On the upper floor of the east city of Yangwu County, everyone who had heard the warning about the enemy situation had quickly climbed onto the city wall. Standing on the city wall and looking eastward, seven or eight miles away, fireworks were rising on the continuous Bolangsha sand dunes. There were several towers from north to south.
The tops of the hills were already burning with raging fires. They were warning beacons and a sign of the enemy's incoming attack.
Six beacons were lit together, which was definitely not because they were worried that no news would be seen in the city, but a sign that the enemy situation was urgent and there were many enemy troops. The range controlled by each beacon was two miles to the left and right. If six beacons were lit together, it meant that
The invading enemy spans almost ten miles, and their numbers must be overwhelming.
"All soldiers and horses immediately board the city to defend, everyone, hurry up." Wei Dakui shouted loudly. A thousand forbidden troops and six to seven hundred county troops had already climbed up the city wall from various stone steps, preparing to meet the enemy.
"What's going on? Didn't you say there are no enemies here? How many people are here? How many bandits are here?" Guo Mian said in a panic.
"Your Highness, the enemy's situation is unknown at the moment. Don't panic, Your Highness. Your Highness is panicking. The soldiers and common people below have no backbone. Don't worry, Your Highness, we have made preparations. They will not be able to break through the city so easily." Lin Jue comforted him in a deep voice.
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Guo Mian was shocked and murmured: "Guo Kun actually lied to me that Yangwu had no enemy troops. Do you want me to die here? I will have to settle the score with him later. He actually brought most of the troops with him."
The horse ran to Fengqiu, this is where the bandits will attack. Guo Kun, just wait for me."
Lin Jue frowned and said: "Your Highness, it's not good to say this now. It's not anyone's fault this time, let alone intentional. I think we fell into the bandit's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. The Fengqiu area was a feint attack.
It is a bait to attract my army, and this is the target they really want to attack. This is definitely not what the young prince did intentionally."
Guo Mian also realized that he had gone too far and hurriedly said: "What should we do now? What should we do now? Lin Jue, you have to make an idea. You said before that this is the focus of the attack by the bandits, you should know
How to save it."
Lin Jue said: "Your Highness, we will immediately send people to Xiangduyu to wait for them to ask for help. After they find out that they have been deceived, they will rush to the rescue within three days. Once the army arrives, the situation will ease."
"Yes, yes, send someone for help immediately. But... can we survive in three days?" Guo Mian said.
"Your Highness, even my subordinates don't know. Everything depends on human effort. Just do your best. Only God knows what the result will be." Lin Jue said in a deep voice.
While talking, someone suddenly shouted: "Coming, coming."
Everyone hurriedly looked into the distance, and saw several long dragons with torches rushing out of the rolling hills of Bolangsha. Like lava rushing out of the darkness, several teams with bright torches rushed out of the mountains.
Immediately after Qiu Chi Road, it spread into sparks all over the sky, covering the ground in just a moment and rolling towards Yangwu County.
"Oh my God! How many people are there here?" Someone exclaimed, which also represented what many people wanted to say.
There are torches all over the mountains and plains. Under each torch is an enemy. There are tens of thousands of enemies in front of us. There are more enemies pouring out from the sand dunes of Bolangsha. It is estimated that there are at least twenty to thirty thousand enemies.
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"It's over, there are so many religious bandits, how can we defend here? We'd better retreat quickly, we can't defend anymore." Guo Mian's face turned pale and he murmured.
Wei Dakui licked his lips nervously. He didn't know what to do. Before, he was unhappy because he couldn't participate in the battle with the cult bandits. But now, the cult bandits were coming to him in overwhelming numbers. However, he found that this
It's not what I want anymore.
"This is undoubtedly the main force of the religious bandits in the five counties in northern Beijing. Sure enough, they are going to attack Yangwu. This county knew that they would do this. But there are too many of them, so I'm afraid it will be really troublesome." Zhao Youji frowned.
Said softly.
"Then what are you waiting for? Wei Dakui, escort me and leave quickly. This battle can't be fought." Guo Mian stamped his feet and shouted.
Before Wei Dakui could speak, Lin Jue said coldly: "Come here, escort His Highness back to the county office to rest and protect His Highness. Everyone is in position according to the previous plan, preparing to meet the enemy."
Guo Mian said in astonishment: "Lin Jue, what do you... mean?"
Lin Jue cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, please don't forget that you are now a general fighting against rebellion. If you escape from the battlefield, the court will be held accountable and the Emperor will be angry. Your Highness, don't worry. If the real city cannot be saved, we will risk our lives to escort Your Highness to break out of the encirclement."
Yes. But you must not leave before fighting."
Guo Mian was shocked. Lin Jue said no more and shouted to the guards beside Guo Mian in a deep voice: "If you haven't escorted His Highness down to the city, what are you waiting for?"
Guo Mian frowned, stamped his feet, waved his hands and turned to go down to the city.
Lin Jue looked at Wei Dakui who was standing aside blankly and said: "Wei Dutou, what about you? Do you want to stay in the city and defend the city with us, or do you want to go down to the city to accompany His Highness King Jin?"
Wei Dakui felt the contempt in Lin Jue's words, and his blood suddenly surged up. Lin Jue and Zhao Youji, two powerless scholars, dared to fight with the enemy, but he was not as good as them? Then there was no need to live.
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"All brothers, get to your positions and prepare to meet the enemy." Wei Dakui glared at Lin Jue and shouted loudly.
Lin Jue laughed and said: "That's right. Is it possible that we soldiers in the Zhou Dynasty don't fight, but we civil servants cannot fight against the enemy? Isn't it a big joke?"
