The siege of the city for a day and night wiped out all the bows, crossbows, sasswoods, rolling stones, and hot oil of the defenders, and it was too late to replenish them, so they could only resist the offensive of the steppe army with flesh and blood.

In the early morning of the next day, the steppe army climbed the city wall, causing the defenders of the city to lose sight of one another, and at noon, the city wall was lost in its entirety.

Zhao Xu had to retreat into the city, leading more than 1,000 guards and remnants of the army to engage in the most brutal street battle with the grassland.

At the same time, Lin Shu withdrew the 30,000 troops that had previously besieged the city and replaced them with a reserve 10,000 troops to attack the city and clear the remnants of the enemy.

Those young men who climbed the city wall to help defend the city have already dispersed in a hurry, and it is okay to let them go up to the city wall and throw stones, if it is a real fight with swords and guns, it is a fool's dream. Only Zhao Xu and hundreds of his own soldiers are still fighting to the death, he has been in the army for a long time, and his cultivation is quite good, and there are more than 100 grassland soldiers who died under his sword.

Helplessly, he is not a sword immortal who can block millions of divisions with a sword, nor is he an eighteenth-floor earth immortal who can move mountains and seas, or even a martial artist who can be a thousand soldiers, no matter how bravely he fights, there are more and more enemies in front of him, but there are fewer and fewer soldiers beside him.

In the end, he was the only one left.

Zhao Xu, who was covered in blood, cut off the head of a grassland soldier with a knife, but was slashed on the shoulder by the grassland armor soldier on the other side, Zhao Xu shouted angrily, and cut off the person's head with a backhand, but then he was slapped in the chest with a palm.

A red-clothed monk with half of his arms naked appeared in front of Zhao Xu, stood on his chest with one palm, and recited a Buddha name.

The remnant sun is like blood in the dusk.

Zhao Xu, who was covered in blood, gasped violently, feeling that his strength was gradually disappearing, and his vision became blurred.

Surrounded by enemies, Zhao Xu took a few steps back, sat down slowly against the wall, and muttered to himself: "I have not returned from home when I am young, and I have long made my hometown my hometown." When I was young, I came to the Northwest, but I didn't expect to die here today. ”

The shouting and killing in the city of Dayi Mansion became smaller and smaller.

Zhao Xu, the guard of the Great Yi Mansion, was heartbroken, fell to the ground and died, his head was cut off and sent to the big tent outside the city.

After Lin Shu got Zhao Xu's head, the big tent was stationed in the Great Yi Mansion, and he himself returned to the golden tent located in the small hill and asked Lin Han for credit.

Lin Shu entered the big tent of the Chinese army, and Lin Han waved his hand to signal the generals and military aircraft in the tent to retreat.

After Lin Shu reported the battle situation to Lin Han, he asked, "Father, do you want to slaughter the city?"

Lin Han asked rhetorically, "What do you mean?"

After Lin Shu hesitated slightly, he said: "If the city is slaughtered, it will hinder the prestige of my father, and the wealthy families from all walks of life will inevitably hesitate and be jealous, which will be unfavorable to the great cause in the future." ”

Lin Han asked: "If we don't kill people and slaughter cities, will those Central Plains lords identify with us? If Hou Jian hadn't slaughtered countless cities, how could he have entered the Central Plains?"

Lin Shu said softly: "But because of this, the Houjian Iron Cavalry swept the world back then, but it was only a generation of people who entered the Central Plains. If we follow the example of those years and build them later, and don't accept the soldiers, do we really have to wipe out the entire northwest before we can stop talking?"

Lin Han said calmly: "That's a matter of the future, but now it's about killing people." ”

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Lin Shu was about to speak, but Lin Han raised his hand to stop him, and said coldly: "If you don't slaughter the city, how can you deter Xiaoxiao? Not only will you slaughter the city today, but all those who will not surrender in the future will also slaughter the city, kill chickens and monkeys, and no one dares not to surrender." ”

Lin Shu respectfully received the promise.

Lin Han got up and walked to the inner tent, "Since the city is slaughtered, this king will not enter the city, and the order will go down and pull out the camp tomorrow morning." ”

......

In the autumn of the twenty-third year of Chengping, the important town of Dayi Mansion in the northwest fell.

The defender Zhao Xu died in battle.

