Chapter Twenty-Four: Attack Chen Capital Again!
On the evening of September 25, outside the palace of Chendu. Diaphragm
As the gates creaked open, the rebels erupted in loud cheers, and people crowded frantically inside.
Yoshimoto, Geng Ji, Wei Huang, Jin Yi and others, who were in charge of commanding outside the palace gate, wiped the sweat on their faces, but they couldn't suppress the smiles on their faces.
Only a middle-aged man standing beside them had a very solemn face.
Seeing that he was not happy, Gibbon said, "Commander Wang, now that we have entered the palace, why are you still so sad?" ”
Commander Wang's name is Wang Xing, and he is the leader of the spies placed by Shen Chen in Chendu, he shook his head and said in a deep voice: "It took us three days to break through the outer palace, and there is still an inner palace to break behind, I'm afraid it won't be easy." ”
Geng Ji next to him said: "Commander Wang doesn't have to worry, General Shen has already sent troops, Yan Kuang is still on the way to transport grain, and Chen has no one to support him for seven or eight days, and it is a matter of time before he breaks through the inner palace." ”
"I'm afraid of them ......"
Wang Xing turned his head, and behind them was the empty Chendu Street.
Since they launched a rebellion, the originally prosperous streets of Chendu seem to have turned into a ghost domain overnight, the doors of every house are closed, and the streets are empty, and you can see the end of the street from the street at a glance.
From late autumn to early winter in September, the fierce north wind blows and blows, making the shop signs hanging on the street jingle and jingle, as if there are wind chimes and bamboo horses in it.
However, Wang Xing knew that he didn't know how many pairs of eyes were staring at them in the seemingly unmanned streets and houses, which one had a crack in the window on the second floor, and which one had a figure on the pavilion.
In the past few days, many people have been watching, but there are still many Yanzhou families loyal to Cao Cao who are secretly dispatching people, such as the Weizi family, there is an agent who is a slave in the Wei family, saying that hundreds of people have gathered in the Wei family's mansion, and I am afraid that they will do it at any time.
Although Chen Du is empty, and they have gathered more than 2,000 people, it is already a great force, and even the palace gate guards are difficult to resist, but if those family members are united, plus the Su guards, I am afraid their situation will be very difficult.
Wei Huang clasped his hands in his sleeves and said with a serious face: "People with lofty ideals are benevolent, there is no survival to harm others, there is killing to become benevolent." As long as the Son of Heaven is rescued, we will leave Chendu immediately, flee south to Nanyang, and believe that Cao Cao will not be able to help us. "Ahh
"I hope so."
Wang Xing nodded, turned his head and continued: "We have broken through the outer palace, and then there is the Prime Minister's Mansion, Jingfu Palace, Chengguang Palace, and Yongshitai, these places are not dangerous to defend, we can break through, but the last Chen Liugong is the residence of His Majesty, just like the West Palace of Luoyang back then, the outside is surrounded by a city wall, it is not easy to rush in, we should act quickly." ”
"Okay."
Yoshimoto turned back to his two sons, Ji Miao Jimu, and said, "You immediately bring people in, and you must find Your Majesty." ”
"Yes, father."
The two of them hurriedly rushed to the deep palace with an order.
And Yoshimoto and the others walked a little slower and also entered the palace. Diaphragm
The main thing is that they are very old, like Gibbon, who is already in his sixties, and it is difficult for them to run again, so they are slightly out of touch with the army in front.
As a result, at this time, thousands of people poured out of the streets outside, killing them.
"Kill!"
"Don't go and rebel against the party!"
"Capture Jiben alive, and the King of Wei will have a big reward."
"Protect Your Majesty!"
The dense crowd rushed towards the palace gate, and Wang Xing's face changed suddenly. Diaphragm
In the past few days, they have also thought about whether those clans loyal to Cao Cao will gather troops to quell the rebellion, but their first task is to break the palace gate and find Liu Xie first, so it is inevitable that there will be some omissions.
