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The city of Chaoge was trapped, its armaments were insufficient, and its food and grass were damaged.

Pei Wenyuan dealt with all kinds of trivial matters continuously, and returned to the tent at [-] o'clock in the middle of the night, and ate a few mouthfuls hastily.

In the extraordinary period, there is nothing delicious in the general's tent, and a bowl of hot porridge seems extravagant at this time.

Pei Wenyuan took two mouthfuls, looked at the lack of water in the clear soup, and thought of the soldiers in the army and the people in the city who didn't know if they could eat a mouthful of food, and suddenly couldn't eat any more. However, he put down the bowl, sighed, and picked it up anyway. Drink it all up—at this time, food is more expensive than gold, and 1.1 meters of millet is the blood and sweat of the people.

This battle was too difficult, not because of how powerful the opponent was, nor because the opponent had any dragon city flying generals in charge. On the contrary, even though the opponent had a strong army and had five times as many people as himself, it was actually very unbearable one strike.

But because of being so vulnerable, Pei Wenyuan couldn't do anything—the floods in the south of the Yangtze River starved thousands of miles away, and the surviving people became refugees, who were instigated and recruited by people with ulterior motives, and became the massive and seemingly powerful refugee rebellion today military.

In the final analysis, they are all ordinary people who have been dragged down by the evils of the world and conspiracies. From An Ran in the prosperous and peaceful world, he was suddenly dragged into the chaotic world by Shen Ke, and he became a stepping stone for some people in a daze.

As long as they can live on, no one is willing to rebel. These people are not only pitiful but also hateful. In the final analysis, they are still the people of Dayu.

It is summer at this time, and it is not like winter, where the lack of a cotton coat will directly freeze people to death, but summer has summer troubles - the weather is warm and humid, the health of the refugees will not be very good, and the most feared thing is the plague .

Pei Wenyuan was in a hurry to get angry about food reinforcements for a few days, and he was a little resigned to his fate. Anyway, Chaoge City and the capital will not get better. General Pei has no doubts that Concubine Song is with him at this time, but the predicament in front of him is a bit difficult to solve In order to prevent the plague from spreading in the army and the city, Pei Wenyuan simply threw away his frugal heart and ordered people to collect all the wormwood that could be used in the city, divide it into one month's portion according to the amount, and burn it every day to ensure that the disease would not invade.

Therefore, Chaoge City is now full of the unique smell of burning wormwood, from the curtain of the tent, you can still faintly see the green smoke in the east and west in the twilight, so worried, it's really true There was a heart-wrenching feeling of being besieged on all sides.

The weather outside the tent was not good, and the dull dark clouds made the sky red and purple. Looking from a distance, there was lightning hidden in the clouds at the end of the turbulent clouds, the thunder was faint, and the rainstorm was about to come.

Pei Wenyuan slammed down the curtain a little annoyed, thinking that no matter what, this wormwood can no longer be burned like this tomorrow, so he simply chopped up the share of the day and sank it into the water source, and shared the drink with the whole city, so as to keep fit and save money. This is demoralizing.

However, when Pei Wenyuan chased the ducks to the shelves and encountered rebels, he had no choice but to close the city and ask for help—he knew too little about the enemy and us, so he could only wait for news from the capital to reduce unnecessary casualties.

Unexpectedly, the rebels didn't let him wait until tomorrow.

That night, he didn't patrol at night, and tossed and tossed until the second watch. Just now, he felt a little drowsy, and was confused for a while, when he suddenly heard a sharp thunder-like sound outside, followed by a sky-high red light.

Pei Wenyuan was stunned for a moment, thinking that the torrential rain that had been suffocating all night had finally arrived as scheduled, but before he could close his bewildered eyes again, he woke up in an instant, the summer thunderstorm was white electricity and purple light!In such a deep night, the only thing that can be so red and bloody is the fire that soars into the sky.

Where did the fire come from? !What exploded? !

Pei Wenyuan didn't have time to put on his armor, so he heard the footsteps of soldiers outside the tent approaching.

