When the heavy city gate was heavily split by a copper axe, shouts rang out inside and outside the city, but outside the city were the excited cheers of the Jin people, but the Rong people in the city were full of despair.

But then, the stones and tiles above their heads suddenly became violent, and this was the last fight of the enemy, because they knew that in the face of that insidious and terrible opponent, they would definitely die, and their wives and children would be reduced to vassals and sold in Xintian City. So they fought desperately in the cave of the city gate with swords, and for a time the Jin army could not break into the city.

At this moment, a messenger in a chariot arrived with a banner and shouted to the hesitant Jin soldiers: "The gentleman has an order!" Those who enter the city first will be rewarded with 100 horses of silk, thousands of stones, and can be distinguished as the right of Rong and board the gentleman's car! ”

When they heard that there was a gentleman and a reward, everyone was shocked, and the young apprentice who broke the city gate also pulled out the giant axe from the door, and the splinters of wood fell into his face, mixed with the stinky sweat and blood on his face, which was terrifying. He didn't care at all, licked his lips, and stepped forward again, the hard leather armor on his body rattling.

The cave in the city gate was deep and dimly lit, like a tunnel full of death and blood.

A few zhang in front of him were piled up with the entangled corpses of the Jin and Rong people, a row of Rong archers kept shooting arrows, so that the Jin people were killed by arrows as soon as they appeared, and more Ge spearmen stabbed at the invaders with weapons in their hands, and two of them rushed up with spears to stop him when they saw the Jin young man rushing in.

Although they were still very strong, after more than a month of siege, Qiu You had already run out of food in the city, and their offensive was full of flaws under the torture of hunger. The young man of the Jin people was not afraid, he swung his giant axe with a thunderous momentum, and the two soldiers were in different places.

He then threw away a gaping gap. The brass axe, which was stuck in the neck of the second man, drew a short sword from his waist. Against the rain of arrows on the opposite side, he took a few steps. He is nimble as an eagle. At the cost of an arrow in the shoulder blade, in exchange for rushing into the middle of the Rong archers, showing his minions.

The sword, which he was best at, and which he had held in the palm of his hand when he slept for the past few years, had helped him stand out from the crowd of swordsmen, but it had not helped him win the admiration of the lord.

The boy held the sword in his backhand and leaped to his feet, the one-and-a-half-foot-long bronze claw piercing the chest of a Rong man at a strange angle. He turned around and hacked to death two enemy soldiers who dared to rush up. For a while, he was like a tiger into the flock, and the Rong people retreated step by step, and he carried their corpses to block the arrows above his head, and rushed out of the city gate hole with a shout.

By this time the army had pushed open the gates and rushed in, and the remaining Rong people at the head of the city cried out in despair, and they also understood that the tide had turned, and fled from the walls. Although they regarded death as if they were defending the city, they were all panicked when death was about to come.

Won, this battle won!

A Jin soldier asked loudly, "Who is the first?" ”

The young man who had entered the city first stood proudly in place. Stepping on the corpse of a seemingly Rong nobleman, he turned around, patted his chest and announced loudly: "The first to ascend, Yu Rang is also!" ”

……

"You're Yu Rang?" The one who drove the ride to boost morale was the herald's name Chipi. He looked with interest at the young but sturdy young warrior standing in the pile of the dead.

"Yes."

"Is it a retainer of the Bank of China clan who came to help the gentleman?"

"Exactly."

Unlike his excellent performance in battle, Yu Rang was unusually silent when answering questions. The flaw in the soldier's costume was immediately slightly flipped on the bamboo slip in his hand, and then gently closed. The mouth was amazed.

