The siege tree finally broke open the gate of the village. The barbarians behind shouted in unison, like a turbulent torrent finally found the outlet of catharsis. Groups of barbarians rushed into the gate of the village. They rushed forward bravely. However, the barbarians and generals in front soon discovered that there was no enemy in front of them. Dozens of cans of turbulent oil were thrown at them from all directions, and under their feet were all branches and dead leaves.

The fierce tinder was not ignited, but just hit the branches and leaves all over the ground, splashing everywhere. In front of them was a low stone wall surrounded by rings, as if they had been waiting for them to rush in. The barbarians at the front roared and wanted to inform the rear to retreat, but the barbarians behind could not hear what they were calling. How could the torrents of venting were so easy to retract? The barbarians who were red-eyed pushed layer by layer, all rushed into the low wall surrounding them. At first glance, they were dense.

Then, several rockets shot down from a high place.

The hot tinder was slight, and the dry branches in summer covered the ground and ignited very quickly. The fire spread at an incredible speed, with sad roars and screams. A Taoist priest rushed up from one end of the stone wall with a square unknown object wrapped in cotton cloth. When he threw the cotton bag, one side of the village gate exploded and the rocks collapsed.

Immediately afterwards, there was the blazing hell of the earth.

This terrifying scene cannot be described. I thought I had finally broken through the enemy's position. Thousands of barbarian soldiers and generals who rushed into the village gate were screaming and struggling in the sea of ​​fire. The barbarian soldiers outside the collapsed village gate looked up at the thick smoke on the other side of the stone wall and the heat that could not be blocked by the stone wall, and retreated in a hurry. This was the first time they were timid since they broke out of Helan Mountain.

The meat aroma of barbecue is everywhere, and the screams of companions are like the most harsh noise in the world. In the rapidly spreading heat, the soldiers from the Chinese side shouted excitedly. From the beginning, they knew their location clearly. Except for the village gate, they must not let any place be broken by the enemy. Now, their desperate fight has obviously played a decisive effect, allowing the tactics arranged by Ning Hanlin to be perfectly executed.

Under the rolling heat, the battle could not continue. The remaining barbarian soldiers were not fighting, nor were they not fighting. On the wooden platform behind, Mu Bugu suddenly stood up, looking at the rolling smoke coming out of the positions in front, and listening to the screams that were like in his ears even if they were so far apart. All the barbarian soldiers he brought were warriors who came out of the poor mountains and rivers. Even if they died, they would not scream like this. However, thousands of people were trapped in the sea of ​​fire, and the deep despair they faced made the panic before death spread like a plague, as if the legendary hell had moved to the human world.

The successful implementation of the plan further boosted the morale of the Chinese side, and the arrows were like rain when shouting loudly.

Finally, Mu Bugu bit his hungry wolf-like white teeth and issued an order to withdraw.

The remaining barbarian soldiers, like slapping at the coast vigorously, took the rocks along the coast and left the corpses silently after the surging attack. Instead of pursuing, the Chinese side raised the weapons in their hands high on the stone wall, with blood as tide and momentum soaring into the sky...

***

In Xingyang Prefecture City, Zhang Lun, the former prefect of Xingyang, walked around the mansion uneasy.

Several city gates in the city of Zhou had long been demolished by the barbarians, and the barbarians came and went freely in the city of Zhou. The people had basically escaped, and the rest were all officials who offered the city with him.

The battle was starting in Caishi Gorge. At this moment, Zhang Lun was actually quite resentful to Na Ningjiang. As the prefect of Xingyang, he occupied the benefits of the city, but he surrendered to the barbarians as soon as he heard about it. But in his opinion, there was no way to do this. On the north bank of the Huanghe River, there were so many cities that could not even be blocked by those barbarians for a day. During the days when the barbarians headed south, what he heard every day was defeat, constant defeat.

Zhang Lun himself was a Jinshi. If it were the same as before, he would have no worries about the barbarians. However, after this Fengshan Mountain, the literary spirit he had left was not as good as a mere Juren in the past. Putting aside the literary spirit, he had no idea how to fight the barbarians.

He kept telling himself in his heart that there was nothing he could do to surrender to the barbarians. It was impossible to stop these barbarians. With the cruelty of these barbarians, resistance would only increase their killing and massacre the people below.

