The defenders of Jiankang were already not confident in resisting the Jin army and the new red army, and now they heard that Bairong rebelled, and the main force of the enemy army entered the city, people's psychological defense line collapsed instantly, and the defenders of the south, north, and west cities successively appeared in a large-scale riot, and many soldiers had no intention of defending the city, and a large number of soldiers began to flee from the city wall and fled in a panic into the city.

In this way, the Jin army and the new red alliance army outside the city immediately seized the opportunity to turn a feint attack into a real attack, and all the legions advanced in unison.

At this moment, the central army of the Red Kingdom has already had a civil strife, and it is too busy to take care of itself, how can it still withstand the onslaught of the Jin army and the new Red coalition army outside the city? Soon after the eastern city was broken, the southern city was lost, and then the western city and the northern city also fell one after another, and the huge Jiankang, the southeast, northwest, and northwest city defenses all collapsed in an instant, and the city defenses that had been painstakingly managed were wiped out in the blink of an eye.

This is the cruelty of defeat!

The more than 200,000 central army barely made a decent resistance, and was defeated by the Jin army and the new red alliance army in one go, and those defeated remnants of the defeated generals and the 100,000 forbidden army could only retreat to the palace, intending to defend the palace to the death.

The news of the destruction of the cities came into the palace one after another, and now the Red King's Palace is already panicked and chaotic, the guards are like facing a great enemy, and they are constantly shuttling in a hurry, and the palace ladies are busy avoiding disasters and fleeing in all directions in panic.

In the main hall of the palace, Shi Huai sat on the king's chair, his face was gloomy, his fists were clenched, and he scolded angrily: "These villains and ministers usually talk about serving the country with loyalty, but at the critical moment, they either defect or flee, and this king was really blind to reuse these traitors and thieves!"

As the so-called tree fell and scattered, there are less than ten ministers of the Red Kingdom who are still left by Shi Huai's side. Among them, the highest official rank turned out to be Liu Fang.

The general Yin Liang and the Taifu Zhang Rong have already taken refuge in the Jin State, and the left minister Zhang Tao is also running faster than a rabbit, and has long disappeared. In the end, only Liu Fang, a mere court lieutenant, remained.

Shi Huai scolded for a while, then stopped his voice, looked down and looked down, there were only a handful of Wenchen generals left in the hall, and he couldn't help but be happy again, but his current happiness was more ugly than crying.

His gaze fell on Liu Fang and asked, "Liu Fang." It's all at this time, why don't you run away?"

Liu Fang is an old minister of the former dynasty, not Shi Huai's descendant, and he has a stubborn and hard temper, and he will not please people, so Shi Huai doesn't treat him very well on weekdays, and the reason why he still keeps him is just that he didn't find a more suitable candidate than Liu Fang to be a court lieutenant.

At this moment. Liu Fang actually stayed by his side, which made Shi Huai a little surprised.

I heard the king ask himself. Liu Fang raised his head and arched his hand and said: "Weichen is a red man, and death is also a red ghost, even if he wants to die, Weichen will die before the king." ”

When he said this, he was obviously reciting the Mourning Sutra. If it was usual, Shi Huai would have been furious a long time ago, even if he didn't kill him, he would have to scold him with a slap on his face, but now. Shi Huai was not angry, but was quite moved.

He nodded, closed his eyes, and muttered in a low voice, "This...... Why bother......"

Through Shi Huai's whisper, everyone present could understand that the king was now desperate.

Liu Fang suddenly bent down, picked up a small package placed at his feet, walked directly up the steps, and placed the package on the table in front of Shi Huai, and then he opened the package, and inside was a set of crude linen cloth pants.

Liu Fang Zhengse said: "King, now the capital is in chaos, and the enemy army has not been able to control the whole city, take advantage of this opportunity, the king should hurry up! Stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, as long as the king can escape this catastrophe, to the south, he can also regroup and make a comeback!"

Shi Huai looked at the clothes and pants on the table and was stunned, then the corners of his mouth were raised, and he smiled bitterly, he slowly raised his head, looked at Liu Fang's eager eyes, and said quietly: "If this king wants to run, why wait until now? Jiankang is the foundation of my Red Country, if Jiankang is not there, it will be like my Red Country is dead." Although this king is not a Ming monarch, he also disdains to be a king of the dead country who is greedy for life and afraid of death!" As he spoke, he waved his arm and swept all the clothes and pants on the table to the ground.

......Seeing this, Liu Fang and the other ministers burst into tears. That's right, Shi Huai is indeed not a Ming monarch, but he is not a soft-boned monarch either, obviously there is a chance to escape, but he chose to live and die with the national capital.

