When the eastern sky was only revealing the whiteness of the fish's belly, the attack of the Turpents began. Around the walled gate, more than 300 Zhao soldiers and more than 2,000 enemies fought to the death. Hundreds of people formed a phalanx more than 100 steps outside the walled gate, waiting for the opportunity to assault; More of the Turgitz soldiers carried scimitars and howled like wolves, and they rushed up like more than a dozen wooden ladder ants on the wall. The roars, echoes, weapons blocking, and muffled snorts on the walls barely stopped. From midnight to noon, all morning, the front of the camp was being tested at any time, and there was no end in sight to the fierce fighting. A section of the wall, which was less than 180 paces, was sprayed with the blood of soldiers on both sides, and in many places the yellow-brown rammed earth was completely soaked with blood, turning a blackened crimson. Cast iron helmets and leather hats were visible on the walls, and bald tails and feathered arrows and broken weapons were thrown to the ground. In the corners on both sides of the wall, the corpses of soldiers killed on both sides were piled up indiscriminately, and some of the corpses had no time to be carried, so they were kicked and trampled under the feet of the people, and the battle was too tight to be fought so tightly that no one could spare the manpower to clean up the battlefield.

The walled wall has changed hands several times, and each time Ji Zheng took it back with the death squad. Fortunately, Shang Cheng learned this hand from the captain of the Wei Army who died here before, and organized fifty veterans into two groups of reserves to take turns to plug the hole, otherwise this camp would have been kicked flat by the enemy army a long time ago.

The sun of early April has lifted the veil of spring warmth, revealing its fiery face, spewing out enthusiasm and scorching the earth. A string of hurried horns suddenly sounded in the distance, and with the sound of the horns, a large tent soldier wearing brown leather armor split out of the large phalanx, and swirled and lined up in three rows to advance, and the leather boots stepped on a long circle of floating dust, plus the big tent soldier stepped forward, while the scimitar in his hand rhythmically slapped the leather shield that protected his chest, so the team of more than 100 people looked quite majestic and majestic.

Shang Cheng, who was fighting with the enemy at the head of the wall, also heard this voice. He slammed the spear in his hand into the belly of an enemy, knocking the man out of the battlement, and without looking at the man again, he took two steps and picked up a waist knife embedded in the earthen wall, and with both hands he held it diagonally and swung it diagonally from top to bottom, and the robe of a soldier with his back to him immediately burst open, and blood gushed out in an instant. The enemy immediately threw away his scimitar, turned his head high and turned his hands behind his back, scratching and scratching desperately on his back, staggering a few steps under his feet, and then planted himself headlong on the wall.

When Shang Cheng raised his head and looked at the big tent soldiers who came up, Ji Zheng also solved his opponent, holding the blood-soaked upper arm in his left hand, leaning over the scimitar in his right hand, and glanced at the wall: "I'm afraid I can't hold it." ”

"It's just psychological warfare." Shang Cheng snorted in his nose, noncommittal to Ji Zheng's words, turned his head to avoid the scimitar swung by an enemy who suddenly jumped onto the battlement, and reached out one by one The Sudden Exhaustion Man who jumped on the battlement had a half-cut waist knife stuck in his chest, and he howled and rolled down the battlement, and asked without replying, "How many people do you still have in your hands?" ”

Ji Zheng followed behind Shang Cheng, licking the blood that flowed to his mouth and said, "There are less than fifteen people who can stand up." ”

Shang Cheng bit his cheeks, pinched the neck of an enemy and slammed it a corner of masonry protruding from the rammed earth at the head of the wall, and with a pop, the body of the Tu Tu Ci who had just screamed wow-wow suddenly stiffened, and his hands and feet immediately drooped down...... He let go of his hand, didn't care about the enemy's life or death, turned to look at Ji Zheng, and asked, "Did the people who went to the old camp to move the rescuers come back?" ”

"I'm back." Ji Zheng spat out the blood in his mouth and said, "General Li said that no one could be sent; He also said that whoever dared to retreat from the battle would be an example for the officials who died in front of him. ”

Since he learned from Fan Quan that there were 120,000 copper coins in the old camp, Shang Chengcheng had already expected that he would not be able to get more manpower, so he was not surprised at all by General Li's words that Ji Zheng relayed. He arched his mouth with his tongue against his upper lip and thought for a while, he had already made up his mind, and raised his voice and shouted: "Zhao Shishi!" Zhao Shishi, who was guarding a battlement in front of him, heard him shout, and immediately handed over the position to a villager and ran over.

