"Huang Tian is above, please bless Yunxuan! My Yan family has always been a single line, please be sure to bless this time, the good man Yan Ke Ran bowed again and again! Yan Keran knelt on his knees outside the mansion and kowtowed vigorously to the eastern sky, which was the moment when the sun was falling, and the red stained the sky.

Behind Yan Keran stood a group of anxious maids, who were concerned about the situation in the dormitory on the one hand, and stopped talking to Yan Keran on the other hand. A more terrible moan came from the dormitory, each one piercing the ears of the maids, and it hurt Yan Keran's heart.

"Please let me bear any sins in the past, and please be sure to bless the safety of mother and child!" Yan Keran didn't dare to get up at all, kowtowing harder than before, and he didn't care if his forehead was bleeding on the ground of the bluestone slab. Yun Xuan is giving birth in the dormitory, this is the crystallization of their love, this is the first child of the two of them, and this is the most critical juncture. It has been nearly an hour since Yun Xuan began to fall red, and the stable women have been busy going in and out, but they have never heard the baby's cry, only Yun Xuan's painful moans, how can this not make Yan Ke Ran worry?

"Heavens, have you heard my prayers? The national disaster is coming but Yun Xuan gives birth, it really makes me happy and sorrowful, as long as I can keep their mother and son, I am willing to pay any price, even if it is life! ”

Yan Keran closed his eyes, folded his hands and kept chanting silently, just after finishing the silent recitation, he heard a loud cry, he suddenly turned to look in the direction of the dormitory, and for a while he didn't know if he had heard it wrong. The first cry was followed by the second and third, and the unstoppable crying began to resound inside and outside the dormitory.

I heard you right! I heard you right! Yan Keran jumped up from the ground and rushed to the door of the dormitory in a few arrow steps, just happened to meet Wen Po, opened the door, and handed the child in his arms to Yan Keran with tired joy, and congratulated him vigorously: "Congratulations to the horse, congratulations to the horse, it is a son!" ”

Yan Keran hurriedly glanced at his son in his arms, with ruddy skin, closed eyes, and loud crying, just such a petite group, he really couldn't help but reach out and touch it, and he didn't dare to use his strength, for fear of touching this little thing. However, Yan Keran was more worried about Yun Xuan, after seeing his son, he immediately ran to Yun Xuan's bedside, and saw Yun Xuan sweating profusely and smiling weakly at him.

"You've done a great job!" Yan Keran held Yun Xuan's hand while pulling away the wet hair on her forehead for her, seeing her bloodless appearance, Yan Keran was distressed, and even burst into tears.

"Look at you, you're a courtier, and there are so many people outside, it's not appropriate to cry like this." Yun Xuan said weakly, saying this sentence made her very tired. Yan Keran hurriedly motioned to her to stop talking, "You have to rest now, don't say anything, I am tears of joy, as long as your mother and son are safe, I don't care what the identity of the colt, whether it is suitable or not!" ”

"But I care, the foreign enemy is besieging the city, and I still want you to be distracted to take care of it at this time."

"Yunxuan, don't talk nonsense, I am your husband, I naturally have to guard you at such an important moment, if so, I can't talk about husband and wife? Yunxuan, you have worked too hard these days, I have focused most of my energy on city defense and neglected you, and I will accompany you at home today. ”

"The country is always greater than home, you are not only my husband, you are the horse of the Great Liang and the commander of the Imperial Guard, and you carry the country on your shoulders. The country is too tense, you better go, everything is fine at home. ”

"Yun Xuan!"

Yun Xuan gently put her hand on Yan Keran's lips, shook her head, and then pushed him hard. Yan Keran got up slowly, he touched Yun Xuan's face again, and then turned to leave, and kissed his newborn son before leaving.

Yun Xuan motioned to Wen Po to hold her son to her side, she touched her son's forehead, and the tears immediately fell uncontrollably, so frightened that Wen Po and the maids quickly knelt down. Yun Xuan ignored them, she watched her son's heart turn a thousand knots.

At this time, the capital was indeed inseparable from Yan Keran, the army of the Tang Dynasty had surrounded both sides of the southeast of the capital, and the remaining west was the army of Xiliang, and the capital was besieged by foreign enemies for the third time in less than three years. For this, some people in Beijing still have an optimistic attitude, after all, the first two times were also so dangerous, didn't they all pass the danger in the end? This time should be no different.

"Really? Can you really escape the catastrophe of destroying the country like the last two times? Du Shaoyin asked rhetorically.

"At least that's what the people prayed for, although I'm not optimistic." Su Qian said: "How much can the people of Pingtou know the inside story? All they could do was pray, but we all knew it wasn't going to be easy. ”

"Su Qian, most of the businessmen in the capital division transferred their family property when they got the news in advance, and you didn't even make any moves." Shen Ming asked Su Qian, Su Qian opened the folding fan and smiled leisurely and did not answer immediately, but Du Shaoyin explained: "Senior brother, I asked him this question last time, the Su family is worthy of being the richest businessman in Daliang, not only rich but also has the heart to serve the country." ”

Smack, Su Qian folded the folding fan back, and asked the two of them with a serious face: "If you can win this battle, everyone will be happy, but what if you lose?" Once the people of the Tang Dynasty entered the capital, the consequences were unimaginable. If so, what are you going to do? ”

Shen Ming didn't answer immediately, Du Shaoyin didn't think deeply and blurted out, "I am from Liang, and the first thing that the master taught us in the academy for seven years is the responsibility of the family and the country, and it is also my glory to die in battle!" ”

"What about Senior Brother Shen?"

