A group of soldiers in front of the Tiande army in the back mansion were busy placing the spurs.

On the streets, the soldiers of the patrol battalion rode on tall horses, crushing the people who refused to listen to the dissuasion and insisted on fleeing outside the city. The news that Dong Bacheng led the army to attack the city spread far and wide, and rumors spread in the city of Feng'an, the most vicious rumor was that Zeng Chongyang was a eunuch after the Tiande army stayed, and the occupation of Feng'an was to collude with the Uighurs to go south to capture Chang'an and destroy the Tang Dynasty.

A day earlier, Han Sui led a part of the Tiande Right Army to Jiuniang Pass to garrison the enemy from the east. At the time of the catastrophe, Zeng Chongyang sang an empty city plan with his usual poetic mind. Feng'an's city was indeed empty, and in addition to the six hundred people in the patrol camp and the five hundred guards he left behind in the mansion, there were only one thousand new recruits left. Zeng Chongyang stood on the stone steps in front of the study and watched the sunset from afar, thousands of thoughts blocked in his chest.

The news that Dong Bacheng suddenly appeared in Henan through Kujiesha was just obtained by him not long ago. There are only 1,000 defenders in the eighteen villages of Henan, and the commander Liu Xi is a mediocre man who relies on nepotism, and it is tantamount to a fool's dream to expect him to block Dong Bacheng, a famous general in Hedong. Zeng Chongyang's biggest hope now is that Liu Xi will not retreat too quickly, even if he resists a little, as long as it drags on, things may take a turn for the better. For example, Dong Bacheng is not convinced, and Wang Qian and Zhenwujun retreat from infighting, or ......

Thinking of this, Zeng Chongyang had an indescribable wry smile on his face.

"Your Excellency." Cao Feng pushed open the corner door and broke in, and behind him four soldiers carried a stretcher, on which lay a woman covered in blood and dying.

"It's Wan'er!" Zeng Chongyang's heart tightened, and he hurriedly greeted him.

"How did you hurt like this?" Zeng Chongyang felt a heart-wrenching pain, and couldn't help but have a sad look on his face.

"My lord, Liu Yifeng is the opposite. Wan'er found out about the conspiracy and came back to report the news, and was chased by Liu Xi all the way to the river, and it was the river patrol soldiers who saved her. ”

"It's the other way around?!" Zeng Chongyang's outstretched hand hurriedly retracted as if it had been scalded by a soldering iron. His face turned pale and blue, shocked, remorseful, and slightly embarrassed. Wan'er is his favorite singer, he wanted to give Wan'er to Liu Xi in order to win people's hearts, Cao Feng persuaded him that Liu Xi and Liu Yifeng were the same brother-in-law, and they would not come close because of a singer, and it was really useless to send Wan'er to him.

Zeng Chongyang did not listen to Cao Feng's advice, in addition to winning people's hearts, he also had two intentions in sending Wan'er to Liu Xi: to act as an eye and ear and to divide Liu's uncle and nephew. Now it seems that none of these three things have been achieved, but Wan'er's life has been given in vain.

Liu Xi dared to openly hunt her down, which proved that Liu Yifeng had made up his mind. Don't hesitate any longer, please make a decision as soon as possible. ”

"Summons Liu Yifeng to see me immediately."

"Let's go for it myself."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

"Newspaper—"

Before Cao Feng could leave, he reported that the junior colonel hurriedly entered: "Chang Qiuhua, the guard of the north gate, opened the city gate and led a team of men and horses into the city. ”

"What, what?!" Zeng Chongyang was cold when he heard this, if it weren't for Cao Feng's eyes and hands to support him in time, he was afraid that he would have fallen to the ground.

"What to do? What to do? Zeng Chongyang asked Cao Feng in despair.

Cao Feng was about to answer, but there was another chaos outside the gate of the mansion, and the guards of the Assassin's Mansion were driven to retreat to the inner courtyard. Cao Feng drew his knife and shouted: "Don't retreat!" Jack it out for me! ”

"I can't stand it, let's go-" Zeng Chongyang hurriedly ran to the inner room, there was a secret passage in his study leading to the outside of the city.

"As a dignified queen, did you escape like this?"

