Wang Hao sighed, "This official has already been wrong once, and he must not be wrong a second time!" ”

The reason is very simple, if he hadn't met Yang Ling before, at this time, Wang Huang would definitely want to escape from Taiyuan and support a descendant of the Zhao family as the new monarch, but now he has been firmly branded by Yang Ling's party, escaped, betrayed Yang Ling, and it is impossible for him to be accepted by other scholars, so there is only one way to go dark. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The sky gradually brightened, and the cold and bleak sunlight shone on the city of Taiyuan Prefecture.

Inside and outside the city, there was a mess. From the four gates of Taiyuan Mansion outward, a large number of footprints have been trampled on the road, and even the wheat fields in the distance have been trampled into mud, deep ruts and vertical and horizontal, paving the earth under the city of Taiyuan Prefecture.

Stretching for more than ten miles, there were dumped carts, discarded soft clothes, tattered clothes, stepped on shoes, and occasionally the cries of children resounded in the desolate land outside this dead and silent city. This is a child who has been separated from his parents in the night, crying helplessly.

Inside and outside the city, there is black smoke rising everywhere, some are still rolling sparks, some are black smoke fading, gradually extinguished, inside and outside, I don't know how many houses were hurriedly abandoned by the owner, some people took advantage of the chaos to rob and set fire, after Wu Min left, half of the city was reflected in red!

The news of the Jurchen Tatar soldiers arriving in the building was annoying, and the officials in the city were panicked, but fortunately at the head of Taiyuan City, there was also the flag of the Great Song Army fluttering, and the army of the camp on the back road of Taiyuan Mansion of the Shengjie Army still stayed here with a weak force, and when the city fled, it was nailed here!

The south gate of Taiyuan was opened, groups of people were escorted out, one by one, with gray faces, carved tattoos on their bodies, it was the original Taiyuan Mansion City in the broken green skin, all of them took advantage of the chaos last night to rob and set fire, after being captured, groups of escorted out, dejected kneeling down along the moat that led the water of the Fen River into it, a team of tired Shengjie soldiers guarded behind, just waiting for the Lord to send the order on how to dispose of this group of garbage.

After this group of scum who were captured and escorted out, Hua Rong, whose eyes were red, also hurried out with more than ten personal guards.

Last night, the city was shocked, Hua Rong rushed to pacify the Ya Bureau, it was already a person to go to the Yakong, there were fires everywhere in Taiyuan City, there were people running and crying everywhere, the situation was already chaotic to the extreme, at this time, the Jurchen Tartars only needed to send two or three hundred horsemen, and they could not take advantage of the situation to rush into Taiyuan City, and Hua Rong had hundreds of horses, and they would be coerced by the panicked people, even if they wanted to fight to the death, they couldn't do anything!

At that time, the situation had reached the peak of the crisis, Hua Rong could only stand up at this time, send out a team of armor soldiers under his command, arrest those who took advantage of the situation to cause chaos, organize manpower to fight fires, and send armor soldiers to protect the important official warehouse arsenal, I can't wait to do two people alone!

Fortunately, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan Prefecture, there are still people who are unwilling to abandon their homeland and leave, and when the Shengjie soldiers came forward, they also stood up one after another, following this team of soldiers, and rushed around.

It was easy to wait for the crowd of refugees in the city to leave the city, and after the situation in the city was a little calmer, Hua Rong hurried to take over the city defense, and hurriedly sent an order back to the rear road camp, so that they could organize chariots and horses and manpower, and try their best to transport many important materials hoarded by the back road camp into the city.

In the second half of the night, when Taiyuan Mansion rushed back to the city of a foot army commander and more than 1,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilians, only to reluctantly lay out the city defense on the city, except for the south gate to keep open, the other three gates were blocked with earth and stone.

At this time, Hua Rong can only prepare for a death battle according to the city wall, and he has no time or manpower to arrange the defense system one by one, such as setting up a hard village outside the city gate, arranging troops on the sheep and horse wall, and sending hard detectives to release the sentinels in the city farther away.

Most of the residents inside and outside the city of Taiyuan Province fled, the people could not levy it, and the defenders were empty and abnormal, but fortunately, Wang Hao and the Jurchen Tartars were said to be in Loufu, two hundred miles away, and they might have been rushing to this place at the same time.

Hua Rong's plan was to borrow one from the city and defend it to the end, and he didn't even dare to imagine that he could support the arrival of the army of the King of Jin in the north. When the Jurchen army reached the city of Taiyuan, it meant that the north-south traffic of Hedong Road had been cut off. He just hoped that relying on his weak defense, he could hold out until Han Yue's two armies retreated and converged in Taiyuan Fucheng.

