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Zhang Xuan wanted to go to the county magistrate Wang Kui, but as soon as he got off the city tower, he saw Lu Qingyuan hurrying with a young son.

This young man Zhang Xuan only felt vaguely familiar, and after a little thought, he immediately remembered that he had met Old Man Lu on his birthday, the son of the Qinghe Cui family, and Lu Qingyuan introduced him to him at that time.

"Virtuous brother!"

Lu Qingyuan hurriedly waved at him and shouted, "There is something important." ”

Zhang Xuan hurriedly greeted him, he had already remembered the name of this young man, called Cui Yuanhan.

"Brother Lu, what's the matter?"

Lu Qingyuan pointed to the Cui family disciple next to him and said, "This is Cui Yuanhan, the virtuous brother has seen him in the Lu Mansion, do you remember?" ”

Zhang Xuan nodded and bowed slightly to Lu Yuanhan, "Does Brother Cui have any advice?" ”

Cui Yuanhan said anxiously: "General Zhang must break through as soon as possible, your troops are too small, and you can't withstand Zhang Jincheng's all-out attack, I can tell the general clearly, this time Zhang Jincheng ambushed you is a deliberate plan, he dispatched five thousand Yama army, this is his most elite army, and he wants to put the general to death." ”

Zhang Xuan was secretly shocked, Zhang Jin said that the ambush was actually a deliberate plan? He asked anxiously, "What's going on, can Cui Gongzi tell me?" ”

Cui Yuanhan hesitated and said: "Then I won't hide it from the general, Zhang Jincheng has a protégé of the Cui family on the left and right, and we received news this afternoon, it should be someone in the court who wants to get rid of the general by Zhang Jincheng's hand." ”

Zhang Xuan immediately understood, if what Cui Yuanhan said was true, it could only be Yuwenshu, it seems that fate in the dark has its own arrangement, if Lu Qingyuan did not go with him, then Cui Yuanhan would not be able to tell himself this secret. I may really be about to die in Qinghe County.

Zhang Xuan hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Thank you Cui Gongzi for your great kindness, Zhang Xuan will remember it in his heart." ”

Cui Yuanhan sighed, "People must be able to protect themselves in troubled times, and the Cui family is also forced to leave, although the general can leave with confidence." Most of the people in the city are family members of Zhang Jincheng's subordinates, and he will not slaughter the city, otherwise we would have been killed a long time ago. ”

Zhang Xuan nodded silently, Cui Yuanhan was willing to tell himself the truth, or because of Lu Qingyuan's face, at this time. He immediately made up his mind that he couldn't wait for reinforcements any longer, he had to break through, and he asked Lu Qingyuan: "If you break through, will Brother Lu go with me?" ”

Lu Qingyuan's face showed shame. "I want to stay in the Cui family, I'm worried"

He couldn't say it, he was afraid that he and his wife and daughter would not be able to break through and be killed by the rebels, Zhang Xuan could understand his difficulties, so he patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Then I will hand over Ah Yuan to you." ”

"No problem, I will take her back to Luoyang safely."

Zhang Xuan saluted the two, "We'll have a meeting later!" He rolled over and got on his horse. With a few of his men, he hurried towards Simon.

Lu Qingyuan and Cui Yuanhan watched him go away, and Cui Yuanhan sighed: "I hope my decision is correct." ”

Lu Qingyuan said with a smile: "My grandfather attaches great importance to this person, and he said that this person is definitely not a thing in the pool. The virtuous brother has good thoughts, I believe that the Cui family will have a retribution! ”

"I hope so! Don't talk about it, go back first, I'll arrange my brother and sister-in-law first. ”

The two also left the street quickly and walked towards Cui's mansion

Unlike the fierce fighting at the East Gate, it was quiet outside the West Gate. The Sui army did not invest many troops, only Shen Guang led 300 people to set up defenses at the head of the city.

Jao Hyun walked quickly to the top of the city. Shen Guang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and Zhang Xuan walked to the edge of the city and stared out of the city. I saw a thief army deployed hundreds of paces away, about three or four thousand people, who were distributed in a semicircle and surrounded the west city gate.

"General, they haven't moved!"

Zhang Xuan nodded and said to Shen Guang: "Tell the brothers, prepare to break through!" ”

Shen Guang was taken aback, "Aren't we waiting for reinforcements?" ”

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "Qi County is more than two hundred miles away from here, and it is four or five hundred miles back and forth, and no matter how fast it is, it will only arrive the day after tomorrow, so it's too late." ”

Shen Guan pondered and asked, "General, what's wrong?" ”

"It's me who misjudged!"

