Chapter 253, the danger of the North Gate
However, judging from the current situation, these four main generals did not show any abnormalities. Just when Ji Xuan wanted to continue asking, A Niu hurriedly came to report that something happened in Beiying.
When everyone in the room heard the news, they jumped up from the chair in surprise.
When Pang Hong saw Qi Wu behind A Niu, he went up and asked, "Tell me quickly, what's going on?"
Qi Wu rushed to the East Palace and ran with A Niu to see Ji Xuan and others. He was already out of breath. After he calmed down a little, he told everyone about the Beimen Student in the most concise and clear words.
After hearing this, Pang Hong cursed hatefully, then turned to Ji Xuan and knelt down and bowed deeply, saying, "I will be punished by the fact that I will fail to investigate the person. I deserve to die. Please punish your highness!"
Ji Xuan stepped forward and helped Pang Hong up and said, "How can this be blamed on the general? The most important thing now is to stop Sun He from cooperating with the rebels from inside and outside, and open the north gate to let the rebels enter the city."
Pang Hongdao: "As long as you return to Beiying at the end, you will definitely stabilize the situation and make their plan fail."
Ji Xuan said, "Okay, it's not too late. General Pang will return to Beiying now. I will wait for your good news. Aniu," Ji Xuan looked at Aniu and said, "You take General Pang to Beiying with General Pang to help General Pang quell the rebellion together, and then defend the North Gate steadily."
Aniu responded to the sound of it.
After saluting, Pang Hong and his friends left the East Palace and rushed to the north gate together.
The North Gate is already in chaos, which means that the rebels are approaching, and the one who attacks the North Gate first will be the North Gate. In order to cooperate with the rebels, the city may be in peace, so now we need to strictly control the capital according to Pang Hong's proposal.
The crisis was imminent, and Ji Xuan didn't care about continuing to identify. He asked the other three generals to leave the East Palace and return to the base camp immediately and act according to the plan discussed before. However, just like letting A Niu follow Pang Hong, he asked the people from the East Palace to leave when these three people left.
Lin Yuan also left with these people. He now has a heavy burden. He needs to immediately gather the two thousand soldiers drawn by the East and West battalions, and then lay out the world in the capital to prevent changes.
When only the cabinet ministers were left in the room, Ji Xuan asked Zheng Tai to leave the capital with his military talisman. His task was to observe the situation in the capital and then decide whether to mobilize the guards of nearby prefectures to enter the capital.
"Mr. Fan, I wonder if you can tell if these people are abnormal?"
Ji Xuan and others left, and all the things that needed to be explained, and asked Fan Changyun, who was still in the East Palace: "There must be his accomplices in the imperial guards, and some of the four battalions should belong to him."
Fan Changyun thought for a moment and said, "Your Highness's analysis makes sense, but based on the performance of the four of them just now, it is difficult to determine who has surrendered to Chengwang."
Ji Xuan nodded, "I asked them to come here, first to discuss countermeasures, and secondly, to analyze everyone's position through their words and deeds. But now it seems that they are more difficult to deal with than I imagined."
Fan Changyun said: "If it is a fox, it will reveal its tail, and they will soon reveal their true colors."
Ji Xuan nodded...
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Shen Yue and Sun He have almost equal combat power. In addition, they have worked together for many years and know each other very well. After a long battle, they still have a draw.
Although it was a draw, the two of them were in a very different mood.
Shen Yue was very satisfied with the current situation. Even if he could not capture Sun He, Sun He could not do anything to him. As long as he continued to stalemate, when Qi Wu sent the news to the East Palace, Pang Hong would naturally rush back with reinforcements, and then Sun He's plan would fail.
On the contrary, Sun He was extremely dissatisfied with the current situation and was extremely anxious. He needed to take control of the city gate before Qi Wu brought reinforcements back, and then open the city gate when Xiang Chengjun arrived. Even if Xiang Chengjun did not come at that time, he would set fire to the city gate. However, it seems that this plan is difficult to achieve.
In addition to anxiety, Sun He was more angry. In his plan, it was easy for him to open the city gate and let Cheng Jun enter the city, and he was also prepared. But he suddenly received an order to kill the spies sent by the Eastern Palace. He originally thought that it would not matter if he killed these two spies. Now that the main general Pang Hong is not here, he is the general on duty and can give orders at will.
But what he didn't expect was that Chen Yue was so careful that he would come to check what he intended to mobilize the archers, so that his plan would be disrupted. In fact, it doesn't matter if the plan was disrupted. As long as Chen Yue and his subordinates could be killed, the city gate could still be opened easily. But what he didn't expect was that he could not take Shen Yue for a while, and his subordinates did not take Shen Yue's subordinates, and their number was twice that of the other party!
"You trash, so many people can't do anything to them!"
Sun He cursed angrily, and he wanted to inspire his subordinates to sacrifice their lives through his anger.
Sun He's subordinates couldn't do anything to Chen Yue's subordinates not only because they were afraid of death, but also because of the venue, they couldn't exert their number advantage. In addition, there were more than a dozen people who were archers. Now that the two sides were fighting together, they had no use of their power.
With Sun He's scolding, his subordinates significantly strengthened their offensive and forced Chen Yue's subordinates to retreat a little along the stairs. It was this retreat that several people behind Chen Yue's subordinates were exposed to Sun He's archers' shooting range, so that several archers could quickly take their eyes and shoot archers.
Those people had just retreated and had not yet established a firm foothold. They were not wary of the sudden arrows, and were shot, either dead or injured.
This sudden change suddenly made Chen Yue's subordinates mess up. Sun He's subordinates took the opportunity to attack. In addition, they were condescending, forcing Chen Yue's subordinates to take up and retreat, and retreated step by step down the city tower along the stairs.
According to normal subordinates, there were twenty soldiers guarding the city gate at night, but ten of them were Sun He's men tonight. Now these ten people were fighting with Chen Yue's men. The remaining ten people ran out to check the situation at the beginning of the battle between the two sides. Chen Yue ordered them to go back to guard the city gate. If someone approached the city gate, they would not be killed. Therefore, the ten people who did not know the truth kept guarding the city gate tremblingly.
After Chen Yue's subordinates were forced to retreat down the city tower, they did not retreat any further, but guarded the entrance of the stairs, blocking Sun He's subordinates on the stairs, but in this way they were completely exposed to the attack of the archers.
While fighting with Sun He, Chen Yue was paying attention to the situation of his subordinates. Seeing that their situation was critical, he immediately shouted: "You all go to the city gate and protect the city gate with those ten people."
These people fought and retreated when they heard this, covering each other and retreating to the city gate. But just as they were about to approach the city gate, the ten people guarding the city gate immediately raised their spears in their hands and pointed them at the people.
"If you dare to take another step forward, don't blame us for not thinking about brotherhood."
Chen Yue asked the ten people to guard the city gate to the death to everyone present to know, but he asked his subordinates to retreat to the city gate to the ten people guarding the city gate to hear that the ten people guarding the city gate had not heard, so they immediately became alert when they saw someone approaching the city gate.
A man from Chen Yue's subordinate said, "It was General Chen who asked us to retreat to help you guard the city gate."
"We did not hear General Shen's order, so you cannot approach the city gate."
"you"
Just as the two sides were talking, Sun He's dozen archers shot a dense wave of arrows at them.
Although Chen Yue's subordinates tried their best to resist, someone was still shot. The worst thing was the ten people guarding the city gate, all of them were spears in their hands, and with no defense, six or seven people were shot.
After the arrow, Sun He's subordinates suddenly rushed to the city gate and suppressed Chen Yue's subordinates.
Chapter completed!