Although the scene was quite anxious, it had not turned passive after all. However, Lord Changping could not sit still and his eyes never strayed from the battlefield.
If the Western Chu Army is really exhausted, then all the wealth that he has worked so hard to save will be gone, not to mention, those are 50,000 living lives!
The problem is that the street battle in front of us is different from the confrontation between two armies in the field, or the siege of a city.
Because whether it is a field battle or a siege, the losing party can escape. But in the current situation, even if one of the two sides admits defeat and wants to retreat, how can they retreat?
In today's situation, the two sides are mixed and surrounded by each other, let alone the fact that whichever side retreats first will be chased and killed, and will be in danger of being annihilated.
In the current situation, there is only a stalemate, and we can only grit our teeth and resist.
On the side of the Chang Xin Army, Tuoba Hai was brave, but he could not break through the obstacles in front of him. Moreover, there were more and more casualties, and the corpses were piled higher and higher, just like a wall, dividing the battlefield into countless small areas.
For a moment, the battlefield reached a stalemate, and it seemed that the situation would only be broken if one party fought cleanly.
At this moment, the messenger who went to Jingyao for help sent back a message. Meng Tian suggested that the Western Chu army make way for a passage to allow Lao Ai to escape, and other teams would surround him outside the city.
As for the battlefield around the palace, a quarter of an hour later, Lord Changping announced on the spot that Lao Ai had been captured alive, and ordered the remaining Changxin troops to give up resistance and surrender.
Lord Changping hesitated for a moment. Although he was somewhat reluctant to take credit for capturing or killing Lao Ai, the situation in front of him was indeed in danger of being encircled and suppressed. If that happened, let alone the credit, even the soldiers under his command could not survive. It's hard to say whether it's life or not.
"Send the order!" Lord Changping finally made up his mind and said to the herald, "Let the soldiers surrounding the palace gate and the soldiers leading to the south city gate make way for a passage, and let Lao Ai go out of the city, but she must We must intercept the Chang Xin army behind us and prevent them from fleeing with Lao Ai."
"Got the order!" the herald responded, quickly turned around and went to deliver the order.
Not long after, semaphores were raised on the roofs of three taller towers at the same time.
The Xi Chu army, which was already quite tired, quickly squeezed to both sides to make way for a passage, and quickly adjusted it, giving itself and Chang Xin's army a moment of breathing space.
Tuoba Hai, who was standing in front of the palace gate, saw this and wiped the blood on his face. His eyes widened a few times. After confirming that he had seen correctly, he waved his arms back and shouted: "The enemy has been killed." Retreat, escort the Marquis to retreat quickly!"
After hearing this, several generals who were already red-eyed turned around to look for Lao Ai.
As soon as Lao Ai heard that there was a breakthrough ahead, she didn't think too much and followed a few generals to stumble to Tuoba Hai's side.
"Master Hou!" Originally they had not seen each other for a while, but when Tuoba Hai saw Lao Ai, it was like seeing him again after a long separation, "The gap has been opened in front, let's hurry up and break out!"
"Okay, you take the lead, and I will follow you and rush out." Lao Ai cheered up and tightened the steel knife in his hand.
"You guys, protect the Marquis!" Tuoba Hai yelled at the generals, turned around and charged towards the gap.
"Green Gourd Sword Fairy"
I thought it was a very difficult task, but I didn't encounter many obstacles.
There were corpses of the two sides who died in the battle beside him as a barrier. Tuoba Hai shouted and rushed forward with two steel knives waving.
A group of soldiers followed closely behind, guarding Lao Ai as she charged forward.
Not long after, the outermost Chang Xin army finally merged.
There were nearly 20,000 Changxin troops on this side. When the soldiers in front saw Tuoba Hai rushing out, they stepped forward to respond.
Tuoba Hai was really exhausted. He gasped and said, "Don't worry about me. Go and pick up the Marquis!"
Only then did a group of soldiers rush forward and rescue Lao Ai from the crowd.
Finally arriving at a relatively safe place, Lao Ai gasped like Tuoba Hai and waved her hands repeatedly in shock: "
Damn it, go back to the old house, ride a horse and run away! "
So all the soldiers gathered around Lao Ai and ran towards the old house.
The Western Chu army behind did not pursue them, but instead compressed inward, blocking the exit just now again.
This alone makes people suspicious.
But when Lao Ai was panicking, she only thought about how to escape, and she couldn't care about so many suspicious things.
Finally running to the old house, Lao Ai sat on the ground with a thud, out of breath, her heart beating violently as if her heart in her chest was about to burst.
"Didn't they... catch up?" Lao Ai finally took a breath and looked back.
"No." Tuoba Hai, who had just calmed down a bit, said, "It seems they don't know that the Marquis is here. Their main purpose is to eat our main force."
Lao Ai sighed: "It seems that the number of this army is not as large as ours, and I don't know if there will be another ambush. Let's get on the war horses here and leave quickly."
Tuoba Hai reluctantly looked in the direction of the palace, finally calmed down, waved his hand and said, "Listen to the Marquis's instructions, mount your war horse, and let's retreat!"
However, there were only a few dozen war horses, the same ones that were pretending to be carriages when they came here, so they had to be ridden by the generals.
The soldiers quickly brought some food and water, and then followed Lao Ai and others as they trotted towards the south gate.
Logically speaking, if there was such a big chaos in the city, the city gate should have been sealed long ago.
But the South City Gate that was right in front of her was wide open. This was extremely unusual on a normal night, but Lao Ai seemed to see hope, and her riding speed increased even more.
After finally breaking through the South City Gate, Lao Ai felt like she had been reborn, and her tense nerves relaxed.
