Although the city of Pingzhou was broken, the fighting did not stop.

Li Congjing saw Meng Ping personally lead the dead soldiers to attack the city, and after a hard battle to gain a firm foothold, followed by the Chinese army infantry have climbed up, and groups of battles are carried out everywhere, from time to time there are sergeants falling, and the dumplings of the sergeants who fall off the city generally fall outside the city. The head of the city was either crowded or empty, and the watchtower at Li Congjing's feet was so high that he could see that the head of the city was full of blood and fire, the remains of severed limbs and corpses were soaked in a pool of blood, or the advancing or retreating sergeants ran over from above, the armor soldiers fell everywhere, and the stumps of bed crossbows, wolf tooth swatters, and fork rods were scattered helplessly, like fallen leaves.

The defenders of Pingzhou began to withdraw from the city, and the hundred battle troops everywhere pursued closely and chased into the city from all over the road. A group of hundred battle troops rushed into the urn city from the city gate, and the river generally poured into the city from the urn city, and Li Shaocheng, who was freshly dressed and angry, charged at the front, which was very conspicuous.

Li Shaocheng and Meng Ping attacked from both sides, supporting each other, and the momentum of the Hundred Battles Army soared. Together, they stormed the city and rushed forward along the straight streets, having completely seized the initiative on the battlefield.

This time Li Congjing attacked Pingzhou, and only Meng Ping's Chinese army, Li Shaocheng and Junzi were all one, and most of the rest of the hundred battle armies had withdrawn to Youyun, but Yu Huangfulin was still sitting in Gubeikou. At present, there are nearly 7,000 people in the 100 battle army in front of Li Congjing, plus 5,000 Lu Long army, and the strength of the Pingzhou garrison is four times. It was a battle that was bound to be won, and all that remained was how long it would take.

Meng Ping and Li Shaocheng are not close to each other, and there are several fang cities in the middle, but the streets between the two are filled with hundreds of battle armies, so the two are not scattered. After the city wall was lost, the defenders of Pingzhou retreated into the city, did not surrender or flee, but guarded the streets and alleys, and started street battles with the Hundred Battles Army.

The street fighting was so fierce that the city walls were not allowed to attack and defend at all.

Lu Wenjin had arranged it in the streets and alleys in advance, and on the straight streets near the city wall, he built the exit road wall to block the passage, leaving only a cramped passage, which looked like a labyrinth. Although the number of the Hundred Battles Army is large, it cannot be used after entering the labyrinth, and the narrow passage can only allow two people to pass through and one person to fight. The defenders of Pingzhou hid in it, and the bloody one-on-one hand-to-hand combat with the Hundred Battles Army, there was a square opening on the wall, and when the Hundred Battles Army was moving forward and fighting, there were spears and spears pierced out repeatedly, which brought a lot of losses to the Hundred Battles Army.

Meng Ping killed down the road from the city wall, looking at the street in front of him, his brows furrowed, but the battle was going on so far, there was no reason to retreat or pause, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he took the lead and killed him in the labyrinth. Put into the labyrinth, there is a tiger-backed bear-waisted enemy soldier rushing out, a giant axe slashed down on the head, quite powerful. Meng Ping didn't dare to be careless, threw away the spear that couldn't be used, and drew his horizontal knife to block it. Suddenly, several spears stabbed out of the wall on his side, startling Meng Ping to jump back, but he was kicked in the stomach by the enemy in front of him, and he took a few steps back to stand firmly.

He couldn't get angry, and the guards behind him shouted to be careful, rushed up and threw him to the ground, blocking him with his body a few sharp arrows that had been shot from nowhere. Meng Ping turned his head to look, and saw that there were several Pingzhou Army archers on the roofs on both sides of the street, and the guards who were pressing on him and blocking the arrows for him were being cut in the back by the enemy in front of him with an axe, and his spine was shattered before he screamed.

When Meng Ping was furious, his guards behind him had sent spears and stabbed the enemy soldiers who were about to chop him again. He stood up abruptly, furious, "Shield, bow and arrow, go up to the roof!" Others, exit the passage" and said to the guards behind him: "Tear down the house and the door, gather and light the fire, and put it into the passage!" "Burn these traitorous dog thieves!" ”

Before Meng Ping finished speaking, several groups of Pingzhou defenders rushed out of the hula in the houses on the street, rushing towards them, and before anyone arrived, the bows and arrows fired first, and several sergeants next to him fell, and more axes, stones and other objects were thrown and smashed into the crowd. Taking advantage of the chaos of the Hundred Battles Army, the Pingzhou defenders who rushed out had already arrived in front of them, wielding their swords and guns! Needless to say, these people had been ambushed here beforehand, trying to attack them. Meng Ping was embarrassed and angry, wielding a knife and fighting with the enemy in one place.

Not only Meng Ping had such an experience, but also many other ministries. The army of a hundred battles entered the city with the attack, but every step forward had to pay the price of blood, and the progress was not only slow, but even difficult.

