Zhu Gaozhi was wearing armor and sat upright on the horse, with Yan Liang and Zhou Rui on the left and right.
The infantry was about 30,000, and the cavalry on both wings were 5,000 each.
The torch soars into the sky, and the night contrasts like day.
About two hundred meters after reaching the Meridian Gate, Zhu Gaozhi tied the reins of the horse, raised his right hand, and made a stop gesture.
He looked up at Zhang Juling opposite him and sneered: "These are just a few people who want to stop us?"
Yan Liang smiled and said without saying a word, but Zhou Rui said, "...It's the prime minister who is very optimistic. We just want to take it in one fell swoop when they don't have time to resist, so as to save the trouble in the future."
Zhu Gaozhi praised: "It's true that it's a good plan."
Zhang Juling pointed his sword and took the initiative: "Prince Ling broke into the imperial city at night with thunder. What are you trying to do?
The emperor and His Highness the Crown Prince are both here... Are you trying to force the palace to rebel?"
Zhu Gaozhi was blocked and choked.
Zhang Juling's words undoubtedly told everyone that he was a traitor, his reputation was not right, and it was difficult for heaven to tolerate it, but everyone could punish him... At this time, it would easily affect the morale of the soldiers.
He gritted his teeth and smiled, "Mr. Zhang, don't mess around.
My father is seriously ill, why is I worried? I just want to pay homage to him and fulfill my filial piety."
"Your Highness Ling has such a big face..." Xu Pei's sarcastic meaning was obvious: "Thank tens of thousands of soldiers to the palace to pay homage?
The palace is just that big, don’t squeeze the walls and jades down.”
"you!"
Zhu Gaozhi's face turned gloomy. He had heard Xu Pei's poisonous tongue. It was the first time he really experienced it. He was so swearing: "I remember that the little marquis once defected to my disciple. Why did he turn against me faster than reading books? It's only a few days before, and I don't recognize me as my master."
"Sorry, Your Highness Ling."
Xu Pei raised his eyebrows: "The eyes are not very good, and the wrong master also has the behavior.
After all, knowing people but not your heart…”
The deputy commander of the Cavalry Battalion stood beside Zhou Rui and said, "Why don't Prince Ling have a quarrel with them? Just start fighting directly?
The little Marquis and the top scholar are from literati, and we are not opponents of our verbal skills."
At this moment, a man in dark brown and short brown was led by a soldier to Yan Liang, "Mr. Yan, he said that he was the servant of your Yan family, who came to report the news."
Yan Liang frowned, not knowing the person in front of him.
But there are many servants in the mansion, and he can't know everyone, "What's wrong?"
"The alley in our mansion was surrounded by people. The villain came over at the order of the master... The soldiers were blocked at the door of the house... They saw everyone chopping them down, and the gatehouse was about to be pushed down!"
He stuttered and his face turned pale, as if he was scared.
"Which soldiers?"
Yan Liang was stunned.
"The villain doesn't know, the villain sneaked out from the back door..."
Yan Liang thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "You go down."
The Yan family is guarded by Master Ji, so it shouldn't be in trouble for a while.
"Sir, is it okay?"
Zhou Rui leaned over and asked worriedly.
Yan Liang shook his head and winked at Zhou Rui, asking him to fight and win the imperial city quickly.
Among the descendants of the Yan family... although there is no legitimate child born to him.
But it is also the Yan family.
He would not harm the entire clan for selfishness.
Zhou Rui understood it carefully and called out to Zhao Youmin, the Qiang General, who was following him, "form a square formation."
Zhao Youmin responded loudly and quickly pulled five thousand people out, all holding seven-meter spears. Together with the deputy commander of the cavalry battalion, they formed a infantry and military formation distributed with crossbows, s and cavalry rules.
Jiang Lei was stunned when he saw it and was furious: "This group of dogs really look down on us!"
Of course he knew the power of the square formation.
This formation uses crossbow archers as the front row, and constantly adjusts the changes in the formation according to wartime needs, and engages in a desperate battle with the opponent in the most effective way.
The spear head is like a forest, and the square formation is like a mountain.
Not to mention that there are only two thousand people, even if their number increases ten times, they may not be able to beat this kind of iron wall.
He shouted: "Stander stands in front of me."
The north wind is flying, and the sound of killing is everywhere.
The neat and uniform marching steps were lifted and then dropped, and they were getting closer and closer to the direction of the Meridian Gate.
One hundred and eighty meters, one hundred fifty meters, one hundred meters.
The crossbow arrows like rain shot at Zhang Juling and the others. Everyone took out their weapons and blocked them left and right.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer.
