Chapter 41: Quelling the Rebellion (Part 4)
On the dock under Yanziji outside Jiankang City, Yuan Hong and Liu Shiyong, the commander of the capital, also stayed awake all night, Liu Yu had been in the city all night, and there was no news coming out, which made the two of them a little worried.
"Don't worry, Ziqingji is a celestial person, and this time he will be able to do miraculous feats when he enters the city." The person who spoke was Hu Sanxing, who had been assisting Yuan Hong and others in cleaning up military resources since he arrived in Jiankang with the ship, just because this was his responsibility, and no one knew the specific situation better than him.
"Indeed, Liu Taishou is bold and careful, and he has strange things, since there has been no movement, it means that the princes must not disturb themselves." Ye Yingji also said on the side, he is in charge of technology research and development, and he admires the black technology brought by Liu Yu, and even has a good impression of this person.
Yuan Hong and Liu Shiyong smiled bitterly at each other, the two of them comforted each other for a long time, but Ye Hu was also kind, and he couldn't help but thank each other for a while. It's not without good news, last night, the forbidden army of Ning Guofu and the Hezhou Wuwei Army on the other side of the river had arrived outside the city, although there were only more than 1,000 people in total, but it was the solution to the urgent need.
As a result, there were nearly 2,000 forbidden troops outside Jiankang City, led by Liu Shiyong, who had the highest rank. There are more than 1,000 township soldiers, all of whom are Yuan Hong's subordinates. There are also hundreds of untrained displaced people who were recruited by Yuan Hong on the orders of Wang Lixin, and are currently being used by him as people's husbands.
"Toot toot." The walkie-talkie in Yuan Hong's arms rang, and everyone looked at him, and he was stunned for a while before remembering where this came from. Taking out the walkie-talkie, Yuan Hong recalled in his mind what Liu Yu taught yesterday, found the receiving button and pressed it.
"Yuan Tong's sentence, it is Liu Yu, the soldiers in the city and countryside have been rescued, and they will attack Ximen today. Pay attention, see the chaos in the city, immediately respond, be sure to take the west gate. After seizing the door, stick to the place, waiting for reinforcements, do not rush in, and finish speaking. Liu Yu's voice came out of the walkie-talkie, and everyone was relieved when they heard it.
"A certain is Yuan Hong, the order of Taishou is known, and a certain and Liu Dutong must obey the order, and Taishou should be more careful in the city, oh, that sentence is finished." In the first actual battle, Yuan Hong's voice was a little stumbling.
After the call, Liu Shiyong walked up to a high place and raised his binoculars to look at the city gate in the distance. Under the closed city gate, the people who did not know the situation were still waiting to open the door, and a few forbidden soldiers with spears in their hands on the city tower shouted something below.
Ye Yingji and a few sergeants are building a cloud ladder, Jiankang City is two feet and five feet high, and it is also separated by a wide moat, so it is not easy to get to the head of the city. Hu Sanxing issued the newly made Divine Arm Bow to a group of forbidden army archers with large waists, and this artifact could directly suppress the counterattack of the city head.
After arranging things outside the city, Liu Yu took the forbidden army in the east of the city to the side of the palace to the Yamen, in order to show the difference, he ordered everyone to tie a white cloth strip on the left arm, this team of people is less than a thousand, Liu Yu did not plan to fight.
Because the rebels closed the city gates, the people in the city knew about the change, and they hid in their homes and did not dare to go out, so the streets were empty. Liu Yu and others touched the vicinity of the system division, and found that there were about 500 people besieging the system department's yamen, scattered in several surrounding alleys.
Several officers discussed, each led people to act separately, and when they were young, several teams of people came out from all over the place, shouting, "Xu Wangrong and others rebelled and surrendered to the enemy, we were ordered to quell the rebellion, and only the first evil will be punished!" The rest will not be investigated. When the besieging soldiers heard about it, they either surrendered or fled, and no fierce fighting broke out.
Hearing the movement outside, the pro-soldiers in the house opened the door, and Liu Yu strode in, all the way with acquaintances. Everyone who thought they were going to die became excited, shouting, "It's time for the time!" The voice came directly to the backyard, Wang Lixin shook off the wet wipes on his head and struggled to sit up.
"Recruitment, Ziqing came late, so that the recruitment was frightened." Liu Yu didn't wait to be reported, picked up the curtain and walked in.
"Liu Ziqing, good, good, good, you're good." Wang Lixin even said a few good words, he didn't expect that Liu Yu really came with troops.
"Asking for forgiveness, this place can no longer wait, the thief must come soon, and a certain first escorts the murder out of the city." Liu Yu knew that Xu Wangrong would definitely give priority to exterminating these people, otherwise he would not be able to defend Jiankang City.
"The army hasn't arrived yet? Ziqing, you are confused, the old man has nothing to do here, you should take down the city gate first, now the thieves are prepared, alas, you shouldn't have come here first. When Wang Lixin heard his words, he blamed him.
