Chapter 227: The Temptation of the Bounty
"Brothers, we have been fighting very hard these days, I Hua Chong, as a representative of the imperial court, will give you a month's salary and silver as encouragement, if the city is broken within three days, there will be a three-month reward!
"Soldiers! The Lord Hua Chonghua who spoke just now is the commander of the Kaifeng Mansion, the Duke of Long Live himself, or the governor of Xiangyang Wang to quell the rebellion! The silver money is here, everyone takes the money according to the list, each receives the money today, and tomorrow they have to work hard to attack the city, and the city will be broken in three days, and the court will have a heavy reward!"
Hua Chong took the two marshals around the camp and sprinkled it out like silver, and the morale that was originally a little low really improved to a certain extent. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Early the next morning, Hu Yanqing personally led the troops to attack the south gate, Marshal Di's eldest son Di Long personally led the troops to attack the north gate, Tongguan General Zhong Xiong led the troops to attack the west gate, and Xu Chang, the fourth guard of Kaifeng Mansion, led the troops to attack the east gate.
In addition to Xu Chang, Lan Xiao, Lan Yong, Wang Xingzu, Zhanzhao, Five Rats and other masters of Kaifeng Mansion also joined the battlefield, and they must overcome this final level.
I have to say that the role of this silver is really great, people from all walks of life flocked to Chang'an City like a tide, and everyone followed one after another, one by one, not afraid of death, and moved forward bravely. The defenders at the head of the city were passive from the start.
At this time, in Chang'an City, in the rebuilt palace, the king of Xiangyang was drinking alone, and everyone was busy dealing with the Song army under the city. Everyone knows that one more day of resistance is one more day of life, and everyone's life will be ended when the city is broken, and no one will live.
The same is true of the king of Xiangyang, he only has four words in his heart: the general trend has gone. After returning from Mount Emei, he returned to Chang'an City, and he no longer tried to find a way to confront the Great Song Dynasty. The Western Xia changed hands, the Southern Tang Dynasty retreated, his foreign aid was gone, and what about the people under him, except for Cao Lei, Wang Jixian, and Changming, who else?
There is wine today and drunk today, not long ago he just ascended the throne and became the emperor, and he was crowned a hundred civil and military officials, which was just the last enjoyable, everyone became the founding father as they wished, and the king of Xiangyang himself became the king of a country, although the emperor only had this city.
"Long live Qiyu, the east gate is tight, and the Song army has already climbed the city tower!"
"Let Cao Lei lead the troops to rescue, isn't he the four-way rescue envoy!"
There was not much time, and someone came to report: "The south gate was opened by the Song army, and He Zhaoxiong led his troops to fight to the death under the city!"
"Send an order to Xiang Hong, let him prepare for war in the imperial city, and I will fight them to the death in the imperial city!"
The reporters shuttled back and forth like a marquee, and one after another war reports arrived in front of the king of Xiangyang.
"Report! The East Gate is lost, and General Miao Tianlu is killed in battle!"
"Report! The south gate is lost, and General He Zhaoxiong has retreated to the inner city to defend it!"
"Report! The West Gate is lost, and General Wang Lu is killed in battle!"
"Report! The north gate is lost, and General Chai Wen retreats to the inner city!"
"Report! The inner city was lost, General He Zhaoxiong and Chai Wen were killed, and General Cao Lei retreated into the imperial city with the remnants of his handsome!"
A forty-year military general with overly tall feet, tiger eyes and beard, and golden clothes and golden armor walked into the main hall and said to Zhao Jue: "Long live, Di Qing and Huyan Pixian have already led the army into the city, and now we only have more than 10,000 men and horses and 3,000 halberds, who are defending the imperial city, please long live!"
King Xiangyang put down the wine bowl in his hand, looked at the general in front of him drunkenly, suddenly laughed, laughed more than once, this golden armor general was waiting for his order, after laughing for a long time, Zhao Jue's laughter seemed to be mixed with a trace of pain, there was a trace of sparkle in the originally blurred eyes, he stood up, left the dragon chair, walked to the golden armor general, looked up and said: "Wang Jixian, do you hate me? If I hadn't taken you under my command, you would still be happy on Chaotianling, but now you are going to die." ”
"The last general does not hate long live, at the end of the year, he will send people under the fence in the border army, it was long live who gave me this opportunity, and now I am the general of the protector of the country, if it were not for you, I would not have such a day. ”
Wang Jixian's eyes were also very complicated, he hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Even if it is only less than a month, this is the most proud day in the life of the last general!"
Zhao Jue smiled and patted Wang Jixian on the shoulder: "Very good, I didn't mistake you." You go and inform Xiang Hong and Cao Lei, we will stop defending for a while, set up a formation, and at the gate of the palace, make a break with these so-called founding fathers!"
"The last general commands!" Wang Jixian agreed loudly, and then turned to leave. King Xiangyang looked at Wang Jixian's back and said to the eunuch beside him:
"Someone, change my clothes, set up at the gate of the palace, I want to drive the royal expedition!"
In Chang'an City, every house is closed, and people are nervously listening to the sounds outside, for fear that someone who suddenly breaks into the house will snatch their things or people. Fortunately, the chaos outside did not involve the residents hiding in their homes, and few people were disturbed, whether it was the side of the king of Xiangyang or the official army, no one even attacked them.
Di Qing and Huyan Pixian, the two marshals, entered Chang'an City as fast as possible to restrain the troops, they did not allow any officers and soldiers to trespass into the houses, the people in this city have suffered a lot from the years of war, they don't want to force these people who are close to collapse or even have collapsed into Zhao Jue's team.
The team of the king of Xiangyang has no time to rob other people's property, they are all people who are going to die, and if they grab things, can they get out of Chang'an City? Hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers outside, even if they are masters like Hua Chong, I am afraid it will be difficult to rush out.
"Lord Hua, I owe you a favor this time, if it weren't for your idea, I'm afraid that it would take a while to break the city, and there are really a lot of brave men under this heavy reward." Di Qing smiled very happily, after so many days, he finally looked forward to the day when Chang'an City was broken.
"Everywhere, it all depends on the heroic battles of the generals and soldiers to be so smooth, to be honest, I didn't expect to break through this Chang'an City in only half a day. ”
"Two marshals!" Xu Chang's war horse galloped to them: "The king of Xiangyang is arrayed in the palace and wants to fight us head-on, Zhong Taibao has already lined up, waiting for the two marshals to decide!"
"Oh, they're gone, they're going to fight us?"
"Seems to be so!"
"It's just right, it's been so long, and I haven't fought with them yet, Xu Guard went to inform Zhong Xiong first, don't start a war, wait for us to pass, let's have a good fight with him!"
Hua Chong was also a little excited: "Let's hurry up, this last battle, I also hope to have a positive wave with them!"
"Okay, let's hurry over!" The two marshals gathered their men and horses, arranged the guards everywhere, and the remaining 100,000 troops marched to the imperial city together, and set up a position under the imperial city. In the opposite palace, all the last remaining horses of the king of Xiangyang have already set up a formation at the gate of the palace, under the umbrella of Huang Luo, Zhao Jue is wearing a dragon robe and a dragon crown, and the emperor's dress is waiting for the arrival of the Song army.