Outside the city wall, General Chang led as many as 50,000 soldiers and horses, while General Yuan's men and horses inside the city wall were only 30,000, plus the people nearby, which could barely support it.

This did not last long, and at the beginning of the third week another convoy of men came from the north, about 20,000 men.

After hearing the news, the general who came in a hurry, looking into the distance from the castle tower, with a black face, did not speak.

The sergeants looked at this and knew that they had been worried and scared, and the military horses of the Eighth Prince in the north came.

Sure enough, at noon, someone shouted under the city tower: "Listen, people in the city, we are the people of the eighth prince, and the third prince is seeking power and usurping the throne, and the position is not right." If you don't disarm and surrender, you will be charged with rebellion, and you will be charged with rebellion! ”

Hearing this, they didn't have much knowledge, and the newly recruited inferior soldiers were a little flustered.

At this time, the general in the tent also walked out, looked at the soldiers who were a little disturbed, stood at the highest point and said: "Don't be deceived by this thief, the three princes are quelling the thieves and rescuing the emperor, we just need to guard here and not let the three princes be attacked from both sides. You know, even if you open the door to welcome them now, with the cruelty of the Queen Mother, it will be a capital offense in the end. ”

At this time, the following began to shout: "We are all from the same line, why kill each other?" Think of your parents, wives and children, don't you want to go back to them alive? ”

"Hahaha! It's funny, go back, what if you go back? Exploited by the imperial court, by the officials, or by the powerful? Today's crown prince is mediocre and incompetent, but the queen mother and a woman control the court, her mother's family is more majestic than the royal family, and the entire court is in charge, making the entire Dahua people miserable, and the people are not at peace. Have you not been oppressed, or are you used to it? And then go back to farming and have children? And then let your children continue to be oppressed? Don't you have enough days like this? ”

At this moment, the general was wearing a suit of armor, and he couldn't see the look on his face clearly. He only vaguely looked like he was forty years old, and his beard was not short, "as if he had been carefully kept for a long time."

Standing in the sun was a little shaky, but the general didn't care, and didn't move.

Downstairs, seeing that the soldiers on the city wall didn't even move, they knew what was going on, and when they heard the words from behind, they spoke again: "Hmph! You are stubborn and stubborn, and you don't know what to do! The prince said that the city will be attacked in another hour, be careful! ”

"If you want to fight, you can fight, where is there so much nonsense, I'm waiting in the city! You're going straight to it! The general was also not convinced, allowing others to stand on the city wall and shout.

"You are such a rebel, so stubborn! Kill me! ”

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

This attack was more ferocious than the previous ones, and everyone was a little cold, knowing that the past few days were not as good as before.

At this moment, a man ran from the direction of the city gate they were guarding, holding an encrypted document in his hand.

"Report the ......!"

"Urgent letter ahead!"

Hearing this, the guards separated to make way for the messenger.

"Hurry up!"

When the letter was delivered, the master next to him first took it and looked at it at a glance, and his hands shook after reading the last word.

"General, General! Good news! The three princes have taken control of the imperial city and rescued the emperor! Now we are purging the remnants! Troops are being sent to increase the number of troops! ”

The master's words were shouted in the highest volume in his life, and as soon as the words fell, everyone reacted, and the momentum in the army increased in an instant, and they held the weapons in their hands tighter one by one, and the soldiers who were guarding the city in front began to laugh when they heard it, clenched their weapons, and fought bravely to kill the enemy.

The general, who hadn't come down from the steps yet, heard this and laughed heavily: "Hahahaha! No wonder the Eighth Prince doesn't go ahead! This is knowing that the victory or defeat in front has been decided, and I dare not go to the front to fight with the Lord, so I can only come to us to vent my anger! Hahahaha! ”

Hearing the general's words, everyone shouted in unison: "Lord! Lord! Lord! ”

When the soldiers below heard the master's words, their morale was immediately shocked! Without waiting for the general to say anything more, he picked up the sword in his hand and brandished it like a sergeant rushing up to kill.

Archers, trebuchets, one by one, began their work without the orders of the general.

The general called the soldier who shouted, and after saying a few words in his ear, he was satisfied and pressed the formation behind.

The soldier who shouted raised the flag belonging to their army and walked to the highest platform, and a pair of soldiers surrounded and guarded by him.

"Listen to the rebels downstairs! Our emperor has ascended the throne, and if you continue to work for the tiger, you will be liquidated afterwards! The general said that they are all of the same clan, and they can't say that there are brothers and sisters of their own clan in the army! Why kill each other! If you disarm and surrender now, you will no longer care about it afterwards, and your life will not be cut down, and you will definitely be let go back to your hometown to see your relatives afterwards! ”

At this moment, a fierce arrow was fired from under the city wall, and it went straight to the sergeant who was shouting.

