Episode 34: The Girl in the Dangerous City
In a night attack, Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Xiaolongnu, Cheng Ying, Lu Wushuang, Guo Polu and others were very anxious. Seeing that Jiang Chen and Yang Guo returned safely, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He heard that the two of them had killed many enemy troops in the night attack, and they all showed joy.
Jiang Chen looked at the waiting room. Except for the guy Guo Polu who was really waiting for him, the rest were waiting for Yang Guo, and he couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable. After a few greetings, he said goodbye to everyone and went back to his room to rest.
The next day, the Yuan and Mongolian army had another abnormal movement. Everyone climbed the city and saw a team of ten thousand enemy soldiers forming a formation several miles away from the city, but did not attack. After a while, more than a thousand craftsmen carried stones and stood up wood and built a platform more than ten feet high. More than a thousand soldiers were dancing long shovels and shovels, digging a deep and wide trench around the platform. The digging of soil was piled outside the trench and became a wall of earth.
Only when the horn was blowing, a team of ten thousand people drove up and was placed on the left side of the platform, followed by another team of ten thousand people on the right side. The formation was set, and another team of ten thousand people was laid in front of the platform. Together with the previous team of ten thousand people, a total of four teams of ten thousand people surrounded the platform. This formation lasted for several miles, including the shield player, spear player, horse-knitting player, crossbow player, and cross-bow player, layer by layer, surrounding the platform with iron barrels.
Hearing a sudden sound of horns, the drums stopped, and tens of thousands of people were silent. Two horses rushed to the audience in the distance. The passengers immediately turned over and went up to the platform together. Because they were far apart, they couldn't see clearly their faces, and they could vaguely see a man and a woman. While everyone was stunned, Huang Rong suddenly exclaimed and fell backwards, and fainted. Everyone hurriedly woke her up and asked, "What's wrong?"
Huang Rong's face was pale, she pointed to the high platform and said in a trembling voice: "It's Xiang'er, it's Xiang'er." Everyone was shocked and couldn't help but look at each other.
Yang Guo shouted: "No, I really didn't expect that the Tartars would fail to attack the city and would use a treacherous plan. It was really shameless and despicable."
When Huang Yaoshi and Zhu Zi and Liu Jing said this, they immediately realized the truth and looked angry. Guo Jing was still unsolved and asked, "How could Xiang'er go to this high platform to go to the Tartars to use any traitorous plan?"
Jiang Chen then sighed: "God-san Guo, Xiang'er unfortunately fell into the hands of the Tartars. They built this high platform, and piled firewood and grass under the stage, but placed Xiang'er on the stage, which was to force you to surrender. If you don't surrender, they would raise the fire to burn the platform, making you and Mrs. Guo heartbroken, confused and unable to concentrate on defending the city."
Everyone was shocked and angry when they heard this, but they were helpless. Huang Rong stared at the platform blankly, her heart was confused for a moment. Even if she had the wisdom of Zhuge, she would not be able to use it at all at this moment.
Seeing this, Jiang Chen hurriedly said, "For the sake of this, we can only break the four 10,000 teams around the platform first to have the chance to save Xiang'er."
Huang Yaoshi said, "That's right." After meditating for a moment, he said, "We simply used the Twenty-Eight Constellations Formation to fight against the Tartars. This formation changes complexly. After I looked at the Tiangang Beidou Formation of Quanzhen Sect, I thought about it and used the ancient formation to create these Twenty-Eight Constellations. I was determined to compete with the Taoists of Quanzhen Sect. I didn't expect that I would use it first."
He immediately selected elite and powerful masters in the city, with a total of 40,000 people divided into five routes, each of which was eight thousand. They were led by Guo Jing and Huang Rong, Master Yideng, Zhou Botong, Yang Guo and himself, and Jiang Chen was the only one left. Because he had the strongest martial arts skills, he was responsible for rushing to the platform and saving Guo Xiang.
After the general was finished, Huang Yaoshi ordered all the soldiers from all over the army to collect and apply all objects in the military warehouse, and then he ordered the flag to be displayed. Forty thousand soldiers and horses were divided into five directions in the southeast, west, north, and middle. With the three sounds of cannons, the city gates in all directions opened wide, and five troops lined up.
The Eastern Army each carried an extremely long wooden stake and attacked the east head of Gaotai. One thousand soldiers held shields and rushed forward to block arrows. The other seven thousand people put down the wooden stakes, hitting one in the east and one in the west. It seemed to be messy, but in fact, the positions of the eight thousand wooden stakes were all erected according to the drawings drawn by Huang Yaoshi, divided into the five elements and eight trigrams, and the east head of Gaotai was sealed in an instant.
The Western Route Army took Quanzhen Sect as the main force, and the Taoists were familiar with the Tiangang Beidou Formation. They saw a long sword like snow, a group of seven people, and a group of forty-nine people, swarming with each other. The Yuan Meng generals were confused and had to shoot arrows to block them.
Hearing the shouts of the northern army, it was Yang Guo, Xiaolongnu, led the monsters of the three mountains and five mountains, dragged the water dragons and shot the poison juice onto the Yuan Meng soldiers. The poison juice splashed in his body and was in great pain. It immediately bubbled and rotted in a short while. The Yuan Meng army could not resist and retreated south.
