Chapter Seventy-Six: Going Down to the City to Save People
The carriage was still moving in the direction of Xiangyang, and Zhang Yang was so preoccupied that he wanted to turn the head of the carriage and leave this place. But seeing the miserable situation on the road, he never made up his mind.
"Fu'er, I have received definite news, Xiangyang City is probably in an extremely dangerous situation now, and now that we are gone, I am afraid that it will be more than lucky. You tell me, are you still willing to go back? Zhang Yang turned his head worriedly and looked at Guo Fu, who was also tired.
"Brother Zhang, my father and mother are in Xiangyang, they are big heroes, and they dare to sacrifice their lives for the country. Although I don't have any skills, I will never do such a thing as escaping. It would be a shame for them to do so. Guo Fu hesitated for a moment, then said resolutely.
"Even if you know you're going to die, you're going to go?" Zhang Yang stared at her and suddenly asked.
"Yes, I'll go." Guo Fu raised his face slightly and said in a resolute tone.
Zhang Yang looked at the resolute look on her face, and suddenly felt that this woman was particularly beautiful at this time, and he even felt a feeling of inferiority in his heart.
"Even Guo Fu, a weak woman, dares to fight hard with the Mongols, and a seven-foot man in my hall is actually timid, it's really too wretched!"
“…… But there is only one life, and if you lose your life on impulse, you will regret it for life. I'm still so young, I have a martial arts system, I will enjoy endless wealth in the future, and I can pick the huge harem, why risk it for this kind of, it's not worth it! ”
The righteous side and the dark side of Zhang Yang's heart are constantly fighting, and his heart is changing left and right, so that he can't make up his mind.
"Green Calyx, it's dangerous to go to Xiangyang now, are you willing to go back with us? If you don't want to, I'll call someone to escort you back to the Valley of Love. ”
"Brother Zhang, I am willing to follow you, and I am willing to be with you no matter life or death." Gongsun Lucao said with a firm expression.
Zhang Yang's heart was shaken. Unexpectedly, she was willing to put life and death aside, compared to these two weak women, he suddenly found that his heart seemed too small.
Before they knew it, it was dusk, the carriage stopped next to a ruined temple, and the three of them came to the temple to light a fire and rest. Because the carriage purchased in the emergency was not large, the three of them would not rest in the carriage unless they had to do so.
In this wilderness, there is only this ruined temple nearby, so many people have gathered in the temple. Most of them are refugees.
Zhang Yang and the three of them have been going all the way, and they have long been surprised by this situation, they just take care of their own lives and rest, as long as the other party does not disturb him, he will not provoke others.
"Now that the Mongolian army is advancing south, Xiangyang City is in danger, looking at this situation, I don't know if it can be saved?" A big-bellied businessman-like man said worriedly.
"But isn't it, now the traitors of the Great Song Dynasty are in charge. If it weren't for Guo Daxia guarding in Xiangyang City, I'm afraid the city would have been lost long ago. Another scholar-like figure chimed in.
"Guo Daxia really deserves to be a generation of heroes. Half a month ago, it was he who saved me under the knife of the Mongolian Tartar, otherwise, I am afraid that I would have become a ghost long ago......"
"Guo Daxia is indeed a big hero. If it weren't for him, not to mention you and me, I'm afraid there would be more than 100,000 people in Xiangyang City. It's all a ghost under the sword of the Mongolian soldiers......"
For a while, most of the people in the temple were praising one after another, and when they talked about Guo Jing, they looked extremely adoring.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Yang suddenly remembered a sentence said by Guo Jing in the original book: "The great man of chivalry is for the country and the people!" ”
muttering such a sentence, he suddenly felt that his heart was surging and his blood was boiling.
"Whatever, life is alive, as a man, you should always do something. If you always cringe and wince, I'm really sorry for the man's enthusiasm! It doesn't matter if he's dead or alive, I'll fight this time! Unconsciously, Zhang Yang's fist gradually clenched.
After making up their minds, the three of them hurried to Xiangyang City, and after a hurry, they finally arrived at the gate of Xiangyang City at noon on the fifth day.
Xiangyang City is a big city, built by the mountain, there are only two city gates in the north and south, the Mongolian soldiers attack the north gate, at this moment Zhang Yang is the south gate, the north and south are separated by at least more than ten miles.
But even so, the three people who stayed at the south gate could still hear the earth-shattering shouts from the north gate, obviously the battle had been triggered, and the Mongol soldiers were fiercely attacking the city.