"The two of us are ordinary people if it is light, and if it is heavy, we are wanted criminals by the imperial court, our lives are not worth much, but what decision did the Su family make?"

Shen Ming threw the question back to Su Qian, who still didn't look in a hurry, and said slowly: "The change of dynasties is an ordinary thing, as long as we respond to the situation, the result will naturally not be too bad." It's not early, I have to go home early, the Su family also has to organize their own escort team, everyone has the responsibility to protect their family and defend the country when the national disaster comes! ”

"This guy has always spoken in such a cloudy way, in my opinion, it's just a trick. Fortunately, the last two sentences are still reasonable, so I won't bother with him. Du Shaoyin watched Su Qian go away and said casually.

But Shen Ming didn't think so, he frowned, in Du Shaoyin's opinion, it must be for the current situation of internal and external troubles.

"Internal and external troubles, internal and external troubles!" Zhang Huaiyuan has been repeating these few words, and this stall can't care about the eyes of others, and he followed behind Wengu and asked: "General Taitai, how sure is the God Killing Cavalry?" ”

He divided the newly reorganized 50,000 elite Divine Killing Cavalry into detailed divisions: 20,000 elites were stationed in the inner city and Wengcheng in the east and south of the capital, which were led by Ou Luyang and Huo Qing respectively, of which Ou Luyang guarded the three city gates and Huo Qing guarded two city gates; The other 10,000 cavalry were personally commanded by himself to gallop back and forth on the east and south sides. According to this triple defensive model, if the reinforcements can arrive on time, he is confident that he can still hold on for a few days.

As for the three gates in the north, they were handed over to Yan Keran's Imperial Forest Guard, who was originally responsible for defending the Imperial City, but the troops in the capital were empty, and Yan Keran could only free up most of his troops to garrison the Xiliang Army in the north. According to the information obtained before, this time Xia Tang came out of the nest and sent 200,000 troops to besiege the capital, compared to Xiliang, it was obviously unsatisfactory, but it was only 30,000 horses, and it seemed that it was just to see the excitement.

Facing the 200,000 Tang Army's Divine Killing Cavalry, everyone was nervous and couldn't sleep, especially Huo Qing, when he took over the Chiyun Armor from the hands of Wengu of Tangtai, he felt a little like a world away for a while. Chiyun Armor is a second-class battle armor, this is not something that everyone can wear, and at least the commander of the first guard must be in Daliang, and Huo Qing is just a small captain.

Huo Qing trembled and took over Chiyun Jia, which meant that he had taken over this heavy and dangerous responsibility. There is no need to say too much, Huo Qing understands that once he is ordered to garrison the south, it means that he will directly face the attack of 200,000 enemy troops, and he only has 20,000 people in his hands, one of the ten, what a disparity this is, this seems to be a battle to the death.

The seven-year teaching of Qingshan Academy made Huo Qing not refuse no matter what, this is not only a military order, but also a mission as a soldier of Daliang, if the national crisis is at hand, if even the soldiers do not stand up, how can they talk about defending the family and the country? When Ou Luyang also took over the task of guarding the east, Huo Qing calmed down, and he smiled calmly at Ou Luyang, in order to give others confidence and courage. But in the face of Huo Qing's blazing eyes, Ou Luyang looked quite tired, but he just nodded in vain.

"I'll take the last 10,000 horses with you to back you up! If this battle is not successful, it will become a benevolent, and please work together with a certain king! ”

Since that day, Huo Qing has never had a good night's sleep, he is no longer the original captain, he is the commander, the chief general of 20,000 people, this is something Huo Qing has never experienced. It is said that people's horizons are improved with status, and after Huo Qing became a commander, he became more ambitious, and in the face of an enemy ten times his size outside the city, Huo Qing made up his mind to defend it strictly.

The problem of hating less when the book is used did not appear in Huo Qing this time, the knowledge he had learned in his mind was all resurrected in just a few days, and he made several arrangements with the manpower in his hands: the first layer is those archers and sword and axe men in the outer city, and the three teams of archers form a chain of archers, responsible for non-stop shooting; The knife and axe hand is interspersed among them, and each group of three is responsible for the ladder and trestle near the female wall in charge. The second layer is the hand-to-hand combat elite soldiers in the city of Wengcheng and the second round of archers at the head of the city of Wengcheng, once the enemy enters the city of Wengcheng, most of the short-fighting soldiers in the city will immediately shoot and strive to trap the enemy in the city of Wengcheng, and Huo Qing himself stands at the head of the city of Wengcheng and is responsible for commanding the battle.

With this arrangement, Huo Qing has put all his men in the front line, they can only fight desperately without any way out, Huo Qing has ordered people to completely close the inner city gate once the war starts, completely isolating him and his army from the inner city, they are ready to die until the last person, if they are lucky to win, it is an immortal military achievement, if they fail to hold, then at least they have done their best to die without regrets.