subvert the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 17 The Siege of Songzhou

Huang Chao stabbed a general of the officer army. The man seemed to know Huang Chao's strength. He swung Huang Chao's silver spear away with a knife. It is inconvenient to salute."

Huang Chao fixed his eyes on the person who came, and said angrily: "So it was you, Zhu Xuan. What a hero your father Zhu Qing was in Henan. You didn't want to avenge your father, but you surrendered to the army?"

Zhu Xuan said with a smile: "my father has been selling private salt all his life and accumulated countless wealth, but in the end he ended up confiscating his family and dying? Uncle Huang is a hero, how could he not understand the truth? Don't you see what my father will end up with as an official?"

It turned out that Zhu Xuan's father, Zhu Qing, also made a living selling illicit salt in Songzhou, and had had a lot of contacts with Huang Chao, and the two had a close friendship.Later, Zhu Qing was captured and killed by the government, and Zhu Xuan was also sent to Qingzhou to serve as an army, such as under Wang Jingwu's command.

Huang Chao was very angry, and shouted: "Shut up! I will get rid of you, brother Zhu today!" Huang Chao was so angry that it was child's play!The tiger's head is shining like a silver spear, and it goes out to sea like an angry dragon, and goes straight to Zhu Xuan.

Zhu Xuan slashed three times in a row, and hit Huang Chao's silver spear with the knife, and managed to parry Huang Chao's blow with three bursts of strength. Zhu Xuan's arms went numb, and he was terrified.He thought that Huang Chao's skill was indeed not inferior to his father's, so he reined in his horse and retreated, and the soldiers on both sides rushed forward.

Brothers Zhu Jin and Zhu Qiong rushed to rescue their cousin when they saw his cousin in danger. The three brothers teamed up to barely resist Huang Chao's silver spear.

With the cooperation of dozens of personal guards, Zhu Wen and Huang Ying rushed left and right, killing many officers and soldiers. The two wounds on Zhu Wen's shoulders, head and back were shocking, and the armor was already in tatters.Huang Ying also had a knife wound on her left arm, and the blood was still flowing out, but she didn't have time to bandage it.

If you don't pay attention on the battlefield, you will be separated forever, and no one will be spared.

Zhu Wen cursed in his heart: What kind of general leader in a million-dollar army is his mother's bullshit.No matter how good your martial arts are, a hundred ordinary soldiers are enough to cut you to pieces.

While cursing Luo Guanzhong's misleading of the battle scene in his heart, he didn't stop for a moment with the knife in his hand, swinging it left and right, chopped down another five or six people in a blink of an eye, and his right leg was also stabbed by the army's spear, bleeding profusely.

Only a quarter of an hour had passed since the beginning of the war, and only 1000 of the [-] cavalry led by the three of Zhu Xuan remained.There were only a hundred iron guards around Huang Chao and the others, and Huang Chao, Huang Ying, and Zhu Wen were all wounded.

The intensity of the battle can be imagined.

The cavalry led by Lin Yan was not far away, and a smile appeared on Huang Chao's blood-splattered face.

Wang Jingwu and Cao Quanzhu ordered people to sound the horn to retreat, and the three Zhu Xuan brothers led the team to retreat with lingering fear.

Although they have experienced many wars and suppressed bandits, they have never seen anyone who can fight like Huang Chao's five hundred iron guards.They cost themselves less than 400 people and lost 500 people. What kind of army is this?

Looking at the officers and soldiers receding like a tide, Zhu Wen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Only then did he feel the burning pain in the wounds on his right shoulder, back, and left leg, and he couldn't help taking a breath.

Huang Ying simply wrapped up the knife wound on her left arm, looked at Zhu Wen's distorted face in pain, and frowned, "Is it really that painful?"

Zhu Wen grinned and said, "What do you mean, my blood is almost drained!" It was the first time he suffered such a serious injury, and he couldn't help being a little nervous, and he lost a lot of blood, and his face was a little pale.

There were mottled bloodstains on his pale face, the tattered armor hung askew on his body, and the helmet disappeared at some point.No matter how you look at this image, it looks like a deserter who has lost a battle.

Huang Ying couldn't help smiling, and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of bleeding a little, it's a great happiness to survive on the battlefield!"

Zhu Wen looked at the corpses all over the ground, feeling sad.Yes, compared to them, I was already happy. Although I suffered several injuries, at least I didn't have any fear of my life.

Several old men who looked like military doctors rushed up to check on the injuries of everyone. Fortunately, they were all skin wounds. They were covered with gold sore medicine to stop the bleeding, and they were all fine after wrapping them up.

Both Zhu Cun and Zhu Zhen also suffered minor injuries. Because of their bravery in battle, they were promoted to captains. Each of them can lead a team of 50 people, and they were secretly happy.

Huang Chao ordered people to clean up the battlefield, and got a lot of weapons, armor, arrows and other items. Since all the soldiers of the Pinglu army were in the rear, they also got a lot of food and grass.

Upstairs in Songcheng City, two old guys, Song Wei and Yang Fuguang, were still arguing endlessly, and neither of them accepted the other.

All of a sudden, there was dust and smoke billowing in the distance, and a large group of cavalry rushed towards Wang Xianzhi's camp outside the city. All the cavalry, there was not a single infantry!Except for the Khitan in the north and Li Guochang (Zhu Xie Chixin, father of Li Keyong) of the Shatuo tribe in the East Turks, only the Zhongwu Army in the Central Plains has so many cavalry.

Sure enough, Song Wei saw the flag of the Zhongwu Army, and the banner of "Zhongwu Army, Horse and Horse Army Generals" fluttered in the wind, and the cavalry of the brigade quickly smashed Wang Xianzhi's besieging army.

Of course Yang Fuguang also saw it, and he shouted loudly: "It's Zhang Zimian, the cavalry general of the Zhongwu Army, hurry up, go out of the city to meet him, attack back and forth, and capture Wang Xianzhi alive..."

The army in the city had long been ready to go out to kill the enemy, but it was only now that Song Wei couldn't make up his mind to go out for a decisive battle.

Song Wei saw that the reinforcements had arrived, of course he was willing to leave the city to crush Wang Xianzhi's siege, he just didn't want to fight an uncertain battle.As the head coach, he stood on the tower and gave the order to leave the city: "Open the west city gate, and go out of the city to capture Wang Xianzhi alive!"

More than 2 troops came out of the west city gate like a tide, and the cavalry of the Zhongwu Army flanked Wang Xianzhi's army.Seeing the army rushing out of the city like a tide, knowing that the general situation is over and Songzhou is no longer a place to stay for a long time, he ordered to withdraw the troops and go south.

Tens of thousands of people evacuated hastily, leaving behind more than 300 corpses, and the army suffered less than [-] casualties.

Monk Shangrang received Wang Xianzhi's order to withdraw his troops. Knowing that the Songzhou matter could not be done, the two brothers marched south.

When the Pinglu Army led by Cui Junyu and the Xuanwu Army and Ma Liang Allied Forces who suffered heavy casualties were not sure whether they could stop the enemy's third attack, they saw the enemy retreat suddenly, and knew there must be a reason.It was just that when the enemy army retreated, the army was in order, without the slightest sign of chaos, so I didn't dare to pursue it rashly, so I just watched the enemy army and horses retreating safely to the south.

Cui Junyu saw that the enemy army had gone far away, so he let out a sigh of relief, and thought: I really came back with a life.But he didn't know that Wang Jingwu, Cao Quanzhen, Zhu Xuan and others had already scolded his ancestors for eighteen generations because they didn't return to the army to rescue the troops of Pinglu Army this time. talk.

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