Chapter 245: The Fall of Lanzhou

The day after Xu Liang promulgated the decree of Emperor Daxing, together with Liu Biao, the mighty general of Lanzhou, he carried the coffin out of the city in the direction of Wang Jing, and was taken away with them, as well as the 200,000 Daxia officials and soldiers who came from Xi'an before.

According to Emperor Daxing's will not mourn, it is only said to the outside world that it is the transfer of officials and troops, and the first is not to pull the white silk and the second is not to play the funeral, which is equivalent to just escorting the coffin of the Emperor Daxing to meander.

This may really be the most comical secret mourning since the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty, it is completely a secret that cannot be said, the whole city down to the people of Limin, up to the generals and officials, no one does not know that this mobilized army escorts the coffin of the Emperor Daxing, but no one dares to poke this layer of window paper,

The whole Lanzhou City is like a big stage, Xu Liang and Liu Biao are like two pretty faces who have no voice, holding a pair of male duck voices, babbling and singing on this big stage.

It seems that these two Hua Dan don't care how ugly their voices are, and they don't care about what kind of whispers the audience below is, they only care about these people applauding when they should applaud, and applauding when they should applaud.

After the 200,000 horses were withdrawn, they were followed by the prince Taibao of Great Xia and Sun Dezhang, the former governor of the Fifth Army.

At this moment, Lanzhou City seemed to be suddenly emptied, leaving only more than 50,000 soldiers and horses in Shu who were waiting for a comfortable return, and more than 40,000 Shaanxi officials and troops under Liao Ying.

Before An Yi did not come back, the soldiers and horses of the two places were not subordinate to each other, because Jiang Shang understood that although Liao Ying was the commander of the imperial court from the three ranks, but at this juncture on the cusp, no matter who you are, he will not let go of the military power tightly held in his hand.

Only when you have soldiers in your hands can you have a life.

This also led to rumors and panic in Lanzhou City for a while, and everyone was talking about it, saying that the imperial court had reached an agreement with the Liao people and planned to give up Lanzhou City.

At such a time, of course, the best way is to find a person with authority to preside over the army and control the riots.

But obviously, neither Jiang Shang nor Liao Ying have this ability, so they have no choice but to open the south gate of the city and let the people and displaced people flee to leave Lanzhou.

As soon as this opening was opened, it was like opening Pandora's box, and all the people rushed to the southeast with their families, so to speak, at this time, those who remained in Lanzhou City, except for the officials and soldiers who were ordered to stand by and the Tai Hospital, were all traitors and thieves with small calculations in their hearts.

Whenever this night falls, Lanzhou City seems to be shrouded in the shadow of hell, and even the soldiers of the official army dare not hang alone on the street, otherwise it is still unknown whether the weapons and property on their bodies will be looted and the whole person will be scattered on the street the next morning.

For the sake of safety, Jiang Shang and Liao Ying still decided to move all the imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital, including the envoys of the Zhao Hospital, to the military camp in the south of the city.

In fact, most of these patients have also recovered, and there is nothing to worry about the epidemic, the only miserable thing is that when many of them came out of the hospital, they found that their homes were already empty, and they didn't even know where to go.

Many people could only follow the hospital, but the barracks turned them away, so they could only huddle in the cold wind and gather at the gate of the camp in twos and threes, just begging these patrolling sergeants to give them a little security.

It's just that this safety is there, the cold wind is unsympathetic, and countless people freeze to death and starve to death overnight.

However, Zhou Juan'er and her family were very lucky to be taken care of by An Xin and lived in the Earl's Palace.

Not all the Si Ya mansions in the city that were ordered to stay in the city can be like the Earl's Palace, which was assigned by Jiang Shang Meng Qi with three thousand cavalry to patrol and protect day and night, like the county government in Lanzhou and even the prefect's yamen, there are only one or two pacesetters in it, but they dislike the poor conditions of the military camp, and after one night, all the officials of the prefect and county orders were killed, and the female dependents of the family were all ruined to death, and there was no silver and property left.

It's a good northwest town, but it was still heavily guarded before, and almost overnight, it became a cannibalistic ghost town!

But

Even if it's a ghost town, there are people who are worried about it......

...........

It's night

Three miles outside the city

It's still the place where he hid before, and it's still the former army of the Liao people, like the last time he cheated the city, he looked very leisurely holding a straw in his mouth.

But what is different from before is that the bodies of the more than 500 cavalrymen behind him are all the same Xia Army uniforms, and what they are holding in their hands is also the banner of An Yi's team that rushed to Hanlin for peace talks.

Xiao Erjin sat quietly on the horse under his crotch, and from time to time raised his head to look at the somewhat gloomy night and the not very bright moonlight, as if he was waiting for someone.

"General! Checkmate! ”

Hearing someone shouting behind him, he hurriedly turned his horse's head and turned around, as if he was waiting for this galloping herald.

"How?"

"Generalissimo's order, enter the city!"

"Good!"

He replied heavily, and then whispered to the men and horses behind him: "Everyone, put up the flags, put out the torches, and let's go into the city!" ”

A group of more than 500 cavalry looked really like the Great Xia official army returning to the city, slowly pacing the horse's hooves, heading towards the north gate of Lanzhou, but there was not a single torch in the whole team, and it looked like Si Ye's wandering god from a distance, which was very weird.

In Lanzhou City, because of the soldiers and horses in Shu and Shaanxi, Jiang Shang and Liao Ying discussed that each team would defend two of the gates.

