Attack Jade (攻玉) - Chapter 160

[Chapter 123 (1)]

The person who came was Liu Xiulin, a well-known general of the town navy. This person and Lu Yan are both Teng Shao’s left arm and right arm, and have always been deeply trusted by Teng Shao.

His words were more convincing than an official letter from the town navy.

The soldiers outside the tent were shocked to hear that Teng Shao was injured, but Liu Xiulin was anxious and anxious, and when he spoke, he secretly made a look at Lin Chengyou.

Lin Chengyou pretended to be shocked: “How could he suddenly be plotted by thieves?” Was General Teng seriously injured?

“General Teng, because he was in a hurry to come to gather the army, specially came from the Qingfeng Valley outside Caizhou City, and it was not expected that there were many aliens raised by Peng Zhenfeng in the valley, and the gang did not know what kind of magic was used, and the mountains and valleys were full of Yin soldiers, fortunately, the two eldest disciples of the abbot of Yuanjue helped each other, and the Yin soldiers were quickly defeated by our side, but General Teng still accidentally hit the dark weapon, and the camp Chinese medicine worker said that the dark weapon was fed with evil poison, and if he didn’t think about it, I was afraid that he would have to erode his heart pulse. Shizi will break the magic and ask Shizi to go to the rescue immediately with the last general.

Lin Chengyou did not say a word to lead the horse, and after getting on the horse, he instructed his deputy general Chen Wenxiong: “You lead the soldiers to continue to attack the city, and I will personally go to pick up General Teng.” Until

the middle of the night, Lin Chengyou and his party did not return.

Without the command of the commander, the offensive of the Divine Strategy Army was far less fierce than before, although the ladders were erected on the pheasant, but Peng Zhen had already made people do tricks on the city wall, and before the soldiers who attacked the city jumped to the wall, the soldiers guarding the city stretched out their spears from the holes dug in advance and worked together to resist the cloud ladder. The end of the spear was not only tied with a hook, but also burned with a raging fire, and the soldiers could not defend themselves, so they had to evacuate the ladder.

Chen Wenxiong immediately dispatched a thousand elite infantrymen and drove forty chariots to attack the city with great momentum.

The chariot was covered with thick wet cowhide, which could protect both arrows and fires, and when attacked, it was like a strong mobile iron fortress.

How did peng Zhen let people pour hot copper water from the wall, and suddenly burned the cowhide outside the chariot, and the soldiers in the car were afraid of being poured into the skin by the copper water, so they hurriedly drove away from the city wall.

After one setback after another, for the first time, the Divine Strategy Army developed a deep sense of powerlessness.

The Peng father and son were able to shock the Central Plains, not to gain a false name, compared to the Flat Land War, the Peng family was especially good at defending the battle of the city, but the imperial court only gave the Shen Ce Army two months to quell the rebellion, and tonight it seems that the time limit will be reached.

If they can’t conquer it, they will have to spend a long time.

After a long time, the prestige of the imperial court’s military strength will inevitably be greatly damaged. The neighboring Shannandong Province and Ziqing had already colluded with Peng Zhen, and if the Shen Ce Army did not use the quelling of the rebellion to shock the four sides, these two clans would also have contempt for the imperial court, and only by easily cleaning up Huaixi Province could they naturally return the soldiers and horses of the two clans to the imperial court.

The soldiers of the Divine Strategy Army held the belief in victory, attacked the city again and again, and were sniped back again and again, and the number of times was more, and even the brave soldiers could not help but be impetuous. Chen Wenxiong saw that the situation was not good, and had to order the suspension of the siege, and ordered the soldiers to return to the tent, while resting, while waiting for Lin Chengyou to return.

On the walls of Caizhou, behind the pitch-black pheasant, countless pairs of eyes quietly peeked at the military camp outside the city.

Before the fire in the arsenal of the city, it was an excellent opportunity to attack the city, but Cheng Wang Shizi gave up his subordinates to go away, which showed that Teng Shao’s situation was really not good.

What made them even more satisfied was that as soon as the commander left, the soldiers of the Divine Strategy Army soon stopped attacking the city, which showed that this army was strong on the surface, but in fact it was like a scattered sand.

They waited patiently.

In the middle of the night, there was movement outside the city again, the dust and smoke billowed out, and a group of military horses returned, but there were only four or five thousand people, and the leader was not Lin Chengyou, but Liu Xiulin, who had come to report the letter before.

