The defense line of the righteous army was very strong, Xue Yue attacked several times, but could not break through, seeing the enemy troops in the rear surrounding, Xue Yue turned his heart sideways, threw away his bow and arrow, drew his sword, and rushed forward in the lead. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this moment, from behind the enemy, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves, not a horse running, but thousands of horses, horses' hooves on the plain, rumbling, immediately attracted the attention of the warring sides.

Xue Yue hated the sound of horses' hooves very much, but at this moment, he thought it was the most beautiful sound in the world.

It was Xie Tong, Xie Tong led the army to rescue him, Xue Yue was overjoyed and said, "Brothers, the reinforcements are coming, follow me to kill, kill!"

Xue Yue became brave at this moment, and the desire to survive made him put aside all meaningless thoughts, and ran over like a bee seeing nectar.

Xie Tong led the light cavalry, broke through two lines of defense one after another, and finally saw Xue Yue who was dying and struggling, his army had long been scattered, and only the reserve troops were struggling to resist.

Xie Tong's cavalry team penetrated the rear of the enemy like a tiger and wolf, although the enemy was attacked on the back of the enemy, but it did not collapse at the touch of a button, Xie Tong knew that this was Meng Kai's main force, and it was specially taken out to target Xue Yue.

Seeing that the enemy army was constantly approaching, Xie Tong said in his heart that he must fight quickly, otherwise even he would be eaten by Meng Kai.

Thinking of this, Xie Tong cheered up and shouted, "Brothers, kill." He rushed in first, ignoring the enemy's arrows, and the green steel sword rolled up a colorful light, slashing left and right, and rushed into the enemy's camp on the spot.

Many soldiers followed behind Xie Tong, squeezed in and fought with the enemy in one place.

Xie Tong used all his strength to knock down more than ten enemy soldiers in an instant, but the enemy troops were not intimidated by Xie Tong, and pounced on them like a tide, blocking Xie Tong's path to death.

The enemy's stubborn resistance was really beyond Xie Tong's expectations, and his heart was slowly sinking, it seemed that today was indeed a catastrophe.

The two sides officially fell into a stalemate, and this rebel army, facing Xie Tong and Xue Yue's bag, stayed where it was, and it was indeed an iron army.

Xue Yue was mad, he was desperate to reunite and slash, and so was his personal guard, like crazy, desperate to fight the enemy, and the sword move attacked the enemy's vital point, stabbing the enemy down like lightning.

The enemy finally couldn't hold it anymore and broke through under the flanking attacks of both sides.

When Xue Yue staggered in front of Xie Tong. Xie Tong almost didn't recognize him, he was no longer a martial general, but a ragged, bloodstained body, and his armor was tattered like a deserter.

Xue Yue saw Xie Tong, as if he had seen a relative, he looked at Xie Tong with a wry smile, and it took a long time to spit out two words from his mouth and say, "Thank you!"

Seeing his dog-like appearance, Xie Tong wanted to kick him out of anger, the army of 100,000 was ruined by his rash advance, how could Xie Tong not be angry, but now is not the time to be angry, they must retreat, Xue Yue's horse was already lost when he charged.

Xie Tong said coldly, "What are you doing here, why don't you go and find a horse, and wait for this Zhu Wen and Meng Kai to get you?"

Xue Yue had been waiting for Xie Tong's words, and when he heard him say this, he hurriedly got up from the ground, and turned over his horse regardless of his exhaustion. Straight into the distance.

Many soldiers saw Xue Yue's embarrassed appearance, and the two of them were judged by the majestic general two days ago, and they all felt very disgusted by this person.

Xie Tong also did not dare to delay, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat, and returned to Xiangyang along the route from which he came.

Xue Yue had already fled and disappeared, and Xie Tong also began to set off.

The route of retreat was not smooth, the combination of the enemy forces caused them to fight while fighting, and many cavalry had lost contact, Xie Tong was heartbroken, in order to save Xue Yue's army, he himself did not know how many brothers he had lost, but the ending did not change much.

The leader who muttered before dusk followed behind Xie Tong at this moment, and said with admiration, "The general is really like a god, and the villain is convinced." ”

Xie Tong smiled bitterly and said, "If I really knew things like a god, I wouldn't have Xue Yue's fiasco today." , it's a pity that tens of thousands of brothers were buried in vain!"

The organization of the enemy army was very tight, Xie Tong retreated all the way, and was blocked step by step, but fortunately, Xie Tong was always able to take the lead and organize the soldiers to charge, so that he was not dragged by the enemy.

Xie Tong relied on the speed of the cavalry, galloped all night, and after dawn, he finally got rid of the enemy's pursuit and arrived at Yicheng in the southeast of Xiangyang.

At this moment, people were already sleepy, and after Xie Tong entered Yicheng, he immediately ordered everyone to rest.

