Half a year has passed since the last siege, and the grain and grass are said to have run out. It's just that because there is no enemy army attacking the city, some dry food on them has survived until now.

And today happens to be Zhao Yulong's twenty-fifth birthday, according to the old tradition of the Emperor Tongtian, this should be a very important day that needs to be celebrated. Even after Zhao Yulong ascended the throne, he did not modify this tradition.

It's just that looking at the situation in the city today, Zhao Yulong really can't think of the word celebration anymore. These days are as uncomfortable as a trapped beast in a cage, looking at the already scarce food in the ring, Zhao Yulong knows that it will not last for a few days.

Now standing on the city wall, those enemies have never come to attack the city since they found out that Zhao Yulong would search for dry food on the deceased, and now they simply want to trap Zhao Yulong and them alive in this city.

Looking at the empty flat land, it made Zhao Yulong feel a little sad in his heart. Now he let out a long sigh, and happened to be seen by Yang Zheng.

"Why does Brother Long sigh like this? There are still 40,000 people in the city, and if the enemy army kills us, we can resist it for a while, but we are not afraid of them!"

"Forty thousand, yes! Fifty thousand came out, and now there are only forty thousand left. Although the walls are strong, we don't have much rations or ammunition! Besides, do you know what the most important thing is?"

"What?" To be honest, Yang Zheng really couldn't think of anything more terrible than running out of ammunition.

"We have been cut off from the outside world, and these days I have been using telephony to try to contact Huyun and get them to bring troops to support us. But guess what?"

"What's wrong?" Yang Zheng twisted his head.

"The soul power is like being cut off by someone, the sound transmission technique can't transmit the sound at all, these days, we haven't had any help, and we don't know what happened to the other side of the country!"

"What should we do now?" said Yang Zheng struck the city wall with his hand and gritted his teeth.

Zhao Yulong didn't show too much, just looked at Yang Zheng indifferently: "Are you afraid of death?"

"Don't be afraid! With Brother Long here, why should I be afraid of death! As long as Brother Long, you give an order, I, Yang Zheng, am willing to die for you!" Saying that, Yang Zheng reported a punch to Zhao Yulong.

"Okay! very good!" Zhao Yulong suddenly laughed as he said it: "Since the city has run out of food, Hengzhi is also dead." I think we might as well take a gamble, maybe this is the last way out!"

"How to bet?" Knowing Zhao Yulong's style of speaking, Yang Zheng naturally knew that Zhao Yulong would not easily say the word betting. And now that it's been said, it's clear that this matter is definitely not simple.

"You go down and inform the whole army to reorganize, and prepare to break through tonight!" Zhao Yulong said and looked at the sky, it was noon now, and there was still some hours before the night.

"Breakthrough?" To be honest, Yang Zheng had also thought of this word, but what he didn't expect was that he would actually say it from Zhao Yulong's mouth. Just looking at Zhao Yulong's determined eyes, Yang Zheng knew that he must have made a lot of determination!

"Yes, there is only one way now! Go down and tell me! There are three legions on the east and west, and four on the north, and according to his eleven legions, there should be only one in the north, and we will break through from the north tonight. ”

"Yes!" is the so-called military order like a mountain, and now that Zhao Yulong has given the order, Yang Zheng did not slack off, but hurriedly ran down the city wall.

In the evening, it was a summer night. The crickets are pleasant, but the army is full of rough men, and no one will appreciate their singing, and no one will have time to appreciate their singing.

Now this team has a very important thing to do, and this one thing can determine the life and death of all of them. Therefore, no one in the middle dared to make a little mistake, and even if the footsteps drowned out the song of the crickets, it was absolutely not allowed, because it would be heard by the enemy.

The darkness of the night was indeed a good camouflage, and now the soldiers of the entire army were dressed in black. If it weren't for the light of the moon, it would be really difficult to see such a huge team.

At this time, there were two orthodox leaders at the front of the team, and these two people were Zhao Yulong and Yang Zheng.

At this time, Yang Zhengzheng whispered: "Brother Long, as you expected, there is only one military camp, and there should be only one legion, should we do it?"