Liu Xiulin’s face was ugly like a layer of yellow ash, and as soon as he came, he scolded: “Why don’t you attack the city?” Chen Wenxiong

was originally happy to welcome the reinforcements, but he was not happy to hear that he was a senior general of the Divine Strategy Army, not a sergeant in his town navy, what qualifications did he Have to shout at him, and when he came forward to greet him, his attitude was a little cold: “What about Shizi?”

“General Teng, he was unable to save him, and Shizi was busy taking care of General Teng’s aftermath, so Chen Mouxian led some reinforcements to attack the city.”

The generals suddenly heard general Teng’s bad news, and everyone froze.

Chen Wenxiong was shocked and sad: “How can this be? Even Shizi failed to save General Teng? “It’s

late.” Liu Xiulin’s scarlet eyes stared at Cai Zhoucheng, “Tonight I vow to cut off Peng Zhen’s head.” What else to do, no battle without the manager and no reinforcements? Don’t attack the city with me yet! The

generals of the Divine Ce Army were repeatedly reprimanded by Liu Xiulin, and they could not help but be a little annoyed: “General Liu, it seems that the Shen Ce Army is not yet in your turn to command!”

Liu Xiulin kicked the man to the ground: “Roll your mother!” When Lao Tzu made great contributions to the imperial court, you were still nursing in your mother’s arms! You can’t move, we town navy come to fight. Suddenly

, the soldiers shouted and scolded, and the persuasion of the fight was all messed up.

The soldiers in Caizhou City ran back to the inner city to report to Peng Zhen.

“The reinforcements of the general, the Divine Strategy Army and the town navy are fighting.”

Peng Zhen was not happy at all: “Hasn’t King Cheng Shizi returned yet?” “Nothing

. Cheng Wang Shizi had already said that he would take Cai Zhou tonight, if he really couldn’t leave, he wouldn’t have dragged it out until now, and it seemed that Teng Shao had already swallowed his breath. The

spirit of the strategists was invigorated: “The general’s divine calculations have been lost to let the aliens of the Wuji Gate lie in ambush in the middle of the road long ago, otherwise, Yan can successfully plot Teng Shao.”

“General, to get out of town, now is the best time.” When Lin Chengyou led the town navy to arrive, I am afraid it would not be easy to leave. There are still 20,000 soldiers and horses under the general’s command, and if they withdraw early, sooner or later there is a possibility of making a comeback, and they will continue to be trapped in this place, just like the shallow bottom of Long Xiang, and they will definitely be exhausted by the imperial court. Just

as the people were trying to shake Peng Zhen to flee, in front of the steps of the council hall, a tall and fat Daoist priest looked at the sky with his own care.

Someone asked the Daoist, “Chief Yin Dao, you also help come up with ideas.”

Peng Zhen asked, “Who is the commander of the reinforcements sent by the Town Navy?”

“Liu Xiulin.” He shouted under the city that he would cut off the general’s head tonight, and as if he had lost his heart, he would fight with Chen Wenxiong and others as soon as he came, and looking at this situation, the Zhen Navy and the Divine Strategy Army would go their separate ways. Peng Zhen

said with a dark face: “Liu Xiulin has followed Teng Shao for many years, he is not a brave straw bag, he is not sad to be so, most of them are deliberately deceitful in order to capture the city, you and I should not act rashly, and wait and see what happens.”

Half an hour later, the two armies ostensibly attracted the attention of the defending generals by shouting and cursing each other, but secretly sent a team of elite soldiers to quietly go around the west gate, put the cloud ladder on the city wall, and quietly launched a surprise attack.

As everyone knows, Peng Zhen had already made arrangements, and the generals under Liu Xiulin had just about to attack the city, and countless spears appeared on the city wall to stab them, and the town navy had not yet shown its might in front of the Divine Strategy Army, and it had suffered the same big loss.

Chen Wenxiong was affected by Liu Xiulin’s nest anger one night, and when he saw the situation, he could not help but sneer a few words, Liu Xiulin was angry, on the one hand, he instructed thousands of reinforcements of the zhen navy to attack ximen with all his might, and on the other hand, he fought with Chen Wenxiong again.

Just when the south gate and the west gate were in a mess, Peng Zhen resolutely ordered the evacuation, opened the north gate and quietly left the city, preparing to follow the pre-designed route all the way to the northwest.

In order not to disturb the enemy forces in the direction of the rear city, this force withdrew whenNot even the torches were lit.

Fortunately, there are lone stars shining brightly, guiding them in the direction of progress.

Although they abandoned the city and fled, the Peng family’s army still maintained iron discipline.

Although he has failed, Peng Zhen still retains the style and dignity that a modest envoy should have.

