lady, please calm down

In the third year of Xuanqing, the first day of the twelfth lunar month.

At the beginning of Shen Shi.

In the two inner urns of Shincao and Lijing in the east city of Tokyo, a total of 10,000 people from the Fourth Army and Horse Army belonging to the Xiang Army and the Forbidden Army respectively have assembled and are on standby.

Inside the city gate, hundreds of people are working hard to remove the bricks and stones blocking the gate.

Jiang Huaixiong, the governor of the Xiang Army in the Ten Towns, was fully armored and had a stern look on his face. He was waiting on horseback at the front.

Among the cavalry troops arrayed in the rear, experienced Huaibei officers and veterans took out the rationed candies that they were reluctant to eat on weekdays, peeled off the candy wrappers, and put them into their mouths.

This method was taught by the King of Chu himself many years ago, saying that candy can increase physical strength in preparation for a fierce battle.

The other new armies were obviously nervous. The Tokyo Xiang Army Forbidden Army was rebuilt after the rebellion of the prince in the 11th year of Fuchang. Most of the soldiers came from good families around Tokyo.

Speaking of which, these people have been in the army for three or four years and are not considered new recruits.

However, new soldiers and old soldiers cannot be distinguished only by the length of service in the army. Anyone who has never been on the battlefield can be called a new soldier.

Although the people gathered inside the Urn City could not see the fighting outside, the sound of the neighing of war horses, the roar of soldiers and the clash of weapons could be heard from the battlefield like a continuous wave.
At the eleventh hour, an unknown person suddenly beat the war drum on the city wall. The first few sounds were obviously weak, but then the drum sound became louder.

Not long after, dozens of war drums throughout Thirteen Miles East City began to sound.

After more than ten breaths, there was a sound from the south, west, north and south.

The capital of Qi, with a circumference of 52, a war drum of 132, a history of thousands of years, and 600,000 soldiers and civilians, seemed to be stepping on the same rhythm point in an instant.

Every sound of the drum is as loud as the spring thunder, and the sound is spread for dozens of miles.

Every time the drum sounds, the earth will tremble, as if a giant dragon that has been dormant for thousands of years is about to break out of the ground and see the light of day again.

It is the sound of drums, and it is also the unyielding cry of an ancient nation when facing desperate situations.

Above the East City is the best place to watch the battle.

At this moment, important ministers and nobles gathered together.

Even those who do not understand military affairs can see that a small and inconspicuous Qi army was surrounded by Dongweigang in the morning and afternoon, and now it has rapidly developed into a decisive battle between Qi, Jin and Xia.

Everyone understands that this battle is directly related to the life and death of everyone present, including the 600,000 soldiers and civilians.

At first, the battle was stalemate.

By the beginning of the Shen Dynasty, the right wing of the Qi army gradually gained a certain advantage.

Until the Jin Army's Guaizima at the foot of Dongwei Gang suddenly broke into the battlefield from the northwest. After a brief resistance by a Western army on the right flank, it fled eastward.

Five thousand Guaizi horses charged directly into the Qi army and cut off the Qi army's right wing.

The situation on the battlefield suddenly took a turn for the worse, and the right wing was in danger of collapse.

Dongcheng is condescending, and the battlefield situation is clear at a glance.

In the era of cold weapons, the reason why there are a large number of battles in which a small number wins a large number is inseparable from the prerequisite of "surprise attack by surprise troops and shaking of the front line".

There are no walkie-talkies, walkie-talkies, or instant communication means. Once the front is shaken, panic will quickly spread to the entire army.

Once the front line collapses, even the uninjured soldiers in the rear will be overwhelmed by their own defeat and fear under unknown circumstances.

Then the whole army collapsed, and then the soldiers trampled on each other and were chased and killed by the enemy. The so-called defeat was like a mountain.

Fan Gongzhi's face, which was originally red due to nervousness and over concentration, instantly turned gray.
Lu Qinzai punched the wall.

Even Cai Yuan, who was the best at hiding his emotions, clenched his fists hidden in his long sleeves tightly, and his nails pierced the flesh without even noticing.

Seeing this, Zhang Xingyan, the elderly minister of Honglu Temple, was so angry that he rolled his eyes and fainted.

