Hu Ze said sharply: "If General Wu is in charge of the defense of the south of Jinling, you should carefully follow the general's orders, and if there is the slightest slackness, you will definitely be engaged in military law." Although he is quite polite on weekdays, the military law is also extremely strict, and all the captains are awe-inspiring.

Hu and Wu led the crowd to leave the south gate and inspect the east along the city wall, this is the dark clouds in the sky have been getting closer and closer, rolling in, not much has completely blocked the sun in the west, and the sky suddenly darkened. The cold wind hunted, the dark clouds pressed the city, Hu Ze's side of the military captain Song Deming bowed down and said: "Hu Jiedu, seeing that the heavy rain is coming, it is better to take shelter for the time being, and then make a tour when the rain stops." ”

Hu Ze glared at him, and said in a deep voice: "The soldiers braved the rain to defend the city, why don't I pity it!" Wu Yingying also said: "It's exactly what I want." Song Deming had no choice but to obey the order, and ordered the accompanying soldiers to find more than a dozen pieces of robes for Hu Ze, Wu Yingying and the captains who accompanied him to patrol the city.

In a short time, the wind blew fiercely between the heavens and the earth, and the rain poured down, and silver lightning fell on the earth one after another, as if tearing the sky in half again and again, followed by a deafening thunder. At this time, the rain flowed on the city wall, and the soldiers guarding the city put down the banners one after another to avoid being blown away by the wind, and hid in the city platform, only those soldiers who were on duty had to stick to the city wall, shrunk and sheltered from the wind and rain with the help of the battlements, and in front of the stormy heaven and earth, the individual seemed so small, as if he would be blown down the city by the wind like a shaking leaf at any time.

Although the wind and rain were blowing, the soldiers were extremely excited to see Hu Ze, Wu Yingying and others in the rain patrolling the city. Everywhere he went, he cheered loudly, whether it was in the city tower or the soldiers on duty, they all tried to keep their bodies straight in the wind, and Wu Yingying secretly sighed in his heart that the military heart was available.

Looking into the distance, the Song army who built the camp not only did not hide in the barracks to avoid the rain, but dragged the wicker baskets and logs full of earth and stones from the muddy water more vigorously under the reprimand and leather whips of the military academy.

When they arrived at the east gate of the city, it was a different scene, hundreds of people, helping the old and the young, dragging their children and daughters, struggling out of Jinling in the wind and rain, and fleeing to the distance.

Since the news of the annihilation of the Hukou battalion, the people in Jinling City were panicked, and began to have an endless stream of people fleeing out of the city, because the north and south sides of Jinling have been set up in the Song army camp, west of the river, it is also the battlefield of the two armies and water divisions, so the people have escaped from the east gate, in order to reduce the consumption of food in the city, Wu Yingying played the imperial court, except for the Zhuang Ding who needs to go to the city to assist in the garrison, all the people are released.

The poor in the cities often do not have food for the next day, and even if they want to escape the fighting, they are not able to do so, so most of the people who flee are from middle-class families and above. The men pushed wheelbarrows, carrying all the belongings they could take with them, and some of them also sat one or two children who were shivering in the wind and rain, and the women had not yet begun to bind their feet, and followed their husbands with their burdens, trudging through the muddy water. The wealthy family drove the ox cart, and the whole family crowded into the cart to avoid the rain, desperately whipping the oxen pulling the cart, wanting to leave the dangerous and crowded city gate as soon as possible, and to the Qinglong Mountain area in front of them to temporarily stop and rest their strength.

Among the teams out of the city, there is a team that is particularly eye-catching, seventeen or eighteen carts lined up in a line and slowly marching eastward, all the carts are drawn by healthy horses, and the guards on both sides of the convoy are mostly Hu people, burly figures, with strong looks, stepping down and riding Saibei good horses, slowly marching on both sides of the convoy. They stood out in the wind and rain, and the fleeing people did not dare to approach when they saw this situation.