Just as the gang quietly withdrew, countless torches suddenly appeared around them, accompanied by a rain of arrows and a roar of shouting in the sky, and countless soldiers poured in from all directions like a tide.

The Peng family’s sergeant was caught off guard, and many people fell from their horses with arrows.

The two leading generals were Teng Shao and Lin Chengyou.

Peng Zhen’s face climbed up a smear of black qi, and the soldiers were not tired of deception, and they finally hit this boy’s plan. Lin Chengyou approached with a confident expression as if to say, “I said that I would attack Caizhou before dawn, that is before dawn.” The generals were stunned and rushed to escort Peng Zhen to the city.

“Close the city gates!”

Lin Chengyou bent his bow and arrow, and casually shot down a Taoist-like strategist next to Peng Zhen, shouting in his mouth: “Whoever can capture Peng Zhen will be rewarded!” ”

Yes!” The cavalry responded with a roar.

Previously, in order to confuse the Divine Strategy Army and the Town Navy, most of the troops in the city were concentrated in the west gate and the south gate, and the north gate was now guarded by only a few dozen soldiers, and before Peng Zhen and the others could escape back to the city, the arrows flew like a rainstorm, and the soldiers on the wall fell down one after another, and who had the strength to put down the iron bridge.

However, in a flash of God’s work, the city gate was breached.

The generals of the two armies thundered with joy, and after two months, they traveled to and from the towns of Huaixi, fought defeats and lost soldiers and horses, and with the attack of Caizhou, the march of counterinsurgency was finally close to the end.

The Peng family’s military heart began to collapse, and the south gate became vulnerable, Chen Wenxiong and Liu Xiulin successfully broke through the city gate and led the soldiers into the city.

The Peng family was trapped in the beast, fighting and retreating, retreating and fighting at the same time, and soon retreated to the edge of the inner city.

Suddenly, the city’s jingo and long halberds staggered, making a heart-stopping sound.

Lu Yan and the others were busy arresting Peng Zhen, and Lin Chengyou was busy dealing with the evil dao in the city.

Earlier, in order to resist the fire attack outside the city, a hailstorm suddenly struck above Caizhou City, which showed that there were many strangers in the city who understood magic, in case they attracted a large number of Yin soldiers, slaughtering the city was not a problem. Lin Chengyou bent the bow and coiled the horse, the arrow was not false, see one catch one.

After capturing a group of Daoist monks, Lin Chengyou and the two disciples of the abbot of Yuanjue inspected whether there was a formation buried in the city, and after a while, they found the Yin Fire Array in a hidden corner, and with this formation, the evil spirit attracted was not trivial, for the safety of the people in the city, Lin Chengyou and the two mages destroyed the formation one by one.

Under the strong attack of the torrential rain, the remnants of the Peng family in the city quickly turned into a scattered sand. The thousands of dead soldiers around Peng Zhen, defeated, descended, in the blink of an eye, Peng Zhen became a lonely man, just when the soldiers were going to tie Peng Zhen up, Teng Shao and Lin Chengyou suddenly rode away from the north gate at the same time, everyone thought that Peng Zhen was already a turtle in an urn, no one noticed that the group took advantage of the chaos to reach the north gate, the leader was a man wearing a felt hat, about to escape from the city gate, Teng Shao’s war horse galloped like electricity, Lin Chengyou waved out the silver chain, the silver chain went like a star arrow, and attacked the man’s feet.

The man in the felt hat was tied by a silver chain for a moment, and Teng Shao’s horse’s hooves just stopped in front of him.

At this time, the soldiers over there also captured Peng Zhen, but when they looked closely, they couldn’t help but exclaim, “General, this man is fake.”

Teng Shaoren tore off the man’s face in the felt hat, and sure enough, it was Peng Zhen on this side.

Lu Yan and the others sighed: “It is worthy of being a leader in Guanzhong, and the soldiers can not panic and not mess up the layout when they come to the city, and General Peng’s heart is really invincible.” Peng Zhen’s

last layer of disguise was torn off, and he could only tie his hands and capture it, but he was like a mountain, without any fear, and only coldly stared at Teng Shao: “Soldiers are impermanently victorious, as early as when Peng Zhen raised troops to rebel, I expected this day, defeat, not terrible.” Compared with a villain like you Teng Shao, I Peng Zhen have fought vigorously, and I ask you: Teng Shao, are you ashamed? You and I are on each side, originally the well water does not violate the river water, but you secretly spied on Huaixi Province, and in order to ask for merit, you took the initiative to inform the imperial court of the news of my deliberate rebellion, if not, how could the imperial court suppress me?