Looking at the tower outside the city, Li Congjing took this scene in his eyes, and he was also very angry. Lu Wenjin's trapped beast is still fighting, and it is clear that it is a battle to the death, this method will hurt the enemy and hurt himself, it is foreseeable that even if the Pingzhou army is defeated in the end, the hundred battle army will suffer huge casualties. And in the case that the city has been broken and Lu Wen has no reinforcements outside, this kind of death fight is meaningless, and it is just a sacrifice of soldiers. This makes Li Congjing how can he not be angry.

He ran down from the watchtower, mounted his horse, rushed to the bottom of the city, climbed to the top of the city, and condescended from the city walls to observe the battlefield up close.

Now the north gate of Pingzhou has been broken, has fallen into chaos, although the south gate is still in the hands of the defenders of Pingzhou, but it can not be long, today will be taken by Li Yanchao. At that time, Pingzhou was attacked from both sides, and it was a real dead end. However, knowing this, the defenders of Pingzhou are still fighting to the death, and the reason for this cannot but be thought-provoking.

Li Congjing wanted to find Lu Wenjin, who was hiding in Pingzhou City, and kill him to shock the enemy. However, in a city, it is difficult to find a person, like a drop in the sea.

At this point in the war, although Li Congjing was angry, he did not lose control of his anger, he calmly ordered Li Shaocheng and Meng Ping's troops to withdraw from the street, gather at the entrance of the street, and stabilize the position with a defensive formation, and then ordered the hundred battle troops to gather dry wood and fire, and wanted to burn its labyrinth, expel the Pingzhou defenders from the labyrinth, and then take advantage of the situation to kill. The army came to attack Pingzhou very quickly, Pingzhou City is not small, Lu Wenjin has a short time to prepare for the war, and the street that can be transformed into a labyrinth is only a small section, and when the Hundred Battles Army converges with Lu Longjun, as long as it rushes through this small section of the labyrinth, it can be killed into the city with superior forces, even if the Pingzhou defenders resist stubbornly, they can all be annihilated.

There were many people in the city of Pingzhou, Li Congjing knew the importance of the people's base, and ordered his subordinates to run to tell each other, persuading him to help Wang Shi kill the traitor Lu Wenjin, and promised that once Wang Shi occupied the city, he would not disturb the people, and read out the policy of appeasing the people. At this time, Du Qianshu had a place to use, when he persuaded the people to help the king to rebel, he said: "I have been a Han man for all my life, why do I betray my ancestors and become a barbarian thief?" "Lu Wenjin does not care about the people, and the people are tired of fighting to the death, and the king regrets it, and he is unwilling to set fire to the city, but wants to fight quickly to quell the traitors!" When announcing the policy of appeasing the people, he also said: "The property requisitioned by Lu Wenjin will be compensated by the king; The people who died in the battle conscripted by Lu Wenjin were not held accountable by the Wang Shi, and were compensated by the fallen soldiers; Wang Shike City, divide the fields of Pingzhou, so that men have farming, women have weaving! In the end, he said: "The Tang Dynasty Youyun Defense made Li Congjing's military order: The army enters the city, do not disturb a person, do not take a thing, and those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

In troubled times, whether it is a king or a "rebellious army", after attacking the city, they will definitely plunder property, rob women, and some will even slaughter the city. The Hundred Battles Army has always had strict military discipline, and Li Congjing is not worried about this. In addition, he sits in Youyun, although he has 30,000 male divisions, he cannot defeat the Khitan, and the only one who can rely on is hundreds of thousands of Han people on the border, and he can help Wang Shi with his suffering and hatred, so that he has a chance to defeat the Khitan. At this time, the practice of benevolent government and the dispatch of righteous soldiers not only do not disturb the people, but on the contrary, they must protect and help the people.

Once the land of clouds can appear in the scene of "100,000 young people and 100,000 troops", although the Khitan army is strong and Abaoji personally leads the army to invade the south, Li Congjing is not afraid at all.

Because of this, Du Qianshu's words are not full of lies, but real policies.

There are many soldiers in the Hundred Battles Army, and they are not in a hurry to fight fiercely in the alleys at this time, and they use one to defend the Pingzhou Army that is stubbornly resisting, and the other is to announce Du Qianshu's letter to the people, and the momentum is getting louder, and there are windows and door panels in the houses from time to time to open a gap, and there are bold people, and even show their heads to see.

The sun was about to set, and the light outside the city dimmed, but the evening did not bring peace to Pingzhou, but made the city noisy. Li Yanchao at the south gate is very urgent, the city wall, the city gate fierce battle is fierce, the defenders of Pingzhou have been unable to defend, the city has been broken in a moment and a half, the momentum has spread to the north gate, whether it is the soldiers of the Hundred Battles Army, or the residents here, the heart will not be out of the spectrum.

