(a)

On the 54th day after you were killed on the battlefield of Xiyuan, under the personal supervision of Liu Shen, the king of the Northern Han Dynasty, 200,000 troops of the Northern Han Army with Chen Shouye as the main force launched a battle to destroy the capital of the Southern Han Dynasty.

The battle was very fierce. The 200 huge and towering siege arrow towers concentrated a large number of arrows and crossbows, and carried out a continuous and dense volley of fire at the head of the city.

In order to support this battle, blacksmiths from all over the Northern Han Dynasty were gathered to build arrows and crossbows day and night, and almost all the ironware in the country was also looted and used to smelt new arrows and crossbows.

Xu Zaitian organized local governments in the rear to requisition a large number of mule, horse, and horse vehicles, which flowed endlessly on the way, transporting arrows and crossbows to the front day and night.

Men, women, and children all over the country were in a nervous mood, looking at the convoy transporting arrows and crossbows, full of official roads, extending south, praying that the Northern Han would win the battle with one blow.

If this battle is won, then the world can rest in turmoil, if the city is not conquered, the Northern Han army will definitely suffer a major blow, and even the war will be delayed, maybe there will be variables, in the case that you have died in the grassland, how the future war will develop, is really unpredictable. If Liu Shen dies in this battle, it will inevitably rise up again and reopen, and the expectations of the people of the world for peace will become distant again.

The battle was fierce. Within 6 days, the Northern Han army fired a total of 800,000 arrows and crossbows at the head of the city.

At the head of the city, the corpses of the defenders of the Southern Han Dynasty were everywhere, and the city wall seemed to have turned into a jungle of arrows and crossbows.

When the defenders of the Southern Han Dynasty were suppressed by the huge power of the mountain crossbow and did not dare to show their heads on the city wall, the Northern Han army sent sappers and gunpowder troops to dig a long tunnel from the ground and cross the moat in front of the north city gate. Turn it into a huge crater.

After the Northern Han sappers and gunpowder troops evacuated the tunnel, they ignited the fire through a long lead.

The city's extremely strong north gate and half of the city walls crumbled in a series of earth-shattering explosions, and the gates flew into the air.

Many soldiers of the Southern Han garrison were knocked to the ground by the huge shock wave formed by the explosion, and their ears were bleeding.

After the huge explosion that shattered the sky and the earth stopped, the army of the Northern Han Dynasty came out of this extremely wide gap like a flood. Rushed into the city in a steady stream.

The Southern Han army continued to resist stubbornly after the outer city was lost.

The two sides fought repeatedly and fiercely over every street, every alley, and every house.

The battle was tense and tragic, and the situation of the melee was changing rapidly.

In order to boost morale and determine the general trend of the world in the first battle, Chen Shouye and many generals personally put on armor and wielded swords, took the lead in the battle, and went into battle to kill the enemy.

Liu Shen, the king of the Northern Han Dynasty, was also fully armored, and personally stood in an armored chariot to supervise the battle in the Beiguan City Gate.

At the height of the battle. The Southern Han defenders almost counterattacked and advanced to a distance of only 200 meters from Liu Shen.

They fired many bows and arrows at Liu Shen's chariot.

In the flying arrows like locusts, Liu Shen was almost shot into his eyes by the broken arrows shot on the iron armor, blood gushed from the corners of his eyes, and half of his face was dyed red.

But he did not listen to the advice of the left and right, and insisted on holding on to the city gates.

He exclaimed, "Tell me to exit this door unless I am turned into a corpse!" ”

Encouraged by Liu Shen's determination not to retreat, the Northern Han army finally stepped on countless corpses. Advance to the gates of the royal city. The Northern Han army rushed over from all sides and tightly besieged the royal city where Liu Yan, the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, lived.

(b)

Through the walls of the royal city, which were torn apart by the explosion. The Northern Han army shouted and killed from all directions into the deep palace in the royal city, and then, the Northern Han army concentrated the siege cone vehicles of the whole army, and hit the gates and walls of the royal city one by one. Every blow hit the hearts of the defenders and palace people in the royal city. The atmosphere of fear spread uncontrollably and rapidly in the palace.

In this terrifying sound, Liu Yan, the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, knew that his end had come. He hugged his beloved concubine and several children, and his eyes wept. There is no claim at all.

