The fighting at the head of the city had intensified more than ever, and the city seemed quieter than ever, like the calm before a storm.

Meng Zhixiang sat in the Shuaifu, with a knife on his knees, closed his eyes and was silent.

The officials and staff of the Shuai Mansion sat in front of Meng Zhixiang on two sides, either nervous, or panicked and anxious, or turned their necks to look out of the door—as if they could really do it.

The setting sun illuminated everyone's faces, portraying their panic clearly.

From time to time, there were flying horses rushing to the front of the mansion, and the cavalry marched into the mansion to report the battle situation to Meng Zhixiang.

There was little good news, mostly alarms everywhere.

Every time a battle report came, the hall would be noisy for a while, and the officials and staff would talk about each other.

At the beginning, everyone still gave full play to their wisdom and kept giving advice to Meng Zhixiang, but later, almost no one took the initiative to stand up and speak.

Because there is nothing to do.

By this time, everyone knew the extreme unfavorable situation of the battle.

Wave after wave of shouting and killing sounds, one after another in the city, wave after wave, like a tiger roaring and a wolf howling, as if it would rush to Shuaifu at any time, and bite the people here to the bones.

A recent battle report made the hall lively again, and the officials talked a lot, and their voices became louder and louder, and for some reason, the voices of their conversations were a little unscrupulous, and they did not hide their own worries and panics.

"What are you panicking about!"

Meng Zhixiang suddenly broke away from his eyes that were still blazing, not angry and arrogant, "Chengdu hasn't broken yet, it's not time for you to be a bird and beast, why, you can't sit still at this time?" Do you need to wait for Ben Shuai to leave the city and surrender to the thief army?! ”

As soon as these words came out, all the officials hurriedly confessed and shouted "Dashuai is angry"

Yunyun.

Meng Zhixiang snorted coldly, "If Chengdu is broken, the most dangerous thing is Ben Shuai, what are you panicking about!" What's more, the city is still there, and with my Chengdu soldiers and civilians working together to reject the thieves, it is not easy for the thief army to enter the city! The battle situation is slightly unfavorable, and it is easy to panic, what kind of system will it become? How can such a thing be a great thing! ”

When everyone heard this, their faces were different, some were embarrassed, and some were unimpressed, but the hall was quiet anyway.

"Dashuai, it's time to eat!"

When the atmosphere in the hall was depressed, a crisp voice sounded, and then a beautifully dressed girl walked in from the side, came to Meng Zhixiang's side and gently pushed him and said, "If you don't eat again, it's going to be dark!" ”

Seeing this girl looking at him with watery eyes, Meng Zhixiang's face softened a lot, but this was the child who had just lost his mother that he had just picked up in the alleys of the city not long ago.

Meng Zhixiang touched her head and said, "Why did you come to call me to eat today, and what about the others?" ”

"They didn't dare come in, so they had to call me in."

The little girl said with a childlike face, "Dashuai, I'm going to eat, I'm hungry too." ”

"Okay, let's go eat."

Meng Zhixiang stood up with a smile, glanced back at everyone, and sneered: "In the face of difficulties, you are not as calm as a child, and you feel ashamed to say it!" ”

waved his hand, "It's all gone, let's go eat each." ”

The whole hall was bowing and thanking, Meng Zhixiang was holding the little girl's hand to leave, the last rays of the sunset were dissipating, and suddenly, a loud noise came, shaking the whole room.

Everyone changed color, looked around in astonishment, Meng Zhixiang's brows furrowed, his face also sank, in an instant, the people in the hall were panicked, and the headless flies seemed to buzz, Su Yuan even ran out of the hall and ordered someone to check what was going on.

When I was young, someone came in a hurry to report that the northern city wall had collapsed and the thief army had invaded the city!

Meng Zhixiang's face changed greatly, and he was about to mobilize the remaining forces in the house to fight to the death, and another flying horse came to report, the east city gate was broken by the thief army, and the thief army entered the city in a big way.

At this point, Meng Zhixiang's face was full of ashes.

"Dashuai, let's go!"

Su Yuan rushed up with a rolling belt, begging Meng Zhixiang, "The thief army has entered the city in a big way, and it can't be stopped, go quickly!" ”

Meng Zhixiang stood in place in a daze, his eyes were empty and blank, and he didn't know if he was still conscious.

Su Yuan couldn't take care of too much, and hurriedly called his personal guards to support Meng Zhixiang, and ordered to lead the horse and gather the armor soldiers who could assemble to escort Meng Zhixiang out of the city.

"Go to the South Gate!"

When he got on the horse in a hurry, Meng Zhixiang finally came back to his senses and said to Su Yuan with a sweat.

The surroundings were already in chaos, the people of the Shuai Mansion were running everywhere, shouting and shouting, and they didn't know where to flee, the figures were floating like maple leaves, even the neighing of horses seemed panicked, and the lights of the streets and alleys and houses under the twilight were lit up like jumping ghost fires.