"Go around and go so that you don't alarm them. Even a legion has hundreds of thousands of people, and we are only 40,000 and are no match for them. Even if you can win narrowly, you may not survive. Because of the time of the battle, there was enough time for other legions to rush to support. ”

"Understood!" After speaking, Yang Zheng whispered to the troops behind him: "The whole army listens to the order, let's take a detour!"

The sound was small, but it could be heard in the quiet of the night. Therefore, these soldiers also understood the general situation, and now the whole team followed the steps of Zhao Yulong and Yang Zheng to bypass here.

By this time, he had already walked some distance, and he estimated that he had almost completely bypassed the barracks. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and now Yang Zheng shook the beads of sweat on his head: "Finally left here, it seems that we can return to China as long as we walk through some places carefully!"

Compared with Yang Zheng, Zhao Yulong still has a serious face, as if the crisis has not yet been contacted. He looked around at first, then looked down and thought, "Isn't it too quiet here?"

"Oh no!" Suddenly, Zhao Yulong's voice suddenly became louder: "The whole army listens to orders, prepares for battle, and pays attention to possible enemies in all directions!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a large number of soldiers surrounding this place from all sides. There were a few two people out of this group of soldiers, and one of them, Zhao Yulong, had a rough impression that he was the scholar of the dark knife.

"The tenth prince had long expected that you might abandon the city and flee in the next few days, so he asked me to wait again, but I didn't expect to wait for you on the first day. Now that there is no protection from the city wall, how can your 40,000 troops oppose our 900,000 army?"

Hearing the dark knife scholar mention the Ten Princes, Zhao Yulong also felt a great shock in his heart. This ten sons, Zhao Yulong, knows it, and he is also one of the commanders of the legion.

He was relatively young, only thirty-five or sixteen, and he was the tenth oldest among the commanders. Because he usually likes to sing poems and paint, he is called the Ten Sons.

But these are not what Zhao Yulong cares about, what he really cares about is that these ten sons are known as military talents. He is the most proficient person in the entire Cloud Suppression Empire, and his strength is also the strongest among all the legion commanders, and it is said that he has reached the fifth level of the Warrior Soul Realm.

And Zhao Yulong is only the seventh level of the Soldier Soul Realm, and he only broke through the day before, such a gap in strength and the strategy of using soldiers, so that Zhao Yulong understands what it means to have people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky.

It's just that according to Zhao Yulong's original conjecture, this Cloud Suppression Empire just sent eleven legions at random, but he didn't expect that they even sent ten princes, this really wanted to cut off Zhao Yulong's retreat!

However, Zhao Yulong is not the kind of person who sits still and waits to be killed, but seeing such a scene now did not make him panic: "You want to kill me, so many people are indeed enough." Just if you catch me!"

Hearing this, the Dark Knife scholar smiled: "Don't you think you can still escape from this encirclement?"

"Exactly!" Zhao Yulong said and smiled at him, and then shouted to the entire team: "The whole army obeys the order to attack the north side, canal water formation!"

This canal water formation, to put it succinctly and clearly, is to let the army flow towards the gap like the water in the field. Therefore, the consciousness of putting it on the battlefield now is to see that the troops there are weak, so they will kill there, which can not only save a lot of time, but also reduce a lot of casualties, which is one of the few formations that Zhao Yulong learned on "Sitting on the World".

Now that I think about it, Zhao Yulong still regrets a little, why didn't he learn more formations in the first place. If you learn more, you won't end up where you are now.

You must know that Emperor Wu defeated the demon clan's army of five million with only 3,000 elite soldiers, and killed the Demon Emperor by cutting the land and paying compensation. And now that these armies in front of him, which are only vassal states of the demon clan, can force themselves to such a point, and now Zhao Yulong can be regarded as realizing how big the gap between himself and Emperor Wu is.

If it is "Sitting on the World", you can still learn a little bit on your body, but it is a pity that there are so many ifs and the like in this world.

Since this is already the case, there is only one way to accept fate. However, this is not difficult for Zhao Yulong, although he has not learned many formations, but Zhao Yulong has learned well.

