Chapter 48: The Fall of Luojing
Just when the battle of Yanzhou was being discussed on Wanjian Mountain, the 30,000 army under the jurisdiction of the Crystal Palace had besieged Luojing, Yang Xuerao was not good at leading the army, and handed over the heavy responsibility of defending the city to Yang Zhe, which could be regarded as trusting him, but the supervisor was Ji Jingwen, which made Yang Zhe quite unhappy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Because he didn't know the reality of the enemy army, and his vision was limited at night, Yang Zhe did not rashly go out of the city to invite the battle. The scouts outside the city have all withdrawn to the city, and the news obtained is that the enemy army is about 50,000, and it is normal for these scouts to miscalculate, which is caused by Ji Wushuang's plundering of the people along the way.
The army of the Crystal Palace rested for only an hour before attacking the city overnight, especially at the south gate, and the other two gates were used as a harassment feint. Although Yang Zhe had dug a trench outside the city and a natural moat as a barrier, Ji Wushuang was also well prepared, and nearly 10,000 people were driven into battle, filling the soil with thousands of wooden carts.
The artillery and giant bows and crossbows at the head of the city continue to harvest human lives, but Ji Wushuang is not distressed at all, anyway, there are as many people in Shenzhou as cattle hair, and they are as easy to plunder as leeks that cannot be harvested. In about a quarter of an hour, at the cost of half the lives of the people, the ditch outside the city was filled in, and the next thing was the wide moat.
However, because Chen Zhiyuan was in the array, Ji Wushuang also needed to spend more lives, just when Yang Zhe thought that the enemy was going to withdraw his troops in order to fight again in the early morning, suddenly there was a riot in Weng City, and after a while, the city gate was opened by the rebels, and even the drawbridge was put down, and the enemy's cavalry appeared ghostly, and the horses had already accelerated.
Yang Zhe secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, but after a while, he calmed down, at this time, he did not immediately order someone to block the enemy soldiers entering the city, but recruited his confidant Lei Ming to his side, and after the two whispered a few words, Lei Ming pressed the formation at the head of the city, but he himself disappeared under Ji Jingwen's nose.
Although the Janissaries are not under command, it will not be a plate of sand, but it is not easy to drive out the enemies who entered the city, Ji Jingwen led the army to resist desperately but was still defeated and retreated, and when Ji Wushuang's banner appeared in the city, Ji Jingwen knew that the general trend had gone, so she led more than 10,000 remnants of the army to retreat into the palace to defend it, and at this time Lei Ming had also disappeared in the chaos.
Half an hour later, Yang Zhe and Lei Ming led three thousand Janissaries to appear outside the city outside the Qingliang Temple, now there is no one here, the monks in the temple under the leadership of Zizhen set off to Tongguan to escape for their lives a few days ago, as long as they pass Tongguan will be safe, then wait and see what is changing or return to Beichan Temple, now there are only a few small novices in the temple to guard.
Yang Zhe led the army to eat a full meal in the temple with the food that was not taken away by the monks, and then marched southward.
If Yang Zhe could stop the Praetorian Guards from counterattacking at the first time, then only Ji Wushuang's newly trained thousand cavalry would not be able to stop it at all, and the strategy of Luo Jing would be in vain, but it was a pity that his inaction caused the Crystal Palace to easily capture Luo Jing, and hundreds of thousands of people in the city suffered.
Ji Wushuang once said that if he could capture Luojing, he would allow his subordinates to plunder, and now most of the buildings in Luojing City are on fire, screams, and wails come and go, just like hell on earth. Because except for the descendants of the Crystal Palace, the rest of the army are all pirates, river and ocean thieves, or outcasts, these people are violent and hateful, and the Crystal Palace itself is very hostile to humans, this massacre is almost inevitable.
And Yang Xuerao didn't panic after hearing that the outer city was breached, but Ji Jingwen was relatively nervous, and put all the blame on Yang Zhe's head, in her opinion, if Yang Zhe didn't have a conspiracy, he should have died in the chaos, anyway, there is no proof of death, but how to solve the problem in front of her, she is also at a loss.
There are four gates in the palace, the north gate is almost never opened, and the other three gates can never be defended by relying on more than 10,000 remnants of the army, just when Wan Hongyao proposed to assassinate Ji Wushuang, she was directly vetoed by Yang Xuerao, she immediately said: "Old ancestor, not to mention this chaotic army, can you always find Ji Wushuang, the probability of success under the protection of the army is also quite low, could it be that the old ancestor looked at Yan Feixue's lesson?"
Although Wan Hongyao is not as powerful in the palace as before, she is not afraid of Yang Xuerao, she was worried about the Yang family, but now she doesn't even care about this little girl, so she snorted coldly and stopped talking.
Yang Xuerao paused for a moment and said: "There is a secret passage at the north gate of the palace leading directly to the outside of the city, this is a secret of the royal family, we will lead the army to retreat to Bailing City, and wait for General Yang Lian's army to come back to help, it is a trivial matter to recapture Luojing, what do you think, ancestor?"
Wan Hongyao said angrily: "You are the emperor, and the old body obeys orders, but don't forget the people outside the palace, if they die, then Yanzhou will be greatly injured, and our Yang family's luck will also come to an end!"
Yang Xuerao's face darkened and said: "Is there any good way now? In order to keep our useful body, we can only abandon the pawn and protect the car!"
Once she made up her mind, Yang Xuerao didn't even care about the maids in the palace, she only took the army out of the city from the north gate, and when she left, she also put down the broken dragon stone at the door to block the pursuers, and when Ji Wushuang led the army into the palace, she found that there were only blind head rats scurrying palace maids, and it was not until the Yanyang Palace that she learned Yang Xuerao's whereabouts from the attendants here.
By the time Ji Wushuang, Chen Zhiyuan and others found the secret passage, Yang Xuerao had already escaped dozens of miles with the army, and the north gate was sealed, Ji Wushuang had to lead the army to make a detour to catch up.
The massacre in the city lasted until noon the next day, about seventy percent of the people became the souls of the dead, the smell of blood in the city was disgusting, and it could be smelled ten miles away, which was also a situation that Chen Zhiyuan did not expect, looking at the corpses all over the city, Rao was like a rock in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart, and it was too late to regret it at this time. Thinking that if he hadn't tried hard to stop it, I'm afraid the slaughter would continue, and when the sun set, it is estimated that this Luojing City has also become a dead city, so what's the point of fighting down?
Now Ji Wushuang is sitting on the dragon chair of the Yanyang Palace, and is accepting the congratulations of her subordinates, at this time, she will accept all the beautiful words, she has captured Huishui City in the past, and now she is Keluojing, this great martial arts Shenzhou is unmatched, she is complacent when she thinks of this. Fortunately, the battle of Huizhou also taught her a lot of things, and now the city gates are heavily guarded, and it is difficult for the enemy to steal the city.
In Ji Wushuang's concept, Luo Jing is under the order, then the Yang family is not worried, and then she can occupy the entire Yanzhou by defeating Yang Lian's border army, but because of this massacre, all states regard her as the devil, and the soldiers and civilians of Yanzhou hate it even more, and it is almost a fool's dream for her to rule Yanzhou.
At the same time, the resentful Huizhou army had already sharpened his sword after receiving the letter, and he was ready to first uproot the back road of the Crystal Palace, Wushuang Port, and if Yang Lian's border army failed, he would wave his army to the north to defeat Ji Wushuang in one fell swoop. This move was unexpected by many people, but it was understandable to say that he hated the Crystal Palace...... (To be continued.) )