Chapter 242: Xijing Catastrophe

That night, Gu Daoyuan and others supported the Duke of Qin in the noisy and prosperous city of Xijing City, and quietly hurried out of the city and fled in the direction of Xiazhong County.

What happened in the Xuanwu Hall during the day and the battle between the forbidden army and the Deng party did not attract too many people's attention in the city of Xijing.

This is like a storm in the East China Sea, no matter how big and violent it is, the fish and shrimp in the West Sea will not care, although the four seas are connected, but they are thousands of miles away.

As for the common people near the storm, although they heard or saw the soldiers and horses fighting, they were exhausted from running for their own livelihood every day, and where would they have the leisure to do for the high kings and nobles.

For them, today's events are at most a basis for after-dinner conversation and to show off their knowledge to their relatives in the country.

As for what happened in the Xuanwu Palace, what did it have to do with them.

As the sun sets, every household in Xijing City turns off their lights early, waiting for the next day's dawn to start the day again.

However, the night did not seem to be peaceful.

The princes and nobles of the city unexpectedly stopped singing and dancing on weekdays, and instead walked through the streets and alleys with money and rushed out of the city.

The patrolling soldiers of the city no longer paced the streets in the same way as they once were, but disappeared after the families of the nobles who had fled in a hurry.

The streets of Xijing City are as empty as ghosts.

The nearly one million people in the city didn't know that there was no monarch in the Xuanwu Hall in Xijing City at this moment.

And the families of the princes and ministers who had lost the news after exploring the previous dynasty also received the news that the monarch had gone west hunting from the mouths of several ministers who had returned home from the court but were about to leave the city immediately.

What this news means, those who understand it will naturally understand, and those who don't understand it will not need to understand it anymore. Soon, the Praetorian soldiers who had entered the city began to tell everyone the final answer to this question.

On this night, the city of Seokyeongseong was ablaze, and the soldiers who had been guarding Gyeonggi began to fight each other after their generals made different choices, and then turned into a purposeless burning and looting.

After the looting of the soldiers, the people who came to their senses also followed the example of the people of the counties during the Meng Chun Rebellion, and the people of the counties began to build walls to protect themselves. The only difference is that they did not choose to fight against the soldiers of the Forbidden Army who burned and looted, but began with them to carry out new looting and burning against the people who did not come and made a choice.

Two days later, when the 200,000 Qi army came to Xijing City, they were surprised to see that this capital, which should have been magnificent in their imagination, was only left with ruins, leaving only corpses and flesh all over the streets.

Xuanwu Hall and the homes of those princes and nobles, and even most of Xijing City have become scorched black, if it is not for the Qi army to quickly enter the city to carry out the rescue, it may not take a few days, and there will be no Xijing in the world.

The Qi army was surprised to find that these surviving Qin people were in short supply of food and clothing, and they all stared at the armies of other countries walking through their own gates, but the eyes of those people were full of strangeness and doubt.

Two days later, Yongluan led an army of 20,000 and finally returned to Xijing.

He was not as uninterested in what happened in Xijing as the soldiers and horses from the Qi Kingdom, but in the midst of his inner struggles and contradictions, he began to settle the people in the city and repair the burned city walls.

This city is also Yongluan's home, and this city is a fortress that will play a decisive role in the upcoming war. How could Yongluan let his home and the fortress on which his army relied be destroyed.

A few days later, the Qi people sent 100,000 soldiers and horses north to assist Yongluan's 40,000 troops to garrison Baili and shoot in autumn.

And Yongluan finally counted the losses of Xijing City in the three days of blood, and these losses made this Great Qin You even more sad, and even the Qi people wanted to immediately support him as the monarch, and they didn't care so much.

In three days, the inexplicable chaos caused 60,000 people to die, 150,000 people to flee Xijing, most of the city was destroyed, and the Xuanwu Palace, which had stood for more than 500 years, became a scorched earth. Even Yongluan's home was ransacked and burned down by mobs or rebels in the chaos.

These days, Yongluan walked back and forth in Xijing City every day, watching the familiar places in the past become desolate and strange, watching the bustling streets of the past become rubble-covered dead areas, and finally after one day of inspection, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh bitterly.

Then, he took his soldiers and horses to prepare to go north and leave the ruined home.

"Duke Qi invited me to succeed as the monarch of Qin, but General Lian, you have also seen it, where is the former Xijing, and where am I enthroned as a duke?

And now that Yong Daocheng has arrived in Wenshui, if Ben Geng boldly ascends the throne, although he can get the support of your country, the other two countries and the Son of Heaven will never recognize my throne.

Therefore, please wait for our coalition forces to go north to recapture Hexi County.

Ben has already written a report, stating that Deng Ziwen's rebellion has been investigated, and at the same time inviting Yong Daocheng to return to Beijing.

Although I know that he can no longer trust me, I still have to make this gesture. Otherwise, how can you block the mouth of the people of the world.

After I left, I also asked General Lian to take more care of the people in the city for the sake of our fellow Zhou people. ”

Xijing, outside Chongyao Gate, after Yongluan and Lian Min who came to say goodbye smiled bitterly, they bowed slightly, and then disappeared from the field of vision of the Qi people with a trace of desolation.

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