The mouse looked at Qiu Laohu in surprise: "Then what should you do?" ”

Qiu Laohu looked at the young face of the mouse seriously, and laughed softly, his rough hands were covered with calluses, and the skin on the back of his hands had been cracked by the scorching sun and wind and sand, he carefully stroked the cold city wall, and turned his head to the black Tuyuhun army outside the city. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Qiu is the guard of Shancheng, the city is here, the people are there, the city is dead, the people are dead!"

"But can we hold out a bit, or can we wait for reinforcements to arrive?" The mouse felt that it was okay to hold on for a while, so he said very anxiously.

Qiu Laohu smiled bitterly, he saw the mouse, sighed softly, and whispered to him: "There are no reinforcements!" ”

The rat's eyes immediately widened and he looked at him incredulously, its mouth wide open. Didn't the people who were sent out before go looking for reinforcements? Is this all fake?

"It's not that we didn't go to find reinforcements, but all the people we sent out were intercepted and killed by Xiao Xintian's people, and none of them could escape the encirclement of Tuyuhun!"

The mouse was silent, and after a long while, he said, "I believe that since Master Hou sent us here, then he will definitely have a back hand." General Qiu, let's hold on for a few more days! ”

Qiu Laohu stopped talking, turned to look at the enemy army outside Shancheng, the sun fell on him, pulling a long shadow behind him, extremely desolate.

After a long time, he turned his back to the rat and said, "The north gate has been lost, and our strength is dwindling every day, and now there are less than 2,000 men left, and even the children of the city have come out to fight with stones." Boy, look at our back, this is the territory of my Datang, the home of our Datang people, who is willing to give up their homeland and wander around! ”

The rat was silent, and the soldier who said, "Behind our back, our home," was lying on the cold stone, completely out of breath. For the first time, the rat really felt that war was so cruel, and he remembered the cold words about war that those old generals said in the cloud breaking army camp, and then he felt that those words were so correct, and even the real war was much more cruel than they described.

"I know Xiao Xintian, he is different from his Tuyuhun people, he is a pure soldier, so he will definitely not let go of such a good opportunity. Now he seems to be giving me a chance to surrender, but in fact he is humiliating me, because he knows that I will never surrender! Qiu Laohu squatted down, closed his eyes for the little soldier, gently straightened his messy hair, waved his hand, asked people to lift him down, and then raised his head: "As a member of the Cloud Breaking Army, you should know the outcome of this war, so, in order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, take them away, just leave us old guys here." ”

The rats don't know what this war means to Shancheng until now. The Tuyuhun army came prepared, and all the elites were out, but Shancheng did not have more troops to replenish, and many soldiers were actually defeated by their own physical strength. The corpses that were carried down from the walls every day were too many to count, and from the initial shock to the numbness of the present, the rat felt that he had begun to regard death as a matter of course.

When he first entered the Cloud Breaking Army, Hou Ye once said that the battlefield is the best destination for soldiers, and the horse leather shroud is the highest honor for soldiers! Dangjin still didn't understand a little, but now watching the defenders of Shancheng look at death as if they were home, the mouse felt that he was beginning to understand a little.

"Go, the roots of Shancheng can't be extinguished, take away the seeds of Shancheng, and when Shancheng is recovered in the future, don't forget to have two pillars of incense on the graves of our old guys, and inform us!" Qiu Laohu said to the mouse with a smile.

The mouse bowed deeply to Qiu Laohu, stood up straight, and looked at him with red eyes.

"You have to take care, you must wait for us to come back with reinforcements!"

"While Xiao Xintian and they haven't come over yet, you and your brother should hurry up and take the people in the city away!"

Qiu Laohu stepped forward to tidy up the mouse's messy clothes, took two steps back to look at the mouse, nodded with satisfaction, and then called an old soldier.

"Lao Chen, go down and gather the people in the city and the little rabbit cubs under the age of sixteen in the army, this little brother will be responsible for taking them out of here!"

