has become a demon

Since Xiao Jiang got the urgent military situation on the front line, she has summoned a total of 3000 permanent troops from the Yuquan Battalion to move in two groups.

More than [-] people strengthened the defense of Yuquan Camp itself.Another [-] cavalry were ready to rush to the aid of Wu Zhong.

Just as he was preparing to leave the city, Shi Guan, who was staying behind at Yuquan Camp [Note 1], said worriedly: "General, just now there was an urgent report saying that Wuzhong City was broken and the Tatars entered the city. I am fighting with the Tatars in the street. I am afraid that the loss will be heavy, and it will not last long. Once the barbarians burn the city, it will be too late. Do we really need to rush to help...is there still time?"

"What do you mean?" Xiao Jiang asked him.

"Yuquan Battalion is backed by the Qingxiakou of Helan Mountain, and it is also an important place where our Ningxia army's granary is located. If we send troops to help Wu Zhong, will the governor be charged with ineffective protection of the granary in the future?"

"You are confused." Xiao Jiang sighed, "The barbarian's goal is Weizhou in the upper reaches of the Luopu River. If he wants to take Weizhou, he must first seize Lingzhou. If Wu Zhong is captured by the barbarian, then Lingzhou will be destroyed, and Zhongwei will be restrained." , there is no reinforcements in Ningxia to rescue the Yuquan camp. If we stick to the city, our rammed earth wall is only two feet high. ?”

Shi Guan was stunned: "This subordinate has never thought about..."

"More than that, the Yuquan camp was broken, the Qingxiakou could not be held firmly, and the gap in Helan Mountain was opened, and the cavalry from Jimo Monan could enter the customs and join the tribes of Yexing. Weizhou, and even the entire Shaanxi Xingdu [Note 2] 】Everyone will be in danger. If Wu Zhong is alive, we will still have a chance of life. If Wu Zhong is defeated, we will all die. Brothers, let’s all commit suicide and apologize. Where is it the governor’s turn to punish him?”

Only then did Shi Guan understand the seriousness of the problem: "I am timid."

"You guard the granary well, and you can't retreat until the last person dies in battle. If it really comes down to the last moment and it is set on fire, you must never let a single piece of grain fall into the hands of the barbarians."

Xiao Jiang looked at the sky, pulled the reins, and raised her voice: "The barbarians have entered Wuzhong! Kill my people, take my wife, and burn my homeland! Brothers, follow me to kill the enemy!"

He has a slender figure and a handsome appearance. He has killed countless enemies in Monan, and he has the heart to save the country with his fists. He has great prestige in Ningxia.At this time, he raised his arms and shouted, and the fish-scale silver armor reflected the dazzling golden-red light in the setting sun.

It just makes people's blood boil and move forward bravely.

A resounding roar erupted from among the five hundred soldiers who dared to die.

After Xie Taichu led 200 troops into the city, he arranged for the general flags and small flags to quickly disperse around the outer city, pulled out the barbarian team from the outer city, and gathered at the gate of the urn city.

"The casualties are about seven or eight hundred." Zhu Quanchang has already counted the corpses, and said anxiously, "the total number of guards in Wu Zhongzhong is only one thousand. Now that the inner city has been destroyed, and they are still fighting in the streets, they are just stubbornly resisting, hoping to send some people to escape. .I guess it won't last long. Shall we go in?"

"Go in." Xie Taichu said, "Change to shorter weapons. After entering the city, we mainly look for the houses where the houses are gathered, and watch out for the Tatars to set fire to them. Wuzhong City will really disappear when the fire starts."

"clear."

After saying this, Xie Taichu rushed into the inner city with his people.

At this time, the inner city is like a hell on earth, and thick smoke has risen in some places, linking with dark clouds in the darkening sky.

Screams came from everywhere.

The desperation of death wafted through the city amidst the bloody smell.

There is no need to look for Manzi, there are scattered troops of Manzi looking for people and hacking everywhere on the street, Xie Taichu jumped off the big black horse, crossed Dao Demon swords, strangled more than a dozen people.

The blood mist sprayed on the ground, mixed with those of the Daduan people, and there was no way to distinguish them.

Zhu Quanchang and others hurriedly followed up from outside the city gate, they had already changed their swords in their hands, seeing this, they couldn't help admiring them.

"Equally divide into five or six roads and gather at the gate of the county government office." Xie Taichu said, "Everyone, be careful."

Zhu Quanchang and others scattered into the alleyway, and sure enough they found piles of firewood one after another in the alleyway, and killed many barbarians while eradicating them one by one.

Barbarians are so powerful that they are not easy to deal with even when they get off their horses.