"You don't have to persuade me anymore!" Shi Huai waved his hand, staggered to his feet, and said in a hoarse voice: "You all go, this king is also tired, you want to go back to the palace and sleep well......

Shi Huai, who was so young and vigorous and so high-spirited at the beginning, now looks as if he has aged by more than ten years all of a sudden, and his face has lost its luster, replaced by a dead ash.

Liu Fang and the others wanted to stop him, but Shi Huai had already turned around and left, walking towards the harem.

As a monarch, Shi Huai is still like this, and the morale of the soldiers below can be imagined. The forbidden army of the capital, the palace guards and the stragglers of the central army who fled back from defeat add up to tens of thousands of people, and the walls of the palace are also high and strong, and when defended, even if there are many enemies, it is not so easy to defeat them, but now the Red Army soldiers have no fighting spirit at all, and even the forbidden army and the palace guards are in turmoil.

Let's say Shi Huai, back to his bedroom, just come in, I heard a tassel sound, and then a fragrant wind rushed to my face.

Shi Huai raised his eyes and saw that it was one of his favorite wives, Xue Yao, who was walking towards him.

Seeing her, Shi Huai's face showed a rare gentle smile, and he asked, "Yao'er, you are not in your own bedroom, why did you come to this king?"

"King, I heard that the Jin army has invaded the city?" Xue Yao's beautiful face turned slightly pale, and she walked up to Shi Huai and subconsciously grabbed his arm.

Shi Huai gently stroked her cheeks, and pushed her tightly furrowed eyebrows, and said with a smile, "Are you afraid?"

Xue Yao shook her head vigorously and said, "As long as the king is here, Yao'er is not afraid of anything!"

What if I'm gone? Shi Huai sighed in his heart, looking at Xue Yao's beautiful face, he didn't dare to imagine what would happen to her after she was captured alive by the Jin Army, thinking of this, his heart was like being pricked by a needle. The labor pain was unbearable.

Shi Huai narrowed his eyes and was silent for a long time, and then, with a long sigh, he pretended to be relaxed and said, "Yao'er, go and help this king make a cup of tea." This king likes your tea-making skills the most. ”

Xue Yao didn't doubt it, so she answered softly, turned around, and walked towards the hall.

But at the moment when she turned around, Shi Huai suddenly drew her sword, and without warning, it was stabbing Xue Yao in the back of the heart. I only heard a thud, and the cold sword blade pierced through Xue Yao's body, and the edge of the sword poked out in front of her chest.

There was no struggle. Without even screaming, Xue Yao's delicate body fell to the ground softly, and the bubbling blood instantly dyed the blanket on the ground red.

Seeing this scene, the surrounding guards and palace maids were dumbfounded, on weekdays, the king regarded Mrs. Xue Yao as a treasure, holding it in the palm of his hand for fear of being frightened, and holding it in his mouth for fear of melting. Caring and pampered. But now he has killed Mrs. Xue Yao!

Looking down at the corpse that fell to the ground, for a long time, Shi Huai carried the sword dripping blood, and suddenly laughed like crazy, I don't know whether it was to the people around him or to himself, and yelled: "The woman of this king, no one can touch it." ”

Talking. He raised his head suddenly, and when he looked at Shi Huai again, his entire handsome face had been distorted and deformed, and his expression was hideous, like a ghost.

The surrounding palace maids and guards all shivered. I was so frightened that I retreated again and again.

Shi Huai ignored the people around him, he slowly squatted down, picked up Xue Yao's body and cried bitterly.

The people looked at each other, and there was only one thought in their hearts, the king was crazy, and the king was driven crazy by the enemy army that attacked the capital!

Everyone was scared, retreating again and again, not daring to continue to stay by Shi Huai's side. Don't look at him crying bitterly now, who knows if he will be nervous again in a while, killing people with a sword, the palace maids and guards are not fools, who is willing to stay and wait for Shi Huai to kill at this time.

The palace was in such chaos and despair, and at this time, the Jin army and the new red alliance army had already attacked the main gate of the palace.

There are two generals in the lead, one is Zhang Bufan of the Jin Kingdom, and the other is Shi Xiao of the New Red Kingdom. This is the second time that the two of them have cooperated after Vayou, and they are old acquaintances, and they are also very easy to work with.

