Southwest of the outer city, on the banks of the Cai River. Lin Jue and others were quickly heading towards Dailoumen along the riverside streets. The team was moving at a worrying speed. Because the carts were freed up for Ma Bin to disguise the convoy, there were many people.
The family members of the royal family had to get out of the car and walk. The maids, maids, servants, and women were fine. After all, they were just people doing rough work on weekdays, so walking was nothing. But the dozen or so wives and concubines of Guo Bing and his son were not. On weekdays, it was not like that.
Jiao Didi was so pampered that she couldn't move anywhere. But she couldn't even ride a horse. Even if the guards wanted to let them ride the horse, there was nothing they could do.
Lin Jue was extremely anxious, but there was nothing he could do. These people were all the female relatives of the palace, so he couldn't persuade Guo Bing to abandon them all. He judged others by himself, and he didn't drag any of his wives or concubines down, that was all.
My family, so I couldn’t say such words. So although I was anxious, I could only endure it and kept urging. It used to take half an hour to reach Dailoumen, but now more than half an hour has passed.
It is also two streets away from the city gate.
Just as everyone was preparing to cross the Yilan Bridge on the Cai River, the sound of hoofbeats came like a shower from behind, and the cry of killing suddenly came. At the street entrance behind, torches were bright, and a cavalry chased them.
Everyone was shuddering, knowing that the situation was about to get worse. A cavalry was catching up, which meant that a large number of pursuers were coming, and they would be besieged. Everything happened faster than expected, or at least not
There was a problem with the plan of attacking in the east and west, but it was because the team was moving too slowly. Otherwise, they would have been trying to capture the city gate under the Dailou Gate by now.
Although Lin Jue was nervous, he was not too surprised because he had already been mentally prepared to be overtaken. He knew that under the siege of so many soldiers and horses, it would not be easy to succeed in the strategy of attacking from the east to the west.
Bin has done a great job, at least he has gained half an hour. It is unrealistic to hope that Ma Bin can hold the opponent forever without being discovered.
Sure enough, the opponent was not in a hurry to launch an attack. Perhaps because they were afraid of firearms, they approached 300 steps away and fired fireworks flares into the sky. The gorgeous fireworks exploded in the air and turned into stars. This
In the eyes of Lin Jue and others, the splendid fireworks are the footsteps of death and the call of hell.
In a moment, dozens of fireworks rose up from nearby and far away in response. It was the Forbidden Army soldiers and horses that had been chasing nearby and got the news. Soon, a large number of Forbidden Army would surround them.
"Brother Lin, what should we do? Let's rush forward, rush to the city gate, maybe we still have a chance." Shen Tan shouted anxiously.
Lin Jue frowned and shook his head and said: "It's too late, we are moving too slowly. Don't look at it. We are only two streets apart, but it is so far away that we can't reach it. And it will be even worse if we rush to the city gate at this moment. The city gate square is wide open
, the garrison at the top of the city is condescending, which is disadvantageous to us."
Shen Tan smacked his lips and said, "What should we do? They arrived as soon as we spoke."
Lin Jue's eyes wandered around, and suddenly his eyes fell on a house not far away. He frowned and asked: "Where is that place?"
square?"
Shen Tan turned around to look and said hurriedly: "That's the martial arts school. The imperial court's martial arts assessment is here."
Lin Jue suddenly remembered that this area was the gathering place for the imperial court's martial arts academy, the Imperial Academy, and the imperial eunuchs. To the east of the Imperial Street was the place where he once took the Chunwei Examination. This was west of the Gongyuan Academy, which was not where the martial arts academy was.
What?
Although the status of warriors in the Great Zhou Dynasty is not high, the martial arts school has been established for a long time. The martial arts examination has been established since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Every five years, the martial arts people from all over the world gather here, and the outstanding ones are awarded official positions and serve in the Forbidden Army and Xiangxiang. He served as a deputy in the army. The scale of the martial arts school was very large. At the beginning of the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, it only taught martial arts and simple competitions on horseback and archery. In the end, it developed into not only martial arts on horseback, archery, bow and horse, but also competitions on military strategy. Talents who lead the army. Therefore, those who pass the martial arts examination are now unusually reckless, similar to those who are both civil and military. Therefore, the martial arts examination is the most difficult way to enter the official career in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Lin Jue remembered that he had visited the martial arts school once and vaguely remembered the layout here. In order to allow the martial arts students to demonstrate various abilities, the martial arts school has set up various terrain subjects for actual combat testing. This is also the outer area of the martial arts school. The reason for the large area of the city. Because it needs to be tested in actual combat, various terrains and landforms must be set up to simulate battlefield situations. This has actually become one of the daily training venues for the Imperial Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and is the location of the South Campus.
"Retreat to the martial arts school immediately." Lin Jue ordered in a deep voice.
