Chapter 243 Falling into the City

Oliver knew that the general trend had gone. While sending someone to report to Fan Zhenliang, he still made the soldiers fill in the city gate continuously.

"Boom!"

A foot is thick and more than ten feet long, which is full of countless five-inch long barbed wet wood, rolling down, immediately smashing the heads of four people, rolling on the ground a few times, making five soldiers lie on the ground and howling sadly, and then being pulled up by two suspended ropes.

This is the night fork ring. This kind of city guard, because it needs to constantly water, moisten and gain weight, is the first thing to be transported to the head of the city. At this time, it suddenly became powerful and everyone was shocked.

Oliver saw that the soldiers did not dare to come forward, slashed the two with knives, and forcibly drove them away. However, at this time, the head of the city was more fully prepared. The night fork ring and wolf teeth came down one after another. Many soldiers even climbed to the roof of the tower and smashed down the bricks and tiles together. The city wall, plus the tower, is as high as five or six feet. At such a height, even if a small pebble falls, it can also break the head and blood. The soldiers under the city are beaten through the leather armor, which is also a broken muscle and fracture, and they immediately retreated one after another.

More than 300 Yongping troops in the doorway shouted and suddenly rushed in, tangling with Oliver's soldiers. The gate is finally open!

Outside the city, the dense horseshoe roared. Zhao Hongtao took the lead and went straight into the city. Seeing Oliver slashing crazily in the Yongping army, he immediately urged the horse forward and cut a high-nosed and deep head to fly high. Then he waved his knife and shouted, "The broken city is today! Let me go!" The horse went straight, and more than a thousand cavalry behind followed. The torrent generally rushed straight into the long street, and then diverted to the streets in the city with 200 horses. With the cooperation of the infantry, they trampled a strong pass into a sea of blood in a blink of an eye.

There was a raging fire in the ordnance and material warehouses everywhere in the city. The streets were full of crowds running and the rumble of horses' hoofs. On the contrary, there was little sound of blade fighting, and most of the dead defenders were killed from behind by the enemy. In the county guard's mansion, Fan Zhenliang held a sword and a torch in one hand, and said to dozens of depressed soldiers around him, "You, run for your own lives..."

A general among those soldiers came out and said, "Your Excellency, nothing can be done now. Everyone knows that why don't you go together!"

Fan Zhenliang laughed and said, "I have been famous for half a life. How can I be a county guard of the abandoned city and question those little officials like pigs and dogs!" After a pause, he said, "What's more... Do you think you can leave if I run away together? It's better to die and find a way out for you and my two sons!"

Turning his head and said to a woman and two young men in their twenties next to him, "You also go, the roots of my Fan family will be passed on to me!"

The woman burst into tears and pushed the two young men in front of the soldiers and said, "I'll follow them, just increase the burden. Ladies and gentlemen, the two sons of the Fan family have been entrusted to you..." Then she turned to Fan Zhenliang and said, "The master is willing to die. How can a concubine live alone! Ha ha, it's not happy that we husband and wife can't live together, but we can die together!"

"Father-mother-"

The two young men wanted to rush up to take back their parents, but they were dragged by their own soldiers and fought out - the county guard was a capital crime when they saw the enemy abandoning the city and fled. Now, although the new Biguan is broken, if Fan Zhenliang escapes back, he will also be subject to a lot of interrogation. That's the reason why he just said that he didn't want to be questioned by minor officials. And his own soldiers, if they were lost, would also be assassinated and exiled, but now that he saved his two sons and ordered them himself, things are completely different.

In fact, they didn't want to die. Although these soldiers were sad, they still went out one by one. The general stayed until the end, knelt down and kowtowed to Fan Zhenliang and shouted, "Your Excellency, don't worry! A humble position is smashed to pieces, and it will also keep the safety of the two princes!" After saying that, he turned around and ran out.

"Master! Take me with you!"

"Sir, wait for me--"

Three beautiful young women ran out of the back hall, all of whom were Fan Zhenliang's concubines. Two of them wanted to grab the door and follow the soldiers, but were stopped by Fan Zhenliang with a sword, and they were all killed. The man behind was only 17 or 18 years old, but he walked to Mrs. Fan Zhenliang and saluted, "The slave family is willing to die together..."

Actually, what can a concubine like this family escape? There are not many forces in their family, and they are private property in Fanfu. Not to mention that the soldiers are rampant outside, even if they really live, they will be convicted and become a first-class prostitute. It's better to die. Seeing that this man is young but knowledgeable, Fan Zhenliang nodded and laughed, "I'm very relieved that Xiaoye can be like this!"

Without saying that, he took his wife's hand and lit the firewood piled up around him one by one. The three of them accompanied each other and walked into the study...