As a result, I never expected that in just a few days, so many people would gather and besiege them at once, and the matter was in danger.
"Quick, retreat into the palace!"
Without hesitation, Wang Xing picked up the slow Yoshimoto and hurried into the palace with a greeting.
The Chendu Palace is actually very small, unlike the Luoyang Palace, which covers an area of seven square kilometers, and there are only four or five palaces, so there are less than a thousand palace guards in the entire palace, so they were beaten down.
But now that there are reinforcements outside the palace, even if the number of both sides is about the same, due to the formation problem, they will be attacked by the other side from both sides, so they have to enter the palace first to adjust the formation.
At this moment, they fell into the situation of being attacked by the enemy, but fortunately, Wang Xing ordered the rear team to retreat into the prime minister's mansion and use Cao Cao's residence in the palace to resist before they withstood it. Diaphragm
The two sides fought together in a chaotic manner, far from the orderly cooperation and tacit lethality of the army.
After all, the people gathered on both sides are slaves, how can ordinary slaves have well-trained soldiers? The only good news is that the opponent's combat effectiveness is not high, and there are some soldiers under Wang Xing who have been on the battlefield to kill the enemy, so they can kill the opponent back.
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Soon it was dark, and the rebellion was in an awkward position. The Chen Liugong in the inner palace could not be entered for the time being, and the outside was surrounded by the enemy, and the rebels were in a situation of losing ground and retreating.
And in the middle of the night, this embarrassing situation was quickly broken, because Yan Kuang came back with six thousand peasant troops, he rushed into the city, and was soon surrounded by the children of the Wei family.
"There are more than 2,000 rebels in the palace, and now they are surrounded by us."
"They are currently guarding the Prime Minister's Mansion, the gate is closed, there are guns and spears on the wall, and we can't attack it for the time being."
"They don't have bows." Diaphragm
One by one, the news was summarized to Yan Kuang, which made him feel at ease.
There were torches all around the palace, and many so-called "Hanchens" who fell in which way the wind blew saw Yan Kuang enter the city to quell the rebellion, and they came out with domestic slaves to help.
Hulala, the army outside the palace suddenly had nearly tens of thousands of people, and the entire palace was surrounded by water.
Yan Kuang saw that the situation was good, and issued a series of orders.
The first is to send people to Beicheng, enter Chenliu Palace from Xuanwu Gate, and help the palace guards defend against the enemy.
The second is to let his soldiers rest for a while, and then attack the city tomorrow.
In the end, it was to send people to persuade them to surrender and shake the hearts of the enemy. Diaphragm
None of these three are wrong.
Located in the northwest corner of Chenliu County, the Chendu Imperial Palace covers an area of less than one square kilometer and is a very small imperial palace, only one-eighth the size of the Luoyang Imperial Palace.
The Chen Liugong where Liu Xie is located is located in the west of the palace, similar to the original Luoyang Imperial Palace, where Liu Hong, Emperor of the Han Dynasty, lived.
Because the west of Chenliu Palace is not a city gate, there is no west gate in the entire Chenliu Palace, and there are only three city gates in the south, east and north.
The rebels entered from the South Gate and now occupy the Prime Minister's Mansion to the east, which is closer to the Qinglong Gate in the east.
Yan Kuang asked people to enter through the Xuanwu Gate, and he guarded the Suzaku Gate in the south, plus there was no White Tiger Gate in the west, which was equivalent to the tactic of encircling three and missing one, forcing the rebels to withdraw from the east gate.
But he himself would hide outside the eastern city gate with his soldiers, and once the enemy came out, he would hunt them down. Diaphragm
And the second one: Tomorrow it will be easy to attack the city.
They hurried overnight, and the soldiers were exhausted without rest, so if they could not rest, they would not necessarily have combat effectiveness if they could not rest.
The last one is simpler, a plan to attack the heart.
Soon his order was carried out, and someone shouted loudly outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, saying that Yan Kuang had returned to help and surrendered to avoid death.
