Chu Wenchang listened to Zhang Jidao's words, was shocked, and said secretly: Chen Jingzong still has his heart towards Jiang Ning, looked at Zhang Jidao's gloomy face, and said in a low voice: "Mingjin retreats and recalls General Chen?" ”

Zhang Jidao raised his eyebrows, suppressed the anger in his heart, raised his hand to stroke his chin, raised it to his chest, and resolutely put it down, and said in a loud voice: "General Chen is an example for the soldiers, bravely kills the enemy, pushes the war drums to the forefront, and I personally beat the drums for General Chen." He said to Chu Wenchang again, "You came to command the front battle for me to attack the city." ”

The war drum wrapped in cooked cowhide is chest high, the drumstick is made of thunder wood, there are 20 sides on the left and right, Zhang Jidao is in the center and raises the mallet to tap the drum surface, the sound of "dong" is shaken, and the 20-sided drum is made together, such as thunder rolling down, and the blood is boiling.

At this time, Mingjin withdrew his troops, and his morale declined greatly, not only could he not attack the city, but he also had to retreat to Suining to avoid decline.

Chen Jingzong's heart is determined to live and die, but ordinary soldiers don't know why, but it will make Chen Jingzong's actions arouse high morale.

Chu Wenchang looked at the fierce battle on the wall, sneered at the corner of his mouth, and commanded the stone-throwing crossbow to suppress the section of the city wall that might be the road to the city with stone bullets, and continuously sent soldiers to set up cloud ladders in the place where Chen Jingzong ascended the city.

The sudden and fierce offensive in the East China Sea took Estad by surprise. There was no slightest temptation for the distribution of the defending forces, nor did he fully destroy the defense facilities of the city head with the slingstone crossbow, and did not use the longbow crossbow on the nest car and the building car to clear a section of the blank city wall, and the attack like a storm surged up to the city head on the left side of the south gate of Pengcheng, where the defense was strangled to smash after a moment, and the East China Sea soldiers who poured up to the city head spread out to the city walls on both sides one after another, and countless East China Sea soldiers climbed up continuously by means of cloud ladders.

At this time, the East China Sea array launched dozens of nest cars and building cars, and the nest cars were mobile sentry towers, looking at the enemy's situation from a high position, and three to four longbowmen were built-in, which could approach the city wall together with the building cars with crossbows and shoot the defenders at the head of the city. Yi Zhouwu ordered the longbowmen to shoot at the crossbow sergeants on the nest cart and the building cart, and on the other hand, he ordered the sergeants to prop up their shields and advance towards the captured city, but the crossbows could not be pushed forward without cover in the rain of arrows, and for a moment they could not stop the East China Sea soldiers from extending from there to both sides.

Seeing that the offensive was unstoppable, Estad ordered the sergeant to retreat and set fire to the pile.

Esther piled up some fire-stirring things at intervals on the top of the city, just to prevent the enemy from capturing the city, and the momentum was too strong to suppress it for a while. The blazing flames separated the two sides, blocking Estad's view. The Qingzhou soldiers resisted the East China Sea soldiers attached to the city, and organized a series of sharp soldiers on the inner side of the city wall, and when the fire was a little weaker, they rushed over and drove the East China Sea soldiers who occupied the city head down the city. Eight powerful crossbow machines shot at the place through the flames, four in a round, dozens of sharp arrows in the dense space terrifying, Yised only heard the sound of fierce energy in his ears, and his heart was secretly frightened.

Seeing that the fire was slightly weaker, he was about to order the soldiers to break in, but he saw a loud "bang", the flame burned, and a strong and unscrupulous energy burst out, the flame was extinguished, and the firewood with embers burst out with the energy, and smashed over, and the current dozen or so sergeants did not take precautions, and they couldn't avoid it, so that the firewood with a strong Dan force was hit, and the head was broken and the bones were broken, and they were either dead or disabled, and they also splashed out a slippery spark, burning their heads and burning their faces. Countless East China Sea soldiers rushed out of the afterburners and slaughtered the defenders of Pengcheng, who had already collapsed. When the first person, ** half of his arms, his face was covered with blood, his sideburns were licked by the tongue of fire, he was holding a broken halberd in his left hand, and he was holding a sword in the other, and the sword weapon reflected the cold light, and he had been killed for a long time, but there was no trace of blood.

