Chapter 256: The Battle for Life

Lanzhou City has not been able to struggle for long in the trap carefully designed by the Liao, and it has only been less than three hours since the surprise attack of Xiao'er Jin at the north gate to the present, and basically the entire city has not seen any shadow of resistance except for the south gate that is still in fierce contention.

Han Guangde's 50,000 rear troops had already gathered outside the north gate, and they were about to start the final encirclement of Lanzhou City, and at the same time, they arrived with him, as well as the Empress Dowager Chengtian of Daliao, who came slowly and leisurely from Han Lin.

Xiao Yan'er is no longer dressed as a female official, but has changed into her heroic sunset red cloud armor, with a golden phoenix winged helmet on her head, and a golden Qingfeng sword on her waist.

Just by looking at the cumbersome hollow pattern on the gold sword tattooed on his waist, he knew that this gorgeous set of equipment was obviously only used to set off the master's noble status, and it was not on the real battlefield.

Although most of the Lanzhou City has fallen into the pockets of the Liao army, many of the fires caused by the fierce competition with the Xia army have not been completely extinguished, so let Xiao Yan'er sit on the horse and look out of the city, the entire tall and majestic city is still in a red.

Xiao Yan'er's beautiful eyes lingered on the three stone carved characters of "Lanzhou City" on the north gate, and a smile was lightly covered on her beautiful face, with some pride and a little relief in her smile, she turned her head and said to Han Guangde beside her: "Old handsome, this is the first time that we have stepped into the land of Lanzhou City in the more than 300 years since the founding of the Great Liao, right?" ”

Although Han Guangde is a steady veteran who bears heavy loads, he is also quite touched in his heart at this time, this kind of historic moment, isn't it the most moved by every battle-hardened soldier in Daliao?

However, he was excited, and he smiled very knowingly in his heart and said: "Yes, Queen Mother, for the first time in more than 300 years of our Great Liao, you have been brought into this fortified city in the northwest. ”

Xiao Yan'er just smiled, and didn't have any pretentious words to refuse this glory that should have belonged to her.

"After taking Lanzhou, the army should not stop, take Xi'an directly, clear all the remnants of the Xia army in the northwest as soon as possible, and then divide a force to take Chengdu and Sichuan. The entire north of Tongguan, this is what the little prince promised me, and I have to unpack my own gifts. ”

"It's the Queen Mother, so how many of our remaining people do we need to leave here?"

Han Guangde's meaning is mainly considering that spring is approaching, these Khitan men who pick up the war knife are the most brave warriors in Daliao, but they are also the hardest working herdsmen after putting down the war knife, so he means that some people can stay in the northwest, and the rest can go back and continue to engage in production.

But Xiao Yan'er didn't think so, the corners of her lips, which were more compact than a cherry mouth, curled slightly, staring at the deep night in the south of Lanzhou City,

"Don't worry about it too early, I'm here, I have to ask this little prince...... Oh no, it should be the little emperor who wants more. ”

As he was talking, he saw a horse running from afar, which looked like a sentinel, galloped to the front of the two horses, congratulated the marshal and the queen mother, and then said loudly: "Marshal, the Xia army suddenly gathered nearly 10,000 people, and began to counterattack the north, west and east gates of Lanzhou in three ways. ”

Han Guangde nodded, "I know, it seems that the Xia army is quite wishful thinking and plans to divide the troops to break through, you pass my order, tell the Chinese army that I will gather men and horses and divide the troops into three gates, and let him hold it for me before the reinforcements arrive, lose any of them, and come to see me with your head raised!" ”

"Yes!"

As soon as this news came, Han Guangde, who has always been steady, had to concentrate his superior forces to stabilize the three city gates that had been controlled first, and then gallop to the south gate, and finally form an encirclement of catching turtles in an urn, and lock all the small 100,000 men and horses in Lanzhou City like prisons.

However, this use of troops does not mean that Han Guangde will not support the South Gate for the time being, but intends to ask Empress Xiao to borrow a big killing weapon to completely solve the battle at the South Gate.

"Queen Mother, if you look at the south gate, can you call Long Xiang to ride forward to increase the number of troops, the south gate is quickly stable, it must be a big blow to the morale of the Xia army, it is possible that the Xia army in the city has no hope of escaping and disarming directly."

Long Xiang cavalry belongs to the Liao Dynasty Royal Forbidden Army, Generalissimo Han Guangde has no power to transfer, generally speaking, the golden talisman is in the hands of the emperor of the current dynasty, only the emperor can be directly transferred,

So now, only Xiao Yan'er has the talisman in his hand to mobilize the dragon horse.

"Okay."

Xiao Yan'er nodded, and then instructed the sentinel: "Tell General Guo Muer, take all the dragon horses, don't pass through the city, their horses are fast, go directly from outside the city to the south gate of Lanzhou City, prevent some thieves, and give me a golden cicada to come out of the shell." ”

When she said this, Xiao Yan'er's pair of beautiful eyes flashed like a moonlight,

"Yes!"

