Chapter 140: Hold on and Wait for Help

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In Ningyang City, Han Jinluo and other four heroes and many soldiers stood on the city tower, waiting for the battle while listening to the sound of drums and battles coming from a few miles away.

At this moment, the soldiers were very excited, full of gratitude and respect for the white handsome Li Fengyun and the Cangtou army, and Li Fengyun's status in their hearts was even higher.

The relationship between the four marshals and their cronies is more complicated, although the righteous army took advantage of the city to block the stormy onslaught of the Qi army, but the price paid was very heavy, more than half of the casualties were lost, and the strength was hit hard, even if the four marshals joined forces, they were unable to compete with Li Fengyun, and then even if they were lucky enough to break through, it was nothing more than two endings, one was to take the initiative to surrender to Li Fengyun, and honestly work for Li Fengyun, the other was devoured by Li Fengyun, and Li Fengyun in order to ensure absolute control of the army, It is bound to purge the four heroes and their cronies, and they will inevitably die after all.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, the hope of breaking through is extremely slim. Zhang Xutuo and the Qi army were outside the city, once Duan Wencao and the Lu army in the city of Fangqiu were killed, Li Fengyun and the Cangtou army fell into the encirclement of the official army, so it is not difficult to speculate that once the battle situation unfolded to that point, Li Fengyun and the Cangtou army would never show the courage of a horseman, and they were bound to evacuate in a hurry. As soon as Li Fengyun left, the besieged rebel army in the north of the city was over.

Li Fengyun is the last hope of the rebels in the city, everyone is praying for Li Fengyun and praying that the Cangtou army will not evacuate, and Li Fengyun seems to have heard the prayers of the soldiers of the rebels in the city, with indomitable courage and perseverance, he commanded the Cangtou army to attack fiercely. Time was slowly passing and the sun was setting in the west, but the battle outside the city continued, with thunderous drums and trumpets and fierce battles. In the face of the stubborn resistance of Zhang Xutuo and the Qi army, and in the face of several times the official army, it is conceivable that the Cangtou army must have suffered heavy casualties at this moment, and with the prolongation of the battle, the strength of the Cangtou army will become weaker and weaker, and the possibility of defeating the official army will become smaller and smaller.

But Li Fengyun did not retreat, and the Cangtou army did not retreat, they attacked forward at any cost, swearing to save their brothers. The rebel brothers in the city were deeply moved, at this critical moment of life and death, they could not continue to hide in the city, they could not watch the Cangtou army brothers fall on the battlefield, they wanted to go out of the city, they had to fight hand in hand with the Cangtou army, life and death together.

Going out of the city, breaking through, fighting, the call of the soldiers is getting higher and higher, and the number of officers who take the initiative to ask for battle is also increasing. The purpose of holding on to the reinforcements has been achieved, the reinforcements have come, and it is meaningless to hold on again, only to break through, only to sacrifice life and forget to die, only to meet with the cangtou army, in order to kill a bloody road, in order to survive.

However, at the critical moment, the four heroes disagreed, and there was a fierce dispute between Han Jinluo, Shuai Rentai, Zhen Baoche and Huo Xiaohan. Xu Shiren, the hero of Rencheng, persuaded a few words at first, but later saw that he couldn't persuade him, so he simply hid aside and ignored it, if you like to be so noisy, be so noisy.

Han Jinluo was born in an ordinary eunuch, in his thirties, his appearance is delicate and elegant, he is well-known in Jibei Shilin, and the four heroes also vaguely think of him, at this critical moment, Han Jinluo is very calm, his tone is calm, and there is no slightest nervousness and uneasiness, "More than half of our army has suffered casualties, even if the soldiers are still morale-like, but after all, it is the end of the crossbow, and it is vulnerable, and the reason why Zhang Xutuo gave up the siege and turned to block the Cangtou army is to lure us to take the initiative to break through the city." Just imagine, if Zhang Xutuo's soldiers were divided into two routes, one way to block the Cangtou army, and the other way to ambush outside the city, then as long as we kill out, we will be attacked head-on and the whole army will be annihilated. Han Jinluo shook his hand resolutely, his tone was unquestionable, "Going out of the city at this moment is death, and only by sticking to it can you keep a glimmer of life." ”

"Where does the life come from sticking to the lonely city? Our vitality is Bai Shuai, Li Fengyun, and the Cangtou Army, if Li Fengyun and the Cangtou Army are defeated and evacuated, where will we still have vitality? Huo Xiaohan asked angrily. Huo Xiaohan is a local tyrant of Ju Yeze, with a sturdy and thin body, a pair of shrewd eyes, he speaks quickly, and his temperament looks a little impatient. "Although Li Fengyun's strength is good, compared with Zhang Xutuo and Duan Wencao, the disparity is too great. Today, he can keep his promise, save each other with righteousness, and fight so far, he has done his best, but he can't kill it, and he can't defeat the Qi army, this is a fact. As long as Duan Wencao comes, or Zhang Xutuo throws the reserve army in his hand, or the Cangtou army suffers heavy losses, then Li Fengyun can only evacuate, and he will not bury us for righteousness. So time is running out, now we are going out, taking advantage of the moment when Zhang Xutuo's army is exhausted, and cooperating with Li Fengyun inside and outside, we will definitely be able to fight a bloody road. ”

"It is precisely because the battle situation is very unfavorable to us, precisely because the Cangtou Army does not have the strength to rescue us at all, and because Li Fengyun will eventually abandon us and escape alone, so we can only hold on, with the tall city walls and sufficient food, to the end, if God favors us, maybe we will have a chance to escape death." Shuai Rentai, who is tall and magnificent, is the same as Han Jinluo, and insists on sticking to the end.