There were still people at the gate of the city who came out one after another, most of them in a hurry, and did not say a word, as if they were wasting their time on the road by saying a word.
Standing at the door were eight wounded soldiers with blood-colored bandages, most of whom had been wounded in the hands and had been sent to defend the city. The people want to flee for their lives, and the soldiers in the city do not stop them, but if they want to enter the city, they need to cross these defenders, and the city gate is not allowed to enter at this time.
"Who is in the car, get out of the car quickly, otherwise you will be welcome." A soldier with a blood-colored bandage on his left hand ran forward, raised his weapon, and said loudly to the carriage of the three of them.
"I am Guo Fu, the daughter of Guo Daxia, and there is the current martial arts league advocate hero in the car, you open the city gate quickly, we are about to go to the city tower to help." Guo Fu stuck her head out of the carriage window and yelled in.
Where did the soldier see Guo Fu's appearance, and was half-convinced, but he heard a beggar who was guarding the city gate running quickly, and said with a happy face: "It's really Miss Guo and Master Zhang Meng, the villain has been waiting here for a long time, you can come in with me quickly." The Huang gang leader has already instructed to send villains to meet you here, and as soon as you arrive, he will take you into the city to meet her. ”
The beggar was evidently acquainted with the defenders, and after a few words with them, the carriage swaggered into the city. Under the guidance of the beggar, the carriage soon stopped in the stable, not far from the north gate.
"A few come with me, the Huang Gang Leader and Guo Daxia are directing the battle on the city tower." The beggar led the way in front, talking as he went.
The closer you get to the tower, the louder the shouting becomes, enough to shake people's eardrums, and anyone who speaks must hold their throats.
Coming to the north gate downstairs, there were many people crowded around, especially at the passage of the north gate, in order to resist the city gate and prevent the Mongolian soldiers from blasting open, the small passage was actually gathered at least a few hundred people.
The staircase leading to the tower was also very busy, carrying stones, arrows, knives and guns, and the wounded, almost endlessly, never breaking.
This is not the first time that Zhang Yang has come to the city tower to watch the battle. Compared with the current tragic scene, the previous battles are almost negligible, and I can't help but feel very shocked.
"Leader Zhang, this time the Mongolian Tartars have gone crazy, they have been attacking for ten days in a row, Huang Gang Leader and Guo Daxia are assisting General Lu Wende in commanding the battle on the city tower, it is very hard, as far as I know, they have not closed their eyes for three days." The beggar pulled his throat and told Zhang Yang about the current situation, so that he could quickly understand the current situation.
Finally climbed the castle tower. The eardrums of those who shouted and shook were painful, and stones could be seen in the distance, and a rain of arrows rushed towards the city. Inevitably hit by a rain of arrows and stones, every soldier at the head of the city had to wear a helmet, and some even carried a shield on their heads.
From afar, you can see that the Mongol soldiers are like ants, swarming towards the tower, including cavalry, infantry, and weapons. The cavalry was the farthest from the city gates, just a far array. They did not move forward, and when they stormed the city gates, it was their time to strike. The infantry was the most numerous, and they swarmed in dense packs. Some of them are still carrying ladders to the sky, ready to use the ladders to climb the tower. The armourers stood far in front of the crossbows and trebuchets and fired at the towers.
Zhang Yang and the three of them also had a shield in their hands before they could walk in the narrow passage of the city. Almost every step you take, you can see the bloody corpse of a fallen soldier, and the scene is very bloody.
It's okay to be flamboyant. Not only have I killed people, but I have also seen this kind of scene before. But the two daughters have always been the proud daughters of the sky, where have they seen this kind of scene, especially the daughter of Gongsun Lucao, when they saw the bloody picture, they almost vomited on the spot.
He knew that this would be the case, so he tapped her twice, sealed the acupoint on the tip of her nose, and used his skills to condition her for a while, so that the woman felt better. Then he used the same method to recuperate Guo Fu for a while, so that the two girls could continue to move forward.
In just two or three hundred meters away, the three of them staggered, and they had to be careful of the rain of boulders and arrows falling from the sky, and it was extremely difficult to walk, and it took almost a quarter of an hour to reach their destination.
Huang Rong and Lu Wende were wearing several shields in front of them, and they were anxiously watching the battle under the city tower.
"Oh no, Guo Daxia is really reckless this time. As I said earlier, the war is urgent, and everything must be decided as it should be, not for the sake of women. Those thousands of people were obviously a trick by Mongolia to lure our army to open the city gate, but Guo Daxia just didn't listen. He is now trapped under the city, if there is a mistake, the momentum of our army will be greatly affected, and this city may not be able to hold it. Zhang Yang and the three of them were separated by several meters before they heard Lu Wende's complaining voice.