"Master Zhang"

As a result, there was another panic in the city.

It looks like the end of the world.

Only Jia Rou, looking around, saw that no matter the courtiers or the soldiers guarding the city, they all looked dejected.

Jia Rou was suddenly furious, and she felt in her heart that he was still leading all the soldiers to fight outside the city, but the situation was unfavorable at the moment, but you are all like mourning for your heirs. Can you stand up to the King of Chu and his soldiers?
Angry, Jiarou did not get angry at everyone for the time being, but turned to a drummer guarding the war drum and shouted: "Beat the drum!"

But firstly, the distance was far, and secondly, the drummer was concentrating on the battlefield below, and he didn't hear Jiarou's shout.

Seeing this, Jiarou picked up the long skirt of her palace clothes and strode away.

The war drums in Tokyo Castle are of a unified standard, with a diameter of three feet. The lower part is supported by a trapezoidal wooden frame half a person's height, and the drum head is vertical.

Jiarou came forward, picked up the thick drumsticks with his left and right hands, and smashed them against the drum head.

However, such a huge drum requires a strong and rounded person to beat it. Jiarou is a woman after all, so it is a bit difficult to hold the two hammers. The barely beaten drum sound is not only inspiring, but even weak.

I don't know whether it was because she was annoyed that she was useless, or because the fear and fear she had been feeling for many days finally overflowed at this moment, but Jiarou suddenly couldn't hold herself any longer.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

But the next moment, Jia Rou raised her hand and pulled off the hairpin holding the phoenix crown on her head. She casually tore off the heavy and obstructive phoenix crown that was envied by countless women and threw it to the ground.

Then he wiped his tears with the back of his hand, threw away another drumstick, changed the two-handed hammer to a single-handed hammer, and hit the drum head again.

‘Dong~dong~dong~’

The dull sound of drums so close at hand made all the officials and soldiers at the top of the city turn their heads and look over at the same time.

In the eyes of everyone, Jiarou was holding a hammer in both hands, standing in front of a drum stand that was much taller than her, and was hammering the drum head frantically.

Because the phoenix crown was removed in a hurry, the black hair on her head was slightly messy, but it was fluttering in the cold wind.

After the drum sounded for more than a dozen times, Jia Rou suddenly turned around, her face turned red, she opened her mouth lightly, and shouted: "The capital has not been captured, and our army has not been defeated! What are you doing with such mournful faces? The King of Chu is here, and I, the Qi Dynasty, will perish. No! The soldiers obey the order and follow me to drum for the King of Chu!"

At the eleventh hour, at the top of the Tokyo city, drums were beating loudly, shaking the heaven and the earth!

Four miles outside the city.

After Qin Feng's strategy and Liu Shuping's troops fled eastward, Chen Chu immediately ordered the Second Regiment of the Tiedan Guards to go forward to meet the enemy.

Now there are said to be 300,000 Qi troops outside the city, but the truly usable troops are the Huaibei Army, the Western Army, and the subordinates of Zhao Mengguang, Zhang Shuye, and Wang Bingdu.

The Western Army still maintains relative independence. If Chen Chu tries to deprive the opponent of military power at this time, great turmoil will occur.

Furthermore, in the battle at Chengnan Camp last month, Liu Shuping's troops performed pretty well in addition to robbing friendly forces of supplies after the war.

This time, Chen Chuben did not give him too difficult a combat mission.

Unexpectedly, only one of his generals died in the battle, and Liu Shuping withdrew.
The right wing wavered, but the left wing, with Huaibei and Zheyan Wenbu as the main force, was still stable. While Tiedan's unit quickly broke into the battlefield, Geng Baoxi's unit on the left also quickly moved closer to the right.

But the panic caused by Qin Feng's army's retreat still caused fluctuations on the right wing.

Jing Peng and Kuang Daogu, who were stationed in the right-wing rear army, saw that the situation was not right, and they couldn't help but quickly wanted to retreat.

They have the sincerity to fight side by side with the Huaibei Army.

But at this time, seeing that the front could collapse at any time, the warlord habits in their hearts still made them subconsciously choose to preserve their strength.