"Why don't you go out of town? Are you timid? Is it afraid of death? Zhen Baoche's eyes widened and he roared.

Zhen Baoche was born as a soldier, and the ancestors of the Zhen family used their lives and blood to make outstanding feats, and won low-level official titles, which can be regarded as a low-class nobleman. Zhen Baoche went to the battlefield in his teens, broke his leg in the battle with the Turks, and returned to the field since then, so if you talk about combat experience, the four heroes pushed Zhen Baoche.

"Li Fengyun and the officers and soldiers of the Cangtou Army are fighting bloodily outside the city, their purpose is to save us, they have won us a glimmer of life with their blood and lives, and we are arguing here about whether to go out of the city, whether to break through, don't you think you are very shameless?" Zhen Baoche was furious, took the iron crutch in his hand, and hit the ground hard, heartbroken.

"Li Fengyun is here to save us, he wants us to live, not to die." Han Jinluo refuted without hesitation, "I ask you, we will kill now, how sure are you that you will break through Zhang Xutuo's resistance and join Li Fengyun?" I ask you again, there are nearly 2,000 wounded brothers in this city, are they capable of breaking through? Could it be that we abandoned them for the sake of our own survival and allowed them to die under the sword of the officials and soldiers? Yes, now the soldiers of the Cangtou Army are falling one by one to save us, and they want us to be killed, and they want to evacuate with us, but what do they think if they know that there are so many wounded brothers in this city who have been abandoned by us? Li Fengyun did not hesitate to pay a price in order to save us, how could such a righteous person tolerate us treacherous people who abandoned our brothers? ”

Zhen Baoche was speechless, his face was ashamed, and he didn't speak again.

Huo Xiaohan couldn't hold on anymore. When the flag is raised, he vows to share life and death, but at the moment of life and death, he wants to abandon the injured brother, and he can't do it, but if he takes the injured brother to break through together, the whole army will be annihilated.

"Stick to the lonely city, how can you survive?" Huo Xiaohan was unwilling to be destroyed, and remembered Han Jinluo's previous words, so he asked.

"Is Li Fengyun here to save us?" Han Jinluo asked.

This is for sure, Li Fengyun ran from the direction of Yuancheng and launched an attack on Zhang Xutuo, who had several times his strength, and he must have come to save people, otherwise even if he did not withdraw to the front line of Yangguan, he would not have risked the annihilation of the entire army to Ningyang. In addition, when Li Fengyun left Ningyang yesterday, he repeatedly persuaded them to evacuate Ningyang, and later saw that Han Jinluo and others were obsessed, so they had no choice but to repeatedly instruct them to be sure to guard against Zhang Xutuo's sneak attack, which also proved from another aspect that Li Fengyun did not have the intention of harming others, on the contrary, he sincerely regarded everyone as brothers.

Huo Xiaohan nodded. Shuai Rentai and Zhen Baoche also nodded in affirmation.

"Li Fengyun has great ambitions, he is sincere about forming an alliance, but his purpose is also obvious, he wants to expand, he wants to grow, he wants to annex us." Han Jinluo asked again, "If he doesn't save us and let us perish, will there be rebels in Qilu to defect to him in the future?" If the Qilu people don't believe him, regard him as an opponent, and always guard against him, what else can he talk about? So, you say, is he going to do everything in his power to save us? ”

The crowd nodded again.

"Don't look at the fierce fighting outside the city, in fact, the battle situation may not be as tragic as we imagined. Zhang Xutuo must have a back hand, it is impossible to throw all his troops on the battlefield, he still has to return to Qi County, and he has to retain his strength to deal with the rebels of Qi County and even Ludong. Han Jinluo saw that Huo Xiaohan and Zhen Baoche no longer insisted on breaking through the city, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, so he calmed down and analyzed the battle situation, "Bianqiu is only a few dozen miles away from Ningyang, but Duan Wencao and Lu Jun have not appeared so far, why?" Obviously, Duan Wencao tried to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, so that Zhang Xutuo and us would lose both, and then he would make another move, and the fisherman would benefit. Zhang Xutuo must have seen Duan Wencao's despicable tricks, and Li Fengyun obviously also saw the contradiction between Zhang Xutuo and Duan Wencao, so he decisively attacked, and the two sides were evenly matched. ”

"In this way, Duan Wencao is coming soon." Zhen Baoche sighed, "As soon as Duan Wencao comes, Li Fengyun will retreat, and then we will definitely face the joint attack of Zhang Xutuo and Duan Wencao." Zhen Baoche looked at the scarred and bloodstained soldiers around him, and shook his head gloomily, "How long can we hold on?" Do we still have rescuers? Where is our life? ”

Han Jinluo's expression was calm, his hand stroked his beard, thought for a moment, and asked, "How long can Zhang Xutuo hold on?" ”

The situation in Qi County is bad, and Zhang Xutuo is leaving. As soon as Zhang Xutuo left, Duan Wencao and the Lu army were left, and the Lu army had just been newly built, although the combat effectiveness was stronger than that of the righteous army, but Yan Zòng lacked combat experience, especially in the cruel and bloody battle, the Lu army was far inferior to the Qi army. In other words, as long as the rebels hold out until Zhang Xutuo evacues, there will be vitality.

"As I said, Li Fengyun will never abandon us, and only by rescuing us at any cost can he win the respect and convincing of the rebels from all walks of life in Qilu, and then quickly embark on the road of development and growth." Han Jinluo waved his hand vigorously and said loudly, "Please believe in so-and-so, only by sticking to and waiting for help can there be a glimmer of life." ”

Shuai Rentai, Huo Xiaohan and Zhen Baoche looked at each other and accepted Han Jinluo's decision.