Chapter four hundred and twenty nine entering the city
"Boom~!"
A loud bang sounded from the city gate. The rebels who were about to enter Jinling City didn't know what was going on, but they were horrified to find a huge stone lion taller than a person flying towards them diagonally. Everyone in the place turned on their backs and blocked them.
The leader in front was beaten to death by the rebels in an instant, with blood flying and his limbs missing.
Even a war horse blocking the way was instantly knocked out.
The stone lion flew for a dozen feet before finally stopping. Then it ran out of power and fell into the moat outside the city.
At the same time, more than a dozen thieves were knocked out.
But under the city gate, there was a wailing and screaming, the ground was bloody and bloody, and an unknown number of rebel soldiers were killed by the huge stone.
"What's going on? What happened?"
"Quick, rush into the city and seize the city wall."
"What are you still doing here? Why don't you continue the attack?"
The bandit leader behind him was shocked when he saw this, but he still started fighting desperately, not wanting his men to stop attacking.
We are still on the battlefield now, and the cavalry from the imperial court have come to kill us. If we do not capture Jinling City, the situation will become quite dangerous.
The big and small bosses supervised the battle one after another, which had some effect. The bandits behind them didn't know what was happening in front, and they still rushed towards them with weapons and shouting.
"Huh~!"
The sound of howling wind sounded again.
Before these rebels could rush into the city gate, they once again saw a stone lion flying out from inside, once again smashing the rebels who had just gathered together to rush across the drawbridge.
"With me, Wu Xiang, here, who dares to seize the city?"
Wu Xiang roared angrily. He took off an iron rod from his back, strode over, and knocked down the surviving bandits nearby.
The iron rod, which is as thick as a bowl and made entirely of fine steel, weighs at least several hundred kilograms. Even a martial arts master like Li Xiuyuan would not dare to take a stick, let alone an ordinary soldier.
Once struck with a stick, either the soldier's head would explode or his body would shrivel up, and he would die without even a scream.
On the opposite side, the thieves who were knocked upside down after being hit were stunned for a moment when they saw Wu Xiang walking out with an iron bar.
Not to mention the level of martial arts, just that iron rod can make people feel frightened.
The iron rod that ordinary people could not lift was like a straw in his hand, waving in the wind.
"Wu Xiang, don't worry about those rebels. Close the city gates, smash the suspension bridge, and prevent the rebels from taking the city." Li Xiuyuan saw that Wu Xiang had stopped the rebels by himself. He was surprised and shouted hurriedly.
"Is it my benefactor?"
Wu Xiang was stunned for a moment and looked around, only to see Li Xiuyuan coming with his cavalry not far away and charging towards the rebels.
"Don't worry, benefactor, I will close the city gate right now." Wu Xiang replied loudly.
After speaking, he stood the iron rod on the ground, stretched out his hand to grab it, and with two loud noises, the heavy city gate was closed in an instant. Then he strode over and repelled hundreds of thieves.
Then the suspension bridge was easily destroyed and sank into the moat.
Without the suspension bridge, the rebels' ambition to capture the city was completely destroyed.
"good."
Seeing this scene, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but shout, and then he led the cavalry to instantly break down the rebel army's formation, and at the same time blocked the rebel army's retreat.
"Boom~!"
Thousands of cavalry are still wreaking havoc on the battlefield. The thieves who surrounded the city on all sides are now gone and are just scrambling to escape.
But Li Xiuyuan did not stop there. Instead, he ordered several commanders to lead the cavalry to capture the rebels on the battlefield, force them to surrender, and reduce the rebels' power.
now.
In the rebel camp far away from the battlefield.
The flag of the Nine Mountain King hangs high here.
Under the commander's flag, Li Liangjin panicked for a moment when he saw countless deserters rushing to leave Jinling City and run here.
"What's going on? Why did you lose so easily? Didn't you want to capture Jinling City?" Li Liangjin looked up and murmured to himself.
Although the four chiefs did not listen to his orders and attacked the city without permission when they were in command, they were angry. However, he still hoped to capture Jinling City. After all, his palace was in Jinling City. If he could capture it, it would be considered a victory.
