In the early morning of the next day, Shen Ruoyu was awakened by the sound of cannons. The siege had begun, and the sound of killing shook the sky, he jumped off the bunk, and secretly sighed that no one came to call him, this prison army really deserves it. He hurriedly put on his clothes and armor, picked up the autumn wind that had already frosted at the head of the bed, and asked Zhong Kexi to get on the horse and go out together, but was stopped by this timid little stove soldier.

"Your Excellency, you haven't eaten breakfast yet."

Shen Ruoyu said: "It's too late; Don't eat it yet. Haven't you heard, 'Extinguish this eclipse'? ”

"No, it's too cold outside, and if you don't eat, you'll freeze."

Shen Ruoyu smiled easily: "Don't forget, I'm from Beiping." Others can't stand the climate here, it's just normal for me. It's the end of October, so it's no wonder it's not cold. ”

Zhong Kexi stubbornly shook his head: "No, adults don't eat breakfast, and subordinates can't let you go into battle." ”

Shen Ruoyu thought about it, suddenly smiled, reached out and pointed at his acupoint, making him unable to move, and then put him on the bunk and lay down.

"That's right, don't go anywhere if you lie down obediently, with your body, I'm not at ease if you go into battle with me. Stay and wait for me to come back. ”

After he finished speaking, he walked out of the camp, jumped into the second-rate son, and went straight to the front line.

The tall city wall of Beiping is still tenacious and strong under the destruction of artillery fire for more than a month, although the surface has been riddled with holes and scars, but it still sits there without moving, as safe as Mount Tai, resolutely and calmly facing the overwhelming offensive of the southern army.

When Shen Ruoyu rushed to the Changyi Gate, he could only see the torrent-like siege warriors rushing towards the city gate, while the rest were surrounded outside in the dark waiting for orders. Qu Neng was standing in front of the formation immediately, his eyebrows tightened, and he anxiously watched as the soldiers pushing the minecart in front of him were hit by the stones thrown from the city tower one by one and fell down. The Yan army has obviously reached the point of exhaustion, all the arrows have been shot, and they can only rely on stones. The soldiers of the Southern Army on both sides did not need General Qu's order, one after another, they automatically rushed forward to replace their fallen comrades, and worked together to push the burning heavy minecart towards the tall city gate with difficulty.

The southern army that had ascended the city from the cloud ladder continued to rise one after another, falling from the sky. Shen Ruoyu took a closer look and was shocked to find that there were a large number of civilians in the Yan army guarding the city wall, and most of the real soldiers were old and weak soldiers or wounded soldiers. The continuous attack and siege of the imperial army for a month has caused the Yan army in Beiping to suffer casualties, and it has reached the point where the common people of the whole city are to take the lead. Even so, until now, not a single soldier of the Southern Army has managed to climb the city wall, let alone the slightest hope of success.

He walked to Qu Neng's side and said:

"General Qu, it's been like this every day for a month, didn't I already say it yesterday. In my opinion, it is better to immediately withdraw all the soldiers who have ascended the city, concentrate their forces to attack the city gate, and at the same time fire cannons at the city tower and the city walls on both sides, and keep bombarding, first, to cover the attack, and secondly, the lethality of artillery fire is much greater, if you don't believe it, try it. ”

Cold; As he spoke, bursts of white gas came out of his mouth. Qu Neng looked at him, thought about it, and said to the next herald to his hand:

"Command artillery preparation. All the climbers withdrew to the city. ”

The herald raised his flag and flapped his horse and went quickly. Soon, the southern troops who climbed the ladder slid down one after another, and withdrew from the city wall with the soldiers below, and withdrew to the west bank of the moat. At the same time, the powerful artillery began to roar and roar, and in an instant, the entire Changyi Gate Tower and the two wings of the city wall were flooded into a sea of fire and smoke that connected the sky and the earth. In the rumbling of the cannon, Qu Neng pulled out his sword and shouted:

"Stepping on Beiping!"

