【Chapter 243】
Thousand miles of sword light and shadow,
Hate burns the deserted city.
The moonlit night people don't return,
The fragrance of flowers is without peace.
A silent blood,
A hundred miles to travel.
Go first,
The eyes of wisdom are also covered with dust.
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"kill---"
At the entrance of the north streets and alleys, there were shouts of killings coming one after another, and they were heard endlessly.
The narrow alley originally accommodated up to six war horses in parallel, but at this time each row was crowded with at least seven or eight war horses, and the war cavalry behind them were still increasing. In a moment, more than 20,000 Hanma troops were all crowded in the narrow dead alley, with people rushing and war horses neighing. At first glance, the entire narrow alley was full of Hanma troops. If you close your eyes and throw a small stone down, you will definitely hit a person, and the stone will not fall to the ground, but will fall on the back of the war horse.
This is a true portrayal of the narrow alleys of North Street.
There are too many people and too many war horses! There are crowds of people, and the war horses are close to the war horses, while the cavalry's legs are squeezed between the horse's belly, causing endless pain and no movement.
At the city gate behind him, there were still war cavalry pouring in; in the direction of the alley, thousands of soldiers of the Wuwei Army built a high wall with stones to block the exit tightly. Arrows were like rain, and stones were flying like locusts, which caused countless soldiers of the Hanma Army to be killed and injured, but they had to bite the bullet and rush forward. As time passed, more and more Hanma Army troops were becoming more and more crowded. The road ahead was broken, the rear was congested, unable to advance or retreat, and struggling.
Half an hour later, five miles long and two narrow alleys more than a wide ranged, trapping nearly 30,000 Hanma troops. There was no way out, and there were people coming from behind, which were crowded in front and blocked the narrow alleys, making them solid and without a place to stand.
A mile away from the city gate, Han Sui was also blocked by a crowd of people and horses. Suddenly, he waved his horse whip and beat the soldiers beside him at the top of his lungs, hoping that the soldiers could give him a passage and retreat outside the city gate.
However, Han Sui's move was indeed effortless. The soldiers around him were whipped by him, and blood was splattered everywhere, but they could not move forward or take a step back. Many soldiers glared at him and were quite stunning. Fortunately, these soldiers were his personal soldiers, and although they were whipped loudly and screamed with anger, they still did not dare to attack Han Sui.
Until Han Sui really had no strength to whip the soldiers again. When his voice was hoarse, he sat on the horse's back and looked around, hoping to find a glimmer of life. But then, he was completely desperate, with a horrified expression, and was in a state of despair. He was in great fear.
In the evening, Han Sui turned his head and looked towards the city gate behind him. He suddenly found that Ma Teng, who had entered the city earlier, was fighting bloody at the city gate with hundreds of personal soldiers, trying to break out of the city gate.
It was not until this moment that Han Sui realized that he and his adopted son Yan Yan were deceived by Ma Teng again.
Ma Teng did not lead his army into the narrow alley, but instead led his personal soldiers to try to capture the city towers on both sides of the city gate. However, the Wuwei army guarding the city at the top of the city had been on guard. Arrows, rolling wood and stones fell one after another, causing Ma Teng to be unable to capture for a long time. Then, thousands of Wuwei army cavalry suddenly rushed in from outside the city gate, blocking the city gate. Seeing that the rear road was blocked, Ma Teng hurriedly took his personal soldiers to retreat from the city tower, and rushed towards the Wuwei army at the city gate, fighting hard in order to break through the siege and grab the gate.
However, there are more and more Wuwei reinforcements at the city gate. At first, there were only four or five thousand warriors, but now there are tens of thousands of warriors. With these tens of thousands of Wuwei troops guarding the city gate, no matter how brave Ma Teng is, no matter how fierce his personal soldiers are, it is difficult for them to break through the siege. They can only fight the trapped beasts and fight to the death.
After Han Sui discovered that Ma Teng was cheating, although he hated Ma Teng in his heart, he was helpless. Compared to Ma Teng leading his army to fight back at the city gate, Han Sui's situation was even more dangerous. Because he was a mile away from the city gate behind him and was blocked in a narrow alley by many soldiers, he could not move and could only sit on the ground and wait for death, with no chance of survival.
But Ma Teng may have a glimmer of life. Because he is only fifty steps away from the city gate, and because he led his army to fight with the Wuwei army, there are no arrows, rolling woods and stones above his head, he can fight with all his strength. As long as he can break through the layers of interception of the Wuwei army at the city gate, he may be able to fight a bloody path and escape from the heaven of birth.
Han Sui, who was in desperate situation, looked at the tall and strong stone walls on both sides of the narrow alley with a frown, and felt very regretful. He really regretted that he shouldn't believe Ma Teng's instigation and sent troops to attack the Xiushu horse farm, and shouldn't have ordered Yan Yan to lead his army into the city. However, he himself was greedy for tens of thousands of war horses in the horse farm and led his army into the city by a tragic act. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the city, he was blocked by the Wuwei army in the narrow alley, and was immediately congested by his soldiers, trapped in the stone wall and could not escape.
In a turmoil, Han Sui was frightened and felt helpless and had no support and his death was approaching. In an instant, he was shocked and confused than ever before, and deeply regretted many things he had done in most of his life. The thing that made him regret the most was that he should not be enemies with Li Li, especially that he should not provoke the Wuwei army repeatedly. Even if he was defeated by Li Li in succession, he still did not repent and sent troops to conquer the Wuwei army under Li Li's command, which led to the disaster of the death of the wasteland today.
