Chapter 105: Turmoil
"Childe, the capital said that you can't go, but if you go, it's really going to kill you!" The woman took the pieces of money from her hand and ran after her.
Du Yiyi went out slowly, took the reins and whip handed over by Qin Huai, and no longer looked at the worried woman, and raised the whip.
The horses are galloping, the wind is galloping, the rebel reinforcements have entered the city, Ning Zhiyuan is anxious, the Qin State is loyal on the fair day, but he can't see that he still has such a scheming, and even the gunpowder is memorized, if they let them blow up the palace gate, then the emperor is not very dangerous, and the country of Dahe is even more precarious!
Ning Zhiyuan wants to seize the heir not to rebel, the current situation is naturally not what he wants to see, he rushed all the way, and he didn't even have breakfast and lunch, and before the third moment, he could finally see the shadow of the capital.
Because the city gate was closed, it was at night, and the people were all trapped in the city, so I didn't see the people fleeing all the way, but this just confirmed one point, that is, the rebels were only fighting with the army of the imperial court, in fact, they did not burn and loot the people, otherwise with the image that the emperor has always shown, he must have opened the city gate to let the people flee out of the city.
From here on, there is the south gate of the city, and now it has been occupied by the rebels, and he will definitely not end well when the wise king appears, for the sake of today, he can only walk the path for two more hours, and take the small road to the east gate of the city to enter the city.
It's been a day without eating, just saw an old man carrying steamed buns and turned back, Qin Huai got off the horse and bought a few, and a few people ate steamed buns all the way to the road, there was no sun yesterday and today, and there was heavy frost in the morning, and the road surface that was originally muddy and potholed was full of ice slag, and now it was trampled on a lot by this cold wind, and this road is even more difficult to walk.
In the past, there has never been such a thing in the capital, so this path is rarely walked, and there are no pits in the overgrown weeds, and people may turn over on their backs if they are not careful.
Still on the path, you can see the soldiers and horses on the official road not far away and the soldiers wearing heavy armor on the city tower, the city gate has been closed, these people are here to prevent someone from sneaking up like the south gate of the city, so the guard is very tight, if someone enters within 100 meters, it will be directly arrested.
It's just a few days since he left, and the capital has become what it is now, Du Yiyi, who thinks that Shen Ke, who is still unknown to this day, has been following Ning Zhiyuan, and Qin Huai is at the forefront to explore the way.
Finally, when I walked out of this section of the overgrown road, I saw the muddy dirt road, and the soldiers on the city tower in the distance saw the murderous atmosphere even more clearly, except for the soldiers in armor, it can be said that half of the people could not be seen here at all.
When they were about to walk up the official road, the soldiers on the castle tower had already begun to shout to the three of them, to the effect that they were signaling them to leave.
Ning Zhiyuan stood in place and did not move forward, while Qin Huai walked alone to the front of the city tower and shouted to the soldiers at the city gate.
"This is His Royal Highness King Rui, open the city gate quickly!"
Hearing this, the soldiers did not dare to make up their own minds, and immediately went into the room on the upper floor, and in a moment they called their commander. Having already been notified, Ning Zhiyuan also began to move, although the soldiers were on guard, but they did not make a move.
"Commander Shang, I'm Rui Wang Ning Zhiyuan! Open the gates! ”
Ning Zhiyuan looked up at the Shang Commander on the city tower, and directly took out his jade pendant that represented his identity.
Although it was a little far away, the Shang commander had also seen Ning Zhiyuan, and when he saw that it was a little similar, he thought that Ning Zhiyuan was indeed outside the city now, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual around him in the distance, he immediately went down to the city tower and asked the soldiers to open the city gate and go out of the city in person.
"See His Royal Highness King Rui!"
