Xiang Zhen was sitting on the dilapidated city tower of Guangshui City with a knife. Although his soldiers were exhausted, they were still trying their best to find ways to repair the city walls with gaps everywhere. To restore the height of the previous city wall, the thickness was basically impossible. They could only try their best to block the gaps by some broken bricks, rotten tiles and broken stones. It was just better than nothing.

The Northern Tang army is too vicious.

When Xiang Zhen's vanguard team, the army led by his confidant general Li Zuxin, arrived in Guangshui, the Tang army left behind in Guangshui City resisted for a moment and gave up Guangshui City. Li Zuxin easily gained a foothold and was overjoyed, so he immediately sent troops to Guangshui City.

Next, they will join forces with Liu Xinda's troops to fight with Shi Zhuang here. With a place like Guangshui as the basis, there will naturally be many benefits.

In their opinion, the reason why Shi Zhuang's troops, who were entangled by Liu Xinda, gave up Guangshui City was just because they did not want to disperse their troops everywhere and were defeated by them.

What they never expected was that the Tang army buried a large number of sulphur bombs and black gunpowder in the abandoned Guangshui City.

The Northern Tang army originally planned to kill Xiang Zhen.

Li Zuxin's original intention was to use Guangshui City as the location of Xiang Zhen's central army. However, an accident made Xiang Zhen decide to directly mention his central army to the front line of combat in Xianren Ridge.

Because the latest news from Ezhou has been heard, Wang You and Tengjian did not hold on for a day, and Ezhou was captured by Li Mi and Li Hao's coalition forces, and more than 15,000 Southern Alliance troops were defeated.

This made Xiang Zhen feel an unprecedented sense of urgency.

Now the facts are in front of him. If he does not join forces with Liu Xinda to defeat Shi Zhuang's troops as soon as possible, when Li Mi surrounds him, he will be the turtle of the man in the middle of the house.

He burned his boats and fought to the death, and took advantage of his military strength. Even Duizi had to defeat Shi Zhuang first. This is Xiang Zhen's idea.

Therefore, he just sent the heavy grain and grass tracks brought by the army into Guangshui City. In this way, when he was fighting against Shi Zhuang, he was not afraid of Shi Zhuang's attack on his logistics. He only needed a small amount of manpower to protect the logistics supplies. Now for Xiang Zhen, every power is precious, and he must do his best to fight Shi Zhuang.

Everything was arranged, and the army was ready to attack.

Late at night, a loud bang and an irrepressible fire turned all Xiang Zhen's ambitions and all his painstaking efforts into vain.

The Northern Tang dead soldiers hidden in the underground secret path in Guangshui City ignited fierce tinder oil and black gunpowder. The logistics supplies of tens of thousands of troops of Xiang Zhen and thousands of elite soldiers were gone in front of Xiang Zhen.

But this is not the most terrifying.

The most terrifying thing is that Shi Zhuang's main force suddenly pushed forward, and Liang Han tens of thousands of cavalry appeared near Guangshui City, followed by Li Gan's large group of infantrymen. These two groups alone had more than 20,000 people.

Shi Zhuang's main force is not in Xianren Ridge.

So, what is Liu Xinda doing?

Why did he sit and watch Shi Zhuang's main force appear here?

Xiang Zhen was angry, but panicked.

The information the scout inquired about next made him extremely desperate.

Liu Xinda ran away.

To be precise, it was Shi Zhuang who deliberately let Liu Xinda go.

If Liu Xinda was willing to work with him, Xiang Zhen, they would not have the hope of absolute counterattack, nor would they have the possibility of turning defeat into victory, but Liu Xinda completely ruined Xiang Zhen’s only hope throughout the journey.

An army of nearly 50,000 people has no logistics and reinforcements. There are strong enemies watching in front and strong enemies following behind. How can we fight this battle?

Break through!

Only break through immediately!

There are two roads to choose from. One is to break through to Jiangxi, and the other is to break through to Hunan. There is no third choice, one left and one right.

Moving forward is the boundary of Henan, where Tang troops are gathering in large numbers. Backward, Li Mi's right Qianniu Guard is coming in full force.

But both breakouts ended in failure.

Shi Zhuang set up heavy troops to intercept both roads. Several attempts ended in a tragic failure. More than 40,000 troops quickly shrank to half. More than 20,000 people either died in battle, surrendered or fled.

Three days later, when Li Mi's right Qianniu Guard also arrived in Guangshui, even the last glimmer of hope was completely cut off.

Xiang Zhen, standing with a knife, looked at the lit Tang army camp around Guangshui City, and felt confused.

The wind blew.

The aroma of the meal came with the wind. He couldn't help swallowing and his stomach also sounded. Tang Jun was having a meal, and his army had completely lost food today.

