Chapter 166: Bloody Chang'an City (7)

"General, be careful! Ah......" Just when Qin Huaiyu thought that he was going to die, a figure rushed out from the side, and forcibly blocked Hou Guoxiao's fatal shot with his chest, and then broke out with a miserable scream, and his burly body hung softly on the tip of Hou Guoxiao's gun.

"Qin Feng!" As soon as Qin Huaiyu saw the tragic death of his personal guard Qin Feng, he suddenly had his heart and gall broken, shook the spear in his hand, picked aside the corpse of the thief hanging on the gun, and glared angrily at Hou Guoxiao, who was busy trying to draw the gun and stab again, and roared: "Take your life!" With a kick on the horse's belly, the horse was about to be killed, and the spear in his hand made a fierce stab, straight to Hou Guoxiao's chest.

Hou Guoxiao, who was frustrated by the failure to succeed in the sneak attack, saw that Qin Huaiyu was fierce, how dare he slack off, and struggled to pull out the spear that was deep in Qin Feng's chest, and shouted: "Kill!" "Stepping forward, the body of the gun shook, and dozens of gun flowers bloomed in the rain curtain, covering Qin Huaiyu gorgeously, which was the killing move "Hundred Birds and Phoenix Spear".

"Hundred birds towards the phoenix gun" is a well-known gun move, between the virtual and the real, unpredictable, powerful, this move for the gun of the person's arm strength, skills are very high requirements, non-masters can not perform, when the school field martial arts to win the pioneer seal, Hou Guozhong has used this trick, almost defeated some careless Yue Wang Li Zhen, which shows the sharpness of this move, at this moment in the hands of Hou Guoxiao, although there is no majestic momentum of his brother, but because of the cover of the rain curtain, it seems to be changeable, so that people cannot discern the truth of the false.

Qin Huaiyu's martial arts are not as good as Li Zhen, but he is down-to-earth, but he does not have the mentality of Li Zhen's original games, although he was angry because of the tragic death of his personal guards, but he never lost his mind because of this, as soon as he saw Hou Guoxiao use this trick "Hundred Birds to Phoenix Spear", he knew that this move was not good to break, and he did not fight hard with Hou Guoxiao at all, but when he saw Qin Huaiyu sprinting, he suddenly clamped the horse's belly with his feet, and the war horse that was originally rushing forward suddenly neighed, and suddenly jumped up, and jumped up It was completely pierced into the air.

Not good! As soon as he saw that the gun trick failed, Hou Guoxiao immediately messed up, hurriedly drew his gun back to defend in a panic, kicked the horse's belly with his feet, and tried to take advantage of Qin Huaiyu's war horse to take advantage of the vacancy of Qin Huaiyu's war horse, shoot and stab again, and give Qin Huaiyu another ruthless blow. Hou Guoxiao's abacus was very loud, but it was a pity that all his actions fell into Qin Huaiyu's calculations, at this time, seeing Hou Guoxiao's hurried appearance, Qin Huaiyu yelled: "Take your life!" As soon as his hands sank, the spear in his hand stabbed suddenly, and the tip of the spear pointed to the top door of Hou Guoxiao, the gun was strong and heavy, the gun speed was extremely fast, and when the gun burst out, the rain curtain in the sky was also torn open, and the rain splashed in all directions, and it was impossible to approach the space of one foot around the gun.

Finished! As soon as he saw the power of this gun, Hou Guoxiao understood that he was defeated, because the spear that was stabbed out had not been recovered, he couldn't grab and parry at this moment, and it was too late to escape, the only chance was to spell out a lose-lose ending, a good Hou Guoxiao, not only did not hide, but roared, his wrist flicked, and the spear in his hand was lifted up like a whip, and the target was directly aimed at the belly of the war horse under Qin Huaiyu's seat. Hou Guoxiao's shot is extremely vicious, it is to fight to the death to kill Qin Huaiyu's war horse, at this moment Qin Huaiyu is in the air, there is no way to hide, once the horse dies, it must be the end of falling to the ground, even if it can not die, it will not be able to escape the end of being injured, at this time when the two armies are entangled, the soldiers on both sides are strangled together, and Qin Huaiyu, who is injured and falls to the ground, may not be able to escape the slashing of the chaotic soldiers, unless Qin Huaiyu changes his tricks to block Hou Guoxiao's shot.

