"It's better for me to beg the general to let me and Fan Yi break through than to sit here and die of thirst," Meng Yunping said categorically after giving the last bit of water to the soldiers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xiao Yanran glanced at him, suddenly pulled out the gun, and walked away without looking back.

At dusk, a blood-thick darkness slowly engulfed the city of Yongding. The soldiers leaned against the earthen wall, and some of them unwillingly tore the dry and hard dough with their cracked and bleeding mouths, and there was a dry sound in their throats.

Meng Yunping and Fan Yi were close together in black, with long knives on their backs, and behind them were five hundred soldiers with solemn faces.

"Vice General Xiao," Meng Yunping said with a dry smile, "......"

He looked at the tense atmosphere, lowered his voice and said, "I'm afraid that the east gate will be in your hands." ”

Xiao Yanran threw something over casually, and also said in a low voice: "As your lieutenant, I will try my best to collect the body for you." ”

Meng Yunping smiled bitterly, grabbed the sheepskin bag containing a small half pot of water, touched it on his lips, and turned around and handed it to the soldier behind him.

One by one, the southern soldiers slipped silently from the top of the wall into the darkness, so quiet inside and outside the city wall that only the rustle of the wind through the dry sand willows and the sound of the uncertain river flowing in the distance.

I don't know how long it took, but there was a shout of killing in the distance, and a fire rose on the mountain road in the distance.

"It's Pingxia people!" A veteran shouted in despair, "It's the voice of the Pingxia people!" They were discovered by the Pingxia people. *”

The firelight slowly surrounded, danced wildly, and slowly tightened, and the hearts of the defenders on the city wall were slowly tightened.

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: "Pingxia cavalry! ”

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

"Let's go, let's go!" Meng Yunping brandished his long knife and slashed down the Pingxia soldiers who were chasing after him, 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 Pingxia cavalry, waving his gun 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 Pingxia 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 Pingxia people 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 Pingxia 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 Pingxia people attack the city, hurry up!" ”

The 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 where the Pingxia people pile the 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.

"Pingxia 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 southern army, and the Pingxia 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 40,000 Pingxia people were killed and 8,000 drowned. Both sides paid a heavy price.