At the head of Wangchun Gate, Zhao Kuangyin was wearing iron armor, pressing the hilt of the sword with one hand, and holding the female wall battlement with the other hand to look at the Donghua Gate of the Imperial City. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"My lord! If we don't support it, the sky will be bright, we only have half an hour's chance, no matter what, we have to seize the Donghua Gate in one go, at that time the road to the palace is open, our army along the city to advance Xuanyou Gate, Xihua Gate, as long as these three gates are in hand, we will also succeed! Zhao Pu urged urgently.

Zhao Kuangyin's face was solemn, he glanced back at Zhao Pu, and said in a sullen voice: "Although I expected them to be prepared, I feel that something is wrong, according to the plan, Yang Guangyi entered Xihuamen, Shi Shouxin contained Han Tong in Xuande Gate, and Donghuamen had internal responses, Han Chongbin and Liu Qingyi have not yet reached the top of the city, and the situation is wrong!" ”

As he was talking, more than 100 horsemen rushed from Panlou Street, and a capital head rushed to the city head to report: "Lord! Things have changed! Yuan Yan didn't know where to transfer tens of thousands of soldiers, entered the inner city from the north Jinglong Gate, went south along Huangcheng Street, and was engaged in a fierce battle with Han Chongbin's troops outside the Donghua Gate, please help the lord quickly! ”

"Understood, probe again!" Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand, and there was an inexplicable irritability in his heart, this mutiny was a bit hasty, and the total number of troops available was only a little more than 30,000, and he hurriedly transferred the 20,000 iron cavalry troops in the camp, Shi Shouxin still transferred more than 7,000 cavalry from the outer city into the inner city, and the large camp of the Crane Army was outside the city, so it was too late.

After a while, Shi Shouxin and Yang Guangyi sent back the sentinel cavalry one after another to report that Shi Shouxin's troops were too small, and it was impossible to capture the three southern gates of the imperial city; Yang Guangyi was blocked at the entrance of the West Corner Tower Street by the Guards Division Li Chuyun, and at this time there were only 8,000 soldiers left at hand, and there were three other armies to guard the New Song Gate and the New Cao Gate in the outer city, and they wanted to ensure a way out.

Zhao Kuangyin kept pacing back and forth, carefully calculating in his heart, although the guard division had 50,000 soldiers, but except for more than half of the inner and outer city gates, the rest was only enough to guard the west of the city, as long as their own troops did not go over there, they should not take the initiative to attack, and although Yuan Yan transferred some town troops, it was the same as the inner hall straight, and the combat effectiveness was not good. Thinking like this, he looked back into the distance, and a ray of bright color appeared on the horizon in the east.

"Herald! Ordered Wang Zhengzhong to lead a thousand soldiers to guard the Wangchun Gate, and Liu Ting asked to mobilize the horse army into the city! Zhao Kuangyin gritted his teeth fiercely, and decided to personally lead the troops to support, he turned around and glanced back at Zhao Pu, hesitated, and said: "Zeping!" If there is any discord, you can go to the outer city of Xincaomen and wait for me first! ”

Zhao Pu nodded silently, he also understood in his heart that this was a big gamble, since the queen's disappearance, the first emperor suddenly saw the mystery, and made this arrangement on the eve of his death, his heart's plan was basically aborted, Zhang Yue seized the opportunity to leave Tokyo, and his own lord was just the next step.

It's just that as soon as the rumor that the queen was robbed by Zhang and Li came out, Songzhou was congenitally deficient as a foundation, too close to Tokyo, and the court was unable to crusade in the short term, but it happened to destroy Zhang Yongde and Li Chongshi, and there was a chance to make a comeback in Xu, Si, and Dongshan.

Not long after, seven thousand cavalry lined up into the Wangchun Gate to wait, Zhao Kuangyin led Wang Baicai to raise the flag to the front and march, the cavalry gradually accelerated, along the wide main road to Rendian Street, turned to the Donghua Gate, the open space in front of the gate more than 100 steps wide and several nearby streets are densely packed with soldiers in front of the palace, Yuan Yan's town army is mainly under the imperial city wall north of the Donghua Gate, is cooperating with the city head guard, flanking their own men and horses.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at it from a distance for a while, couldn't help sneering at the corner of his mouth, led seven thousand horsemen to turn around and go north from Mahang Street, from Genyue West Street to the imperial city wall, just turned to the rear of Yuan Yan's department, first out of two thousand horsemen as the front, the brigade of iron cavalry rushed down from the Huangcheng Street, Yuan Yan's Tianping Army was relatively concentrated, turned around and changed the formation in time, only one round of charge under the whole army collapsed, the street was only so wide, and there were house obstacles everywhere on both sides, there was no way to escape, and was trampled to death by horses' hooves in an instant.

