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Chapter 651: You Must Go

Man is actually a very strange creature, with many incomprehensible properties and behaviors, such as courage and fear. The Tang army in Hedong City resisted for seven or eight days under the leadership of Wang Duo, regardless of the hundreds of catties of boulders flying above their heads or an earth-shattering explosion under their feet, their determination and courage were admirable. Yan Yunjun had hundreds of stone-throwing carts and gunpowder refined by the Second Department of the Military Inspection Department, but even so, it still lost thousands of men and horses under Hedong City.

But at the moment when the city wall collapsed and Yan Yunjun frantically poured in, Tang Jun's fighting spirit collapsed in an instant. The speed of the disintegration of the Tang army on the city wall was jaw-dropping, like a domino that had been overturned, and panic spread irrepressibly along the city wall.

The vast majority of the Tang soldiers gave up resistance, threw away their weapons and fell to their knees begging for their lives. No one could understand how such an army could have such two diametrically opposed performances, and half an hour ago they were still respectable fighters, preferring to die rather than give in. Half an hour later they prostrate themselves and grovel to the victors to spare them.

A very few, about eight or nine hundred Tang Army soldiers withdrew from the city wall, and fought street by street under the leadership of a general, and their goal was the Hedong Palace.

The walls of the palace of Li Chengde, the king of Hedong, are tall, and there are at least hundreds of elite troops in the palace, as long as this force is combined, it is not impossible to break through the blockade of the Yan Yun army and fight a bloody way out of the city. These eight or nine hundred Tang soldiers are the most elite and brave group of people in the Hedong garrison, many of them participated in the second expedition to Liaodong, and they were recruited by Yang Guang, the emperor of the Great Cause, and they have proved their strength and courage by surviving the non-stop campaign over the years.

It is precisely because of this that they did not choose to give up.

Don't take Xu Xun with eight or nine hundred lives to break away from the elite of the Tang army, and rush in the direction of Hedong Wangfu like crazy. The Yanyun army team followed them and chased after them, and part of the Yanyun army that entered the city ran to clean the city gate, and the civil trees blocked in the doorway were removed, and the already crumbling city gate collapsed violently, and in the dust and smoke, the Yanyun army elite cavalry of the brigade broke through the dust and smoke and poured into Hedong City.

The east gate was broken, but as long as Xu Xun's people moved fast enough, after rescuing the king of Hedong, they joined the men and horses and fled all the way to the north, and escaped from the north gate after clearing the blocked civil engineering at the north gate, which was their only way to survive. There are at least 1,000 Tang soldiers at the north gate, adding up to nearly 3,000 people, some of them resist Yan Yunjun, some of them clean up the city gate, and after leaving the city, they flee all the way to the north, as long as they cross the river, it will be difficult for Yan Yunjun to catch up.

The most important thing is that there are war horses in the palace of Li Chengde, the king of Hedong.

Xu Xun glanced back at the soldiers of the Yanyun Army who were chasing after him like a black dragon, gritted his teeth and gave an order. Immediately, more than 200 Tang soldiers stayed, formed four or five rows of horizontal formations to seal the streets, they only need to hold on to a stick of incense for a long time, Xu Xun can lead people to rush to the Hedong Palace, take the Hedong King Li Chengde, get on the horse and go straight to the north gate. These remaining Tang soldiers were destined to have no way to live, but they were able to exchange for others to live.

The soldiers who remained behind looked at each other's comrades, and then remembered these faces deeply. Someone laughed freely and said, you and my brother must walk hand in hand when you get to the bottom, I heard that when I was on the bridge, I had to drink Meng Po soup, and after drinking it, I forgot my previous life, but as long as our brothers' hands were held together, we knew that we were all good brothers who shared life and death.

These words completely aroused the fighting spirit and bloodiness of the soldiers of the Tang Army, and they raised their chests to look at the surging Yan Yunjun on the opposite side, at this moment, their morale was like a rainbow.

"Are we still soldiers in the next life?"

