At the same time, after Gongsun Yue successfully drove Luan Chong's soldiers and horses into the Zongmiao, the two armies entered a repeated hand-to-hand combat.

The area of the temple is not large, but more than 20,000 people have gathered here on both sides, and every time they take a step forward, they all step on the corpse to advance, and Gongsun Yue did not expect at this time that the forbidden army of the inner palace of King Xian would have such a strong battle, and it was far above the forbidden army of the outer palace.

"Qi Xiangguo, more than 2,000 people have been filled in the middle gate of the temple, and the brothers really can't kill them, so simply withdraw the brothers and prevent fire!"

The rebel general said quickly, Gongsun Yue categorically refused to set fire, if this person was burned to death, what was the point of launching a palace mutiny. He hurriedly said:

"No, as soon as our army withdraws, the Xian army will inevitably counterattack, and the outer wall just captured will not be abandoned! Continue to kill me, and kill those who retreat! ”

"However, the middle gate has been killed for an hour, and the king of Xian is still firmly in control of the middle gate, and the brothers really can't kill it."

The middle gate is the last gate leading to the temple, surrounded by a canal around the temple, the canal is two feet wide and seven feet deep, it is made of stone again, it is clear to the bottom, it is used to draw water to extinguish the fire in the early years, the inner side of the canal is the wall of the middle gate, so there is no way to erect a tool to cross the river and cross the wall.

And the middle gate is the hub connecting the inner palace, from the inner palace to enter the temple, you have to go through the middle gate, there is only one way to the temple, there is only one way to the middle gate, if you don't take the middle gate, you can't enter the temple.

The forbidden army is equipped with copper shields, and it is difficult to kill arrows from the outside at this time.

Gongsun Yue thought for a moment and said:

"Go, bring the foreign envoy Xun Mu to me."

"The last general obeys!"

The foreign envoy is the highest official in charge of foreign affairs, equivalent to the minister of foreign affairs, and is under the political supervision of the internal court, and is responsible to the monarch and the prime minister.

After a while, Xun Mu, the foreign deacon, was escorted by several rebels to Gongsun Yue.

"Your Excellency, don't come unharmed."

"Hmph, national thief!" Xun Mu said with contempt.

"Hehe, since ancient times, the victor is the king and the loser is the coward, who is the national thief, how can Lord Xun be determined."

"Hmph, if you are not a minister to the country, if you are disloyal to the king, you are a thief and a thief, and if you commit chaos, you will be a thief of the country!"

"If according to what Lord Xun said, the two extinctions are replaced, is Liang Tianzi not a national thief, if he is a national thief, what will the princes of the world divide the land and divide the domain, it is not all national thieves!"

"Humph!" Xun Mu sneered: "I know that your grandson Yue is as clever as a spring and can speak well, and Liang takes the number to replace him, which is the trend of the times and the desire of the people in the world. ”

Xun Mu coldly spat on Gongsun Yue's face, but Gongsun Yue avoided it and splashed on his body.

"Xun Mu!" Gongsun Yue's face sank: "King Xian is dying now, for the sake of being an official in the same dynasty, in order to avoid the misery of life, as long as Lord Xun goes to persuade the king to surrender, my Gongsun Yue can ensure that the wife and concubine of King Xian are safe and sound, if you don't go, your family is in the hands of the prime minister." ”

"You!"

Xun Mu is fifty years old this year, and he only got a son at the age of forty, and he regards it as a treasure. It is a person who always has seven emotions and six desires, and his children have private feelings, and Gongsun Yue has taken advantage of Xun Mu's weakness and wants him to comply.

"Lord Xun, if you don't obey, after the Black Turban Army breaks through the city, you should know what will happen."

"Shame on you!"

"The shameless Jin people are also, the prime minister country still doesn't dare to be, I don't know what Lord Xun wants?"

"Hmph, although the king is gentle, his temperament is strong. Even if the official goes, the king will definitely not surrender. ”

"As long as Lord Xun goes, as for whether the king will surrender, then leave it to fate."

"You're cheating on the king!"

"Hmph, each other."

Xun Mu could already think of Gongsun Yue's scheme, but he really couldn't think of a middle gate with only one entrance, how Gongsun Yue could kill it.

Of course, Gongsun Yue knew that King Xian had a strong temperament and would definitely not surrender, not to mention that Xun Mu went to say surrender, even if he dug out the ancestors of King Xian's eighteen lifetimes, it was useless.

