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Chapter 68 Break the City

.In fact, I underestimated Yingtian’s guards. After all, they were the men who Zhu Changwen wanted to stay and "protect". Although there were only more than 10,000 people, relying on the high city and thick walls, they collapsed our army’s offensive this day.

When the sun set on this day, I realized the mistake I made. First, I dispersed my troops, which made my own attacking city insufficient. Second, I was too anxious. The soldiers under my command were really exhausted after a night of travel. Just imagine how could such a tired army capture Yingtian?

Fortunately, the losses today were not too great. I asked the army to gather in the north of Yingtian City that night, and then let the central and rear troops who did not participate in the siege during the day guard the camp, while the other three armies were all placed in the tent to rest. After everything was arranged, I finally summoned the generals of the army to my commander's tent to hear if they had any good ways to break the city.

"Brother, don't worry, if you can't attack today, it's just because the brothers rushed all night and were a little tired. As long as they had a good sleep tonight, they would definitely be able to attack the city tomorrow." Hantu's general's army is the bravest to attack the city today, so the battle situation is the most intense among the North City, but his front army is also the one with the largest number of people lost.

I shook my head and said in harmony: "Brother Hantua, you have to use your brain more when fighting in the future. You should know that the prince doesn't just want you to capture the city. The prince wants you to not only capture the city, but also die less. Do you know?"

Although I think Hantu has made great progress these days and can be called the number one strong general under my command, but I am brave but not talented. Therefore, I always think about how to let him read some military books and understand the true way of being a general.

Hantu didn't say anything after hearing this, but Dali said first: "If the prince really wants to attack the city and hurt people, it's really rare. It's better for us to prepare a ship to secretly cross the river and go back to Jiangpu and catch them off guard."

Although what Dali said was not necessarily a clever plan, it was feasible. But I could not tell him that my father deliberately asked me to leave Jiangpu. It was because he wanted us to preserve our strength, so he shook his head and said, "We cannot go to Jiangpu, we are our purpose."

When everyone heard me say this, they all thought about it. Suddenly, someone beside me said: "There are 400,000 people in Jiangpu that must be in need of supply. There are so many people in Yingtian City, so there must be insufficient food. If they can consume the food in their land faster, then we can win without a fight."

"Oh?" I turned to see the person who spoke. I saw that it was the cable car that had been staying by my side as a guard. Because I had heard Zhu Zhu's evaluation of the "good general" of the cable car, I always keep the cable car with me these days, and let him listen to it no matter what important military affairs are. The cable car probably felt my trust in him. He not only respects me very much, but also shows loyalty. He is already my confidant.

After hearing what he said, my heart moved slightly and said, "The cableway is there. What are you doing? Just say it out. Read it easily on your mobile phone: www.piaotian.com Text version first"

After hearing my encouragement, the ropewaycun said respectfully: "Xiaodi thought we could drive all the people nearby into Yingtian. At that time, as long as there are more people, the food in Yingtian City will be even less than enough, and the day of the city will be broken will not be far away."

I thought about it and asked again: "The method you said is feasible, but how can we drive the people into the city? Now the defenders in Yingtian City are facing a great enemy. How dare they open the door and let the people enter the city? It is important to know that they are afraid that if our people get mixed up with the people, it will be like leading a wolf into the house."

The cable car did not seem to have thought of this and was stunned. After a while, he said with a puzzled look on his face: "It's Xiaodi who can't think about it, please punish him."

"What's the point of being punished?" I waved my hand and said, "If you have any way to say it, I won't blame you if you say it wrong."

Everyone in the tent was encouraged by my words and immediately started talking. Compared to the previous one, the atmosphere in the tent seemed much more alive.

After a while, Zhu Zhu was finally willing to speak out. Everyone knew that this fat man was the most important military advisor around me, so they stopped and stopped saying a word, and listened to him intently.

"We can turn to attack Zhenjiang and leave Yingtian first."

"Turn to attack Zhenjiang?" I was a little confused about what Zhu Zhu said, "Why do you want to attack Zhenjiang?"

Zhu Zhu smiled slightly and said, "Do you don't want those people to enter Yingtian City?"

"Are you thinking--" I finally understood what Zhu Zhu said.

