Chapter 174: The Bloody Battle of Songzhou (Part II)

Ke Yizhi never thought of killing Liu Ding, but in a hurry, he didn't feel that he did his best. This sword pierced Liu Ding's chest, causing his heart to break, and blood flowed immediately. Ke Yizhi ordered someone to send the seriously injured Liu Ding out of the city and hand him over to Zhu Wen.

When Zhu Wen received Liu Ding, Liu Ding was already dying. Zhu Wen was terrified for a while, and he didn't dare to hide it, so Starry Night sent someone to Huangchao to report the truth and ask Wang Jing, the heir of the Five Birds Valley, to save Liu Ding. Since joining the army, Wang Jing has been saving wounded and disabled soldiers on the front line of life and death, and has won the respect of the Huangchao army and is regarded as a "miracle doctor".

Zhu Wen was pacing back and forth in the military tent, sweating profusely, he wiped his forehead again and again, and comforted Liu Ding and said, "Wait for the young man, the king will be here in a moment!"

Liu Ding saw that Zhu Wen was restless on the side, and reluctantly spoke, "My generation...... People in the rivers and lakes are already a blessing and a curse...... Unexpectedly, dead ...... Then he is dead, general...... No need to blame yourself......"

Zhu Wen asked, "Then Ke Yizhi has already suffered an arrow wound, how can he seriously injure the young man?"

Liu Ding said, "It's me...... One thought, I can't bear it...... Kill...... He...... Wife ......"

Before the words ended, a life whimpered. Since then, there has been one less heir to the Yin and Yang family.

Zhu Wen saw Liu Ding die, and he collapsed in place. Soon, Wang Jing arrived, but it was too late. Wang Jing looked at Liu Ding's already cool body and sighed.

The news of Liu Ding's death reached the Huang Chao army. Huang Chao was grief-stricken when he learned about it, and then he took the case and said angrily: "Pass my military order, the army will rush to Song City at night, and it is limited to break the city before dawn to avenge my son!"

That night, the tens of thousands of troops of Huangchao all replaced the yellow scarves on their heads, wrapped them in white cloth, and there were many white flags and white scarves. At the place where the army marched, I saw a vast white expanse, like white snow flying in July, falling on the heads of the world. The army sang a sad song and rushed to Songcheng in the sound of sorrow.

Nearly 100,000 grass troops wrapped in white scarves surrounded Songcheng and attacked from all sides, and the fire illuminated the night sky of Songcheng as if it were day. Ke Yizhi heard that Huang Chao personally led a large army to come, so he took the wounded to the city tower and dispatched the army and civilians to defend in all directions. After several attacks and defenses, the grass army was strewn with corpses all over the field, and the corpses gradually accumulated higher than the city wall. At this time, the defenders of Song City were exhausted with arrows, firearms, oil, and many things defending the city. The grass army stepped on the corpses under the city and climbed the city wall one after another. But in two hours, the city was broken on all sides.

When the city was broken, Huang Chao passed down a military order: "Those who have the first rank of Ke will be promoted to three levels, and the silver reward will be a thousand taels!"

Ke Yizhi saw that the grass army broke the city in an instant, so he led the remaining soldiers to fight and retreat. Ke Yizhi and hundreds of remnants of the army fought hard, and finally fought their way out of the bloody road and retreated to the Zhang Xun Temple at the south city gate.

This shrine was built by the emperor's edict after the Anshi Rebellion subsided. There is a vermilion high wall around the main shrine, and there is a vermilion high gate in front of it. Entering the high gate, it is a wide avenue half a mile long. The avenue is paved with huge blue bricks, and in the middle is an iron tower more than two feet high. The tower has seven floors, the tower body is exquisitely carved, painted with various ritual inscriptions, and each floor of the tower is lit with seven bronze oil lamps. On both sides of the avenue are lush pines and cypresses, covering the vermilion wall. At the end of the avenue is a row of stone steps several feet high. On the stone level, it is a wide stone platform, and in the middle of the stone platform is the main hall of Zhang Xun Temple. There are many plaques hung on the main hall, in the middle is the inscription of two black plaques in gold characters, one on the top is in seal script, and the next one is in regular script, all of which are written with the four big characters of "Loyalty and Martyrdom", which is only one word different from the "Loyalty and Righteousness" that is often inscribed on the Guansheng Temple. The rest of the large and small plaques cover the eaves of the temple, such as "famous in history", "protect the territory and the people" and so on.

