The remnant sun is like blood reflected on the city wall of Shuzhou, and the banner of Yue is erected high. The Zhenguo army left one part of the men and horses to defend the city, and the other part camped outside the southern city, in addition to several artillery ships to block the river. The Liao army stormed Shuzhou for more than ten days in a row, but they could not advance an inch, and they could not even go around the city. Between the barracks of the two armies of the Liao and Song dynasties, there were corpses of soldiers.

Shuzhou originally only had more than 300 defenders, and in addition, Qiu Hong of Zhizhou gathered 2,000 township soldiers, and before the arrival of the Zhenguo army, he had repelled the harassment of Li Cheng's troops several times. However, in May, tens of thousands of Liao troops marched westward, and the notorious general Tiemuge personally led the troops. The situation was extremely critical, and when Qiu Hong thought that he could only be martyred with the city, Yang Zaixing and Wang Gui, the forwards of the Zhenguo Army, rushed to Shuzhou in time. Seeing the word "Yue" and the banner of "Zhenguo" in the distance, the soldiers and civilians of the city were overjoyed.

In order to enter Shuzhou in front of the Liao army, the various units of the Zhenguo army marched in a hurry for more than ten days. The forward cavalry did not even bother to eat, and were hungry all the way, and after entering the city, they hurriedly ate some war meals. Wang Gui left a small number of men and horses to assist the soldiers and civilians of Shuzhou to defend the city, and personally led the front army out of the city to meet the enemy.

The vanguard of the Liao army was the rebel army of Li Chengsuo. Seeing the banner of the Zhenguo Army from afar, he couldn't help but be shocked, and bullied the few soldiers of the Zhenguo Army, and immediately rushed forward to rob the city.

At this time, Yang Zaixing led more than 500 cavalry to launch a frontal arrow formation, attacking the crowd with a small number of people, and the enemy army was in short contact, clashes before and after three times, invincible. However, the enemy army was too much, and although it could not resist the cavalry of the Zhenguo army, it was defeated and reunited, and the cavalry led by Yang Zaixing was wrapped in it. In the middle of the battlefield, the guns and axes are like a forest, the arrows are like rain, hundreds of cavalry of the Zhenguo Army and the Liao army are fighting endlessly, and even Yang Zaixing, the commander of the cavalry, is also injured by the mount and falls from the horse, he is surrounded by the enemy, he takes off the iron pocket, dances the gun with both hands, and shouts loudly: "I am Yang Zaixing of Xiangzhou, if Li Cheng has the courage, he can come to fight to the death!" "The iron spear stabbed several Liao troops in a row, making the enemy all frightened.

At this time, Wang Gui seized the opportunity and led the cavalry of the front army to storm the Liao formation, and where the iron cavalry of the more than 3,000 towns and national armies passed, it was like an iron stream rampage, and the Liao army was rushed to pieces, and the army was defeated. The battle lasted for more than an hour, the Zhenguo army killed seven rebel generals, captured more than 70 prisoners alive, captured more than 80 horses, and Yang Zaixing led the cavalry to chase more than ten miles before collecting troops and returning to the city. The battle town army defeated the front of the Liao army with a large number of outnumbered people, and completely controlled Shuzhou City and the surrounding area in its hands. The soldiers and civilians of Shuzhou were full of jubilation, and the cheers were heard for miles. After Yue Fei arrived at the Zhenguo Army, he heard that he had won the first battle, and under great joy, he reported 537 meritorious soldiers, and asked the Prime Minister's Mansion to hold Shuzhou.

