Chapter 20: In Times of Crisis, Heroes Show Their True Colors

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Looking at Xiao Po, the flag bearer of the Eighth Regiment of the Polu Army, standing up from the sea of ​​​​blood in the mountain of corpses, Yunhui Army deputy general Chang Chenghu and the Yunhui Army soldiers who climbed up the Xiguan wall of Longcheng were full of surprise and could not help but take a breath. gas.

I thought to myself, whose damn general is this, so brave?

Chang Chenghu was even more puzzled. He racked his brains and couldn't remember when a figure like Xiao Po appeared in the Polu Army.

But soon, the flag bearer of the Eighth Regiment of the Polu Army, who seemed to be possessed by the God of War, began to sign up for his own number:

"Xiao Po from Shuobei, recruited troops in the 17th year of Daxin Zhenwu, and was the flag bearer of the eighth regiment of the Polu Army. There were eighty-seven heads of the bandits in the military tent. In the battle of Longcheng, more than ninety of the bandits were killed!"

"Xiao Po is here, Qi is here!"

"The flag is here, the city is here!"

The flag bearer Xiao Po, who had already become red-eyed, showed no fear when facing more than a hundred thieves by himself.

I saw him throwing the ring-headed knife with blood dripping from the tip on the ground, and then pulled out an infantry rifle from the body of a fallen rebel soldier and held it in his hand.

Stepping on the corpses of Pao Ze and the enemy soldiers on the wall of Xiguan City, they killed Chang Chenghu and his party without hesitation.

Behind him is the battle flag of the Eighth Regiment of the Polu Army that is still flying on the wall of Xiguan of Dragon City. On the scarlet flag, a four-clawed yellow dragon is lifelike, hunting in the wind.

Seeing this scene, the Yunhui army's Tiaodang team, who followed deputy general Chang Chenghu on the tower, immediately swarmed forward without any orders, waving long spears and short knives in their hands and slashing at Xiao Po fiercely.

The two sides have been fighting fiercely, and there are no stabbing skills or routines at all. They rely entirely on their survival instincts on the battlefield and their absolute superiority in numbers to attack and attack with deadly moves.

Xiao Po waved the infantry gun in his hand to resist, one against ten without falling behind.

The infantry spear in his hand is actually a long-handled spear. The spear is similar in appearance to the spear. The difference is that the spear shaft is harder, has no elasticity and cannot be used to flex the spear.

But the advantages of the spear are also very obvious. The pole is hard and the sword can chop continuously, and the power of the slash is greater.

I saw Xiao Po's tail poking forward, and in an instant he knocked over a Yunhui Army soldier who was wearing light armor and rushing at the front.

Then Chaojian swept across a wide area and forced back the enemy sword and shield soldiers who were rushing towards them.

Immediately afterwards, the spear tip stabbed the enemy soldier who was knocked over with lightning speed. The extremely sharp spear tip easily pierced the enemy soldier's light armor, killing another person in the blink of an eye.

"Xiao Po, the flag bearer of the eighth regiment, killed ninety-one thieves!"

Xiao Po roared angrily and pulled the infantry gun away from the body of the newly dead thief.

Another move was a forward slash, and the hard pole directly hit the enemy swordsman on the right. The swordsman couldn't avoid it and was knocked down by Xiao Po.

Immediately afterwards, he repeated his old trick and swept the sword tip with great force. He first forced back the remaining enemy troops and then killed the axe-wielding swordsman with a wave of his hand.

Unexpectedly, a long-sword soldier in the rebel army predicted Xiao Po's moves in advance. When he stabbed the sword-axeman to death with the tip of his spear, the long-sword soldier of the rebel army also used a powerful and heavy horizontal blow. He slashed at Xiao Po's armpit, which lacked armor protection.

"Xiao Po, the flag bearer of the eighth regiment, killed ninety-two thieves——"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Po felt a chill down his ribs, and his whole body was jerked backwards by the inertia brought about by the sharp blade cutting open the flesh of his armpits.

