Chapter 33: The Capture of the Rebel General
At dusk, all the qi qi was ready, and Lord Zhang, who was in charge of the celebration, led a group of more than 40 people, including Hua An and Chen Xiong, to enter from the gate of the palace.
There were only a hundred guards at the city gate, looking at these crooked soldiers, a contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of Chen Xiong's mouth, obviously these soldiers were vulnerable and weak in his eyes.
The place of the birthday celebration was chosen in the open terrain of 'Hualin Garden', of course, this is the meaning of the rebel general Ren Rang, he initially refused the emperor's request to celebrate his birthday on the grounds that Su Jun was not in the palace and he had no right to be the master, but he reluctantly agreed under the repeated requests of the ministers.
In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, he deliberately chose the location in the open Hualin Garden, and transferred half of the guards in the palace, the entire four hundred soldiers to here, and all the ministers who participated in the celebration were not allowed to bring their entourage in, and Ren Rang himself was also draped all over, standing beside the emperor with a sword hanging from his waist, staring at the emperor Sima Yan, who was only six years old.
Hua'an and his party of more than 40 people came to Hualin Garden under the leadership of Master Zhang, looking at the four hundred rebel soldiers in the garden, Hua'an did not have a trace of fear, Chen Xiong was even more disdainful, and the group followed behind Lord Zhang, and walked straight to the temporary stage set up in front of him.
Everyone first came to the emperor to pay their respects under the leadership of Lord Zhang, and then, the minister surnamed Zhang turned around and nodded to Hua An and the others, indicating that it was the real emperor in front of them.
Hua An and Chen Xiong understood, so they immediately performed the first program 'Sword Dance under the War Drums', in fact, this is also the last program, where will these big bosses of the battlefield fight, but sword dancing is their specialty.
Chen Xiong held a long sword, swaying freely on the stage, the four shirtless strong men in the audience followed the rhythm of Chen Xiong's sword dance, and hit the drum hard, and the drums on all sides suddenly made a deafening knock sound, and the huge drum sound spread throughout the capital.
Han Qian, who was lying in ambush outside the city gate, heard the sound of drums and immediately ordered: "The whole army immediately attack, kill!" ”
A thousand elite soldiers under the leadership of Han Qian immediately launched an attack on the city gate, and at this time, thousands of people from various prefectures who were ambushed around the city gate also attacked the city gate from the city.
The three hundred rebel soldiers guarding the east gate were immediately dumbfounded, and they either fled or threw away their weapons, knelt on the ground and surrendered, with only a few sporadic resistance. Under the joint attack of Han Qian's army and the families of various prefectures, the east gate was quickly breached, and the whole process was less than a cup of tea.
Han Qian left two hundred soldiers to control the city gate, and marched towards the palace with the remaining eight hundred elites and the families of each palace, and at the same time, the one hundred and sixty of the most elite soldiers who had already been ambushed around the palace immediately led two thousand soldiers to attack the four gates of the palace at the same time when they heard the sound of drums.
The huge drum beat of "Dong Dong Dong" covered up the shouts of people and horses, and there was a fight outside the palace, but there was a peaceful sword dance performance in the Hualin Garden of the Imperial Palace.
Hua An felt that the time was almost up, and at this time, Han Qian's army should already be on the way to the palace, and the elite soldiers lurking around the palace might also have broken through the palace gate.
Now the most important and thrilling moment is finally coming, Hua An glanced at Chen Xiong, took a small plate, and approached Emperor Sima Yan step by step.
Ren Rang, the rebel general standing behind Sima Yan, held his sword in his hand and stared at him fiercely, which really made Hua An feel tricky, but at this time there was no way out, Hua An had to walk over hard, holding a plate and kneeling in front of Sima Yan to beg for a reward.
Sima Yan saw that Hua An, who was kneeling in front of him to beg for a reward, was about the same age as himself, and he couldn't help but get a lot closer in his heart, he generously took out a jade pendant from his body and gently put it on the plate that Hua An was holding.