In the Eastern Navy, only generals above the command level will wear this sharp weapon, Yishide is only more than two hundred steps away from there, and he can see it clearly, and secretly said: If you really want to occupy the city gate in one fell swoop, Zhang Jidao sent a fierce general.

Seeing that no one could step forward to stop the man, Yised snorted coldly, took the longbow from the hand of Jingwei on his side, took an iron cluster of arrows, and took the bow to lead the string, and the qi machine locked the man, and the man looked up as if he had not yet fired.

Esther was slightly stunned, but he felt that there was no fierce spirit in the man's eyes, and he had the calmness and determination to die. The sharp arrow in his hand was shot, but the momentum was half a point weaker, and in front of the man, he was split from it with a sharp sword.

The man's sword momentum was vertical and horizontal, and he took half a step, and in a short moment, two more Qingzhou soldiers were killed under the sword, Yishide scolded secretly, but he did not pause in his hand, and set an arrow string on the string, and shot the string, the man raised his sword and slashed under the arrow edge, and the iron cluster arrow was broken and shot downward, drilling into the city bricks, and the bricks were splashed everywhere.

Esther stepped out and shot another arrow, and the defenders saw that the commander was shooting the enemy with a bow, and their courage was lifted, and the array divided two masters, and the left and right generals were forced to go up, while the others fought against the East China Sea soldiers. But the man did not retreat, raised his sword to block the attack of the two, and the arrow fired, the horizontal sword was blocked in front of his chest with a sword, and where the Dan Jin struck each other and the arrows and swords touched, a small halo of blue and purple burst out.

Seeing that the man had not retreated but advanced, he had already taken a step out of the East China Sea Array, and he was shocked, and said secretly: This person is really dead. He was about to continue to shoot arrows, but when he heard Zheng Weijiong shouting at him, Yi Shide turned around and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Zhang Jidao personally beat the drum and supervised the battle in front of the East China Sea array."

Yi Shide looked over and saw twenty giant drums lined up in front of the East China Sea main formation, among which the man was in a green robe and green armor, and next to him was the handsome flag of the Pengcheng camp in the East China Sea, which was Zhang Jidao himself. Chen Jingzong, the main general of the previous battle, was not by his side, Yi Shide flashed a thought, turned his head to look at the blood-stained man, and exclaimed in surprise: "Chen Jingzong." He took off the straight-edged knife at his waist and said to Zheng Weijiong, "Mr. Zheng is temporarily marching the snare drum for me." ”

The Donghai soldiers were suppressed and could not move forward, but Chen Jingzong took a few steps forward and fell into the encirclement of the defenders of Pengcheng.

The main gate in the south of Pengcheng is the most open, which is conducive to the enemy attacking the city to deploy troops, but the defense facilities are also the most complete, two arrow towers are built on both sides of the city tower that are higher than the main city wall three zhang, and a horse face city is built every hundred steps to highlight the main city wall, and the horse face city and the main city wall can be surrounded on three sides to shoot the enemy army approaching this section of the city wall.

Chen Jingzong led the troops to rush here, and then took a step forward, but it was extremely difficult, not only no one attacked the city, but the Qingzhou soldiers could condescendingly suppress the offensive on the city wall with arrow rain in the arrow tower. Chen Jingzong was extremely strong, but no one on his side could rush forward side by side, so he stood there, taking the blades that were slashed and stabbed from all directions, and in the corner of his eyes, Yi Shide was hurrying over, and suddenly his heart was filled with a sadness that he had never felt before. In the midst of sorrow, the sword in his hand bloomed like a lotus with light cyan petals, and flicked on the blades around him, forcing everyone away; The brilliance suddenly converged, and it was closed into a little light, but after the light, there was no three-foot sword body, and there was no Chen Jingzong's blood-stained and terrifying face.

