The cold wind is biting, the heaven and the earth are slaughtered, so the south city tower of Anxian County.

The county lieutenant Zhang Zheng was thin and thin, his cheeks were thin, and he leaned against the wall for a short rest with a tired face like all the soldiers and civilians defending the city, he had lost count of how many waves of attacks he had repelled from Yuan's army, but since Yuan's army had set aside time to rest, how could he miss it.

Leaning on the battlements to close his eyes and recuperate, he is Ou Yejian and Liu Lan's best friend, and the post captain of Zhuoxian County. The situation in front of him made him regret a little, you must know that the day before yesterday, when the county order 'to not teach the people to fight, it is to abandon also' to persuade him to surrender the city was cut down by his own hands, since then he has no way to retreat, and there is no qualification to regret, in order to keep the old peace, he even released rumors that the Jizhou soldiers will slaughter the city after attacking the city, otherwise the people of the old peace will not be so willing to resist, so the remorse that swelled up in his heart is not regret for his decision, but a trace of guilt for the people of the old peace......

In front of him like a butterfly wearing flowers, recalling the scene when he and Gongsun Yue were rescued by Gongsun Chan from the Wuhuan people when he was dying, he understood the importance of the old peace, otherwise he would not have heard that his old friend Gongsun Yue was killed by Yuan Shao in order to avenge him and take the initiative to ask Ying to come here to garrison, it is also for such a reason, if he dedicates the city so much, how can he be worthy of Gongsun Zhan's life-saving grace and Gongsun Fan's brotherhood?

Because of this, he will stick to his hometown, because of the importance of his hometown, so he knows that Gongsun Chan will never abandon his hometown, he believes that the reinforcements will come at the last moment like Gongsun Chan saved him and Gongsun Yue, just because he has this thought in his heart, he has great confidence in defending his hometown!

But this kind of confidence becomes weaker and weaker with the passage of time, and whenever I see the desperate look in the eyes of the people, I will always let out a laugh in my heart, is it really right for me to do this? Will reinforcements really come? His heart began to be filled with remorse, and now even if reinforcements could come, what if they could come? The current Gu'an County......

"Father!"

Zhang Zheng's son, Zhang Ping, came to his side. Bow down.

Zhang Ping is like his father, with big eyes. Double eyelids, generally tall and short. The only difference between the two of them is that Zhang Ping is much stronger and fatter than his father.

"You're here!" Zhang Zheng didn't open his eyes, he still closed his eyes, he was too tired, he had survived such a city defense battle for three days.

"Yes, father." Zhang Ping paused, a little concerned, but finally said with a stiff brow: "Father, the child thinks that reinforcements will not come, and even if they can come, So'an will have already been captured." Rather than this, it is better for our five hundred reserves to defend the city with the people! A hint of madness flashed in Zhang Ping's eyes: even if you die in battle, it is better than living like now!"

"Nonsense."

Zhang Zheng finally opened his eyes, his eyes were full of anger, and he scolded, saying: "Reinforcements will definitely come, you continue to stand by, no one is allowed to come up to help without my order!" ”

Zhang Zheng said it easily, and he looked calm and calm, but he knew better than anyone else in his heart that it was only a matter of time before Ancheng was broken. Maybe the next wave or even the second wave of the enemy's attack will break the city, but whether he will really slaughter the city is not up to him, since there is hope to save the lives of his son and the five hundred reserve county soldiers, then he will never send the reserve to send him to die. Even if the city of Gu'an is broken, he will leave the last 500 seedlings for Gu'an.

Of course, he felt that he might not have to be so pessimistic. Because he always hoped in his heart that Gongsun Beiping could send reinforcements before the city was broken, as long as the reinforcements could arrive. Then these 500 soldiers will become a sharp knife that will be plunged into the heart of the enemy.

"Father's ......"

"Didn't you understand what I was saying?"

Zhang Zheng glared at Zhang Ping angrily: "Get back for me." You will not be allowed to go up to the castle without my orders!" The moment the angry shouts rang out, they were drowned out by the shouts of killing that resounded through the nine heavens of the city.

The enemy attacked again. Zhang Zheng pulled out the ring knife on his waist, but suddenly found that his son Zhang Ping had not moved half a step, and was furious: "Didn't you hear that I asked you to leave the city tower, remember, you are not allowed to climb the city tower for half a step without my order!" ”

"I'm not leaving!" Zhang Ping stubbornly rejected his father Zhang Zheng.

