Chapter 110: Siege
In the western camp of the forbidden army, the matter of handing over the military power to Luo Luxing was completed as it was, and everything went very smoothly, which made Prime Minister Li Chengdu very surprised by the resoluteness of Luo Luxing.
may really be disheartened by this moment of life and death, Luo Luxing, the servant of the ministry, did what he said and did not show a trace of remembrance of power.
It may be that Luo Luxing, the servant of the ministry, also knows that if he still has a fluke mentality in the current situation, then I am afraid that he will really not be able to live, and he and his children will probably not be able to get out of Jianye City.
With the last bit of loyalty to His Majesty Xuanwu Kingdom, Luo Luxing, the servant of the ministry, left without any reservations.
Maybe that's okay, at least the forbidden army doesn't have to worry about the tragedy of killing each other.
After getting the tiger talisman that mobilized the western camp of the forbidden army handed over by Luo Luxing, the prime minister, Prime Minister Li Cheng just sighed, feeling that his main opponent in the court for so many years left Jianye City so gloomily, although he was the victorious party, but he still felt sorry for the ending of Luo Luxing, the servant of the ministry.
Maybe the battle of the court is like this, today the servant Luo Luxing of the ministry is defeated, and he can still retreat with his family, but Prime Minister Li Cheng thought about it himself, can he hold the court for a long time in the future, and what is his ending!
I sighed a little in my heart, but since I have done so much, Prime Minister Li Cheng will not just give up the power in his hands, and the next thing is to integrate the forbidden army and prepare for the arrival of Tuoba Jun, the general of Pingbei.
To be honest, Prime Minister Li Cheng felt that he was actually more nervous now than Luo Luxing, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, after all, even if the forbidden army was all in his own hands, but Tuoba Jun, the general of Pingbei, claimed to have led an army of 100,000 to Jianye this time.
The forbidden army is only 50,000 people, although there is the tall wall of Jianye City as a defense, but in the face of an enemy twice as large as himself, Prime Minister Li Cheng feels that it is still very stressful.
Although he had obtained absolute control of Jianye City, and the emperor and empress were also in the palm of his hand, Prime Minister Li Cheng did not dare to be too optimistic.
He had a hunch that maybe he had defeated Luo Luxing, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, and then mastered all the forbidden armies, but Luo Luxing, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, returned to his hometown of Shanyue County gloomily, but Prime Minister Li Cheng felt that if he couldn't withstand the attack of the Pingbei General Tuoba Jun this time, maybe he would not even have the opportunity to return to his hometown.
Either continue to lean the power into the government and the opposition, or die without a place to be buried, this is the end of himself that Prime Minister Li Cheng can imagine.
Of course, he couldn't wait for the Pingbei general Tuoba Jun to come back, so he just sat back and waited for death, so after getting the military power of the forbidden army, Prime Minister Li Chengcheng hurriedly strengthened the city defense, secretly mobilized weapons, talismans, pills and the like, and some strategic materials, and prepared to fight to the death with the army of Pingbei General Tuoba Jun.
Just as Prime Minister Li Cheng was actively preparing for a big battle, Tuoba Jun, the general of Pingbei, had also gathered heavy troops in Wulin County, not far from Jianye.
Because he got an urgent letter from Shen Lingxi and the housekeeper, he originally planned to lead 10,000 cavalry to rush back to Jianye first, but now he had to wait for all the troops to arrive before acting.
After three days, the general of Pingbei Tuobajun integrated the 80,000 troops he had transferred, and spent another day resting and preparing, he knew that returning to Jianye City would definitely be a big battle waiting for him.
"The whole army is assembled and set off for Jianye City!"
Seeing that the army was almost repaired, the general of Pingbei, Tuoba Jun, ordered his heralds to issue an order to march to the whole army.
So the 80,000 troops set off to Jianye City, after all, it was Xuanwu's own army, so other Xuanwu State magistrates who didn't know it didn't know it, and there were not too many doubts about Pingbei General Tuoba Jun's mobilization of 80,000 troops back to Jianye City, mainly because Pingbei General Tuoba Jun had Emperor Tuoba Tian's dictation, saying that he wanted to collect troops and return to Jianye.
Of course, this is just an oracle after all, so some discerning people still see the intentions of General Tuoba Jun of Pingbei, but even if they see it, General Tuoba Jun of Pingbei has always had a high prestige in the army of Xuanwu State, and these civil officials or local officials still dare not have any objections to General Tuoba Jun of Pingbei.
So even if someone saw that something was wrong, but the army of Pingbei General Tuoba Jun and his party came over, and no one dared to come out to stop them.
