Twilight is approaching, and it won't take long for the sky to become completely dark.
Standing at the top of Shuozhou City, Wang Zhen looked up at the dark lead-colored clouds in the sky and wanted to cry without tears.
"The night wind is wet and cold! There should be no more defeated soldiers returning. Father, Mr. Wang, you have been standing at the top of the city for a long time, and there are no new defeated soldiers returning. It's better to go down to the city and rest for a while!" Wang Fan
, Lu Xiong stepped forward and persuaded Wang Zhendao, who was still standing in front of the crenel.
"After years of hard work by the government and the public, the great achievement of defeating the Yan was easily achieved, and the 40,000 Dayue men were all ruined, all ruined! My heart aches!" Wang Zhen poked the city wall with his crutch, and shouted in a hoarse voice.
"Your Majesty the King!"
At this time, Ge Boyi, Cao Shixiong, Cao Shili, Ge Huicong and others boarded the east city gate tower and said with a gloomy face,
"It has been delayed for three days, and almost all the soldiers who can escape have returned. If we continue to delay, even if we can take down thirty or fifty more people, if Lanzhou and Hedong fall, we will not be able to bear the responsibility!
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"Old thief Ge, you also know that you can't bear the responsibility!" Wang Zhen raised his crutch and slapped Ge Boyi in the face, cursing, "Old thief Ge, if you have any sense of shame,
Just cut off Ge Huaicong's head and hang it on the top of the city to pay homage to the 40,000 Dai Viet athletes whose corpses never returned!"
The guards on the left and right hurriedly stepped forward to separate Wang Zhen and Ge Boyi.
"Abandoning the army and abandoning the city was what Zhu Hang wanted to do, and Huaicong reluctantly agreed. This was witnessed by all the generals." Ge Boyi stood behind the guard and said in a cold voice, "How will the crime of defeating the army be investigated?
The imperial court has decided that even if my head is cut off, I, Ge Boyi, will never frown!"
"Shameless, extremely shameless!" Wang Zhen's mouth was full of bitterness, and a wisp of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, but he still slapped the crutch in his hand desperately to drive away the guard who was blocking him, and yelled, "Listen, old thief Ge,
There is only one Han citizen in Shuozhou who has not evacuated. Even if I, Wang Zhen, die here, I will never take a step back. When the time comes, I will let you thieves and my son accuse me, my father, my son, and Zhu Hang!"
Ge Boyi's face looked gloomy and uncertain.
If Wang Zhen hadn't heard the news of the destruction of Tianxiong's army three days ago and came all night in the snow and wind, they would have retreated to Lanzhou. But he knew very well that it would be extremely difficult to absolve himself of the crime of the destruction of the army.
If Wang Fan really wanted to report it, Wang Fan's death in Shuozhou might block their last bit of room for mediation.
"Father, you can't hesitate any longer!" Ge Huaicong whispered from the side.
Although Shuozhou City is only fifty miles away from the border village in the south, if the tens of thousands of Han people in Shuozhou City are evacuated first, and then the troops and horses retreat, it may still take several days.
The troops were so fast that Ge Huaicong didn't know when the main force of the captive troops would be transferred from Yingzhou. He didn't want to stay in Shuozhou City for a moment, so he thought it would be best to leave tonight.
Wang reported that Wang Fan and his son were unwilling to leave, so they were tied up and taken away.
No one dared to kill them, but they were tied up and taken away.
"What do you want to do?" Lu Xiong and Zheng Shou took off their sabers at the same time and stood in front, staring at Ge Boyi and the guards around Ge Huaicong who were about to move, and shouted and asked.
Guo Junpan, who was accompanying him, reacted slower, but at this time he also stood forward with a knife. However, Zhu Tong and others saw the two sides suddenly tense up, and they were at a loss.
"Your Majesty, I respect your character. I will wait for one more day at most. Even if I tie you up tomorrow afternoon, I will tie up your father and son and take them away. Otherwise, I will really have no face to face the officials! I will wait for you at that time.
Sir, don’t blame Boyi for being reckless!”
"An enemy rider is approaching!"
The guards on the tower were the first to scream in panic, and then blew their trumpets.
Ge Boyi and others looked eastward in fear, and saw a cavalry force of about two hundred men, galloping across the fields like sharp arrows, approaching Shuozhou City quickly in the dusk.
"It's over! Mr. Wang, you are an old man with half-broken bones in the ground. Why are you trying to fight against me? The last ten thousand soldiers and horses have been destroyed by you!" Ge Boyi stamped his feet and cursed.
"Old thief Ge," Wang Zhen scolded angrily, "if the generals have the heart to defend the city, even a thousand soldiers can turn Shuozhou City into a golden soup pool, which cannot be crossed by ten thousand troops; but the general is incompetent, greedy for life and afraid of death, and captures
The soldiers are coming, and I will give you several times more men and horses. What can you hold, Mr. Ge? If your father and son want to escape, they can escape alone at this time, but I, the king, are not afraid of being buried in Shuozhou with these old bones! At this time, your father and son will
It is impossible to take away the soldiers and horses. As the military supervisor, Wang Fan has the right to control the various tribes! Let me and my son guard Shuozhou City!"
Ge Boyi wouldn't really have fled south in a hurry.
