Two days later, on September 12, most of the rebels came to the city of Jinan. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Shen stood at the head of the city, held a telescope and saw the man riding next to the commander's banner, and said hatefully: "Xie Guoran rebelled, and he also commanded the rebel army!" Really, after the rebellion is quelled, His Majesty will definitely not let him go! ”

Because Xie Cheng was resolute in rebellion and had rich experience in fighting as a hero, Lu Yuan immediately asked Xie Cheng to command the army.

After Xie Cheng led his troops to the city of Jinan, he immediately set up camp, and then quickly began to attack the city! Because Xia Zi led the cavalry to flee back, Jinan City already had several days of preparation time, and he couldn't waste a trace of time.

These days, Zhang Shen, He Yuan, Zhuang De, Xia Zi and others have tried their best to organize the defense of the city, but they are still not optimistic. The last time I defended the city, I consumed a lot of equipment to defend the city, but now there is not much oil in the city, and there are very few rolling wood stones, etc., so if you want to get rolling wood and stones, you can only demolish the house.

Although the heavy artillery was still in Jinan, Xie Cheng took most of the gunpowder with him when he left, making the cannon almost a decoration, leaving the rebels' light artillery to rage.

In addition, the morale of the rebels is not low, and the people defending the city, whether it is the official army or the people, are demoralized, so although Zhang Shen and others have done their best, but only two days later, on September 14, the rebel army under the command of Xie Cheng climbed the wall of Jinan City from the south city wall, and Jinan City was broken!

When the city of Jinan was almost broken, Zhuang De and Xia Zi led the cavalry to break through from the north gate.

Zhuang De originally said to Xia Zi: "Brother Xia, you must take the cavalry away before the city of Jinan is broken!" ”

"If all the cavalry is also captured in the city of Jinan, then the entire Shandong will have no army that can stop the rebels except for Denglai Erfu, and Denglai Erfu is isolated by Qingzhou and Luxi, then the rebels can all occupy most of Shandong, Dongchang Mansion and other places can not be defended! Even the rebels could go north to the north, west to the river, and south to the Jianghuai. So the cavalry must be withdrawn! ”

Xia Zi said: "Zhuang De, you can also withdraw with me." ”

Zhuang De said: "I am now the general of Jinan City, how can I leave Jinan City behind?" ”

At this time, Zhang Shen said: "Zhuang De, you can go too!" You are not the commander of Jinan Wei, the general of the city defense is just appointed by Xie Cheng, and now that Xie Cheng has rebelled, his words are naturally not counted. ”

Then Zhang Shen continued: "I am the political envoy of Zuobu in Shandong, and I am now the highest official in Shandong, I order you to lead troops to break through, and you don't have to think about anything else!" ”

"Also," Zhang Shen took out a copy of the fold and said, "This is my testament, and it will be passed into the hands of His Majesty after you break through!" ”

He Yuan also took out a piece of things and handed it to Zhuang De and said, "This is also my testament, pass it on to Your Majesty." ”

Zhuang De's relationship with Zhang Shen is usually average, but seeing them like this at this time, he said with tears in his eyes: "I know, I will definitely send your widow to the capital!" ”

He Yuan said to Yang Shiqi again: "You follow them to break through!" You don't have to be stuck in the city! ”

Yang Shiqi said: "How can I go! ”

He Yuan said: "Why can't you go!" ”

Zhang Shen also said: "You are not an official in Shandong, what can't you go!" Then he said to Zhuang De: "Tie Yang Shiqi to the horse, and you must take Yang Yushi safely." ”

Zhuang De said: "Yes! Then he beckoned to the guards and took Yang Shiqi away without saying anything, ignoring Yang Shiqi's constant words, "Let go of me!" Words and struggles.

Because although Xie Cheng's soldiers were much more than those in Jinan City, in order to break Jinan City as soon as possible, Xie Cheng did not dare to put too many people in the other gates, so the cavalry led by Zhuang De successfully broke through after paying a certain amount of casualties.

Yang Shiqi knew that his friend He Yuan would definitely not survive to serve the rebels, so he turned his head and looked at Jinan City, where the shouting and killing sound shook the sky, and said firmly: "He Yuan, I will definitely avenge you!" ”

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In the city of Jinan, in the backyard of the Yamen of the political envoy of Shandong, Zhang Shen listened to the words of the guards, "The rebels have captured the outer city and are attacking the inner city", and then waved his hand to let the guards retreat.

Zhang Shen was wearing an official robe at this time, which was the best-preserved official robe of Zhang Shen. Next to him, his wife was also dressed in her best clothes.

Zhang Shen said to his wife: "Today is our death date, and a daughter and two sons will follow us to Huangquan." If you had known the end of the day thirty years ago, would you still marry me? ”

His wife smiled and said: "I have been with you for most of my life, I have no regrets, even if I knew that the ending was like this thirty years ago, I would marry you." ”

Zhang Shen also smiled, took out a bottle of wine, and then ordered someone to call his daughter and two sons.