It takes several people to attack back and forth before they can cut down the opponent.The further they went in, the more barbarians there were. Zhu Quanchang and others relied on the advantage of being familiar with the structure of northern towns to shuttle back and forth between the courtyards, killing people by tricks.

Sometimes they set up traps, and sometimes they dig through walls.

Sometimes relying on firecrackers to shoot from a long distance.

He also made earthen explosives and threw them out of the wall at once, seriously injuring the barbarians.

This journey is difficult.

The number of barbarians is endless, even if it is like this, it takes several people to work together to kill one person.There are only 50 people under his banner, and people are dying all the time. Their eyes are covered with blood, and the big knife cuts the gap, and the tiger's mouth will burst when it comes out.

The long war is exhausting.

The endless numbers of foreigners make people even more desperate.

Too many people died in the alley, mostly unarmed people.

No one asked why they didn't retreat, no one asked how so many barbarians won.However, if you don't attack, you will die. After massacring the city, who else can survive?

Zhu Quanchang threw himself on a Tatar and stabbed him in the back with a knife. The Tatar struggled wildly.

He yelled tearfully: "One more person!"

No one came for a long time.

He shouted again: "Make up for it!"

No one responded.

He looked back, but there was no one alive behind him. The two small flags who followed him just now died under the machete of a Tatar who appeared next to him.

The Tatar soldiers behind him were gathering up.

Zhu Quanchang gritted his teeth and stepped on the remaining Tatar soldiers who were struggling frantically, pierced his chest and back with a knife, and then turned over and fell into the corpse, gasping for breath.

enough.

He had killed countless savages, and he had paid back his capital. When he went to the underworld, no one could call him a coward again.

The Tatar's scimitar was raised, and he closed his eyes for the final fatal blow.

However, the blow did not fall.

He opened his eyes to see that Xie Taichu was standing in front of him, all the surrounding Tatars were killed by his sword.

Xie Taichu was covered in blood, turned back to glance at him, his eyes were cold, and asked: "Can I get up?"

Zhu Quanchang answered "Yes" with a hoarse voice, unsteadily supported himself to stand up, and stood in the pool of blood.

A knife was handed in front of him.

He took it and looked up at Xie Taichu.

"Where are your people?" Xie Taichu asked him.

The blood on Zhu Quanchang's face fell into his eyes, his eyes were blood red, he couldn't see clearly, so he choked up and said, "He died in battle."

"Then you come with me." After Xie Taichu said this, he held his sword in both hands and swept out of the alley, followed by Zhu Quanchang.

Xie Taichu was in the front, his assassination was precise, every sword was just right, reaching the enemy's fatal point, never dragging his feet.Even after fighting for so long, his hand was as steady as if he was killing the first enemy.His face was cold, showing no mercy at all, let alone a trace of mercy, he struck out sharply, and a single sword could kill a person.

Zhu Quanchang followed behind him, so he only needed to protect his back, and the pressure was slightly relieved.

He asked: "Master Dao, there are too many barbarians. Can we win?"

"If Wu Zhongcheng survives, he will win." Xie Taichu killed three more people while speaking.

"Keep it? How to keep it? Our people are almost dead." Zhu Quanchang said, "Unless there are reinforcements."

His voice just fell.

Then I heard countless beating drums and shouts from the west.

Xie Taichu drew his sword faster.

He said: "Reinforcements are here."

Xie Taichu took Zhu Quanchang to the county government office in the inner city. On the way, more than a dozen local soldiers from Wuzhong and more than 50 soldiers from the county king gathered together, fighting and walking.Zhu Quanchang asked: "Where am I going now?"

Xie Taichu said: "Wu Zhong's yamen. The common people must be accommodated there. And it is the most favorable terrain on the mountainside. Mandu Luying is also there."

A group of people turned around the alley and entered Yamen Street, and saw a foreign flag floating in the air.

It is the banner of Mandulu, one of Minhan Nayan, who is also in the [-]th Battalion under Tumo.The Wuzhong yamen was built on the hillside, with a large flag hanging. The corpses piled up the most at the gate of the yamen. Hundreds of people on both sides fought in one place, and blood splattered.

Xie Taichu and others joined the battle, slashing left and right, there was a bloody road for them to push the gate of the yamen.

At this time, the yamen has been punched out by a heavy hammer.

Then I heard Meng Xiang, the chief of the guard, yelling in the yamen: "Brothers, stop it, stop it! We still have ordinary people inside! We must not let them in!"

While speaking, he was shot in the shoulder by an arrow. The arrow had barbs and a chain behind it.Meng Xiang was dragged out of the big hole in the gate of the yamen.

He was dragged into the siege of the Tatars.

Meng Xiang was in so much pain that he stood up staggeringly, but was kicked down by the Tatars and dragged on the ground.He was bleeding profusely and was humiliated. If he didn't have no weapons in his hands, he would have committed suicide.