Zhu Zhu nodded and said, "Zhenjiang is an important town in the imperial court. We can make a sound, saying that the attack on Yingtian is unsuccessful, and the army is short of food and grass, so we turn to attack Zhenjiang. As long as we search for food from the people along the way, the people near Yingtian will definitely surge into Yingtian. Why worry about Yingtian not breaking?"

I immediately slapped the table and screamed. Zhu Zhu's turn to attack Zhenjiang was fake, and driving the people into the city was real. It seemed that he was also inspired by what Sui Daocun said before, and came up with this plan to "drive fish into the jar". So I immediately gave orders to everyone and asked them to prepare as soon as possible.

The next morning, I led my army to the east and rushed towards Zhenjiang. Along the way, I made up my heart and "indulged" the soldiers below to plunder the food of the people. At the same time, I also made a clear order to prevent soldiers from harming the people, so it should be considered as the end of kindness and righteousness.

I dispersed the scouts on the ground of our army within three miles of radius, and did not allow the enemy's scouts to enter this range. And let the guards of the two factories spread the news for me, saying that I wanted to lead the troops to attack Zhenjiang, thereby cutting off the retreat of the Jiangpu army.

In the past, I read the military book that anyone who is good at using troops can hide his troops and horses in the nine heavens and under the nine earths, so that the enemy cannot see where he is. Although I have not hidden tens of thousands of troops in the nine heavens and nine earths, I know clearly that as long as I can make the enemy unable to find us, I can at least make the enemy unable to see my position.

Soon, I led 50,000 people to a valley near Dahekou and prepared to stay here for a day. Now I only need one day to let the fleeing people flock to Yingtian, and then I can return to the army to siege Yingtian. At the same time, I also know very clearly that the whereabouts of my 50,000 people cannot be hidden for too long. One day is enough.

After a day of peace and stability, I led the army again in front of Yingtiantian City. When I looked at the north city gate again, I could even see the soldiers on the tower all showed horror. They probably did not expect that I would lead the troops back here again after two days of retreating.

This time I sent out the four armies in front, back, left and right, and surrounded the four gates of Yingtian City. According to the scouts I stayed near Yingtian, about 100,000 people entered Yingtian City in the three days after I left. Their arrival would probably cause a huge burden on Yingtian City, and all this was the result I wanted to cause.

However, things did not go as smoothly as I imagined. Although Yingtian was besieged, the food in the city could not be exhausted within three days, and the battle situation on my father's side became more and more intense. Xu Zuhui was extremely experienced in using troops and led the defeated soldiers to block our offensive ones, which greatly increased the morale of the defeated soldiers. His father was so angry that he scolded Xu Zuhui in the secret letter he wrote to me, saying that he would swear to slash him in the future.

I only siege Yingtian but not attacked me. After a few days, a secret report from Yingtian City was delivered to me. It is said that this secret report could be heard from the city, and three factory guards had already died. I looked carefully at the secret report, and it turned out that it said that Yingtian City had already seen a huge increase in refugees, and the food supply that had already been in short supply in the city could no longer keep up. Many people starved to death on the streets, the people were panicked, and the situation became very urgent.

Looking at such a secret report, I felt a little sad for Huang Cheng, who had worked hard for decades in my heart. I also felt very happy. After all, this secret report gave me some hope of breaking the city.

On that day, I asked the soldiers who had been recuperating for a long time to write many letters of persuasion to surrender, and then tied them to arrows. In the evening, I ordered the archers to quietly cover the city wall, shoot the arrows tied with the persuasion to surrender into Yingtian City, and then retreat.

The next day, I guessed that the letter of persuasion that I shot in also fell into the hands of the people. In the letter of persuasion, I promised that as long as the officials and people in the city could open the city to surrender, my army would never hurt anyone. Moreover, I also exaggerated the purpose of our vassals to guard the king, and to protect the king and clear the king are what we really want to do.

On the third day, I assembled the army at the North City Gate and finally started a massive siege battle. On this day, the sky seemed a little gray, and it seemed that the haze gathered in the sky of Yingtian with the beginning of our siege battle.

I rode my horse and paid attention to the siege in the distance. I saw my soldiers laying on a huge green pastry like dense ants, constantly moving upwards. The sound of killing and screams came from afar, which was really earth-shaking.

I don’t know if it was my book of persuasion to surrender, or if it was because of the lack of food in the city, the resistance of Yingtian’s defenders seemed much softer than before. Some of our soldiers soon climbed to the top of the city, one, two, three... and more and more.

