Changshan Prefecture Zhizhen Dingcheng was besieged by 40,000 rebels, and more than a full month has passed. Although Yan Gaoqing recruited many regiments to train troops, and there were civil and military officials from other counties and counties in Hebei under his command, as well as Yanzhao warriors who were unwilling to submit to An Lushan, after day after day of brutal offensive and defensive battles, the only thing he was fortunate about was that the partial division in Anbei returned in time to help, which was able to support it for so long. However, it is not a fortified city like Luoyang, Chang'an, and now it is not a cold winter, so they can't splash water into ice to stop the enemy from attacking the city, all they can do is to use their flesh and blood to drive the enemy off the city again and again!

"How many days?"

In the evening, standing at the head of the city full of corpses and wounded, he suddenly heard Yan Gaoqing ask such a question, and Yuan Luqian, who was stubbled and thin-faced, said in a low voice: "It's forty-three days. ”

"Forty-three days...... Hehe, every night when I close my eyes, I don't know if I will be able to see the sun tomorrow, so every day I hold on, I think, it's good to be alive. ”

Yan Gaoqing's face was unusually bitter. As An Lushan successively sent a large army back to Hebei, Changshan Zhending City, which is located on the two avenues of north, south and east and west, has become a thorn in the side that the rebels must uproot. He sent someone to contact Jia Xun, the envoy of Fan Yang Jiedu appointed by An Lushan, but Jia Xun was killed because of the incident, Shi Siming rushed back to Youzhou in time to preside over the overall situation, and the soldiers and horses of Yejun dragged the soldiers and horses of the Tang Army, and they were really besieged by Cai Xide's army, and it became a lonely city in the actual sense. The county commanders who raised the banner of rebellion in various places only hastily recruited regimental training soldiers, but how could these people who had never experienced a battle formation be the opponents of the rebels? In just a few days, Raoyang County in Shenzhou, Boling County in Dingzhou, and Shanggu County in Yizhou were successively destroyed by the rebels.

Not only that, he had already learned that there was a partial division from Taiyuan stationed in Jingcheng Pass, but Cai Xide was heavily stationed on the west road, but since he had not seen the reinforcements from Hedong arrive so far, it meant that the glimmer of hope in the west was already very slim.

Yuan Luqian saw that Yan Gaoqing's face was withered, and the whole person had lost no more than twenty pounds from the siege to the present, so he could only comfort: "Now that the soldiers and horses of Hedong Shuofang Anbei are approaching Ye County, as long as we hold on a little longer, we will definitely be able to wait for them to come to help." ”

"You and I have worked together for so many years, don't say these things to comfort me. Let me ask you, how many dead and wounded have you been killed or injured since the defense of the city? ”

Yuan Luqian's face changed drastically, and under Yan Gaoqing's gaze, he said bitterly: "A total of 8,000 regimental training soldiers have been recruited, and no less than 2,400 people have been killed in this month, and more than 4,000 have been wounded. This is thanks to the well-trained soldiers and horses of Anbei who bear the greatest pressure, but just now General Fugu told me that more than 800 people in the Anbei army have been killed in battle, and almost everyone in the rest is wounded. ”

"That's it, it's a miracle to be able to hold on until now!" Yan Gaoqing sighed, when a team of people recruited from the city carried the corpse of the fallen soldier from the city, his eyes were already full of water, "I've been thinking these days, am I too anxious?" If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't wait to raise the banner of rebellion and call on all states and counties to obey each other, only Anbei and Anbei would have attacked Hebei with two roads, one strange and one Zhenganbei, An Lushan might not have sent so many troops back, maybe it would not have turned Changshan County into a scorched earth today, and it would not have made the people of Zhending suffer so much. I just want to be false and wronged, wait for the time, don't care about the temporary stigma, and just stab the rebels in the back when the time comes! In this way, it won't tire your eldest man......"

Hearing Yan Gaoqing talk about his son, Yuan Luqian's face changed greatly. When Cai Xide's army besieged the city, he once preached under the city that when the city was broken, the eldest son of the two people who had been taken away by An Lushan and their entire clan would be killed under the city, and even issued a slaughter order. If it weren't for the 4,000 soldiers and horses of Fu Guyu to suppress the position, I am afraid that the city would have been in chaos long ago. Now, their son's life and death are uncertain, and the pressure they are facing is increasing, and what makes people even more desperate is that the news that Du Shiyi, who the rebels have been preaching not long ago, has been killed in Chang'an!

"General Fugu is here!"

In the past, he also followed his father Fugu Huaien to fight in the south and the north, and made countless achievements, especially in the first battle with Hui Hui, he and Fu Gu Huaien rushed back and forth among thousands of troops and horses to kill and not retreat, but firmly dragged the main force of Mo Yansi, and won precious time for the army to win. However, he didn't expect that the opportunity he had won this time to be alone was actually to defend Changshan Zhending City in exchange! Seeing the rebels attacking the city again and again, and watching the clansmen and subordinates who had followed him to make great achievements fall in front of him, he didn't know how many times he regretted that he shouldn't have grabbed the position of the commander of the division with Aguteng in the first place.

However, he, who had been sharpened by the series of killings, was as unceremonious as if he had eaten a piece of charcoal when he saw Yan Gaoqing and Yuan Luqian at this moment.

