Chapter 1026: Bianliang Mutiny
In a large tent in the northern military camp, the two commanders were discussing the surrender in a low voice, the two were a pair of brothers, the elder brother was called Cheng Yan, and the younger brother was called Cheng Mo, each with a thousand soldiers.
The two brothers would not betray each other, they would quickly reach a consensus, and the two reached an agreement in a short period of time to surrender to the Song army.
So as the saying goes, you have to rely on your brothers to fight a tiger, and you have to rely on your father and son to go into battle, that's the truth.
It's just that they are very worried that there will be many generals who are also planning to surrender like themselves, so how can their brothers be the first to surrender and get the reward of the first-level commander.
"It's too late, we have to act tonight."
Cheng Yan said without hesitation: "I believe that there will be others who will act tonight, we must take the lead, I am talking about immediate action!" ”
"Big brother mean, we mutinied?" Cheng Mo asked tentatively.
Cheng Yan nodded, "Our brothers have two thousand people, as long as the battle is to the end and our two brothers are killed, then we will win, as for the life and death of others, we can't care so much." ”
"But you have to sacrifice the city!"
"Then directly seize the north city and set fire to the north city tower, I believe that the Song army has been deployed outside."
Cheng Mo was more cautious, he thought for a while and said, "Why don't you just watch three watches!" At that time, it was the changing of the guard, so we pretended to be the changing of the guard and grabbed the north gate. ”
Cheng Yan calculated the time, it was less than a quarter of an hour before the third watch, and it was time to set off after calling the soldiers up, he nodded, "Let's wake up the soldiers immediately and set off early!" ”
It is getting closer and closer to the third watch, the city began to change the guard, many posts have been empty, Fan Qiong continues to transfer people to replenish, but the escape is still continuous, and when it is almost the third watch, the number of fugitive soldiers has reached 3,000.
On the street leading to Jinglongmen, a group of 2,000 soldiers were running in formation, they ran across the state bridge, and ran towards the city gate a mile away, when at this moment, there was a sudden shout of killing in the direction of the old Caomen in the west.
The Cheng brothers glanced at each other, and their faces suddenly changed greatly, which was obviously someone who mutinied in front of them.
The two of them hurriedly shouted, "Speed up and run to the city gate!" ”
Two thousand soldiers sped up and rushed towards Jinglongmen.
It was also a coincidence that the deputy general Fan Qiong was patrolling Jinglongmen at this time, Fan Qiong knew that he would not be accepted by the Song army, and he would definitely die, so he and Liu Yu formed a tacit understanding and waited for the Jin soldiers to come to the rescue.
Fan Qiong also heard the shouting and killing sound in the direction of the old Cao Gate, and he hurriedly ran down from the city, just in time to meet the Cheng brothers.
Fan Qiong was stunned for a moment, and asked sharply, "What are you doing here?" ”
Cheng Yan stepped forward, "We were ordered to come to change the guard!" ”
He made a movement with his hand behind him, and Cheng Mo immediately understood, and with the help of his brother's cover, he copied a divine arm crossbow into his hand.
Fan Qiong frowned, "It's not you who are on duty tonight, you are on duty during the day tomorrow, go back to the barracks quickly!" ”
"It was the prince who asked us to come, the general can ask the prince if he doesn't believe it!"
Cheng Yan pointed to the left, as if the prince Liu Yu was on the left, Fan Qiong was really fooled, he turned his head to look to the left, Cheng Yan dodged almost at the same time, at this moment, Cheng Mo, who was hiding behind, raised the crossbow of the divine arm and aimed at Fan Qiong who was ten steps away is an arrow, Fan Qiong suddenly understood that he had been fooled, but it was too late, he only felt a pain in his chest, and the powerful crossbow arrow shot through his armor, shot into his chest, and the tip of the arrow revealed the back.
Fan Qiong screamed and fell to the ground, the soldiers behind him were taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward to help, Cheng Yan roared and swung his gun to kill.
Cheng Mo also shouted, "Brothers, sacrifice the city to avoid crimes, kill me!" ”
All the soldiers understood, and they followed the Cheng brothers and shouted, and rushed forward together.
Cheng Yan killed more than a dozen personal soldiers in a row, and killed Fan Qiong's personal soldiers, he pierced the back of Fan Qiong's heart with a backhand shot, and Fan Qiong, who was seriously injured, was killed immediately, and the two soldiers cut off Fan Qiong's head and handed it to Cheng Yan.
Cheng Yan raised the head and shouted: "Fan Qiong is dead, the head is here!" ”
The soldiers at the head of the city turned against the water, followed Cheng Mo to lower the drawbridge, and opened the city gate, at this time, the Jinglong City Tower was ignited, and the fire quickly burned.