"You can't be wrong, I've heard of you. You are only twenty years old, but your experience is really rich, you were originally a minister of the Fan family, and you were a guide in the battle of the Zhao family five years ago. Later, because of the anger of Fan Jia, he was sent to the Zhongxing clan, first as an attendant, and later sent to the Chaoge Sword Palace to practice swordsmanship, and was well-known in the swordsman circle in Dongyang. ”

Yu Rang remained silent, just quietly looked at the flaws, he heard that this person is the mastermind of the gentleman of the Zhi family, very good at scheming, eyeliner all over Zhuqing, almost omniscient, omniscient, the most able to see the subtleties and know, his own affairs, I am afraid that he can't hide it.

The voice of the defect gradually lowered: "Of course, Fan and the two gentlemen of the Bank of China trained swordsmen to die for fun, Tao Qiuxing's assassination of Zhao Wuxian three years ago was done with a beginning and no tail, and it was rumored that they did it." After that, you, who were originally very favored by the Bank of China, were demoted to the end and sent to the border as a pawn, I'm afraid it was because of the failure of the assassination, right? ”

A hint of shame flashed across Yu Rang's face, indeed, it was his shame, and he hesitated and hesitated after the assassination was revealed. If the gentleman of the Bank of China could give him another chance, he would definitely kill for him desperately, but who would have expected that since then, the attitude of the Bank of China towards him has changed greatly.

Moreover, he was never given a chance to make up for it.

"You have made meritorious contributions many times in the border towns of the Zhongxing clan, but you have not been promoted, but you are very disgusted. Therefore, the Zhi clan asked the Zhongxing clan for help, and they sent you over, because even if you lose here, the Zhongxing clan will not feel pity......"

"Yu Rang, Yu Rang, in the eyes of the Bank of China, you are just an outcast!"

After finishing speaking, he asked with a smile, "What I said is right?" ”

Yu Rang's blood-stained face could not see joy, anger and sorrow.

The strategist got an inch: "Can you resent the black humerus of the Bank of China?" ”

Yu Rang glared at him fiercely, clenched the short sword in his hand, and replied stiffly: "In any case, the gentleman of the Bank of China is the king of Yu Rang, if the official dares to call him by his name again, Hugh blames Yu Rang for the sword in his hand is merciless!" ”

The soldiers of the Zhi clan surrounded vigilantly, and more than ten people faced Yu Rang alone, but they seemed cautious, this god-like young man, at least dozens of Rong people's lives in his hands, and often fought against the crowd.

But with a wave of his hand, he asked them to retreat, and he saluted respectfully: "I am just a temptation, you have been so unjustly degraded but you have not forgotten the lord, you are really a loyal man, it is rude." ”

Seeing that Yu let go of the hand that was gripping the hilt of the sword, he walked around the boy and threw over a wet silk cloth.

"Wipe your face, my gentleman wants to see you."

……

"A gentleman has an order. The second and third sons have made great contributions! You can plunder for three days! ”

The brigade that broke through the city continued to drive into the city, and the messengers kept catching up and shouting all the way. Give the order to slaughter the city.

The soldiers of the Zhi clan cheered in unison, cheering for the gentleman of the Zhi clan. In their view, looting was the best reward for the destruction of the city, which meant wealth, women, and the desire to kill to vent their frustration.

Slaughtering the city meant killing, but Yu Rang was indifferent to it, he had experienced several battles in the past few years, each time killing the city in blood and fire, stepping on the stumps and broken arms of the dead, and the war and refining his heart into a heart of stone.

What's more, these Rongdi tribes have also plundered the Jin people's cities and villages in the past. Maybe there are many bronze Yi artifacts snatched from the Jin Guoshi's house in Qiu Youjun's treasury, and they deserve to be there today!

He traveled with the Emperor through the fallen Rong capital, and when the order to plunder was given, the city was on fire, filled with cries and cries mixed with the Rong Di language to beg for mercy.

Under the crumbling rammed earth walls, chariots and valets galloped back and forth, and the Guardian waved his whip to drive the survivors out of their stolen dwellings. Most of these Rong captives were women and children, and their faces were expressionless. Lifeless, staggering steps pull the sobbing child.