For a time, the rebels in the Prime Minister's Mansion were in chaos, and their morale was completely collapsed.
"What to do, the reinforcements are back."
"This is a great sin to exterminate the three clans." Diaphragm
"Let's go out and surrender."
The slaves that Yoshimoto and the others had gathered were panicked and wanted to flee.
Yoshimoto was shocked and shouted: "Don't listen to them, Dingling is more than five hundred miles from Chendu, how can they arrive in just three or four days, not to mention that General Shen has already dragged Cao Hong, they are lying to you." ”
However, no one listened to him, and someone raised a torch and tried to rush to the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion to open the door and let the enemy in, and at the critical moment, a steel knife cut off his head.
"Don't go, whoever walks will die."
Wang Xing rushed over with more than a dozen elite soldiers and stared at everyone coldly.
The slaves were photographed by him, and did not dare to act rashly for a while. Diaphragm
Yoshimoto, Geng Ji, Wei Huang, Jin Yi and the others hurriedly reassured the people, telling them that the enemy outside was deceiving them, and Shen Chen would soon defeat Cao Hongyunyun.
But this kind of talk will obviously only make people suspicious, but because of Wang Xing's oppression, they can only stop fighting.
Fortunately, the solidified atmosphere did not last long, because the Yan Kuang army outside did not attack for a long time, and the sky was too dark, they didn't know whether the other party had come to reinforce or not, so they slowly believed Yoshimoto's words.
Wang Xing thought that the first task now was to break through the Chenliu Palace, so he ordered his elite soldiers to watch the Prime Minister's Mansion, and he personally led the servants from the back door to Gyeongbok Palace.
They had been preparing for so long, in fact, with a ladder. But the guards have bows and crossbows, so they haven't knocked down the gate of the outer palace for a few days.
At this time, they were killed to Chen Liugong, and the Wei family had already arrived with reinforcements, and there were still hundreds of guards left in the palace gate before, and their strength increased greatly after their support, and they quickly repelled the men and horses brought by Wang Xing.
Wang Xing noticed that the number of enemies had increased, and he was immediately shocked in his heart, knowing that things might not be good, so he had to retreat to the Prime Minister's Mansion first. Diaphragm
Everyone was tired and sleepy, and many simply lay down and fell asleep.
Yoshimoto and the others were anxious and angry, but their plan was a suicide act, and the planning was not thorough, and the personnel were not elite, so there was really nothing they could do.
It was close to dawn that something finally changed.
Yan Kuang attacked.
A ladder was placed on the palace wall outside the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Thousands of well-equipped soldiers climbed up and entered the prime minister's mansion.
Now everyone knew that Yan Kuang had really returned, and the slaves immediately cried and called their mothers, and fled one after another. Diaphragm
"It's over, General Yan is really back."
"Run, or you will die."
"I surrender, I surrender, don't kill me, ah!"
The servants were scattered as birds and beasts.
Yoshimoto and the others were terrified and didn't know what to do.
At the critical moment, Wang Xing shouted: "Imperial Doctor's order, don't do anything, we will kill from the east gate." ”
"Yes, get out of the east gate." Diaphragm
Ji Miao also said.
At this time, everyone woke up like a dream, and hurriedly followed Wang Xing to the east gate.
Wang Xing's hundreds of spies were quite well-trained, and they rushed all the way from the north gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion to Gyeongbokgung Palace, and then ran east.
The east gate was unguarded, and although the city gate was closed, there was not a single figure on the palace wall or around it.
When everyone came to the east gate, they had just opened the palace gate and rushed to the street outside the palace.
"Shoot the arrows!"
There was a loud shout outside. Diaphragm
Countless arrows were fired at them.
Gibbon, who was helped by Wang Xing in the front, was suddenly shot in the heart by an arrow.
Wang Xing was horrified, pulled him back and retreated, and the soldiers under his command hurriedly closed the palace door, and only countless footsteps were heard outside towards the palace.
"The Imperial Doctor's Order, the Imperial Doctor's Order."
