It was not until Yang Yihang, who had been waiting at the mouth of the Zhulong River for many days, also sent an elite infantry to come ashore to receive reinforcements, and then beat the chasing soldiers who were pressing closely back to retreat, and Gu Siyuan breathed a sigh of relief and retreated to a gentle slope.

At this time, only half of the 3,000 dead men who followed him to the east to attract the attention of the enemy army remained, and the others were either scattered in the night or had already died under the enemy's sabers.

Even if the remaining more than 1,000 dead soldiers are bloody out of the encirclement, almost one by one, relying on the last strength has not been discharged, supporting not tired on the spot, although the number of reinforcements on Jinwei Island is small, but the energy is complete, the bow and crossbow are complete, and the pursuers who pounced on them have shrunk several times and stood firm......

As the sky grew brighter, Gu Siyuan could see the situation around the estuary more and more clearly, and the enemy troops attracted were far less than expected.

Because the estuary is full of tidal flats, lakes and swamps, this terrain is not conducive to the battle of large armies, and it is not conducive to cavalry coming in and galloping to kill. Thousands of enemy cavalry chased here, and they had the intention of shrinking, and they had no intention of killing the more than 1,000 remnants of the army fleeing east with heavy casualties.

"I wonder what's going on with Daddy?" Gu Siyuan looked into the distance, and in the clear morning light, he could only see the shadows of mountains and rivers like paper-cutting several miles away, and he didn't know whether the main force had successfully broken through.

"Young boy, Captain Yang, Captain Ma, what about Lord Gu and others?"

Gu Siyuan turned his head to look and saw Chen Enze, the Chongzhou meat ticket boy of the year, and a bearded general wearing scale armor walking from the back of the dwarf hill, thinking that this bearded man should be Yang Yihang, the chief general of Huaidong on Jinwei Island.

"Oh, it turned out to be you," goodbye to the old man of Huaidong, Gu Siyuan was inevitably embarrassed in the face of Chen Enze, and said, "I led the dead soldiers to break through from Dongcheng, attract the enemy's main force, and disturb the enemy's sight, so as to cover my father to lead the main force to break through to the south, and at this time I don't know what the situation of the troops breaking through to the south is......"

Chen Enze and Yang Yihang looked at each other, and subconsciously said: "Under the peep of several horses and enemy horses, the main force of the Qingzhou Army is tens of thousands, how can it break out of the encirclement to the south?" ”

"It's very difficult, but as long as you can break through to the south bank of the Xiaoqing River at night, you can escape some people." Gu Siyuan said.

The only two pontoon bridges in the lower reaches of the Xiaoqing River are under the strict control of the new annexed army, if the pontoon bridges cannot be captured and the troops swim across the river, Chen Enze is very suspicious of how many people can escape, but seeing that Gu Siyuan is quite confident, he is also inconvenient to question, and introduces Yang Yihang to Gu Siyuan, Yang Pu, and Ma Chao......

"Yihang has seen the young man, Captain Yang, Ma ......" Yang Yihang came over to greet Gu Siyuan and others, and when he gave Ma Chao his hand, he only saw that Ma Chao's face was wrong, and when he saw that his body was about to fall, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him.

Ma Chao supported Yang Yihang and Gu Siyuan, sat on the ground with one butt, just now a member of the dragon spirit and tiger general, at this time, it seemed like a candle about to burn out, and his eyes began to drift, but he gritted his teeth and said to Gu Siyuan: "When the young man sees the adult, say to the adult, the old horse can no longer serve the adult and the young man......" and passed away.

Putting down Ma Chao's increasingly cold body, everyone saw that Ma Chao had a broken arrow stuck in his chest. The shaft of the arrow had already been broken, only a short section was exposed in the body and was not pulled out, and Ma Chao's battle robe was already stained with blood, and the broken arrow pierced his chest was not seen until this time. I don't know how long Ma Chao persisted in fighting with this broken arrow, and he didn't die until this moment.

Gu Siyuan stood there without tears.

Yang Pu looked at Ma Chao's cold corpse, the old tears were crisscrossed, he sat there, slowly untied the armor on his body, and said to Gu Siyuan: "If you can, please also ask the young prince to take the old horse's body to Huaidong for burial, he is a horse, and he has only lived a few years of settlement after following the adult, and he hopes to continue to live such a life, and now it seems that Huaidong can stop a little," took out a few letters from his arms, "Here are the letters from the adults to my aunt, Miss and Mrs., if the lady can escape to Huaidong, it would be good, At this time, the old slave was entrusted to the young man......"

Yang Pu took off his armor, only wore a brown shirt inside, and wanted to tie the saber back to his waist, and said to Gu Siyuan: "If the young prince meets Yang Shi, tell him that there is nothing to be sad about, just kill a few more Hulu," Speaking of this, Yang Pu walked to a war horse on the side, stepped on horseback, and said, "The old slave followed the adult to ......"

Gu Siyuan, Yang Yihang, and Chen Enze didn't know what Yang Pu meant, and when Yang Pu whipped his horse and galloped away, it was too late to intercept him, so he watched Yang Pu gallop out of the gap in the infantry formation alone, and rushed towards Yanhu's pursuers who were staring at the periphery.

Gu Siyuan howled in pain, and watched Yang Pu approach the enemy formation, and as soon as he pulled out his sword, he was hit by more than a dozen arrows, fell off his horse, and couldn't get up again.

The enemy pursuers were also very puzzled about Yang Pu's desire for death, and they dispersed without stopping this side from sending someone to retrieve Yang Pu's body - Gu Siyuan sat on the ground in despair, as if he was stupid.