Although Shen Tan was puzzled, he still carried out Lin Jue's orders to the letter. Everyone quickly retreated towards the martial arts school. The cavalry behind slowly approached but did not attack. In their opinion, Lin Jue and others Their actions are tantamount to seeking death. After retreating into the martial arts school, they will never have a chance to come out. If they want to run, they have to stay on the street. There are only two people in and out of the martial arts school. As long as they block the With two doors open, they can't escape.
Lin Jue was not ignorant of the fact that entering the martial arts school would mean retreating to a dead end, but he had no choice. In his memory, there was a simple fortress in the open training field of the martial arts school. He saw this when he was wandering there. The exquisite miniature fortress was quite interesting. But it was actually built to simulate the terrain during siege operations. Under this situation, Lin Jue could only find favorable terrain for defense, otherwise the opponent's troops would arrive, even if Even with firearms, he could not withstand attacks from all directions. Therefore, Lin Juecai resolutely chose to retreat from the street into the martial arts school.
Doing this is actually a bit of a gamble. After all, I haven't been here for three years. If the miniature city has been demolished, it will really be self-defeating and seeking death. But under the current situation, Lin Jue has no other choice. chosen.
Fortunately, when everyone poured into the spacious courtyard of the martial arts school, in the pre-dawn sky, the miniature city stood in the middle of the courtyard, towering and majestic. Lin Jue was overjoyed and repeatedly ordered everyone to rush Heading into the fortress, Sun Dayong took the lead and rushed into it with dozens of guards. After a quick search, he found that there was no one inside. At this time, Lin Jue and everyone also
Quickly enter the fortress.
To put it bluntly, this fortress is a miniature city, its size is about half the size of Chongzheng Palace. But although it is small, it has everything. In order to test the ability to siege the city, a city almost exactly the same as the real city was set up here. All the facilities include city walls, battlements, city gate suspension bridges, and a moat dug outside the city gate. The height of the city wall is somewhat different from the real city wall, only about two feet high, but this is already a great geographical advantage for the defenders. .
And in order to ensure the solidity of this small city, the city walls are made of bluestone and rammed earth, which are stronger than regular city walls. The only drawback is that the moat outside the city is dry, so it cannot be raised.
It is used as a barrier. The moat is filled with water through the Cai River sluice. The water is not released on weekdays, and the water is only opened during training and examinations. The weather is hot at the moment, and the original stagnant water in the moat has evaporated.
In any case, this miniature city covering an area of five or six acres and a hundred paces in radius is the best shelter at this moment. Although such a city may not be able to sustain for a long time under the siege of many forbidden troops, it is still better than being on the long street.
It is much better to be crushed and trampled.
All the royal guards and Lin family guards quickly climbed onto the city wall to defend themselves. Lin Jue settled the princes, princesses and family members in the city and let them rest in the tall stone house in the middle of the city. When carrying Guo Kun out of the car, Lin Jue carefully checked
After seeing Guo Kun's injuries, he was quite worried. Guo Kun was unconscious and had a high fever. There were about eight or nine sword wounds on his body, and he didn't know how much blood he had lost. When he was unconscious, Guo Kun kept shouting anxiously:
"Kill! Enter the palace and kill!"
Lin Jue knew that if such an injury could not be treated effectively, it would not be optimistic. Although medicine was applied to the wound to stop the bleeding, the high fever that persisted was a huge hidden danger. A common cold can kill people these days, let alone one that is so severe.
Lin Jue was injured, but there was nothing he could do. He could only ask everyone to feed Guo Kun more water and wipe his body to cool him down. Whether he could survive it all depends on his luck. There was still a long way to go before reaching Funiu Mountain.
, Lin Jue is not optimistic about this.
Lin Jue came to the top of the city tower and looked around. The sound of hooves rumbling from all directions was loud and loud. Countless soldiers and horses poured in from all around, and the torches were as bright as the stars in the sky. In less than a quarter of an hour, in the vast and huge courtyard of the martial arts hall,
The center was tightly blocked by tens of thousands of forbidden troops, horses and infantry. There were still a large number of soldiers and horses who were unable to enter and stayed on the long street outside.
Lin Jue, Shen Tan, Sun Dayong, all the palace guards, Lin Jiahuyuan, and the palace servants who worked together were all in heavy hearts. They all knew that they would not last long in this situation, and they would all die here tonight. This was already
It's inevitable.
Lin Jue stood behind the battlements, looking away from the black and noisy Forbidden Army, and looked up at the eastern sky. There, a morning star was shining brightly. At the intersection of heaven and earth, there was already a glimmer of dawn.
The day is about to dawn. This night is longer than a lifetime. After this long, hard and tiring night, the day is about to dawn, and everything will have a final result.