"Yan Yuanjun, I have been holding back one thing for a long time, I have to ask you, I heard that you were raised by An Lushan, and this is from joining the army to being a judge of the festival, and then to the current county guard. Since he is your benefactor, why should you think about the faint king in the court, so you have to leave the high-ranking official Houlu promised to you by An Lushan and turn against him? ”

If someone else asked such a question, Yan Gaoqing would definitely scold him. However, he knew very well that the reason why Gu Ling, who didn't know how many rebels he had killed these days, said this was not because he was sarcastic, nor because he wanted to surrender to the rebels, but only because of the anger in his heart after hearing the news that the rebels had announced. So, he could only smile bitterly, and tried his best to say in the most gentle tone: "An Lushan has the grace of knowing me, but General Fugu don't forget, whose kindness did he receive?" If it weren't for His Majesty promoting him again and again, where would he be today, and where would he remember His Majesty's kindness? ”

"Hmph, that faint gentleman is blind, Zhang Shoujue, a general with great military achievements, just because of a general who faked military orders under his command, he lied about his military exploits with a single thought, and he actually degraded people like this, but it made An Lushan get mixed up because of this, and finally became the envoy of the Three Towns Festival! Now my family Du Dashuai has recovered Chang'an Luoyang and turned the tide of the tide, but he still has to be suspicious of that faint king! If what the rebels said is true, the marshal has three longs and two shorts, if he can hold this Changshan Zhending in the future, I will definitely raise the army to kill back to Chang'an, and go to the Jinluan Palace to ask the faint monarch in person, whether he is worthy of being the son of the Tang Dynasty! ”

At this moment, there are far more than Yan Gaoqing and Yuan Luqian on the city, and there are many generals who follow Fu Guling up, but the faint monarch who heard Fu Guxuan's voice repeatedly, they have seen too many robes dead and injured in the past few days, and no one has stood up to accuse him of disrespect. Someone squirmed his lips, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them unconsciously.

The fact that Du Shiyi was dead when the rebels shouted under the city was really chilling!

"General Fugu, how can what the rebels say be true? If you really hate because of this, then let the relatives and enemies be happy! ”

Yan Gaoqing could only reluctantly explain like this, and when he saw that the servant Guling snorted coldly and stopped speaking, he said in a deep voice: "The reason why I, Yan Gaoqing, am not subject to the high-ranking officials of the rebels, but raise the banner of rebellion against him, is because of loyalty. This loyalty is not only loyal to His Majesty, but also loyal to the Tang Dynasty! If An Lushan is really able to govern the army with virtue and soothe the people with grace, I may be able to turn my back on benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith and obey him temporarily, but he uses the disobedient to punish the three clans to coerce the civil and military forces of Youzhou, this time Jia Xun and the three clans were all connected because they planned to surrender anyway, if such a person sits in the world, it will only be a more terrible tyrant than the faint king! ”

Yan Gaoqing spit out the word faint for the first time in his mouth, and even Yuan Luqian couldn't help but look sideways. Although he knew that this was just a general reference, and it was not this Chang Shan Tai Shou who was too rude to reprimand the Son of Heaven, he still sighed deeply in his heart. Hebei is devastated, Changshan corpses are everywhere, the life and death of the eldest son is uncertain, coupled with overwhelming rumors, even the iron beaten people can't withstand such a blow, let alone Yan Gaoqing?

"Well, just for your Yan Zhijun's words, even if my son and I fight for this life, we will defend Changshan. I hope I can really live to see the big banner of Dashuai appear under Zhending City! ”

Fu Gu Ling put down these words, and then said to the left and right: "Send an order to go down, and let all the people who defend the city during the day go down and rest." If there are those who don't leave, it's a good thing to drive them back in a hurry, and they are not afraid of death, but there is no need to send them to death! The night battle is still left to those of us who are used to fighting! ”

After more than a month of bloody fighting side by side, holding on to it, Fugu Ling and the thousands of warriors under his command have already been completely accepted by the fathers and villagers in Zhending City, and have won their respect. Whenever they take shifts to rest, there are always hundreds of people who send slurry water, food, and even unmarried women who promise to marry, hoping to leave those single men behind, because for them not only to bear the half-day defense in the morning, but also to defend against the sneak attack of the enemy army at night, every soldier and civilian is grateful in their hearts. Especially Yan Gaoqing and Yuan Luqian, who had just heard Fu Guxuan's resentment pouring bitter water, all they could do at this time was to bow deeply and salute.

However, just when Yan Gaoqing and Yuan Luqian were about to go down to the city and return to the Taishou Mansion to seize the time to deal with some of the most urgent affairs, from compensating for the dead and wounded to counting the supply of soldiers, etc., they suddenly found that there was a thunderous cheer among the rebels, and then, in the afterglow of the setting sun, they saw an unusually eye-catching banner being flowned.

Quiet!

Yan Gaoqing's face was like ashes, and he subconsciously muttered to himself: "Could it be An Lushan's personal expedition?" ”

Not only Yan Gaoqing, but Yuan Luqian's face was not much better, but Fu Guju's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and at this moment he sneered and spat on the ground, and said contemptuously: "If An Lushan is a personal expedition, then it is just right, I want him to see, what is called an unbroken city!" ”

Although he said this in his mouth, he knew it very well in his heart. Regardless of whether it is really An Lushan or not, I am afraid that the next wave of offensive will be the most terrifying in so many days! If he can't stand it, he will never be able to go back to see his father, wife, and son, and it will be impossible for him to live to determine Du Shiyi's life and death!

No matter how difficult it is, he must live!