Yan Liangze suddenly received such good news when he was in despair, but Tuoba Jian, who had rushed to Xinzhou excitedly after breaking through Yanshan Pass, was met with a heavy blow.
He did not expect that the defense of Xinzhou City, with only 60,000 soldiers left, would be so tenacious.
Fu Xiaoguan did not expect that Xinzhou City would hold out until February 15th.
Ten days!
Xinzhou City withstood the fierce attacks of the Tiandao Army for ten days!
Until the night of February 15th...
“They are the real soldiers!”
Standing on a hill not far from Xinzhou City, Fu Xiaoguan held up a telescope and watched quietly.
"I'm afraid we can't hold on any longer... If Peng Chengwu doesn't leave with his troops, the barbarians won't be able to capture Xinzhou!"
Su Mo put down the telescope with great regret and added, "What a pity! I'm afraid all 60,000 soldiers will be wiped out, and there are also hundreds of thousands of people in Xinzhou City..."
"The people are innocent, should we save them or not?"
Fu Xiaoguan didn't answer. The wind picked up, bringing a chill. He looked at the increasingly gloomy sky and said, "It's going to snow again. Once it snows, it will cover everything... Like the burning blood, the still-warm corpses, and this conspiracy that serves political interests."
"Let's go."
Fu Xiaoguan walked away with a little pity on his face.
He couldn't bear to watch any longer, fearing that he would make the wrong decision if he continued watching.
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Xinzhou City.
The city walls were already riddled with holes.
Of the one hundred red-coated cannons originally mounted on the city walls, half had been destroyed by the barbarians' cannons, and the remaining half were moved to the four city gates by Qi Kang, the captain of the Central Fort.
Now there are only ten guns left that can be fired.
The walls were piled with corpses.
There were the bodies of soldiers, the bodies of the people of Xinzhou City, and of course the bodies of the barbarians.
The layers are so thick that they can no longer be distinguished.
The blood dyed the city walls red and also dyed the streets red.
Qi Kang was very tired, so he sat down on the steps outside the General's Mansion.
Huben Captain Luo Ming was also covered in blood, and he sat next to Qi Kang.
Luo Ming was holding a bottle of Xishan Tianchun wine in his hand.
He gulped down a big gulp and handed the bottle to Qi Kang.
"You stole the general's wine?"
Luo Ming grinned, then coughed violently, coughing so hard that he almost died. He spat out a mouthful of blood foam, "Old Qi, you said... the general said he received the emperor's order. I don't understand, what could be more important than defending Xinzhou and the hundreds of thousands of people in Xinzhou!"
Qi Kang took a sip of wine and shook his head. "As a military commander, I just follow orders. Where do all these suspicions come from?"
"I just feel that as a soldier, dying on the battlefield is my fate, but these hundreds of thousands of civilians shouldn't have died. What crime have they committed?"
"We can only hold out for another hour at most. By nightfall, the city will be taken. The barbarians are no good and will definitely massacre the city..."
Qi Kang suddenly turned to look at Luo Ming, "Take the people and leave under the cover of night."
Luo Ming was stunned. "I will live and die with this Xinzhou City. You take them away, and I will blow those bastards to death!"
"It's already this fucking time, why are you still competing with me? I have a wife and son, and you're all alone. Your mother is still waiting to have a grandchild. If you want to leave, you'd better do it now!"
Luo Ming chuckled, "Old Qi, to be honest with you, I can't leave."
"Why?"
"Look."
Luo Ming raised the hand that was covering his stomach, which was already stained with blood.
"I got shot, and it hurt so much, so I had to drink the general's wine."
Qi Kang suddenly felt a lump in his throat. He handed the bottle of wine to Luo Ming, patted Luo Ming on the shoulder, and stood up and left without saying anything.
Luo Ming grinned again, "Live well and help me take care of my mother!"
Qi Kang ignored him and his figure disappeared around the corner of the street.
Less than half a cup of tea later, Luo Ming saw Qi Kang's four lieutenant generals. These four lieutenant generals came straight to his side without saying a word. One of the lieutenant generals raised his palm and knocked him to the ground unconscious.
"The general's final order, execute it!"
"What about the General?"
"...Dongsheng, if we can survive, remember, our lives were given by the general! The general's son is our brother! The general's wife is our sister!"
"I will definitely avenge the general!"
"Let's go."
"Let's go!"
In the darkness of night, hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the south gate of Xinzhou City.
And the only people protecting them were two thousand blood-soaked soldiers.
No one felt they could survive.
But no one wants to die in this Xinzhou city.
People filed out one after another. There was no light, no one spoke, and no one even made a sound of crying.
Many of them just looked back at the war-torn city of Xinzhou.
"Let's go!"
“Let’s go…!”
Where are you going?
They headed towards Pingling. If they could enter the Pingling Mountains, perhaps some of them would survive.
Just two hours after they left, Xinzhou City was broken.
Among the 400,000 barbarian Tiandao soldiers, 100,000 of them rushed in.
Qi Kang led the remaining 3,000 soldiers to launch a final battle in the streets.
This battle was like a moth flying into a flame, but they successfully led the 100,000 enemies who had entered to the street where the General's Mansion was located - General Lane!
They retreated into General Alley and each ran towards the place where the explosives were buried.
Tuoba Lan Ce rode up here on his warhorse. He raised his sword and gave the order with a ferocious look on his face: "Kill them all!"
Just as he finished speaking, the vanguard had just rushed into the gate of the General's Mansion when a loud explosion suddenly sounded -
A bright ball of fire suddenly flashed in Xinzhou City, and the earth-shaking explosion shook the sky.
The great general Tuoba Jian, who was standing outside the city, frowned suddenly. Fu Xiaoguan, who was heading towards a barren mountain a thousand meters away, suddenly turned around.
They all saw the continuous bursts of flames in the dark night, heard the deafening continuous sounds, and felt the vibrations coming from under their feet.
Fu Xiaoguan's eyes widened.
He raised the telescope and saw a sea of fire.
Against the backdrop of the scorching light of the sea of fire, he saw many people heading northwest several miles outside the city.
"Eighth Senior Brother."
"Um."
"Assemble the troops!"
"……good!"
Of course, Fu Xiaoguan was not trying to recapture the burning city.
He was just worried that the barbarians would catch up with the group of people leaving the city!
He began to admire Peng Chengwu. This great general actually sent the barbarians to the west in such a way... It was quite tragic, but extremely courageous!
He had already received orders from Emperor Xuan, and he also left his final mark in that city.
Fu Xiaoguan didn't know how many barbarians were killed by that guy, but he knew that the mighty city in the north must be an empty city or a ruined city now.
With such a result...Will Emperor Xuan feel sad?
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