September 20, frost falls, in previous years, Jincheng will hold a chrysanthemum poetry wine party today, the sages are finished, the talented and beautiful people are salty, drinking and enjoying the flowers together.

In this year's Jincheng, the army was overwhelmed and the dark clouds were thick, especially when the people in the city learned that the besiegers were slaughtering Chen Daoluo, boundless fear and despair began to spread throughout the city.

Chen Daoluo, who had just received Emperor Chen's secret decree, changed his plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements, Huo Ran ordered the siege of the city, and released a heavy reward of "those who kill the king and the boyo will be promoted to three levels and given a hundred taels of gold".

Nearly 250,000 well-equipped, imposing troops launched a fierce attack on the small city of less than 20,000 defenders, the result is conceivable, just one day down, Jincheng has a crumbling trend, the morale of the city was mobilized by Wang Boyo once again sharply down, too shou Ma Chengzhong even had the idea of abandoning the city.

"If you are so law-abiding, you will break the city in less than three days, and when the time comes, the Jincheng soldiers will be wiped out, and the people of Jincheng will also be difficult to stay. ”

Wang Boyo led the army to defend the city for a day, and saw that Chen's troops were strong, and Chen Daoluo's ability to command the troops was very different from Ke Yan, and the Chen soldiers under the city were overwhelming, the battle was strictly organized, and the banners were clearly arranged, connected to each other like iron buckets, without any flaws.

Wang Boyo knows better than Ma Chengzhong the difficulty of defending the city, and also knows the outcome of this confrontation, although he thinks that he is a heroic young man, his talent can not be fully displayed, and he cannot lead the army to fight with the demons, he will inevitably regret it, but thinking of himself as a general, he can die on the battlefield, and he can finally get his place, thinking of this, his spirit is reinvigorated, his eyes are bright, he looks at Ma Chengzhong, and says awe-inspiringly: " The eldest husband has something to do and something not to do, at this moment, let me abandon the people of the city, it will be difficult for the general to obey his fate, and as long as my Jincheng army and people work together, it will not be difficult to hold for another ten days, and the court will send a large army to help at that time!"

Ma Chengzhong's expression moved when he heard this, and asked, "Will the imperial court send reinforcements?"

Wang Boyu said: "Chen Daoluo suddenly raised troops to attack the city, I secretly speculated that it should be Taifu's attack plan that began to play a role, Emperor Chen felt the pressure of various countries, and gave Chen Daoluo an order to attack the city. However, my lord can imagine that once Chen Daoluo attacked the city, he would have given up the idea of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and His Majesty and Taifu would inevitably send troops to help when they saw this scene. ”

Ma Chengzhong secretly groaned and said, "Don't deceive me. ”

Wang Boyu said solemnly: "If you don't believe in the last general, don't you still believe in Your Majesty!"

Ma Chengzhong hurriedly said: "This official naturally believes in Your Majesty, okay, then according to what Boyo said, I will keep it for another ten days." ”

Wang Boyu saw that Ma Chengzhong agreed like this, but he was a little weak-hearted, if this war with Chen Guo was presided over by His Majesty and the princess, he was sure that reinforcements would come, but in this confrontation with Chen Guo, the shadow of Chen Taifu could be seen everywhere, so he was not sure about the direction of the battle, although he had read the poetry of that Taifu, but he did not understand the character of the deep Chen people in the city, and at this moment, in the face of the absolute difference in strength between Chen and Liang, any such strategies were useless.

By the 25th of September, Jincheng showed signs of not being able to support it, and the fierceness of the battle exceeded everyone's expectations, with corpses strewn all over the city, the walls covered with blood, and wisps of smoke that added to the desolation of the battlefield.

Jincheng had less than 8,000 troops available at this time, and it was impossible to persist in a five-day decision.

"Collect troops today, and break the city tomorrow!"

Chen Daoluo rode a horse to view the city, raised his horsewhip and pointed at the head of Jincheng City.

Ke Yan on the side asked, "I don't know when the reinforcements of the Liang State will arrive?"

Chen Daoluo said contemptuously: "The marshal of the three passes has set up ambushes, and the marshal is not afraid of him coming, but he is afraid that Emperor Liang Lao'er and Chen Ren's children will be afraid and will not come." ”

Chen Daoluo then collected his troops and returned to the village to recuperate.

At midnight, suddenly the horn of the four fields sounded loudly, and then the sky shouted loudly, shaking through the vast autumn night.

On Jincheng, the Liang soldiers thought that the Chen soldiers were attacking the city, and the people were panicked, and the Chen soldiers thought that the Liang soldiers robbed the village, and quickly assembled to meet the battle, and Ke Yan ran to the Chen Daoluo camp tent to ask for instructions, but the guards outside the tent said: "The marshal has ordered, no one is allowed to disturb the marshal's rest in any battle situation, the general please rest assured, the Liang soldiers are just stubborn resistance, dying and struggling, not to be afraid." ”

Ke Yan was also frightened by Wang Boyo, and at this moment, seeing that Chen Shuai was calm, he was infected, and said with a smile: "Chen Shuai's wind, the end will not be as good as far away, then I will not disturb the marshal's sleep, let me go and capture the robbers first." ”

Ke Yan led his own soldiers out of the camp and personally greeted the enemy, but the sound of the horn and shouts stopped abruptly, and there were no invincible soldiers everywhere, which was extremely strange.