A group of murderous ironclad guards came out of the study, and surrounded Zeng Chongyang and Cao Feng with hundreds of soldiers who broke in through the gate. Yang Hao accompanied an iron-masked man out of the secret passage of the study. The secret passage was confessed by Liu Yifeng, and Zeng Chongyang kept Liu Yifeng strictly secret when he built the secret passage, but Liu Yifeng deduced the location of the secret passage from the accounts he handled.

"It turned out to be Lord Wu, and the lower officials were rude and rude." After being reprimanded by the Man in the Iron Mask, Zeng Chongyang calmed down. He broke away from Cao Feng's hand and straightened his coat and hat, and suddenly had the demeanor of a queen again.

"After doing it for a few months, how does Lord Zeng feel at the moment?" The Man in the Iron Mask had a sharp gaze.

"Trembling, like walking on thin ice, like facing the abyss."

"Trembling, walking on thin ice? Hmph, I don't think you should be on this ice at all. ”

"Hmph, my lord's words are too much." Zeng Chongyang covered the frost, "Whether I come here or not, it's not up to you to decide." ”

"Hahaha" The iron-masked man looked up and laughed, pointed at Cao Feng and said: "The chief housekeeper has an order, and he will immediately take Zeng Chongyang back to Beijing to restore his life." If they do not obey the order, they will be executed on the spot. ”

Zeng Chongyang's face changed drastically when he heard this, and he pointed at the man in the iron mask and screamed: "Wu Ming! You've left the camp, and it's not your turn to take care of the affairs of the Yamato Society!"

"Please hit the road immediately." Cao Feng said coldly. The guards of the Assassin's Mansion were immediately divided into two factions, one group hugged Zeng Chongyang, and the other faction followed Cao Feng, stretched out his bow and drew his sword, and looked at each other angrily.

Yang Hao shouted: "Yang Hao, the judge of the German army in Xiatian, was ordered to temporarily take charge of Feng'an's military and political affairs. Zeng Chongyang is already a body of sin, and you can no longer be obsessed. ”

When the guards loyal to Zeng Chongyang heard this, they suddenly lost their morale and threw away their weapons one after another. Cao Feng forced Zeng Chongyang's side and said, "Please don't embarrass your lordship." ”

Zeng Chongyang pointed at Yang Hao and Wu Ming with his hand, and said viciously: "Zeng remembered this account, let's see." ”

Wu Ming took off his mask, looked at Zeng Chongyang's distant back, and shook his head with a wry smile: "It's really a corrupt Confucian." ”

Yang Hao asked anxiously, "What now?" ”

Wu Ming shouted: "What are you panicking about? Hasn't Dong Bacheng entered the door yet? Before the words fell, two people laughed in, one was Tang Hu, and the other was empty. Yang Hao hurriedly stepped forward to bow down, Tang Hu smiled and said: "Since ancient times, officials have not knelt down to the people, you are now an official, and the two of us are now commoners." ”

Yang Hao said: "In order to save the students, the two teachers lost their officials and abandoned their knights, how can this favor be repaid?" ”

Tang Hu said: "Then you will be more competitive and add more luster to our faces." ”

Wu Ming said: "The soldiers are coming to the city, you still have the heart to talk nonsense, come in quickly." ”

The attendants hung up a huge topographic map of the mountains and rivers of the Tiande Army, on which the towns, military villages, rivers, and mountains were clearly delineated. Tang Hu waved his hand in disgust and said, "What picture are you looking at?" Dong Bacheng's old man never looked at pictures. This battle cannot be won unless it is a matter of intrigues. ”

Tan Kong smiled and asked: "Then have you thought of a strategy to break the enemy?" ”

Tang Hu sighed and shook his head: "There are only two people who can be called good generals in the world: Wen Shimao of the Shence Army and Dong Bacheng of Hedong. Although this Dong Lao'er has a disgusting donkey temper, he is an expert in war. If I hadn't been afraid of him twenty years ago, I wouldn't have been in charge of the army for twenty years, and my hands and brains would be ridiculous. ”

Tang Hu shook his head again and again and sighed, and taught Yang Hao again: "You said that you soldiers still look like soldiers, muddy, eating and waiting for death, having no fighting spirit, getting by, counting on what they can do." ”