Yang Pu resolutely begged for death, Yang Yihang and Chen Enze were also caught off guard, looking at the bodies of Yang Pu and Ma Chao hiding side by side on the top of the slope, vaguely guessing the reason, they were silent, afraid of another extraneous branch, half-dragging and half-dragging Gu Siyuan to the boat, and at the same time withdrawing more than 1,600 dead soldiers to the sea and disengaging from the enemy.

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Looking at the wolf-like battlefield under the city, Gu Wuchen closed his eyes in pain, he didn't know if Si Yuan and Yang Pu had broken through the encirclement, he could only do this.

Seeing Zhao Qinmin coming up, his son Zhao Jin also followed up to the top of the city with more than a dozen guards.

Gu Wuchen said: "I didn't expect it to fail, you came to have a drink with me?" ”

Zhao Qinmin's face was cloudy, and he didn't say a word, and walked with Gu Wuchen to the city gate.

Yesterday evening, Gu Siyuan led 3,000 dead soldiers out of the city, and there was indeed a tendency to attract the enemy troops outside the city to the east, but Gu Wuchen ordered the other three gates to be opened in advance and sent troops to break through, which instead attracted the enemy troops outside the east city. In the middle of the night, except for a small group of soldiers and horses who were scattered to the point where they were gone, the main force was finally forced to retreat to the city.

When Gu Wuchen decided to break through, Zhao Qinmin became suspicious, and when Gu Wuchen ordered the other three doors to attack in advance yesterday, he decided that Gu Wuchen was only leaving a way for his son to survive in the end.

At this time, seeing Gu Wuchen's face as usual, Zhao Qinmin sneered in his heart, and he didn't break it.

"You have been with me for five years, and you haven't gotten any benefits, but you ended up trapped in a lonely city and couldn't get out, I owe you ......" Gu Wuchen walked into the side hall of the city tower and sat down behind the long case, there was a delicate tin pot and a pair of amber cups in the sandalwood disc on the desk, Zhao Qinmin knew that this tin pot and amber cup were Gu Wuchen's favorite things.

Gu Wuchen beckoned Zhao Qinmin to sit down on the case, took the amber cup and put it on himself and Zhao Qinmin, held the pot and poured the two cups full of wine, the strange fragrance overflowed the room, and said: "To this day, I can only toast you with a glass of wine to apologize...... "Hold the wine glass first."

"The adult's words are serious, if there is no adult, Qinmin is just a humble body......" Zhao Qinmin hurriedly picked up the wine glass and watched Gu Wuchen drink the wine first......

"What, you don't think I'm sorry enough?" Gu Wuchen looked at Zhao Qinmin's wine glass to his lips but didn't drink it, and asked with a smile.

"I already regret not letting Zhao Jin follow the young master, why should the adults force each other hard?" Zhao Qinmin looked at the wine glass in his hand, put the wine glass in front of the desk, didn't drink it, just looked at Gu Wuchen calmly.

Gu Siyuan, Yang Pu, and Ma Chao all left, and the veterans who were really loyal to the Gu family either left or died in battle, don't look at the Qingzhou soldiers and horses who stayed in Yangxin City, there are still nearly 20,000 soldiers, but there are no veterans who are loyal to the Gu family scattered among them to restrain military discipline, in this desperate situation, how many of these people are willing to go all the way with the Gu family?

Zhao Qinmin thought to himself that if he didn't drink this cup of wine, what could Gu Wuchen do!

"Alas! Your mind is too heavy in the end, and when things come to this point, how can I complain? Just a glass of wine, I sincerely respect you," Gu Wuchen refilled the cup with wine, and said, "Do you think I will let you drink poisonous wine together?" This is the poison I have prepared, but I am reluctant to give it to you," Gu Wuchen took out a paper bag from his arms, unfolded the paper bag with trembling hands, revealing the white powder inside, carefully poured it into the wine glass, put his fingers in it and stirred, drank it again, and said with a smile, "If I die ugly, I have to trouble you to help me...... The toxicity was very strong, and in just a few breaths, Gu Wuchen's heart was in pain, covering his chest, and he slowly fell down with shortness of breath, black blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth, and he left the world like this......

Although the corners of Gu Wuchen's mouth overflowed with black blood, his face was like life, and his majesty was still there, Zhao Qinmin stood stunned for a long time, and he didn't dare to test whether his snort was broken. Zhao Jin waited outside the door for a long time, couldn't hear any movement inside, couldn't hold back his temperament and walked in, ran over to try Gu Wuchen's snort, and said softly: "The adult has passed away...... still dare not have the slightest disrespect for Gu Wuchen.

"Oh!" Zhao Qinmin came back to his senses at this time, and instructed his son Zhao Jin, saying: "You lead people to guard the door, and you must not let outsiders in, and declare to the outside world that adults should think about ways to get out of the siege quietly, and outsiders are not allowed to come in to worry about adults......"

Gu Siyuan, Yang Pu, Ma Chao and others had already left Yangxin, and Zhao Qinmin sat and thought carefully, no one among the officials and generals who stayed in Yangxin could pose a threat to him. As soon as Gu Siyuan died, he took the post of director of the Qingzhou system, and he ranked first among the officials in Qingzhou.

Thinking that at this time, as long as he sent a henchman to the enemy camp to contact the matter of surrender, wealth and nobility would be at his fingertips, Zhao Qinmin couldn't help laughing.

The more he thought about it, the more proud he became, Zhao Qinmin looked at the two amber cups on the long case, and also drank a glass of wine to celebrate.

Zhao Qinmin didn't touch the cup that was poured with poison and residual liquid, picked up the other cup full of wine, and drank it all in one gulp, only to feel that drinking with this amber cup really tasted different from usual, and he still felt that it was not enjoyable, so he poured two glasses of wine and drank it in a row, and when he felt angina, it was too late......