371 Anti-water
Speaking of which, the Sun family and the Ma family were originally one of the families that followed the Xie family to fight the world together.
More than 30 years ago, in the battle for the succession that almost bloodied the entire capital, An Guogong and Empress Dowager Xie joined forces with several families to send troops to support the seventh prince Jing'an Emperor to ascend the throne, becoming the final winner.
Among the families that contributed to the troops, there were two families, Sun and Ma.
It stands to reason that the Sun and Ma families should be in the same group as the Xie family.
However, a few years ago, after the Xie family allowed the Hu people to burn and loot in the northwest and southern regions, the Sun and Ma families, who owned a large amount of land and various commercial interests in the southern region, began to have a rift with the Xie family.
Coupled with the deliberate solicitation and provocation of Emperor Zhao Yanfeng of Shuntian later, the Xie family regarded the Sun and Ma families as rivals who were constantly suppressed, and finally these two originally famous families were reduced to marginalized third-rate families.
This breath, how can the Sun and Ma families swallow it.
However, due to the strength of the Xie family and the power of the army, the Sun and Ma families could only tolerate it temporarily.
However, this time is different, and the opportunity for revenge they have been waiting for has finally arrived.
Almost no one knew that just when Hu Daren's army had just arrived in the city, an unknown mysterious person sent a letter and a token into the Ma family's mansion.
When the head of the Ma family read the letter, he was shocked on the spot, and immediately sent someone to invite the head of the Sun family, who was also an ally, over.
The head of the Sun family, who came in a hurry, was also extremely shocked after reading the letter.
Because the signatory of this letter turned out to be Arobu, the great prince of Xinjing, and his private seal was stamped on it.
And the token that was sent with the secret letter was a jade wrench.
When they saw this jade wrench, Sun Ma and the two family heads already felt that this secret letter was eighty percent true.
Because this kind of thing has always been used only by the Hu people, and the Han people rarely use this thing.
The Hu people were proficient in riding and archery, and in order to protect their fingers from being cut by the bowstring, they invented a wrench specifically for archery.
Generally, the wrenches used by the Hu people are mostly made of sheep's horns or ox horns, and only the noble Hu people will use the wrenches made of ivory or jade.
The jade material used in this jade wrench is of high quality, smooth and transparent, and it is a top-notch jade.
People who can use this kind of jade wrench are by no means idle.
In addition, in this secret letter, a meaning is clearly expressed: as long as the Sun and Ma families are willing to assist in the sacrifice of the city when the army is attacking the city, they can not only ensure the safety of their family afterwards, but also increase their official ranks.
On the contrary, if the Sun and Ma families refused to cooperate, the day the city was destroyed would be the time when thousands of people from all over their clan would be destroyed.
Whether it is the motive or the tone of this secret letter of lure and threat, it is also very consistent with the identity of the eldest prince Arobu who is in the city.
Therefore, this secret letter and this jade wrench finger may really be the stuff of the Great Turk Prince Arobu.
And the reason why the Hu people handed over these two things to the Sun and Ma families was probably because they had already known about the grievances between the Sun and Ma families and the Xie family, so they instigated them to rebel.
This incident caused a huge shock among the Sun and Ma families, and soon made the Sun and Ma families reach an agreement.
Regardless of whether this secret letter is true or not, in this situation where it can be lost at any time, taking the initiative to surrender to the Hu people and dedicating the city is the only way to protect his family.
By the way, you can also take revenge on the Xie family, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
For this reason, the two decided to join forces to do this great thing together.
The so-called starving camel is bigger than the horse, although the Sun and Ma families have been continuously suppressed by the Xie family in the past few years, but as a former big family, they still have the strength they should have.
While the Wei army was desperately resisting the attack of the two city gates of the South Gate and the East Gate, more than 3,000 private soldiers of the Sun and Ma families were disguised as ordinary soldiers and mixed into the defenders of the East Gate.
If it were in peacetime, the sudden addition of so many soldiers with fresh faces would definitely arouse the suspicion of others.
But now the gates on both sides are under fierce attack by the Hu people, and all the soldiers and generals are busy defending the city and killing the enemy, and no one will pay attention to these small things.
In order to avoid accidentally injuring their own people, these private soldiers also tied a black veil on their left arm that was not easy to be found as a mark of identification.
In this way, these private soldiers from the Sun and Ma families were pretending to defend the city while waiting for the signal to move.
Due to the continuous siege of the Hu people, and the lack of invulnerable sword and armor soldiers on the east gate, the situation began to gradually fall to the side of the Hu people.
Half an hour later, as more and more Hu siege soldiers successfully stood on the head of the city, the situation at the east gate became more and more critical at this time.
Seeing that the top of the city was almost unbearable, Sun Pei, the descendant of the Sun family, and Ma Yihai, the eldest son of the Ma family, glanced at each other, and then pulled out the saber on their waists together and shouted in unison: "Kill!" ”
After saying that, the two of them rushed to the crowd in charge of the top door, and cut down when they saw someone.
The private soldiers who had been waiting for the signal saw that their master had finally made a move, and immediately followed closely behind, drawing their sabers and rushing into the crowd to slash everywhere.
"What are you doing! Ah...... "A soldier who was desperately pushing against the city gate could not figure out what was going on before he had his head cut off by a private soldier.
Not only him, but many of the soldiers who stood against the city gate did not know what was happening behind them, and only heard the sound of shouts and screams of killing.
Sun Pei and Ma Yihai have only one goal, and that is the blocked city gate.
As the private soldiers of the Sun and Ma families who have been secretly raised for many years, they are far stronger than ordinary soldiers.
In addition, Xinjing is now full of semi-recruits who have only been in the army for a few years, and these private soldiers with strong combat power have an overwhelming advantage when facing these semi-recruits.
Under the leadership of Sun Pei and Ma Yihai, the more than 3,000 well-trained private soldiers were killing people everywhere like broken bamboos, constantly approaching the city gate.
"Stop them! Stop them......" Zheng Zhi, the new governor of the Five Armies, who saw this scene from above the city, screamed hoarsely, eager to jump down from the city tower to stop them.
However, it was too late, and under this sudden attack, the more than 3,000 private soldiers quickly occupied the city gates, and then successfully opened the city gates under the extremely frightened eyes of all the soldiers.
When the city gate opened, not only the Wei soldiers were stunned, but even the Hu siege soldiers outside were also stunned.
But soon, the Hu siege soldiers, who had turned from stunned to ecstatic, finally reacted, and immediately rushed in like hungry ghosts, and killed anyone they saw, regardless of whether the opponent was an ordinary soldier or someone who took the initiative to open the city gate.
Anyway, in their eyes, the Han people are all the same, and they should all be killed.
Seeing the Hu people who kept pouring in from the city gate, Zheng Zhi, the governor of the five armies, and Hu Chunbo, the right-hand camp officer, and others suddenly looked like ashes, and their whole bodies were cold.
They knew that Xinjing was over, Dawei was over, and everything was over.