"Stop struggling! It's useless!" The ferocious whisper of the goshawk came to his ears. The other party was obviously trying his best to strangle himself. He Qizhou knew that if he relaxed even a little bit at this time, he would fall unconscious in the blink of an eye.
So you must never give up resistance!
His vision gradually turned black, and He Qizhou suddenly felt as if he was at the bottom of a lake dozens of feet deep. By the way, why should I breathe? Why should I miss such a good opportunity to practice? He Qizhou decided to forget about the goshawk underneath him that was strangling him.
, began to concentrate on practicing the Hua Zhen Gong, and the little remaining true energy began to flow slowly in the body. The accumulated foundation in the sea of Qi in Dantian began to nourish the entire veins like iceberg melting water...
Goshawk was gritting his teeth and exerting force! He was exerting force with blood dripping from his eyes! He was exerting force with all his life! There seemed to be the sound of groups of horse hooves coming from the foot of the mountain. It was obvious that the "rebels" from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty had come, and they were left to themselves.
The time is getting shorter and shorter! The true energy has been exhausted, there is not much strength left, and even the blood is almost gone!
In order to prevent He Qizhou from escaping, he kept exerting all his strength, but the severed sole of his foot was bleeding profusely. Goshawk really didn't know how long he could hold on! What made him even more unsure was that the one in his arms was no longer struggling.
The guy was no longer breathing, but his heartbeat had stabilized, and the energy in his body seemed to be flowing happily!
Can't let go! Goshawk knew that without his current wrestling advantage, once He Qizhou broke free, he would definitely be dead, so he could only let the blood flow, and his body gradually stiffened, but the strength in his hand continued to increase...
"That's it!" He Qizhou breathed out a breath and muttered to himself in a low voice. After a stick of incense, his skill returned to 30%, which was enough to deal with the goshawk under him, so he opened his arms and prepared to push away the restraints on his body.
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"Kick-kick-kick-kick..." As a series of sounds of joints falling out of place came out, He Qizhou sat up from the goshawk, then looked back at the strong man who had long since died of exhaustion of essence and blood. Only then did he remember the man under the rubble.
Yuwen Lingyun's life and death were unknown, so he hurried over.
"Master!" "Your Highness!" "Cousin!"... The five hundred cavalrymen who had been guarding the outside of the mountain saw the alarming movement on the mountain. They flew over directly. When they went up the mountain, they saw the ruins of Mingyue Palace in the distance. It seemed that no one was standing.
People, everyone started shouting desperately.
"Brother Yuwen, are you okay? Where is my cousin?" Helian Qingqing, who was the first to rush up the mountain, found Yuwen Lingyun's uncle and nephew lying outside the palace gate.
"I'm here!" He Qizhou, who was covered in blood, had already walked around the western wall and walked over. Of course, most of the blood was shed by the goshawk.
"Master, are you okay?" He Qizhou looked a bit scary.
"It's okay. Let's ask people to find Wu Shi's body under the cliff of Beishan. We will rest for another day in Wuchuan Town and march to Qingcheng tomorrow morning!" He Qizhou's right hand was already on Yu Wen Lingyun's wrist. The deputy general who was exhausted of his energy was really worried.
It was not advisable to march immediately, and he and Yu Wenzhu also needed to train. Since they captured Mu City in half a day and arrived at Qingcheng two days earlier than expected, they had time to rest the exhausted team.
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In the outer city of Qingcheng, all the trees within a mile outside the city wall were cut down, all the houses were demolished, and all the people in the city were forced to move into the city. The wide outer wall was surrounded by horses, deer, firewood, and caltrops.
It was filled with roads of all sizes entering the outer city. Of course, in addition to the east gate and south gate, there were also two passages for reinforcements to enter.
About 5,000 defensive soldiers were arranged behind Luchai outside almost every city wall, and another 5,000 were preparing for battle inside the wall, including 2,000 heavily armored iron guards with astonishing combat power.
Helian Changji put almost all his troops in the outer city, because as long as the outer city was broken through, there would be no barrier that could stop the charge of the Eastern Zhou cavalry. The single wall of the imperial city connected to the entrances of each Qinglong Temple was more powerful than the outer wall.
It is still difficult to defend, and even Luchai is difficult to arrange, so whether we can defend Qingcheng can only depend on the defense line in the outer city. Of course, there is another hope: relying on the emperor's emergency march of 10,000 tornadoes to stop it
He Qizhou's charge!
In the palace, sixteen eunuchs were always surrounding a courtyard. The bad-tempered Princess Qi had already injured several palace attendants, and all the maids and nuns who wanted to teach her the rules of the Zhou palace were also kicked out.
No maid dared to enter this courtyard anymore. In the huge royal courtyard, only the princess and two maids brought from Qi lived.
In order to prevent the princess from escaping, at least two eunuchs with a rank of six or above led a team to guard the door. However, they did not dare to embarrass the future princess. They could only endure it after being beaten and scolded. Everyone thought
The emperor wants to come back quickly. No one in this palace dares to say no to the emperor.
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"Your Majesty, we can't wait any longer! The puppet emperor has recaptured Baicheng and is heading straight to the Bohai Sea unimpeded. Xiao Duo's 10,000 cavalry may not be able to defeat He Qizhou who has crossed the northern border; if we don't go back, Gong is afraid that food and grass will be hard to come by.
If we continue, the capital will not be guaranteed..." Tornado coach Xiao Keng begged Helian Qingfeng on his knees.
