Zheng Jun took the torches separately and scattered into the trenches three miles away from the back formation. For a full month, hundreds of thousands of kilograms of frozen soil were transported out along the tunnel, piled on both sides of the trench, and replaced by On the other hand, there are twelve deep tunnels leading to Luoyan City Wall.
The tunnel is very shallow, but below the ground, it is buried through the frozen moat, winding under the city wall, extending for nearly ten miles.
When you enter, you are in Luoyan City, where there is a huge rock that is as solid as a rock, which is the foundation of the entire city, and the palace is even more difficult to dig through.
But their purpose is not to dig tunnels into the city, that's enough, one by one underground hollows more than ten feet deep, supported by giant trees felled from Donglan Mountain, they are all over the place, building a strange underground defense. fortifications.
The army assembled outside the city, and the remaining 7,000 men of Yong's army climbed the city wall, armed with crossbows, and faced the 60,000 enemy troops.
"What do they want to do?" Wei Zhuo said solemnly, "Forcibly siege the city?"
Dai Guo's army has not yet arrived, and Zheng Guo is ready to attack the city today, but the city wall that is more than 30 feet high is impossible to climb up on the premise that there is a siege ladder.
Prince Ling rode a chariot and fought in the wind. Zheng Guo's army raised their weapons and faced Luoyan.
Prince Ling said loudly: "Ji Cong! Surrender and offer the city! Finally, I will give you a chance. Come out and apologize! Your blood debts back then, and the crimes you have committed over the years!"
Juicong appeared at the top of the city, bending a bow and an arrow, and the arrow flew like a shooting star.
Sun Ying stepped forward in an instant, raised his shield, and guarded it in front of Prince Ling. The arrow shot through the shield, making a loud noise, and the shield surface was torn apart.
Juicong said, "War! How could the Lone King take your life like killing your uncle!"
Zheng Jun suddenly burst into a rage and was filled with indignation.
The gate of the city opened, and Ju Cong went out to fight. He had absolute certainty that he would break into the enemy's line and take the crown prince's head from the army.
As long as Prince Ling died, the coalition army would disperse.
At this time, Crown Prince Ling just quietly clasped the black armored Juicong, and immediately raised the bell in his hand and vibrated it gently.
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The sound of "ding" sounded, followed by three drum beats.
What followed was tens of thousands of people shouting loudly, and then it seemed as if something had happened to the ground. There was a shock, and the color of the juice suddenly changed. Wei Zhuo rushed forward and collided with it. Opening the Juice Cong, he shouted, "Your Majesty! Be careful!"
Outside the city gate, the flames quickly rolled along the passage and exploded underground. The flames burned the wooden pillars supporting the top of the dozens of huge potholes, and the broken wood collapsed!
At the end of the sandbar plain, Jiang Heng and Geng Shu crossed the hills, and Jiang Heng suddenly experienced the most spectacular scene in his life.
The ten-mile-long city wall in the south of Luoyan City collapsed as the ground in front of the moat collapsed, and the boulders overwhelmed the foundation. down.
This chain of shocks rang out from the central three-zhang-high city gate and suspension bridge, and collapsed toward the two wings. In the blink of an eye, the entire city wall collapsed with a roar, as if being pushed from the inside to the outside by the gods.
The drums were loud, and the front of Luoyan City was full of dust rising from the sky. Following the shouts of Zheng Jun's infantrymen and the drumbeats that shook the world, 60,000 soldiers charged and entered the city!
"Crap!" Jiang Heng said.
Geng Shu immediately said, "You can't charge! You must wait for the main force to arrive!"
Geng Shu made a most sensible decision. He and Jiang Heng were only leading three thousand cavalry forwards. At this time, the attack on Zheng Jun's rear formation was likely to be turned around and counterattacked, leading to the overthrow of the entire army.
He had to wait, even if he saw the capital fall with his own eyes, he had to order the army to attack all the time.