"Thank you for your grace, thank you for your grace." Hua An couldn't stop kowtowing to thank him, and Ren Rang, who was standing by the sword behind Sima Yan, was always staring at him, which made Hua An feel helpless, at this moment, he couldn't find a way to safely separate the emperor from Ren Rang's side, and he was sweating profusely for a while.
In order to delay time and find an opportunity to separate the emperor and Ren Rang, Hua An was cheeky and said with a smile: "The emperor is wise and martial, give some more reward!" ”
Sima Yan stood up and touched his body, but he didn't find anything valuable. He looked sideways, and his mother, Empress Dowager Yu, who was not far away, had a lot of gold and jade jewelry on her head, so he walked to Empress Dowager Yu's side.
The young emperor Sima Yan stretched out his little hand and pulled a step from the head of the Empress Dowager Yu, and the Empress Dowager Yu turned slightly sideways and looked at her son with a kind face, without the slightest sense of blame, at this moment, a blood-stained rebel lieutenant suddenly broke into outside Hualin Garden,
"The palace gate is lost, uh." As soon as the rebel lieutenant opened his mouth, he fell to the ground and died.
Ren Rang was shocked, and said in his heart, it was not good to be tricked, he raised his leg and leaned towards Sima Yan, as long as he controlled the current emperor, these ministers would have some scruples, and when Su Jun's army returned to the city, he could completely control the situation.
Just when Ren Rang was distracted, Hua An rushed up, hugged Ren Rang's thigh, and shouted to Sima Yan: "Your Majesty, run." ”
Sima Yan was stunned, he didn't understand what was going on, he just stood there motionless. The Empress Dowager Yu beside her immediately reacted, she picked up her son and hurriedly ran to the important ministers.
Most of the ministers who participated in the celebration were loyal ministers arranged by Wang Dao, and they immediately got up and gathered together to protect the emperor and the queen mother in the middle.
Most of these ministers were civil ministers, and Hua An was really surprised by their dignity of treating death as home, he didn't expect that these pedantic people, who usually only flattered each other, could have such courage at a critical moment.
But it's no wonder, as the saying goes, 'A dog jumps off a wall in a hurry, and a rabbit bites when he's in a hurry?' Since Su Jun conquered the capital, he often took advantage of the plunder, rewarded the generals, and promoted his cronies, which undoubtedly violated the interests of the original ministers in the capital.
These ministers were eager to eat Su Jun's flesh and drink Su Jun's blood. It's just that Wang Shi was defeated, and he temporarily endured under the obscenity of Su Jun's rebels, at this moment, Su Jun's rebels almost poured out, and Han Qian's elite soldiers were outside the city, how could he not gamble on such a good opportunity.
At this time, the forty elite soldiers led by Chen Xiong immediately drew out the swords hidden in the big drum and quickly rushed forward to protect the periphery of the ministers.
This sudden action made the rebel general Ren Rang very annoyed, and he ordered angrily: "Soldiers, kill all the people here." As he spoke, he drew his sword and stabbed at Hua An under him.
When Hua An saw it, he turned around and slid quickly behind Ren Rang, and threw Ren Rang's right leg back with all his might, Ren Rang stumbled and fell to the ground, and the sword in his hand was deeply inserted into the gap in the stone road under his feet.
Ren Rang was shocked, he didn't expect that a hairy child under his feet would have so much strength, and he would be thrown into the mud under his light enemy.
At the same time, Hua'an was surprised, he didn't expect that he could throw himself hard, and he could actually throw an adult military general to the ground, it seems that these three months of hard training have not been in vain, and his strength has really increased a lot, looking at his hands, Hua'an smiled knowingly.
Ren Rang, who was thrown to the ground, got up in annoyance, and pulled out the saber from the gap in the stone road three times, he glared at Hua An hatefully, and the corners of his mouth twitched and slowly raised the saber.
