Chapter 164: The Heart of Survival
With Di Ziyu's submission, the next night, two more generals of the Xia Kingdom returned to Shun, one was the city gate official who guarded the south gate, and Di Ziyu and others secretly came out of Tongwan from the south gate.
If it weren't for the fact that each gate was guarded by more than four generals, Di Ziyu and the others originally wanted to let this city gate official work together inside and outside and open the city gate for the Wei army. Although this person is also a city gate official, his status is not high, and if he really wants to fight, he is afraid that he will be beheaded by his own people before he rushes to the gate.
Tongwan four gates, the south gate is in the direction of Chang'an, the north is the location of the Wei State camp, starting from Di Ziyu, these people went around a big circle from the south gate to the north where the Wei army was stationed, naturally alarmed the Xia soldiers of the east and west gates, and suddenly the city of Tongwan was like a fried pot, the direction of the palace was brightly lit all night, and everyone in the Wei army who saw it was rejoicing, and the morale was so high that everyone almost wanted to fight overnight.
The city gate officials rebelled, and Helian Chang had begun to distrust anyone, so he replaced the guards of the four gates and let his henchmen supervise the army. If it weren't for the fact that Di Ziyu and the others' families were not in Tongwan City, now I am afraid that even their family members would have been poisoned.
On the morning of the third day, the Wei State Sikong, the general Xi Jin led 50,000 troops who originally guarded Chang'an to arrive outside the city of Tongwan, nearly 200,000 troops besieged the city, there was a large army outside the border, and there were rumors and rumors inside, seeing that the city of Tongwan had reached the brink of danger.
Great Summer Palace.
"Princess, hide quickly, no one cares about you now."
Helian Mingzhu's maid Yucui wrapped the food, and then filled a special small leather bag with water and put it in the bag.
Another maidservant, Yuye, stuffed the fine soft into the hidden pocket of Helian Mingzhu's clothes, and after the two of them finished it, they bowed down to her.
"General Di sent a letter before leaving, there are more than 100,000 troops outside, and Tongwan City should soon be unable to hold it. He told you to hide carefully, he will definitely come to the palace to pick you up, and now that the war is in chaos, you can only trust him once! "
Helian Mingzhu knew that many men in the court who had seen her had feelings of admiration for her, or lust/lust. She has survived in the palace since she was a child, and she knows how to use her face to achieve her goals, so many men think that they are obsessed with him and take care of her a lot.
Although Di Ziyu's status is not high, he is the son of the leader of the Qiang tribe, he is strong in martial arts, and tens of thousands of Qiang sons and daughters can fight with him at any time because of his order, Helian Mingzhu also has a gentle attitude towards him, and often gives each other some gifts from time to time.
But if she eloped with a sinner who rebelled out of the Xia Kingdom, even if she had no face and no arrogance, she would not agree.
"If I really do this, the spirits of the ancestors and ancestors in the heavens will not be at ease."
Helian Mingzhu shook her head.
"If Tongwan City is really captured, no matter where I hide in the Great Xia Palace, I will be found. Xianbei people are fierce, in order to loot treasures, even the secret room will be searched, not to mention that the history books of the Han people also write that many emperors will burn the palaces of other countries, if they are burned alive, I might as well stay in the harem, I am a princess, and I will not be treated as a pig and dog."
The worst of all is Israel's servant.
Although she doesn't have an Israeli servant now, she is about the same as an Israeli servant.
"You must always think about Lord Plains! It was said outside that the Lord of the Plains had not descended, and he had not even come out when his family's heads were thrown out of the city. If he really returns to Xia Country with a large army in the future, and sees that all his family members are dead, and you have become a prisoner again, how sad should he be?"
Yucui began to persuade the fourth princess with the things she cared about the most.
Helian Mingzhu couldn't help but burst into tears when she heard her brother's name.
"I'm so incompetent, I didn't keep my brother's wife and children, and now I'm still thinking about how to survive......"
"Your Majesty has gone crazy, and those Song people in the palace are gone, obviously I don't want to care anymore. Originally, His Majesty was courteous to you, and that was because Song Guo hoped to marry Qin and Jin with His Majesty, and counted on you to be friendly. Now that the people of the Song Kingdom are gone, His Majesty may go crazy one day and do something to you."
The things prepared by Yuye are all hungry things, although they are not delicious, but they can save their lives. Now there is a panic in the palace, everyone is thinking of a way to save their lives, and naturally no one will notice that there is a maid missing in the Hanzhu Palace.