The two of them were ordered to take the lead, looking at the tightly closed palace gate in front of them, and the Red Army standing on the top of the palace wall as if facing a great enemy, the two met and laughed, Zhang Bufan handed over the three-pointed two-edged knife to his left hand, turned back and pointed to a general, and shouted: "Quickly let people push our army's stone thrower over, and today no matter what, the wall of the palace will be smashed open to me!"

Hearing his words, Shi Xiao also ordered his subordinates to quickly carry large siege weapons such as stone throwers and city-breaking crossbows, and the Jin and Xinchi armies pushed their respective stone-throwing machines and city-breaking crossbows to the main gate of the palace, opened their positions, and prepared to attack.

At this moment, Lin Haotian's herald arrived quickly with a command flag in his hand, and ordered Zhang Bufan and Shi Xiao not to use stone throwers and city-breaking crossbows when attacking the palace.

Zhang Bufan frowned, grabbed the herald's neck and lifted him to his front, and asked, "Is this really the king's order?"

The herald was frightened and stammered, "General Zhang, just ...... Even if the villain has great courage, he will not dare to falsely spread the will of the king. ”

Zhang Bufan sent the herald away, and then asked angrily, "Why doesn't the king let the stone thrower and the city-breaking crossbow be used?"

The herald shook his head again and again, and said, "The king didn't say it, and the villain didn't know either!"

Zhang Bufan waved his hand annoyedly and said, "I know, you go back to your life!"

"Farewell villain!" the herald was relieved and ran back.

After he left, Shi Xiaoqian said in a low voice: "It may be that General Lin doesn't want to damage the Red Palace, so he ordered me not to use large weapons. ”

Zhang Bufan couldn't understand this, and muttered angrily: "What's the use of keeping the unfortunate land of the dead country? If it is in my opinion, it should be burned clean!"

Shi Xiaole was happy, his thoughts coincided with Zhang Bufan, but they couldn't disobey the will of the commander of the Jin Army, so they could only follow Lin Haotian's wishes, give up the large-scale siege weapons, and directly use manpower to move forward.

The order to give up the order to attack the Red King Palace with large weapons was indeed issued by Lin Haotian, and Shi Xiao really guessed correctly, Lin Haotian did not want to damage the Red King Palace.

Now, Lin Haotian has begun to plan for the future. After the annexation of the Red Kingdom, the territory of the Jin Kingdom can be expanded on a large scale, but at that time, the location of Wancheng, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, is too inappropriate.

Wancheng is located in the middle of nowhere. Far away from the center of the country, it is inconvenient to go anywhere, it is inevitable to move the capital to the south, and Jiankang is the best choice to move the capital in the future of the Jin Kingdom, not to mention the accessibility, the surrounding environment and even the climate throughout the year are much better than Wancheng.

Lin Haotian has coveted Jiankang for a long time. Now that he has the opportunity to move the capital to Jiankang, of course he will not give up, and when he moves the capital to Jiankang in the future, then the palace of the Red Kingdom will become the palace of the Jin Kingdom, and he will directly receive a palace of this size, so how much manpower and financial resources will be saved for the Jin Kingdom!

Out of consideration in this regard, Lin Hao ordered Zhang Bufan and Shi Xiao not to use large weapons when launching an attack, let alone damage the Red Palace. It was never a problem with Lin Haotian, and he didn't believe in any of that.

Zhang Bufan and Shi Xiao led the Jin army and the New Red Alliance Army to launch a strong attack on the Red Palace.

The officers and men of the two armies forcibly rushed to the bottom of the palace wall against the arrow array of the Red Army, and then a cloud ladder was erected, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance began to climb the palace wall like ants.

The New Red Army is not good at fighting tough battles, but the Jin Army is not, especially the Iron Lion Army. Attacking the city is like a wild beast, and it is completely unfathomable and mad to rush.

No matter how low the morale of the Red Army was. This battle was a back-to-back battle for them, and there was no way to retreat, either to repel the enemy or to die in Huangquan, but at this time they also exerted strong combat power.

The fierce battle between the two sides lasted from morning to near noon, and hundreds of thousands of Jin troops and New Red Coalition troops were killed outside the palace by more than 100,000 Red Army. Of course, there are reasons why the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance Army did not invest in large-scale siege weapons, but the strength of the Red Army when fighting the trapped beasts should not be underestimated.

Seeing that it was not a way to fight like this, Shi Xiao proposed to Zhang Bufan, and he led a small group of elite men to quietly go around to the back of the palace. A sneak attack from behind it may work wonders.

After hearing this, Zhang Bufan felt that this method was very good, and now the main force of the enemy army was attracted to the front palace, and the harem must be empty, and there was a great chance of a successful sneak attack.

