Chapter 31: The Battle of Peace (6)

With the shouts of the "whole team" one after another, more than 6,000 people quickly assembled.

The original 3,000 cavalry, after the First World War, became more than 3,600 cavalry, and it was still in the formation when it set off from Zhangzi'ao, but this time there were more than a dozen martial arts masters, and the distance of more than 40 miles could be reached in an hour.

With an order, more than 3,000 horsemen rushed in the direction of Lin'an, Liu Chi and several people beside him all glanced back at a person standing next to the team, who had tears in his eyes and opened his mouth, as if he had said something.

When Lin'an City appeared in front of Liu Chi's eyes, it was too sudden.

In fact, before seeing Lin'an City, Wang Fuyang also specially talked to Liu Chi. It's just that when they passed through a section of hills and dense forests, and suddenly opened up in front of them, many people let out an involuntary exclamation.

In the middle of this infinitely wide field of vision, a towering castle stands tall, and as the Kyoto of the Pei Dynasty, Lin'an Castle is also the largest castle in the country. This city has developed from tens of thousands of people in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to a super city with a population of more than 500,000 people. It was precisely because of this impenetrable super barrier that the lord of the castle was full of confidence, and the monarch with infinite pride ordered the opening of three gates on each of the four walls, and Kyoto, with twelve gates, opened its arms to welcome the people of the world.

After Liu Chi and the others saw Lin'an City, they stopped, and more than 3,000 riders behind them gradually unfolded from both sides, and everyone sat on their horses and quietly looked at the scenery in front of them.

After a glance at the shock, the team had a chirping sound.

"Is there smoke coming out of those places?" shouted someone confused.

Only then did everyone begin to notice that something was wrong with the city in front of them, black smoke came out of several places in the city, straight into the air, and the black smoke they saw became thicker and thicker.

Two hours ago, when Liu Chi and the Huben camp were in the midst of a fierce battle, disaster struck Lin'an City.

When the deputy commander of the forbidden army reported to Liu Jinglong that there were changes in the troops in the north and southwest of Lin'an, the entire hall was in chaos, and Liu Jinglong collapsed on the dragon chair, stunned.

Knowing that the Tiger Camp was intercepted and killed in the southwest, Li Juan was also a little distracted, but after so many years of officialdom tempering, he still reacted quickly.

Li Juan shouted: "It's all quiet", and the entire hall was suddenly silent, and even Liu Jinglong came back to his senses.

"Your Majesty, it is imperative to quickly arrange defenses, and then send a letter to Rongcheng and Bingzhou, the class teacher is the king", Li Juan said to Liu Jinglong with his hands folded.

"Okay, okay, send the letter, send the letter quickly", Liu Jinglong nodded without thinking.

"Nowadays, there are only 3,000 forbidden troops in Kyoto, and there are less than 6,000 people in the garrison of each city gate, so it is unrealistic to defend Lin'an Castle...".

"Ah, what should I do then, Prime Minister"? When Liu Jinglong heard that Lin'an City couldn't defend it, he panicked again.

"Your Majesty, transfer all the defenders of the city gate back to the palace, and we will hold on to the palace and wait for rescue", Li Juan gritted his teeth and said the last way.

"Okay, good, the prime minister's method is good...", Liu Jinglong nodded without thinking.

Li Juan immediately ordered Zhou Chongxi to send an order to transfer all the forbidden troops back to the palace, and at the same time, all the city gate defenders in Lin'an City were also transferred to the palace, and all the palace gates were closed.

As soon as these were arranged, the ministers suddenly became agitated, and someone took advantage of the inattention of people to sneak out of the main hall, and was found by the guards, who crawled to Liu Jinglong on his knees and begged the emperor to let him go out and bring his family into the palace. When he said this, everyone seemed to wake up all of a sudden, and they knelt down and asked to take their family into the palace.

Liu Jinglong had a cold face, he was still in a panicked mood, seeing the scene in front of him, he suddenly lost control of his emotions, he stood up suddenly, pointed at the person kneeling on the ground and yelled, and finally asked someone to drag out the person who just wanted to sneak out and cut off his head. The ministers who have never seen the emperor like this are all scared silly, Liu Jinglong has been on the throne for ten years, and he has never been so angry, let alone cutting off the minister's head in Changle Palace, the emperor, who has always been kind and elegant, has completely changed into a person, like a cat who is scared to the point of exploding.

Li Juan knew Liu Jinglong, and he knew that Liu Jinglong was already scared to the extreme at this moment. He didn't stop Liu Jinglong, and only after the emperor sat back on the dragon chair after venting his ass, did he pacify him a little, and at the same time told the ministers in the main hall that their families were fine outside the palace, and the enemy was coming for the palace, as long as there was no army in the city, it should be fine.

The ministers did not speak again, but just knelt and fell silently.

After arranging for someone to issue an edict to King Qin to the border army of Bingzhou and Dou Yanshan of Rongcheng, summoning the forbidden army and the city gate defenders to return to the palace to defend the order, Li Juan ordered to summon all the healthy internal eunuchs in the palace, in short, what he wanted was to die and defend until the reinforcements arrived.