"Report! General, the rebels took advantage of the night to attack the city! Now they are outside the city!"

Pei Wenyuan said angrily, "What?!"

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Outside Chaoge City, the flames continued continuously, and the arrows stained with tung oil and ignited shot across the pitch-black night, covering the sky and covering the ground, illuminating the battle flag that was calm due to the dull weather, falling densely like a torrential rain. Above Chaoge City Gate.

The sound of arrows piercing through the air of "Boom, Boom, Boom" is mixed with the roars of the guarding soldiers one after another, which is so tragic that it is heartbreaking to hear.

Holding his shield, Pei Wenyuan boarded the city gate under the cover of his own soldiers, walked through the forest of arrows and rain of fire, frowned and looked down, only to see the rebel army below the city stretching to an invisible distance in such a depressing night It was like a gigantic ghost gathered from the ominous spirits that emerged out of nowhere from the other shore, completely surrounding Chaoge City layer upon layer.

Pei Wenyuan's heart was shocked, but there was no expression on his face. He remained calm under such circumstances, as if he was really a ruthless general who had been in the sand city for a long time.

The soldier held up his shield to avoid an oncoming arrow and asked, "General?! What should we do now?!"

"Let the archers prepare!" Pei Wenyuan said without hesitation, "The city gates are dead! Defend Chaoge City! No matter what method the rebels use, whether it's a chariot to destroy the city or a siege stone, take them all down..."

However, before he could finish his words, he saw that the three rows of archers at the bottom suddenly parted from the left and right, revealing a behemoth after several times of siege in the dark night that crushed the city. It was not until recently that the torch nearby revealed his true face.

Pei Wenyuan's pupils constricted after just one glance, his heart beat like a drum, and he couldn't help scolding his mother in his heart, but time didn't allow him to vent the uncontrollable anger in his heart, he only had time to yell out a selfish "Get down!"

He knew what it was all too well - he confiscated a lot of artillery in the Yecheng prison, and he knew what it looked like.

"--ignition!"

There was a loud bang under the city, and a huge pothole was blown out of the iron-like outer wall of Chaoge City. The new bricks of the city wall that had been rebuilt [-] times like an iron bucket turned into fiery bricks under the earth-shattering shock. The ashes, sparks splashing, flying sand and rocks, the sound of iron drums at the top of the city is rushing, and the gunpowder smoke is mixed with gunpowder and gunpowder smoke. In the night sky with strange colors, a strange grinning face appears. Qi returned to the world.

This is just the beginning-

Before the soldiers on the city wall could react, the second cannon fire, like an ancient monster, smashed through the night full of gunpowder and gold, ignited the splattered and shattered wall bricks, roared and roared, and hit the city gate , "Boom" a loud noise that shocked the world.

Pei Wenyuan was shaken by the bang, his body was unstable, his hearing seemed to be dissipated in the tinnitus from big to small, from near to far, his head was hit by some kind of scum, and he couldn't tell whether he was bleeding or not. But just like that, he grabbed the soldiers around him who were about to roll off the city wall with one hand, and with the other hand, his bones were firmly embedded in the city wall that seemed to be still warm from a cannon, and he stabbed himself on the city wall forcefully .

A vanguard under the city had set up an engineering ladder and tried to climb the city wall, but was directly smashed down by the soldiers on the city with huge boulders.

"General!" Yu Sheng's bodyguard hoarsely said, "If this continues, the city gate will no longer be able to be guarded!"

"Shut up!" Pei Wenyuan threw his soldiers to the ground, "They have cannons! Don't we have any? Push the cannons parked at the city gate! First load and ignite all the original red cannons on the city! How many!"

Hearing his order, the soldiers in the city seemed to have finally grasped a glimmer of hope amidst the fear and confusion. Covering cover, filling and filling, after a few orders, the red cannons fired one after another, and the rusted cannons in the prosperous age The blood-stained smell, intertwined with continuous artillery fire and mournful voices, formed an elegy of eternal peace.