Fortunately, Xiao Po's reaction was quick enough. He first turned over and stabilized his body with his hands, and then with a single lunge move, he directly penetrated the thief who lacked heavy armor with his sword and took him away on the spot.

"Xiao Po, the flag bearer of the eighth regiment, killed ninety-three thieves!"

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Po killed three enemy soldiers in a row.

The rest of the Yunhui soldiers who gathered around him were immediately frightened by the murderous aura that could not be concealed on Xiao Po's body and did not dare to move forward easily.

It's not that these Yunhui Army Tiaodang soldiers are afraid of death, but the weapons in their hands are really difficult to cut through Xiao Po's heavy armor, but the infantry gun in Xiao Po's hands can easily penetrate their light armor. pierce.

At this time, Chang Chenghu, the deputy general of the Yunhui Army who had made meritorious service, also discovered the key to the flag-bearer named Xiao Po's courage beyond all belief.

It was only the dual blessing of his natural brute strength and heavy armor that allowed him to stand up from the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood several times and continue to block the siege of Yunhui's army on the wall of Xiguan City.

Chang Chenghu, who was also wearing heavy armor, naturally could not just watch this little man named Xiao Po become a stumbling block on his way to vindicate his crimes and make meritorious deeds.

He immediately rushed forward with the Huanshou knife in hand, shouting loudly: "Everyone, get out of the way and let me, the general, come!"

While talking, Chang Chenghu stepped forward with his sword in hand and faced Xiao Po directly.

He first struck the stick in Xiao Po's hand with a chopping knife attack, and then used a backhand lift knife to sweep across Xiao Po's neck. In just two moves, he forced Xiao Po back, and had to retreat to dodge its sharp edge. .

Even though Chang Chenghu couldn't hold on for a single round in Chen Huaian's hands and was knocked off his horse, as a deputy general of the Yunhui Army, he still had two skills when facing ordinary generals.

What's more, Xiao Po had been fighting fiercely with the enemy siege troops on the Xiguan City Wall for three full hours, killing ninety-three enemy troops. His mental and physical strength had reached the limit, and it was not easy to persist until now.

He struggled to catch Chang Chenghu's two consecutive blows, but his steps were already staggering, and he was forced back to where the battle flagpole of the eighth regiment of the Polu Army was.

Xiao Po threw away the infantry gun in his hand and picked up the ring-headed sword that he had thrown away a few minutes ago.

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Then he held a knife in one hand and supported the hard and cold flagpole with the other hand, looking at Chang Chenghu and the bandit soldiers who were approaching step by step with a firm and resolute look, and roared to the sky:

"The Eighth Regiment, the flag bearer Xiao Po is here!"

"The flag is there, the city is there!"

Chang Chenghu snorted coldly, waved the ring-headed knife in his hand, and said angrily:

"Go, don't use swords and knives, swords and knives can't break heavy armor, use hammers and pecks to smash and break his heavy armor!"

"Kill!"

A group of blood-thirsty Yunhui soldiers roared and waved hammers and pecks at Xiao Po, and their crazy expressions seemed to want to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

Let's talk about it separately.

While Xiao Po, the flag bearer of the Eighth Regiment of the Po Lu Army, was guarding the battle flag with his own strength and trying his best to keep the West Gate City Wall intact, the entire Longcheng City Wall was also caught in a melee.

Countless Yunhui Army siege soldiers climbed up the city wall along the cloud ladder and fought with the Po Lu Army soldiers who were defending the city.

For a while, in the narrow space of the several-mile-long Longcheng wall, the soldiers of the attacking and defending sides launched a tragic close-quarters melee.

The smell of blood and gunpowder mixed in the air, the metal collision sound of the fierce collision of swords, spears, swords and halberds, and the screams and shouts of the soldiers intertwined and resounded inside and outside Longcheng.

At this point in the battle, only the small area of ​​the city gate tower on the entire Longcheng wall had not been breached by the enemy army.

The brave general Pang Xianchu stood alone with a sword on the only way to the city gate tower, which seemed to be a one-man-guard-a-thousand-man-cannot-open. The steps under his feet were already full of enemy corpses.

