The eldest son of the red mansion

So Meng Gen didn't care about his age, and personally led [-] cavalrymen under his command to rush under the city wall to reinforce those captive soldiers.

With the participation of people like Meng Gen, captive soldiers gradually appeared on the tower, and they even occupied a small base.

Ruan Zhengyu is now in despair, he knows that the city will be broken at this moment.

What Ruan Zhengyu is thinking about now is whether to live and die with the city, or to stay useful and retreat to Shenglong Mansion to fight the enemy.

At this critical moment, suddenly a group of people rushed up the tower with various weapons.

When Ruan Zhengyu took a closer look, tears welled up in his eyes. It turned out that these people were either eleven or twelve-year-old children, or five or sixty-year-old gray-haired old men. What they held in their hands were either sickles or hoes.

These people came to the top of the city and immediately joined the battle group. Although these people were weak in combat power, they attacked the enemy one by one as if they were crazy.

Thanks to the addition of this man, the attack of the captive soldiers was quickly repelled again.

Meng Gen watched from the bottom of the city and stomped his feet. He thought that the city was about to be breached this time, but he didn't expect that the other party would come up with another group of people.

Seeing this situation, Ji Ya also shook his head. He didn't expect these southern barbarians to be so tenacious.

Besides, on the city tower, although it was said that the captive soldiers were repelled again, once Ruan Zhengyu counted the number of people, all of them were immediately burned.

It turns out that there are only 6000 to 60 people who can stand and fight on the towers, and most of these people are teenagers and elderly people in their [-]s and [-]s. It's the end.

Li Guangqing was also frowning all the time, he didn't expect that the Central Plains people would dare to let the captured soldiers attack the city.

They didn't know that the Tatars had already had their own set of methods for the management of these slaves in the long-term practice process.

The promotion of these people almost all depends on military merit. If the credit is large enough, they can even join the Tatar ethnic group without being a slave, and the Tatars value warriors. There is no discrimination, but because they were promoted because of their military exploits, they are regarded as warriors.

The Manchu Eight Banners were almost all differentiated from the Tatars, so they perfectly inherited this set of regulations.

Because of this set of regulations, the slave soldiers under his command also saw hope.

Compared with when they were in Annan Kingdom, military achievements were deprived by those officers of noble origin, the system of the Eight Banners of Manchuria made them feel more at ease.

Because of this, these captive soldiers moved forward bravely one by one, one is because they can be promoted and become masters by virtue of military industry.

The second reason is that their family members are still in Annan. If Annan is not defeated, their family members will probably be implicated when the war subsides.

What's more, now that Longcheng Pass is about to be breached, these captive soldiers also saw hope, so they worked even harder.

Although Li Guangqing didn't know why these captured soldiers were desperately attacking, he could see the current situation very clearly.

"Your Majesty, we should drive those strong women below the city to the top of the city."

Ruan Zhengyu nodded silently after listening, and then asked his own soldiers to handle the matter.

Not long after, a group of women were driven up to the top of the city, all of them were trembling with all kinds of weapons in their hands.

When they got to the top of the city and saw corpses all over the ground, many women immediately threw up at the base of the wall.

When Ruan Zhengyu saw this, he knew it was impossible to fight this battle. Now that these women can't even stand firm, you still expect them to defend the city and kill the enemy?

Li Guangqing also saw the seriousness of the situation, he pulled Ruan Zhengyu, and the two went to a local place.

"Your Majesty, it seems that the Longcheng Pass is in danger. Please, Your Majesty, with all the civil and military officials, retreat to the Shenglong Mansion immediately to concentrate our forces, and then we will fight against the bandits in the Northern Dynasty."

Ruan Zhengyu has long wanted to do this in his heart, but he still has to be more reserved now.

"I'm the king of Annan, how can I escape the battle, the prime minister should not say this again."

Seeing Ruan Zhengyu's troubled face, Li Guangqing knew what was going on in his heart, so he quickly persuaded him: "Your Majesty, this is not running away from the battle, but just exchanging space for time, so that in the future, we can repel the bandits and restore our country." .”

Ruan Zhengyu thought about it for a while and didn't refuse again, because he knew that the next wave of attack would come soon, and if he didn't leave now, he might not be able to leave even if he wanted to.

