Chapter 864 The Imperial Capital falls! (Part 2)
Over the past hundred years, countless literati and poets have praised this city. Even literati from other countries like to compare "Shangjing" to the city in their hearts when writing poems and lyrics. paradise;
This is a label, a seal imprinted on the times and culture;
Be more lyrical, it is no exaggeration to say that even in ancient history books, it cannot be obscure its light.
But right now, this magnificent city is suffering from military disaster.
It is so beautiful, yet so fragile;
How charming it is, how much it can inspire the desire to destroy beautiful things in the heart.
The disputes between Yan and Qian can be traced back a hundred years ago. In recent years, old hatreds and new hatreds have increased a lot.
In the past, Yan people laughed at Gan people for their cowardice, and Gan people laughed at Yan people for their vulgarity.
In the eyes of the Gan people, the territory to the north of the three sides is the territory of the barbarians. The so-called people of the Yan State are the Yan barbarians.
Generations of people actually grew up in "regional discrimination";
The so-called Zhu Xia, the so-called same roots and the same clan, there are very few people who really understand this truth, not to mention, Among these very few people, there are still many who clearly understand but pretend not to understand.
A hundred years ago, the Gan people took advantage of the decisive battle between the Yan people and the barbarians to carry out the Northern Expedition and stabbed them in the back. A few years ago in Jin, the Chu people and the barbarians joined forces to treat the Jin people as two-legged sheep;
< br>The former Emperor Yan had the heart to swallow up all the Xia, so he would naturally exercise restraint in some aspects;
But this does not include the Prince of Pingxi named Zheng,
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This does not include the officers and soldiers of the Yan Army who are currently attacking Shangjing.
As far as Zheng Fan is concerned, he has chosen to risk his life and survive. But for the Yan army soldiers, when the mental and physical exhaustion reaches a certain level, the next swing of the sword has become a Some kind of instinct.
However,
The fortunate thing among misfortunes is that
Even if Chen Yang issued the military order "not to seal the sword" in the name of Yi Shanbo and the general of this army,< br>
But for one thing, now that the army has dispersed into Shangjing City, the organization will inevitably be chaotic, and it is almost impossible to fully convey the military orders;
The second thing is that the Yan army’s troops this time are still too few. Compared with the size of this big city, it is really unrealistic to throw 30,000 soldiers into it and try to eat them all in an instant;
The Yan army entered from Zhengyang Gate. The people behind the city were basically divided into two groups. One group, led by Fan Li, shouted the slogan "Capture the Queen" and rushed straight to the imperial city;
The other group, led by Chen Yang, Next, they began to attack the large-scale resistance that was trying to gather in the city;
These two sequences alone took up almost most of the Yan army's strength.
And with the destruction of the outer city of the imperial city, when Fan Li led his army to attack the inner city, which was the area where the emperor and the harem actually lived, he finally encountered stubborn resistance.
The Yan army was too successful at first. The defense camp outside Shangjing City had been almost emptied out before, so it was unable to block the incoming enemies from the outside;
< br>Naturally, even the city walls of the capital could not There was time to clean up and fill in the blockades, but without being prepared to defend the city, the Yan people rushed in directly like wolves and tigers;
Even this imperial city was attacked by the Yan army because of the chaos. He took a gangster who didn't know which party he was from and stabbed him in.
But when the blade of the Yan people was about to touch the entire Shangjing City, not only the core and most vulnerable area of the entire Qian Kingdom, when the Qian people here realized that they had no other way out, They actually showed quite a bit of will to resist.
The silver-armored guards responsible for the safety of the inner palace, the palace guards, and the guards brought by other adults, and even the father-in-laws in the harem all began to pounce on the vicious Yan people.
The wall of the inner city is actually not high. It is basically just a formality. However, relying on this small wall that is not high, the Gan people inside and the Yan people outside started a desperate fight. kill.
This forced Fan Li to give the order and continue to call the Yan army from outside the palace to come in and join the attack.
On Chen Yang's side, after defeating more than a dozen organizations that no one knows which yamen, prince, or big family tried to organize, they encountered another obstacle from the guards of each household. .
