When Sun Erniang woke up, she found that she was tied hand and foot and locked in a dark and noisy place, she turned around and looked around, and found that there were many young women like herself, most of whom were village girls caught nearby, they were either sobbing quietly or with dull eyes and messy clothes, Erniang remembered that Qiu Ci was killed and she was arrested, and her heart was suddenly both aggrieved and angry, since the rebels came, she and her father left their hometown and began to flee life, and then their father left without worry, Originally, there was a Qiu Ci Xianggong who could be entrusted, but now it was ruined by these rebels. She was more hateful at the moment.

At this time, the curtain was suddenly lifted, and the women inside were so frightened that they automatically shrunk into a ball, and unconsciously leaned closer together. The one who came in was a bearded soldier, he had a wine jug in one hand and a long knife in the other, a steel helmet on his head and an armor with a murderous look, he raised his head and took a sip of wine after he came in, and then carefully searched for his favorite target, and finally his eyes fell on a woman with a delicate face, just raised the knife in his hand, the women in the room were frightened and screamed, only Erniang was afraid but stared at this soldier with a firm gaze, without any fear.

The soldier pointed at the woman with the tip of his knife and said loudly: "You, come out!" The woman was so frightened that she cried out for her life, and shrank into the crowd, but everyone avoided her as if they were running away from the plague. The soldier threw away the wine jug and took a few steps forward unscrupulously, grabbed her sleeve and pulled it out, the woman was already frightened, struggling hard, and the women in the room quickly gathered all together and curled up in another corner of the room. Try to keep your distance from the two men and women who are pulling.

The military man said angrily: "Bastard, are you looking for death, uncle wants you, hurry up and come out for me." The woman was still begging for mercy and struggling, but the soldier impatiently raised the long knife in his hand to cut down. At this time, Sun Erniang stood up violently and shouted to the soldier: "Stop!" Don't embarrass her, can I go with you? The military man looked up at Erniang, obviously he liked it too, so he let go of the woman in his hand, walked to Erniang, held her chin with his hand and laughed: "You lady is so bold, but I like it!" Erniang smelled the stench in his mouth and was about to be stunted, and the woman crawled back into the pile of people and hid after crying and shouting.

Erniang was dragged out of the house by the military man, and the soldiers who came and went laughed and scolded if they knew him: "Shiro, you went into battle to kill the enemy and coaxed one, but you were majestic on a woman, hahaha." The military man smiled very obscenely and didn't dare to answer, turned around and said viciously to Erniang: "Hurry up, grind and chirp, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will stab you now?" ”

Sun Erniang felt that this person was simply unworthy of being a man at the moment, and only dared to play tricks in front of women. Seeing that he had a short knife hanging from his waist, he thought that he was dead anyway, it was better to leave a clean body and go underground to see Qiu Ci Xianggong, thinking of this, she felt a cross in her heart, and stepped forward to pull out the short knife with great speed, the military man was startled, and shouted loudly: "What are you going to do?" Seeing this, several of the surrounding soldiers picked up their weapons.

Sun Erniang pointed at the soldier named Shiro with the tip of her knife and scolded loudly: "You bandits who are inferior to beasts, you came to our hometown to kill innocent neighbors and kill my father, and now you want to insult me, I would rather die than let you succeed!" Erniang's scolding was sonorous and powerful, and the soldiers all lowered their heads and put down the weapons in their hands, but Shiro said indifferently: "Damn, Lao Tzu desperately stayed away from home and came to this place where birds don't, just to be happy and happy, if you mess around, Lao Tzu really cut you with a knife." With that, he drew his long knife and made a gesture to slash.

Who is Erniang is not afraid of him at all, raised the short knife in his hand and put it on his neck, looked at him coldly and said: "You dare to play prestige in front of our women, you don't need to do it, I will die by myself!" After saying that, he raised the knife and really stabbed it in the neck. Shiro had to step forward to stop it, but it was too late, the knife was inserted into Erniang's neck, and the blood was like a fountain, splashing his face, this coward was so frightened that he took three steps back and sat on the ground, his mouth was open, but he couldn't shout.

A young and beautiful life withered in this way, and it was the season when the flowers bloomed. Erniang died without even experiencing the taste of love, the war brought people more than just physical harm, and there were many, many such evil deeds in Hou Jing's rebels, so it was also doomed that Hou Jing could not win the hearts of the people and survive in Jiangnan for a long time.

