Chapter 294: Accumulation (19)

At this moment, such demoralizing remarks from the mouth of the main general are to bewitch the people and shake the morale of the army when they are in battle, and the crime can be punished.

Jiang Jie didn't say anything for a long time, and Bai Liyan continued what he had just said:

"Jiang Jie, do you have a favorite girl in your heart?"

Jiang Jie was stunned when he heard the news, but fortunately, it was dark and covered his face, and his face was as hot as fire at the moment. Seeing that he didn't speak again, Bai Liyan smiled:

"After a few days of quelling the rebellion, you will also ask for a woman earlier, and the other young men will do the same, if you die, you will live in vain."

Jiang Jie was stunned, looking at his top boss in front of him noncommittally, he couldn't think of such a thing at this moment. In other words, if you are other generals, where would you care about the life or death of a young man, let alone please a woman.

Bai Liyan saw that everyone's mood had stabilized, so she didn't say anything more. He knows very well that the more he is under the tension, the more he needs to relax, even if it is a joke, it can relieve the emotional pressure caused by tension and depression.

Nowadays, it is common to marry a wife and have children at the age of fifteen, which is not a new thing, and if you have a hope in your heart, you will have more hope to live.

For Jiang Jie and other teenagers, what they fear at this moment is death, and some of their experiences are only suffering families, endless tax labor, and murder, and they can't think of too much beauty in life.

The topic of women aroused their longing very well, at least for this group of teenagers, they have not yet tasted what it is like to be a woman.

After resting for a while, Bai Liyan was a little ignorant, took out a simple compass from his arms, set the direction, he didn't dare to delay, pulled the people and horses and continued to touch the prince's mansion.

The palace was in some confusion at this time, because the southwest wind blew the fire to the east of the prince's mansion, only a few wooden buildings across the street, and the rebels gave up the entire east street in order to avoid the fire.

This led to more than 3,000 people gathering at the north gate and south gate of the prince's mansion, and the west gate was the water gate, where only a few hundred people were stationed, and the fire outside the east gate was about to burn to the prince's mansion, and the defenders of the prince's mansion were as anxious as ants on the pot.

Because the west gate of the prince's mansion was cut off by the north and south of the Mingshui River, and the fire outside the east gate was soaring, although the east gate did not obstruct the passage, but the rebels stationed outside the west gate were actually isolated, the rebels wanted to reinforce from the north, they had to cross the river, to reinforce from the south, they had to pass through the main street that was on fire, Bailiyan came from the northwest direction, and when he arrived close to the west gate, he found that this situation was a burst of joy in his heart.

This meant that the road leading to the Liang Legation's Mansion on the west side of the Prince's Mansion had the least resistance, as long as the fire on the east side of the Prince's Mansion could burn the entire street, and the rebels could not make a detour through the east street to the west gate from the south and north gates.

After a careful observation in secret, Bailiyan quickly made a deployment:

"Wu Deng, you and Liang Jun will go with the general to cut off the return route of the rebels at the West Gate, Jiang Jie and the young man will take a ladder over the wall to enter the Prince's Mansion, and be sure to hand over the secret letter to the Prince's Mansion guard."

"No!"

Everyone spoke in unison, and then went their separate ways.

The rebels stationed at the west gate of the Prince's Mansion were only 200 county soldiers and 300 civilian troops, and their combat effectiveness was weak, and it was obviously a joke to rely on these people to attack the 3,000 heavily armored forbidden troops of the Prince's Mansion equipped with iron tools and fine scale armor, but it was still possible to let them besiege the Prince's Mansion.

Baili Yan personally led Wu Deng and more than 400 Liang troops to kill from the junction of East Street and West Gate, and led out the rebels blocked between the West Gate and the Mingshui River.

The wall of the Prince's Mansion is nearly one zhang high, and the wall is more than two feet thick, so it is no problem to say that it is no problem to stand firm.

With the sound of Ximen killing, the soldiers of the Xian Army who guarded the west courtyard of the Prince's Mansion immediately passed the news to Yanping, the nominal protector of the Prince's Mansion.

The Prince's Mansion Protector will have a special establishment, and his position is equivalent to that of the capital, and the soldiers and horses under his command are uncertain, but they can be more or less. After the crown prince ascended the throne, the post of protector of the prince's palace was immediately revoked and reincorporated into the Janissary Guard.

After the prince ascended the throne, there were no special circumstances for the prince's palace guards, in principle, he would fill the post of general of the forbidden army, dominate the palace guards, or serve as the deputy of the general of the forbidden army.

However, the situation of the Xianguo Prince's Mansion is special, in addition to Yanping, Xihuan also designated Liang Feng, the general of the Jin Forbidden Army, as the protector of the Prince's Mansion. Yan Ping only has 1,000 forbidden troops under the command of King Xian, and Liang Feng really has 2,000 forbidden troops of the Jin State, even though Liang Feng has no real power, but there are 1,000 more people and horses in his hands than Yan Ping, and Yan Ping has become an unworthy of the name of the prince's mansion protector.

Hearing the news that there was a sound of killing outside the west gate of the Prince's Mansion, Yan Ping immediately asked people to lean out of the wall to look at the situation, and found that the outside of the wall had been killed into a mess of porridge, and it was difficult to distinguish whether it was friend or foe, but one thing was very clear, the other side of the battle was not wearing a white scarf.

In the past few moments, news came from the West Gate that someone had tried to climb the wall:

"General Baoyan, there are rebels on the west wall who are trying to climb over the wall and enter the west courtyard, but they have been driven off the wall."

"Jumping over the wall? You can know where the soldiers and horses came from. Yan Ping asked hurriedly.

"I don't know!"

"Can you see if there is a white towel on your right arm?"