He shook his head again and again and said, "General Shi doesn't want to go, it's better for me to go." ”

Shi Xiaole is happy, he has known Zhang Bufan for not a day or two, knowing that he is arrogant, and he doesn't want to compete with him at this time, no matter who goes to sneak attack, as long as he can succeed, end this war as soon as possible, and let the brothers below pay less casualties.

He nodded and said, "Then General Zhang will go, but General Zhang should also be more careful!"

Zhang Bufan looked up and smiled, and said, "Don't worry, just a few Chiguo thieves can't hurt me." After speaking, he ordered five thousand elites of the Iron Lion Army to be drawn out, lightly armed, armed only with weapons and ladders, and quietly walked around the back of the Red King's Palace with him.

Don't look at the main gate of the palace, the fight is in full swing, it's not fierce, but the harem gate is quiet, and even the guards on the palace wall are few.

Zhang Bufan, who was secretly observing from a distance, nodded secretly, this Shi Xiao still has some brains, and it is really good to sneak attack behind enemy lines.

Zhang Bufan turned around and let out a long whistle, and then, with a knife in one hand and a ladder in the other, he took the lead in rushing forward.

At this time, it can be seen that Zhang Bufan's strength is great, and the ladder that can only be carried by two people, he is carrying it alone as if it is as light as nothing, and he is still walking like flying, and his body is so fast, like an arrow off the string.

Soon, the Red Army on the palace wall also found that the enemy army had been killed outside, and the people first commotioned, but soon calmed down, very simply, the number of enemies from outside was too small, and it seemed that there were only a few thousand people.

Hearing the alarm, the Red Army quickly climbed the palace wall, twisted their bows and arrows one by one, and launched a fierce shot at the Jin Army who swooped down outside.

Zhang Bufan ran at the front, and the Red Army's arrow array naturally concentrated on him first.

Instead of slowing down, Zhang Bufan also quickened his pace, and when the arrows in the sky were about to shoot in front of him, he snapped a scream, and the three-pointed two-edged knife showed a dazzling light at first glance, and then, the whirlwind of the knife was released.

The rain of arrows flying touched the dense air current, in mid-air, the arrows made a clicking sound when they broke, and after the whirlwind of knives passed, look below, the remnants of arrows all over the ground, paved up a layer.

Seeing this, the defenders of the palace wall were all shocked, and their main general, who was also a fierce spirit, shivered coldly, and shouted to the soldiers below: "Shoot the arrows! Don't stop, keep releasing the arrows!"

If there are many enemy troops on the palace wall, even if there are more than 10,000 people, the power of its arrow array is not something that Zhang Bufan can stop, but now, the red army on the harem wall is only two or three thousand people, and the arrow array shot is sparse and sparse, and there is no continuity at all.

He took the lead, resisted the arrow array of the Red Army, and rushed to the bottom of the palace wall, and when he was still some distance away from the palace wall, he shouted, raised his arms, and threw out the ladder in his hand. Listening to a bang, the ladder smashed against the palace wall and rebounded high.

Before the ladder stabilized, Zhang Bufan had already walked up.

The red soldiers on the palace wall were all startled, and immediately two soldiers rushed forward, wanting to push the ladder away, but the hands of the two had not yet touched the ladder, Zhang Bufan, who was in the ladder, swung his knife in the air, and the flow wave shot out, and he heard two clicks, clicks, and the wrists of the two soldiers were cut off by the flow waves, and the blood spurted out far away.

The two red soldiers screamed, raised their broken wrists, and staggered back.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Bufan secretly strengthened, and his body climbing the ladder was almost jumping, jumping forward one by one. At the same time, the other 5,000 Jin soldiers also rushed to the bottom of the palace wall, more ladders were erected, and the Iron Lion soldiers climbed quickly one after another.

One Zhang Bufan made it difficult for these thousands of Red Army to deal with, and now there are so many Jin Army, and the Red Army is even more difficult to take care of.

People were in a hurry, shouting constantly, and they were throwing arrows, and they were throwing sticks and wooden stones, but unfortunately the effect was limited, and they repelled a wave of Jin army, and soon another wave of rushing and killing came, and finally this wave was pushed down, and other places were broken through.

The first to kill the head of the city was still Zhang Bufan.

didn't let Zhang Bufan get close, people wouldn't feel his horror, and now it has become a face-to-face confrontation, and Zhang Bufan's horror is reflected.

That wide-area killing Martial Arts skill is definitely a nightmare for any opponent. (To be continued......)