Unexpectedly, the infantry behind them were already exhausted and how could they keep up with the wildly fleeing horses, so the distance between the two teams became wider and wider.
The moment Lao Ai's cavalry all rushed out of the city, four rows of archers suddenly stood up on the south city gate and on the walls on both sides.
With just one command, countless arrows fell like a heavy rain.
At the front, the soldiers who had just rushed to the city gate suddenly fell to the ground in large pieces.
It would be fine if they only lost a few people. The problem was that these fallen soldiers had almost sealed the city gate, and those behind could only pass by stepping on the corpses of their companions.
But in this way, the speed of travel will slow down a lot.
Another wave of arrows struck, and the people who were trampling on the corpses and crawling forward fell down one after another, so the wall of flesh inside the city gate was raised a few minutes higher.
The people behind are stupid, and they will die if they rush forward.
However, many experienced soldiers took out their bows and arrows to fight back.
But the geographical difference is too great after all.
One side is guarding the fortifications and is condescending at the city gate. Let alone these people want to go out, they are not afraid even if a large army attacks the city.
The other side was the defeated army who was already running for their lives and their physical strength was almost exhausted, but they still had to use all their strength to shoot upwards.
How to fight this battle?
Since we can't move forward, we can only retreat.
The strange thing is that after Chang Xin's army withdrew from a certain range, the defenders on the city gate stopped attacking.
There were no other infantry charging around.
The soldiers of the Changxin Army stood there, feeling extremely embarrassed. Attack, they can't get through, defend, they won't attack yet.
Is this going to starve us to death?
When I was in a dilemma, I heard a loud shout from the city gate, solemn and majestic: "Soldiers of the Changxin Army! The thief Lao Ai intends to cause trouble. The king has already seen through it and has set up an ambush to kill him. The rebel thief is captured, please don’t help the tyrants in their evil deeds anymore, if you continue to persist in your stubbornness, don’t blame us for having no eyesight in our swords!”
This sentence made all the Changxin Army stunned.
It's not that they don't have doubts, but they just don't dare to question Lao Ai directly.
If Lao Ai really wanted King Qin to arrest Lu Buwei, then he should go directly to Lu Mansion to find Lu Buwei. Why go to the palace?
What's more, after rushing into the palace and beating and smashing it, he didn't look like King Qin at all, more like he was going to rob.
Furthermore, the opponents on the opposite side all have well-prepared military ranks, and with such a meticulous layout, who else but King Qin Yingzheng can have such great ability?
The soldiers of the Changxin Army looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment.
At this time, a commander of a thousand soldiers walked out of Changxin's army and said loudly: "You said that we are rebels, but we think we are not. And how can you prove that you are not rebels?"
"Hahaha……"
With a loud laugh, a figure flashed out from the city gate. He was about forty years old and very heroic.
"I am General Wang Jian, who has been personally conferred by the King of Qin. This is the tiger talisman personally awarded by the king." Wang Jian raised his right hand and displayed the tiger talisman.
Although the officers and soldiers of the Changxin Army have never met Wang Jian, they have all heard of his reputation. He is a loyal general with great military achievements and is the idol in most people's hearts!
Just when the faith of the Chang Xin Army was about to collapse, Wang Jian was heard sternly saying again: "If the King hadn't cherished his life and talents, you would have been littered with corpses. If I were a rebel, would I have given you time to think about it? ?”
One sentence destroyed the last bit of faith of Chang Xinjun.
Bang!
The captain was the first to throw away the weapon in his hand.
When all the soldiers saw that the captain took the lead and dropped his saber, they all struggled in their hearts.
Bang, bang, bang...
The soldiers under the captain dropped their weapons one after another.
"Surrender," said the captain, "regardless of whether what he said is true or false, if we don't surrender, we will all die here."
Bangdang…………
All the soldiers threw away their weapons.
"Take it down!" Wang Jian on the tower shouted.
At this time, Da Qin soldiers who had already been ambushing suddenly appeared from all around, and they all rushed towards Lord Chang Xin in front of them.
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Lao Ai, with dozens of close followers and generals, rushed out of the south city gate on horseback and ran for a while. When he looked back, he saw no infantry following him. There were still many Qin troops on the city tower, and they were almost there. The cold sweat that dried up suddenly flowed down the roots of his ears.
so close!
One more step later and you won't be able to get out.
Until now, Lao Ai didn't realize that every step she took was carried out according to the plan predetermined by others.
Although she breathed a sigh of relief, Lao Ai did not dare to delay and kept moving at a fast speed, following the official road.
After walking less than three miles, a trumpet sound suddenly sounded.
Lao Ai couldn't help but feel nervous and almost fell off the horse.
How come one step at a time?
But before he could think about it, he saw a horse rope suddenly appeared in front of him, and crossbow arrows were shot from the woods next to him.
The crossbow arrows were shot straight, but with great force, but none of them hit the soldiers. They all hit the abdomen or neck of the horses they were riding.
He heard the horses neighing in pain and falling to the ground one after another.
Lao Ai was no exception. She fell off her horse and became dizzy.
At the same time, countless Qin troops jumped out from the mountains and forests on both sides.
The leader is none other than Meng Tian.
"Come here, tie up Lao Ai!" Meng Tian shouted.
Almost everyone swarmed up, tied up Lao Ai and others with ropes, and held them captive.
Tuoba Hai still wanted to resist, but several steel knives were already placed on his neck.
Outside Xianyang Palace, Lord Changping also followed Mengtian's suggestion and exposed Lao Ai's crimes to the remaining Changxin Army.
The soldiers of the Changxin Army, who were about to fight to the death, suddenly lost their fighting spirit like eggplants beaten by frost, and put down their weapons one after another.
