The news that the king of Hojing ordered the Eighth Division of Cheng Zhou not to send troops for the time being not only reached the E, but also reached the shogunate of the army under the Tonglu Mountain.

Sui Hou's face was pale, and he stood in front of the handsome case like a stone sculpture with a long sword, and waved his hand to Sima of the Chinese army. Sima of the Chinese army stepped out of the hall and shouted: "A hundred steps away from the gate, the shogunate will be banned!"

In a moment, the Chinese army armor guarding outside the shogunate hall opened the gate and set up a spear forest belt a hundred paces away. The big flag at the central gate was flattened and drooping, the two chariots met and closed, and the entrance and exit inside and outside the gate were all closed.

At the same time, all the attendants and military officials in the shogunate also withdrew. In the shogunate hall, there were only the retinue marquis, a group of generals and three high-ranking Simas. Sima of the Chinese army held the command flag on the left and a long sword on the right, and stood solemnly at the stone gate of the hall.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Sui Hou shook the slender bamboo strip in his hand, and scanned the hall with a stern gaze, "The Luoyi spies have sent news that the king of Zhou has passed the word that the king of Zhou has become a camp of Zhou, and this time the king will not send troops. If we want to retake the Copper Green Mountain, we can only rely on ourselves."

As soon as these words came out, it was like a drop of water falling into a hot oil pot, and everyone was both shocked and angry: "Why? I have been guarding Jianghan with the country for nearly 100 years, and I have won the Tonglu Mountain, and I have also been conscientious and conscientious every year to pay countless copper tributes. Now that there is a difficulty, the Zhou royal family does not even recite the meaning of the same surname, and allows it to behave like this, which is chilling!"

Some people also came up with ideas: "It is impossible to expect to become the king of Zhou, for today's plan, it is better to unite the Jianghan Zhuji and send troops together, there is a better chance of victory!" There are also figures and shadows, which means that they can unite the Chu State.

"No, no, no, Chu Manxiang is the enemy of the Zhou family, how can they unite?"

"Zhou Room treats me ruthlessly so far, what do they think?"

Talking and talking, the voices were boiling, and Hou Changjian raised it above his head and made a downward gesture, and the shogunate suddenly fell silent.

"The widow only asks you one thing, are you determined to fight to the death and recapture the Copper Green Mountain?"

"Fight to the death, swear not to take a step back!" The generals roared.

"Good! Now that you've made up your mind, let's talk about tactics." Sui Hou turned and pointed to the map: "The only way at the moment is to do all your best to take the Copper Green Mountain as quickly as possible, and then use its easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack position to defeat the invading army of the Hubei side. Otherwise, if the time is too late, the consequences will be unimaginable."

He thought for a moment, and then wasted no time in adding, "Now it seems that no one else is reliable. Whether it is the Chu State or the Jianghan Zhuji, if you ask them to help, you will win, and it will only be a share with me, intending to get involved in the copper green mountain ear. This battle ------" he smashed his fist at Shuai Zhi: "I deserve it with the army!"

Immediately, Takaoka stared eastward, and although it was summer, Eshizikun's body and mind only felt a chill to the bone. Behind him, more than a hundred pro-army guards were looking for an anthill in the shade of the mountain. It's not that they love to explore the insect world, but because of the lack of rain recently, several streams in Tonglu Mountain have long dried up.

When will the days of being surrounded and trapped end? In recent days, the jaws have been unable to sleep at night. Every time he watched the continuous military lanterns disappear into the hazy twilight in the sparse starlight, and the sound of fighting fell silent in the mournful horn, he was still wandering in the mountains and forests. For more than 20 years, he tasted the helplessness of looking around and being cornered for the first time.

Surrounded by three times the size of the enemy, it is an extravagant hope to break through from any direction, and the only hope is reinforcements. But it's been more than half a month since I and my uncle's joint petition for help was issued, and I still haven't seen a single rider come to help? Could it be that my father really listened to that woman's deception, and decided to make his younger brother Ocon his heir, and deliberately used the hand of Suihou to get rid of me?

For the first time in his life, he had an instinctive sense of creep at the current situation.

"Shizi, Shizi, dug it out, there is spring water!" One of his personal guards didn't have time to wipe the dirt off his face, and excitedly raised a small shovel to report to him.

As soon as he turned his face, before he could answer, he heard a strange sound, as if it was a "sizzling" sound made by the friction of a sharp object against the air. Then, a stream of warm liquid splashed his face, it was blood! Before he could react, the guard, who was still alive and kicking up a moment ago, had already fallen limply to the ground.

"Enemy attack, get down!" He yelled, so

Only then did someone react and quickly lay on the ground.

But he quickly reacted that he was wrong, this was not a sneak attack, but the final onslaught with the army's best efforts! The rain of rockets in the sky was overwhelming, even if he was lying on the ground, he would be hit by an arrow, and he felt that it was dark in front of him, as if something heavy was pressing on him, and he suddenly felt a little out of breath-------

I don't know how long it took, E Kun woke up dizzy, only to feel that he was pressed uncomfortably, turned his neck to look, and suddenly his heart tightened. It turned out that it was his two guards who used their bodies to protect him, so that they escaped the rain of arrows. It was scorched black, and the stench of corpses permeated everywhere, and if it weren't for the proximity of the freshly dug spring where he had fallen, or for the guards to protect him, he would probably not have been spared.