The Tatars outside laughed and teased the man.

Xie Taichu arrived, he flew forward, his hands slashed horizontally with two swords, blood spattered, he had forced the person in front back dozens of steps, cut off the arrow feathers, he raised his hand and threw Meng Xiang back.

The Tatars who were having fun were interrupted by him, and rushed to kill him.

But Xie Taichu had stern brows and eyes, and the cold light pointed directly at the vital points of the Tatars. In an instant, several people were killed and fell under his sword.

The Tatars became vigilant, formed a circle around him, walked out of the crowd after a while, said a few words in Mongolian, and finally pointed to themselves and said: "I, Zavin Nayan [Note 3], Naha came out .”

——It turned out to be a Mongolian head of a hundred households called "Naha Chu".

"Thank you for Taichu." Reverend Ningshan pulled a sword flower and replied, "Come to fight."

Naha pulled out the shield on his back, held a pair of Mongolian long knives, and slowly walked to the center of the crowd, watching Xie Taichu vigilantly, looking for an opportunity to take advantage of.

However, Xie Taichu didn't move at all, just waiting for him to attack.

Zhawen Nayan, who just invaded another country and then broke the city to humiliate the general, is on the rise. How can he hold his breath and entangle with this seemingly vulnerable Taoist priest who doesn't even have armor?

After Naha came out of hibernation for a while, he roared and raised his knife to chop.

But Xie Taichu didn't even move, he raised his sword with his backhand, he had caught Naha's heavy blow steadily, and unexpectedly caught the falling force with his long sword with one hand, and remained motionless in mid-air.

Naha looked at him blankly.

Before returning to his senses, Xie Taichu moved instantly, the Dao Demon sword was fired, and the Mongolian knife caught in the middle was twisted to pieces.

The next moment, the magic sword teleported and cut Nahachu's neck.

Blood splattered on the spot, and Naha took a few steps back holding his neck, fell to the ground and died of exhaustion.

And look at Xie Taichu not moving an inch, covered in blood like a hell Shura, facing killing and death, his face does not change, and he has not moved in the slightest.

There was silence for a while.

Moments later there was a roar among the Tatars.

They tapped the shields with Mongolian scimitars, not knowing what they were calling for, and after a while, the team separated, and the big banner that symbolized Mandulu slowly came from the crowd, and the banner stood tall, well-equipped, wearing armor, The one holding a Khalkha Mongolian knife is the general of the Tatars this time.

Minhan Nayan Mandulu.

"You are very powerful." Mandulu spoke his unproficient Chinese, "Do you dare to fight with me?"

Xie Taichu was about to answer, but someone else answered loudly from a distance: "I will fight with you!"

A team came from behind the street, and Xiao Jiang jumped into the crowd on horseback.

He was carrying the Xiao character banner behind his horse, his whole body was covered in blood and flesh, and he looked like he was coming from a fierce battle.He looked at Mandulu and smiled.

"He has just fought a tough battle and is already exhausted. Are all you Tartars so invincible?" Xiao Jiang dismounted after finishing speaking, hung the Pu knife on the horse, and replaced the Miao knife in her hand to deal with the strong enemy.To Mandu Ludao, "The moon is dark and the wind is high today, suitable for killing people. Come on, barbarian, if you enter Ningxia, you will never return."

On the hill outside Wuzhong City.

Zhao Yuan stood with his hands behind his back.

Seeing the fire in Wuzhong City, Tao Shaochuan said anxiously: "Oops, the barbarians want to burn the city."

"The real man has foresight." Zhao Yuan said, "Shaochuan endured for a while."

Sure enough, within a moment, those fires were extinguished, but screams and hacking broke out everywhere in the city, Tao Shaochuan was young and impatient, paced back and forth anxiously on the top of the hill, and then climbed up a tree to observe.The sky gradually darkened, and it was no longer possible to distinguish.

"If the major general is in a hurry, he can take the remaining 20 people into the city to join the battle." Zhao Yuan said.

"The king of the county allows me to go?"

"Yes."

Tao Shaochuan was overjoyed, and shook his head resolutely: "No, I was entrusted by Brother Feng, and I have received a military order to protect the county prince, and I cannot take anyone away."

Zhao Yuan nodded and said nothing.

"We only have 200 people." Tao Shaochuan said, can we win? "

"If Wu Zhongcheng keeps it, we will win." Zhao Yuan said, "If you hold on longer, drag these Tatars here, and the reinforcements will come, and you will win."

"Reinforcements." Tao Shaochuan asked, "Where are the reinforcements?"

Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of war drums coming from the west, and the sound of shouting and killing came from the west gate of Wuzhong and entered Wuzhong City.