Li Congjing was not in a hurry, because he knew that Lu Wenjin was more anxious than him at this time, that is, Lu Wenjin was determined to fight to the death, not seeking to survive but seeking to fight hard, and in the face of the increasingly noisy Fang Market and the people in the commotion, he could not help but panic. Once the political offensive of the Hundred Battles Army has accumulated to a certain extent, and the army will start street battles with reliable tactics, as long as it has a slight victory, many people in the city will take action, and that is the situation that makes Lu Wenjin and the Qi Bu soldiers feel desperate.

Dry wood, tinder, and throws had been piled up at every street corner, and so were the hills, and the archers of the Hundred Battles Army occupied high places, and the foot soldiers, under the guidance of the military order, began to prepare for the general attack. The north gate, which is rarely quiet and half-ringing, is noisy again at this time.

Just as the Hundred Battles Army was preparing to act, a group of Pingzhou defenders came out of the street in the middle of the north gate. The person in front of him was dressed in conspicuous armor, with no blade in his hand, and he looked like he was thirty or forty years old, and steadily walked towards the position where Li Congjing's handsome banner was. Before the people approached, a sergeant came to tell him: Lu Wenjin, the general of Pingzhou, please see Li Congjing.

General Li Shaocheng and Meng Ping were angry that their labyrinth battle had added casualties to the Hundred Battles Army, so please kill them. Li Congjing did not agree, and decided to see Lu Wenjin first, and then signaled the soldiers in front of him to get out of the way and let Lu Wenjin come forward.

Lu Wenjin walked through the army formation of the Hundred Battles Army, went up to the city wall, and stopped five steps in front of Li Congjing, staring at Li Congjing with his hands in a half-loud voice, "General Li and the name of the Hundred Battles Army have long heard of it, and I never thought that there would be a battle this time." Lu Wenjin, a general of treason and defeat, was able to fight General Li before he died, although he had no regrets in his death. ”

The man in front of him had a resolute and sad face, and Li Congjing was also looking at the other party when he was being looked at, and asked lightly: "The general intends to surrender and survive?" ”

Lu Wenjin said: "Surrender, don't survive, but die!" ”

"Oh?"

Lu Wenjin knows that there is no reason to survive, and he does not want to make a living. Today's defeat at the hands of General Li was due to General Li's superior move, and Lu Wenjin could not win although he sought to fight to the death. If so, why bother to live? ”

"If you don't want to live, what do you mean by talking too much?"

"There is only one please. If General Lee is merciful, please let the soldiers live. Killing generals, treason, surrendering to the enemy, and fighting to the death were all done by Lu Wenjin alone, and the soldiers just obeyed orders, hoping that General Li would have mercy on his life, and Lu Wenjin was grateful! ”

"If you knew today, why bother in the first place? Since you have the intention of fighting to the death in the city, and your soldiers have suffered a lot of casualties, how can you surrender if you want? Since you have mercy on the lives of your soldiers, and you are willing to surrender to the king, why did you make them fight to the death before? So contradictory, who can tolerate you? ”

Li Congjing pointed to Pingzhou City and said angrily: "Pingzhou City, tens of thousands of people, because of your thoughts, thousands of deaths and injuries!" "Raise your arm," In the land of clouds, hundreds of thousands of people, seven or eight out of ten people died under the hooves of the Khitan horses! Pointing to the south again, "Countless people with lofty ideals in the Central Plains are waiting for them, rejecting the Khitan, flattening the borderland, and sealing the wolf!" And you, who grew up in this land, were blessed by the land and became a human being, and did not think of being loyal to it, betrayed it! Ignoring the righteousness of the family and the country, ignoring the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people, recognizing thieves as fathers, slaughtering fellow clansmen, and having the blood of their fathers and fellow villagers on their hands! And today, you actually beg Ben Shuai to let those executioners, those things that are inferior to beasts live?! ”

"Lu Wenjin, this marshal tells you today, since I led the army to fight, I have destroyed countless enemies, captured countless enemies, forgave countless enemies, and turned countless enemies into friends, that is, 20,000 soldiers of my 100-battle army, and half of them have fought against each other! But today, this commander is not allowed to surrender! ”

"Whatever reason you have, whatever reason your foot soldiers have, do not commit treason, and kill your fellow citizens! Death is what people don't want, but what people don't want is heavier than the dead! Now, if you are unfaithful and unkind, why should I be merciful and righteous? If you don't kill you, you don't have the shame to destroy the soldiers, the handsome man has no shame to face the whole army, no shame to face the people in the border areas, no shame to face countless martyrs, no shame to face the Jiangdong fathers, no shame to face the ancestors and ancestors! ”

After saying that, Li Congjing turned around, faced the thousands of soldiers and soldiers who were waiting in the city, waved his hand and ordered: "Pass the commander's order: the whole army will attack, and the enemy will not leave a piece of armor!" ”