He rushed to the city gate first. His soldiers immediately followed General Qu, and under the cover of artillery fire, they stepped on the trembling earth under their feet, and rushed towards the closed tall city gate of Changyi Gate drowning in thick smoke.

In the blink of an eye, Qu Neng had already led the army to rush through the frozen moat and kill under the tower. In the thick smoke, the Yan army on the tower of the city could not see the enemy's situation clearly, so they had to throw stones and plumb hammers indiscriminately downward. Qu Neng took the lead, jumped off his horse desperately, pushed up the thunder cart with his soldiers, and crashed into the closed city gate. Fierce stones rained down, constantly hitting the heads and bodies of the warriors on both sides, knocking them down one by one. Qu Neng was suddenly taken aback: Shen Ruoliao was wielding the Autumn Wind Long Sword beside him, struggling to sweep away the stones that had fallen down one by one. Obviously, the condescending attack of the Yan army had the advantage, and Rao could only barely protect Qu Neng and the soldiers of several nearby carts from being hit with Shen Ruoyao's skills. Qu Neng hurriedly pushed him and shouted:

"Lord Overseer, are you crazy? This is not the place for you! ”

Shen Ruoyu didn't look at him, continued to block the stones, and said:

"General Qu is so unreasonable, the general is staying, I can't stay?"

Qu Neng was so anxious that he stomped his feet: "This is not a child's game!" Hurry up, go away! ”

He slammed Shen Ruoxiao again. Shen Ruoyu's body couldn't help but deviate, and at this moment, a flying stone roared towards Qu Neng's face. The autumn wind has been whipped out of reach; At the last moment, Shen Ruoyu pounced, knocked Qu Neng to the ground, and the two of them rolled and rolled under the city wall. Shen Ruoyu jumped up, pulled Qu Neng up, ran back to the side of the thunder car, waved the autumn wind to continue to block the iron and stone above, and shouted:

"Please, General Qu, don't distract me anymore, okay? Push your cart for it. ”

Qu Neng had nothing to say, he was ruthless, and wholeheartedly used enough strength to push the cart with his subordinates, and slammed into the strong city gate, slammed into it, retreated, hit it again, hit it back, hit it again, hit it again, hit it again......, hit it again, hit it, hit it again, hit it again, hit it again

The dense artillery is still roaring deafeningly. Flames were burning everywhere above and below the tower. In the powerful artillery attack, not only the stones, iron eggs, and plumb hammers thrown down by the defenders fell from the towers, but also the broken city bricks, broken wood and tiles of the towers, and the dead bodies that the defenders fell from time to time. Shen Ruoyu was suddenly no longer sure that he would be able to leave this nine-death city wall position alive in his life.

But at this moment, he had no doubt that he would be able to break through the city gate and rush into the city. Qu Neng thinks the same way; All the soldiers of the Southern Army who were besieging the city thought so. It was noon, and the tall gates had loosened; Under the repeated heavy impact of the thunder car all morning, the previously impregnable city gate was shaking, and with each violent impact, the crack opened, although it was quickly pushed up by the Yan army inside, and when it hit again, the crack in the door opened even wider than the last time. The officers and men of the Southern Army, who were united in their hearts, were down-to-earth, and steadily and steadily hit the gate; The Yan soldiers who desperately resisted inside slowly became exhausted, and finally they were no longer able to fight, so they collectively stood with their backs against the city gate, waiting for the last heavy and fatal impact to happen, the tall city gate of Changyi Gate finally collapsed, and smashed the Yan soldiers who were standing behind the gate into a meat pie, Qu Neng and Shen Ruoliao immediately turned on their horses, and led their soldiers to step on the collapsed city gate and the corpse of the Yan army and rushed into the urn city inside.