"Rebel!" Zhang Zheng touched his waist, where is the usual horsewhip, he touched a few times and did not touch the horsewhip, he backhanded a slap to Zhang Ping, a crisp sound sounded, but he was still scolding in anger: "Rebel son, you are going to be angry for your father, you have your own plans for your father's arrangement, don't miss my big thing, if you continue to stay here, don't blame me for being ruthless in military law!" ”

There was no father and son on the battlefield, Zhang Ping had to choose to compromise, obey the military order, and said: "Son, retreat." ”

Zhang Zheng didn't go to see him, no matter what, he had to leave these five hundred men behind for his death, only by leaving them could he leave a glimmer of hope. Then he said fiercely: "Then don't retreat quickly." ”

Zhang Ping choked up and promised, he knew that this was likely to be the eternal secret with his father, his red eyes turned around with tears, and the moment he turned around, he clearly saw that the city wall was densely packed with Jizhou soldiers, like ants, clustering dozens of cloud ladders to the south city wall.

Not to mention the bow and arrow on the city wall, even the wooden rolling stone is long gone, and the burning oil pot is only the last pot of boiling oil, watching his son go down the city, Zhang Zheng shouted: "I will see it in a while, this pot of oil, sprinkle it in a crowded place!" ”

A pot of boiling oil was just a small episode, and it could not stop the Jizhou soldiers from climbing the city wall, and a hand-to-hand battle was soon staged around the city wall, with the two sides vying for every place to stay.

Suddenly, Zhang Zheng saw a very brave Jizhou man, looking at the costume should be a curved chief, only to see him brush a few knives, then chop down a few people, and take advantage of this opportunity behind him many Jizhou soldiers climbed up to the city, and very tacitly with him to form a circle formation, relying on each other, with a steady stream of soldiers, they occupy the city tower space is also more and more wide, based on this, is gradually spreading around.

The Jizhou soldiers cannot be allowed to continue, if this place becomes the fulcrum of their foothold, it will be the time when Gu'an falls.

Zhang Zheng, who didn't dare to slack off, killed the Jizhou Qu Chang while fighting, but fortunately, there were three or four guards beside him, and with their assistance, he quickly fought with the Qu Chang.

As soon as they touched it, as soon as they closed it, Zhang Zheng secretly said that it was not good. The opponent's martial arts were slightly higher than his, although he could barely resist it. But the priority at this moment is to try to fight quickly and close the gap here, and how dare you delay a little.

Zhang Zheng was guarded by soldiers on both wings. But they are all one enemy two or one enemy three, extremely dangerous, and he himself and Qu Chang are fighting, the two of them are all in the army to learn the method of killing the enemy, there is no trick at all, all with the strength of the enemy, the knife is deadly, and the brush brush several knives collide, which seems to be extremely exciting. But they couldn't kill each other, but the strong force made the two of them numb.

There were suddenly two screams of 'ahhhh

Zhang Zheng gave the Qu Chang a chance in an instant when he was slightly distracted, and the big knife went straight to his pubic place, how dare he think about it in a hurry, hurriedly turned over, and rolled around with a lazy donkey to hide aside.

Although he dodged in time, how could he be faster than the speed of the knife that Qu Chang struck. Although the knife did not kill him immediately, it slashed at his calf impartially.

Eye-catching blood marks, red blood flowing out, Zhang Zheng endured the pain. He rolled his brows again, but Erfat suddenly heard the sound of breaking the air, and shouted in his heart: "It's not good." I'm dying! ”

Qu Chang succeeded in one blow, and the other soldiers also freed their hands. Although there is still a little resistance from the old and weak beside him, it is no longer a problem. At this time, he put aside the portal behind him and swung his knife forward, about to kill Zhang Zheng immediately.

At the last moment, a woman rushed out of the stab, and at the same time, he heard a voice in the distance: "Hugh hurt my father's life!" ”

It turned out that Zhang Ping saw the fierce Jizhou troops when he retreated from the city tower, fearing that his father would be defeated, and went down to the city tower to go back to greet the brothers, and divided 100 people to guard the east and west gates of the Jizhou soldiers attacking the city, and he led the remaining 300 people to guard the south gate where the war was most intense.

