Indeed, everyone in Hetao Sanlu, including Tianyi, knew that Dugu was a notorious rogue. Just like this time during the siege, Dugu did not forget his rogue skills.
When Dugu led his soldiers to climb the city wall, he did not lead all the soldiers to sweep the city wall. Instead, he asked Zhou Jilong and Long Zhishan to each lead 500 Hetao soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Paradise Holy Cult to sneak into the city quietly, and in Meizhou
Mass murders and arson were committed in the city to create an atmosphere of terror and confuse the other party's sight.
Under the attack of the Hetao army, the Paradise soldiers in the city were originally in a state of disarray. When they encountered two groups of soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Paradise Holy Cult, the situation became even more chaotic. Zhou Jilong and Long Zhishan were originally the best under Dugu.
He is a gangster, and he was also an outstanding bandit and robber in the Yizhou village. He is naturally familiar with these old skills.
When Luocao settled in Yizhou, Dugu and others still adhered to the principle of being a thief. They were only allowed to rob the government and wealthy households who were unkind for the sake of wealth. They were not allowed to rob the people or set fire to kill people. But it is different now. Haotian has already issued an order.
After receiving the order to massacre the city, they naturally had no scruples. It could be said that they killed people on sight and burned houses on sight.
However, their greatest achievement was not how many Ji Le soldiers they killed, but the great confusion they caused to the Ji Le soldiers in the city. Because of their murders and arson, Wan Chengdong and Ye Hengsheng already knew that there were Hetao soldiers in the city. But because
They are all wearing the military uniforms of the Holy Sect of Paradise, and now that the fog is thick, Wan Chengdong can't tell which of the soldiers below are spies from Hetao. If the number of patrols sent out is small, it will be easily defeated by Zhou Jilong Er
They were intercepted and killed. If there were too many people, the Hetao soldiers would not come to collide with each other. Moreover, the battle was already raging outside the west gate, and the two of them had no energy to take care of these small groups of enemy troops in the city.
"My lord, Commander Du has taken control of the west gate of Meizhou. Commander Xin is leading 20,000 soldiers towards the south gate, and Commander Blood is assisting Commander Du in clearing out the remaining enemies at the west gate." A group of soldiers rushed over shouting commands from a distance.
Qiu Mu heard that the command was correct, and then asked Haotian's soldiers to move out of the way and pick him up. Now the fog was thick, and although Haotian and others were around him, Qiu Mu was still very worried.
"Is the west door open?" Haotian frowned and said.
"It has been opened." The soldier who brought the message replied breathlessly.
Haotian nodded with satisfaction: "In that case, that's good! I respect you!"
"My subordinates are here!" Fengjing replied as he strode out of the queue.
Haotian chuckled: "No need to be so serious. The city gate has been opened, now it's up to you."
Feng Jing also smiled: "Lord, don't worry, my subordinates will never let you down."
Haotian watched Fengjing's figure disappear into the heavy fog, and just smiled faintly. Indeed, Fengjing had never let him down over the years. In fact, among the many generals under his command, the one that gave him the most peace of mind was Fengjing.
respect.
"Qingcheng." Haotian turned around and said to Xue Qingcheng beside him: "Although the fog is heavy now, it will dissipate in at most an hour. Now we have occupied the west gate. If nothing happens,
It is inevitable to capture Meizhou. The Fengjing cavalry has entered the city, you can now lead your bloody soldiers to patrol outside the remaining three city gates to prevent the Ji Le soldiers inside the city from escaping."
Xue Qingcheng bowed respectfully, pointed her riding whip, and her subordinates, Ananda Wangmei and others who had been waiting impatiently, immediately followed her and rushed out happily.
"When the fog clears, it's time for us to capture Meizhou." Luo Xiang said softly beside him.
Haotian nodded. Although there are 200,000 Paradise soldiers in the city, the number of Hetao infantry actually participating in the siege is only 100,000, and even with the 20,000 cavalry led by Feng Jing, it is only a little more than half of the Paradise Holy Cult.
.But now the Ji Le soldiers have become completely blind, and Ximen has been captured. The Ji Le Holy Sect has lost the geographical advantage they relied on. Moreover, the opponent is already in chaos and cannot form an effective resistance against itself. In Cheng Xianqing
The northern fortress, which was thought to be indestructible, was easily captured by the Hetao army.
Xuanji sat astride the horse on one side and said with a smile: "My lord, after we take Meizhou, what will be the next step?"
"Go south quickly and march into Jiangnan!"
Wan Chengdong received the news that Ximen had been captured almost at the same time as Haotian. He did not expect that Du Nantian's two-man team, who was responsible for the defense of Ximen, would collapse so quickly. So fast that he even returned
There was no time to send reinforcements.
