Time flies, and five days pass in the blink of an eye.

On the evening of the fifth day, a baggage team from afar entered the Qianshan camp.

That night, Sun Ce took more than a dozen well-dressed young men into the tent of the Chinese army, and after a short time, he walked out of the tent alone, and walked towards his tent without looking back.

In the early morning of the next day, Sun Ce, who had obtained Li Li's permission, led more than 10,000 Jiangdong troops to leave the Qianshan camp and go straight to the riverside.

The Jiangdong army left on the front foot, and Li Li then led three thousand Jinqi guards out of the camp on horseback, facing the icy and biting cold wind, stepping on the white frost and slowly going up the mountain.

By this time, the remnants of Yuan Shu's army on the mountain had been cut off for five days and had been trapped on the top of the mountain for a whole month.

No matter how brave and tenacious the previous Yuan army was, it was already the end of the crossbow at this moment, and it was just a group of people who were struggling to survive.

"Bang, bang! The Jiangdong Army is coming, and it is attacking the camp again! ”

Before Li Li's army approached the camp, the soldiers on the high wall of the camp rang the gong, sounded the gong to warn, and shouted loudly for the soldiers who had not yet woken up to get up and defend the camp.

"Phew!" In the midst of a loud shout, a burly Jinqi Guard Armor Warrior stepped forward and shouted, "The remnants of the defeated army in the city will listen! The lord of my family, the leader of the Yuan Alliance, and the general of the world's soldiers and horses are here, and I think that God has the virtue of a good life, and now I am open to you and others, and those who take the initiative to surrender will not be blamed in the past, and those who dare to resist will not be killed! ”

After a pause, the shouting armor took a deep breath, and then shouted loudly like a bell: "Within a stick of incense, you will make your own decision, and quickly ask Yuan Shu to come and answer." Outdated does not wait! ”

"Seeking the leader of the Yuan Alliance?"

"The generals of the world?"

"General Li Li is here in person!"

The soldiers of the defenders on the upper floor of the walled city screamed in shock, and finally all focused on the sensitive word "General Li Li", and most of them did not understand what the people shouting from the city were saying. Actually, you don't have to listen. They also knew the meaning of the other party's shouting, after all, there had been many times before with such a loud shout, and the content was roughly the same, nothing more than persuasion.

However, it is also a shouting and persuasion, but different people have different effects. Before, the soldiers under Sun Ce's tent stepped forward to shout, and the soldiers on the city tower were indifferent, and their left ears went into their right ears. I didn't take this persuasion seriously at all. But at this moment, Li Li's subordinate soldiers stepped forward to shout, but the camp gate defenders were in turmoil. The moment many soldiers heard the shout, they subconsciously let go of the weapons in their hands. I can't wait to open the gate immediately, and please surrender when I leave the camp.

I haven't eaten a full meal for days, and I haven't drunk a drop of water for three whole days. The soldiers of the Yuan army who were guarding the camp were so hungry that their chests were close to their backs, and their lips were chapped with thirst. His cheeks were peeled by the cold wind. His face was blood-red and bleeding out. So much so that the soldiers had to wrap their heads and faces in black linen, leaving only their eyes and nose exposed, and even then their bodies were cold.

This kind of cold and hungry, hungry and thirsty day, the soldiers of the Yuan army in the camp really can't survive a day. However, the camp is surrounded by water, there is no way to retreat, there is no escape, and when you leave the camp, you are looking for death!

Until this moment. The Yuan army in the camp has been besieged for a month, and it has also been frozen for a month. In the second half of the month, I began to starve again, and in the last three days, I couldn't even drink saliva. In the past three days, more than 300 soldiers have frozen to death and starved to death.

It is said that these corpses, along with nearly 1,000 wounded soldiers who were injured before, were all dragged to the cliff of Houzhai by Yuan Shu's personal soldiers at night and thrown down, falling to pieces. The purpose of this is just to save food, to save bedding for the winter, nothing more. And those wounded soldiers have not received any medical treatment since the day they were injured, and now they are directly thrown off the cliff and reduced to the mouth of jackals, tigers and leopards, and there is no place to bury them.

?????? The stone cave on the top of the mountain, this cave is now the "sleeping palace" of Emperor Yuan Shu of the Zhong family.

The entrance of the stone cave is very small, only one person can pass guò, but the space in the cave is not small, and it is very deep, there are many small stone caves in the bend, and the whole cave can accommodate two or three hundred people. But nowadays, only Yuan Shu and his "Three Princes and Nine Qings" live here, as well as more than a dozen village girls who were caught on the way to escape, and now they are the "concubines" who serve the "emperor".

There was already a ready-made camp tent in the cottage, but Yuan Shu led the army to flee and didn't care about carrying bedding to keep warm, and the wind leaked from all sides in the camp tent on the top of the mountain, which was extremely cold. As a last resort, Yuan Shu had to abandon the camp tent and hide in the cave. Although the cave is surrounded by cold stone walls, it is better to have a small entrance to the cave, which can block the wind, as long as a charcoal fire is lit in the cave, the cave will be warm like spring in a short time. The only inconvenience is that the cave is very dark, it is not easy to move around, you have to bend over in and out, and if you are not careful, you will hit the stone wall, which will be bruised and swollen at the lightest, and the head will be broken and bleeding at the worst.

"Report!"

The sun was rising, and the groggy Yuan Shu had just woken up from his sleep, and the clumsy maid served him to put on the "dragon robe", and before he could freshen up, he saw a personal soldier trespassing into the "dormitory" in a panic, which made Yuan Shu suddenly frown and was very unhappy.