After all, the survival experience summed up by the generals of the Western Army over hundreds of years is that as long as there are soldiers in hand, the court will tolerate even the most serious sins.

The Zhou State was like this in the past, and the Qi State should still be like this now.

But before Kuang Daogu ordered the soldiers around him to retreat, his son Kuang Siliang was annoyed and said: "Father! In order to save brother Tong and leave a successor for the Tong family, the King of Chu did not hesitate to fight in advance! We are both from the west. General, how can you retreat at this time?"

Kuang Daogu couldn't help but get angry, and he cursed: "I'm a coward. If we keep fighting, our family and your uncle Jing Shi's family will be wiped out! Without soldiers, we are nothing!"

When Kuang Siliang heard this, he said proudly: "In that case, father should protect the family wealth! In the eleventh year of Fuchang, my son, Tong Qi, the King of Chu and other seven people formed a sworn alliance in Tokyo. Although my son could not be of the same age as his brothers We live and die on the same month and day, but we can’t just watch Xiao Qi die!”

After that, Kuang Siliang hugged his father's fist and rushed towards the front line of the battle against the scattered retreating cavalry of his own army.

"Stop, you traitor! If you don't obey the military order, I will chop off your head!"

Kuang Daogu was furious, but Kuang Siliang, who had already run five or six steps, turned back and smiled, "Dad, if I don't die in this battle, I will come back and be beheaded by your military method!"

With an immediate bow, Kuang Siliang kicked the horse in the belly, and the horse rushed towards the front line.

Kuang Daogu was incompetent and furious. He looked around at the helpless soldiers and couldn't help but get even more angry. "Why are you just standing there stupidly! Follow me quickly! Don't expose my son to swords and guns!"

On the side, Jing Peng, as a spectator, watched this ridiculous scene happily. Young people, it is always easy to get carried away by the passion to kill the enemy and serve the country. Our army must not only fight the enemy, but also know how to preserve our strength. , How can we maintain wealth for hundreds of years by relying solely on loyalty? Or does my son understand the overall situation? Where is my son!
When Jing Peng turned his head to look at where his son Jing Chao was just now, he found that no one was there. He subconsciously looked up and saw a bay-red horse and bright silver armor fifty or sixty steps behind Kuang Siliang. It was not him. His eldest son, what a big boy!
This guy, ever since he met the King of Chu in the eleventh year of Fuchang, has learned from everyone everywhere. His horse was replaced by a maroon horse, and his armor was replaced by the most showy and eye-catching bright silver armor.

This conspicuous bag has the highest death rate on the battlefield!
Jing Peng's mouth went dry for a moment and he blurted out: "Sons of the Wei Sheng Army, kill the enemy and serve the country. Right now, follow me and kill."

On the east side of Tokyo, everyone naturally didn’t know what was happening in the rear lines of the Weisheng and Xin’an armies. Suddenly, they saw the commanders of the two armies leading their soldiers to fight against the defeated troops. While sighing at the loyalty and bravery of the commanders Kuang and Jing, I still feel that His Highness must have beaten the drum himself to boost the morale of the army outside the city!
Dozens of breaths later, the Second Guards Regiment took the lead to engage the enemy.

In the front arrow formation, Tie Dan, Pang Shengyi and other good players were originally in the lead.

But during the charge, "orderly soldier" Lao Shen rushed in front of his daughter unknowingly.

At the moment of contact with the enemy, Lao Shen lowered his body, keeping a subtle contact with the saddle between his buttocks. It is precisely because of his body shape that when the violent collision occurred, most of the impact force suffered by the horse was not transmitted to him. .

At the moment when the horse was hit and fell, Lao Shen pressed his hands on the horse's back and used the speed of the forward horse to make a vertical leap. He flew more than ten feet away and landed accurately on the horseback of a centenary of the Jin Army.

The hundred commanders couldn't react for a while. Hey, there was an extra person right away.

But the next moment, Lao Shen held the opponent's horse with one hand, and with the other hand, he used a short dagger to penetrate the gap in the light armor at an upward angle.

"I'll lend you my weapon."

Lao Shen did not forget to ask politely.