Zhang Xuan smiled bitterly and said: "I despised Zhang Jin and said, I just appeared, their elite soldiers are no less than the Sui army, and there are thousands of people, if we fight with them in a short battle, we will be wiped out." ”

Zhang Xuan didn't tell Shen Guang that this was Yu Wenshu killing people with a knife, and he didn't want his subordinates to know too much about the struggle in the court, Zhang Xuan stared outside the city for a moment and said: "Zhang Jin said that the deployment of troops outside the West City is to prevent us from breaking through, but I can only break through from the West City." ”

"How is the general going to break through?" Shen Guang asked a little worriedly.

Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment, then said to him: "You prepare three piles of firewood at the head of the city first, and once my order comes, you immediately raise a fire!" ”

"Obey the order!"

Zhang Xuan explained some details to him again, and then got on the horse and hurried back to the East City Gate

The fierce battle at the East City Gate had reached a fever pitch, and Lu Xingxing's eight hundred elite troops quickly formed a shield array, and two hundred shields were set up in mid-air together, forming a solid shield top corridor, effectively resisting the arrows shot from the horse-faced wall and the boulders falling overhead.

The arrows fired by the three thousand crossbowmen under the city flew overwhelmingly towards the city, crushing hundreds of Sui troops.

There are 12 layers of mud bags blocked in the east city, in just a quarter of an hour, the thief army moved off nine layers, more than 100 Sui soldiers guarding the city gate raised their crossbows together and shot into the city cave, the arrows were like a storm, more than 100 thief soldiers who were carrying the mud bags were caught off guard, they were shot down one after another, and the screams in the city cave rang out.

Lu Xingxing shouted urgently: "The shield is up to you!" ”

Hundreds of thieves rushed up with their shields, only two layers of mud bags were left to block the city gate, seeing that the attack was about to be breached, Wei Chi Gong roared, jumped over the mud bag, and killed into the city hole, only to see him pick up a hundred catties of heavy iron rods, and swept towards the dense enemy shields with the power of shaking the mountain, only to hear a cracking sound, the shields and bones were smashed to pieces, and more than a dozen thief soldiers were smashed and flying.

Wei Chi Gong was mighty, wielding an iron rod to sweep through the crowd, beating the enemy's brains bursting, bones like gravel, and pieces of soldiers were knocked over to the ground like cut straw, only in an instant, more than half of the more than 100 thieves who entered the city cave were killed, and the soldiers of the Sui army were stunned, and the arrival of the giant spirit god was nothing more than that.

The thief army in the city cave was even more frightened, screaming and desperately retreating, trampling each other and fleeing for their lives, in a moment, the thief army in the city cave fled cleanly, the solid shield corridor also collapsed, hundreds of thief soldiers fled in embarrassment, and there was only a pile of bloody corpses in the city cave.

Yu Chi Gong rose up, shouted, and rushed towards the stunned landlord Lu Xingxing, and with a loud shout, Yu Chi Gong jumped high and smashed the iron rod like a mountain.

Lu Xingxing was so frightened that he hurriedly raised his gun to meet him, only to hear a loud bang, Lu Xingxing's iron gun was beaten into a V-shape, Lu Xingxing's arms were broken, he spurted out a mouthful of blood, screamed, his body shook, and he almost fell off the horse, he controlled the horse with his legs, turned the horse's head and ran desperately.

Wei Chi Gong was about to catch up, and the Sui soldiers behind shouted in unison: "General Wei Chi, the main general has an order, let you come back immediately!" ”

Wei Chigong didn't dare to disobey Zhang Xuan's order, so he carried the iron rod to his shoulder, laughed, and turned around and ran towards the city cave.

Zhang Xuan saw very clearly, although Yu Chigong was brave and invincible, but if the opponent's three thousand crossbowmen fired arrows at him together, I am afraid that he would not be able to escape death, just now because of Lu Xingxing's presence, the opponent's crossbowman did not release the arrows, but once Lu Xingxing escaped, it must be a dense rain of arrows, Zhang Xuan called Yu Chigong back in time.

The soldiers of the Sui army quickly built mud bags into the city hole, at this time, the enemy's large-scale attack had not yet begun, this was their chance to break through, Zhang Xuan immediately ordered: "Shoot a rocket!" ”

Immediately, a soldier shot a rocket into the sky, which was an order to raise fire to Shen Guang, and at the same time, Zhang Xuan gave the order to retreat to the west gate, and the Sui soldiers rushed to the west gate from all directions.

Jang Xuan ran up to the city and shouted, "Take the wounded brothers with you, and no one is allowed to stay!" ”

The well-trained Sui army was fully reflected at this moment, they carried nearly a hundred wounded soldiers, and retreated extremely quickly, and in a moment, everyone retreated cleanly.

Zhang Xuan looked around, and there were no more soldiers missing from the city, so he immediately turned his horse's head and galloped towards the west city gate. (To be continued)