Qian Xi immediately put down his face with a disdainful expression, "Lord, the emperor is doing well in the palace, you are too villain to smear His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with red lips and white teeth." ”

"Be bold ......" Liu Xingzhi said angrily, hurriedly looked at his father, and saw that his father nodded, so he hinted to Hou Zhigui behind him.

Hou Zhigui comprehended, immediately took out an arrow from the quiver, pulled the bow and shot it at Qian Xi on the city tower.

Before Qian Xi could react, the arrow had been inserted into his head, and he immediately fell down. The castle tower was in chaos in an instant, and the commotion was at a loss, but fortunately, the lieutenants shouted to stop the chaos and immediately adopted a defensive strategy.

Under the palace gate, under Liu Xingyi's order, King Ning's army was neatly arranged, although the siege equipment was scattered, but it was quite orderly when it advanced and rushed in front, and then the first wave of attacks began to beat the drums of war.

Although the soldiers on the city tower are ready for battle, the main general is dead, and the morale of the army is still a little sluggish, and the first wave of attack by King Ning's army is already difficult to resist.

Liu Xingzhi looked at his soldiers who were all brave and abnormal, and slowly took the advantage, and a trace of smugness appeared on the corner of his mouth. Turning his head to look at his father, he saw that his father was still worried, so he asked, "Father, we will be able to take Ximen soon, are you still worried?" ”

Liu Xun, the king of Ning, looked at the sky, "The defenders here are all old and weak soldiers, and it has been three minutes now, and we haven't taken the West Gate yet, so we really shouldn't be!" If the other side gathers an army and arrives to help in time, then it will be difficult for us to storm the city gates. ”

Liu Xingzhi's expression froze, his forehead was bruised, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The child understands." "Immediately ordered to continue the intensification of the offensive.

Suddenly, the defenders on the city tower gradually lost their support, and King Ning's army had already attacked the city along the ladder.

The clouds above the majestic Xuanzheng Hall are gloomy, and a few gusts of cold wind are whistling by, which always makes people shudder. In front of the towering building, under the stone steps paved with white marble, there are soldiers with sharp blades in their hands.

On the stone steps stood a majestic figure, dressed in golden armor, with a bright red helmet flying in the wind, holding a Mo knife in his hand, standing with his back to the closed door of the Xuanzheng Palace. The officials standing on either side of the man were both civil and military, and they were all Liu Yan's cronies.

"Report ......"

The team outside the Xuanzheng Hall neatly separated a road, and a scout ran from the middle of the road to the bottom of the stone steps out of breath, and hurriedly knelt down and arched his hand: "The traitor Liu Xun led the troops to attack the west gate of the palace, and now the west gate is about to be unguarded, please General Xun decide!" ”

Xun Mou's heroic figure on the stone steps trembled slightly, and he slowly turned around, with a cold expression on his face, just like the color of the sky at this time, and roared towards the stone steps: "Where is Deputy General Sun An?" ”

In the crowd on Xun Mou's left hand, a young general with a tiger's back flashed out, and hurriedly stood back at the foot of Xun Mou's next stone steps, "The last general!" ”

"You go and lead a team of 1,000 people, and then meet the enemy after the West Gate City is broken, remember that in the end, you can only defeat but not win, and you must lead the rebels to the Kowloon Bridge."

"The last general commands!" Sun An immediately ordered a team of armor and ran towards the west gate.

Xun Mou continued to shout: "Xiao Renyi listens to the order......"

Xiao Renyi also hurriedly went out to receive the order, "The last general!" ”

"Order you to lead 2,000 infantry and 1,000 archers to wait in ambush at the Kowloon Bridge, and after Sun An leads the rebels to the Kowloon Bridge, after the archers have fired their arrows, the infantry will go into battle and attack again. Remember not to take half a step back, violator - slash! ”

Xiao Renyi was a little stunned, and the rest of the civil and military officials on the stone steps also shook their heads, thinking that this move was impossible, because if Sun An feinted defeat was to lure the enemy deeper, then the Jiulong Bridge should be heavily armed, and only 3,000 soldiers were not just sheep in the tiger's mouth, as long as the other party took the Jiulong Bridge, the rebels could come to the city to surround the Xuanzheng Palace.