Ning Zhiyuan immediately helped up the person in front of him, and asked worriedly: "Commander Shang, how is the situation in the city now?" ”
Commander Shang stood up, hugged his fists and said: "His Royal Highness King Rui, now the soldiers and horses of the five cities and the army directly under the jurisdiction of the Dadu Governor's Mansion are fighting with the rebels in the palace, and the soldiers and horses of Jinzhou and the state have arrived in the capital last night, although Jinzhou's wolf ambition has rebelled, but now the two sides are also equal, just wait for the soldiers and horses of Ganzhou to come to annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop, the emperor and the ladies in the harem are also in a safe place, His Royal Highness King Rui, the city is now in danger, His Royal Highness King Rui is still waiting outside the city!" ”
"What, leave one hand to mutiny?" Outside the capital, that is, Yaozhou, Aicheng, Jinzhou, Qizhou, and Ganzhou, the five states are the closest, and the soldiers and horses of Yaozhou have rebelled with the men and horses of the state, that is, the soldiers and horses of Jinzhou have all defected! Jinzhou's Liuyi is not Qin Guogong's person!
"The last general sent someone to investigate, and leaving one hand is under the orders of Yang Xiong, the Duke of Cangming, and Yaozhou and the state are under the orders of Changchang Bo Chen Yin." Commander Shang glanced at Ning Zhiyuan without a trace, seeing that the corners of his eyes were tightly squinted with anger, and he didn't dare to say more nonsense.
"Yang Xiong, Chen Yin!" Ning Zhiyuan gritted his teeth and slammed his clenched fist on the city tower.
"His Royal Highness King Rui is angry, these three people will not succeed, and when the reinforcements from Ganzhou arrive, they will have no chance of winning!" Commander Shang was busy comforting, the chance of winning, in fact, he also knew that no one had a chance of winning now.
Ning Zhiyuan took a deep breath and settled down, "This king is here to enter Beijing to rescue the driver, the merchant commander doesn't need to say much, this is not the place to speak, it is better to advance the city merchant commander and then tell the battle situation with this king!" ”
"The last general obeys!" Ning Zhiyuan took the risk to come and naturally made up his mind, and of course the Shang Commander would not say any more useless persuasion, so he immediately led Ning Zhiyuan and the three of them into the city and closed the city gate.
"I heard that the rebels carried gunpowder?"
"Yes, and it's a lot of weight, the rumbling sound rang for a full moment last night, if it weren't for the heavy responsibility of guarding the city gate, he would definitely go to the palace to support! Last night, the rebels relied on gunpowder to blow up the palace wall, so that the rebels could enter the palace, the emperor and the harem ladies have arrived at the Golden Palace first, where there are my Dahe's soldiers guarded, there will be no danger for the time being, one of the rebel leaders Chen Yin has been seriously injured by our side, and now it is Yang Xiong who is leading the attack! ”
This battle lasted for a day and a night, and even the soldiers who had undergone severe training could not survive it, but now the sound of fighting was still faintly heard, which was enough to see the tragic situation of the palace now.
"What about General Shen? Can you find it? As soon as he entered the city, Du Yiyi asked the question he was most concerned about.
Commander Shang only glanced at Du Yiyi, then immediately lowered his head and hugged his fists and said, "Princess Yurui, General Shen is still nowhere to be found." ”
The four words of missing a trace made Du Yiyi's face change, and the boiling blood also cooled, how could it be that he hadn't found it yet, it had been a day and a night, could it really have happened to him?
Seeing that Du Yiyi's face was gloomy, Ning Zhiyuan asked other questions.
"There are 70,000 soldiers and horses in the Fuhu Army and Yaozhou, how many are there on our side?"
"The soldiers and horses of our five cities and the Dadu Governor's Mansion plus the guards and people discharged by the princes and ministers spontaneously participated in the battle, and the number of people was comparable to the size of the Fuhu army, and the soldiers and horses from Jinzhou Qizhou were 10,000 more than the reinforcements of the rebels, but the rebels were ......."
"It's okay to be straight!" Ning Zhiyuan waved his hand, and followed the Shang commander up to the city tower, at the end of the city tower, several columns of soldiers neatly and orderly held a spear in one hand and a shield in the other to surround a barrier, outside this barrier, there were many corpses lying in a pool of blood, Du Yiyi squinted, and also found a few corpses of ordinary people who were not wearing armor......
