At the southern gate of Shangtai, the soldiers on duty were busy waking up all the 1,500 guards who were sleeping on the ground from exhaustion. In the center of the city, the fire could be faintly seen, and all kinds of screams could be faintly heard in the cold air. But this is not the only reason why the soldiers on duty aroused everyone, because of the abnormal movement in the city, the Qin army besieging the city under the city actually quickly woke up from the rest, and immediately reacted, and after a short time, they put on a posture of attack ready for battle.

The double pressure of internal and external difficulties made the purple-eyed guards at the head of the city unconsciously crowded together. When he was at a loss, in the direction of the city, more than a dozen figures rushed over, and began to shout hoarsely from afar.

"Quick! Come back to the palace to support! The king is seriously injured! ”

"It's too late! The king was attacked by thieves, was seriously injured, and couldn't hold on, so hurry up and help! ”

"Brethren in the city, go to the king's house! Go to the palace! ……”

This uneven and terrible cry made people's hearts hairy, like a drum beating sharply, trembling more and more. The leader on duty was a Yamen general, who was frightened and unbearable, and saw that the other party was only about a dozen people, so he calmed down first, and while calling the soldiers to be on high alert, he personally came down to the city tower, and hurriedly asked: "What person!" What's going on......"

Before he finished speaking, the leader who rushed over stared at a pair of small eyes and hurriedly interrupted: "The palace has been attacked!" The enemy is unknown, the situation is urgent, Captain Tong asked me to wait for help, the general quickly brought more brothers over to kill the enemy, the prince was already seriously injured! ”

When the tooth keeper heard this, his heart jumped wildly. When he saw that the other party was the leader, he stomped his feet again and again while speaking, with an anxious look on his face, and said that he was assigned by Captain Tong, a soldier of the palace, so he couldn't care about it anymore, and held that if the king of Nanyang died, most of the city would be in chaos, and no one would care about them at that time, so it was better to hurry up and rush to the palace first, and it was good to act when the opportunity came.

The tooth gate general bowed his hand, turned around and greeted seven hundred people, and sped away, disappearing into the distance in a moment. The remaining 800 people who remained behind were in their own troubles, when they suddenly heard a whistle, and in the darkness, suddenly out of nowhere, many people appeared, all of them dancing with bright blades, and under the leadership of the small-eyed man, they roared and went directly to the doorway, like a group of evil ghosts that broke out of the underworld.

It turned out that Qi Fuyan saw that the raid on the Nanyang Mansion had lost its due value, but all his subordinates had been summoned, and the morale was easy to boost. So Qi Fuyan simply made a quick decision, and changed the target of the raid back to attacking the city gate, killing the guards, and letting the army outside the city in. He pretended to be the subordinates of Captain Tong of the Wangfu Palace, came to the south gate and shouted to disturb the morale of the army, and then urged the guard to leave on the grounds of the urgency of the situation, and then led the hidden troops to riot, trying to make a time difference before the other party came to his senses.

The chaos was too sudden, and many of the guards didn't have time to react, their heads had been cut off to the ground, and the guards at the door were killed in less than a moment, and when the guards on the city tower rushed down in a panic, Qi Fuyan had already led the crowd to rush behind the city gate.

The sound of the blades was mixed with a cacophony of scolding, but it was drowned out by a sudden rumbling sound. The heavy gates slowly but resolutely opened from the inside out, revealing a black passageway. The Qin army, which had already been on strict guard outside the city, shouted, and immediately swarmed in. The shadow of the sword and sword passed by, blood splashed wildly, human heads were thrown away, and all kinds of shouts were endless. In the long-term all-out siege of the Qin army, which was still able to hold on to the present Shangqi City, the place where Sima Bao was founded and symbolized the royal power, finally fell under the combination of internal and external forces.

Chang'an City.

The smoke rising from the flames of war filled the entire tower. The unrecognizable banner of the word "Jin" that shrank and shook in the wind was already riddled with holes, tattered and ragged, and seemed to be about to fall at any time. Above the tower, there were dead bodies lying lying everywhere, and the blood was everywhere, some of which had congealed into dark purple blood clots, which were terrifying, but no one had come to clean them up for a long time. The people who could still stand up were all covered with black ash, with only two tired and frightened eyes exposed, staring down without blinking. The thick smell of blood and scorched smoke mixed with each other, filling the air with a pungent and unpleasant smell, like a black cloud pressing down on the city.

The war, but it continues.