Although the main force of the King of Jin in Hedong was inevitably divided into two battlefields by the Jurchen army at that time, he still had the strength to fight by concentrating the main force.

Hua Rong didn't think about whether the King of Jin would still be able to control the army under his command when the situation was so bad, and whether the local strong towns of the enemy in the court would overthrow the King of Jin first.

At least at that time, he could fight side by side with the robes, even if he died in battle, he did his duty, and did not insult the Shengjie Army, although the history is short, but he feels extremely proud from the heart!

Hua Rong out of the south gate, is to meet a large group of troops from the back road camp hurriedly, hundreds of carts, full of ordnance and grain, so that the car creaks and creaks, hundreds of victories of the army left behind the back sergeant under the leadership of the general, the people put on armor and knives out of the sheath, vigilantly guarded around.

In the high pile of cars, there were seven or eight children sitting, their dirty little faces full of tears, and they were tired of crying at this time, and they were clutching the wheat cakes that the sergeants had given them.

And behind each car, there were bands of people who were staggering with their hands tied, these were the same deserters who wanted to take advantage of the chaos last night to abandon the army and flee, and even wanted to make trouble in the camp and rob the army of food.

Hua Rong patted his horse to meet him, and the generals in the team also hurried over and gave a military salute to Hua Rong.

Hua Rong was not in the mood to greet him, so he asked, "How many supplies are left in the camp?" ”

The commander scratched his head: "Sima and the secretary in charge of the camp are still counting, and the last general doesn't know the real number, but there are at least two or three hundred thousand stones of grain and straw piled up, hundreds of thousands of bundles of forage, and countless ordnance such as feathers, arrows, arrows, arrows, and armor. Salaries, silk and other military salaries and rewards, adding up to hundreds of thousands of yuan, according to the end of the general, how to survive will be rushed for seven or eight days! ”

Hua Rong smiled bitterly, where is the time? He tried his best to draw out some knights to scout around for the first time, one was to inform the changes in Taiyuan Mansion, and the other was to focus on how far the Jurchen soldiers were from Taiyuan Mansion.

At this time, the sentry sent out last night had only been gone for two or three hours, and had not yet turned back, but with such a responsibility, he could not leave anything to chance. Lou Fu is only two hundred miles away from Taiyuan Mansion, and the journey to Taiyuan Mansion, according to the speed of the Jurchen Tartar striker going south, maybe by today's daytime, you can see the ugly and fierce figure of the Jurchen Tartar!

The mountains of grain and wealth piled up in the camp on the back road can't fall into the hands of the Jurchen Tartars in any case, otherwise it will only strengthen the strength of the Jurchen Tartars, and he will not be able to bear this sin even if he dies!

Seeing that the Jurchen Tartars set fire again, although they could grab a little more supplies, they were also the least safe, so many materials, when the Jurchen Tartars rushed into the camp, they didn't know how much they could burn. Most of them still have to be taken by the Jurchen Tartars, and only in the time before the Jurchen Tartars kill them, do their best to burn all these unfinished supplies!

Hua Rong gritted his teeth and waved his hand violently: "Send an order to the person who is in charge of the camp on the back road, don't rush it, set it on fire!" ”

The conductor was shocked, and looked at Hua Rong with wide eyes.

The grain and materials piled up by the camp on the back road of Taiyuan Mansion were all raised by Hedong all the way, and they were continuously transported from Bianliang to such a scale. Not only supported the Shence army under Han Shizhong, but also had to be transferred to the Daizhou camp and set off from the Daizhou camp. If the army that supplies Lu Junyi is burned, and the southern access road is cut off again, how long can the two armies of the Shengjie Army and the Shence Army support it?

Hua Rong shook his head and said ruthlessly: "It's better than falling into the hands of the Tartars!" The reserves accumulated in the city can always support the Shengjie army and the Shence army for a while, which is enough for us to fight to the death against the Jurchen Tartars! Besides, King Jin is still on his way! ”

Having said that, how could Hua Rong and this commander not understand that the battle situation in Hedong had reached the most dangerous time?

Before the Jurchen army copied to Taiyuan Mansion, the field army was alone in the north, and the king of Jin was still far away in the south.

The commander silently rode his horse to the camp, Hua Rong silently reined in the side of the road, watched groups of deserters and green skins escorted to the moat and knelt down, watched the children being picked up from the car, carefully carried into the city by the rough sergeants, and looked at the bleak scene inside and outside the city of Taiyuan Mansion. And the raging waves in the north that were put in by the so-called Great Song Dynasty strong army have been forced in front of us!