Although Qin Huaiyu has never inherited Qin Qiong's divine power, but his ruthless temperament has been passed down in one line, at this time, seeing Hou Guoxiao's desperate feelings, a sneer appeared on his lips, and he never changed his tricks at all, but added a little strength, and the spear in his hand stabbed down like a poisonous dragon going out to sea, but when he heard a snort, he actually slammed Hou Guoxiao's top door, and the gun was so powerful that it not only pierced the helmet on Hou Guoxiao's head along with the skull, but its momentum was especially unabated, and it was inserted directly into Hou Guoxiao's chest from the heavenly spirit cover. The unlucky Hou Guoxiao died without even saying a word.

Hou Guoxiaoren is dead, but the gun move before death still accurately pierced Qin Huaiyu's horse's belly, the heavily injured war horse screamed, the horse was unbalanced, and fell to the ground with a bang, the heavy impact force hit the muddy water on the ground into a huge wave, the poor war horse rolled, and fell to the ground, Rao is Qin Huaiyu had already been vigilant, but he was still dizzy by the force of the collision, his left leg was pressed under the horse, and he was not lightly injured for a while, his body could not move, and several rebellious soldiers saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. Immediately, the knife and gun were raised together and killed Qin Huaiyu. At this moment, Qin Huaiyu's gun has been taken off, and the person is pressed by the horse again, not to mention doing it, even if he wants to dodge, there is no possibility at all, seeing the chaotic soldiers rushing closer, Qin Huaiyu is anxious but can only cry out in vain.

"Protect the general, kill!" More than a dozen sharp-eyed Tang officers and soldiers saw that Qin Huaiyu was in danger, and they didn't care about fighting with the opponents around them, so they quickly rushed forward, protected Qin Huaiyu in the middle, lined up the defensive formation, resisted the onslaught of the chaotic soldiers, and rescued Qin Huaiyu from under the dead war horse.

"Leave the general alone, kill the thief!" As soon as Qin Huaiyu broke free from under the horse's corpse, he immediately snatched a knife from the guards beside him, and rushed towards the battle group with a roar.

It will be the courage of the soldiers, this is not false at all, this melee in the rain is at this time, although the two armies are still entangled, but with the Tang army's follow-up swarming, the rebel side has been in a state of exhaustion, plus the main general Hou Guoxiao has died, the rebels have no unified command, morale has been extremely low, after being killed by the Tang officers and soldiers, except for more than 100 people who took advantage of the chaos to escape under the cover of the rain curtain, the rest were all annihilated, the road to the north of the city defenders to reinforce the palace has been opened so far, Qin Huaiyu, who was not lightly injured, could not take care of resting, After hastily tidying up the team, he led his troops to hurry in the direction of the palace in the rain, but because the rain was too heavy, the speed of the march could not be fast.

It is the instinct of the generals to skillfully use the changes brought about by the sudden change of time to create a fighter plane that is beneficial to them, but all the generals are good at it, this Qin Huaiyu took advantage of the rain to attack the chaotic soldiers who blocked it, and Hou Guozhong on that side was not idle, and also took advantage of the cover of the rain curtain to launch a clever attack.

Hou Guozhong is a general, and he is also very upright, which has always been in contradiction - on the one hand, the interests of the family, and on the other hand, the loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, both of which are inseparable for Hou Guozhong, therefore, he contradicted and hesitated, had argued with his father several times, and also tried to secretly sabotage Hou Junji's plot, when Li Zhen was ordered to go to Qizhou, Hou Guozhong went to see Li Zhen, trying to prevent Hou Guoxiao from serving as a deputy envoy, which was to make the last effort to destroy the alliance between Hou Junji and the King of Shu, It's a pity that because of the sense of belonging of the family, he can't do anything that is even too unfavorable to the family, which is the sorrow of being a child of the family - from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the present, although the concept of the family has been weakened a lot, but it still has a strong vitality, in the minds of the children of the family, the interests of the family are the first, and everything else can be abandoned, not only their own lives, but even the interests of the court are not exceptional.

