I admit defeat, but not my mistake!

Zhao Zhe's words sealed all escape routes.

This prince, who once commanded thousands of troops in the border areas, had a temper that was as harsh as the weather in the border areas.

You can die, but you must die with your head held high.

It is absolutely impossible to want him to lower his head and admit his mistake and then die in humiliation.

The border army generals headed by Tao Dayong came forward one by one to say goodbye to Zhao Zhe.

"Everyone, follow me, Zhao Zhe, for the last battle today, and then we will go to the underworld together, and gather again under the Nine Netherworld, and we will have another showdown with the Liao people." Zhao Zhe sat on the wooden chair on the high platform with a knife and looked at it with a smile.

Generals under his command.

"You will be a hero in life, and you will be a hero in death!" Tao Dayong said with a smile: "Your Highness, the general is gone."

"The general is gone!"

"The general is gone!"

A famous general came forward and said goodbye to Zhao Zhe.

There are no unnecessary words and no unnecessary actions.

These people were just like they were listening to orders under Zhao Zhe many years ago. After receiving the military order, they performed a military salute, said that the general was gone, and left with high spirits.

Some people come back, and some people never come back.

And this time, it must be the last time these people receive their orders in the human world.

On top of the city tower, Zhao Suo's eyes fell on Xiao Yu, Luo Song, Li Guang and others who had just returned. The three of them had no excuses, but silently bowed their hands and said nothing.

Some things don't need explanation at all.

After all, it was just a serious gain or loss. Everyone on the city tower understood that with the qualifications and reputation of the three of them, the officials would not do anything to them. What's more, if they were to be investigated after the incident, they would indeed be investigated.

He was kidnapped and taken away, and it was not the conspiracy of King Jing.

In today's rebellion, more than hundreds of officials were detained by King Jing?

If everyone is really regarded as the accomplice of King Jing, I am afraid that the Song Dynasty court will be paralyzed immediately.

Zhao Suo's eyes fell on Xiao Yu for a long time.

Xiao Yu looked at his nose with his eyes, and his heart with his nose, standing quietly.

After a long time, Zhao Suo waved his hand, and Cui Ang appeared in front of Xiao Yu and others with a team of cadres.

Xiao Yu suddenly raised his head and stared at Cui Ang with sharp eyes.

"Brother Xiao, don't worry!" Cui Ang said with a smile: "There have to be some procedures that need to be followed. This is the responsibility of my censor Zhongcheng. It's not just Brother Xiao, all the officials who fell into the hands of the rebel king this time will be punished.

As long as the person who is investigated is innocent, everything will be fine."

Xiao Yu was tall, a full head taller than Cui Anglai. At this moment, he leaned down and looked down, saying: "Cui Huaiyuan, do you have any regrets in your heart when things have come to this point?"

The corner of Cui Ang's mouth twitched, and his expression became fierce: "I don't understand what Brother Xiao is saying. What does it have to do with me to rebel against the king?"

"People are doing it, but God is watching!" Xiao Yu exclaimed: "There is a god three feet above the head, Cui Huaiyuan. Is it really possible to hide it without anyone noticing? If you can hide it for a while, can you hide it for a lifetime?

?Thanks to you for having read the books of sages for decades, you are really wearing a human skin in vain!"

"Brother Xiao, be careful what you say!" Cui Ang's face turned purple: "At this moment, you should take care of yourself first! Someone, please ask Mr. Xiao to go to Wutai to rest."

The high-ranking officials above the third rank who had just been released from Zhao Zhe were immediately taken away by Ban Zhi and went to Wutai to await trial. As for the officials below the third rank, there was no place for them in Wutai. Those people could only

I went to Dali Temple or squatted in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.

I just don't know if these yamen still have enough officials to try these officials who are waiting for questioning.

Zhang Chao broke his horse and stepped forward. Dozens of steps away, he saw Tao Dayong.

Tao Dayong, who didn't even have a horse, stood with his legs crossed, leaning on a spear. He was shirtless, and his body was covered with shocking scars. New scars were piled on top of old scars, and it was unknown how many injuries he had suffered.

They have no cavalry anymore.

All the cavalry were led out by Qin Min, but they were still fighting with Wanyan Bage and others. But now they were facing the Dragon Guard cavalry led by Zhang Chao.

"Tao Dayong, put down your weapons and surrender, Zhang will keep your wife and children safe!" Zhang Chao shouted angrily.

Tao Dayong looked up to the sky and laughed, he paused the spear in his hand vigorously, and said: "Lieutenant, today's defeat, Tao's family should go to hell with Tao, how can they stay in this world and be bullied by others? This matter,

I won’t bother you, Lieutenant,”

"The great General of the Song Dynasty raised his troops to rebel, and ended up with what happened today, which caused thousands of soldiers of the Dingwu Army and tens of thousands of dependents. Tao Dayong, how can you feel at ease?" Zhang Chao pointed his spear and halberd at the opponent and shouted.

