Chapter 358: Yang Shili died

Yang Youjian's worries immediately became a reality, he no longer hesitated to turn back to the south gate, and no longer cared about the surging Weiyuan army under the west gate.

Zhou Rui left Zhang Siliang's Weiyuan Sixth Army of 8,000 people to continue to attack the south gate and contain the defenders in the city, while he rushed to the west gate with 4,000 people of Weiyuan's Fifth Army.

When he arrived at the west gate, he found that the west gate had not yet been opened, but after he learned from his subordinates that the vanguard army at the head of the city had occupied the head of the city, he immediately ordered Wang Jian and Lu Yanhong to immediately gather the two thousand people under the west gate and wait outside the west gate of Zizhou for the west gate to open and charge directly.

Zhou Rui and the others didn't wait long, and after about a quarter of an hour, the west gate was opened by the vanguard army. Zhou Rui couldn't care about the suspension bridge at the west gate, he jumped his horse and immediately rushed to the city of Zizhou.

Zhou Rui roared with the ironclad soldiers in the Weiyuan army, like boiling soup and fertile snow, the Zizhou defenders at the west gate were already lacking in courage, and when they saw the new force of the Weiyuan army coming, they lost their desperate courage. Immediately spread his legs and fled in all directions.

Zhou Rui entered the city and immediately ordered Wang Jian, Lu Yanhong and others behind him to attack separately, to make Zizhou chaotic, and issued an order to strictly prohibit the Weiyuan army from plundering people's property and harassing civilians, and those who violated the order were beheaded.

Wang Jian and the others immediately received orders to act separately, and Zhou Rui rushed towards the south gate with a brigade under his command. At this time, the west gate had been broken, and he concluded that Yang Shili would definitely not defend the south gate again, so he would definitely be able to break through the south gate with a brigade of troops, and there would be no possibility of turning the tables when the army entered the city of Zizhou.

Zhou Rui's guess was right, and by the time he arrived at the south gate, the Zizhou defenders were in a panic, and they had barely met with organized resistance. Zhou Rui slashed horizontally, and the defenders of Zizhou saw the Weiyuan army that suddenly arrived, and the panic in their hearts can be imagined.

Zhou Rui saw that the Zizhou army was in a panic, and he immediately shouted: "The gate of the West Gate has been broken, and Yang Shili is dead. ”

The Weiyuan army behind Zhou Rui immediately followed suit and shouted loudly, with the fact that all of a sudden, the south gate was full of "The west gate has been broken, Yang Shili is dead, and you can't be captured yet?" ”

The momentum of thousands of people shouting in unison shook the roof tiles, frightening the Zizhou defenders under the south gate to the point of exhaustion. Many small leaders heard Zhou Ruijun's shouts, coupled with their large-scale impact on their own side, they couldn't help but believe Zhou Rui's words, plus they had long known that Yang Shili had left, this period of time is not long or short, coupled with the extremely strong combat power of the Weiyuan Army in the past two days and the situation of panic, they finally accepted their orders and put down their self-esteem, dropped their swords and guns one after another, and then knelt on the ground and waited for the Weiyuan Army to receive them.

Surrender is afraid of a leader, once there is a leader in the matter of the leader, everyone immediately has an example to follow, and there is an excuse to excuse themselves, look at that Xu Dayan has surrendered, he is still a head, what kind of life is a small soldier, surrender is good, surrender do not need to be afraid, this year to save life is the most important.

So the defenders of Zizhou under the south gate surrendered one after another, and there were those who resisted stubbornly, but after seeing that a few of the leaders were killed by the Weiyuan army, no one came out strongly.

Zhou Rui saw that the situation under the south gate was very good, and his heart was overjoyed. He immediately shouted: "You go separately, one team quickly go and surround all the soldiers, and the other team quickly lower the drawbridge at the south gate, and let in the men and horses that Commander Zhang has ordered." ”

His soldiers will immediately obey the order. After a short time, the surrendered troops were gathered together, and Zhou Rui came to the surrendered soldiers and asked loudly: "Which of you is an official?" ”

The soldiers looked at Zhou Ruiyi's commanding appearance and understood that he was a senior official in the Weiyuan army, so they replied flatteringly: "The military envoy knows, ask me." ”

Zhou Ruicai didn't care about their flattery, and casually pointed to the most urgent flattery: "It's you, you can talk about it." ”

When the man saw it, he immediately said happily: "Returning to the military envoy, a certain name is Wang Sanshi,......"