“Shame?” Teng Shao’s eyes were like a cold pond, “Today, the four seas are in peace, the saints are kind and enlightened, the imperial court has always treated you and me not thinly, the grain and grass salaries of the loyal and rebel army are given by the imperial court, the title of the emissary of The Huaixi Dao is commanded by the saints, and you eat the king’s Lu, which should have shaded one side, but because of your own selfish intentions, you launched a mutiny without authorization, which is disloyal; It is for the sake of unkindness to disturb the people by constantly fighting and disturbing the people. Unfaithful and unkind people, also dare to drink and ask Teng?

At this time, Lin Chengyou had tied up all the people around Peng Zhen, and after a search, he found a lot of magic weapons and charms from everyone, but he did not find anyone who was particularly thin.

Lin Chengyou’s gaze slowly swept from left to right, and he coldly grabbed the throat of one of the thieves’ eyebrows: “Where are Wen Qingsan hiding?” The Daoist priest’s

face turned purple, and he spoke with difficulty, “Isn’t he with Haoyue Scattered?” We are not all the way with Wen Qingshan.

Before he finished speaking, he didn’t know what tricks Lin Chengyou had made to him, and the evil Dao’s body shook violently, and his expression became vicious and frightening: “I… I’m telling the truth. How short the Wenqing people are, the imperial court is not unaware, even if you search every corner of the city, you may not be able to find such a small adult man. As far as we know, the Wenqing people and the Haoyue people did not escape from Chang’an.

Lin Chengyou’s face was straight and heavy, and he let the people escort a group of generals into the prison cart, and he thought about turning over on his horse and saying to Teng Shao: “General Teng, Peng Zhen and his thieves have been occupying Caizhou City for a long time, maybe they have done some formation in the city, and now that the city has been captured, it is better to leave the rest of the affairs to General Liu and General Lu, and after dawn, it is not too late for me to wait for the surrender.” “It’s

okay.” Teng Shao responded happily.

Walking outside the north city gate, the sky above his head darkened, the clouds came up, and before the soldiers could react, the torches in their hands were extinguished in unison.

With the gusts of wind, the ground under his feet made an eerie clanging sound.

“Yin soldiers.” The soldiers shouted in horror, and they all drew their swords, distinguishing the movements around them with trepidation.

Lin Chengyou guarded teng Shao in front of him, raised his hand and waved out several charms, and the charms fell into the darkness, and the strange wind suddenly stopped.

The two great monks, Mingxin and Seeing, struck the rosary beads in their hands at the oncoming ghost.

The ghost things drilled out of the soil were not one or two, but a large piece, those hard hands grabbed the ankles of the soldiers, making people scatter, the soldiers began to emit a terrifying scream, the emperor went straight backwards, in a chaos, a circle of bright golden light suddenly swung out in mid-air, and a large golden net fell in the air, like light feathers, like a quilt, densely covered the ground.

At the same time, the runes driven out by Lin Chengyou turned into rune dragons, and as soon as the runes landed on the ground, they split into two strands, and the flames were raging, burning the yin soldiers who had just drilled out of the ground to the skin. Mingxin and Seeing sex dragged half of the golden net and continued to suppress the evil spirits below.

Lin Chengyou looked for the eye of the array with his eyes, and at the same time said to Teng Shao in a loud voice, “General Teng, after I and the two mages, you and the generals will go first.”

Teng ShaoKnowing the weight of the matter, he answered the “good”, and by the light of the fire dragon, he led his men to gallop out, only to hate that there were countless evil spirits outside the city gate, blocking their way at once.

The General peng family in the prison cart laughed happily: “Yin Daochang is indeed prescient. Outside the city can not bury the formation, but the city can show their fists, you dare to break the city, you must be prepared to suffer losses, these yin soldiers came just in time, I waited before dying, good dora a few people to accompany the funeral. Before

he could finish speaking, Lin Chengyou shot an arrow neatly at a certain place under the city gate, which was a shallow pit of a black hole hole, and as soon as the arrow fell, it exploded an expanding fireball.

Peng Zhen and Yin Daoshi couldn’t laugh out loud, it was the eye of the Yin Array, buried inside was the corpse of an unjustly deceased, the unjust deceased died extremely tragically, emitting endless resentment, as soon as the city gate was broken, the formation would start, and within a quarter of an hour, this resentful corpse could attract all the evil spirits within a hundred miles of the circle, and I didn’t expect Lin Chengyou to find the position so quickly.

As soon as the eyes were burned, the ghosts immediately turned into wisps of black smoke.

The torches were lit again, the soldiers hurriedly looked around, the sneaky disappeared, and the wind stopped.

