Chapter 16: The Battle of the Temples and the Battle of the Rivers and Lakes (2)
Shanhai City, a giant city on the border of Selangor in Beiling Prefecture, was the second largest city in the former Northern Wei Dynasty.
Shanhai City is surrounded by developed official roads, south to the middle capital, east to Taihang Mountain, north is one of the eight major schools of the rivers and lakes, North Scale Sword Pool, is the most prosperous state city in the whole Beiling.
There is a pass 100 miles away from Shanhai City, which is Shanhaiguan.
At this moment, outside the gate, dark clouds obscured the only remaining ray of sunlight.
The smell of blood permeated this dead and silent land, the cold wind swept by, the guns that had just dissipated, the shadow of the knife bloomed in the wind again, and the stumps piled up on the ground were hideous and terrifying, and the heavy breath made people shudder.
Apparently there has just been a big war here.
And hundreds of miles away, the Shanhai City is still full of people and lively, as if the outside has nothing to do with this city.
In the largest restaurant in the city, a mild-faced young man looked around with a smile.
Beside him were a man and a woman, men of about thirty years of age, with no white beard, and extremely feminine. The women wore long knives at their waists about twenty, and they were heroic.
I saw the man leaning over and saying, "Temple..."
Before he could finish speaking, the young man glared at him.
He hurriedly changed his words and said: "Childe, this place is too dangerous, so let's go back to Beirong first!"
The young man pursed his lips, "Xiao Caozi, if it weren't for this son to say you, you can't learn from other people's Qingying, and see how calm they are!"
No matter how powerful the barbarian gold is, it is impossible to break through the Shanhaiguan!"
Hearing this, the man known as Xiao Caozi had no choice but to give up.
A woman named Qingying on the side said: "Half a day ago, Chen Changsheng, the guard of Shanhaiguan, took back Linzhou with 120,000 iron cavalry and 200,000 barbarian gold, forcing the barbarian gold to retreat to Mingzhou. ”
The young man smiled lightly: "Chen Changsheng is worthy of being a victorious general, and he is really my founding tiger general." ”
Xiao Caozi said with a smile: "This General Chen is powerful, but it's a pity that it's the rebellious old department, and the son has to guard against it!"
It's just that he regretted it after he finished speaking, and the young man looked at him with a slightly cold face.
"You dare to criticize anything?"
He said in a trembling voice: "Xiao Caozi said unintentionally, please atone for your sins!." ”
Qingying curled the corners of her mouth slightly.
"Okay, next time, cut your tongue. ”
At this time, a man and a woman came up from downstairs, the two of them looked ordinary, but the man had a pair of red phoenix eyes, which was slightly surprising in the ordinary facial features.
However, there is no absence of sittings upstairs.
When the young man saw this, he said, "If you don't mind, you can come to my table, this table is big." ”
The man with phoenix eyes lit up.
He arched his hand and said: "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, thank you brother!"
The heroic woman beside the young man narrowed her eyes slightly and looked at the two of them.
The two sat down, and the man with phoenix eyes was not polite, picked up the wine on the table and poured himself a glass, and he raised his glass in front.
"In the ink double, a cup of Brother Tai. The ordinary woman on the side also raised her wine glass. The two are Zhao Wushuang and Wan'er, who came in the dust.
The young man raised his glass in return, "I have seen Brother Mo in Xia Dongli." ”
"Dare to ask Brother Mo, but a member of the sect came here to practice?"
Zhao Wushuang said: "No, it's just that I have admired people in the rivers and lakes since I was a child, no, I took my sister and ran out to see the world without telling my family." ”
Dongli laughed and said: "Brother Mo and I really hit it off at first sight! ”
"What a coincidence!"
The two hit it off at first sight and kept clinking glasses.
And next to him, Xiao Caozi and Qingying have been observing the two, but Xiao Caozi didn't see anything, but felt that they were the sons and daughters of two small families.
Qingying, on the other hand, kept staring at the Ink Scale Sword wrapped in white cloth behind Zhao Wushuang.
Wan'er didn't speak on the side, but frowned slightly when she raised her head to drink.