But the smoke from the south soared into the sky. Master Yideng led 8,000 people to carry out fire attacks. The sulfur-saltte-like members spewed out of the fire-breathing iron cylinder. Seeing that the situation was wrong, the Yuan Meng army was defeated to the center. Guo Jing and Huang Rong led 8,000 troops, and then slowly walked up. Seeing that the Yuan Meng army was in chaos, they immediately rushed forward and rushed straight to the high platform.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of trumpets beside the high platform, shouting loudly, and tens of thousands of helmets were drilled under the ground. It turned out that the commander of Yuan and Mongolia was also good at using troops. In addition to setting up four teams of 10,000 people around the high platform, he dug the ground into a pit and sent tens of thousands of ambushing the troops. Guo Jing and others looked from afar and said that the enemy was digging a pit, but they didn't know that they were ambushing the new force. This time, the defeat of the Mongolian army immediately reversed, and the twenty-eight constellations came and went. Although they were chasing the enemy and wanted to gather and annihilate it, they could no longer be able to do so.
The war drums were thundering, and the Song army and the Mongolian army shouted fiercely. The defenders beside the high platform shot out with strong bows and crossbows. Guo Jing led the middle army to rush forward several times, but were all shot back by arrows. The two armies fought for half an hour, but they were still in the position of victory or defeat. Huang Yaoshi waved the green flag and suddenly entered the east army to attack the south, the west army to attack the north, and the formation changed.
The twenty-eight constellations form secretly lies in the principles of the five elements' generation and restraint. The red flag army of Master Yideng rushed to the center on the south road, Guo Jing's Huangqi army rushed west, Zhou Botong's white flag army rushed to the north, the black flag army led by Yang Guo went east, and Huang Yaoshi's Qingqi army turned to the south road.
The five elements are transformed, which means that fire produces earth, earth produces metal, metal produces water, water produces wood, and wood produces fire. Although Song soldiers only have 40,000 people, the formation is exquisite and the leaders are all good at martial arts. Everyone in Song soldiers is grateful to Guo Jing and his wife and are determined to sacrifice their lives to save their beloved daughter. Therefore, although the Mongols have twice as many, they can't resist it.
After a long battle, Huang Yaoshi roared and shouted, the Qingqi army retreated to the center, the Huangqi army attacked the north, the Blackqi army detoured south, the Redqi army rushed to the west, and the Whiteqi army attacked eastward. This formation changed again, and the five elements reversed, which is called wood overcoming earth, earth overcoming water, water overcoming fire, fire overcoming gold, and metal overcoming wood.
King Jinlun was standing on the platform, looking at the battle below, and was secretly shocked. Seeing that the Mongolian soldiers were suffering from heavy casualties, the Huangqi army rushed to the platform step by step. Although he threatened Guo Xiang, he could not bear to really raise the fire to burn her to death. He wanted to persuade him a few words, but Guo Xiang had already put life and death aside. She had been clever since she was a child and spoke without people. After a few words, she only blew up the King Jinlun's chest. He shouted loudly: "Listen to Guo Jing: I count from one to ten. If you don't surrender, I will order the fire to burn the platform."
During the fierce battle, Guo Jing replied in an echo: "Evil monk, do you think I, Guo Jing, are you the surrendered?"
Seeing that the situation was wrong, King Jinlun shouted: "Guo Jing, listen, I counted from time to time, and the cross was out, and your beloved daughter became coke. One, two, three, four." Every time he called a word, he paused for a while, hoping that Guo Jing would finally be unable to bear the torture. Even if he did not surrender, he would be in a state of chaos.
Guo Jing, Huang Yaoshi, Yideng, Yang Guo, Zhou Botong, five soldiers heard the Dharma King report on the high platform, and saw hundreds of soldiers in the audience holding torches. Just when he gave his order, he raised firewood and burned firewood. Everyone was anxious and angry, and they tried their best to attack and rescue Guo Xiang, but the Mongolian army had excellent archery skills. Thousands of elite soldiers in front of the platform were lit and fired arrows, which was unstoppable. It was difficult to break through for a while.
The two sides were in a stalemate, and King Jinlun counted ten. Although he couldn't bear it, he finally ordered the fire. In an instant, the firewood piled on the side of the Taiwan side burned, and the thick smoke rose. The eight thousand yellow flag troops ruled by Guo Jing and Huang Rong were each carrying earth bags on their backs, but they could not capture the front of the Taiwan side within 200 steps, so they could only do nothing.
At this moment, he heard a shout from afar like thunder. Tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers behind the formation squeezed from both sides and attacked Xiangyang. Then, the shouts of "Long live, long live, long live, long live" shocked the mountains and fields, but the nine-chariot of the Mongolian Khan raised high and rushed to the city. The elite soldiers and generals flocked to the city under the leadership of Mengge.
Guo Jing held a shield in his left hand and a spear in his right hand. He had already grabbed less than a hundred steps from the platform. The Mongolian archer's arrows gathered like locusts, but he could not hurt him. He could jump to the platform when he saw it. Suddenly, he heard something changed behind the formation. He was shocked and thought to himself: "Oh, I'm not good, I've been tricked by the Tartars to lure the tiger away from the mountain."
Jiang Chen hid in the army and knew that it had reached the most critical moment. He said to Guo Jing: "Don't worry, don't worry, Xiang'er is left to me to rescue." After that, he rushed out of the Huangqi army like a shaking meteor. In a flash, he had already rushed to the front of the Mongolian army. Although the Mongolian army was emitting arrows and raining rain, he could not get hurt at all.
Guo Xiang was tied up to the high platform. Seeing that his parents and grandfather could not come up to rescue him, the smoke and fire quickly surrounded the foot of the platform. He knew that he would 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 around and recognized the person and couldn't help but shout excitedly: "Brother Jiang, you are here."
Chapter completed!