Wang Wu knew it was too late.

He has worked very hard, and since he learned that Liu Tichun led his troops to help, he did not delay for a moment on the way, but it was still too late!

Fate makes people!

He is not a god after all.

He is also an ordinary person.

At this time, the pain in his heart is like Li Dingguo setting up an ambush and grinding Panshan to fall short, and like Zheng Chenggong's troops coming to Nanjing but suffering a fiasco.

Looking at the back of Zhuangshan, which had been broken by the rebels, and looking at the burning fire, Wang Wu was both worried and angry.

But there has never been half a point of retreat, let alone half a point of despair.

Because no matter whether Liu Tichun was martyred or not, he could not shake his will to persist in resisting the Qing Dynasty!

"Kill!"

The long knife resolutely pointed forward and rushed to kill first.

"Kill!"

A large knife with a bundle of braids on the handle went up.

The braid on the knife is for those warriors who are willing to carry the knife and fight again!

The cut braid is a sign of their new life, and it is also a clarion call for them to fight again with death.

"Not good, reinforcements from the Ming army are coming!"

Scattered outside the village to clear the remnants of the Ming army is a small number of rebels, the sudden killing of the Ming army brigade made these rebels immediately frightened, knowing that they are invincible, they shouted and ran to the village.

This run caused chaos among the rebels at Zhuangkou.

"Ming Army?!"

The rebels in the village were also shocked by the movement coming from afar, and looked at them one by one in disbelief, so that they forgot to slaughter the Ming soldiers, women and children who were also shocked behind them.

"Where's the reinforcements?!"

Tian Heng and Wan He looked at each other, and the two of them didn't know anything about the Ming army that was killing behind them.

But seeing the surging tide of soldiers, my heart was beating hard.

"Suo Yanlong?"

Wanhe thought of the only possibility.

Then I saw that Tian Heng's complexion changed greatly.

If it is really the western line lock Yanlong, it means that the first line of Lao Mugang, Cizhu cage, and Huachanggou has been lost!

What does this mean?

It means that the Qing troops stationed in these places were defeated.

Otherwise, how could Suo Yanlong break through the Qing army's defense line and kill behind their butts!

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

Tian Heng, who thought that the Qing army had been defeated and had been copied by the Ming army, decisively ordered the withdrawal of his troops, and even rushed to the outside of the village with his own soldiers before Wanhe could react.

If you want to withdraw, you must stand out before the Ming army blocks the Zhuangkou!

Otherwise, they are the next Liu Tichun.

"Let's go, let's go!"

Seeing that Tian ran away, where did Wanhe dare to stay, he hurriedly ordered the department to rush to the outside of the village.

"The general army has an order, withdraw, withdraw quickly!"

Rebels from all over the village flocked to Zhuangkou almost at the same time, and the remnants of the Ming army who were about to be engulfed were stunned.

"Little grandpa, our people are here!"

Wang Liu roared excitedly.

"Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming!"

The remnants of the Ming army were cheering, the old and weak women and children were cheering, but more were crying.

"Brother, is it Uncle Suo or Uncle Li?"

Nineteen-year-old Liu Yun looked at the reinforcements that were coming to Zhuangkou in the distance, and he couldn't cry.

It's a pity that her father and mother can't see this scene.

"I don't know."

Liu Heng really didn't know, and vaguely felt that it would not be Suo Yanlong on the Western Front who came to help, because they were too far away and were occupied by the Qing army along the way.

Although there were 4,000 soldiers and horses under Suo Yanlong's command, it was no less difficult to come to reinforcements from a long distance and break through several lines of defense of the Qing army in a row than to break through the encirclement of the Qing army head-on.

And it's too late!

Li Shuai, the Duke of Linguo in Xingshan, was surrounded by the Huguang Qing army, and it was difficult to break through the encirclement to save them.

Therefore, Liu Heng felt that the people who came to help might be Yuan Zongdi, the Duke of Yasukuni, and Hao Shaoqi, the Marquis of Nan'an.

He had heard his father say that the two uncles, Yuan and Hao, were guarding King Han and King Andong on the Yellow Lawn in the southeast.

Seeing that the reinforcements had rushed to Zhuangkou, the rebels were panicking outward, and the momentum of the enemy and us had been completely reversed, Liu Heng, who had been fighting with his father since he was a child, didn't think much about it at the moment, and shouted to everyone: "Our reinforcements are coming, and those who can still kill the enemy will follow me to take revenge!" ”

"Revenge!"

The remnants of the Ming army rushed down one after another, and even the injured jumped off strongly.

"We'll go too!"

Liu Yun also rushed down with his brother with the remaining female soldiers.

At the age of 19, she already has a husband.

It is Li Fuguo, the son of Li Laiheng, the Duke of Linguo.

It was her father who had set up a marriage with Li Shuai a few years ago.

