"The spring of the war is bitter, and the lonely city is becoming more and more dangerous. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Surrounded by the moon halo, divided like a fish.

Repeatedly tired of the yellow dust, when the white feather is waved.

The sores are still out of the array, and the blood is even more ascending.

Faithfulness should be invincible, and steadfastness and forgiveness.

No one reports the Son of Heaven, and he is scheming. ”

Traces of blood could be seen everywhere on the blackened walls scorched by the flames, and in the distance, beside the battlements smashed by the boulders thrown by trebuchets, a group of yellow-faced and thin-skinned men were rapidly repairing the masonry removed from the houses in the city; A man in armor of about fifty years old slowly recited his new poem, and as his lips and teeth opened and closed, one could see that there were no more teeth left in his mouth.

"Zhongcheng, the thieves probably won't come to attack the city today, so you might as well go down and rest for a while, right?" An officer of a similar age beside him asked with concern.

The man known as Zhongcheng shook his head slowly, "The city wall has not been repaired yet, and even if the official goes down, he won't be able to sleep well." Speaking of this, he changed his words, "Ling Wei, what do you think of my poem?" ”

The battle with the rebels has continued from spring to the present, and the fighting is very hard, and Suiyang has become an empty city, which is becoming more and more difficult day by day. The rebels besieged Suiyang heavily, like a halo around the moon, surrounded layer after layer, and the defenders arranged a formation like a Yuli array according to the enemy's strength and weakness, resisting the enemy's attacks again and again. The commander stood at the head of the city and waved his flag from time to time to direct the army and the people to fight. The wounded soldiers bandaged their wounds and returned to the battlefield, and the officers and soldiers defending the city fought bloodily and became more and more courageous. Generals who serve the country loyally and can win the trust of their soldiers should be invincible, and their will to fight the enemy to the end will never change. I fought hard with my soldiers to defend the city, and the battle situation was critical, but no one reported to the Son of Heaven, although there was a strategy to break the enemy, but it could not be realized.

Suiyang Taishou Xu Yuan will Zhang Xun's poem in his mind again, this poem has exhausted the hardships of Suiyang soldiers trapped in the lonely city from the beginning of spring to the present, there are 150,000 elite troops led by Yin Ziqi, a general sent by An Qingxu, and the defenders in the city are only 6,800 people.

Yin Ziqi is a famous general under the command of An Lushan, and he was appointed as the envoy of Henan Jiedu, and the commanders under his command are all elite soldiers from the border passes, in addition to the cronies of the three towns of Hedong Jiedu who made An Lushan conquer the Quartet in the past, there are more than 8,000 elite cavalry from the barbarian tribes of Tongluo, Xi, Khitan, and Murowei, these people have experienced a hundred battles, and they have broken through countless cities in the Tang Dynasty one after another, but wherever they went, the people were all slaughtered.

It was not easy for Zhang Xun, the deputy envoy of Henan Jiedu, the imperial historian, and Xu Yuan, the Taishou of Suiyang, to stop Yin Ziqi's army with a mere strength of 6,800 people and a dilapidated Suiyang city.

Thinking of the hard work in the past half a year, Xu Yuan not only sighed, "Zhongcheng's poem is really full of the hardships of this battle, this poem is generous and heroic, which makes people read it with pride, Zhongcheng has not many poems in his life, but this one is not lost to Li Taibai's poems." ”

"Lingwei is overrated." Zhang Xun affectionately called Xu Yuan's words, "Zhang doesn't have much poetic talent, this one is just a feeling." ”

He patted the city wall lightly and said with emotion, "Although Suiyang is small, it also chokes the throat of the rebels to attack Jianghuai, and now Luoyang and Chang'an have fallen into the hands of the rebels, and the world's wealth mainly depends on Jianghuai's supply; As long as we hold Suiyang, so that the rebels cannot attack Jianghuai, with Jianghuai's continuous wealth, the rebellion of the thieves will be quelled by my Tang Dynasty sooner or later; Therefore, even if Zhang Mou is broken, he can't let Yin Ziqidong take a step! ”

"I heard that Guo Ziyi, the secretary of the military department, the Pingzhangshi of the Tongzhong Shumen, and the Shuofang Jiedu have been promoted to Sikong and the deputy marshal of Hedong in Guannei, and are fighting with the thief army near Chang'an, if we can hold Yin Ziqi back and make him unable to return to Chang'an, then Chang'an will be recovered by the deputy marshal sooner or later." Xu Yuan nodded and praised, although Suiyang City is small, it is also related to the situation of the whole world, if there is no obstruction of this city, whether Yin Ziqi attacks Jianghuai in the east or returns to the west to support the newly enthroned An Qingxu, the situation in the whole world will be irretrievably eroded.

"When we entered and exited the city, there were more than 6,800 good men in our army, but now there are less than half of them left, and there is no food, grass and arrows, but I hate that the imperial historian Helan Jinming and Pengcheng Xu Shuji and Shang Heng of the garrison in Linhuai are all watching from the wall, and they dare not come to the rescue!" Speaking of this, Zhang Xun's eyes were about to burst, his eyes were about to drip blood, if it weren't for them and Li Ju, the former envoy of Henan Jiedu, who didn't dare to rescue, how could the situation fall into such a situation?

There is a vicious and abnormal army of traitors on the opposite side, and behind them are pig teammates who are hesitating, Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan's situation can be described as difficult and abnormal, if it weren't for Zhang Xun winning the hearts of the people of Suiyang, the army and the people tried their best to resist the whole process, plus Xu Yuan refused Li Ju's order to let them transfer food from the city to support Puyang and Jiyang, Suiyang City may have fallen long ago.

It's just that now that the food and grass in the city are exhausted, and there are no arrows, even if they still have the courage to kill the enemy, how can this city continue to be defended? Xu Yuan also had tears in his eyes, "The people in the city have now begun to dig rats and birds, looking for rats and birds to eat, and even some people are easy to eat, as a Suiyang Taishou, I can't let the people's lives be stable, and drag them into a desperate situation, Xu is really ashamed of the people of Suiyang!" ”

"However, the people in the city still have the same heart!" Zhang Xun suddenly raised his voice, "The matter of the five nonsense chaos is not far away, if these thieves are allowed to invade Suiyang, I don't know how many Han people will become two-legged sheep in the mouths of these barbarians, and spare the fire ......."

"If it weren't for the two adults, how could Suiyang City be spared? Rather than being killed by the rebels at home, it is better to fight to the death with them. The man carrying the bricks and stones behind him suddenly interjected, and when he heard this, the soldiers and civilians on the city wall were all silent.

"The people's hearts are still on my side, but how can we fight without food and reinforcements?" Looking at these skinny people, but their eyes were still firm, Xu Yuan's heart was full of excitement, he, Zhang Xun and the generals were already ready to die for the country, but they took pity on these people.

"Now I can only wait for Nanba to come back." Zhang Xun looked in the direction of Linhuai from afar, a few days ago his general Nan Jiyun led thirty elite cavalry to break through the encirclement, went to Linhuai to ask for help from Helan Jinming, if he can bring back reinforcements and food, then this battle is still possible, if not, then the only way to die is to die for the country. (To be continued.) )