"This Du Nantian is really a pustule!" Ye Hengsheng said fiercely.
Wan Chengdong's face darkened. Although Du Nantian was transferred from the Minghui Army, he was still his general after all. Ye Hengsheng's words were going too far. Besides, Du Nantian was still a very good general.
.It’s just that the city gate was lost so quickly, which made him somewhat angry.
How did he know that Du Nantian had just stepped out of the command room and met Dugu Yuming, one of the five generals in Hetao. In front of Dugu Yuming, who could compete with the top ten masters in China, he naturally had no chance. As a result, Dugu Yuming
Yu Ming separated his body and head with just one blow of his sword. As for the soldiers under his command, they were originally in chaos, and now they were leaderless, so they naturally collapsed quickly.
"Report to the two legion commanders, Hetao. The cavalry from Hetao has entered the city! A large number of soldiers from Hetao have also appeared near the south gate defended by General Wan Xiaolu. Due to the heavy fog, it is difficult for us to distinguish the enemy's tracks, and the situation is precarious!"
A soldier stumbled into the command room and said to Wan Chengdong and Ye Hengsheng, who had gloomy expressions on their faces.
"What?" Ye Hengsheng's face suddenly turned pale. Wan Chengdong's face also turned livid, and his fists burst with excessive force.
"General Wan, what should we do now?" Ye Hengsheng was a civil servant after all. Faced with this sudden change, he was immediately panicked and at a loss.
Wan Chengdong despised Ye Hengsheng's idiot in his heart, but he said: "Ximen has fallen, and the Hetao cavalry has entered the city. It seems that Meizhou cannot be defended now."
Ye Hengsheng said in a trembling voice: "What should we do? We have issued a military order to His Majesty. If Meizhou falls, I am afraid that only one of us will die."
Wan Chengdong sneered in his heart: "As a soldier of the empire, you must naturally have the consciousness to die in battle and be shrouded in horse leather. Although the soldiers in Hetao have the advantage now, we still have 200,000 soldiers under our command. These are the elites of our empire in all battles.
, when the fog clears, we can take the opportunity to counterattack. Moreover, the people in the city are loyal believers in our empire, and they will definitely help us with all their strength, so we are not without a chance to fight."
Ye Hengsheng hesitated and said: "But the soldiers in the Hetao have now gained the upper hand. We are unable to make an effective counterattack now. By the time the fog clears, we may be completely defeated."
"Then the commander of the army thinks we should be like this now?" Wan Chengdong asked deliberately.
"Retreat! We deserve to die for losing Meizhou. But these 200,000 troops are already our last strength in the Yangzhou Road area. If they are all buried here, then the entire empire will probably collapse." Ye Hengsheng said nothing.
He said without hesitation. He is a politician from the civil service system. Although he is not good at military affairs, his sense of politics is quite qualified.
It was his words that Wan Chengdong was waiting for, and he said without hesitation: "In that case, commander of the army, you go first. I, the general, will lead the army to break up the rear here!"
Ye Hengsheng hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "General Wan, the number of troops dispatched in Hetao is unknown. Your incomplete personal army may not be able to stop their pursuit. Let's do this, I will leave half of the troops for you, and I will lead
Fifty thousand soldiers will take the first step."
An imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of Wan Chengdong's lips: "In that case, you go first, Army Commander."
Ye Hengsheng did not refuse, but said with a grateful face: "General Gaoyi, Ye is convinced. To the east of Meizhou is the Holy Land of Paradise in our empire, and there are only 50,000 local troops stationed here. If Hetao takes the opportunity to attack here,
It will definitely be difficult to preserve the Holy Capital. Ye will lead the army to the Holy Capital first to strengthen the local defense. Otherwise, if Meizhou falls and the Holy Capital is in danger, then we will really deserve death."
"What the legion commander said is true. Time is urgent, so it's better to seize the opportunity to retreat!" Wan Chengdong nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
"General, he has left. Do you really want us to die here?" Seeing Ye Hengsheng leaving in a hurry, a soldier asked doubtfully.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Wan Chengdong's mouth: "Let's go? Where can he go? Do you think the generals in Hetao are just for food? Pass this general's order and let Wan Xiaolu defend the south gate to the death. Zhou Pangmu's troops and horses
Zhengchun's troops and the rest of the soldiers gathered on the spot and retreated towards the south gate."
The soldiers looked worried: "South Gate? Are we planning to withdraw to Raozhou to meet with the peace commander?"
"Idiot, do you think the Hetao army will allow us to easily bypass their defenses and go to the Peace Commander to make peace?"