As if sensing the concerned gaze of the city, the leader of the march in front of the convoy turned around and raised his face, it was the Sogdian merchant Kang Qu Dagan who had said goodbye to Wu Yingying yesterday, he immediately recognized Wu Yingying standing solemnly at the head of the city, his face was immediately full of smiles, and he shouted loudly to say goodbye to everyone on the city tower, as for what he said, because it was the time of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, Wu Yingying, who was contemplating at the head of the city, did not hear a word clearly. Kang Lisi was sitting in a carriage behind Kang Qu Dagan, and when she heard her father say goodbye to Wu Yingying loudly, she also poked her head out, regardless of the fact that her clothes and veils were soaked by the heavy rain, stared at the figure on the city tower for a long time, sighed softly, and returned to the carriage. The carriage creaked through the city gate and cut through the wind and rain, and went off the muddy official road into the distance.

"Chang Tai rests to cover up his tears, mourning the difficulties of people's livelihood. Wu Yingying said in his heart. The generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty silently watched the people in the city flee to other places, and the fierce west wind swept huge raindrops and whipped at the head of the city like whips.

"If such heavy rain continues for a few days, I am afraid that there will be a slight delay in the completion of the South Gate camp. Eight works made Hao Shourong carefully consider the words. The Song army on the east road was destroyed, even the king of Qian who hung the title of marshal of the world's soldiers and horses was also killed, and Cao Bin pleaded guilty to the court on the day the news came.

"I don't care if it's raining or hail, if the camp can't be completed before the arrival of the Western Army, your head will be hung on the flagpole of the Chinese army. Cao Bin said coldly with an expressionless face, after the official became bigger and bigger, especially after discovering that His Majesty was particularly suspicious of military generals, Cao Bin paid great attention to hiding the fierceness and cruelty of those who belonged to the martial artists on his body. However, the defeat in quarrying and the defeat in Changzhou completely stimulated the blood of a warrior in him, and he involuntarily restored the ruthlessness of the junior colonel in the army when he stepped on the corpses of his enemies and comrades.

At this moment, Wang Yumai, the capital supervisor of the right army, stepped inside, and did not look at the eight envoys who were kneeling on the side, and said with a smile: "Cao Shuai, I heard that the Jinling thief army is stubbornly resisting, His Royal Highness the King of Jin is very worried, the army has been hanging alone for a long time, and the thieves on both sides of the northwest will be unstable. His Royal Highness recommended a strange man to serve under the general's account, hoping to help the army. ”

Cao Bin saw that someone entered without telling him, and he was about to have a seizure, but when he saw that it was Wang Yu who came, his face turned peaceful, and he said with a smile: "I am annoyed that Wang Jian Jun has thanked the King of Jin for his kindness, please this master quickly." Then he said to Hao Shourong: "You should retreat first and carefully urge the soldiers to build a camp." Hao Shourong retreated as if he had been amnestied.

Seeing this, Wang Yu smiled slightly, and called a Taoist priest in Tsing Yi with thick eyebrows and big eyes from outside the tent. Cao Bin saw that although this person was tall and burly, the look on his face was obviously a little ignorant, and he was also wearing a half-worn coarse sermon robe, how could he not look like a master of Taoism, and he secretly doubted in his heart, what kind of person is the King of Jin, why did he deliberately send this person to serve in front of the army, is it not to test me? I didn't dare to take it lightly, and asked in a kind voice: "May I ask the Changzun, where is the teacher, and where is the immortal residence?"

Although he deliberately showed humility, the prestige that had been accumulated over the past few days could not be extinguished for a while. The man had a confused look, but when he saw this high-ranking general asking, he immediately knelt down and said in fear: "The villain Niu Baojia, a native of Longzhou, was ordered to come to help the general attack Jinling. ”

When Cao Bin saw him like this, where he looked like a Taoist master, he couldn't help but look at Wang Yu with a puzzled expression.

Wang Yu smiled and said: "Corporal Lixian, the king of Jin, has heroes from all over the world to vote, Cao Shuai, this son is not amazing, but he has a unique skill, in my opinion, he will break through Jinling within ten days, and he will fall on this person."