The brutal screams and even screams are touching. The furious figures of the Hun soldiers under the city collided like stormy waves, and it seemed that they would never end. In their mouths, they let out a howl that shook the heavens and the earth, and this howl infected each other and responded to each other, as if this army had been turned into a bloodthirsty orc army. Arrows flew back and forth in the air, dragging the rain of arrows at the end, like locusts crossing the border, one after another pierced the sky, and countless soldiers hit banana leaves like rain in the city, and lost their lives in an instant.

Liu Yao gave a death order, and he was determined to win. Especially after he personally killed the eight generals who were unfavorable in attacking the city or fled halfway, the Hun army was like going crazy, with countless lives, to destroy, impact, bite Chang'an City, after losing more than 20,000 troops, the Huns with bloodthirsty brute force without fear of death, but also beat Chang'an to a thousand holes.

Surrounded by more than 50,000 Xiongnu troops on all sides, under the siege of layers of encirclement, the city has long lost all kinds of opportunities to go out of the city to fight against the war, and even the courage to attack and disturb the enemy's camp tent at night has been lost. Under the blind passive defense, Chang'an is like a hedgehog curled up tightly, the spikes on his body that he can retreat from the enemy have been uprooted by the enemy very patiently, and now, the torso that has no defensive ability is about to be exposed.

At present, the city is short of food, short of troops, short of supplies, and most importantly, in an extremely cruel environment, people's hearts have also changed and slowly began to collapse.

Gao Yueyi did not disarm, and commanded back and forth on the city tower. Since three days ago, the offensive of the Hun army has been fierce one after another, and it has almost been unable to parry several times. Gao Yue was ordered by the emperor to temporarily receive the title of General Wei, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and brought Wang Gai and Fan Sheng, two capable deputies, to stick to the city wall day and night, leading his troops to resist desperately, and the enemy soldiers he personally killed were no less than 200 people.

But Gao Yue was anxious to find that the enemy soldiers killed one, and then a pair came up; Killed a pair, and rushed up to four, in short, it seemed endless, and it didn't help to kill until it was soft. The siege vehicles, ladders, catapults, and carts under the city were easily destroyed, and then a new one was pulled up, and the fierce attack continued, which was really overwhelming and exhausting.

Half an hour ago, the Hun army suspended the attack since the all-night night, and took a short rest, the city had not yet taken a breath, and the terrible sound of the bull's horn charge began to shake in the air filled with gunpowder smoke again, and the Hun soldiers began to slowly but resolutely begin to set up a formation, and the rough roar was repeated like a wolf's howl, and the nerves that made people tense almost break it.

After a long period of high-intensity offensive and defensive battles, Gao Yue was already described as haggard, and his thick beard had grown, and he was getting thinner and thinner. He was leaning against the wall, sitting on his legs, leaning his head back, resting with his eyes closed. Hearing that there was another movement under the city, Huo Ran immediately got up, and under the smoke and blackness on his face, a pair of tiger eyes were still shining. He grabbed the gun in his hand and was about to greet Fan Sheng Wang Cai, but a call came from the city.

"General Gao, General Gao!"

But it was three small yellow gates, staggering up from under the city, coming to the front, and whispering: "Your Majesty, General Gao is hard work, I am uneasy, and I can only kill the enemy when I am full." Therefore, let the little slaves and others send food to General Gao, General Fan and General Wang, and they will soon receive it, and it is not good to see it when there are more people. ”

As they spoke, the three of them looked left and right, and they all took out a small cloth bag from their arms, and hurriedly stuffed it into the hands of Gao Yue, Fan Sheng, and Wang Gai. The cloth bag exuded a sour smell, which made Gao Yue a little stunned, and he shook the corner slightly to see that it was two pieces of koji cakes for winemaking, and in the hands of Wang Lian and Fan Sheng, it was the same.

Gao Yue swallowed a dry mouth of saliva and asked in a dumb voice, "What does this mean?" ”

The leader Xiao Huangmen hurriedly responded: "This morning, in Taicang, dozens of koji cakes that were stored in the past were found. His Majesty was overjoyed when he received the report, so he collected it, boiled it into porridge, and distributed it among the ministers, and ate it to the court. These pieces were specially reserved by His Majesty for General Gao and others. ”

As he spoke, he kept peeking at the koji cake in Gao Yue's hand, lowered his head slightly, and couldn't stop swallowing.

Gao Yue sighed, not knowing what to say. Fan Sheng next to him smiled bitterly, but the blood stains on his face had already turned dry and black, and the smile touched the scab, and it was painful.

"Ouch....... Nowadays, even this koji cake is a delicacy that cannot be found. Hehe, isn't it funny? I think when I was in Luoyang, I was just a small Chinese army guard general, and I was tired of eating chicken, duck and fish. I didn't expect that now the official is getting bigger and bigger, but he wants to swallow this life like a rancid cake! ”