And early in the morning, Gongsun Jian saw Xie Wu who came back from reconnaissance. The secret passage that Lei Bin said exists, and it is very hidden. If you don't know that it exists, you can't even notice it if you stand at the entrance. I have to say that the Lei family has a high attainment in this area.

As for the situation in the secret passage, it is the same as Lei Bin said, the section of the road he dug is very difficult to walk, and he can only bend over and pass alone. But after walking through this section, the whole passage suddenly becomes clear. A passage large enough for five people to walk side by side until you reach the entrance to the palace. According to Xie Wu's calculations, after entering in batches, at least more than 5,000 soldiers can be arranged in the passage in the back section, and they can follow in the future.

With 5,000 people alone, as long as they entered the palace and broke through from the inside out, it was enough to capture the palace of the Southern Han Kingdom in a short time. In particular, they also had a detailed topographical map of the palace.

Several special combat team fighters who followed Xie Wu to investigate did not return, but with the help of the eunuchs who had already been bribed by the Intelligence Department inside the palace, they went out of the secret passage and blended into the palace. They did not rush out of the palace to meet the people of the Intelligence Department, but under the cover of their identities, they found out the number of forbidden troops in many places according to the map of the palace that they remembered in their minds. This gives more certainty to raid operations.

Without further ado, Gongsun Jian was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he arranged for the Fourth Division to cooperate with the Special Operations Brigade to attack the Southern Han Army all night that night, once to distract the other party's attention. And Ding Feng's amphibious combat division all made a detour in advance and entered the secret passage in batches.

Gongsun Jian was neatly dressed in helmets and armor in the handsome tent, looking at the generals under his command who were also all dressed like this, with a serious expression but always waiting for news without saying a word. Finally, when it was almost dawn, the scouts came with the news that the amphibious division had all entered the attack state and was ready to attack at any time.

Gongsun Jian stood up suddenly, pressed the sword on his waist and looked at the full tent of Wenwu and said loudly: "Everyone, the destruction of the Southern Han Dynasty will be a battle in the near future. To everyone and Gongmou live and die together, and move forward. ”

"Subordinates should serve their own orders!"

Immediately, Gongsun Jian gave the attack order that had been arranged long ago. The fire support regiment led by Qi Shi had already placed six artillery pieces and twenty trebuchets in place, and after receiving the order, they bombarded the situation in the camp outside the city of the Southern Han army. The Southern Han army, which had been attacked all night, was like a cat with its tail stepped on, and they all picked up their weapons and ran. They knew very well that this time Zhou Jun was playing for real.

Liu Mang stood in front of his handsome tent with his guards and generals and looked at the outside of the camp. In fact, when the Zhou army continued to attack last night, he guessed that today during the day would be a battle of life and death. But unexpectedly, before the sky was completely bright, the Zhou army began to fight. Liu Mang, who had been prepared for a long time, began to send troops, not only prepared to defend the battalion, but also ready to attack at any time, relying on the superiority of troops to directly give the Zhou army a head-on attack.

Thus began the great war between the two sides. It's just that the Zhou army seems to attack fiercely, but in fact, the number of people participating in the battle is not much, mainly relying on artillery, trebuchets, bed crossbows and bows and arrows for long-range attacks, and no men and horses were sent to attack the camp of the Southern Han army.

Looking at Zhou Jun's attack form, Liu Mang couldn't help but show a look of confusion on his face. He didn't know what Gongsun Jian was thinking, and why such a good situation didn't attack his own camp in one go, but continued to attack from a distance on the periphery. This is a wasted best opportunity. Just when he was confused, he suddenly heard the soldiers behind him shouting: "Your Majesty, look." There was a fire in the capital, and smoke was billowing from the palace, as if it were coming from inside the palace. ”

"What?" Liu Mang hurriedly looked back. Only then did I find that not far away the capital was in flames, accompanied by a shout of killing.

"Not good. Gongsun Sword and Dog Thieves sent people to break into the capital. Liu Mang shouted, although he didn't know in his heart how Gongsun Jian did it. But he was 100% sure that the capital behind him was in chaos at this time. The enemy is going to attack his soft underbelly. If the capital is lost, then the nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses under his command can be said to have completely lost their fighting spirit. Because many of them have their families in the city.

"Quickly open the west door. Wang Ke: When you take your headquarters and 20,000 troops to rescue the capital, you must annihilate all the enemies in the capital. ”

"The others followed the king to attack the camp of the Zhou army. Today he will fight to the death with the other party. ”

Liu Mang made a judgment as quickly as possible and gave the order. This also shows that he has good military qualities, can make decisive choices in such a crisis, and can be said to be a qualified commander-in-chief.

On the other hand, Gongsun Jian's side had already made all the arrangements, and when Wang Ke of the Southern Han Army led people to rescue the capital, Ma Teng's rapid support division also rushed to the other side. His mission is to prevent the other party from returning to the city.

"Send someone to ask Ding Feng quickly, has the imperial city been taken? And did the second division follow up? Gongsun Jian ordered one of the soldiers beside him.

"Chang Chang Fu took your third division up to support Lao Qi and withstand the opponent's counterattack. I want to take down my camp and help the city get out of trouble. Hehe, Liu Mang, you just dream. ”

"Xie Wu, how is the rest of the Special Operations Brigade?"

"No problem, the lads are all well fed. This fatigue is nothing to us. The three days and three nights of uncoordinated rapid marches have been exercised. Xie Wu replied to Gongsun Jian's words with a smile on his face.

"That's good. Take them to assault the camp of the Southern Han army. At this time, Liu Mang is estimated to be crazy, and he wants to fight with us regardless of it. Therefore, the defense of the rear battalion will no longer be cared for. You led people to mess up his camp for me, and burned all the tents, grain, and grass for me. ”

"Okay. Just wait and see, sir. Xie Wu smiled and led the people away.