On the one hand, he knew in his heart that the Ge family no longer had a single soldier, and it would be difficult for Chen Xiang and others to ensure that the Ge family survived this disaster safely by relying only on the Duke of Lu.
At that time, it will not only be others who want to accuse the Ge family, but Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou will not only refuse to admit that they dare not send reinforcements, but will kill him for the crime of cowardice in the fight of the Ge family.
On the other hand, he didn't know whether Fanlu cavalry had already entered between Shuozhou and Lanzhou. Shuozhou City was currently under their complete control. It would not be easy for the enemy to invade.
The situation of the heroic army being besieged in Datong City was completely different.
"Ms. Wang, you are saying this as if Ge Boyi is really greedy for life and afraid of death!" Ge Boyi calmed down and said, "It's better for Ge to lead the troops to defend the city. You and his son are not needed.
The two of you will do it for you!”
The enemy cavalry was far away, so the guards on the city tower and the archery towers on both sides fired arrows in a panic, and stopped far in front of the enemy cavalry.
"They're all a bunch of fucking idiots!" Xu Huai looked at the chaotic rain of arrows coming from a distance at the top of the city, and fell to the ground after almost fifty or sixty steps. He couldn't help but scold these panicked soldiers, and immediately reined in his horse and shook it.
He shouted: "But Mr. Wang Zhen, Mr. Wang Fanlang is at the top of the city? Xu Huai is here!"
The dusk was already dark, and Xu Huai could only vaguely discern Wang Zhen and Wang Fan's general appearance from more than two hundred steps away, but could not clearly see his face.
"Xu Huai?! It's Xu Huai's voice! Open the city gate quickly, it's Xu Huai who is escorting Zhu Hang and others to escape." Wang Xin's hands and feet began to tremble, and he asked the guards in the city gate to open the city gate and let Xu Huai and others in.
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"Wait a minute!" Ge Boyi shouted, "In the past three days, some troops have fled back, but they are all scattered and in a state of disarray. It is impossible that they have both horses and armor! Please don't let the thieves take over, sir!"
Make money! Xu Huaiying has surrendered to the thieves!"
"Nonsense! You think everyone in the world is as cowardly and shameless as you and your son!" Wang Zhen spat and scolded Xingzi, "If you are a coward, let me go out of the city to see Xu Huai. I, Wang Zhen, will know as soon as I see you whether you will surrender to the enemy or not!"
"It is very troublesome to open and close the city gate, but the enemy cavalry suddenly attacks us, and it only takes ten seconds. What should we do? Your Majesty, please listen to my advice!" Ge Boyi also stamped his feet and shouted.
Wang Zhen saw that the soldiers on the left and right were not moved by his words. It was obvious that he had not crossed Ge Boyi. Ge Huaicong summoned their direct descendants and shouted: "You find a hanging basket and let me down the city wall!"
"Wang reports to your Majesty, I will go out of the city to see Xu Huai and ask them how they broke out of the encirclement and came back!" Lu Xiong said.
"What's the use of you going? The old thief Ge bit you to death and was coerced by the thief and ordered to shoot you with arrows. Do you think that the old thief Ge can't do such a dirty thing? Only I, Wang Zhen, dare not do it in public.
Let's shoot him!" Wang Zhen said, urging Guo Junpian to send someone to find the big bamboo basket.
"Father, I'm going out of the city to see Xu Huai!" Wang Fan said.
"You can't. I know Xu Huai best. I won't know until I see him whether he has surrendered to the enemy." Wang Zhen said.
"Then I'll accompany my father there," Wang Fan said.
He had no trust in Xu Huai in his heart, and he also suspected that Xu Huai had surrendered to the enemy and came to help the soldiers to gain Shuozhou, but he did not have the reason for his father to risk leaving the city at such an old age while he stayed in the city.
Besides, after several years of preparations to attack Yan, the success fell short, and tens of thousands of generals died in foreign lands. He could also see that his father had a death wish, but he was also embarrassed to face the court's accusations, thinking that Xu Huaizhen was going to surrender to the enemy, and his father and son both
If a person dies in front of Shuozhou City, he may still be able to keep his final reputation undefeated.
"Your Majesty Wang, Mr. Wang Fan, please take a hard trip!" Although Ge Boyi believed in his heart that Xu Huai and others must have surrendered to the enemy, he did not dissuade him this time. He wished that Mr. Wang, Wang Fan and his son would die at the hands of their traitorous subordinates.
Or be captured by rebel subordinates.
In this way, he could shirk more responsibility from Wang Zhen and his son's stupidity.
Of course Lu Xiong and Zheng Shou had to follow Wang Zhen and Wang Fan out of the city.
Guo Junpan thought in his heart that if Xu Huai and others surrendered to the enemy, he would surrender to the enemy and he would be defeated. He could not report Wang Fan. Wang Fan left the city and he fell into the hands of Ge Boyi and others.
Zhu Tong stuttered and said to Wang Fan: "Uncle, I will stay..."
Wang Fan stared at him: "Zhu Tong, think about your father and brother!"
Wang Zhen glanced at Zhu Tong, patted Wang Fan on the shoulder, and said, "Don't force Zhu Tong!"
Zhu Tong lowered his head in shame, not daring to look up at Wang Zhen, Wang Fan...