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West

The military order hanging over his head, "If you lose any door, come to see you", it can't be turned into a shield to resist Lin Muzhi's life-like offensive, and in the end, you still have to rely on the flesh and blood of the Liao soldiers in the city to fight with the Han people in the land of Great Xia.

This is not to say how brave the soldiers and horses under Lin Muzhi's hands are, but this west gate, like the north gate, is the first city gate to be captured, and it is far away from the southeast of the city where the Xia army gathered, so the Chinese army Meng'an only left about 500 people here, and all the others have been transferred to put pressure on the south gate.

Lin Muzhi also thought of a clever thing here, he told the soldiers under his command that it was the uncle who had an order, and the whole army was dispersed to break through, and it was this Ximen that they were assigned to.

In this case, it is a way to survive, so aren't these sergeants all rushing up without fear of death? Those who can rush out and fight are their own lives!

In addition, when he came all the way, Lin Muzhi picked up a lot of banners of the Liao army, and when he touched the underground of the city gate, the Liao army left behind in the city thought that the generalissimo's rear army had come to support him.

So it's a surprise.

But that's the case, when Lin Muzhi led the men and horses from the city to kill the city, nearly a thousand people had been left behind, and he also added a knife wound on his left arm.

On the Liao side, there are probably more than 100 people entrenched in the city and resisting stubbornly.

"Poof!"

The momentum of the nine-ring golden knife did not weaken in the hands of the injured Lin Muzhi, the left and right slashing and dancing were tiger and tiger, and one person was fighting three or five Liao soldiers without falling into the wind, and the cold light flashed, and dexterously avoided the three scimitars and easily cut the chest of one of them.

The death of their companion may not have carried too much fear with the other two Liao soldiers, but made them raise the full moon scimitar in their hands even higher, staring at Lin Muzhi, who had been killing from the city without a trace of breath, ready to work together to cut at him,

"Ahh

The mouth was roaring fiercely, but he didn't notice the Xia Jun behind him, and before the two of them could take a step towards Lin Muzhi, they had already been stabbed by the two Xia soldiers who rushed over and ended up on the spot.

However, it seems that these two Xia soldiers did not deliberately come to support Lin Muzhi, the two of them walked closer and pointed to the city in a panic: "General, it seems that the Liao cavalry under the city has newly reinforced, and the gate we just controlled has been recaptured!" ”

The reinforcements mentioned by these Xia troops were not the men and horses rushed from Han Guangde's rear army, but the dragon horses of Guo Muer, who galloped outside the city to aid the south gate.

It is also a coincidence that the Xia army received Lin Muzhi's order, in addition to some people going to the city to continue to fight with the Liao, most of the troops were still fighting at the city gate.

Guo Muer, not only a nosy, but also a self-respecting invincible, saw the loss of the east gate, without saying a word, he took the dragon horse to join the battle, originally planned to kill this Xia army, and continued to gallop to the south gate, how do you know that these Xia army actually went crazy, desperately rushed towards him, although the combat power of the dragon horse is extraordinary, but it can not stand the two thousand strong men who do not want to die, there are a few cavalry who have not had time to react, they were all pulled off the horse to hack to death.

Isn't it, the city gate that Xia Jun finally opened, Guo Muer blocked it back with one hand, seeing that his way of life was cut off, can he still fight hard?

When Lin Muzhi arrived at the city, he saw a young general in red armor in the chaotic army very conspicuous, shouting and waving a copper hammer that looked like it was full of more than 100 catties.

Seeing this, Lin Muzhi turned around and copied a longbow from half of the horse, took a full moon arrow, and shot it at Guo Muer with an arrow.

"Whoosh!"

"Boom!"

Where is it so easy for Guo Muer, who is strong in martial arts, to be moved, the sledgehammer that he was wielding just now suddenly stopped in front of him, and the armor easily knocked away the sharp arrow that was much "weaker" in comparison.

"Who!"

Guo Muer's eyes were red, and he roared towards the surroundings, and his throat, which was originally an urn, suddenly roared like this, and Lei Gong thundered like this, so that the surrounding Xia Jun or Liao people, whether it was Xia Jun or Liaoren, trembled twice.

Soon, his eyes noticed Lin Muzhi in the distance, who was still hanging in his hand with an empty string, and Weng Jinhammer pointed forward:

"Xia Jiang is all a little girl! Look at the hammer! ”

The war horse under the crotch neighed, spread its four hooves and killed Lin Muzhi.

Lin Muzhi was originally relying on containing the Liao army, so he didn't mean to retreat, he swept the nine-ring golden knife in his hand and greeted it, and the two-phase war horse was like entering a no-man's land, as if there were no more soldiers fighting in the noise around him in his eyes at this moment, only two pairs of angry eyes looked at each other,

"Boom!"