The continuous artillery attacks did a good job; Under the overwhelming artillery fire, the few ambush soldiers in the city of Weng suffered many casualties, and the tall and wide walls were also flattened a lot. The remaining defenders of Changyi Gate were extremely tenacious, desperately throwing stones and plumb hammers downward. Qu Neng ordered his soldiers to throw the ignited grenades and explosives on the city wall, and after a while, most of the Yan soldiers had been killed. The Confederates continued to storm the gates of the inner city heroically. A large number of civilians began to rush to the walls, replacing the exhausted defenders, shouting and throwing heavy objects downward, and there was everything, benches, tables, wardrobes, water tanks...... Everything that could be found in the people's homes was thrown down as weapons at this moment, and they were smashed at the soldiers of the Southern Army in the urn city.

Soon, sharp-eyed people recognized Shen Ruoyu and shouted:

"That's Shen Ruoliao! King Yan's Cheng'an Yibin! That ungrateful traitor! ”

"Ungrateful traitor-" The people's cries immediately unified, and the crowd was indignant, shouting deafeningly, while more heavy objects were slashed at Shen Ruoliao without saying anything. Shen Ruoyu was really facing enemies from all sides at this moment, and the strange weapons that were overwhelming him beckoned him, and he flew the autumn wind to shield himself, and he couldn't be hurt by them for the time being, but in this way, he could only deal with himself, and he couldn't spare the slightest energy to protect the other Southern Army soldiers around him; Qu Neng, who was besieging the city, together with all the soldiers of the Southern Army under his command, was completely exposed to the siege of the people of Beiping, who resolutely supported King Yan, and it was all on their own.

After a fierce battle for an afternoon, the soldiers of the Southern Army saw that they could not break through, so they changed their strategy at this moment, piling up all the explosives they were carrying under the city gates of the inner city, preparing to ignite and blow up the city gates. The people on all sides shouted and smashed the messy heavy objects down, and groups of soldiers of the Southern Army bled in front of the city gate, and after an hour, they finally piled up a high pile of explosives and lit the fuse. In order to protect the lead from the interference of the projectile, a warrior bowed on the lead, like a strong bridge, and let the stones, tables and chairs fall cruelly on him, and when he saw that the flames were about to rush to the explosives, he was relieved to spit out a mouthful of blood and collapse.

There was a loud bang that shattered the mountains and the ground, and a thick smoke stirred. Not only the city gates; The entire inner wall of the urn city has been completely blown up, collapsed, rubble, bricks, and the corpses of the people killed by the explosion rolled down, burying most of the huge gap that had just been blown out in an instant, and at the same time burying the two southern soldiers who rushed to the front. Qu Neng did not hesitate, immediately gave an order, raised his horse and whipped, and led his soldiers to rush into the passage that was blown out.

Seeing the soldiers of the Southern Army rushing towards Beiping City regardless of life and death, Shen Ruoxiao, who was still desperate just now, suddenly felt a white mist in front of him. The urn city has broken through, and the Changyi Gate is completely broken; As long as a door is broken, the Beiping cave will be opened, and the southern army will immediately pour in like a tide, and the Yan army in Beiping City has suffered casualties, leaving only the people to resist to the death; How can the people of the whole city resist an army of 500,000? As long as Li Jinglong gave an order, all the troops would immediately gather at Changyi Gate, and Beiping would be over, completely finished. King Yan is finished, completely finished.

King Yan is about to finish, but what is he doing? He's destroying King Yan!

Shen Ruoliao was shocked and immediately reined in the horse; Qu Neng turned around and shouted:

"What's wrong with you? Hurt? ”

Shen Ruoyu shook his head and looked at Qu Neng in horror, but he didn't hear Qu Neng's question at all, and he couldn't see General Qu's face clearly. He just asked himself over and over again: What am I doing? What the hell am I doing?

What I pursue, I can't overdo it, I can't ruin him; I can't just ruin him with my own hands because I pursued him.

He was still surprised, when suddenly a stir-fry spatula flew sideways from the front and hit him on the head, causing him to swing and almost fall off his horse. He immediately covered his head; A thin red thread hangs from between your fingers. Qu Neng was shocked when he saw this:

"Lord Shen?! How are you? ”

Shen Ruoyu was speechless in pain for a while, so he could only wave his hand. The people of the city had abandoned the walls of the city, and had run down to block the road. Half of the people of Beiping City gathered violently and blocked the front. The other half were still helping the defenders guard the other eight gates.

