Rebirth of the Splendid Phoenix

Chapter 87 Reversal
Has it been an hour, or two hours?
Everyone on the city wall forgot to count the time, and the only thing they could do at the moment was to mechanically do what they were doing.

Draw the bow and string, push down the wood and stones, light the kerosene torches, pick up the shield to block the arrows, and wield the sword to resist the people who came up to the city from all directions.

The heavy armored cavalry was the most powerful on the plain, and the group of people outside the city did not prepare any other siege equipment except for the ladder, so it should not be difficult to defend the city.

But one side is a well-trained thousand armored soldiers who wear heavy armor and are not afraid of rolling water arrows, and the other side is the remnant soldiers in Xuzhou City, old and weak.

One heavy armored soldier can resist a hundred of such remnants, old and weak. Every time a heavy armored soldier climbs to the top of the city, there will be a lot of slaughter and blood everywhere.

Courage can be gathered, and you can retreat quickly because of something. If it weren't for Qin Zheng's strong force, he would fight to the death, if it wasn't for Xie Jinhua's constant telling that reinforcements would come, if it wasn't for thinking that behind him was his home , my relatives, and everyone on the city wall couldn't hold on anymore.

"How long can you hold on? Half of the people are already dead. I think it will take another hour or so. If I don't need to wait for the city to be broken, the city will be completely dead. If you surrender quickly, I will keep you. Those who fall will live!"

One of the heavy cavalry who had been suppressing the rear suddenly marched out, and the sound was as loud as thunder.

"You Xiyuan sneaked into the hinterland of my Central Plains, killed my people, slaughtered my relatives, and now the corpses are still there, and the blood is still there, so you say let us surrender? You are deceiving people too much, I want to see if I can't hold on. To destroy the city, you should exhaust the people first. It’s just that this is my Daqing, and our Daqing soldiers may show up at any time for reinforcements, but you are trapped in Daqing alone, with no escape route behind you, no backup, how can you wait like this? Dare to say let me surrender with great confidence.”

Xie Jinhua let go of the bowstring in his hand, and shot a sharp arrow at the eyes of a heavily armored soldier who was about to leap to the top of the wall, and at the same time he did not forget to retort loudly.

Since those Xiyuan people had killed them from the beginning, they would not be lenient again.

Even a prince can be killed at will, let alone their original enemies.

One arrow was blocked by the heavy armored soldier, Xie Jinhua shot the second arrow in his hand in an instant, and it was still aimed at the opponent's eyes. It was more than twice as fast as the first arrow. This time, the heavy armored soldier failed to prevent it , When an arrow hit his eye, he screamed and fell down a few dozen feet high wall.

Those who were vaguely moved around heard Xie Jinhua's scolding, and saw Xie Jinhua shoot two arrows to kill a heavy armored soldier, and their thoughts could not help but re-firmed. If you hold on for a while, you can wait for the rescue.

Qin Zheng heard the call from below, and also heard Xie Jinhua's response. He didn't say a word, but thrust a dagger into the eyes of another heavy-armored soldier rushing up, flipped his wrist, and let out a miserable scream. Suddenly it was another corpse.

Qin Zheng's head, face, and body were covered with fresh blood. He almost became a blood man. There were other people's blood and his own blood. Every wound could bring a life back.

He has always stood at the head of the city, and has no intention of retreating.

The banner that was originally used as an arrow in his hand was erected again on the top of the city. With the vigorous and brave figure of the young man who never retreated, people couldn't help but yearn for it, and couldn't help but want to follow it.

For a moment, the weak hands were reinfused with strength, except for the eyes, there was no exposed skin, and the whole body was surrounded by armor, so several people hugged together, dyed red, and fell down the city wall.

With a city wall more than [-] feet high, a big living man with the strength of a full body of armor, fell to his death or broke his limbs.

Just like that, if one person can't deal with it, there are two people, if two people can't make three people, if three people can't make a dozen people, they fight to the death.