Everyone turned their heads to each other, but very few dared to speak. Xiao Renyi also raised his head and looked at Xun Mou suspiciously, as if asking if this plan was really feasible.

"General Xun......" Yu Bingde has the most seniority, and asked, "The rebels will be killed here after crossing the Kowloon Bridge, we should concentrate our forces and wipe them all out at the Kowloon Bridge, otherwise the rebels will definitely fight to the death with us when they come here, and when the time comes, I am afraid that they will have the courage to fight against the water!" ”

General Xun turned a deaf ear and continued to order Xiao Renyi, "Order troops immediately, there must be no mistakes." ”

Yu Bingde looked at Xiao Renyi's departing figure, and a trace of embarrassment and dissatisfaction couldn't help but appear on his face, and the other officials also pretended to be indifferent at the moment.

At the moment when the west gate of the palace was broken, Liu Xun's nervous face showed a slight relaxation, and as expected, King Ning's army rushed into the city gate, and the thief army had already led a reinforcement army to fight. When he looked closely, the enemy army was only one or two thousand sergeants, which made Liu Xun a little puzzled, why didn't Liu Yan concentrate his troops to besiege? Is it not enough to dispatch or is there not enough people? Or is it something else? At present, it seems that it is better to have soldiers to cover up the water and earth, and to break the enemy troops one by one, than to have fewer enemies.

Half an hour later, the sky was getting dark, and the army led by Sun An had suffered countless casualties, so he led the remnants of dozens of his men to flee to the Kowloon Bridge. Just as Liu Xingzhi was about to lead his troops in pursuit, Liu Xun immediately ordered to suspend the pursuit. Liu Xingzhi was very puzzled, and Le immediately stepped forward and asked: "Father, after passing the city gate in front, and then crossing the Kowloon Bridge, you can go straight to the Xuanzheng Palace, why not take advantage of the victory to pursue?" ”

Liu Xun looked at the remnants of the enemy's defeated army, and said suspiciously: "You don't see that their reinforcements are only more than 1,000 people, and they are so vulnerable, there must be deception, so rashly pursued, they will definitely be hit, they have miscalculated that we will attack Ximen, so now they must want to lure us to continue to go into their trap, and now we have disrupted their plans, then we will continue to disrupt their next move." Since they led us to the Kowloon Bridge, we took a long detour to the northwest of Chongde Gate to attack. ”

Liu Xingzhi frowned noncommittally, "Everything is arranged by my father." ”

Just as Liu Xun and others led the army to Chongde Gate, Liu Xun was still a little uneasy, he was now full of 14,000 soldiers to fight, if he could send another army to take the Jiulong Bridge, maybe to distract the other party's attention, and then besiege the Xuanzheng Hall in the direction of the West Gate, and catch him off guard, wouldn't it be perfect. Liu Xun thought about it, and immediately ordered Hou Zhigui to lead 4,000 soldiers and horses to the direction of Jiulong Bridge.

At this time, the Xuanzheng Hall was already engulfed in the night, and the bright torches illuminated the majestic hall as red as day. Xun Mou stood outside the palace gate, looking at the closed palace door, and a trace of uneasiness slowly swelled up, and the civil and military officials on both sides were already anxious and pale, rubbing their palms together.

Yu Bingde saw that there was no news yet, so he asked impatiently: "The old man has said first, he should concentrate his forces to exterminate Liu Xun, and now ......"

"Report ......"

Xun Mou's eyes lit up when he saw the scouts coming, and he hurriedly asked, "How is the situation?" ”

The scout knelt down and replied: "General Sun has acted according to the original plan and retreated to the Jiulong Bridge, and they have also chased to the Jiulong Bridge, and now the two sides are fighting, but the subordinates have observed several times and have not seen the traitor Liu Xun commanding in the rear. ”

"How many rebels are there?"

"There were about four or five thousand of them."

Xun Mou laughed, "Okay! You go down and continue to investigate. ”

After the scouts retreated, the rest of the civil and military officials were all shocked, but when they saw that Yu Bingde was dusty, they didn't dare to ask more. Only Wei Guogong Xun Yu stepped forward and asked: "Mou'er, there are more than 10,000 rebels, and now only some of them are coming to Jiulong Bridge, which means that they have seen through our strategy, what should we do now?" ”