Chapter 127: Changes in Kyoto
Qin Yu climbed the towering walls of Kyoto City, and looked down at countless severed arms and stumps and enemies who kept roaring and rushing up the castle tower.
These people were originally the people of Great Xia, but now they are in the same room, how can they not make him feel desolate?
If possible, Qin Yu is unwilling to be the emperor, maybe he was born in a wealthy businessman, and it is better to be the son of an official eunuch than the current high position of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme.
"Peng~"
The loud sound of cannon fire interrupted Qin Yu's thoughts, making him come back to his senses from his infinite emotion.
Today, there are not many troops in Kyoto City that can defend the capital.
Although it was difficult for the rebels to storm the castle tower with the power of the castle and the power of artillery, the city's long-standing defensive strength made Kyoto completely isolated.
If no reinforcements come, it is only a matter of time before Kyoto falls.
But just when everyone in the city was looking forward to the northern Huya Pass being able to transfer troops back to help, Qin Yu hid the news from the north one by one.
The reality is not as optimistic as imagined, although Huya Pass occupies the first place in the world, but in the face of hundreds of thousands of strong soldiers and horses, the grassland Rong people still seem a little stretched.
In the current situation, the north of Naoli simply cannot draw troops to resolve the dilemma in Kyoto.
And in the face of this fragmented world, Qin Yu has long lost his ambition when he first ascended the throne.
Now Qin Yu is not thinking about his own life, but more about the future of Great Xia.
Great Xia is like a dilapidated ship, although Qin Yu has been working hard to repair it, but after all, it is difficult to return and has long been dilapidated.
He was too tired, since the crown prince was secretly sent away, Qin Yu had lost that spirit, and only wanted to fulfill the last mission of the Great Xia Emperor.
According to the city, if the enemy breaks the city, it will only be a life.
As the horn of war sounded, Qin Yu ignored the opposition of the ministers, put on armor and went into battle to climb the towering city tower to the front line.
When the Wanzhou Army rebelled before, Qin Yu also took the lead in boosting morale like today.
Regardless of anything else, Qin Yu's influence in the forbidden army of the Imperial City of Kyoto is still very deep.
Now that Qin Yu is once again in the front-line army of Kyoto City, many soldiers are encouraged to fight harder.
"Kill."
A shout sounded on the battlefield, and many enemies began to rush up the tower.
As the sound of weapons hitting in his ears sounded, some people continued to fall to the ground with their blood.
In terms of the forbidden army, the weapons of the defenders on the upper floor of the city are quite sophisticated, and many people hold customized crossbows in their hands.
As the bolts continued to be fired, the rebels who rushed up the tower fell one after another, buying time for the brothers who shot or threw stones at the tower.
In addition to these forbidden troops, the people in the city also began to walk out of their homes with the same hatred and join the ranks of defending the city.
Kyoto is the capital of the Great Xia Prefecture, and most of the people in the city have a high degree of trust in the imperial court.
Moreover, it was rumored before that after the rebel army in the interior of the state entered Zhili, they burned, killed and looted along the way, and sat down with a lot of anger and resentment.
Therefore, this time the rebel army attacked the city, and the people in the city were also afraid that their families would be shattered by the unchangeable rebel army after the city was broken.
Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, at the rear of the rebel army's army, a cavalry team dressed in the uniform of the Great Xia army quietly appeared outside Kyoto.
At the head of the procession, a tall and mighty general rode on a tall horse without squinting, and behind him was a group of fierce soldiers with full faces.
Opposite him, Zhao Qinghe and several local leaders of the rebel army were meeting with each other with a group of soldiers.
"General Guo, look up for a long time."
Zhao Qinghe rode a horse forward and bowed his hand to Wei Wuzi, and the other party responded with a slight fist.
The army that appeared outside Kyoto at this time was the army of Bactria but not from the north but from the south.
The army totaled more than 30,000 people, and now they arrived at the ground only in the lead of thousands of cavalry, and the large army was naturally still behind.
The leader of this team was named Jian Rang, a lieutenant in the Xuzhou army.
It's just that since the disasters broke out last year, Jian Rang, who is not ranked on weekdays, recruited a large number of soldiers and horses under the pretext of counterinsurgency, and began to brazenly embezzle property.
In the end, the powerful Jian Rang bought off many military generals in Xuzhou, directly put the governor of Xuzhou under house arrest, and became the de facto lord of Xuzhou.
Jian Rang came this time, he must have wanted to help the rebel army take Kyoto, not to mention that he wanted to be a dragon, but to say that if he wanted to clear his reputation as a traitor, he had to overthrow Great Xia first.
At this time, the two sides of Kyoto City, which were originally evenly matched, gradually tilted the balance of victory because of the addition of Xuzhou officers and soldiers.
Of course, this trip to Kyoto, in addition to Jian Jean's rebellious behavior, there is also the support of those of your southern family.
In the past, the economic center of Great Xia was always in the north, and although the families in the south held a lot of rich land, they had very little power in their hands.
This time they made peace with the rebel army from Yuzhou, and these families did not have some plans to fish in troubled waters.