Just as she was pouring a glass of wine, suddenly, a violent vibration spilled the wine in the glass on the table, and for a while, the wine glass trembled, the tables and chairs trembled, and the entire restaurant and the entire Shanhai City trembled.
Everyone in the restaurant was terrified, and there was only one possibility for this kind of tremor.
"The iron horses are running, and the number is definitely more than twenty thousand. ”
"How is that possible? It can't be a Western barbarian, right?"
The whole city was panicked and wanted to get out of the city.
But the gates were long closed.
In the Selangor General's Mansion, Xiao Zhan, the Selangor guard, hurriedly put on his armor and said angrily: "What's the matter?"
"General Huiyu, he is a Western barbarian, and he has already arrived in the city, with nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses!"
Xiao Zhan slapped the table.
"Fuck your mother's fart! Is he Chen Changsheng a dead man? Lao Tzu's 20,000 iron horsemen have borrowed him, and he will pay me back 100,000 Western barbarians?"
"Back... General: General Chen did stop 200,000 barbarians at Shanhaiguan, but these 100,000 came out of nowhere, bypassing Shanhaiguan and going straight to our mountain city. ”
Xiao Zhan's face was blue and said: "Hurry up and ask the imperial court for reinforcements, otherwise I'm afraid that it will not only be my Selangor, but the entire Beiling will be broken by the Western Barbarians, and then there will only be one defense line in Beirong, if Beirong is also broken, then it will be able to approach the capital of the world." ”
"Alas, we underestimate the Western Barbarians!" Xiao Zhan pulled the spear and ran out.
"The biography will order that all the city gates be closed, and I am not allowed to let a fly in, as long as there is a living person in the city, Lao Tzu will pick up weapons, even if the city is ruined, Lao Tzu will make the Western Barbarians pay the price. ”
In the distance, the restaurant was already empty, and only one table of five people never left.
Dongli said solemnly: "It seems that there is no way to get out of the city, maybe this Shanhai City today is the place where we are buried." ”
Xiao Caozi and Qingying knelt down on one knee and said, "We will never let Childe have any mistakes." ”
Zhao Wushuang chuckled and said: "As the saying goes, heroes are born in troubled times, and at this moment, it is a good opportunity for us to make contributions." ”
Dongli was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said, "Okay! Brother Mo is really a hero, and he is ashamed of himself." ”
"Brother Dongli is serious, it seems that this siege of Xijin has been planned for a long time.
"Yes, we underestimate Xijin too much, and we hope that the imperial court will react in time. ”
The people in the city are panicked, as the saying goes: "Black clouds crush the city and want to destroy it." "Everyone has given up hope.
At this time, Xiao Zhan, the general of Selangor, came to the city in person, and he shouted: "My sons and daughters of the world, today is the time for the survival of all people in our city, and I am outnumbered, I Xiao Zhan implore you to take up arms to protect this last dignity." ”
"Think about the wives and children behind you, think about the homeland behind you, what the Western Barbarians are like must be clear to everyone, they burn, kill and loot, they are a group of beasts. ”
Xiao Zhan looked down at the people in the city, and he shouted, "What should we do when we encounter beasts?"
"Kill, kill, kill!"
For a while, whether it was men, women, or children in the city, whether it was a pawn of a trader, a son of a family, or a reckless man in the rivers and lakes, they all roared in response.
Zhao Wushuang, who had just arrived in the distance, was also shocked by the scene in front of them.
"Selangor defender Xiao Zhan, after dozens of battles large and small, with outstanding achievements, was made a tiger idiot by Emperor Taizu at that time, I didn't believe it, but when I saw it today, I left the east!"
Zhao Wushuang nodded, looking at the big man holding a long knife on the majestic city wall.
At one time, he also wondered if his father was the same.
On this day, Daikin suddenly appeared 100,000 iron cavalry to besiege the entire Shanhai City, and it was also on this day that the Selangor defender Xiao Zhan defended Shanhai City to the death, blocking Dajin's six sieges.
Later people commented on this battle and called him a general of the ages.