Fang Dingchao, an auxiliary general, sent a messenger to General Huang Zhipeng, saying that tonight, he would take the lead in sending troops to attack Gulu Pass City and annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop, and asked him to send troops to help respond.

General Huang looked at the tone of the letter as if he was very sure, and thought to himself that this old man was too eager to grab the credit. He has been dealing with Yuwen Haotian for more than ten years, and he knows that the king of Zhenbei is powerful, but he can't be careless, but he doesn't want to really let Old Man Fang take the lead, so he ordered General Qi Buqun to raise 20,000 elite soldiers and cooperate with General Fang's troops to attack the city.

It turned out that the general of the auxiliary country had learned the lesson of the last battle in Tongyuan City, and after sending troops to the northern region this time, he sent spies everywhere to investigate and collect the enemy's military information first.

These spies tried their best to enter the border between Gulu Guancheng and the Tufan Kingdom outside the Guan, and spied on a lot of news about the army of King Zhenbei and the city of Guancheng.

An important piece of news was the rumor that the king of Zhenbei would soon take refuge in the Tufan Kingdom to resist the imperial court's suppression, and then attack the interior of the Central Plains. Many of his soldiers were very dissatisfied with this, unwilling to betray the country for glory, and had plans to defect and leave the customs.

One day at a market outside the gates, four spies found a very luxurious carriage coming to the market, on which sat two noble women, an old man and a young man, as if they were going to buy goods in the market. Suspecting that it was someone from the palace, the four spies immediately hijacked the carriage and returned it to the barracks.

As a result, the first instance found that these two women were the mother and wife of Duan Fei, the general under the palace account. Immediately reported it, Lord Fang was overjoyed when he heard the letter, and immediately went to the barracks to meet the two ladies and set up a banquet to suppress the shock.

During the banquet, Lord Fang continued to understand and reason, and persuaded the two ladies to send a letter to General Duan, persuading him to surrender to the imperial court, end the rebellion, resist Tufan, and serve the country.

No, the two ladies had no choice but to send a letter to persuade them to surrender. General Duan was anxious about the disappearance of his mother and wife when he received a letter of persuasion. He thought about it again and again, and felt that this was the only way out in the present situation, so he gradually agreed, and in his reply he agreed that in the early morning of the next day, he would make trouble in the city, open the two gates in the east and south, and cooperate with the imperial army to attack the city and take down the traitors.

In the early morning of this day, a cannon suddenly rang out in the city of Gulu Pass, shaking the heavens and the earth. General Duan Fei led his 30,000 soldiers to raise affairs in the city, and the rebels quickly seized the east and south gates of the city, and surrounded the palace and the marshal's mansion.

Fortunately, Lu Shaobao, the staff general of the Military Aircraft Division, got the report in time, and led his troops to rush into the marshal's mansion to rescue King Yuwen and a cadre of ministers and generals who were discussing here, and then together with General Chen Jinchao and his 20,000 officers and soldiers who came to the rescue, they killed from the West City Gate and fled to the southwest.

General Lu Shaobao took more than 1,000 of his subordinates to the prince's mansion to rescue the family of King Yuwen, and when he arrived, Duan Fei had personally led the rebels to surround the palace.

Lu Shaobao led the crowd to fight desperately into the encirclement from the outside, and fought hard to resist the rebels together with more than 500 guards in the palace.

Originally, both sides were brothers who were born and died together, but now although they have their own masters and turn against each other, they are also reluctant to fight to the death, so the two sides are not fierce, and they gradually become a state of holding each other.

From time to time, the imperial army led by General Fang arrived and shouted: "Reward those who capture the royal family in the north of the town!" and rush into the palace with all their might.

Lu Shaobao and all the officers and soldiers were unable to resist the enemy's attack at this time, and gradually retreated until they reached the outside of the princess's bedroom, forming the last line of defense.

When Lu Shaobao led all the soldiers to fight desperately and bloodily, swearing to defend Princess Deji Yangzong and her children, the gate of the princess's dormitory suddenly opened, and Princess Yangzong appeared at the gate, only to hear her shout: "General Shaobao! With that, he turned around and entered the palace, and the gate was then closed.

As soon as the door was closed, a "boom" was heard, and a raging fire suddenly broke out in the princess's bedroom.

The entire dormitory was engulfed by a huge flame in an instant, and the fire became more and more intense.

The tumbling waves of fire, wave after wave, suddenly illuminated half of the night sky of the Northern Plateau.

The soldiers on both sides had to quickly disperse in the surrounding area. Seeing that there was no hope of saving people, Lu Shaobao quietly led the remnants of the soldiers to take advantage of the chaos to withdraw, retreated to the apse, and asked the soldiers to cut the yellow silk into small strips, tie them to the top of their heads, and dress up in the same way as the rebels.

At this time, the troops and rebels led by Fang Dingchao had completely controlled Gulu Guancheng, and General Huang Da got the news and personally rode his horse to come.

When the two came to the Zhenbei Palace, the fire had gradually been extinguished. The princess's bedroom has become a charred and black ruin, and there are eight or nine corpses lying crookedly in the ruins, and the death is so tragic that people can't bear to witness.

There are more than a dozen burnt wine jars around the palace, and it seems that it was the princess herself who ignited these local spirits that caused this fire, and such a strong woman is rare in the world.

After the rebel general Duan Fei stepped forward and bowed to the two, he reported: "Gulu Guancheng has been completely controlled by our side, and Yuwen Haotian has escaped from the West Gate with a small number of enemy troops. The palace has been burned by fire, and after investigation, there are nine burned corpses inside, one of which is a pair of children of Princess Deji Yangzong and King Yuwen. ”

Fang Huang and the others were overjoyed when they heard this, and they could not have imagined that the rebel city government, which had been difficult to conquer for more than ten years, would be taken overnight, and all the families of the rebel leaders would be killed.

It is said that General Lu Shaobao led the remnants of the army, followed the direction of the withdrawal of the troops led by King Yuwen, and finally caught up with King Yuwen at Qinggangling, fifty miles away.

Lu Shaobao immediately prostrated in front of King Yuwen's horse, crying to save the princess and other family members and the passage of the princess ** in the dormitory.

King Yuwen shook the whip in his hand, knocked down the long sword in Lu Shaobao's hand, and scolded: "Why did Shaobao cut himself? Although you led your troops to save the princess without my order, it is a big crime to cause my 500 elite soldiers to suffer, but I still have a lot of use for you, so you get up." ”

Lu Shaobao got up after thanking him. He thought in his heart that the prince was not sad and angry about the loss of his family, but was heartbroken for the loss of hundreds of elite soldiers, which was really incomprehensible and really touching.

King Yuwen got off the horse, called Lu Shaobao to the side, asked him to receive 3,000 taels of silver, and led his more than 500 men and horses, dressed in civilian clothes, pretending to be merchants, and went to Youjing City to settle down, and handed over a letter to him and said: "The specific task arrangement is set out in this letter, and you will burn it immediately after reading it, keep it in mind." ”

After Lu Shaobao received the order, he went to the army's tent office to receive 3,000 taels of silver, as well as chariots, horses, grain and grass. He found that the property, grain, and grass in the palace army had been transported out with the army, and they were well managed, and the 20,000 horses and horses were neat and morale were high, and there was no appearance of defeat at all. I secretly admired General Chen Jinchao's well-trained management of troops and quick action.

Lu Shaobao and his subordinates changed into merchant casual clothes, bid farewell to Queen Yuwen, and went to Youjing City in the interior of the Central Plains. Here, King Yuwen led 20,000 soldiers to continue westward and went straight to the Western Regions.