Ke Yan stationed his horse and looked around, it was as dark as ink in the distance, and there was no trace of fire, so he immediately smiled and said: "It must be the Liang soldiers in Jincheng who confuse the enemy with the sound of horns and disturb the rest of our army, just ignore him." ”

After saying this, he then whispered to the general beside him: "With the soldiers extinguishing the torches and waiting for themselves, Wang Boyo is the best at robbing the village, and confusing our army with this false and real plan, and when our army relaxes its vigilance, he will raise troops to attack." ”

The adjutant general should be "yes" and make his own arrangements.

Ke Yan patted his horse back to the camp, and before he got off the horse, the sound of horns and shouts started again, and Ke Yan smiled: "Sure enough, it is not what I expected." ”

The horn sounded for a moment, then suddenly lowered its tone, became whimpering, and the cry also became loud and mournful, as if full of resentment and unwillingness, sounding in the middle of the night, which was creepy.

The Chen soldiers around the ambush camp all listened to the melancholy, they fought all the way to the present, almost every one of them had other people's blood on their hands, especially when they were slaughtering the city, they didn't know how many innocent lives they had slaughtered, listening to such a gloomy horn and a life-seeking ghost crying, they only felt their scalps tingle.

The sound of trumpets and shouts also continued intermittently throughout the night, but there was no figure of half of the Liang soldiers from beginning to end, as if the voice did not come from the Liang soldiers in Jincheng at all.

Finally waited until the next day, and suddenly there was a heavy fog under Jincheng, and streams of smoke and dust from nowhere covered the clouds and the sun, and it was indescribably weird and gloomy.

Chen Daoluo, who was dressed in Xuanjia, looked at the fog in front of him, and was about to make a mockery, when he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Coffin!"

Chen Daoluo patted his horse and stepped forward to watch, and sure enough, there were coffins everywhere in the smoke, and there were coffin paper bearers standing at the four corners of the coffin.

Chen Daoluo smiled and said: "This is Wang Boyo's trick to confuse people, it is not worth it, you must strictly obey the order, and you will make meritorious service with your guilt, and lead three thousand troops to break this formation." ”

As soon as Ke Yan heard the "guilty meritorious service", he had doubts in his heart, and he no longer hesitated, and immediately led the army out, straight to the coffin array, the smoke suddenly became thick, and the Ke Yan army was submerged in an instant, a burst of murderous aura rose to the sky, the sound of swords and drums suddenly broke out in the array, and the sound of killing was loud for a while.

After a while, the fog thinned, and the corner of the coffin flickered again.

Chen Daoluo stared ahead, pondered for a long time, and suddenly said: "Is it Yang Xuanmou who has arrived?" and suddenly turned to a pro-soldier and said: "Quickly go to Shuangjinkou to recall General Sun Fangda." ”

Sun Fangda was ambushing at Shuangjinkou to intercept and kill the reinforcements of Liang State, but Chen Daoluo recognized the Yin Evil Array, thinking that it was Yang Xuanmou, the prime minister of Jiang State, who was proficient in the Xuanmen Strange Array, and his mind was turning, so he thought that this time to cut Liang may also be a plan of Liang Jiang, and the two countries set up this killing game, perhaps to take their own lives.

Chen Daoluo has killed countless people in his life, so what he cherishes most in his life is his own life, if it is really Yang Xuanmou, who has unpredictable methods, he is really not sure of winning.

After a while, the soldiers returned and said, "General Sun is rushing back." ”

Chen Daoluo heard that Sun Fangda was unhindered, and his heart was a little relieved, knowing that the person who came was not Yang Xuanmou, and his fear of the Yin Evil Array disappeared, and he immediately ordered: "Order the three armies to light torches and attack the city with the commander!"

At one time, tens of thousands of torches were raised at the same time, dispersing the yin qi, and the fog gradually dispersed, Chen Bing saw clearly that the coffins were crisscrossed in front of him, and dozens of flagpoles were scattered in the coffin array, and strange runes were painted on the flags, waving in the wind.

Chen Daoluo naturally knew that it was the yin array formed by these coffins and the runes on the flagpole that had accumulated the yin qi under Jincheng City for several days into a mist in the sky, but the skill of the person who placed the formation was still a long distance away from Yang Xuanmou, and the power of the formation was naturally unable to match Yang Xuanmou's courage of "a hundred thousand soldiers in a row".

Even so, Chen Bing's eyes were full of coffins, and he felt terrible, Chen Daoluo claimed to be a god of killing, and he was not afraid of ghosts and gods, but ordinary soldiers did not have this kind of courage, they were superstitious, and they were afraid.

