Chapter 282: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell
Li Wei stood outside the palace, listening to the shouting and killing sound coming from the east of the city, he kept raising his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and kept instructing the soldiers around him: "Check the situation at the east gate quickly, and report to the great Sima at any time." ”
One by one, his soldiers left his side and went to the east gate to check the siege of the Jizhou army. At the same time, there are also personal soldiers sent to the north gate and the south gate, although the Jizhou soldiers and horses outside the city gate on both sides have not attacked the city, but they are arrayed outside the city, it is enough to make people frightened, and there are many subordinates who harbor evil intentions, who knows when they will suddenly rebel, so Li Wei felt that it was necessary to understand the situation in all aspects in a timely manner.
Just when Li Wei was nervous, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves on the street. He listened for a moment, and then he heard the horses coming towards him, and he could not help but shake his whole body, and a sense of foreboding welled up in his heart.
A cavalryman came to Li Dao's face, restrained his horse, then turned over and dismounted, and knelt down on one knee in front of Li Dao: "See Da Sima for the villain." ”
Seeing the panicked look of the cavalry, Li Wei's heart sank, he had already realized that there must have been some unexpected accident, and hurriedly asked in a trembling voice: "What's the matter?" ”
The cavalry hurriedly replied: "Back to Da Sima, Wang Chang, the guard general in the west of the city, has opened the city gate and let the soldiers and horses of Jizhou enter the city. The Jizhou army divided into two roads and was heading here. ”
When Li Xian heard this, his head buzzed, his face suddenly turned pale, his body shook a few times, and he fell straight back, fortunately, Li Xian reached out in time to support him, and his mouth was still shouting: "Uncle, what's wrong with you?" ”
Li Dao was supported by Li Xian and several personal soldiers to sit on a brocade pier, and said with a bloodless face: "It's over, it's all over now." Wang Chang let the Jizhou army enter the city, as long as they opened the north gate and the south gate, we could not escape. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a chaotic sound outside, and countless people shouted: "Jizhou soldiers and horses have entered the city, Jizhou soldiers and horses have entered the city......"
When Li Dao heard this shout, he was even more frightened and bloodless. Fortunately, Li Xian was quite calm, and hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to escort Li Dao into the palace, and they planned to use the palace wall to resist stubbornly.
Not long after Li Wei retreated into the palace, he heard the sound of shouting and killing outside, and the sound of the resonance of gold and iron weapons. He trembled and came to the top of the tower, looked down, and saw that his soldiers were fighting with the soldiers and horses of Jizhou. After looking at it for a while, he found that his men and horses were fighting less and less, while there were more and more soldiers and horses in Jizhou, although he didn't know that this was because the soldiers and horses who entered the city from the west gate killed the defenders of the north gate and the south gate, and put Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong outside the city in, but according to his experience, the soldiers and horses in the city could not support for long.
Besides, when Han Zhan arrived at the post station, after seeing Xu Shu here, he comforted him a few words, and then came to the palace together. When I came to the vicinity of the palace, I saw that it had become a mess, and thousands of soldiers and horses on both sides were fighting here. Seeing that although Li Dao's soldiers and horses were at a disadvantage, if they were trapped and fighting, they would inevitably cause huge casualties to themselves. Thinking of this, Han Zhan frowned, and suddenly thought about it.
He turned his head and said to Chen Zhi, who was following behind him: "Uncle Zhi, order the soldiers to shout: only punish the evil, threaten never ask, and those who abandon their weapons will not die!" ”
After listening to Han Zhan's instructions, Chen Zhi didn't dare to slack off, and immediately rushed towards the crowd with a few personal soldiers, and shouted at the same time: "Only punish the evil, threaten never ask, and those who abandon their weapons will not die!" ……”
First Chen Zhi was shouting alone, and soon several of his own soldiers also shouted, and finally the Jizhou soldiers outside the palace shouted loudly. Li Daojun, who was fighting desperately, suddenly lost the courage to continue fighting when he heard the Jizhou army shouting like this. Someone took the lead, and naturally there were followers, first one or two soldiers stopped resisting and threw away the weapons in their hands, then a dozen or twenty soldiers, and finally hundreds of soldiers threw away their weapons, and for a time only heard the sound of weapons clanging to the ground.