That's right, he gave up resistance because of the people he ruled. He was definitely not for himself. Even though he knew that he could not stop the enemy, there was no way to reduce casualties by surrendering to the enemy... He explained it to himself over and over again.

Of course, he was also very clear that the troops of Chengzhou and Suizhou had been drained long ago, and Xingyangzhou surrendered without fighting, which would allow these barbarians to enter the capital directly. But there was no way out. The three consecutive meteorites in China had already told everyone that the Great Zhou Dynasty was over, and even God began to warn. This was all the fault of the imperial court, and he could not correct the punishment and virtue, and he was just following the times.

After he surrendered, Zhang Lun actually hoped that these barbarians could directly defeat Chengzhou and Suizhou. This can prove that it was not that he was incompetent and cowardly, but that these barbarians could not stop them at all. However, to his surprise, after Xiancheng of Xingyangzhou City, Ning Jiang actually brought the remaining defeated soldiers who fled from the north and relied on a Caishi Gorge to block Mu Bugu and the elite barbarian soldiers he led. This was something he didn't even dare to imagine. Even with the strength of the state city, there was no possibility.

But Ning Jiang actually did it. Until now, Zhang Lun couldn't understand. With that quarry gorge, those deserters who were afraid of being killed by the barbarians, and who had not even seen the shadow of the barbarians, how did Ning Jiang do it? How could he really stop those barbarians?

During these days, in addition to trying to please these barbarians as much as possible, he wanted Ning Jiang to die early every night. Ning Jiang and the soldiers he led were slapping him in the face every day.

Although he was the top scholar, Na Ningjiang was only less than twenty years old. He was the prefect of governing a state. Na Ningjiang defended Caishi Gorge, which had natural dangers but had no military buildings in the past. He occupied an entire state city. Na Ningjiang led the remaining soldiers who were constantly defeated and fled from other commanders, and he led the soldiers and generals of the entire state.

Na Ningjiang successfully blocked the enemy in Caishixia, but he didn't even dare to fight. He directly tied himself up and offered the enemy with the city.

Ning Jiang's successful blocking of the enemy gave many people who were ignorant of the inside story, believing that it was not that Ning Jiang and the soldiers he led were too strong, but that the barbarian soldiers led by Mu Bugu were too weak. However, after observing the barbarians at close range these days, Zhang Lun once again believed that whether he surrendered or not, the loss of Xingyangzhou was originally a matter of time. For this reason, he completely did not understand why Ning Jiang could do it.

But this is not important. Today, Ning Jiang and the people he led were finally over. Zhang Lun was actually gloating about this. Only the crushing defeat of those who were defending Caishi Gorge can prove that his choice was correct. He seemed to have seen that those barbarian soldiers and generals were carrying out bloody massacres on the captured Caishi Gorge. These days, no one can win under the strong attack of the barbarians. How can those with Ning surnames be exceptions?

Resistance, apart from causing unnecessary sacrifices, was meaningless, and he firmly believed in this.

Today's Xingyang City is quiet. In the hot summer, the hot sun shines on the ground and the streets are empty and silent.

There was no one guarding the east and west city gates that were removed from the gate. Mu Bugu just removed the city gate and had already let the surrendered soldiers in the city live in fear of being able to encounter a catastrophe at any time. These days, the massacre and looting of surrounding villages and towns by barbarians have become daily routine. It was clearly a bright summer day, but the dark clouds suppressed the hearts of every citizen who could die at any time.

Zhang Lun wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned to the inner palace, hoping to use the girl who was caught by his servants last night to relieve the fire before the barbarians came back, but there was a noise outside. These days, he was always worried and was already extremely sensitive. When he heard the noise from outside, he hurriedly led the people out.

"What's wrong?" he shouted at a confidant.

The confidant rushed over: "Sir, it's not good. General Qian and General Jiang have rebelled. They brought many people from the martial arts world who came out of nowhere to kill him."

Zhang Lun yelled: "Crazy, they are crazy, do they know how many people they will kill?" He felt compassionate and sat on the ground and howled: "In order to protect everyone and protect the people, I have been humble all day long, beating or scolding all day long. What is the purpose of? I just want Lord Mu Bugu to let us go and let us go? I am doing something for everyone, why don't they understand? They have a small rebellion and implicated everyone, and what should I do if those barbarians have to wash Xingyang City? "

The confidant said: "In front, there was news coming from the front, Mu, Mu Bugu... was defeated..."