Some of the wounded groaned, some begged for mercy, and a large number of Zhi's soldiers with short swords shuttled through them. Countless ears were harvested from the dead and the dying and stuffed into sacks.

There were also flocks of sheep on which the Rong people depended, and the soldiers drove them out of the city with satisfaction. There seem to be thousands of them, and they can feast on them tonight after a month of hard fighting.

He led Yu Rang through the bleating flock of sheep and the herd of captives who were no different from the two-legged sheep. Go to the Zhi's tent outside the city.

It's not like the chaotic plundering scene in the city, it's everywhere. It can be seen that the gentleman of the Zhi clan governs the army strictly.

When they arrived outside the tent, a huge bronze bell with a height of more than one foot was being pulled by a cart driven by eight oxen, and was transported from the newly built Taihang Mountain Road to Qiuyou.

In front of the big bell kneeling densely a group of enemies, judging from the clothing, it should be the nobles in the city, and the middle-aged man at the head was wearing a tiger skin coat and a crane tail crown, which showed that his status was very high.

With a sneering smile, he pointed at the man and said to Yu Rang: "Look, relying on the fact that the state is located in the depths of Taihang, the two generations of the head of the Zhongxing clan have no choice but to kneel here, waiting for the judgment of the gentleman of the Zhi clan. ”

Yu Rang suddenly realized that the person in front of him was Qiu You's Rong Jun, named Qiu Youyan. Based on what he saw and heard on the road, he knew that this war was originally a plan of the Zhi clan.

There are quite a few Rongdi Bang countries in the north of the Jin Kingdom, what Xianyu Kingdom (Zhongshan Kingdom), Wuzhong, Dai Kingdom, and the current hatred. These remnants of the Chidi Beirong formed a force with considerable territory and combat effectiveness, living a life of half-farming and half-pasture, and would spontaneously attack the Jin mainland every autumn and winter, plundering the population and grain.

For the Jin Qing, who was eager to expand, when the princes of the Central Plains were not easy to fool and the secretaries in the center of the Jin State were fighting for every inch of land, launching a war against Xianyu and its satellites, Drums, Fei, and Qiuyou, became the most convenient way for them to expand their strength.

In this regard, the Zhongxing clan undoubtedly has a geographical advantage, their ancestor Zhongxing Lin's father, as well as Zhongxing Wu, are famous for destroying Rong Di and expanding the territory, and by the way, the newly conquered Gu, Fei, Dongyang and other places are under their own rule. The Zhi clan is not bad, their territory spans Taihang, close to some small states inhabited by Rongdi, and the enemy bears the brunt.

But these Rongdi states are not weak in combat, such as Qiu You, there are 50,000 people, all men are in battle, they can make up 5,000 soldiers, and the road is blocked by mountains, so it is difficult to conquer. All this was only changed in recent years, after the Zhishi gentleman took charge of the military administration in the north.

The gentleman of the Zhi clan came up with a plan according to Qiu Youyan's greedy and naïve character, he was going to crusade against Qiu You, but the road was difficult and not smooth, so he cast a big bell and sent it to Qiu Youguojun, indicating that he wanted to fight with Qiu You into a jade silk. Qiu Youguo Jun Yan was very happy, so he ignored the advice of his courtiers and reorganized the road to prepare to accept it, but who expected that after the road was repaired, it was the army of the Zhi clan that ushered in......

Therefore, Qiu Youyan felt that he had lost unjustly, even if he was defeated, he still had a kind of angry self-esteem on his face, looked at the open tent, and asked loudly: "The gentleman of the Zhi clan deceived me!" If you don't win, I don't accept it! ”

"Not convinced?"

A young man's chuckle sounded in the tent, and with the sound of footsteps, two tall tigers stepped first, looking really majestic, but at this moment the eyes of everyone in the arena passed over them and fell on the young man behind them.

