。 Moreover, I always felt that there must be a comrade of King Cheng in the city, and perhaps the strength was not small, and it was precisely because of this feeling that I did not dare to use these 9,000 people. Once the palace defense fails, and someone seizes the opportunity to attack the palace, it will be over...... And among these more than 60,000 people, more than 10,000 soldiers from Shuntian Mansion were counted. Because of the insufficiency of troops, I had no choice but to draw 8,000 of them for combat training, which has now been going on for five days. In any case, they are also regarded as soldiers who eat the emperor's food, although their combat power cannot be compared with the army, but compared to ordinary people, they are still much stronger, and after assault training, they should be useful! As for the security of the capital, I had to ask Jin Jingxin to recruit some adult men of good character, give them a certain amount of silver, and each of them was issued a stick, and they were formed into groups of four, and under the leadership of a catcher, they inspected the security in the city. The effect is still good, and in the past few days, there has been no Yan zhòng incident in the city.

And on the fourteenth day, a soldier of the Imperial Horse Prison came to the city by night, and was hung up to the city by the soldier in a hanging basket, saying that he had come to deliver a letter to me on the order of Tan Chao.

I opened the letter and saw the secret language prescribed by me and Tan Chao from the letter, this secret language is only known to me and him, unless he rebelled, this letter is credible.

In the letter, Tan Chao said that he had been in contact with Li Tong, the Tianjin Navy Division, and that the two lines of soldiers and horses, one water and one land, were attacking and harassing the supply lines of the rebels day and night, and he did not say that it was because of their blows that the rebels had only arrived at seventy or eighty thousand reinforcements for more than half a month, and after the battle, I knew how important their efforts were, and if they were not there, this number might have doubled. It is not that they eliminated the same number of rebels who arrived in the capital, but in order to deal with their attacks, and for the smooth flow of logistics and supplies, King Cheng had to send a large number of troops to protect the logistics line. In the letter, he also said that he had received news that Yunnan, Liangguang and other places had formed an army of King Qin, and were rushing to the capital day and night. It's just that he can't be sure of the authenticity of this news. The 80,000 troops of Gansu, Lianghu, and Sichuan provinces that went north neither returned to the capital nor continued to go north, but stationed themselves in the same place and occupied a dangerous pass, as if intending to prevent the northern army from returning to the capital. Tan Chao and Tan Chao sent people to contact him several times, but all the commanders said that they were ill......

Day 17......

The weather was good, the sun was shining in the sky early, and the autumn breeze was blowing, which seemed to bring the taste of harvest. Perhaps anticipating the arrival of harvest time, the rebels' attack today was unusually ferocious, and more than 30,000 infantry rushed to the city wall like a wave crashing on the shore, and they were also smashed into pieces like a wave. There were less than 2,000 soldiers on the walls, all wounded and physically and mentally exhausted, and in the past few days I have seen several exhausted soldiers, who fell asleep in bloody slaughter, in the midst of huge explosions and skyrocketing fires, or were either killed or fell straight down the city. The city defenses had been destroyed in shambles, many of the arrow towers had been destroyed by artillery fire, and the defenders had to seek cover in the rubble. Losing the protection of the Arrow Tower, the defenders suffered heavy casualties in the rebel artillery attack. The ruins that can be seen everywhere tell the defenders a fact that they are unwilling to believe, but have to believe - the outer city has reached the last moment, and it may be broken through by the rebels at any time, perhaps, the next wave......

Less than half an hour after the battle began, the first rebel army of the day managed to climb the city walls. When the first rebel army landed in the city, there were two more city walls on its left side that were broken through, and the three breakthroughs were more than 150 zhang long.

The defenders were divided into several units, which were disconnected and quickly blocked, forming a situation of fighting separately. Without a unified leadership, the defenders fell into chaos for a while, and the feelings of defeat began to spread among the army, which bred panic and dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the army.

The outer city is already lost, and if an effective counterattack is not organized immediately, the outer city will soon fall.

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