Chapter 34 The Fragile Capital

Nong Zhigao walked in the front, the mud under his feet barely reached the root of his thighs, he almost crawled on the thick mud in the end, he waited for ten days, wanting to wait for the Wusheng army to launch the final attack, so that he could rely on the equipment at the head of the city to kill a few more Song people anyway, but the Song generals on the opposite side would not give him this opportunity.

I can't wait any longer, there are more and more dead people in the city, and the people who can still stand with him are now nesting in a sunny place and constantly swinging, obviously there is not much time to live, and they all say that heroes can't stand the three bubbles, not to mention that these people have almost no water in their bodies, sitting under the sun, like a living skeleton, someone crawls with difficulty, and comes to the edge of the puddle that the pig and cow step on, and the dog-like tongue licks the water there, and when he drinks it, he falls into the puddle and never wakes up again, such a scene Nong Zhigao has seen countless times.

When his body began to heat up, Nong Zhigao knew that he was going to become like that, and he didn't want to die in the dung heap, so he led people to open the city gate and bravely rushed towards the Song army, even if he wanted to die, he would infect the plague to the Song army.

There were many fewer people who could get out of the city than he expected, only a sparse hundred and ten people, some of them fell into the mud after taking two steps, and only Nong Zhigao and his own guards still bravely killed the Great Song army.

Nong Zhigao only had countless anger in his heart at this time, and asked for trade and mutual markets, which was inseparable from the request annex, because after the attachment, he lived with the Han people and became a provincial citizen, that is, a Chinese people, since there is no boundary between this and the other, and there is no trade and relocation, what a good picture this should be, when the history of the thorn was rejected, he waited and asked to be a coach to give robes and mutual markets. Grievances and requests for perfection have been rejected again and again.

Once he was rejected, he was angry once, but he refused the sincere request of his subordinates for fear of offending Jiaozhi. Therefore, in the case of repeated unsuccessful requests and unbearable endurance. Launched this great uprising that the Song court did not expect with its rapid pace and momentum, and captured Yongzhou (now Nanning) in less than a month with a thunderous momentum, and then established the great southern kingdom - the ancient city of Nanning. Self-reliant "Emperor Renhui". Then along the east of the river, Heng, Gui, Xun, Gong, Teng, Wu, Kang, Feng, Duan Zhuzhou are invincible.

"You forced this scourge out of you!" Nong Zhigao walked up the high slope with two feet of mud, roared at Yun Zheng and Yu Jing who were sitting on the top of the high slope, raised the big knife in his hand, ignored the dense bows and crossbows in front of him and roared towards Yun Zheng and Yu Jing, there was no one behind him who could stand, first the powerful Eight Bull Crossbow. Constantly taking the lives of his subordinates, followed by crossbow arrows, he heard his sons and nephews screaming and crying, and ignored them. Keep charging forward......

Only a hundred steps away from the enemy, Nong Zhigao threw his broadsword from afar, and at the same time, a crossbow machine of eight bulls was struck, and the thick crossbow spear with a hook pierced his body in the first moment, carrying him back into the mud field, and the sparse mud soon enveloped him. dragged him down slowly, and he didn't see if his big knife had cut those people before he died.

The broadsword didn't fly as far as a hundred paces, not even in the heyday of Nong Zhigao, so the broadsword fell to the ground, and the head of the knife was stuck in the dirt, trembling. It's like Nong Zhigao's straight back......

Yu Jing put his hand on his brow, watching Nong Zhigao fly up with a crossbow gun, and then fall into the mud, watching Nong Zhigao slowly sink into the mud, and the mud is not deep. The steel tail feathers on the ballista were still exposed in the mud, like a soul-attracting banner.

"It's time to get his head." Yang Zi said loudly, he felt that this protracted war was finally over.

When Lang Tan's war horse galloped into the shadow of the Tokyo city wall, the soldiers who were wilting with the barrels of their guns came to their senses, and they were just about to open their mouths to ask, but when they looked up, they seemed to see a giant beast in the wilderness, and they fled without a trace with a shout.

Lang Tan grabbed the reins of the war horse, smiled bitterly and shook his head, now it is not only the soldiers guarding the gate who have run away, but also those nobles and ladies who are pacing leisurely, as well as those people who want to enter the city or leave the city.

Thirty horsemen, sixty war horses stood in front of the city gate helplessly looking at the panicked crowd and couldn't say a word, Boss Niu looked at the flag on the back of the military marquis suspiciously, pushed the third child of the Sun family next to him and asked: "Third child, we look like thieves?" ”

Sun Laosan looked at the beautiful lady who was holding her ass and retreating on the rough bluestone slab, and felt sorry for her ass, didn't it hurt if there were rut marks everywhere on the ground? ”

Lang Tan sighed and jumped off the horse, helped a crying child up, walked up to the girl, took off his helmet and said in the gentlest voice: "This little lady, is there anything to make Xiao Yan work?" ”

The girl's eyes widened and widened, and she fainted with a grunt in her throat.