Qu Neng saw that the road ahead had been tightly blocked by downed trees, horse-drawn carriages, and messy tables, chairs, wardrobes, and clutter, and the soldiers and horses of the Southern Army could not take a single step forward. The besieging people kept throwing stones and debris at them. He dismounted and shouted:

"Everybody clear the road right now! Lord Shen, please go out of the city immediately to heal! ”

Shen Ruoyu had already relieved himself, wiped the blood on his forehead, and said, "I'm fine, the flesh is slightly injured, it's really not in the way." ”

He was flustered and helpless at the moment, not knowing whether he should turn his horse around and leave the city gate, or dismount and clear the road with the Southern army. He was really crazy, and he actually gave Qu Neng such an idea, and followed General Qu to attack the Changyi Gate. What can he do now? Is it too late for him to make amends? Is there a remedy?

Of course, Qu Neng didn't notice his strangeness. He looked back at the remaining soldiers around him, and said anxiously to Shen Ruoyu:

"If you can still insist, please go to General He and General Wu to ask for reinforcements now, and ask for reinforcements from General Da now! We have conquered Changyi Gate, but more than half of the men and horses have been killed or wounded, and now these troops are definitely not enough to continue to go deeper, and there must be follow-up troops to follow up and support! Please order the troops from all over the world to gather at Changyi Gate and conquer Beiping in one fell swoop! ”

Shen Ruoyu's heart flashed, and he said, "I understand, I'll go right away!" General Qu must hold on, and the reinforcements will arrive soon! ”

He turned his horse's head, galloped out of the broken Changyi Gate, and galloped all the way to Zhengyang Gate. He Fu and Wu Jie are still struggling to attack Zhengyangmen without making any progress. Shen Ruo galloped in front of the two lieutenants and said:

"General He, Marquis Wu, General Qu Neng has conquered the Changyi Gate!"

The two were taken aback: "What? Conquered the Changyi Gate? Was it just now? ”

"Just now."

He Fu asked, "What about General Qu now?" ”

Shen Ruoyu said: "The people of Beiping have blocked all the roads with tree branches and household debris, and General Qu cannot advance, so he is moving the roadblocks with his soldiers. ”

He kept silent about Qu Neng's request for help. He knew that the two lieutenant generals would definitely think of going to support, and if they proposed, he could bring out the general and drag them down. Zhu Gaochi and Princess Yan must have received the news of the fall of Changyi Gate and are trying to rescue them. There should also be Master Daoyan, Yao Biao, Jin Zhong and Yuan Tingyu in Beiping City, and a few masters will definitely be able to figure out a way. He tried to delay for a while longer, and there would definitely be a turnaround.

Sure enough, He Fu said: "If General Qu can break through the city gate, he must have lost more than half of his troops." The army in his hands was definitely not enough to continue the deep street fighting. All the forces should be gathered and immediately go to Changyi Gate to support Qu Neng, and this time they will definitely be able to take Beiping. What do you say, Master Hou? ”

Wu Jie thought for a while, shook his head and said, "This matter must be reported to the general first, and the general's order must be requested." Neither you nor I have the right to mobilize the whole army. ”

He Fu sighed: "Having said that, the fighter plane must not be delayed. I'm afraid that when the general's order comes down, General Qu's men and horses have been blocked back outside the Changyi Gate, and all efforts will be in vain. ”

Wu Jie said: "You and I make our own opinions, not only will no one respond, but the work will be fruitless, the general will know about it, and he will be punished." General He, let's report to the general first. Otherwise, the branches of the other seven gates would not have listened to us at all. ”

He Fu nodded: "That's all; Then you have to trouble the overseer, report to the general immediately, and ask the general to support the Changyi Gate! ”

Shen Ruoyu said: "Understood; Go too! As soon as he kicked the horse's belly, he galloped towards Zhengcunba, fifty miles away, and secretly thanked Wu Jie in his heart for not making a quick decision, but helped him save some tongue.