Suddenly, the two armies restored order, Liu Xiulin and the others were impressed by Lin Chengyou’s outstanding skills, and Lu Yan exclaimed, “General Teng!

Lin Chengyou looked back and saw that Teng Shao’s left arm was covered in blood.

Lin Chengyou’s expression changed slightly, and he hurried forward. When I first saw General Teng tonight, I felt that General Teng’s seal was blackened, and in order to prevent an accident, he could not leave teng Shao’s side, but if he did not find out the eyes of the array, more soldiers and civilians would suffer, however, this was a distraction, General Teng was caught by a very angry ghost and broke his arm.

Teng Shao’s face was like gold paper, and he soon fell off his horse in the exclamation of the crowd.

Lu Yan and Liu Xiulin and the others hurriedly stepped forward and carried it to the ground, lin Chengyou stopped teng shao’s several large holes, and fed Teng Shao a qingxin pill.

“General Teng!”

Teng Shao reluctantly opened his mouth: “First go out of the city and then talk.”

Lin Chengyou let Teng Shao carry him to the carriage, and he also got on the car to inspect Teng Shao’s wound, tearing open the sleeve of the wounded arm to take a look, and his heart sank straight down.

Judging from the wounds, the general who scratched General Teng in the darkness was the corpse in the eyes of the array, this corpse was full of anger, and the speed of action was extremely fast, not to mention that in the darkness, it was difficult to avoid even if the lights were lit, and now the eyes of the array were burned, and the corpse turned into a pile of ashes, but the residual poison it left behind was not insignificant.

Fortunately, a few large holes were lit, and the toxin was forced to stop in time, and Lin Chengyou shook out the silver chain and cast a spell to make the insect turn into the body.

The Lock Soul Dragon hated to detoxify people the most, but Xu felt the anxiety of his master, and this time it wrapped around Teng Shao’s injured arm in pain and pleasure, sucking the residual poison in a big mouth.

Every time a little corpse poison was sucked out, it was necessary to consume a little bit of the body and the master’s skill, and unconsciously, the silver scales of the lock soul were glowing blue-gray, and Lin Chengyou’s head was also covered with beads of sweat.

Teng Shao struggled to raise his other arm, trying to stop Lin Chengyou: “Shizi must not hurt himself. “The

general should not worry, but if you are hit by some corpse poison, it is good to clear the poison.” The words were easy to say, but Lin Chengyou knew in his heart that if Teng Shao’s corpse poison was not removed as soon as possible, the wound would slowly fester throughout the body, and within ten days, Teng Shao would inevitably be poisoned to death, and Qingyun Guan hid a few spirit herbs, which were used to detoxify the corpse poison with miraculous effects, but because it was extremely rare, it could not be found elsewhere.

For now, only to escort Teng Shao back to Chang’an for medicinal baths as soon as possible, Lin Chengyou thought more and more anxiously, leaving the lock soul to continue to suck the corpse poison for Teng Shao, and get off the car on his own.

The counter-rebellion campaign was a complete victory, and the generals returned to their hearts like arrows, and Lin Chengyou left Liu Xiulin and Chen Wenxiong and several other generals to take care of the aftermath, instructed them to pacify the people of Caizhou City, and then, according to the original arrangement, led the generals of the two armies back to Beijing to receive the reward.

After arranging all this, Lin Chengyou ordered a rapid march and four thousand-mile horses, and escorted Teng Shao back to Chang’an for treatment with Lu Yan.

On the car, Teng Shao’s mental head was not bad, but the tone was a few points worse, Lin Chengyou looked closely, and he couldn’t help but freeze.

When he was not in the car, Teng Shao should have turned over unconsciously, and this movement revealed the underwear at the front neckline.

Although there is only one corner, you can clearly see that the top is full of dense charms.

Lin Chengyou fell into the ice cave, busy lifting the sleeve of Teng Shao’s other arm, yes, it was the Body Scripture of the Hidden Armor, and the blame was that the words on the top were all written upside down.

This is a rare art of self-punishment, and the person who wears this garment will be scattered after death and will never be reincarnated.

Lin Chengyou looked at Teng Shao in shock.

Shizi should not be surprised, this is teng’s voluntary wear. I had expected something to happen to me.

“General Teng—”

Teng Shao barely touched the corners of his mouth: “Is Shizi also worried that something will happen to Teng?” But tonight’s events Shizi also saw, even if Teng Mou himself tried his best to avoid danger, it was still coming, this injury is not small, I may not be able to survive, I have prepared in my heart, so I put this dress on in advance.