When they all arrived, Zhang Shen said to them, "You guys drink this drink." ”

Zhang Shen's youngest son immediately said, "Dad, I don't drink!" I don't want to die! ”

Zhang Shen's eyes widened, and he said: "Our Zhang family is full of loyalty, how can there be people who bend to serve thieves!" Then, regardless of his son's struggles, he let his subordinates pour it into his mouth.

Then Zhang Shen waited for another son, daughter, and wife to drink, and then he also took the wine glass and drank it all, and then said to his subordinates: "You should also run for your lives!" Don't stay in the yamen, or be careful of your life! Then he crooked so much that he didn't move on the table.

Xie Cheng led his troops into the inner city of Jinan City, and Luo Ren, who had led his troops into the city in advance, said to him: "General Xie, Zhang Shen, the political envoy of Shandong Zuobu, has committed suicide, and the envoy has also committed suicide, Zhuang De and Xia Zi led the cavalry to escape with Yang Shiqi. ……”

"However, He Yuan, the prefect of Jinan, is very strange, he neither committed suicide nor surrendered, but sat in the center of the hall and asked His Royal Highness King Qi to go down to see him."

Xie Cheng thought for a moment and said, "I just want to reprimand him in person, and I'm just addicted." His parents, wife and children are not in Jinan, so he doesn't have to worry about anything, and of course he can't surrender. ”

If it was usual, Xie Cheng would no longer care about He Yuan after saying this. But today he suddenly became a little interested, and said: "Now that the city has been broken, hurry up and gather the army, there is no need to harass the people." I'll go see He Yuan. ”

Not long after, Xie Cheng came to Jinan Mansion and saw He Yuan, who was sitting in the lobby. Because of Luo Ren's order, the soldiers around him just stayed around He Yuan and didn't do anything to He Yuan, so He Yuan could sit in his seat peacefully.

He Yuan saw Xie Cheng walk in and said, "Why are you here?" King Qi! I want to see the King of Qi Waste! He now knows that Yun Xi decreed the abolition of Zhu Rong's throne as King of Qi, so he called Zhu Rong the King of Qi.

Xie Cheng said: "If you want to see King Qi, you just want to reprimand King Qi to your face." ”

He Yuan heard his words and knew that he had already guessed his purpose, so he didn't expect Zhu Yu to come over for training. He then planned to open his mouth to reprimand Xie Cheng: If you can't reprimand King Qi, it's good to reprimand Xie Cheng. It's just that I can't achieve another goal.

But Xie Cheng immediately asked the soldiers to retreat. He Yuan smiled and said, "What? Do you still want to cooperate with me? He was a little confused.

Xie Cheng said: "I don't mean to be reprimanded by you. It's just that since you mentioned King Qi, I want you to be an understanding ghost, so I let the soldiers who are not convenient to hear what is going on next retreat. ”

He Yuan felt in a trance that what Xie Cheng said next must be something very important.

Sure enough, Xie Cheng then said: "Actually, this rebellion was not launched by the King of Qi, but by the people of the Qi Palace, who hijacked the King of Qi. ”

He Yuan immediately said in surprise: "What! ”

Xie Cheng said: "I'm not talking nonsense, in the face of a person like you who is about to die, I either don't say it, and there is no need to deceive you if I say it." ”

Then Xie Cheng continued when He Yuan had not finished digesting such a message: "And, I'm afraid you also want to know why I defected." Then I'll tell you. Then Xie Chengcheng said why he rebelled.

Then, when He Yuan hadn't reacted to speak, Xie Cheng said directly: "I have solved your doubts, you can go with peace of mind." ”

Then Xie Cheng beckoned the guards to come in and took out the rope to strangle He Yuan. He still left He Yuan a little bit of official decency.

He Yuan didn't speak before he was strangled to death, but he thought to himself: "Although I didn't achieve the first goal, but I achieved the second goal, I'm afraid this is something you can't think of at all." ’

Xie Cheng stepped forward to check He Yuan's body, and after making sure that he was indeed dead, he said, "You guys, find a place outside Jinan City to bury him." Give him another tombstone. I'm afraid that the stele can't be done in a hurry, so let's make a wooden stele. ”

After a pause, Xie Cheng continued: "Not only him, but also the officials who committed suicide such as Zhang Shen, the political envoy of Zuobu, are also buried." ”

He had a grudge against Yunxi, but he had no grudge against these officials, and he had a good relationship with these people when he was the commander of the capital in Jinan, so he let them be buried.

The guards who were designated by Xie Cheng to be responsible for burying them were naturally not very happy, and when Xie Cheng left, he called the subordinates in the house and the people who served over and said, "A few of you, follow the uncle and I will bury them!" "He's not going to do it himself.

The subordinates responded to the promise. The guards led them out of the mansion, not noticing that there was one more person in the group following him.

Then they went outside the city and immediately found a place to bury them.

When the people were buried, these people said: "My lord, we are all people in the suburbs near Jinan City, not people in Jinan City, let us go back." ”

The guard said, "No! Give me all back! ”

But he thought about it again, pointed to the old men and said, "You can go." "It's very useful for the young man to stay and work for him, but the old man is not very useful, so he can be let go.

Several old men knelt down and said, "Lord Xie." Then he got up and left.