"Okay, don't complain, if there are a million soldiers, there is no need for you and me to come here." Wu Ming interrupted Tang Hu's words. Tan Kong patted Tang Hu's shoulder and said with a smile: "If you win, you will become famous in the world, the icing on the cake, and if you lose, let him Yang Hao take the blame, and will not damage his reputation." Tan Kong looked at Yang Hao and said with a smile: "You can't make money in this business." ”

Yang Hao replied: "The students are still young and can afford to lose. ”

Wu Ming raised his face and shouted: "No one can afford to lose!" This battle can only be won and not lost. ”

……

Liu Xi looked up at Dong Bacheng, who was sitting on the tiger skin seat that originally belonged to him, and had another plan in his heart.

"Liu Xi still has something to report to the old general."

"If you have something to say, don't talk about it." Dong Bacheng carefully examined the Feng'an city defense map presented by Liu Xi, and replied impatiently. He muttered in his heart: Why would he be so patient with this servile traitor, and he would lose his head when he left a hundred Liu Xi in the past.

"There is a section about 30 zhang long in the west of Feng'an City, and the city wall has collapsed." Liu Xi tried to explain things concisely, but he was nervous in his heart, and he said more chaotically.

Dong Bacheng didn't answer, and didn't seem to hear it at all. Liu Xi secretly swallowed and quietly raised his head.

"Dog Day Stuff!" Dong Bacheng suddenly punched heavily on the table, and the guards at the door swarmed in, and Liu Xi was suddenly frightened, and kowtowed to the ground again and again.

Dong Bacheng is not scolding Liu Xi, in his eyes, people like Liu Xi are not worth scolding at all. He scolded this person who presided over the design of Feng'an's defense, if this person is not a spy of the enemy country, he is an idiot of the rice bucket. The only gap is a sandy area near the water in the southwest of the city, which is easily occupied by the enemy army crossing the river and becomes a springboard for attacking the city. Plugging this gap is as simple as setting up a few camps along the river, stationing hundreds of archers, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy as they cross the river by boat, and then using cavalry to kill the infantry who rushed ashore with shields. Hundreds of people can keep Feng'an safe!

But the person who designed Feng'an's defense didn't know bullshit, he built an earthen wall and a ditch on the south floor of the city, and then strengthened and raised the southern wall, and then sealed the south gate. After doing this, he left only a few dozen river patrolmen to garrison the south of the city, and concentrated the main force in the east of the city.

Although there is an open space outside the east gate, there is Jiuniang Pass as the gateway in front, a small hill and dense forest as a barrier in the north, and a wetland overgrown with reeds and weeds on the river beach in the south, which is not suitable for large-scale landing operations at all. This kind of terrain may seem empty and unsheltered, but it is the safest of all. It was originally an iron bucket city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but someone made it into a wicker basket - full of holes.

"Who presided over the formulation of the city's defense?"

"It's Lord Zeng."

"Zeng Chongyang? Isn't it Han Sui? ”

Zeng Chongyang said that General Han had only been a lieutenant before, and it was okay to defend a town, but he couldn't defend a city as big as Feng'an. Feng'an Defense was formulated by Zeng Chongyang himself, and after it was completed, he called us all here, and he taught us to study, and it took three days. ”

"It's really corrupt and misleading the country." Dong Bacheng knocked heavily on the table and suddenly asked Liu Xi: "What did you just say?" ”

“…… There is a section of the city wall in the west of the city, which collapsed before and was later patched, but the cracks on both sides are very large, and the grout is poured into it every year, but the cracks cannot be sealed. ”

"Oh," Dong Bacheng was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly lowered his head to check the map.

Liu Xi stepped forward with courage, pointed to a section of the city wall in the west of the city and said, "This is it." ”

Dong Bacheng nodded and said, "Liu Yifeng is treacherous, I should have cut off your head and returned it to him." ”

"The general spares his life!" Liu Xi screamed like a pig.

Dong Bacheng glared at him in disgust, and changed his words: "Nian is that you sincerely help me quell the rebellion, spare your life for the time being, and stay in front of the army to make meritorious contributions." ”