"Array." Geng Shu turned around, "Meng He! Shui Jun! Send orders! All departments listen to the drums!"
Prince Taki will always remember the moment when Yubi Pass caught fire with his own eyes.
Today, he once witnessed the collapse of the indestructible city wall that stretched for miles and fell. In an instant, Yongdu lost all its defenses, along with the heroic sacrifice of the Yong army stationed on the city wall.
Calm down, keep calm... Prince Taki kept telling himself.
Prince Taki forcibly suppressed his grief, turned around abruptly, drew his sword, but said, "The time will come, and it will come! We can't escape! Reinforcements will come, follow me to kill them back! Now the enemy is the least enemy of the enemy. It's time for the big gang! Let's go! Attack their back line!"
Zeng Yu: "!!!"
"His Royal Highness..." Zeng Yu said immediately.
Prince Taki swayed his horse's reins, raised his long sword, walked around the army, and shouted, "Pick up my king's flag! Follow me around to the rear and sneak attack on their rear!"
That's really a trick! Previously, the people of Zheng only used the juice Cong to protect the country's rule, so that the prince broke through the encirclement, and the enemy's attention was all on the juice Cong, and he despised the prince.
Now, after they broke through the siege successfully, Prince Taki turned around and attacked Zheng Jun's rear!
The Imperial Forest Army immediately understood, responded with a thousand responses, and went with the Prince Taki! Zeng Yu regained his senses, the situation in front of him was beyond his ability to handle, so he had to chase after him!
Prince Ling spent a whole month of preparation, and effortlessly dismantled all of Luo Yan's defenses. In an instant, 60,000 infantrymen rushed into the city and began to set fire.
"The reinforcements are here," said Prince Ling on the chariot of Sun Yingchao.
"So fast?" Prince Ling was a little confused.
"Their." Sun Ying said, "Jiang Heng assembled the Feng Rong people, the Lin Hu people and the Di people."
"The order is to capture the palace as soon as possible," said Prince Ling, "search for Juicong's whereabouts and take the royal family as hostages."
For the first time in the 120 years since the Yongdu Luoyan was built, it experienced the devastation of war for the first time, with thick smoke rising everywhere, and the people screaming and fleeing.
Geng Shu's main force finally arrived.
"Drumming." Geng Shu said solemnly, "Heng'er, you sit in the rear, and the military orders will come out from you. Shui Jun and Wuluo Houhuang are divided into left and right flanks, Meng and Zhongjun, charge with me!"
Jiang Heng Geng Shu put on his helmet, and Geng Shu lightly scratched the bridge of his nose.
"Wait for me to come back." Geng Shu said solemnly.
The reinforcements began, like a tide, they crossed the hills and headed to cover up with Zheng Jun's rear formation.
Jiang Heng brought a zither, and it was far away from the giant drum that was urging the battle on the top of the hill next door. Sitting here, he can clearly see that the troops and horses in the city are entering the territory.
Every time he plucked the strings, the drummer below thumped a war drum, and the sound of the drum was earth-shattering, and the sound traveled ten miles.
"Den."
"Boom!"
Geng Shu's middle army gathered, and the front dashed forward, like a sharp knife, stabbing into the enemy's rear formation.
"They came in." Sun Ying heard the drums and said.
More than 20,000 infantrymen rushed into the city.
"I can't retreat." Prince Ling said, "At war on both sides, we should deal with it in a proper way. First, break down the inner city, and then return to the rear."
Geng Shu was behind the guards, carrying two king flags, one was red with "Jin" written on it, and the other was dark with "Juice" written on it.
"Zhao Ling!" Geng Shu roared, "I planned to frame my brother, and I will kill you today!"
Noon, ancestral temple.
The battle and the clamor kept approaching, and Zheng Jun rushed to the front of the ancestral temple, but there stood an old woman in Chinese attire, surrounded by maids and guards.
