Wuzhou.

Among the four states attacked by the Liao army, it was the farthest state from Youzhou. In addition, they brought 30,000 infantry troops. Therefore, Hua Rong and Qin Ming, who led their troops to ask for help, could not attack Sun An and Guan Ming.

Sheng, Gao Zhan, Hu Yanzhuo and others rescued Jizhou, and Ruzhou arrived just as quickly.

"Brother, the soldiers are tired after traveling for so long. Let them rest." Qin Ming said.

Hua Rong said: "I also want the soldiers to rest, but the situation in Wuzhou is urgent now. We must arrive before the Liao army breaks the city, otherwise the Liao army will definitely kill our people after the city is broken.

Do you know how many people will die?

Therefore, we can only let the soldiers work harder now, and then let them have a good rest after the siege of Wuzhou is lifted."

Qin Ming said: "Although it is important to hurry, if the soldiers are exhausted, we will not be able to fight even if we arrive in Wuzhou, so we still let them rest for a while, even if it is short, it will help them recover their strength.

Wuzhou also has the strength to fight the Liao army."

Hua Rong thought about Qin Ming's words carefully and felt that what he said was indeed reasonable, but Wuzhou really didn't need to delay. The earlier they could arrive, the more hope they would have of saving the city.

"Let's do this. You take the infantry to rest behind, and I will lead the cavalry to Wuzhou first." Hua Rong said.

Hua Rong and Qin Ming were both commanders of Xiangdu, with a total of 50,000 troops. Each of them had 10,000 cavalry, so Hua Rong wanted the infantry to stay and rest, so he led the cavalry first.

Wuzhou, and without the infantry to follow, the cavalry can use its maximum speed, so that it can reach Wuzhou in less than half an hour.

Qin Ming knew that Hua Rong was worried about something happening in Danwu Prefecture, so he wanted to lead his troops to ask for help first. However, Hua Rong was his elder brother-in-law. How could he bear to stay and rest and let him lead his troops?

: "Since brother is worried about something happening over there in Wuzhou, why don't you rest in the back while I lead the cavalry forward first."

Hua Rong said: "I'm not tired. It's better that you take them to rest behind, while I go ahead."

"No, you should stay and rest while I take the cavalry," Qin Ming said.

Just when the two were arguing about who should stay and rest, Shan Shiqi suddenly said: "Two generals, stop arguing. It's better to let the two generals Wu Shun and Shi Ding lead the infantry to rest in the back.

The general and us will lead 20,000 cavalry to Wuzhou together, so that the infantry can get a rest and we will not waste time in rescuing Wuzhou."

When Hua Rong and Qin Ming heard this, they thought this method was very good, so they followed Shan Shiqi's advice and asked Shi Ding and Wu Shun to lead 30,000 infantry to stay and rest. They also had Shan Shiqi, Liu Yun, Huang Xin,

Xu Fang led 20,000 cavalry together and continued towards Wuzhou.

Because there were infantry following the cavalry before, they did not dare to let go of their speed and move forward, so the marching speed was very slow. This time without the infantry following, the cavalry's speed increased three or four times, and they could march eighty miles per hour on average.

After traveling many miles, it took less than half an hour to enter the realm of Wuzhou.

After entering the territory of Wuzhou, Hua Rong and the others led the cavalry on their way, and at the same time sent detective horses to inquire about the situation in Wuzhou City.

When Wuzhou was still about ten miles away, Tan Ma galloped back and said: "Report to General Hua and General Qin, the Liao army has broken through the west gate of Wuzhou City, and now the defenders are fighting with the Liao army in the city.

The number of troops is greater than that of the defenders, and the defenders cannot hold on for long."

When Hua Rong heard this, he immediately said to Qin Ming and other generals: "Brother-in-law, you and Huang Xin lead five thousand cavalry to attack the Liao army from the west gate. General Shan, General Lu, you lead five thousand cavalry to attack the Liao army from the north gate. General Liu,

General Zhang, you lead five thousand cavalry to attack the Liao army from the east gate. General Xu and I will lead five thousand cavalry to attack the Liao army from the south gate. We must destroy the entire Liao army no matter what."

"We know this without brother's instructions," Qin Ming said.

Hua Rong said: "It's not too late, let's act quickly."

"yes."

Hua Rong, Qin Ming, Shan Shiqi, Liu Yun and other generals led five thousand cavalry towards the four cities in the east, west, south and north of Wuzhou.

Wuzhou

Within the city.

After two days of continuous attack, the Liao soldiers finally broke through the west gate of Wuzhou just now. As this point was breached, the other east, north, and south gates were also breached one after another, and all the Liao soldiers rushed into the city.

, began to burn, kill and plunder Han people in the city, and surrounded and suppressed the remaining Song army.

There are only more than ten thousand Song troops in Wuzhou. Yesterday and today, they suffered more than two thousand casualties while defending the city. Just now, two or three thousand people were killed in the battle with the Liao soldiers on the city wall. Now half of the remaining people are scattered in the city.

In different corners of the country, they were engaged in desperate battles with the Liao army.

"Father, mother..."

In a Han family's home, several Liao soldiers dragged a young girl out. The girl's father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, and brothers all fell in a pool of blood.

