to war today, he will let the prince of Qin and his generals deviate from morality, and he will pour this basin of sewage on the body of the prince of Qin!
The long knives of the officers and soldiers immediately put on the necks of those people!
The soldiers in the Qin army couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.
If the prince of the world is afraid of these people to withdraw today, of course they are unwilling, but if the prince is really so cold-blooded, they will also feel terrified!
Faced with the threat of imminent death, the people on the city tower who were tied up by the five flowers were completely desperate - that Bai Chenghuan didn't come at all, and the prince of Qin didn't retreat!
Wouldn't that Zhang Qian really kill them?
But they are really not Bai Chenghuan's family!
They cried again in trembling, but this time the object of their crying became Mr. Zhang Qian!
"Mr. Zhang Qian, what you said was good was just for us to impersonate, you can't kill us!"
"We are not from the Bai family, you have to ask us to pretend!"
Zhang Qian's murderous aura instantly froze:
"What did you say?"
This is obviously the Bai family that Zhou Baihu under his command personally brought people to arrest!
Just because of Mr. Zhang Qian's words, some Qin Jun, who had a fluctuating heart, immediately quieted down, it turned out that these people were really pretending, not the six relatives of the prince!
"What the hell is going on?!"
He turned around and grabbed Zhou Baihu's collar:
"How dare you lie to Lao Tzu!"
Zhou Baihu was also dumbfounded, and his legs suddenly became weak:
"I ...... I didn't catch anyone when I went, but, I thought, we can't just run for nothing...... Anyway, it's so far away, they can't recognize ......"
"You give Lao Tzu to die!"
Mr. Zhang Qian kicked Zhou Baihu so much that he almost fell off the city tower, turned around and roared:
"Shoot the arrows!"
The officers and soldiers who had already been on high alert immediately let go of the bowstrings that had already been stretched out in their hands, and the dense flow of arrows overwhelmingly headed towards the Qin army under the city tower!
But this sudden rain of arrows did not disturb the pace of the Qin army, as early as when Zhang Qian said the word "release arrows", Xiao Shaotang had already raised the long knife in his hand, and at the same time ordered:
"Array! Ladder! Siege!"
The battle of Hangu Pass finally broke out!
The rain of arrows on the city tower was accompanied by the fire, wood, earth and stone pouring down, and the Qin army under the city tower approached step by step in the smoke of war.
In the mountains in the distance, the birds and beasts were startled by the cry of war and fled, and the unconscious King Jin suddenly woke up with such an earth-shattering shout of killing!
"What's going on?" turned around and glanced at the retreating officers and soldiers
He sat up, and his memory was still stuck in the last night when he and Zhang Qian tore their faces.
"Lord Wang, there is a fight on the city tower!" Zhang Delu replied tremblingly, worrying that until now, his heart was half relieved!
King Jin swooped up, staggered out the door, and saw the smoke billowing in mid-air covering the entire sky in the distance.
"Sister Cheng Huan!"
With tears in his eyes, King Jin let out a low sigh, knowing that it was already too late!
Finally the fight started, it was difficult to recover from the water, and it was impossible to turn back!
He gritted his teeth and changed into armor, and he didn't care about going to Zhang Qian to settle the account again, so he stepped on his war horse and galloped towards the city tower.
Waves of Qin troops wearing black armor were like tireless ant soldiers, pushing huge siege vehicles to storm the city gate, one after another ladders rose and fell, and got up again, the officers and soldiers upstairs also changed again and again, all kinds of means were exhausted, and the city tower of Hongnong County was full of war, screaming again and again, and suddenly it became a purgatory on earth.
This war lasted until dark, and when everyone was tired and seemed to be exhausted in the next moment, the ancient city gate of Hongnong County was finally shattered, and the black-armored Qin army was like a torrent, unstoppably rushing into Hongnong County!
King Jin has never experienced such a cruel war, he doesn't know how to organize people to resist effectively, he just keeps waving the long sword in his hand, as for the defense of the city gate, in fact, Zhang Qian is still in command.