Unexpectedly, Xue Yue was also in Yicheng, and when he saw Xie Tong, he was far away, and he smiled bitterly when he changed the news, and said, "Brother Xie, come and sit!"

Xie Tong slowly paced over and said, "How many brothers are left?"

How did you know that Xue Yue was in pain, he cried loudly, as if his heart was broken, and it took a while before he said, "Little brother is narrow-minded and short-sighted, I really regret not listening to Brother Xie's advice, so I have today's fiasco." I'm sorry for you. ”

Facing Xue Yue's crying and weeping appearance, Xie Tong couldn't lift half of his pitiful thoughts, and after a long sigh, he said, "Xue Yue, what you are sorry for is not Xie Tong, but thousands of soldiers, they came all the way from Chang'an with you, the purpose is to protect the family and defend the country, and you were led to death by your selfishness and your blind desire for merit, how can you explain to them! And your army is the only bargaining chip to defend Xiangyang, once Xiangyang is lost, have you thought about how terrible the consequences are!"

Xue Yue shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

Xie Tong said angrily, "The enemy army will drive straight into Luoyang, and the entire Central Plains will face the situation of being swept away by the Yellow Nest, even if Your Majesty kills you a hundred times, I am afraid it will be difficult to understand the hatred in my heart!"

Xue Yue's frightened body shook violently, and he immediately stopped wailing and said, "What should I do!" He immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said, "Brother Xie save me, why don't we turn the horse's head now and fight back!"

Xie Tong said angrily, "Are you crazy? Huangchao has hundreds of thousands of horses, and we are now defeated by the remnants of the army, do you want to play sheep into the tiger's mouth?"

Xue Yue said, "Then what should I do, Your Majesty will kill me."

Xie Tong said angrily, "It's good to kill you, lest the current situation occur, this 100,000 army, hey, go back to Xiangyang first!

At this moment, the sentry came to report that the enemy was coming.

Xue Yue hurriedly got up from the ground in fright, turned over and got on the horse.

Xie Tong shook his head when he saw it, it was really mud that couldn't support the wall. He was busy directing the soldiers to retreat, and Yicheng could not be defended, otherwise the whole army would be annihilated.

The armies of both sides gathered in one place and hastily withdrew to Xiangyang. This defeat greatly dealt a blow to the confidence of the Tang army, and the soldiers threw away their weapons and armor one after another, and fled like lost dogs.

When we arrived in Xiangyang, it was already dusk.

The soldiers entered the city one after another, but Xue Yue with his escort hesitated at the city gate.

Xie Tong said, "What are you still doing in a daze, waiting for Huang Chao to come and catch you if you don't enter the city?" Do you still have an army of 100,000 and force Huang Chao not to attack?"

In the face of Xie Tong's ridicule, Xue Yue no longer dared to fight back, but sighed, "Little brother has no face to see adults."

Xie Tong saw through his thoughts, Xue Yue was narrow-minded, he was afraid that Wang Daoxun would use this excuse to kill him, thinking of this, he smiled and said, "General Xue, do you dare to do it?" Don't worry, adults won't kill you!"

When Xue Yue heard this, he followed behind Xie Tong tremblingly and walked into the city gate.

Wang Daoxun had already known the fiasco ahead, and as soon as the two entered the city, he rushed out angrily, saw Xie Tong and Xue Yue, pointed at Xue Yue and scolded, "Talking on paper." Why did the old man bring such a piece of waste to you!"

After that, he rushed up and slapped Xue Yue twice.

These two slaps were extremely heavy, Xue Yue didn't dodge, and a trail of blood flowed down the corner of his mouth.

Xie Tong knew that Lord Wang was really angry.

After Wang Daoxun finished fighting, he looked at Xie Tong and scolded angrily, "Xie Tong, what are you doing, didn't the old man give you 10,000 elite soldiers to make your palace queen? How can there be such a deviation, 100,000 troops, 100,000 troops, let the two of you be ruined!"

Xie Tong was very unhappy in his heart, he didn't resent Wang Daoxun, he just felt that he was really powerless, because Xue Yue didn't listen to them!

Wang Daoxun looked up to the sky and roared, "Your Majesty, the old minister is incompetent!" He actually hid his face and cried bitterly.

Xue Yue and Xie Tong, who were watching, were stunned, Xie Tong knew that Wang Daoxun was confident before, completely considering the existence of this support army, and now, the reinforcements were defeated, he had no support, and it seemed that the balance of victory had tilted to Huang Chao's side.

Xie Tong hurriedly stepped forward and comforted, "Don't be angry, although our army has suffered this defeat, Xiangyang City is still there, and it will not be a problem to defend him for a month, and when the reinforcements arrive, Huangchao will retreat without a fight!"

Wang Daoxun waved his hand and motioned for everyone to follow him to the mansion to discuss matters.

