He lay on the bed, only to feel as if his skeleton was about to spread out, every skin, every muscle, was aching, his eyelids were as heavy as two pieces of iron, it was difficult to open, but his head was buzzing all the time, but he couldn't sleep.

"I'm old, I'm old after all......"

He sighed gloomily.

However, for more than a month, I have been in a high-intensity mental tension every day, and it is difficult to bear it no matter who I change. The slightly fragile ones may have collapsed long ago.

What's more, this old body is still sick.

Since the beginning of spring, the Yuan Wenchang army outside the pass began to mobilize, and then tackled the storm, tens of thousands of soldiers, like the tide, attacked in waves, from morning to night, never stopped.

In the early morning, the morning light is slight, and the soldiers are like hemp; at noon, the sun is in the middle of the sky, sweat and blood fly together; at dusk, the residual sun is like blood, and the stumps are everywhere......

This is really a tragic battle, the stone wall of Wuling Pass, splashed with blood for several inches, as if it was painted with a thick layer of red paint.

Fortunately, it still held on.

It's just that how many days can you keep it?

His own body is getting weaker and weaker day by day; the soldiers in the pass are suffering casualties and losing personnel every day; and the materials used to guard the pass, such as sasswood and copper juice, are getting less and less......

The capital spared no effort to support Wuling Pass, because the government and the opposition understood the significance of this pass, and every day, there were young and strong people and material resources continuously transported to the pass. It is precisely because of these supports that Wuling Pass can be supported until now.

However, the resources of the capital are not endless, and in recent days, they have begun to decrease.

This is something that cannot be helped, being besieged by heavy troops and consumed every day is equivalent to sitting on a mountain and eating nothing.

The only way out: someone came to the rescue.

But who else will come?

The closest to the capital is Liangzhou, the Liangzhou iron cavalry has already rushed to the aid, because of this, but also by the Mengyuan alien race to take advantage of the weakness, attack the city and plunder the pool, seize a number of places; the holy decree has been transmitted to the fiefdom of the three feudatories for a long, long time, but there is no response, since the last time the Qinwang coalition army was wiped out, the vassal kings also realized that they could not do anything, and they have not moved, and it is important to hold their fiefdoms; as for those in Zhongzhou Yangzhou Barbarian Prefecture, not to mention, Yangzhou Zhongzhou is already the land of the Yuan family......

There is one left in Yongzhou.

Guo Hong, the former assassin of Yongzhou, is in the capital, and he is not having a good time, and the hundreds of carts of gold and silver treasures he carried have basically been donated. Not only him, but many wealthy families in the capital must pay their wealth out, and those who are unwilling to do so will come directly to the door like a wolf and a tiger.

Bankruptcy may be good. Due to the serious attrition, the new emperor has begun to order the drawing of Ding, and constantly send the young and strong people to Wuling Pass.

These people have never been on the battlefield in their lives, and they may not even have fought, so they are sent over, and they have to face life and death with a weapon in their hands.

Their existence is pure cannon fodder.

Many practices have aroused resentment in the capital, but they have been brutally suppressed.

Since the new emperor ascended the throne, thousands of people have been escorted to the noon gate to be beheaded.

Since ancient times, the throne has changed, and it is rare to see blood, let alone the current stormy situation?

In many cases, only blood can make people fearful! If you want to stabilize people's hearts, you have to wield the blade, and as for the future rebound, who cares?

There was also a holy decree sent to Yongzhou, but the new emperor did not hold out hope. The situation in Yongzhou is known to the whole world, and it is fragmented, how many soldiers can be pulled? If Chen Sanlang is loyal to the country, sacrifices his ego, and leads his troops to attack Yangzhou, the new emperor will naturally like it.

Yangzhou is the base camp of the Yuan family, and there are troops left to guard it, Chen Sanlang is going, maybe there is no return, but as long as it causes a little harassment and distraction to Yuan Wenchang, it is always good.

The predicament of the capital is becoming more and more serious, during this period of time, the Liangzhou emergency report came back like snowflakes, but they can't take care of it, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, many people have even acquiesced, it will not be long before Liangzhou will be eaten up by Meng Yuan, and then, it will be a situation where the country is fully open......

What could possibly be done?

At present, the only way is to send Liangzhou Iron Cavalry back, but as soon as they leave, the capital will be in trouble. Dilemma, I had to break my arm to survive.

Even if it's just a temporary respite.

Since the beginning of winter last year, the atmosphere in the capital has been extremely depressing. A curfew was imposed early at night, and during the day there were patrols by soldiers and horses, and three of the four gates were closed and only one was opened.

If you open this, you have to go through strict inspections when you enter and exit.

It must be so, otherwise the people of the city will run out long ago, and there will be an empty city left.

At noon, the open east gate was bustling with people, and a team was leaving the city, quite a few people, enough to be hundreds.

These people are all young and strong, and they are dressed in different clothes, some of them are cloth, and some of them are hanging with two pieces of leather armor, which looks nondescript.

At the edge of the procession, there were soldiers in full armor holding weapons and riding on tall horses. Like a guard, but more like an overseer.

The soldiers escorted the team out of the city, and walked in a roundabout way, and the direction they went to was Wuling Pass.

Inside the city gates, there were cries, but it was the women and children who had come to see each other off, and if they hadn't been stopped by the armor, they would have pounced and snatched their men back.

Some of them are their sons, they may be their husbands, they may be their older brothers and younger brothers......

In a nearby restaurant, a sad-faced scribe stood in front of the window, witnessed this scene, fell to the sky and sighed, and chanted: "Chariots, Ma Xiaoxiao, pedestrians are going to the outskirts of other cities; The clothes stopped crying, and the crying went straight to the sky...... What the hell is going on in this world!"

Drinking, raising a glass and drinking, and finally fell on the table and cried bitterly.

The whole capital seems to be crying.

The team went out of the city, and when it was far away, it was no longer audible.

In the team, Luo Yuan walked numbly without a foot, he was only twenty-two years old this year, with a delicate face, fine skin and tender meat, and he looked like a scholar.

He was originally a showman, if it weren't for the war, I am afraid he would have to participate in the township examination. With his usual results, he is likely to be lifted, and a bright future is in sight.

But all expectations were smashed like a falling mirror.

Shi Po's army rebelled, and the barbarian army entered Yongzhou - Luo Yuan, who was originally from the Yongzhou clan, had to flee with his family, and after all kinds of hardships, he finally fled into the capital, and fled into this place that he thought was the safest place in the world.

At the feet of the Son of Heaven, it should have been safe.

However, Yuan Wenchang reversed again and fought until the Wuling Pass. The capital is besieged and isolated. I don't know how the rest happened, one after another, the situation became more and more severe day by day, the money brought out by the family was paid like water, and the big house where I lived became a hut...... And now, he was selected by lottery to go to Wuling Pass and guard the pass to participate in the war......

Luo Yuan has lived for twenty-two years, and he has never killed a chicken. Pushing him to Wuling Pass, didn't he tell him to die?

"I knew this was the case, why did I have to flee from Yongzhou to the capital in the first place? It's better to stay over there, hide in the mountains and be a hermit, maybe I can live for a few more years......"

Luo Yuan looked up at the sky, sadness came from his heart, and muttered: "Heaven and earth are in the furnace, and human life is turned to ashes." What's going on in this world?"

......

Wuling closed, and Xie Yubei, who was just about to fall asleep, suddenly heard the whining horn and couldn't help but sit up.

Dengdenden!

"General, the rebels are attacking again!"