King Xian recognized the thing, until the head broke the blood and hit the south wall, it was impossible to turn back, otherwise where would there be a good situation for the Black Turban Army today.

At the same time, the rebels mobilized more than 1,000 stone of rice from the palace treasury and transported it to the east of the Zhongmen canal, taking advantage of Xun Mu to go to say surrender and divert the attention of the Xian army, he threw a bag of nearly fifty catties of rice into the canal, filled in a section of foot, and then collapsed the last brick wall on the east side of the temple and opened the second gap.

The rebels in the battle suddenly turned to the defense, and the news that Xun Mu asked to meet was sent to King Xian:

"The king, it's Lord Xun, Lord Xun asked to meet the king outside the middle gate." Luan Chong said quickly, at this time he was covered in blood.

King Xian frowned, and said suspiciously:

"When did he Xun Mu also take refuge in Gongsun Yue."

"King, Lord Xun has presided over state affairs for many years, and he is not on good terms with Gongsun Yue, so I am afraid it is also a last resort."

Luan Chong defended Xun Mu, and King Xian's gaze instantly swept over Luan Chong's face, his eyes full of doubt and suspicion.

"Lord Luan really knows Gongsun Yue, if the widow remembers correctly, Da Sima and Gongsun Yue were like-minded once upon a time, when did they pay so much attention to Lord Xun."

"Don't dare!"

Luan Chong knelt on one knee, and he couldn't argue at this time, if he wasn't the son-in-law of the Jiang family, he was burdened with morality and the relationship between the monarch and the minister, and he was not allowed to rebel with him, where was he qualified to comment on the loyalty and treachery of others at this time.

Staring at Luan Chong indifferently, he was silent for a long time before King Xian said:

"Our army is suffering casualties now."

"Back to the king, nearly half of the casualties were killed, and more than 3,000 people were killed in the battle."

"Can you hold it up until tomorrow?"

"This ......"

"Say, how long can it last?"

"It's not time now, most of the soldiers have not eaten, the minister fights desperately, at most until the first half of the night, if there are no reinforcements to arrive, the minister can only die in battle for the king's loyalty!"

"Alas......" King Xian sighed for a long time, his face was full of gloom: "If Wang Wen is still here, maybe he can hold on until tomorrow." ”

"The minister is incompetent!"

Wang Wen is the prince of the Xianwang Jianghai prince period of the prince's palace general, later promoted to the general of the forbidden army, the general of the inner and outer palace 20,000 forbidden troops, yesterday noon was lured by Gongsun Yue to Taikang Hall to kill, resulting in the forbidden army leaderless into chaos, was Gongsun Yue pulled more than 10,000 forbidden troops at a time, Zongmiao was almost in the first time by the rebels to a pot.

"After fighting for a long time, the soldiers are all tired, our army urgently needs to be repaired, and now it can be delayed for a while, the widow believes that Zhao Xun is transferring troops to help, and will never abandon the widow. Go, bring Xun Mu to see the widow. ”

"No!"

After a while, the sound of killing gradually subsided, Xun Mu entered the middle gate and went to the temple under the escort of heavy soldiers, Xianwang Tieqing looked at it with an indifferent face, and Xun Mu immediately handed over his knees with a snap:

"The king, the minister should be damned......"

"Heh, Lord Xun is also here to be a lobbyist for Gongsun Yue to persuade the widow to surrender, right?"

"The minister has no choice, Gongsun Yue caught the minister's only son, if the minister does not obey, he will kill the minister's only son, the minister does not dare to disobey the king, and please ask the king to know the sword."

"Then let's say, how Gongsun Yue wants the widow to surrender, and whether he wants to give up the Xianguo to him, he is satisfied."

"This ......" King Xian's tone was tepid, and Xun Mu didn't know what King Xian meant, so he said carefully: "Although the rebellious Gongsun Yue promised to keep the king's wife and concubines safe, but the minister thought that this was Gongsun Yue's plan to delay the army, and he must have other plans. Since ancient times, there is no reason why a dead country will not die a king, and there has never been a king who has died a good death, and the king must not surrender. ”

"The plan to delay the army, his Gongsun Yue has already taken advantage of it, and he still wants to delay the army? Is Lord Xun delaying the army for the widow, or is it for Gongsun Yue to come to delay the army. ”

"Don't dare! This is the minister's heartfelt words, and please ask the king to know clearly. ”

At this time, Luan Chong said:

"King, what Lord Xun said is not unreasonable, the two armies have been fighting for most of the day, and there is no increase in the number of rebels besieging the temple, both sides are very tired, but they don't see Gongsun Yue transfer other troops and horses to fight, if you fight with our army, our army's casualties may be heavier, according to this, it seems that the situation outside the palace is not under Gongsun Yue's full control."