The rabbit rises and the falcon falls.

This set of actions of snatching horses, seizing blades, and killing people was smooth and smooth, but in fact it only happened in a few breaths.

"Brother! He is still as powerful as before, hahaha"

Pang Shengyi, who was in the rear, killed one person with one shot and praised with a loud laugh.

But with such a leap, Lao Shen threw the colliding front lines behind him. In other words, at this time, he was surrounded by the Jin Army's swindlers, both front and rear.

When Tie Dan saw this, he couldn't help but became anxious and shouted: "Dad, be careful!"

But Old Shen, as if he was strolling in the courtyard, pushed the centenarian off his horse, and using the posture of riding a horse upside down, he swept away the weapons that were coming from all directions with one move, like sweeping an army, and then stabbed and picked off the soldier. The golden soldier flew into the crowd and knocked over several golden knights.

Only then did he have time to turn around and smile smugly at his daughter, "Your kung fu was taught to you by your father!"

Tie Dan was afraid that his father would be distracted by talking to him, so he didn't dare to talk to him anymore.

Old Shen Liao was in a boyish frenzy, wielding his horse like a tiger to the wind, and quickly cleared a path on Tie Dan's path.

As a result, Xiao Shen rushed forward for more than ten steps, but he didn't even catch an enemy.
At the second moment of Shenshi, Geng Baoxi's two battalions of cavalry troops, and the elite pro-army troops of Wei Sheng and Xin'an, led by two commanders, joined the battlefield one after another.

Jin Guaizima's fierce offensive, which had almost cut off the right wing, was stopped, and the right wing gradually regained its position.

Behind them, Wanyan Mouyan and Ren Dejing naturally discovered the fighter plane that had just flashed away.

At this moment, seeing the Qi Army's right-wing offensive become fierce again, Ren Dejing spoke again: "Commander, we can't wait any longer! If we wait any longer, our army will be unable to hold on when attacking the Qi Army's right-wing force!"

Wanyan Mouyan spent three breaths observing, and finally said: "Order, the remaining two thousand iron kites of your country continue to attack the right wing of the Qi army!"

Hearing that Wan Yan Mouyan was still reluctant to use the Jin Kingdom's iron pagoda, Ren Dejing felt a little resentful. However, it was Xixia's elite Shangshenbu troops who were attacking the right wing of the Qi army at this time. Shangshumbian's offensive was obviously exhausted at this time. If there is no support, the Qi army will inevitably counterattack.

Ren Dejing couldn't care about anything else for the time being.

'Woo~woo~woo~'

At three o'clock in the morning, against the background of the powerful war drums coming from far away from the top of Tokyo, a few desolate horn horns suddenly sounded.

Immediately afterwards, two thousand iron kites hidden in the rear army slowly came out of the formation and rushed towards the right wing of the Qi army again.

As if in response, the center of the Qi army slowly raised the Chu King's flag with gold characters on a black background.
Later, heads with Xixia comb hair were picked up on wooden poles more than one foot long and stood in front of the Chinese army's formation.

There was also a body of a Xixia general who had been stripped of his clothes. He was dragged behind a horse by a Qi army knight and drove quickly in front of the Chinese army. In order to let the other party know who it was, the knight also held up a large flag with a special It is written in Western Xia text: "Ximu Weiming's body is here, who dares to come and get it?" The King of Qi and Chu is here, who dares to fight! '

Ximu Wei's name is exactly the title of Tie Yaozi's capital.

The general of an army is the soul of an army.

This is not only a provocation, but also a humiliation!
The two thousand iron kites rushing towards the right wing obviously had different opinions. One group continued to obey the military order and attacked the Qi army's right wing.

There were hundreds of others who broke away from the group and came towards the flag of King Chu of Qi State.

Wanyan Mouyan in the rear secretly cursed the Western Xia army for not respecting military discipline, and at the same time gave an order, ordering Wanyan Lan to lead 3,000 iron floats to fight.

Target, where the royal flag stands.

In Xincao and Lijing Neirengcheng, civilians are still cleaning the last layer of bricks and stones.

Jiang Huaixiong, who was standing at the front on horseback, finally showed a hint of anxiety.