“General Teng, do you know that this is a reverse writing of the Hidden Armor Lineage?”

Teng Shao closed his eyes: “Teng Mou… Know. Only in this way can my jade have a glimmer of life. Lin Chengyou’s

throat suddenly stiffened.

Teng Shao smiled slightly: “Shizi is so worried about Teng’s safety, did he already guess the truth?” Yu’er, like me, was wrongly cursed. I was four years old when I was cursed, so I was able to survive to adulthood, and Yu’er definitely didn’t live to be sixteen years old because she fell under the spell in her mother’s womb——”

Lin Chengyou lived even more, although he already knew the truth, but the abyss-like despair in Teng Shao’s eyes still made his chest sore and swollen inexplicably.

After a moment’s delay, he said in a dumb voice, “Is it because of the Battle of Nanyang?” These

words stung Teng Shao fiercely, and Teng Shao trembled and closed his eyes.

Those painful memories came to mind.

More than thirty years ago, Hu rebelled and suddenly launched a mutiny, and successively attacked the counties of Hebei and Luoyang with the momentum of ploughing and sweeping away.

Overnight, the divine state shook and wolf smoke rose everywhere.

After the capture of Luoyang, the rebels immediately entered Lingchang, and the troops pointed directly at the Henan fortress of ChenLiu, and the whole line of Henan was in a hurry.

Teng Shao’s father, Teng Yuanhaoben, served as a general of zuo wu wei in beijing, but was recently demoted to Henan for offending the chancellor.

At the time of the rebellion, he was ordered to garrison Nanyang with two sons, but left his wife and younger son Teng Shao in the old mansion of Chang’an.

Shocked by this change, Teng Yuanhao asked his two sons to lead his soldiers to strengthen the fortifications on the front line of Nanyang overnight, and he led his men to support Chen Liu.

They traveled in both ways, lest they go too late, but before Teng Yuanhao’s reinforcements arrived, the new Henan Jiedushi envoyLuo Xuan could not withstand the onslaught of the rebels, and the city surrendered.

Teng Yuanhao was furious, at that time the dynasty was in chaos, the government was controlled by the adulterous minister, this new Henan Jiedushi made Luo Xuan a distant nephew of the adulterous minister, this person had no ink in his chest and did not understand military affairs, and his ability to be flattering was better than anyone, it was said that he could get the fat position of Henan Jiedushi as he wished, only because he had found a rare famous colt in the world for the adulterous minister.

After Luo Xuan took office in Henan, because he was jealous of Teng Yuanhao’s prestige and talent, he repeatedly found trouble for Teng Yuanhao, but until today, Teng Yuanhao knew that this Luo Xuan was even more than he thought, and as an envoy of the party, not to mention the confrontation with the rebels, he took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender.

Lingchang and Chen Liu were lost one after another, which meant that the whole of Henan would soon become the bag of hu rebellion.

Teng Yuanhao gazed indignantly at the rebel flag above Chen Liucheng, as the sun set, the shadows of him and the 20,000 reinforcements behind him were pulled by the twilight, facing the complete loss of Henan, everyone’s state of mind was so hasty and powerless.

Teng Yuanhao knew that at the moment, he was just a small Nanyang defender, and even if he was no longer willing, he was already powerless to return to heaven.

He hurriedly led his army back to Nanyang, the rebels marched day and night, and would surely take advantage of the situation to go south, Nanyang County was an important gateway from Guanzhong to the rich land of Jiangnan, in order to protect the rear granary of the empire, it was necessary to defend Nanyang no matter what.

Teng Yuanhao just led his troops back to Nanyang, and more than 100,000 rebels caught up, and the fierce battle to defend the city began.

Just as Teng Yuanhao was deploying the defense of the city overnight, he suddenly realized a fatal problem.

The rebellion came so suddenly that there was not enough food in the city.

In fact, there were still 70,000 stones of grain in Nanyang City a month ago, and as a veteran general with rich combat experience, Teng Yuanhao knew how important grain was to a fortress like Nanyang, and since coming to Nanyang to take office, he had been interested in accumulating grain.

However, not long ago, a plague of locusts and famine suddenly broke out in Puyang and other places, and the new Henan Jiedu made Luo Xuan, fearing that the imperial court would blame him for his incompetence, not only refused to ask the imperial court for help, but also concealed the news, and because he was afraid of the starving people, he forced Teng Yuanhao to lend 50,000 stones of grain to Puyang and other counties.

Soon after the rebellion broke out, in such a short period of time, Nanyang City simply could not fill the gap of 50,000 stones.