Huang Rong frowned at the moment, but stared at the city for a moment, and her worry was beyond words.
"Mother, what's wrong with Dad?" Hearing this, Guo Fu walked over quickly and asked urgently.
Huang Rong turned her head and saw that it was Zhang Yang and the three of them, so she sighed and said, "Your father just now did not hesitate to bring a few martial arts masters to meet in order to let thousands of people enter the city. However, the Mongol soldiers were treacherous and cunning, and when they saw that the city gates were wide open, they immediately sent out a large army. Fearing that the city gate was lost, he ordered the city gate to be closed first, leaving the broken back for himself to wait for the people to enter the city first. ”
"Look below, at this moment, he and many heroes are surrounded by the Mongolian legions, and they can't get out." After Huang Rong finished speaking, he cast his eyes on the city tower again.
Zhang Yang and the others cautiously came to the side of the city tower, looked down, and sure enough, they saw that among the ants-like Mongolian army, there were several heroes who were struggling scattered dotted.
The men were dressed in different attire, both men and women, and the only thing they had in common was that they were surrounded by at least seven or eight Mongol regiments.
Manpower is poor, no matter how high your martial arts are, there will always be a time of exhaustion in the face of thousands of troops. At this moment, the city gate is closed, and unless you leap up from the city wall, you can only stay below and wait for death.
However, this city wall is five or six feet high, and the city wall has been boiled with oil by the soldiers defending the city, and the top is extremely smooth, and it can only be difficult to climb the city with Guo Jing's martial arts, let alone others.
However, the heroes downstairs are obviously not stupid people, I saw one of the scholars who looked like a hero, after repelling the seven or eight Mongolian soldiers who were surrounded, snatched two iron guns in his hands, threw them easily, and the two iron guns roared away and slanted into the city wall.
This scholar is obviously a master of light skills, at the moment his feet on the ground, his body flew up quickly, after a kick, climbed the city wall, pulled the iron gun inserted into the wall, jumped with strength, and pulled the gun above, and so on, three or two times and then flew back on the city wall.
Zhang Yang took a look. Only to find out that this person was the scholar Zhu Ziliu in the 'Fishing Wood Cultivation and Reading' where the first-class master sat down, no wonder his light skills have been quite forbidden.
Seeing that he had successfully escaped from the predicament, the heroes of the city followed suit and began to snatch iron spears from the Mongol soldiers, or simply borrowed the iron spears he had planted in the city walls to climb up.
But not all of these heroes are as light as Zhu Ziliu, and they can go to the city smoothly with only two guns to build a bridge. Some of them are too heavy and too poor to jump up at all, or the speed is too slow. As soon as he climbed into the air, he was hit by the enemy's sharp arrows, screamed and fell, and was stabbed to death by the Mongolian soldiers who surrounded him.
With the passage of time, seventeen or eighteen heroes have jumped onto the city tower, and more than a dozen people have lost their lives due to the failure of jumping over the city. There are some people left in the rivers and lakes, and a few are besieged by the Mongol soldiers, and they can't get out at all.
Guo Jing was surrounded by Mongolian soldiers, piercing left and right, helping those who had not yet escaped from the rivers and lakes to get rid of the Mongolian soldiers. Even though he is strong in martial arts. The palm was still whirring, and everywhere he went, there were seven or eight Mongolian soldiers screaming and flying diagonally, which was indeed extremely powerful.
But Zhang Yang and the others obviously saw that his palm power was weak at this time, and obviously he couldn't last long.
With some martial arts people who are strong in martial arts, they have climbed the city tower one after another. There are only a dozen or so people left besieged below. Zhang Yang squinted his eyes and glanced down, and suddenly found that there were two figures in the corner of the city gate that were extremely familiar.
He took a closer look and recognized that the two were actually Lu Wushuang and Cheng Ying.
"These two girls are really hot-blooded!" Zhang Yang sighed, surprised and worried in his heart.
The martial arts of the two women are not too high. Under the siege of a dozen Mongol soldiers, although one Mongol soldier could occasionally be killed or wounded, other soldiers would soon fill in. Judging by the speed at which the two of them drew their swords. They are clearly at the end of their ropes. Even if the two of them can break through the siege of the Mongol soldiers, I am afraid it will be difficult to jump up to the tower.
Now that the city is in danger, Zhang Yang actually doesn't want to care about other people, but these two women have a fate with him, and he can't ignore it.