The location of the Yan army entering the city, coupled with the tendency to go straight to the palace, basically limited the scope of Yan army's activities after entering the city to a very narrow area, but this area was Coincidentally, it is the residence of a famous wealthy family in Shangjing;
Because Shangjing City has too many people, it has experienced several expansions in history. Therefore, it is not like other traditional cities that are simply divided into inner and outer cities. The inner city contains nobles, princes, and ministers, and the outer city They are ordinary people;
The wealthy areas here basically radiate out from one surface, and the diagonal "central axis" also refers to the palace.
Yao Zizhan once mentioned in his poem, "Tonight the broken tiles and rain are exquisite, tomorrow the three streets will be majestic and magnificent."
The three streets refer to the "rich streets" in the capital city. "Human area", Yao Zizhan never used the term "inner city".
Therefore,
When Chen Yang's order was issued,
the soldiers of Yan Army who had been "restrained" through Lanyang City and Chuzhou City began to "kill on a large scale."
A wealthy family with a high status, kicked him away and went straight in.
The Qiu Ba people are simple-minded, but they still understand that only in such a wealthy family can there be real things to chew on.
After rushing in, Gao Zhai's guards immediately began to protect the owner and fight with Yan's soldiers.
These are actually the armed forces hidden in the capital city. They do not actually exist in the military register, but they cannot be ignored.
Some brave people can even ask their own guards to take out military crossbows.
Although, in front of the regular army, it is difficult for these so-called guards to take advantage, and they are basically in a decline, but the Yan army has really poked a hornet's nest, and they are fighting everywhere.
"Zhi Niang, he is so rich in martial arts among the people!"
This is probably the feeling in the hearts of many Yan soldiers.
In fact, if we attack the city seriously, we can give the soldiers and civilians in the city a buffer time. When they realize that the situation is overwhelming, most people will still choose to "bend their knees" to save their lives;
The one who saves his life the best , it is often these "three streets", but it just happened that everyone caught up with them, bumped into them, and then killed them.
There was still a stalemate on the other side of the palace, with constant calls for soldiers and horses. Outside the palace, the soldiers were trapped in large houses and were fighting happily with the guards.
This made the Yan people's military strength increasingly insufficient.
The Yan people entered the city and lost Zhengyang Gate, but the Yan people failed to spread their troops out in time. Even now, nearly three-quarters of the upper capital city is occupied. They were not really controlled by Yan Jun. Three of the four main city gates were still in the hands of Qian Jun.
This is not Chen Yang's command error, nor is it a problem with the Yan army's military discipline;
But facing this largest city in the Xia Dynasty, the area, scale, population, etc. of the city all exceed that of the Yan army. According to the imagination of the military, you can't even practice drills like this because you have never seen it before.
Even Yanjing, the capital of the Yan Kingdom, is still a little small compared to the upper capital.
So, Yan Jun was completely confused when he entered the city as a country bumpkin.
Therefore, it stands to reason that
As long as someone can raise their arms now, oh no, even if it is not a single person, but three or four, or even seven or eight people, they will start to collect the defeated army everywhere, gathering rangers, guards and those who have the courage to come out No matter how well the common people respond to each other, it is impossible to say that the situation in the capital city will still have a chance to be reversed!
This is by no means an exaggeration, because after all, this is the home ground and the capital of the Gan people, and although the Yan people may look fierce now, they are actually at the end of their war effort. After a really fierce battle, the outcome is still unknown.
But once Chen Yang personally led a group of soldiers and horses to rush back and forth there, and those who were able to organize them in the first place, whether they were officials, heroes, or the so-called sect in Shangjing City, they were all considered capable. He was the first group to be bold and courageous, but because he was too quick to respond and had strong organizational skills, he became the first group to be greeted by Chen Yang.
When they were overwhelmed, and many were even killed directly, the quality of what grew from the back was not as high as that from the front.
Moreover, the Yan people’s magical soldiers suddenly appeared in Shang Jing City as if they were descending from the sky. Naturally, the first reaction of the soldiers and civilians in Shang Jing City would not be that the Yan people took a big detour and were exhausted and touched the Shang Jing City. In one corner, they would only instinctively think that the army of the imperial court in the north was defeated, and the officials who led the expedition were also defeated, and the Yan people invaded in such a dignified manner;
They have absolutely no hope!
It’s not that no discerning person can analyze it. It’s impossible for the government’s army of more than 200,000 to be defeated in such a silent and complete mess that even the news failed to reach here;
< br>However, most people are brainless in this situation.
