Early the next morning, King Yan led his troops to leave Yongping City.

The army successively crossed the Great Wall from Liujiakou, followed a mountain road between the mountains, and went straight to the direction of Daning City. At this time, the grass and trees in the mountains are all withered and yellow, and the wind is full of a scorching atmosphere.

After walking five or six hundred miles, King Yan led his troops to the city of Daning.

The gates of Daning were closed. King Yan sat on his horse and looked up, and saw that there were many swords and soldiers on the city wall, and flags were planted everywhere, looking like he was waiting for battle. A man in a red robe stood out.

King Yan stopped left and right, rode close to the city tower alone, and after a closer look, the young man in the red dragon robe was not Ning Wang Zhu Quan?

Zhu Quan also saw King Yan who came on a single horse, his face was facing this side, and he shouted on it: "The fourth brother is coming with an army, is he going to beat me?" ”

King Yan shouted: "Seventeenth brother, I am the fourth brother!" I've been cornered by the Holy Lord, who is here to beat you?! As he spoke, King Yan's voice choked up, and he burst into tears, "I didn't expect it to fall into such a field, the saint has to say that I rebelled......"

Zhu Quan's voice said: "The fourth brother who dares to love is not opposed? ”

King Yan cried: "How dare I, I was forced!" There must be traitors in the DPRK and China. I really can't help it...... Seventeenth brother, the fourth brother begs you for something, you quickly write to the saint and intercede for the fourth brother......"

Zhu Quan shouted: "Fourth brother, don't worry about going back, I will definitely help you ask for the saint." ”

King Yan said: "Where am I going back?" Now that the vassal kingdoms are almost gone, there is really nowhere to go. Seventeenth brother, how about taking in the fourth brother for a while? When the saint forgives me of my sins, I will return to Beiping. ”

He shouted again: "Seventeenth brother, you call someone to open the door!" ”

Zhu Quan said: "I can't open the door, the fourth brother should go back to Beiping!" Then he turned and left the city.

King Yan choked up and shouted: "Seventeenth brother stay, seventeenth brother, you can't see death without help!" ”

However, Zhu Quan's red robe was no longer visible. King Yan stood there in wonder and waited for a long time.

At this moment, suddenly the city gate ......"rattled" and slowly opened a crack in the door.

……

On the day of King Yan's departure, Zhu Gaoxu also set off from Yongping City, leaving only a few hundred people to the government office, and the other foot riders were taken away to Beiping.

Zhu Gaoxu returned to the county king's mansion and settled the army first. After taking off his armor, he went straight to the Yan Palace, first went to see Princess Xu, and estimated that the prince might also be in the Yan Palace...... At this time, Li Jinglong's hundreds of thousands of troops are about to arrive in Beiping!

As expected, when Zhu Gaoxu was taken to a hall by the eunuchs, Princess Xu and the prince were there.

Princess Xu stood up and said happily: "Gao Xu, it's best if you come back!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "Mother, eldest brother." ”

The prince seemed a little unhappy when he heard what Princess Xu said just now...... In the heart of the mother, when something happens, the three sons may still think that Zhu Gaoxu is the most useful.

The three of them didn't care about the cold and asked for warmth, and soon talked about the defense of Beiping. When King Yan left, he had strictly ordered the prince and the generals to only defend and not go out of the city, and arranged the defenders of each city, and asked Yao Guangxiao and the prince to take charge of the army and send generals.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "It's almost October, and the weather is getting colder and colder. Erchen heard from experienced generals in the army that as long as the cold weather is colder, the first night of splashing water on the city will freeze overnight, and the siege of the city will be more difficult. ”

Princess Xu nodded slightly after hearing this, and raised her eyebrows quite heroically: "As long as you stick to the moon and wait for your father to return with his army, we will go out to meet the prince!" ”

…… Within two days, Li Jinglong's army had already arrived in the city. Princess Xu took the prince and Zhu Gaoxu to the city tower to boost morale!

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu climbed up the city tower, he was stunned when he saw the scene outside the city!

Compared with the magnificent scene of people and horses outside Beiping City at this time, the siege that Zhu Gaoxu saw in Yongping City before was simply a small thing! The right way is that he just left the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den, and it seems that Zhu Gaoxu was surrounded to death again!

For a moment, he was a little suspicious: Is Beiping really so easy to hold?

Beiping is a big city, the city wall is indeed high and thick, but any city is not just defended by the wall, there must be sufficient troops, especially this kind of big city, the more scattered the troops, the more people are needed!

The Yan army is less than 100,000 people in total, and the king of Yan also took away the main force, and the Beiping defenders at this time are probably a little overstretched.

Although Li Jinglong was looked down upon by King Yan, what if he was like Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, who came up and besieged the city without saying a word, and then stubbornly attacked him?

Surrounded on all sides, using all kinds of heavy equipment to attack the city, plus long-range weapons to beat the city, the method is a little stupid, but it hardly requires any talent, Li Jinglong is probably okay, he has completely sufficient troops!