The battle of Xuanwu Gate is not from Hou Guozhong's heart, if he can escape, Hou Guozhong is willing not to fight this battle, but unfortunately as a child of the Hou family, he has no reason to escape, so he came, also fought, and was fully engaged in commanding the battle, with 3,000 Hou family soldiers to attack the Xuanwu Gate guarded by more than 8,000 Yulin Army, Rao is Hou Guozhong has been in battle for a long time, and the soldiers of the Hou family under his command are all elite soldiers trained by Hou Junji, but they also fought extremely hard - that's right, Most of the Yulin army are some old soldiers who have never seen blood, whether it is martial arts or archery, they are poor enough, far less fierce than the Hou family's soldiers, but the problem is that the Yulin army has a large number of people, and occupies the advantage of the palace wall, coupled with the pressure of the emperor's order, there is no way to retreat, but also used the strength to defend, therefore, let the Hou family's children attack seven times in an hour, several times rushed to the city but never defeated the Yulin army, and was driven down the city by the Yulin army with the absolute superiority in numbers, Although several strong attacks killed more than 2,000 Yulin officers and soldiers, but the Hou family's soldiers also lost nearly 1,000 people, if it weren't for this sudden heavy rain, even if all the Hou family's soldiers died outside this Xuanwu Gate, they might not be able to take the Xuanwu Gate, but now the heavy rain has made Hou Guozhong see a chance to win.

The inconvenience caused by the heavy rain is obvious, not to mention that the armor has become extremely heavy due to water immersion, and the actions of the soldiers have become extremely clumsy, not to mention that the two sides have a big battle, the body that is hot and hot has been drenched in the heavy rain, and the uncomfortable strength is not something that ordinary people can bear, and what is more troublesome is that most of the torches lit by both sides have been extinguished by the heavy rain, and all the people in this dark night are like blind people, and they can only act by feeling. Or run to the city gate tower to hide from the rain, but the soldiers of the Hou family who attacked the city were miserable - there was no shelter in the small square outside the palace, there was nowhere to hide from the rain, and even the city wall couldn't see very clearly, how could this battle continue to be fought?

Obviously, under such unfavorable conditions, the person who can find the hope of victory is a wise general, there is no doubt that Hou Guozhong is definitely one of them - the heavy rain extinguished the torches in the open air, but the torches on the city gate tower have not been affected, although there are only a few dozen, and because of the rain curtain obscure, it is not very real, but it clearly shows the location of the city gate tower, and what is more interesting is: due to the influence of the rain curtain and the sound of rain, the officers and soldiers of Yulin on the city wall have no way to find the movement under the city at this moment, In this way, the Hou family's soldiers were given time to prepare calmly, and a clever attack was staged.

"Inheritance, Inheritance." Hou Guozhong stood expressionlessly in the pouring rain and observed the dynamics of the city gate tower, and after a long time, he suddenly raised his voice and called the two deputies to his side.

Hou Chengzong and Hou Chengwang are a pair of brothers, both are direct children of the Hou family, and Hou Guozhong is cousins, they are all good at the battlefield that followed Hou Junji's southern expedition to the north and the south, and they also served in the army, each bowed down and responded: "The subordinates are here!" ”

Hou Guozhong glanced at the two brothers, and said calmly: "Leave a hundred shield swordsmen for the general, and the two of them led the whole army to immediately attack the city gatehouse, and sent the order: the whole army unloaded their armor and told the sons and daughters that this battle has reached a life-and-death juncture, there is no retreat, and the general will personally lead the shield and swordsmen to supervise the formation, and those who dare to retreat will be killed!" ”

At this point in the battle, the Hou Chengzong brothers also understood that the situation was extremely unfavorable to their side, and they knew that the timing of the attack at this moment was not very appropriate, but they still promised loudly: "Yes, subordinates obey orders!" As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them were ready to gather their respective subordinates, but they never thought that Hou Guozhong suddenly said again: "Wait, when the two of you lead your troops to attack, try to make as much fanfare as possible, and the bigger the momentum, the better." ”

Hou Chengzong and the brothers are also old figures, originally thought that Hou Junji was planning to launch a secret attack under the cover of the rain curtain, but they didn't expect Hou Guozhong to order a big fanfare, for a while a little inexplicable, stunned on the spot, looked at each other, although they didn't ask, but the steps of leaving stopped on the spot.

