The sky gradually dimmed, and the wind seemed to be more bone-breathing. The cave of the city gate faced north and south. The wind penetrated the hall eroded into the bones. Dong Si dragged a broken door panel from the place in the city for no reason, and then under the wall, he lifted an axe and split the rotten door panel into a pile of firewood. He lifted up a fire ring surrounded by a brick. The already dim fire light finally regained his vitality.

Wrapped the cotton robe tightly and put her hands under her armpits, Dong Si curled up in a ball, trying to reduce his size as much as possible. He looked up at the dim sky, hoping that the sky would soon get dark so that the city gate could be closed. These little guards would not have to squat here, but could go to the small house inside the cave in the city gate to keep warm.

He is about to be fifty this year. Although he is a military soldier, at ordinary times, at his age, there is no need to go on the verge of the battle. But this time, the high-ranking officials recruited the troops and brought them all over. The young man followed General Chen Qingzhi to rescue Suzhou a few years ago, and his own son was among them. And those of him were at the age of the city guarding the gate.

When he was young, Dong Si fought a war, but since then, he hasn't fought for almost twenty years, so he forgot what the war should look like. After receiving the recruitment, he finally found a rusty horizontal knife from under the bed. After grinding it for half a day, he finally got a little bit, but his leather armor was completely out of place. He was also thrown under the bed and bitten by a mouse.

"What good life is, how about you fight?" Dong Si sighed. The years have been better and better in recent years. Most of the land they rented have planted mulberry trees and half of them have planted millet. Although the rented seeds and the taxes and labor service are not light, the price of mulberry silk has been rising year by year in recent years. There is still hope for this day. At least, now there is a little grain storage at home, and the old woman's box has also been covered with a few ingots of silver. Her son also made a marriage not long ago. After the New Year and Spring return, he can marry a wife, and maybe he can hold his grandson by himself at the end of the year.

What a great day, why do you have to fight?

This made him feel resentful towards those who came to beat Suzhou.

If it weren't for them, my son wouldn't have to go to the battlefield, and I wouldn't be too old to blow the cold wind here. This passing wind is not a joke. If you get a cold and cough, you will lose half your life.

"I don't know if I can win this battle?" A veteran of the mansion who was equally old as him whispered while throwing wooden blocks into the fire. "I heard that the enemy is very fierce, Changzhou was defeated in just a few seconds. Suzhou is also extremely critical."

"Why can't you win?" Dong Si couldn't hear these words now, and his son was right in front of him. "We have 20,000 people. When you went out that day, you saw it. There were no heads and no tails. When have you seen such a formation? Besides, General Chen Qingzhi is so powerful! His body can stand up to the two of us. I heard that he can play with hundreds of pounds of stone locks like things."

"I hope I can win! Otherwise, this day will be miserable again." The old mansion soldier around him knew that Dong Si's son had also gone to the front line and nodded repeatedly. Their group had experienced the war disaster decades ago. For example, their place was pretty good, so they almost starved to death. Of course, they didn't want to go back to their past days.

When several people talked about the majestic scene of the army leaving the city a few years ago, they were all excited. Such a large army would naturally succeed if they went to rescue them.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the fire in the fire pit was shaking. They had to throw more firewood into it. Seeing this, they had to find something else to keep warm, otherwise it would be hard to bear at night.

"I'll get some more burning." Dong Si was a diligent man and stood up and said.

Before he could take two steps, a shrill sound of horns suddenly sounded above the city tower. Dong Si's heart beat, and then the alarm bell sounded.

"Close the city gate, close the city gate." Above the city head, the voice of Zhou Zhuzhou's Captain Zhou was a little changed.

Dong Si was shocked and rushed to the direction of the city gate. He raised his eyes and looked forward. A large group of people were running towards them. It seemed that there were not many thousands.

Holding the city gate with one hand, Dong Si and a few old soldiers had just covered the city gate, and suddenly woke up and ran towards them. Wasn't it the army that just set out here a few days ago to rescue Suzhou?

Is this a failure?

Dong Si's whole body suddenly became half cold, and he felt soft and could not use any strength.

"Old, close the door."

"That's our own people!" Dong Si opened his eyes widened and looked at the people who were getting closer and closer. Now he saw more clearly. It was indeed their people, to be precise, a group of defeated soldiers. Although he could not see the flag guards, some people were carrying knives and spears in their hands, while more people were bare-handed, but the clothes, armor, and two familiar faces. Who else could they be if they weren't their own people?

He expected to see his son's face from these people.

The defeated soldiers roared.

When Zhou Zhu rushed to the city gate in a fit of anger, the defeated soldiers also rushed in. Before he could blame anyone, Zhou Zhu grabbed a man who looked like a whistle leader and asked anxiously: "What happened? What happened before?"

