On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 226 Something unexpected happened

A bright moon hung in the night sky. In the wilderness south of Wuxi County, Gu Ziyuan galloped towards the county, with an arrow stuck in his left arm.

Excessive blood loss caused Gu Ziyuan's lips to turn white and his face to be colorless.

Severe pain stimulated his nerves.

Dozens of Sui army scouts chased behind Gu Ziyuan.

The Sui army monitoring the south of the city blew the horn, and more cavalry rushed out from the camp.

Gu Ziyuan did not care about his horse power, and he gritted his teeth to support himself. He raised his whip and galloped his horse, and finally rushed to the gate of Wuxi City before the Sui army's cavalry approached.

The movement outside the city had already alarmed Shen Xuanzao and others.

"Who is coming!"

Ye Lue shouted.

Gu Ziyuan endured the severe pain and shouted:

"I'm Gu Ziyuan, release the basket quickly!"

"It is indeed Gu Ziyuan's voice!"

"Quick! Put the hanging basket down quickly!"

"Fire the arrow! Drive away the pursuers! Fire the arrow quickly!"

A shower of arrows caused the chasing Sui army cavalry to run away in panic. Gu Ziyuan abandoned his horse, which was about to lose strength, and was pulled up to the city wall in a hanging basket.

"Didn't I ask you to besiege Wu County? Why did you come to Wuxi!"

Shen Xuanzao was eager to find out what was going on.

Gu Ziyuan was already extremely weak at this time, and he said with a cry:

"Defeated, completely defeated. The coalition forces of Gao Zhihui and Wang Wenjin were ambushed by the Sui army south of Wu County. Gao Zhihui was captured, Wang Wenjin died, and there were no more reinforcements. Our troops were in great disarray and would collapse without a fight. I just

If you can escape alone, come to Wuxi to report the news."

Shen Xuanyu felt his eyes go dark. If it weren't for Gu Shixing, Ye Lue and others who supported him, he almost fell to the ground.

"How could this happen! How could this happen!"

Shen Xuanzhao couldn't believe it. The belief that supported him in holding on to Wuxi was Gao Zhizhi and Wang Wenjin's reinforcements. Now Gu Ziyuan told him that Wang Wenjin was dead, and Gao Zhizhi was no different from death. How could Shen Xuanzhao accept this?

No one present doubted Gu Ziyuan. Gu Ziyuan was one of their own in the small gang in Suzhou before they started the uprising.

No one knew that he had any private dealings with Huangfu Ji, otherwise Shen Xuanyu would not have let him besiege Wu County.

Now that Gu Ziyuan was seriously injured and almost lost half his life, Shen Xuanyu and others believed what he said.

Someone was sent to take Gu Ziyuan to the city for treatment. Shen Xuanyu, Ye Lue, Gu Shixing, Lu Mengsun and others looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a while.

What was even more frightening was that many soldiers had gathered just now, and what Gu Ziyuan said fell in their ears.

Shen Xuanyu glanced at the frightened faces. He wanted to boost morale, but he didn't know how to encourage the soldiers.

Gao Zhizhi and Wang Wenjin were defeated, so Yang Jian would not urge the Sui army to attack, and Cui Che could slowly trap himself to death.

There is enough food and grass in the city of Wuxi for the time being, but without reinforcements from outside, how long can it last?

Seeing that Shen Xuanzao had run out of ideas, Lu Mengsun said in a deep voice to the soldiers:

"What happened tonight is not allowed to be spread out. Anyone who disobeys the order will die!"

The soldiers agreed one after another, but that night, Gao Zhizhi, the news of Wang Wenjin's defeat still spread in the city.

Perhaps Gu Ziyuan's rush into Wuxi City made Cui Che, the commander-in-chief of the Sui Army, angry. There were always Sui Army cavalry wandering outside the city. Shen Xuanzao wanted to send people to Wu County to verify the news, but was repeatedly intercepted and killed by the Sui Army's sentry cavalry.

The Wuxi defenders spent the night in panic.

