No matter what Liu Futong's character is, his comments on the general trend of the world have indeed come true. After the matter of Yingzhou raising troops spread all over the world, Monk Peng rose from Chaohu, Xu Shouhui rose from Qizhou, Guo Zi rose from Haozhou, Ming Yuzhen rose from northern Shaanxi, although these departments of Mingjiao did not belong to each other, but they all rose up one after another. The rest of the local heroes, such as Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen, also erected the anti-Yuan banner almost at the same time.

When Zhao Yu and others arrived in Wu'an, Tang Yang and others had gathered more than 2,000 defeated troops under the Five Elements Banner, and the rest were either killed in battle or stayed in Yingzhou, or were scattered by the Yuan army and disappeared. In addition, there are still thousands of Mingjiao old, weak, sick and disabled.

Wu'an is located in Xuzhou, which is said to be a county seat, but in fact, it is not even comparable to a prosperous town. Affected by the military disaster and floods, more than half of the walls and houses collapsed, and there were Mingjiao disciples who described despair inside and outside.

Knowing that Zhao Yu had returned, Tang Yang and the others hurriedly greeted each other, and before they could speak, the half-grown boy Han Lin'er had already rushed out, knelt in front of Zhao Yu's horse and wept: "Ask the chief flag envoy to avenge my father!"

Zhao Yu saw that the Five Elements Banner and the remnants of the Ming Sect were all sad and indignant, obviously hating the treacherous Liu Futong, he turned over and dismounted, bent down to pick up Han Lin'er, and said: "This blood feud will be avenged one day, and I can't wait to give birth to that evil thief! It's just that now I have to take these brothers who have survived the catastrophe out of danger and allow him to live for a few more days." ”

Tang Yang helped Han Lin'er, who was crying silently, leaned over and didn't speak, when he heard Zhao Yu say in a low voice: "Liu Futong can't be killed, the current situation is not easy to come by, if we kill each other first, it will be chaotic." ”

Tang Yang and the others were not yet destroyed by anger, and knew that what Zhao Yu said was the truth. Thinking that when Zhao Yu left, they had sworn to ensure that the Yingzhou branch was fine, but now they were in such an embarrassing situation, and they were a little speechless for a while.

Zhao Yu only roughly learned what happened from Zhuang Zheng, and only after thinking about it did he ask: "You go to Shaolin Temple to theorize, but what is the result?"

Tang Yang shook his head and said: "Shaolin Temple claims not to contact our sect and has been avoiding it. However, we have already found out clearly that the Qi family is a lay disciple of Shaolin Temple. Yes, Yuan Zhen is the disciple of the Kongjian Divine Monk, the head of the four great monks of Shaolin, and his martial arts are extremely powerful. That day, the disciples of Tuntian quarreled with the servants of the Qi family because of the water canal, but they did not know that nearly 100 martial arts masters rushed out of the Qi family's manor, and we lost hundreds of people in a burst of rushing to kill or beat or capture! When Yan Qi's envoy gathered all the people and horses to theorize, that Yuanzhen took a few Shaolin monks to hide in the Qi family's Zhuang Ding, and not only killed many good players of the Five Elements Banner, but even Yan Qi's envoy was seriously injured!"

Yan Yuan's martial arts, Zhao Yu also knows a lot of details, and when he heard that he was injured, he knew that the monk named Yuanzhen had high martial arts. After pondering for a moment, he said: "This blood debt must be recovered after all! What is the current situation? What will you do next?"

Tang Yang sighed and said, "We were supposed to return to Yingzhou to take revenge after gathering our subordinates, but it is no longer feasible now. Wu'an is a narrow place, not a place to live for a long time, we have been investigating left and right in the past few days, but there is no good place to go. At present, there are two choices, one is to go north to Shandong, according to the land of southern Lunan to form its own pattern, and the other is to go south to Haozhou, Guo Zixing may be able to settle these remaining congregants. ”

Wen Cangsong said: "No matter where you want to go, there is a big problem right now. We were defeated in a hurry, and we did not carry any grain or grass or baggage. At the beginning of spring, there is nowhere to replenish grain and grass, and it is better to say that the Five Elements Banner alone has to take care of those lonely and widowed sects, and it is already about to run out of food......"

Zhao Yu looked around and saw that these Mingjiao disciples were all withered, and their moaning voices were weak. Especially children who can't stand hunger and are depressed. Out of the corner of his eye, he swept over the children curled up in the corner of the wall and walked slowly. When the child heard the movement, he raised his head and saw Zhao Yu coming over, his little face showed some fear and some hesitation, and after a while, he stretched out the fist that he was holding on his chest and handed it to Zhao Yu. In that small black palm, he was holding a finger bone that had been licked and white and covered with tooth marks!

Zhao Yu boasted of his perseverance, but when he saw the child's reluctant but resolute eyes, and saw the finger bone that the child regarded as a treasure, his eyes moistened, and he turned his back to hide his face and wept. Promising with one's life is not necessarily a touching affair between men and women, it may not be a heroic affair, sometimes it is just a humble and outrageous sharing of life!

After a long time, he collected his feelings and said in a condensed voice: "Where is the food?