"In a certain heart, just a city to build a healthy city, how can it be important to solicit, rest assured, not today, a certain will be to pacify this gang of traitors, and welcome the invitation into the city." Liu Yu beckoned, and the two personal soldiers carried Wang Lixin on their backs, and everyone withdrew from the Yamen of the Department of Control and went to the nearest north gate.
"What!" Hearing Deputy Dutong's words, Xu Wangrong stood up in shock, how could he not know what his brother was doing, he actually planted in the hands of a forbidden army pawn, which made him unbelievable.
Immediately afterwards, bad news came one after another, first the rout soldiers besieging the Yamen of the Ruling Division came to report, and the trick was rescued. Then one of the deputy commanders guarding the north gate was wounded and told him that the north gate was lost, and the enemy numbered in the thousands.
He didn't want to think about it anymore, Xu Wangrong immediately decided that Weng Fu would take 2,000 people and a total of more than 2,700 people from the Narin Deputy Capital Department to recapture the North Gate. Before the two of them could get out of the house, a sergeant brought him the news that he was almost devastated, that Simon had been attacked, and that the defenders were almost unable to support it.
"Quickly bring the solicitation to the West Gate Wharf, and tell Yuan Tong to judge and Liu Dutong, a certain has taken the North Gate, the thief will fight back, if he captures the West Gate, he should only hold on to frustrate his spirit." Liu Yu sent Wang Lixin, who insisted on staying, away, and the north gate was about to usher in a fierce battle, and he wanted to stick to it, and Jiang Cai's cavalry was about to arrive.
The battle came faster than expected, without waiting for Liu Yu to make more preparations, rebels appeared on both sides of the street below the north gate, Liu Yu's more than 1,000 people lined up in a phalanx, blocking the open city gate, facing three sides, he himself stood on the city tower, Wang Lixin's two hundred personal soldiers spread their bows and arrows around him.
"Brothers, cheer up, they are only a thousand people, take the north gate, they will all be rewarded, the little lady of Qinhuai River is up to you to pick!" Weng Fu shouted, and the rebels rushed over when they heard the light in their eyes and saw that there were few people on the other side, holding their cards high and shouting.
The enemy in three directions approached almost at the same time, the archers in the phalanx began to shoot, and the soldiers on the tower also began to fire condescendingly, and from time to time there were screams, but the enemy was unmoved, and the outermost spears had already picked up with the enemy.
As the battle progressed, the casualties on both sides began to rise in large numbers, and Liu Yu's phalanx appeared one by one from time to time, and then it was immediately filled by the people behind, and the enemy's archers also began to return fire, and the pro-soldiers on the city tower had already been killed and wounded.
"Hold on, hold on a little longer, and reinforcements from my brigade will arrive! Xu Wangrong is a traitor, don't wait for him to be obsessed again. Liu Yu couldn't intervene, so he could only hold a loudspeaker to cheer for his own people, while trying to break the enemy's morale, but it had no effect, obviously all the people who came were cronies.
Seeing that the enemy was advancing step by step, but the phalanx of our army was thinning, Liu Yu was already a little anxious, and a personal soldier next to him fell beside him with an "ah", a feather arrow was inserted in his chest, and the tail of the arrow trembled, Liu Yu was frightened for a while, and there was no armor on his head.
Weng Fu in the middle of the road saw that the opponent's phalanx had been pressed into a long strip, and he was overjoyed, took a big axe from his own soldiers, and personally led people to rush forward. Ignoring a crossbow arrow flying past his ear, he swung away a spear in front of him, and roared, the heavy axe dancing in a bloody light through the crowd.
rushed to kill for a while, and suddenly, Weng Fu only felt a light on his arm, and he had already broken through the middle, and there was already an open city gate in front of him. Weng Fu's brave assault immediately led to the collapse of the phalanx, and the sergeants on both sides were pressed onto the inclined ladder on the city wall, Liu Yu had nothing to do, and he even watched the deputy commander of the army being chopped to death by Weng Fu with an axe.
The complacent Weng Fu threw the blood-stained axe to his own soldiers, and stood in the doorway with his waist crossed, and the opponent was defeated, and he did not need to go into battle in person. At this moment, there seemed to be a different sound in Weng Fu's ears, and when he listened carefully, it was the sound of horses' hooves, and he turned around in confusion, and couldn't help but open his mouth wide in surprise.
"Whoosh!" A black feathered arrow slammed into Weng Fu's mouth with a sound of breaking through the air, and before his consciousness began to blur, two horse's hooves with iron palms were held high in his mind, and this was the last memory he had before he died.
The golden pheasant slave on horseback inserted the riding bow into his bag, pulled out his bending knife with his backhand, stepped on Weng Fu's body, and slammed into the military formation. Behind her, the banner of the word "Jiang" fluttered in the wind, Jiang Ning and others held high spears, and the tide poured in, unstoppable.