After Guo Xing was defeated in Zhongji, he was chased by the Youbei army along the way, and he could only lead the remnants to flee to Mobei! Pity the loyal and bloody men under his father's command, who did not die on the battlefield of the two armies, nor in the unrighteous fire of the East Customs, but all died in a foreign land and ended up in a violent corpse wilderness!

Along the way, Guo Xing watched disease, hunger, sandstorms, wolves, etc., constantly taking away his few comforts; Whether it is the shame and humiliation of the annihilation of the whole army, or the confusion and pain in the face of the death of siblings and brothers one after another, but they are powerless, and other complex emotions, little by little, Guo Xing has been created today, and this hardcore confidant of Chaolu, Qin Ba Ri.

He also recalled the desperate rout of the East Customs for countless days and nights. It is true that Shen Gui, who is insidious and cunning, cruel and murderous, is the number one enemy of his Guo family and even the entire Northern Yan Dynasty; However, the central cabinet in Yanjing City, the six ministries of the three provinces, and even the Tianyou Emperor who watched from the sidelines, are these high-ranking big men really so clean? Of course, the main responsibility for the rout of the Northern Expedition, as the commander of the Guo family, is naturally unshirkable; However, Zhou Yuanqing and those court officials who were eager to share their military exploits were also accomplices of Shen Gui and Youbei Sanlu!

Regardless of whether the Pingbei Army chooses to hold on to the changes, or to mobilize the whole army and drive straight into the enemy's territory, the Pegasus Ting of all parties and factions in Yanjing City flies to the East Customs like snowflakes every day; Everyone put forward a plan for marching, everyone put forward an opinion on the use of troops, everyone wanted a piece of the pie, and everyone represented a huge force behind them.

This situation is like the limbs and brains of his Guo family's father and son, which are firmly bound by several ropes; And the other end of the rope is firmly in the hands of all the officials in Beijing! If they can be dragged in the same direction, the Pingbei army can barely support it! But they have different opinions, and there is no reason for the Northern Expedition to be undefeated?

With this painful defeat experience before, how could Guo Xing tolerate Qilin Jun meddling in operational command matters at this time? However, his close friend and current lord Chaolu Great Khan, due to the lack of military and financial resources, had to choose a temporary alliance with Nan Kangditing! As the saying goes, if you don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, more than eighty percent of the infantry troops under your command are allies found by Diting, and all logistical baggage, including siege equipment, are also supported by Diting; Even if you are not satisfied with Qilin-kun, you must not speak ill of it!

Guo Xing forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and wanted to wave his hand to shake Qilinjun away, but the other party was a top master in the rivers and lakes, and he tried several times to no avail, and was finally forced to give up this idea.

suffered double humiliation, but Guo Xing regained his composure. After he calmed down his mind, he stepped forward and leaned down on him and said:

"The greater the casualties of the Huashen Sect, the more benefits it will be to Di Ting in the future!"

After saying this, he took advantage of the fact that Qilin Jun was still stunned, and took out the general sword at his waist and swung it forward:

"Put!"

With a single word, countless rockets soared into the air, dyeing half of the sky with a hint of red!

The rockets that obscured the sky and the sun certainly did not go to the defenders on the city walls; The rocket was like countless small torches, outlining a tall and graceful parabola, directly over the northern wall of the flesh mill, and landed in the city of Taining, where more than 10,000 civilians lived.

Long before the end of the battle began, He Xianling and General Wan had already been on guard against rockets. The brazier for ignition had just been placed in front of the archers; While going into battle to defend against the enemy, Wan Zhihai, who was also paying attention to the enemy's movements, ordered a vanguard soldier beside him to ring the warning bell.

At this moment, He Xinnian is directing the people of the city to lay manure for fire prevention on the roof of their houses; Now that the alarm bell is ringing, all the soldiers and civilians have found good cover to avoid the rain of arrows according to the matter, although the action is not fast and skillful, but due to Wan Zhihai's timely warning, there is still no problem in avoiding danger. After the first rain of arrows, except for a few shops that had not yet had time to do fire treatment, only a dozen innocent people died in the rain of arrows. I have to say that this level of casualties is already a miracle!

He Xinnian and the people of Taining County are hiding in a foul-smelling stable; When he saw that the first round of rockets had stopped, he quickly struck the gong three times in succession, signaling all the people in the public gate to restrain the people around him, in case the enemy might make up the second round!

Sure enough, a moment later, one after another feathered arrows burning with flames descended on Taining County again! Even though the fire prevention treatment had been done in advance, there were still several thick clouds of smoke floating in the city; Seeing this scene, He Xinnian was also a little anxious, and hurriedly rang the gong frantically, signaling Zhu Gui, who didn't know where to hide, and quickly took the three firefighting teams organized in advance to extinguish the fire.

