The whole world thinks I'm a nephew

That was a long, long time ago.

Shen Zhuo withdrew his thoughts, and the soldiers approaching the city prevented him from being negligent.

As soon as the arrow stacks, kerosene, saltpetre, and bamboo arrows were all ready, whoever was leading the troops in the city looked very unfamiliar, and the man rode a brown horse standing under the city tower, and then slowly unfolded the imperial edict in his hand.

"Your Majesty's order, you and the rebels, why don't you kneel down quickly?!"

In Jiangzhou City, led by Shen Zhuo, they were all indifferent. Lu Qingyi laughed loudly, pointed at the man's nose and cursed: "His Royal Highness King An has a big tone! He seeks to seize the throne, kills the king and forces the palace, and so on. It’s not too much to cut! You literati have always prided themselves on being loyal to the emperor, could it be that this is a slap in the face?!”

The man gritted his teeth, but he didn't talk to him too much, he still read out every word of the emperor's order in the imperial decree.

Shen Zhuo listened to it, and it was nothing more than scolding him for being immoral and righteous, for harming the people, and so on, forcing him to hand over the Eastern Qi Yuxi to save him from death.

The official history of the supervising army is soft-boned. After reading the imperial order, Shen Zhuo didn't respond. He stomped his feet in anger. On the contrary, the deputy envoy had a tough temper. He immediately pulled the man forward, and then stopped talking. Tens of thousands of elites set up bamboo arrows, and when they ordered again, tens of thousands of bamboo arrows flew into the air, piercing through the air sharply, and headed straight for the city gate.

The majestic and majestic banner of the Forbidden Army fluttered in the wind and sand, and was planted straight on the ground.

"careful!"

Arrows rained down one after another, and the soldiers on the city blocked them with shields, but many of them were still shot in the skull by meteors, convulsing and convulsing to death.The bamboo arrows crashed and fell on the city wall. Before the wave of attack passed, someone shouted: "They are starting to climb up!"

Several thick ropes soaked in sesame oil knocked on the city wall, another group of elites set up tall bamboo ladders, and people continued to climb up the walls along the ropes. A shower of arrows came whistling, and while resisting, the soldiers had to be wary of the Imperial Army who took the opportunity to climb up the city wall. With a little cruelty, Shen Zhuo turned around and gave an order.

"Pour all the fire oil down."

The soldiers had to obey the order, and the fire oil was poured on the head, completely drenching the city wall. Shen Zhuo took a fire from the guard beside him, walked to the side of the city wall, loosened his wrist, and the torch fell into the city wall , a few sparks splashed out, touched the kerosene, and exploded into a sea of ​​flames in an instant!

In the sea of ​​flames, countless tumbling and screaming figures fell from the ropes and hooves, rolling and screaming in the yellow sand under the city wall.

The heat wave could almost reach the top of the city wall, Shen Zhuo gritted his teeth and took a few steps back, Lu Qingyi hurried over to help him when he saw that his expression was not right, and asked him in a voice that only two people could hear clearly: "Ah Zhuo, what's wrong with you? "

Shen Zhuo turned his head away, "You go to the east gate, I don't feel at ease there."

Lu Qingyi was silent for a moment, and asked an irrelevant answer: "Ah Zhuo, do you remember him?"

Shen Zhuo was silent.

The candlestick burned his back that night, and since then, every night in his dreams, he will recall the scene of him screaming with a pale face at that time.

Now that I think about it, I am really a bastard who was stunned by anger——

Even worse than animals.

It was only a moment for his thoughts to fly, and the information on the battlefield was ever-changing, so he was not allowed to be mixed with his own love for his son and daughter.

Shen Zhuo raised his sword and cut off the head of a forbidden army who was struggling to step on the corpse. The head fell down the ladder and was submerged in the sea of ​​fire. There was a burnt smell.

The imperial army who attacked the city went forward and climbed up the ladder one after another. The previous wave fell, and soon the next group stepped on the corpses and climbed up. The corpses almost piled up into a hill.

The situation of the guards guarding the city was not much better. There were dead and wounded, crossbow arrows and kerosene were announced to be exhausted, and the food in the city was only enough for half a month through careful planning.

——But obviously, Shen Gucheng wanted to take Jiangzhou quickly.

On the east side of the city gate, someone picked up this loophole and climbed over the wall from the rope. Two soldiers noticed that they raised their knives and charged forward. All died when he fell.

Seeing Shen Zhuo going into battle with a knife in hand, the man suddenly raised his head and laughed when he saw him, his face was full of madness.

The man held a scimitar in his hand, and there was a hideous scar across his face. His dark complexion fully revealed the crazy joy in his eyes.

"Emperor Li, if you kill me from Beiye, today I will take your head and avenge the men, women and children of Beiye!"

The scimitar in his hand was blown by the wind, the man yelled, he raised the knife and chopped it off, the two of them were too close, Shen Zhuo had time to dodge sideways, but he couldn't prevent his cheeks from oozing blood, and another strand was cut by the scimitar hair.

Shen Zhuo turned over to the side of the two dead guards, picked up the long knife on the ground and held it against the knife that the wild man chopped at his head.

Both arms were numb from the shock, the big man laughed out loud, the hideous scars on his face almost made Shen Zhuo sick.

