The citizens of Hongze Town, driven by the soldiers, gradually became accustomed to using spears to stab the enemy troops who were attached to the city.

Even so, the crisis continued to spread due to the loss of backbones.

With a bang, another stone shattered and exploded, beating several defenders into a blur, and almost at the same time, the enemy soldiers on the ladder had already climbed to the city wall in several places.

"Kill!" Du Ran stared at a dark red vision, puffed up his remaining breath, and led his own soldiers to pounce on him personally.

The two teams of people collided fiercely, and suddenly set off blood flowers, at this juncture of fighting, stabbing and stabbing at all costs, even if they had armor, they were still stabbed by knives from time to time, splashing blood.

Du Ran is known for his bravery, even at this time, he is still unstoppable, everywhere he goes, the sword light is a flash, and he immediately swept down a piece, and finally kicked an enemy soldier out of the city, screaming and smashing into a meat pie.

At this moment, the enemy retreated like a tide again.

The pressure in front of Du Ran's eyes was gone, Du Ran gasped for breath, looked around, and saw that he had lost half of his 1,500 people, and the original pro-military camp, hundreds of people, now only 30 people remained, all of them were scarred and self-supporting.

The smoke billowed and the sound of killing gradually stopped, and I saw the corpses of the enemy piled up at the foot of the small slope, and the flowing blood collected into a stream, spreading into the distance.

Hongze Town is not happy, and Wei Cundong is even more unhappy, there are already 15,000 people killed in the city, although most of them are driven away by the van soldiers.

However, it is difficult for anyone to ride a tiger now.

Suddenly, a point ahead, a group of soldiers in leather armor, they were quite intact, and they were holding one person.

But it was Du Gongzhen, his face was solemn, he looked around, and saw his nephew covered in blood, panting, holding a knife and resting for a while, surrounded by corpses.

He asked, "How's it going?"

Du Ran opened his throat, but he couldn't make a sound, at this time, someone handed over the water bladder and drank a few big sips before he relieved his breath: "Uncle, it doesn't matter, you can still hold on, but there are not many people left." ”

Fifteen hundred people, only five or six hundred were still on the city walls, all of them lying on the walls with weariness, and even the great commander could not make them move.

Du Gongzhen looked at it and didn't say anything, and had to face up to the question raised by the mastermind Zhu Xin before.

At this moment, a man in front of the battle rode a horse, raised his flag and swaggered, apparently a messenger.

Du Gongzhen had a calm face, and asked the person to be hoisted up with a hanging basket, and after a while, a letter arrived in his hand.

"Send such things, someone will drag the messenger down, and show the public!" After reading the letter, Du Gong was really angry, burning more vigorously than the last time: "Old thief Wei, even if this city is in vain, don't think I will give it to you!"

He tore the letter in his hand viciously, and the voice of the messenger was heard in his ears.

"My lord, this time Wei Cundong will attack Hongze City at any cost, I am afraid that if he holds it for another ten days, he will not be able to defend it. At that time, there is no possibility of turning over. Lord, at this time, you must make a choice to save yourself. Zhu Xin, who rushed over, persuaded again when Du Gongzhen returned to the hall.

"You want me to surrender to the Wei thief?" Du Gongzhen narrowed his eyes and asked with a murderous expression.

At this time, black clouds covered the sky outside, and the haze was dense, and after a while, the raindrops converged and crackled.

By this time, it was already April.

At this time, there was a lightning bolt in the sky, and then the hall was no longer dark, followed by the sound of thunder, Zhu Xin's tone was calm in the thunderstorm: "Dashuai, I have been with you for twenty years, and at this time, I really have something to say." ”

Du Gong was really angry, his hands and feet were cold, and he suddenly had a murderous intent in his heart, but he fixed his heart and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhu, you have no last resort, you have to teach me, say it!"

Zhu Xin glanced at Du Gongzhen, and suddenly realized that he was in great danger, he was a very smart person, he knew that he could not back down at this time, he almost didn't even think about it, and said: "The minister obeys the order!"

He bowed his hand and said: "The three counties of Chengdu are hundreds of miles of fertile fields, even so, Wei Cundong has transferred 50,000 troops and has done his best. ”

"After besieging for half a month and losing more than 10,000 yuan, it can be said that all the van soldiers have been finished, even if they are regular soldiers, they have lost a lot, and this kind of loss, even if it is Wei Cundong's prestige for decades, it is impossible to suppress it. ”

"Now Hongze Town has been surrounded, although it seems that it can go out, in fact, it is okay to defend the city, once we get out of the city, we still have four or five thousand remnants, I am afraid that I will not be able to support it, and there is no way to retreat......

"Dashuai, even if we defend the city, how much time can we support 4,000? Wei Cundong's loss is so huge, once the city is broken, can you surrender Dashuai?

"Even if we wait, can we avoid disaster? The minister can assert that once Wei Cundong breaks the city, he will set troops to slaughter the city to boost morale and appease the soldiers, and none of us will survive!"

The slaughter of the city here does not mean all the slaughter, it refers to the plundering of the army, of course, there are also burning, and the people have to die countless times, but there are no big households.