The next day, Li Cheng's troops attacked again, and Yue Fei personally broke through the enemy formation. The rebels were unable to compete with the Zhenguo army, so they had to build a camp east of Shuzhou and wait for Tiemuge to lead the main force of the Liao army. Worried that the Liao army was mostly cavalry, the Zhenguo army also built long bases and antlers outside Shuzhou City, on the one hand, Yue Fei never wanted to defend the city to the death, and on the other hand, it also blocked the possibility of the Liao army passing around the city. The plains outside Shuzhou are narrow, with rugged and densely forested mountains to the north and large rivers to the south. After Tiemuge led the army to arrive, the two sides repeatedly fought a tug-of-war in Shuzhou City and the Zhenguo army camp. The soldiers and civilians of Shuzhou City and nearby prefectures and counties knew that once Shuzhou City was broken, everyone would be covered with no eggs, and they also did their best to help the Zhenguo army fight. However, more than 10,000 people and horses of the Zhenguo army marched in a hurry, did not carry much grain and grass, and after a series of battles, more than ten days later, Shuzhou grain and grass were about to run out. At this time, the food and salary were not passed, and the countryside and mountain villages had long been ruined by the Liao army, and the Zhenguo army was almost to the point of killing horses for food.

"Goo-" Yang Zaixing's stomach rang empty, he smiled bitterly and touched the side of his mouth. Since entering Shuzhou, the people of Shuzhou have provided all the grain and grass to the Zhenguo army, and a large number of people in the city have starved to death, even to the point of cannibalism. The envoy of Yue Jiedu, like the army, spends his days with two bowls of coarse vegetable porridge every day. Qiu Hong, the governor of Shuzhou, personally led the people to dig wild vegetables and other vegetables in the mountains north of the city to supply military food.

The Liao army brought iron barrels and heavy artillery from Jiangning, and bombarded the city walls of Shuzhou day and night, and the roar of the artillery disturbed people without resting. The Zhenguo army itself also bombarded it with artillery, and both sides continued to repair and strengthen their own strongholds while bombarding.

The drums sounded, and when it was time to patrol again, Yang Zaixing stood up from afar. He took two of his own soldiers and walked out of the camp, and the moonlight shone on the earth like mercury, and the night seemed very quiet. The Liao army seems to be waiting for the Zhenguo army to run out of food, and the attack in the past few days has not been as fierce as before. Yang Zaixing had the feeling of being watched and waiting by a group of hungry wolves, and he was also extremely annoyed.

"Raised by the dog," Yang Zaixing muttered, "a dog thief who can't kill enough!" He patrolled the camp all the way, drank the password, and when he passed through a camp, he suddenly smelled a smell of meat, Yang Zaixing wondered in his heart, at this time, how could there be meat, could someone disobey Yue Jiedu's strict order and kill horses for food. Thinking of killing horses, Yang Zaixing, the commander of the cavalry, couldn't help but have a hint of coldness in his eyes. Just three days ago, the army beheaded five soldiers who killed horses, and the voices of those scrawny soldiers who pleaded before death were still in their ears, but I didn't expect that someone still knew it.

Before following the smell to a camp, there was no fire outside, only a hint of red light shining through the cracks in the camp. This group of people knew that they had violated military discipline, but they did it in hiding. Yang Zaixing snorted coldly, and he gestured to the two relatives to let them stand in place, so as not to alarm the suspect. Holding the knife on his waist, he cautiously approached the tent, gently lifted the curtain, and a ball of fire came into view, seven or eight yellow-faced and thin-skinned soldiers were surrounding an iron pot, looking directly into the pot with their eyes, and they didn't even notice Yang Zaixing who opened the tent and entered.

"Hmph, what a guts!"

Hearing this cold drink, several soldiers turned their heads to see that it was Yang Zaixing, who was the commander of the camp, and suddenly the three souls were frightened and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Yang Zaixing's martial arts are strong, and when he was deeply trapped in the Liao array, dozens of enemies surrounded him, and he couldn't get close, but he stabbed several people to death. Even if these soldiers tried to resist, they were not sure of success, so they could only beg him to let him go.

"Spare your life!" "Lord Yang, we are also forced to wait."