"Go and pass on my order: set fire to the warehouse!"

Zhao Shishi's mouth responded, and he jumped off the wall, rolled on the ground, and ran when he got up.

"Baokan!"

"Here!" Bao Shichang, who had become a bloody man, appeared in response.

"Herald: Everyone go to the wall!" A feather arrow jumped between Shang Cheng's ears and shoulders, but the three of them stood in place without even moving their eyebrows.

"Yes!"

Shang Cheng looked at the black smoke billowing up one column after another in the camp, looked at the soldiers who walked up to the wall with a tired expressionless face, and said to Ji Zheng: "Send your people too." There is no need to leave reserves. Ji Zheng immediately took out a small red flag from his arms, turned his back and waved it a few times, and more than a dozen soldiers sitting in the corner stood up silently, and went up the wooden ladder with a straight knife to the left and right walls.

…… In the end, the Turks failed to capture the C-shaped battalion, and they failed to break through the old camp of the Zhao army, and when everyone thought that the defeat of the Zhao army was only a matter of time, the Turks once again sounded the horn of retreat. This time it was a real retreat, and they gave up not only the old battalion and the C-shaped battalion at their fingertips, but also the E-shaped battalion that had already been occupied, and in the billowing black smoke rising from the two battalions of the E-character and C-shaped camps, the Tuqi people slowly but without hesitation retreated to the north.

When the black military flag of the Tuqi people gradually faded a few miles away, the red military flag of Da Zhao appeared on the official road to the south. This is 8,000 reinforcements coming through Nanzheng......

In the next two days, in order to compete for several important villages around the county seat of Yixian, a series of battles took place between the Zhao army and the Tuqi army; On the 10th day of the fourth month, the southbound army of Tujici and the northbound Yanshan Guards fought fiercely for a day near Zhoujiazhai near Huojiabao, north of Yixian County, and west of Huojiabao. On April 11, the various divisions of the Tuqi people scattered in Yixian County began to assemble in Zhoujiazhai and retreated north one after another; On the evening of the 12th, the Tuqi people abandoned Zhoujiazhai; On the thirteenth, Panlongling was abandoned......

That is, on the day when the Tuqi people abandoned Panlongling, the westward Tuqi people stopped besieging Duanzhou Capital, carried the plundered materials, drove the captured population, and began to retreat to Beizheng.

That is, in the evening of this day, more than 500 people from the two battalions and seven posts of the Yanshan Right Army set out from the Nanguan camp in Yixian County, and suddenly appeared near Zhao Ji, who was still in the hands of the Tuqi people. When entering the market town, the Zhao army only encountered sporadic resistance, and the only fierce battle occurred when attacking an old house in a high-walled compound, when Zhao **** suppressed the Tu Shi people at the head of the wall, and found Heng Mu to break open the gate, dozens of Tu Shi soldiers who were blocked in the house did not cause any trouble to the Zhao army.

"Leave two alive." This was the only order Shang Cheng had given before the door of the mansion burst open.

Now he wears a double-winged sideburns and an iron scarf, wears a copper-plated cooked leather soft armor that only senior officers above the rank of lieutenant are qualified to wear, hangs a waist knife around his waist, pierces his legs, and a pair of soft-soled leather boots on his feet, staring coldly at the old mansion, which is becoming more and more dark and deep in the deep twilight, and slowly steps up the steps. His soldiers, armed with torches and guns, rushed from both sides of him into the front yard. Several of the corpses of the Turts lay in the courtyard, and in the corner gate on the right lay two men who had been cut to a bloody pulp; The short, rapid sound of weapons coming from the left and right sides and from behind, as well as the long shouts of people before they died.

He did not enter the hall, but stood quietly in the courtyard with the handle of his knife pressed. Baukan scattered around him with a few soldiers.

