Chang Wenjun had already formed a neat queue of soldiers and eunuchs outside the palace, and it had to be said that he was able to do this so efficiently, which was really closely related to the fact that every adult male would conduct military training, so that the peasants who were digging in the soil would no longer be loose and undisciplined.

The palace guards are naturally also good at being born in the army, although the eunuchs have never been on the battlefield, but under the deterrence of Qin Fa, they also do well with the guards.

When Changwen saw Qin Zheng coming out, he hurriedly walked to King Qin's side and reported: "Your Majesty, there are not enough weapons in the army, please open the arsenal." ”

King Qin didn't expect that his seal and Zhao Ji's empress dowager seal had been stolen, and he was really in trouble now. He had to inform Changwen of the news, and Changwen was shocked, the seal is a treasure of a country, although it is not as good as the tiger talisman to mobilize the three armies, but it can also move many officials.

Changwen had to ask the King of Qin to go to the arsenal in person, and there was nothing else to do. After all, in addition to fearing the law, the Qin people are in awe of the King of Qin. Qin Zheng nodded and agreed, and he took three or four hundred soldiers with weapons and a large number of carriages towards the arsenal.

When the officials of the arsenal saw that the king of Qin was in person, they naturally met the king's request. By the time they returned to the palace with their arsenals of weapons and a large number of arrows, shouts of slaughter were already heard at the far gates.

However, it was said that Chang Yu came out of the palace, went straight to the manor and brought his own soldiers, and went to the countryside outside the city to collect the county soldiers and township soldiers in the name of King Qin being trapped and saving King Qin. Because he was not born in the army, the Hakka soldiers were in a mess, and it took a lot of time to sort out the team.

Chang Yu led a large group of men and horses to hurry towards the city, but after all, he did not catch up with the moment to block the city gate. He tried to use the king's seal to deceive the city gate, but he didn't want the stubborn five hundred lords to refuse Chang Yu's entry on the grounds that there was no king's order.

Chang Yu angrily pointed to his face next to the torch and shouted: "I am the Marquis of Changxin, I am the Empress Dowager to lead the troops to the king, dare to delay?" ”

The young five hundred lords have been taught to act according to orders since childhood, although the person in front of him claims to have the order of the queen mother, if there is something, why not take it out early, if not, it must be a rebel and thief. He shouted at his subordinates: "The king is fine, don't be deceived by the thief." Quickly retreat, and tomorrow you will know that the king is still safe. ”

Chang Yu was helpless, originally planned to open the city gate by fraud, but now it had to be changed to a strong attack, and the deceived soldiers saw that they were going to attack the city and were greatly impacted. He asked his henchmen to kill the leaders of the county soldiers, intimidating them to withdraw at this time, if they could attack all the way into the city and hold the King of Qin hostage, they would have a glimmer of life.

Qin Zheng is at war with heaven and man in his heart, and the walls of the palace are high and the gates are deep, which is really a good place for defense, but the city gate can keep bandits out. How to choose? He looked at Chang Wenjun's subordinates a little dull, turned his head and said to him: "Take them to the city gate to defend, it only takes one night and tomorrow reinforcements to arrive." Send people to gather all the attendants and slaves of the officials in the city to prepare for battle. ”

He sat in the carriage and turned to the soldiers who followed him, and the eunuch shouted loudly: "How can you say that you have no clothes, and you are with your son?" Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son! ”

The soldiers with torches, under the leadership of King Qin, were in high spirits and sang loudly with the king. The officials, who were startled by the noisy shouts of killing, went out to investigate, only to find that the king of Qin personally led troops to quell the rebellion and heard the call of the envoy. They hurriedly sent their own guards and slaves to join King Qin's ranks.

The young Five Hundred Lord was originally also a descendant of the Li family. In the early years of the decline of the clan, he had to be promoted from a low-level petty officer to a five-hundred-hundred-hundred. Slashed and killed a thief who had just climbed the wall, he wiped the blood from his face with his hand, and the faint sound of singing came from his ears. The sound was getting louder and louder, and it was already possible to tell that it was the war song of the Qin people coming from inside the city.

He turned his head and saw the King of Qin sitting in a simple carriage, which was also loaded with spears and arrows to support the city gate. couldn't help but tremble with excitement, and shouted at the compatriots who fell into a bloody battle: "Second and third sons, the king himself led troops and horses to help, for the king, kill!" ”

When the soldier heard the news, his slightly tired body seemed to be infused with new strength. shouted in unison: "For the king, kill!" The momentum was astonishing, so that the thief who had just come up the ladder was beheaded with a knife in shock, or he was shocked by the momentum of the guards and retreated in a panic and fell outside the city wall with a scream.

Seeing that the morale of the city was greatly boosted, Chang Yu had to bewitch his soldiers below: "The one who ascends first will be crowned a marquis, and he will win ten thousand gold in the city." But he never mentioned the nonsense of saving King Qin again, but he didn't find that the county soldiers under his command were talking to each other, and some of them slowly touched the edge of the team and ran away quietly while it was dark.

He didn't care about these at all at this time, and he could only see the young five hundred lords in his eyes, slaughtering all the dead soldiers who had been inspired to climb the city wall. His anxious eyes were red, but to no avail. Knowing this, it was better to assassinate King Qin alone in the palace. It's just that at that time, I thought that King Qin had many guards around him, so I had to decide to lead my troops to attack.

Qin Zheng had already arrived under the city wall with reinforcements at this time, and he ignored Chang Wenjun's dissuasion, climbed the city wall and drew a dead soldier led by a sword and blade. Seeing that King Qin was in danger, the five hundred lords had no choice but to move closer to him and protect Qin Zheng's flank.