Fortunately, the soldier next to him held a large shield high and blocked it, and the sergeant who rushed to the city wall also knew that if he let this person continue to speak, he would disturb the morale of the army, and wanted to rush over and assassinate him several times, but he was blocked.

At this time, I saw a group of soldiers in the distance, lined up in pairs, and there was a row of sergeants in front of them holding large shields in front of them.

This kind of preparation is generally the treatment only of the best archers in the army, and therefore, it is also very special in such a chaotic battlefield.

As soon as this group of people came on the field, they were accompanied by the death of a group of people, which can be described as a hundred shots, and it was very difficult for the three princes to press.

Only at this time, there was another strange scene next to it, the wooden pillars that attacked the city gate were replaced by iron pillars, and the jingle bells rang again and again, like the sound of smashing the door, and the soldiers guarding the gate were also frightened and desperately resisted.

The confrontation between the two sides suddenly overwhelmed the west wind in the east, and suddenly the west wind overpowered the east wind, and neither side gained any benefit, and neither side chose to give up first.

The people of the city relied on the strong walls to hold out for twenty-three days.

However, the pressure brought by the arrival of the Eighth Prince has also increased exponentially, and it has only been a week since it was a little unbearable.

The fighting, which used to be able to stop at night, did not stop when the sky was completely dark, and the sergeants were so tired that they almost fell to the ground.

When the moon was in the middle of the sky, the soldiers in the city walls held torches, gathered the corpses of their brothers, and then washed the dust on their faces with tears.

I couldn't tell whether it was blood or dirt on my hands, and I held the dry cakes that had been distributed in one hand, and the trembling hand in the other hand was still stuffing rice soup into my mouth.

The general walked out of the camp, looking at his subordinates like this, no matter how ruthless he was on weekdays, he couldn't help crying at this moment, patted a soldier who was missing an arm, stuffed the cake with meat in his hand, and then continued to walk forward.

Walking to the city wall, looking at the corpses all over the ground, looking at the ruins in front of him, he sighed deeply.

"Behold, my good sons are brave and good at fighting! Listen, my good sons are singing and marching forward, behold, the enemy soldiers have hid, listen, the call of our distant family, your beautiful lady, in a red wedding dress, just waiting for you, carrying a sedan chair and leading it to the door! Lead in the door! ”

At this time, the soldier who gathered the corpse next to him was wiping his sweat, talking or singing something.

"General, let's go back." The guards next to him saw the general's sadness, and first wiped the tears that accidentally flowed from their eyes.

Wu Qingzhu dragged his heavy body back to his tent, lay down and put it on without moving, took out the wooden hairpin in his arms before going to bed, groped for a while, and was reluctant to remove his eyes.

This hairpin was Wu Qingzhu's first gift to Helan, and before leaving, he took it off Helan's head and stuffed it into his arms.

Every night, no matter how tired I am, I will take it out and grope for a while to fall asleep, even if it is too dark to see, I have to try to look at it a few more times.

Feeling the slightest sleepiness, he put the hairpin back in his arms, raised a smiling face, and looked forward to Helan and his family appearing in his dreams.

The next day everyone woke up to the sound of the usual trumpet, but the shouts and beatings of the enemy.

After everyone got up in a panic, they rushed to the city wall, Wu Qingzhu and the others also obviously noticed that today was different from usual, even they civilians were distributed weapons one by one, and told some essentials on the battlefield.

However, Wu Qingzhu was not classified in this category, and when he gritted his teeth and prepared to rush forward, Steward Fan pulled him out and then arranged him into the last line of defense.

"You kid has a life, your life is more important than the lives of those reckless people, and then you can serve the Lord when you enter the court, you kid is also clever and has many ideas, I am optimistic about you."

Wu Qingzhu held back tears and looked at the backs of the men he knew before or didn't know like rushing forward, and his eyes couldn't help but cry.

He was reluctant to stay behind, his father, elders, and brothers, at this time, I am afraid that they are also desperately resisting and fighting, and he can only hide behind to be protected by them, he also wants to rush over, isn't it just a life! Just put it together.

But what about the family? His grandfather, mother, wife...... and so on, waiting for them to go back, if they don't even go back in the end, I'm afraid that no one will even be able to send back a message.

Just two days ago, Wu Qingzhu was called to the military doctor's office.

Village Chief Wu waited for Wu Qingzhu before he breathed, he said, if he wants him to live well, the villagers are waiting to pick them up from the mountain, but he can't go back, and there is no way to see them again. If he can survive in the end, he hopes that it is Wu Qingzhu, and over the years, the hope of the entire Wujia Village has always been on Wu Qingzhu. And Wu Qingzhu ignited hope after being admitted to the child's birth, so he put this burden on Wu Qingzhu's body.

Looking at the two arrows stuck in Village Chief Wu's body, Wu Qingzhu covered his face and cried.