"It only takes half a month at most for us to capture Shanhaiguan. In this case, don't talk about it outside. Just retreat!" Helian Qingfeng said expressionlessly. Among the 200,000 troops, few people knew that the northern border was continuously connected.
A losing battle.
"Yes, I am retiring!" Xiao Keng bowed his head and exited the tent. After turning around, the thick smell of blood hit his face, along with the loud shouts of killing. Two miles away was the tall city wall of Shanhaiguan.
, in order to boost morale, Helian Qingfeng has pitched the Chinese army's tent closest to the city wall!
At this time, dozens of huge trebuchets were constantly throwing stones weighing hundreds of kilograms towards the city; hundreds of ladders were densely set up on the walls of Shanhaiguan; tens of thousands of Zhou soldiers launched day and night
Charge, behind them are the red-eyed supervisors. The emperor's personal order is to shrink back and not to kill; hundreds of thousands of arrows are scattered in every corner of the battlefield, and the sky is still raining like dark clouds from time to time.
Rain of arrows...
"Alas!" Tornado coach Xiao Keng sighed again. He mobilized 200,000 troops and 100,000 civilians. After a month of hard fighting, he still couldn't shake Shanhaiguan. Twenty thousand corpses of attackers had been thrown under the city... If it really happened
Without the food sent by Bohai Kingdom and Qingcheng, what will these 300,000 people eat?
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"If this continues, I'm afraid we won't be able to defend for ten days!" Chang Feng, who fought with his sword in person after repelling the latest round of fierce attacks in Guancheng, said with some pain.
After a month of defending the city, almost all the arrows, stones and logs were used up. Now they have begun to demolish the houses, take out the beams, and move the wall bricks into the city. What is even more disturbing is that under the opponent's giant trebuchet
Under the attack, the casualties of the defenders were as much as those of the enemy. Chang Feng really didn't want to recall the scenes of the defenders' flesh and blood flying everywhere when the rocks collapsed the city walls.
"Don't worry, as long as we are here, Shanhaiguan will not lose it!" Lingfeng said with a smile, but the smile looked particularly painful, because as long as he smiled, he would get the horrible wound on his face.
"That's right, I hope we can live longer." Of course Chang Feng understood what Ling Feng meant. The two of them had already vowed to live and die with this city.
"When you went out of the city for a sneak attack yesterday, good news came from the sea." Lingfeng couldn't help but smile, even though the wound on his face that had just stopped bleeding opened again.
"Oh? Annan's grain ship can go north?" Chang Feng said happily. Last night's sneak attack on the enemy's grain warehouse was not successful, so he just left the city from the southeast and was killed and escaped back. Chang Feng didn't sleep all night, and he directly
Join in the battle to defend the city.
"No, there is news from Baicheng. Helian Chenwu has recaptured Baicheng and is attacking the lost territory in the Bohai Sea with overwhelming force!" Lingfeng said.
"Is this really happening? He, doesn't he have no soldiers? How could it be..." Chang Feng felt a little incredible.
"Helian Chenwu said that he had the support of many Shengzhou tribes and Hanjian Villa, most of which were brought by He Qizhou. There is also better news. He Qizhou is leading the most elite army of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to raid Qingcheng.
, I estimate that the tornado withdrew 10,000 riders a few days ago just to deal with He Qizhou!" Lingfeng said.
Chang Feng shouted: "That makes sense. No wonder Helian Qingfeng has been attacking like crazy in the past two days. It turns out that he wants to break the city and return to rescue Qingcheng. Great, someone is here!"
"General!" A deputy general immediately stepped forward to listen to the order.
"Inform all soldiers immediately that the Eastern Zhou Dynasty has begun a counterattack and will reach Qingcheng soon. As long as we can defend Shanhaiguan, Helian Qingfeng's good days will be over!" Chang Feng ordered loudly.
"yes!"
Lingfeng looked at Chang Feng and said confidently: "I said, we will not lose!"
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"Brother He, there is news from the city that now only one door is left on the south wall and the east wall. Juma and Luchai are dead in other places. Helian Changji is waiting for reinforcements. It is estimated that it will take one to two days.
We'll be there soon, why don't we go east around to the south of the city." Guo Wen said breathlessly.
Two days ago, He Qizhou asked Guo Wen to go ahead and ask the brothers who stayed in Kuocheng to sneak into the city and inquire about the news in the city together with Fushan, the shopkeeper of Fuji Buhang. He Qizhou also asked the disciples of the Lotus Gang to take the risk and contact the master of Mu Tang Hall, Yan Wuji.
Yan Wuji would definitely be able to get far more information than the Lotus Gang who was roaming the streets.
"Do you know how many reinforcements have arrived?" He Qizhou, who was on the march, had already entered the outskirts of Qingcheng's outer city, less than twenty miles away from the north gate of the outer city.
"This should be Hall Master Yan's handwriting. Read it for yourself." Guo Wen personally led his two brothers to guard a ruined house one mile outside the outer city wall. They agreed that the way to obtain the information was to recruit someone who had been recruited.
When the guard brothers were patrolling in the middle of the night, they wrapped the letter with stones and threw it towards the perimeter of the defense line. After Guo Wen quietly collected it, he saw that the handwriting on the letter was vigorous and vigorous, and the content was very important. It was definitely not handwritten by a brother from the gang, so he hurried over. This chapter has been completed!