Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

There were figures fighting everywhere under the inner city wall. Occasionally, someone would throw down his weapon and run to the side to avoid the black and yellow torrent rushing down the stairs. There were also people with red eyes roaring "Kill the rebels!", shouting ferociously and rushing forward with knives. Then the whole person was swallowed up by the knife light and gun shadow, and fell at the feet of the crowd, and the sticky blood soaked into the ground.

"Open the city gate!"

Wanyan Polu roared, and dozens of soldiers in yellow and black hurried forward, unfastened the wooden bolt blocking the door, and lifted the iron lock. Amid the creaking sound, the sunlight outside came in through the open door.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Di Lei watched the door open, and quickly stepped aside, shouting, "Everyone, stand on both sides, quickly—"

The gap in the door widened, and the roar of war horses came from outside. The crowded crowd hurriedly ran to both sides, and the horses' hooves stepped into the arched city gate. One, two... ten, a hundred, countless figures stepped out at this city gate with a thunderous roar.

"Charge in, charge in! Kill—"

Wanyan Zongbing's face was pale, and he roared with excitement that could not be concealed. Behind him, the Jurchen cavalry shouted "Huhu--" in a strange voice, as if they were about to catch prey, their faces flushed and their eyes filled with joy.

The generals' flags entered one by one. The brothers Teng Kan and Teng Xun looked at the Jurchen knights running in front of them with strange expressions. Behind them, Feng Tai ran over with his cavalry holding the golden double maces. He reined in his horse and stopped, stretched his neck and looked at the non-stop Jurchens and cursed: "What are these Jurchen barbarians doing? They run so fast like dogs grabbing shit."

"Perhaps it's to kill Wanyan Sheng?" Teng Kan stroked his chin, reined in his horse and looked at the rest of Feng Tai: "Does General Feng know?"

The ugly man was stunned: "Know what?"

Teng Xun held up the three-pointed double-edged sword and looked at his brother: "Tell me more details. No one knows what you are talking about." He turned to Feng Tai and said softly: "The palace, cut off the roots."

"Oh." Feng Tai suddenly realized: "It seems that General Yuan has told you two brothers." He smacked his lips and said: "I have already given the order."

The two brothers of the Teng family looked at each other, and the elder brother nodded: "Then, we two brothers will go there first. As for Wanyan Zonghan, we need to have someone guard him there to prevent the chaotic soldiers from rushing in."

"Let the infantry go." Feng Tai said without hesitation: "Our horses are fast, let's charge to the palace first."

The two men nodded, and Feng Tai pointed to a personal guard and asked him to pass the message to Di Lei behind. The three of them led a large group of cavalry towards the depths of the city.

……

When the news from Feng Tai and others came, Di Lei, wearing armor and holding a broadsword, commanded his soldiers to rush up the city wall again. The South Gate had been fallen, and the cavalry had entered the city. General Annan in the rear would definitely come with the infantry. Now was the time to attack other gates from the top of the city.

"General Feng said so?"

Di Lei frowned, turned around to look at the cavalrymen who were going away, and a look of hesitation appeared on his face.

Wanyan Poluhuo, who was standing beside him, also heard everything. Although he had made up his mind to follow Wanyan Zonghan to surrender to Qi, he did not want to lead his soldiers to help the Qi soldiers kill their own people. Now he had an excuse. He rolled his eyes and spoke in Chinese with an accent into Di Lei's ears: "Then I will lead the troops to protect General Nianhan, and General Di will continue to lead the troops to attack other places."

"That's exactly what I want." Di Lei breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and clasped his fists: "Everything is up to General Wanyan."

"Okay." He responded seriously, and watched Di Lei wave his arm: "Follow me, climb the city wall, and kill to the west!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers in black armor turned with a bang, and chaotic footsteps were heard. A black figure flashed out from the crowd and turned back to the top of the city wall on the stairs.

……

The flags fluttered in the wind, and the dust raised by the cavalry thinned and dissipated in sight.

Under the general's flag, Xi Sheng looked at the open city gate and could not hide his excitement: "Pass the order, enter the city--" He walked forward with thunderous footsteps.

……

At the west gate.

The long wind blew the floating clouds, and the spreading haze shrouded my heart.

Wanyan Sheng, holding a long sword, looked unprepared. The Qi army generals who had just been beaten back rushed forward with their troops again. Arrows and stones were shot at them more intensively than before. People on the top of the city were shot and fell to the ground from time to time. The sounds of wailing and falling stones were endless.

"Dad, you go down first!" Wanyan Zongpan yelled in his ear: "The city has sufficient equipment and a lot of people, there is no need for you to stay here!"

"I can't..."

"careful!"

Wanyan Zonghan suddenly threw his old father to the ground.

bang——

wow-

There was a loud explosion, and stone bullets flew everywhere with the bluestone parapets. Stones of varying sizes collapsed on people, causing screams. Several guards in heavy armor bent down, covering the places where they were hit by stones and groaning.

The father and son looked up and saw that a guard beside them had been hit in the face by a fist-sized piece of gravel. His face was bloody and he was breathing more than he was breathing in.

"Dad, you are so excited, you can't let anything happen on the city wall." Wanyan Zongpan's face changed, and he helped Wanyan Sheng up and continued to persuade him: "You'd better go down. If something happens, the Great Jin will be finished."

With his fists tightly clenched, his bloody palms turned pale, Wanyan Sheng said in a deep voice: "Okay, I'll go down, Puluhu, guard the top of the city."

"Don't worry, Dad." Wanyan Zongpan's expression eased, "I will definitely not let the Qi army under the city come up so easily."

Wanyan Sheng nodded and glanced at the top of the city wall again. He saw the ruined gate tower, the rising black smoke, and the wounded soldiers. He turned around and shouted "Go!" The guards, with their swords facing outward and long shields raised to protect his body, slowly moved towards the stairs to the inner city.

"Urgent news, urgent news!"

The sound of footsteps came along with shouts. The soldier, who was running out of breath, was not careful and tripped over a brick. He fell face down with a bang, holding his chest and groaning twice, then he quickly stood up and ran over.

Wanyan Sheng held out his hand and stopped, listening to the soldier saying, "Wanyan Polu at the South Gate has rebelled. The city gate has been opened and the Qi army has been allowed to enter the city. The Qi soldiers on the south wall are coming to attack us immediately!"

Wanyan Sheng and Wanyan Zongpan's eyes widened, as if they were falling into an icy cave. The young man couldn't help but reach out and grab him: "Are you telling the truth?!"

"How can it be false?" The soldier smiled bitterly and looked back at the same section of the city wall as the South Gate: "Look over there."

The black uniforms of the Qi army came into view, the blades were swung, and blood gushed out.

"Dad...Dad, Qi Jun!"

Fear crept onto his face. The man who saw the dark figure had no time to scold the rebellious general. He turned his head to look at his father, sweat visibly oozing from his forehead.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Wanyan Sheng lost his calm state of mind and quickly grabbed his eldest son: "We can't stay here for long, come with me and retreat from the city wall, quickly-" (End of this chapter)