Wang Xing hugged the old man.
The corners of Yoshimoto's mouth were bloody, and he laughed miserably: "This is the will of heaven, Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent......"
With a twist of his head, he lost his life. Diaphragm
"Father!"
Brothers Ji Miao and Ji Mu wept and grieved.
Geng Ji, Wei Huang, and Jin Yi were also full of sadness, and at this moment, they were at the end of the road.
"Forget it, surrender."
Geng Ji smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I hope Cao Cao just kills us and lets those innocent people go." ”
Wang Xing put down Yoshimoto's corpse, gritted his teeth and said: "You must not sit still, soldiers, we are in the Chen capital, we are dead soldiers, if we surrender, we will die, rush out with me, there is still a glimmer of life." ”
"Kill!" Diaphragm
The spies roared.
Their morale and combat effectiveness are much higher than those slaves, and they can kill thousands of dives and rush into the palace gate, and most of them can succeed.
Wang Xing took the lead and led the soldiers to the palace gate.
At this time, there was a constant sound of footsteps outside.
Chenliu Street is two cross streets that cross the north and south, the palace is in the northwest corner of the cross, out of the east gate of the palace is the street above the cross street, and due north is the north gate of Chendu.
Although the former wolf is the tiger, Wang Xing feels that the street outside is not empty, and the number of enemies will definitely not be too much, as long as he can kill them, he can rush out of the north gate.
Soon a ladder was erected outside and began to climb the palace wall, and the pursuers of the Gyeongbok Hall in the rear also rushed towards the east gate, seeing that they were about to fall into a dead situation, Wang Xing roared angrily and ordered to open the palace gate, and hundreds of people rushed up and rushed outside. Diaphragm
Yan Kuangjun outside didn't expect the enemy to rush out without defending it, and he was caught off guard for a while, and was slashed by Wang Xing out of a bloody way.
The crowd fought all the way to the north street.
The streets were full of people who were constantly crowded, and Wang Xing led the soldiers to protect Geng Ji, Wei Huang, Jin Yi and others, and rushed towards the north city gate.
Seeing that the enemy encirclement was not shrinking before the killing, the sound of horses galloping sounded.
I saw the end of the road ahead, more than 2,000 heavily armed soldiers rushed out, led by a few people riding war horses, Yan Kuang rode on horseback, and smiled contemptuously: "I knew you would run from the north gate!" ”
The scene suddenly froze.
In an instant, everyone was in despair. Diaphragm
Wei Huang slumped to the ground, lost his soul and said, "We have completely failed. ”
"What is there to fear from death?"
Jin Yi scolded angrily and shouted: "Cao thief bullied the Son of Heaven, I am willing to kill myself." ”
With that, he rushed to the side with a knife and was stabbed to death by the enemy's spear.
Wang Xing gasped, he had exhausted his physical strength to kill here, and the brothers around him had also been killed and injured too much, and there were less than two hundred people following him.
They were surrounded by a large number of enemy troops, and they were so encircled that no one here would survive until tomorrow.
"Kill them!" Diaphragm
A sneer appeared on the corner of Yan Kuang's mouth, and with a wave of his hand, he gave the final order.
But it was also at this time.
Suddenly there were all kinds of screams in the southern streets.
There was chaos in the distance.
The surrounding Cao soldiers didn't know what was going on, and looked at the rear in disbelief.
on the street.
Dongdong Dongdong's footsteps slowly moved forward, like a rumbling tank. Diaphragm
"Report!"
A Cao army scout Pegasus reported: "Three thousand Shen Chen's troops have been killed from the south gate!" ”
"Yellow Gate Soldiers!"
Yan Kuang squeezed out these three words from between his teeth.
He will never forget in his life how Xu Du was raided several times by the Yellow Gate soldiers who could travel 200 miles a day.
He also can't forget how his former predecessor and boss, Ren Jun, was ambushed by this army and finally became ashes.
That demonic army is attacking Chendu again! Diaphragm