At ugly times (from one to three o'clock in the evening), the bright moon hangs high in the dark night sky, a transparent gray cloud faintly obscures the moonlight, and the shining stars blink mischievously like jewels, except for the breeze blowing, the whole world seems silent.

Under the cover of darkness, a large army lurked silently under a small hill not far from the city tower of Liyang County.

As soon as it was dark, they were there, and until now, it was to wait for the army of Liyang County to be in a difficult situation.

Looking up at the sparse firelight on the city tower, the few soldiers on duty yawned again and again, the palace hero's dark eyes flashed with bloodthirsty murderous aura and mockery, and then with a wave of his right hand, a group of masked black-clothed people behind him quickly climbed over the upper city tower, and the soldiers on duty at night died before they had time to react, and the black-clothed men opened the city gate and let half of the army enter the city, while the rest stayed where they were.

"General Chen, I'll leave it to you here." After speaking, the palace hero took the group of black-clothed people and went straight to the Liyang County Mansion, according to reliable information, the Ninth Princess, Situ Jingyu and Duan Fanghong all lived in the mansion.

After leading the army for a while, he didn't even meet a single patrolling soldier, and the doors of every house on both sides of the street were closed, and there was hardly a trace of light in sight, so General Chen couldn't help but stop.

Niu Tiezhu, the deputy general beside him, asked in a puzzled low voice, "General Chen, why didn't you leave suddenly?" ”

"Something isn't right." General Chen looked at the silence and frowned.

Even if the people in the city were asleep, even if the enemy didn't expect them to sneak attack, it would not be so quiet, not even a single soldier on patrol normally, let alone at a time like this, this looks like a trap, a trap that has been designed a long time ago just waiting for them to fall into the net.

Hearing General Chen say this, everyone also felt that the atmosphere was strange, and looked around vigilantly: "General Chen is talking about ......"

"Withdraw!" The more he thought about it, the more suspicious General Chen became, and immediately ordered the army to retreat.

"Why rush to leave when you're here?"

As a loud voice sounded, I saw that the originally dark and silent surroundings suddenly burst into flames, and countless majestic soldiers with torches and blades suddenly poured out, quickly surrounding General Chen and others.

Duan Fanghong, who was wearing a purple robe, looked at General Chen calmly: "Zhenguo, don't come unharmed." ”

General Chen's face changed, and his eyes flashed with jealousy and unwillingness as he looked at Duan Fanghong.

The two of them are partners in a village who have played since childhood, and they are in the army together and in the same army, eating and sleeping together, like brothers.

hated the injustice of God, Duan Fanghong became the general of Dingyuan who commanded the Shenwu camp all the way, and his ability was not lost to Duan Fanghong at all, but he always succumbed to Duan Fanghong, and was almost beheaded because of a battle defeat, thanks to the prince's best efforts to mediate, his life was saved, and since then he has stayed by the prince's side.

Although he is also a general, Duan Fanghong's honor and status are still too much higher than him, how can this not make him jealous and hateful?

"You knew we'd sneak attack?" General Chen's brows became tighter and tighter, and infinite panic filled his heart.

Of the 100,000 troops behind him, only 30,000 were real soldiers, and the rest were all civilians who had only been forcibly recruited to replenish their troops today. Is he really going to die here tonight?

Duan Fanghong's expression was still calm, but there was a flow of pain and regret in his eyes: "Zhenguo, it's still too late for you to repent now, the Ninth Princess will open up." ”

"Repentance?" General Chen laughed at himself, since the moment he decided to follow the prince to the death, he had never thought of betraying the prince, even if he knew that it was a serious crime for the nine clans to rebel against the prince with the prince, he did not hesitate or regret it: "Duan Fanghong, you and I have never really competed once, let this general teach you your skills tonight!" ”

As he spoke, he was about to raise his knife and rush towards Duan Fanghong, but he was stopped by Niu Tiezhu beside him in time, seeing General Chen's angry eyes, Niu Tiezhu lowered his voice and said, "General Chen, have you forgotten the secret order of the prince?" This is not the time to be reckless, so let's get out of the way. ”

General Chen's eyes darkened when he heard this, and the prince suddenly ordered that once he was besieged by the enemy's army, he would use the 70,000 people as shields to cover the rapid evacuation of the real soldiers, but he had no conscience in the end, and he couldn't do anything to destroy humanity, and he believed that the prince would definitely not agree to do this.

"If you want to withdraw, you withdraw yourself, if anyone dares to use those recruits as shields, this general will be killed!"

"General Chen......"

Seeing General Chen raise his knife and gallop towards Duan Fanghong again, Niu Tiezhu pursed his lips disdainfully, I don't know if it is the most important thing to save his life at this time? It's stupid!

So a signal was fired into the night sky, and then Niu Tiezhu ordered 30,000 sergeants to quickly evacuate to the city gate under the cover of new soldiers, as long as they arrived at the city gate and there was a large army outside, they would be safe.

