Thunder rolled over the sky, and the rain fell again.

Long armies crawled across the fields like ants, tall trees cut their tracks, and the sound of rain drowned out human voices. At the beginning of the second half of the month, the rainy season in the south swept in magnificently, passing many abandoned thatched huts along the way, and the owner expected that the river would rise sharply, and dragged his family to avoid the disaster.

The shape of the mountain peaks loomed in the mist, the earth beneath the horses' hooves was soft and wet, and the four thousand household chiefs numbered and shouted for the procession at the mouth of the valley to prepare for the mountain.

After reading the map in advance, 5,000 men acted separately according to the arrangement, and ambushed the only mountain road in a place where it was easy to set up obstacles. The terrain of Yanhui Mountain is difficult and dangerous, and only the local herb pickers and hunters are willing to go up to beg for a living, which is very suitable as a stronghold for Li Zhouwei. The local soldiers in Qining have been climbing mountains since they were children, and they are very comfortable in the deep mountains and old forests, and on the first night, they cut down trees and add stoves, catch fish and birds, and build simple tree houses with branches and leaves.

Sheng Yunyi inspected the baggage firearms, carefully instructed the military attachés how to make some plans, and walked around the camp before returning to his tent.

Ji Weilai reported: "Do you want to let the head of a thousand households go to the military doctor's tent to contact......? The people from Beiliang instigated Lord Su to return to the country, but the adults did not agree, and the person had been cut down. ”

He was noncommittal and said, "No, call a few military doctors to each team." ”

Ji Wei counted with his fingers, "There are two to three people in each battalion, and three ...... in the two battalions with more people."

Sheng Yunyi threw the bone whistle in his hand and looked at him with extreme dissatisfaction: "Can you use so much?" Doctor Wei is too old to move, and the court is responsible for me. ”

Ji Wei suddenly realized: "The minister will go." ”

Sheng Yunyi stopped him: "The embankment in the city has been dealt with?"

"Yes. ”

Sheng Yunyi looked at the sky, "About tomorrow, the gate of Suiling City will be broken, and those ships under Wu Shao have taken a fancy to me before I ascended the throne." ”

The border of Qining was surrounded by the vast rivers, and the night gradually faded, and the artillery did not stop.

The eagle ship had already docked, and the naval generals squinted at the ladder that had just been erected under the city wall, and their hearts were greatly happy. After six or seven days of fighting, he saw that the same soldiers were guarding the city wall, and even those who were beaten with iron could not stand it, and dragged the other party to the point where he could not even lift his bow, and he was not afraid that the gate would not be opened.

As all the rockets shot at the female wall in unison, countless blood spots splattered on the gray bricks, and the screams were endless. Some of the soldiers who climbed the ladder were slammed down by the cannons, and some finally hit the banner on the wall and slashed vigorously.

The guards of Li Zhou described it as withered, and fought the last spirit to resist the wall battlement, the knife in their hands could no longer distinguish the original color, and the handle was slippery and difficult to hold.

Wang Yushi stood in front of the city tower all night, his eyes were split, and he burst out with an angry roar: "Who dares to retreat!

"Commander, we can't hold on!" shouted a wounded soldier whose arm had been blown off by artillery, "they, they're about to climb up! They have 50,000 men, and we have only 800 brothers left!"

The shout touched the fear in everyone's hearts, and the soldiers under the flagpole showed expressions that seemed to cry and laugh, and when they spoke, the long knife stained red with blood fell to the ground.

The next moment, blood gushed out of his neck, and his skull rolled to his companion's feet, his eyes wide. The enemy who had severed his head went on a rampage with his sword in a frenzy, shouting indistinctly as Wang Xuan picked up his bow and arrow at his feet, and shot an arrow through his heart.

The new commander's face was haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was just about to open his mouth to boost his morale, but his throat was so sweet that he couldn't say anything. The first soldier to break into the city was followed by countless red-eyed people, the cannonballs were exhausted, all the arrows were shot, and the state guards could only use the last sword to chop melons and vegetables, and fight the oncoming enemy in close combat.