Therefore, even if it is only this canal formation now, it is much better than those who know a lot of formations but can't use it.

Now he is leading this army to attack the weak enemy army in the north, although he has only 40,000 soldiers on his side. But these days, they enjoy the hardships of coarse grain and light food in the city, and they have long regarded life and death very lightly.

Therefore, it is not fatal to kill now, and it is not much different from a hungry beast. Such a state naturally frightened the enemy army a little, and now seeing them killed, they subconsciously retreated.

But it was quickly made up, but after all, it was still too slow, and in just that moment, some soldiers had already killed them.

Although they still trapped most of the soldiers, those soldiers were not afraid of death, and they still rushed directly towards them. Now they have nothing in their hearts, only one sentence, death to those who stand in my way!

Therefore, in the face of those enemy troops who are constantly replenishing, the hearts of these soldiers are calm and even a little excited. They enjoyed the last moments of their lives, and they knew that their chances of surviving were slim, but even if they died, they had to take one with them, so that the chances of the remaining comrades surviving would at least be much greater.

After some fighting, Zhao Yulong and Yang Zheng had already led a small number of men and horses to kill, looking at the soldiers who were still fighting behind them, Zhao Yulong didn't know what to say at this time, so he had to sigh: "They are all good, they are all warriors of the empire!

After saying that, he quickly ran towards the north without stopping for the slightest. Although the death of these warriors made Zhao Yulong's heart very uncomfortable, at the same time, he also knew that they were doing this so that he could leave here alive, return to the empire, and reorganize his forces to avenge them.

If they hesitate and refuse to leave because of this feeling, wouldn't their sacrifice be meaningless?

Therefore, the more uncomfortable he felt now, the faster Zhao Yulong's horsewhip was wielded, and the faster the small group of soldiers behind him followed.

But Zhao Yulong finally stopped, because there was no road in front of him! There was a cliff in front, and although there was a small path on it, only pedestrians could pass through it, and horses could not walk through it.

The path, made of wooden pillars and planks, can only be walked by a few people at a time, and if there are too many people, it will definitely collapse.

Therefore, looking at such a trail, Zhao Yulong dismounted with some anger: "Heaven will kill me!" After speaking, he actually planned to pull out his sword.

"Brother Long, calm down! Although this road is small, it can still pass people. Although there are not many people who pass at one time, but one by one, I think thousands of us can still pass it. Seeing this, Yang Zheng hurriedly pressed Zhao Yulong's saber back.

In this way, Zhao Yulong calmed down: "It's true, I'm impulsive." The lives of those soldiers, my heart is really uncomfortable, since this is the case, then you go first!"

"No, Brother Long, you go first, you are the king and I am the minister, and the minister should let the king. So Brother Long, you should go over first, don't fight now, the enemy army is about to catch up!"

"You go up first, it's an order. You are just a magician, you can't deal with them at all, only I am in the Soldier Soul Realm, and I can compete with those army commanders!" Seeing that Yang Zheng wanted to let him go first, Zhao Yulong naturally knew what he was thinking.

But Yang Zheng, who listened to Zhao Yulong's arrangement, was extremely tough at this time: "Listen to Brother Long, you are the emperor and the hope of the entire empire, you are different from me, you decide the fate of the entire empire, as well as the fate of the entire continent." And I'm different, originally just a nameless junior, if it weren't for knowing you, I wouldn't have seen such a wonderful world at all, and I wouldn't have known Xiangyu. I loved her so much that I told her that I was stupid and didn't know how to name my child. So both children are called U, the boy is Wu, and the girl is Wu. Tell Xiangyu, I'm sorry for her, I'm not a good husband, I hope she won't teach her children to learn from me in the future, now Brother Long, you go first!"

"I won't go, since you call me Brother Long, we are brothers for life, if you want to give up your brother, I Zhao Yulong can't do it! Even if the world doesn't want it! I can't live on my brother's death!"

"Brother Kerui, what about Huyun and them, aren't they also your brothers!" Yang Zheng looked at the army that was slowly approaching in the distance, and became anxious: "You are our center, if you die, we all have to die." I am a chariot, it doesn't matter if I die, but you are handsome, you must not die, as soon as you die, the whole game of chess will be lost!"