"Princess, think of the Plains! General Di is unreliable, and Pingyuan Gong is always reliable! "
Helian Mingzhu wiped the tears from her eyes, took the eunuch clothes given by Yucui and put them on. She was getting dressed quickly, and Yucui beside her painted her with thick yellow ginger powder, and thickened her eyebrows, making her face dull.
Helian Mingzhu was originally a rare beauty in the world, her eyes were dark, her skin was like clotted fat, her feet were beautiful and curled, her wrists and ankles were moderately fat and thin, wonderful and natural, and her cheeks were fresh and moist like a virgin, not to mention her bewitching body wrapped under her heavy clothes.
If it weren't for Helian Mingzhu having a brother like Helian Ding, and being favored by Helian Chang, I am afraid that he would have been sent out as a good candidate for marriage.
Now even if Helian Mingzhu's two henchmen and female officials try to make her ugly, she can still look at her outstanding posture from under the ugly clothes of the miscellaneous eunuchs, but fortunately, most of the eunuchs are rootless people, and they are originally feminine, and they don't look conspicuous.
"Where am I going now? What are you going to do?"
As the female official in charge of the palace in the Hanzhu Palace, if Yucui and Yuye are gone, I am afraid that there will be chaos immediately. Helian Mingzhu already vaguely knew that the two female officials were definitely going to stay, their master and servant had been for more than ten years, and with such a premonition, he suddenly felt uneasy and guilty in his heart, and his face was all brought out.
"The Pingyuan family died tragically, and everyone in the palace died. [,! Knowing that you weep day and night, and mourn too much, and now everyone is afraid that you will offend Your Majesty by comforting you, it is safest for you to go out at this time. Yuye and I will block the prying eyes for you in the palace, if the rule is really broken, I will put on the princess's costume for you, and hide it for you......"
The crown of the Xiongnu noblewoman's costume covers her face, and Yucui and Helian Mingzhu are similar in height and voice, so there is such a saying.
"It's not safe everywhere now, princess, if you are not afraid, go to the Wuying Palace."
Yuye sighed.
Wuyingdian is the palace where Helian Ding lived when he was still the prince, and his family was under house arrest when they were imprisoned in the palace.
Helian Chang sent people to wash the Wuying Hall in blood, and the bones in the Wuying Hall were abandoned there, almost no one dared to go there, and there were even rumors in the palace, saying that in the middle of the night, there would be women and children crying in the Wuying Palace, and everyone was even worried, and even walked around there.
"To the Wuying Palace?"
As long as Helian Mingzhu remembered the scene he saw when he rushed to the Wuying Palace, he had the idea of breaking Helian Chang's body into ten thousand pieces. If she hadn't been knocked unconscious and brought back to Hanzhu Hall at that time, she would have already collected the bones of her brother's family, so why not spread the notoriety of them turning into ghosts!
It's a pity that countless palace people in the palace have received the favor of her brother, and now there is no one who dares to collect the corpse and offer them a stick of incense!
Helian Mingzhu remembered the tragic state of Wuyingdian and slowly straightened his back.
"Okay, send me there."
She also bowed to the jade leaves.
"Two great graces, Mingzhu will keep it in mind for the rest of my life."
"What did the princess say, we have been sent to you by the great grace of the Plains Prince, and we were originally there to protect you for him. Now if the plain Gongzhen descends the Wei people, you will be safe, and I will be fine if I pretend to be you. If the Plains Gong had not descended the Wei people......"
Jade Cui stiffened.
"If my brother hadn't surrendered to the Wei people, I would have died, and I would have been able to straighten my back." Helian Mingzhu sneered, "I'm waiting to see Helian Chang's stupidity after hearing about the wrongful killing of my sister-in-law and nephew!" "
Helian Mingzhu pretended to be a little eunuch who was going to Wuying Hall to secretly burn incense and kowtow for the princess, holding a package that revealed a small piece of incense and candles, and followed a palace person to Wuying Palace.
The people in this palace are not from the Hanzhu Palace, but they are Helian Ding's henchmen when he was still the prince, and he has long had the will to die.
Everyone in the palace knew that Helian Ding's family had died unjustly, even if he saw this little eunuch with his head down, he shouldn't have seen it. It was cold in winter, Helian Mingzhu was wearing thick clothes, she was not a petite type of figure, pretending to be a eunuch and following behind the people in the palace, all the way to the Wuying Palace, on the way, even the people who saw them avoided it, unwilling to cause trouble, which made Helian Mingzhu relieved again, and angry and resentful.
