Xiang Zhen sat on top of the dilapidated tower of Guangshui City with a knife, although his soldiers were exhausted, they were still trying their best to repair the city wall full of gaps, and it was basically impossible to restore the thickness of the earlier city wall, so they could only try to plug the gaps with some broken bricks and stones, but it was better than nothing.

The Northern Tang army was too vicious.

When the vanguard of Xiang Zhen, led by his confidant Li Zuxin, arrived in Guangshui, the Tang army left behind in Guangshui City gave up Guangshui City after a little resistance, and Li Zuxin easily gained a foothold, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately sent troops to Guangshui City.

Next, they will join forces with Liu Xinda's troops to fight a big battle with Shi Zhuang here, and having a place like Guangshui as a base point will naturally have a lot of benefits.

In their opinion, the reason why Shi Zhuang's department, who was entangled by Liu Xinda, gave up Guangshui City was just because he didn't want to scatter his forces everywhere and be broken by them.

What they never expected was that the Tang army buried a large number of fierce fire oil bombs and black powder in the abandoned Guangshui City.

The original plan of the Northern Tang army was to kill Xiang Zhen.

Li Zuxin's original intention was also to use Guangshui City as the location of Xiang Zhen's Chinese army. But an accident made Xiang Zhen decide to directly put his Chinese army on the front line of the battle in Xianren Ridge.

Because the latest news from Ezhou has come, Wang You, Teng Jian did not hold on for even a day, and was taken by Li Mi and Li Hao's coalition army, and more than 15,000 Southern Alliance troops were defeated.

This made Xiang Zhen feel an unprecedented sense of urgency.

Now the facts have been placed in front of him, if he doesn't join forces with Liu Xinda as soon as possible to defeat and annihilate Shi Zhuang's troops, when Li Mi surrounds him, he will really be the turtle in Wengzhong.

Break the cauldron and sink the boat, strike a decisive blow, and use the advantage in troops, even if it is a duanzi, you must defeat Shi Zhuang first. That's what Xiang Zhen thinks.

Therefore, he just sent the grain and grass rails brought by the army into Guangshui City in one go. In this way, when he fought a decisive battle with Shi Zhuang, he was not afraid that Shi Zhuang would sneak attack his logistics, he only needed a small number of manpower, and he could protect the logistics baggage well. Now for Xiang Zhen, every strength is precious, and he will do his best to fight Shi Zhuang.

Everything was arranged, and the army was gearing up for a sortie.

In the middle of the night, a loud bang, an unquenchable fire, made all Xiang Zhen's ambitions and all his hard work come to naught.

The dead soldiers of the Northern Tang Dynasty, who were hidden in the underground secret passage in Guangshui City, ignited the fierce fire oil and black powder, and the logistics of Xiang Zhen's tens of thousands of troops and thousands of elite soldiers were reduced to nothing in front of Xiang Zhen.

But that's not the scariest thing.

The most terrifying thing is that Shi Zhuang's main force suddenly pressed on it, and Liang Han's tens of thousands of cavalry appeared near the left side of Guangshui City, followed by Li Kang's brigade of foot soldiers. These two divisions alone have exceeded more than 20,000 people.

Shi Zhuang's main force is not in Xianren Ridge.

So, what is Liu Xinda doing?

Why did he sit back and watch Shi Zhuang's main force appear here?

Xiang Zhen was angry, but panicked.

The next information from the scouts made him even more desperate.

Liu Xinda ran away.

To be precise, it was Shi Zhuang who deliberately let Liu Xinda go.

If Liu Xinda is willing to be in the same boat with him Xiang Zhen, they are not without the hope of an absolute counterattack, and it is not that there is no possibility of turning defeat into victory, but Liu Xinda's journey has completely buried Xiang Zhen's only hope.

An army of nearly 50,000 people, without logistics, without reinforcements, with a strong enemy watching in front and a strong enemy following behind, how else can this battle be fought?

Breakthrough!

The only way to break through is to break through immediately!

There are two paths to choose from. One is to break through in the direction of Jiangxi, and the other is to break through in the direction of Hunan. There are two roads, one left and one right, and there is no third option.

Forward, is the border of Henan, where the Tang army is now gathering in large numbers, and backward, Li Mi's right Qianniuwei is coming with great momentum.

But both breakouts ended in failure.

Shi Zhuang set up heavy troops to intercept these two roads. Several attempts ended in miserable failure, and the army of more than 40,000 people quickly shrank to half. More than 20,000 people, either killed in battle, surrendered, or fled.

Three days later, when Li Mi's right Qianniuwei also arrived in Guangshui, even the last glimmer of hope was completely cut off.

Xiang Zhen, who was standing with a knife, looked at the brightly lit Tang Army camp around Guangshui City, and his heart was at a loss.

The wind was blowing.

The aroma of the meal came with the wind, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and his stomach also gurgled in his stomach, the Tang army was eating, and his army was completely out of food today.

Or tomorrow, when you die.

