Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3506 The Defeat Has Been Determined
Although the heavy snow still hasn't stopped, the sky is gradually brightening, and the scenery far and near can be seen in a panoramic view.Xin Mao commanded his classmates to disassemble the last few wooden boxes, took out the shells and stuffed them into the barrel, with a gloomy and worried expression.

The classmate next to him said: "Student Xin, the shells are already exhausted, what should I do?"

General Xin Mao looked at the more and more rebels gathering on the shore, feeling very worried.I don't know where these rebels got a few sampans, and they are trying to row the sampans close to the ships to prevent them from firing artillery.In fact, there is no need to obstruct it at all, the shells are exhausted, and these ship artillery are just for display...

It is conceivable that there must be a large number of rebels gathered in the foundry bureau at this moment. Once there is no artillery to help out, the foundry bureau will be captured and annihilated by the rebels in an instant.

With the number of rebels several times that of the academy students, none of the students in the foundry would survive unless they surrendered...

Xin Mao kicked away the empty wooden box beside him. With red eyes, he said fiercely, "What else can we do? Let's retreat!"

If they don't retreat, when they are surrounded by the rebels, they will all fight to the death and be buried in the belly of the fish.

Xin Maojiang gritted his teeth and said, "Fire out all the shells, and then we will retreat!"

"Here!"

Among the students of the academy, Cen Changqian, Xin Maojiang and others have always been leaders, and the rest of the students are all convinced, and now they regard them as leaders and obey them.

"Tong Tong Tong"

After the last round of shells was exhausted, General Xin Mao ordered the students to lift the anchor and raise the sails, and sailed towards the north of Kunming Pool, which was opposite to the direction of the Foundry Bureau, and there were no rebels on the shore.It's just that at this moment, except for the ice where the ship stopped, they blasted it to pieces with thunder, but the rest of the place was still frozen. The ice cubes are tightly clamped, making it difficult to advance an inch.

"Get off the boat!"

Holding a horizontal knife in his hand, Xin Mao jumped off the side of the boat first, staggered on the ice and almost slipped. When he stabilized his footsteps, he saw his classmates jumped off the side of the boat and gathered behind him. Then he took a step and ran towards the north shore.

Dozens of students followed closely behind, fleeing frantically on the ice.

The rebels on the south bank were trying to get close to the ships in the pool, trying to prevent the artillery from continuing to fire. Suddenly, the artillery fire stopped. These ships sailed further north, and then were stopped by the ice, and then the students on board abandoned the ship and run away...

This sudden change made the rebels stunned, not understanding why these students gave up their powerful artillery.

Until someone reacted and shouted: "It must be that the shells have run out! Hurry up, catch up with these students, and don't miss any of them!"

The two-hour artillery salvo killed countless rebels. The rebel positions outside the foundry were plowed over and over again by shells, and the corpses were strewn with countless stumps. It was like a hell of blood and fire. The army's anger has long been unstoppable, and he vowed to capture these students alive, and then tear them into pieces!

Seeing these students abandoning the ship and fleeing at this moment, naturally they have to chase after them.It's just that the north and south shores of Kunming Pool are far apart, and the ice in the pool was shattered by thunderstorms. At this moment, the ice floes are everywhere, and you can neither walk past nor row a boat forward, so you have to retreat to the shore and circle around the pool. The embankment pursued, but it was already a step slower.

Xin Maojiang ran to the bank with his classmates, his sight was blocked by the wind and snow, and he couldn't see the situation on the other side, but he didn't dare to delay for a moment. And to the east, when it was about to reach Longshouyuan, it followed the terrain and ran south to Xuanwumen.

At this moment, there are already rebels all over Chang'an. These students can be said to have no way to go to heaven and nowhere to enter the earth, so they can only go to Youtunwei. After all, this is the army of the academy's Siye Fangjun, and they have always been recognized by the students as "a family." ...

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In the foundry bureau, seeing the fewer and fewer shells fired from Kunming Chishang, and the rebels gathering more and more without the threat of artillery, Cen Changqian realized that the shells in the Kunming Chishang ship had probably run out of shells, and couldn't help feeling anxious.

On the one hand, they are worried that without the bombardment and deterrence of artillery, the rebels can attack the foundry unscrupulously. On the other hand, they are even more worried that General Xin Mao and others will be surrounded and wiped out by the rebels.