The palace people sent her to the gate of the main hall of the Wuying Palace, and told him that as long as he was in the palace, he would always come to deliver food and water, and told her not to rush to use the emergency things in the package first, and then left in a hurry.
Helian Mingzhu hugged the package, touched the dagger hidden on his waist, gently pushed open the door of the temple, dodged in, and closed the door tightly.
When Helian Mingzhu turned around and saw the scene in the hall, he suddenly sat down in the hall and lost consciousness instantly.
After discussing with many ministers, Tuoba Tao decided to take a gamble and believe that Xia Guotaishi would make Zhang Yuan's surrender.
Xi Jin and Gu Bi both tried their best to get Tuoba Tao to use this strategy, because even if this strategy was fake, there would be nothing to lose for Wei.
If you are afraid that Tuoba Tao will be in danger at the North Gate, it is a big deal to change a guard of similar stature at the North Gate that day to pretend to be the emperor, Tuoba Tao pretended to be an ordinary general, and led the elite to attack the East Gate, so that as long as Helian Chang escaped from the North Gate, the Eastern and Western armies were encircled, and Tuoba Tao could not only catch up with the enemy, but also minimize the danger.
When Kumoti heard about this arrangement, he also agreed to the plan to lure the enemy outside the north gate. All that's left is to arrange the details and wait for the day of the big battle.
On the day of the siege, the general Xi Jin led 20,000 cavalry and was arranged to attack the north gate by the side of the pretended "Tuoba Tao". Because Xi Jin is the main force attacking Xia, only when he follows Tuoba Tao's side, is it particularly convincing.
And not far from the north gate is the camp of the Wei State, Xi Jin has the most people and horses, and it is normal to guard the camp.
Outside the east gate is the team of Tuoba Fuzhen, the king of Nanyang, who has been responsible for protecting the siege equipment, and the terrain on the east side is flat, which is most suitable for cavalry to guard the equipment.
The south gate has always been the main gate of the Wei army, and now it is no exception, the south gate has Situ Chang Sun Han personally led an army of 50,000, most of which are siege soldiers left by Song Ji, with siege equipment to attack the city together.
The defenders of the West Gate are the least, because the west of Tongwan City is a land of quicksand, so no one will flee in that direction, for the safety of Tuoba Tao, outside the West Gate by Tuoba Tao and Tuoba Zhen (Kumozhen) two brothers with 30,000 elite soldiers to defend the town.
General Long Xiang Budui took over tens of thousands of people in Zhouji, most of Zhouji's subordinates were foot soldiers, who had fought the Song State together, and were extremely experienced in siege, and were the siege troops of the main force of the four gates.
Budui is also an interesting person, he actually pulled out a team of cavalry to play the banner of "Helianding", let his subordinates wear the clothes pulled from the dead and wounded generals of Helianding, and found soldiers who could speak Xiongnu to mix in it, and prepared to wave Helianding's flag to persuade the Xia people to surrender as soon as they arrived at the battlefield.
Because Tuoba Tao has to disguise himself as an ordinary general, so this time in the battle, Kumo is really wearing more style than Tuoba Tao. Tuoba Tao had to ride Yue Ying this time, because everyone in the Xia Kingdom knew that Tuoba Tao's mounts were all Dawan Shenjun "sweat and blood horses", this kind of horse and Xia people, Wei people often ride. [,! It is completely different from the Roman (the predecessor of the Mongolian horse), slender and tall, a lot taller than ordinary horses, and the body and appearance are also graceful.
The red horse that Hermulan rode was a big face and thick neck, and Tuoba Tao, an ordinary general, wanted to ride a horse that was better than the main general, as long as the enemy general was a little careful, he could detect that something was wrong, so Tuoba Tao had to let Yue Ying, the shortest of the horses, be the main horse, and the other two were substitute horses with Rome.
For the first time, Yue Ying was led to the battlefield to fight, but he did not appear to be unstable at all. It was well served these days, eating black beans and feeding refined food, and being brushed every day and taken out to gallop, which can be described as eating well, having fun, sleeping well, and being in a good mood, it gave Tuoba Tao a surprise.
"Your subordinate Mulan is really a person who understands horses! Although Yue Ying is still thin and small, in terms of speed and calmness, he is no longer under the super light! "
He Mulan listened to Tuobatao's words, grinned, and looked at Yue Ying.
You kid, you must be obedient today! If the table is not good, it may be a small life!
Yue Ying didn't feel Hemulan's uneasiness, and always wanted to kick the poor bastard's leg next to him, but Tuoba Tao was afraid that it would cause trouble, so he brought it forward slightly, only behind Kumoti.
