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Chapter 650 You have to go

Man is actually a very strange creature with many inexplicable properties and behaviors, such as courage and fear.The Tang army in Hedong City resisted for seven or eight days under the leadership of Wang Duo. Regardless of the huge boulders flying hundreds of kilograms above their heads or the occasional earth-shattering explosion under their feet, their determination and courage are admirable.Yanyun's army had hundreds of catapults and gunpowder refined by the Second Department of the Military Inspection Office. Even so, it still lost thousands of troops under the city of Hedong.

But at the moment when the city wall collapsed and the Yanyun army rushed in frantically, Tang Jun's fighting spirit collapsed instantly.The speed at which the Tang army disintegrated on the city wall was jaw-dropping, like a domino that was pushed down, and panic spread uncontrollably along the city wall.

Most of the soldiers of the Tang army gave up resistance, dropped their weapons and knelt down begging for their lives.No one could understand how such an army could have such two diametrically opposite performances. Half an hour ago, they were still respectable fighters, preferring death to submission.After half an hour, they crawled down, humbly begging the winner to let them go.

A very small number, about eight or nine hundred soldiers of the Tang Army, retreated from the city wall and fought street by street under the leadership of a different general. Their goal was the Hedong Palace.

The palace walls of Hedong King Li Chengde are tall, and there are at least hundreds of elite troops in the palace. As long as this force is combined, it is not impossible to break through the blockade of the Yanyun Army and fight a bloody road out of the city.These eight or nine hundred soldiers of the Tang army were the most elite and brave group of defenders in Hedong. Many of them participated in the second expedition to Liaodong. They were Xiaoguo recruited by Daye Emperor Yang Guang. Surviving the constant battle has proved their strength and courage.

It is precisely because of this that they did not choose to give up.

Don't let Xu Xun lead eight or nine hundred Tang army elites to open a way, and rush towards the Hedong Palace like crazy.The troops of the Yanyun Army brigade chased after them. Some of the Yanyun Army who entered the city ran to clean the city gate. In the middle, the Jingqi of the Yanyun Army of the brigade broke through the dust and smoke and rushed into Hedong City.

The east gate was broken, but as long as Xu Xun's men acted fast enough, after rescuing King Hedong, they gathered together and fled northward. After clearing the civil blocks blocked by the north gate, they escaped from the north gate. This was their only way of life.There are at least a thousand soldiers of the Tang army at the north gate, and the total number is nearly 3000. Some of them resisted the Yanyun army and some cleaned up the city gate. After leaving the city, they fled all the way north. It will be difficult to catch up.

The most important thing is that there are war horses in the mansion of Hedong King Li Chengde.

Xu Xun glanced back at the soldiers of the Yanyun Army who were chasing after him like a black dragon, gritted his teeth and gave an order.Immediately, more than 200 soldiers of the Tang Army stayed behind and formed four or five rows of horizontal formations to seal off the street. They only needed to hold on for a stick of incense, and Xu Xun could lead people to the Hedong Palace and take Li Chengde, the King of Hedong, with him. , Get on your horse and go straight to the north gate.These Tang soldiers left behind are destined to have no way out, but they can make a way out for others.

The remaining soldiers looked at each other's appearances in the robes around them, and then deeply remembered these faces in their hearts.Someone laughed freely and said, you and my brother must walk hand in hand when we get down there. I have heard that we drink Meng Po soup when we are at Naihe Bridge. After drinking it, we will forget our previous life. Know that we are all good brothers who share life and death.

These words fully inspired the fighting spirit and bloodiness of the soldiers of the Tang army. They raised their chests and looked at the surging Yan Yun army on the opposite side. At this moment, their morale was like a rainbow.

"Should we still be soldiers in the next life?"

someone asked aloud.

"If the world is peaceful in the next life, a fool will serve as a soldier again. What I want most is dozens of acres of Susukida, a wife and children who are warm on the kang, and come home from a day's work to sit on the child's knees, warm a pot of wine and get drunk , and then hugged the mother-in-law and fell asleep!"

"Ha ha!"

They laughed loudly, raised their horizontal knives and pointed at the enemy: "Sleeping with your mother-in-law!"

This is not a slogan, let alone a battle song, but a simple and heartrending wish. They are also ordinary men. thought.They were tired of this life in the field, but they were the kind of people who would rather die in battle than grovel and beg for mercy.

On the battlefield, there will always be such a group of people who will be remembered.

"kill!"

The Yanyun army in black armor rushed up like a torrent. The embankment composed of more than 200 people seemed a bit thin, and it became crumbling after a short impact. However, these Tang army soldiers did not retreat, and used their flesh and blood to block the enemy's advance pace.

Seeing that the road ahead was blocked, Liu Man looked at the houses on both sides and ordered loudly: "The archers go to the house, don't waste time, clear the road and rush to the Hedong Palace, and capture Li Chengde alive!"

