Chapter 303: Xihe City Defense Battle

Those who came back with Ma Chao were not only the men he took away before, but also Ma Dai, Ma Tie and his subordinates, which brought about the total number of soldiers stationed outside Xihe County to about 5,000.

He Shao, who walked out of the mansion with his sword, wiped away the tears remaining on his face, and was soon attracted by the noise outside the south city. He listened intently for a while, and He Shao could guess that it must be Ma Chao who was back without looking.

It happened that a team of soldiers walked past the street in front of the mansion and wanted to change the guards in Nancheng. He Shao hurriedly called the guards of the team leader over and told him to close the city tightly, especially not allow Ma Chao's army to enter the city no matter what. If Ma Chao asked this, he would say that we were secretly casting a net to capture the wife and daughter of Governor Wu. Before this, please ask General Ma not to enter the city, so as not to alarm the snake.

After ordering the guards, He Shao called out four soldiers in the team, three of whom went to the east, west, and north city to tell the guards on duty what he had just said.

Another soldier, He Shao, ordered him to go out of the East City and rushed to the military camp outside the South City as quickly as possible. He ordered all soldiers from the camp to enter the city from the West City due to temporary emergency tasks. However, during the process of entering the city, Ma Chao's army was not allowed to accompany him. If he found that Ma Chao's army was planning to enter the city with the army, everyone would stop outside the city.

Four soldiers took the order and left. The leader guards also hurried to Nancheng, He Shaoze, and looked towards Nancheng, and then turned around and looked at the restaurant where Cui Yangyang and his group lived temporarily.

When He Shao arrived at the restaurant, it was already around 2 a.m. to facilitate everyone's understanding. Many parts of the book that involve time were described in modern time. The restaurant had already closed. He Shao walked straight to the shop house behind the restaurant and took a quick photo. The shop came to open with sleepy eyes and recognized that it was the county magistrate He Shao and was shocked. Then he opened the restaurant according to He Shao's intention, and He Shao entered the restaurant from behind.

The shop house was next to the back of the restaurant. It was quiet late at night, and He Shao's urgent decision was naturally heard in the restaurant. Other guests disagreed and turned over and continued to sleep. But Cui Yangyang and his group were different. Although the lights were not on in the room, the group was all listening to the movements around vigilantly.

So, when He Shao rushed to the second floor and was about to reach out to pat the room, a cold wind suddenly blew in front of him, and his neck was strangled tightly.

"Who are you? Who sent you here? Say it quickly."

The person who strangled He Shao's neck lowered his voice and asked fiercely. The person was Wen Chou.

He Shao was strangled and said with difficulty that he was He Shao. As soon as he said this, the room in front of him was opened. Sun Shangxiang pulled the ancient ingot knife into his left hand and his right hand directly into the house. Wen Chou was late at night and it was difficult to enter his sister-in-law's house, so he continued to stay outside.

Cui Yangyang had already been awakened by the sound of slapping, but because the arrow was injured and could not get down, he lay on his side, looking at He Shao entering the house.

With the vague moonlight coming through the window, He Shao saw Cui Yangyang lying on his side, and bowed to Cui Yangyang and said ashamed:

"I originally wanted to send my wife tonight. My daughter and her people left the city and cross the Yellow River to Anding. Unexpectedly, something changed. My younger brother He Feng actually... actually informed Ma Chao's subordinates about his wife's hiding from the city. It caused her wife, my little daughter and everyone to be in danger, and she was guilty of her."

Upon hearing this news, Cui Yangyang and Sun Shangxiang were both shocked. When Cui Yangyang didn't know what to do, Sun Shangxiang noticed the iron sword in He Shao's hand, which was vaguely covered with blood. He couldn't help but look and asked He Shao:

"Where is your younger brother He Feng now? Why does the sword in your hand contain blood?"

The tears that had just stopped in He Shao's eyes surged out again. He suppressed the sadness in his heart, and said:

"My brother's behavior is ungrateful, which makes my He family embarrassed and collapsed. How can I survive in the world? I have killed him, and the blood on this sword is my brother..."

Speaking of this, He Shao's tears flowed like a spring, and his sorrow was indescribable.

Cui Yangyang and Sun Shangxiang were even more respectful of He Shao's act of destroying relatives for justice.

Modern Chinese people have no beliefs. It is not true that they have no beliefs except money. But the ancient Chinese were different. Our ancestors did not believe in Jesus or Sakyamuni, but believed in a spirit and a culture. When a person deviated from these beliefs, the meaning of living will be lost in the eyes of the people around them; it will even affect and destroy an already healthy and orderly environment.

For example, loyalty and righteousness, integrity and filial piety.

A nation without faith will never become strong unless there is only one nation in this world, or other nations, have no faith. Because there are so many bad roots in humans, these bad roots often continue to expand in real life as humans are born with the innate expansion. At this time, faith can play a good role in restraining it. As for the law, it can only control what is shown on the surface. The law is powerless for the thoughts in people's hearts. The thoughts in people's hearts are the root of all behaviors.

