Tyrant, your vest fell off

Chapter 108 - Arrows from the North
The 17th year of Dafeng Jianzhang coincides with the once-in-a-century winter.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the weather was gloomy, and there was still a strong smell of the New Year in the air. The sky was covered with low, thick gray-yellow turbid clouds, and the sky and the earth were covered with white snow.

The piercing northeast wind whined and roared ragingly in the wilderness, as if holding a sharp blade, piercing through the thick armor of countless soldiers of the Gale Empire guarding the frontier counties, high on the Loulan tower.

Not to mention the exposed face, the cold wind has drawn a series of gullies and bloodstains that have not yet dried up, and the pain is unbearable.

A young soldier's face was bruised and purple from the cold, filled with the joy of returning home.

But suddenly, amidst the shrill howl of arrows, an arrow came from the north, and his neck was pierced right away.

His eyes suddenly turned a bloody red, the focus of his pupils slowly widened, and he lost his vitality in an instant.

His smile still froze at the corner of his mouth before it could disperse, the gushing blood flowed down the arrow and landed on the snowdrift, turning into coquettish scarlet dahlias.

Another cluster of arrows, like a rainbow, broke through the peaceful night sky and came from the north to fight.

"Enemy attack!!!"

On the watchtower at the highest point, a burst of passionate war drums cut through the early morning of the winter night.

Swords and swords, horns and drums contending, bloodshed and oars, the tigers, leopards and cloud riders of the Great Yan Empire invaded the windy Loulan County on this calm snowy night without warning.

Unprepared, the soldiers and civilians of Loulan looked in shock at the menacing tiger and wolf enemy army, brandishing bloodthirsty scimitars, approaching the city, their faces ashen ashes.

The situation was critical, Tao Xingwen, the governor of the county, immediately wrote an urgent blood letter to the court.

Numerous scouts with Xiaoxiao warhorses between them, galloped in the direction of Cangyun City, and at the same time, countless war pigeons also flew from the city to the capital.

After Tao Junshou arranged everything, he stood on the tower to meet the enemy together with Xuanwei General Tu Shanyi who was stationed in Loulan in military uniform.

"The people of Dafeng in the city listen up. The national teacher has an order. If you don't open the city gate and surrender obediently at noon tomorrow, I will wash Loulan with blood and the sword will not be sealed for five days!"

The Yan army under the city stepped on their horses, pointed their swords at the top of the city tower, and shouted contemptuously.

In the face of a war that the enemy has planned for a long time, but our own side is unprepared, the soldiers and civilians in Loulan County resisted stubbornly and defended against the enemy with a single enemy.In the battle to defend Loulan County, the people actively participated in the battle.

Some rushed to the top of the city to repair the fortifications, and some assisted the soldiers in patrolling the city. Even women, old and young, were dispatched to collect bricks, stones, lime, and rush to make knives, guns, bows and arrows.

Retired military general Fan Gang summoned a group of people with lofty ideals to join the city defense team.In order to avoid her son's concern, her mother bumped her head against the stone tablet to death.

However, they were finally outnumbered and defended until the evening of the second day. Loulan County finally fell.

After Loulan City was breached, the soldiers and civilians either died in street fighting with Yan soldiers or committed suicide.Countless women commit suicide by rejecting humiliation.

Because Loulan did not surrender at noon, the national teacher was furious, and he kept his promise and ordered Dayan's tiger and leopard Yunqi to slaughter and loot wantonly, and did not seal his sword for five days.

Loulan County, the first frontier city that has been prosperous for several generations, has become a slaughterhouse, filled with bloody stench, mutilated corpses everywhere, and all social norms no longer exist.

In countless ditches and ponds, corpses were piled up, brothers and feet pillowed each other, blood flowed into the water, turning into colorful, the ponds were filled up by corpses, and the piles of corpses were like a mess.

Except for a few residents who escaped before the city was broken, and a few who survived after the Yan army entered the city because of deep concealment, almost all of them were massacred.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, a notice promised pardon if those who hid could come forward.

So many people who hid in their homes came out.But when they came out, they were divided into groups of thirty or fifty.

It was tied up with rope under the supervision of three or four soldiers.Then began a volley of thrusts with the spear, killing them on the spot, even those who fell to the ground.