Or tomorrow is the end of your life.

The Tang army did not have to spend any effort to attack. Now that they are hungry, they can defeat their troops.

"General, eat some!" Li Zuxin's voice came from behind him. He was holding a large piece of porcelain bowl in his hand, half a bowl of black stuff inside.

"It's still half burnt, it's something to eat." Li Zuxin's voice was a little choked.

These were originally food and grass they carried with their army, but a fire in Guangshui City turned most of the food into ashes, and almost all the remaining food became such things.

Turning his eyes, Xiang Zhen looked at the soldiers under the city. Many of them were digging in the cracks of rubble and stones, and their mouths were all black.

Tears fell down again without being controlled.

"General, the wind is blowing, it's rainy wind!" Li Zuxin said: "It's going to rain heavily."

"It's raining heavily?" Xiang Zhen said in a daze.

"Yes, it rained heavily." Li Zuxin said: "This is the last chance. You must break through."

Xiang Zhen smiled bitterly and pointed to the surrounding Tang army camp: "Can you go? Instead of being killed in the wilderness like a rabbit, I would rather stand here and die in a dignified battle."

"General, keep a useful body to make a comeback." Li Zuxin shook his head and said, "It is naturally easy to die in battle, but are you willing to die here like this? Not to mention that your ambitions are not fulfilled, just this time, if Liu Xinda had not left the battlefield and sold us to Shi Zhuang, how could we fall into such a situation?"

When Xiang Zhen mentioned Liu Xinda, he suddenly became angry. He worked hard all the way to rescue Liu Xinda. At the end, the bastard ran away, but trapped himself here.

Why can he run away? If he doesn’t make some kind of deal with Shi Zhuang, will Shi Zhuang let him run away?

And the conditions for trading are naturally oneself.

"General, you have to go back alive and cut Liu Xinda into pieces, so that we can't die here with a loss!" Li Zuxin's fist clattered.

Xiang Zhen lowered his head for a while, then raised his head and said, "Even if I want to break through, how can I stick out?"

"There is a chance!" Li Zuxin said: "Look at this day, I'm afraid there will be heavy rain in the second half of the night. The Tang army is only staring at you and your men who are the best at fighting. At this time, the most reliable one is the unit we trained with great efforts and money. Others, I'm afraid that when the Tang army launches another attack, it will collapse."

"so what?"

"Divide the last elite into two parts, one breaks into Jiangxi, and the other breaks into Hunan. One of them, holding your flag and letting people put on your armor."

"This is too obvious." Xiang Zhen shook his head and said, "Shi Zhuang is not stupid."

"So, they will definitely think you are in another breakthrough team." Li Zuxin said.

"Aren't I there another one?"

"Of course not. You change into the clothes of ordinary soldiers, mix in the collapsed army, and only pick a few of the most loyal people to follow. At that time, the enemy's attention will be dispersed into these two established teams again, and the rest of the defeated soldiers, I'm afraid they don't care about it. This is your greatest chance to escape. Whether you finally escape to Yanzi River or Guangshui River, even if you hold a driftwood down the water, you can escape from the other party's encirclement and then find a way to escape." Li Zuxin said. "If this falls into the other party's hands, it can only be said that our life should be eliminated."

"A 50,000 army will be full of mourning in one go!" Thinking that even if he escaped, he would be alone like a dog from a broken family, Xiang Zhen couldn't help but feel sad.

"General, there is no shortage of people in the southeast. As long as you go back, you will have a chance. We have also seen this war that the elites you trained can compete with the Tang army head-on. As long as you train such a unit, you will have a chance to split in the future."

"What do you do?"

"I will lead the breakthrough without flagging." Li Zuxin smiled and said, "I will fight to the last moment and try my best to buy you more time. When it is really time to be unable to hold on, if I still have a breath, I will surrender. After you escape, if you have the chance, don't forget to ask the people of Northern Tang to redeem me."

When Xiang Zhen heard this, he felt sour again.

It's really a hero's end, and I'm short of breath for a while.

"General, let's start preparing!" Li Zuxin said.

At the third update, as Li Zuxin said, heavy rain poured down and strong winds came. People stood in the wind and rain, reaching the sight, but there were only a few steps around them. At this time, in Guangshui City, the last more than 20,000 Southern Alliance troops split into several routes and rushed out amid the shouts.

They actually attacked from all directions at the same time.

The Tang army obviously made all preparations. When Xiang Zhen's troops began to break through, they immediately faced a strong counterattack from them.

As Li Zuxin said, except for the Xiang Zhen's direct subordinate army divided into two branches, the remaining about 15,000 southern troops immediately lost all their command after a little resistance, and ran around in a panic.
Chapter completed!