To put it in detail, Li Li is indeed extraordinary, and his civil and military skills are the only ones in Han Sui's life. He is actually a hero. Occasionally, Han Sui also thought that if he met a talented hero like Li Li when he was young, his life trajectory would be different from that now. Perhaps he would defect to Li Li, give advice for him, fight in all directions, and become a true famous scholar in Western Liang.
However, luck makes people feel bad, Li Li is too young and too late to be born! When Han Sui was quite successful and dominate Liangzhou, Li Li suddenly appeared in Xiliang, and wanted to seize food from his tiger's mouth, seize his Wuwei County, and kill the two generals Cheng Yin and Li Kan. In this way, if Han Sui could remain indifferent and ignore him, he would probably have no shame to stay in Liangzhou again. Therefore, God destined that the conflict between him and Li Li was irreconcilable, and he could only be an enemy in this life, without any opportunity to shake hands and make peace and live in peace.
The hero is the hero after all. Even though Li Li is very young, his literary talent and martial arts are eye-catching, and he is invincible in Liangzhou. The eight tribes of Liangzhou, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, Liang Xing, Yang Qiu and Zhang Heng, all of them were destroyed within half a year. With this point, Han Sui sighed that he was not as good as he fought with the eight generals for ten years, but failed to annex them. However, Li Li slapped the eight tribes in a row. Compared with each other, the gap was so big!
Such a huge gap forced Han Sui and Ma Teng to get together. The two of them joined forces to fight against Li Li. They had been fighting each other for nearly a year, and now they are finally about to see the truth.
Tonight, Han Sui and Ma Teng's army were trapped in the iron walled city, and their lives were hanging on the line. Whoever belonged to Liangzhou will be settled tonight. If the Wuwei Army wins this battle, the Wuwei Army will be able to dominate Liangzhou from now on, and then send troops to pacify the entire Liangzhou area, realizing the first Liangzhou unification since Emperor Huan.
"call out---"
"Be careful of hidden arrows!"
"Bang!" When a sudden golden feather arrow penetrated Han Sui's left chest, he heard the shout of his adopted son Yan Yan.
"Ah!" But all this came too quickly, and Yan Yan's warning voice came too late. Han Sui recalled the past when he was shot in the chest by a hidden arrow, causing him to scream and fall to the side. Fortunately, the narrow alley was crowded, and his tilted body did not fall off his horse, but was supported by the personal soldiers beside him, leaning on the back of the horse's mount Tongyun Divine Horse, and almost fainted on the spot.
"Yanming, hurry up, save me!"
With the help of his personal soldiers, the golden feathered arrow inserted on Han Sui's left chest was broken. However, Han Sui screamed loudly due to the severe pain and shouted at the top of his lungs that Yan Yan should come and save him.
"Don't be afraid of the adoptive father, Yanming will be here soon!"
Yan Yan, who was fifty steps ahead of Han Sui, heard Han Sui's call for help at the first time. In an instant, Yan Yan shouted loudly, stood up and stood on the horse's back with difficulty, and the spear in his hand danced into a spiral shape, thereby resisting the rain of arrows flying in the sky. He stepped on the shoulders and heads of many soldiers and quickly hiked towards Han Sui.
He was very skilled and brave. Yan Yan abandoned the war horse, stomped on the horse's back, and ran to Han Sui on the bodies of many soldiers. This move made many Han Sui soldiers admire him, especially Yan Yan's filial piety who was eager to save his father, which was seen by many soldiers.
However, none of them noticed that when Yan Yan stood up and stood on the back of the horse, he stepped on an iron-tied bow under the belly of the war horse and fell to the ground. If a careful person saw the small movements under Yan Yan's feet, he would be shocked, because if he wanted to hit Han Sui's chest, the hidden arrow must come from the front of Han Sui, and Yan Yan happened to be fifty steps in front of Han Sui. Otherwise, the arrows from above the head would definitely not hit Han Sui's chest unless the arrows would turn automatically.
What is even more surprising is that Han Sui looked around Yan Yan's figure, but did not see him. However, the moment Han Sui was shot, the first person to call for warning was Yan Yan.
It’s a pity that Han Sui was feeling uneasy just now and was looking back on the past, so he didn’t notice where the hidden arrow came from. It was not until the moment he was caught that he came back to his senses, but it was too late and he was already in danger.
The arrow shot extremely accurately and with great force. The arrow penetrated the armor and penetrated Han Sui's chest several inches, almost passing through his chest. If Han Sui had not been extremely agile and turned slightly when the hidden arrow approached, the arrow would have shot the center of the heart, causing him to die suddenly. Even though he was lucky enough to avoid an arrow piercing his heart, he was still stabbed into most of his chest by the hidden arrow, vomiting blood in his mouth, and his life was in danger, and he might die at any time.
"It's true that a filial son is born in poverty, and true love is revealed in times of trouble! Yanming, hurry up, take him away as his father, leave here??????"
Seeing that Yan Yan was rushing to him in the rain of arrows regardless of his own safety, Han Sui sighed with blood on the corner of his mouth, then grabbed Yan Yan's arm tightly and gasped in a hurry and said in a sarcasm.
"Don't worry, even if the child sacrifices his life today, he will protect his adoptive father from returning to Jincheng safely!" Yan Yan said loudly with a decisive expression. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!