There is a kind of person in the world who is born with a certain charm, even if he is a stubborn young man covered in blood among thousands of soldiers, even if he is an ordinary-looking strategist among the retainers of the head of Byton under the black pressure, no matter how low-key and silent he walks in the crowd, no matter how many glorious and dazzling big people are around him. As long as he is in that picture, then when you look at him, you will definitely see him for the first time.

This young gentleman who walked slowly out of the tent was such a person, he was about twenty years old, he was wearing a heroic bronze armor, he was not wearing a shirt, he wore a two-foot sword at his waist, his steps were smooth and steady, and he stepped out of the tent as usual, and instantly took away all attention.

Even Yu Rang, who has experienced life and death and the ups and downs of life, is the same, he stares at him like everyone else, like the stars holding the moon, and can no longer take his eyes off.

The afternoon sun hit the young gentleman's face, allowing Yu Rang to see his face clearly.

The handsome eyebrows and eyes are as impeccable as in the legend, lined with the faint smell of blood after the war, and the smell of fireworks permeating the fire in Qiu Youcheng, Zhi Yao appeared in everyone's field of vision like this, like a god.

Here and now, no one can compare!

……

Qiu Youyan, who was still unconvinced just now, was also the first time to see such a person, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

Zhiyao's face did not have the slightest emotion, blindly calm, but like the rhythm of the footsteps that was clear to the rigid, everyone in the audience felt his pride, the pride hidden deep in his body that he disdained to show.

He spoke: "Qiu Youyan, if you want a big bell, I will send it to your capital, not only that, but I will also transport it to the city, to the ancestral tomb of you and other Qiu Yourong people, where I will raze them to the ground, build the temple of the Zhi clan in its place, and hang the bell in the temple." I will personally ring the bell and tell my Heavenly Ancestor Zhiwuzi, and also tell the Bank of China Huanzi, and tell the Bank of China Muzi: Qiu You, from today this small state of the Rong people will be erased from the map, and this place will be annexed and become the territory of the Zhi clan. ”

He stood still in front of Qiu Youyan, his eyes looking down on him mercilessly, and Qiu Youyan's lips and teeth trembled.

"And you are jealous of salt, as a shameful king of the fallen country, you will lose your community, lose the land to worship the ancestral spirits, your family will become the concubines of the Xintian people in the city, and your people will become slaves who will farm and graze for the Zhi clan, helping my clan grow and multiply, as for you yourself, ......"

"You will be recorded in the history of only a few words, not because of your stubborn resistance, but also because of your governance that has achieved nothing over the years, just because you were defeated by my Zhiyao, so, thank me!"

His eagle eyes swept over Yu Rang, paused slightly, and then fixed on the flaw.

"Flawed, write it down to this gentleman, on the seventh day of the second month of the spring of the fourteenth year of the Marquis of Jin, know the reason for Yao's revenge, and punish the Rongzi for revenge!"

He brought a slip and an ink pen in his sleeve, and he hurriedly complied with it.

Just as the goshawk soaring in the blue sky disdains to overlook the ants, Tai Dai will not deliberately look down at the small mountains, Zhiyao did not look at Qiu Youyan and those Rong chiefs after speaking, threw the bamboo stick in his hand casually, and turned away.

"If you don't accept anything, go to the Yellow Spring and cry to your ancestors who can't eat blood!"

The surroundings were silent for a while, and Qiu Youyan was caught off guard by two tall tiger ben pressed to the ground, looking at the sharp sword that was slowly pulled out of the tiger ben's waist with a bewildered expression.

The blue-yellow stick lay quietly on the ground, Yu Rang bent down to pick it up, and found that there was a red seal character "Chop", he knew that this was a bamboo stick used to carry out the death penalty in the army......

"Killing the king of a country is like slaughtering a dog......"

He gasped, looking at Zhiyao's background, even Yu Rang, who boasted that he had refined his heart into an iron heart in the war, couldn't help but be shocked.

(To be continued.) )