But right now, it is not because of worrying about General Xin Mao’s side, the rebels outside the foundry have no artillery to kill and deter them, and there are several reinforcements. In the foundry bureau, the students relied on the simple fortifications they built before, and fought and retreated with firearms, but they also killed a large number of rebels, making it impossible for the rebels to completely capture the foundry bureau for a while.

However, the students and guards in the foundry bureau had been fighting for a long time, suffered heavy casualties and were exhausted, so they couldn't last long.

Cen Changqian avoided the locust-like arrows above his head, found Ouyang Tong who was not far away, and said quickly: "I'm afraid I won't be able to defend it anymore, we have to think about it in the long run."

Ouyang Tong's skinny face was full of exhaustion, a square scarf was wrapped around his left shoulder, and blood was oozing from under the square scarf, which was accidentally shot by Liu before.

He raised his hand and wiped his face, his eyes were full of despair, but his tone was very calm: "If you can't hold it, you have to hold it! There is so much gunpowder in the warehouse, once the rebels get it, the entire Chang'an city will be blown up to the sky." You and I are disciples of the Son of Heaven, so we should be loyal to the king. Life and death are trivial matters, and if the rebels walk over our bodies at the last moment of the battle, it can be regarded as devotion to duty and death without regret.”

There are densely packed rebels outside the foundry, and it is impossible to hold it by relying on more than a thousand students.And because there is a huge amount of gunpowder stored in the warehouse, and it cannot be given to the rebels, there is really no other way but to fight desperately to have a clear conscience.

But Cen Changqian scolded "confused", took him by the hand and went straight to the building in the center of the foundry bureau, where Xu Jingzong and Liu Shi were dispatching.

Seeing the two men approaching quickly, Xu Jingzong's hands trembled, and he asked in shock: "Has the line of defense collapsed?"

Ouyang Tong endured the pain in his shoulder, and his face was very ugly: "The rebels are constantly coming, we are alone and helpless, and the defense line will collapse sooner or later. If Mr. Xu is afraid, he can raise the white flag at this time and go out and surrender. Stealing life, we are going to die here in order to repay the emperor's favor!"

Xu Jingzong raised his beard and said angrily: "What are you talking about? After all, I am also your elder, so contemptuous and rude, I am not a son of man!"

But it bypasses the subject of surrender...

Ouyang Tong was stubborn and upright, he had never been ashamed of Xu Jingzong, so he rolled his eyes and snorted, and ignored him.

Xu Jingzong was angry, originally all these students had their eyes above the top, except for Fang Jun, they usually didn't respect him or Zhu Suiliang.Now that the rebel army is besieging Chang'an City, the situation is extremely dangerous. The students of the academy have received the prince's order to defend the foundry, and bloody battles are life and death at every turn. These students don't take him seriously...

But what can he do?

These bastards are all the sons of heaven. Not only are they outstanding in themselves, they are talented and have a leadership style, but they also have a strong background and deep roots. Almost everyone has one or more powerful factions behind them, and they are all their own. I can't afford it.

Liu Xun on the side also had some headaches. Before, he envied Xu Jingzong to be able to serve as the director of the academy. After all, these students have a bright future, and becoming their teachers today will help immeasurably in the future. It will be of great help to their official career. .

I just realized today that it is not an easy task to be the teacher of this group of arrogant sons of heaven. If your own ability is not enough to make these little guys willingly admire you, not only will you not get their respect, but it will be counterproductive.

Look at the current Xu Jingzong, he is about to bang his head to death from depression...

But when he saw Xu Jingzong was a little bit annoyed, he quickly interjected and said: "The matter has come to this point, it's not that we are unwilling to do our best, and we have a clear conscience. It's just that we can't just sit here and wait for death, can we? Let me know what you two gentlemen have to do. Listen."

He knew that these two were the leaders of more than a thousand students outside, so he valued them very much, and dared not treat them as idle students.

Cen Changqian said: "The current situation is critical, and the casting bureau is no longer able to hold on. Of course we are not afraid of death, but we can't let the rebels slaughter and still have a large number of firearms in the warehouse taken away by them afterwards, right? So I think it's better to blow up first. All the firearms in the warehouse, and then the whole army will gather in one place and break out to the south! Now that the sky is snowing heavily, all you need to do is escape into Zhongnan Mountain, and you will be able to escape the annihilation of the entire army."

(End of this chapter)