"Empress Dowager Jiang?" The car came out of the crowd, and this was the first hostage he wanted to take. At that time, Prince Ling will escort Ju Cong, Empress Dowager Jiang, and Prince Ju Taki to Shazhou, and show the car split in front of Ju Miao.
"General Che," Empress Dowager Jiang said, holding the Tianyue Sword scabbard, "In the battle of destroying the country, you are still too lighthearted to bring only this number of people."
As she said that, Empress Dowager Jiang slowly drew out her sword, and the cold light reflected the winter sun, causing Che Yu to narrow her eyes slightly.
Too underestimated. This was Che Yu's last thought.
The surrounding maids flew by, and the car immediately roared: "Release the arrow! Don't let them get close to you!"
But this vigilance came too late. Empress Dowager Jiang stood high on the steps, and even came down. She just raised her hand, and the Tianyue Sword flashed in an arc, swooping in, turning into a moon wheel in the air, spinning and whistling. go!
What followed was an overwhelming arrow that greeted Empress Dowager Jiang.
Luoyan City was broken, just in a split second.
Juicong was covered in blood, and his consciousness was blurred. He struggled to get up from the rubble, and heard shouts from afar.
"Snowing-"
He turned his head hastily, as if he had returned to the Peach Blossom Palace thirty-five years ago, standing in the garden with his elder brother Juicang.
"Why isn't it snowing this year?"
"Do you want snow?"
"Well... on a snowy day, you don't have to practice martial arts."
Juicang, who was only nine years old, said with a smile: "So, how about I pray for a snow for you?"
Eight-year-old Juicong mocked: "Is it useful?"
"I'm the Crown Prince," said Juicang, "Maybe, God will really listen?"
It was night, and it really snowed. It was the heaviest snow that Ju Cong has ever experienced since he was sensible. Brother! Get up! It's snowing!"
Juicang fell into a daze, turned around, stretched his arms around him, and told him not to make trouble. Juicong, however, put his cold hand in his arms in a vicious manner. Juicang woke up and laughed wildly: "Nonsense! Juicong! Get down here!"
The two brothers laughed. Ju Lang wanted to teach Ju Cong a lesson, but he couldn't beat Ju Cong. After a while, they had to stop. Together, they looked at the goose feather snow outside the hall.
"Geng Yuan?" Juicang came to Geng Yuan, pushed his brother away, got up with a smile, got dressed, and took him to a snowball fight.
"Brother..." Juicong's voice trembled, and he found his saber in the ruins, the helmet was missing somewhere, and Wei Zhuo was also missing. As far as the eye could see, there were enemy troops everywhere. .
Juicong shouted wildly and slashed with his sword, knocking the infantry in front of him to the ground.
"Brother... where are you?" Juicong said in a trembling voice.
He looked around, more enemy troops came up, and the snow was getting heavier and heavier. Today's snow is the same as that day.
Outside the South Gate, the Imperial Forest Army led by Prince Taki bypassed most of the outskirts of Luoyan City, killed them several times, and suddenly heard drums.
"The reinforcements are coming." Prince Taki said immediately, "The drum! I heard the sound of the Yong drum! It's my brother! It's my brother and Jiang Heng who are back!"
How loud was Geng Shuzhi's head in the Royal Forest Army, and his morale was instantly boosted.
The Imperial Forest Army, led by Prince Taki, immediately smashed the Zheng Army's rear formation, like sharp knives. Zheng Army noticed them and began to form a formation to resist.
Juicong was still breathing in the chaotic army, and now, he was really alone.
The sound of drums in the distance woke him up. First, there were three sounds of "dong, dong, dong", and then they bounced like flowing clouds. A certain tacit rhythm summoned the gods and generals from heaven and earth, turned thousands of troops and horses, and rushed into Luoyan City together—
- That rhythm, turned into a ballad.