Without waiting for Yuan Shu to get angry, the soldiers hurriedly said: "Lord、、、 uh no, Your Majesty, it's a bad thing, it's a bad thing!" ”

"Ugh!" Yuan Shu was stunned when he heard this, and then scolded angrily: "As my close guard, what kind of system do you have to be so flustered and reckless? What happened, tell me in detail, don't panic! Despite the unhappiness in his heart, Yuan Shu forcibly suppressed his anger and asked directly about the matter. After all, these are extraordinary times, and at the time of life and death, how to survive the current crisis and escape genius is a top priority, and other trivial matters are not worth mentioning.

Yuan Shu's sharp rebuke did not change the panic of his own soldiers, but made him more and more frightened, trembling all over, and trembling: "Your Majesty, the Xiliang army is here, General Li Li led the Xiliang Iron Horse up the mountain, and it is in front of the Qianying Pass at this moment!" ”

"Ahh Bang -- bang! Yuan Shu was shocked when he heard this, and accidentally knocked over the wooden basin in the hand of the maid, causing the half basin of hot water carefully prepared by the maid to fall to the ground, and the steaming hot water was sprinkled on the ground.

Indeed, the water in the camp nowadays is more expensive! A bowl of water can save the life of a soldier, but such a precious half basin of water was knocked to the ground by Yuan Shu's hand, and the water seeping into the stone crevices was enough to save the lives of more than a dozen soldiers.

In addition, the water used by Yuan Shu every day to wash his face and bathe is actually the rations of the soldiers guarding around the cave and the "concubines" in the cave, and every drop of water is a thing of the owner and is extremely precious. But now, the water is spilled, and the drinking water of the soldiers and maidservants for half a day is also cut off.

Just as the maid and the soldiers were staring directly at the rapidly disappearing water stains on the ground, Yuan Shu sat on the ground with his legs paralyzed. And he happened to sit on the lump of water stains, but he was unaware of it, and looked at the black stone wall not far away with a dull expression, his eyes were blank, and he looked lost and depressed.

Seeing that Yuan Shu was still sitting on it after knocking over his life-saving water, a trace of indignation appeared on the panicked face of the personal soldier, as if he was indignant and jealous. Immediately, I don't know where he got the courage, or if he completely let it go, he said to Yuan Shu in a deep voice: "General Li Li sent someone to shout in front of the pass, and ordered His Majesty to appear before sunrise to answer, and he will not wait for it!" After speaking, the soldiers didn't even look at Yuan Shu, turned around and left, and their waists were straight, their steps were steady, and they seemed to have made up their minds not to follow Yuan Shu all the way to the dark.

Yuan Shu didn't notice the abnormal behavior of his own soldiers at all, he didn't realize how precious the washing water he accidentally knocked over, and he didn't know that this half basin of washing water actually caused the personal soldiers who had always been loyal to him to have different aspirations, and they were strangers from then on.

At this moment, Yuan Shu's mind was blank, and a cold and extremely depressed aura of death surged into his heart, and then spread throughout his body, completely enveloping him, unable to get rid of it, and unable to struggle. Before, he was still thinking about how to survive this catastrophe and escape, but the moment he heard that Li Li personally led the army up the mountain, he knew that he had no chance to escape, and it was really a catastrophe, and it was completely over.

Sitting alone on the water stain and stunned for a long time, Yuan Shu slowly came back to his senses, Gu Zi shook his head lightly, and said in a low voice of self-pity: "I think I, Yuan Shu, self-proclaimed hero, judge the situation in the troubled times, dominate the Jianghuai, create the Zhong Dynasty, and reign in the world." Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the establishment of the imperial power, it was besieged by all kinds of princes and joined forces to crusade, so that my Yuan Shu fell here, hiding in the cave to survive. The world is changing, unpredictable, the first moment is still infinite, the next moment is the vicissitudes of life! That's it, the Zhong Dynasty no longer exists, what is the face of my Yuan Shu to live in the world. If you have nothing to love, you might as well go back! ”

Muttering to himself, Yuan Shu struggled to get up, and the servant girl who was serving on the side tried to step forward to help, but he waved back. Finally standing up, he didn't care about his appearance, no longer groomed, and didn't pay attention to the mud on the dragon robe, and slowly walked out of the cave with his hair scattered, and walked towards the front gate camp step by step.

?????? Two strokes in the sun, Yuan Shu appeared on the tower of Yuanmen City, looking down at Li Li who was a hundred steps away with an expressionless face.

"Could it be that the general is here to persuade him to surrender? I don't know what position the general promised Yuan Mou, the position of the third prince or the position of Jiuqing? Standing on the city tower, Yuan Shu didn't say anything polite, and asked directly with an indifferent expression.

At the moment when Yuan Shu appeared, Li Lize immediately stepped forward and walked fifty steps in front of the gate to stop at Lerma. After hearing Yuan Shu's words, Li Li said aloud with a calm expression: "After the highway general is a famous family, he established the Zhong dynasty two years ago, and he proclaimed himself the emperor of the Zhong family, and he can be regarded as the king of the world. Not long ago, Li passed through Shuxian Bufu and learned that Brother Highway had built a mausoleum for the late Mrs. Bu three years ago, which made Li grateful. It was because Li had no other intention to come here, just to give the highway general a ride and preserve the last dignity of the highway brother as the king. That's all. ”

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