Tao Dayong took a deep breath, took a step forward, and said, "Lieutenant, do you know how many people there are in our Dingwu Army?"

Zhang Chao was astonished. The Dingwu Army had an army of 2,500 men. Some generals were short of quota because they had insufficient quota. But some generals had money and could support more troops, but they would never exceed 3,000 men.

"Twenty years after the formation of the Dingwu Army, Tao is the eighth commander. The first seven commanders all died on the battlefield." Tao Dayong said sharply: "So far, the Dingwu Army has a total of 85,430 soldiers.

Twelve people. But today, there are only 2,785 people who started the uprising with Tao. Does the Lieutenant know where the rest of them are?"

Zhang Chao was stunned for a moment and could not answer.

Tao Dayong continued: "Of the 85,432 people who died on the battlefield in the past 20 years, a total of 63,735 people and 10,155 disabled veterans were truly

There are less than 10,000 people who can survive and die on their beds. Taiwei, do you know that these people who died are their great-grandfathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers, Taiwei, do you know

Generation after generation, we frontier soldiers went to the battlefield year after year, in order to protect the borders of the Song Dynasty and to safeguard the tranquility of the Song Dynasty, but in the end, what did we get?"

Zhang Chao opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say anything.

Tao Dayong laughed: "My Tao family has killed thirty-seven men in the past twenty years. My grandfather and father all died on the battlefield. For a family like mine, among the frontier troops, you

Do you know how many there are? Our Dingwu Army is like this, so why not the Xin'an Army, Guangxin Army, and Anyu Army?"

"You, Mr. Tao, have been loyal for many generations, but now you have rebelled and conspired. Aren't you afraid of humiliating your ancestors?" Zhang Chao roared.

"Face?" Tao Dayong sighed: "Lieutenant, it is really beyond your power, so it will be fine if you die on the battlefield. Even if the command is wrong and your death is not worth it, it will be fine. How can there be a general who is victorious in every battle?

How can there be a sure victory? But we should not die under groundless accusations, and we should not die in an inexplicable injustice."

When Zhang Chao heard this, his heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but look back at the city wall. Zhao Suo's gloomy face was clearly visible on the city wall and under the canopy.

"When the Dingwu army came to Beijing, everyone was rejoicing, thinking that they had received incomparable honors and would become the emperor's personal soldiers from now on. However, what greeted us was not glory, but humiliation. Each and every warrior who treated the enemy as if they were nothing on the battlefield,

We have become like garbage here, being insulted at will. Is this what we deserve?"

"My colleagues in the Xin'an Army and the Guangxin Army died in mysterious circumstances, and they were still stigmatized after their deaths. Is this a reward for their decades of struggle and countless casualties?"

"If the emperor regards his ministers as his brothers and feet, then his ministers will regard him as his heart and soul. If his ministers regard his ministers as dogs and horses, then his ministers will regard him as a countryman. If his ministers regard his ministers as grass and grass, then his ministers will regard him as his enemy!" Tao Dayong paused again.

He paused for a moment with the bloody spear in his hand and said loudly: "The Taiwei should know these principles better than reckless people like me."

Zhang Chao sighed: "Zhang only knows that if the king wants his minister to die, the minister has to die; if the father wants his son to look after him, the son has to die. Tao Dayong, do you have anything else to say?"

Tao Dayong looked back at the generals on the left and right, and said with a smile: "When a man is about to die, his words are also good. Taiwei, these soldiers of the Fourth Army, with all due respect, are just a pile of rubbish. If the Liao people come, Taiwei will think

If we rely on these people to resist the Liao people, the Song Dynasty will probably be destroyed. Since we are bound to die today, let the court see what a true warrior is. Taiwei, do your best.

Are you ready? In the past, Xiao Changqing's ten cavalrymen defeated hundreds of cavalrymen from the Fourth Army. Today, Tao's two thousand frontier troops defeated one of his 50,000 cavalrymen."

"Arrogant!"

"court death!"

Zhang Chao hadn't spoken yet. Behind him, Qu Zhen, Huang Chun and other senior generals of the Fourth Army became furious and shouted at him one after another.

Tao Dayong was too lazy to pay attention to them.

The bloody spear in his hand was raised high.

As he raised his spear, behind him, two thousand border troops raised their swords and spears at the same time.

ha!

A shout shook the heavens, and the expressions of thousands of people changed.

Tao Dayong's spear drew a circle in the air, and the formation of the two thousand frontier troops behind him immediately changed formations, forming three cone-shaped attack formations.

With their spears pointing forward, the three cone-shaped formations slowly advanced.

The low drumbeats were accompanied by the low singing of war songs, and the soldiers on the border marched forward in unison, ignoring the armored horses in front of them.

Zhang Chao took a deep breath and raised the saber in his hand high.

Falling suddenly.

On the city, Zhang Cheng shouted sharply: "Fire the arrow!"

Countless arrows shot out of the string, almost covering the sky.