"I'll go down and save people!" After muttering a word, he asked for a wooden shield from a soldier beside him and held it in his hand.
In the astonished eyes of everyone in the castle tower, he jumped down like a roc bird, and in order to reduce the speed of his fall, he raised the wooden shield on his head as an obstacle, and floated downward. I saw that several Mongolian soldiers on the ground were quite surprised at first, and then they were overjoyed, and they had raised their spears and waited to stab him into a hedgehog.
When Guo Fu and Gongsun Lucao, who were standing on the city tower, saw this scene, they were naturally terrified, and their hearts hung in their throats.
Even though Huang Rong knew that he was strong in martial arts, he didn't expect him to rush down to the city like this.
When Lu Wende and other sergeants saw this scene, they were even more unconscious, you must know that this city wall is five or six zhang high, even if the martial arts are high, if they fall to the ground, they will probably be injured, not to mention that there is a group of Mongolian soldiers eyeing them below.
Just when everyone was thinking about it, Zhang Yang had already descended to a distance of one zhang from the ground.
Facing the Mongolian army on the ground, he suddenly turned his head down, transported the eighteen palms of the dragon and landed, and suddenly fired several palms to the ground, only to hear the banging sound, the screams sounded again and again, and the Mongolian soldiers on the ground were bombarded by his palm.
With the resistance formed by the palm force, Zhang Yang turned around and landed safely!
On the city tower, whether it was a hero in the rivers and lakes or a sergeant who saw this scene, they were all surprised and delighted, but they didn't expect that in addition to Guo Jing, there was such a master of martial arts.
After Zhang Yang landed, he went straight in the direction of Lu Wushuang and the two women, and everywhere he passed, it was almost like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and the Mongolian soldiers flew up like cotton. If you encounter trapped people in the rivers and lakes, of course, you can also help them get out of trouble.
He was only seven or eight feet away from Lu Wushuang and the two daughters, and when he approached, it took about half an hour. He slashed a few palms and knocked a few Mongolian soldiers beside the two women away, only to see the tired faces of Lu Wushuang and Cheng Ying.
"Dog, why are you here?" Lu Wushuang was stabbed in the left arm, and he frowned in pain, but after seeing his appearance, he immediately cried out in surprise.
Although Cheng Ying didn't speak, he also frowned and looked at him with surprise.
"Now is not the time to speak, I'll send you up first, and when you get to the city tower, let's talk slowly." Zhang Yang didn't care about the old at the moment, and even urged.
When Cheng Ying heard this, he immediately nodded again and again. And Lu Wushuang, the girl, was clever, and found that her flamboyant tone didn't seem to be stupid at all, not like a dog's stupid appearance at all, and couldn't help but flash a hint of discoloration in her eyes.
However, she also knew that this was not the time to ask, so she immediately nodded pretending not to know, and followed him towards the direction of the castle tower.
Zhang Yang opened the way in front and quickly escorted the two women to the bottom of the city tower. There were a number of poles on the walls of the city that were used to build bridges, but under the blows of the Mongol trebuchets, it was clear that there were very few left.
He had no choice but to snatch a few shots from the hands of the Mongol soldiers beside him, and threw them towards the city wall with all his strength, only to hear the dinging sound, and under the great force, the spear heads were all sunk into the wall, which was very reliable.
"Go up quickly, I'll come to the back of the palace." Zhang Yang roared loudly, and suddenly slashed out a few palms, pushing back the Mongolian soldiers who were close to him.
The two women were worried about his safety, but when they saw such a violent, they also knew that if they stayed here, they would just be a burden to him, so they immediately jumped up one after the other, and after a few takeoffs, they successfully climbed the city wall.
When Zhang Yang saw them going to the city, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and immediately stepped on the first spear, just about to go to the city.
He was condescending, and suddenly saw that Guo Jing was more than ten zhang away from the city wall, surrounded by the Mongolian corps, and there were still many soldiers who went up later.
Guo Jing used a lot of internal force earlier, and his skills were too depleted, and he couldn't get out of the face of many sieges at this moment. And the Mongol soldiers also seemed to concentrate their main combat strength on him alone, and under their deliberate obstruction, Guo Jing was forced to move farther and farther away from the city wall.
Fighting in a crowd, the most important thing is to come and go freely, once he is besieged, then what awaits him must be a dead end. Now seeing that Guo Jing is facing a heavy siege, if he goes to the rescue, I am afraid that he will have to answer it.
"To go, or not to go?" Faced with a difficult choice, Zhang Yang hesitated again. (To be continued......)