No way! I must not cry, I have to find a way! Aunt Gu clenched the handle of the kitchen knife with both hands, her chest rose and fell violently, Mu Qingyuan took the men to the south city gate so far there is no news, the yamen is full of old and weak women and children, not only can not help, but will become a drag on the right guard. After several hesitations, Aunt Gu still ran back to the yamen.

"Folks, sisters!" Aunt Gu shouted with a crying voice: "Commander Yan is fighting, I saw the young men fighting hard to kill the enemy, but there are too many enemies, they are trapped, if they are not rescued, they will become the enemy's sword ghosts!" ”

"But...... We...... What can be done? A woman cried.

"We can! We can interfere with the enemy! Gu Damiang pointed to the gongs and cowhide drums left in the treasury, "We only need to make the enemy think that the strict commander still has backup to distract the enemy, then our army can find a breakthrough!" Now, who wants to go with me? ”

Facing the curled up women and children, Aunt Gu had no choice but to pick up a gong and walk to the yamen, stopped and turned around and said: "Saving the army is also saving ourselves, those soldiers, they would have been our sons, husbands, and fathers, even if I die, an old woman, it is worth it to exchange those young lives!" Then, leaving behind the panicked people, Aunt Gu ran to the place where she was hiding before, saw the opportunity, rang the gong in her hand, and shouted loudly: "The military master is coming!" The Lower Tang people are here, military master! Call the brethren to kill the enemy! ”

This call did not attract too much attention from the Tang Army, after all, in this fierce battlefield, it was difficult for an old woman's shout to reach the ears of the red-eyed soldier. Gu Auntie's several attempts but never worked, when she was in a hurry, she heard the footsteps behind her, the person who came was some women and children who were hiding in the yamen, some of them were carrying big drums, some were carrying gongs, some of them were women, some of them were old men, and there were also children, they began to build momentum at the same time, while beating gongs and drums, while shouting loudly, this effect was there, many Xia Tang soldiers were affected by the shouting, and they turned back to see if there was really an enemy coming, which just made Yan Yuxin grasp the flaw, He wielded his serrated teeth and nails to fight his way out of those distracted Xia Tang troops.

After a gap appeared in the originally airtight encirclement, the right guard did not hesitate to tear the gap into a crack, so that more robes could get out of the encirclement. And the Tang Army will definitely not let the duck fly out of the palm of his hand, immediately shrink the formation, and bite the tail of the right guard tightly again.

At the same time, the loud noise made by Gu Damiang and the others also alarmed Mu Qingyuan and them, who were facing each other at the South City Gate. Mu Qingyuan was very familiar with these shouts, could it be that the enemy had broken into the mansion? Standing in the snow with his feet in the snow, he was already unconscious from the cold, but fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, Mu Qingyuan didn't know what the battle of the right guard was, he didn't know if the mansion was captured, what happened this night was beyond his control, and what was worse was that these people in front of him were unmoved, and the wine shop not far from them was basically only rubble.

"Maybe the women behind you need protection more than going to find a secret passage!" The blue-faced leader basically disintegrated the men behind Mu Qingyuan with a single word, and they kept looking back in the direction of the mansion, where there were their mothers, wives, and children, and they absolutely couldn't sit idly by!

"Wood-sama?" Someone finally couldn't help but ask, Mu Qingyuan knew that he had completely lost, lost to the enemy's heart attack, he finally looked at Kejian, the other party gave him a positive look, he was helpless, and said resentfully before leaving: "The exchange between us is still valid, you haven't accepted it yet, don't be afraid if you have the guts!" ”

When Mu Qingyuan ran back to the mansion with the men, the burning scene made the blood of his whole body cold from the top of his head to the soles of his feet: the soldiers of the right rank, the old and weak women and children who were left in the mansion were struggling and screaming, the lower Tang army was like a demon harvesting people's heads, frantically taking human lives against the background of blood, one moment they were still living people, and the next moment they became devils' knives, they sprayed red blood, they opened their unwilling eyes, they were the young warriors of the right guard before tonight, Once a kind proprietress in a shop, once a naughty child in the village, once an old man who teased his grandson at home, but from tonight onwards, they all became the military exploits of the Tang Army.

Yes! The men roared and rushed into the battle formation, their eyes breathing fire, they wanted to kill their enemies, they wanted to protect their wives and children, they wanted to protect their homeland! However, they are not well-trained soldiers, they are just ordinary people running for a living, they have no fighting skills, they do not have sharp blades, they have only blood, but on the battlefield, blood cannot save the lives of their relatives, not even their own. These men fell one by one in Mu Qingyuan's eyes, maybe they cut down a Tang soldier, but they went to Huangquan with their relatives.

