Zhang Hui checked the time when he came out, and immediately asked someone to fetch a bucket of hot water. He took off his clothes and washed them clean. He simply rubbed his hair, and then carefully removed the stubble on his face bit by bit.
It took nearly half an hour to clean himself up, then he dressed up, put on his hat, and left with Prince Gaowu under the protection of General Qian Shen and others.
When he was standing in front of a mansion, Prince Gaowu was still a little hesitant, "Wouldn't it be a trap to seek Prince Guang?"
Zhang Hui looked up at this ordinary mansion in his eyes and said: "I am 50% sure that I can convince him, plus the money to join the army, it will be 10% more. If he still can't be convinced, then we can only wait until the siege.
try again."
Zhang Hui and Prince Gao Wu went in, and they met Prince Guang smoothly. The main reason was that the housekeeper of Prince Guang's family was startled when he saw Prince Gao Wu, and finally lowered his head and led the people in with trembling hands and feet.
When Prince Guang saw them, his pupils shrank, and then he looked at Prince Gaowu and Zhang Hui and said, "You are so brave, you dare to come to me. Since you have escaped, why are you coming to my place if you don't want to leave?"
Prince Gaowu bowed deeply to King Chongguang as promised, "Uncle Wang, please save the Gao family and the people in this city.
King Guang sneered after hearing this, "You have already betrayed the country, how can you still have the nerve to raise the family and the people of this city?"
Prince Gaowu hurriedly defended: "Uncle Wang, Goguryeo cannot defeat Jin. I am here to preserve the Gao family and allow the Gao family's ancestral temple to be passed down..."
King Guang sneered, "It makes the greed for life and fear of death very refreshing and refined."
Prince Gaowu: "But didn't the second brother surrender too?"
Prince Guang looked at him with an even colder look, "So you came here today just to see my joke?"
Prince Guang sided with the second prince and always believed that the second prince was more suitable for the throne than the eldest prince.
So this time the King of Goguryeo had an attack, and King Guang was also implicated. During this time, he was shutting up in his mansion to think about his mistakes.
Prince Gaowu was about to continue his defense when Zhang Hui reached out to stop him and said: "Your Highness Prince Guang, let's talk about something practical. The Inner City is about to be breached. Do you want to perish with the Gao family and the Inner City?"
Prince Guang pursed his lips and asked, "You want to massacre the city?"
Zhang Hui said: "Our Majesty is kind, so naturally he will not massacre innocent people."
But this is not necessarily the case for people who are not innocent.
King Guang was silent.
Zhang Hui directly stated his conditions, "As long as Prince Guang is willing to surrender, I am willing to protect the entire Prince Guang Mansion in front of His Majesty, and even some branches of the Gao family can be preserved."
He said: "If you can live, why does Prince Guang insist on seeking death?"
King Guang stood up and walked out of the hall, pointing to the fire on the horizon and asked: "Did you set this fire?"
Zhang Hui did not deny it.
King Guang asked: "Are you going to attack the city?"
Zhang Hui nodded, "Not bad."
"Tell me now, are you not afraid that I will order the city gates to be more guarded at this time and your plan will fail?"
Zhang Hui smiled confidently and said: "Our Jin country has strong soldiers and horses and abundant food, but your Goguryeo country is now separated, and the people in the domestic city are panicked. Do you think you can hold on?"
If you can't use coercion or inducement, then talk about something realistic, and let's just talk based on reality.
King Guang fell silent.
At this time, the Jin army had just finished ordering its troops and was ambushing outside the city.
The attack hadn't started yet, and Manbao was not busy, so he and Bai Erlang stretched their necks to see the fire in the inner city.
Until the evening, the thick black smoke did not go down, and the fire in the sky became stronger and stronger.
Even the imperial guards in the palace ran out to put out the fire, and many soldiers guarding the city were also mobilized to fetch water from the moat and nearby wells for irrigation.
The intensity of the fire frightened everyone, fearing that the entire domestic city would be burned down.
The fire is now spreading in the inner city and is about to spread to Guangwang.
However, King Guang was not in his palace at this time, but went into the palace to ask for an audience with the King of Goguryeo.
In the evening, when the sun was about to set, a signal went up in the sky outside the inner city. After a while, there was also a fire signal in the inner city.
Because of the blazing fire in the inner city, no one noticed these two fire signals.
After receiving the signal, Zhao Guogong personally led an army to appear at the gate of the domestic city.
The soldiers on the city wall noticed and immediately beat drums to warn.
Many people ran up to the city gate to prepare their bows and arrows to defeat the enemy. At this moment, a familiar general led more than 200 people to the city gate and said to the city guard: "His Royal Highness King Guang heard the sound of drums.
Let me wait to support you while all your people go to put out the fire?"
"Great, I'm worried about the lack of manpower..."
"General, look, the Jin army seems to be serious this time."
The city guard immediately looked away and saw the densely packed Jin army and the doorposts they were holding. He couldn't help but frowned, "Seriously? It's almost dark, why attack the city at this time?"
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Because it takes time to send their message out, and only at this time can they have a chance to sneak into the tower when attacking the city.
The people sent by King Guang and the city guards had met each other and had an impression of each other, so he had no doubts and immediately asked people to take them to receive bows and arrows.
He said: "Let's take a look at the situation first. If the Jin army comes within range, they will shoot arrows. If they don't, we won't provoke them."
The fate of Shen Ming and his army made them very cautious when fighting the Jin army, not only to prevent the Jin army from killing them, but also to prevent them from being abandoned by the inner city and the palace.
Duke Zhao did not stop, and directly ordered to rush the city gate...
This was something the people on the tower didn't expect. When the city guard saw them entering the shooting range, he immediately shouted the order, "Shoot quickly, shoot quickly -"
He shouted: "Grandma, the Jin army must have seen the fire in our city and knew that we had too much to take care of ourselves, so they came to the palace. Send someone to the fire scene to call for help..."
After giving the order, the soldiers in the first row who raised their hands to shoot arrows were slashed in the neck by the people behind them. The city guard widened his eyes and looked at them in disbelief, "You, Prince Guang..."
Before he could finish speaking, a knife came towards him. He immediately raised the knife to block it. When he saw the knife, he was shocked, "This is a knife from Jin people, and you are from Jin Dynasty!"
There was chaos on the tower, and the people below the tower also ran to the city gate carrying the beating posts. Everyone shouted and knocked them in bit by bit...
Qian Canjun killed many people on the tower and attracted the Goguryeo soldiers downstairs to come up for reinforcements. He took a dozen or so skilled soldiers down the stairs and fought into a group with the soldiers who were holding up the tower.
The shouts of killing were heard from the tower, but because of the fire in the inner city, no one could hear it except the people living nearby.
The common people looked in the windows of their houses, then quickly closed the door with a bang and huddled up as if they could not see or hear.
General Qian Shen killed several people, and under the cover of his comrades, he pushed the wooden bolt on the city gate to the other side. Before he could completely remove it, the Goguryeo soldiers rushed towards him, and he could only turn around to resist...