Someone asked in a loud voice.

"In the next life, if the world is peaceful, a fool will become a soldier again. What Lao Tzu wants most is dozens of acres of thin fields, his wife and children are hot on the kang, go home after a day's work, hold the child and sit on his lap, warm a pot of wine to get drunk, and then sleep with his mother-in-law in his arms! ”

"Haha!"

They laughed loudly and raised their swords to the enemy: "Sleep with your mother-in-law in your arms!" ”

This is not a slogan, let alone a war song, but a simple and sad wish, they are also ordinary men, after all these years of bloody fighting, there are few people who still hold fame but take it right away. They are tired of this battlefield life, but they are the kind of people who would rather die in battle than grovel and beg for mercy.

On the battlefield, there will always be such a group of people who will be remembered.

"Kill!"

The Yan Yun Army, dressed in black armor, crashed into it like a torrent, and the embankment composed of more than 200 people looked a little thin, and it became crumbling after only a burst of impact, but these Tang soldiers did not retreat, and used their flesh and blood to block the enemy's progress.

Seeing that the road in front of him was blocked, Liu Man looked at the houses on both sides and ordered loudly: "Go up to the upper house with archers, don't delay time, clear the road and rush to the Hedong Palace, and capture Li Chengde alive!" ”

The archers climbed the courtyard walls and houses, and then fired arrows at the Tang soldiers who were still fighting against their fate. There were almost no accidental injuries from the close shooting, and the Don soldiers fell one by one, and soon the corpses were covered with a layer on the bluestone pavement. Yan Yunjun, who was holding the lance, roared forward and stabbed forward frantically, they didn't even discern where the enemy in front of them was standing, they just kept stabbing the lance out.

Blood and water spilled down the lance in mid-air, and the feather arrows also took away one life after another. Even though they had done their best, they still couldn't hold on to a stick of incense, and even the backs of their comrades had not disappeared from their sight. In the end, more than 20 Tang soldiers fulfilled their promises to each other when they died, they dropped their weapons and stopped on the street hand in hand, many people's hearts were pierced by the lance, and many of them were full of feather arrows.

More than two dozen soldiers of the Don Army, holding hands, fell, and not a single one begged for their lives.

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When Xu Xun rushed to the gate of the Hedong palace with more than 600 people, he found that the gate was closed, and the defenders on the wall of the palace had drawn their bows and arrows to face them.

It's just that the soldiers in the palace simply ignored him and shouted loudly for them to leave.

Xu Xun thought that Li Chengde, the king of Hedong, had been kidnapped by these soldiers, and was furious, and immediately ordered an attack. The soldiers on the courtyard wall shouted not to come, not to force us, but where are the Tang soldiers who have already killed the red-eyed Tang Army willing to give up at this last moment? Hundreds of soldiers shouted and rushed to the gate, and the soldiers on the courtyard wall immediately pulled the bowstring. Feather arrows came in rows and rows, and the Tang soldiers who rushed to the front fell neatly down one floor.

"Your Highness is here!"

Xu Xun waved his sword and knocked down a feather arrow, and shouted towards the gate with all his might: "The last general Xu Xun led his troops to the rescue, can His Highness be there?" Please order the gate of the courtyard to be opened, and then Chi Yanyunjun will arrive! ”

The soldiers on the courtyard wall shouted as they fired arrows not to come, not to force me. They mechanically repeat the killing motion, and the feathered arrows take the lives of one comrade after another. Xu Xun couldn't figure out why the soldiers in the palace wanted to stop them from entering. It seemed that the soldiers guarding the palace did not look like a mutiny, and they explained that His Highness was in the palace while shooting arrows, and this was His Highness's order.

Within the high walls of the palace, Li Chengde, the king of Hedong, who was wrapped in three layers of leather armor, turned pale, and he didn't know whether he was cold or frightened, his body trembled violently. Dozens of palace guards protected him in the middle, and the expressions on the faces of the soldiers were extremely painful. It was not Yan Yunjun who rushed in outside, but their comrades, but this prince ordered that they should not be allowed to come in, destroying the last hope of those comrades.