If you don't have any energy left, even if you hurt me, how can you live? Dan breath flowed, Yi Shide overflowed with dark purple light in the daytime, stood shallowly, stared at the head of the knife, the space of the head of the knife was slightly distorted, the scene was blurred, and the strange light trail that moved in the middle of it.

Where the two forces converged, a strong light was suddenly released, and there was a loud noise, and in the strong light, the sand flew and the stones walked, and the flying dust settled, and the city wall collapsed a foot deep and four arms wide. There were a few corpses hiding in the mouth, Yi Shide looked down at the straight-edged knife with only a bare hilt, swallowed the hot blood that poured up, looked at Chen Jingzong who was paralyzed on the ground on the other side of the mouth, sneered, and ordered left and right: fill the mouth and drive the enemy army out of the city, when he turned around, he raised his hand to cover his face, and spit out a mouthful of hot blood into his sleeve.

Zhang Jidao looked at Chen Jingzong's corpse that was carried down from the city, looked at the smile on his face that froze on his face, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, his face was gloomy, and he didn't say a word.

Chu Wenchang said: "General Chen begged for a death blow, although Yi Shide could take it, it was not comfortable. Our army is attacking the city, and if Estrid holds on to the city, it will only aggravate his injuries; If Yishide doesn't come to the city to supervise the battle, what morale does the defenders of Pengcheng have at all? Wen Chang asked the Governor to open the net and storm the city from three sides, forcing Yishide to lead his troops to withdraw from Pengcheng. ”

Uncle Wei looked at Chen Jingzong's corpse slightly, and said secretly: You probably hope for this. His eyes were blurred, but he felt that Chen Jingzong, who was not good at the generals, had an incomprehensible mind.

It was two days after the news of Chen Jingzong's death in the battle of Pengcheng reached Jiangning.

At that time, the three watches, the eyebrows and the moon were hanging high, the small stars were boiling, the cool breeze passed through the house, Xu Ruyu and Youli and Jue'er were talking in the Splashing Cloud Pavilion, and they had not yet rested.

The female guard came in to report: "Lord Shao and Tu Wenyong are waiting in the front hall, and there is an urgent military situation in Pengcheng."

Jue'er frowned slightly, and said, "What do Peng Cheng and Jiang Ning have to do?" ”

Xu Ruyu said: "Please Lord Shao and they go to Lixiangyuan, and I will arrive later." He turned his head and said to Jue'er, "How long has it been since you didn't ask about foreign affairs?" Zhang Jidao is in Pengcheng, and 100,000 elite soldiers in the East China Sea are in Pengcheng, how can Pengcheng have nothing to do with Jiangning? ”

Jue'er suddenly remembered, covered her lips and smiled, looking coquettish.

Xu Ruyu said: "You go with me." ”

Shao Haitang was not surprised to see Youli and Jue'er following behind Xu Ruyu.

After Xu Ruyu returned from the south of Youji, Youli raised the fetus in the inner mansion with peace of mind, no longer assisting in government affairs, but the title on his body did not resign, the newborn has passed the gift of Yulin, and it is not surprising that Youli assisted in government affairs again. Xu Ruyu served Qingfeng Mansion with water like a shadow, most likely to let her share the troubles for Youli.

Tu Wenyong handed over a piece of silk paper, which was densely folded, showing the original military information transmitted from Pengcheng, and said: "Pengcheng military information: The Pengcheng battalion in the East China Sea said that the troops went out of the barrier in front of the army, drove the troops to attack the city, and Chen Jingzong, the general of the second town of the Donghai Yuza Battalion Army, personally followed the first batch of siege soldiers to the city wall and died under the sword of Yishide......" Tu Wenyong looked up and saw Xu Ruyu's face suddenly darkened, his voice was slightly suppressed, and he continued, "The two of them fought each other, the city wall collapsed about a zhang, Chen Jingzong died on the spot, and it was inferred that Yishide should be seriously injured. After that, the East China Sea offensive was particularly fierce, and Pengcheng was in danger several times, and there was no danger for the time being...... "After that, he took a step back, silent, and felt that the indoor atmosphere was much more dignified.

