48. Dilemma

A sharp pain came from his arm, and Dou Wu roared and stepped back a few steps.

Li Tiegun stamped his foot hatefully and was about to open his bow and arrow again. Dou Wu had long disappeared on the top of the city.

At this time, he had returned to the camp under the city and was dressing the wound by Langzhong.

Two hours later, the stone machine used up all the stone bullets, and even the fire oil and smoke balls were shot empty.

The smoke of gunpowder in the west city of Fangzhou is everywhere, and one-third of the piles at the head of the city are broken, and the wall is cracked, which is in danger.

Just hold on for a while, the middle section of the West City will collapse, creating an irreparable huge gap. At that time, no one will survive.

However, the 150 stone machines lost their stones at this critical moment.

Liang Gongming had to order them to retreat.

In the process of retreating with this 150 stone-hairing machine, hundreds of iron-billed fire ducks suddenly flew over the west city, and a bright and dazzling firelight sprayed at the tail, breaking through layers of gunpowter smoke and rushing directly to the army under the city.

After landing, it exploded with a bang. Although it was not very lethal, the yellow poisonous smoke that followed immediately covered a large area outside the West City in the blink of an eye.

Li Tiegun saw the strange scene. At this time, he was watching the battle in front of the Chinese army camp in the west of the city.

"Remove quickly, withdraw quickly, gag your mouth, don't inhale, run!" Liang Gongming, the nine flying thieves, shouted wildly and kept commanding the army to retreat.

Dou Wu stood on the head of the city, surrounded by people, and looked west together. It was not because they heard the enemy shouting to retreat. They wanted to see with their own eyes how powerful the poisonous smoke was. This was the trick taught to him by the magistrate Chen Xiliang, and it was also a killer.

After the explosion of the fire duck, the deadly yellow poisonous smoke was released, blocking the way to the Rebels retreat. Liang Gongming, a nine flying thief, immediately understood when he saw this, and quickly ordered several leaders to rush out to inform the defeated army.

The retreated army rushed in, one after another. Behind them were cold arrows that kept chasing. In order to survive, they ran forward desperately, carrying a cold wind, which was unstoppable.

In an instant, it surpassed those slow stone machines and rushed into the yellow poisonous smoke.

There were no more than a hundred leaders sent by Liang Gongming before and after, all of whom were wrapped in poisonous smoke and almost died.

Even he almost died. What's worse, most of the people who manipulated the stone machine were poisoned.

Originally, the rebels, who never knew how to fear, were stunned by the tragedy in front of them. The people who did not run out of the poisonous smoke area choked and bled. Even if they were forced to rush out, they were blind and vomited. They coughed violently and tore the lungs, causing the blood vessels in the body to rupture and cause serious injuries.

7,000 people, in the end, only more than 1,000 points survived.

However, the war did not end here.

Things that made it worse then happened.

After the afternoon of the same day, there was an east wind in the area of the wild boar ridge in the north of Fangzhou City, and the poisonous smoke rushed towards the Western Volunteer Camp with the help of the wind.

In a blink of an eye, he rushed nearly half a miles to the ground. Li Tiegun saw that the yellow smoke was about to surround him. He hurriedly led the troops back for fifteen miles, and even the camp was too late to be put away.

Liang Gongming, a nine-way thief, felt his eyes burning, but he still shouted, "Don't panic, don't panic, hurry south, run south!"

After saying that, the wind under his feet ran south, regardless of the fact that there were many brothers around who were not out of danger.

He kept running without thinking. With extraordinary ears to distinguish the direction, his eyes were completely blindfolded and he dared not open it.

"It's south over there, that's right, because the wind blows through the left ear"

After running out of the poisonous smoke, he stumbled in the severe cold and judged whether it was a flat ground or a crack completely by the perception under his feet. He didn't want to stop or look back, because he didn't know how deeply poison he was. Maybe his life would end as soon as he stopped. Vigorous exercise had already accelerated the poison!

Suddenly, the chest became stuffy, half of the body was numb, and the head became as heavy as a stone.

"Fit! Is that all for now?"

A few steps later, a mouthful of blood spewed out, and he finally exhausted and fell on the ice.

......

After a long time, he turned over, but the strange colors changed in front of him, red, yellow and blue, like light swimming on the surface of the water.

"What a beautiful rainbow, I should die," Liang Gongming said to himself.

Slowly, he opened his eyes and rubbed them hard before he realized that it was the stars in the sky, the bright moonlight, pulling tens of thousands of miles of clouds and smoke. They were light and dust, with various colors.

Only a pure and cloudless sky like Fangzhou can see the whole picture of the starry sky.

It's so magnificent.

It turned out that such a spectacle can only be seen after death, that's all, it's worth this life!

The sixth day, the siege is not defeated

The seventh day, Xiaosheng

The eighth day, fiasco

The ninth day...the tenth day...

"What on earth does the Fangzhou garrison want to do?" Li Tiegun paced in the tent, "Why do you want to resist desperately? Do you want to delay the time and exhaust our army's food and fodder, or do you have another intention?"

At this time, as soon as the cotton curtain was raised, the stone traitor came in with a crutch. Seeing Li Tiegun frowned, he did not dare to say anything for a moment.

After a while, Li Tiegun turned around and asked him, "Brother Shi, have you found Mr. Liang?"

The stone traitor smiled grimly, "Brother, the brothers sent out have searched all around but didn't find Mr. Liang. I think it's more bad and less auspicious."

"Cough..." Li Tiegun suddenly felt that everything in his heart had been emptied. After a long time, he said eight words: "Go down, I'm going to rest for a while."

In the dream, Li Tieqiang walked alone on the dark road, and his heart was empty.

The night is like a black rock.

The thunder was ringing, and the wind roared across the sky.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning fell from his sight and polished the darkness.

He was stunned for a moment.

When I looked up, I found a trace of flame burning on the tree.

The lights, the lights are there!

Li Tiegun ran desperately towards the firelight, as if it were a door in the dark. The door opened and he walked in a white passage.

What is behind the door?

He has no time to think, even if the abyss is the destination of his fate.

Sadness is knocking on the door, and he also wants to break through!

The next day, the wind and snow dissipated, and the sun smiled.

A hundred-person caravan came outside the gate of the Rebels. The leader was Wu Chongmao. He wanted to see Li Tiegun and said that he had something important to discuss.

Wu Chongmao, a person from Fangzhou, has been selling salt and iron for generations. He has a large family business. A few days ago, he came back from Kuizhou Road and made a big deal. On his way home, he heard that Li Tiegun, a thief in Xiangzhou, pulled the flag and rebelled. He was leading the army to attack Fangzhou City, defeating the Song Dynasty. The horse is invincible.

Besides, Wu Chongmao was originally a descendant of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty. He was restless in his bones. Seeing this good opportunity, he felt that it was time to rise up against the Song Dynasty, so he hurried on the road and looked at Fangzhou.