On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 226 Sudden Changes
A round of bright moon hung in the night sky. On the field south of Wuxi County, Gu Ziyuan galloped towards the county with a feathered arrow stuck in his left arm.

Excessive blood loss made Gu Ziyuan's lips turn white and his face pale.

The sharp pain irritated his nerves.

Dozens of Sui army scouts chased after Gu Ziyuan.

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

Gu Ziyuan didn't care about his horsepower, and he gritted his teeth to support himself. He raised his whip and galloped his horse, and finally rushed to the foot of Wuxi city before the Sui army's cavalry approached.

The movement outside the city has already alarmed Shen Xuanzhang and others.

"Who is coming!"

Ye slightly shouted.

Gu Ziyuan endured the severe pain and shouted:

"I'm Gu Ziyuan, let go of the hanging basket!"

"It's indeed Gu Ziyuan's voice!"

"Quick! Put the hanging basket!"

"Fire the arrows! Drive away the pursuers! Shoot the arrows!"

A rain of arrows caused the chasing Sui cavalry to flee in embarrassment. Gu Ziyuan abandoned the horse that 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 Xuanzhang was eager to find out what was going on.

Gu Ziyuan was already very weak at this time, he said in a crying voice:
"Defeated, all defeated. Gao Zhihui and Wang Wenjin's coalition forces were ambushed by the Sui army in the south of Wu County. Gao Zhihui was captured, Wang Wenjin died, and there was no more reinforcements. If you can escape alone, come to Wuxi to report."

Shen Xuanxuan only felt his eyes go dark, if it wasn't for Gu Shixing, Ye Lue and others to support him, he would almost fall to the ground.

"How can this happen! How can this happen!"

Shen Xuanzhang couldn't believe it. The belief that supported him in sticking 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 Xuanzan accept this.

No one at the scene doubted Gu Ziyuan. Gu Ziyuan was a member of the small gang in Suzhou before they raised their righteousness.

No one knew that he had a private relationship with Huangfu Ji, otherwise Shen Xuanji would not let him besiege Wu County.

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

Sending someone to take Gu Ziyuan to the city to heal his wounds, Shen Xuanji, Ye Lue, Gu Shixing, Lu Mengsun and others looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a while.

What is even more frightening is that many soldiers gathered around just now, and what Gu Ziyuan said fell into their ears.

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

Gao Zhihui and Wang Wenjin were both stumped, presumably Yang Jian would not urge the Sui army to attack, Cui Che could slowly trap himself to death.

In Wuxi city, food and grass are still sufficient for the time being, but how long can they last without reinforcements from outside.

Seeing that Shen Xuanji had lost his mind, Lu Mengsun said in a low voice to the soldiers:

"What happened tonight is not allowed to spread, and those who disobey the order will die!"

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

Perhaps it was Gu Ziyuan who rushed into Wuxi City, which angered Cui Che, the chief general of the Sui Army.

The Wuxi defenders spent the night in panic.

In the early morning of the next day, some cavalry soldiers of the Sui army carried two heads and a large number of flags of high wisdom and Wang Wenjin around Wuxi City to show off their might.

Due to the threat of the archers, the cavalry of the Sui Army did not dare to approach, so Shen Xuanzhang and others could not tell whether it was 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 anymore, if the Sui army brings all the heads of Gao and Wang to come tomorrow, the situation will be irreversible.

"It's better to come forward to refute the rumors and boost morale. Your Majesty will lead the army out of the city and fight the Sui army. There may be a glimmer of life!"

Lu Mengsun remonstrated.

Ye slightly echoed:
"General Lu is justified. The more you delay, the lower your morale will be. If you continue to defend, we will only be the turtle in the urn!"

Gu Shixing also helped to persuade Shen Xuanji, hoping that he could make a decision early, no matter what the decision was, it was better than hiding in the city drunk and dying.

Shen Xuanzhang looked around at the three of them, sighed and said:

"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 puzzled when they heard the words.

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

Shen Xuanzhang stood on the high platform and shouted loudly:

"The Sui army is cunning and falsely claims that the reinforcements have been defeated. In fact, the coalition forces of Gao Zhizhi and Wang Wenjin have already passed Wu County and are about to come to Wuxi!"

The soldiers in the audience all looked at Gu Ziyuan who was beside Shen Xuanzhang. Gu Ziyuan was also dumbfounded, not knowing where he showed his flaws.

Before he could figure it out, he felt a pain in his back. Amidst the exclamation of the soldiers, Shen Xuan's personal guard pierced the dagger through Gu Ziyuan's chest from behind.

Gu Ziyuan's eyes were wide open, and he never figured out how Shen Xuanzhang could see through the identity of his internal response until he died.

Shen Xuanzhang raised his arms and shouted:

"Gu Ziyuan has surrendered to the enemy and deliberately disturbed our army's morale. Today, you all will go out of the city with me to fight the northern captives. At that time, the reinforcements will arrive and attack the northern captives together with us!"

The soldiers in the audience echoed him in twos and threes, while Lu Mengsun, Gu Shixing, Ye Lue and others looked at Gu Ziyuan, who was lying on the ground, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help twitching.

Shen Xuanji said earlier that one-sided words alone could not convince the soldiers, so he thought of a way, which was to slander Gu Ziyuan as an internal agent of the Sui army and kill him in public.

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

All of a sudden, he felt remorse, maybe he shouldn't have taken this path in the first place, maybe they were still in the Shen family's brother's manor, drinking in large bowls and eating meat in large bowls, without worrying about life and death.

There will be no scenes of cannibalism either.

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

In the afternoon, the Wuxi defenders marched out of the city from the south gate.

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

Shi Wansui, who came from Yixing earlier, was the front army, Zhang Wu was the left wing of the [-] Boling cavalry, and Yu Juluo was the right wing of the [-] cavalry, who came to protect the children and ruled ten thousand people as the backup, and Cui the rest. Che led himself into the Chinese army.

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