It turned out that Yelu Deguang made the same mistake as Kang Huaizhen, although he aimed at Xu Wen's heart and shot it, but Xu Wen's heart was slightly off, and it was not immediately fatal. But Xu Wen was already sick for a long time, and he was shot by the arrow of Yelu Deguang, and his vitality could be said to be cut off, but Xu Wen was worried about the gains and losses of Weizhou City, and stood up at the last moment.

"Shang ...... General Shang, let the soldiers stabilize their positions, transfer reserve soldiers to assist in defending the city, the general is here to watch, as long as the general does not fall, Zhu Wen must not be allowed to capture Weizhou City. Xu Wen said with a firm face, and after speaking, his slightly bent body stood straight, and his eyes looked at the city without blinking. What everyone didn't notice was that after Xu Wen said this, the look in his eyes disappeared secretly, and his eyes became hollow.

However, it is said that the soldiers defending the city saw Xu Wen's miraculous resurrection, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they stabilized their positions under the command of Shang Rang, Wang Yanzhang, Ge Congzhou, Fang Wenchong, Luo Hou, and Li Maozhen.

Kang Huaizhen's two sons, one of his own sons, Kang Fei, was shot to death by a stray arrow in the city because of his greed for merit, and Kang Sheng, a righteous son, was hit in the neck by a human stone thrown from the city and died.

"Impossible, this is impossible, I obviously saw Xu Wen being pierced through the heart by Deguang's arrow, how could he stand well in the city?" When Zhu Wen heard the news from the retreating soldiers, he immediately became furious.

"Your Majesty, the villain and others saw Xu Wen standing at the head of the city with their own eyes, and looked at me with disdain." Soldier's Road.

"Your Majesty, the arrow just now did hit Xu Wen, in our opinion, he may be holding on now, so our army can attack Weizhou City day and night, urging Xu Wen's arrow wound to do, as long as Xu Wen dies, Weizhou City will be our army's." The staff in the army pondered a result, and said.

The "rumbling" war drums did not stop all night, the tragic fighting continued, the head of Weizhou City became a huge meat grinder, whether it was the soldiers of the Liang army or the soldiers defending the city, they all died here, and the corpses were piled up under the city in a thick layer.

The sky brightened up again, and Zhu Wen looked at Jia Mengguan, who was still fluttering the flag of the Tang Army, spat blood violently, and fell off his horse. Zhu Wen's army hurriedly collected his troops and led the army back to the camp.

"Your Majesty, what are you doing?" After Zhu Wen was rescued, a military general asked.

Zhu Wen said with a pale face, "Everyone, I'm afraid I'm going to die, I just dreamed that my righteous brother asked me to leave together." Ladies and gentlemen, I regret that I didn't listen to you at the beginning, and I didn't come to seize this Weizhou City. After I die, you can take charge of the troops of our army and return to the division calmly, I just hope that I can protect the lives of those three angry children, righteous brother, for my brother to accompany you. ”

Zhu Wen was so angry that he vomited blood and died in the army, and several heavy generals packed up the remnants of the defeated generals, and retreated fifty miles on the same day, retreating to Zhenzhou in defeat.

But he said that after Zhu Wen withdrew his army, Shang Rang ran over with a happy face and said, "General, Zhu Wen's army has withdrawn, let's hold Weizhou City." After speaking, seeing that Xu Wen didn't have a trace of expression, he said it again, only to hear Xu Jing on the side with tears on his face, "Father, I have already returned to the west......

Hearing the news of Xu Wen's death, every household in Weizhou City wore filial piety, and everyone cried, and the mourning shook the sky.

Half a day after the Liang army fled, Duan Mingyu led the army to Weizhou City, and when he saw Dai Xiao, every household in the city, Duan Mingyu sighed in his heart, it seems that this battle has lost many soldiers, and the people are so miserable.

When Duan Mingyu learned that Xu Wen would not take a step back until death in order to guard Weizhou City, he cried loudly.

"Xu Wen is really the minister of this king, he would rather die than take a step back, he is really a model for all the armies, even ten Wei Prefectures can't exchange for one Xu Wen. Sorry Xu Wen, sad Xu Wen. Xu Wen is gone, and half of the Tang Dynasty will not be stable. Pass my handsome order and ...... to Li Ye Ahem, the emperor wrote a letter requesting that Xu Wen be posthumously crowned as the Duke of Wuning, and the hereditary duke within three generations since then. After three generations, each generation will be demoted to a knighthood, and another reward will be awarded for meritorious service. ”

Xu Wen's death hit Duan Mingyu very hard, Xu Wen has always been Duan Mingyu's confidant, he is extremely capable, Duan Mingyu is at ease to use, with Xu Wen guarding Weizhou, Duan Mingyu can save half of his heart.

It seems that the emperors of the Central Plains are keen to expand their territory and wave their troops to the Northern Expedition, so that the city of Weizhou is lively again, and there is a busy hustle and bustle of preparing for war everywhere.

The thickness of the Tang Dynasty's savings is really extraordinary, the previous Zhang Jun's Northern Expedition, using lightning tactics, advancing fast, defeating fast, soldiers and horses lost nearly one-third, the loss of grain and straw is not large, so the savings are enough to support another national war, inside and outside the city of Weizhou, there are groups of cars and horses from the south to the north, and the mighty and powerful armies can be seen everywhere coming and going, otherwise it is the brigade of soldiers who drive donkeys and horses to transport grain and straw to carry heavy loads come and go.

However, the difference from the past is that when the infantry of the brigade comes and goes in a hurry, there are often thousands of horses for a team of cavalry trotters to trample on the iron hooves, a gust of wind swept past them, the original configuration of the Tang Army did not have such a large number of cavalry, this is Duan Mingyu's divine strategy soldiers, the original Tang Army infantry can be regarded as one of the strongest troops in the world, far to attack under the city of Zhenzhou, killing all kinds of reinforcements to lose their armor, but the mobility is insufficient, can not effectively kill the enemy's defeated soldiers, expand the results; Unable to grasp the initiative of the battle situation, the enemy will be saved, and lead the enemy by the nose.

This is because Zhang Jun and Wei Zhaodu moved selfishly, and did not want to share the credit with Duan Mingyu's old department in the Shence Army, so they used a large number of infantry, as the main force of the cavalry, the Shence Army was left behind, and now suddenly so many well-trained cavalry have been added, our superior enemy does not have, and we also have the enemy's advantage, what is the result of the Northern Expedition again, it is really exciting, although it has just gone through a big defeat, at least the scholars and scholars have a very optimistic attitude towards this battle, the streets and alleys, Goolan wine shops, They could often be heard assessing the odds of Duan Wangye's personal expedition.

Of course, if this battle is still lost, I am afraid that the heaviest blow to the Central Plains will not be material, but psychological, from then on the Central Plains people will suffer from Khitan and Liangphobia, for a long time, I am afraid that they will not have the courage to use troops against the Northern Dynasties again.

Luoyang River, Bianliang River, Weizhou River, built a transportation lifeline, the river is also ships back and forth day and night, subordinate to the official Cao transport team spared no expense to fully support, but also invested a large number of new warships and transport ships, enough to ensure the transportation of grain from the south to the north and the transportation of various baggage of the army.