At three o'clock in the afternoon of October 24, the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, it should have been the most sunny moment of the day, but the sky at this time was terribly overcast, and the dark sky was full of dark clouds, black and gloomy, and very depressing, which made people feel breathless, and with the battlefield pictures of rivers of blood and corpses up and down Shenwu City, it was a scene of the end of the world.

It's been three days, it's been three days since the Shenwu City, the Xue Yantuo army has attacked the city more than ten times in three days, each time more fierce than the other, since today's time, Xue Yantuo's army has launched three waves of siege in a row, although they have all been repulsed, but Li Zhen's soldiers have lost half of Tai, and most of the rest are wounded, the soldiers who can still participate in the battle at this time plus the young men in the city who are assisting in the defense add up to less than four thousand, as for the arrows, sassage wood and other siege equipment have long been consumed, the Tang Dynasty soldiers are completely relying on flesh and blood to support, Even Li Zhen, the main general, personally participated in the tragic battle to defend the city.

Tired, really tired! Rao is Li Zhen has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he has a good body, and now he is tired enough, and he can't wait to find a place to sleep, but it's a pity that he can't, at least not at present, Li Zhen knows very well that in this situation, whether he can hold Shenwu City is the key point of the whole campaign, without him, now the main force of the Tang Army should have been deployed in place, maybe the attack has been launched, whether or not he can continue to drag Xue Yantuo's main force under Shenwu City has become the key to victory.

"Your Highness, when will Li Shuai arrive? The damage is too great for us to support anymore. Just as Li Zhen was standing in front of the city wall and observing the movements of Xue Yantuo's camp, Qin Huaiyu, who had a bleeding bandage on his head, hurried over from the east of the city, and asked worriedly when he saw Li Zhen.

, when will it arrive? How do I know, according to the time, this should have already started, God knows why it hasn't arrived yet! Qin Huaiyu is such a fierce general who can't hold on, so what will happen to the morale below? If the morale is gone, the city will be defended! Li Zhen's heart suddenly chuckled, and he was anxious in his heart, but as the main general, he couldn't have the slightest gaffe at this time, and glanced at Qin Huaiyu, Li Zhen groaned and said: "Huaiyu Shao'an is not impatient, this king has his own arrangements." Then he turned back to the captain of the guard, Li Ge, and said: "Inform me to let the whole army gather in the north of the city, and this king has something to announce, go quickly." ”

Qin Huaiyu didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Li Zhen's gourd, and he didn't dare to ask more, so he had to stand aside suspiciously, most of them, the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who could still participate in the war supported each other and gathered under the city gate tower in the north of the city, Li Zhen stood on the terrace of the city gate tower, looked around at the soldiers at the head of the city, and saw that there were only more than half of the nearly 6,000 people including the assistant guard Qingzhuang three days ago, and now there are only more than half of them, and his heart couldn't help but feel sour, took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and slowly spoke: "The warriors of the Tang Dynasty, Facing an enemy army twenty times my size, we held out for three days, three whole days! You are true heroes! Thank you, this king, and now our army has reached the critical moment of life and death, brothers, everyone think about the fate of those cities that have been breached, if we can't hold it, tens of thousands of people in this city behind us will face the butcher's knife of the barbarians, everyone said, can we let the barbarians succeed? ”

"Can't!" Thousands of soldiers shouted in unison.

"Well said! No, as officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, we must not let the people of the Tang Dynasty suffer such a catastrophe again! Li Zhen glanced at the soldiers and said loudly: "This king hereby announces: After this battle, the pension of the war dead will be doubled, and this king will reward 20 more as a settlement fee, and those who are injured and can no longer serve in the army are willing to return to their hometowns to cultivate the authors, and the reward is ten times, and those who are willing to follow this king can leave the military and work in the business under the name of this king, and the rest will be rewarded in addition to the court reward, and this king will also have another heavy reward!" Brothers, Shenwu City Defense is for everyone! ”

"Defend the city to the death! Defend the city to the death! Li Zhen's reward was not heavy, the morale of more than 3,000 soldiers was immediately inspired, everyone was in high spirits, and the shouts and cheers were loud for a while, and even the cheers on the head of the city could be heard in the Xue Yantuo camp outside the city.

Li Zhen is tired, Dadu is more tired, compared to Li Zhen, the burden on the shoulders of Dadu is a little heavier, if the siege of the first two days is just a feint, the three strong attacks early this morning are real, except for the last trump card has not been used, Dadu has already used the power that can be used, but unfortunately it still ended up empty, at this point he has begun to be a little anxious - the Tang Army has already shot, and now it is fighting fiercely with Tongluo, A Fall and other departments, Those small tribes are almost unable to support it, and the horses for help have not stopped since the time, and now, Dadu set is already difficult to ride a tiger, if he can't take Shenwu as soon as possible, once the main force of the Tang Army annihilates the men and horses of those small tribes, he will be all the way, Dadu set does not dare to guarantee whether the second ambush arranged in advance by himself can work, if not, Li Zhen has become the only guarantee that he can return to the grassland safely, but for whether to use the last trump card, Dadu set or scruples, without him, This is the last barrier for him to compete for the Khan throne in the future, and if he loses too much here, then he will inevitably be at a disadvantage in the competition with his second brother Bazhuo, which must not be done carelessly.