In the city of Dongfu that evening, Xiao Gang was reading the military intelligence document sent by Xiao Yan, there was a noise outside, and he was about to get up to ask the guards what happened, when Xu Jiuqi and Mi Mazhong hurriedly broke in and said loudly: "Oh no, Your Highness, Hou Jing personally led the army to call for battle outside the city, and the Huiji Taishou had already put on his clothes and went out to fight." ”

As soon as Xiao Gang heard that Hou Jing was coming in person, his limbs were cold and his heart was furious, and he muttered: "How is this good, it is said that this Hou Jing is a butcher who kills people without blinking an eye in the north, can our little centaur stop him?" Xu Jiuqi pulled Xiao Gang's sleeve and said loudly: "Your Highness, you can't mess with yourself now, it's the best policy to find a way to retreat from the enemy." Xiao Gang scolded in his heart: Aren't you talking nonsense, if I can beat Hou Jing, I will be afraid of him? At the moment, I had no choice but to ask: "What is the best plan for the two Aiqing to offer quickly." ”

Xu Jiuqi turned his head wittily and looked at the prince's master, Mi Mazhong, meaning that I didn't pay attention either, look at you. Mi Mazhong suddenly wanted to point at Xu Jiuqi and scold his mother, but the incident happened suddenly and the situation was urgent, and they couldn't afford to pretend to be X slowly. Mi Ma Zhong had to tell the truth: "Xia Guan doesn't have any good ideas at the moment, but I think that the rebels are coming to the city, we can't be afraid, at this time, His Royal Highness should put on the battle and meet Hou Jing in the city tower for a while." ”

Xiao Gang suddenly felt that he had been pitted, these two mediocre talents were useless at all, and they were not as practical as the reckless Huiji. He had no choice but to put on his armor and go into battle and come to the city tower, only to see that two hundred meters below the city, a large area of black pressure was full of Hou Jing's rebels, with swords and guns and flags fluttering, looking powerful.

It is estimated that Hou Jing saw Xiao Gang's figure under the city, and came to the city alone with a slap of armor, and arched his hand to the city tower: "Your Highness, the minister Hou Jing came to enter the palace to face the saint, but Yang Kan and Xiao Fan closed the city gate and sent people to attack my subordinates, what is the reason?" Xiao Gang was also annoyed when he heard the words on the city tower, and immediately said in the loudest voice: "General Hou, Gu has never heard of a general from another town who has not been summoned to enter Beijing without authorization, and he has raised troops to enter Beijing with full armament, this is He Juxin, please explain!" Hou Jing was a little dumbfounded, this Xiao Gang was a little different from the prince Xiao Zhengde said. Immediately, he could only say perfunctorily: "The minister also had to do it, I wanted His Majesty to take in the ministers and grant me the post of prime minister of the Northern Dao Xingtai University, but the villains such as Yang Kan and Zhu Yi in the DPRK deceived the saint to manipulate the power to make the country, and the minister could only raise troops to clear the monarch's side and help the world to correct the public." ”

Xiao Gang laughed and said on the city tower: "It has been unheard of since ancient times, and the courtiers raised troops to slaughter hundreds of officials for the king, do you still know that Your Majesty took you in like a lost dog?" But how do you repay him today? Do you know you're rebelling? Hou Jing was speechless, his face was red. So he changed the topic and said: "Zhu Yi and Yang Kan have repeatedly plotted to kill me, I can only make this decision out of self-preservation, and now as long as Your Majesty agrees to hand over these two thieves, I will order the troops to retreat and return to the station." ”

Xiao Gang ignored him at all, and sneered: "I'm afraid that you will want more than these two people's heads at that time, right?" Hou Jing could only say dryly: "Your Highness speaks like this, and Hou Jing has nothing to say." Then there is only offense. Then he turned and turned his horse back into the formation, ready to raise his army to attack the city.

Although this Dongfu city is called a city, it is actually just a castle, and a low wall has been added to the perimeter. There are only four or five thousand garrisons in it at most, and the rest of Xiao Gang's troops are scattered around the city according to the camps, so if Hou Jing wants to enter the palace east mansion, he also needs to pull out the surrounding Liang army camps first.

