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At three o'clock in the afternoon, when the huge slogans and cheers of the inner city reached the north of the city, the soldiers in the north of the city also became extremely excited, and after hearing the slogans from the city clearly, the border army in the north of the city was led by some loud veterans, and shouted together: "God bless the Tang Dynasty, the national fortune is long, subdue the foreign countries, and defend Dunhuang!"

Li Mao did not shout slogans with everyone, he stood on the edge of the city wall at this time, looking at the direction of the Mongolian army in the north in a daze, his heart became more and more anxious, and he couldn't calm down at all, let alone rest.

What kind of crisis is coming that can make you shudder?

Wang Xiaoer climbed up from the back city wall with difficulty, and the snow on the steps of the back city wall was not cleared for half a day, and it was covered with a thin layer, and it was easy to fall when walking.

He carried a cloth bag on his back and a large iron bucket with a lid in his hand, and it looked like he had gone to Wengcheng to receive the military rations of the day from the Bensh soldiers.

Wang Xiaoer is young, energetic and fantasizing, and admires chivalrous heroes like Li Mao the most, he climbed the city wall and saw Li Mao looking at the wall, and immediately came over: "Brother Li, why don't you have a good rest, and you are coming up to the city wall again? I carried out the night patrol mission for the first time last night, amazing!"

Li Mao looked back at Wang Xiaoer, who was upright and high-spirited, and said: "Well, Xiao Ercheng is an adult, and being able to let you participate in the night patrol means that you can really go to the battlefield, not bad!

Wang Xiaoer only maintained a majestic posture for two breaths, and when he heard Li Mao ask, he immediately changed back to his original form, shrunk his neck and shoulders, and swayed his nose, clearly still a child.

He said a little excitedly: "Except for the cold, everything else is fine, last night I met General Fan personally went to the city wall to send dumplings, which made me feel that if I am a man, I should be a border army!"

Li Mao patted Wang Xiaoer on the shoulder and said, "Good boy, since you are going to really participate in the battle, then the eldest brother will give you a word, remember that you must learn to protect yourself on the battlefield, you are still young, don't die so soon." ”

Wang Xiaoer was stunned: "Brother Li, you are talking strangely today, why are you so depressed?"

Li Mao shook his head and said, "It's nothing, you go and deliver food, they are already hungry, and they should scold their mother again if they don't go." ”

Wang Xiaoer hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll send it now." Brother Li, don't you want to eat? Why don't you come to our corner tower to eat, we'll be lively there. ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "This piece is still clean in your corner tower, you can go quickly, I'm not hungry now." ”

Wang Xiaoer answered, and hurriedly walked towards the corner tower, Li Mao was still looking at the spot, and he didn't have the heart to eat until he figured out what would happen today.

Although the rations of the residents in the city have begun to be controlled, the rations of the border army are sufficient, especially the border troops who are fighting in the city, and the food standard is much higher than usual.

The thick white noodle pot helmet, braised beef, and fried chicken thighs fully ensure that the border soldiers are well fed, plus the small pot of chicken soup in the corner tower, let everyone sweep away the fatigue of last night.

After Wang Xiaoer and the others all finished lunch, they still didn't see Li Mao coming, so Shi Chang asked Lao Li Tou to invite Li Mao to come over for dinner.

Old man Li pushed open the door, squinted his eyes to find where Li Mao was, and walked towards the battlements with difficulty.

Suddenly, he saw Li Mao jump onto the battlements, holding a pergola in his hand and looking at it.

Old man Li was full of excitement, hurriedly ran a few steps, pounced on another battlement, and also looked to the north, but there was nothing on the vast snowfield!

But he heard Li Mao roar angrily, and slapped his palm on the green bricks on the battlements, breaking a corner of the green bricks.

Li Mao jumped off the battlements, grabbed Lao Li's head and said: "Lao Li, go to the city and ask General Fan, the Mongolian army has launched an attack, this time there is big trouble, please be sure to rush to the north wall." ”

Lao Li was a little dazed: "I didn't see the Mongolian army attacking? Besides, when the Mongolian army attacked, our soldiers were all there, and it wasn't every time General Fan went to the city in person, right?"

Li Mao took Lao Li Tou over and quickly said a few words in his ear.

Old Li Tou's face immediately turned pale, and his lips trembled: "Li Mao, what you said is true? You must know that lying about the military situation is a capital crime!"

Li Mao's face sank like water and said: "I also hope it is fake, but with my wind looking technique, the aura of the Mengren and Tang people will not be mistaken, remember that this matter can only be told to General Fan alone, and you can't alarm others, including the city lord, otherwise it will cause panic among the people in the city, go quickly!"