The battle has fallen into obvious anxiety. If the fighting continues like this, although the road is controlled and destroyed, reinforcements will not be able to arrive for the time being, but it may not be possible to fight off half of the heavy armored soldiers.

It's not worth it to fight to the death with those disabled soldiers on the city.

Heavy armor soldiers should die in more valuable places.

Yuan Xianjing was protected a hundred feet away from the city by the remaining [-] heavy armored soldiers, looking at the bloody figure at the top of the city.

One is Xie Jinhua and the other is Qin Zheng.

The war did not develop as he had imagined, and it became such an anxious state only because of these two people.

It was Qin Zheng who attracted Yuan Xianjing's attention even more.

Xie Jinhua is courageous, resourceful and decisive, but without Qin Zheng, who took the lead and fought bloody battles, no matter how convenient her identity, no matter how clever her temper, no matter how courageous she is, she would not be able to withstand the first round of heavy armored soldiers. .

"Zhuotu, how is it compared to you?"

Yuan Xianjing asked suddenly.

The silent heavy armored cavalry on his left who looked like a shadow lowered his head slightly as a sign of respect: "Your subordinate is not as good as you are at this age."

His voice was buzzing, with a strong nasal tone, but his words made the hearts of those around him tremble.

After all, they all knew how skilled Zhuo Tu was.

The specific appearance of the people on the city wall cannot be seen clearly under the city, but as long as the eyesight is good, the general appearance can still be seen clearly.

Judging how old one is is naturally easy.

"But he is still at this age after all, so he is not your opponent yet."

Yuan Xianjing smiled. Ever since he appeared, he had always had a stern face, and he had never smiled. Now that he smiled, it was less chilling and more gentle, taking advantage of that handsome and mature face His face became more and more beautiful. If he was not on the battlefield, he would be like a young man enjoying flowers in spring at this moment.

"Go and kill him."

It was as if he was talking about the weather and what to eat, a simple and easy order.

Zhuo Tu responded, and slapped his palm on the horse's back, like a sharp black sword, he rushed under the city wall in an instant.

As soon as the body is vertical, with the dexterity of a horseback that is completely opposite to the huge body, it rises more than ten feet out of thin air.

Those arrows above the city couldn't get close to him at all, even if they got close to him, with that layer of heavy armor, they couldn't hurt him at all.

Zhuotu's hands and feet kept hitting the arrows and iron spines left by his colleagues on the city wall. Before the second wave of arrow rain fell on the city wall, they had already landed on the city wall, in front of Qin Zheng.

The long knife cut across the night sky, like a thunderbolt, across the chest of Xie Jinhua.

Qin Zheng has been protecting Xie Jinhua, Xie Jinhua is Qin Zheng's weakness, which he just observed in a short period of time.

The lion fights the rabbit with all its strength, so even if Zhuotu is confident that he can kill Qin Zheng, he will not confront him for no reason.

What he needs to do is to complete the master's mission as best and as quickly as possible, and the rest has nothing to do with him.

Where the blade wind passed, it almost tore the skin. Qin Zheng originally thought that the opponent's sword was aimed at him, but the moment the opponent's blade turned, he saw Xie Jinhua in that direction.

The young man was almost furious, his eyes were red, and he threw the weapon in his hand towards the opponent's back. At the same time, he moved a little, and he had already jumped towards Xie Jinhua.

Qin Zheng almost used his lightness kung fu to the extreme. At this moment, he was like a puff of smoke, but it was still too late, too late to block the knife.

The young man wanted to replace him almost without thinking.

Qin Zheng noticed Zhuo Tu, how could Xie Jinhua not notice, it should be said that she paid more attention to the people who had never made a move a hundred feet away from the city wall than anyone else on the city wall. She saw Zhuo Tu rushing towards him, and looked Seeing the opponent's superb skills, he saw the opponent's blade that seemed to be running towards Qin Zheng but turned to himself.

Xie Jinhua's hand was tightly held, and his mind was highly concentrated. When Zhuo Tu was facing her and was in a straight line with her, and at the moment when Zhuo Tu used his knife to kill him, the girl's arm was quickly raised.

