Outside the four cities of Yanjing City, the soldiers and horses of King Qin, who were ordered to lead troops into the city, gradually arrived at various city gates. At the north gate, west gate, and south gate, the troops outside the city who had failed to negotiate began to attack the city gates. Defending the city

There are 5,000 soldiers and horses of the city defense army, and there are only more than 1,000 people at each city gate. There is a huge disparity in the strength of the troops.

However, the city wall outside Yanjing has long been built tall and tall, and the defense system is extremely complete. The moat is as wide as a river, the city wall is several feet high, and there are many turrets and arrow towers above the city wall. Even if the military strength is hugely different, with these complete and strong

With the defense system in place, it is not easy to break through the city gates and walls without a large number of siege equipment if the siege troops and horses set off in a hurry.

There are only more than a thousand defenders at each city head. Although the number is small, they can firmly occupy the effective positions of the arrow towers and enemy towers, and the siege troops and horses are within the coverage of their arrows. Of course, the number of troops is too small.

If you can't stop the opponent for too long, the firepower is not strong enough and can't cause a lot of damage to the siege troops, forcing them to retreat. But when the opponent crosses the river by swimming, you can hit these living targets and shoot them dead.

On the river and river banks. In the long run, the city head will naturally be defeated, but the purpose of the city defense troops guarding the city gate is not to guard the city gate forever. When Xiao Yu gave the order, they prevented reinforcements from outside the city from entering the city and delayed the time.

That’s enough at dawn. Because Xiao Yu believes that in the few hours from midnight to dawn, the battle in the city should have ended successfully. By then Wan Yanliang will be crowned and everything will be settled. The soldiers and horses outside the city will also be lost.

The meaning of the rescue is clear. When the time comes, they will either surrender or free up their own troops to reinforce the city. Yanjing City will never be breached.

While the siege battles outside the three outer city gates in the north and southwest were in full swing, there was no siege battle at the east gate of Yanjing. On the contrary, the drawbridge of the east city gate was wide open, and a large number of soldiers and horses were quickly leaving the city.

They galloped into the city through the gate. These were the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Northwest Army to which Xiao Huaizhong belonged.

Xiao Huaizhong rode his horse and stood in the city square, squinting as he watched the soldiers and horses entering the city continuously beside him, with a thoughtful expression.

Not long after he left Xiao Yu's mansion and returned to the military camp outside the east gate last night, Xiao Yu's close confidant Xiao Zhaozhe rushed to his military camp and conveyed the news that Xiao Yu wanted him to immediately mobilize troops to enter the city. Xiao Huaizhong learned the whole story.

Knowing that Wanyan Gun killed Xiao Zuo, and that Wanyan Gun himself was captured and killed in Xiao Yu's mansion, he understood that an uprising must take place tonight. After Xiao Huaizhong sent Xiao Zuo away, he was not in a hurry to assemble his army and set off.

He was sitting under the lamp of the military tent and waiting.

Xiao Huaizhong is not Xiao Yu's best friend. Although he and Xiao Yu are both ridiculers, Xiao Yu's relationship with him is actually very ordinary. Xiao Yu is arrogant. Although he is verbally modest, Xiao Huaizhong can often see that in his interactions with Xiao Yu,

The shadow of the disdainful look in Xiao Yu's eyes could be seen. Xiao Huaizhong knew the reason. When the Jin Dynasty attacked Liao, Xiao Huaizhong's father Xiao Qizhang was the first general to surrender to the enemy. This incident was a stain in the old Liao army. Although Xiao Huaizhong was still a child at the time

, but his father’s actions back then naturally brought him a lot of humiliating memories. When he was a boy, he was the one who was often ridiculed when playing with his friends. Therefore, in fact, in Xiao Huaizhong’s heart, the so-called feelings for the motherland are actually weak.

Quite frankly, he didn't feel that the restoration of the country had any unusual significance to him.

Over the years, Xiao Huaizhong has followed

He has only one principle, which is the principle of maximizing interests. As long as something is good for him and worth taking the risk, he will not shrink back. It is precisely because of this principle that he can rise from a low-level

The officer stood in the team all the way, and rose to the important position of deputy privy envoy to Xijing to stay in the northwest. In the Dajin court, he was also considered one of the powerful figures.

Yesterday, Xiao Huaizhong lingered in Xiao Yu's house for most of the day, listening to Xiao Yu talking to him about the principles of anti-goldenism and restoration of the country. In fact, Xiao Huaizhong didn't have any disturbance in his heart at all. What he wanted to hear was not the principles, he wanted the truth.

Zai's interests. When he heard Xiao Yu say that he would be appointed as the Southern Privy Envoy of the New Daliao after things were done, Xiao Huaizhong smiled. In Xiao Yu's view, this kind of smile was a happy smile, but in fact Xiao Huaizhong's smile was

Smiling disdainfully. Privy Councilor of the South Privy Council? Are you kidding? The Privy Council is divided into the north and the south, so there are two Privy Councilors. I have to at least be a serious Privy Councilor to be tempted. In fact, what I want is

The position of King of the South Campus or King of the North Campus is one of the few important positions in charge of a party's military, political, personnel and financial rights. His current position is already so high, and Xiao Yu needs him to participate in his major affairs, but he only takes this position.

Xiao Huaizhong felt Xiao Yu's contempt for him.

After Xiao Huaizhong left Xiao Yu's house, he was thinking about whether to report to Wan Yanliang. But he quickly gave up the idea. Years of experience told him that it was worthless to report at this time. What would be the greatest benefit?