"Don't talk nonsense, let's talk about who is the official?"

Wang Sanshi immediately pointed to a very hidden corner of the crowd and said, "Military envoy, please see, that guy without armor is a certain battalion commander, his name is Li Ji." ”

After Wang Sanshi pointed out, the sergeants under his command immediately rushed in without delay and pulled that Li Ji out, and then made him kneel in front of Zhou Rui.

Zhou Rui looked at this fair-skinned guy, the armor on his body had just dragged on, and he could see that he was deliberately pretending to be a soldier to avoid capture.

"You are the battalion commander, you must know where Yang Shili went, say it quickly!"

Li Ji's face was full of panic, he didn't dare to look up at Zhou Rui, he just muttered: "I don't know, didn't the military envoy say that Yang Junenvoy Oh, Yang Shili is already dead, why do you still ask so-and-so?"

The sergeant of the Weiyuan Army, who grabbed him, kicked Li Ji on the back and kicked him on the heel, and he said angrily: "Bastard, our Zhou military envoy asks you something, if you know, say it quickly, don't talk nonsense." ”

Li Ji got up, turned his head and glared at the sergeant, then turned his head to look at Zhou Rui and bowed his head and said: "I don't know where they went, three quarters of an hour ago, Yang Shili's personal guards all came to the south gate with people, and then Yang Shili took people away in a hurry, and ordered a certain to stay here before leaving." Then the military envoy came with the heavenly soldiers, and they were captured. ”

Zhou Rui stared at Li Ji for a long time, and then continued to ask, "Do you still have officials here?" ”

Li Ji bowed his head and was silent, but Wang Sanshi was very active, and he said: "The military envoy knows that there are still a few heads here." So he didn't wait for Zhou Rui's orders, and pointed to a few people by himself, all of whom were of a certain level. ”

Sergeant Weiyuan immediately grabbed all the heads with his hands and feet, and knelt down in front of Zhou Rui.

Zhou Rui continued to interrogate and found that these people all answered the same. He no longer bothered to inquire about Yang Shili's whereabouts, because at this time, the south gate was opened by his subordinates, and Zhang Siliang had already begun to enter the city with the Weiyuan Sixth Army.

When Zhang Siliang came to Zhou Rui with people, Zhou Rui told him about the situation at the scene, and then ordered people to stay at the city gate to guard the prisoners, and then ordered people to go to the east gate, and then the two of them rushed to the city with their men again.

Chaos has risen in the city of Zizhou, many Zizhou rebels are looting people's property everywhere, and there are ruffians and hooligans in the streets and alleys who are fishing in troubled waters.

Zhou Rui and they didn't have the time and energy to take care of those chaotic soldiers at this time, they went straight to the Jiedu Envoy Mansion in the city along the avenue, since Yang Shili was nowhere to be found, he was likely to be trapped in the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, even if he escaped, he couldn't run far, because although the art of war was "Surrounding Three Queone", it was not really missing one, and they had already arranged for someone to ambush not far from the north gate.

Zhou Rui's increase in the number of troops in his hands this time was due to their great confidence, and they galloped for nearly two quarters of an hour, and finally came to the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion in the city.

After arriving at the Jiedu Embassy, they found that Wang Jian and Lu Yanhong's soldiers and horses had already surrounded the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion.

When Zhou Rui saw this scene, he basically concluded in his heart that Yang Shili hadn't had time to escape. So he sent people to find Wang Jian, Lu Yanhong and others to come over to meet him.

After a short time, Wang Jian and others immediately rode over, and after several people met, Zhou Rui immediately confirmed that Yang Shili was still besieged in the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy.

Since the main lord is here, the overall situation of Zizhou has been decided, and their hearts have settled down a lot, Zhou Rui and the others are not ambiguous and immediately ordered the army to attack, and ordered people to go outside the city to invite Li Bao into the city, after all, at this time, King Ji is still here, which can hold down the position more and make the king more happy.

When Li Baode reported the news, he was accompanied by Yi Wuji to visit the wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks, and Li Bao was very kind and cordial to the wounded soldiers, and many wounded soldiers were moved to tears.