Early the next morning, there were Sui army cavalrymen carrying two heads and a lot of high intelligence, and Wang Wenjin's flag paraded around the city of Wuxi in full force.

Forced by the threat of archers, the Sui cavalry did not dare to approach, so Shen Xuanyu and others could not tell whether they were the heads of Gao Zhizhi and Wang Wenjin.

But it is obvious that the morale of the defenders in the city has dropped to the bottom.

"Your Majesty, we can't go on like this. If we wait until tomorrow when all the heads of Generals Gao and Wang of the Sui Army are delivered, the situation will be difficult to recover.

"Why don't you come forward to refute the rumors and boost morale? Your Majesty will lead the army out of the city and fight the Sui army in a decisive battle. Maybe there will be a glimmer of hope!"

Lu Mengsun advised.

Ye Lue echoed:

"General Lu's words are reasonable. The longer we delay, the lower our morale will be. If we continue to defend, we will only be the turtles in the urn!"

Gu Shixing also helped to persuade Shen Xuanyao, hoping that he could make a decision early. No matter what decision it was, it was better than hiding in the city and dreaming about it.

Shen Xuanyu looked around the three people and sighed:

"The defeat of Gao Zhizhi and Wang Wenjin is already well known. My words alone cannot convince the soldiers."

Lu Mengsun, Ye Lue and Gu Shixing were all confused when they heard this.

At noon, in Wuxi City, Shen Xuanyao gathered soldiers in an open space in the city. Even Gu Ziyuan came with injuries.

Shen Xuanyu stood on the high platform and shouted loudly:

"The Sui army was cunning and lied that the reinforcements had been defeated. In fact, the coalition forces of Gao Zhizhi and Wang Wenjin had passed Wu County and were about to arrive in Wuxi!"

The soldiers in the audience all looked at Gu Ziyuan next to Shen Xuanyu. Gu Ziyuan was also dumbfounded, wondering where he had exposed his flaw.

Before he could understand the problem, he felt a pain in his heart. Amid the exclamations of the soldiers, Shen Xuanyu's personal guard pierced Gu Ziyuan's chest with a dagger from behind.

Gu Ziyuan's eyes widened. He never understood until his death how Shen Xuanyuan saw through his identity.

Shen Xuanyao raised his arms and shouted:

"Gu Ziyuan has surrendered to the enemy and deliberately messed up the morale of our army. Today you and I will go out of the city and fight the Beibei for a decisive battle. By then, the reinforcements will arrive and attack the Beibei together with us!"

The officers and soldiers in the audience echoed him in twos and threes. Lu Mengsun, Gu Shixing, Ye Lue and others on the side looked at Gu Ziyuan who fell to the ground with a lifeless expression, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but twitch.

Shen Xuanyu had previously said that he could not convince the soldiers with his words alone, so he thought of a way to slander Gu Ziyuan as an internal agent of the Sui army and kill him in public.

Lu Mengsun, Gu Shixing and others recalled the time when everyone called themselves brothers before the uprising, and thought that Gu Ziyuan was not afraid of life and death and risked his life to report the news, but was unjustly killed by Shen Xuanzhen.

For a moment, I felt regretful. Maybe I shouldn't have embarked on this path in the first place. Maybe they were still in the Shen brother's manor, drinking wine and eating meat without worrying about life or death.

There will be no scenes of cannibalism.

Although most of the soldiers did not believe what Shen Xuanyu said, it still gave them a glimmer of hope.

In the afternoon, the Wuxi garrison went out of the city from the south gate to form an array.

Cui Che didn't know that Gu Ziyuan was dead at this time, but his plan to force the rebels to leave the city for a decisive battle did work. He immediately summoned an army and formed an array in the wilderness south of the city to confront the rebels.

Shi Wansui, who had come from Yixing before, was the front army, 3,000 Boling fine cavalry were led by Zhang Wu as the left wing, 5,000 cavalry were led by Yu Juluo as the right wing, Laihuer commanded 10,000 people as the reserve, and the rest were led by Cui

Che led himself into the Central Army.

Three more chapters to go

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