Episode 34: The Girl in the Dangerous City
A night attack returned to the city, Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Xiaolongnu, Cheng Ying, Lu Wushuang, Guo Poyu and others were very anxious, seeing that Jiang Chen and Yang Guo had returned safely, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and they heard that the two of them had killed a lot of enemy soldiers in this night attack, and they were all overjoyed.
Jiang Chen looked at the room full of people waiting, except for Guo Poyu, who was really waiting for him, the rest of the people were waiting for Yang Guo, and he couldn't help but feel a little unsavory, and after a few words of greeting, he said goodbye to everyone and went back to the room to rest.
The next day, the Yuanmeng army moved again, and everyone went to the city to look, only to see the enemy's 10,000 troops lined up a few miles away from the city, but did not attack. After a short time, more than 1,000 craftsmen carried stone vertical wood and built a high platform more than ten zhang high. I also saw more than 1,000 soldiers wielding long shovels and shovels and digging a deep and wide trench around the high platform, and the excavated earth was piled up outside the trench and became a wall of earth.
I could only hear the trumpets blowing, and in the sound of drums, a team of 10,000 people drove up and lined up on the left side of the high platform, followed by another 10,000 people lined up on the right. The formation was set, and another 10,000-person team was deployed in front of the stage, and together with the previous 10,000-person team, a total of 40,000 people surrounded the high platform. This great array stretched for several miles, and shieldmen, spearmen, horse slashers, crossbowmen, and punchers, layer upon layer, surrounded the high platform like an iron bucket.
A trumpet sounded, the drums stopped, tens of thousands of people were silent, and two horses galloped to the stage in the distance. Immediately, the passenger turned over and got off the saddle and went up to the high platform hand in hand, but because they were far apart, the faces of the two were not clear, and it was vaguely visible that they seemed to be a man and a woman. Everyone was stunned, Huang Rong suddenly exclaimed, fell backwards, and fainted. Everyone hurriedly woke her up and asked, "What's wrong?"
Huang Rong's face turned pale, stretched out her hand and pointed to the high platform, and said in a trembling voice: "It's Xiang'er, it's Xiang'er." Everyone was taken aback and couldn't help but look at each other.
Yang Guo shouted: "It's not good, I really didn't expect that the Tartars couldn't attack the city, and they actually resorted to treacherous tricks, it's really ...... It's shameless and despicable. ”
As soon as Huang Yaoshi and Zhu Ziliu said it, they realized it and their faces were full of anger. Guo Jing was puzzled and asked, "How did Xiang'er come to this high platform? What tricks did the Tartars do?"
Jiang Chen then sighed: "Guo Daxia, Xiang'er unfortunately fell into the hands of the Tartars, they built this high platform, piled up firewood and grass under the stage, but put Xiang'er on the stage, that is to force you to surrender." If you don't come down, they will set fire to the platform, so that you and Mrs. Guo will be heartbroken and confused, and we will not be able to concentrate on defending the city. ”
Everyone was shocked and angry when they heard it, but they were helpless, Huang Rong stared at the high platform blankly, and her heart was numb for a while, even if she had the wisdom of Zhuge , at this moment, she couldn't use it at all.
Seeing this, Jiang Chen hurriedly said: "For today's plan, we can only have a chance to rescue Xiang'er by breaking through the 40,000 people around the high platform first." ”
Huang Yaoshi said: "Exactly. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Let's simply use the Twenty-Eight Nights Great Array to fight with the Tartars." This formation changes complicatedly, but after I saw the Tiangang Beidou Formation of the Quanzhen Sect, I thought hard, participated in the formation of the ancients, and created these twenty-eight arrays, and I had the intention to compete with the Taoist priests of the Quanzhen Sect, but I didn't expect that now I would use it on the Tartar first. ”
Immediately, he selected the elite and heroic masters in the city, a total of 40,000 people, divided into five roads, each road 8,000 people, respectively led by Guo Jing Huang Rong, Master Yideng, Zhou Botong, Yang Guo and himself, leaving Jiang Chen alone, because he has the strongest martial arts, he is responsible for grabbing the high platform and rescuing Guo Xiang.