With the addition of the Xuzhou Army, the situation on the battlefield of Kyoto was quickly reversed.
With the addition of reinforcements, the rebel army, which originally seemed a little powerless, began to be powerful, while the forbidden army defending the city was a little difficult.
Especially after two days, the rebels got two huge catapults out of nowhere and began to throw huge stones into the city.
Under the frequent harassment of the enemy outside the city, the soldiers and civilians in the city were undoubtedly not tired, and they were holding their tired bodies to resist the enemy's attack.
Just as a fierce siege battle broke out in Kyoto, a cavalry team of several thousand people was speeding towards Kyoto in the direction of Kyoto's Huya Pass.
The leader of this cavalry was naturally Yun Bi, who entered the Huya Pass from Wanzhou.
Although Yun Bi had received Qin Yu's order before, he drove directly into Huya Pass after leading the army to leave Wanzhou.
But at this time, after the news of the siege of Kyoto City reached Huya Pass, the commander of the forbidden army, who had never neglected Qin Yu's orders, disrespected the order for the first time.
Yun Bi can have today's actions as a eunuch, and everything is inseparable from Qin Yu's support.
The relationship between Qin Yu and Yun Bi has gone beyond the ordinary relationship between monarchs and ministers, but is more like brothers and friends.
Today's Kyoto is in danger, although Qin Yu's order is in front, Yun Bi still leads the most elite cavalry under his command to rush to help.
On the official road leading from Kyoto to Huya Pass, the cavalry slowly passed through a smooth road into the valley.
"General, after passing the previous pass, we will arrive in Kyoto."
Listening to the report of his subordinates, Yun Bi bowed his head expressionlessly.
Now Yun Bi is worried about the safety of Kyoto, and he is marching in a hurry all the way, and seeing that he is about to reach his destination, Yun Bi is also starting to be a little nervous and excited.
Just when he wanted to order the whole army to march quickly, the general who spoke just now said again, "General, the pass ahead is called Luoyang Valley, and the terrain is steep, and there may be ambushes." ”
Listening to the advice of his generals, Yun Bi frowned slightly, but he still ordered his scout team to come forward and check.
It didn't take long for the scout team to return to inquire about the news, and after saying that there was no ambush, Yun Bi began to order his cavalry to enter the valley quickly.
Along the way, there was a thrilling official road through the valley, and I thought that there would be no ambush in this place, but I was about to walk out of the valley when there was a shocking noise.
"Boom~"
With a loud bang, the ground was rolled up with bursts of sand and gravel, and the closest place to the exit of the valley mouth, several cavalry were directly blown to pieces.
As the sound sounded, figures began to appear above the valley, and a large number of boulders of rolling wood were thrown down from above.
"There is an ambush, retreat."
Yun Bi had already noticed it when the explosion sounded, and now that rolling stones were falling in all directions, how could he not know that he had been ambushed.
Now Yun Bi even has the heart to kill those scouts, but the top priority is to quickly withdraw from the valley.
As the army hurried backwards, rockets flew down from above the valley, accompanied by a rampant shout.
"Yunbi, today is your death."
Yun Bi followed the prestige, and saw a young man dressed as a literati standing above the valley who was holding a feather fan and shaking it gently, and the corners of his mouth were still hanging with the joke of abuse.
This man Yun Bi didn't know, but if Xiao Jiu was in Yuzhou, he would definitely be able to recognize it at once, this person was Zhao Wushuang, who was captured by Jin Zi before.
Now setting up an ambush in Luoyang Valley is a good drama planned by Zao Wushuang, in order to block the rescue troops who are assisting Kyoto here.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that it would be Yun Bi and the most elite cavalry under his command who would lead the troops today.
It's a big fish!
If Yunbi is taken here, not to mention how the forbidden army in Kyoto resists, I am afraid that Huya Pass will also cause a lot of turmoil.
You must know that although the current Huya Pass is worried about internal and external troubles, the internal forces are also intertwined.
Most of the generals of the Wang Meng line inherited from the original Huya Pass defender faction, and the generals of the Kyoto Forbidden Army who were appointed as the commander of the forbidden army were all latecomers.
If Yun Bi died, the defenders in Huya Pass would also split into two parts in a short period of time.
Although at this time, in the face of the Rong clan's knock, the two will work together to defend the city, but it is a fool's dream to send troops to support Kyoto.
So from the moment Yun Bi appeared, Zhao Wushuang had already made up his mind to take down the other party.
And after Yun Bi saw such a scene, he was furious in his heart, and he also began to retreat desperately with a group of henchmen.
It's just that as the rockets continued to fall, the valley instantly turned into a sea of fire, and the soldiers and horses in ambush above the valley also rushed down directly at this time.
The soldiers on Yun Bi's side relied on the advantage of the fast horses under them, and although they ran quickly on the way to and fro, the enemy troops who killed them did not give them a chance.
The two armies were engaged in battle, and they were engaged in close combat.
At this moment, a bow and arrow swished through the dense crowd with the sound of the wind, and hit Yunbi's chest.