On the mountain, the wolf's skin banner waved rapidly, the horn and war drums sounded continuously, and the fields on all sides suddenly boiled. Iron cavalry of the various departments of the grassland flew out in groups, and a large formation across the valley was lined up north of the Great Wall of Earth during the meal. In front of the battle, a nine-headed wolf flag was waved in the wind, and under it was the golden vulture of the king of the Eastern Lynx with armor on his head, a black gold silk cloak, and a gray beard.

The Zhou army rumbled and pressed. can be a stone's throw away, the Rong army is obviously thousands of strong crossbows and bows ready to fire, but they don't shoot an arrow and let the Zhou army roar over. Walking and walking, nearly half a stone's throw away, Kui Duoyou gave an order: "Stop!"

He looked at it for a while, and suddenly laughed, and Tianyue Sword pointed at him and asked loudly, "Under the banner of the wolf, but the right minister of the lynx, Jin Wudu?"

"General Kui has good eyesight, it's the old man."

Kui Duoyou sneered: "Old acquaintance, you and I have fought many times on the battlefield, and have been repeatedly defeated by my Tianyue sword, and now this last battle has finally won a game for you."

"Take." Jin Wudu immediately snapped: "The young general is famous all over the world, but unfortunately he is young and vigorous, and he is like the king of Xiao Zhou, he can't stand the humiliation and can't bear to be angry. All this is the will of the Immortal Heaven!"

"Thank you for the advice." Kui Duoyou smiled coldly: "If you can break through today, you will be exterminated in three or five years, and you will meet the king again. If your friend unfortunately dies, he will still have to fight against you in the next life!"

"Under my strong army, General Kui can starve of food for several days, and the army does not rebel, which is a miracle in the world!" Jin Wudu sighed: "It's a pity, you refuse to surrender, for the sake of the descendants of ***, General Kui must die in front of the battle today." As for the next life, the old man is not interested in leading the troops anymore!"

"Okay, the last battle of the day!" Kui Duoyou Tianyue Sword raised his sword and shouted: "Kill-" The Zhou army roared like a red tide.

Jin Wudu waved his hand, and the general beside him slashed the flag: "The strong bow is in a big array!"

Thousands of arrows rained down in front of the battle, and the long arrows poured away like a storm towards the Zhou army, and the two wings of the iron cavalry had not yet been killed, and the tide of the Zhou army had already swept back. The general shouted in surprise: "King, Kui Duoyou has been arrowed! If you see five or six arrows, you will surely die!"

Jin Wudu waved his hand coldly: "All the departments are still back to the tent and the wall, the Zhou army will not come out, and our army will not fight."

The Zhou army retreated back into the Great Wall of Earth. When Kui Duoyou, who was hit by eight large arrows, was carried to the front of Xingyuan, he was already dying. The thick arrows almost completely penetrated his already thin and lean body, and the soldiers did not dare to put him on the military couch, so they could only hold their breath and carry him in their hands.

A circle of generals surrounded Kui Duoyou, and the red pressure on the outside was layered with soldiers, and everyone was trembling and silent.

Kui Duoyou finally opened his eyes, and squeezed out a sentence with laborious gasps: "Brothers, Duoyou, go, surrender......" A pair of deep-set eyes suddenly turned his head, and he was silent forever.

The generals fell to their knees in a bang. The soldiers also fell to their knees like the tide of the waves, and fell softly.

At this moment, the soldiers of the Zhou army suddenly realized how important this young general in his early thirties was to them. Who would have survived without his extraordinary courage at the last moment? The Zhou army had long since collapsed in the tragic devouring of cannibalism.

In the early morning of the next day, a large white flag with the blood-red word "descending" written on it was hung high on the central golden drum platform. More than 10,000 Zhou troops who survived the catastrophe slowly embraced out of the Great Wall. In the middle of the original two armies, the Rong army formed two phalanxes, and in the middle was a wide passage. The Zhou army flowed silently, flowing into the depths of the tent-lined grassland.

The Rong army did not cheer. There were no complaints about the surrenders. The entire battlefield fell silent.

In the late autumn season in the north, on the official road by the big river, a chariot and horse team composed of thousands of armor soldiers is slowly marching against the cold north wind. The lead clouds hung low, and everything was bleak. Looking far away, the two soil ridges on both sides, the loess slope is endless, and the sky is directly in the sky; The withered grass and dead poplars trembled in the wind, and the sound of babbling was like a low moan. The water surface of the river dozens of zhang wide no longer has the agitation and jumping of the past, and the remnant sun shines on the frozen river surface, like blood drops on the frost blade, which makes people look more desolate and fearful.

Under the banner of the word "Wei", a tall chariot was standing on the young officer Ji Boyan. Looking at the marching procession, which was slowing down day by day due to the weather, he was anxious and sent from time to time

Scouts rush to speed up in front of and behind the team.

Ji Boyan did not fall into the encirclement of the grassland tribes with Kui Duoyou's army, but was sent back to the baggage camp outside Guzhu City by Kui Duoyou to escort grain and grass. Looking at the dark sky, Boyan recalled that afternoon more than a month ago.

When he heard Boyan mention that during the period when Guzhu was surrounded by a full moon, the Yan Kingdom did not transport a grain of grain, Kui Duoyou suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart, and turned around and ordered, "Boyan!"

"The end will be!" Boyan threw his hand on the horse.