Saying that, Yang Zheng took advantage of Zhao Yulong's inattention to take out a packet of powder from the ring and blew it towards Zhao Yulong: "This is the tranquilizer you prescribed to Xiangyu when she was pregnant with a child and couldn't sleep, saying that no matter how good a person is, he can sleep peacefully." So Brother Long, I'm sorry, I hope you don't resent me! I just don't want you to die!"

"You!" inhaling the powder, Zhao Yulong's mind was already a little dizzy at this time, and now he dared to be weak for a while, but fortunately, there was a soldier to support him, so he didn't fall.

So Yang Zheng said to the soldier: "You quickly take the emperor to escape from here, and the others will follow me to guard here, and you will definitely not let a person walk through here." Remember for me, even if you die, you must pour me forward!"

"Obey!" Although the soldier who was supporting Zhao Yulong didn't know why Yang Zheng chose him, since it was a military order at this time, and Zhao Yulong's life was very important, he didn't disobey.

However, in fact, he wanted to stay here and fight with his comrades rather than flee with the emperor. But it is estimated that all the soldiers present think the same way, so everyone is the same.

As for Yang Zheng, he has to stay anyway. Because anyone with a discerning eye can see that the two strongest people in this team are Zhao Yulong and Yang Zheng.

Zhao Yulong must survive, but there must be a strong man to delay time. Therefore, Yang Zheng must stay, but now there are no regrets for him, but it is inevitable that he will feel heartache if he misses something.

Now I saw that those legions had come up, and all the black oppression was full of people, and I didn't know how many legions came. But at least these thousands of people are absolutely unstoppable, but Yang Zheng didn't want to stop them.

He just wanted to delay some time for Zhao Yulong to escape, and the longer this time was delayed, the greater the chance that Zhao Yulong would survive.

Therefore, when he looked at this black oppressive army at this time, his heart was not only not afraid, but also a kind of relief, that is, he said: "The whole army obeys the order, the warriors form a square table battle formation in front, and the mages, archers, and doctors are deployed behind." This time, we don't want to kill many enemies, we just want to delay the emperor's escape from here for a little more time, understand?"

"Understood!" Although there were only a few thousand people now, the shouts were still strong, and now they looked a little majestic on top of this cliff. This frightened the soldiers below from stepping forward, but they rushed towards it anyway at the order of the commander.

To say that these soldiers are tenacious, thousands of people have stubbornly blocked these hundreds of thousands of troops for several hours. Now that it is dawn, only Yang Zheng is left scarred and still standing on the entire land acquisition.

Almost all the enemy troops surrounded him, fearing that he would escape.

At this time, Yang Zheng didn't care about these enemies, but looked at the path after his death, estimating that Zhao Yulong was now awake, and he didn't know where he had fled, so he turned around.

When the legion commanders saw this, they thought he wanted to escape, so they hurriedly said, "Surround him!

As soon as the words fell, the dart of the dark knife scholar flew towards Yang Zheng.

It's just that Yang Zheng didn't want to run away, but saw that he condensed the last bit of spiritual power in his body on the broken magic circle, and a fist-sized flame was rising above it.

At this time, the dart had pierced his back, Yang Zheng endured the severe pain and hit the fireball on the path, watching the flames gradually ignite, he laughed and fell to the ground.

He still muttered: "Brother Long, as a brother, I can only help you get here in the end, you must survive." You are our hope, and you are also the hope of the entire continent! As for Xiangyu, I still failed you after all, I only hope that you will not meet a man like me in the next life, I am not worthy of your love! And those two children, it's a pity, your father is not a good man, so that you will never see each other, what a bad ......"

Before the word "egg" could be spoken, Yang Zheng fell to the ground, and the magic circle, which was already somewhat broken, broke into several pieces after a crisp landing sound, and fell down the cliff.

At this time, although Yang Zheng had lost all consciousness, there was still a trace of a smile on his mouth, and the blood continued to flow outward along his smiling face.

(End of chapter)