Chapter 222: (Nanyang City Break)

"Kill..."

"Block them..."

"My lord, the enemy army has come up from the wall on the right, and the brothers can't hold on..."

After receiving the news of the adjutant general, He Ying turned his head to look at the position of the city wall on the right side of the north gate, because it was dark, he could only hear the fierce shouting and killing on the city wall and the sound of the soldiers falling to the ground: "Let all the soldiers under the city tower go to the city, be sure to block them, and also, issue weapons to those people and strong, let them go up to the city tower to defend the city, and tell the soldiers that this king will live and die together in Nanyang..."

As the king of Xingyang, He Ying can be said to be the one with the highest status in the entire Nanyang, and now he is saying the words of co-existence and death with Nanyang City, just to show his heart, and also to inspire the soldiers who defend the city and let them fight to the death. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Not only He Ying, the west gate has been knocked out of a relatively large gap, Su Tong is holding a spear and leading people to guard the city gate, whenever a Han army rushes in, it will be killed by Su Tong, who has been waiting for a long time, in addition to these, there are also musket teams that have retreated from the city wall, one by one holding arquebuses aimed at the gap in the black hole, and there are many soldiers with crossbows with divine arms on the other side.

Because there was a gap in the city gate, the Han army attacking the city with a cloud ladder began to decrease, and the pressure on Han Chu to defend the city tower suddenly decreased a lot, but Su Tong by the city gate was under great pressure, Su Tong even ordered those people to be strong, telling them that once the city gate was breached, they would block the offensive of the Han army with their bodies, they all knew in their hearts that once the city of Nanyang was broken, the Han army that had been besieging the city for a long time would be slaughtered to vent their anger, and they would die when the time came, and now there was still the power to fight, after all, the Shenwu cannon was still firing artillery.

Zhao Xin in the east of the city had been hit by two arrows, but fortunately he did not hit the vital point, both arrows were shot into his right shoulder and chest respectively, because the chest was protected by armor, the arrows would not be shot into the body, and then the blood did not stop, and after bandaging, he climbed the city tower to continue to command the battle; Murong Qi also ordered all the stored oil canisters to be thrown out of the city, and the fire after the explosion illuminated the east gate transparently, and the Han army formation could also be seen clearly.

Pi Tong, who commanded the attack outside the East City, also sighed at the perseverance of the Cheng Dynasty army defending the city, but now he could see that the defenders of Nanyang were already at the end of their strong crossbows, and they could take the East City Gate at any time.

Fierce shouts of killing erupted from all three walls, and Murong Guang also engaged the Han army spies who set fire everywhere outside Zheng Kang's mansion, because these people opened the palace gate and scattered after killing all the brocade guards, and then set fire everywhere as planned, creating chaos in the city.

However, these people are a minority after all, the battle outside the gate of Zheng Kang's mansion ended soon after, Murong Guang suffered some skin wounds, and was shot by the Han army spies in the shadows with the divine arm crossbow snatched from the Jinyi Guard, but fortunately, the injuries were not serious; Immediately, Murong Guang ordered his soldiers to search for the fleeing rebels and the rebel leader Zheng Kang in a team of ten people.

Huangfu Nan was outside the gate of the palace, and when he saw Murong Guang coming on horseback with a bandage, he couldn't help but ask about Murong Guang's injury, and after Murong Guang explained, he immediately said: "Please ask the old general to arrange all the sergeants under his command to the streets around the palace, and be ready to protect the safety of the palace at any time..."

Huangfu Nan was already preparing for the destruction of Nanyang City at this time, preparing to rely on the streets around the palace to defend it, and then send the Jinyi Guard to protect the safety of Cheng Yufei and others in the palace, after all, it was Shangguan Yin Feng's main wife, and his favorite Murong Xue was also inside, and safety was the first place.

After Zhang Lian gave up his order, he hurriedly ran to the palace with the remaining seventy or eighty brocade guards under his command, and went to the harem to protect the safety of Cheng Yufei and others.

"It's a pity that Commander Zhao went to Changsha Kingdom, otherwise the soldiers of Yulin Wei could still protect the princess and others to evacuate safely." Huangfu Nan couldn't help but sigh, now he regretted it a little, if Zhao Hua was left in Nanyang at that time, at least the two thousand surviving soldiers of Lin Wei in Zhao Hua's hands could still protect Cheng Yufei and the others to retreat together, but I think that Gongsun Ning's life is more important than them.

"The enemy's offensive is very fierce, according to the general, Nanyang may not be able to hold it at dawn, and when the time comes, please prepare as soon as possible, and the general will cover the retreat of the lord and the princess." Murong Guang looked at the direction of Beicheng with a solemn expression, now he has a premonition of the danger in Nanyang, if he has 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, then it will not be a problem to hold Nanyang for a year, but Nanyang City is too big, and the defenders in the entire city are only 30,000, how can it be the opponent of hundreds of thousands of Han troops.

"Liu Xuan spent a lot of money this time, you and I are the main targets of the Han army, the old man will live and die together in Nanyang, and ask the old general to cover the evacuation of the princess and others, go to the territory of Changsha, protect the emperor, and wait for the return of the prince's army." Huangfu looked south to the north.

It was only two hours before dawn, and just when Huang Funan and others were preparing to arrange the evacuation, the generals of the Shenji Battalion and the people from the Wutang transported the Shenwu cannons to the outside of the palace and lined them up, a total of three rows, ten cannons in each row, a total of thirty guns, and then put a large amount of gunpowder, projectiles and cooling water around the perimeter, preparing to give a major blow to the Han army that attacked the city when the city was broken, relying on the terrain, and it could be regarded as being able to give some help to the soldiers who desperately defended the city.

More than 800 of the graduating students of the second phase of the lecture hall and the newly recruited students of the third phase all stood outside the palace, holding the Yanling knife in their hands, and looked at the distant street with nervous expressions.

An hour later, all the men of the musket team also rushed outside the palace, and after choosing a position, the soldiers of the Shenji battalion responsible for protecting them surrounded the musket team in the middle with large shields to protect their safety.

Murong Guang rode a horse, behind him was a large number of soldiers, Huangfu Nan brought a chair, placed it in the middle of the palace gate, and also held a Yanling knife in his hand, putting on a decisive situation.

At two o'clock, at dawn, news came from the west of the city, the west city was the first to be broken by the Han army, Han Chu and Su Tong two generals took the people and the only remaining more than 1,000 regular soldiers and the Han army that entered the city to fight together, there were thousands of corpses of the Han army lying outside the west city gate, the same is true in the city, both sides did not get any benefits, Su Tong, who killed the red eye, even discarded the spear in his hand, pulled out the Yanling knife on his waist, and led his own pro-army and the Han army to start a fierce street battle with the Han army in the streets of the west city, and the two sides killed for a time without winning or losing, the chaos reached the extreme, plus the houses in the city that were set ablaze by the Han army spies, Nanyang City suddenly fell into chaos.

At three o'clock, the Han army killed on the east city wall, Zhao Xin went into battle with injuries, held a long sword and fought fiercely with the Han army who climbed the city tower, and after personally killing eight people, he was covered by the pro-army guards and withdrew to the city tower, Murong Qi also withdrew from the city tower under the cover of the guards, and then fought with the Han army on the street on the edge of the east city, and even killed several Han army spies who set fire everywhere and Zheng Kang's guardian family.

At the same time, Yan Cen personally commanded the battle within the bow and arrow range of the northern city, and the Han troops under his command rushed to the death and climbed the city tower, He Ying drew his sword and killed those Han troops who attacked the city wall in turn on the city tower, covered in blood, and even washed his face with blood.