The point is over, Huang Yaoshi ordered the soldiers of all roads to receive and apply all kinds of things in the armory, and then ordered the flag to be displayed, 40,000 soldiers and horses were divided into five directions, southeast, northwest and middle, with the three sounds of the trumpet, the city gate of the four directions was opened, and the soldiers and horses of the five roads lined up.
I saw that each member of the East Route Army carried an extremely long wooden stake, attacked the east head of Gaotai, a thousand soldiers held shields, rushed forward to block arrows, and the remaining 7,000 people put down the stakes, one in the east, one in the west, it seems to be chaotic, in fact, the position of the eight thousand wooden stakes are erected according to the drawings and drawings of Huang Yaoshi, and they are divided into five elements of gossip, and the east head of Gaotai has been sealed in an instant.
The Western Route Army is the main force of the Quanzhen Sect, and the group has always been familiar with the Tiangang Beidou formation, only to see the long sword like snow, a pile of seven people, a group of forty-nine people, left and right, swarming and rolling, the Yuanmeng soldiers will be dazzled, so they have to release arrows to block.
Suddenly heard the shouts of the northern army, but it was Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu who led the monsters of the three mountains and five mountains, dragging a water dragon and shooting the poisonous juice towards the Yuanmeng soldiers. The poisonous juice splashed on the body, and it was painful when it landed, and it blistered and rotted in a short time, and the Yuanmeng army could not resist it and retreated to the south.
But when he saw the smoke rushing to the sky in the south, it was the master of a lamp who led 8,000 people to carry out a fire attack, and the sulfur saltpeter spewed out of the fire-breathing iron cylinder in bursts. Seeing that the situation was wrong, the Yuanmeng army was immediately defeated to the center. Guo Jing and Huang Rong led 8,000 troops, and then slowly went up, seeing the chaos of the Yuan and Mongolian armies, they immediately waved their troops forward and rushed straight to the high platform.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of trumpets and shouts beside the high platform, and tens of thousands of helmets were drilled into the ground. It turned out that the commander of Yuanmeng was also good at using soldiers, in addition to the 40,000 troops around the high platform, digging the ground as a pit, and ambushing tens of thousands of soldiers. Guo Jing and the others looked at it from a distance, but they only said that the enemy army was digging a pit, and they didn't know that they were ambushing a new force. This time, the defeat of the Mongol army was reversed, and the 28 large arrays came and went, although the enemy army was chaotic and wanted to gather and annihilate it, but it was no longer possible.
The war drums thundered, and the Song army and the Mongolian army shouted and fought. The defenders next to the high platform had strong bows and crossbows, and shot outward, and the middle route army led by Guo Jing rushed forward several times, but they were all shot back by the rain of arrows. The two armies fought for half an hour, and for a while they were victorious or defeated. Huang Yaoshi's green banner was unfurled, and the East Route Army attacked the south, and the West Route Army attacked the north, and the formation changed.
The Twenty-Eight Nights Great Array secretly ambushes the principle of the Five Elements. The Red Flag Army of Master Yideng on the South Road rushed to the center, Guo Jing's Yellow Flag Army rushed to the west, Zhou Botong's White Flag Army rushed to the north, the Black Flag Army under the leadership of Yang Guo went east, and Huang Yaoshi's Green Flag Army turned to the South Road.
The great turn of the five elements is that fire gives birth to earth, earth gives birth to gold, gold gives birth to water, water gives birth to wood, and wood gives birth to fire. Although there are only 40,000 Song soldiers, the formation is exquisite, and the leaders are all martial arts masters, and everyone in the Song soldiers is grateful to Guo Jing and his wife, and is determined to sacrifice his life to save his beloved daughter.