Behind Kumoti was Hermulan on a red horse, and Yue Ying had a good impression of Hermulan, and was happy to sell her mount for a face, so she didn't make any more trouble, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
When you fight a war, you have to worry about your own life, the life of the general, and the life of the emperor, and now you have to worry about the life of the emperor's mount, how to live your life!
Hermulan burst into tears.
After the sound of the trumpet, the momentum of more than 100,000 people attacking the city was really enough to frighten people.
There is such a thing as "military music" in the army of the Xianbei people, and after the song is played, the sound of the song is mixed with the neighing of horses, the sonorous sound of steel, and the hinge sound of siege equipment, playing a strange and terrifying music.
In Mulan's memory, she seems to have a great dislike for siege battles. She would rather stay outside the storm like a knife, resisting the attacks of the creeping year after year, rather than accompany the emperor to attack the city.
The expedition to Beiliang was an accident, because Tuoba Tao needed the Montenegrin camp to attack the north, so Mulan followed the commanders of the Montenegrin camp to the south, but in addition, He Mulan could hardly find anything about the great achievements of "siege" in Mulan's memory.
If it weren't for the fact that Mulan hadn't really attacked any cities, these memories weren't good for her at all.
He Mullan thought it was the former, but after a moment, he thought it should be the latter.
In the era of cold weapons, the cruelty on the battlefield almost exceeded people's imagination, it was a combination of bloody violence, but in the era of cold weapons, there was a scene more cruel than the sum of swords, that is, the battle between siege equipment and city walls.
The sound of bursting eardrums was heard as the trebuchet smashed the walls with huge stones, and then shattered into countless pieces.
Pieces can't break down walls, but gravel can smash the heads of people on walls. It was a scene more terrifying than the harvesting of swords and guns, and He Mullan could not even imagine whether the siege would have been even bloodier and more disgusting if there had been an era of gunpowder.
In front of them were "elephant soldiers" with heavy shields, which were actually thick bunkers like elephants, and inside they were horsemen on horseback, and these horses were short ponies who were good at running in dark and narrow places, and they carried this thing with a scarlet smile to clear the way for the foot soldiers, and rushed away from arrows and rolling stones, so that the foot soldiers could rush to the door with the sasswood.
Hemulan followed Kumoti, they were all cavalry, they were the guards who prevented the enemy from fleeing and pursued, for this siege battle, there was almost nothing to do except watch Tuoba Tao constantly give various command orders to teleport out.
She couldn't fly to the city walls, and she couldn't help her comrades who had been burned to death by the hot oil of the rolling stones. She couldn't ride her horse up the ladder to the wall, and she couldn't push the toppled ladder back on her own.
She didn't know what Mulan didn't like about siege warfare, but this kind of powerlessness that couldn't help at all, and she had to stare at the main general behind her, which made her can't help but show a somewhat anxious expression.
"It's like this for the first siege, just get used to it."
Tuoba Tao saw her expression and said.
"When Helian Chang comes out, we will seize him, and then take the opportunity to storm the wide open gates. When the time comes, the entire city of Tongwan will be opened to us. Gold, silver, jewelry, cattle, sheep, horses and women will be our ......"
He seemed to be intoxicated with such a victory, and showed a bloodthirsty smile, and the whole smile completely made Hermulan understand that this was a true emperor, an emperor of Xianbei blood, who shouted "battle" and "victory" from his hair to his toes, and then took the spoils of war.
Wei did not have military pay.
The officials of Wei did not have a fortune.
So, it is self-evident what Tongwan City will face after it is captured.
Worm invaded the cloud city of Wei back then, what did the cloud become like in the end?
"Heaven and earth, you will not find chaste women, nor living warriors." Hermulan muttered to himself. This is not Mullan's words, but from Mulan's memory.
Tuoba Tao heard something, and after being stunned, his bloodthirsty smile turned into a smug smile.
"Yes, you're right, after the Tongwan City is captured, it will be like this."
What does a ransacked city look like? He Muller didn't have the slightest idea. Her knowledge of the post-siege city comes from books and . [,! Film, and nothing can fully show this decay and cruelty.
Suddenly Hermulan didn't look forward to the moment when he stormed the city.
She blinked and whispered, "Your Majesty, as soon as the Ten Thousand Cities are destroyed, the Xia Kingdom will all be included in my Great Wei. In this way, the people of Xia will be the people of my Wei State in the future, and the women and children of Xia State will also be the women and children of my Wei State.
As He said this, he felt that this evil was very empty.