Everyone returned to Wang Daoxun's mansion, and after sitting down, no one dared to speak, after all, Wang Daoxun was angry, and Xie Tong was reprimanded, who would be bored with himself!

Wang Daoxun's face was gloomy, and after a long while, he let out a long sigh and said, "Let's go! Xiangyang can't be saved, go one by one, so as not to be served by Huangchao here!"

Hong Shan was surprised and said, "Why are you so pessimistic, although our army is newly defeated, it is still possible to defend the city."

Wang Wanru also said, "Yes, father, we are all here, why are we so depressed!"

Wang Daoxun seemed to be ten years old, and said, "As the old man expected, Huangchao will cut off all contact between Xiangyang and the outside world within two days, don't say it's a person, not even a fly can fly out, if you don't escape, I'm afraid there will be no chance!"

Nightingale said, "Isn't the imperial court sending reinforcements? Just let Xiangyang City be occupied by the enemy, and then open the passage to Luoyang in the north?"

Huo Zixin said, "Uncle Yue doesn't have to be pessimistic, this possibility doesn't exist at all, will Wu Wang Li Zheng sit idly by?"

Wang Daoxun pointed at Xue Yue and said, "You ask where his soldiers came from!"

Xue Yue's face was very pale, and he said with a wry smile, "My soldiers are soldiers under the command of King Wu, and some of them have been transferred to Xiangyang to help!"

Xie Tong was cold all over his body when he heard this, no wonder Wang Daoxun was so angry, just because he had already known the ins and outs of the reinforcements, Li Zheng commanded an army of 200,000, half of which was distributed to Xue Yue, and half of it was guarded by the city defense of the Beijing Division, so he could no longer take out half of the troops.

Wang Daoxun smiled bitterly for a while, our only reliance has been buried by this arrogant person, it can be seen that Xiangyang City is about to be destroyed, and we can no longer wait for rescue.

The crowd fell silent.

After a long time, Lao Lai said, "My lord, maybe we can still follow the previous strategy, Huang Chao has many generals, the supply of grain and grass is a big problem, since crossing the river, it has been more than a month, and now the harvest season has passed, even if the enemy army collects grain and grass everywhere, I am afraid it will be difficult to maintain such a large-scale consumption, as long as we hold on, the enemy will retreat without a fight." ”

Wang Daoxun sighed and said, "According to the news that the old man got it, Huang Chao has already looted the grain and grass in nearby states and counties, and even sent people to fish day and night in the river for military use, how can we last more than a month, but can we still hold it for a month?"

The crowd fell silent again.

Xue Yue suddenly stood up from the chair, staggered to Wang Daoxun's side, knelt down with a puff, and teased, "My lord, you kill me! It's all the villain's selfishness that led to today's tragic situation, Xue Yue deserves death, you kill me!"

Wang Daoxun suddenly flew up and kicked Xue Yue's shoulder, Xue Yue fell out directly, slamming on the ground, Wang Daoxun said angrily, "When I was in Luoyang before, the old man was still a good seedling when you were a little narrow-minded, but after all, you have some ability, as long as you restrain yourself and suffer more, you can't be alone, but look at you now, your head is full of arrogance and resentment, and you look like a loser, and you have wasted the old man's years of teaching!"

Xue Yue didn't get up, but lay on the ground and convulsed, "My lord, I'm sorry for you!"

Wang Daoxun turned around and walked towards the bookcase, pulled out his sword suddenly, and said angrily, "The old man will kill you."

He pointed the tip of his sword straight at Xue Yue, who closed his eyes without the slightest thought of dodging or resisting.

Everyone closed their eyes, not wanting to see Xue Yue's blood spattered.

Xie Tong suddenly used the whirlwind footwork technique, and at the moment when Wang Daoxun's sword was about to pierce Xue Yue, he suddenly struck, he condensed his true qi, and held the sword firmly with his two fingers, and the sword couldn't fall anymore.

Wang Daoxun said angrily, "Xie Tong, if you can't rebel, don't let me go!"

Xie Tong didn't leave, but said lightly, "Adults can't kill him, Xue Yue may be the only way to save Xiangyang!"

Wang Daoxun withdrew his stabbing long sword, and said angrily, "The 100,000 army was destroyed by him, what else can he do to turn things around."

Xie Tong's words, even Xue Yue was stunned, he never thought that Xie Tong would stand up for him at this critical moment, and even he couldn't figure out what value there was to be worthy of Xie Tong's attention.

He asked himself that he did not have that ability, he commanded the troops to Xiangyang in less than two days, the 100,000-strong army was almost wiped out, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military did not criticize the pen and write, even his father-in-law Tian Gonggong could not protect him, borrowed his courage and did not dare to go back, died in Xiangyang, at least it can be said that he made a command error, died on the battlefield, once he returned to the capital, he would eventually end up with an embarrassing reputation, and even implicate the nine clans, after all, the imperial court had no soldiers available. (To be continued.) )