Text Chapter Seventy-Eight, The Broken City (Medium)

Someone opened the city gate, which naturally solved the most rare problem in the siege. But this does not mean that there is nothing to worry about after this, such as how to catch King Fu, how to ensure that King Fu's treasury will not be looted by others, how to seize the treasury in Luoyang City as soon as possible, and prevent them from being burned by officials and soldiers loyal to the imperial court, these are all things that need to be carefully studied.

Therefore, after Huang Zide praised Xuanyi's contributions, he immediately began to study these problems. At this time, the model of Luoyang City of Xuanfa played a big role. Huang and his generals carefully studied the model and assigned tasks to each key objective.

Time passed quickly in such a hectic manner, and soon it was dusk. After the whole army had eaten a full meal, it was already dark. According to the plan, Liu Jiexuan, Liu Erhu, and Yuan Zhongdi quietly approached the east gate with two thousand cavalry. Huang Guo followed them with a thousand infantry with siege equipment such as ladders. Although they had been connected with the officers and soldiers in the city, and the officers and soldiers were willing to respond, the rebels outside the city were still ready to forcibly climb the city as a last resort.

In addition, Dang Shouyi, He Zhangqi, Shang Yigong and others each brought a team of cavalry to block several other city gates, preparing to intercept and pursue King Fu who might take advantage of the chaos to escape from Luoyang.

About six to seven minutes of the first watch, Liu Jiexuan came to the east gate with the men and horses, and according to the agreement, Hu Yidao went from the city to the city to learn two turtledoves. Then they saw that there were torches on the city wall and shook a few times. Then they heard the sound of the gates being slowly opened.

"Alright, the gates are open!" Liu Erhu said excitedly to Liu Jiexuan.

"Huang Guo, you take someone up first and control the city tower." Liu Jiexuan said.

There is an urn city inside the city gate of Luoyang. Although the officers and soldiers in the city have made an appointment with themselves, but the heart of defense is indispensable, if the large group of people and horses enter the urn city, but the officers and soldiers in the city suddenly put down the iron gate, the revolutionary army trapped in the urn city is almost a dead end. Therefore, before the army enters the city, it is essential to send people to climb the city wall and control the situation.

Huang Guo answered, and led the infantry into the city gate. After a while, a row of torches was lit on the city wall, and then Huang Guo's shout rang out: "General Liu, you can enter the city!" ”

Liu Jiexuan waved his hand, and Liu Erhu and Yuan Zhongdi each entered the city with a team of cavalry, and ran towards the Fuwang Mansion and the sub-patrol official office. Liu Jiexuan also entered the city, went directly to the city wall, and watched the cavalry with torches rushing along the street towards this target. Huang Guo and Li Fugui followed him. Liu Jiexuan was about to say a few words to Li Fugui, but suddenly heard a commotion from the north.

"That's it?" Liu Jiexuan asked.

"General Liu, it seems that something happened at the north gate, and it looks like there has been a mutiny."

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Time goes back a moment ago. He Zhangqi rushed to the north gate with a team of cavalry. He was not in charge of the siege and did not need to be hidden, so he simply let his cavalry light the torches, anyway, they were not afraid of the people in the city firing at them outside the range of the bows and arrows and bird guns in the city. As for the cannons in the city, it is really not easy for this thing to hit the cavalry.

Naturally, those officers and soldiers in the city also discovered the revolutionary army outside the city gate. Then one of the soldiers at the head of the city cried out:

"Brothers outside the city, it's hard work, you don't sleep at night, and you still come here to play?"

When He Zhangqi heard this, he thought it was very funny, so he responded: "It's not hard, it's not hard." We have food to eat, three meals a day, what is the hard work? But I heard that you have not been paid military salaries, and you still have to defend the city, you are really hard. Anyway, how long has the court owed you military salaries? ”

The officers and soldiers in the city immediately replied, "The court of Dog Day has not paid us military salaries for a whole year!" They only have one meal a day, and they are dying of hunger! ”

"You eat three meals a day, isn't it true? If I knew this, Lao Tzu would also be a rogue! ”

"Brothers below, you ......"

He Zhangqi smiled and shouted loudly: "The imperial court, I owe you so much money, why don't you ask them to ask for it!" ”

"It's coming! Those who are in power only say no, they just don't give it! Someone in the city answered.

"You can't! That's sending you away? He Zhangqi said loudly, "Why don't you open the city gate, and we will go in and help you get military salaries?" How about guaranteeing that you will get back a lot of money? ”

"Open the door for you? Okay! Someone in the city shouted, "But we still have to ask His Royal Highness King Fu and the sub-patrol road, the prefect, and the general soldier about this matter, they have just given us a large reward, I heard that there are 20,000 taels, and then each of us has been given a full three pieces of silver!" You said so much silver, why don't we honestly give him his life to defend the city? ”

With these words, the city was suddenly in an uproar, and the officers and soldiers shouted:

"That's it, with these three coins of silver, we should all fight for the court, right!"