On the city tower, the Shang commander took Ning Zhiyuan to the side where he saw the palace, the city tower was ten meters high, and he could just look at the palace when he stood on it. "It's just that the Fuhu Army is brave and invincible, and there is gunpowder, our death is more serious than that of the rebels!"
"In addition to dispatching troops, what countermeasures does my father have?" Ning Zhiyuan stared not far away, and the heaven where everyone had diminished in the past and wanted to squeeze into it was now a place of hell on earth, and his face was already congested and red.
"The Fuhu Army is under the control of the Qin family, many years have been loyal to the Qin family, the main threat, or from the Fuhu Army, the news came from the past, the emperor has collected a few boxes of gunpowder from several small workshops under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and the idle cabinet has been blown up, so that the momentum of the rebels has been greatly reduced, the soldiers and horses of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion are extremely brave, and they can match the Fuhu Army for a while, but because the soldiers and horses are less than half of the Fuhu Army, it is difficult to maintain for long, and the ten catapults in the palace have been destroyed Eight of them, fortunately, there are many palaces, Relying on the hundred steps of the Flying Feather Army, the situation was temporarily suppressed! Now is the time to fight hard. "Commander Shang roughly described the battle situation in the palace.
"How's my brother?" Compared with the emperor's safety, this is also something that Ning Zhiyuan cares about.
"The night before, His Royal Highness took the guards in the palace to intercept the rebels in front of the moat, the guards led by His Royal Highness were all wiped out, and His Royal Highness was also seriously injured, fortunately he was rescued by Commander Zhu, and he is now out of danger, His Royal Highness led the guards in the palace to raid after the rebels, and also achieved good results, but unfortunately the outnumbered guards were all wiped out, and the Second Highness was wounded and rescued by a captain under General Ding, and the Third Highness went out of the palace with King Ning to kill the enemy, mostly raids, and the casualties were not as serious as His Royal Highness Second Highness, and he is still fighting."
The commander of Shang is also a clear person, of course he knows about the battles between several princes, and when Ning Zhiyuan asks this, he will tell him everything he knows.
Ning Zhiyuan's face, which was flushed with excitement and anger, gradually turned cold. "Qin Guogong is so ambitious, why is no one aware of it in advance?"
"General Shen didn't know where to go in advance, and the emperor was aware of it, so he sent the father-in-law of the book to the mansion of the state of Qin to inquire about the situation, which expected that the father-in-law of the book was also gone, and what he did not expect was that the prince of Qin was ruthless, in order to divert the emperor's attention, he actually put musk in Xi Shuyuan's diet, which caused Xi Shuyuan to slip the tire, and the emperor was disturbed for a while, so the prince of Qin was able to take advantage of the situation and break through the north gate of the city with the rebels to enter the capital. There is another matter, the soldiers sent by the last general to the palace to check the battle situation actually found the steppe barbarians in the pile of dead people. ”
"Are you sure?" Ning Zhiyuan is a hu.
"Absolutely." The Shang commander clenched his fists and bowed his head.
"Qin Guogong has always been benevolent and righteous, and he is also loyal to my Ning family, how could he do such a thing......" Ning Zhiyuan was a little incredulous.
"Even such a thing as rebellion has been done, and there is nothing that can not be done, in order to rebel, Qin Huanyi has done everything, he actually shouted in the palace that the Holy Ancestor was not, and I don't know which one did not want to die and was not afraid of death to write a good article, and now it has been circulated in the hands of the people, and there is also a copy of this in the end, saying all the words of the great rebellion distort the facts, most of the people do not believe it, but there are also a few people who can't stand the ............ of incitement."
The people of the capital have been evacuated, and the rebels have now entered the palace, and some of the bold ones have rushed out to show up.
"Could it be that there are also people involved in it?" Ning Zhiyuan couldn't help but get nervous.