The general of the navy shouted loudly under the city: "Before entering the city, whether the five people live or die, the reward is five taels! Those who open the door will be rewarded with three taels! Those who kill more than three people will be rewarded.

He also climbed the ladder and drew a bow and crossbow aimed at the besieged commander.

The rain was pouring down, and there seemed to be a loud rumbling sound in the distance, like a wild beast slapping the ground with its claws. Rootless water poured down, the wood creaked and swelled, Wu Shao's vision was white, he waited for a moment, his five fingers exerted force, and several quenched sharp arrows suddenly tore through the rain curtain, and pierced into the soaked armor like lightning.

Little by little, the familiar red color spread into the cracks in the armor, overflowing, and the conductor made his knees go limp, and he fell to his knees in front of the wet banner.

"Lord Wang!"

"Open the gates!"

The Lizhou guards at the head of the city were blocked in the encirclement, and they watched in horror as the body of the commander slowly fell. The enemy general, whose feet had just touched the stone bricks, swung his knife and grabbed his unkempt hair and poked it at the severed flagpole, laughing triumphantly.

The navy army pouring down from the stone steps of the city wall was embedded in a phalanx of hundreds of people, and the surviving guards turned their backs to the gate and guarded the bolt, but they were far inferior to the other side.

"Open!"

Wang watched as a large number of soldiers rushed into the south gate. The warships lined up on the riverbank, and the canvas with the word "Yue" written on it fluttered in the rain.

The blood-boiling sailors wiped out Li Zhouwei, and the end of the long street that used to be full of traffic became a Shura field, and the dark red blood was diluted by the rain, winding from the city gate to the foot of the house. A thick bloody aura floated in the air, Wu Shao stepped on the mountain of corpses and bones and stepped into Suiling, looked around, and summoned scouts:

"Where are the thousands of people in the city?"

"The house near the city gate is uninhabited, and there is speculation that there are some officials in the Yamen of the Metropolitan Division and the Mansion of the Governor. ”

Wu Shao nodded, and suddenly stared, "What sound?"

He immediately fell to the ground to listen, his ears trembled slightly, and he straightened up and ordered: "All back to the boat!

The sailors were frightened and retreated according to his instructions. Suiling is surrounded by mountains on three sides, a radius of less than a mile is a steep mountain cliff, there are embankments built for many years in the east and west of the city, reinforced every year, but the embankment is broken at this time?

The north of the county is high and the south is low, and the east and west are narrow, and if the flood floods into the city, the consequences will be unimaginable. Even those who know how to swim water can't swim against the current in the turbulent water, not to mention that there are countless solid stones, tree trunks and other objects in the muddy water.

Wu Shao snorted coldly: "It seems that in the eyes of today, the people of this city are not as good as ants, and they have used such a yin trick of burning jade! It's a pity that we have ships, but those civilians don't!"

He made a quick decision and returned to the ship to assign duties, but with a stick of incense, Li Zhouwei's body floated up. The open gate faced the wide river, and the soldiers on the eagle boat swayed hard and waited at the door while the water was still small. In an instant, the water was heavy, and the houses on the street were submerged in a few feet of water, and the cries and cries could be faintly heard.

The water rose inch by inch, and finally became a foot deep. The eagle boat was too big to travel, so the helmsman turned around and threw a four-clawed anchor to fix the boat at the doorway, and the mast stuck on the top of the door, which could withstand the turbulent current.

Wu Shao and his subordinates boarded the boat, and the light boat slid up the street, and residents huddled on the roofs on both sides of the waterway, all wailing at the top of their voices. The residents, mostly elderly, women and children, shivered helplessly as they watched their belongings drift out of the portal and past the side of the boat.

The sailors sat in the boat, without the blood of the slashing and killing state guards, and silently stared at the terrified people on both sides of the strait, and those who were swept by their eyes all closed their mouths tightly and suppressed their whimpering.

The adjutant general said in a low voice: "General, half of our soldiers are from Qi Ning, ...... here."

