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Chapter 1218 The Betrayal
Military boots rustled on the snow.

The sound of dense footsteps sounded from the other side of Baozhou West Street, obviously there were a lot of people.

Zhang Hongfan glanced back, and ordered to the messenger: "Go and ask which soldiers came to help, let them block the north gate, and don't let Zhang Hongdao escape."

"Here!"

The messenger received the military order, quickly greeted the soldier and horse, and shouted from a distance: "The commander-in-chief asked whose subordinates you are?!"

"puff."

A shower of arrows had already shot towards this side, attacking the thousand Mongol warriors led by Zhang Hongfan, and also shooting down the orderly soldier to the ground.

"Array! Kill them!"

A wave of shouts came from among the soldiers who had just arrived, and Dang even lined up to kill these Mongolian cowards.

From time to time, some school generals could be heard shouting inside, boosting morale.

"Street fighting, street fighting. Don't let these Mongolian soldiers escape and get into trouble."

"Make meritorious service first, then you can change your appearance..."

These voices fell into Zhang Hongfan's ears far away, and he was actually very familiar with them.

After all, they are all old members of the Zhang family he knew, and they are still related to each other.

"Uncle Thirteen?"

Zhang Hongfan was furious, pushed away two of his own soldiers, and shouted in the direction of the leading general: "It's too dark, you've got the wrong person, why don't you withdraw?!"

He was answered by bursts of shouts, which were uneven at first.

"We're down!"

"This is the meaning of the old marshal, we belong to Datang."

"To the slogan, to the slogan..."

After that, the voice gradually became more uniform.

"Return to my pilgrimage, restore my Han family!"

Once the shouts of these soldiers are in order, the momentum will become stronger and stronger.

And a thousand Mongolian warriors were blocked in this long street for street fighting, which was not what they were good at.

The fighting here is still going on, and there are new shouts coming from afar.

First from the north, then from the south, the shouts from all directions finally gathered together, forming a siege around the Xiangxiang Garden.

"Return to my pilgrimage, restore my Han family!"

"..."

Zhang Hongfan frowned unwillingly, and ordered: "Retreat! Retreat to the south of the city."

As the Marshal of the Mongol and Han Army, he still has far more soldiers and horses in the city than the rebels.

It's a pity that he made a mistake tonight. At the beginning, he thought that he was going to "find out" the traitors, thinking that the traitors were only a few, but he didn't expect to encounter such a large-scale defection.

This prevented him from mobilizing more soldiers and horses earlier, and he was in a passive position at this time.

What needs to be done now is to calm down, and then go back to mobilize troops to suppress the rebellion.

But at this moment, Zhang Hongfan had more doubts and worries in his heart.

He was thinking, how did Zhang Wulang survive?Why did Zhang Shishilang say that he had killed Zhang Wulang?

~~
Most of the night is over.

There was no fire in the city, and there was not much chaos.

If you regard what happened in Baozhou tonight as a war, it is not intense.But for Zhang Hongfan, it is more and more dangerous.

"stop!"

After hastily leading the troops back to the bell tower to the south, Zhang Hongfan stopped suddenly and trembled.

He raised the binoculars and tried his best to scan the city wall ahead.

"No, no... This is not my defense."

Others couldn't detect it, but Zhang Hongfan found that the position of the flag on the city wall was different from what he had arranged in the evening.

And the distance between campfires.

The whole feeling is different.

Zhang Hongfan sniffed, inhaling the cold air and a trace of bloody smell into his nose.

He was still distinguishing whether the smell of blood was left just now, or whether there had been a mutiny nearby.

"Commander?" Someone asked in front, and then the light of torches came here.

"Master, the commander-in-chief is back!"

"Ninth brother?! What happened?"

As the Mongolian shouts sounded, a group of people quickly came to this side, and the armor on their bodies made a rattling sound as they ran.

There is no sound of stepping on the snow, because there is no snow on the street, because many people have run through here not long ago.

"Eleventh Lang? Is that you?"