The steppe army slaughtered the city, all over the city, from the officials and rich gentry to the ordinary people, all of whom were spared, and the whole city became a ghost town.

The steppe army continued to move south, and the front of the army was directed towards the northwestern fortress of Zhongdu.

After hearing the news, Zhang Wuxi, who was sitting in the central capital, had to urgently order the reinforcements who had already gone to the middle to return to Lin Mian.

After Lin Han was crowned the king of the north of the town, Zhuge Gong led the Northwest Left Army and built the northwest defense line that included eighteen important towns such as Dayi Mansion and Lin Mianfu, and now that Dayi Mansion has fallen, this line of defense is equivalent to opening a first-line portal, after Dayi Mansion is Lin Mianfu, if you can hold Lin Mianfu, there is still room for turning, if you can't hold it, the grassland army will drive straight in, and the entire northwest war situation will be eroded instantly, and it will be difficult to clean up in a short time.

Further, if the northwest is lost, the entire Central Plains will be completely exposed to the grassland army like a little lady who has been stripped of her clothes. The strong man of the grassland, who has been hungry for many years outside the bitter cold, will not pay attention to any pity and cherishing jade.

Zhang Wuji suddenly remembered a sentence in his heart, "This is the autumn of critical survival." ”

It is indeed at the time of critical survival, if it is just the grassland, but there is also the water army of Wei in Jiangnan, Jiangnan is the world's tax area, if there is chaos in Jiangnan, then the imperial court will inevitably be tied in the matter of money and food, and even clumsy, so Jiangnan is the top priority at the moment.

......

Imperial capital, Ganquan Palace.

A piece of jade paperweight was slammed to the ground and torn apart.

His Majesty the Emperor Xiao Bai did not hide his anger, and reprimanded the ministers: "The imperial court has raised the five forbidden armies, but what are the five forbidden armies doing now? The Northwest Dayi Mansion has fallen, the Jiangnan Navy Division has been defeated, what are Zhang Wuxian and Yu Kuang doing to eat!"

Han Xuan, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the chief of ceremonies, Bingbi, were silent, and the head of the military attaché, the metropolitan governor Wei Ban, replied: "Back to Your Majesty, it is still expected that the Jiangnan Navy Division will lose to the Wei State Naval Division. As for the northwest, although the Great Yi Mansion was lost, as long as the central capital is still there, and the central Shaanxi is still there, then Shaanzhou is unhindered, and the imperial court still has the front army of Shuzhou, which can enter and exit Shu into the lake, gallop to aid the rear army in the south of the Yangtze River, and retreat can be rushed through Shaanxi to aid the northwest. ”

Xiao Bai's face softened slightly, and he said, "The words of the Metropolitan Governor are the words of Lao Cheng. ”

Han Xuan also came out of the ranks, and said: "But there is one point, in the final analysis, the march and war are still the word money and grain, at this critical juncture, money and grain cannot be broken, Jiangnan is the world's most important place for money and grain, so Jiangnan can not be chaotic, according to the old minister's opinion, we should first pacify the war in Jiangnan, and then fight in the northwest with the strength of the whole country, and the grassland will naturally retreat." ”

Xiao Bai said softly: "Let Sun Shaotang's Shu army go out of Shu and enter the lake?"

......

After the dissolution of this small court meeting with only a few important ministers, Han Xuan and Wei Ban, the two first people in civil and military affairs, walked side by side.

Wei Ban suddenly said, "Your Majesty is still in Jiangdu." ”

His Majesty here naturally does not refer to the new monarch in the Ganquan Palace, but the deceased Emperor Xiao Xuan.

Han Xuan snorted, "Your Majesty doesn't mention it, and those of us who are courtiers don't want to mention it." ”

Wei Ban sighed.

Han Xuan said softly: "Your Majesty is guarding against us, the old ministers, and he is on guard, so he is naturally secretive. ”

Wei Ban said noncommittally: "Your Majesty's anger is half-true and half-false, he is a person who has been in the army for a long time, and he understands that victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, and it is impossible to make a big fuss for two defeats, there is something strange in it." ”

Han Xuan was silent for a moment and said, "Do it for us." ”

Wei Ban sighed again.

Han Xuan said helplessly: "To get along with the first emperor, it is the first emperor Lixian corporal, sitting and discussing." It is a great blessing to be able to get along with His Majesty today without kneeling. ”