The firelight slowly surrounded, danced wildly, and slowly tightened, and the hearts of the defenders on the city wall were slowly tightened. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Then, the shouts that could be vaguely heard in Chinese gradually became inaudible, and the firelight seemed to be sucked by something, and after moving slightly towards the foot of the mountain, it stopped, and gradually tightened the encirclement.

"No, it's over......"

I don't know who choked up the voice.

"The sound of horses' hooves! Where did the sound of horses' hooves come from! Someone exclaimed.

It was like jumping out of the dark world, halfway to the upper reaches of the road, a thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded, rushing towards the firelight, and the firelight flew up wildly and fell to the ground one by one.

"Hurry!" Watching those vague shadows in the darkness rushing towards the city gate, the archers at the head of the city nervously held their bows one after another, praying to the heavens that they could return to the protection of the bow and crossbow as soon as possible.

Before the people at the head of the city could breathe, they exclaimed again: "Western Xia cavalry!" ”

The swift light of fire and shouts swept along the riverbank, and it was the Western Xia cavalry that terrified the enemy.

"Let's go, let's go!" Meng Yunping brandished his long knife and slashed down the Xixia soldiers who were desperately chasing, feeling the earth tremble under his feet.

The knights behind him silently bent their bows and arrows, facing north motionlessly, soldiers and horses rushing past him like a tidal tide.

"Why are you here?"

"I'll collect your body," the knight said lightly.

"I'm not dead yet!"

"Hmph," the sound of feather arrows breaking through the air, and in response, countless wind-breaking sounds rushed to the face. "That's not going yet!"

Meng Yun spread his legs and ran towards the city gate without looking back, and at this time, there was a burst of exclamation from the city wall. If Meng Yunping had time to turn back at this time, he would see that the knight lit the torch in his hand, as if guiding the direction of the Western Xia cavalry, waving his spear to block the rain of arrows, while slowly retreating towards the city gate.

The idea that "this person is crazy" only existed for a moment. The cavalry that had been running wildly in the darkness at the front suddenly rolled into a mass, and those behind rushed up and immediately screamed.

"Tripping horses......" Meng Yunping's eyes widened as he gasped.

The archers, led by the knight, slowly retreated into the city gate in a semicircular posture in an orderly manner. The rest of the city was angry and ruined the feathered arrows of the Tangut people in vain.

Zheng Yande watched this meaningless effort in silence and silently walked down the city wall.

"You ......" Meng Yunping looked at Xiao Yanran, who was tied to a war horse, but he didn't know what he was going to say. There is no joy for the rest of the life, only despair, deeper despair.

"Fan Yi is not lightly injured, we have at least tried." He muttered to himself.

A drop of water falls on the cracked land.

Is it tears or ......

Rainwater!

It's raining!

Countless people rushed out and crowded into the clearing, opened their chapped mouths towards the sky, and stretched out their hands.

Torrential rain poured down.

The Tanguts began to attack the city.

Black soldier ants attached themselves to the city walls, and blood mixed with rain poured on the city walls, dyeing the rammed walls of loess a beautiful orange red. Clods of earth, stones, and crossbow arrows were constantly thrown from the towers.

The torrential rain on the loess that has been rare in a hundred years has poured so much that those who are besieging and defending the city cannot open their eyes. Meng Yunping brushed away the hair stuck to his forehead, and swung his knife to split through the enemy who broke through the rain and fog and broke into his sight. The ears were filled with shouts of killing mixed with the roar. In the distance, the waves of the Wuding River began to surge.

Day after day, until the walls were piled with corpses washed clean with blood.

"General! Vice General Liu was also killed! Checkmate! The city gate can't withstand another impact, we really can't stop it. ”

"Shut up, even if you fight to the last man, you must not give up!"

“……”

Zheng Yande picked up the flag in the pile of corpses, silently planted it in the most conspicuous place of the city tower, and faced the outside of the city alone.

"Shahegou," Xiao Yanran, who had been standing silently aside, suddenly spoke.

Under the heavy rain for several days, there is still almost no water in Shahegou.

Xiao Yanran and Meng Yunping glanced at each other, and their eyes lit up.

"General, it will definitely be possible to give us three hundred people, and the Western Xia army must have given up the dam now."

"Where can you divide so many people," the lieutenant sneered.

"One hundred, there are no more," Zheng Yande said in a deep voice without looking back, "Before the Western Xia people attack the city, hurry up!" ”

The strange rocky mountain road is particularly difficult to walk in the torrential rain, almost using both hands and feet, and even a few people stumble and fall down the cliff before approaching the mountain pass of the Xixia people's dam. The narrow channel is filled with boulders held in place by arm-thick ropes, bamboo cages filled with stones, and the water level behind the dam has risen to alarming heights and is overflowing.

"It is estimated that in a day or two, the dam will collapse." Meng Yunping said.