"It's defeated, it's miserable." The whistleman waved his arm hard, trying to get rid of Zhou Zhu's pull: "Twenty thousand people are gone."

Zhou Zhu's face turned pale.

"Where is General Chen Qingzhi?"

"It's burning, it's gone into the water." The whistleman finally threw off Zhou Zhu's hand, spread his feet and ran into the city.

Zhou Zhu gasped, and the defeated soldiers rushed in like a tide, pushing him backwards. He grabbed another person with a hand and was about to ask about the specific situation, but found that the big man he was caught grinning at him. When the warning sign appeared in his mind, he felt a severe pain in his lower abdomen. When he looked down, he saw a dark short knife that had almost penetrated into his lower abdomen.

"Enemy attack!" He roared with difficulty. As the big man in front of him stirred the short sword fiercely in his belly and pulled it out, he fell to the ground with a bang.

The city gates were in chaos.

Among the defeated soldiers, hundreds of people raised their knives.

Liu Yuan, Qin Crazi and others sneaked into the defeated soldiers and rushed into the city gate. One occupied the city gate, and the other rushed straight to the city. With a firework rushing into the sky, a bang, Liu Ruyan, who was following not far behind them, and about two thousand cavalry led by Li Gan personally rushed over like a electric engine.

Hangzhou city is broken.

Qian Hongzong, the governor of western Zhejiang, fought fiercely with Liu Ruyan, the general of the Right Qianniu Guard of the Tang Dynasty in Hangzhou. About three thousand armored soldiers of his troops were broken by Liu Ruyan. Qian Hongzong himself was killed on the spot by Liu Ruyan's flying spear. Most of the children in his clan died in battle. With Li Mi and Ren Xiaonian leading the main force, the sporadic resistance in Hangzhou was completely wiped out, and western Zhejiang was completely under the hands of Liu Ruyan.

Taking over the western Zhejiang, Liu Ruyan quickly marched towards eastern Zhejiang. Ten days later, Yu Fuyang defeated the eastern Zhejiang troops who came to support western Zhejiang, and chased the defeated troops and rushed into eastern Zhejiang. It was as powerful as a bamboo shoot. He went to Tonglu, took Yiwu, and surrounded the main force in eastern Zhejiang in Shaoxing, the capital of the western Zhejiang Observation Envoy.

Eastern Zhejiang is in danger.

After receiving the line of help from Qian Hongshou and Du Xian, the Fujian Observer Rong Hong immediately mobilized his troops and prepared to go to rescue. Unexpectedly, before the troops were in place, the news of the fall of western Zhejiang and the main force in eastern Zhejiang was surrounded. In shock, he urgently mobilized troops to western Zhejiang. If Qian Hongzong could not save him, Du Xian would still find a way to save him. Even if Du Xian could not save him, he would have to occupy some territory in the chaos of Zhejiang to lay the foundation for the future.

When the land was in chaos, the sea was also surging.

Unlike Rong Hong who was still dispatching troops on land, the Lingnan Navy had already entered the southern Fujian waters very early. The navy commander led by the navy was Zeng Shou, the former general under the command of the Tang Dynasty Navy, Pan Motang.

Pan Motang's success among the Tang Dynasty naval masters made Zeng Shou jealous. Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in this world. Even if he wants to join Pan Motang again, it will be difficult to gain trust. The profession of pirates has become more difficult with the rise of the Tang Dynasty naval masters. Xiang Xun's recruitment comes at the right time and hit it off with Zeng Shou. Xiang Xun needs a suitable naval general, and Zeng Shou also wants to live a life like Pan Motang. The Tang Dynasty naval master is out of reach, but it is second to settle for the Lingnan naval masters.

He is considered an officer or a soldier!

Zeng Shou joined the Lingnan Navy with more than a hundred pirate ships. In just one year, the entire Lingnan Navy had expanded several times. Before the Battle of Liangzhe broke out, Zeng Shou brought this navy of more than 300 warships into the southern Fujian waters and launched a sweep of pirates in these places.

First, we are training troops, and second, we are going to completely quell the pirate rebellion to protect the southern merchant ships that went out from Guangzhou, Quanzhou and other places. After several months, Zeng Shou lived up to Xiang Zhen's entrusted and was invincible in the southern Fujian waters. As a former senior pirate, he was really familiar with the way and was able to defeat his former colleagues.

Zeng Shou, who had just completed the mission of this voyage and was about to return, received the latest mission from Lingnan and immediately set off for Liangzhe to rescue Liangzhe and aid the invasion of the Tang army.

Zeng Shou knew that his old boss Pan Motang's navy was currently traveling in the Liangzhe River waters, but at this time he was full of confidence and defeating the former boss was exactly what he thought about day and night.
Chapter completed!