Changwen saw that this was really dangerous, and sent two-thirds of his troops to the city wall, replacing the tired and injured guards to rest under the city wall. Eunuch slaves had no military training, and were only assigned the task of boiling water and winding crossbow arrows.

Although Chang Yu also tried his best to collect bows and crossbows, they were still far from the sophisticated weapons in the city's arsenal. Not to mention that the guards of the city are often well-armoured, and unless the arrows hit the vital point, they will be blocked by the armor and their bodies will be unharmed.

Qin Zheng saw that the opponent's attack was weak, and approached the edge of the city wall and shouted to Chang Yu, who had to withdraw from the place of shooting because of the crossbow shooting: "Chang Yu thief, the widow is so close that he still can't be captured?" ”

Chang Yu was about to order someone to bring the shield soldiers to the front, when he heard Qin Zheng's voice, he returned loudly: "Your father is here, why don't you offer the king to me?" The Queen Mother had already promised to make Wu'er king. ”

Qin Zheng was humiliated by the thief for a while at this time, and he was angry that his eyes were black and his breathing was not smooth. Chang Wenjun saw that Qin Zheng was not lightly popular, so he had to help Qin Zheng to rest under the city wall.

He patted Qin Zheng on the back, helped him breathe, and persuaded him: "Chang Yu is just a tree without roots, when my brother leads the Xianyang army to come, catch him and let the king deal with him, why bother." ”

At this time, he was also full of relief, calmed down and swore to Chang Wenjun: "The widow will break this person apart to calm the hatred in the hearts of the widows." ”

At this time, there were already enemies on the city wall who climbed up with shields, and the boiling water boiling under the city wall was loaded in a wooden basin and transported to the city wall in time. The guards poured boiling water on the outcropping foes, and heard them fall with their hands over their eyes and howl as they became stepping stones for the other thieves.

For a moment, the howls of the thieves were incessant, and the guards on the city walls cheered. Seeing that the human ladder was unfavorable, Chang Yu was frantic and asked the dead soldiers in front of him to pile up the dead corpses into a mountain to support the human ladder, and on the other side, people were burdened with soil into a mountain. The use of the two methods together made it easier for the dead to cling to the walls, and the pressure on the walls quickly increased a lot.

Changping Jun, who led a few cavalry back to Xianyang overnight, knew that emergency relief was like fighting fire, and said that the generals and soldiers of the battalion quickly returned to Yongcheng with some infantry and several hundred cavalry on the carriage, and the remaining more than 5,000 infantry marched west on the wide road under the reflection of torches.

Yongcheng is 300 miles away from Xianyang, and Changping still took the cavalry all the way to Xianyang, where he returned to Xianyang within three hours without changing people, and spent a lot of effort in persuading the guards in the camp. Now though they were few in number, they brought with them more horses, and for the march they were quick to march with three horses, each with torches, and in the dark night they saw a bright dragon galloping toward the west.

Whenever the horses they rode ran out of strength, they expelled them from the group and let them rest off the road. Naturally, the infantry in the back would come to receive the horses, and they endured the pain of their hips and put their arms around the horses' necks. From time to time, exhausted knights fell from their horses, and after a few cries of pain were silenced, and they were trampled to death by galloping horses.

Meng Wu, who was in the same car as Changping Jun, looked at his good son, who died so tragically, frowned and pursed his lips, but he whipped the whip in his hand harder to the horse's buttocks. If all these sacrifices cannot be made meaningless, how can the king die at the hands of eunuchs, and if the king humiliates his ministers to death, he will not fall into the prestige of his father.

The roadside inn was far away alarmed by the sound of horses kicking the ground, and the old man looked at the door with torches. Watching the army hurrying west, he muttered to himself: "Isn't there something wrong with the king?" ”

Meng Wu and Changping Jun galloped all the way, and finally reached the edge of Yongcheng before dawn. Meng Wu led the army to rest, and although Changping Jun was impatient, he had no choice. The tired army will be defeated, this is also the correct theory of the soldiers, although he has not led the troops into battle, but this common sense still understands.

Although Meng Wu let the soldiers rest and recuperate, he did not wait in the same place, and sent small and good soldiers to the edge of the city to investigate in the dark. The spies reported that there were still shouts of killing at the city wall, and that the thieves had not entered the city. Hearing this news, Changping Jun breathed a sigh of relief, and when he relaxed, he only felt that his whole body was sore, and his skeleton was about to fall apart.

As the morning light in the east faded, Chang Yu became more and more impatient, and even sent a column of dead soldiers behind him to kill the dead soldiers who had retreated in frustration. For a while, retreating is death, advancing is also death, and advancing can also have a chance to get a reward, and the dead soldiers are desperately attacking the city wall with some county soldiers who still can't tell the situation.

Qin Zheng's gorgeous robe was also stained with blood, and he wore a suit of armor to protect his upper body, panting and resting under the city wall. The young five hundred lords were also close to exhaustion at this time, and the eunuch slaves who had been burning water crossbows in the rear were also issued weapons and sent to the city wall to defend together. The original blood stains on the walls were hidden by the sand, but the blood stains were slippery and unsteady for the guards.

Chang Yu saw that the defenders had gradually weakened, and the excitement once again encouraged his dead soldiers and soldiers. As they charged forward, they felt the ground tremble beneath their feet, and then they heard the noise of horses faintly in the east.

A troop of cavalry rushed towards them in front of the rising sun. His face changed drastically, but he didn't expect King Qin to bring in rescuers overnight. He hurriedly retreated towards his manor with the dead soldiers with horses, as long as there was gold and silver, he could continue to flee west, he could gather more soldiers, and there would be a chance.