"Quickly take a ten-man team back to the Lone Bamboo Baggage Camp, and escort a month's worth of grain to chase the main force." Kui Duoyou ordered categorically.

"General Kui, please!" Bo Yan remembered something: "If the last general rushes to the foot of the Lonely Bamboo City, and the grain of the Yan Kingdom still fails to arrive as scheduled, what should the last general do?"

"This ......" Kui Duoyou thought for a while, and said resolutely, "If this is the case, you will go to Weidu Chaoge and ask Weihou for help. The Son of Heaven has commanded him to respond to our army, and this is also his duty."

"The last will understand." Boyan turned his horse's head and led the team of ten people to look at the way they came.

However, everything was as expected, Boyan returned to the Guzhu Heavy Camp, and learned that Yanhou only brought 10,000 stone of military rations, and more than 2,000 stones had been consumed by the 5,000 men and horses guarding the camp, and the remaining was only more than 7,000 stones, how could it meet the needs of 50,000 soldiers in January? In desperation, he could only take the team of ten people and continue to Chaoge for help.

However, by the time he arrived at Chaoge, the once prosperous capital of Yin merchants was in the midst of unprecedented famine due to the granary fire and the poor harvest of the year. Hunger is everywhere, white bones are in charge, and the eyes inside and outside the song city are desolate.

More than half of the people outside the city fled, and the people in the city, who were extremely short of food, could only go into the mountains on all sides, pick up tree bark, dig wild vegetables, hunt with their bare hands, and many of them lived a cave life of drinking blood and slashing and burning.

Under such circumstances, the contradiction between the remnants of the Yin Shang and the people surnamed Ji broke out unprecedentedly. Merchants did not dare to open the market, commoners took the opportunity to loot the wealthy merchants, and the nobles and foreign envoys became more dangerous and pitiful than ordinary civilians. If it weren't for the fact that Sun Yu, the minister of Wei, poured all his money into the treasury of the country to buy 100,000 stone corn from the Song and Qi countries, Chaoge would have become a scorched earth!

Under such circumstances, the anxious monarch and ministers of the Patriotic Monarch did not say that they had sent reinforcements at the request of Boyan (at this time, he knew the news that Kui Duoyou had fallen into the siege of various tribes), but he could not even take care of the daily food supply of him and his ten-man team.

Fortunately, Boyan and several subordinates are vigorous, climbing trees comparable to monkeys, running to chase wild sheep, and escaping to avoid wolves and leopards...... Later, like a savage, he grabbed a mountain snake and could tear open the snake's skin with a "brush" and swallow the flesh and blood raw. They lived in burrows in the countryside, and every day they always caught a little prey, either a rabbit or a pheasant, or a half wild sheep.

After Gongsun Yu returned to Chaoge with 100,000 stone corn and the situation in the city stabilized slightly, Boyan came to the Wei Palace to ask Wei Houhe for reinforcements to relieve the siege of the border army.

He still remembered how Wei He's face was embarrassed at that time: "The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. The city and the city are already full of starvation, and these 100,000 stone corn are not enough for the needs of the common people in the city, so how can there be a surplus of military rations? The reinforcements that the little general needs, I really can't afford to send them to defend the country!"

Boyan also understood that what Wei He said was not a prevarication, but where his duty lies, he can't just watch tens of thousands of robes fall under siege and ignore it, right? He pleaded again and again, and even raised the edict of the Son of Heaven: "The edict of the great king ordered the king to respond to the border army's attack on the Donglu Raccoon, but now not only did he not see the response, but he saw that the king was under siege and did not lend a hand. How will the king deal with himself in the future?"

In this way, Wei Hou and Shen Mo for a long time, then reluctantly agreed to hand over the 4,000 Chaoge defenders to be led by Boyan, plus the 5,000 pawns who were originally guarding the heavy battalion under the lonely bamboo city, they barely got together nearly 10,000 horses and went to the Great Wall of Earth to rescue. As for the grain and grass! I can only bring enough 10,000 people for ten days, and I can't take care of the rest!

Looking at the procrastinating procession, Boyan let out a long sigh, feeling both bitter and helpless. These old soldiers are not at the same level as the elite border knights, can they break through to the encirclement? Can they defeat the wolf-like steppe riders? Impossible. However, after all, he is the general of the king's master, and it is his fate to do it knowing that he can't do it......

"General......, General Ji—" A sharp voice rang

The call pierced the air condensed by the cold wind, and a luxurious bronze chariot came galloping from the road, and it was Sun Yu, the minister of Wei, who was standing on the car.

Bo Yan's heart trembled, and he stepped forward and gave a random salute and said, "What's the matter with Minister Wei?" It shouldn't be a good thing, Boyan thought to himself.

Gongsun Yu got out of the car out of breath, and he didn't care about returning the salute, and said, "The king is in a hurry, please return to Chaoge with the general."

"What?" Bo Yan's heart froze: "Could it be that Wei Hou has changed his mind again? No more rescuing General Kui?" This sentence was blurted out instinctively, after all, as a guest of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he had heard of the grievances and entanglements between Wei Hou and Kui Duoyou in the past.

"Where did Major General Ji go?" Gongsun Yu had a keen mind, and hurriedly stepped forward to explain, "Although the king is more anxious, he is not the kind of foolish person who can't distinguish between public and private. In fact, Chaoge received a report from the grassland, and Kui Duoyou has already led his troops to surrender!"

"Ahh I know best what General Kui is like, and he will never surrender! This message is certainly not true. I categorically don't believe it!"