The strength of the enemy and us is already very different, and the people from Shenji Camp have not arrived yet... Facing the opponent's crossbow arrows, the Jinyiwei and Jinwuwei were dodging, and there were many casualties.
Zhang Juling looked at her thin lips tightly. He held the long sword to protect her body and said to Jiang Lei: "Mr. Jiang, capture the king first... You can find a few people to cover me, and I will kill the two people who control the square formation."
He was talking about Qian Zong Zhao Youmin and the deputy commander of the Cavalry Battalion.
"Mr. Zhang, no."
Jiang Lei directly refused: "If you pass like this, you will undoubtedly die."
"If we let them live, our real death is..."
Zhang Juling rode a horse and ran forward.
The square array is extremely powerful.
You can defend when retreating, and you can attack when advance.
At this point, there is no other way, so I can fight hard and fight to the death, guard the last defense of the Meridian Gate, and wait for reinforcements.
"I'll be with you."
Jiang Lei grabbed his horse's belly with his legs and followed Zhang Juling: "Mr. Zhang is so brave... How can he miss Jiang if he wants to do something to cover up?"
As soon as they appeared, the crossbow arrows changed direction and shot towards them almost instantly.
More intensive than just now.
Zhang Juling did not dare to be negligent at all, and ran away, and in a blink of an eye he arrived in front of Zhao Youmin.
The sword was like rainbow and stabbed at his head.
Zhao Youmin is not a vegetarian, he has been owed much.
Holding a spear in your hand, you start fighting back.
The person has arrived close to him, and the crossbows are useless.
The square formation began to change, and the deputy commander of the cavalry battalion ordered the crossbow archers to retreat, and the infantry stepped forward.
Cars rushed to Jiang Lei and Zhang Juling like crazy.
Jiang Lei is good at fighting and is famous for his ruthlessness. He is so arrogant that his infantry can't do anything to him for the time being.
Zhang Juling's face was as cold as ice, and his long sword attacked Zhao Youmin with a fatal aura, which was very powerful.
The head of the escort who taught him martial arts at that time was a escort agency that was a man in the martial arts world who escaped from his enemies.
His kung fu mainly focuses on offense as defense, and defense is also offensive, which is very arrogant.
Zhang Juling is smart, learns from one example and learns more proficient than his master... Zhao Youmin has never seen such a move, so it is normal to struggle.
After a few rounds, Zhang Juling stabbed Zhao Youmin to death with one sword.
Once Zhao Youmin died, the core figures of the phalanx were the deputy commander of the Cavalry Battalion. Zhang Juling ignored the blood on his face, looked at the deputy commander of the Cavalry Battalion and smiled slightly.
He took advantage of Jiang Lei being able to barely hold the infantry, turned his horse and headed straight for the deputy commander of the cavalry battalion.
Zhu Gaozhi was frightened when he watched from behind. He asked Yan Liang: "When did Zhang Juling practice martial arts?"
Yan Liang narrowed his eyes: "I don't know either."
He really didn't know that Zhang Juling had always been published as a literati.
“It’s quite hidden.”
Zhou Rui interrupted, then looked up and was stunned: "Wu Dingling is dead!"
Wudingling is the name of the deputy commander of the cavalry battalion.
The square formation had no leader and was in chaos in an instant.
Zhang Juling rode a horse and rushed into the center... The long sword swung up and down, and blood flowed into a river.
His horse's leg was also stabbed, and Zhang Juling rolled to the ground, his left arm was bleeding from a spear.
At this time, Xu Pei led the Jinyiwei and Jinwuwei arrived, and the two sides fought together.
No matter how brave Zhang Juling and the others were, they could not stop a row of infantry coming up from behind.
Xu Pei and Zhang Juling stood back to back, their clothes were soaked in blood, and they couldn't figure out whether they were their own or others'...
Xu Pei was so tired that he couldn't even lift his arms. He glanced at the infantry army who was ready to move with a spear like a tide, "Mr. Zhang, we probably can't survive..."
"The final ending is not yet reached, the little marquis dare not underestimate himself."
Zhou Rui looked at Zhang Juling surrounded by a wall of people and smiled: "No matter how powerful it is, it will be dead sooner or later.
Tens of thousands of people fight with them, and they are exhausted to death."
Yan Liang did not respond, but waved to summon the remaining army: "...to enter the imperial city."
"Get into the imperial city!"
"Get into the imperial city!"
"Get into the imperial city!"
Tens of thousands of troops followed Yan Liang's shouting, and their voices shook the earth.
There were only a few Jinwu Guards guarding the Meridian Gate, and Zhu Gaozhi and the others didn't take it seriously at all. He slowly rode his horse in front.
His heart was in great excitement, and he felt that he was moving towards everything he wanted step by step.