So,
In this spirit,
The official army has been defeated, the official family has been killed, and the imperial court has collapsed...
Under the influence of this series of consciousness,
the defeated imperial army can no longer be effectively suppressed After being organized, even the remaining imperial troops who had not fought against the Yan people turned directly from official troops to robbers at this time;
Everyone began to plunder wantonly, thinking that they would be wiped out. Quickly grab a handful and escape.
In the early years, Yan State also encountered the problem of the Forbidden Army's insufficient combat effectiveness, so the exchange of the Forbidden Army and the Zhenbei Army was equivalent to a defense change and training;
Here, after the officials of the State of Qian were furious at the horrific situation of the Forbidden Army in Beijing, which was filled with empty pay, Li Xundao led the newly organized Forbidden Army. Many of the original Forbidden Army generals were sent outside, and the newly organized Forbidden Army was Most are recruited from outside.
Li Xundao once said in a secret memorial: The people in the capital are happy and slick, and are not suitable for military training.
And this also resulted in the Forbidden Army turning into "bandits" at this time without any psychological pressure;
Most of them were not from Beijing anyway, so they quickly burned, killed and looted. Go back to your hometown with your belongings.
Therefore,
If we look at the overall situation, we can find that the huge Shangjing City is showing a strange bipolar pattern at this time.
On one end, the Yan army is trapped in the imperial city and the wealthy and wealthy areas, and its troops are temporarily stretched;
On the other end, it is Ganren's own officers and soldiers plus rogue locals and rangers who have no chivalrous heart. Wait, and began to burn, kill and loot their own people crazily.
Whether it is the Imperial City or Third Street, what these places reflect is that they have large territories, small populations, and strong resistance;
Other areas have large populations and basically have no ability to resist these Soldiers and bandits, at least at this time, caused many more casualties among Gan people than those caused by the Yan army.
Later, it even evolved into that when Chen Yang led his army to continue to clean up other cadres in the capital city to resist the establishment, those defeated troops who were burning, killing and looting the people saw the black-armored Yan army appear and instinctively dropped their belongings Start running away.
Which street Chen Yang led his army to, that street actually settled down.
This made the Yi Shanbo of Dayan feel a little puzzled for a moment:
Zhi Niang, how come you seem to be the one who goes to the capital to maintain law and order?
It was because of this strange situation that the Yan army went through a period of chaos after entering the city, allowing Chen Yang to even have enough time to redeploy his troops.
He immediately asked his personal guards to go to the Third Street to deliver orders, and asked the soldiers trapped there to rush to the imperial city for reinforcements.
At this time, the fighting on the Third Street is still going on. It is impossible to have a large-scale and organized counterattack. Most of them are the guards of a certain family or several families organized together. The Yan army was fighting around the courtyards and buildings;
There were also many Yan soldiers who were injured or killed by some good guards because of their carelessness. Running hard after that person.
Fortunately, with Chen Yangxin's military orders, the Yan army began to be continuously transferred from other battlefields to the imperial city.
Even Chen Yang himself began to consciously shrink his troops and move closer to the imperial city. As for the chaotic Shangjing City, filled with blood and fire, let it go for now.
The resistance in the imperial city was fierce, but as more and more Yan troops entered, the battle was no longer just on the front line, but began to penetrate from other directions, the Ganren's last resistance began to become pale and weak.
Finally,
the Yan people rushed into the harem like a tide.
At this time, the sky was already dark, but because the distance to the target was getting closer and closer, the morale of Yan's soldiers gradually showed a strange excitement.
"Catch him alive and offer it to the prince!"
"Catch him alive and present it to the prince!"
The soldiers of Yan Army shouted this slogan and began to search everywhere.
It is well known that the official family of Qian Guo is not here. It stands to reason that the next step should be to arrest the prince or the prime minister and his like. However, the Yan army in the imperial city is full of thoughts from top to bottom. There are all the queens of Qian Kingdom!
Oh, the Queen Mother of Qian can do it!
It may seem ridiculous, but it is precisely because of this kind of "faith" and "perseverance" that these soldiers of Yan Army were able to fight fiercely for so long under long-distance attacks and still maintain their vigor.
Finally,
ganren’s last resistance broke out outside a palace.
