"The beautiful woman smiles, the world is beautiful, the flowers are in full bloom, the sun is shining, the son is riding on the young man, living up to the romance and living up to the beauty..." Ou Xixi played the famous song "Qu Liu" by the famous music saint Nangong Lou of the time. Immortal".
Xia Muyan sat cross-legged on the stone chair, his forehead and eyebrows gradually relaxed, his face smiled softly, and his hands holding his knees slowly loosened, as if a picture was vaguely emerging in his mind.
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"Close... the city... gate!" Du Chong shouted with almost all his strength. As soon as the city gate was closed, the troops of Xu Dingping and his son downstairs were surrounded by Ma Dushan's 60,000 men. It was extremely difficult to enter the city or break out of the siege.
Xu Hanshan heard the trumpet sound from the city tower to close the city gate, and quickly looked towards his father and saw that he was breaking through the siege and rushing towards him.
"Hanshan, quickly...enter...the city!" Xu Dingping roared towards his son. His armor, forehead and face were all covered with blood, both his own and his enemies', and he looked extremely brave.
"Father, you go first into the city, and I'll be behind you!" Xu Hanshan stabbed an enemy knight to death with one shot, and took the opportunity to yell at his father.
There was a lot of noise on the battlefield, and even such a roar could only be vaguely heard from dozens of feet away. Both father and son wanted to be the queen, so they wanted to give each other the last chance to survive. Ma Dushan's department was closer to the city gate. If the defensive formation had not been set up, Xia Jingyu and the others might not be able to rush over in a short time.
Ma Dushan's troops originally moved forward with light cavalry, followed closely by heavy cavalry, and the infantry came last. They inadvertently formed a spindle formation. After being rushed out of the gap by Xia Jingyu's troops, most of the cavalry and a small part of the infantry moved to Xu Hanshan's left wing. Some of the cavalry and most of the infantry were still on the right wing, slowly approaching Xu Dingping's department in a pocket formation.
Ma Dushan's troops were stationed on the outskirts of the capital city. They had prepared sufficient offensive and defensive equipment before moving out of camp. The White Army's station was in Xiahe County, thousands of miles away. It was inconvenient to carry heavy equipment, so they all came lightly.
"Wang Bian'an, your people are holding them back! Wu Changtai, when your people attack the city gates, they must not be allowed to close the city gates!" Ma Dushan shouted at his two confidants, "Stop fucking, your battles Where did the car and the iron rope go? I fucking pushed them up!"
The chariot and the iron rope weighed five to six thousand kilograms, making it difficult to move quickly. Wang and Wu had already ordered their chariots and iron ropes to be moved to the front of the formation. At this time, they were close to moving to the front of the formation.
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Hao Haishan was at the peak of his killing spree. In the remaining time, he had killed more than twenty people. He was like the incarnation of the God of Death, unstoppable.
"The thieves who want to harm His Royal Highness Prince Yun all deserve to die! They all deserve to die!" Hao Haishan thought without sympathy. In his eyes, Xia Muyan was heaven and God. Even if Xia Muyan asked him to kill the current emperor, he would never hesitate for a moment.
Hao Haishan's father was originally a local petty official. He had always been an upright official and had a clear mind. One year, the state capital was hit by a severe flood, and many farmlands in the countryside were flooded, resulting in no harvest. After the Ministry of Civil Affairs learned of the disaster, it allocated more than one thousand taels of disaster relief money to the county where he was in charge. At that time, Hao Haishan's mother and grandmother had just died of illness. He and his sister were also seriously ill and needed money for medicine. Seeing such a large amount of money, his father became greedy for a moment and quietly paid fifty taels of silver.
Originally, this was not a big deal. Normally, it would be nothing more than dismissal. Who would have thought that the victims of the disaster in the county fled all the way to the capital, and then lodged a complaint in the wrong place. Emperor Yonghua was furious when he learned that local officials had withheld the disaster silver. In anger, Emperor Yonghua issued a stern decree, ordering officials from all over the country to be punished for embezzlement of ink and money.
Unfortunately, Hao's father was reported by his colleagues and lost his life for fifty taels of silver.
Later, Xia Muyan was ordered to inspect the disaster situation in the prefecture, and after careful investigation, he finally found out the whole story. However, the guilt was determined by his father and the person had been killed. Although Xia Muyan wanted to help Hao Haishan reverse the case, he could not do anything.
Hao Haishan was only thirteen years old at that time, but he had already tasted all the warmth and coldness of the world, and experienced the most painful things in the world.
"My father was always honest and philanthropic, but in the end he couldn't even raise enough money to treat his mother, wife and children. The officialdom was dark and people's hearts were sinister. His colleagues used the fifty taels of stolen silver to retaliate, frame up, and shirk responsibility, and put my father in trouble. A life..."
After the Hao brothers and sisters became orphans, they became helpless and became beggars. They almost starved to death. Fortunately, Xia Muyan sent someone to find them.