At this time, Pei Wenyuan suddenly thought of Jiang Xizhu, whose whereabouts were unknown. The two teenagers who grew up together were also born in the family of Dingshi in Beijing. Half of Dayu is separated by each country, he has his ambition not to fall into the blue sky, and he has his own drunk smile on the battlefield.

But until now, it's just too difficult.

The world is changing, he has no time to make a name in history, and he himself has no time to be loyal to history, and even the country that died of foreign enemies is not the same as he expected.

As soon as he was successful, Pei Wenyuan finally found out, dumbfoundingly, that he would rather be smashed to pieces than be a famous general standing on a pile of white bones to gain fame.

Behind him was the capital city, and Dayu, which his father had guarded for half his life; in front of him was a rebellious army, mixed with despicable villains, and more of them were the people he wanted to protect with the shroud of Nuoma leather.

In the back house of Pei's mansion when he was young, Pei Wenyuan and Jiang Xizhu played chess, the elegant young man held white characters, and scattered in his hair were the shadows of old times that are hard to find. The son of a family of generals, after all, owed a lot of effort to Wen Tao, and settled down , Doomed him to lose all rounds.Relying on that person's good temper, he randomly messed up black and white chess pieces, but he laughed and said, in the future, if you encounter a chess game where you will lose both advance and retreat, do you want to avoid it?

I didn't think about it, and when I was young, I joked, and it came true.

"Junchi... If you are still here, what is the solution to this situation."

Pei Wenyuan stared at the burning night and sighed softly.

Forget it, Pei Wenyuan thought, lying upright on the battlefield is better than dying in a conspiracy in the future.

"General!" The soldiers who had just been scolded by Pei Wenyuan came back to report, "The Wujin giant cannon has been erected inside the city gate! It's not high enough! The cannon can't get out!"

When Pei Wenyuan heard the words, he didn't reply to him first, with a cold expression on his face.

He held a gun in one hand, and the gun weighed seventy to eighty kilograms. The gun was powerful, just like the words of the general's iron and steel bones: "Brothers! Now behind you are your parents, wives and children! Chaoge City is here! They are here! The ground under your feet Never retreat an inch of land! Swear to live and die with the mountains and rivers!"

The defenders of the city were besieged here for several days and were exhausted. Now that they heard this, they still responded like thunder, and the battle drums rushed to the sky with the sound of killing.

Pei Wenyuan turned his head and said to the soldiers: "Open the city gate!"

The soldiers were stunned, and lowered their voices: "General! You are crazy! The rebel army is five times larger than our sergeants! Once the city gate is opened, it cannot be defended!"

Pei Wenyuan didn't know what was dripping on his face. He raised his hand and wiped it. Looking at the more and more rebels below the city and the densely packed people on the siege ladder, he turned around and went down the city wall by the neck of the soldiers: "Why don't you open it?" Let that damn thing go! Go! The iron fence is against the corner of the city gate, just open a line! It’s enough to pass the cannon’s mouth!”

The soldiers were taken aback for a second, not daring to delay any longer, and hurried away.

Pei Wenyuan went straight to the tripod of the good Wujin cannon. Perhaps the height adjustment was not successful just now. The cannon carriage was especially high. Pei Wenyuan didn't have time to lower it, so he simply ordered someone to carry the other cannon, and quickly set it up vertically side by side. The two doors of the door were all filled in one go.

Holding the torch, Pei Wenyuan personally took the lead and pushed the cannon cart with the seven or eight soldiers, walked quickly a few steps and roared: "Open the door!"

The soldiers guarding the gate had already received the order, and after listening to this order, they suddenly opened the huge city gate weighing a thousand catties to a gap that only allowed the muzzle of the cannon to pass through.

Outside the gate was the vanguard of the rebel army, and seeing the city gate open, they were rushing in.

Pei Wenyuan grasped the lead wires of the two cannons in his hand, took a deep breath and shouted, "Steady the city gate!"

At the same time, the torch in his hand ignited the fuse, and the sizzling flames licked up the entire fuse in an instant. The Wujin Cannon lived up to its reputation. The artillery fire didn't even have time to scream, and it was blasted into the sky in fragments, turning into several blood-stained meteors.