What's more, not all the generals in the official army are Li Jinglong, such as Sheng Yong and Ping'an, and Zhu Gaoxu was almost wiped out in Zhending......

At present, it is indeed possible to defend the city of Beiping, but the risk is also not small.

"Princess!" "Meet the princess, the prince, and the ...... of the king of Gaoyang" The voices of the generals came from everywhere.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at her mother, although she was nearly forty years old, she was already beautiful, and today she wore a regimental collar robe and looked even more heroic.

Zhu Gaoxu has seen such a side of the mother concubine for the first time.

She stood against the wind and said loudly: "King Yan has always treated the soldiers well, but now that the enemy is present, I hope you will work hard and kill the enemy bravely!" ”

All the generals clasped their fists and said: "The last general will wait to serve to the death!" "The last general and others are responsible for ensuring that the princess, the prince, and the king of Gaoyang are safe......"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say a word, only followed Princess Xu, and listened to her constantly boost morale everywhere she went...... Many generals said that they would defend King Yan's wife and children.

Suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu felt a chill on his body!

I remember that when Yongping greeted King Yan, the third brother Gao Sui was also in King Yan's army. At that time, Zhu Gaoxu didn't think much about it, but now he suddenly had a bold guess: in case Beiping is captured, King Yan will always have a son left, and that is Gao Sui who follows him!?

King Yan also thinks that Beiping may be breached, right?

The more Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, the more he felt that he had guessed correctly. Otherwise, the third brother Gao Sui wouldn't know anything on the battlefield, what was the use of King Yan taking him?

He glanced at Princess Xu and the fat prince not far in front of him, and his heart suddenly had mixed feelings...... Maybe I'm really thinking too much.

"Boom!" Suddenly, a cannon rang out, which startled the distracted Zhu Gaoxu, as if he had been empowered!

The generals persuaded one after another: "Princess, be careful, everyone go down to the city quickly, the southern army has set off artillery!" ”

Princess Xu was not afraid and still insisted on patrolling the city wall. Zhu Gaoxu also secretly admired a little, the mother concubine was in the inner courtyard of the palace all the year round, but after all, she was the eldest daughter of the general Xu Da, and she was soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, and she couldn't be scared at all in general battles!

When Zhu Gaoxu looked at the camp of the army outside the city, he saw that there was a cloud of white smoke in the sea of people, and the cannon just now should have been put over there. This officer and soldier is also strange, and he will not let go of a cannon.

…… The routines of Cao Guogong Li Jinglong and Jiangyin Hou Wu Gao are not the same thing at all. Li Jinglong did not repair the fortifications at all, and the next morning he set off his cannons and opened fire on all sides.

The bowl-mouth guns and Hongwu cannons on the Beiping city wall also fired back one after another. For a while, the whole city was firing cannons, and the walls were filled with gunsmoke. On the foggy ground, countless bright lights flashed from time to time, like lightning in the clouds.

The wooden parts of the ladder that were transported from nowhere have already been partially assembled. When the smoke cleared, I saw countless foot soldiers under the city wall with shields and various weapons permeating over, pushing the tall ladder like a tide and slowly approaching.

The "boom, boom, boom......" artillery doesn't seem to stop for a moment.

Zhu Gaoxu was attracted by the raging fire in the distance, and there was a fire above the cloud ladder near the city wall, black smoke billowed out, and many soldiers jumped down from the smoke. The black smoke was too thick, it was not at all burned by wood or ordinary vegetable oil, and Zhu Gaoxu estimated that it was the "fierce fire oil" stored in the city...... In fact, it is oil dug out of the ground.

"Boom!" Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and a round stone smashed into the nearby wall, and immediately the bricks and stones flew wildly, and a soldier fell to the ground and screamed loudly.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look and saw that half of the soldier's face was full of flesh and blood, he stretched out his hand and trembled on the side of his face, but he didn't dare to press it, just "Ah! Ah......h

In the smoke of gunpowder, slender black shadows swayed, and arrows flew in the air. The surrounding sergeants drew their arrows from the quiver, stretched out their bows and arrows, did not aim at all, and probably "slammed" the arrows below.

In a short time, arrows flew up from the city walls. One of the soldiers, who had been hit by an arrow in the chest, had already lost his bow, and sat behind the battlement, reaching out and clutching the arrow.

Zhu Gaoxu pressed the handle of the knife, dragged the heavy armor with a "ding" sound, and walked into the city tower. In such a battle, force is almost useless, whether to die or not depends on luck, Zhu Gaoxu does not want to be there.

Not long after, Wang Bin, Wei Da, Liu Ying and others also followed, and everyone had nothing to say.

The attack of the officers and troops on the first day was not violent, there were too few ladders, and they mainly relied on artillery bows and arrows to project fire on the city, and the infantry attacked intermittently and irregularly. But Zhu Gaoxu estimated that after Li Jinglong brought more heavy equipment over, the battle would be even more brutal.