Transformation means that he has to wait for Wan Yanliang to come to him, and the conditions will be extremely generous. All he has to do is stand in the middle and wait for which side's conditions are more generous. As for Xiao Yu's rebellion,

, Xiao Huaizhong believed that with Wan Yanliang's cunning, it was impossible for him not to be on guard against Xiao Yu, and it was impossible not to know that Xiao Yu was making some changes. What's more, he had actually revealed a little bit of information to Wan Yanliang, and he went to see him.

He passed by Wan Yanliang and told him that he was going to visit Xiao Yu. It was impossible for Wan Yanliang not to understand his own importance.

Xiao Huaizhong sat in the tent and waited. Facts proved that he was right. Not long after Xiao Zhaozhe left, Wan Yanliang sent Zhao Muan. Zhao Muan was straightforward and told Xiao Huaizhong about Xiao Yu's rebellion.

After showing the imperial edict to mobilize Xiao Huaizhong's soldiers and horses to rush to the city for reinforcements, he took out a brocade box from his arms and handed it to Xiao Huaizhong.

"The emperor asked me to hand it over to Mr. Xiao. The emperor said that this was his sincerity. The emperor said that Mr. Xiao is a talented prime minister, and his civil and military skills are enough to command hundreds of officials." After Zhao Muan said this, he left in a hurry.

.He also has to go to the military camp outside Nancheng to deliver the order.

Xiao Huaizhong sat under the lamp and opened the brocade box. Inside was a simple and old gold medal. Xiao Huaizhong's heart trembled. He suddenly realized something, so he quickly picked it up and looked through it under the lamp. Then he confirmed that the gold medal was

What.

"The gold medal for protection of immortality, hahaha. Wanyan Liang is so grand. This is one of the twelve death-free gold medals forged by the legendary Wanyan Aguda. This is the holy object that protects immortality. I only heard that

I have, but I have never seen it. I heard that it is no longer awarded to ministers. I didn’t expect that Wan Yanliang gave it to me. Hahaha. This is what I want. Xiao Yu, what is the thing you promised? Look.

Look at Wanyan Liang. Xiao

Yu, I can only say that I am really sorry." Xiao Huaizhong looked at the gold medal over and over, rubbing the inscription on it with his thick fingers, and laughed loudly.

The legendary gold medal of immunity from death, the 'Gold Medal of Immortal Protection', is definitely a treasure for today's ministers of the Jin Dynasty. Especially after Wanyan Liang usurped the throne, all his ministers were in danger because Wanyan Liang turned against him and was ruthless and cruel.

It is very common to cleanse the royal family and kill the ministers of the court. But no matter how cruel and domineering he is, he dare not violate the effect of this protective gold medal cast by Wanyan Aguda, the ancestor of the Jin Kingdom, otherwise he will be rebellious.

Ancestor, he alienated everyone and everyone despised him. When the gold medal was cast, Wanyan Aguda swore an oath in front of the shaman god, just like the consecration of a Buddha statue. After swearing an oath in front of the shaman god, Wanyan Aguda again

Forged by myself, no one dares to violate it. Therefore, if you get this gold medal, you can really avoid death. There is no doubt about it. The sixteen-character inscription of "Lands and rivers, everything has animism, the shaman god, forgives sins"

It’s no joke. Xiao Huaizhong was extremely happy to get this thing, not to mention that Zhao Muan relayed Wan Yanliang’s words that he is a talented person who can lead hundreds of officials. Doesn’t that mean that Wan Yanliang meant

Do you want to make yourself the head of officials?

This is maximizing interests. Xiao Huaizhong once again proved that his experience and approach are correct. How to choose seems to be self-evident.

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Outside the Imperial Palace of Yanjing, the sound of heavy hammers from big donkeys rushing against carts continued. The rumbling sound of impact and the sound of crashing granite walls collapsing echoed in the square. At several palace gates, heavy hammers were

The iron-bolted palace gate had been hammered to pieces, revealing the sandbags and other objects temporarily blocking the city gate. For Wan Yanliang, the situation was already very unbearable.

Wan Yanliang organized several counterattacks against the ramming vehicles at the city gate. The method was to send hundreds of soldiers down the city and directly attack the ramming vehicle operators in an attempt to sabotage the ramming vehicles. These participating soldiers were all dead soldiers, because once

After coming down, there was no chance to go up again. Wan Yanliang had no other good way, he could only do this. But even this suicidal approach did not work. Xiao Yu's side had already been prepared, and the cavalry archers had already

Be prepared. As soon as the soldiers who descended from the city landed, they were attacked by a storm of arrows. The dozens of survivors who rushed to the ram were not even the opponents of the big men who were operating the ram. One by one, they came and went.

More than 600 soldiers were lost, and the delay was only less than half an hour.

As a rumbling roar sounded from under the Nangong Gate, the Nangong Gate had completely collapsed. Only a dozen iron bolts were left across the door opening, but they could no longer block the door. The operators who controlled the rush vehicle cheered.

The signal was sent. Xiao Yu from the rear laughed several times after hearing the news, and issued the order to attack in a deep voice.

This time the attack was a real onslaught, putting huge pressure on the city wall, which could cover a large number of people to clear the doorway. Once the doorway was cleared, the cavalry would rush into the palace, and the palace would be declared to have been breached.

Wan Yanliang understood all this. He gritted his teeth and issued an order, asking everyone to prepare for close combat. He had already seen the sound of attacks and killings at various city gates, and knew that the reinforcements were blocked outside the city. For a moment,
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