The 50-year-old personal soldiers protected the two young masters of the Fan family. If they could avoid it all the way, they would kill them. They are all elites in the army, but they are basically calm and slowly get to the vicinity of the South Gate. However, the stubborn resistance of such a conflict attracted great attention and was soon surrounded and trapped under the root of the wall. Seeing that more than ten people were killed, and the rest were about to be exhausted and unable to fight again, the general strode out and said, "Lord Fan is here! Ask your officers to come and talk!"

Although the two sides of the battlefield were ruthless, they were different from the revenge. The surrounded soldiers saw the son of the county guard of Xinbi County in it and hesitated for a moment, but the wall stood more densely. Under the tongue, the scene also seemed chaotic.

At this time, a voice suddenly came from the city: "Lord Fan is here. How is Lord Fan now?"

This voice is not high or low, but it biased over the noise of hundreds of soldiers in the field and clearly came to everyone's ears. These soldiers immediately fell silent, leaving only the sound of long and short breathing and the occasional sound of sword collision. The general is a 100-person commander of Fan Zhenliang's own soldiers, named Geng Jian. He is the younger brother of Geng Hao and Fan Zhenliang's nephew. At this time, he looked at the top of the city and saw a tall general, who seemed to cover half of the sky in the starlight. His whole body was wet with blood, and his robe was wet on the iron armor. But he looked backlight at this moment, but he couldn't see the man's face, and he didn't want to fall behind. He asked loudly:

"Geng Jian, the commander of Lord Fan's own army, who is the general?"

The man at the head of the city laughed and said, "What a hundred people, Geng Jian! Zhao Hongtao, the right guard general of Xiayong Parallel Province, is also, and you can recognize him now!"

Zhao Hongtao is known as the jade birch red tiger. When he heard about the battle, how could Geng Jian not know it? When he heard the words, he immediately said, "It turned out to be General Zhao!" Lord Fan has gone through the fire and died now. I will escort the two young masters here and ask the general to do some convenience!"

Zhao Hongtao said, "That's right, you put down your weapons first, check them one by one, and let you out of the city..."

Geng Jian hesitated and said, "If it's all dark today, the soldiers outside the city are like numb. How can we walk on the road without weapons?"

Zhao Hongtao was about to answer, and the sound of horses' hoofs came from the distance. One person shouted, "loyal and righteous people are admired. There is no need to investigate, just let them out of the city..."

When Geng Jian turned his head and looked, he saw more than 40 people riding ten feet away. At first, a handsome teenager, his nose was like beads, his lips were full, his chin was round, and he was matched with two eyebrows that seemed to fly. There was a kind of pearl in front of him, and he couldn't help but feel like he had to take good care of him. I can't help but look in a trance, and Zhao Hongtao's loud voice came back in my ear:

"I have met the Duke!"

The soldiers who surrounded them also put their hands on their chests and cheered at the same time: "The Duke wins! Ten thousand wins!" The sound was loud, and even the soldiers in the distance of the whole city began to shout in turn, "Wansheng!" The sound echoed over the new Biguan for a long time.

After this battle, Zhao Hongzhi had no one under his jurisdiction and dared to doubt the ability of the young duke who was only 21 years old and used to think about reading and traveling. Since then, it has become an iron plate!

Zhao Hongzhi let Geng Jian and others go out of the city to escape for their lives. Fang smiled at Zhao Hongtao and said, "I was afraid that the soldiers would be greedy and rushed out of the city to pursue them. Instead, there was no one to repair the defense in Xinbi Pass. Unexpectedly, the third brother thought of it first."

Zhao Hongtao said solemnly, "Duke, please be commensurate with the official title in the battle. Don't be so casual."

Zhao Hongzhi nodded repeatedly: "Yes! Yes! General Zhao, please work harder, stay here to stop the whole army, do not chase, and immediately prepare for city defense..." After saying that, he left in confusion.

This night fell into the city very quickly. Although Fan Zhenliang ordered people to ignite the armory and material warehouse, most of the defensive equipment moved to the city wall, and the loss was very small. Even less than half of the military food was burned, and only 60% of the materials for defending the city were lost. The elite soldiers of Xinbi County were all in Guanzhong, and the defenders in other places did not dare to move lightly. Instead, they were attacked by Zhao Hongtao the next day, cleaned up three large villages and towns, and collected a lot of materials back.

By the time the surrounding counties heard the news and sent troops to attack the city, Zhao Hongzhi had already rectified the city defense. Six thousand county soldiers in Shizhuguan have also arrived one after another. The number of soldiers in Xinbi Pass reached more than 8,000 people, and Zhao Hongtao had 1,500 cavalry peeped aside and fought several times. Instead, he left 1,400 Lance outside the city. The lives of soldiers.

Xinbi County covers an area of nearly 3700 square kilometers. In order to strengthen the defense of Xinbi Pass, Tianshen Province has always supported people to settle here, so the population is 116,000. Even south of the Yellow Spring River, it is a densely populated place. However, after Xinbiguan, more than 30 large villages and towns in the county have become scattered places and no longer have value.