Bai Hao thought that King Cheng was still in the Temple of Mercy and Grace, but King Cheng was not there today, but went to the south gate of the capital, Bai Hao hesitated for a moment and then rode a horse to the south gate.

After the emperor visited the soldiers of the forbidden army and the people in the rivers and lakes led by Master Kurong at the north gate, he wanted to go to the east gate nearby, and then go to the south gate from the east gate, and finally go to the west gate. But just as he was about to drive to the east gate, the herald sent by the south gate hurriedly ran to tell him that the rebels outside the south gate launched a fierce attack on the south gate early this morning, the forbidden army and the rebels suffered countless casualties, and the situation at the south gate was precarious.

The herald did not come to find the emperor, because the soldiers at the south gate did not know that the emperor was awake, and the chief general of the south gate sent the herald to go to the military department to find Lin Yuan.

After the emperor and everyone listened to the herald's story, everyone's face was solemn and their brows were furrowed. After the emperor woke up, he came to the north gate first, not knowing the tragedy of the war at the south gate, but Ji Xuan and those ministers who had been to the south gate knew. The Huai'an army's initial attack on the south gate was much stronger than Xiang Cheng's attack on the north gate, but after the first few attacks, the Huai'an army stopped attacking the south gate, but it suddenly launched an attack today.

The matter was urgent, and the old emperor immediately decided to immediately drive to the south gate, and then let Lin Yuan be responsible for transferring troops to the south gate to support. Lin Yuan didn't go with the holy driver, he stood in place and anxiously thought about where there were still extra troops to mobilize.

There are a total of 50,000 forbidden troops in the capital, and there are less than 40,000 left until now, the north and south gates have been supplemented with troops of about 8,000, the east and west gates have 7,000 each, and the remaining thousands have 3,000 guards in the palace, and the rest are divided into several teams to patrol in the capital to maintain law and order.

In the difficulty of Wancheng before the defenders of the capital in addition to the forbidden army and Yu Linwei, when the difficulty of Wancheng Yu Linwei defected, and the rebels should be combined with the outside, resulting in the city broken, the city of casualties innumerable, after the rebellion, the Yulin Wei system was abolished, the emperor put the defense of the capital to the forbidden army, and set up two permanent guards on the north and south sides of the capital, these two guards rotate with other guards from time to time, and now these two guards are Xiang Cheng army and Huai'an army. The old emperor didn't expect that King Cheng rebelled this time, and there was no problem with the forbidden army in the capital, but there was a problem with the guards outside the city.

Lin Yuan thought for a moment, and then decided to send a thousand forbidden troops from each of the east and west gates to the south gate to support, and then let the forbidden army patrolling the capital draw a thousand people as a reserve army to be ready to support at any time.

However, what Lin Yuan didn't expect was that the east and west gates were also fighting at the moment, and the rebels who used to only symbolically attack the east and west gates launched an attack on the east and west gates this morning, but this morning they also went crazy and launched an attack on these two places, fortunately, there were not many rebels in these two places, and the forbidden army did not let the rebels take advantage of it with their high city walls and ballistas. In this situation, Lin Yuan did not dare to rashly let these two places draw troops to support the South Gate.

In desperation, Lin Yuan had to let the 1,000 people transferred from the patrol forbidden army rush to the south gate to support first, and at the same time let people organize the people in the capital to go to the south gate to assist the forbidden army in defending the city.

Ji Xuan also knew for the first time that the east and west gates were attacked at the same time, and he expected that Lin Yuan's plan to draw troops from these two places would fail, so he ordered Qin Fan to send someone to transfer a thousand people from the palace city to the south gate.

Although Lin Yuan arranged some people to go to support, he was still not sure in his heart, the rebels suddenly launched a fierce offensive at the three city gates, and they would definitely not stop easily, so what should I do if the forbidden army suffered too many casualties?

These days, Ji Xuan has arranged for the military department to recruit troops in the capital in order to replenish the forbidden army. The forbidden army is the guard army that guards the capital and guards the Son of Heaven, and it is a place that many men with the ambition to join the army yearn for, so even if the rebels are besieging the city now, even if the army may die on the battlefield now, nearly 10,000 people still signed up for the army in just a few days. Of course, the military department will not let these recruits go to the battlefield immediately, which is tantamount to sending them to death. The military department borrowed the martial arts training ground of the Ximen Forbidden Army to gather these recruits for assault training.

When Lin Yuan came to the martial arts arena, the recruits were training. There is a recruit drill manual issued by the Ministry of War, but those things are definitely inappropriate to use on these recruits, so Lin Yuan asked the generals in charge of training recruits to only teach recruits the use of weapons and some self-defense skills.

Lin Yuan couldn't bear to look at these recruits, but there was no way, at this moment he had to draw some of these recruits to participate in the battle.

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When the old emperor and his entourage came to the south gate, they saw that the wounded soldiers who had been carried down along the street, and they were very sad and indignant, and ordered the medical officer to try to save everyone as much as possible. The people who participated in assisting the defense of the city saw the arrival of the emperor, and they all knelt down to salute, and the old emperor said that he was exempt from courtesy, and at the same time helped the nearby people up. The people who were lifted up were flattered, attracting envious glances from others.

The old emperor made a word of encouragement to the people, and then insisted on waiting to go up to the castle tower to see the battle situation, despite the dissuasion of everyone.

On the way to the south gate, in order not to disturb the forbidden army against the enemy, Ji Xuan had sent someone to tell the commander of the forbidden army at the south gate that he did not have to take the car when the emperor arrived, but the main general did not expect the emperor to go up to the top of the city tower during the fierce battle between the two sides.

Qin Fan held a shield and followed the emperor closely, always paying attention to the surrounding situation to prevent accidents. Along with the emperor were Ji Xuan, Ding Muxi, Wuxizi and Gong Que, and those ministers were standing under the city waiting. Qin Fan was highly nervous, and the four of Ji Xuan did not relax, except for the innocent son, the other three all held their weapons tightly.

The Emperor's sudden appearance had a slight impact on the forbidden army, allowing some of the rebels to storm the walls, but they were quickly killed. After the forbidden army stabilized its position, the morale was instantly high, and the emperor and the crown prince came in person, and risked their lives to climb the battle-going tower, which greatly encouraged the forbidden army.

Qin Fan's 1,000 forbidden troops transferred from Miyagi, plus Wu Bai's forbidden army who came here with the holy car, a total of 1,500 forbidden troops also went up to the city wall to meet the enemy. The morale brought by the emperor, coupled with the reinforcements of the forbidden army, gradually extinguished the offensive of the rebels.

Maybe it was to see the emperor come in person, or maybe it was to see this wave of offensive fading, and the rebels shouted gold, leaving behind the corpses all over the city wall to collect their troops.

After the rebels besieging the city retreated into their own formation, a way was made in the middle of the queue, and a wooden four-wheeled cart was pushed to the front of the formation, on which sat a gray-haired old man, and it was Cheng Wang who pushed the cart, and Lu Guiyuan and other Tianyi Sect masters followed behind them.

The old emperor looked over, and when he saw King Cheng, he was instantly furious, and just as he was about to open his mouth to scold, the old man sitting on the four-wheeled car spoke first: "Fourteenth brother, I haven't seen you for more than 20 years, do you still recognize him as a brother?"

When the old emperor heard this voice, he couldn't help but gasp when he looked at the vague face that was still somewhat familiar.

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