At the top of the east city wall, Jia Rou insisted on beating the drum in person, her clothes were wet with sweat. However, when she saw the heavy cavalry of the Jin Xia Army beginning to advance, she knew that the critical moment had come and she could not help but grit her teeth and beat the drum louder.

Thousands of miles of plains, drums rumbled, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

A few dozen breaths later, the Qi army's right wing and center army successively engaged the enemy.

There were about five or six hundred iron kites attacking the King of Chu. As usual, the Qi army quickly laid a barbed wire fence, and a group of guards lined up behind the net.

After the infantry, there are the precious two battalions of hand artillery.

However, the Qi army's right wing, which had just improved, was under sudden pressure due to the sudden advance of heavy cavalry.

In his early years, Shen Zaixing was known as the enemy of tens of thousands of people in the Huaibei Rebel Army.

Today, with him as the spearhead, it took him two quarters of an hour to finally kill Guaizima from the side.

Tie Dan, whom he had been deliberately protecting behind him, didn't have much blood on his armor, which made Xiao Shen a little depressed.

But after passing through the formation, what was in front of them was not the open space as expected, but the oncoming iron kite that had just approached the battlefield.

Just after they had defeated Guaizima, Shen Zaixing and Tie Dan rushed forward. At this time, the rear group had not yet arrived.

Shen Zaixing, who was breathing heavily, noticed at a glance that this group of black cavalry was difficult to deal with. He subconsciously turned around and shouted, "Good girl! Be careful!"

At this time, there were only a few dozen steps left between the two sides. Shen Zaixing did not hesitate, pulled the horse's rein sideways, and blocked the position a few feet in front of Tie Dan again.

In the blink of an eye, Shen Zaixing, who had just fought a battle, was once again fighting an enemy general holding a mace.

Although his strength was weakened, Shen Zaixing's tricky spear method still avoided the opponent's block and hit the enemy general's chest. Unexpectedly, the tip of the spear only penetrated the armor by an inch.
This injury can only be regarded as a flesh wound at best.

Sure enough, the enemy general's actions had no impact.

Shen Zaixing braced himself, and just as he was fighting with the enemy general, several more horsemen had already passed Shen Zaixing and charged directly at Tieteng behind him.

Tie Dan, who was fighting against Tie Yaozi for the first time, seemed to have suffered a loss. He thrust out his gun but failed to kill the enemy. He quickly retracted his gun to block another enemy's slash, but the enemy from the side rushed over.

When Shen Zaixing saw this, he couldn't help but become anxious. He no longer cared about the enemy general he was fighting with, and made a strange twist on his horse. He used the nearly ten-foot long horse as a club and slammed it at the man who was sneaking up on Tie Dan. The back of the enemy's head.

Even though the enemy had an iron hood on his head, the stick flattened the hood, and blood splashed out from the gap in front of the hood.

Even the tough pole broke at the sound.

However, this all-out blow strengthened Lao Shen, and the door in Lao Shen's back opened wide.

The enemy general would not miss such a good opportunity, and hit Old Shen firmly on the back with his mace.

As Lao Shen flew backwards from his horse, a mouthful of blood spurted out.

"Daddy!"

Tiedan shouted in horror, but Shen Zaixing felt that the moment in front of him was like slow motion. The baby girl has been numb to the outside world since she was a child, so she seemed a little dull.

It was only in recent years that Tie Dan gradually learned to laugh and became shy, but he also had concerns.

But such a rich emotional reaction was not because of his father, but because of the man next to him, which made Lao Shen a little bit disgusted.

Now, Tiedan's baby face was full of fear. This time, it was because of his old Shen.

Lao Shen had no time to think about his injuries. Instead, he subconsciously thought... Oh, I was so scared that I couldn't die in front of her!
Immediately, Lao Shen fell heavily to the ground. Just as he was about to speak, he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

From the rear, Pang Shengyi and others had rushed forward and entangled the enemy general.

Lao Shen looked at his daughter who was pale with tears in her eyes, forced out a smile, and coaxed: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, dear girl, don't be afraid, daddy is made of steel and will never die."

But before he finished speaking, another mouthful of blood spurted out. (End of chapter)