However, in this dense group of infantry, the horse team could not move back and forth, and after going straight forward to kill each other, they rushed their own men and horses in front of the Donghua Gate, and went south along Huangcheng Street.

Yuan Yan's department was defeated, Zhao Kuangyin's rear team of 5,000 cavalry scattered to guard the street entrance, and the infantry outside the Donghua Gate followed to the north to encircle and suppress, countless soldiers of the Tianping Army scurried back and forth in the narrow street, and under the persuasion of Zhao Kuangyin's personal soldiers, thousands of people left to lose their weapons one after another, and they surrendered in the long street.

The morale of the Tianping Army was exhausted, Yuan Yan lost his asylum, and he did not have many descendants, and after a while, he was pointed out by the soldiers of the Tianping Army, and Yuan Yan was captured by Liu Qingyi and escorted to Zhao Kuangyin.

"Captain Yuan! Borrowing your head to boost morale and morale, okay? Surrounded by the guards, Zhao Kuangyin came out of the crowd and smiled at Yuan Yan, who was standing with his head held high and his hair in a messy bun.

Yuan Yan was not afraid, he even transferred his children and grandchildren to Tokyo, and he had already put aside the family's life and death, honor and disgrace, but he didn't make good arrangements to be deployed on the long street to be taken advantage of by the Ma army, and his face was full of tragedy at the moment, and he reprimanded angrily: "Zhao Yuanlang!" The first emperor treats you like a mountain, pampered and trusted, you actually committed a conspiracy and rebellion, even if you have a certain head of Yuan today, he will have someone to take your head and sacrifice to my spirit in front of him, a certain person has no regrets in the first emperor, no regrets in the temple community, die as he deserves, come on! Cut it here! ”

"Drag it down! Behead it and persuade the city to surrender! Zhao Kuangyin was angry, there were countless people who supported him in the past few years, but he still talked about a loyalty, and he always had to cover it up after the fact, claiming to be a helpless move, Zhao Kuangyin valued his reputation more than others, although he did it, he would never allow anyone to reprimand him in person, and he was immediately angry.

In a moment, Yuan Yan's head was picked on the top of the flagpole, and a team of sergeants raised the flagpole under the imperial city wall with torches and shouted: "Captain Yuan does not argue between right and wrong, he has already been awarded the head, and he will still be rich and noble when he descends early!" ”

At this time, the bloody battle inside and outside the Donghua Gate is still continuing, tens of thousands of palace straight armor soldiers poured out of the imperial city, behind the city gate with a large shield erected in a column of half-moon arrays to resist, and the crossbowmen of the array do not stop arrows, although Han Chongbin's forward cavalry rushed into the city, they were quickly strangled, and the follow-up infantry formation held high the big shield and crowded in the narrow city gate arch hole, as soon as the city gate hole ended, it will suffer from a dense arrow rain strike, it is difficult to go further.

Although the Donghua Gate was wide open, there were corpses piled up more than two feet high in the cave of the city gate, and the bubbling blood water flowed inside and outside like a stream, and the suffocating and pungent smell of blood was suffocating, but the soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Army heard that the fighting spirit was stronger. The soldiers in the inner hall behind the door hole have experienced less war, and they just set up a rigid formation to defend, if it weren't for the strong troops and a large number of strong crossbows, they wouldn't be able to defend it now, but even so, the morale of the army began to be a little turbulent.

As Yuan Yan's head was carried back and forth outside the imperial city wall by the flagpole, the morale of the soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Army was bursting, and they roared like a tsunami, which could be heard inside and outside the imperial city.

Unconsciously, after a moment of fighting, the eastern sky gradually revealed a piece of fish belly white, and the night faded quickly, and the sky showed a trace of dark blue.