Luodu Nanguo, Guide Fang

Around the defeated and retreated palace army, this fierce breakthrough attack and defense battle reached the climax of the war, and both sides expressed incomparable determination and tragedy.

For the Northern Army, which was outside the encirclement, the winter days were short, and after two or three hours of hard fighting, they no longer felt that the twilight was falling early. The brave soldiers who came from the rear had already brought lanterns, torches, soup, steamed cakes, cooked meat, and wine, so that the soldiers at the front could take turns to eat something and take a breath.

Relying on the home advantage of Lodu itself, a series of logistical losses from the Imperial City were easily organized to meet the needs of the front-line fighters as much as possible.

However, the trapped officers and men of the Southern Army could only eat and drink ice and snow in the uncovered ruins, and the last bit of rations they carried with them, because they even lit the last bit of firewood and charcoal to keep warm, and they couldn't take it away anyway, but because of the cold and freezing various non-combat attrition, their strength and morale were once again weakened.

At this time, in the surrounding cities, the bright torches were also lit early, and the left and right sides were illuminated. Originally, it was a favorable condition for the dark side to attack the light outside the square with the darkness inside the workshop, or vice versa to attack the light inside the workshop with the darkness outside the workshop.

However, under the heavy snow, it was impossible for the attackers and defenders to get cover in complete darkness, so the two sides had to continue to fight at night.

The breakthrough was half a day ago, starting with Guide Fang, and at the same time began on several fronts one after another, and the soldiers of the Southern Army who had already made up their minds to the death issued wave after wave of earth-shaking shouts and kills, and they were about to rush out of the city.

But the northern soldiers who were in front of them, making the final interception, were not overwhelmed by this momentum. It was only after a brief period of confusion and haste to meet the battle that most people did not lay down their arms or leave the defensive ground.

However, in the defense line that had been broken through section by section, they continued to create many obstacles, and they were full of food and drink, and they built section after section of the embankment, struggling to stop the southern army that rushed through the defense line like a tide, and then they were entangled and killed with each other in groups, fell in the ice and snow, were frozen into groups of sculptures, and then were trampled and stepped over by more people.

Hurried to the vicinity of Chongzheng Fang, Zhang Shuye, who came to command in person, also lost his usual composure and commanding demeanor, he almost shouted at Xiao Deshan, who was in charge of the first-line defense of Changxia Gate, and sent to ask for help:

"Spread the word Xiao Du, you have to hold on to my death, even if the people there are gone,"

"After the formation completes the flanking attack, he is the number one merit of the national dynasty, otherwise I will die on the position"

At this moment, Uncle Zhang's eyes have been deeply sunken in the middle of the eye sockets due to long-term exhaustion and lack of rest, but still flash from time to time, as if in the depths of the thick clouds, flashing lightning from time to time.

He had already deeply felt the exhaustion of soldiers and manpower, and after a series of battles inside and outside Henan Road to Duqian Road, when tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in battle, the battlefield and city walls were full of blood and bones.

Now when it came to this crucial battle, when a soldier was needed to use ten or a hundred, he found that there were only a few combatants left in his hands.

He must painstakingly judge the real state of affairs and movements of the enemy, and then make the most of these precious and limited resources.

He even used his brains to the remaining soldiers and civilians in the Great Interior, and asked them all to come and help guard, carrying a door panel on his body, and using it as a shield, transporting military supplies back and forth in the cleared Heavenly Street, or playing the role of some kind of suspicious soldier who was mobilized back and forth in the north.

Fortunately, at this moment, Ouchi finally sent him new support, and tens of thousands of hastily organized people, under the deployment of Zhang Shuye, took over the northern defense line with great fanfare, so that he could free up more troops.

And for Tan Guochen, the commander of the left wing of the new army who was fighting under the outer wall of Guide Fang, and fighting and leaving, it was hidden under the blood, a kind of deep exhaustion and despair.

The final decision to abandon all the wounded and the last bit of baggage and choose a certain direction for each army to break through on its own also means that the core combat force led by the palace army has given up the last organizational and coordination efforts and has no time to take care of itself.

A breakthrough without foreign aid and without cooperation was undoubtedly a big gamble, so although the process of breaking out was only a matter of a few hours, the battle had reached this point, and the soldiers on both sides were physically and mentally exhausted.

Almost all of them pinned their hopes on backup, but the hope of backup was so slim that it seemed that at this time, only a miracle could save them from the dead end of entanglement.