The remaining 20,000 stones of grain could only last for a month or two, and the rebels outside the city had arrived, and it was too late to transport grain.

There is not enough food, how to fight the rebels?!

Teng Yuanhao quickly came up with an idea, that is, to send the people in the city out along the secret passage. At the same time, some grain was transported into the city from outside the secret passage.

Nanyang has always been a fortress in Henan, the secret passage in the city has been dug for ten years, and the exit is miles away from the south of the city, as long as you can get out of the secret passage, whether it is to go to Places such as Chenjun, or to flee to Jianghuai, it is better than being trapped in a city that does not have enough grain.

Teng Yuanhao immediately ordered his subordinates to guide the people in the city out of the city, and instructed them to escort children and women out of the city first.

When the soldiers fought bloodily with the rebels outside the city, the evacuation of the people was also in full swing, and nearly 100,000 people were dismissed in just ten days, and Wu Zhenxiao and other deputy generals also quietly brought nearly 10,000 stones of grain from outside the city.

But at this time, enemy reinforcements discovered this secret passage, in order to seize this secret passage, the rebels slaughtered the people and soldiers at the exit of the secret passage, Teng Yuanhao heard about this and had to preemptively seal the secret passage.

The only exit to the city was gone, and the remaining 4,000 or so people could only stay.

Fortunately, another 10,000 stones of grain were transported, plus the original 20,000 stones of the granary, and tightening the waistband of the pants could always survive.

Teng Yuanhao calmly responded to the battle while patiently waiting for reinforcements and supplies.

However, Teng Yuanhao did not expect that in the next half a year, no matter how the rebels attacked Nanyang, the imperial court did not send him a support army.

Nanyang City seems to have been forgotten in the corner by the world.

For a long time, Teng Yuanhao and his two sons were in a state of news closure, until one day, they knew from the mouths of rebel generals outside the city that Guanlong and other places had fallen one after another, the imperial court had fallen apart, hundreds of officials had fled for their lives, and no one could take care of Nanyang City, which was located in a corner of the Central Plains.

Hearing this news, although Teng Yuanhao was sad and indignant, he did not despair.

He believed that as long as he persevered, he and his troops would always wait for support.

With such a belief, Teng Yuanhao continued to stick to Nanyang.

In order to capture Nanyang, the rebels successively changed three commanders, and more than 100,000 rebels followed in succession, and finally lost more than half.

Correspondingly, Teng Yuanhao and the soldiers in the city also paid a terrible price.

In this protracted battle, Nanyang’s 30,000 elite soldiers were reduced to thousands of people.

The point is that there is not a single grain left in the city.

At this point, the rebels outside the city were no longer anxious, because they knew that Nanyang City had fallen into a desperate situation, and all they had to do was wait for Teng Yuanhao and his subordinates to exhaust the last bit of strength.

At this moment, a death squad sent out by Teng Yuanhao risked death to return to the city, and brought an exciting news to Teng Yuanhao, and two armies and horses came from nearby prefectures and counties, one was Liu Jue, the newly appointed Emissary of Henan Jiedu in the imperial court, and the other was Qin Fengqin, a veteran general who came to support Henan.

Liu Jue had already arrived near Yu County, and when he heard that Qin Fengchen was also on the way to come, the death squad had already asked for help from the other side, believing that within half a month, reinforcements would come to the rescue.

Teng Yuanhao and the soldiers were greatly encouraged.

The enemy troops outside Nanyang City may also be afraid of the long night and dream, and began to launch a fierce attack.

Teng Yuanhao and the generals held the belief that reinforcements would arrive soon, and they showed more courage than before.

Under the desperate resistance of the defending generals, the enemy army was once again repelled.

But the soldiers of Nanyang City did not have the joy of victory, the thirty thousand stones of grain only lasted for four months, as early as a few days ago they could not find anything to fill the hunger, the rats and sparrows and other living creatures in the city were eaten by them, even the leaves and weeds were pulled out, and some soldiers even dug up soil to eat in order to feed their stomachs.

Teng Yuanhao looked at the yellow-skinned soldiers, his heart was frying and burning, so that if nanyang went on in two days, Nanyang would definitely break, then all the efforts they had made before would all be wiped out.

But everyone knows that Nanyang City must not be lost.

The rebels were not looking at Nanyang City, but at the back of Nanyang City, the capital town of Jiangnan, where the enemy’s iron hooves had already traveled all over the north and Guanzhong, and if they took Jiangnan, it would mean that they would receive a large amount of grain and countless treasures.