Really, Mary Sue blushed to herself.
"The people of Great Wei?" Tuoba Tao seems to be quite interesting." Of course, you're right......"
He Mulan showed an expression of disbelief and looked at Tuoba Tao, who had admitted lightly.
This young emperor in his early twenties, with a majestic figure, had never been so tall in Hermulan's mind. His inconspicuous armor and the thin Yue Ying that made He Mulan snicker in his heart were all set off by her imagination like a merciful emperor who had descended into the mortal world.
"Your exhortation is interesting. But before the Xia Kingdom was completely submissive......" Tuoba Tao glanced at He Mulan, whose face suddenly turned pale.
"I'm going to feed my wolf cubs first."
The tall image in front of Hermulan's eyes, the merciful emperor, suddenly dimmed like this.
Only the heat on her face made her realize what she had just said.
Tuoba Tao's Xianbei name is "Buddha Raccoon", and the people of Wei rarely call it by its name, but the northern countries call Tuoba Tao and shout "Buddha Raccoon".
The Buddha is the meaning of the giant wolf.
So his wolf cubs are the Wei soldiers who are trying to attack Tongwan.
Kumoti apparently heard Hermulan's advice, and silently glanced back at her in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Judging from Mulan's willingness to risk the danger to collect the corpses of her comrades, it is obvious that this young man has not yet become a warrior who is as hard as iron and as solid as a rock.
When he has experienced more and seen more killing, he will not be confused by such things.
In this troubled world, either you kill me, or I kill you. Today, if they don't raze the countries around them, they will be razed by them if they are weak.
Instead of waiting to become a pig and dog at that time, it is better to take advantage of the strongest time to earn a future for your offspring that does not need to struggle.
Mulan is a good fighter, but her vision is too small and her heart is too soft. Why would His Majesty send such a person to the camp of Montenegro?
It's a real mystery.
Kumoti looked to the north, and when the battle reached its most critical moment, Helian Chang would come out of there.
It was the weakest-looking north gate, and he had to choose there whether he was fighting or fleeing. Although there is a large camp outside the north gate, but now that the three armies are exhausted, there are not many people in the camp, but it has become the safest way to retreat.
But retreat can sometimes become a dead end.
Kumoti looked at Tuoba Tao and Hua Mulan behind him, and straightened his body even higher, so that the enemy would see himself first, and then Tuoba Tao and the others behind him.
Mulan seemed to be ashamed of what she had just said recklessly, so she kept pursing her lips and didn't glance at it, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Helian Chang is so brutal, if I am like him, and let these Xia Chen's wives and children live worse than death, maybe those Xia Chen who surrendered will be discouraged and rebel again......"
Kumoti suddenly turned his head when he heard Tuobatao suddenly say such a sentence.
Behind him, Tuobatao, who was full of thinking expressions, rubbed his chin and said to himself: "Well, Cui Taichang is not here, if Cui Taichang is here, what will he say?" Tsk, why did I let Cui Hao go to Montenegro, I should let him join the army. It's really troublesome, the siege battle is so tense, and the casualties are heavy, if there is no woman to relax her spirits, if you can't get it right, you will mutini immediately......"
The Mulan in Kumoti's eyes showed an expression as if she saw a fairy dancing in front of her.
The expression was so weird that Kumoti twitched the corners of his mouth and coughed.
"Ahem, Majesty, now is not the time to discuss this......"
He swears he saw Mulan glaring at him!
"If you are really worried that the soldiers will kill too much and will not be able to control the situation, it is better to wait for Helianchang to be taken, and let the civil and military officials of the Xia Kingdom go out of the city and surrender."
Kumoti casually mentioned.
"When the civil and military officials surrender and take Helianchang, then the Xia Kingdom will be in my Great Wei's bag, and there will be no forcible siege."
As soon as he finished speaking, Hermulan and Tuoba Tao both high-fived.
"That's right! Just catch Helian Chang! "
"That's right! Be sure to catch Helian Chang! "
The two spoke almost in unison, and after glancing at each other, He Mullan lowered his head with a frightened expression.
Tuoba Tao squinted in the direction of the north gate.
HE Lianchang.
Whether your people will die innocently in vain, and whether the women and children of Xia Kingdom will be torn to pieces depends on whether you dare to go out or not.
'It is ridiculous that I, the king of an empire, should worry about whether the people of an enemy country will be slaughtered by my own men.'
This is the first country I will eliminate......
Later, there will be a second, a third, a fourth......
Until then, we can't let them have the heart to live and die with the city.