The floor was littered with a mess of overturned vegetable baskets, a basket of freshly harvested dates, a lot of fallen shoes, folding fans, and lady's flower handkerchiefs. There was even a goose standing in the cave of the city gate as if no one was around.

"The thief is bold, and he dares to rush into the city in broad daylight!" A thin scribe in a high hat dragged a pole in his hand, and the mad tiger-like head smashed at Lang Tan, who was about to help the girl to the side.

The spear in the hand of the bull boss was lightly picked, and the flat pole flew into the sky, hit the hole in the city gate and fell down, the bull boss was worried that the flat pole would stone the Confucian to death, and with one hand, the flat pole flew to the city along the hole in the city gate.

Lang Tan saw that the Confucian priest was about to drag back the girl's neck with his arm, so he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Old man, the student is the border army of the Great Song Dynasty, and he is sent to Beijing to deliver eight hundred miles of expedited, not a thief!" ”

The Confucian priest's hand trembled, he raised his head and looked at Lang Tan carefully, and asked bluntly, "Are you a scholar?" Can you be famous? ”

Lang Tan bowed down and said, "Serve Lang in the next office!" served as an infantry soldier in the Wusheng Army. ”

After hearing Lang Tan's confession, the Confucian priest immediately jumped up, slapped Lang Tan's head, probably felt puzzled, jumped around looking for things, and finally found a bamboo whip to drive the ox cart, and pulled it down according to Lang Tan without a head and no brain, and said angrily: "Since it is a scholar, why don't you understand the truth that you can't ride a horse in the land of Beijing, don't be strange, and don't rush, which one is your teacher, the old man will go to him to ask." ”

Boss Niu wanted to stab this guy in a transparent hole with one shot, but found that Du Yuhou glared at him fiercely, so he had to shrink his head and not look at it.

The Confucian scholar was tired, so he stopped, looked at Niu Da who was whirring angrily, and Sun San said: "Old man Ouyang Xiu, he is a bachelor of Hanlin, can't he beat a junior?" ”

When Lang Tan heard that this guy was actually Ouyang Xiu, he hurriedly said: "Mr. is frightened, is it a junior, but you also misunderstood the student, the student just came back from Guangnan, and he was carrying an eight-hundred-mile expedited service, so naturally he didn't need to control the horse speed, but he asked Mr. for forgiveness for his recklessness, and when the student finished his errands, he would come and listen to Mr. Teach you." ”

Ouyang Xiu was stunned for a moment, then he looked up and saw the flag behind Lang Tan, stood up straight and said, "Wu Shengjun? The Wusheng army that defeated 100,000 enemy troops and beheaded 40,000 at Hot Springs? ”

Lang said frankly: "Exactly, but it didn't defeat 100,000, but 40,000 beheadings are still about the same." ”

"How's the war going? Can there be recurrence? ”

"The battle is going well, Di Shuai is already sweeping the state, General Yun has surrounded Wuchao City, it is estimated that by this time, Wuchao City has been breached, if Nong Zhigao did not escape into Jiaozhi, he should have been captured or killed alive at this time."

Ouyang Xiu breathed a long sigh of relief, and said to Lang Tan: "Tokyo City has not seen a war for a hundred years, and I am a little panicked when I see the warriors coming down from the battlefield. Hurry up! ”

Lang Tan saw that the city gate had been straightened out, and immediately got on the horse, without the guidance of the city gate official, asked Ouyang Xiu for the direction of the Jinju Academy, and continued to gallop towards the imperial city, leaving Ouyang Xiu alone to stand in the city gate cave and laugh.

There was no one on the street, Lang Tan knew that those people must be hiding behind the door to look at themselves secretly, the horse's hooves stepped on the bluestone paved road like thunder, just looked back at the city pass and sighed, he could take the city pass with thirty rides, God, the huge Bianliang City in Tokyo, there was only one thin old Confucian who dared to come up with a flat shoulder, oh my God! What the general said is not wrong at all, if the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are not rectified, this is going to destroy the country!

Seeing Lang Tan's horse team passing, someone slowly came out of the house, and many people saw the flag on Lang Tan's back, knowing that they had made a joke, and a series of curses gushed out of his mouth, not only full of contempt, but also very vicious!

When the city gate official came in a hurry with people, after hearing such a fact, he fell from his horse and fell unconscious with a scream, and this time he was not only finished with his career, but he may not even be able to save his head. Among the onlookers, no one gave him the slightest sympathy, more of them took this as a joke, and their hearts were cold, looking at the empty city gate.

When sixty war horses were stationed in the Jinju Academy, the little officials inside came over in fear and arched their hands: "Why did this general come?" ”

Lang Tan dismounted, held the cowhide tube containing the battle report in both hands, and asked the little official to check whether the fire paint seal on it was intact, and the little official who was completely relieved said with a smile: "The general is hard, and he will send the 800 li expedited performance to the political affairs hall in the next place." ”

Lang said frankly: "It's hard work! After saying that, he stood in the ranks, thirty men and sixty horses, standing in the sun, like a heavy wall.

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