So on a bright morning when the sun was rising, the army of Tuoba Jun, the general of Pingbei, appeared in the southwest of Jianye City so quietly.
And when the forbidden army at the head of the city informed Prime Minister Li Cheng of what he saw, Prime Minister Li Cheng hurriedly ordered the city gate to be closed, so that the forbidden army could go up to the city wall and make a defensive gesture.
All the forbidden troops were at a loss, and they didn't know why General Pingbei came back to Jianye, everyone was a soldier of the Xuanwu Kingdom, but they had to make a defensive posture.
However, the military order was like a mountain, so the soldiers of the forbidden army did not complain, and they still climbed the city wall one after another, making a defensive offensive posture.
"I don't know what's wrong with the Prime Minister, I heard that General Pingbei came back This is what His Majesty meant, why didn't the Prime Minister let General Pingbei enter the city?"
A soldier whispered to his companion.
Another soldier on the side carefully observed the men and horses of General Pingbei outside the city, and then from the reaction of these horses, it was clear that perhaps these troops of General Pingbei were going to attack the city.
"You see, General Pingbei's army may be about to attack the city. Could it be that the Prime Minister got some news and knew that General Pingbei had bad intentions when he came back this time?"
"Yes, you see, General Pingbei's army even brought siege equipment, this time it must not be a simple return to Jianye City, I'm afraid that General Pingbei is going to be unfavorable to Your Majesty!"
Seeing that the army of General Pingbei outside the city had already launched an attack formation, the soldiers of the forbidden army at the head of the city knew that this was by no means a fun thing to make, and it might be a fierce siege after a while.
"It's not good, General Pingbei's army is about to attack the city, hurry up and prepare to deal with the enemy, you must hold Jianye City!"
A guard commander of the Prime Minister's Mansion, who is now the general of the Xiying of the Forbidden Army, saw that Tuoba Jun, the general of Pingbei, was already commanding the army and preparing to launch an attack on Jianye City, so he hurriedly asked his soldiers to prepare for battle.
As expected, the army brought by General Pingbei lined up in a neat siege formation and attacked Jianye City fiercely.
"General Pingbei is calling, go and report to the Prime Minister!"
"Give me the arrows, and the talisman is ready to be released!"
When the general of Pingbei, Tuoba Jun, commanded an overwhelming army and killed Jianye City, the soldiers of the forbidden army standing on the city wall were really stunned, and they didn't know why General Pingbei would do this.
Since the troops under General Pingbei have attacked the city, the forbidden soldiers who defend Jianye City will not be polite, so suddenly the ladder siege building vehicles have been erected on the wall of Jianye, and there are still a few soldiers of the Pingbei General's Mansion who have attacked with flying magic weapons in the sky.
And the forbidden soldiers on the city wall were not to be outdone, and threw the bows and arrows in their hands, such as some long-range attack magic weapons, at the soldiers of the Pingbei General's Mansion who were besieging the city.
Suddenly, under the walls of Jianye City, a large group of flames exploded, turning some soldiers who were about to attack the city wall on their backs.
Of course, the soldiers of the Pingbei General's Mansion are not vegetarians, and some of the people with high cultivation and flying magic weapons threw talismans directly from the sky to the bottom, causing countless deaths and injuries to the forbidden soldiers on the city wall.
However, the forbidden army also has the manpower to use flying magic weapons to attack in the sky, so in the air of Jianye City, groups of soldiers flying in the sky fought together, and the corpses of the defeated soldiers continued to fall from the air, like a rain of human flesh.
And near the city wall of Jianye City, the battle for the general is even more intense, and after a while, the soldiers of the Pingbei General's Mansion rushed to the city wall, but the forbidden soldiers who rushed to support quickly defeated them and drove them down the city wall, and soon on the wall of Jianye City, and under the wall of Jianye City, countless corpses were piled up.
There are forbidden soldiers in these corpses, but most of them are still the corpses of the soldiers of the Pingbei General's Mansion, after all, the difficulty of the besieging side is greater, and the casualties are much greater than those of the forbidden soldiers defending the city.
This unprepared and scheduled battle, from dawn in the morning, until the sun set, the corpses were piled up everywhere near the walls of Jianye City, and as time went by, the battle became extremely fierce and tragic, so that the casualties of the armies on both sides were extremely huge.
Seeing that the sun was about to set, Pingbei General Tuoba Jun stood in the distance and watched the battle situation, and failed to take the gate of Jianye City in one go, which made Pingbei General Tuoba Jun very annoyed, but he was a little helpless.
"Mingjin retreats, let the army retreat and rest, and fight again tomorrow!"