Zhu Xin's words depicted this terrible picture, and Du Gong really felt an irresistible chill, thinking about it carefully, Zhu Xin's words were all questions that he said he was thinking about.

Du Gong really knew that what Zhu Xin said was the truth, and the idea of killing Zhu Xin "with the heart of a police army" faded, but his blessing for his own use had become a habit, and it was extremely difficult to make him surrender, thinking for a while, he coughed, and asked gloomily: "Zhu Xin, what do you say?"

Zhu Xin smiled bitterly and said: "At this time, I am afraid that there are only three routes for you to choose, the first one is to surrender to Wei Cundong and give up Hongze Town, but as I said just now, this road is difficult to save the surname, I am afraid that I will be killed afterwards, and even my descendants cannot be protected." ”

When talking about children and grandchildren, Du Gongzhen's eyebrows jumped again and again.

has been against Wei Cundong for more than ten years, and he knows that Zhu Xin's words are six or seven percent possible, especially in this case, he gritted his teeth and asked, "What about the second?"

"Second, it's the same as just now, now Wei Cundong is surrounded by three queyi, although it is a virtual way to live, but if the marshal leads his own cavalry and breaks through with the princes, he can also escape, but in this way, it is to completely abandon the foundation, and there is no way to turn over, if he can escape the pursuit of the Chengdu army, he can hide his name outside Shudi......"

Seeing that Du Gongzhen frowned, Zhu Xin continued: "...... The second way didn't work, so there was only the third way, and he joined forces with Wang Hongyi of Wenyang County and invited Wang Hongyi to send troops. ”

"Now close to Wang Hongyi's Liuzi County and Changshou County, Liuzi County has fallen, although Changshou County has not fallen, but it has no meaning, if Wang Hongyi leads 20,000 people, how many days can this Changshou County resist? ”

"The marshal wrote a letter in person, inviting Wang Hongyi to enter the county, this longevity county and Liuzi County, as a reward, to Wang Hongyi, when the time comes, Wang Hongyi 20,000 soldiers are coming, Wei Cundong dare to attack the city with all his might, which forms a balance of the three families. ”

"When the time comes, either war or peace, even if one side is defeated, there is capital, which is the most beneficial to you. Zhu Xin finally said sincerely.

When Du Gongzhen heard this, he fell into silence, and after a long time, Fang said: "What you said is reasonable, take my handwritten letter and send someone to contact Wang Hongyi." ”

Three days later, Wang Hongyi, the study of Wenyang Mansion, received a handwritten letter from the messenger, just looked at it, and handed it to Zhang Youzhi and Yu Liangbo.

Both of them read the letter, put it down, and Yu Liangbo said: "Lord, this is a God-given opportunity, we can fight." ”

The voice is not high, and the words are categorical, and both of them are in their hearts.

"The war is warlike, Changshou County can be taken with a letter, but Liuzi County has been intercepted by Wei Cundong, Liuzi County has 3,000 soldiers, and we have two problems. Zhang Youzhi's eyebrows were locked together, and he thought intently: "First of all, I know that after we send troops, Wei Cundong will make Liuzi County desperately resist to intercept the way, and he will attack the city with all his might." Can we capture Liuzi County before Hongze City is breached?"

"Liuzi County has been breached, if we fight hard, then we will lose our sharpness, and we will not be able to break through fatigue with strength, and then we will fall into a bitter battle. ”

Wang Hongyi listened, smiled, and his heart rolled.

The light green gas of the second county was originally reached the top of four-fifths, and at this time, the light blue luck was tumbling, running on the top, which was a harbinger of development.

Wang Hongyi walked step by step, and the grievances and ups and downs of decades in his previous life suddenly came to his heart.

In his previous life, he remembered that when Li Chengye sent out the army, he and Du Gongzhen fought a battle and won, while Wei Cundong was old and bedridden at that time, watching his sons compete for the throne.

Defeated Du Gongzhen and forced Chengdu, Wei Cundong was unable to fight again, and the result was easily swept over, it is said that the result was that Du Gongzhen was killed, and Wei Cundong only lived for two years after Chengdu was broken.

This laid the foundation for the king of Shu, and in the next two years, Xiyi and Longjian were subdued one by one.

Now that he is raising two county soldiers to fight, if he can break Wei Cundong in one fell swoop, he will be able to surpass Li Chengye in his previous life, because this is a dignified and righteous decisive battle to win.

In the future, take advantage of this, you will be able to sweep Shuzhong, and make time to strive for development in order to save the number of qi.

is finally about to reach the de facto status of the king of Shu, Wang Hongyi only feels that his heart is boiling, full of sadness and joy, but he is stunned.

After a while, Wang Hongyi finally said: "Breaking the matter of Liuzi County, this town has its own opinions, it will be able to break the city, it will not damage morale, and it will not tire the soldiers. I have made up my mind, and there is no doubt about it, pass my order, and raise troops immediately!"

"Yes!" the two people present immediately responded.

At this time, the wind and rain crackled, and the two of them ordered to go out, and when they saw this situation, they both put on oil coats and hurriedly disappeared into the rain.

(To be continued)