"I don't think I've seen it."

"Shhh...... Whose soldiers and horses will that be! ”

Although Yanping couldn't figure out who rebelled, they knew one thing very well, in addition to the county soldiers besieging the prince's mansion, there were also armed people's troops, and from this point of view alone, it was not a simple palace mutiny and mutiny.

Regardless of the palace mutiny or mutiny, the first two days of the incident were very hasty, and there was no time to launch and arm the people, and the people had to be willing to die for you, so the people would not participate in the struggle for royal power.

Moreover, after the rectification of law and order in the past year, the public order in Shanling has improved, and the people's taxes have been reduced somewhat, and there is no popular base to participate in the turmoil of seizing power.

After thinking for a moment, Yanping said again:

"Go, catch one of the people who climb over the wall and come in for questioning."

"No!"

At this time, Jiang Jie was still trying to climb over the wall outside the West Gate, no matter how he shouted, the killing sound was too loud and couldn't be transmitted at all, but he was driven off the wall by the Prince's Mansion Xianjun spear several times.

Just when he tried to climb over the wall again, he just took his head, and his eyes were dark, and then he was planted into the courtyard with a weapon, and the defenders were waiting under the wall.

As a result, an upside-down onion hit the wall face down, and as soon as it was dark, he was bound up and escorted to Yanping.

When Yan Ping saw that the person who came was still a teenager, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart:

"Who are your subordinates, and why did you trespass into the prince's inner mansion?"

"The subordinate is under the command of the vanguard general Wei Xian, and there is an urgent military situation to inform General Yanping."

"What, you're Wei Xian's subordinate!" Yan Ping was taken aback, how could he not know Wei Xian's name, he had seen it a few times, he hurriedly asked. "Where is General Wei now!"

"Just outside the West Gate, we are fighting with the rebels, and I ask the general to quickly answer General Wei."

Yan Ping was worried that there was fraud in it, so he immediately asked:

"Let me ask you, what is the situation in the city now, and who is rebelling!"

Jiang Jie said truthfully:

"It is the rebellion of Sun Yue, the prince of Xiangguo."

"Nonsense, how can Xiangguo rebel!" Yanping resolutely did not believe it, even if Bailiyan rebelled, it seemed more reasonable than Xiangguo's rebellion.

At this time, Jiang Jie hurriedly said:

"I don't dare to talk nonsense, Xiangguo has long colluded with the Black Turban rebels, and this rebellion is to seize the Lingling and cut off the retreat of the Yongxing River Xian Army. On the lower chest, there is an Antaihou letter handwritten and sealed in the iron letter, and General Yan and General Liang are also invited to look at it. ”

"What's the matter, Antaihou also knows?"

"My general came from the Legation Mansion all the way to the bloody battle, and I asked General Yan to send troops to meet him quickly."

Yan Ping motioned to the soldiers to search Jiang Jie, and after a body search, he really found an iron letter from Jiang Jie. The iron letter is well sealed, and it is indeed a special iron letter for Liang State.

Take out the letter and look at it carefully, and the place where the payment is made is Antaihou's payment. Although Yanping had never seen An Taihou's signature, the gorgeous seal of Liang Guo could not be faked.

The content is not different from what Jiang Jie said, but this letter is addressed to Liang Feng, because Yanping is a general of Xianguo, and Bailiyan is a vanguard general, and under this special circumstance, it is not enough to transfer Yanping's 1,000 people.

But Liang Feng is the forbidden army of the Jin State, and only obeys the orders of Xihuan, so it is difficult to say, so in order to be able to move Liang Feng to transfer troops, An Taihou listened to Bailiyan's strategy, and said a lot in the letter, and the final focus was only a few words, hoping that Liang Feng could look at the overall situation of the Central Plains and immediately raise troops to quell the rebellion.

Of course, the benefits must be indispensable, An Taihou promised, afterwards Liang Guo will give Xihuan a title, Xihuan got the benefits, Liang Feng is naturally indispensable to Xihuan's reward.

Under this special circumstance, Xihuan was trapped in the palace and his life and death were unknown, Liang Feng did not rescue him after knowing that Sun Yue, the prince of Xiangguo, had rebelled.

If there is merit in saving the driver, not only can Xihuan get the title of Liang Guo, but he can also make contributions, both public and private, Liang Feng will benefit evenly, even if he dies in the end, at least he can afford the Jin Kingdom, can Xihuan and the King of Jin still treat his family badly.

Of course, Yanping didn't know the real motives of An Taihou's letter, but the core content was clear, Xiangguo Gongsun Yue rebelled.

Seeing this, Yanping asked Jiang Jie again:

"How is the king doing now?"

"I don't know, but listening to General Wei's judgment, the rebels will definitely pull out the southern camp tonight, attack the palace tomorrow, and finally solve the five thousand elites of the Prince's Mansion and the Liang State Minister's Mansion."

Yan Ping looked up at the moon, estimating that it would be dawn in another hour and a half, and the sound of fighting in the camp south of the city had weakened a lot compared to the previous half of the night.

Now, King Xian is no longer able to control the armies and is trapped in the palace, and the crown prince and the crown princess Xihuan are both in the palace, and they are the dragons without a leader.

After thinking about it, Yanping felt that what Bai Liyan said was not unreasonable, and then asked people to open the water gate and accept Bai Liyan and others to enter the prince's mansion.

There is no land route at the west gate of the Prince's Mansion but there is a side gate, a water gate leading to the Mingshui River with an aqueduct in the house, a wooden platform within the courtyard wall of the Water Gate, and an iron-locked suspension bridge outside the water gate. As long as the iron grating in the water is put away and the suspension bridge is lowered, the side door can be opened smoothly.