Yes! The blood that was frozen into ice boiled again, Mu Qingyuan took off his official uniform, and stabbed the long sword in his hand into the chest of a lower Tang soldier, he is not a sword and pen official in the eyes of people, nor is he the son of Shaoqing of Dali Temple, he is a student of Qingshan Academy who is proficient in the six arts, and he is the history of Hanzhou Thorn. I want to protect the people of Hanzhou! Mu Qingyuan broke off and killed, relying on the sword practice that did not fall every day, he was able to protect himself for a while.

Although the people's "lying about the military situation" temporarily relieved the siege of the right guard, Yan Yuxin tried his best to resist the heavens, the number of brothers around him was too small, and it was decreasing every moment, the robes in red armor that he could see in his eyes had been overwhelmed by the brown Xia Tang Army, and his whole body was no longer under his control, only knowing how to wave the sawtooth nail lance that had appeared notched to resist wave after wave of enemies rushing forward, just when he was about to lose his hold and was about to fall, Someone put his back against his back, Yan Yuxin didn't have time to turn his head to see who it was, he could only feel the warmth, uprightness and tenacity of this back, like a towering mountain, which made people rely on it steadily and at ease.

Mu Qingyuan and Yan Yuxin were back to back, acting as each other's backup, making the last resistance with the Tang army, and every Tang soldier who stepped forward to provoke would become a trophy for the two, until the man in bloody red armor ordered to stop the attack, the two looked around at the enemy, their hands trembling and holding their blades, and the blood stains on their faces had blinded their eyes.

"It's really a man!" This person applauded, but there was no respect in his eyes, "Our Tang soldiers respect heroes the most, but all heroes are aware of current affairs, you might as well look around and decide whether you want to continue to persevere!" ”

The two of them looked around cautiously, except for the two of them, the other right-rank guards had died on the battlefield, among the layers of corpses, there were many people in Hanzhou, and those who were still alive were all captured by the Tang Army, and they all knelt down in front of the yamen of the Hanzhou Mansion and trembled, and the people standing next to them were the Tang Army with butcher knives.

The man in bloody red armor walked up to a kneeling citizen with a butcher's knife in hand, pressed the tip of the knife to his throat, and asked, "My army of tens of thousands of people will easily kill you two, but now I will give you a chance to surrender." Of course, you can refuse, but I am very patient, I will ask again and again, and every time you refuse, I will kill a citizen until I am done! Is this deal still fair, Master Mu, strict commander? One of you loves the people like a son, and the other loves a soldier like a son, hum! Now, there is no chance to love the soldiers, and the opportunity to love the people depends on whether you will grasp it! ”

Mu Qingyuan clearly saw that Aunt Gu was also among them, he was also relieved, the person in front of him was right, the entire Hanzhou City was already under the control of the Lower Tang Dynasty, just with him and Yan Yuxin, there was no need to use the army at all, and if there were more than a dozen Lower Tang soldiers, they would be in different places, and it was not difficult to die, but the key was that it was worth dying. Just as Mu Qingyuan was about to surrender, Yan Yuxin, who was behind him, finally fell to the ground due to physical exhaustion.

"Strict Command!" Mu Qingyuan helped up Yan Yuxin, who was already a bloody man, the other party's eyes were still sharp, but his whole body was no longer able to move, and from his eyes, Mu Qingyuan read the same decision as himself.

"Name it!"

The man in the bloody red armor obviously didn't expect Mu Qingyuan to be able to ask such a question, and he couldn't laugh or cry, "I'm General Tang Tuorong - Fan Yu!" ”

"We surrender and let them go!"

A smile crossed the corner of Fan Yu's mouth, "If this is the case, there is no need to sacrifice so many lives, right, Commander Yan?" Without waiting for Yan Yuxin to speak, Fan Yu cut the neck of the common man with a knife.

"We've all surrendered!" Mu Qingyuan roared, his eyes wide, but Fan Yu became interested instead, and put the tip of the knife against Aunt Gu's neck, "You surrendered too late!" ”

"Good, good!" Mu Qingyuan threw away his and Yan Yuxin's blades.

"Get on your knees!"