How could he have his father's order, he didn't dare to go to the city casually, but he made up his mind in his heart that if it really came to the moment of life and death, even if he disobeyed the order, he would not give up.

He had been secretly observing the battle situation on the city wall, and when he saw that his father was in danger, he shouted, lifted the long sword beside him and killed him, threatening to save his father Zhang Zheng, and the rest of the soldiers saw Zhang Ping taking the lead in climbing the city tower, all wielding their blades, and killing the city tower with their eyes like fire.

Zhang Ping was unable to save her father, and she didn't want to kill a woman in an oblique stab, the woman with a wooden stick in her hand blocked Qu Chang's way with her body, and she was stabbed several times in her body and carried a Youzhou soldier who had just emerged from the city tower at the moment of death.

It was precisely because of this woman's obstruction that Zhang Ping was able to rush to his father's side at the last moment, and saved Zhang Zheng, and at the same time, the remaining three hundred county soldiers also joined the war group.

Before they could rejoice in repelling this wave of attacks, they saw that the sound of the drums and horns of the Jizhou soldiers was more urgent, and this time, the Jizhou soldiers did not leave them any respite, and another attack began.

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Under the city of Gu'an, Yuan's army has been fighting here for four days, and the originally precarious Gu'an County both thought that it was possible to kill one fell swoop at the beginning of today's battle, and even entered Gu'an at lunchtime to have a good meal.

But seeing the sunset in the western mountains, and the city wall is still engaged in hand-to-hand combat between the struggle and the counter-competition, the brutal battle makes people's blood swell, Gao Ran's palms unconsciously clenched into fists, with a hint of trembling, standing in the cold wind.

Staring at the villagers on the city wall, even though the young and strong people in the city had already died in battle, but the old and weak women in the costumes and cloth clothes did not hesitate to pick up their swords and resist to the death, he wondered why these people would resist to the death and not surrender the city? Could it be that Gongsun Chan will be so famous and will leave the people behind?

The fighting strength of these women and children was extremely poor, but it was beyond Gao Ran's expectations, and even now they still stood stubbornly and proudly at the head of the old city.

The siege battle in the past few days has already caused more than half of the casualties of Gao Ran and Cui Juye's subordinates, looking at the cavalry troops standing beside him, he hesitated for the first time in his heart, did he really let these cavalry dismount and attack the city? ”

The terrifying thought that suddenly popped up in his heart made Gao Ran shiver, and let the cavalry die in the refueling tactics, which was definitely not what he wanted.

Gao Ran's heart was full of bitterness and remorse, originally the eldest prince Yuan Tan was going to support three thousand infantry in order to conquer Gu'an as soon as possible, but because of his exaggeration with Cui Juye, he politely declined, if it weren't for this, so Ancheng had been conquered a few days ago, how could there be such a big casualty!

Gao Ran, clasping his hands, knew that as long as the cavalry was treated as infantry and dismounted to attack the city, the cavalry would accumulate feathers and sink the boat (the last straw that broke the camel's back). But he just couldn't make that decision.

Hesitating in his heart, his heart was trembling, his hands were trembling, his whole body was trembling, this was the soldier he brought up with one hand, thinking that they would be buried in such a cruel battlefield, how could his body not tremble, just as he was struggling to make a trade-off in his heart, his clenched hands stretched out, and there was a trace of fear in his eyes, the battle went on for many days, so the combat effectiveness of the Anjun soldiers made Gao Ran admire from the bottom of his heart, and he was not prejudiced because of the different positions. Not only did he admire the soldiers of Gu'an County who had long since survived, but also the people of Gu'an, he also had a trace of fear in his heart, just now, the moment he released his palm, he clearly saw a woman jumping off the city with a Jizhou soldier in her arms when she was stabbed several times.

Such a scene caused a trace of fear in such a resolute man as Gao Ran, and the fear born from the bottom of his heart made him give up the idea of sending cavalry, because he could imagine how many good brothers who had been with him day and night would die in such a way at the head of the old city!

Gao Ran felt, no, at this time, all the Jizhou soldiers who were attacking the city felt that not only the county soldiers of Gu'an were the most terrifying army they had ever seen, but these people were also like a nightmare in their eyes, and in the face of people who were so cruel to themselves, everyone had a shadow in their hearts, and they did not dare to fight with the people of Gu'an again, and their hearts were filled with fear that stretched out. (To be continued.) )