The main hall of the Patrol Shrine is five zhang high and a hundred steps wide. Ten stout lacquered mahogany pillars in front of the hall have the thickness of hugging, and they appear to be strong. In the main hall, a statue is enshrined in the middle is Zhang Xun. The statue of Zhang Xun has a righteous face, full of fortitude, Rao is sitting upright, and he is still one zhang high. The body is painted with gold and lacquer red, wearing a gold pocket, wearing dyed yellow satin, and hanging a Qingfeng sword at the waist. There are also two tiger general statues beside him, one of which has a broken finger, and it is Nan Jiyun, a fierce general under Zhang Xun. At that time, Nan Jiyun broke through the siege alone and asked Helan Jinming for help, but Helan refused to send troops to help, so Nan Jiyun bit down a certain will, and then died in battle with Zhang Xun. The other is Xu Yuan.

Before Zhu Wen's army gathered at the Zhang Xun Temple, he first sent his own soldiers to recruit Ke Yizhi. Ke Yizhi chopped the future into two with a sword, and scolded Zhu Wen for helping the villagers as a sin and endangering the villagers.

When Zhu Wen learned that the envoy had been beheaded, he couldn't help but be furious, so he commanded the grass army to storm Zhang Xun Temple. Ke Yizhi ordered everyone under his command to hold two knives in both hands, and a dagger in his mouth, and he could kill the enemy with a wave of his hand and shake his head. Ke Yizhi and others relied on the railing to surround the pillar, fighting desperately, and in a moment, the blood stained Zhang Xun Temple. Zhu Wen saw that Ke was fighting for trapped beasts, so he ordered people to pile up firewood and set fire to the temple. In the end, Zhang Xunci was destroyed by fire, the wall and door collapsed together, and the grass army rushed in. The grass army swords and guns were all swords, and everyone under Ke Yizhi's command was killed. Zhu Wen burned down the Zhang Xun Temple and surrounded Ke Yizhi, who was seriously injured.

Ke Yizhi was hit by dozens of knives in his body, and he was still self-reliant and did not fall. When he saw that everyone under his command was dead, he didn't feel that he looked up to the sky and howled, and his voice was sad and poignant, shocking everyone in the grass army. After howling, Ke Yizhi looked at the statue of Zhang Xun, and shouted with his sword: "Zhang Gong is above, my generation of Songzhou men does not dishonor the soul of loyalty!"

After speaking, the statue of Zhang Xun shattered. The grass army swarmed up, slashing with knives, cutting Ke Yizhi into meat puree, mixed with the yellow mud and vermilion lacquer of Zhang Xun's statue.

Ke Yizhi was dead, and Zhu Wen led his troops to reinstate and welcome Huang Chao into the city. After Huang Chao led the army into the city, after laughing miserably, he ordered the three armies to say: "This city hates many poles, why not slaughter hatred?

Zhu Wen was taken aback when he heard this, and said hurriedly: "The general can't! Ke Yizhi, who killed the son, has been hacked to death with a knife, so why implicate innocent people?!"

Huang Chao said angrily: "How can I comfort my son's spirit in the sky? How can I dissolve the thousands of bones of the grass army? Innocent? Which innocent man dares to kill my son of Huang Chao, and the old man will want him to be buried in the whole city! Song City is a dead city from today onwards!"

Zhu Wen persuaded again: "General Wanwang thinks twice! Since ancient times, those who slaughtered cities have left a reputation for eternity, how can a general destroy his reputation because of a moment of indignation?"

Huang Chao looked up to the sky and screamed: "The old man digs graves and eats carrion corpses, and he is not afraid of the wrath of ghosts and gods, so why is he afraid of slaughtering the city and infamy? Slaughter the city, slaughter the city for the old man! Regardless of the old, weak, sick or disabled, they will all be killed." If one is spared, all three armies will die!"

Huang Chao was furious because of the pain of losing his son, and the three armies did not dare to speak much, so they had to take orders. Zhu Wen was unwilling, and he didn't dare to disobey the military order, not to mention that Liu Ding died, he also had a heavy responsibility, if Huang Chao was angry with him because of it, I was afraid that he would not be able to live. So, Zhu Wen led his headquarters to drive and kill the people in the city, and for a time the blood in the city was three feet long, and the floating corpses were all over the city.

The matter of Huangchao's slaughter of the city spread all over the world.

After Huangchao slaughtered the city, he ordered the grass army to repair on the spot, planning to meet with Wang Xianzhi's army tomorrow to discuss the westward march to Luoyang. Suddenly, a healthy soldier came to report, saying that Li Tang's deputy envoy Zhang Zimian led an army to repel Wang Xianzhi and was coming to Songcheng. Huang Chao heard that Wang Xianzhi was defeated, and hurriedly withdrew from Songzhou. After the grass army left, Song City was left with only a piece of scorched earth, full of messes. A famous city for thousands of years, but for a hundred years, it has suffered from the disaster of war, so that the lives are devastated, and there is not one in ten.

Outside the Tang East China Sea, it was the rain and winds that were more acute at this time. In the midst of that boundless ocean, a large ship swayed in the middle of the sea, rising and falling with the waves. Under the rain and hurricane, the big ship was soon torn to pieces and cracked. The people on the boat fell into the water in response, and they all drowned under the waves.

