Two horns sounded, Fan Sui stood under the general flag, his expression changed, how to see the situation on the side of the mountain bay, he could only see a commotion behind the flank troops arranged on both sides of the valley, the front of it had slowed down, and the two horsemen flew over from the rear, and took off the triangular flame tooth flag on their backs and waved it far away, transmitting the military information from the rear.

At least more than a thousand black-clad and masked swordsmen entered the formation from the rear of both sides, all of them were strong in martial arts, and their shots were vicious, and they broke through the three-layer military formation of the rear army in one charge.

Fan Sui's complexion was like iron, and he looked back slowly. Walking on the top of the Huangzhuang, although the courtyard wall is not wide, but it is enough to make the crossbowmen as a support, other rebel generals do not know, Fan Sui knows in his heart, the opponents encountered in front are Jiankang Banzhi, relying on the courtyard wall to line up is the real veterans of a hundred battles, and on both sides there are black-clothed masked teams, it must be Chai Xinyuan's backhand.

Although there were heavy casualties, there were at least a few hundred, and under the encouragement of the small changes in the situation, they finally stabilized their minds, and now they are moving closer to each other, ready to fight again.

And these Yangtze River water troops under his command, after hundreds of miles of running, plus a fight, finally showed fatigue.

Which 5,000 springboard warriors on the mountain road, wearing armor and carrying weights, walked the most difficult, and fought the hardest, although the phalanx was still steady, but the fatigue of the generals can be imagined. But now is the time to break the cauldron and sink the boat, so you can only grit your teeth and fight the enemy to the end.

The only consolation is that his own number is ten times that of the other party, although the mountain road is narrow, the army cannot be fully developed, he can take turns to fight, and he will grind the other party to death.

The sailors of the Yangtze River Navy once again slowly closed the queue. The soldiers and horses that rushed out one by one, and the springboard warriors who were far away on the mountain path in the second return array, still maintained a phalanx like a wall. Ban Zhi, who was trying to harass around, couldn't pick up the cheap at all, and some of them didn't open their eyes, and they got close enough to shoot a round of arrows to the ground.

In the valley road, there were blood stains of corpses everywhere, all kinds of dead and twisted bones, layer upon layer, all of them were sailors refined by Great Xia for many years, and they were consumed in this internal struggle.

The Yangtze River sailor used his power to shoot a number of rockets at Huangzhuang, the pillar of smoke rose up, Yu Jie stood on the courtyard wall, the longbow in his hand had broken the bowstring, and his body was full of wounds. The more than 500 shooters who followed him were all good men in Jiangbei for the rest of their lives, and less than half were left at this time.

Most of the eunuchs in the courtyard walls have picked up swords as the last line of defense, hunting and burning houses, and the palace maids who have been hit by arrows all over the ground.

The repeated attacks of tens of thousands of armies are like locusts, and there is no end. But the real strong army of the other party has not yet been used, and it is waiting for the defenders to show even a little flaw, so that they can go down in one go.

Looking at the eyes of the soldiers on the wall and under the wall who were preparing to die, and looking at the internal guards who were also ready to use their own lives as defenders, everyone understood that if the reinforcements did not come again, it seemed that they would not be able to keep it.

Attacked by several rounds of bows and crossbows, some palace maids and eunuchs cried and screamed, some of them scattered and hid everywhere, and some of them also gritted their teeth and shouted: "Give us armor and weapons, and we can bite the rebels twice!" ”

Zhang Shijie gasped and looked around blankly, the fight just now consumed too much energy, so he didn't know where he was for a while. Behind him, there was a big man of his own son

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Roar: "Lord Zhang, quickly retreat, the enemy has retreated to the foot of the mountain, we must line up in formation to meet the enemy's next attack." ”

A water hyacinth was suddenly handed over next to him, and Zhang Shijie took it blankly, but he couldn't open the stopper in a daze. The man who handed the water hyacinth was in his early thirties, with strong muscles and bones, and a long and messy beard on his face. He took it back silently, trying to pull out the stopper, his hands were full of blood, he pulled it out twice but slipped, and finally cut off the mouth of the gourd with a knife, which made Zhang Shijie come back to his senses.

The man handed the gourd over again and asked in a low voice, "How long are we going to fight?" There are less than 1,000 of the more than 3,000 brothers left, and if reinforcements do not arrive, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold on. ”

Zhang Shijie turned his head and looked at him coldly: "Scared? ”

The man smiled: "I'm afraid of a bird, I have three brothers, one died when the city was broken in Beiping, and the other died with Gan Feng Dashuai in Zhennan City." In the face of the two elder brothers, I can't embarrass the family------ I just want to ask, how long will this Huangzhuang hold out before reinforcements can arrive. ”

The sky is getting brighter, Yu Jie is standing on a high place, the east is almost white, and the visible place is gradually getting higher, and you can see clearly in all directions. The endless rebel army has almost surrounded the water on three sides, countless ant-like people and horses, running outside the Huangzhuang, and countless military horses, are coming, and there seems to be no end to it.

From here, the wall of the Huangzhuang courtyard is low as if lying on the ground, just a black line. Around the courtyard wall, the enemy has erected three or four stone-throwing rings, and after a while, the stone-throwing machine began to fire, and a small black dot crossed from the distance in the air, and suddenly became larger in front of the nearest, and smashed on the courtyard wall, which stirred up a large cloud of dust and smoke, and the courtyard wall shook for a while.