A Yan soldier leads the front with a knife, a Yan soldier drives behind with a horizontal spear, and a Yan soldier guards the left and right sides of the team to prevent escape.

The Sanyan soldiers drove away dozens of people like dogs and sheep. If they didn't move forward, they would beat them or kill them immediately.

The women were also tied around their necks with long ropes, dragged by the ropes and tortured to death by the Yan army.

The streets are full of abandoned babies, trampled by horses' hooves or human feet.

In the street, corpses were lying all over each other, and it was so dark that it was impossible to tell who the dead were.At the foot of the city wall, the corpses were piled up densely like fish scales, filled with blood.

In the city, some people hide in garbage dumps, smearing themselves in mud and filth, hoping to hide from people's attention.

But Yan Bing stabbed the garbage dump with his spear from time to time, until the people inside writhed like animals, and blood flowed from the wounds.
In order to prevent the dead bodies from polluting the air and causing plague, the brutal Yan army put the dead bodies on the roof and set fire to the city and its suburbs. Everything was turned into ashes and turned into scorched earth.

Loulan County has been completely turned into a purgatory on earth, and nine of the ten families have been burned down.For a while, all the grass and dead trees withered, and the flesh and blood and the family were gone.

On the ninth day of the first month of the 17th year of Dafeng Jianzhang, in the early morning, at the gate of Qinghe County, the nearest city to Loulan County, the people were lining up in an orderly manner, ready to be interrogated and enter the city as usual.

Suddenly, a bloody man sprang out from the dense forest of Mang Mountain not far away. That man was covered with fine arrows all over his body. From a distance, he looked like a scarlet hedgehog.

"Eight hundred miles urgent battle report! Dayan raided Loulan County! Go for reinforcements!"

The man staggered and fell into the long loess of the city gate. Seeing the soldier untie the brocade box containing the blood book, he closed his tired eyes with peace of mind.

After they left the city, they were chased and intercepted by the Yan army all the way, at the expense of 140 three comrades.

In the end, he lived up to his mission and sent the battle report safely along the bloody road they built with their bones.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the fifth day of indiscriminate killing and robbery, Yan Jun received an order from the National Division to seal the sword.

The catastrophe of this massacre is finally over.

The monks were ordered to collect and burn the remaining corpses that had piled up like a mountain, and it was too late to clean up. According to the later records of Loulan County in Dafeng, there were more than 40 corpses collected by the monks alone.

And the Yan army's war horse neighed, unstoppable.All the way to the south, pointing directly at Cangyun City.

At the same time, Emperor Jianzhang also received the news that Loulan City had been broken, and Long Yan was furious. He immediately appointed Hushi General Guan Shan as the deputy commander, and Dingyuan Hou Tushan Banxia as the coach. Swallow thief.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the royal family has always sent direct descendants to serve as supervisors.

With the degree of pampering Emperor Jianzhang had for Prince Sikong Mo, on the battlefield, swords had no eyes, how could he have the heart to let the Prince face him.

So in the evening of the tenth day of the first lunar month, Prince Shun's Mansion once again welcomed a young eunuch delivering the decree.

This time, it was the royal family who had appointed Prince Sikong Que as the supervisor of the army, and immediately set off to lead the Northern Expedition together with the Shuofang Army.

At the same time, wedding invitations from Xingye Dynasty also arrived one after another. Xingye Nan was actually going to marry Gong Manman, and the letter said that Gong Manman was pregnant for more than a month.

When Jananfeng heard the news, his eyes widened and he rushed into Prince Shun's mansion with an expression of disbelief. The two of them were really hiding everything, and they even had a child. Eye.

The grand ceremony for Gong Manman to be concubine was scheduled for half a month later, because Sikong Que was going to accompany the army in the Northern Expedition, Li Qingmei could only miss this grand wedding with regret.

She immediately went to the warehouse of the palace to choose the most precious jade ruyi, and entrusted Janan Feng to take it to Gong Manman.

Then she wrote a letter on the spot, explaining Gale's battle, expressing her apology, and ordered Jiang Jiongyu Feige to send the letter to Gong Manman.

(End of this chapter)