Hua An was not only not afraid, but also smiled with contempt, Ren Rang's heart was shocked, and he suddenly felt a sense of vigilance behind him, he hurriedly turned around to see that Chen Xiong, who had been dancing the sword just now, was already standing behind him with a sword, and at this time Chen Xiong removed the disguise on his face, revealing the terrifying scar.
"Chen Xiong, it's actually you." Ren Rang's eyes suddenly showed surprise and fear, since Su Jun started the army, he has been following Su Jun's side, and naturally recognized Chen Xiong, who was the master of the first army in the Zuyue reinforcements, Chen Xiong's courage and good fighting left a deep impression on him, he knew that he was not Chen Xiong's opponent, and cold sweat broke out unconsciously in his palms.
"Ren Rang, don't be obsessed anymore, let your subordinates immediately lay down their weapons and surrender, Ben will guarantee that no one will be killed." Chen Xiong said sharply without question.
When Ren Rang heard this, his heart was shocked, and after a little hesitation, he smiled and said: "Hahaha, don't kill one, Chen Xiong, who do you think you are, I Ren Rang killed so many people, even if you can let me go, can the emperor and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty let me go, and the soldiers will kill me." ”
Ren Rang shouted at his subordinates around him, raised his sword and slashed at Chen Xiong, obviously he was still fighting the trapped beast with a fluke mentality.
Although the four hundred soldiers under his command were all recruits, the six or seven officers above the team were Ren Rang's henchmen, and they were also the elite soldiers of a hundred battles who had been following Su Jun.
On the other side, Chen Xiong's forty elites were all warriors of a hundred battles that he had personally selected, and the square circle they formed was like an impermeable wall, and any rebel soldiers who tried to rush into the wall would be ruthlessly killed by them.
All the warriors cooperated with each other, and in the blink of an eye, they killed more than 50 rebel recruits who rushed up, and their own side was only slightly wounded, such a brilliant result further aroused the passion of the warriors, they didn't care about maintaining the formation, one by one rushed into the middle of the enemy like a tiger into a flock of sheep to reap the life.
On the rebel side, however, morale was completely lost, and from time to time new recruits abandoned their armor and fled, and the only six or seven officers could not stop drinking at all, and the defeat of the rebels was a foregone conclusion.
Annoyed and angry, Ren Rang saw that the general trend had gone, and suddenly launched a vicious suicide attack on Chen Xiong, he completely ignored the sword that Chen Xiong had already stabbed, but raised his sword with both hands and stabbed forward, as if he was going to die with Chen Xiong.
"I can't help myself." Chen Xiong smiled, quickly drew his sword to block Ren Rang's attack, and then raised a kick to kick Ren Rang back again and again.
Ren Rang took a few steps back, but before he could stand firmly, Hua An, who had never made a move behind him, suddenly rushed behind him and hit Ren Rang's waist headfirst.
Hua An was suddenly rebounded by the huge impact, and sat on the ground with his ass, his little head was also hot and painful, Hua An rubbed his sore head, and looked up, Ren Rang, who was still dancing his teeth and claws just now, stood there motionless as if he had been clicked, babbling in his mouth and not knowing what to say.
Hua Anxin secretly rejoiced, he was almost sure that Ren Rang in front of him must have been hit by himself. It seems that the first credit for capturing Ren Rang alive today is himself.
Hua An immediately got up from the ground when he thought of this, patted the dirt on his buttocks, and stepped forward to kick the area between Ren Rang's legs and legs, and Ren Rang knelt on the ground with a thud, babbling and screaming from his mouth.
Hua An took advantage of the situation and kicked Ren Rang's right wrist again, Ren Rang's wrist hurt, and the saber in his hand fell to the ground with a 'clang', Hua An picked up the saber on the ground, held the hilt of the sword with both hands and put the sword on Ren Rang's neck.
"Hahaha, I let me kill countless people in my life, and now I am actually planted in the hands of a hairy child, ridiculous, ridiculous!" Ren Rang endured the pain and laughed, and closed his eyes in despair.