A nation that lacks faith is difficult to be recognized by other nations with faith; even if they are at peace on the surface, they will be rejected in their hearts. The embarrassing position that the Chinese are in in the world today is in addition to the system, poverty, submissiveness and other reasons, lack of faith is also a very important reason.

The belief of a nation is often not determined by the people, especially in centralized countries. When faith is tied to politics, it is no longer faith, but a disguised kidnapping of the ruling group.

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The topic seems to be a bit far off. Let’s talk about the situation in Xihe County.

At this time, the noise outside the south city was even louder. Looking south through the window paper, you could see a large number of torches ignited - Ma Chao's army had already dispatched the entire battalion, and they were all lined outside the south city.

I wonder if the more than 300 soldiers under my command have entered the city.

He Shao was anxious.

Cui Yangyang and others were more urgent than him. Wen Chou patted the room outside a few times and said in a low voice:

"My brother and sister, there are a large number of enemy troops gathering in the Nancheng area. I wonder what happened. Can He Shao in the room know the inside story?"

Sun Shangxiang opened the house twice, let Wen Chou enter the house, and told Wen Chou about He Shao's younger brother He Feng.

After hearing this, Wen Chou was very convinced by He Shao. Then, Wen Chou walked out of the house and called the five tiger and leopard riders.

Soon, all five tiger and leopard cavalry came outside the house and bowed to Cui Yangyang, and then bowed to wait for Cui Yangyang's instructions.

After waiting for about half a minute, I didn't hear Cui Yangyang say anything. The five of them were wondering, but they heard Cui Yangyang suddenly say to Wen Chou:

"Fourth brother, where do you think Meng Xuan will be now? I really want to see him for the last time."

After saying this, Cui Yangyang couldn't help but feel panting; her body was too weak. At this time, Ma Chaojun knew that their group was in the city again. The sudden fright caused Cui Yangyang's already weak body to be covered with frost.

Wen Chou was so worried about it that he heard it, then he stammered:

"I don't know this... I might be still in Yunnan, right?"

After hearing this, Cui Yangyang suddenly felt desperate in his expression. He coughed a few times, took away the silk handkerchief covering his mouth and saw a touch of bright red blood on it.

Wu Ying, who had been awakened, got up inside and looked at the silk handkerchief in Cui Yangyang's hand and said in surprise:

"Mother, why are you vomiting blood? What's wrong with you?"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

Sun Shangxiang quickly walked to Cui Yangyang, grabbed Cui Yangyang's hand holding the silk hand and took a breath of cold air. He hurriedly comforted Cui Yangyang and said:

"Sister, you have to stay here. Meng Xuan must be on the road now and will arrive here soon."

Cui Yangyang smiled slightly, and her pale face made her look haggard.

Looking up at the house, the five tiger and leopard cavalry were still bent and waiting for her orders.

Cui Yangyang sighed:

"You don't have to be too polite. Along the way, thanks to your desperate guards, our mother and daughter did not fall into the hands of the enemy. I feel extremely sad about the many brothers you died in battle. Now Ma Chaojun has known the whereabouts of our mother and daughter. He has thousands of soldiers under his command, and I think our mother and daughter are already doomed. Don't make unnecessary sacrifices, just be a commoner in the city and escape this disaster."

Cui Yangyang's words made everyone look at each other and were at a loss. Cui Yangyang had already continued to say to He Shao:

"Mr. He, thank you for everything you have done to get out of danger. Although things went against my wishes, I still feel deeply moved. Ma Chao's soldiers are numerous and we are unable to fight against him. Ma Yun is better off breaking away from us as soon as possible, so as not to be implicated in the future."

Having said that, Cui Yangyang coughed again.

After He Shao came to his senses in shock, he immediately knelt on one knee on the ground, held the iron sword above his head and said with a serious expression:

"Madam, the wife and everyone suffer this disaster because of the misunderstanding and the improper employment of the people. I am trying to defend this city to make up for the previous mistakes, how could I ignore the wife and everyone in order to protect myself? If the wife insists on ordering her to leave, she will be willing to kill herself here and apologize to her."

The five tiger and leopard cavalry also said one after another:

"Governor Wu is responsible for the country and the people, and he is undisturbed and can be seen by all. Now that Governor Wu is hunted down by people, how can we stay out of our own business? Even if we live for a hundred years, we will be ashamed of our lives."

"Yes, I will put life and death aside, and I wish to protect my wife and daughter to the death."

Wen Chou also took the lead at this time:

"Sister-in-law, I can't speak with my brother, Meng Xuan must be on the road now. Sister-in-law should not be discouraged and desperate. As long as I have a breath, Ma Chao will not want to catch my brother and sister and daughter."

Cui Yangyang's eyes were filled with tears and she didn't say anything. The reason was that she was moved by the earnest words of these people; she was also that she was really weak and could not say anything.
Chapter completed!