A small crossbow arrow shot out from her wrist, directly facing the opponent's eyes.

It also seemed that the other party was facing that crossbow arrow.

There was surprise in Zhuo Tu's eyes, the timing of that crossbow arrow was just right, so wonderful, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have guessed that it was made by Xie Jinhua, a weak woman without martial arts internal strength.

Although Zhuo Tu must kill Qin Zheng and Xie Jinhua, he has no intention of exchanging his life for them. His life should be used in more worthwhile places.

Turning fiercely to one side, the knife in his hand landed on the side of Xie Jinhua and Qin Zheng, who had already thrown himself on her. The long knife fell on the city wall, and a deep scratch appeared. In an instant, a large piece of the battlement above the city wall fell off, and the cut was smooth, like tofu.

This is a master, Xie Jinhua's heart shuddered, and he stretched out his hand to hold Qin Zheng, Qin Zheng would not be the opponent at all now.

There was a sound of tearing the hem of the clothes, and Qin Zheng greeted him with a short dagger in his hand.

In the blink of an eye, countless tricks passed.

Xie Jinhua gritted her teeth and stood up, holding Qin Zheng's blood-soaked hem in her clenched hands.

She retreated slowly, getting out of the range of Zhuo Tu's threat, but not out of the range of the crossbow arrows.

She didn't want to hold Qin Zheng back, but obviously, if she stood too close at the moment, she would give others her weakness.

This feeling of only being able to watch is extremely bad and makes people feel sad.

An inch is short and an inch is dangerous, Qin Zheng's weapons are not dominant, and Zhuo Tu's martial arts are much higher than him, almost overwhelming Qin Zheng.

Although Xie Jinhua doesn't know martial arts seriously, she has enough eyesight. In her past and present lives, she has only seen a Zheng Qianqiu whose martial strength is comparable to Zhuo Tu's, who can beat him at Qin Zheng's age.

It's just that the direction of the two martial arts is different. One is fighting in the battlefield, open and close, full of murderous aura.

One is the treacherous assassination technique, the murderous intent is hidden in every line and every movement, and no one can see the sharpness until the last moment of the assassin.

Xie Jinhua focused on the fight between Zhuo Tu and Qin Zheng, the sleeves on his wrists were lifted, his arms were stretched out, and the crossbow barrel was constantly calibrated.

Zhuo Tu frowned. If Xie Jinhua was approached by him, a knife would be enough, but she pointed a crossbow arrow at him not far away, but it gave him a dangerous feeling.

He was too distracted to guard against Xie Jinhua's crossbow arrows, so he couldn't concentrate on dealing with Qin Zheng. Although he suppressed Qin Zheng severely and caused several wounds on Qin Zheng's body, he couldn't kill Qin Zheng with a single blow.

Zhuotu's eyes gradually became a little irritable, his master was still waiting for him to compete for merit.

His eyes flickered and his moves changed, but his back was facing Xie Jinhua's crossbow arrow, and the long knife in his hand fell fiercely towards the top of Qin Zheng's head from top to bottom at the same time.

The saber was powerful and mighty, the short dagger in Qin Zheng's hand went up from a small point to catch the blade, there was a soft sound, which was hardly audible above the top of the city.

But Xie Jinhua just heard it.

The short dagger in Qin Zheng's hand finally broke.

The crossbow arrow in Xie Jinhua's hand shot out, his face was full of panic.

"A Zheng!"

The long knife broke the short dagger, aiming at Qin Zheng's head and slashing down fiercely.

"Ding Dong!" With a sound, a black scabbard pressed against the long knife and sank an inch, but it finally resisted.

Xie Jinhua looked at the man holding the black scabbard in shock, that was Bailifeng.

Those who came with Bailifeng were a thousand elite soldiers, those elite soldiers came out of nowhere, surrounded Yuan Xianjing and his party, and the outside of the city was filled with blood, but this time, they belonged to the enemy army.