"Since that's the case, then I will listen to your arrangements and temporarily retreat to Shenglong Mansion before fighting the enemy decisively."

Chapter 645

After Ruan Zhengyu made his decision, he didn't delay anymore. He immediately ordered the civil and military officials to pack their bags and prepare to retreat with him, but the current Shenglong City couldn't leave someone alone.

Otherwise, all the officials would run away, and the ordinary people would swarm away. By then, the officials would have to be chased by the opponent's cavalry before they ran far.

Up to now, the civil and military ministers are silent, because they know that those who stay behind will lose their wealth and lives.

Li Guangqing looked at the appearance of all the civil and military men, and knew that it was impossible to let them stay. If they were forced to stay, they might surrender immediately.

So Li Guangqing stepped out of the class and said: "I am the prime minister of the dynasty, and now I will be stationed at Longcheng Pass."

Ruan Zhengyu immediately stood up and said: "Your Majesty, you are my right-hand man. Without you, an old minister, how can this king explain to the late emperor?"

Li Guangqing shook his head with a smile and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister is already sixty years old. Even if he dies now, he has no regrets. I just hope that Your Majesty will regroup and restore our country."

This old minister has already seen the crisis of An Nanguo. This time the Central Plains went south this time, it is not like before that he will withdraw his troops after a small lesson. Looking at Jia Ke like this, he wants to destroy An Nanguo. Fight to the death now and leave some reputation behind.

Ruan Zhengyu looked at the old official with a smile on his face, but his eyes were extremely firm, knowing that no matter how much he tried to persuade him, he couldn't persuade him anymore.

So Ruan Zhengyu stood up and came to Li Guangqing's side, grabbed his hand, and said emotionally: "Don't worry, the old prime minister. After returning to Shenglong Mansion, I will order the princess to marry into the Li family. From now on, you and my family will share the wealth." .”

Now that Li Guangqing has arrived, he is finally at ease. Even after his death, he will leave blessings to future generations. As long as the Annan Kingdom and the Ruan family are not destroyed, their family will surely be prosperous and prosperous for a long time.

Now that Li Guangqing was relieved, he immediately urged Ruan Zhengyu to leave the city immediately.

"Your Majesty, there is not much time. Please leave the city immediately, and the veterans will bring your troops to try to buy time for your Majesty."

Knowing the urgency of the matter, Ruan Zhengyu didn't say anything else, just grabbed Li Guangqing's hand and shook it fiercely, and then quietly went down the city wall with his own soldiers and ministers of civil and military affairs.

Seeing that Ruan Zhengyu had left, Li Guangqing immediately became indifferent.

At this moment, Zhengbai Qi and Xiangbai Qi ordered the captive soldiers to attack the city again, and this time they were even more courageous.

Because just now, Jia Ke saw the cruelty of the siege battle under the city, so in order to boost morale, he had promised the captive soldiers that they would not seal their swords for three days after the city was broken. Looting for three days.

As a result, these captive infantry became more courageous, and the young men on the top of the city had been exhausted in the previous siege battles, and the only ones who could defend the city were children and the elderly, and although those women also picked up The blade resisted for a while, but these people were born weak, how could they resist these crazy captive soldiers.So not much effort.It was attacked again on the top of the city.

Li Guangqing's face was ashen now, he was carrying a sword, and he brought his own soldiers and reinforcements from left and right.

But as time went by, there were fewer and fewer people guarding the city. Li Guangqing saw that this was not an option, so he immediately ordered a few of his own soldiers to go down to the city and kill all those who could stand up. Catch up with the head of the city.

This only slightly relieved the pressure on the top of the city, but these old men and women were really not made for war, and they were killed and injured in a short time.

Li Guangqing now also knew that it was the last moment, so he fought desperately in order to give Annan King Ruan Zhengyu some time to escape.

But no matter how hard he tried, the number of captive soldiers on the top of the wall was increasing, and within a short period of time, there were only a few of the young children on the top of the wall, including the sixtieth old man.

And those women and children who were forced to go to the city, when they saw the enemy attacking fiercely with knives and guns, they trembled one by one, threw all the weapons in their hands to the ground, and squatted aside with their heads in their hands.

As for the captive soldiers, they didn't have any embarrassment for these women and children who put down their weapons, but they just assigned some people to guard them and prevent them from running around.