Chapter 0593: The Roaring Imperial Capital
In the early hours of the night, the bright moon is in the sky, as clear as a mirror, and the clear light pours on the Jinshui River outside Tokyo, and the sparkling waves ripple like a jade belt extending straight to the arched bridge under the castle tower. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoA sound of rushing water sounded, and the iron gate fence with the thickness of a child's arm slowly hung upwards and retracted into the top of the arch of the water gate.
On the brightly lit city tower, a general of the forbidden army held the battlement and looked down, and two sergeants hung a bamboo basket with a rope and quickly lowered it from the female wall battlement. After a while, a small black dot appeared on the river in the distance, and quickly approached the water gate, and gradually appeared a small boat with a narrow body, sixteen sturdy sergeants supported the pulp in unison, and the small boat soon reached the city gate, and a general in armor took out the waist card and the talisman from his arms and put it into the bamboo basket, and the bamboo basket was hung up.
In the distance, there was the sound of boats hitting the water, and the black and pressed fleet rolled in, quickly pouring in from the Northwest Water Gate, going straight through the Jinshui Gate in the inner city along the Jinshui River, and heading towards the Dragon Pond in the Forbidden Zhongda.
At the same time, a fleet of boats also came from outside the water gate in the northeast of the outer city, surging in from the water gate, and moving along the river to the small cross bridge in the outer city. At this moment, a small boat suddenly sailed out of the dark bridge hole, and a red-robed and black-armored general stood on the bow of the ship with a sword.
"Captain Yuan! Is there any movement? Liu Congzhi was also at the bow of the boat, and Zheng Debin bowed his hands together.
"Shhhh Let the soldiers stay on the ship and move when the opportunity comes! The general at the bow of the boat was Yuan Yan, and he gave a silent gesture, but in order to reassure the two people opposite, he still reminded him.
At the end of the ugly hour, the moon gradually set, when the last faint rays of moonlight disappeared, the sky and the earth were dark, and the originally faintly visible neighborhoods in the city suddenly disappeared quickly, leaving only lanterns and bonfires still lit on the towers in the inner and outer cities. And the Imperial City, located in the center of the north of the city, is lit
Suddenly, the earth shook, the roaring sound of horses' hooves came from the new Cao Gate in the west of the city, from the Niuhang Street to the west, before reaching the inner city Wangchun Gate, the city gate has been opened, more than 10,000 iron horsemen held torches and ran wildly, and entered the inner city Panlou Street at once, the general surrounded by the first horse is the first evening to return to Beijing in front of the front hall of the Yu Hou Shi Shouxin.
Almost at the same time, the old Song Gate, Baokang Gate, and Suzaku Gate in the south of the inner city also came to the movement, and the rolling iron flow went north from the Royal Street and Baokangmen Street, and after a while, tens of thousands of iron horsemen converged at the Zhou Bridge, and the two horse armies of one west and one south rushed straight to the imperial city.
At this time, on the imperial city located in the center of the north of the city, as soon as the garrison of the South Five Gate Tower heard the movement, the lights suddenly went out, and the entire imperial city fell into a boundless shadow.
On the beam gate in the west of the city, Feng Qian held the wall with his thick hand and looked into the distance, listened carefully to the sound of horses' hooves like a flash flood in the east of the city, and saw that the lights of the imperial city went out, and said with some concern: "Wang Wenbo's deployment is still good, and there are falling sons inside and outside, so I don't know if the generals of the forbidden army will move other thoughts at this time." ā
"Definitely! The low-level soldiers only recognize the prestige of the generals, and it is very possible to turn against each other, it depends on how Li Zhengyuan of the big camp handles the opportunity! ā
Luo Yanhuan was a little nervous, turned around and called a capital to go down to the city tower, and led a hundred horsemen to reconnoiter in front of the imperial city. Several other sentry teams were sent to each gate to investigate.
There were only 20,000 or 30,000 guards in total, and they were in the hands of Gao Huaide, Li Chuyun, and Zhao Yanhui, but that evening, Gao Huaide found an excuse to go home. And Han Tong has been staying in Miyagi Xuanyou Gate for the past few days, and is in control of the palace guards.