Li Mao took off the blood-colored cloak on his body with his backhand and draped it on Lao Li Tou, shook his hand and sent Lao Li Tou to the entrance of the back wall steps, and then walked quickly towards the corner tower where Lao Li Tou and they were stationed.

Li Mao pushed open the door, grabbed the gong and mallet from the weapon rack on the side, threw it to Wang Xiaoer, who had just eaten and was lying down and resting, and said, "Xiao Er, go and ring the gong to warn and call everyone up to the city wall, the Mongolian army is really coming again." ”

Before Wang Xiaoer could react, Shi Chang shouted and jumped up: "Damn, these wolf cubs are here again! The brothers gathered and went to the city to guard with weapons." Everyone immediately got busy.

Wang Xiaoer also hurriedly got up and rushed out, Li Mao grabbed Wang Xiaoer, took out a heart guard from his arms, stuffed it into Wang Xiaoer's arms and said: "Xiao Er, remember that the fight will start for a while, pay attention to the cover of the city wall, don't take your head casually, you must survive!"

Wang Xiaoer asked with a blank face: "Brother Li, aren't you going to defend with us?"

Li Mao took out a package from the pile of firewood and grass in the corner of the house, held it in his hand, took out two pot helmets from the cloth bag and stuffed them into the package, took out a large piece of beef from the iron bucket and chewed it.

While eating, he walked out and said, "Little Er, I have more important things to do, we all need to do what we need to do in order to win this battle." ”

Wang Xiaoer watched Li Mao come out of the corner tower as if he didn't understand, and quickly disappeared.

Lao Li Tou rushed down to the urn city, grabbed a war horse casually, and rushed towards the inner city.

The cavalry who was robbed of the war horse wanted to get Lao Li Tou off the horse again, but he saw that the cloak on Lao Li Tou should be Li Mao's, and it was estimated that Lao Li Tou really had an urgent military situation, so he couldn't help but didn't stop it.

Although Lao Li Tou has no rank in the army, he has a wide range of people, and there is an ancestor worship ceremony in the city today, and a lot of manpower has been dispatched to maintain order, so he rode his horse and galloped wildly along the way, and was almost unhindered.

Lao Li Tou ran all the way to the vicinity of the Ancestral Temple, only to be stopped by the surging flow of people, he had to dismount, and took off the blood-colored cloak and tied it to the horse's back to avoid shocking the world.

At this time, the ancestor worship ceremony has reached the link of "praying for the Tang Dynasty", but Lao Li Tou couldn't wait any longer, he relied on his strong body that had been boiling in the army for many years to squeeze into the crowd, and quickly approached the main hall of the ancestral temple.

Those ordinary people naturally couldn't squeeze Lao Li Tou, many people shouted and scolded, and some people who were squeezed and painful couldn't help but hit Lao Li Tou a few times, but Lao Li Tou didn't have time to pay attention to them, he just wanted to arrive at the Ancestor Temple as soon as possible and report to the general on urgent military affairs.

Lao Litou's reckless behavior immediately attracted the attention of the recorder who maintained law and order outside the field, and he could easily cause a stampede like this.

He immediately rushed over with seven or eight city gate guards, who were the best at directing the flow of people, and saw them turn left and right in the crowd, and soon dragged Lao Li Tou out of the crowd.

When Lao Li Tou saw that he had joined the army, he immediately bowed and shouted: "My lord, there is an urgent military situation in the north of the city, please ask my lord to invite General Fan out, I need to report to him in person!"

Seeing Lao Li's age of more than forty years, he looked like a typical border army, his expression did not seem to be fake, and his face was slightly gloomy: "Now the ancestor worship ceremony inside has not ended, it is not appropriate to go in at this time, it will take about two quarters of an hour to end, you wait here first." ”

When Lao Li heard this, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed again and again, saying: "My lord, the military situation is urgent, and you can't delay a breath, and if you are late, there will be changes!

The sound of banging kowtow came, and Lao Li's head was very solid, and his forehead was bruised after only a few clicks, and he was bleeding.

Seeing that Lao Li Tou was really anxious, he frowned and said, "Okay, I'll help you get through it, but the ceremony is not over yet, I don't know if General Fan is willing to see you now, I'll try, you wait." ”

Lao Li Tou hurriedly said: "Thank you, my lord, if General Fan doesn't believe it, you will say that it is an urgent military situation discovered by Li Mao and Li Yishi, and General Fan will definitely come out to see me." ”

The secretary nodded and quickly walked towards the ancestral temple.

Soon Fan Yunchao followed the record to join the army and walked out, he walked quickly to Lao Li Tou's side, looked at Lao Li Tou and said, "I recognize you, you are the border army in the north of the city, get up and talk quickly." ”

Lao Li Tou got up and saluted and said, "General, my subordinates have an urgent military report, but the matter is confidential, so I can only tell you alone." ”

Fan Yunchao glanced at the record of the army and several city defense troops around him, and these people immediately turned around and drove the onlookers outward.