After half a pillar of incense, except for a few soldiers loyal to Li Dao who retreated into the imperial city, the remaining soldiers were either killed in battle, or lost their weapons and surrendered to Han Zhan and them.
Li Xian was stabbed several times, and with the support of two soldiers, he stumbled to the city wall, knelt in front of Li Dao and said: "Uncle, Jizhou has a large army, and our army can't resist, so let's withdraw as soon as possible." ”
"Withdraw, where are we going?" Looking at the swarthy Jizhou army under the city, Li Wei said with a wry smile: "The imperial city has been called by Jizhou soldiers and horses, and we can't escape." ”
"Uncle, let's go." After Li Xian glanced at the city, he urged Li Dao and said, "If you don't leave, you really can't leave." After speaking, he turned to one of the soldiers who was supporting him and said, "You are about the same size as my uncle, hurry up and take off your clothes and change with my uncle." ”
The soldier knew that once he put on Li Dao's armor, he was probably not far from death. But when he saw Li Xian holding the sword that was still dripping blood in his hand, he knew in his heart that if he didn't do what Li Xian said, he would be killed immediately, so he could only take off the armor on his body and exchange it with Li Xian.
The palace gate was quickly smashed open from the outside by the Jizhou army, and the soldiers rushed into the palace with shouts. Han Zhan knew that Li Dao was in the imperial city at the moment, so he hurriedly issued a second order: "Whoever captures Li Dao alive will be rewarded with a thousand gold, and he will be crowned a marquis!" Those who take the head of Li Dao will be rewarded with 100 gold, and they will be promoted to three levels in a row! ”
Soon, Han Zhan's order was shouted in the mouths of the soldiers of Jizhou: "Those who capture Li Dao alive will be rewarded with a thousand gold, and the marquis will be sealed!" Those who take the head of Li Dao will be rewarded with 100 gold, and they will be promoted to three levels in a row! ”
Li Weijun in the imperial city was originally in Cao Ying's heart in Han, and when he heard the shouts of Jizhou soldiers and horses, he couldn't help but be moved. Facing the Jizhou soldiers and horses that came like a tide, he hurriedly raised his hands high above his head, and shouted in his mouth: "Don't fight, don't fight, we surrender!" ”
Seeing that the palace gate was broken without even a moment's effort, Li Xian hurriedly took the rest of the people and escorted the real and false Li Dao towards the palace.
"Li Dao is there!" Not long after defecting to Han Zhan, Zhang Liao, who had not made an inch, saw Li Xian retreating towards the deep palace with a person wearing Li Dao's armor, and hurriedly pointed forward with the weapon in his hand and shouted: "Kill!" ”
Zhang Liao rode his horse and rushed forward, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Cheng Yi, and Hou Cheng were afraid that he would make a mistake, so they all followed him closely, killing Li Dao's army along the way, and chasing Li Dao who fled.
After Huang Zhong rushed into the palace with his soldiers and horses, he saw Li Dao fleeing in the distance, and immediately opened his bow and arrows to shoot arrows at the other party. The arrow flew into the crowd like lightning, accurately hitting the soldier wearing Li Dao's armor. The man screamed and fell to the ground.
The Jizhou army, which was rushing forward, couldn't help cheering when they saw Li Dao being shot down by an arrow. And Zhang Liao, who rushed to the front, couldn't help but sigh when he saw Li Dao being shot down, and then slowed down.
Li Xian saw that the fake Li Dao was shot down by an arrow, and struggled in a panic to drag Li Dao towards the deep palace. Because they were familiar with the terrain in the palace, they quickly got rid of the Jizhou soldiers who were chasing them.
Huang Zhong came to the corpse of "Li Dao", turned over and dismounted, and was about to cut off the other party's head, when Song Xian on the side suddenly shouted: "This is not Li Dao!" ”
"What, this isn't Li Dao?" Hearing Song Xian say this, Huang Zhong couldn't help but be stunned, he hurriedly turned over the corpse to check, don't look at him if he doesn't know Li Dao, but he can still recognize that this is an impostor. As far as he knew, Li Dao was full of beard, and the person who fell to the ground was pale and beardless, and he looked to be in his early twenties, Huang Zhong knew that he had fallen into Li Dao's golden cicada shell scheme, so he was so angry that he kicked the corpse fiercely, and then ordered the soldiers around him: "Search carefully in the palace, don't leave Li Dao!" ”