If I can wash away the previous shame, my title as the King of Nine Mountains will be well-deserved.
But I never thought that the war situation, which was looking great, would suddenly take a turn for the worse.
"My lord, the cavalry from the imperial court is here. My lord, look, there are nearly ten thousand golden-armored cavalry. They are well-equipped and have extraordinary combat power. In addition, when we attacked the city just now, we did not guard against reinforcements, so that the cavalry was allowed to attack from the flanks.
The road was so rough that leader Shi Hu's men and horses retreated immediately. The cavalry attacked the members of the White Lotus Sect, and those members also fled. Although they could not see Mr. Chen and leader Wang Ze, the cavalrymen themselves
Turning around from south to north, I'm afraid it's going to be less bad and less good."
Nan Shanweng next to him spoke, but his eyes were not panicked, but instead had a bit of a smile.
He didn't want to see the rebels marching forward with great success. What he wanted to see most was for the rebels to suddenly collapse when they were about to become a force.
In this way, Li Liangjin is not far from death.
Li Liangjin saw more and more defeated troops, and he asked in a panic: "What should the military advisor do now?"
Nanshan Weng said: "Jinling City can no longer be taken down. My lord, it is better to make plans to retreat temporarily with the troops. The imperial court does not have many cavalry, so it should be unable to continue the pursuit."
"Yes, what the military advisor said is, quickly, leave this place quickly, go quickly."
Li Liangjin said in a panic, without any regard for preparations, he rode a horse and summoned his cronies to flee from here.
Because they were in such a hurry to escape, they left behind all military supplies, money and food, and many of the rebels who stayed behind in the camp were even abandoned. They didn't even know that their commander had escaped.
Since then, the previously mighty rebel army of more than 100,000 people was instantly defeated in this battle. There are many reasons for this defeat. Some leaders have ulterior motives and are unwilling to contribute, and some rebels lack weapons.
, ordnance, most of them were bandits brought in, and their combat effectiveness was not strong. Also, Li Xiuyuan's cavalry came too fiercely, and no one could resist it for a while, so this was the result.
No matter what, the fact that hundreds of thousands of rebels were defeated outside Jinling City is an ironclad fact.
"By the general's order, rebels who kneel down and surrender will not be killed, and those who dare to escape will be killed without mercy." On the battlefield, the cavalry continued to attack, and a new military order echoed outside Jinling City.
Li Xiuyuan felt that there were too many rebels. Even the 8,000 cavalry brought by the 100,000 pigs would have to be killed by one person, not to mention the hundreds of thousands.
Now that the outcome is clear, the rebels have fled and dispersed, and now the cavalry can surrender.
It was not until dusk that all the fighting calmed down.
Li Xiuyuan was riding a dragon colt, wearing blood-soaked armor, holding a gun without a tip, and slowly pacing on the battlefield with dozens of cavalrymen.
Corpses littered the fields, blood flowed into rivers, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of blood.
The dragon who sat down seemed to be adapting to this situation very quickly, snorting continuously to express his dissatisfaction.
"Report, general, all the surrendered rebels have been escorted to the rebel barracks for guarding." A cavalryman rushed over and reported.
Li Xiuyuan replied: "Leave a thousand people to watch, be careful, beware of chaos."
"Report, General, all the city walls have been taken over, and the defenders did not stop them." Another cavalryman came to report.
Li Xiuyuan said: "Very good, I control the yamen and the civil and military officials in the city. Starting today, Jinling City will be taken over by me. No matter how good the city is, it will not be able to be defended if it continues to be handed over to these corrupt officials."
"Report, general. King Maitreya, one of the four leaders of the rebels, died on the battlefield. The person who killed Wang Ze was not one of ours. I heard that Han Mengdu said that he was helped by a friend of the general."
Li Xiuyuan continued: "Oh, the king of the Maitreya Sect is dead? It seems that my previous strategy of dividing the troops worked. At least one rebel leader was intercepted and killed, but it doesn't matter who killed it. Now we are not rewarding based on merit.