"King Chu, you are in charge of frontal defense, and the third and fourth divisions and the seventh division and all your subordinates here are all under your command."

"Yes. But what are you going to do, Lord Wang? Qian Tuan agreed, but asked Gongsun Jian with some doubts. As the supreme commander of the Great Army. At this time, he did not carry it in his own position, but let himself lead the army against the frontal enemy.

Gongsun Jian smiled mysteriously. Lowered his voice and said, "I'm going to do something bad." ”

Then Gongsun Jian left from the back of the camp with hundreds of his own guards. After a detour from the battlefield, he turned to the fork river northeast of the city.

"This is the prince. Master Tian of the Second Division sent someone to stay here to meet us. A guard reminded.

"Well, it seems that Lao Ding and Lao Tian have all entered the imperial city. I don't know how the battle went. ”

Gongsun Jian was talking to himself, and a company commander came up to him, knelt on one knee and hugged his fists and said: "Lord Qiyu, my subordinate is Zhang Deshun, the commander of the fifth company of the third battalion of the second regiment under the command of the commander of the second division. On the order of Master Tian, I made a special trip to wait for you again. ”

"Zhang Deshun. Hahaha, I remember you. Jiazhou people are right? It seems that when you were promoted, you still had the captain's epaulette I personally brought to you. ”

"Yes, I didn't expect the prince to remember the villain." Zhang Deshun's face was full of joy and excitement. He really didn't expect Gongsun Jian to be able to remember him as a small captain company commander.

"I can remember almost all of your first bunches. Do a good job, I have the impression that some of you who enlisted in the same batch are already deputy regiment commanders or battalion commanders. You've got to work hard! ”

"Yes, your subordinates must keep in mind your instructions. I'm just a little bit worse off learning to read. can fight, Zhang Deshun is no worse than others. If you don't believe me, you can ask my brothers and our teachers. I'm always at the front. Zhang Deshun replied with a red face.

Gongsun Jian had already gotten off his horse at this time, walked over and patted Zhang Deshun on the shoulder and said, "Don't just know how to rush and kill, you must learn to use your brains more when fighting." Cultural knowledge is important. Go back and wait for this battle to be over, and go to the military academy for further study. ”

"Hey! The subordinates must study hard. Zhang Deshun nodded solemnly in agreement. His own small company commander is not only remembered by the prince, but also can be valued by the prince. At this moment, Zhang Deshun hated to immediately raise a knife to help the prince cut off the heads of a few more enemies.

"Deshun, do you know how the battle is going in the city?" Gongsun Jian asked as he walked towards the entrance of the extremely secret passage.

"Back to the prince's words, Lord Tian sent someone out to report just now. The imperial city has been taken, but there are too many defenders in the city, and it is impossible to rush out and take the city defense at the moment. But now there is chaos in the city, and those people in the Intelligence Department are still setting fires everywhere to create chaos. It is estimated that it will not be long before our people will be able to rush out of the palace. ”

"Oh. Let's speed up and take a look. As he spoke, Gongsun Jian bent down and drilled through the entrance of the secret passage.

It took more than four miles to get to the end of the road for almost twenty minutes. Fortunately, out of the tunnel, there were already people waiting for Gongsun Jian over there.

"Lord Wang, you're finally here." A regimental commander of the amphibious division looked at Gongsun Jian and said with a happy face.

"Well, Yuan Kuncai, what's the situation now?"

"The palace has been taken, and the forbidden troops stationed inside have either been wiped out or captured. In addition, none of the crown princes and princesses and concubines of the Southern Han Kingdom ran away, and all of them were captured alive. ”

"Then why hasn't the defenders outside the Imperial City been resolved?" Gongsun Jian asked with some confusion.

"Lord Wang, there are too many dog thieves, and the palace is surrounded. Master Ding is discussing countermeasures with Master Tian. ”

"Fools at both ends." Gongsun Jian scolded with displeasure: "Go, let people bring me all the crown prince and the queen prince of the Southern Han Dynasty and escort them to the wall of the imperial city." ”

"Yes."

After a short while, Gongsun Jian came to the noon gate of the palace, and the crown prince and empress of the Southern Han Kingdom were all escorted over.

"Shout and tell the enemy generals outside to lay down their arms and surrender. Otherwise, the crown prince, the prince, the queen and all of them will be beheaded in front of them. What if they keep the capital? When Liu Mang came back, he cut off the heads of their whole family. ”

Sure enough, as Gongsun Jian expected, when the crown prince and princes of the Southern Han Kingdom, as well as the empress and others were pushed onto the palace wall of the imperial city, the soldiers and generals besieging the palace were all dumbfounded. In case their own crown prince and these people are all cut down by the other party, even if they can kill all the Zhou troops who captured the palace, they will not end well when Liu Mang returns.

So it's very simple, just surrender!

Let people confiscate the blades of the defenders in the capital, and then take all the middle and high-level generals into custody, and then Gongsun Jian ordered to purge all the rebel forces in the city, and the most important thing is to let the families of those Southern Han officers and soldiers who are still fighting outside the city all go to the city, and break the belief of the other party to fight to the death.

The matter is not complicated, the people of the Intelligence Department have long known the addresses of the generals outside the city, and closely monitor their family's every move. After receiving the order, these people were quickly breached, and all of them were put on the head of the city and shouted loudly to the Southern Han army outside the city.

The effect is obvious. Now the capital of the Southern Han Dynasty has been completely controlled by the Zhou army, and their families are all in the hands of the Zhou army, but if they dare to say half a word, then the next result is obvious that the whole family is dead except for themselves. Faced with such a situation, even Liu Mang could only cry out in vain.