"But we can't wait."

"But what about it?" Meng Yunping looked at the pile of rocks that were constantly seeping out.

Xiao Yanran pulled out the knife and said, "Cut these ropes." ”

A feathered arrow grazed his ear and nailed it to the crack in the stone.

"Tangut people!"

"Block them." Xiao Yanran shouted, and without looking back, she swung her knife and slashed at the rope and the bamboo cage.

"Yan Ran, there are too many of them!" Meng Yunping shouted anxiously.

But the man didn't look back as if he hadn't heard.

"Good!" Meng Yunping also drew his knife and jumped on the stone pile, cutting it down like crazy.

More and more arrows fell, and the soldiers on the stone piles fell one by one. The stones tumbled and slid down, and larger streams of water poured out of the stones.

"I, in the next life, will be reincarnated as a ...... Hedgehog," said the faint voice beside him, with a smile.

The man, who had perhaps five or six arrows on his body, his leather armor and clothes no longer visible in their original color, mechanically repeated the chopping motion.

Can still laugh, Meng Yunping hummed in his heart, but he didn't have the strength to say it anymore. I'm afraid I don't have fewer arrows in my body than that guy, he thought to himself.

A huge rock tumbled down, and with a burst of exclamations and screams below, the flood jumped out like a wild horse.

It worked!

Meng Yunping raised his head and saw Xiao Yanran's smile as he tried his best.

A sharp horn sounded in the distance.

The city is broken......

The smile froze in the corner of his eye. Xiao Yanran's body shook and disappeared into the surging mud. The dam finally collapsed completely, and the unfettered water rushed frantically downstream with mud boulders.

"It's still too late," the moment Xiao Yanran was submerged by the flood, the piercing horn revealed this cruel truth. The next second, the mud blocked the eyes, ears, couldn't breathe, and everything was too late.

One hand grabbed his wrist and tried to drag it out of the water, Meng Yunping!

"Let it go! Go to the higher places, and this place is about to collapse. ”

Meng Yunping grabbed a protruding stone, grabbed Xiao Yanran with one hand, and bit it from between his teeth: "At least it will be too late to collect your body." ”

"Get out of here!" Xiao Yanran grabbed the only stone she could hold onto, and climbed up desperately, "I'm not dead yet." ”

The two struggled to climb the nearest boulder, and the flood water rushed from their feet to the front of Yongding City, and the ancient river in front of the city wall was a vast ocean.

I couldn't see the Song army, and the Western Xia army that had not yet entered the city was rushed to pieces, only the lonely battle flag was still fluttering in front of the gate.

Yongding City fell, almost all of the 20,000 defenders were killed, and the Tanguts were 40,000 killed and 8,000 drowned. Both sides paid a heavy price.

After the summer solstice, the days are long, knowing that the day is more and more joyful, the sun can't stand under the ground at all, those who can not go out will not go out, and those who have to go out will also slip away, and use the eaves along the street to hide from the three-legged golden crow that escaped Hou Yi's life-killing arrow.

At this time, the business of the teahouses and taverns near the water's edge and near San'in is very good, and passers-by, merchants, and even conspirators like to sit here.

There is an exception on the North Street, and the Huangzi Money Village is also full of people, and some passers-by are curious: "Isn't everyone here knowing that you should not let the silver be hidden at home to sleep, but put it in the money bank to make money?" An aunt who was just about to go in said: "Little brother is not a local, it's cool here, all kinds of snacks are good, there is free tea, there is no minimum consumption, locals who don't like to come here." ”

A thick door curtain, separating the two worlds inside and outside, the door curtain is really cool, many aunts and aunts take the vegetables bought in the market early in the morning, sit on the seat while picking vegetables and chat about home cooking, there are few really on the counter.

The young man drank the water floating with ice cubes, and couldn't help muttering: "There is also an ice cellar, and you can let people drink it casually, and the business has not fallen yet?" ”

After doing it in one go, he walked to the cabinet, and when the guy saw him, he smiled sheepishly: "Guest officer, what can I serve?" He took out a small jade jue from his purse, and the man looked at it, his eyes flashed, and then he said: "Welcome to the door, please come to the back hall." ”

An aunt put down the beans in her hand, and said to her neighbor in surprise: "I have been sitting here for five or six years, and the number of times this sentence has been said can be counted on ten fingers." ”

"Where can I find Meiyu?"

"Picked at the bottom of Kunlun Mountain."

"Who will send it for a thousand miles?"

"Changshan Zhao Zilong"

"Your Excellency is ......"

"Your Majesty's envoy is here on order to pay the deposit."

Speaking of which...... It's been half a year ago, and now that the winter solstice has arrived, sitting at the head of Yanmen Pass, Jin Huang is very depressed, Xiao Qing'er doesn't know what to do, Nan Xiaoxue and the hourglass disappear in general, only occasionally I hear about them, the so-called "don't be obsessed with sister, sister is just a legend" generally.