After a long fierce battle, Huang Yaoshi roared, the Green Flag Army retreated to the center, the Yellow Flag Army returned to attack the north, the Black Flag Army detoured south, the Red Flag Army rushed to the west, and the White Flag Army attacked eastward. This formation is another change, the reversal of the five elements, it is called wood and earth, earth and water, water and fire, fire and gold, and gold and wood.
King Jinlun stood on the high platform, watching the battle under the stage, and his heart was also secretly shocked, seeing that the Mongolian soldiers were getting more and more seriously killed and wounded, and the Yellow Flag Army was pressing towards the high platform step by step. Although he took Guo Xiang as a threat, he couldn't bear to really raise fire to burn her to death, and wanted to persuade her, but Guo Xiang had already put life and death aside at this time, she had been sharp and sharp since she was a child, and she never let people speak, and only said a few words to the Golden Wheel Dharma King almost exploded his chest, and he shouted loudly: "Guo Jing listen: I count from one to ten, if you don't surrender, I will order the fire to be burned." ”
In the midst of Guo Jing's fierce battle, the echo responded: "Evil monk, do you think that I, Guo Jing, am the one who surrendered?"
Seeing that the situation was not right, the Golden Wheel Dharma King shouted: "Guo Jing, listen, I count from one to ten, and when the word 'ten' exits, your beloved daughter will become charcoal." One...... Two...... Three...... Four ......" Every time he called a word, he paused for a while, hoping that Guo Jing would finally not be able to stand the torment, even if he did not surrender, he would beware of chaos.
Guo Jing, Huang Yaoshi, Yi Deng, Yang Guo, and Zhou Botong heard that the Dharma King reported the number on the high platform, and saw hundreds of soldiers in the audience holding torches, just waiting for him to give an order, they immediately raised fire to burn firewood and grass, everyone was anxious and angry, trying their best to kill, trying to attack the front of the stage to rescue Guo Xiang, but the Mongolian army's archery skills were exquisite, and thousands of elite soldiers in front of the stage opened their bows and arrows, which was overwhelming. For a while, it was difficult to break through.
Between the two sides, the Golden Wheel Dharma King counted to ten, although he couldn't bear it, he finally ordered a fire, and in an instant the firewood and grass piled up on the side of the stage burned, and the smoke rose. The 8,000 Yellow Banner troops under the command of Guo Jing and Huang Rong each had soil bags on their backs, but they could not attack within 200 steps in front of the stage, and they could only cry out in vain.
At this moment, I suddenly heard the shouts in the distance like thunder, and tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers behind the formation were sonorous in iron armor, snatching out from both sides and going to attack Xiangyang. Subsequently, the cry of "Long live, long live, long live" shook the mountains and wilderness, but it was the Mongolian Khan's Jiu Xuan Da Xuan who was raised high and rushed to the city, and the elite soldiers swarmed to attack the city under the personal leadership of Meng Ge.
Guo Jing held a shield in his left hand, a spear in his right hand, and had already grabbed less than a hundred steps away from the high platform, and the Mongolian archers were like locusts gathering arrows, but they could not hurt him.
Jiang Chen hid in the army so far, knowing that he had reached the most critical moment, and immediately said Guo Jing: "Guo Daxia don't worry, Xiang'er will be handed over to me to rescue!" With that, he rushed out of the Yellow Flag Army, like a sassy meteor, and in an instant, he had forced to the front of the Mongolian army. Although the Mongolian army rained arrows, he swirled with a long sword, dancing so much that he could not enter, and it was difficult to hurt even if the arrows rained down in the sky.
Guo Xiang was tied to a high platform, seeing that his parents and grandfather could not come up to save him, the smoke was fierce, and he quickly surrounded the foot of the platform, knowing that he was going to be burned to death in an instant, but he never thought that someone had forcibly broken through the blockade of the Mongolian army, in despair, he looked at it, knew the person, and couldn't help but shout excitedly: "Brother Jiang, you are here!"