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Chapter 54: The Rescue Comes

Under the city of Shizhou, outside the land of three arrows, the burly figure was lying comfortably on the legs of a woman with a panic expression. She stretched out her furry arm and waved her forward. There was no passionate speech or a foolish official to make a wish. The rebels who were as cruel as a wolf were exposed, and they rushed to Shizhou City like a tide.

The components of these rebels are very complex, including Qiang wolf soldiers, bandits and robbers who occupy mountains and become kings in various places, as well as sand thieves and Hu horses in the northwest, and Tubo people who took advantage of the situation. After nearly a month of development, they have been surrendered by dozens of large and small rebels in the neighboring land, and now they have more than 50,000 people.

Although the equipment of these rebels was very poor, some of them did not even have iron weapons, let alone armor, they had already become crazy as they were as tempted as they attacked cities and robbed strong women.

Another wave of rebels of three or four thousand people rushed towards the city wall. At this moment, they were all full of common ideas, robbing money, robbing food, and robbing women...

Shizhou is now Jiange County, Guangyuan City. It is located on the northern edge of the Sichuan Basin. It guards Jianmen Pass and is a channel connecting Sichuan with Shaanxi and Gansu. Its strategic position is very important. At the same time, Shizhou is also a northern department that enters Sichuan. Once the rebels in the side enterprises attack the Sichuan area, the entire Bashu, which is not in trouble, will quickly decay, and the losses caused will be incalculable.

At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, in order to increase local rule, only counties were changed into states, and local administrative areas were also reorganized. Shizhou was under the jurisdiction of the General Administration of Lizhou (Governor's Office). At this time, the General of the Wuwei General Pang Yu, sitting in the formation of Shizhou, personally commanding the troops of Lizhou, and striving to resist the rebels' attack.

"Shoot the arrow!" Pang Yu roared in a hoarse voice: "Why not shoot the arrow?"

"No...no arrows!"

"Didn't there be 20,000 arrows yesterday?"

"Today, they have launched thirteen attacks, and now there is no arrow!"

Although Shizhou City has a strong and powerful man who can't open his door, what makes Pang Yu feel most powerless is that there are tens of thousands of rebels under the city, and they are so dense that they can't kill them. If one is killed, three or four will immediately rush up. The most helpless thing is that the arrow actually tells Xin at the critical moment.

"If there is no arrow, then use the rock-beating wood to smash it!"

"Abide by the order!"

"Bang bang..."

The sound of the rock-beating rolling wood rolling down sounded. The rock-beating wood that originally had a sharp blade inlaid with a foot-long length was now broken, and it was just a thick stone rolling. The rock-beating wood rolling wood roared and crashed into the rebel soldiers who rushed up the city wall.

The soldiers who rushed up the city wall screamed and fell under the city wall like dumplings. However, the soldiers who screamed and fell to the ground found that they did not fall to death, but they were not even injured...

It turned out that there were dense, dense corpses piled up under the city wall, and these corpses were piled up three feet high, only six feet away from the city wall. This height would not kill anyone, not to mention that there were countless human cushions below. The rebel soldiers who hit the city wall found that they had no courage, and they continued to attack with red eyes.

The neighboring land did not have any military tactics or decent means of siege. However, some of them were people. Almost every day, the entire Tubo tribe on the plateau came to join us. Although more than 20,000 people died in the city of Shizhou, the rebels around the neighboring land not only did not decrease, but increased by more than 10,000 people.

Regardless of casualties, the neighboring land actually used human life to build a slope against the city wall.

Pang Yu looked at the slope piled up with corpses, and his heart was filled with helplessness. Now there were less than fifty soldiers around Pang Yu. If it weren't for the fact that the place where he passed was too cruel, the people of Shizhou were worried that after the place where he broke the city, they would slaughter Shizhou, so they followed their wives to send their husbands, and their parents sent their sons to the battlefield to support Pang Yu's resistance, they would probably have been defeated by the rebels.

“What should I do now?”

Pang Yu couldn't help but worry about his future and the future of the people in Shizhou.

However, Pang Yu never thought of surrendering to the Qiang slave of the side of Qidi. Pang Yu was originally the chief magistrate of the Sui Dynasty. The so-called chief magistrate was the left and right guard guards of one of the sixteen guards in the Sui and Tang dynasties, which was in charge of palace access control and guards. The chief magistrate refers to the second general. In terms of military rank, he can be regarded as the colonel and the second general. In the 13th year of Daye, Pang Yu followed Wang Shichong and Li Mi to fight Luokou. When he saw Li Shimin captured Luoyang, he led more than 10,000 troops to surrender to Li Tang. He was appointed as the general of Wuwei and the general of Lizhou by Li Yuan.

The city walls have turned black and purple. More than 1,200 soldiers from the four regiments of the Zichong Prefecture in Shizhou were killed by nearly 1,000 people. Including all the minor and serious wounded soldiers, only less than fifty people were left. More than half of the more than 3,000 untrained civilians who were organized in a hurry were killed in battle.

Shizhou City still insisted. Pang Yu's only motivation to persist was that he did not want to be a slave of the three surnames, and at the same time he also repaid Li Yuan's good grace. Li Yuan did not care about his identity as a general of the Sui Dynasty. Seeing that he was tall, heroic, powerful, and knew the military law. Because he had been guarding the palace for a long time and was familiar with the court rules and rituals, he became the leading general.

As an old minister from the fourth rank of the previous dynasty, he actually won the position of General of the Sixteen Guards in the third rank of the new dynasty. No one except him won this honor. Therefore, Pang Yu also sacrificed his life for Li Yuan's grace. However, the cost of this loyalty was a bit too high, and his two sons had already been killed in the city of Shizhou.

Now he is in his forties, and the grief of a white-haired man sending a black-haired man makes Pang Yu's heart feel like a knife.

Loyalty comes at a price. Pang Yu used his practical actions to interpret his loyalty to the people of the world.

"Crack"

The iron chains tied with the rock-beating wood were already overwhelmed and broken into two pieces. Losing the rock-beating wood on the city wall was equivalent to Shizhou City losing its last line of defense. Shizhou City was like a girl who had been torn off the last layer of clothes and was trampled by others.

Pang Yu looked at the rebels who were rushing up the city wall like a tide, and suddenly clenched the horizontal knife in his hand.

"Eat the king's fortune. If you are loyal to the king, you will only wait for the city to be broken, and you will only have a passion to repay your kindness!"

With the last fifty soldiers, Pang Yu rushed over like a moth to the fire.

Seeing the rebel soldiers who were watching their victory, their morale suddenly increased. Although the soldiers and civilians of Shizhou led by Pang Yu fought desperately, they were still defeated by these crazy rebels.

"Dangling..." With a golden sound, sparks flashed everywhere. The horizontal knife in Pang Yu's hand was broken by a thick mace. Holding the hilt of a half-foot-long horizontal knife, Pang Yu sighed deeply and shook his wrist, and he pointed the half-foot-long broken blade at his throat, about to cut it off...

"General, look, we are saved, the reinforcements from the court are here!"

Pang Yuding stared at it and an army appeared in the valley in the north of Shizhou, pounced on the back of the side.
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