Cao Meng, who was stationed near the North City Gate, led 3,000 troops to the North City Gate, and at this time, Cheng Yan rushed out and bowed down and said: "The humble position is Yun Cong's Second Army Commander Cheng Yan, and his brother Cheng Mo rebelled, please lead the army into the city!" ”
Cao Meng pointed to the head in his hand and asked, "Whose head is it?" ”
"This is the head of Deputy Marshal Fan Qiong, who has been killed by his humble position!"
He handed over the head, and a soldier who knew Fan Qiong stepped forward to check, turned back and nodded to Cao Meng, "It's Fan Qiong!" ”
Cao Meng was overjoyed, he hurriedly sent a letter to Wang Gui and Du Shuai, and he himself led 3,000 people to kill the Jinglong City Gate, and soon, the city gate fell into the hands of the Song army, and Wang Gui also led 10,000 troops to kill.
At this time, the old Caomen was also broken by mutinous soldiers, and Yue Fei led the army into the old Caomen.
As Jinglongmen and Jiu Caomen were surrendered by the generals in the city, 100,000 Song troops entered Bianliang City.
Cao Meng, under the leadership of the Cheng brothers, led 5,000 people to capture the old palace and kill the palace.
The palace is the original Yanfu Palace, there were originally two thousand guards guarded, these guards saw that the general trend had gone, they took off their armor and fled, the Song army quickly surrounded the palace, at this moment, the 100,000 star-picking buildings in the palace suddenly ignited a raging fire, the star-picking buildings were full of dry firewood and sulfur and other things, and the fire oil was poured through the first floor, so that the fire burned extremely quickly, and soon, the fire engulfed the entire star-picking building, and there was a cry inside.
Liu Yu took his wife, concubine and children to set fire to himself, and all 23 members of his family died in the flames.
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Li Yanqing did not break his promise, and then named Cheng Yan, who was the first to go out of the city and surrender, as the first-level commander of the Song generals, and named his brother Cheng Mo and Zhang Yu, the general who dedicated the old Caomen, as the second-level commanders, all of whom were Cao Meng's generals, and the generals who surrendered after the city was broken were exempted from capital and let them go home, and the 20,000 Yun Congjun was handed over to Cao Meng, who was responsible for the reorganization and incorporated into the Longxiang army.
Li Yanqing also found that the quality of Yun Congjun's army was indeed good, and the soldiers were generally young and strong, well-trained, and that after raising their military spirit and morale through reorganization and education, they would become an elite army.
On the morning of the next day, after the Song army withdrew from Bianliang City in the early morning, a grand ceremony was held to enter the city, and Li Yanqing personally led an army of 100,000 troops into Bianliang City, including Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi and other generals also participated in the ceremony.
The Song army's entry ceremony made the entire Bianliang City boil, almost all the people went to the street, and many trembling old people were also supported by their children to welcome the Song army into the city.
When the first row of Song troops holding large flags walked in from inside the Suzaku Gate, the whole city was boiling, people hissed and cheered as hard as they could, everyone had tears in their eyes, the Jin soldiers occupied Bianjing for several years, they suffered the shame of being alien slaves, and only then did they feel that they had returned to their homeland.
Tears also flowed in the eyes of every general, especially Yue Fei, when he evacuated Bianliang in humiliation, at this moment, when he finally re-entered Bianliang City, he had already burst into tears, and many soldiers behind him covered their faces and wept silently, pain and joy were intertwined in everyone's hearts.
The climax was when Li Yanqing entered the city, and when he waved to hundreds of thousands of people, cheers resounded in the sky.
"Hooray! Banzai! ”
People shouted from the heart, "Long live His Royal Highness the Regent!" ”
At this time, more than a dozen white-haired old men knelt down in front of him, Li Yanqing hurriedly turned over and dismounted, helped them up, and an old man held his hand tightly and said: "Your Highness, this is the third time that Xiaomin has knelt down for you, don't abandon us again, don't abandon the people of Bianliang again!" ”
Li Yanqing shook his hand covered with old age spots and said, "Unless the Jin soldiers step over my body, I will never let them enter Bianliang one step further!" ”
More than a dozen old men knelt down again and began to cry loudly.
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"
I don't know who shouted this sentence first, and the entire people of Bianliang were infected, and they raised their arms and shouted, "Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" Banzai! ”
Li Yanqing didn't stop them, his tears flowed, at this moment he seemed to return to the past when he led the army to defend Bianliang and fought fiercely with the Jin soldiers, and the battles of blood and fire were frozen into tragic pictures flowing through his mind.
Li Yanqing got back on his horse and waved to hundreds of thousands of people, and at this moment, his heart suddenly became extremely broad.