Under the cover of arrow rain, thousands of cavalry galloped forward. These senior generals of the Fourth Army led by Qu Zhen and Huang Chun firstly felt the contempt and anger of the other party, and secondly, they also wanted to show off in front of the officials.

He showed his face and proved that he was not a piece of Maple Leaf. At this moment, he was fighting bravely to be the first to attack.

Of course, the opponent has no cavalry.

The war horses rushed into the soldiers on the border.

The first few steps were as fast as a broken bamboo.

If you take more than ten steps, you will immediately find it difficult to move.

They thought that the frontier soldiers would dodge left and right when faced with the violent charge of the war horses, so that they would have a path, and then they could ride on their horses and kill the frontier soldiers on the left and right.

Unexpectedly, these soldiers refused to retreat.

Some soldiers raised their spears, held the spears with both hands, and bowed their bodies forward, waiting for the cavalry to crash into the folded spears.

Some of the soldiers on the border drew their swords and came close to the ground, with the blades pointing outwards and slashing at the four hooves of the horses.

Blood spurted out, and people fell on their backs.

More than a thousand cavalrymen could only advance more than ten steps, and could not advance any further.

Then the cavalry on horseback were stabbed with swords and spears by the infantry on the ground, and fell off their horses like dumplings.

Even people like Qu Zhen and Huang Chun, who still have some abilities, can only protect themselves.

The cavalry of the Fourth Army charged forward, and after a moment of handover, they were pushed back by the infantry of the border army under the command of Tao Dayong.

This made the faces of Zhao Suoxiajie and others who were watching the battle from the top of the city become even more gloomy.

As for Chen Gui, it seemed that his murderous eyes were not set on the battlefield below the city, but would sweep across Cui Ang's face every now and then.

Bastard Cui Ang, such a powerful frontier army, such a skilled frontier army, actually let him squander it all on the Hebei Road. Tens of thousands of frontier soldiers, how many are left now?

Where is the rest?

Chen Gui closed his eyes in pain.

All the border troops who are still alive are here!

And they are going to die soon.

No matter how brave they are, there are only more than 2,000 of them, trapped in a small square in front of the inner city, and they cannot escape the word failure after all.

Chen Gui's eyes turned aside again and fell on Lu Ben'an.

This Liao general looked at him very seriously, but the smile at the corner of his mouth could not be concealed no matter how hard he tried to hide it.

Every death here is a great good thing for them, because it means that in the future war between Song and Liao, one less hero of the Liao people may die.

Zhang Chao was not moved at all by the sudden victory of the frontier troops. For him, the battle in front of him could not be called a war at all. Under such circumstances, Tao Dayong and others were just

It's just a stubborn resistance. All they can win is that they can resist for a longer time.

The command flag shook its head, and one after another the troops of the Fourth Army pressed forward from different directions.

Every attack was a heavy blow to the flaws exposed by the border troops.

The number of frontier troops is rapidly decreasing.

But the casualties of the Fourth Army were even more shocking.

Today the border troops are unwilling to escape.

The Fourth Army did not dare to escape today.

It can be said that the combat effectiveness displayed by the Fourth Army today has far exceeded their average level.

This may be the last gift left to the Song Dynasty by people like Tao Dayong.

Fight.

Keep fighting!

The blood gathered into small streams before the inner city, dyeing the bluestone floor red, and then flowed into the distance.

The last frontier army was squeezed in front of the high platform erected by King Jing.

The scarred frontier soldiers tightly surrounded the high platform.

Above that is the leader they recognized.

Zhao Zhe stood up.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, Hong Yuan beside him immediately handed over a torch.

"Soldiers, come with me to the underworld!" Zhao Zhe laughed loudly, holding a torch in his hand, and walked around the platform. Wherever he passed, flames immediately burst out. I don't know when, they had already burned the wooden

The high platform was filled with grease.

"We are opening the way for the king!" A frontier general who lost an arm in the battle just roared loudly, then he crossed his sword across his neck and strangled it with force, blood spurted out, and the fire suddenly shot up, and the general's body

, lying back in the fire.

"Open the way for the king!" One by one, the border soldiers committed suicide with their swords, and the corpses fell one after another around the high platform.

Tao Dayong held a spear and walked calmly in the firelight, as if the firelight was not burning his body.

He walked up to Zhao Zhe.

Zhao Zhe had already sat on the chair again.

Tao Dayong sat cross-legged with a gun across his knees. On the other side, Hong Yuan took out a dagger and said with a smile: "I don't have the courage of General Tao. I was afraid of pain, so I left first."

Zhao Zhe nodded, and Hong Yuan inserted the dagger into his heart with a chirping sound until the handle was gone. Then his head dropped down, and it disappeared without a sound.

The fire is getting bigger and bigger.

Zhang Chao's eyes widened and he looked at Zhao Zhe, Tao Dayong and others in the firelight.

He knew that today's scene would definitely become the nightmare of many people's lives.
Chapter completed!