The sound of horses' hooves in the east and south of the city was like thunder, while the west of the city was quiet, but there was no movement in the imperial city. Not long after, the Chongming Gate and Yiqiu Gate in the southwest corner of the inner city also came to move, and thousands of ironclad infantry troops poured into the city, slowly going north from Junyiqiao Street, along Junyiqiao Street and Xijiaolou South Street to the west corner of the imperial city, thus forming a line, completely covering the camp of the guard division and a small half of the west of the city.
At this time, in addition to the relative quiet of the outer city, the twelve gates of the inner city are all mobilizing troops, because normally, two commanders stationed at each gate of the inner city are enough, and now there is one army per gate, and the extra half of the troops can be transferred out. There were also troops pouring in from the outer city, converging along the main road, all of them flocking to the imperial city.
On the square in front of the left gate, Xuande gate, and right gate in front of the imperial city, the iron cavalry in front of the palace dismounted one after another, and more than 100 knights and generals shouted to open the door under the city, and the soldiers who dismounted behind acted separately, and demolished the vermilion pillars of the corridor where the carriages and horses were parked on the side of the square nearby, trying to hit the door as a battering ram.
However, there was a sudden angry shout from the head of the city, followed by a torch, followed by countless soldiers shouting in unison, and a series of torches stretched along the head of the city to both sides, and the entire imperial city suddenly appeared from the darkness.
"Several armies outside the city have gathered, and you have been surrounded, if you want to live, quickly lay down your arms, the Son of Heaven is benevolent, he is not to blame for the past, only to punish the evil, and he will never ask, otherwise, ...... No mercy! ā
"Han Tong's thieves have kidnapped the little emperor, and all the generals and soldiers want to listen to his nonsense! Attack the city with me! A general in front of the palace shouted loudly, and opened his bow to the head of the city to shoot arrows, and the city and the city began to shoot bows and arrows, but the city gate was closed, and there was no heavy equipment, and the siege was a joke at all.
And downstairs in the west corner of the imperial city, Yang Guangyi, the right wing of the iron horse, led five thousand horsemen to rush to the street and was about to turn north, when he heard a sharp whistle in the dark, under the eaves on both sides of the street, and on all sides of the roof were black shadows surging, the sound of bowstrings collapsed, and the arrows that were dense like showers whistled in, and they were suddenly caught off guard.
"The 50,000 troops of the Guards Division are here, and they want to pass from now on and hand over their heads!" One of the generals shouted loudly, and the soldiers shouted in unison.
The South Third Gate and the Xihua Gate are safe, but the Donghua Gate is bursting out with earth-shattering shouts and killings, thousands of iron horsemen have rushed into the city, but they are intercepted by the dense pouring of armor soldiers in the palace city, and the narrow passages inside and outside the city gate, the two armies shout and kill one after another.
With the passage of time, the infantry troops who came from the camp in front of the palace carried a large number of siege equipment, and dozens of large wooden ladders were erected on both sides of the Donghua Gate, and countless soldiers shouted and rushed to the city. But they were greeted by a rain of arrows, and the wooden ladders were pushed and pulled by forks and cymbals, and the soldiers fell to the ground and suffered casualties.
In the noisy shouting and killing, at the foot of the east wall of the imperial city, only a hundred steps north of the imperial city street, a general led more than 1,000 horsemen to rush to kill, behind him was a long dragon of torches, and the chaotic footsteps roared loudly, reaching the Donghua Gate.
In the light of the fire, a banner with the word "Yuan" was held high, and an officer led more than 100 horsemen to rush in front, shouting loudly: "Captain Yuan is here!" Hurry back to the camp and don't make a mess! ā
But they were greeted by a rain of arrows, and the officers were still shouting at the arrows in their bodies to try to persuade them to stop, and immediately after attacking the army formation at the city gate, they immediately divided their troops to intercept them, and the inside and outside of the city were suddenly in chaos.
Horses' hooves roared in the neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city, and the shouts of killing spread throughout the city, while small groups of horses marched along the streets from the neighborhoods in the western part of the city, constantly trying to persuade them to surrender, but with little success.
There were also some heralds shuttling between the streets and alleys, including guards from various gates to check each other, and sentinels from the imperial city or the command center in the west of the city to inquire about each other.
When friendly troops meet, without exception, they sternly warn not to set fire! Whether it is a rebel army or a friendly army, there are family members in the inner and outer cities, and the consequences of arson are very serious.