Chen Bing's vanguard was moving forward, suddenly the horn sounded, the drum sounded loudly, and thousands of coffins suddenly opened the top cover, and a person in white stood up inside one by one, the man in white had a pale face, holding a long knife with a strange shape, jumped out of the coffin, and met Chen Jun.

Chen's army had never fought, and his heart was half cowardly, and the vanguard troops were invincible.

Seeing this, Chen Dao rushed forward, brandished the cloud-cutting knife in his hand and slashed several people in a row, and said loudly: "The enemy pretends to be a ghost, and the three armies will kill the enemy with me!"

This roar came out with the command of the martial arts, shaking the heavens and the earth, Chen Jun saw the marshal's might, morale soared, swarmed up, rushed to kill the white-clothed soldiers, at this time, the left and right sides suddenly killed an army, but it was Shi Dangguan, He Zhongxing, Xiang Qi led the army to kill, Jincheng City Head Liang soldiers saw the two generals' flags, surprised, shouted: "Reinforcements have arrived!"

Shi Dangguan, He Zhongxing and the two Fan Mansion worshippers who came with the army together met Chen Daoluo, and Xiang raised his spear and fought with a Chen general.

In the Liang army, Yang Qice was in command, and that day Shi Dangguan led his troops to Songyue secretly to set up defenses, and after Yang Qice and Xiang Qi said goodbye to Jiang Zhong, they also went to Songyue with the army.

Last night's horn, ghost cry and yin evil array were all from his handwriting, as for the three-way ambush set up by Chen Daoluo, except for Sun Fangda in Shuangjinkou, the other two roads were all designed by Yang Qice and carried out a counter-ambush, so Shi Dangguan and He Zhongxing were able to appear under Jincheng City in time.

Yang Qice's Art of War Formation is all inherited from his father, and he is extremely talented, so that Chen Daoluo only had that kind of misunderstanding when he first saw the Yin Evil Formation.

The only regret is that the Yin Evil Array set up by painstaking solitude only earned one partial general, and failed to cause the slightest damage to Chen Daoluo.

Outside the city, Chen Liang's two armies fought bloodily under the city, Ma Chengzhong, Wang Boyo and others in the city first went to the city to watch the battle, Ma Chengzhong recognized the Shidangguan banner, and suggested that he immediately go out of the city to face the battle, but Wang Boyao said: "Wait a little longer, Keyan and Sun Fangda are not in the army, I don't know where the ambush is, once I open the city gate, he will lead troops to attack the city." ”

The fighting under the city continued, and about an hour later, Sun Fangda rushed out of nowhere and joined Chen Daoluo's battle circle with one enemy and four enemies, and Chen Bing immediately gained the upper hand.

Wang Boyo didn't know that Ke Yan had been booby-trapped by Yang Qice's yin array, and still stood still, Liang Bing saw that he was weak and could not resist the enemy, Yang Qice in the formation took out the bag that Jiang Zhong gave him before leaving, opened the bag and took out the cloth strip, after reading it, handed it to Yang Jianming, who was entrusted by Jiang Zhong to protect him, and said a few words in his ear, Yang Jianming nodded, and suddenly shouted at the head of the city, "Brother Liang Bing in the city, Chen General Keyan has been killed for our army", and then threw out the cloth strip in his hand, and read aloud: " The black clouds crushed the city and wanted to destroy it, and the armor light opened to the sun. ”

The strip of cloth suddenly swirled in mid-air, and the wind followed it, and when Wang Boyue heard this, he repeated it together: "The black clouds are crushing the city and want to destroy it, and the light of the armor opens to the sun." ”

The soldiers on Jincheng chanted together, the wind blew away the dark clouds and smoke, and the sun rained down ten thousand rays of light, shining on the armor of the Liang soldiers, shining with golden light, making it difficult for Chen Bing to look directly.

"The sound of horns is full of autumn colors, and the swallow fat on the brocade is purple at night. Half a roll of red flags is in the Huai water, and the frost is heavy and the cold is silent. ”

Yang Jianming read it, and the Liang soldiers in the city, led by Wang Boyo, followed it to help boost his momentum.

Liang Bing was helped by the golden light of his literary spirit, and his spirit soared, and he gradually regained his advantage.

"Report the king's intention on the golden platform, and bring the jade dragon to kill the strong enemy. ”

Yang Jianming read the whole poem, suddenly Qingfeng came out of the sheath, the sword qi came, and cut off the heads of several Chen soldiers, and the Jincheng soldiers saw this and became even more imposing, Wang Boyu said: "All the soldiers listen to the order, open the city gate, and kill the enemy with me!"

For a while, the gate of Jincheng was wide open, Wang Boyo, who was dressed in a white robe, led the army to rush out, and the Liang soldiers became more and more brave with the power of war poetry, Chen Bing gradually felt difficult, and after fighting for a while, Chen Daoluo had to temporarily collect his troops and return to the camp.

Shi Dangguan and He Zhongxing also led the army into Jincheng with Wang Boyu.