Well? What was that? Dadu set up from his contemplation, but was suddenly awakened by the cheers of the head of Shenwu City, tilted his head sideways and listened for a while, suddenly his heart was furious, he got up angrily, strode out of the tent, a pair of eagle eyes stared at the head of Shenwu City, gritted his teeth, his face twitched for a while, and he ordered viciously: "Order: The two commanders of Hui and Fugu jointly attack the south of the city, Amuda leads the men and horses of the headquarters to attack the north of the city, and the wolf camp then attacks the east of the city, and tells Timur that the governor will have dinner in the city today!" ”

"Fuck it, do you want to attack?" As soon as Tudu Mi received the handsome order from Dadu, his heart suddenly became angry, and he had lost nearly 3,000 people and horses in the past three days, plus more than 3,000 dead and wounded when he attacked Shuozhou in front of the head, and he did not get much property from this trip back to the Ministry, but the loss of people and horses was not old or young, seeing that Shenwu was not easy to gnaw, he had no intention of fighting, and at this time he had to go to attack the city, Tudu Mi scolded him in front of the herald of Dadu.

Tong Jin Yeda also has no good reputation, under this Shenwu City, the servant solid department has lost more than 6,000 horses before and after, at this time, the morale of the army is all said, and most of the siege equipment has been lost, how can he still have the heart to attack the city, but seeing the attack of Tudu, he didn't want to participate in it, but he just looked at the excitement with a cold face, but unfortunately this excitement didn't really make a fuss - the herald of Xue Yantuo didn't pay attention to Tudumi's at all, and just threw down a sentence: "This is the order of the Grand Governor, The Tudu fan commander looks at it and does it. As soon as he finished speaking, he left immediately, not giving Tudu fans a chance to speak at all.

"Fucking lambs, attack fucking feathers! I'm gone! Tudu Fan angrily flicked his horsewhip and planned to return to the camp, and he was in a hurry, without him, Tudu Mi left, the siege of the city had to fall on his head, and there were so many people left in the servant department, once it was damaged again, even if Shenwu was captured, returning to the grassland would not be the end of being swallowed up?

Tong Jin is also quick to reach the hand, and hurriedly grabbed the reins of Tudu Mi's horse, and said with a smile: "Tudu Mi brother don't be angry, the Metropolitan Governor has sent out the capital wolf camp at the bottom of the box this time, you and my brother are just feints, just make a show, why bother to be angry with a pawn." ”

"Aha." Tudu Fan sneered and said: "Okay, just follow the words of the elder brother, just mean it, don't care what the hell is the wolf camp or not, let's see the excitement again." Come on, give the order down, shout the fuck louder when attacking the city, send fewer people and horses, don't fucking look for it yourself! ”

Just when Xue Yantuo was busy dispatching men and horses in the array, preparing to launch the final general attack, the Tang army at the head of Shenwu City was not idle, and there were no sassagross and rolling stones to pick up the house, not to mention the houses of ordinary rich families, even the county government also knocked down, the beams of the house are ready-made sassalwood, and the bricks are rolling stones, but it is a pity that Shenwu is a small county town after all, and most people live in earthen embryo houses. I had to drag my tired body back and forth around the city, desperately trying to boost morale.

At the last moment, the Xue Yantuo army, which had been stopped for more than an hour, sounded a terrible horn again, and the Hui and Fugu coalition forces in the south of the city, and the Xue Yantuo army in the north of the city launched an attack on Shenwu City at the same time, and the battle was rekindled at the head of Shenwu City, but the intensity of the attack was very different:

The sound of the Hui Hui and Fugu coalition forces in the south of the city shouting and killing is deafening, but in fact, the force invested in the attack is not too much, generally it is to release arrows by the moat, but there are very few people who have crossed the moat to participate in the siege, there are only a few ladders on the left and right, hundreds of people, and the action is slow, as soon as the moat is crossed, it stops, and it has never leaned on the edge of the city wall, which makes Qiao Shengtai, who is defending the south of the city, full of confusion, and the Tang army on the left and right does not have many arrows at this time, Qiao Shengtai simply ordered that no arrows should be released to attack those enemy troops who crossed the moat, and the two sides actually played "no war on the Western Front" in the offensive and defensive battle of blood and fire, but they also got their own place.

Compared with the two armies in the south of the city, the north of the city is a hard fight as soon as it comes up, which makes Li Zhen, who is defending the north of the city, very busy, but fortunately, at this time, the morale of the Tang army is high, and Xue Yantuo's department can not kill the head of the city for a while, just when the two sides are fighting to the death, a terrible horn sounded in the east of the city, and a cavalry unit with a number of about three thousand, dressed in black clothes and black armor, covered the same number of black-clothed foot soldiers and slowly advanced towards the east of the city - the wolf camp was dispatched!