Li Miaochang, the head of the chamberlain, advised him to surrender. Li Miaochang said that the eldest prince Liu Shen has not been a ruthless person since he was a child, and if he surrenders, he will accept the national seal of the old Han king and confess his guilt in public. Before repenting of all kinds of injustices and murders against Liu Shen's mother and son, he expressed his submission, and the eldest prince Liu Shen must be for the sake of his brothers and can't bear to kill them all.

Li Miaochang's suggestion calmed Liu Yan down, he carefully reflected on his childhood, heard and witnessed his brother's behavior, and also felt that it was far better to fall into the hands of his brother than to fall into the hands of the murderous generals of the Northern Han army.

Just when Liu Yan decided to go out and surrender, Wuyang Hou led a team of soldiers to rush into the deep palace.

The Marquis of Wuyang surrounded Liu Yan and the people around him, threw down a yellow silk, and claimed that it was the last moment of the country's collapse and death, and asked him to commit suicide and martyrdom for the honor and dignity of the Southern Han Kingdom.

Li Miaochang immediately scolded the Marquis of Wuyang for being a traitor, he wanted to free himself before the city was broken, and he wanted to take Liu Yan's head and wag his tail to Liu Shen to beg for mercy.

Subsequently, Wuyang Hou and Li Miaochang had a quarrel, and the two sides exposed to each other the bad deeds of accepting bribes from Xu Zaitian and betraying Lei Shicheng.

Liu Yan heard that Li Miaochang had also betrayed himself, and he only felt that he had stepped on the cliff. What else in this world can be trusted?

Li Miaochang argued that he was just greedy for money and jealous of his talents, but he would not be ruthless and kill his lord for glory.

Wuyang Hou pointed at Liu Yan and said contemptuously: "When the weak eat the strong today." Your Majesty's own incompetence has ruined the great country, and he has affected my subordinates and other subordinates, and has followed him for several years, not only has he gained nothing, but now he is also in the same disaster, he deserves it, how can he blame me for being ruthless?! ”

The Marquis of Wuyang said to Liu Yan: "Your Majesty, you and Prince Shen are both sons of the first king, in fact, whoever will be the monarch of the world will be the same for my subordinates." In order to preserve the orthodoxy of your descendants, the country and the army have been fighting on all sides for so many years, and countless people have died in vain for your throne. Now that you are ruined and the country is ruined, you can die bravely and honorably, and you can be regarded as worthy of these people who died for you. But if you go out like a dog to beg, how can you have the face to face the souls who died because of you? ”

After Wu Yanghou said that, he looked at Liu Yan with a vicious eye, and said ruthlessly: "Your Majesty, you have to die if you want to die today, and you have to die if you don't want to die!" ”

(c)

After saying these decisive words, Marquis Wuyang waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to step forward and strangle Liu Yan with yellow silk.

Li Miaochang rushed over desperately, blocked in front of Liu Yan, and was stabbed through the heart by the soldiers brought by the Marquis of Wuyang without hesitation.

The soldiers kicked away the bloodied and dying Li Miaochang, and put Huang Aya around Liu Yan's neck without saying anything.

Liu Yan was so frightened that his whole body trembled violently, he was incontinent and urinated together, and screamed for help.

The soldiers tightened the yellow silk on Liu Yan's neck, Liu Yan's trachea was broken, and there was a gurgling sound in his throat, his hands were desperately scratching in the air, his feet were kicking wildly, his shoes and socks were all gone, and after a while, his face was purple, his tongue was sticking out, his eyes were bulging, and finally he died.

The Marquis of Wuyang did not stop doing anything, and ordered Liu Yan's harem concubines and children to be killed.

For a time, the entire harem was in a terrifying atmosphere, the palace people were hugging their heads and running around, the soldiers were chasing and killing everywhere with knives, the palace was screaming endlessly, the corpses were all over the ground, and the blood flowed like a river.

In the middle of the night, the royal city was completely broken, and Chen Shouye's troops were like bamboos, and they drove straight into the inner palace with murderous spirit.

When they rushed to the Wuying Hall where the old Han king listened to the government, they saw the Marquis of Wuyang covered in blood, holding a sword in his hand, and carrying a bloody human head, standing next to the throne of the old Han king.

The Marquis of Wuyang greeted the sword mountain and the sea of swords of the Northern Han army, and said loudly: "The Marquis of Wuyang greets His Majesty the King of Han, long live the King of Han, long live!" (To be continued.) )