"It's me, who betrayed? Did Jia Wenbei betray?"

In the light of the torch, Zhang Hongfan could already see Zhang Hongqing.

"Yes, Jia Wenbei has rebelled." He said, "Go and mobilize your troops and follow me to suppress the rebellion."

Zhang Hongqing didn't turn around and go back to dispatch troops, but continued to move forward, asking, "Brother Ninth, are you injured?"

Suddenly, Zhang Hongfan snatched a small ax from the soldier beside him and threw it at Zhang Hongqing.

"kill him!"

The ax hit Zhang Hongqing's shoulder armor, and there was a loud "Dang", sparks flew everywhere.

Zhang Hongqing screamed like a wild cat being stepped on, fell to the ground and rolled twice in pain, his shoulders were bloody.

"Ah! Ah!"

"Kill him! Kill him..."

When Zhang Hongqing stood up again, one arm was already dangling, as if it was about to break.

"Big guy! Big guy!"

"Quick! Kill Lao Jiu!"

Zhang Hongqing's face was ferocious, he screamed in pain for a while, and then yelled at the generals under his command.

"There is also the Wugu belt, I want his head to do meritorious service, go! Go..."

~~
"Go! Go find the king!"

Zhang Hongfan was still on the run, he didn't have time to analyze the cause and effect, and he was not sure which generals in the city were trustworthy.So I decided to go to Wugudai first.

That Mongolian coward Xue Qianhu Jiawa had already begun to question Zhang Hongfan's ability to command troops, but he was not familiar with Baozhou City, so he was willing to continue to listen to Zhang Hongfan's orders.

They rushed east again, but before they saw the lotus pond courtyard, there was another rain of arrows in front of them.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

"Zhang Hongfan is here!"

Many soldiers fell again.

"Shi Qi?"

Zhang Hongfan quickly recognized which army it was, it was actually two thousand historians captured by the Tang River.

These people had already been stripped of their armor and weapons, but now they were wearing armor and holding bows.

"Java!" Zhang Hongfan yelled, "Let's kill and join the King!"

"Kill the past..."

The glowing snow in the night finally turned into blood.

When Zhang Hongfan finally made his way to the Lianchi courtyard, he froze there.

As far as the eye can see, there is only a mess on the ground.

The original exquisite carved railings and paintings were burned into coke and piled up into fires, surrounded by countless horse dung.

But he couldn't see Wugu and his troops at all.

"Where is the king?"

"there!"

Gava raised his hand and pointed to the east, shouting: "The king is going there, did you hear that?!"

There were indeed killing cries coming from the east.

It's far away, so I can't hear it clearly, but I can be sure that this is the place where the fighting is the most intense tonight.

"Let's go!" Gava said, "We will follow the king to break through."

……

The sky is dimly bright.

Bodies were everywhere in front of the east gate of Baozhou.

The injured people and horses fell to the ground screaming and neighing, forming a purgatory-like scene. It can be seen that Wugudai did not hesitate to escape Baozhou City at all costs.

The Wugu belt was also lucky. When they found something was wrong in the city, they immediately led their troops out of the city.

But when Zhang Hongfan arrived, the rebels had already occupied the east gate.

Even, the rebels have erected a Tang flag.

Gawa led the soldiers and turned to Dongcheng Street, what he saw was the closed city gate.

Still not reconciled, he shouted, "Get out!"

"I can't go away!" Zhang Hongfan grabbed Jiawa's horse rope and shouted: "You can't escape, fight the rebellion with me, and still have a chance to defend Baozhou..."

"Go away!" Gawa was still yelling orders for the remaining Mongolian cowards to charge.

"I am the Marshal of the Mongolian Han Army! I order you to calm down!"

"Go away, you Han, I want to go back to the grassland!"

Jia Wa swung his scimitar and forced Zhang Hongfan back.

He would not fight the Tang army to defend Baozhou City. He stayed here to drive away the Han people in the Central Plains to fight and use the lives of the Central Plains people to defend the Central Plains.