Yang Zaixing asked: "Killing a horse is a capital crime, don't you know?" He looked at these people coldly, but there was regret in his eyes. The forward cavalry is the essence of the Zhenguo army, and the cavalry of Yang Zaixing's Tabai battalion is an elite scout. Yang Zaixing recognized five of them, all of whom were personally asked for credit by Yue Shuai the day before yesterday. However, the military order is like a mountain, if the killing of horses is connived, within ten days, the Zhenguo army will have no cavalry. No matter how a few soldiers pleaded, Yang Zaixing only said that he acted impartially, let them tie themselves up, and take them to Yue Shuai to ask for guilt.

Yue Fei has always had extremely strict military law since he ordered troops across the sea, and several soldiers heard that Yang Zaixing was going to hand them over to Yue Fei, and they looked at each other a few times, and they couldn't help but look like dirt, thinking that they would definitely die. One of them turned red, his eyes rolled slightly, he gritted his teeth, and asked, "Lord Yang, if we didn't kill horses and eat meat, then it wouldn't be a capital crime?" ”

"Not horse meat? What kind of meat is that? Yang Zaixing thought of a possibility, gasped in his heart, and stared at the soldier.

Several soldiers looked at each other, and the red-faced eater Ai Ai said, "This is cut back from the front of the battle." In any case, I still can't say the word "human flesh". The Zhenguo Army and the Liao Army fought for days, and the casualties on both sides were not small. The Zhenguo army only collected and buried the corpses for Paoze, while the generals of the Liao army only urged the soldiers and horses to continue to attack the Song army camp, and had no intention of collecting the corpses, leaving countless corpses on the battlefield, and the smell of rancid smell was almost disgusting.

Yang Zaixing frowned and looked at the iron pot, his eyes changed several times. This kind of thing, when he was in the green forest, had only heard of it. This matter can be big or small, it is strictly forbidden to kill horses and eat meat in the Zhenguo army, and it is also strictly forbidden to slaughter private cattle, but eating the meat of the enemy is not expressly prohibited. If it weren't for this situation, the soldiers would not have been forced to this point.

Seven or eight soldiers looked at Yang Zaixing worriedly, not knowing what he would do.

At this moment, the curtain of the camp tent was suddenly opened, and a gust of wind blew the flames into a rattling sound, and several soldiers turned their heads to look, and couldn't help but turn pale, only to see that the festival made Yue Fei's face as cold as iron, standing at the door of the camp tent. Zhang Xian, the commander of the Beiwei battalion, took several personal soldiers and stood behind the marshal. Yang Zaixing is the commander of the cavalry, and the soldiers in the battalion committed crimes at his hands, and he can still beg for mercy. But when Yue Fei ran into it himself, these soldiers didn't even rush to ask for mercy, but several of them straightened up, looking like a good man doing things and just asking for death.

"What's going on?"

Yang Zaixing told the story of Shicai, the matter has come to this point, and he can only wait for Yue Shuai's decision.

Yue Fei's face sank like water, no one could see what he was thinking, he slowly glanced at the few soldiers of the White Battalion. A pair of tiger eyes looked at it, and it suddenly made people feel cold, several soldiers barely held on, and one of them moved his lips slightly, and he didn't say mercy after all.

After a long time, Yue Fei walked to the iron pot and stirred it in the pot with the iron spoon next to him, and he used the spoon to lift out some of the soup. "Setsudo-sama!" Zhang Xian's face changed suddenly, and he shouted out in a lost voice. Yue Fei's face was slightly gloomy, and he sighed: "The soldier serves the country with all his heart, and he ends up like this, and he flies." He raised his hand and drank the soup in the spoon, frowned slightly, turned to face a few soldiers with shocked faces, and said coldly: "No matter how hungry you are, you can only cut the flesh of Hulu!" ”

"Yes!" Several soldiers subconsciously replied loudly. While his mind was still blank, the knots had already left. "You're in luck!" Yang Zaixing dropped this sentence and also lifted the tent and left. Walking around the life and death pass, the soldiers stood in the tent dumbfounded, some people's mouths were bitter, and some people's eyes were soaked with tears.