"I know that your father was a good official, but he was wrongly killed. However, I am helpless in this matter. This is the fault of the imperial court. I am willing to make it up to you for the imperial court. Are you willing to go back with me?" This is Seventeen years ago, Hao Haishan remembered what Xia Muyan said to his brother and sister while squatting on the ground for seventeen years.
Xia Muyan did not break his promise. After returning to the capital, Hao Haishan and his sister lived in Prince Yun's mansion and received good care.
Gratitude. Hao Haishan began to practice martial arts, and ten years later he became Xia Muyan's personal guard, always following him, "This is a man who can bring blessings to the people of the world, and he is also the man I want to protect with my life!" "The thief wants to harm Yun. Your Highness, they deserve to die! They all deserve to die!" Hao Haishan gritted his teeth and chopped the person in front of him into two pieces.
"The prince is such a good person, why would someone want to harm him?" He couldn't figure it out.
"The prince is not kind and kind to the princess, to the crown prince, to the prince, to the housekeeper, to us soldiers, to the maids and servants in the house. Which one is not kind and kind? Which one is not affectionate and righteous? Why are there so many thieves who want to harm him? Why! If you want to harm the prince, I will kill you! I will kill you one by one!"
"Pfft!" His thoughts came to an abrupt halt as a long sword pierced his left chest. The tip of the sword emerged through the flesh and clothing, with drops of warm blood.
Hao Haishan suddenly felt that there was no strength in his body, and the hand holding the knife slowly relaxed. He wanted to look back at the person behind him who killed him, but when the sword was twisted, a sharp pain came from him.
"Bang!" He was kicked on the back, the sword was pulled out, and Hao Haishan was kicked to the ground. He wanted to stand up, but his limbs no longer obeyed, and two lines of tears slowly flowed out. He tried hard to keep his eyes open, not wanting to die. He was unwilling to give in. He had not sent the prince to the palace safely, he had not seen him ascend the throne to clarify the officialdom of Dahua, and the kindness he owed was far from being repaid... ..
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"Father!" Seeing Xu Dingping trapped by dozens of iron ropes, Xu Hanshan couldn't help but burst into tears.
What the cavalry feared most was this fence-like iron rope. Once trapped, there was almost no possibility of escape. At this time, Xu Dingping and more than a hundred cavalry around him were surrounded by more than forty iron ropes. Outside the circle were the spearmen of Wang Bian'an and Wu Changtai. The encirclement is getting smaller and smaller, and the spearmen are getting closer and closer.
"While they are being held back now, hurry into the city and intercept Xia Jingyu!" Ma Dushan ordered Wang and Wu.
Seeing that Wang and Wu's chariots were only following Xia Jingyu's troops, only a hundred feet away from the city gate, Xu Dingping ignored the dead situation in front of him and said sternly to Xu Hanshan on the opposite side: "Hanshan, hurry up and intercept them!"
Ma Dushan's troops on the left wing were much smaller than those on the right wing. At this time, Xu Hanshan had led his troops to break through the encirclement and was about to come over to break through the iron rope circle. He was stunned after hearing his father's words.
"Quick! The military orders are like mountains!" Xu Dingping kept waving his snake-shaped halberd against the iron rope approaching him while shouting.
"Yes, father..." Xu Hanshan replied with tears, leading the cavalry behind him to catch up with Wang and Wu's chariot team, "Kill~~~kill!"
The chariot could not move very fast. When Wang and Wu saw the pursuers behind them, they became a little panicked and hurriedly separated their troops to form a defensive position.
"Close!" Du Chong shouted loudly. Then there was a muffled sound of "bang~~~", and the city gate was closed.
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Ma Dushan felt his heart go cold. Xia Jingyu's main force has all entered the city, but his own main force is blocked outside the city, which is extremely detrimental to King Yun's plan. Once King Yun is defeated, he will die.
Wu Changtai also felt cold. Just now he was chasing Xia Jingyu so happily that he led about two thousand horsemen and caught up with him. At this moment, the city gate was closed, and without backup, the two thousand of them would become Xia Jingyu's food.
Sure enough, as soon as they entered the city gate, they were surrounded by cavalrymen dressed in white, who seemed to be looking at their team as if they were fools.
"Damn it, I ran too fast today, I'm dead now!" Wu Changtai felt regretful and resentful, angry and annoyed, wishing he could be knocked to death on the city wall.
"Kill them!"
"Kill them!"
Xia Jingyu and Ma Dushan's orders almost rang out inside and outside the city gate.
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Seeing that the Mao and Xin groups failed to withstand the enemy's attack, the remaining 1,500 men from the Geng, Yin, and Gui groups stood ready, waiting for the enemy to approach.
"Poof~~~" Just when Bai Liyi and others were within two feet of the chariot team, the soldiers who were hiding behind them and were ordered to wait for the opportunity to use poisons threw out poisonous bugs and poisonous powder packets in unison. Everyone thought that what the opponent was throwing was a hidden weapon, and hurriedly waved their weapons to block it. For a moment, the poisonous insects and poisonous powder packets shattered one after another, and the insect liquid and insect powder filled the air.
