Chapter Seventy-Seven: Ziyi Returns to His Highness
Taishi Ci leaned against the cold wall and sat upright on the couch, looking at the top of the prison with dull eyes. As for Liu Yao, when more than a dozen of his subordinates who had fought for the rest of their lives were executed without relatives, he no longer wanted to
No more hope.
I led my soldiers on the bloody battlefield, and was spared a life by the enemy, but I didn't expect that I would end up dead in the hands of my own people. Thinking about it, I feel extremely ironic, and I can't help but regret it. If yesterday, I had listened to them and went to Qingqing together.
The sky, maybe, will be a different scene.
Taishi Ci suddenly thought in his heart that if he had this thought in the past, he would definitely be ashamed and embarrassed. But now, he has despaired of Liu Yao. Thinking of all the past, a self-deprecating smile appeared on his handsome face. As a military general, he will not be able to do anything in the future.
He was able to fight on the battlefield, but he was framed by villains and ended up like this. It was all due to his pedantry. Whenever he thought of those soldiers who were loyal to him, he felt a twinge in his heart.
If they die at the hands of the enemy, it is the glory and honor of a warrior, but if they die at the hands of one of their own, that is a shame!
"General, eat something." A jailer looked at the untouched food on the ground and sighed. Although Taishi Ci was not taken seriously under Liu Yao's tent, he was quite popular among the soldiers. Seeing that Taishi Ci was so decadent, these jailers
I also feel bad in my heart.
He shook his head, how could he want to eat now?
"Bang~"
The jailer wanted to persuade him again, but the door of the cell was suddenly violently kicked open. When he looked back, he saw Shiyi leading a dozen soldiers rushing in.
"Bold!" Several jailers drew their swords one after another. A general rushed out from behind Shiyi and swung his sword to kill several people. He stared at the jailer at the door of Taishici's cell with ferocious eyes. He took a step forward and killed them with one kick.
He kicked him over and raised the cold blade high to kill him.
"Stop!" Taishi Ci was stunned for a moment when he saw Shiyi and his party. Then he saw that the jailer was about to be killed by a knife, and he quickly shouted to stop.
"Ziyi, are you okay?" Shiyi rushed to the cell door and looked at Taishi Ci's haggard face, feeling a little sour in his heart. He and Taishi Ci were both from Qingzhou and had been together in Liu Yao's camp for more than a year.
We have known each other for a long time. Seeing Tai Shici like this, I felt unspeakably uncomfortable in my heart.
"It's okay, why are you here?" Taishi Ci shook his head and looked at Shiyi.
"I stole Liu Yao's token, entered the military camp, found General Ziyi, and agreed to come together to rescue you." Shiyi said. Although Taishi Ci's official position was not high, there were some generals who were good friends with him in the military camp.
"Ziyu, you..." Taishi Ci looked at Shiyi and was speechless for a moment. From the fact that Shiyi directly called Liu Yao by name, he knew that he no longer regarded Liu Yao as his master.
"In troubled times, good birds choose trees to roost in. The master chooses his ministers, and the ministers also choose their master. Liu Yao is our eagle and dog, why should we stay here and be despised by others?" Shiyi snorted coldly.
If in the past, if he heard this, even if he was a close friend, Taishi Ci would turn against him on the spot, but now, thinking of his brothers, Taishi Ci nodded and said: "Let me out."
The general glared at the jailer and said sternly: "Hurry up and open the door!"
"Yes, yes!" the jailer promised repeatedly, took off the important things from his waist, and tremblingly opened the cell for Tai Shici.
"General Ziyi, go ahead!" A soldier threw Taishi Ci's Sky-Breaking Halberd. Taishi Ci reached out to catch it, turned to look at Shiyi and said, "Now, what should we do?"
"Prefect Qingtian has already arrived at the city. The city can only be broken in the morning and evening. The city is empty. Why doesn't Ziyi take advantage of the situation to capture Liu Yao and offer it to Master Qingtian?" Shiyi said.
Taishi Ci shook his head when he heard this: "Although Liu Yao is unkind, I cannot be unjust. How about gathering a crowd to open the city and welcome Qingtian City's army into the city?"...
"Just follow General." Shiyi nodded. He knew Taishi Ci's personality very well. Even if he decided to turn his back on Qingtian City and asked him to deal with Liu Yao, he would never agree, so he nodded immediately.
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On top of the Moling city wall, a fierce battle was still going on.
"Uh~ah" A Qingtian City soldier stepped on the ladder and just came out of the city wall. In an instant, three spears pierced his body. The three Danyang soldiers looked ferocious and they all used their strength to throw the soldier off the city.
go.
"Drink!" A big hand grasped the gun barrels of the three of them. The three of them couldn't help but were stunned. Then they felt the gun barrels in their hands sink. A simple swordsman holding a steel knife had already climbed up the city wall. The steel knife was in
A bright arc flashed in the air, and the head of one spearman was cut off fiercely. The knife continued to move, and then it cut into the neck of another spearman, slashing diagonally, and did not stop until it submerged into his chest.
The gunman had already died.
"Pfft~" Before he could pull out the Pu Dao, there was a sound of wind in his ears, and a Danyang sword shield wielder let out an angry roar and chopped off the Pu Dao wielder's head with one blow.
Soldiers from Qingtian City continued to rush up to the city wall, but were killed again and again. Arrows were flying, suppressing the Danyang archers at the top of the city, preventing them from successfully attacking the Qingtian City soldiers on the ladder, greatly lowering the Danyang Army's city wall.