"Niu Tiezhu, you damn it!"

General Chen had already rushed to a place three steps away from Duan Fanghong, when he suddenly heard a strange sound behind him, he hurriedly turned around, and saw that Niu Tiezhu actually disobeyed his order, and immediately became furious, and quickly threw the big knife in his hand at Niu Tiezhu mercilessly.

Feeling the fierce and cold murderous aura roaring, Niu Tiezhu trembled, and when he turned around and saw the speeding big knife, he couldn't help but change his face drastically, and instinctively grabbed a soldier next to him to block it.

Unexpectedly, the big knife with the thunderous power passed through the soldier's body and sank deep into his chest, and both of them fell to the ground, and the gushing blood instantly stained the ground under them, and Niu Tiezhu's wide eyes were full of horror, unwillingness and disbelief.

The sudden scene stunned everyone, and even the air seemed to freeze, and everyone seemed to forget that now is the time for life and death.

Duan Fanghong was the first to react, looking at General Chen with a murderous look on his face, relieved and worried at the same time, what kind of grief and remorse would he have if Zhenguo knew the truth of the matter? But at this moment, he didn't allow him to think too much, but he saw that General Chen had snatched a soldier's spear and stabbed at him.

While facing General Chen's deadly killing moves, Duan Fanghong shouted loudly: "On the orders of the Ninth Princess, those who take the initiative to abandon their weapons and surrender will not be killed!" ”

The soldiers of Liyang County also shouted in unison, and surrounded the rebels with swords in their hands and did not carry out the killing.

The magnificent persuasion to surrender made the rebels tremble in fear.

Especially the recruits who were forcibly brought in just now couldn't help but look at each other, they were ordinary people, they just wanted to live a peaceful and stable life, but they hated King Zhongwu for his own conspiracy to rebel, not to mention, and forced them to be involved in this war with the safety of their relatives, and even used them as shields to cover those real soldiers, King Zhongwu is simply not human!

So one recruit took the initiative to put down his weapon, and soon another recruit voluntarily surrendered, and then one after another recruit raised his hands to give up resistance...... Among them are some real rebels.

The surrounding Liyang soldiers stepped forward to quickly escort those who surrendered to safety, lest they be used as shields by others.

Seeing that his 100,000 army had been reduced by more than half in the blink of an eye, and at General Chen, who was fighting Duan Fanghong to the death, the remaining soldiers were still a little hesitant, some of them were people who had been following Gong Yuanhao and General Chen, and some were worried that their relatives would remain in Jiuyuan County, worried that Gong Yuanhao would anger their relatives because of this.

Not far from the castle tower.

Seeing the signal set off in the night sky, Adjutant General Zhu Huaming said in a low voice: "General Yu, General Chen, they have succeeded, should we go to pick it up?" ”

"Wait." General Yu stared at the city gate, and for some reason there was always a bad premonition in his heart.

Zhu Huaming was just about to ask General Yu why he didn't carry out the original plan, but he suddenly heard a burst of persuasion to surrender, and his expression couldn't help but change.

And General Yu's expression was so solemn, and he sighed lightly: "General Chen, I'm afraid they won't be able to come back." ”

"General Yu ......"

"It seems that the enemy has already set up an ambush, just waiting for us to throw ourselves into the net."

"So what do we do now?"

"Stand still, ready to answer the prince at any time!"

As soon as General Yu finished speaking, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a strange sound like a mosquito moaning around him, and his heart was inexplicably tight, and before he could order the soldiers to be on guard, countless blue-clothed cavalry and silver-armored soldiers had already surrounded him from all directions......

In the city tower, Duan Fanghong and General Chen fought no less than 100 moves, and the kung fu of the two seemed to be between the two of them, but a discerning person could know at a glance that General Chen's moves were sharp and ruthless, but Duan Fanghong left room everywhere, obviously not wanting to hurt General Chen.

Seeing that he couldn't defeat Duan Fanghong for a long time, General Chen couldn't help but be impetuous, and suddenly turned his heart sideways, and the spear took off his hand and stabbed straight at Duan Fanghong, and at the same time, the whole person also pounced on it like an arrow from the string, and a dagger in his right hand flashed with a cold light.

"General Duan......" The soldiers of Liyang County couldn't help but exclaim loudly when they saw this.

Duan Fanghong didn't expect General Chen to be so desperate, dodging to avoid the attack of the spear, but it was impossible to dodge the dagger in the hand of General Chen who came later, "Ah......" A miserable scream suddenly shocked everyone's hearts, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

Everyone looked at it, only to see General Chen fall to the ground in defeat, his face was as white as paper in the firelight, and the corners of his mouth kept overflowing bright red blood, Duan Fanghong stood in place unharmed, and a man in purple beside him stood solemnly.

Striding to General Chen's side, squatting down, staring at the ruthless and jealous General Chen, Duan Fanghong sighed and said, "Zhenguo, do you know who caused you to lose the war in the first place?" ”