The two were about to get married the year before last, but because the Qing army attacked on a large scale, the Ming army's base was separated and surrounded by the Qing army, which has dragged on until now.

The women of the camp of loyalty are capable of killing the enemy with a sword.

.......

Outside the village, the Ming army collided head-on with the rebels.

"Kill!"

At the same time as Wang Wuda's sword waved, behind him more than a dozen rows of double-armored broadsword soldiers, Zhao Jinzhong did not hesitate to throw the big arrow that had long been tightly tied to the bowstring forward.

In the sound of "whoosh", hundreds of sharp arrows fell from the sky, knocking down the rebels who were trying to block the Ming army.

The double-armored broadsword soldiers in front rushed, and the rain of arrows in the rear continued to be thrown until the two sides collided together.

The big sword was slashed, and the rebels who were frightened by the sudden appearance of the Ming army and lost their fighting spirit were not at all invincible and fled in all directions.

When Tian Heng led his troops to retreat to Zhuangkou, he saw that the Ming army was menacing and opened the way with a big sword, and he did not dare to fight, regardless of the fact that there were still a large number of subordinates in Zhuangkou who were chased and killed by the Ming army, and he actually led hundreds of rebels around him to rush to the left side.

Wanhe was also breaking through, but he was a step too late, and by the time he reached Zhuangkou, the Ming army had completely blocked the road.

had no choice but to grit his teeth and lead hundreds of rebels to protect him in the middle to form a battle group, wanting to stand out head-on.

Ma Changyuan led people to stop Wanhe several times, but was highlighted by Wanhe several times.

Wang Wu didn't find that a group of rebels broke out, and he couldn't care about the rebels who were bent on rescuing Liu Tichun, so he brought people to reinforce Ma Changyuan after cutting down the rebels in front of him.

As more and more Ming troops arrived, the road to Wanhe's breakthrough was completely blocked.

Unwilling to be defeated, Wanhe trapped the beasts still fought, and his own soldiers were also loyal to the Lord, and none of them were willing to abandon him.

As a result, he was pressed by the Ming army in a circle of less than dozens of zhang, and the number of people became fewer and fewer.

Zhu San, a mute man wearing double armor, took more than a dozen big sword soldiers to break through the rebel formation and kill Wanhe, who was protected by his own soldiers.

Seeing a group of desperate Ming troops killing him, Wanhe was terrified and shouted for someone to stop him, but there were crazy Ming troops slashing in all directions, and where could they resist it.

In the end, he was slashed by the dog that burst in from the other direction, and he shook himself and fell on his back.

As soon as Wanhe died, his remnants immediately collapsed, except for dozens of people who resisted stubbornly, and the rest knelt on the ground and begged.

After letting Ma Changyuan and Zhao Jinzhong organize people to clean up the remnants of the rebels inside and outside the village, Wang Wu anxiously led people into the village to find Liu Tichun.

"I am Wang Wu, the general of Jingzhou, where is Liu Shuai, where is Liu Shuai!"

Along the way, Wang Wusheng was hoarse, and the corpses of Ming soldiers and women and children were everywhere along the way, which made his heart heavier and heavier.

"My father has been martyred!"

A group of remnants of the Ming army escorted Liu Heng, who was covered in blood, to Wang Wu.

"Liu Shuai is martyred!"

This bad news made Wang Wu stunned on the spot, he knew that he was late, but he still had the last hope!

But Liu Shuai still couldn't wait for him!

"Liu Shuai!"

The soldiers of the Ming army who heard the bad news suddenly fell to their knees and wept silently.

The cry spread quickly from inside the village to outside the village.

Every soldier of the Ming army who heard that Liu Shuai was martyred couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, and those who cut off their braids and were willing to follow Wang Wu to fight to the death were even more like being struck by lightning, looking at Wang Wu who was motionless in a daze.

Liu Shuai, it's their hope!

Now, has that hope been dashed again?

The joy of victory was almost instantly diluted by the bad news of Liu Shuai's martyrdom.

"Head, Liu Shuai is dead, what should we do?"

The dog is also bitter.

From Wujiayuanzi all the way to this place, they have never complained of hardship, nor have they been afraid of death, just because they believe that there is still hope for rescuing Liu Shuai.

But now...

Cao Diwei, Wan Si, Jiang Tiancheng...

There was a trace of sadness in the eyes of every soldier who followed Wang Wu's death battle.

Wang Wu knew he had to do something.

He didn't say anything to the young general who claimed to be the son of Liu Tichun, but shouted to the weeping soldiers:

"Liu Shuai was martyred, and there is Hu Shuai, Yuan Shuai, Hao Shuai, and King Han! There is still hope! ”

And then shouted in a louder voice:

"The court is gone, we can build it again!

The Son of Heaven is gone, and we can stand again!

Because, we are the world!

We just hope! ”