The advantages.
Looking at the Qingtian City soldiers who were rushing towards the city wall like ants at the bottom of the city, Xue Li felt despair in his heart. This despair was not without its roots. If the stone city had not been lost, they could still retreat to other places and make camp step by step.
He has been fighting with the Qingtian Army, but now that Shicheng has been occupied, Moling has become an isolated city. Facing the constant attacks from Qingtian City soldiers, he is not optimistic about the future of Moling City or Liu Yao's forces.
"Siege tower, attack!" The Qingtian army took up the rear position. Seeing the stalemate in the battle, Xu Rong waved his hand and said coldly.
"Ho~" "Ho~" "Ho~"
The exciting sound of war drums and loud horns sounded again. On top of the city, Zhang Ying suddenly raised his head and saw more than a dozen towering wooden towers, driven by thousands of strong men, slowly moving towards the city gate.
Approaching, the height of the wooden tower was several feet higher than the walls of Moling City. Rows of crossbowmen stood on the top of the wooden tower, with cold arrow clusters aimed at the Danyang soldiers on the wall. Under these crossbowmen
Behind him is a swordsman ready to go!
Following the loud sound of trumpets, the wooden tower slowly but firmly approached the city wall.
Two hundred steps...one hundred and fifty steps...one hundred steps...fifty steps...thirty steps
Stepping on the wooden step, the crossbowmen had already shot out cold arrow clusters one after another. The archers on the city head were shot down in rows. The originally orderly defenders on the city head began to run away. Zhang Ying's scalp felt numb. If this continued
Go down, and before the siege tower gets close, the defenders will collapse.
"Archers! Where are the dead archers!" Zhang Ying's eyes were filled with tears, and a shrill roar echoed through the city: "Hurry up to the tower, all archers, come up to me!"
After more than a thousand surviving archers replenished their arrows, they swarmed onto the tower and launched a counterattack against the crossbowmen on the siege tower. However, the sparse arrows could not stop the advancement of the wooden tower, and the wooden tower
Below, all the Qingtian City soldiers were tightly protected by large shields.
Zhang Yinggang gritted his teeth, suddenly jumped off the tower, rushed to a catapult, asked the soldiers to fill the stone bullets, and checked the angle himself. With a muffled sound, a stone bullet flew into the air and accurately hit a wooden tower.
superior.
"Boom~" sawdust flew into the air, and with a roar, the wooden tower shook a few times. Amidst the cheers of the defenders, it collapsed. All the hundreds of soldiers on top fell, and no one survived.
The cheers of mountain roaring and tsunami sounded, and the destruction of a wooden tower did not have a substantial blow to the Qingtian Army, but it was a great encouragement to the morale of the defenders. The defenders who regained their confidence regained their confidence in Zhang Ying.
Under the command, a fierce counterattack was launched. Although it was impossible for each stone bullet to hit every time, it successfully slowed down the footsteps of the wooden tower. The balance of the war changed again...
In the end, the wooden tower leaned against the city wall. The front plank of the wooden tower fell down without any warning, and was suddenly set up on the top of the city. "Kill, kill, kill!" Amidst the deafening shouts of killing, thousands of swordsmen and axemen roared.
Stepping on the planks, he rushed to the city wall and fought with the defenders.
Although the number was small, it had a substantial impact on the defenders on the city wall. Following this, a large number of soldiers took advantage of this opportunity and rushed up the city wall on ladders. Zhang Ying and Xue Li led people to rescue them everywhere.
, resisting the Qingtian City soldiers who rushed to the city. Inside the city, groups of Danyang soldiers were transferred to the city to supplement the strength of the city.
"Drink~"
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, Xue Li let out a roar and danced wildly with the spear in his hand. Wherever he passed, Qingtian City's troops collapsed like wheat. The general's special move - dancing wildly!
"Kill!" Taking advantage of the power of this move, Xue Li roared angrily and led the soldiers around him to rush left and right, slaughtering the soldiers of Qingtian City without restraint and restoring some morale for the defenders.
A fierce battle was going on on the city tower. Inside the city, a troop, led by Taishi Ci and Shiyi, quickly approached the city gate. Although this troop was not large in number, each one of them carried a bit of murderous aura and aura.
It is by no means comparable to ordinary soldiers.
"stop!"
At the gate of the city, a group of soldiers in charge of the gate looked at this uninvited guest. The general at the head suddenly became vigilant. He pulled out the steel knife from his waist and shouted sternly: "Stop advancing immediately, otherwise you will be killed without mercy!"
As his words fell, hundreds of archers behind him quickly drew their bows and arrows, aiming at the group of people.
"kill!"
Taishi Ci coldly spat out the word "kill", then suddenly accelerated and rushed forward quickly. The sky-breaking halberd in his hand shook out a cloud of halberds, and all the dozen or so soldiers who stepped forward to stop him were strangled.
"Kill~"
Behind him, dozens of soldiers roared and rushed out. Taishi Ci rushed in front of the archers and swung his sky-breaking halberd, drawing a tragic arc. A dozen archers screamed and were chopped down.
Taishi Ci fell to the ground and struck a halberd. As if entering an uninhabited land, hundreds of archers were killed in an instant. The general was lifted off his horse by Taishi Ci with a halberd.
"Open the city gate!" Taishi Ci shouted with one arm shaking.