On the city gate tower, Concubine Xu Ruoyun finally put down the drumstick and stopped beating the drum, and the family members of the royal palace also put down the various musical instruments in their hands, waiting for Xu Ruoyun's final order.

Xu Ruoyun looked at the figures of the Po Lu army soldiers who were still fighting hard against the enemy on the city wall with tears in her eyes, becoming fewer and smaller.

Finally, she said calmly to Pang Xianchu, who was guarding silently by her side with a sword in hand: "General Pang, I may have to work hard later!"

Pang Xianchu turned back silently and saw that the faces of Concubine Xu Ruoyun and the royal family were already full of tears and grief.

Xu Ruoyun continued: "General Pang, I am the princess of the previous king and the mother of King Jin. The royal family behind me are all the relatives of King Jin.

King Jin raised troops in Longcheng to fight against the rebellion. He is eliminating traitors for the country and stabilizing the country. He is following the will of Emperor Gaozu to clear the court and consolidate the foundation of the country. It is a just act!"

"So, the city can be broken, but I and the royal family must not fall into the hands of the enemy!"

"General Pang, thank you!"

As he said, Xu Ruoyun slightly saluted Pang Xianchu to show his gratitude.

"General Pang, thank you!"

Seeing this, the other royal family members also bowed to Pang Xianchu.

In this situation, even the brave general Pang Xianchu of the Po Lu Army, who had killed many people and was as steadfast as a rock, could not help but burst into tears and said with a sob:

"My Lady Concubine, I can still fight in the battlefield. I will definitely fight my way out and escort the Lady Concubine and the royal family out of the encirclement of the enemy army!"

"My Lady Concubine, please, please believe in me, you must believe in me!"

Xu Ruoyun just smiled peacefully and shook her head at Pang Xianchu.

"Whoever captures the flag will be granted a thousand households and rewarded with ten thousand gold!"

"Capture the Princess of Jin alive and divide the female family of the royal family equally, kill them!"

Suddenly, a roar with a grim smile came from the city wall, and the left and right Yuhou Army soldiers led by him also climbed up the wall one after another.

After this well-equipped and well-trained Yuhou Army joined the battle, the original chaotic situation between the two sides became one-sided in an instant, and the remaining soldiers of the Po Lu Army on the wall of Longcheng were soon submerged in the dark mass of the attacking bandits.

After the fierce battle, the Po Lu Army defending Longcheng had no chance of turning the tide.

Standing proudly on the city gate tower, Pang Xianchu looked up to the sky and howled in pain and despair: "Your Highness, Prince Jin, I am incompetent. This city was finally breached by the bandits!"

"Your Highness, if there is an afterlife, I, Pang Xianchu, will serve you like a cow and a horse to repay your kindness!"

After saying that, Pang Xianchu turned around with his sword, looking at the concubine Xu Ruoyun and the trembling women of the palace in pain, and finally raised the Longquan sword given to him by the former king Chen Po Lu.

Xu Ruoyun nodded to him calmly, and then closed his eyes silently.

Dengdengdeng!

Bang, bang, bang!

At this critical moment, Pang Xianchu's two ears suddenly moved, and he seemed to hear the sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground.

At first, Pang Xianchu thought he was hallucinating.

But as the sound of horses' hooves from afar got closer and closer, he finally couldn't help turning his head and looking in the direction of Longshan.

I saw the yellow smoke covering the sky and the sun sweeping all the way from Longshan to Longcheng, and the thundering sound of horses' hooves gradually became louder in the mountains.

Even Pang Xianchu vaguely felt that the city wall under his feet was shaking slightly.

Then, countless soldiers shouted in unison and roared straight into the sky, resounding through the sky:

"King Jin Chen Huaian is here, you traitors, why don't you die quickly!"

"King Jin Chen Huaian is here, you traitors, why don't you die quickly!"

"King Jin Chen Huaian is here, you traitors, why don't you die quickly!"