The sky is getting dark, the wind seems more biting, the city gate cave faces north and south, and the wind through the hall for a while is even more thorny and erodes into the bones, Dong Si didn't know that he dragged a tattered door panel from that place in the city, and then at the root of the city wall, he lifted an ax to split the rotten door panel into a pile of firewood. Lifting one and throwing it into a ring of fire surrounded by adobe bricks, the already dim light of the fire finally regained some vitality.

Wrapped tightly in the cotton robe on his body, copied his two hands under his armpits, Dong Si's whole body curled up, trying to reduce his volume as much as possible, looking up at the dim sky, hoping that the sky would soon get dark, so that the city gate could be closed, and his gatekeepers would not have to squat here, but could go to the small house in the cave of the city gate to warm up.

He is about to turn fifty this year, although he is a government soldier, but under normal circumstances, at his age, he doesn't need to go into battle at all. But this time, the big officials above recruited soldiers, but they all came over in one go. The young man followed General Chen Qingzhi to rescue Suzhou a few years ago, and his own son was among them. And those of his age came to guard the gates.

When he was young, Dong Si had fought a war, but since then, he has not fought for almost twenty years, so much so that he has forgotten what war should look like. After receiving the call, he finally turned over the rusty horizontal knife from under the bed, and sharpened it for half a day before he finally got a little appearance, but the leather armor was completely unworn, and he was also thrown under the bed, gnawed by rats.

"It's a good day, but what a fight!" Dong Si sighed mournfully. In the past few years, the days have been getting better and better year by year. On the rented land, more than half of the mulberry trees are planted, and a small half is planted with millet, although the rent is planted, the tax and servitude are not light, but the price of mulberry silk has risen year by year in recent years, and there is still hope for this day after all, at least, now the family has a little bit of grain, and the bottom of the old woman's box is also pressed with a few ingots of silver, and the son is also married not long ago, after the New Year, he can marry his daughter-in-law, and maybe he will be able to hold his grandson at the end of the year.

What a good day, why do you have to fight around?

This made him full of resentment towards those sons who came to fight Suzhou.

If it weren't for them, his son wouldn't have to go to the battlefield, and he wouldn't have been blowing cold wind here at a young age. This is not a joke, if you want to get a cold or cough or something, you will really lose half your life.

"I don't know if I can win this battle?" Beside him, an old soldier who was as old as him whispered while throwing wooden blocks into the fire. "I heard that the enemy was very fierce, and Changzhou was defeated in three or two strokes. Suzhou is also in dire straits. ”

"Why can't you win?" Dong Si can't hear these words now, and his son is just in front of him. "We have 20,000 men, and you saw them when we went out that day, and we didn't see the head and the tail, when did you see such a battle? Besides, how powerful General Chen Qingzhi is! That body can top the two of us, and I heard that he can play with hundreds of pounds of stone locks like things. ”

"I hope we can win! Otherwise, this day will be miserable again. The old soldiers around him knew that Dong Si's son had also gone to the front line, so he nodded again and again. These people have all experienced the war disaster decades ago, and they almost starved to death if they were in a good place. Of course, I don't want to go back to the old days.

A few people talked about the majestic scene of the army going out of the city a few years ago, and one by one they were also excited.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the fire in the fire pit was shaking, and they had to throw more firewood into it, and in this way they had to find something else to keep warm, otherwise the night would be difficult.

"I'll go get some more burnt." Dong Si was a diligent person and stood up and said.

Before he took two steps, above the city tower, a terrible horn suddenly sounded, Dong Si's heart jumped, and the sound of the alarm bell rang out.

"Close the gates, close the gates." Above the city, the voice of Captain Zhou Zhu and Captain Zhou sounded a little out of tune.

Dong Sisi was shocked, pulled out his legs and rushed to the direction of the city gate, raised his eyes and looked ahead, a large group of people were rushing towards them, it seemed that there were thousands of people.

Holding the city gate with one hand, Dong Si and a few old soldiers had just partially covered the city gate, and suddenly came to their senses, and the one who rushed towards them was not the army that had just set off from here to rescue Suzhou a few days ago?

Is this a defeat?

Dong Si suddenly felt half cold all over his body, only to feel that his whole body was soft, and he couldn't use half of his strength.

"Lao Dong, close the door."

"That's our own people!" Dong Si cried, his eyes widened and he looked at those who were getting closer and closer, and now he could see more clearly that it was indeed their people, to be precise, a group of routs. Although there is no flag battle in sight, some people are carrying knives and spears in their hands, and more people are bare-handed, but the clothes, the armor, and two familiar faces, who else can they be?

He was looking forward to seeing his son's face from these people.

The defeated army roared.