Shao Haitang opened his mouth to speak, and Youli said softly: "Mr. Shao will first call the public to discuss countermeasures." ”

Xu Ruyu waved his hand and said, "I'm fine, Wen Yong, quickly summon the princes into the mansion to discuss matters." Before Tu Wenyong walked out of the house, he couldn't help but sigh, which made people feel sad, "When I was in Wanling, I used Wan Rong as a scheming to trap Zhang Jidao, but I didn't expect it to affect Jingzong." ”

Shao Haitang said: "If Yishide is seriously injured, he will not have the heart to defend Pengcheng, avoid the tragic war between Qingzhou and the East China Sea, and preserve the strength of the two places." Chen Jingzong has the ambition to die, and his ambition is very big, and the Chen family is unmatched, and he is also a true man. ”

Hearing this, Xu Ruyu finally couldn't help crying, turned his back, wiped away the tears on his face, and said: "When I was in Wanling, Jingzong treated me with his true surname. After I left Yongyang, I wanted Jingzong to go to Yongyang with Zhongdao, and Jingzong was confined to the status of Chen's son and stayed in Wanling. Although I didn't say anything, there was still a trace of resentment in my heart, and then I had mixed grievances with the East China Sea, and my thoughts about the old people in the East China Sea faded a little, and I didn't expect that Jingzong would treat me with his true surname from beginning to end, but I treated him thinly......"

Zhang Zhongdao received a report from Tu Wenyong early, met Fang Su before arriving at the house, and entered the Lixiang Courtyard together.

Fang Su sighed, stood at the door and said: "Jingzong's heart is determined to live and die, and it is intended to prevent Qingzhou and the East China Sea from fighting to the death, but it is more than that, Jingzong also has the intention of warning Jiangning." ”

Shao Haitang was slightly stunned, and then understood: Chen Jingzong was unwilling to lose the Chen family, and he was afraid that Zhang Jidao would succeed, and under the dilemma, he would have the will to die, and he would fight with his life to seriously injure Yishide to avoid Pengcheng falling into a death battle. Fang Su and Chen Jingzong have been listed in the same Chen Angmen for decades, and they understand his heart and surname, and they can see it most thoroughly. But so, especially let feel sorry.

It is probably exactly this, but it makes Xu Ruyu even more guilty: Zhang Jidao and Chen Pre-fight for power is what Jiang Ning expected. Xu Ruyu took Wan Rong as a plan, and he had the intention of adding fuel to the fire. Although the war in Yuejun has not yet ended, Xu Ruyu has already set his sights on the East China Sea, and his own intentions are in the measures on the front line of Guangling and Baishi.

Xu Ruyu sat facing the wall, Zhang Zhongdao clasped his hands, pinched his knuckles and beeped, stepped into the room, and said: "There is no more ruthlessness and righteousness with the East China Sea, Ruyu should make up his mind." ”

Xu Ruyu slowly turned his head, his face was pale, and said: "When Zhang Jidao was in Wanling, he visited everyone and went to the eldest uncle's mansion for half a day. ”

Zhang Zhongdao stood stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses and said, "This livestock wants to invite the eldest uncle." "The eldest uncle has the grace of reinvention in Zhang Zhongdao, and he has the friendship of teaching art in Xu Ruyu, but he hates Xu Ruyu in his heart for starting the world with "County Policy". The eldest uncle is the old court of the inner court, and this time the chaos in Xijing cannot not touch him much, but the resentment against Xu Ruyu is deeper, and it is very likely that Zhang Jidao will move and ask him to come out to fight against Jiang Ning.

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