The tip of the knife was constantly pressed down by him, and Shen Zhuo could even hear the cracking sound of his wrist bones. The tip of the knife was only an inch away from his forehead, and it seemed that it would not be able to withstand it——

Shen Zhuo suddenly said, "Are you from Beiye?"

The man's face froze for a moment, but his hands were still exerting strength, and Shen Zhuo couldn't find any flaws in him.

"So what?"

"Huh." Shen Zhuo sneered suddenly, the veins on his wrists were bulging, and sweat was dripping on his forehead in such a short period of time, "You Beiye people are the most respectful of nature and humanity, and your body, hair, and skin should not be damaged at all; With injury, it is disrespectful to God—”

"...But what about you?"

The big man was stunned for a moment when he heard the words.

It's now!

Shen Zhuo took aim at the right time and kicked the big man's abdomen. The man didn't expect it, and he was immediately kicked back a few steps. place.

"hiss."

Shen Zhuo was injured, and when he got up, the wound was involved, and he couldn't help frowning.

The man no longer gave him a chance to breathe, and rushed towards Shen Zhuo with a loud shout. When the scimitar was gone, he used his fists instead. Zhuo was paying attention to dodging his attack while paying attention to his movements, quietly looking for the big man's flaws.

——This person should be a master of Xisha.

But it's okay, people from the Western Regions have always been straight-minded, and don't understand the twists and turns of people from the Eastern Qi Dynasty.

With the long sword in his hand, Shen Zhuo deliberately stagnated, revealing the man's flaws. As expected, the big man's eyes lit up immediately, and he rushed towards him without thinking.

Shen Zhuo narrowed his eyes slightly, and rushed forward, and when the distance between the two was only half a meter, he suddenly jumped up. The big man was unexpected, and when he was about to turn his head, Shen Zhuo turned his wrist and pointed his long sword straight at him stabbed in the head!

The knife raised and fell, blood splashed all over Shen Zhuo's armor, and the headless torso twitched and fell down.

Shen Zhuo looked back at the big man for the last time, then picked up his head calmly, walked to the edge of the city wall, met his eyes with the city commander, finally laughed, and then let go of his left hand, the blood-stained head in his hand Finally, "Gulu Gulu" rolled under the tower.

The siege continued for three days and two nights, until the morning of the third day, when Jiangzhou poured down rain, all the blood on the city was washed away, and the imperial army retreated with gold, finally leaving Jiangzhou city with a chance to breathe.

The rain was so heavy that it lasted for three or four days before it finally stopped.

Shen Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief, but soon there were more problems in front of him; bamboo arrows can gather the people in the city to rush to work day and night, but such things as kerosene and saltpeter are hard to come by—the urgent matter is another big thing.

There is not much grain stored in Jiangzhou City, if according to what the staff at the watchtower waited for, it can only last for a dozen days.There are tens of thousands of people in Jiangzhou City, and once there is a shortage of food, the consequences will be disastrous.

At that time, the morale of the army will be broken and the people will be separated. It will be an irreversible situation of collapse.

"For the present plan," Shen Zhuo pointed his index finger at the marked place on the map under the dim candlelight, "only by sending people northward and being attacked from the belly of the forbidden army can we have a way out."

Because there was not enough food and grass, Shen Zhuo and others could only fight quickly, but due to the large number of imperial guards, which were several times the number of guards in Jiangzhou City, Shen Zhuo did not dare to act rashly.

The sound of rain outside the window hit the window lattice, tearing and tearing into my ears.

Shen Zhuo raised his head and looked around: "What do you think?"

Lu Qingyi said: "This matter is no small matter, I'm going to recruit thousands of elites, just wait for your order, all the cavalry will be sent out, and the old nest of the forbidden army will be destroyed in one fell swoop."

A few gusts of cold wind came in from the window, blowing the candlelight on the table to dance a few times, and it was about to be completely extinguished.

—No one else made a sound.

This is indeed the most effective method at the moment; but at the same time it is also the most risky method.This sneak attack means a narrow escape, and it also means that if it fails, there will be no place to die.

Shen Zhuo naturally knew the stakes in this from the bottom of his heart, so he didn't force it on him.

He stood alone on the cusp of the storm, withstood the frost and snow for the people, withstood the torrential rain, and no one could stand by his side.

He is in a high place and does not know the cold, above ten thousand people, no one can break through thousands of troops, and be at the same height as him—no, maybe there used to be, but that person was pushed into the abyss by his own hands, and since then There's no more chance--

Just thinking like this, Shen Zhuo's heart ached suddenly, and the next moment when he was about to speak, he heard the door being pushed open, and countless wind and rain blowing into the house, bringing a gust of cold wind.

When everyone looked back, they saw a person wearing white single clothes and a veiled hat. His long black satin-like hair was hanging over his shoulders. Seeing that everyone's eyes turned to him, they turned their heads first. The fragrance of plum blossoms seemed to be still on the tip of his nose, and Shen Zhuo couldn't help but stare dumbfounded. He opened his mouth and called out to him in a daze: "...Brother?"

——That was Lin Jingyun.

Seeing him approaching a few steps, Yingying said, "I think that instead of destroying the base camp of the imperial army, it would be more enjoyable to directly attack Baiyujing in one go."