At this moment, the army of Zheng was surrounded, and at this moment, the war horse rushed forward, knocked away the person in front of him, and a black shadow passed by, and a bloody road burst out wherever it passed!
Geng Shu swung the blazing lightsaber, the blood turned into raindrops, and scattered all over the sky.
"Father!" Geng Shu said.
Juicong stared at Geng Shu in a daze, and Geng Shu rushed over anxiously.
Juicong turned his head, the situation changed with the sound of the drums, and it was time for them to fight their last stand.
In front of the ancestral temple, there were corpses all over the place. Empress Dowager Jiang pressed Zhongjian's shoulder and looked up into the distance outside the city.
Shan Ze walked out of the inner palace, stood high on the palace wall, and waved the flag "Di".
The snow fell down one after another and landed on the strings. With the vibration of the strings, the snowflakes were torn apart like cracked silk, and then flew in the wind, scattering ice crystals.
Jiang Heng's qin sound was transformed into distant drums, and thunder bursts.
"Today and tonight..." Jiang Heng thought out of his mind.
Meng He led Feng Rong, Wang Qi wrote the ancient giant character "Wind", and chased after him. The horses flew over the ruins of the city wall and began to kill the Zheng infantry.
"Have to be in the same boat with the prince..."
Shui Jun's face was covered in blood, and he took a step to surround the palace with his sword. With an order, the Di people held Ge and formed a battle formation, pointing at the enemy troops attacking from the outer city.
The king's flag with the word "Lin" flew up, and Lang Huang led three thousand hunters, flying over the eaves and walking the walls, and ascending the eaves of the palace.
Jiang Heng sat on the top of the hill, watching the falling geese in Yongdu from afar, and the drums were heard frequently. All the ministries heard the drums and began to gather towards the Yonggong, like a huge chessboard, and all the pieces were deployed.
Jiang Heng held down the strings, and when the five strings vibrated in unison and the final strangulation was completed, his eyes suddenly widened.
"The person I came here will be Sun Ying." Jiang Heng murmured.
The drums stopped, and the drummer was talking, surrounded by the corpses of the guards.
"Who are you?" Jiang Heng said.
But the assassin answered him, that's just an old man.
Immediately afterwards, a blood arrow shot out from Jiang Heng's chest and sprayed onto the piano.
What followed was a frantic roar.
"Heng'er!"
Jie Gui's figure flashed, with the power of Wan Jun, holding a black sword, and swept the assassin's head with a fierce sword, the assassin's brain burst, and the sword that stabbed at Jiang Heng was deflected.
The stars and rivers in the sky are falling from now on, all hellfire;
Don't dare to look up, the sky is falling apart, and the sea is changing.
Jiang Heng's eyes were blurred, he felt a chill under his ribs, his eyes widened, Jie Gui was anxiously and frantically shouting something at him, but it didn't seem like he was calling his words. is calling another person.
He shook his head hard, regained consciousness, and lowered his head to the sword under his rib.
Jiang Heng pushed Jie Gui away from the blood-stained guqin, clasped the strings, and exerted his last strength, the five strings vibrated in unison.
"Dong, dong" sounded frequently, and Geng Shu joined the Feng Rong army and dispersed into all directions of the city.
Geng Shu turned his head and looked into the distance, where the drum sound came from.
All the fighters charged at the same time before the sound of the drum, along the eight main roads of Luoyan towards the Central Lama Temple, strangling Zheng Jun of Prince Ling.
Where the blazing sword shines, there is a vast bond between life and death between heaven and earth.
The blood-stained front of the same robe is flying, drumming its boring, the voice of the world, not returning with me, I am very worried.
Life and death are bound together, say to your son, hold your hand, and grow old together with your son.
The sound of the drums was like the heartbeat of heaven and earth, like the pulse of the living, and the anger of the deceased. It merged into the surging river of blood, and completely drowned the capital of King Yong.
-Volume 4·Feng Qiuhuang·End-