Although at this point, both sides did not lack courage and were not afraid of death, but after a long period of fierce fighting, they were really lackluster in their will to fight.

At this time, Zhang Shuye was easy to piece together, and the last incomplete new force played the role of the final blow, which completely broke the order of the southern army's hard support, and made the battle situation that had been stalemate for a long time suddenly decisive and uncontrollable.

From then on, there was no more face-to-face fighting, only a rout of the corpses and wounded scrambling.

Fortunately, most of the enemies were attracted by the strongest palace army.

Now Tan Guochen has only one way left, which is to clean up the remnants of the defeated army and escape back, but it is also very difficult to do this.

Because there is only one Changxia Gate leading to the outside of the city recently, the thousands of routs who have fled have already blocked it tightly, and almost every step forward, countless people have been pushed down and trampled under their feet.

With the road in front and the enemy in pursuit, they have given up the last bit of sanity and calm, and almost instinctively swing their knives at anything in front of them that dares to stand in their way. In the terrible and tragic earth-shattering shouts, the only escape route has become a bloody Shura field.

More southern soldiers had to flee along the city walls, towards the east and west, looking for other exits and opportunities

But in the process of escaping, they will also be intercepted and chased in all directions. Tan Guochen's war horse was shot down by the Northern Army, knocking him to the ground, and he was almost taken prisoner, but fortunately, those personal soldiers desperately turned back and snatched him out, so as to save his life.

In the melee, they met the remnants of another defeated and retreating army, only to know that the remaining soldiers and horses of Dingdingmen and Houzaimun, who were also in the south of the city, had abandoned and fled to replant the banner of the Northern Army.

As for the fate of the city gates in other directions, although it is unknown, it is presumable that the northern army will not let this go, and take advantage of the victory to seize the city gates and cut off the opportunity to retreat.

In the end, after encountering the enemy many times, they still gave up their plans and efforts to reflexively cross Luoshui and go to Beicheng to find possible allies. Under the construction of a personal soldier, he turned to the nearest slow road to grab the city.

He chose a remote place that the northern army had not yet taken care of, first took off the iron armor and scarves on everyone's body, and then threw them down from the city together with their weapons, and then tied them to the city with several ropes, and went down the city one by one.

At this time, the sky was approaching, and their hearts were panicked, and once they reached the ground, they seemed to have been lifted to a life. And the armor weapon that was dropped at the foot of the city fell into the bushes, and if it could not be found for a while, it was too late to look for it carefully. Taking advantage of the cover of the night, he hurriedly fled into the wilderness.

Their only hope was to flee back to the out-of-town camp on the edge of Yishui, where to get some kind of backup and help......

On the other side of the Lodo, some kind of deal is still going on step by step.

After all, the identity of Zhang Dekun, who once stayed behind as Luodu and waited for the mausoleum, was not a secret among the captives, not to mention that as a member close to the core, he also held a lot of secrets of the powerful ministers of the Northern Dynasty, and according to various comments in the past, he was not at all like that kind of person who spared his life for the country and the people.

Therefore, in a certain way, this becomes a kind of guarantee of his value, and he has the qualifications to continue to fight for better quid pro quo for himself.

Even his subordinates may have traveled thousands of miles to hunt down my whereabouts, and they have also explored my future out of personal standpoint and curiosity.

"So they all died, and they fled."

I groaned for a while, digesting the news of these "old people" who didn't know whether they were true or false.

"Now there is almost nothing left......

Faced with this result, I don't feel much sadness in my heart. In other words, from the moment they parted ways with me, they had already taken the initiative to draw a clear line, and there was not much involvement and relationship anymore.

"In addition to fleeing south with his feet, there are still a few who have been found and returned......"

Zhang Dekun shook his head slightly

"It's just that under severe torture, I will inevitably die in prison......"

Listening to these words lightly, the grief and unwillingness left by "me" at the beginning are gradually fading away as I stepped into this capital city as I got my wish.

It's just that as the Northern Dynasty has come to an end, and we are also stuck here in a confusing situation, there is no longer the urge to take revenge, or some kind of pleasure and reward for regret.

All that remains is consideration and consideration of practical interests.

However, there is still one last bit of concern in my heart, that is, the whereabouts of those women in the first place, those women who were once my personal property and did not hesitate to take them out desperately.

In front of me, there was a suitable opportunity, and I looked at his eyes, and suddenly became sharp