Although Taining is a small county, due to its extremely special geographical location, there are not many houses in the city, but merchants and warehouses abound. After the war came, there were not a few misers who sacrificed their lives and money, and anyone had to smear fireproof feces all over their roofs before they could take care of the safety of the warehouses and shops. Now that the second round of rockets has fallen, many shops have seen open flames! If the fire expands and eventually becomes a sea of fire, then the four gates that were originally blocked to prevent the enemy cavalry from entering the city in large numbers will immediately become a ghost gate that kills nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians in the city!

Hezhi County itself does not know whether the three firefighting teams can withstand the overwhelming rocket rain and complete the important task of firefighting and rescue with only a few large door panels covered with wet cloths; However, now that he is the head of a county in Taining, he must do this, and he can only do so.

After five rounds of rockets, the entire inner city of Taining was already full of smoke; What the results of Zhu Gui and the three firefighting teams were, Guo Xing, who was directing the siege outside the city, didn't know, and he wasn't interested in knowing; Because the two slightly dilapidated north city gates were finally smashed to pieces by their own rushing car, revealing dirt bags and countless debris behind the doors......

It turned out that the deep and wide city gate hole had already been tightly blocked by them!

This kind of self-cutting and retreating situation is indeed an unexpected surprise for Guo Xing. He never thought that this small county in Taining, with only 2,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 people, would put on this posture of fighting to the death and not retreating! He frowned and looked at the scorching battle on the north wall, and then looked at the Hua Feng battalion behind him, which was ready to attack, and finally made a decision to beat himself up.

"Listen to me! The remaining soldiers of the battalions of the Shenfeng Army were immediately divided into two teams; One team storms the west wall, and one team storms the east wall! All the storming vehicles are on standby, each team carries two ladders and a number of bamboo ladders, so there is no need to keep reserves and attack with all their might! ”

On the battlefield, military orders are like mountains, not to mention that these believers of the Huashen Sect have different ideas from ordinary people. All they think about is how to "practice merit" and what glory and wealth they can enjoy after ascending. I don't care about the stinky skin of this life at all; What's more, most of these people are from the bottom of the poor people, and they don't know anything about the affairs of the soldiers, so how can they see Guo Xing's command mistakes?

The first two ladders on the north wall had been burned into two fire dragons by the fierce fire oil canisters; However, those simple bamboo ladders have been stubbornly defended by the enemy troops who climbed the city wall first! A steady stream of enemy troops climbed the city walls, crowding the already narrow corridors into overcrowding.

In this case, there is no room for weapons such as spears; Wan Zhihai had already drawn out the battle knife at his waist and slashed towards every enemy who dared to appear in front of him! He is a veteran of the battlefield and has very old experience in how to save and distribute physical strength; However, in the face of the continuous influx of enemy troops on the city wall, he still became more and more murderous, colder and slower......

Suddenly, a young man about fifteen or sixteen years old, holding a curly-bladed war knife in both hands, was squeezed in front of him by the crowd; This is a delicate and immature face, but the left cheek should be splashed with tung oil droplets, and a huge and terrifying blister; The low-quality rotten leather armor on his body was cut off by someone's sword, along with his left shoulder, and hung diagonally on his thin body.

Wan Zhihai once suffered an injury as serious as him, and the sharp pain like cutting out the flesh would jump from the soles of his feet to the top of the scalp, which could not be relieved at all, and could not be touched; This level of severe pain will make people feel weak, sweat like rain, and muscles and bones will also make uncontrollable violent shaking! There are also many people who can't bear this severe pain, or they simply unconsciously clench their teeth, and finally chew their tongues alive!

However, the teenager opposite him didn't have the normal reaction of human beings at all! As if he didn't feel pain, his bloodshot eyes widened, and he raised the broken knife full of gaps and curls to the top of his head, and opened his big chic mouth, roaring like the loss of a wild beast, and stumbling at himself in the head!

To be sure, even though the war between the two sides has been going on so far, it has only been a mere two quarters of an hour; However, Wan Zhihai, the defender who climbed the city tower and took the lead in killing the enemy, had already changed four swords, and even cut off the necks of no less than 30 enemy soldiers with his own hands! However, even so, he looked at this young and thin young man, and a very familiar feeling was born in his heart.

When he first joined the army, he once met an enemy with a big waist on the battlefield, waving a big sword in his hand at him; He was only seventeen years old at the time, and he experienced this feeling for the first time in his life.

If this feeling is embodied in the other person, it can be called madness; And if you are facing a madman who has fallen into madness, then this feeling can be called death!