Huiji Taishou led the headquarters of 4,000 men and horses to gather in front of Dongfu City at this moment, Hou Jing's troops were also concentrated in the front, and Shuangfa immediately launched a battle under the city, Xiao Gang was worried that Huiji Taishou would not be able to resist Hou Jing's rebels, so Xu Jiuqi went out of the city to help the battle, but Xu Jiuqi was afraid of death and wanted to pull Mi Ma Zhong together, but Mi Ma Zhong refused on the grounds that he was not good at martial arts.

Xiao Gang was very angry when he saw that he was still pushing back at the two critical moments, and reprimanded him twice: "The country is in danger, and it is the responsibility of the husband, if you don't dare to fight, then you can only go down and fight alone." Mi Mazhong hurriedly said: "Your Highness, don't be impulsive, this sword has no eyes, in case there is a mistake in your daughter's body, how can we explain to Your Majesty and the people of the world?" Trying to face Xu Jiuqi's mouth, Xu Jiuqi had no choice but to come to the city and set up a formation behind the position of the Huiji Taishou.

Huiji Taishou saw that the prince supervised the battle, and his colleagues helped him fight, and said loudly to his subordinates with great pride in his heart: "Soldiers, raise soldiers for a thousand days and use soldiers for a while, today is a good opportunity for us to make meritorious contributions, and the thieves on the opposite side are Hou Jing, as long as anyone catches him, the glory and wealth of the rest of his life will be inexhaustible." At this moment, the war drums in Hou Jing's formation were rumbling, and the cavalry on the flanks had begun to gather around and prepare to attack. Huiji Taishou rode on his horse and shouted: "Soldiers, kill me!" Cut off the head of the rebel general Hou Jing! "The first horse rushed out of the formation, and the cavalry and infantry behind shouted and moved forward, although the momentum was a little scary, but the formation was chaotic, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a group of miscellaneous soldiers.

Sure enough, as soon as the two engaged, Hou Jing's rebels instantly crushed the miscellaneous troops of Huiji Taishou, and almost in an instant, he was surrounded by the rebels' swords, and he was pulled off his horse and captured in a few rounds. Xu Jiuqi hurriedly set up a series of red deer under the city to prevent Hou Jing's cavalry from impacting his troops, the bow and arrow on the city tower began to return fire, Hou Jing's cavalry roamed around, and could not find a target to attack, at this time Hou Jing made another move, and the infantry army on the front began to detour to the east of the city, intending to destroy all the barracks fence there first, so as to clear a place for the siege troops.

Xu Jiuqi didn't dare to stop Hou Jing's actions even if he found out, Huiji Taishou had just been beheaded by Hou Jing's array, and his head was thrown back into his own army formation, which was obviously provoking and showing off his strength, at this moment, the morale of his army was already at the lowest point, and it could be said that there was a tendency to collapse at any time.

Mi Mazhong also seemed to smell a bad breath, and hurriedly said to Xiao Gang: "Your Highness, stay in Qingshan and don't be afraid of no firewood, I think this Dongfu is estimated to be unable to hold it, it really can't be done, let's retreat to the capital first, and then make a plan." Xiao Gang also said stiffly: "Lone will not retreat, Lone will die for His Majesty." Mi Mazhong cried: "Your Highness, this is the time to employ people, please love your body, for the sake of Your Majesty and the people, please quickly return to the capital, while it is still too late." Xiao Gang agreed without hesitation, came down from the city tower with his guards, and secretly opened the north gate and went to Jiankang. Mi Mazhong followed closely, and was very amazed by Xiao Gang's quick decision!

Xu Jiuqi also counted on Xiao Gang to cheer him up and help him fight, but the city behind him had begun to be in chaos, and someone was shouting: "The prince ran away, he hid in the city, we are going to be finished now." So there were deserters, it was a capital crime to escape from the battle, but no one could stop the survival consciousness of these people, everyone cried and shouted that their mothers were scattering and fleeing, and there was no combat power at all, Hou Jing took the opportunity to wave his army to catch up with a slash, and suddenly Dongfu City was in a hellish situation on earth, Xu Jiuqi himself died in the chaos and failed to hide in Jiankang.

Although Hou Jing took Dongfu City, he still couldn't knock on the door of Jiankang. He transferred the base camp from Stone City to Dongfu City, which is suitable for attacking from south to north, Xiao Zhengde is reluctant to come out of Stone City, so he is still stationed there for the time being, and Hou Jing doesn't care about him. (To be continued.) )