Lao Chen was in his forties, with a full beard and bright eyes staring at the mouse: "Boy, I don't know how powerful your Cloud Breaking Army is, but now you are responsible for the lives of hundreds of people, do you dare to do it?" ”

"As long as there is a breath of air, no one will be killed under my nose! The people of our Cloud Breaking Army can have their heads broken and their blood flowed, and their backbone and pride must not be lost! The rat straightened his chest and stared at Lao Chen hard, and the stump belonging to the Cloud Breaking Army surged up from the bottom of his heart, and retorted loudly: "You can't despise us because we are young, we are Your Majesty's most mysterious army, we have our own honor, and we will resolutely complete the task!" ”

Lao Chen looked at the mouse seriously for a long time, then laughed, walked in front of the mouse, patted him on the shoulder, and said loudly: "A good sentence can be broken, blood can be shed, and backbone and pride cannot be lost!" Just say this to you, and I will rest assured that I will hand over the lives of these hundreds of fathers and villagers to you! ”

The mouse saluted Lao Chen and Qiu Laohu, and then hurriedly walked down the city wall with Lao Chen.

Qiu Laohu watched the two of them drift away from behind, looked at the direction of Tang Chang'an with firm eyes, took a deep breath, and then shouted loudly: "Boys, cheer up, get ready to beat Xiao Xintian's bastard out of the shit!" ”

The defenders on the city wall were in full swing preparing for what could be the final battle of the coming battle, and in the city lord's mansion, Lao Chen gathered all the people in Shancheng together, and then had all the young men in the army who were sixteen years younger come over.

"Uncle Chen, I'm not leaving, I'm going to stay and fight with you!"

"Stinky boy, if you don't fight for a few days, your skin is itchy, isn't it? Uncle Chen told you to go, what do you do with so many words? Follow those little brothers back, and I'll wait for you to find reinforcements to save us!" ”

A little soldier with a little childish face was dragged over by Lao Chen all the way reluctantly, and kept muttering: "If I don't leave, I will fight Guhun with Uncle Chen and defend Shancheng!" ”

Lao Chen slapped Xiao Bing's ass angrily, glared at him viciously and said, "If you talk nonsense here again, I will knock you out and carry people out of the city directly, see if you are still shameless?" ”

After speaking, Lao Chen pushed the little soldier into the crowd, asked them to line up, and then stood in front of everyone, looked at everyone's familiar faces, took a deep breath, and then bent down and saluted everyone.

"Captain Chen, what do you mean by this, get up quickly, I'm waiting!" A man in his fifties in the crowd wearing a foreign clothes walked out quickly, quickly helped Lao Chen up, and asked with a confused expression.

"I, Lao Chen, am here to say sorry to everyone, because I'm afraid we won't be able to defend Shancheng soon!" Lao Chen straightened up, looked at the people who helped him up, then looked at everyone present, and said loudly.

There was a sudden silence in the crowd, and everyone was stunned by the sudden news, unable to fully digest the news that seemed very terrible to them for the time being.

"In other words, are we going to abandon the city?" Someone in the crowd asked abruptly, and the eyes of the rest of the people were also focused on Lao Chen.

Lao Chen was silent for a long time, and then said categorically: "We have not abandoned the city, we are still guarding this city that belongs to us!" ”

"However, in order to prevent the worst from happening, we must get everyone out of the city and send someone to escort everyone to a safe place!" Lao Chen continued.

The crowd became quiet again, everyone stood silently in place and did not make a sound, only the teenage soldiers who were forcibly sent over were a little commotion, but they were glared at by Lao Chen, and then reluctantly quieted down.

"If you don't have any opinions, then please go back and pack your simple luggage, and immediately follow this ****** little brother from the Chang'an Cloud Breaking Army out of the city, and we will send soldiers to protect everyone's safety!"

"Since people are from Chang'an, why are there no reinforcements?" The former iron officer suddenly asked.

"The commander of the Cloud Breaking Army, Ziwu Hou, sent someone over because he was worried that something would happen, he didn't think that there would be such a situation before, and the people we sent out to seek reinforcements before have all been intercepted by the enemy, and our news here can't be passed on at all!" Lao Chen explained.

