From a son-in-law to a favorite of the empress

Chapter 1113

"How to distinguish right from wrong?"

"It seems that there is no standard, and it seems that the standard for everyone is different."

Song Wu looked at the countless soldiers kneeling on the ground and said slowly: "How should I treat you?"

"Angry, collapsed, and then killed you all? But I can't do it, because after all, you have climbed up this tower, after all, you did not flee, and you are trying your best to fight the enemy."

"Your elderly parents are kneeling below, and there are hungry children in the house. I want to kill you all, except for causing tragedy, it seems that nothing can be changed..."

At this point, he laughed again and shook his head and said: "But do you want me to surrender? Haha! The Jin Dynasty has been established for 400 years, How much suffering and sacrifice have we gone through to get to this day. "

"I carry the blood and glory of the Song family, and the trust of His Majesty and the commander-in-chief, and come to this vast northwest... How can I surrender..."

He stood on a high place, raised the knife in his hand, and said word by word: "I am Song Wu! I have decided to serve the court! Live and die with Liangzhou City!"

"If there are brothers who still think of the court and loyalty in their hearts, stay with me and defend Liangzhou."

"If there are brothers who really don't want to stay, take off your armor, throw away your weapons, cut off your hair, and die here. I will let you go!"

The moonlight illuminated everyone's face.

The crying continued under the city wall.

Some people held their knives tightly.

Some people took off their armor, cut off their hair, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, and then went down the tower.

When the first person stood up and chose to leave, a large number of people stood up one after another, cut off their hair, and chose to leave.

More than 30,000 defenders, under the witness of the full moon, almost all left one after another.

At the moment of dawn, Xiong Kuohai slowly walked to Song Wu and said bitterly: "Three thousand seven hundred people, only three thousand seven hundred people are left."

Song Wu did not speak, but just looked at the bottom of the tower, and the people had retreated one after another.

The Ma family and the Yarkand army began the general attack, the drums sounded, and the trumpets sounded so desolate.

The east sky was bloody, and the morning glow was all over the sky, but it was not as red as this ancient city wall.

Song Wu took a deep breath and growled: "The Zhejiang army has another 20,000 people, and our Suzhou Guard and Liangzhou Guard each have 20,000, and we will fight them."

"Defend the city as long as you can."

Ye Mian clenched his fists and said: "The key is not this, but... Will the 30,000 people who left stay in the city honestly?"

Hearing this, Xiong Kuohai's face changed immediately.

On the other side, Ma Xinchang was already furious.

He threw the cup on the ground and shouted: "Who told you to launch a general attack? Stupid, as long as you attack the city, it will be a waste. We can't afford such a big loss."

"Why let the people come back? Let them attack the city and force those wavering soldiers to open the city gate for us!"

The vanguard general was stunned and said in a trembling voice: "Young Master, those are our elders and fellow villagers in the northwest!"

Ma Xinchang said angrily: "If we take over the entire northwest, they will be my fellow villagers. If we can't take it, they will only be the people of Dajin."

"Stop the attack immediately, shout to the city, and force them to surrender."

"Three If there is no movement within a quarter of an hour, force the people to climb up the tower directly. "

The vanguard general said: "No, too many dead people will anger those soldiers. What if they climb up the tower and fight us again..."

"Stupid!"

Ma Xinchang said in a deep voice: "If they were from the Beijing camp or other soldiers, I would believe they were loyal, but they are from Gansu, Xihai and other places..."

"They are more inclined to our Ma family! They are not so loyal to the court! They just want to live!"

"Immediately follow the order! Immediately!"

Soon, the Ma family and Yarkand stopped the attack.

The soldiers gathered together and began to shout.

"Brothers of Liangzhou Guard, surrender, we are all family, don't kill each other anymore."

"Open the city gate and reunite with your parents. You will be rewarded when Liangzhou Guard is captured."

"Our life is hard enough. If we continue to fight, all our families will die."

The last sentence is the key point. It is undoubtedly a stab to the deserters of Liangzhou Guard.

The 30,000 Gansu soldiers who had already left the tower could not help but look towards the gate when they heard this.

On the tower, Song Wu and others were already full of despair.

Ye Mian said: "The other side is so shameless that they want to use the people to attack the city. I am afraid that those unsteady cowards below will open the city gate."

Xiong Kuohai immediately said: "These traitors! Is there any way to stop them?"

Ye Mian sighed and said: "We only have 20,000How can we stop 30,000 people when facing the enemy's attack? "

"There is no way, Liangzhou...cannot be defended."

Song Wu looked at the bloody sky and murmured: "Send 5,000 troops to defend the city. These soldiers have no weapons and armor. 30,000 people may not be able to break through the defense line of 5,000 people."

"We have less than 20,000 people left. We have to grit our teeth and defend the tower as long as we can."

"Things are difficult in themselves. We have no choice but to do our best. ”

The war started again. The civilians mixed with the Ma family army began to attack the city. The Zhejiang army of less than 20,000 people resisted with all their strength. The situation was very dangerous.

The soldiers below were kowtowing. They begged Song Wu to surrender and let their families live.

Song Wu was determined at this moment. How could he give up? He ignored it and just ordered that anyone who dared to approach the city gate would be killed directly.

So, the defense battle of the tower and the defense battle of the city gate started at the same time.

In this scorching sun, they persisted hard, but they were stretched everywhere. Every wave of attack was carried out desperately.

How long can this last?

The city gate was about to be lost. The 5,000 people inside were fighting fiercely against 30,000 people.

Wearing armor and swords, the 5,000 troops were certainly not afraid of 30,000 bare-handed soldiers. It might be one thing to win, but it was another thing to defend the city gate.

They did not suffer much loss and killed many enemies, but they were still defeated by 30,000. The man used his flesh to break a hole.

At 2:00 p.m., the city gate was finally opened.

Countless Gansu soldiers rushed out to reunite with their families.

The Ma family army and the Yarkand army seized the opportunity and began to rush into the city.

Liangzhou City was finally breached.

Song Wu stared blankly at the Gansu Town soldiers rushing out of the city, looking for his family among the people, and watching the Ma family army and the Yarkand people squeeze in.

He opened his mouth, unable to say a word, his eyes were red, and he clenched his fists.

Ye Mian sighed, "It will take time for the Gansu Town army to leave the city. Although the Ma family army is squeezing in, not many people can squeeze in for the time being. We still have a short time... retreat..."

He looked at Song Wu and whispered, "Staying on the tower means waiting to be killed. Going into the city and fighting with them in narrow street battles will allow us to hold out longer. "

Song Wu turned around, wiped his face with his back to them, and said in a hoarse voice: "Destroy the Portuguese cannon, then retreat to the northern city, occupy various streets, set up strongholds and fight them."

"Tonight may be the moment of the decisive battle."

"Everyone, we are defeated."