Fan Yunchao looked at the person next to him and said, "You come with your ear." ”

Lao Li Tou hurriedly stepped forward to explain, Fan Yunchao's face changed several times, and he grabbed Lao Li Tou's shoulder and asked in a deep voice: "What you said is the truth?"

Lao Li Tou did not avoid the general's sharp eyes and said: "When I came down, I didn't see the troops of the Mongolian army, but these were told to me by Li Yishi himself, and they are absolutely true! I also brought his blood-colored cloak, and there is absolutely no lie!"

Fan Yunchao clapped his hands and said, "These brutes! Let's go back to the north of the city." ”

At this time, Fan Yunchao's personal entourage saw that the general had not returned for a long time, and he also came over, and Fan Yunchao arranged for him to go to prepare the horse quickly.

At this time, it was confirmed that the military situation should be very urgent, because General Fan's face was pale, the green tendons in the corners of his forehead were constantly beating, and the corners of his mouth were still twitching, and he looked very hideous.

The recorder joined the army and came up and asked, "General, aren't you going to participate in the later ceremonies?"

Fan Yunchao said in a deep voice: "The ceremony is just the city lord's presence, I have an urgent military situation to rush back to the north of the city, don't alarm the adult, he is not in good health, can't let him work hard, after the ceremony, send the adult back to the house quickly." You first have the road to the north of the city cleared. ”

At this time, the personal entourage had already brought the general's war horse, Fan Yunchao immediately turned over on the horse, and the record joined the army to command the city defense army to quickly make a way for General Fan, and Fan Yunchao took the personal entourage and Lao Li Tou to hurriedly beat the horse.

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At this time, the situation in the north of the city was already a little chaotic, and the three battalions stationed on the six-mile city wall in front stood together, looking at the enemy attacking outside the city together, everyone with iron gray faces and angry faces.

The border soldiers on the city wall are scolding the Mongolian army with all the foul language they can think of, and some of the soldiers have burst into tears, Wang Xiaoer may be the youngest border soldier on the city wall, and he is the most psychologically fragile, he has been crying against the battlements and can't stand steadily.

It was not the Mongolian army that attacked the city, or not only the Mongolian army, but also more than 7,000 people in ragged clothes and skeletons, who should have been Tang people.

There were originally more than 20,000 people, and more than 10,000 were tortured and killed, and now these people who are surviving are forced to come to the front of the battle by the Mongolian army, and use them as human shields in front of the Mongolian army.

They were too weak, their clothes were too thin, and after only half of the battlefield, more than a thousand people fell, and they could no longer stand up, and the Mongolian army mixed with the Tang prisoners and the Mongolian army behind them were unceremoniously, and all the Tang prisoners who fell to the ground, regardless of whether they were still struggling or not, were beheaded with a knife or an axe.

Such a brutal act forced the prisoners in front to speed up their pace and run towards Dunhuang City, those who had the strength could still shout for help while running, and those who did not have the strength followed the brigade to rush forward, and those who were unlucky fell at any time, and then were stepped on by the people behind, and they could never get up again.

The border troops on the city wall were stunned, but they couldn't fight back, the formation of the Tang prisoners was too dense, and I obviously saw a lot of Mongolian troops carrying siege equipment mixed with the Tang prisoners, but only one or two thousand Mongolian soldiers among the more than 7,000 prisoners, if they fired arrows and shot crossbows, they would definitely kill and wound more Tang prisoners.

Soon the Tang captives and the vanguard of the Mongol army had crossed the snow slope and poured under the city wall, and none of the three battalion commanders in the city were willing to give the order to release arrows, and most of the Tang compatriots under the city wall were unwilling to bury their lives like this.

Mr. Huang Qian had already cut two knives on the battlements, and if it weren't for the other two Mr. Qian, he would have asked him to hang down the city with a rope to save people.

At this time, the Mongolian archers in the distance quickly rushed up and began to fire arrows at the head of the city, and many Tang troops were still in a trance, and they fell to the ground with arrows.

Mr. Huang Qian jumped up and shouted: "Quick, shoot back with arrows, shoot me far away!"

The soldiers on both sides shot at each other, and the border troops in the city could only aim at the enemy in the distance, for fear of accidentally injuring the Tang prisoners under the city, but the Mongolian marksmen mixed in the Tang prisoners under the city opened their bows again and again, shooting and killing many border troops at the head of the city.

Just when the border army at the head of the city was helpless, a long shout suddenly came: "The garrison general has arrived~~!"

All the soldiers at the head of the city looked back at Fan Yunchao who climbed up from the back wall, their eyes were full of unwillingness and anger!

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