Soon, two officers in the garb of a sentry commander came out of the corner gates on the left and right sides, walked up to him and saluted with their arms, and then told him that there were no big tent soldiers here, and that there were only sixty or seventy tribal soldiers, some of whom were wounded.

"Have you asked?" Shang Cheng asked, staring at the lintel of the hall. There is a large gray-white rectangular patch on the lintel, which is obviously the vacancy that has been exposed after the plaque has been removed, and the gray-white is the dust accumulated over the years.

"I asked, the guard of the Turpent Dog passed in a short time, and there were either wounded soldiers left here, or there were no mounts left behind."

"How many guards are there?"

"About five hundred people, less than six hundred horses. Among them were one hundred and twenty soldiers. ”

Five hundred, and six hundred horses. Shang Cheng's eyebrows jumped. If he didn't have horses, he could still find a way to leave some of the five hundred people, but the enemy was cavalry, and the transfer movement was fast, and the fifty miles north from Zhao Ji were all official roads of Pingchuan, which was suitable for the march of the Turbulent Ci; Besides, there are more than 100 tent soldiers. Forget it, he dispelled the thought of catching up, inhaled to relax his nervous mood, and asked with his lips, "What else?" ”

"There were thirty or forty corpses in the firewood house and yard in the backyard, mostly women and dolls under the age of ten. According to the servants of the family who were found, these were taken captive, and we examined them one by one,......"

Shang Cheng's heart chuckled, and one by one, the people who had changed from retreating to fleeing for their lives began to kill! His breath grew heavy, and his hand on the hilt of his sword trembled. His lips tensed, staring at the swarthy darkness of the hall.

“…… There is no pregnant woman that adults are looking for. ”

As soon as he heard his subordinates say this, Shang Cheng's almost static and sluggish heart immediately thumped wildly. His cheeks also regained a trace of blood, and he swallowed and said: "Continue to search to see if there are any enemies missing, and you must pay attention to whether there are any villagers in Zhuanghu who have survived, and treat them in time." Leave two obedient mouths, and cut the rest. Find out what's in the house and make it yourself. ”

The two sentinels took the order. Fan Quan and Ji Zheng entered the courtyard from the outside, and announced that the entire Zhao Ji Tuqi people had been cleared, leaving four alive, and leading the soldiers to find the villagers who had been imprisoned. They went separately to see a woman with a doll, but when they inquired, they couldn't find a young pregnant woman who was six months pregnant.

After listening to their report, Shang Cheng's mood was both nervous and relaxed, nervous that Lianniang might still be in the hands of Tu Quanci, and might have been taken to Beizheng; Relaxedly, Lian Niang may still be alive. When he attacked Zhoujiazhai, he learned from a woman who was rescued by the guards that Lianniang was still alive, but when the Tuqi people fled, the first people to take it away were Lianniang......

"Set up two guards, and we'll rest here tonight. Send someone to inform General Li that the enemy has abandoned Zhao Ji. Send sharp scouts to reconnoiter north along the official road to find out the situation along the road......"

He was giving orders to the two sentinels, and Zhao Shishi dragged his feet in from the outside like a ghost, and he didn't wake up after being greeted two or three times in a row, and still stared at him with a look of lost soul.

Shang Cheng's brows furrowed together, his eyes narrowed as if he wanted to see through Zhao Shishi, and asked slowly, "You, have you seen Lianniang?" ”

"Huh?" Zhao Shishi suddenly stared at his eyes and screamed, and it took him a long time to wake up, his eyes were flustered to avoid Shang Cheng's inquiring gaze, and he shook his head vigorously and said, "No, I didn't see it, I ...... How could I see my sister-in-law. He forced a smile on his face and said in a hoarse voice, "I...... If I see my sister-in-law, will I tell ......" He suddenly couldn't speak, covered his face and squatted on the ground, tears suddenly flowed out of his fingers, and he cried whining, "Can I not tell you?" …… Woo, my aunt, my aunt's family of nine...... Nine mouths, all dead...... All dead...... Ahh......h It's miserable......"

Shang Cheng stared at Zhao Shishi, who was almost curled up in a ball, without saying a word, and said slowly after a long time: "You get up and take me to see your aunt's family." One by one, the captives were brought over and their heads were used to pay tribute to our loved ones. ”

The last sentence burst out between his teeth.