Lin Jue's actions greatly stabilized the morale and calmed everyone's panic. Sometimes, when everyone is at a loss, someone needs to step up and take the lead. After having a backbone, the tension and fear will be much less. But this is often where we stand.
There are very few people who come forward, and those who can stand up are basically extraordinary people. At critical moments, gold will shine. Scholar Lin Jueyijie's calmness in the face of this situation greatly boosted morale. The soldiers followed the previous deployment.
They all took their positions, nervously watching the wave of flaming torches sweeping across the city. They unsheathed their swords and cocked their arrows, waiting for orders.
Under the city, the overwhelming Green Sect believers finally rushed hundreds of steps away. The leader was Meng Xiang, the Great Protector of the Qing Sect Tianlong. It was he who, on the orders of Haidong Qing, rushed to the five counties in northern Beijing to gather the believers to carry out the seizure.
Meng Xiang was also in a hurry for the important mission of Yangwu County. After he rushed to the five counties, he first needed to gather the believers from each county before launching an attack on Yangwu County. When he had not yet
When everyone gathered in Xucheng, they had already received news that 10,000 forbidden troops were crossing the river and heading north.
Meng Xiang knew in his heart that even if he gathered all the believers from the five counties to form a team of tens of thousands, it would definitely not be a match for the 10,000 elite Forbidden Army. Meng Xiang was well aware of the combat effectiveness of the believers. So,
Meng Xiang responded immediately. Hai Dongqing had given him instructions before coming. Following Hai Dongqing's advice, Meng Xiang ordered Xu Deliang, the master of the Dongming Branch Altar, to immediately lead the county's congregation to deliberately approach Fengqiu in order to attract the people who were rushing there.
To the attention of the ten thousand officers and soldiers of Yangwu County.
This move really worked. When Fei Ge spread the news to Xucheng that the large force of the Forbidden Army had arrived in Fengqiu, Meng Xiang burst into laughter. At that moment, he led tens of thousands of believers who rushed to Xucheng from Changheng County, Weicheng and Huaxian County
, and brought a large number of dizzy ordinary believers to Yangwu County. The number of people in this team was as high as 26,000. With such a large team, they faced the pitiful less than 1,000 people in Yangwu County.
With the defensive strength, Meng Xiang knew that this would be a win-win outcome.
There were torches hunting under the city. The bandits, all dressed in black robes, were darker than the sky at night, covering the ground seven or eight miles below the city. Meng Xiang rode a horse and slowly walked out of the congregation and rode on.
He walked up the slope outside the city, came to the bottom of the city and reined in his horse a hundred steps away.
"Is Yangwu County Magistrate Zhao Youji here? Come out and speak." Meng Xiang lifted the hood of his black robe and shouted toward the city.
Zhao Youji glanced at Lin Jue, who smiled and said, "It's okay for Magistrate Zhao to listen to him and say a few words. I guess he must be trying to scare you into surrendering."
Zhao Youji smiled, appeared between the crenellations of the city tower, and shouted coldly below: "Yangwu County Magistrate Zhao Youji is here, who are you?"
Meng Xiang laughed loudly and said: "County Magistrate Zhao, why do you need to ask so many times? You know who we are. I am Meng Xiang, the chief heavenly dragon protector of the Green Sect, and I am here today with the heavenly soldiers of our holy religion. Magistrate Zhao,
If you understand the current situation, open the city and surrender. I promise you that I will never touch a hair of you and your family to ensure your safety. And the people in the city will not do anything wrong. If not, the city will be destroyed.
Your whole family was killed and their bones were crushed to ashes. All those who resisted in the city were also killed. Our Qing Sect has always been merciless to evil spirits and heretics. If you don’t believe it, just ask the people who escaped from Xucheng. A few days ago, our Qing Sect conducted a bloodbath.
I entered Xucheng and killed thousands of demons. You should know it. You know the consequences of confrontation. I advise you to seize the opportunity."
The night wind brought Meng Xiang's words to the city. Everyone could feel chills running down their spines when they listened to Meng Xiang's words. The news of the massacre of Xucheng had already spread in the city. That night, the Qingjiao uprising broke out, and Xucheng
Magistrate Wang led a small number of people to resist desperately. Many people in the city also spontaneously joined the team to resist the Qingjiao. But in the end, they failed to save Xucheng from being captured. Afterwards, the Qingjiao bandits launched a massacre in revenge for the people's resistance.
.There were less than 15,000 people in the small city of Xucheng, but more than 2,000 people were killed. That night was a river of blood and extremely tragic. Now the other party has confirmed this and threatened to do this to the people of Yangwu.
, how can it not make people tremble with fear?
"Hahaha." Zhao Youji looked up to the sky and laughed, put his hands behind his hands and shouted: "Who do I think it is? It turns out to be a group of evil cult rebels. What bullshit Qingjiao? It's just a group of evil believers. You are so rebellious and rebelling. The imperial army has already been dispatched to encircle and suppress you.
You still don’t know how to repent. Soon you will be exterminated by the imperial court, and you still dare to come to our Yangwu County to run wild. You cultists, please listen to me. The imperial court has issued an edict, and those who believe in the cult are free to accept its instigation.
It’s excusable, but if you continue to aid the tyrants, you will never be forgiven. If you pull back from the brink and there is still a way to survive, and continue to follow the evil cult to harm the country and the people, you will definitely die. But you come to persuade this county to surrender? It’s you who should surrender.”
"Presumptuous! You dare to slander our holy religion? You will be the first to die after the city is broken." Meng Xiang yelled and cursed: "And because of your offense just now, after the city is broken, we will bloodbath Yangwu County and kill everyone.