When Zhou Zhu rushed to the city gate in a bit of a hurry, those defeated soldiers also poured in. It was too late to blame anyone, Zhou Zhu grabbed a person who looked like a sentry chief, and asked urgently: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" How's the front? ”

"Defeated, defeated." The sentry commander waved his arms vigorously, trying to get rid of Zhou Zhu's pull: "Twenty thousand people, all gone." ”

Zhou Zhu's face turned pale.

"What about General Chen Qingzhi?"

"It burned and fell into the water." The sentry commander finally shook off Zhou Zhu's hand, spread his feet and ran towards the city.

Zhou Zhu gasped, the defeated soldiers were like a tide, surging forward, squeezing him backwards again and again, he grabbed another person, and was about to ask about the specific situation, but found that the big man he caught grinned at him, and when the warning signs just appeared in his mind, he felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen, and when he looked down, he saw a black and heavy short knife, which had almost sunk into his lower abdomen.

"Enemy attack!" He snorted with some difficulty. As the big man in front of him violently stirred the short knife in his abdomen and then pulled it out, he fell to the ground with a thud.

The city gates were in turmoil.

Hundreds of people raised their knives among the defeated soldiers.

Liu Yuan, Qin Scarzi and others led a group of daredevils to infiltrate these routs and rushed into the city gate, one occupied the city gate, and the other rushed straight to the city. With a firework rushing into the sky, it exploded with a bang, and Liu Ruyan, who was not far behind them, and about 2,000 cavalry led by Li Dang personally rushed over like a lightning speed.

The city of Hangzhou is broken.

Qian Hongzong, the governor of western Zhejiang, and Hangzhou City and the Tang Dynasty right thousand Niu Wei general Liu Ruyan fierce battle, its department of about 3,000 soldiers was broken by Liu Ruyan, Qian Hongzong himself was killed on the spot by Liu Ruyan flying spear, most of the children of his clan were killed in battle, with the arrival of the main force led by Li Ren Xiaonian, the sporadic resistance in Hangzhou was completely wiped out, and the western part of Zhejiang completely fell into the hands of Liu Ruyan.

Take the west of Zhejiang, Liu Ruyan non-stop, quickly march to the east of Zhejiang, ten days later, in Fuyang defeated the soldiers and horses of the east of Zhejiang who came to support the west of Zhejiang, chasing the rout all the way into the east of Zhejiang, the momentum is like a bamboo, down Tonglu, take Yiwu, the main force of the east of Zhejiang surrounded in the west of Zhejiang to observe the capital of Shaoxing.

Eastern Zhejiang is in jeopardy.

After receiving the help line of Qian Hongshou and Du Xian, Rong Hong, the Fujian observer, immediately mobilized soldiers and horses, ready to go to the rescue, but the soldiers and horses were not yet in place, and then came the news that western Zhejiang had fallen and the main force in eastern Zhejiang was surrounded.

When there is chaos on the land, the sea is also becoming more and more turbulent.

Birong Hong is also different from the deployment of troops on land, the Lingnan Naval Division has entered the southern Fujian Sea at a very early stage, and the commander of the naval division led by the commander of the naval division is Zeng Shou, the former general under the command of Pan Motang, the commander of the Tang Naval Division.

Pan Motang's success among the Tang Dynasty sailors made Zeng Shou's eyes red, but unfortunately there was no regret in this world, even if he wanted to defect to Pan Motang again, it would be difficult to gain trust. And the profession of piracy, with the rise of the Tang Dynasty sailors, life is even more difficult, and when you can only earn some hard-earned money, Xiang Xun's recruitment came at the right time and hit it off with Zeng Shou. Xiang Xun needs a suitable sailor general, and Zeng Shou also wants to live a life like Pan Motang, the Tang Sailor is out of reach, but the second best, Lingnan Sailor is also a good choice.

How can they be considered officers and soldiers!

Zeng Shou took more than 100 pirate ships to join the Lingnan Naval Division, in just one year, the entire Lingnan Naval Division has expanded several times, before the outbreak of the Liangzhejiang Campaign, Zeng Shou took this as many as 300 ships into the southern Fujian Seas, and launched a sweep of the pirates in these places.

The first is to train troops, and the second is to completely quell the rebellion of the bandits in this area, so as to protect the southern merchant ships that sail from Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and other places. After several months of hard work, Zeng Shou lived up to his trust and was majestic in the southern Fujian sea. As a former veteran pirate, he is really familiar with exterminating his former peers.

Zeng Shou, who had just completed the task of this trip and was about to return home, received the latest task from Lingnan and immediately set off to Liangzhejiang to rescue Liangzhejiang and resist the invasion of the Tang army.

Zeng Shou knew that his old boss, Pan Motang's sailor, was swimming in the waters of Liangzhejiang at the moment, but at this time, he was full of confidence, and defeating the former boss was exactly what he had been thinking about for a long time.

After receiving the order, he immediately pulled out the anchor and set sail.