The archers climbed up the courtyard walls and houses, and then shot arrows at the soldiers of the Tang army who were still fighting their fate.There were almost no accidental injuries in the close-in shooting. The soldiers of the Tang Army fell down one by one, and soon the corpses spread a layer on the bluestone road.Yan Yunjun, who was holding a long lance, roared forward and stabbed forward frantically. They didn't even try to distinguish where the enemy in front of them was standing, but kept stabbing the long lance out.

Blood water sprinkled in the air along the lance front, and the feather arrow also took away one life after another.Even though they had tried their best, they still couldn't hold on to the time for a stick of incense, and even the retreating figures of their fellow robes hadn't disappeared from their sight.In the end, when the twenty or so soldiers of the Tang army died, they fulfilled their promises to each other. They dropped the weapons in their hands and held hands in the street. Full of arrows.

More than twenty Tang soldiers holding hands fell down, and none of them begged for their lives.

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When Xu Xun led more than [-] people to the gate of Hedong Palace, he found that the gate was closed tightly, and the defenders on the wall of the palace courtyard had already drawn their bows and arrows to them. Xu Xun was startled, and subconsciously shouted that I am here Those who saved His Highness out of trouble quickly opened the courtyard gate and asked His Highness to mount his horse and evacuate towards the north gate.

It's just that the soldiers in the palace ignored him at all, shouting loudly for them to leave.

Xu Xun thought that Li Chengde, King of Hedong, had been kidnapped by these soldiers, and was furious, and ordered an attack immediately.The soldiers on the courtyard wall shouted not to come over, not to force us, but how could the soldiers of the Tang Army who had already killed their eyes be willing to give up at this last moment?Hundreds of soldiers shouted and rushed to the gate, and the soldiers on the courtyard wall immediately pulled their bowstrings.Feathered arrows shot over row by row, and the soldiers of the Tang army who rushed to the front fell down neatly one by one.

"Your Highness is here!"

Xu Xun slashed a feathered arrow with a knife, and shouted towards the gate with all his strength: "The last general Xu Xun led the troops to rescue, is Your Highness here? Please order to open the gate of the courtyard, and the Yanyun army will arrive later!"

The soldiers on the courtyard wall fired arrows and shouted not to come over, don't force me.They mechanically repeated the killing action, and the feather arrows took away the lives of fellow robes one after another.No matter what, Xu Xun couldn't understand why the soldiers in the palace wanted to prevent them from entering.It seemed that the soldiers guarding the palace did not seem to be traitors. While shooting arrows, they explained that His Highness was in the palace, and this was His Highness's order.

Inside the high walls of the palace, the Hedong King Li Chengde, who was wrapped in three layers of leather armor, was pale. He didn't know whether it was cold or frightened, his body was shaking violently.Dozens of palace guards protected him, and the expressions on the soldiers' faces were extremely painful.It was not Yan Yunjun who rushed in, but their comrades, but the prince ordered them not to be let in, shattering the last hope of those comrades.

"why!"

Xu Xun, who gave the order to stop the attack, stared at the soldiers on the courtyard wall with bloodshot eyes and shouted loudly. There was a feathered arrow stuck in his shoulder, and blood gushed out from the wound, but he didn't feel it at all. Painful.

"Let Your Highness come down to see me!"

Xu Xun shouted.

They stopped charging, and the defenders on the courtyard wall stopped shooting arrows.They looked at each other with sorrow and helplessness in their eyes.

After a while, the trembling Li Chengde climbed up the courtyard wall along the ladder, glanced at Xu Xun with a ferocious face, opened his mouth but stopped, hesitated for a while, and then said: "You all go, I can't let you go!" Come in. Gu knows that you are the most loyal warriors in the Tang Dynasty, but if Gu let you in at this moment, how could the Yan Yun army let him go? You run for your own lives... King Yan is the uncle of Gu... His subordinates will not embarrass me."

"idiot!"

Xu Xun cursed, his grief and indignation hard to calm down.

"I shouldn't have thought of coming back to save you!"

Xu Xun glanced back at the Yan Yun Army who had already killed nearby, threw the horizontal knife on the ground and sighed: "If I knew this, I might as well have surrendered to the Yan Yun Army at the city gate. Pity my 200 Many brothers, you are wronged to die!"

"Injustice!"

The rest of the soldiers roared unwillingly, causing Li Chengde to fall off the courtyard wall with a cry.After Xu Xun dropped the weapon, the soldiers under his command looked at each other. Some laughed like crazy and then stabbed the horizontal knife into their heart. Most of them threw the weapon on the ground in a state of depression. At this moment, they His figure was particularly bleak.

Liu Man led troops to surround the Hedong Palace, Wu Tianxi led his Qingmu camp to attack from the east gate to the north gate, Cheng Mingzhen led the Houtu camp to attack from the east gate to the south gate, and it took less than two At that time, the two armies met at Ximen, and there were more than [-] people in the Tang Dynasty in Hedong City.