"Then why didn't you choose the east gate? It's the closest to the Holy Capital of Paradise, and didn't Captain Ye lead his army there first?"
Wan Chengdong smiled coldly: "Huh, to the east is the Holy Capital of Paradise, and there are tens of thousands of Hetao cavalry. Naturally, they will not ignore it. Ye Hengsheng, he is just attracting the attention of Hetao for us. Of course, we still
We have to return to the Holy Capital of Paradise, otherwise we will definitely be eaten by the Hetao. But our route is to come out from the south gate and turn to the southeast."
"Lonely Hills?" the soldier took a breath and said.
Wan Chengdong nodded, his eyes filled with gloom.
Among the seven secret places in China, Lonely Hills is the least dangerous of the seven. Of course, this is only compared to the other six places. According to legend, this place was an ancient battlefield in ancient times, when hundreds of thousands of soldiers fought
He died here, so that countless years have passed. If he digs a few hoe here, he might be able to dig out a dense white skeleton. It seems that all the earthbags here are exactly the same, or these earthbags are tombs.
It's appropriate. Due to the special geology here, except for the legendary flower of death, there is no grass growing. Ordinary people can't tell the direction at all when entering here. And at night, within a radius of hundreds of miles, from time to time,
A will-o'-the-wisp will appear. Looking from a distance, the green will-o'-the-wisp exudes an eerie light, making people shudder. Especially when the moon and stars are scarce, there are often lonely ghosts wandering around, which adds to the terrifying atmosphere here.
Wan Chengdong breathed a sigh of relief: "Immediately pack up the dry food and water that can last for three days. As soon as Commander Ye's army leaves the east gate, we will prepare to retreat."
If he didn't have to, he wouldn't want to take this road. As a soldier, theoretically, he shouldn't be afraid of ghosts and corpses. However, the lonely hills are too eerie, with bones, dead bodies, tombs, will-o'-the-wisps, and foxes.
Even a hard-hearted man like him shuddered at the existence of the ghost, as well as the existence of the ghost that no one had confirmed but no one dared to deny. If you want to lead the army through here, the first thing you must prepare is a large amount of dry food and water.
, in this hellish place, let alone looking for dry food, even digging a well to find water is impossible.
"What about the people in the city?" the soldier asked after hesitation.
"We can't even take care of ourselves now, so how can we take care of them? Leave it to the Loop, which can buy us some time!" Wan Chengdong said gloomily.
He naturally knows what the consequences will be if these people stay in the city. He is not unaware of Hetao's order to kill all the Bliss Alliance without a blade of grass, but now he can't care so much. Now, it is still his own
Life is at stake.
At this time, Meizhou City was already ablaze with flames.
The fog is still thick, but it has faded a lot compared to the beginning. However, even now, the scenery within a radius of one foot can only be seen clearly, which is not enough for the cavalry led by Feng Jing to support them.
Galloping vertically and horizontally.
However, Feng Jing was one of the five great generals in Hetao, so naturally he could not be helpless. He led 20,000 cavalry to swarm in from the west gate, and along the straight streets in the city, the cavalry on horseback kept setting fire to the tung oil in their hands.
Supplies were thrown on both sides of the street, and then with a torch, the houses on both sides of the street burst into flames. In this way, the cavalry's field of vision suddenly became much wider.
The Holy Sect of Paradise was originally all infantry. Before they formed a formation, they could not compete with the cavalry led by Feng Jing. And if they relied on both sides of the street and the terrain of the city's connected alleys, they would not be able to stop the Hetao cavalry.
However, their military morale is now in chaos, and the Hetao cavalry has no scruples at all. No matter whether they are Ji Le soldiers or the people in the city, they will kill them with one knife. No matter whether they are residential buildings or anything else, they will burn them down. In this case
Under this, although the defenders in the city had several times the strength, they were still defeated by the Hetao army.
"Henghui, Lan Gaoping, each of you will lead five thousand cavalry to kill through these two streets. Remember, no matter what the circumstances, the cavalry cannot be allowed to leave the streets and enter the alleys on both sides." Although Fengjing couldn't tell the difference.
The current situation in the city, but he could clearly feel that the resistance in the city had dropped a lot. Therefore, he boldly divided the cavalry into three parts and allowed them to perform to their fullest.
However, cavalry is not conducive to street fighting after all. Even the best nomadic cavalry will end up extremely tragic if it is caught in a street fighting. As a cavalry general, Fengjing naturally understands this. What he is most worried about is
Henghui, Lan, and Gaoping started to kill each other, and finally ended up killing each other in an alley, becoming someone else's prey.