With the order of the Pingbei General Tuoba Jun, the soldiers of the Pingbei General Mansion retreated like a tide, but compared to the siege in the morning, the 80,000 troops at least threw down the corpses of one or two thousand soldiers under Jianye City.
One day's battle consumed 10,000 or 20,000 dead and wounded, and this kind of loss was also a little heart-wrenching for the Pingbei general Tuoba Jun, who was accustomed to seeing life and death.
Therefore, seeing that he could not attack for a long time, the general of Pingbei Tuobajun still had no choice but to announce his retreat.
And when the soldiers of the Pingbei General's Mansion retreated, the forbidden soldiers on the city wall finally got a chance to breathe.
At this time, Prime Minister Li Cheng had already supervised the battle near the city wall, and when he saw that the army of the Pingbei General's Mansion had finally retreated, he also walked up to the city wall to appease and inspire the soldiers of the forbidden army.
"What about the casualties?"
Prime Minister Li Cheng saw that the city wall was full of corpses of soldiers from the Forbidden Army and the General of Pingbei's Mansion, and there were many wounded soldiers of the Forbidden Army, which made him, a civil official, a little uncomfortable.
"Returning to the Prime Minister, today's army of the Pingbei General's Mansion attacked very fiercely, and our forbidden army resisted hard, and finally held the city wall, but our forbidden army also suffered a lot of casualties, according to the current situation, there may be more than 10,000 casualties. ”
Prime Minister Li Cheng heard the general of the forbidden army say that 10,000 soldiers of the forbidden army had been killed or wounded, which made Prime Minister Li Cheng very distressed, after all, his belongings were only 50,000 forbidden troops, and he lost 10,000 people in one day, which is really unacceptable.
"Quickly settle the wounded soldiers and carry down all the fallen Forbidden soldiers. After the Prime Minister's Office counts, they will give their families a pension. ”
After saying that, Prime Minister Li Chengcheng took the car back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, mainly because he saw so many corpses, and he really couldn't stand it as a civil official.
After returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion, a strategist from the Prime Minister's Mansion came to Prime Minister Li Cheng.
"Prime Minister, it seems that General Pingbei is determined to come back to fight for the throne this time, if the army of General Pingbei's Mansion continues to attack so fiercely tomorrow, I am afraid that our forbidden army may not be able to hold on. It's better to arrest the young general in the Pingbei General's Mansion in the city now, I heard that the young general is the righteous son of the Pingbei general, maybe this righteous son can be used to threaten the Pingbei general Tuoba Jun, and it is not impossible for him to withdraw from the army. ”
A strategist suggested to Prime Minister Li Cheng.
And Prime Minister Li Cheng thought about it for a while, and felt that he couldn't be so polite to the people of the Pingbei General Mansion anymore, so he ordered: "Then you go and bring people, and now surround the Pingbei General Mansion." It's still the old way, directly catch that young general Yu Wenlong. I want to see if the general of Pingbei Topa Jun will care about this righteous son. ”
Since he has already killed the general of Pingbei and Tuoba Jun in the dark, Prime Minister Li Cheng has no reason to continue to keep the people of the Pingbei General's Mansion still.
So Prime Minister Li Chengcheng hurriedly sent someone to arrest Shen Lingxi directly like Luo Luxing, the servant of the ministry.
And at this time, some people in the Pingbei General's Mansion also became a pot of porridge. Because they knew that the general of Pingbei was already attacking the city during the day, the subordinates of the general of Pingbei knew that a catastrophe was coming, and some people began to flee with their belongings.
At first, there were some sporadic escapes, but later the offensive of the general Tuoba Jun of Pingbei became more ferocious, and the subordinates who were afraid of being captured by the forbidden army began to flee in large numbers.
Among them, it also took away some valuable furnishings in the Pingbei General's Mansion, what porcelain, what precious furniture, and gold and silver jewelry that can be turned out.
In short, the entire Pingbei General Mansion has already been in chaos before Prime Minister Li Chenggu comes here.
The housekeeper Tuoba Hao led the guards to kill some of the subordinates who fled with their belongings, but the people were panicked, and the housekeeper Tuoba Hao began to kill, and the entire Pingbei General's Mansion was even more chaotic.
The subordinates fled one after another, lest they be caught by the housekeeper Tuoba Hao, and their lives would be lost.
And when the housekeeper Tuoba Hao was busy rectifying the order of the Pingbei General's Mansion, Shen Lingxi changed into the clothes of his subordinate Xiao Si, and also took some of the property he had collected during this time, and quietly left the Pingbei General's Mansion under the protection of Wangcai, Laifu, and Xiaoqiang's three hind legs.