The rat took a step forward, first saluted the people present, and then said seriously: "If it weren't for the loss of the north gate, which made our defense extremely passive and difficult, we might have to wait another day or two to see if any reinforcements arrived." Because I think that the little marquis should make a corresponding decision about the situation here. However, now the situation has become very unfavorable for us, and everyone in Shancheng has become very dangerous, in order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, General Qiu decided to send all the people and children in the city out of Shancheng, leaving the last roots for Shancheng. And they themselves will continue to defend Shancheng and vow to live and die with Shancheng! ”

There was an uproar in the crowd, and a trembling white-haired old man was helped out of the crowd, looking at the young face of the mouse, he coughed lightly a few times, stopping Lao Chen who wanted to come over next to him, and his voice looked very old.

"If you are an old immortal like me, you won't leave, I'll stay here, although I don't have much strength, but I still have the strength to scold! The second son of the Chen family, your second uncle and I will not go anywhere, just stay in Shancheng, here are my roots, I was born here, and I should stay here when I die! ”

"Second uncle......" Lao Chen showed a look of embarrassment on his face.

The second uncle raised his hand to stop Lao Chen from speaking, then turned around, looked at the people below, and said in an old voice: "If you want to stay, stay, and if you want to leave, leave." Those women and children should all go, General Qiu is right, even if Shancheng is lost and the defenders of the city are dead, but the roots of our Shancheng cannot be extinguished, as long as the roots are there, one day we will return to this place, and then re-root here! ”

After speaking, the second uncle closed his eyes and stood quietly in place. After a while, there was a commotion in the crowd, and those old people stood by the side of the second uncle one after another, and some big men in their thirties and forties also stood up.

After the commotion at the scene quieted down, the second uncle opened his eyes, glanced at the people around him, pulled out the young women and children inside, and then looked at the thirty or forty-year-old men, smiled, turned his head to look at Lao Chen and said: "The second boy of the Chen family, let these people stay here, they can always help a little, and you can let the rest of the people take them, leave Shancheng immediately, don't worry about the luggage or anything, hurry up!" ”

Lao Chen replied, and together with the rats, he said to those baby soldiers: "I know that you are unwilling, now I will give you a task to protect these ordinary people, and not let the enemy hurt them in the slightest!" Can you do it? ”

"However, we want to stay here and live and die with Shancheng!" A child soldier said.

"Slap", Lao Chen slapped the child soldier in the face and scolded: "This is an order, no one can disobey it!" ”

With tears in his eyes, the baby soldier straightened his chest and replied loudly: "Yes, Captain!" ”

The sun was setting in the west, and a thick cloud of fire on the west side dyed the sky into a sea of orange, geese flew in the sky, and more than a dozen eagles hovered over the battlefield, staring at the battlefield with sharp eyes, waiting for the beginning of the war, they seemed to have begun to like the taste of human flesh.

Tuyuhun's side was already ready to move, and teams of soldiers began to go out, pressing towards Shancheng step by step.

Qiu Laohu looked at Lao Chen, who was coming back in a hurry, and asked, "Are you leaving?" ”

Lao Chen said what happened just now, then shook his head and said, "About half of the people stayed!" ”

Qiu Laohu turned around, looked in the direction of the West Gate, and seemed to see the other half of the people who were retreating, led by the rats, taking advantage of the night to leave.

Xiao Xintian rode a horse, came to a place less than a mile away from Shancheng for the first time, looked at the city wall of Shancheng, his cold face seemed to have no emotion, and with a wave of his hand, the infantry and cavalry following him rushed to Shancheng like a tide.

"Capture Shancheng, rob women, rob treasures!" Xiao Xintian shouted loudly, and the Tuyuhun soldiers who charged heard the words were even more like being beaten with chicken blood, and they all roared and rushed towards the city wall.

A large rain of arrows on Shancheng shot at the enemy troops who rushed up, and the continuous rain of arrows sounded, and the Tuyuhun soldiers who immediately fell on the battlefield fell to a piece.

The remnant sun is crying blood, the two armies will fight again, this time there will be a showdown, and Shancheng is in danger! (To be continued.) )