Even if he couldn't keep it, he could retreat to the vast and lush prairie.

He rode his horse and ran towards the closed city gate without any attachment to the city.

"Longevity! Bless your people!"

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Java fell off his horse and fell into a pool of blood.

Soon, someone came forward to snatch his head, smashing his neck with a "puff puff".

On the other side of the long street, Zhang Hongfan who fled to the city surrounded by only a hundred remaining soldiers felt extremely disappointed.

In fact, Kublai Khan, whom he was loyal to, could escape back to the grassland at any time.

His allegiances simply don't fight with him.

Disappointed, Zhang Hongfan looked back and saw a general flag planted on the gate of Dongcheng.

On the general's flag, the word "Dong" looked so dazzling under the rising sun.

There is no turning back.

~~
Throughout the night, I ran away again and again, and was betrayed again and again.Zhang Hongfan could still calm down.

He already figured out what was going on.

"Second sister? It's second sister..."

Looking back, Zhang Wenwan clearly heard that he was going to kill Zhang Wulang in Zhang's study that day.

When he chased to the backyard, Zhang Wenwan had already delivered the news to one of the passing maidservants.

Afterwards, the news came from Jingjie and passed it to Zhang Wulang.

So Zhang Wulang was prepared and was not trapped...

Thinking of this, Zhang Hongfan suddenly thought of Zhang Shishilang rubbing his neck again, so he could imagine the scene where Zhang Wulang put a knife on Zhang Shishilang's neck to force him to surrender.

Why can Zhang Wulang do this?

Because everyone is helping him.

Zhang Erlang lied on purpose. He clearly handed over the old tiger talisman to Zhang Wulang, but deliberately said that it was at Jia Wenbei's place.

"wrong."

Zhang Hongfan suddenly murmured: "Jia Wenbei hasn't surrendered yet, and the old Tiger Talisman has never been in Jia Wenbei's hands... Go! Find Li Ting and Jia Wenbei."

He finally cheered up a bit, thinking that Li Ting and Jia Wenbei are at least more reliable than Wu Gudai.

"Ha." Zhang Hongfan even pretended to smile relaxedly, and said to the guards beside him, "I shouldn't have come to look for Wu Gudai, I should have met Li Ting earlier."

……

A human head hung on a long pole and appeared in front of Zhang Hongfan.

"Li Ting?"

Zhang Hongfan bit his bloodless lips, turned his head and looked around, but couldn't find a way out.

He saw that under the long pole, Jia Wenbei was coming here on horseback.

"Jia Zhongwu? Did you even betray me? Don't you remember His Majesty's great kindness to you?!"

"Chongen?"

Jia Wenbei was very, very angry, kicked the horse's belly hard and rushed towards Zhang Hongfan.

"Zhang Jiu, do you know that I lead troops to guard the Wanjuan Tower all night?!"

"do not come!"

"If something goes wrong in Wanjuanlou, my father will kill you even if he gets up from the grave!"

Overwhelmed by the sound of shouting, Jia Wenbei obviously wanted to vent his anger and resentment.

But Zhang Hongfan refused to talk to him any more, turned around and fled.

"Go! Breakout!"

~~
From the other direction, Zhang Hongdao also rushed over quickly, with an anxious expression on his face.

"Master, look."

Looking up, Zhang Hongdao saw that Dong Wen's soldiers and horses were quickly encircling the streets and alleys in the east.

He frowned slightly, and ordered: "Go quickly, take Zhang Hongfan down."

"Marshal." Someone stepped forward and reminded Zhang Hongdao in a low voice: "I'm afraid you won't be able to save him, forget it?"

"I didn't want to save..."

Zhang Hongdao turned his head and gave a low drink, but in the middle of speaking, he stopped and murmured instead.

"It's time to rectify the affairs of the universe, and I'm back in the Tiger Worshiping Dragon Court."

This is Zhang Hongfan's words. Reading it now, Zhang Hongdao feels like he has stolen his younger brother's ambition...

(End of this chapter)