"I don't think it's enough to burn grain and grass, let's go and destroy the palace gate, so that after the rebel army breaks the city, we can directly smash Huanglong, and then we can mix in the team and directly enter the palace to kill Wang Mang, how about it?" The fat man listened to the sound outside and said fiercely.

Feng Baobao nodded, "Okay, then do it, but ...... How to get to the palace gate? ”

"I know how to go, I'll lead the way, and I'll kill Wang Mang and avenge my father!" Ah Mad stood up from the charcoal brazier, his face was childish but faintly fierce, and he clenched his fists and said.

……...

In Chang'an City, the dark clouds were rolling, thunder and lightning were roaring in the sky, and when Feng Baobao, the fat man and Ah Mad sneaked out of the courtyard, the officers and soldiers on the street had already dispersed, and the noise sounded in the other corner of the distant city.

On the bluestone streets, pedestrians who have nowhere to hide from the rain are running in a hurry.

At the corner of the street, a beggar, unclothed, sat there, covered in filth, holding a bowl that had been broken in several places, and looked pitifully at the passers-by in the rain. One of his legs was black below the knee, and it was badly twisted and deformed.

“…… Food...... I'm so hungry, please give me something to eat......"

The beggar trembled with extreme hunger, and holding up the broken bowl was of course not begging from God, but praying with longing, despair, and hungry eyes for the passers-by who came and went.

Ah Mad, who has also suffered from hunger and pain, can't stand it anymore.

He took out two of the few pieces of silver he had and put them into the beggar's bowl, and whispered, "Take it, go buy something to eat." ”

The beggar nodded gratefully at Ah Mad and kept saying "thank you" in his mouth.

Then, Ah Mad sighed lightly, nodded helplessly at Feng Baobao and the fat man, and continued to hurry in the direction of the palace gate.

After walking more than ten feet, there was a sudden chaos behind them, and the three of them turned around to look, and seven or eight beggars swarmed over and snatched the beggar's bowl.

The beggar was dragged to the ground, reaching out for something, his face wet, unable to distinguish between rain and tears.

"Oh, what kind of sin is this, God."

Feng Baobao sighed and told the two to continue on their way, but his heart was full of sharp hidden pain.

"Fatty, listen, what is this sound?" Feng Baobao looked at the rain crackling into the puddle with some depression.

"Boss, it's the sound of rain." The fat man replied.

"And what is rain?"

"It's raining right now. This rain comes from above the nine heavens, and then goes to this earthly world, and the rain is the rain. ”

"Why is it raining?"

"Maybe it's because God can't keep it."

"You're wrong."

The fat man looked inexplicable, not knowing what Feng Baobao wanted to express, Ah Mad followed behind and listened quietly, but his expression was thoughtful.

Feng Baobao opened his mouth and said, "Fatty, you stretch out your hand." ”

The fat man's hand catches the rain, and Ah Mad also learns, grabbing the rain with his hand, and more rain slides through his hand.

"How does it feel now?" Feng Baobao asked.

"The feeling of water dripping from above."

Feng Baobao shook his head, carried the dragon gong on his back, stretched out his hands to catch the rain, and muttered: "The rain comes from the sky, and it is here to wash away all the unclean things in this world." They are sacred, righteous, and fearless, and in this era when Wang Mang was in power, the soldiers were in chaos and the people were struggling to make a living, and it was exactly what needed a torrential rain to wash away. ”

Later, Feng Baobao leaned into the rain curtain, and the rain dripping from the sky gradually blurred his eyes.

Ah Mad followed behind, his head slowly raised, and in those pair of star pupils, an unprecedented bright light appeared, as if he suddenly understood something.

……......

On the towering Chang'an city wall, the shield hand was in the forefront, the crossbowman followed closely, his fingers tightened the bowstring arrow and shot out, and quickly pulled out a second feather arrow from his back and put it on the bowstring, and the next second, the buzzing air shook, and the arrow pierced through the air.

The dense rain of arrows did not leave room to cover the heads of the people who were pressed to the bottom of the city, and the vanguard of the first army under the city wall was shot on their backs.