"Poisonous!" Bailiyi hurriedly warned, letting everyone be on guard.
It turns out that these poisonous insects are called black fire bugs, and they were sent to Honghai Island by Duanmuyu. Over the years, Xia Muyan not only cultivated dead soldiers, but also cultivated many poisonous insects.
This soft insect called the black fire bug is quite huge, and its huge abdomen is filled with highly toxic sac fluid. Once the cyst fluid comes into contact with the skin, it can instantly invade the human body and cause poisoning, causing severe and unbearable pain all over the body.
Those poisonous powder packets are made from the dried venom of this poisonous insect. Once it floats into the air and is inhaled into the mouth and nose, it can cause bleeding and necrosis of the mouthpiece, making it difficult to speak, or severe liver and intestines, and death soon.
In less than ten breaths, three to four hundred people were poisoned and fell to the ground. They scratched or scratched, coughed or vomited, and everyone looked like they were in agony.
Baili Yi was also poisoned, his mouthpiece was already full of blood, and blood flowed from the corners of his lips.
"Quick victory!" This was the only thought left in his mind.
He shook the sword in his hand, swallowed the blood in his mouth, and led the last four hundred people to rush into the fifteen hundred people.
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The miserable screams in the city spread outside the city, and the miserable screams outside the city also spread into the city.
"Father...Father!" Seeing his father's mount tripped by the iron rope, Xu Hanshan's eyes were split open. He wanted to rush over to save him, but he couldn't escape the siege in front of him.
In the blink of an eye, spearmen swarmed forward, and Xu Dingping fell into a pool of blood.
"Horse thief! I swear to kill you!" Xu Hanshan shot a gun through the throat of a Qingqi, then left and right and finally tore a small opening, and shouted back, "Follow me!"
Seeing his father die in front of him, Xu Hanshan calmed down a lot. If the troops are divided, they will be weak. Only by gathering troops together can there be a chance of survival today.
Therefore, after he broke through, he continued to gather his subordinates, five hundred... one thousand... two thousand... four thousand... eight thousand... .More than half an hour later, the white-clothed military headquarters who were locked up outside the city finally gathered together.
Xu Hanshan took a general glance and found that there were about ten thousand people left in his side, and Ma Dushan's army was roughly four times as many as his own.
Ten thousand against forty thousand, one against four.
"Brothers! My uncle, Madman Xu, led his sentries to fight against Shatuo's army outside Suzhou City. He was defeated by one against eight. We are the White Army, the most powerful white army in the world. How can we be invincible by one against four? !" Xu Hanshan shouted as he rode through the formation.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!" The tens of thousands of white-clothed troops let out a deafening roar.
Although they had the advantages of good location, powerful weapons, and large numbers of people, after an hour of fighting, Ma Dushan still had far more men and horses than the white-clothed army. At this time, when he heard the shouts of killing coming from the opposite side, he unknowingly gave birth to Timid.
"Form an arrow formation and charge with me!" Xu Hanshan roared, leading the charge towards the enemy formation, "Kill~~~"
The troops in white uniforms were all cavalry, and when they charged up, their momentum was overwhelming.
There are twelve in the large offensive formation, twenty-five in the middle formation, and seven in the small formation. However, among the thirty-four formations, the "Arrow Formation" has the strongest offensive. Xu Hanshan took the lead and made the arrow himself, which was like a sharp arrow leading straight into the enemy's formation and deep into the enemy's belly.
"Stop him! Form a formation and stop them!" Seeing Xu Hanshan's troops sweeping across his camp like a rainbow shining through the sun, Ma Dushan felt a sense of foreboding and hurriedly ordered the formation of the formation. However, the white-clothed army moved very fast, and the arrows struck them, killing Ma Dushan's troops to the point of defeat. How could they form a formation to counterattack?
"Father! Father! Today I swear to kill Ma Dushan to avenge you!"
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The Anxian Salt Transportation Government Office is only a hundred miles away from Jinzhou City Pass, and it is only an hour's journey by horseback.
When Mei Yuanchen arrived at the door of the Salt Government Office, it was already a quarter past two o'clock, and the sky was already slightly bright. The glass lamp at the door of the house was still on, and everything was quiet as usual.
"It seems that the bad guys haven't arrived yet, thank God!" Mei Yuanchen grinned his chapped mouth and murmured with a smile.
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It was dawn in less than half an hour, and the messenger who had reported the news had not yet returned, making Xia Muyan's heart heavy.
"What went wrong?" Although he listened to Ou Xixi playing the piano, he still couldn't stop thinking.
Ou Xixi's "Dream of the South Country" has been played.
Seeing her husband's expression bleak, she felt pity in her heart. She walked slowly to him with her qin in her arms, and said softly: "Your Majesty, would you like to play a song too?"