The little girl who couldn't take care of herself before she asked her to eat, in a hurry, Meng Zhixiang's horsewhip was thrown on the horse's buttocks, and she fled in a panic with a group of guards.

"Call on the soldiers to break through from the West City Gate!"

Before leaving the Shuaifu, Meng Zhixiang suddenly turned around and ordered, the enemy army is large, he must have someone to cover his whereabouts, and after the city is broken, the soldiers of the six gods and no master will instinctively obey his orders.

Chengdu is over, Xichuan is over, where else can I escape?

Where to flee is not a dead end?

"Go to Wu and take refuge in Xu Zhihe!"

Meng Zhixiang, who held the reins of the horse tightly, quickly made up his mind, "I heard that Xu Zhihe is preparing to attack Chu, this is the time when Wu State is employing people, this time the marshal can still be a general, the war of the Wu State to attack Chu is the opportunity of the marshal, as long as the marshal plans properly, he may not be able to make a comeback, and then the marshal will still be a prince!" At that time, the north and the south will fight, and it will be said who will die, and there will still be a chance for the great cause of the commander."

The deafening sound of the battle was louder, and even the tent could be felt clearly, the roof of the tent seemed to tremble, as if it were about to collapse at any moment, and from time to time the sound of hurried footsteps rushed outside the tent, near or far, mixed with the sound of horses' hooves and shouts, like a needle piercing the heart, and made people more and more restless.

Today seems to be different from usual, maybe the fighting is really a lot fiercer, or maybe it's just because of the inner working.

Meng Yanyi, who was sitting on the low floor, twisted her handkerchief with both hands, because she was working too hard, the green tendons on the back of her hand were extra prominent, and the twisted shape of the handkerchief was as tangled as her expression.

It's the fifteenth day, Meng Yanyi remembers clearly, today is the fifteenth day of Wang Shi's attack on Chengdu.

Before the war, the white-robed and extraordinary military advisor had made up his mind that he would definitely take Chengdu within half a month.

Meng Yanyi didn't get out of the tent to look around, he had been at war for a long time these days, and the bloody human tragedy made her unbearable.

I don't know when she hated this war, this war that separated countless wives and turned the beautiful world into purgatory.

But if she wanted to come forward in person to persuade Meng Zhixiang to surrender, she couldn't do it.

She asked Li Congjing if she persuaded Meng Zhixiang to surrender, if the other party could avoid death.

Li Congjing's answer is no.

The war in Chengdu has begun for half a month, but Meng Yanyi's heart has been entangled for a longer time, she can't use the righteousness of her family and country to persuade herself to persuade Meng Zhixiang to give up resistance, and the flesh and blood affection is more real, more touching than the ethereal former.

So she was in pain, almost in pain.

The battle of Chengdu killed many people, more than in any previous war, and Meng Yanyi could not turn a blind eye to these suffering lives.

At the same time, she Chu, Chengdu is really only a matter of time before it is breached, whether it is Li Congjing or Mo Li, they are too confident in this war, and the soldiers of Wang Shi are also vigorous and enterprising.

Meng Yanyi suddenly felt sad, after the city of Chengdu was broken, she was going to be ruined, in this unprovoked war, she was going to be like countless people in Shuzhong, after all, she would become a cold martyr, no matter whether she was the pearl of Xichuan before, and whether his father was the lord of Xichuan.

Meng Zhixiang, who once stood on the top of Xichuan and enjoyed the most powerful in Xichuan, ended up with the same fate as an ordinary family in the countryside, suffering and devastation in the world under the iron heel of war, and even the tragic ending was still too much.

And she, Meng Yanyi, also has to face the separated death of all her family members and lose the qiē she once had.

"Obviously living a good life, why did it suddenly become like this?"

Meng Yanyi kept asking himself, "Why did you suddenly all die when you were living well?" ”

"War is war, it's this damn war!"

"But why is there a war?"

The extreme pain tormented this twenty-eight-year-old girl, so much so that she forgot that there was such a thing as persuading Meng Zhixiang to surrender.

At some point, the light in the tent had dimmed.

Meng Yanyi's delicate and tired body stood up, looking lonely in the empty tent, her eyes slowed her steps, and she reached out to lift the curtain of the tent.

Outside the tent is still a tent, it is difficult to extend the line of sight, the orange sunlight hits her face, making Meng Yanyi's pupils shrink, she raised her head, and the back of the fence of the building in the setting sun was gray.

The afterglow of the sun sprinkled over the empty camp, and Meng Yanyi, who was standing in front of the curtain, faced the sunset, and the long shadow was reflected in the tent, tightly surrounded by the darkness in the tent.

The sun is about to set.

Meng Yanyi suddenly lifted her dress and ran outside the camp - she was going to the watchtower, to tell Li Congjing, she was willing to persuade Meng Zhixiang to surrender.

However, her men were still halfway through when they heard the loud roar of the city wall falling.

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