The chest of the soldier who was about to erect the ladder was pierced in an instant, and he fell to the ground with a thud, and the bulky ladder that had lost its support fell from mid-air to the city wall, smashed into the crowd and crushed into a mass of flesh.

The soldiers of the First Army, with their shields raised, crawled under the walls like turtles, and then stood up, intending to dig through the solid skin with pickaxes and shovels, and on the wall a basin of hot oil was poured down, followed by several fiery arrows, which ignited the oil with a thud.

In an instant, countless people were engulfed in flames, screaming and struggling in the raging flames, and finally fell to the ground, lifeless, and reduced to ashes.

Guan Tian, the vanguard general of the first army, ran back and forth in front of the moat with the green dragon broadsword in his hand, and the green dragon broadsword swung up and down, knocking out the arrows that shot down. On the entire front bank of the moat, there were many such horses' hooves, and they trampled on the earth with a bang, splashing clouds of smoke and dust.

The cavalrymen put away their swords, took their bows and crossbows from behind them, pulled the strings with arrows, and then swayed their bodies from side to side on their horses, relying on the advantage of cavalry to shoot at the new forbidden army on the city wall, covering their own infantry ladders and siege engines close to the city wall.

On the vast land, tens of thousands of infantry phalanxes gathered in the back places to cover up, the ruts of the siege vehicles were long and stretched out hundreds of meters away, and the soldiers carrying the ladder on their shoulders stepped across the trestle bridge on the moat while dodging the feather arrows that could fly down at any time above their heads, and then the ladder was erected, and the front end of the siege ladder slammed into the battlement of the Chang'an city wall, and the barbs on it were inserted into the wall, and the next second, a series of footsteps climbing the ladder sounded.

"Stone bomb ready - put!"

Approaching the front of the camp of the First Army, the heavy rain was still pouring in the misty steam, and the boulders on the catapult were covered with hot oil, and the pouring rain could not extinguish them.

Bang bang.........

The thick ropes attached to the spoons on the catapults were pulled down by several strong soldiers, and the flaming stone projectiles suddenly cut through the rain curtain and threw them into the sky, pulling out fiery red tails.

Luan Zhenghao held an octagonal mixed copper stick in his hand, and raised his other hand slightly to cover the rain that slipped above his head, and raised his gaze into the distance, to the black and oppressive corridor city wall, to the huge and magnificent Chang'an City, above, there were meteor-like fires penetrating out of the black clouds.

"Get out of the way!"

Ma Jinliang, the general of the forbidden army defending the city in the new dynasty, violently pushed away the soldiers who were shocked by the firelight, and the pear blossom tassel gun in his hand shook, and the next second, the head of the city wall in front of him was smashed by the flint, and the flying gravel and fire oil fell out like a blade, and there were bursts of screams.

Ma Jinliang held the tassel gun in his hand and flew the gravel that flew towards his head, and then, there was a loud bang behind him, and the strong shock wave shook him forward and fell on the wall, the helmet was instantly lifted out by the heat wave, and the silver armor and red robe were rolled by the sudden strong wind, and the soldier who was pushed away just now was blown away.

The soldier who flew into the air finally reacted, he was already unconscious of the buzzing in his ears and the sharp pain in his body, but he saw his body getting farther and farther away from his head, and finally, in his memory before his death, he overlooked the outline of Chang'an City......

On the siege vehicle, a sloppy soldier of the first army took out a parting hook from his waist, and the parting hook was connected to the copper ring at the tail with a black gold chain, the hook was more than six feet long, and was turned in the palm of the pawn, whistling and throwing out, hanging straight on the ladder not far away.

Later, the pawn pulled the parting hook, took advantage of the momentum, and jumped onto the ladder.

The crackling arrows on the city wall were shot intensively, and the pawn hooked the parting hook in his hand and stirred it, buzzing and setting off a strong wind, only to see a feather arrow flying around him, and he moved steadily on the ladder, the arrows were like flying locusts and rainstorms, but they were blocked in front of him by the crazy whirlpool of steel.

Finally, as he approached the barb at the top of the ladder, only one step away from the city wall, the pawn leaped high, his swarthy face hooked up a wicked smile, and the parting hook hung in a straight line in mid-air............