Wu Shao raised his hand to stop his words, and said a few words in his ear.

"His Royal Highness the King of Yue's grace, as long as you surrender, you won't hurt the common people!"

For generations, under the banner of loving the people, if they wanted to win in the three southern provinces, it was taboo to slaughter civilians. There were people on the boat who had been waiting for this, and they stared intently at the roof, worried that their families would not escape in advance, and that they were weeping and trembling on the tiles somewhere.

Wu Shao understood his thoughts in the army, and said: "Go to the Dusi Yamen first, if Xiao Ren is there, everything will be easy." ”

Qi Ningdu commanded the division in the northwest corner, the water accumulation was still shallow, and there was no one outside the yamen.

Wu Shao got out of the boat and stepped into the threshold with water, most of the stone shadow walls were submerged in the gray-yellow water, and a bunch of flower pots next to him floated and floated, and it was very troublesome to walk.

"It is said that Xiao Ren took leave and returned to his hometown, and I don't know when the others left. ”

"Let's go?" Wu Shao squinted his eyes at the lieutenant general and pointed to the room in front of him with a knife, "I'm afraid that they will all be locked up in the dungeon by that one, and they will be wrinkled." Send someone down to take a look. ”

Everyone imagined that picture, and couldn't help but stand up their hairs, if this is the case, the means are too ruthless.

After the first entry into the courtyard, several hanged servants were found in the transept, but there were no other officials. Entering the second hall through the verandah, the door of the council hall was locked from the outside, and there was a mess around it.

"It looks like there's no one here. ”

Wu Shao had been cautious for many years, and when he saw that the council hall was built on a high step, level with the water tank in front of the house, he approached first and asked his subordinates to split the wooden door.

"Bang dang!"

There seemed to be a chair behind the door, and it was crisply kicked over.

The soldier who kicked the door exclaimed, "General, there are really people!"

Wu Shao listened to his strange tone, guessed that this person was still alive, and he might not be an official, so he leaned forward to take a look, but he froze.

The carpet of the council chamber was covered with a layer of dirty water, and the room was still clean, and only one person sat in the huge room, the woman.

She wore a plain dress, the cuffs and belt were intricate and delicate patterns embroidered with silver thread, and her beautiful face was expressionless, and her eyes were empty.

It's as if she's dead, and that's just a shell left here.

Wu Shao was stunned for a long time and shouted, "Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

It turned out to be Princess Yue Yuan's family!

The woman sat quietly in the hat chair, her chest rising and falling with her breathing, and only then did it feel like she was still alive.

Wu Shao hurriedly knelt down with a group of sailors, and took two steps on his knees: "The princess has been missing for a long time, and the prince is worried day and night, please let His Highness get on the boat with a certain group, and the last general will immediately send someone to escort His Highness back to Chuzhou!"

He instantly blessed his heart, there were very few people who knew about the disappearance of Princess Yue, and it was rumored that a fire broke out in the north of the palace that day, and Ling Jieyu, who was under house arrest, was lost, and even the princess was gone. King Yue blocked the matter to the outside world, only saying that the princess was unwell and unsuitable to attend the banquet and take care of housework, and secretly continued to search for the whereabouts of his wife. Ling Jieyu's smooth escape must be related to the princess, and it is very likely that the secret guard took the princess away and used it as a hostage to blackmail the prince.

Can ...... now What kind of hostage is this? Yuan Shi has a good body, neat makeup, only his face is pale, and he can't see anything unusual.

Wu Shao's nerves tensed in an instant, "Be careful that there is an ambush!"

The soldiers were just about to step forward when they were stopped by this loud shout, and nervously formed a circle and surrounded Wu Shao in the center.

"Generals don't have to be like that. ”

Yuan suddenly opened his mouth and said lightly: "There are no others here, those who should be there are all dead, and the others are gone." ”

Wu Shao breathed a sigh of relief, "The last general will take His Highness back." ”

Yuan's lips squirmed a few times, habitually raised the corners of his lips, and smiled slightly: "Okay." ”