Tang Yang hesitated for a moment before he said, "There is a big manor near the left, and the owner is named Li Siqi. His manor was requisitioned as a military warehouse by Li Chahan, the king of Ruyang, and he went south to take away some grain and grass, and there should be some stored grain. If it can be robbed, it can solve the urgent need. It's just that in addition to the 1,000 grain guards in the manor, there is also a martial arts master guarding the grain and grass. A few days ago, several scout brothers got a little closer, and they were killed by those masters. Our newly defeated army has no morale, and if we fail to fight, there is no hope, so we dare not act rashly. ”

"It's good to have a hope, and without further ado, let's go and see it first. When Zhao Yu heard Tang Yang like this, he knew that this manor must be extremely difficult to capture, so they didn't dare to act rashly. But he refused to give up, so he proposed.

The group rode out of Wu'an, and after walking west for half an hour, they saw a rather wide manor built on the mountain. From a distance, this manor is more majestic than Liangguan Fort in Pingyao City, with all kinds of arrow stacks and watchtowers, and even the small river that passes around the village is hung with barbed iron cables to lock the water.

Tang Yang pointed to the manor and said: "This kind of garrison's manor is the most difficult to attack, and it is not necessary to steal the number of roads in the city. A few people who dive in will soon be killed, and it won't help. The only way to do this is to storm it, and as long as they shoot at the wall, we can fill it with our lives. And we have no siege equipment in the city, only to storm the gates. As long as the defenders have a good soldier at the city gate, they can be called invulnerable......"

A disciple of Houtuqi said: "Originally, there was still a way to dig tunnels, but last night we dug a few zhang away from the city wall, but at the last moment, we were detected by the martial arts masters in the manor, not only ruined the tunnel, but dozens of disciples were buried alive before they had time to escape!"

Zhao Yu looked at the closed gate of the manor, and his eyes flickered. There are many masters in the Ruyang Palace, and he has seen it a long time ago, but if there is any other way, he doesn't want to fight against him in this situation. Now that we have reached the point of exhaustion, if you don't want to give up those thousands of lives, you can only take risks!

After thinking about it for a long time, he spoke: "I can choose more than ten elite brothers of the Five Elements Banner to attack the city gate with me, and the rest will rush in when the city gate is opened, how sure are you that you can besiege and kill the more than 1,000 defenders?"

Tang Yang groaned: "The most difficult thing is to attack the city gate, as long as you can rush in, the Five Elements Banner brothers are all good men who are one in a hundred, and they are not afraid of any elite soldiers!"

After a moment of silence, he said again: "Success or not, we only have one chance." If you can succeed, you will naturally be happy. But if it doesn't work out, you have to make another plan. Therefore, the attack on the city gate will be done by our five bannermen, and the general banner will make you stay in Wu'an to lead these brothers. Even if we can't succeed in the end, as long as the general flag keeps you there, you can keep the fire of our Five Elements Flag, find another life, and maybe it will become a prairie fire in the future!"

Zhao Yu shook his head resolutely and said: "This matter can only be successful, not defeated! If we run away in panic like a lost dog, no matter where we go, we will only be treated as puppets to play with and manipulate, and we will have a solid reputation as a strong foreign force and a middle-class cadre! Only by fighting against the odds and having our vitality tied to one place can we make a room for a turnaround!"

He turned around and walked towards Wu'an, and shouted: "Go back and make a fire to cook, and after the fifth watch, you will raise troops to attack the Li family's manor!"

The rice is not a good meal, with a few grains of rice in the shell and a large handful of various wild vegetables, and the earthy taste is so strong that it is difficult to swallow. Rao is so, when the smoke rises, the lifeless Wu An is full of life, whether it is a seriously ill injured or a listless child, at this time it is active.

Fortunately, the cold winter has passed at this time, and it is the early spring season, and there are many wild vegetables growing in the mountains, otherwise the Five Elements Banner would never have been able to support it for such a long time.

Inevitably, people's hearts are in turmoil, and only a few leaders know about the food shortage. Although the rest of the congregation saw that the grain and rice in the soup were getting less and less, they did not despair.

The Five Elements Banner camp was separated from the ordinary sect members, and after entering the camp, Zhao Yu found that among the more than 2,000 Five Elements Banner disciples, nearly a quarter were wounded. Hu Qingniu and his wife have been busy with treatment, although some medicinal materials can also be found in the wild, but suitable for use has been scarce, so there are still many injuries that have not healed for a long time. Many of the available soldiers did not even have weapons at hand, but were replenished with a wooden stick or bamboo spear.

Seeing Zhao Yu enter the camp, the originally depressed Five Elements Banner disciples all cheered up, and they all got up and shouted, "The general flag is good." This is due to the unsparing publicity of Tang Yang and others in the Five Elements Banner in the past few years, as well as Zhao Yu's growing reputation in the rivers and lakes, and not long ago, the Mingjiao General Altar issued an edict ordering him to control the Five Elements Banner. All kinds of reasons, gathered together, even if Zhao Yu just came alone, it added a lot of confidence to them.

Zhao Yu walked through, took a bowl of vegetable soup handed by Zhuang Zheng, poured a big mouthful, and then said, "Brothers, the food is out of food!"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of all the people in the Five Elements Banner changed, they were the elite of a hundred battles, and they knew how serious it was to say that the army was cut off food. The panic gradually spread, but they saw that Zhao Yu and several flag-holding envoys were still calm, so they suppressed their panic and listened quietly.

"We're running out of food, we're going to grab it! I don't know how many people will survive in the end. But if only one person survives, it's me!"

After drinking the vegetable soup, Zhao Yu threw the porcelain bowl in front of his feet and shouted: "Fight to the death!"

Tonight the moon is dark and the wind is high.

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