At the wall of the Meridian Gate, many wing soldiers suddenly appeared on the city platform on the east and west sides of the north, each holding torches and arches hiding in his cuffs.
The spire-topped Que Pavilion at the southern end is even brighter by torches.
Wang Zhiyuan called out to Yan Liang: "Sir, look here. I have invited all the male members of the Yan family..." He stretched out his right hand and pointed at the dozens of people tied behind him and said, "Do you want to recognize him?"
He followed Zhang Juling's words and went to the Yan family, shouting and scaring him... Someone really got deceived, tied up Master Ji and others, and opened the Yan family's door.
He first instructed someone to inquire about the battle situation on Zhang Juling's side... and his subordinates around him, so this scene happened.
"Criminal, what are you doing?"
Yan Liang saw his beloved nephew, and his temples were leaping suddenly: "...Isn't it a gentleman?"
Wang Zhiyuan waved his hand, "I won't talk nonsense with you.
Let all your people stop... and retreat another five hundred meters, and I will let them go."
"this……"
Zhu Gaozhi was not worried about the lives of the Yan family. He only cared about the throne and whispered: "Sir, it is not easy for us to kill here. Why just kill in and save them directly? Wouldn't it be even more pleasant?"
"If you don't agree with me, I'll kill them now."
Wang Zhiyuan saw Yan Liang motionless, raised his sword and placed it on the neck of the little boy wearing a melon-shaped hat.
He knew the little boy, and he was Yan Liang's favorite nephew.
For the grudge between Wang Yan and his family, he kidnapped the little boy to defraud Yan Liang.
The cold back of the knife made the little boy shudder and cried out with a "wow".
Yan Liang's eyes flashed, his lips moved a few times, and his right hand raised high: "Everyone, follow my orders and retreat five hundred meters..."
Zhou Rui has always listened to Yan Liang's words the most, and when he saw him say this, he naturally obeyed.
Zhang Juling and others took a breath and helped each other to the Meridian Gate.
Yan Liang was about to speak, but countless torches and figures appeared in the distance. It was Yang Ruo and Gu Lin, behind them were soldiers from the Five Military Camp.
Before Gu Linren got closer, he spoke loudly: "Zhu Gaozhi, Yan Liang, you are so brave. The emperor and the prince are still alive, and they dare to force the palace to rebel!"
The countless soldiers behind him also agreed, with a huge momentum.
The commander of Shenji Camp also led the army from the north of the city and met Gu Lin.
Gu Lin was actually here too! Yan Liang glanced at the only Zhou Rui beside him.
When the soldiers retreated, he was making a deal with Wang Zhiyuan.
I never thought Gu Lin’s reinforcements would come.
Zhang Juling glanced at Yang Ruo, and the two of them were tacitly informed and held Yan Liang down with lightning speed.
Zhou Rui raised his big sword to rescue Yan Liang. With a wave of his right hand, Zhou Rui was shot into a sieve by a crossbow arrow.
Yan Liang and Zhou Rui were arrested and killed, and the army led by Zhu Gaozhi was in chaos.
Gu Lin whispered loudly: "You are just being deceived by the traitor, surrendering and not killing, and those who catch Zhu Gaozhi are rewarded for their merits."
He has been an official for most of his life, and how to stabilize the morale of the army and the hearts of the people can be easily used.
"Don't listen to him and attack the imperial city. I will give you an additional title."
The commander of Shenji Camp smiled heartily: "Prince Ling, are you a fool?"
How many people are behind you? Look at us, how many times that are you...
If we don’t accept it, we will fight with real swords and arrows!”
Zhu Gaozhi wanted to refute, but was captured by the commander of the crossbow archer. He shouted: "I am fascinated by Prince Ling, and I am willing to reform myself."
He was a member of the Shenji Camp. The commander of the Shenji Camp recognized him and waved his hand: "Bring Prince Ling here."
"Yes, obey the order."
As soon as he showed his goodwill, the soldiers behind him also put down their weapons.
What does the royal battle have to do with them? It’s just to obey the above orders.
Who is willing to fight? It is best to be alive?
In this way, the overall situation is really settled.
Wang Zhiyuan also came from the Zandingding Queting. He asked his subordinates to put the Yan family back and said to Yan Liang: "How to deal with your sins is the saint's business. I don't care at all... I won't intervene in private."
Yan Liang glanced at him coldly and said nothing.
Zhang Juling handed Yan Liang to Gu Lin, borrowed Yang Ruo's carriage and headed towards Gu'an.
After such a big disturbance, I guess everyone in Kyoto knew about it... My wife was still at home alone, and I wonder if she was frightened.
Chapter completed!