Why are we in the Jin Dynasty, fighting to the death, from Yandi to Yunnei, to Hebei, to Hedong! We just want to be able to kill the Tartars without any obstacles, why are there so many people, I can't wait for us to die! This Da Song, what's wrong?

I don't know how long I waited, but in the distance, where the camp was located, a little fire ignited, and then the fire rose to the sky, billowing black smoke, straight into the sky.

Above and below the South Gate City, how many soldiers and civilians looked silently, and the atmosphere was already gloomy to the extreme.

And Hua Rong reined in the horse, his eyes were about to split, the blood and qi in his chest surged, and the lobes of his lungs were still concussive, so that a fishy sweet breath rushed up to his throat. Under the anger, Hua Rong only felt that he was crumbling, and his heart of anger could not be broken!

At this moment, suddenly someone at the head of the city shouted: "There are military horses coming from the south!" ”

Hua Rong was shocked, and shouted an order: "Line up outside the city, and take the men and horses in the camp to retreat into the city!" ”

An infantry commander who had been standing by inside the city gate, ready to respond to changes at any time, suddenly came out in armor and set up a formation outside the south gate, and the cavalry commander led by Hua Rong also scattered two wings to suppress the infantry command formation covering the city gate, and a group of light cavalry rushed forward to meet the smoke and dust rolled up in the south. This group of light cavalry is both a sentry and a hard sentry, and if the enemy also has a small group of sentry directly under the city, they will be entangled to death.

The defenders on the city wall raised their bows and crossbows one after another, as a backup, and the people who assisted the defenders of the city erected side signs on the side to cover them, and the deserters who knelt on the ground by the moat also made a commotion, and the sergeants guarding them swung their scabbards and smashed them down, smashing their heads and bleeding.

Hua Rong couldn't pay attention to these guys for a while, flew back to the city, dismounted and rushed up the city wall, straight to the top of the enemy tower. The guards behind him followed closely with the banner on their backs, ready to convey Hua Rong's orders at any time.

Hua Rong, who rushed to the height of the enemy tower, looked south, and saw the smoke and dust rising high, overwhelming the sky, and diffusing in all directions, I don't know how many military horses are coming towards Taiyuan Fucheng!

And above and below the city, only the weak troops were guarded, and the fire only started in the camp on the back road in the north, and the Jurchen Tartars killed the city of Taiyuan so quickly? With such a momentum, how many people are there? Before they arrive, can we burn most of the grain and straw materials hoarded by the camp on the back road? And before such a rolling momentum, can this little military horse of his own family hold on until the arrival of the king and the king?

Hua Rong tried his best to stand firm, at this time, he couldn't show the slightest weakness and cowardice, there were only nine commanders of the Shengjie army that the defenders in the city could flexibly mobilize, and the rest were auxiliary soldiers and civilians, and he was a little frightened, and this Taiyuan City could only collapse and fall!

Fortunately, the Shengjie army under his command has always been the mainstay, and in this crisis, the small square array of infantry and cavalry commanded by the two infantry and cavalry arrays outside the city is still as stable as a mountain. And the cavalry of twenty or thirty horsemen still rushed firmly towards the overwhelming smoke and dust!

The smoke and dust rolled, and the black smoke of the camp on the back road outside the city behind them also rose higher and higher, and finally from the smoke and dust, the figure of the military horse appeared.

Thousands of armor soldiers took the lead, wearing the armor of the Song army, with pieces of black tassels fluttering on their pockets, these thousands of armor soldiers surrounded dozens of knights who had never worn armor, and behind these knights, there were endless Song Dynasty people who came from all over the mountains!

It was the military horses that fled from Taiyuan City last night to pacify the government office and restrained them, and it was the thousands of people who cried and fled from Taiyuan City last night!

How did they get back? How did they come back?

Up and down the city, everyone's eyes widened and their hearts were stirring, but they couldn't believe what they were seeing in front of them.

The dozens of hard spies who rode up to meet finally came into contact with the vast group of men and horses coming in the smoke and dust, and then desperately returned at a faster speed, galloping all the way without sparing horsepower, and tearing out their throats and screaming all the way, regardless of this distance, whether anyone in the city could hear it!

Hua Rong's heart was pounding, as if he had thought of something, but he couldn't believe this thought, he just looked at the sentry who was relaxed.

Finally, the shout came faintly, and it could be heard faintly, "It's the black clouds...... King Jin has arrived! (To be continued.) )