Hou Guozhong didn't explain much, just waved his hand and said expressionlessly: "You just have to do it, you will have your own opinions." ”

The military order was like a mountain, although the Hou Chengzong brothers had many doubts in their hearts, they did not dare to ask again, and hurriedly answered, each ran back to the headquarters, and gathered men and horses to prepare for a strong attack.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, the dense rain hits the city head, the city gate tower erupts into a continuous crackling sound, Rao is the city gate tower has good drainage facilities, but can not drain the stagnant water, in an instant, the water on the city head is already no knee, after the fierce battle, the city head is crowded with tired Yulin officers and soldiers, everywhere is the terrible cry of the wounded, but standing in the city gate tower Yulin Army general Li Hezong mood is relieved, in his opinion, the rebel army has failed to capture the city head seven times, now the heavy rain, The ground is slippery and the night is dark, the difficulty of storming the city is suddenly much higher, and it is basically impossible for the enemy to attack the city, and it is time to take a breath, so although I saw that many middle and lower-level officers found an excuse to run to the city gate tower to hide from the rain, Li Hezong also pretended not to see it, and did not stop it at all, but unfortunately Li Hezong's good mood did not last long - as the first terrible horn outside the city sounded, the shouts of "enemy attack" on the city head were loud, Li Hezong panicked, and could no longer care about the heavy rain outside, A long sword drawn from his waist, rushed out of the city gatehouse, just poked out of the city, saw a dense array of feather arrows from the darkness under the city, immediately frightened and hurriedly retracted his head, waved the sword in his hand, shouted: "Alert, alert, the enemy army rushes to the city, the whole army is on alert, the archers are in place!" ”

General Li Hezong gave an order, and the panicked Yulin officers and soldiers at the head of the city immediately became busy, dragging the wood and rolling stones and busy carrying them, and the archers with bows and arrows were also busy releasing arrows to counterattack.

Perhaps because of Hou Guozhong's order to fight to the death, the Hou family's disciples who rushed to the city braved the rain to rush to the city this time and were extremely fierce, ignoring the dense arrows and feathers shot down from the city, and did not care about the rolling wooden rolling stones, erected more than a dozen cloud ladders, and launched a strong attack towards the city gate tower, everyone was not afraid of death, and they all charged bravely, although the forward soldiers continued to wail and fell down the city, but the followers still bravely climbed up the cloud ladder.

The heavy rain not only affected the line of sight, but also wet the bow and crossbow, the bowstring in the hands of the Yulin officers and soldiers was so drenched by the heavy rain, it was a little loose, the Yulin officers and soldiers who were not too good were just blindly releasing arrows at this time, plus the Yulin officers and soldiers are not like the Hou family's soldiers are now light on the battlefield, the action is extremely clumsy, the density of the arrow rain is also unreliable, and it cannot block the Hou family's soldiers to storm the city. Rushing to the head of the city, the soldiers of both sides once again launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle on the city.

"Hold on! Resist! Li Hezong didn't expect that the attack of the Hou family's soldiers in the rain was so strong, and he had to send people to gather the troops scattered on both sides of the city wall to the city gate, desperately blocking the Hou family's soldiers who rushed to the city, relying on the absolute superiority in troops, temporarily suppressed the Hou family's soldiers who rushed to the city near the breakthrough, although they killed and injured many Hou family's soldiers, but they were always unable to close the breakthrough, and with the prolongation of the war, the casualties of the officers and soldiers of Yulin were getting bigger and bigger, and the war was once again in a stalemate.

In the shouting and killing of the city, a small team of more than 100 people quietly appeared at the corner on the left side of the palace wall, and with a lightning bolt in the sky, it can be clearly seen that the person who walked in front of this small team was Hou Guozhong himself, who was supposed to be behind the formation.

"Vertical ladder!" Hou Guozhong lay on the palace wall and listened intently for a while, waved his hand, whispered a word of command to several guards who followed closely behind, put the horizontal knife in his hand, held it in his mouth, clenched the ladder with both hands, and the whole person lay flat on the ladder, and the other two soldiers also lay on the ladder according to Hou Guozhong's appearance, and more than a dozen soldiers of the Hou family did not make a sound, quietly erected the ladder, and leaned towards the city under the cover of the rain curtain.

"Someone sneaked up!" It wasn't until the ladder had hit the city that the dozen or so Yulin officers and soldiers who were attracted by the battle at the city gate tower realized that something was wrong, and rushed towards the ladder while shouting a warning, trying to block the enemy's route to the city, but unfortunately it was too late! But hearing Hou Guozhong's roar, the person had already jumped up from the ladder and killed the panicked Yulin officers and soldiers like a tiger......

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