Shi Yuan was anxious, and Cheng Ting was also anxious.

Why hasn't Yin Bei come out yet?

He looked up at the sky, and the black clouds overwhelmed the city, and among the clouds, lightning flashed from time to time, and the thunder was dull, rolling in his ears.

A gust of wind swept by, and Cheng Ting seemed to have something hit on his legs, which made him tremble, took a step back, looked down, and saw a lump of dry horse manure rolling past his feet.

Then there was a burst of lightning and thunder, and the river became turbulent.

A drop of water hit the tip of Cheng Ting's nose, he reached out to touch it, turned his head to Shi Yuan and said, "It's raining......

Before he finished speaking, a flash of fire suddenly appeared in the skylight, followed by a loud "boom", and then the fire burst out, burning half of the sky red.

The heavy rain then fell, crackling, pouring Cheng, Shi and the soldiers by the Shuo River into soup chickens, but at the same time, the fire was burning more and more, accompanied by the continuous rumbling sound, and the thick smoke rose up, accompanied by the strong wind, sent to the Shuo River.

In the midst of the storm and rain, there was a mixture of scorched earth and the smell of blood.

Cheng Ting stood in place with his face blanked, his face was covered with flowing rain, his eyes looked at the fortress, the tall and majestic city wall was shrouded in dark red fireworks, the sound of the battle was half swallowed by the sound of wind and rain, and half was carried away by the surging river, and finally fell into Cheng Ting's ears, only sporadic explosions remained.

Shi Yuan's voice trembled: "It's a war."

Soon he came back to his senses, and dragged Cheng Ting to the city: "It's a war! Go back!"

The two of them passed through the solemn-faced soldiers and hurried towards the city, Shi Yuan turned his head to look at the drawbridge that would not be opened again in a short time, almost desperate.

Yin Bei can't get out.

Wu Jin's letter was still hidden in his arms, and he couldn't imagine what would happen if this letter couldn't be delivered to Mo Lingfeng.

The war horses in the horse garden had already been sent to the fortress, and only a few Xi officials were left, who also galloped into the city after hearing the movement.

The city of Kuanzhou, which was still quiet, was also alarmed by the torrential wind and gunpowder.

The people poured into the streets, looking at the sky, the rain mixed with the flames of war fell from the sky, wetting the oil-paper umbrellas, wetting all kinds of clothes, hitting the wet ground, and continuously flowing into all corners of Kuanzhou City.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

There was more sound of iron hooves in the rain, and the garrison rode up, wearing hoods and iron armor, pumping their horses, and marched to the city gate in an orderly manner.

Just when the people thought they were going to the fortress to rescue, they turned over and dismounted in the city gate, from the outside to the inside, occupied the gate tower, the arrow tower, the main building, climbed the main tower, and guarded the partition wall and the east-west corridor.

At the same time, some soldiers began to close the doorway of the triple building and the urn castle.

The southeast city gate of Kuanzhou, is the only passage leading to the horse farm, the fortress, has not been closed for many years, the wooden door has been trapped in the hub, the gate under the gate tower, the arrow tower can still be reluctantly moved, the main city gate under the main building, but it is a thousand gold, the bolt of the door weighs hundreds of pounds, to close again, how easy it is to say.

Outside the gates, the soldiers patrolling the horse farm were so shocked that one of them rushed forward and shouted, "Who will allow you to close the gate?" Why did the fortress army close the gates if it had not retreated?"

As he shouted, he led a hundred of his men forward to prevent the garrison from closing the gate opening.

Cheng Ting came back to his senses suddenly, his eyes widened, he stepped forward in the rain, grabbed Shi Yuan's hand, and his voice was trembling: "They want to close the city gate, they want to cut off the back road of the fortress, how can they be so ruthless?"

Once the gates were closed, there were only two ways left for the fortress of 50,000 men - win or die.

The people in the heavy rain were also stunned, and I don't know who shouted "Don't close", and someone also shouted "Don't close the city gate".

"Don't turn it off!"

"Don't turn it off!"

The shouts were endless, and more and more people came to the city gate, and in the rain, some people were filled with righteous indignation, some people were numb, and some people prayed for the blessing of God and Buddha, but the bright red flame on the edge of the sky was burning, and sparks fell like rain.

A team of officials came with an official sedan chair, stopped the sedan chair in front of the city gate, and pressed it down

The sedan pole, open the oil-paper umbrella, lift the sedan curtain, and please come out of the Zhizhou Tan Xuan inside.

Tan Xuan's face was pressed under the oil-paper umbrella, he couldn't see it really, and when he heard the shouts of the people, he turned around and shouted, "Close the city gate to protect your lives!" If you make any more noise, go out through this gate, and live and die with the fortress."

After that, he lifted the hem of his clothes and hurriedly climbed to the main building, seeing that the door was stuck and couldn't move, he immediately gave the order: "Pour tung oil!"

In between the soldiers going to get tung oil, he ordered the garrison to take down the soldiers outside the horse farm, and wait until after the battle to execute them.

The gates became more and more chaotic, and after a quarter of an hour, the soldiers of the fort were outnumbered, their hands tied, and they were pushed into the gates, where they were taken to the prison cells, while the Taiping wagons carried large barrels of tung oil to the city gates.

The city gate suddenly quieted down, the sound of rain did not stop, a barrel of tung oil was transported up to the city tower, fell down along the hub, the smell of tung oil drifted away in an instant, and the tung oil flowing out of the hub floated on the rain and flowed everywhere.

Then there was a "creak", and the outermost gate door closed.

The door of the arrow tower was also closed.

Two rows of soldiers stood on either side of the main gate and began to push the heavy gate.

The city gates, which had been mottled with paint, rumbled and closed little by little, isolating the fortress into an island.

Cheng Ting looked at the closed city gate, his brain was buzzing, and he suddenly heard Xu Huiran's shout behind him: "Cheng Ting!"

When he looked back, he saw Xu Huiran getting down from the carriage, her lower abdomen was slightly bulging, the rain was heavy, and the ground was slippery.

The maid was in a hurry to help her, Cheng Ting shouted "Huiran", left Shi Yuan, rushed forward, leaned over and hugged Xu Huiran, and hugged her back to the carriage.

"Why are you here?" He watched Xu Huiran sit down, and then saw that he was wet and dripping water, so he moved away and sat farther away.

"It's been a war, you haven't come back, I can't rest assured," Xu Huiran moved his body, sat down beside him, wiped his face with a handkerchief, and saw that he didn't look right, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Cheng Ting fell into Xu Huiran's warm and fragrant arms, and his mind was empty and dazed: "Huiran, the city gate is closed."

He pursed his mouth, and suddenly like a child who had been wronged to the extreme, he couldn't help but cry.

"Leaf ...... The Leaf is still outside, and they are all outside...... What should I do, Hui Ran, I'm really useless......

Xu Huiran wiped away the tears on his face with one hand, held his cold and damp hand tightly with the other, and it took a lot of effort to stop his choking: "Miss Mo will definitely win, she has been great since she was a child."

Like the eldest sister of the Cheng family, she almost grew up watching Mo Lingfeng.

Mo Lingfeng, who is not very gregarious, never refuses to participate in their various banquets, and then rides horses, drinks tea, and eats snacks alone, as if he wants to get a little smoke from their excitement.

No one could have imagined that she would go to war, let alone that she might not be able to come back.