"Reinforcements are coming."

Xie Jinhua murmured.

The next moment, the people around her kept repeating this sentence: "Reinforcements are coming!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Zhuotu was not a man of courage and foolishness. The moment he saw Bailifeng and his soldiers appeared, he already knew that the trip was a complete failure. Now it is not about finding out where Bailifeng came from, but thinking about how to do it. Protected the master and escaped.

Pushing back Baili Peak with one blow, Zhuo Tu jumped down the wall.

A crossbow shot out of Xie Jin's hand, hit his armor, fell, but it was in vain.

Xie Jinhua was full of resignation.

Along with Zhuotu, there were other heavy armored soldiers who jumped off the city wall. They did not have Zhuotu's high-strength lightness skills, but they were able to use the obstacles they had planted on the city wall to quickly climb down.

The soldiers and civilians on the city wall were at the end of their strength, and there were not many left.

In just a short while, Zhuo Tu had rushed into the encirclement of Daqing soldiers with most of the remaining heavy armored soldiers.

"Master, what should I do?"

Zhuotu cut down several Daqing soldiers beside Yuan Xianjing with one knife, and asked.

Yuan Xianjing's face was gloomy and cold, he glanced at Xuzhou City, and finally squeezed out a word between his teeth: "Withdraw!"

The plan that had been laid out for a long time was ruined just like that, he wouldn't just let those people go!

The heavy armored soldiers were too strong on the plain, and without sufficient preparation, it was difficult to keep them. Although a thousand elite soldiers were more than their current number, after leaving most of the heavy armored soldiers behind, Zhuotu should protect them. Yuan Xianjing broke through the siege.

Seeing that he was about to leave so unscathed.

Qin Zheng picked up a big broken bow from the ground fiercely, but it took some effort to draw it. It was a heavy bow used for defending the city, and it required the strength of several strong men to pull it together.

Bailifeng put on a hand, and pulled the bow and arrow together with Qin Zheng. Qin Zheng glanced at him, didn't say anything, just prepared the long arrow specially prepared for the giant bow, and slowly drew the bow and arrow into a full moon There was a sound of pulling the string, and a sharp arrow shot towards Yuan Xianjing's back.

The air was broken, as if there was a cyclone spinning.

Zhuotu sensed something was wrong, didn't look back, and directly pulled Yuan Xianjing towards him, with a bang, the horse Yuan Xianjing was riding was pierced by an arrow, and with a wailing sound, it was nailed to the ground fiercely.

Yuan Xianjing had cold sweat on his forehead.

"go!"

Watching Yuan Xianjing dodge the blow, Qin Zheng closed his eyes, with complex emotions remaining in his eyes.

It seems to be regret, but also seems to be a little lucky, a little helpless, and a little resentful.

His hands were propped on the city wall, but his body was already shaking slowly.

"Major General, can you ask someone to search the city of Xuzhou? There are still spies from Xiyuan Kingdom in the city, especially a prince and son of Xiyuan, who has not left yet."

Xie Jinhua also regretted that the arrow missed, but he didn't think too much about it, and turned to Bailifeng to talk about the business.

No matter how much Yuan Yuchen's father didn't take his life seriously, since he claimed to be the eldest son, he would be of great use.

No matter what happened this time in Xuzhou City, a heavyweight must be left behind to explain to the emperor, to the south, and to the world.

When Bailifeng heard Xie Jinhua's request, he nodded in agreement, turned around and walked down.

This is not the time to talk.

Xie Jinhua's whole body was exhausted and aching, she just wanted to sit down right now, but it was really easy no matter where she was.

Xie Jinhua turned to look at Qin Zheng: "A Zheng, your injury." How is it?

The boy's body slammed onto her.

Poured into Xie Jinhua's arms.

The whole body was stained with wet feeling, the boy's stature was very light, very light.

Compared with the hardness of his bones, it feels completely opposite.

Xie Jinhua's heart felt like a needle prick.

(End of this chapter)