Zhang Lun continued to cry: "Defeat Ning Jiang? I have said it long ago, I have said it long ago, we are not the opponents of these barbarians at all, we can't defend it. Xingyang is over, the Great Zhou is over..."

The confidant said anxiously: "It's not a big defeat to Ningjiang, it's a big defeat... the barbarians attacked Caishixia, lost a big defeat, and the entire army was wiped out... Ningjiang's people are about to come."

Zhang Lun jumped up suddenly: "What did you say?"

The confidant said: "Mr. Mu Bugu was defeated, the entire army was defeated, and they were finished."

This is impossible! Zhang Lun's esheng was in a cold sweat. Mu Bugu and the elite barbarian soldiers he brought not only could not capture Caishi Gorge, but the entire army was defeated? In the past month, those barbarians had never lost a single battle.

Zhang Lun knew deeply that for him now, the barbarians occupied the Central Plains and he still had a way out. In the huge China, those barbarians always needed surrendered Chinese to help them manage them. If the barbarians were defeated, then people like him would really die without a burial place. But now, Mu Bugu was defeated. As a barbarian general, he led nearly 10,000 elite barbarians to attack a small Caishi Gorge. Those barbarians actually lost?

The confidant said, "Sir, what should we do?"

"What should I do?" Zhang Lun yelled, "Escape, hurry up and pull the horses for me, and inform a few ladies... No, no, don't worry about them, let's run first, we run first..."

When Mu Bugu's Iron Cavalry attacked Caishi Gorge, he lost a lot in front of him. The whole line was defeated like the wind spread throughout Xingyang City. Fires broke out everywhere, and there were shouts of killing everywhere. Zhang Lun began to realize that Ningjiang's people might have been connected in the city, waiting for this moment. However, at this moment, he was frightened and did not dare to stay. He broke out from the Xicheng Gate with a group of personal soldiers. The rebel generals could not catch up with him, or in other words, they did not intend to chase him.

Later, when Zhang Lun began to get the exact clues ahead, he was so angry that he spit out an old blood on the carriage, knowing that he had been fooled by the man surnamed Ning.

***

The chaos in Xingyangzhou City rose very quickly, and with the escape of the prefect Zhang Lun, the chaos also faded rapidly.

The general who was in charge was called Qian Yue. With the cooperation of a man who was called Master Fu and of unknown origin, the city launched almost at the same time, sweeping away the soldiers with weak minds and eventually scaring Zhang Taishou away.

"Now, what should we do?" However, at this moment, after barely controlling Xingyang City, Qian Yue looked at Master Fu and was completely helpless.

Master Fu looked like Mimi smiled: "It's okay, just tell everyone the truth."

That's it? Qian Yue thought about it and found that there was nothing he could do, so he walked outside and looked at the generals: "There is one thing I need to tell everyone. Those barbarians retreated in Caishixia, but they were defeated but not defeated. At least their main force is still there and are retreating to this city at this moment."

As soon as he said this, most of them were stunned, except for the few who had already colluded with him. Mu Bugu and the barbarians had a great loss and almost completely destroyed? The Caishixia army was coming here, and they would not let go of the surrendered generals?

This riot came too suddenly for many people. First, the news of the defeat of the Man army came, and then the news spread almost at a storm. In this news, Mu Bugu's entire army was defeated in Caishixia. The Ningjiang army was pressing down. In this frenzied atmosphere, when the riot against Zhang Lun was rolled up, many people spontaneously stood on the side of the riot.

Obeying the prefect's order to surrender to the barbarians is a helpless act... Or, no matter how cowardly I am, I am pushing it to my superiors, it is always the most effective way of self-comfort. It is not that I am useless, it is that my superiors are incompetent, it is not that I treason or that my superiors order to surrender, and I have no choice.

Now that the barbarians are defeated, the army is coming to fight against the prefect who surrenders to the enemy first. This is the best way to cleanse oneself. Perhaps the court can let go of its own actions to surrender to the enemy in order to resist and help the court regain Xingyang City.
Chapter completed!