The Tang army didn't need to expend strength to attack, and now it was hungry and could crush its own army.

"General, eat a little!" Behind him, Li Zuxin's voice came, holding a porcelain bowl with a large piece missing, and half a bowl of black things in it.

"It's only half-burned, you can eat it." Li Zuxin's voice was a little choked.

These were originally the grain and grass they carried with the army, but a fire in Guangshui City turned most of the grain into ashes, and the rest almost became this kind of thing.

Rolling his eyes, Xiang Zhen looked at the soldiers under the city, many of them were digging in the cracks of the rubble, and their mouths were all black.

Tears no longer fell uncontrollably.

"General, the wind is rising, it's the rain wind!" Li Zuxin said: "It's going to rain heavily." ”

"Heavy rain?" Xiang Zhen said blankly.

"Yes, it's raining heavily." Li Zuxin said: "This is the last chance. You have to break through. ”

Xiang Zhen smiled bitterly and pointed to the surrounding Tang Army camp: "Where can you go?" Rather than being killed in the field like a rabbit, I would rather stand here and die in battle. ”

"General, keep a useful body as a hope for a comeback." Li Zuxin shook his head and said, "It's naturally easy to die in battle, but are you willing to die here like this?" Not to mention any ambitions, this time alone, if Liu Xinda hadn't left the battlefield and sold us to Shi Zhuang, how could we have ended up in such a situation? ”

mentioned Liu Xinda, Xiang Zhen's eyes suddenly burst with anger, he worked hard all the way, just to rescue Liu Xinda, at the end, this bastard ran away, but he trapped himself here.

Why was he able to run away? If he doesn't make some kind of deal with Shi Zhuang, will Shi Zhuang let him run away?

And the conditions of the transaction, naturally, are themselves.

"General, you have to go back alive and cut that Liu Xinda with a thousand knives, so as not to kill our brothers who died here!" Li Zuxin's fist clenched.

Xiang Zhen hung his head for a long time before he raised his head and said, "Even if I want to break through, how can I stand out?" ”

"There's a chance!" Li Zuxin said: "When I look at this day, I am afraid that in the second half of the night, there will be heavy rain. The Tang Army is only staring at you and your thousands of elites who are the best at fighting. At this time, the most reliable is only this unit that we have spent a lot of effort and money to train. The rest, I am afraid that when the Tang army attacks again, it will be dispersed. ”

"So what?"

"Divide the last elite into two parts, one to break through in the direction of Jiangxi, one to break through to Hunan, and one of them, waving your banner and letting people wear your armor."

"It's too obvious." Xiang Zhen shook his head and said, "Shi Zhuang is not stupid. ”

"So, they're going to think you're in another breakout team." Li Zuxin said.

"Am I not in the other one?"

"Of course not. You put on the clothes of ordinary soldiers, mix in the scattered army, and only pick a few of the most loyal people to follow, when the time comes, the enemy's attention is scattered in these two formed teams, and the other defeated soldiers, I am afraid that they do not care, this is your biggest chance to escape. No matter whether you escape to the Yanzi River or the Guangshui River in the end, even if you hold a driftwood and go down the river, you can get out of the other party's encirclement, and then find a way to escape. "Li Zuxin said." If this still falls into the hands of the other party, it can only be said that our fate should be extinguished here. ”

"An army of 50,000 will be wiped out in one day!" Thinking that even if he escaped, he would be alone like a lost dog, and Xiang Zhen couldn't help but feel sad.

"General, there is no shortage of people in the southeast, as long as you go back, you will have a chance. In this battle, we have also seen that the elite you have trained can compete head-on with the Tang Army. As long as such a unit is trained again, there will be a chance to regain the score in the future. ”

"What are you going to do?"

"I'll lead the one that doesn't fly the flag to break through." Li Zuxin said with a smile: "I will fight until the last moment, try my best to buy you more time, and when it really comes to the point where I can't hold it anymore, if I still have a breath, I will surrender." After you escape, if you have the chance, don't forget to ask the Northern Tang people to redeem me. ”

Hearing this, Xiang Zhen's nose was sour again.

It's really the end of the hero, and I'm short of breath for a while.

"General, let's start preparing!" Li Zuxin said.

At the time of the third watch, as Li Zuxin said, the rain poured down and the wind came suddenly. People stand in the wind and rain, touching the place where they can see, but they are only a few steps around. It was also at this time that in Guangshui City, the last more than 20,000 Southern Alliance troops, in the shouts, broke into several roads and rushed out.

They attacked from all sides at the same time.

And the Tang Army, apparently made all the preparations, and when Xiang Zhensuobu began to break through, they were immediately met with a strong counterattack.

As Li Zuxin said, except for the Xiang Zhenyan pro-army that was divided into two branches, the remaining about 15,000 southern troops, after a little resistance, immediately lost all their command, and they panicked in all directions, scurrying everywhere.

In the midst of the storm, the entire battlefield became a pot of porridge.