Xiao Yanran was discussing some military affairs with someone from the imperial court in the building, none of which had anything to do with her, the important thing was that, first of all, she couldn't go back to the capital, where there was not only King Lu, but also Du Shuyan, who each received a commission fee, but they didn't work. Secondly, it was boredom, loneliness, emptiness, the soldiers would not talk to her, and she did not want to meet those who ate her eggs, lest they have murderous intentions.

It's time to rob the grain in a while, why did you agree to Xiao Yanran like this, it's really a strange thing, although the food in the army is very important, but for yourself, at most, it is better to carry fifty or sixty catties of rice than fifty or sixty catties of silver, it's really boring...... Why don't you just run away. Anyway, it's not the first time I've escaped an order.

Carrying a freshly baked sole cake, filling a leather bag of water, and slowly shaking out of the pass aimlessly, the soldier guarding the door looked at her with a sympathetic face, "What to see, what to see." Hum! ”

It didn't take long to meet the unlucky food team, and after lifting the car, I still didn't find the eggs, sighed deeply, and continued to move north.

After walking for a few days, she deeply understood why the Liao people invaded the border from time to time, this ghost place is really cold, there is a blank of snow everywhere, that is, there are no trees and no grass, and it is even more impossible to expect to grow food. On the way, I met a Liao family, the old and the young and the sheep were huddled together, and the few hay in the corner seemed to be the last ration for these sheep, and the winter was still very long. The man could speak some Chinese, and Jin Huang expressed to him his desire to go to the capital, and made an excuse to say that he was going to find relatives.

In view of the fact that there was a fire in this house, Jin Huang decided to go out and help get some grass back, so as to save the future in case of a battle, thinking that he still owed others a favor, and it was not neat enough to start.

The snow is knee-deep, and it has been pulled for a long time, and there is not much grass to be picked up, and the yellow grass that is deeply pressed under the snow is described as obscene, and maybe the sheep would rather die than eat, alas......

Snow flakes drifted in the gray sky again, Jin Huang looked at the grass in the basket, which was only about twenty catties, sighed, and turned around to walk towards the house. There was a distant whistle from the north wind, and it seemed that someone was approaching quickly, and there were quite a few of them. Jin Huang was afraid of encountering the Liao soldiers from last time, so he quickly rushed back to the hut. As soon as the grass in the basket was emptied, the hut was surrounded, and the man went out, not knowing what to say, but came in a man dressed as a hunter, and the man pointed to Jin Huang, and said a lot of muttering words, and then said to her, "They can carry you a little way, from the place where they have settled to the city a hundred miles at most." ”

Sitting on the snow plow, feeling the speed of the wind, it was useless to hold a layer of skin in advance, and after a while, my face was numb, and I could only use my luck to resist the cold I had never seen in my life. In his heart, he had already scolded Xiao Yanran ten times and eight times, and turned the account of more than 20 eggs into 5,000 taels of silver.

Xiao Yanran, who was sitting in the city pass looking at the troop deployment map, sneezed coldly, rubbed her nose, and continued to ponder. Du Shuyan passed: "Yan Ran, it's better to wear more clothes." Xiao Yanran said with a smile: "Just practice internal skills." ”

"I already knew that I would practice my internal skills." Jin Huang walked in the snow with a complaint, and when he walked to the city gate, it was almost dark, and seeing that the city gate was about to close, he didn't know where the spirit came from, and he ran wildly, and finally entered the gate safely.

I found the Huangzi Money Village first, and the damn thing is already closed, so where will I go. I asked a few houses, but I didn't understand the language with the guy shopkeeper, and I didn't understand each other's meanings for a long time, so I had to go out and ask again under a heavy snowfall.

If you can't find a place to live, fill your stomach first, even if you don't understand the language, just point to a menu, you won't starve to death, it's unpalatable. That's it, and the signboard written in Han Liao bilingual, the only three words I know are "Forget Worry Building".

According to my previous thoughts, I randomly pointed to two menus, and one turned out to be a black soup, and the other was a blood bibimbap that had not yet coagulated......

"Ahh Could it be that this is Lanruo Temple! Jin Huang muttered to himself, his voice a little louder. I thought that no one understood, but the proprietress raised her head and said, "You girl is so rude, do you say that my Forget Worry Building is a haunted house?" I haven't heard Chinese for more than ten days, but suddenly I heard it, and a sense of intimacy came to my heart, and Jin Huang almost rushed to the counter: "You, you, you speak Chinese so well." The proprietress frowned: "The slave family is originally Han, and after saying it for many years, it is naturally good." ”

Jin Huang slapped the table: "I want Kung Pao Chicken, pay attention, it's Chicken." The proprietress continued to bow her head and settle the account: "No, in this place, chickens are precious things, and only the royal family can eat them." (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )