The Hexi army did not attack for a long time, but Guo Yingyi's face at the head of the city became more and more gloomy, all the five hundred soldiers under his command were guarding the north city gate, and the three city gates in the east, west and south were handed over to the county commander and the people he organized.

He immediately gathered his cronies together and selected three captains to control the three city gates, how could such a confidential place be controlled by those foolish people.

This is not the most important thing, the Xia Yang County Commander has more than 500 county soldiers in his hands, so he has to be careful. He handed over his handprint to his cronies and asked him to invite the county order to the north city wall together, which is called advancing and retreating together.

The cronies took five or six athletes to the southern city wall, and because they were on guard, their faces also looked very problematic. The county soldiers held shields to protect the county order, and seemed to have guessed from their expressions.

The county commander pretended to be calm and asked, "The enemy army is about to attack the city, what is the important thing that General Guo sent you here?" ”

When the cronies saw the attitude of the county commander, they thought that this person had already had the intention of surrendering to the enemy, so they became more and more unpleasant, and said with a hard expression: "The main direction of the enemy's attack must be the North Gate, and the general of my family specially invited the Ming Mansion to fight side by side with him in the North City Tower. ”

The county commander smiled embarrassedly but respectfully: "I already know, please go back and inform General Guo, I will go over as soon as I settle the city wall defense." ”

Guo Yingyi's cronies naturally refused to believe him, and said coldly with a stinky face: "Since the Ming Mansion has been settled, we will wait for you here." ”

The other party slapped his hand at him astringently, turned around with a smile on his face, and walked with the two county lieutenants to the west side of the city wall, and discussed the current situation behind their backs.

"Mingfu, the traitors who besieged the city are heinous, but this General Guo is not a good person, and now the number of rebels under the city is ten times as many as ours, and you and I both know about this broken city wall, and we can't hold it at all. He just wanted to drag the people of our county to be buried with him. Mingfu, think about it, even if we can defend the county seat, the credit is theirs, even if he has the conscience to repay our merits, it is just a reward of some money and an official rank. But once the city is broken, these Tang troops will fight for them and their families, and we will take the lives of the old and young in the county, and please Mingfu Mingjian. ”

The county order was still hesitating, obviously his heart had been shaken, and the two county lieutenants stepped up their persuasion from the side: "Mingfu, this General Guo doesn't believe in us at all, he sent someone to invite you to go to the north gate to die with him, don't you doubt that Mingfu will surrender and sacrifice the city?" He doesn't believe in us, how can such a person be worthy of our trust, no matter whether we win or lose today, we are a chess piece in his hands. Even if you don't think about the people, you have to think about your wife and children at home. ”

They are right, the whole family of the county order is in Xiayang County, how can he think about it for them when he made the decision to stick to the city, and now he feels a chill down his spine when he thinks about it.

The county commander clapped his hands worriedly and said, "But Guo Yingyi's people are right in front of me, if I don't go with them, I won't be able to pass this pass now." ”

The county lieutenant looked back at Guo Yingyi's cronies who were guarding in the distance, bowed down and lowered his voice and said: "They are only five or six people, and the county soldiers in the hands of the Ming Mansion have five hundred, rather than being tied up by him to send them to death, it is better to immediately pull out the flag and throw down the city wall, and then kill these people to seize the city gate and welcome the Hexi army into the city." ”

"Okay," the county commander had just gritted his teeth and made a decision, and the county lieutenant had already walked impatiently to the battlements of the city tower, pulled up the banner and threw it down the city, and shouted below: "We surrender!" ”

The cronies in the distance were dumbfounded: "Rebellious ministers and thieves, you dare to wait!" ”

He pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist with a bang, and rushed towards the direction of the county order, and the two county lieutenants also encouraged the county soldiers under their hands to shout: "If you want to live, kill these people!" Rush down and open the gates. ”

The county lieutenant shouted out the soldiers' desire to survive, what loyalty, what is good and wrong, that is only something that the big people in the temple have to consider, all they think about is to live.

The force of the pro-soldier brigade commander of the dignified military envoy was naturally not the same as that of the county soldiers, and he swung a horizontal knife and chopped off the heads of three or four county soldiers, so that the rest of the people did not dare to step forward. The county lieutenant hurriedly ordered the people to set up shields and spears, surrounded them in groups, and ordered the rest of the people to run to the city gate and open the city gate.

The cronies were in a hurry, and while rushing towards the county order in a hurry, they scolded angrily: "You rebels and thieves! Betrayal of the court should be killed! ”

The county commander didn't care about any decency at this time, and saw the Hexi army stepping towards the city wall, and hurriedly led a group of county soldiers to escape from the city wall from the other side, and shouted to the nearby people: "Go and open the city gate, don't miss Qingqing's life!" ”

The people already had a direction in their hearts, and they rushed towards the city gate in a swarm. The soldiers sent by Guo Yingyi to the city gate put the horizontal knife in their hands, and their faces turned pale and threatened: "But if you dare to storm the city gate, you will not be killed!" ”

The county commander relied on the large number of people, and his courage instantly became thicker, and he raised his knife in his hand and shouted: "Guo Yingyi is a eunuch henchman, don't follow him to death, open the city gate and live!" “

With the encouragement of the county order, these people became even more emboldened, brandishing spears, hoes and other weapons and rushing towards them, and after a few screams, drowning them into the crowd.

The city gates of Xiayang County opened with a heavy creaking, and the Hexi army entered the county seat without a single soldier.

On the north city gate, General Guo Yingyi looked back at the south of the city in despair, and his own soldiers gathered in front of him and knelt on the ground and crossed their hands to persuade: "General Guo, while the Hexi Army has just entered the city, we will escort you out of the city." ”

Guo Yingyi said in a mournful voice: "The Hexi Army attacked from the four gates, where can it escape, my Guo family has been favored by the emperor for generations, and it is the time to repay the country with his life." You will follow me for many days, and one day you will be scattered, and if you want to live, take the opportunity to leave quickly. ”

Some of the soldiers squeezed out tears in their eyes and bowed down to Guo Yingyi, and then crossed their hands and waved away with tears, leaving only sixty or seventy people to stick to the city wall with him, clustered around like living sculptures, each holding a knife and a gun and staring wide.

Bai Xiaode rode a war horse to the city wall of Xiayang, put up a pergola and looked up at the city wall, and saw the stubborn Guo Yingyi standing on the head of the city righteously, and the corners of his mouth were filled with a slight sneer.

He raised his silver spear and shouted at Guo Yingyi: "General Guo, my lord admires you very much, now that the general is in a predicament, my lord is a corporal of Lixian, why don't the general put down his body and return to the lord with me, and in the future, he will be crowned a wife and a son, and he will definitely get more wealth than now." ”

Guo Yingyi raised his knife in his hand and let out a roar like a black bear: "I am the queen of the Guo clan of Shazhou, and I have been blessed by the emperor in the world, thanks to the teachings of my ancestors, how can a barbarian like you know that there is only death today, and I will never surrender on my knees!" ”

Bai Xiaode is a brave man, naturally he doesn't have so much patience to persuade Guo Yingyi to surrender, seeing that he is so ignorant, he immediately waved his hand and called a team of crossbowmen, aimed at the city and shot over. Guo Yingyi's guards swung their blades and slammed the arrows, but more crossbow arrows pierced through the gaps in their swords and spears, piercing through their armor.

Guo Yingyi's armor was particularly strong, and the arrows of the crossbow pierced him like a hedgehog, and finally knelt on the ground with a knife in one hand, and the Hexi army set up a spear with a shield and stabbed them to death one by one in a pool of blood.

In the afternoon, Li Siye led the Chinese army of the Hexi Army into the county seat of Xiayang, he watched Bai Xiaode present Guo Yingyi's severed head, and couldn't help but say regretfully: "Although Guo Yingyi has no great talent, if he can return to our army, he will definitely be able to attract more Tang army generals to vote willingly." ”