"Why!"

Xu Xun, who ordered to stop the attack, stared at the soldiers on the courtyard wall with blood-red eyes and shouted loudly, a feather arrow was stuck in his shoulder, and blood gushed out from the wound one by one, but he didn't feel the slightest pain.

"Let Your Highness come down to me!"

Xu Xun shouted.

They no longer charged, and the defenders on the courtyard walls stopped firing arrows. They looked at each other with misery and helplessness in their eyes.

After a while, the trembling Li Chengde climbed up the courtyard wall along the ladder, glanced at Xu Xun with a hideous face, opened his mouth but stopped, hesitated for a while before he spoke: "You all go, I can't let you in." Lone knows that you are all the most loyal warriors in the Tang Dynasty, but at this point, if Lone lets you in, how can Yan Yunjun let Lone go? Flee for yourselves...... King Yan is the uncle of the Emperor of Loneliness...... His subordinates won't embarrass me. ”

"Idiot!"

Xu Xun scolded, feeling sad and indignant.

"I shouldn't have thought about coming back to save you!"

Xu Xun glanced back at Yan Yunjun, who had already killed closely, threw the horizontal knife on the ground and looked up to the sky and sighed: "If I knew this, it would be better to surrender Yan Yunjun at the city gate." Have pity on my more than 200 brothers, you have died unjustly! ”

"Wronged!"

The rest of the soldiers let out an unwilling roar, so frightened that Li Chengde screamed and fell off the courtyard wall. After Xu Xun dropped his weapon, the soldiers under his command looked at each other, some of them laughed like crazy and then poked the horizontal knife into their hearts, and most of them threw their weapons on the ground in a dejected manner.

Liu Man led his men and horses to surround the Hedong Palace, Wu Tianxi took his Qingmu battalion to attack from the east gate to the north gate, Cheng Mingzhen led the thick earth battalion to attack from the east gate to the south gate, it took less than two hours for the two armies to meet at the west gate, more than 10,000 Tang defenders in Hedong City killed more than 6,000 people, and the rest surrendered.

Xu Shiji, the military advisor of Yanyun Army, entered the city from the south gate with men and horses, ordered to pacify the people and rectify the people, and then rode to the Hedong Palace, and when they arrived outside the palace, the defenders in the palace had surrendered under the order of Li Chengde, and the weapons were lost. Li Chengde, who was wearing three layers of leather armor, was standing on the side with a pale face, and Liu Man had sent people to gather all the people in the palace to watch and detain them in the compound.

"The last general has seen the military division!"

Liu Man saw that Xu Shiji had arrived, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute. Li Chengde didn't know Xu Shiji, but when he heard that this person was the famous Yanyun Army military advisor Xu Shiji, he immediately squeezed out some smiles on his face and hurried to greet him, and actually gave a big salute and said: "Xiao Wang has seen the military advisor...... Xiao Wang...... I've been waiting for you for a long time. It's all to blame on Wang Duo, Xiao Wang asked him to open the city gate, but he didn't follow, they are all people of the Tang Dynasty, where is there a reason to kill each other, not to mention that King Yan is still my elder......"

"What did you say?"

Xu Shiji was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Although Your Majesty has not yet made the world known, the fact that King Yan is His Majesty's sister-in-law cannot be hidden."

Li Chengde smiled and said flatteringly: "Isn't that my imperial uncle?" ”

"Yes!"

Xu Shiji laughed out loud and looked very happy: "I went to the city this time to take you to see your imperial uncle, and your imperial uncle said that he would give you a big gift." How about it, do you want to go to Chang'an City with me? ”

"Huh?"

Li Chengde was startled, and subconsciously took a step back and said, "Don't go to Chang'an City, Hedong is fine...... Very good. ”

"That's not going to work!"

Xu Shiji waved his hand and said very seriously: "Where the capital is, you have to go wherever you want." ”