After a while, spies from the bottom of the mountain rushed up and reported: "The king of the county! General! 500 troops have come from Yuquan camp! It's hard to see clearly in the dark, and the banner with the word Xiao is hanging faintly!"

"It's Xiao Jiang!" Tao Shaochuan lifted his spirits, "It's safe!"

Zhao Yuan said to Tao Shaochuan: "Shaochuan, take twenty guards to the foot of the mountain to intercept the Tatar recruits. Don't let them pass the news back to the camp, so...the Tatars will have no reinforcements, only the battle of trapped beasts is left. .”

"Okay! I'll go now!"

Tao Shaochuan waved his hand, and the 20 people quickly descended the mountain.

It was already midnight at this time, the wind was howling, it was extremely cold, and it was sobbing as if all ghosts were crying together.

There are no lights on the mountain.

The sound of shouting and killing seemed to have disappeared.

In the silent and dark world, there is only Zhao Yuan himself.

He can't do anything.

Can't do anything.

I can only wait in this silent darkness...waiting...

After a long time, maybe just a moment.

He didn't know.

The passage of time in the darkness becomes so imperceptible.

Suddenly, in the direction of Wu Zhong, a torch was lit, on the upper floor of Wu Zhongcheng.Then another torch, and then countless torches, the lights filled Wuzhong County.

A spear picked up the broken Tatar flag, and Tumo's subordinate was also one of Minhan Nayan of the [-]th Battalion, and Mandulu's head was picked up on the point of the spear.

Xiao Jiang firmly fixed the gun in the center of the tower.A tidal wave of cheers erupted within the city walls.

Wu Zhongcheng kept it.

The people in Wuzhong City were also saved.

Zhao Yuan's hanging heart fell, and his nerves, which had been tense for a long time, suddenly relaxed.

With a flash in front of his eyes, he quickly supported the big tree beside him, and then fell down on the ground along the tree trunk.

At this moment, he was able to take a big breath.The suppressed tears fell uncontrollably with the venting of emotions.

"Your Highness, don't cry."

He looked up.

"Real people."

Xie Taichu responded softly, he held the Dao Demon swords in one hand, kneeling halfway in front of his eyes covered in blood, with his other hand hooking his fingers, intending to wipe away his tears.Just bloody hands...

He withdrew his hand.

Those kind of tears melted away the few cultivation bases left in his heart...

Originally, he was just an ordinary person, deeply trapped in the quagmire of love and desire, unable to get out.

"You, why did you rush back?" Zhao Yuan asked him in a daze.

"General Xiao cut off the head of Mandulu, and the Tatars lost their leader and soon fell into a rout. They chased all the way out and met Tao Shaochuan outside the city. Knowing that there was no one to protect you, they drove back." He said, "Fortunately, Your Highness is fine. .”

This scene is very similar to Tianshou Mountain.

Zhao Yuan lowered his eyes, supported the tree trunk and slowly stood up, bowed his hands and said, "Thank you, Taoist priest, for your willingness to help and save the people of Wuzhong this time. Taoist priest clearly said that he would follow the sky..."

"I said it when I entered the city, to defeat the enemy for His Highness...Your Highness does not need to thank you."

At this time, Yue broke free from behind the dark clouds.

The silver light instantly sprinkled the earth, gently caressing the devastated world.

On the ground, Zhao Yuan's humble figure was reflected.

I always feel as weak as in the past, but it seems that those slender shoulders can already carry something——

For example, people's livelihood.

For example, Sheji.

There were tears in his eyes, which could be seen clearly in the moonlight.

It is the uncontrollable tension and fear that spread, which is not ridiculous, but it shows his compassionate persistence.Let him be charming under the moon.

Xie Taichu couldn't help but bowed his head and kissed his cheek.

Before he could react, she gently embraced him, sucked her lips, and reluctantly let go after a long time.

"A real person?" Zhao Yuan was surprised.

Daoist Ning Shan, who used to have the world in his heart, finally raised his hand and gently wiped away his tears with his blood-stained fingertips, leaving a long bloodstain on his cheek.

"There is no luck in heaven, but His Highness doesn't recognize it. If this is His Highness' wish, I will go against the sky for His Highness... so what's the problem?"

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Apologies in advance.

The last week's update was a disaster. I didn't expect the company's quarterly review to last so long. I'm sorry for everyone who followed the series.I bow to you.

[Note 1] Qian Zong: An official position in the camp post system in the Ming Dynasty, a position similar to that of Ba Zong.The general is the head of a hundred households, and the head of a thousand is the level of the head of a thousand households.

【Note 2】Shaanxi Xingdusi: The administrative region including the current Gansu, Ningxia, and parts of northern Shaanxi.

[Note 3] Zawen Nayan: Mongolian military officer, head of a hundred households.