At that moment, Jiang shan sheji will officially change the court. The reinforcements of the imperial court have reached the neighboring counties, and it is good to hold on for a little longer, but the soldiers are too hungry to move their weapons, how to hold on?

Between thoughts, Teng Yuanhao slowly set his eyes on a sick person in the streetNot long ago, he also took the initiative to distribute his grain to this old man, but now –

the old man is terminally ill and cannot live for a few days.

Teng Yuanhao struggled fiercely in his heart, hesitated for a long time, and finally slowly got off the city and walked to the old man’s side.

When Teng Yuanhao returned, his face was still stained with the old man’s blood, and his mind was full of the old man’s eyes from surprise to fear, and then into a resentful look.

The gaze was like a poisonous arrow, deeply piercing his heart.

Teng Yuanhao Muran told himself that with the usual style of those rebellious people, the day Nanyang was lost, the people of the towns in Jiangnan would face the disaster of extinction, and when the time came, not only these soldiers and people in Nanyang City would die, but hundreds of thousands of people. Old people, women, children, strong, young…

It would be a great catastrophe.

Only by thinking like this can Teng Yuanhao feel better in his heart.

But what he never expected was that the warriors were already hungry and green-eyed, and as long as this kind of thing was opened, it could no longer be stopped…

In this way, Nanyang City struggled to support for two months, and the belief in the hearts of Teng Yuanhao and others was that Liu Jue and Qin Fengzhi would definitely come to support them.

But until two months later, Neither Liu Jue nor Qin Fengcun had sent a single reinforcement, and Teng Yuanhao, recalling what the dead soldier had said last time, the imperial court appointed two emissaries of Jiedushi, recommended by two prime ministers, one at the end of the river and the other on the other. Perhaps both of them were busy retaking Luoyang and did not want to divide the troops to Nanyang, especially the rebels who were guarding outside Nanyang City had 100,000 people, and if they wanted to rush to the aid, they had to draw a large number of soldiers and horses.

When the sergeants heard the news, their convictions finally began to waver.

Jiangshan Sheji was on the verge of extinction, and these generals sent by the imperial court were still busy making their own calculations.

However, Teng Yuanhao encouraged the soldiers that even in order to guard the gateway to Jiangnan, Liu Jue and Qin Fengchen would not sit idly by and watch Nanyang die. Liu Jue may have been attacking Luoyang with all his might, and Qin Feng might have just arrived at Lin county.

However, Nanyang City had been struggling to support it for two months, and the generals once again began to suffer from hunger, and seeing that the city was about to be destroyed, Teng Yuanhao sent Wu Zhenxiao to lead dozens of cavalry to break through the siege overnight in order to ask for help from Qin Fengzhi, the closest to Nanyang.

But this time, Wu Zhenxiao did not return.

At the moment when the city was destroyed, Teng Yuanhao stood on top of the sky without fear, but the soldiers cried bitterly, not fear, but hate. General Teng, with an iron backbone, defended the city for half a year, led them to repel the enemy army countless times with outstanding wisdom and respectable tenacity, even if the imperial court sent a reinforcement army, even if the reinforcement army was only a few thousand, they would not step by step to a desperate situation.

Until the head was cut off by the enemy army, Teng Yuanhao still stared in the direction of Chang’an City, as if he was torturing, and as if he was pondering, but the firmness in his eyes never wavered from beginning to end.

After recalling this past, Teng Shao’s eyes were already scarlet.

Lin Chengyou’s mood was as heavy as his face, and the truth of the Battle of Nanyang was not only cruel, but also infinitely bitter.

General Teng Lao was full of blood and loyalty to the country, but until the moment of his death, he could not expect the grain and soldiers of the imperial court.

In fact, as soon as Nanyang City was destroyed, Huainan immediately had another imperial reinforcement army, which amounted to 40,000 people, and took advantage of the fact that the rebels were still resting, and recaptured Nanyang City in one fell swoop. As long as he persisted for two more days, General Teng and his generals would be rescued, but unfortunately, General Teng never had a chance to know about these things.

The hero shed blood without tears, and The old general Teng died with regret.

“After learning the truth, I often wondered, what would I do if I was guarding Nanyang City?” Teng Shao’s voice was dull, “Once Nanyang is lost, the war will spread to the north and south of the river, and then hundreds of thousands of people will suffer, and counterinsurgency will become more and more difficult, but how innocent are the more than 4,000 people in the city?” They are also living people, they also want to live, in the face of the blades of the soldiers guarding the city, they can only be killed one by one… For two whole months, the fear and despair faced by the people was no different from being in purgatory. I think they must have hated me before they died

[End of This Chapter]