Soon after all the city gate guards were transferred to the palace, an army of nearly 10,000 people entered Lin'an's field of vision, leading the ride, and the person on the horse was dressed in a white robe, a shawl, a mask, and a pair of eyes looked indifferently at the city in front of him.

Another rider came from the direction of the city, stopped at a distance of more than a foot from the white-robed man, and the man turned over and dismounted, trotted to the masked man, and whispered something, and the masked man had a smile in his eyes.

Taking the lead, the masked man galloped towards Lin'an City, and behind him were nearly 10,000 followers who roared and shouted wildly, some of them were dressed as foreigners, some were still dressed as Pei Dynasty soldiers, and some were dressed in civilian clothes, but the same thing was that everyone raised their weapons in their hands, and everyone's eyes revealed madness.

Since this army of 10,000 people crossed the Yellow River in a scattered way, it was like entering a no-man's land, rushing all the way, and now the troops have reached the city of Kyoto, and there is no resistance, and they do not even slow down when they enter the city gate, because someone has opened the city gate for them.

Originally, the people who just took the news of the rebel siege as a message did not react at first, and even when they saw the defenders of the city gate heading in the direction of the palace, they were still numb to what to do. Until the sound of the horse's hooves galloping and the neighing of men and horses came from the direction of the city gate, and more and more panicked and hasty crowds coming from that direction, the entire Lin'an City trembled.

The masked man entered Lin'an City, did not stop, but continued to run towards the golden palace, the people beside him, whipped and cut down all the living creatures that stood in the way, and some people, after entering the city, entered different streets and roads in different directions, it was obvious that they had a clear destination.

Less than an hour after this 10,000-strong army entered Lin'an City, the city was already in chaos, the people were panicked, and almost all of the lucky ones had run back to their residences, and then closed their doors, and many unfortunate corpses after being whipped and even hacked could be seen everywhere on the streets.

A huge city suddenly became lonely, there were no living people in the streets, and occasionally the cries for help of the injured people lying on the road who had not yet died, but no one dared to go out to save people, and the cry for help became weaker and weaker, and gradually it could no longer be heard.

And in several large mansions, even more tragic things are happening.

In Prime Minister Li Juan's prime minister's mansion, Li Juan's wife was kneeling in the hall, and more than a dozen people in front of her were insulting the three concubines of Li Juan, and the woman fainted after crying and grabbing the ground. In the wing room on the other side, Li Juan's two sons were beaten with blue noses and swollen faces, and then tied to chairs, watching their wives being defiled by many people.

In other places, the marshal's mansion of the great general Han Jin, the mansion of Qin Chong, the commander of the forbidden army, and the mansions of the other two ministers, the same things are also going on with the prime minister's mansion.

These people quickly finished the inhumane evil, blasted everyone who was still alive out of the mansion, and drove them in the direction of the palace, and a fire burned the mansions in their wake.

At this time, outside the palace of the Pei Dynasty, in front of the Chengtian Gate, the army was gathered here, the white-robed masked man sat on the horse, looking at the tall royal gate in front of him, and the army behind him was silent, and he could only hear the clatter of horses' hooves on the ground. And in the eyes of nearly 10,000 people, there is a long-suppressed excitement.

On the other side of the Chengtian Gate, thousands of forbidden soldiers and city gate guards were holding Changge and staring at the gate tremblingly, behind them was a long staircase, above the long staircase was a large terrace, and on the other side of the terrace was the main hall of Changle Palace. And in the main hall, there was also silence, Emperor Liu Jinglong, Prime Minister Li Juan and all the ministers looked straight outside the palace door, although there was no sound there, but the hearts of everyone in the hall were lifted high.

Ichijo quickly walked over to the masked man and whispered something. The masked man didn't react, and after a few moments, he slowly raised his right hand.

The sound of shouting and killing, the sound of crashing cars hitting the palace door, the sound of crossbows and crossbows firing crossbow arrows, on both sides of this door, more than 10,000 people are in the extreme mood, outside the door is excited, inside the door is fear.

"Resist, give me all to resist, those who dare to retreat, cut immediately"! Qin Chong, the commander of the forbidden army, and Zhou Chongxi, the deputy commander, roared loudly, and the two of them held the sabers at their waists, but their faces were pale and their hands trembled.

In the palace, everyone finally heard the terrible roar outside, and the sound of knocking on the door that shook their hearts every time, "Bang... Bang... Bang...". Liu Jinglong almost didn't even have the strength to sit, and the whole person collapsed on the dragon chair, grabbing the chairs on both sides with both hands so that he didn't let himself slip.

Li Juan stared at the outside of the hall a little stiffly, panting heavily, he would not believe it if he died, his ideals and ambitions, would this be the end? "There is still hope, there is hope, as long as you can withstand it, reinforcements will arrive soon...", he said softly with a trembling mouth.

In the main hall, many ministers were so frightened that they completely collapsed to the ground, and with the sound of fighting outside the hall, the crying in the hall also sounded.

"Bang...", the crash finally passed through the gate, and the shattered heavy wood exploded.