The moment he heard that the city gate was conquered, his eyes went black, and his mind went completely blank!
The silver-white armor had been splattered with blood, and his fair and handsome face was blackened by the thick smoke of the flames, and he stood on the tower in a daze, and the fear that was gone firmly grasped his heart!
"Lord Wang, we retreat to the Guannei, there is still a glimmer of hope! Quickly order a retreat!"
Zhang Qian has been desperately slashing, and when he finally determined that the defense had failed and was irretrievable, he didn't care about the disgust and resistance to King Jin in his heart, and still rushed to his side and shouted loudly.
King Jin was completely dispossessed, and after glancing at the retreating officers and soldiers, he could only shout helplessly:
"Retreat!"
The black wave swept in, and the camp of the officers and soldiers gradually floated away like white foam, and before nightfall, King Jin and Zhang Qian finally withdrew to Hangu Pass with the remnants of the troops!
The chasing soldiers who came were blocked outside Hangu Pass, but they had no intention of stopping, and there were even radical generals who tried to take the pass single-handedly!
"Stop!
Xiao Shaotang, who led people to chase here, restrained his horse, looked at the majestic Hangu Pass from afar, and knew in his heart that today's battle could only end here.
"Why can't we chase? Although the road is narrow, it is difficult for us to pass, but if we get the pass, the great victory is just around the corner!"
"Do you want to be someone else's turtle?"
Xiao Shaotang can understand very well the eagerness in his heart when these soldiers rush to this point, but the official road is too narrow, and so many people want to rush in, and they can only become the prey of others guarding the pass!
King Jin stood on the Hangu Pass, although he knew that the Qin army could not enter, but his eyes still did not leave the black and oppressive dark clouds for half a moment.
The first time they met, he was defeated!
When everything calmed down outside the gate, King Jin put his vicious eyes on Zhang Qianzong:
"You dare to plot against me! If you hadn't plotted against me, why would you have been so defeated!"
After a day of fighting, Zhang Qian was scarred, and his anger had accumulated to the peak, and for this useless King of Jin, his last trace of respect disappeared, and he replied angrily:
"If it weren't for the bold conspiracy against the prince by his subordinates, who knows if the prince would have handed over Yuzhou to others! As for why we were defeated, wouldn't the prince know in his heart? If you hadn't been indecisive from the beginning, if it weren't for the delay in the payment of food and salaries from the imperial court, how could there be such a situation today?!"
King Jin was so angry that he wanted to scold him a few words back, but he opened his mouth, but found that he had nothing to say-
At the beginning, it was true that he couldn't bear to arrest Sister Cheng Huan's family, and even sent people to guard, the food and salary of the court was delayed again and again, the soldiers were not full, and the armor and swords were old and tattered, which is indeed a fact!
Zhang Qian always saw that this stupid prince had finally stopped, so he sighed hatefully and said:
"In the end, I don't ask for anything else, I just ask the prince to be less kind to women in the future, and don't let everyone be affected by the prince anymore, otherwise, the prince can see that the princess of the Qin prince is soft on us today?!"
The last sentence was like a thorn in the heart of King Jin, and he sat down in his chair in a daze.
From now on, he is already an unscrupulous villain in Sister Cheng Huan's heart, and he will probably never be her younger brother again!
Bai Chenghuan and Xiao Shaotang walked on the desolate streets after the war, their expressions were still solemn, and there was no joy of the victors.
Xiao Shaotang knew where her heart knot was, and he didn't force her to rejoice, and silently took her in the direction of the county office.
It wasn't until he was about to arrive at the county office that the depression in Bai Chenghuan's heart gradually emanated.
Since he has made a choice a long time ago, no matter how sad and helpless he is now, what is the point of making himself upset and embarrassing Xiao Shaotang?
She tried her best to gather her thoughts, and thought about other things, and soon realized that something was really wrong:
"Today, it has always been that Zhang Qianzong and King Jin with people desperately, what about the county order? Where did Song Wende go?"