"That's Zhao Xun's army besieging the city, and Gongsun Yue sent people to the head of the city to defend the city?"

King Xian guessed, Luan Chong was noncommittal, and said:

"This doesn't seem to be like it, Zhao Xun's army is pinned down in the Yongxing River, and it is impossible to draw troops to come, Wei Han's 100,000 Jin people are also in the Yongxing River, and it will take at least a day or two to reach the Lingling, although the Liang army is close, but even if the city is besieged, there is no news of Antaihou, and they dare not rashly attack the city."

"The left one is not, the other one is not, who will give an explanation to the widow! Ding Yang Hou! ”

"The minister is here."

"What do you think Gongsun Yue is going to do?"

"Minister...... The minister thought that if it was common sense, what General Luan said should be true. However, the current situation is unclear, our army is surrounded by Gongsun Yue's regiments, and it is indeed suspicious that the army suddenly slowed down. ”

"Marquis Ding Yang, the widow's captain, no one can share the worries of the widow at this moment."

King Xian was angry, what Ding Yanghou said was not much different from what he didn't say about farting, condensed and summarized it and called it "I also agree", and then extracted and refined it is "seconded by the minister." ”

Just when King Xian was in a hurry, the forbidden army outside the palace all rushed in:

"Great King, the rebels outside the east wall suddenly gathered, and it seems that they are going to attack the east wall."

"It's impossible!" Ding Yanghou denied.

Luan Chong is a soldier, and outside the east wall is a canal two zhang wide and seven or eight feet deep, and the rebels will definitely not gather outside the east wall for no reason. He hurriedly asked:

"Can you see that the rebels have a ladder over the wall?"

"I didn't see it, but I saw the sack, it was a sack of grain and grass, and it seemed to be to fill in the ditch."

"Fill the ditch!" Luan Chong was taken aback.

Three or five zhang long ladder over the wall, set up one and a half zhang high on the inner wall of the temple, not to mention the length is extremely long, people rashly climb over the wall ladder, will definitely not be able to eat the weight of a few people, it will be broken, because there is no intermediate support point, let alone heavily armed heavy infantry.

And the small number of people does not play any role at all, but sends them to death. Gongsun Yue had already let people try, but dozens of people were drowned. Now get sacks, and fill the ditch is inevitable.

"King, Gongsun Yue, this is a plan to delay the army!" Luan Chongdao.

"Kill the widow."

"No!"

Gongsun Yue used Xun Mu to paralyze the vigilance of King Xian, and quickly adjusted the people and horses to the east of the temple, with the boxcar and copper shield as a cover, and filled the bag of rice into the canal, as long as it was filled until the depth of the canal was the same height, people could step on the rice bag to cross the river, and then as long as the palace wall collapsed, the natural danger of the middle gate was gone.

But the good times did not last long, just when Gongsun Yue was filling in the ditch, the worst news came, not only did the 2,000 men and horses of the Minister's Mansion not intercept, but the soldiers and horses who were robbed and killed went to attack the Minister's Mansion with their backhands, and they were also killed and bloodshed.

At the same time, when Bailiyan led the army to Ximen, Jiang Zhan led his people to confront the Ximen rebels. The rebels brought in more than 2,000 men from the south gate of the city, and the strength of the rebels at the west gate reached 5,000. Jiang Zhan's subordinates were all cloth-clothed soldiers without armor, uniformly wearing yellow dark clothes [Note 1], and blue cloth strips wrapped around their left arms, which showed that they were all carefully selected veterans.

[Note 1] Shenyi: commonly known as Hanfu, first seen in the "Book of Rites, Shenyi", but in the Warring States period before the Qin and Han dynasties, it has appeared one after another and gradually improved, to the Han Dynasty Shenyi formed a system, both dresses and regular clothes, and there are no hem of military uniforms, of which the right straight skirt, curved skirt is another form of deep clothing, and was perfected in the Han Dynasty, and lasted until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, which has long been the official clothing of the Chinese nation, and is also the style of Chinese clothing.