Lin Muzhi rode on the standing horse, still holding the knife with both hands, but with just this blow, he felt the power of Guo Muer's four elephants that seemed to be condensed in his hands and lingered in the hammer, making the tiger's mouths of his two big hands numb!

This must not be a hard fight with him, this kid looks like he has a strange strength in his hands,

Thinking like this, Lin Muzhi planned to follow Guo Muer to be more skillful, so he turned his horse's head again and fought with Guo Muer, who was charging towards him.

He received the nine-ring golden knife in front of him to the maximum extent, and then seemed to stab out towards Guo Muer with all the strength of his body,

"Bell!"

Guo Muer was not ambiguous, the two Weng Jin hammers seemed to deal with Jiang Shang, arranged in a cross shape, and with the help of the strength of the copper hammer, the hammer rod was impartially stuck in the serrated place on the back of the nine-ring golden knife, even if Lin Muzhi sent all the power of the ten thousand jun in his body, the blade of the knife could not advance in front of Guo Muer's hammer.

"Hey~"

Lin Muzhi, who had just been holding his face red because of the infusion of power, suddenly bared his teeth and smiled, and quickly put the side of the nine-ring golden knife blade in his hand in an instant,

This big knife is not a spear, the spear is cylindrical, as long as Guo Muer's two sledgehammers lock you, you can't take it away, but the knife is different, Lin Muzhi stabbed horizontally, even if it was locked by Guo Muer, as long as the blade was vertical, it would still be pulled out.

"Hiss~"

Lin Muzhi doesn't look like a big and three thick man, the movements in his hands are not slow, maybe he hit this idea at the beginning, almost between lightning and fire, the blade of the nine-ring golden knife rubbed the Weng Jin hammer, with a series of sparks quickly pulled back, and then turned a strange turn, grabbed the handle of the knife tightly with both hands, and slashed away according to Guo Muer's waist and eyes!

In other words, ordinary people basically explained this trick under Lin Muzhi's knife, after all, the speed at which he drew the knife and then took out the knife was quite fast, almost instantly, and he was holding the knife with both hands, according to his thoughts, Guo Muer just wanted to put the two hammers over to defend, and it was too late.

That's right, it is indeed as Lin Muzhi thought, Rao is Guo Muer, who is also agile, could not form a defensive posture at this moment,

It's just that Lin Muzhi only thinks half right,

"Boom!"

Guo Muer didn't plan to parry it with two hands at all!

Holding the nine-ring golden knife with both hands, Lin Muzhi, who was already bound to win, was stiffly framed by Guo Muer's right-hand hammer that was gently raised, and he used a hammer and an arm to block a blow that almost infused him with the strength of his whole body.

"Hey, hey, come again!"

After Guo Muer seemed to easily block Lin Muzhi's blade, he didn't forget to grin, looked at Lin Muzhi with a flushed face, raised his hand hard, and said in his mouth:

"Go!"

Lin Muzhi's original downward exertion of force suddenly seemed to be completely offset by a strange force, and then he still couldn't finish lifting his whole person back,

"Phew~"

Lin Muzhi hurriedly reined in the reins of the horse, and exerted force on his crotch and hands together, so that he could stabilize his body with the help of the war horse under the seat.

After several confrontations, Lin Muzhi already felt that his arms were starting to be a little sore, after all, before fighting against Guo Muer, he had fought for so long,

But on the other hand, Guo Muer, with two Weng Jin hammers on both sides of the war horse, is still a little unfinished.

Lin Muzhi knew in his heart that the more he dragged himself, the more he couldn't beat this strange young general, so he thought about it in his heart, and planned to give it a last fight, otherwise he would let this guy go, and An Yi didn't know how much he would lose.

Thinking of this, he didn't care about his crispy and numb arms, and once again as just now, he grabbed the nine-ring golden knife with both hands and gathered it tightly in front of him, and struck another blow at Guo Muer,

"Boom!"

"Why is this set again!"

Guo Muer seemed to know his next move by looking at his posture, and without exception, he continued to cross the two hammers to lock the sudden nine-ring golden knife.

This time, he also learned to be smart, the two Weng Jin hammers, one high and one short, are staggered and locked, and you will never get out of it even if the big knife is horizontal and vertical.

But Lin Muzhi didn't plan to pull it out again, and after seeing that the tip of the knife had already passed through the "Copper Hammer Lock" slightly, the left hand that was originally holding the handle of the knife suddenly loosened and slapped it towards the bottom of the handle!

"Whoosh!"

This nine-ring golden knife seemed to suddenly break off from the middle, and the sharpest tip of the knife turned into a deadly hidden weapon in an instant, quickly breaking away from the locked blade and stabbing towards Guo Muer's lower abdomen!

"Xiaoxiao!"

Of course, Guo Muer also felt the sharp blade under his abdomen, he must not have expected that there was a mechanism in this Lin Muzhi's nine-ring golden knife!

This inevitable blow seemed to be going to Guo Muer's life......

But.....