Yan Yuxin's sense of honor as a soldier really made him unable to do such a humble act, even if Mu Qingyuan had already knelt down, he still refused. Fan Yu stabbed the tip of the knife into Gu Damiang's neck, and continued to persecute: "She is the hardest working when she called for reinforcements to come, if you don't kneel, I will cut her throat and see how she still shouts!" ”

"Mother!" Xiang Kejian, who was escorted from the South City Gate, couldn't break free from the rope on his body no matter how hard he tried, but he saw that Aunt Gu's life was hanging by a thread, so he had to kneel on his knees, "I'll kneel!" You let my mother go! ”

"How did my mother teach you on weekdays!" Aunt Gu had tears in her eyes, and she wanted to commit suicide by her neck, but Fan Lu withdrew the knife in time, and he said proudly: "I didn't expect an old woman to be so useful!" Then I can't let you die so easily! Yan Tong, what's wrong with you? The latter sentence was said to the person who was holding Xiang Kejian, yes, the person who came was Yan Tong, the head of the Qing Grievance Department, one of the six departments.

"General Fan can rest assured, the only secret passage to escape from the city has been burned to a pile of rubble, and now Hanzhou City is completely under our control!"

"Good! Tonight's battle is thanks to you, the Yan Tong Sect Master and the Nangong Sect Master! Fan Yu said and glanced at the black figure who had been standing not far from him, and the only eagle-like eyes that appeared were deeply rooted in Mu Qingyuan's mind. Commander Yan, since you don't want to kneel, and General Ben also admires your iron bones, then I have to wronged you, come on! ”

Two soldiers from the Tang Dynasty rushed forward and pressed Yan Yuxin, who was already injured and unsteady on his feet, to the ground, and Yan Yuxin did not struggle, but kept staring at Fan Yu.

"Commander Yan, save effort, and you will stare at me when you get to the city. Tie him up and hang him at the head of the city, and see how long this iron bone will be hard! ”

"General Fan, please think twice!" Yan Tong obviously objected, "Our plan tonight is to fight quickly and take Hanzhou City, if we hang him at the head of the city, is General Fan worried that the news will not leak fast enough?" ”

Fan Yu pursed his lips, "Master Yan is reasonable", and turned his head to meet Yan Yuxin's gaze, "Come on, go and prepare a pair of crossed brackets, and invite Yan Commander to the shelf, so that the people of Hanzhou City can take a look!" ”

After receiving the order, the soldiers quickly nailed together two wooden planks with a height of one and a half people and fixed them at the front door of the Hanzhou Mansion, and then several people fixed Yan Yuxin's hands and feet on the four points of the wooden frame.

Fan Yu took the marching nail presented by the soldier, the slender and sharp nail, walked in front of Yan Yuxin, threw him a weird smile, and without waiting for Yan Yuxin to react, a marching nail pierced into the center of his left palm, Fan Yu punched hard according to the nail, and the nail penetrated the palm and the wooden plank.

Yes! Yan Yuxin's shout made Mu Qingyuan worry, he saw that Fan Yu's palm was protected by iron armor, Fan Yu enjoyed it very much and also pierced another nail into Yan Yuxin's right palm, this time the scream did not come out, Yan Yuxin blushed, his whole body trembled, and his mouth made a gentle hum, every sound made the people of Hanzhou present uncomfortable.

Fan Yu applauded, "Admire, admire!" Sure enough, he did what he said, so let's see how long Commander Yan can last? ”

"General Fan!" Yan Tong spoke again to stop, "It's not too early, we still have something to do!" ”

Fan Yu couldn't hold back this time, and was about to have a seizure, when the black figure moved, stopped Fan Yu and said, "General Fan, King Khan is still waiting for your good news." "The voice is magnetic, deep and majestic, and has a magic that makes you want to stop.

"Good!" Fan dragged out a long tail note, "Let's get down to business!" Hold them all in a cage, and put that dog officer in a cage alone! ”

The snow sprinkled for many days gradually stopped on the first day of the 31st day of the Liang calendar, in this should be the moment when the lights of thousands of homes were lit up and the family celebrated, the city of Hanzhou had quietly changed hands, the right rank of the guards who died in the battle were stripped of their clothes, all the corpses were buried in a centralized manner, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty changed into the uniforms of the Liang Dynasty and began to stand on the head of the city. After a night of fierce fighting, the blood everywhere was covered with snow, and in just one day, the city of Hanzhou was restored to its previous appearance, and everything was normal, except for the city, there were no more people in the city.