Under such an overwhelming military situation, Huangzhuang seems to be able to step on it with one foot. As long as the other opponents in this place are captured, or destroyed, or persuaded to surrender, even if it cannot be solved for a while, it is not a big deal. Anyway, the army must occupy this place quickly at this moment, and it will be able to grasp all the initiative.

However, the defenders in the courtyard did not have the slightest intention of fleeing.

Five miles away in the distance, five cavalry troops under command gathered in a hurry. All the cavalry of the two battalions of Guoyong and Dayong, from midnight, under the leadership of Di Xin, rushed all the way over, but it turned out that Di Xin and others returned to Jiankang and found that the imperial city had been broken by the rebels, and the queen and others did not know the life and death.

Di Xin and Han Chong discussed that the soldiers were divided into two roads, Han Chongshuai's Guoyong battalion and the rebels faced each other in the capital, Liu Zong led the army of the brave battalion out of the West Gate to rescue the line, and Di Xinshuai all the cavalry opened the way in front of the selection.

The 5,000 cavalry finally reached the heart of the entire battlefield after a series of charges. Under the hood, their faces were covered with gray sweat, and although they tried their best to stand straight and steady, some people's waists were obviously a little collapsed. The archers shook their arms uncontrollably, moving their veins, trying to recover from the soreness. Under the command of the general, a column of non-commissioned officers took turns to sit on the ground to rest, and as long as they sat on the ground, they were panting heavily. Picked up the water hyacinth and gulped down the tea.

The war horses next to them, at first they were all like tigers, but now they were sweating profusely, all hanging their heads looking for the grass and dead leaves on the road, some sergeants ignored their fatigue and wanted to die, and stuffed the sugar cubes boiled out of Jiaozhou sugar, which were easy to use, into the horses' mouths, so that these horses could recover some energy as soon as possible. After several hours of continuous running, without waiting for repairs, and continuing to serve, I am afraid that many good war horses will go out of business.

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Huangzhuang line in the meeting hall, the initial busyness is also being converged, Emperor Suzong is sitting opposite Song Ci and Jia Ru, Suzong when he learned that the battle situation outside was unfavorable, there was a fainting, but soon after, under the first aid of the internal medicine also recovered, after all, he has seen countless storms of people, the blow experienced in this life, far more than one or two, but at this time he is old, after the assassination of the prince last time, all government affairs are handed over to the queen and ministers, many Chen Jie, he does not interfere in the fact that there are not too many problems.

The stimulus of this incident caused his body to quickly cross over this night.

The other ministers were all arranged outside the hall by Song Ci and others, and only Song Ci and other ordinary ministers were accompanying him to say some comforting gossip.

"------ that year, the saint had just established the throne, the old minister was the most clear, the treacherous minister and the queen mother got power, the official family endured humiliation, and had a long talk with the old minister, some of His Majesty's governing strategies, so that the old minister was passionate, His Majesty has the ambition of the holy king, my generation is an official, it is rare to meet such a master, and I should work hard to repay."

"But the six hundred years of Great Xia have been sinking, and it is difficult to return. It is not His Majesty's fault. It's just that the nobles, civil ministers, families, and others have formed intra-party struggles. The world is full of extravagance. But we are still incompetent, although there is a master, but we can't make the world prosperous. ”

Emperor Su Zong was lying on the chair, his eyes were closed, his hands were folded in front of his chest, his fingers were gently patted, and he slowly spoke: "In my life, I thought about making a name for Confucianism in the first half of my life, and then the fifth brother suffered in Beiping, and then inherited the unification here. Later, I did a lot of things, and it was difficult to reconcile with the Confucian way. My path is not as daring to change as Shenzong, nor is it as upright as Jingzong, if objectively speaking, in order to have a good outcome of things, I am a little too forward-looking, if not, there will be no today's chaos. ”

Song Ci nodded: "How ignorant people are. The writings of the sages are also intended to bring people out of this ignorance. For thousands of years, the sage taught people to see things, taught people to make choices, made decisions, all the differences, nothing more than the long and short vision, Zigong blasphemed people, he blasphemed people for the Lu country, do not reward, think noble, but Confucius said, you this kind of noble preaching, harmful to the country. ”

"If we preach to repay grievances with virtue, but Confucius said, how to repay virtue, repay virtue with straightforwardness, and repay virtue with virtue. In this world, all hometown wishes are often the sin of virtue. What is virtue, the so-called morality, virtue because of the Tao, this way, is morality, but also the truth, is the way that our generation can make the world better------ how to go on this road? I'm getting more and more confused now. ”

At this time, there was a chaotic noise outside the hall, and a small yellow door bowed in to report that the reinforcements of Chengde Gong had arrived closely, and the commander of the guard, Neijiang Bo Chai Gui, had a major military report.

After a while, Chai Gui entered the hall with his whole body draped and lay on the ground, Gao Feng looked strange, generally like the commander of the guard as a person close to Su Zong's cronies does not need to make this big gift, how is today different from the past, Gao Feng looked down at Chai Gui, and suddenly found that Chai Gui took out a foreign object from his arms, but it turned out to be a small military crossbow.

Gao Feng shouted, "Chai Gui." ”

Chai Gui's body was shocked, and he looked at Gao Feng's side, and for a while, his eyes were staring, and his hands were a little trembling. The next moment, I saw Chai Gui grit his teeth violently, suddenly attacked, and the crossbow arrow in his hand shot out.

"No, ------" Su Zong subconsciously waved his arm, his arm just raised, but his eyes were dark, and his body rushed forward in a daze.

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