"Nonsense, why are we just going to fight for the imperial court? Where can the life of a cheap thing like ours be worth three dollars of silver? We should all work for the court! ”

"Children and grandchildren? You want to be beautiful! Just like you who are full of hunger lines and deserve to starve to death, do you still want to have a wife and children and grandchildren? Dream your dreams! ”

"That's it, I don't still pee and take pictures, the sharp-beaked monkey gills just want to eat the swan fart!"

When He Zhangqi heard this, he shouted: "I heard that King Fu's money is too much to count, more than the emperor's money." Why don't you ask him? Is the meat too fatty? Are you afraid of fish bones pricking your hands? ”

"Oh, look at what this brother below the city said, we want it, and we want the king to give it; King Fu is willing to give it, and he also wants the officials above to leave us a little. ”

As he was talking, someone suddenly shouted, "Lord Daotai is here, don't speak!" ”

But immediately someone said nonchalantly: "Fuck it, I'm not afraid now!" He doesn't pay Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu scolds a few words, see if he can bite Lao Tzu's bottom and eat it? ”

As soon as these words fell, someone shouted: "Now that Marshal Huang's army is besieging the city, their net worth as big officials is difficult to protect, they should also know the current affairs, kill and kill the prestige, don't fucking offend our little soldiers." Hades is ruthless, and Hugh blames the imps for being unjust! ”

When He Zhangqi heard this, he deliberately instigated again: "I said those brothers, it's good for you to shut up obediently, otherwise, Wang Daotai may bite off your small head and cut off your big head with a knife." ”

And the people of the city were laughing again.

In the midst of this laughter, suddenly a group of people strode up in the moonlight, and one of them shouted to the soldiers who was talking to the thief outside the city, and threatened that if he dared to talk nonsense, he would be held accountable severely.

The soldiers were not afraid, but gathered around and asked, "Lord Daotai, you have come just in time." Will we pay our arrears or not? ”

Wang Yinchang, the sub-inspector, replied sharply: "At present, the thieves are besieging the city, and everyone can only defend it together, is it the time to make noise and ask for wages?" After the thief retreats, are you still afraid that you will not be paid the arrears, and you will be rewarded according to your merits? ”

One of the soldiers shouted loudly: "The words of the court and the government have always been considered farts, and we soldiers don't believe it at all." You will pay now, and if you don't pay, we will scatter in a hurry, and let you and your money defend the city!" Brothers, tonight we must ask Wang Daotai to take out the money to pay us, or let the rebels outside the city ask for it for us. I don't believe he dared not to give it! ”

There was a clamor for money at the head of the city, and many people ran to the place where the noise was, and some people squeezed out of the crowd and ran towards the north gate. The noisy soldiers wrapped Wang Yinchang and his retinue around the center, and moved towards the northwest corner of the city while cursing and threatening.

"Grandma's, I didn't bring a ladder, otherwise I would have been able to go up directly by taking the ladder up now. Maybe it's faster than Lao Liu. He Zhangqi whispered in annoyance.

At this time, another group of people went up to the city wall again, and one of them shouted, "Give way to the master of the soldiers!" Move! Move! Obviously, this is the chief soldier Wang Shaoyu who found out that the situation was wrong and personally ran to suppress it.

Wang Shaoyu, the chief military officer, rushed to the northwest corner of the city surrounded by a group of pro-generals and soldiers. Due to his panic, nervousness, and old age and frailty, he was panting for air. The defenders of the west and north cities were all his own troops, and he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity that the soldiers had just made noise to personally rescue Wang Yinchang so that things would not break completely. When he walked into the crowd, he saw the mutineers twisting his arms and pressing him to his knees, and one of the soldiers pressed a large knife against his neck and ordered him to hurry up and take his life. Wang Yinchang was so frightened that his teeth trembled, and he couldn't speak. Wang Shaoyu wanted to speak, but the soldiers were crowded and noisy, so that he did not have a chance to speak. The general of the Chinese army beside Wang Shaoyu shouted loudly: "The chief soldier has arrived!" Don't shout! Don't shout! Don't be unreasonable! Immediately one of the soldiers angrily retorted:

"What Commander-in-Chief? Now Huang Zide's men and horses are under the city. I waited for death to defend the city, and I didn't remember my merits for hard work and hardship, and I didn't have our share in being promoted to an official. If we want to let go, the destruction of the city has nothing to do with our JB! Up to now, even if he is a general soldier, he can't do it if he doesn't have money! Some soldiers simply drew their knives and gathered around Wang Shaoyu.

Seeing that the momentum was not right, an officer was afraid that Wang Shaoyu would suffer a loss, so he hurriedly pushed him and said: "This is not the time for the old chief soldier to speak, hurry up!" ”

Some of Wang Shaoyu's personal soldiers followed the crowd of soldiers to make noise, and some of them crowded his corner road down the city, and fled quickly. Someone raised a knife to kill Wang Yinchang, but was blocked by Wang's own soldiers and was seriously injured. The soldier was then killed by the mutineers, while the king himself was rescued from the left and right in the confusion and fled down the city. The entire North Gate area is in chaos.

He Zhangqi was anxiously waiting outside the city gate, and suddenly heard a voice shouting from the city: "Brother outside, do you want to enter the city?" Let's open the gates! ”