Among the people who fell into the water, there was a young woman in black clothes and a masked face, regardless of the stormy waves, and was struggling to catch an old man in Tsing Yi. The old man in Tsing Yi obviously didn't know how to be watery, and he had already fainted under the lapping of the huge waves. These two were Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen, who had returned to Middle-earth by boat from Japan, and they did not want to encounter a storm in the middle of the sea, so that the ship would sink and sink into the sea.

It was early spring, and the sea was still bitterly cold. Huang Zhen tightly wrapped Wei Qimu with one arm, and grabbed a scattered plank with the other, letting the waves rise and the water rush and his limbs were stiff, but he flowed with the waves like duckweed. After more than half a day, the wind and rain finally stopped. The sun was shining on the sea, and it was peaceful. Wei Qimu lay motionless on the plank, his face was blue and his limbs were stiff. Huang Zhen crouched beside him, as far as the eye could see, there was a blue sea on all sides, but he didn't know where he was at the moment.

Seeing that the wind and rain subsided, Huang Zhen first forced out the stagnant water in Wei Qimu's body, and then gently shook Wei Qimu, while eagerly calling "Qimu, Qimu......", but Wei Qimu ignored it. Huang Zhen saw that Wei Qimu was unconscious, afraid that he would sleep for a long time, and he couldn't care about the shame and reserve of his daughter's family, so he had to stick two fragrant lips on Wei Qimu's mouth and breathe for one mouthful.

The aroma is in the mouth, full of fragrance, and Wei Qimu finally wakes up leisurely. Huang Zhen saw Wei Qimu wake up, and her heart was happy, but when she thought of the lip-to-lip thing about her crossing the qi, she couldn't help but have her cheeks red, and her heart was bumped, so she hurriedly twisted her head to the side, looking at the sea water.

Thousands of blue waves, thousands of miles of white clouds, beautiful women on the side, warm fragrance on the lips. When Wei Qimu opened his eyes, the scene in front of him made him feel as if he was on a light boat and playing with Huang Zhen.

Wei Qimu looked at Huang Zhen and saw that she looked tired and smiling, the green silk was wet and her cheeks were red clouds, which had a woman's charm. Wei Qimu couldn't help but feel pity, so he stretched out his hand to hold his sweetheart in his arms. But his hand was only halfway stretched out when he withdrew it. Just because he saw his dry palm, he remembered the "Soul Tribulation Heavenly Decay Curse" in his body, which was at the end of his life, and described a withered person. Wei Qimu suddenly felt inferior, and all thoughts were discouraged, and he said in his heart: "In my current situation, where can I affect her again? Do you want to play a sad play with white hair and red face to add to the jokes of the rivers and lakes?"

Wei Qimu remembered the wind and rain again, and the boatload of people was afraid that only he and Huang Zhen lived. He didn't expect that because of his indignation, he would alarm the "Underwater Dragon King", and provoke this flying disaster for nothing, harming others and himself. The more Wei Qimu thought about it, the more bored he became, and it was difficult to entertain him with all kinds of thoughts.

Huang Zhen saw Wei Qimu's arm stop in mid-air, with a sad expression, although his thoughts were invisible, they seemed to be able to render the sea and the sky. Huang Zhen guessed what Wei Qimu was thinking in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel compassion in his heart. Huang Zhen gently leaned his head against Wei Qimu, and said quietly: "What about white hair and red face? How many people in this world can withstand the wear and tear of time, and how many couples can be as close to each other as we are at this moment?"

Having said that, Wei Qimu's arm never grabbed Huang Zhen. Wei Qimu knew Huang Zhen's intentions and knew her sincerity to herself, but because of this, his heart was even more painful. Therefore, he couldn't persuade Huang Zhen to forget that he had chosen his lover, and he didn't dare to say some ruthless words to force him to leave alone. If a person is duckweed, how difficult is it?

After a while, Wei Qimu sighed to himself: "After this disaster, I don't know the geometry of duckweed, nor do I know how dry bones exist......

Huang Zhen comforted him and said, "Even if the end of the world is not close to you and me. What's more, there is no endless road in the sky, and there will always be a way to use in this world, and there will always be strange people and strange people......

In this way, Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen survived in the sea day after day with a boat plank, and every day they relied on Huang Zhen to dive into the sea to fish and catch shrimp to satisfy their hunger. The two of them drifted on the board of the boat for about seven or eight days, on this day, the sky was slightly bright, the sun was light, Huang Zhen was about to go into the water to hunt for fish and shrimp, suddenly glimpsed the front of the mist faintly a black mist, the glow of the glow revealed a green onion, she shouted happily: "Ruler wood, look, there seems to be a small island in front!"