In the valley around the corner, there was a deafening sound of gold and iron clash and shouts of killing, which was that the army had entered the Copper Green Valley and was putting the final touches on the battlefield. E Kun looked at the hundreds of guards who had already died, choked back tears, held up his long sword, and staggered and barely stood up. Just clinging to the rocks of the mountain wall, he stumbled into a general.

"How's the battle going?" E Kun couldn't care if the other party was a deserter, so he grabbed it and asked.

"The Son." The general cried out, "It's so miserable, with all the big arrows and fire oil used by the army, we won't be able to withstand it in less than an hour. The general has been killed in battle, and the general must lead people to escape with the -------

"What did you say? Uncle, how could he -------?"

Before he could finish speaking, the general had staggered and fell, and E Kun realized that there was an arrow stuck in his back, which had penetrated into his chest, and he was bleeding too much, and he was no longer able to support it.

It's over------- Ekun only feels that the sky is spinning, 30,000 comrades, once it's all over, why is this? Why didn't my father send troops? Sitting back and watching the lives of his own brother and his son and child lose their opponents? Why exactly? Is it just for that Yi girl? No, I don't believe it. I'm going to have to ask in person.

He took off his blood-soaked robe, prostrated himself beside the spring, and drank bitterly with his mouth open. The clear spring water moistened his scorching throat, which had been scorched by the smoke and fire, and he felt much more relaxed. Suddenly, he looked at the spring and was stunned—

Who's this? A figure was reflected on the surface of the water, and his face was him, but why had white hair grown on his temples? Oh, my God! He is only in his twenties, and he is in his prime, why is he full of gorgeous hair?

"Heavens—" He raised his head to the sky and let out a long howl, "Are you going to kill my Ekun?"

At the foot of the Copper Green Mountain, the drizzle turns into rain over time. The rain became thicker and thicker, and it became denser and denser, until a vast rain mist formed between the heavens and the earth, making it impossible to see.

And in this chaotic rain and fog, there was a person who was not afraid of being overwhelmed by the heavy rain that was engulfing the heavens and the earth, and was wading high and low in the mud that had been beaten into a swamp by the torrential rain.

This person was disheveled, wearing only short clothes, which were clearly underwear, and the outer robe was nowhere to be seen. The undershirt, which was supposed to be white, was stained with blood and dust in an indescribable color, and soaked with rain, which looked both funny and pathetic. In the midst of the vastness, the patchy white hair on his temples was particularly eye-catching.

Looking back on this whole day, it was really a nightmare after nightmare.

It's just that he led the pro-army guards out of the camp to find a water source, not wanting to catch up with the army's large-scale attack, not only did the pro-army lose their lives, but even his uncle, the battle-hardened general E Jun, was also killed. There are more than 30,000 elite cavalry of Hubei State, but they have to escape alone?

He couldn't figure it out, he was in a siege with his uncle, didn't he know about his father? Why sit idly by?

If he was still full of grief and confusion when he just escaped from the battlefield of Tonglu Mountain, then on the way east, the grief and anger in his heart had turned into ice and snow, frozen forever under the ice river. That's because, when he trekked on the official road with one foot deep and one foot shallow, he clearly saw a large group of people and horses waving the "E" flag passing by.

At that time, his heart was pounding, it seemed that he was wrong to blame his father, he was just a little late, but he still remembered the 30,000 army and his son in his heart. But when he raised a hand and was about to shout

"I'm Shizi Kun!" The words of the knights reached his ears.

"Hurry up, hurry up! We must take advantage of the fact that the army is not firmly established and defeat them in one fell swoop, otherwise these 30,000 people will be thrown away in vain!" This is the general urging his subordinates.

"Our lord is really ruthless, and he has been stationed outside the Tonglu Mountain for three days without moving. After all, it's his eldest son and younger brother, how can he bear it?" A soldier whispered.

"You know what?" The older one leaned over and said, "It's not been a day or two that our monarch wants to abolish Chang Liyu, and now there is such an opportunity, and he can use the death of the son of the world as an excuse to show the world the sin of the country. At that time, it will be embarrassing if the Son of Heaven does not officially return the Tonglu Mountain to our country."

The raised arm froze in mid-air, but could no longer wave. It turned out that he was the only one who didn't know about it! The father's army had entered the Suijing three days ago, but it had been kept secret, and he had been watching the army massively exterminate the vanguard camp led by himself and his uncle, just to use these 30,000 lives to delay the soldiers of Suiguo, and then exchange a bargaining chip with Zhou Tianzi---------

Ridiculous! Amusing! In vain, I have been born and died for my father's country for many years, but my biological father has calculated it like this, and I have been loyal to the king and filial piety to my father, and I have all fed it into the dog's belly-------