Just as these Liao soldiers dragged the girl out of the yard, seventeen or eight Song soldiers suddenly came out from the alley. These Liao soldiers immediately let go of the girl and started fighting with the Song soldiers.

Not long after, three or forty Liao soldiers were chased out of the alley, and they came together to surround a dozen Song soldiers.

"Put down your weapons and spare your life." The Liao army said to the surrounded Song army.

One of the soldiers of the Song Army opened his eyes angrily and said: "I am a Song Dynasty man, how can I surrender to shameless things like you? Come if you have the ability, I will support you even if I die."

After speaking, he looked at his companions beside him and asked: "Brothers, are you afraid of death?"

"Don't be afraid!" the Song soldiers following him responded in unison.

The Song soldier said: "Well done, today we will let these Khitan people take a good look at the bloody nature of our Song men and fight with them."

"Fight."

With a desperate attitude, more than a dozen Song soldiers fought with dozens of Liao soldiers. Although they were all very brave, they were outnumbered and were soon massacred one by one by the Liao soldiers.

The last five people left were still resisting desperately.

"Kill!"

Just when the last five Song soldiers were about to be killed by the Liao army, hundreds of Han people holding sticks, hoes and benches suddenly rushed in from the street.

Because the Liao army was killing Han people everywhere in the city, these Han people finally couldn't bear it anymore and picked up their things one after another and started to resist. The dozens of people rushing in now are just part of them. There are many Han people in other places who are fighting and defending.

The army fought together against the Liao army.

The soldiers of the Liao army who were besieging the remaining five Song troops saw so many civilians coming and did not bother to surround the five Song troops anymore and started fighting with the civilians.

At this time, dozens of Song soldiers came running from the other end of the street, led by a general. Seeing so many people fighting with the Liao army, he immediately led the Song soldiers to help them surround and kill them.

Those Liao troops.

Under the joint siege of the common people and dozens of Song troops, those Liao troops were all killed quickly. The five soldiers who had survived immediately walked up to the general and clasped his hands and said, "Greetings to the Governor.

"

It turned out that the Song general who led the army was Luo Zeng, the military supervisor of Wuzhou. Ever since the Liao soldiers captured the city, he had been leading the Song soldiers to deal with them in the city. He happened to see someone here just now.

He was fighting with the Liao army, so he quickly led his troops to help.

"Have you seen the prefect?" Luo Zeng asked.

The prefect of Wuzhou had previously been in charge of commanding at the east city gate. After the city was defeated, Luo Zeng searched for him everywhere, but his whereabouts have not been found so far.

"When the Liao army broke through the east city gate, more than a hundred of our brothers escorted the prefect down from the city wall. We met the Liao army at the street entrance. More than eighty of our brothers stayed to stop the Liao army and let the remaining

More than thirty brothers protected the prefect and left first. Later, we were killed and dispersed by the Liao army, and we never saw the prefect again."

Luo Zeng then looked at the people again, clasped his hands and said, "Thank you for your help."

One of the civilians, who was in his thirties, held a stick in his hand and said: "The Liao army does not treat us Han people as human beings and kills us wantonly. If we don't resist, we will all be killed by them."

Kill them all. Therefore, we are willing to join the defenders in resisting the Liao soldiers. Even if we die, we will never surrender to them."

"Yes, we will never surrender to them." The other people also said.

Luo Zeng was greatly moved when he heard what the people said, because it has been more than a hundred years since Wuzhou left the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty, but these Han people can still yearn for the Song Dynasty, which is very commendable.

"Thank you all very much. After repelling the Liao soldiers, I will definitely tell the court and let the court reward you." Luo Zeng said.

The commoner holding the stick said: "It doesn't matter whether we receive a reward or not, as long as we can drive away these Liao troops so that we Han people don't have to be bullied by them in the future."

Luo Zeng was about to speak again when he suddenly heard fierce shouts of killing coming from the left. He knew that there must be another Song army or Han people fighting with the Liao army, so he immediately said: "Come on, let's go help quickly."

Then, he led his Song soldiers and the common people to run towards the place where the sound came from. At the front left of the street, there were more than a dozen Song soldiers protecting a man in civilian clothes, about forty years old.

Seven or eight-year-old men, surrounded by more than a hundred Liao soldiers attacking them.

"My lord, the governor, is the magistrate." A soldier recognized the man in civilian clothes and said excitedly to Luo Zeng.

It turned out that the man in civilian clothes who was protected by more than a dozen Song troops was Wei Wenxuan, the prefect of Wuzhou.

Wei Wenxuan just saw Liao troops everywhere, so he hid with the soldiers protecting him in people's homes. Unexpectedly, Liao troops later rushed into the homes of the people who took them in and killed them. They were discovered immediately, and they had to fight their way out.

But since Liao troops were everywhere now, they were hunted down all the way.

Wei Wenxuan originally had more than thirty Song soldiers protecting him, but under the pursuit of the Liao army, more than a dozen died, and only the last dozen were left to protect him and escape, but in the end he still

Here they were blocked by the Liao army.

"Go and save the prefect quickly." Luo Zeng said.
Chapter completed!