Both Xuanyuan Mingguang and Lu 30 received condolences and praise from Li Bao, encouraging them to be loyal to the Ji Kingdom and wishing them a speedy recovery.

Since he could enter the city, Li Bao did not delay any longer, he took a team of guards to ride horses into the city, and when they arrived in the city, Zhou Rui and they had not yet conquered the gate and high wall of the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion.

Zhou Rui and others reported the situation at the scene to Li Baoyu, and explained the situation that the festival made it difficult for the government to conquer in a short time. Li Bao took a turn around the palace in Jiedu and found that there were many archers in the palace, which made Zhou Rui very tricky.

Although the Weizhou Workshop has developed long-range weapons such as the Divine Arm Bow, because these weapons are very demanding, there is no large number of equipment troops, only a small number of five armies of the Weizhou Department are equipped, and the six armies of the Weiyuan Army are not equipped. But the city walls of Zizhou have been breached, and there is still a shortage of this section of the embassy?

So Prince Ji immediately decreed: "Quickly go and call Yang Gan from the Wind and Fire Camp, and ask him to bring the explosives that are ready to blow up the city wall." ”

Not long after, Yang Gan and his subordinates came to the outside of the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion with a few black coffins, and Li Bao didn't say much, just pointed to the gate of the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion.

Yang Gan understood it, and he immediately commanded his subordinates to carry those black coffins to the gate of the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion. And Zhou Rui organized archers to cover for them.

The soldiers of the Fenghuo Battalion wore iron armor, and more than a dozen people carried a large coffin, and then more than a dozen people helped them guard against feather arrows, and the three large coffins went back and forth to the door of the Zizhou Jiedu Embassy. They were busy at the gate of the house for a while, and then after lengthening the lead, they slowly retreated.

Seeing that his subordinates had set it up, Yang Gan did not hesitate to pick up the torch and point it at the lead, and the burning lead spread quickly with the anger of the Weiyuan Army, until after the booming explosion, the original majestic gatehouse that had stood in a large amount of smoke came to naught.

Zhou Rui and the others didn't wait for the smoke to clear, he had already taken his subordinates and hurriedly charged.

Yang Shili stood in the highest pavilion of the Jiedu Envoy, and watched the Weiyuan army outside the palace break through the gate of the palace, and his heart was like ashes. "Okay, it's over, you all go out, it's okay if someone breaks it off."

"Yang Jun makes you can't be rash, Li Bao, the king of Naji, is known to be benevolent, the military envoy might as well want him to bow his head and ask for surrender, I heard that the Northwest Bao Army and the Jiedu envoy of the Patriotic Army are all alive and well in Weizhou after surrendering, and the military envoy ......"

"Haha, Yang Qi, you want to surrender to that hypocritical King Ji, bastard! Mou is not those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't say it anymore, you hurry up and light the fire, don't waste any more time, once the king of Naji comes, there will be no more freedom at all. Yang Qi promised me to take good care of a certain family. ”

Yang Youjian listened to Yang Shili's words, he understood the stubbornness of the head of the family, he no longer dissuaded, and then picked up the torch and lit the fire oil in the pavilion, and when the fire was raging, he pulled out his saber and shouted loudly upstairs: "Yang Jun made a certain Yang Qi follow you in this life, it is a blessing for a certain person, and a certain person has taken the first step." Slow down! ”

After Yang Shili heard Yang Youjian's shout on the pavilion, he smiled: "Haha, it's good to die, the province will be punished again in this world." It's better to break it off happily! ”

It wasn't until Zhou Rui led people to attack the whole mansion that he learned that Yang Shili had self-immolated and died, and his family members were still alive, so he ordered his subordinates to strictly guard those prisoners and family members, and immediately went to report the situation to Li Bao.

After Li Bao learned the news of Yang Shili's self-immolation, he couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect this Yang Shili to be a tough guy, but this guy didn't know the time and died." In his family, the men were punished with hard labor, and the women were confiscated into the church. ”

Zhou Rui immediately acted according to the order after receiving the order, Li Bao looked at the chaotic Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, all because Yang Shili made a good Dongchuan capital look like this.

The next thing is to attack other states and counties in Dongchuan, but Li Bao hasn't been at ease for a few days, and news came from Tuyuhun that Yan Lilong Khan died of illness and Tuyuhun was in civil strife.