A big eunuch and a silver-armored governor wearing a red official robe, with the last group of guards, started the final fight with the Yan people.
At first, the Yan army that had just entered was caught off guard and suffered a lot of losses.
But then, realizing that they had encountered a real master, Yan's soldiers began to gather crossbows and shields to suppress them.
For these elites, they have their own set of experiences on how to deal with strong men appearing on the battlefield.
The most gratifying thing is that the official royal chariots personally marched and took away most of the expert escorts, such as the Baili brothers and sisters, who are not here at all.
If there were enough experts in the imperial city at the beginning to break off all the way and escape with important people along the way, and take advantage of the chaos at that time and the Yan people had not yet completely entered the imperial city, and wanted to escape, it would be really difficult. It's not difficult.
But the problem is that the Ganren's own confusion and lack of experts prevented them from seizing the opportunity left by the Yanren.
The old eunuch died in the battle, the commander of the silver-armored guards also died in the battle, and the remaining people all fell.
Soldier Yan's soldiers held shields, lined up, stepped on the corpses, and began to advance.
“Bang!”
The palace door was kicked open.
Inside, the lights are brightly lit, and there are luminous gem-like beings shining there, making it look extremely majestic.
A group of children and teenagers huddled together, holding their heads.
There is also a group of women who guard the children. Some of them are palace maids, but there are also some women who look at their attires and their outfits are anything but simple. They are probably concubines.
And directly above, a woman in gorgeous clothes was sitting cross-legged, very dignified;
In front of her, there was a sword.
After seeing this woman, all the soldiers of Yan Army began to breathe heavily.
This is...the Queen of Qian Kingdom?
Fan Li tied one arm and held a big ax in the other hand. He pushed aside the soldiers in front of him and walked in.
"Mother, the Queen?"
Fan Li looked at the woman carefully. She was a bit older, but she was well-maintained and her figure was quite plump.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Over the threshold,
Still the type that the Lord likes.
Among all the demon kings, the one with the least sense of ethics is actually not Mo Wan, but Fan Li, because his mode of thinking is actually very different from ordinary people.
"It's good, it's good. I have thick legs, a thin waist and a big butt. My Lord likes it, hehehe."
Fan Li wanted to rub his hands, but because one arm was broken, he could only He rubbed his chest with the back of an axe. This look was almost perfectly consistent with the image and legend of Yan Manzi among the people of Qian Dynasty.
“I would rather die than be humiliated by a swallow and a dog!”
The Queen's eyes showed determination, she drew out the sword in front of her and put it on her neck.
Without hesitation, he moved horizontally,
Zi...
The neck was scratched,
It hurt,
Then the sword also fell, because it was too heavy and her hand could not hold it.
The Empress was a little surprised, wondering why she didn't succeed in committing suicide. Apparently the troupe in the palace performed suicide like this?
In fact, it is very difficult for even an adult man to kill himself with a sword, let alone a pampered queen.
Fan Li immediately rushed in, kicked the sword away from the Queen's face, and then slapped the Queen's neck mercilessly, knocking her unconscious.
Put it up and put it on your shoulders,
Roared:
"Got it!"
The soldiers of Yan Army cheered loudly.
…
“So, Xundao, what you are saying is that the main force of the Yan people has already retreated, and their goal is still to go to Beijing?”
"When we return to the official home, our army sent out today to try to launch a tentative offensive against the Yan army. The Yan people just blindly chose to shrink, shrinking to the point where no camp with 50,000 soldiers and horses would be allowed to shrink anymore.
This has proven that the main force of the Yan people is no longer here, and based on the time when my three-pronged army encircled them, it has been gone for a long time. "
“There are princes in the capital to supervise the country, tens of thousands of forbidden troops who stay behind, and high officials from all parties, including several ministers. How can it be possible for tens of thousands of Yan captives to break my capital?”
"Officials, the remaining imperial troops have not yet been trained, and all the elites in the capital are already by your Majesty's side.
Although the upper capital is towering, it is actually not conducive to defending the city.
Without enough troops to fight,
even if there are only tens of thousands of Yan people,
going to Beijing,
it will still be as brittle as tissue paper! ”
The official family was lying on the dragon couch,
His mouth was slightly open and his eyes were a little empty:
"So, my trip to Beijing is gone?" (End of this chapter)