After a while, the city gate finally opened. Seeing this, I smiled happily and shouted: "Let's go, let's go into the city!" As soon as I finished speaking, the soldiers behind me shouted neatly and followed me towards Yingtian City.

Everything seemed very easy to me, but when I walked closer and looked, I found that there were many corpses under the city walls, and the previous excitement became vanished with the scene in front of me.

"Before this siege, they were all living people, but now--" I couldn't help but sigh. The ancient sayings said that a general had achieved success and was truly dead. I couldn't tell how much of their lives it would take to exchange for my honor. Perhaps I had to truly climb to the heights I yearn for, this is what I need to endure!

The outer city was destroyed, and Yingtian's defenders quickly retreated into the inner city. As the saying goes, "One move will decline again, and three times will be exhausted." My army attacked and broke through the outer city, and it was time for morale to be exhausted. When the enemy encountered this situation of no retreat, they naturally fought back desperately. Compared with the two, our army was greatly blocked when attacking the inner city. Therefore, I resolutely called out the gold and withdraw my troops.

When the emperor's grandfather built the imperial city, he built three city walls in Yingtian. The first and second were the outer city walls and the inner city walls, respectively. The two city walls were twenty feet apart, so that Yingtian could have an additional layer of protection. The third city wall was surrounded by the land around the forbidden palace, and the protection area was the inner courtyard of the Great Forbidden City to prevent people from rebelling and forcing the palace in the city.

Although I captured the outer city, I was really unwilling to continue to attack the inner city. Therefore, while closing the connection between the inner city and the outer city, I spread the news of my conquering Yingtian to the outer city. Soon, under my intention, the news of the fall of the capital spread all over the country. Even if someone did not believe it and sent a spy to me, I saw the Shu army flag I had planted at the top of the city.

Apart from me, few people could tell the truth about the fall of Yingtian, so the ground effect was extremely huge. In just three days, Li Jinglong had already taken the initiative to send a secret letter to his father to surrender, and then another day later, Li Jinglong led his soldiers and generals to mutiny. After a sudden attack, he captured Xu Zuhui, the general commander of the army, and thus the imperial army in Jiangpu also surrendered to his father.

Upon receiving the news that Li Jinglong had turned against me, I immediately felt relieved, because the last threat was also lifted. All I had to do was wait for my father and uncles to cross the river and gather in Yingtian City to "respect the king".

However, in three days, the father left the third brother and fifth brother to lead more than 10,000 people to watch the surrendered army, which was less than 400,000 yuan, and then led the remaining troops across the river and headed south to Yingtian City.

Just when I received the news that my father's army had crossed the Yangtze River, another secret report came to me, saying that Zhu Changwen burned the Forbidden Palace and wanted to commit suicide. As soon as I read this secret report, I was happy, and at the same time anxiously rushed out of the commander's tent and shouted: "Assie the city, attack the city, and the army will attack the city immediately."

The order of siege in our area reached the army in a blink of an eye. The most violent siege in many days finally began. I could no longer care about how many casualties there would be, because I really didn't want to watch Zhu Changwen burn Yingtian City. Especially in the forbidden palace, I had almost all my memories of the emperor's grandfather and the emperor's grandmother, which was really an extremely precious thing to me.

Soon, a huge cloud of smoke rose high from the Forbidden Palace. Even I could see the smoke that soared into the sky clearly. Seeing this, I frowned and quickly ordered my soldiers to shout together: "The emperor has passed away, surrender quickly!"

The soldiers guarding the city had long seen the thick smoke. When they heard the soldiers on our side shouting, they all believed it and fled to the city without any intention of fighting. The war immediately became a one-sided situation.

In less than a while, the gate of the inner city finally opened as I wished, and a group of soldiers hugged me and rushed towards the city. When I entered the city, I did not forget to issue a clear order to the army that the soldiers would not allow the soldiers to harm any people in the city, otherwise they would be killed without mercy.

During this kind of war, most people were so scared that they hid at home and did not dare to go out. Those walking on the streets were all enemies or their own soldiers. I asked each army to cover up and kill him in the direction of the Forbidden Palace. From the moment I entered the inner city, I suddenly had a wonderful feeling that "the world" was much closer to me.

When we approached the Forbidden Palace, our army had almost no decent resistance and ran into the Forbidden Palace gate with no effort. I followed the avenue that should have been the only way to walk when civil and military officials worshipped the emperor, and led the troops into the Forbidden Palace with dignity.