Jiang Shang is responsible for the west and south gates of defense, and Liao Ying is naturally protecting the remaining north and east gates.

Tonight seems to be the same as usual, the sky is still the same full of haze, the stars are still the same dim, there seems to be nothing unusual,

The soldiers on the north city wall took out all the wine and meat that they didn't know where they got in the city early, and gathered together in twos and threes, ready to eat, at least to warm their bodies that were blown by the north wind, to resist the invasion of the colder temperature and ice-cold armor in the second half of the night.

However, after all, these city soldiers did not dare to throw all the city wall guards aside, and hid under the battlements to their heart's content, except for a few low-level generals who were able to sit down and eat enough, the other big-headed soldiers only drank two sips of wine and ripped off a piece of meat and hurried back to their posts.

He didn't go over to call the door in a daze, but first sent out a dozen cavalry to the front, walked to the light of the Xia army's torches on the city wall, and took the rest of the people to hide in the dark.

"Uncle Jingyuan is back to the city with talks, open the door quickly!"

The Liao young general led by him had a loud voice, and this shout made the guards sitting next to the city gate building hear,

He wiped the oily flesh stains on his mouth, patted the sergeant next to him who was still filling his stomach with tons of wine, and ordered: "Is there someone calling the door, go and see." ”

As he spoke, he was still puzzled, and said in his heart, who is this, entering the city in the middle of the night?

The sergeant took the order, and after a while he came back at a trot, still shouting: "The flag is always bad, it's not good!" ”

When the guard heard him shouting that it was not good, he thought it was a night attack by the Liao, so without saying a word, he threw the elbow meat in his hand on the ground, pulled out the saber on his waist with a "bang", and asked urgently: "What's wrong?" How many Liao people came? Quick, go and inform the commander! ”

The sergeant saw the guard's excited look, and hurriedly waved his hand at him, "No, no, no, Mr. Qi misunderstood, I didn't say that the Liao people came, it was Uncle Jingyuan who came back from the peace talks." ”

After listening to the anger in the guard's heart, Uncle Jingyuan came back, you just said it directly, what's wrong with shouting?

I was going to forget it like this, but as soon as I looked down and saw the elbow meat that was thrown on the ground and covered with dust because of my panic, I was still unwilling to "snap" and slapped the sergeant, and scolded: "I won't say anything damn about it, go, notify the city gate to open the door to the uncle, and I will go down." ”

The sergeant covered his face with an aggrieved face, and ran to the city gate again.

The dozen or so riders under Xiao Erjin's hand didn't wait for a while, and then they saw the heavy gate of Lanzhou North City slowly open.

"Squeak~~"

With the sound of dusty door pivots, the guards took a few of their own soldiers out of the city to line up, ready to greet their "Uncle Jingyuan".

The Liao general made a gesture to the cavalry beside him without a trace, and the horses led by him deliberately lowered their heads, pressed their iron helmets, and slowly beat their horses and walked towards the city gate.

The Xia army guard looked at the tall horses in front of him and the sturdy people, and still thought that they were Uncle Jingyuan's personal soldiers, so he hurriedly led a few sergeants under his hands to greet him very attentively.

It's just that he was more puzzled, and when he looked back, he saw a void-like darkness, and he didn't see Uncle Jingyuan's figure.

"The generals are working hard, dare to ask Uncle Jingyuan if he is in the rear army?"

The Liao young general didn't answer at all, just walked forward, and quietly touched the handle of the knife on his waist.

The guard was cold for a moment, feeling a little embarrassed, but I can understand it, the uncle's personal soldiers are still a little bit of a shelf after all,

He touched his cold red nose, the smile on his face became more flattering, turned around and followed quickly, carefully stopped in front of the young general's horse, and said respectfully: "General, look at this...... Hehe, you understand the rules in our army, although our uncle's status is noble and he doesn't need a document, but after all, let the little ones see that they are good to let you in, right? Otherwise, I should be punished. ”

According to the rules, those who enter the city in the middle of the night have to ask them for documents on the city wall, or they can only let them in after seeing comfort with their own eyes.

This guard general and a group of sergeants under his command are all from the Shaanxi Green Battalion, all of whom have never fought and have no actual combat experience. Hurry up and line up to be courteous.

It's just that the personal soldier of this "Uncle Jingyuan" seems to be really big, and he ignored him when he was questioned twice, and he just walked forward with his head down.

When the guard was about to go up with his face on his face for the third time, he also noticed that something was wrong.

Can this Uncle Jingyuan's personal soldier have such a large scimitar in his hand?

I have never eaten pork and have always seen pigs run, even the Xia cavalry of the border army is not this kind of full moon scimitar,

But this knife looks familiar......

The doubts in the guard general's face couldn't help but add a little bit, and the smile on his face gradually faded by a few percent, and he didn't care about Uncle Jingyuan's personal soldiers, so he stepped forward and grabbed the reins of the Liao general who was walking in the front.

"General, why don't you answer ......?"

"Poof!"

The Liao young general's hand was amazingly fast, and he pulled out the scimitar on his waist in a flash of lightning, and the surrounding sergeants only saw a cold light coming up, and the guard's huge head rolled down from his neck like a ball, and it seemed that the blood in the cavity did not react, and he hesitated for a moment before spraying the red into the night sky.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

There was a sound of steel knives unsheathed, whether it was the Xia army or the Liao army......

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”