I ordered Li Haibing to lead the rear army to put out the fire, and at the same time ordered Dali and Hantu to sweep away the remaining enemy troops in the city to prepare to welcome the army of his father into the city. As for the eighteenth brother, I asked him to lead people to guard the mansions of all the ministers in the capital, so as not to affect them this time. At this time, I knew very clearly in my heart that maintaining stability was the most urgent thing to do after the city was broken.

All the generals under my command followed my orders and I led the central army to sweep the forbidden palace, in case some young people took advantage of this mess to take advantage of the palace to take advantage of the chaos.

"Who are you?" In front of the Qianyuan Hall, which has always been worshipping and placed with jade seals, several women hurried out from it and happened to be hit by me.

The jade seal stored in Qianyuan Palace is a national artifact and a crucial thing. Therefore, I was the first to come here to see it, but I didn't expect it to really hit me. I looked at these women and saw that they were all dressed as palace maids. Except for the woman walking in the middle who covered her face with a gauze, I found that the rest of them were all very good at prostitutes.

"How could ordinary palace maids appear in this Qianyuan Palace?" I felt more and more unusual in my heart. So I asked again: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

Those women probably wouldn't have thought they would run into me here. Their expressions seemed a little panicked. Without a masked face, the people all looked at the middle one together, as if waiting for her idea.

I also looked at the woman in the middle with their eyes. Although her whole face was half covered by a veil, I could tell from the exposed eyebrows that she was really a rare beauty in the world, and what is rare is that her figure is plump and orderly, which makes people imagine countless things.

"Whose highness are you?" the woman pondered for a moment, and asked at me with a clear speech.

I knew that the bright yellow clothes on my body were very conspicuous. She probably saw it, so when she asked, "Whose Your Highness" said, "Gu is King Rui, you haven't answered Gu's words yet! Okay, tell me, who are you and why did you come here?"

The woman's eyes rolled and she replied calmly: "Your Highness. We are all maids in the palace. We only fled here because we saw the emperor setting fire to the palace and there were chaos outside. We were about to find a place where no one could hide for a while."

Although there was no flaw in her words, I didn't believe it at all. Just imagine that if she was really an ordinary maid, how could she be so calm when she saw me, the King Rui who came into the city? Obviously, she was making excuses in an emergency, but she forgot to pretend to be panicked.

"Oh?" I thought about it and smiled immediately, "Take your veil and let me see what you look like."

When the woman heard this, a trace of splendor flashed in her eyes, because she couldn't see the expression on her face, and she didn't know what she was reacting. However, the faces of the palace maids around her changed when they heard this, and they all looked like they were facing a great enemy. It seemed that my request was a bit too "excessive" for them.

I was originally a little suspicious, but after seeing their reactions, my suspicion suddenly grew because I found that everyone on the other side was full of martial arts and was not weak.

"Why, you are just maids. Can't you be alone? "When I talked, I waved my hand slightly, and the soldiers under me rushed forward and formed a circle, surrounding these women.

We are many people and powerful. Seeing this, the women's faces immediately changed color. The masked woman sighed gently and took two steps forward and said, "If your highness really wants to see, what does it matter if you let your highness see?" After that, she stretched out her white hand in an extremely elegant posture, and then just gently lifted it, revealing her peerless face.

It is true that it is a peerless face. I originally thought that Hu Meixin and Li Jiru were the most beautiful women in this world, but I didn’t expect that compared with the woman in front of me, they were slightly inferior.

"Is she a Han?" When I saw her high nose bridge and slightly deep and concave eyes, I couldn't help but want to ask, "But her face is just like our Han people. It seems that she is not from the foreign tribes of the Western Regions."

"This is a kind of integrated beauty, the fusion of foreign tribes in the Western Regions and Han tribes." A sudden enlightenment arose in my heart. Perhaps one of the parents of this woman should be foreign tribes, so she gave birth to a beautiful girl like her.

The beauty of the woman not only attracted me, but also all the soldiers present. Perhaps it should be said that whenever a man suddenly sees her appearance, he will probably be fascinated by her, so that his mind will become blank in this moment.

Just when everyone hadn't come to their senses, the woman's figure suddenly moved and suddenly moved forward, pounced towards me like a ghost, and the momentum was astonishingly fast.
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