When the time comes, go and investigate again to see if Mr. Chen is dead. Aunt Hua and Shi Hu of the White Lotus Sect must have escaped, so there is no need to waste time tracking them down."
"Yes, General."
Orders came out of his mouth one after another, and any words spoken by Li Xiuyuan at this moment could affect the lives and deaths of countless people inside and outside Jinling City.
Who would have thought that Li Xiuyuan was just an unpopular scholar.
"Go back to the city to rest before dark, and we'll discuss cleaning up the battlefield tomorrow." Li Xiuyuan added.
He looked at the sunset in the distance.
Although it has not yet set, there is a slight chill coming.
So many people died at night, and I was afraid that something evil was going to happen again, so I had to quickly let the ghost soldiers come out to take away the souls, so as not to affect the nearby people.
"Entering the city for repairs~!"
After the war was completely over, he issued the last order.
The scattered cavalrymen on the battlefield began to gather together and walked into Jinling City one after another.
But when Li Xiuyuan rode the dragon horse along, he discovered that in addition to the corpses of the rebels, he also saw the corpses of some common people.
He saw a young man holding a young girl and falling into the muddy water. His body had been trampled by the army into a human shape, and his body was covered with arrows.
I also saw a young-looking lady who was only holding her own child, which was bloody and bloody. The infant baby had also been dead for a long time and was completely black and blue.
He even saw the corpses of hundreds of people piled up under the city gate, and above the city gate there were many bloody wounds scratched out with blood.
It seems that before dying, he hopes to open the city gate.
"The rebels' attack on the city is not a temporary task. They have already attacked Jinling City three times. Why are there corpses of people outside the city?" Li Xiuyuan was silent for a long time and asked coldly.
"I'm going to make inquiries right now." A cavalryman responded and immediately rushed into the city in advance.
After a while, the cavalry came back, and he said: "Back to the general, these people were refugees who went out of the city to pick up weapons and military supplies. They are refugees in the city. Master Yang, the guard in the city, gave an order for the refugees to go out of the city to pick up military supplies in exchange for food and drink.
"
"Master Yang? Which Master Yang?" Li Xiuyuan said.
"It's that Ambassador Yang from the capital."
Li Xiuyuan nodded and said, "I recognize him. He was the one who surrendered before leaving the city. Very good. Is this person still in the city?"
"They have been detained as rebels and sent to the rebel camp outside the city." The cavalryman said.
Li Xiuyuan said: "Take this Ambassador Yang into the city, and also bring all the civil and military officials who surrendered before...I will kill them myself."
The cavalryman was stunned for a moment, then immediately clasped his fists and said, "Yes, General."
Immediately, a group of people left the main force and ran towards the direction of the rebel camp.
"Dismount after entering the city." Li Xiuyuan said again: "Everyone should go to the Marquis' Mansion in the city to rest first. Li Liangjin rebelled, and his mansion has been taken over by the general. I will let you stay and rest for the time being. I will celebrate your victory later and gather enough energy first.
"
There are many large houses in the Hou Mansion. Not to mention these thousands of people and horses, even another ten or twenty thousand people can be accommodated.
Moreover, the Hou Mansion was only sealed, and the house was not ransacked. It was much more comfortable to live in than in a military tent.
After fighting for a day, these people under him worked hard, and he would not be stingy.
"Thank you, General." The people behind him cheered up and shouted in unison.
"Are those under the city wall refugees? Who is responsible for managing them?" Li Xiuyuan suddenly pointed at the refugees under the city wall.
These refugees were in ragged clothes, shivering and huddled under the city wall, bruised and bruised from the cold. There were also some unattended children, who were crying loudly and calling for their parents and grandfathers.
"General, general, these are the refugees who have poured into Jinling City from nearby. The younger one is a civil servant in the city, responsible for managing these refugees."
When a petty official saw the army coming in, he hurriedly came forward to greet him. He knelt down in front of Li Xiuyuan, his head pressed firmly to the ground, and his whole body was trembling and trembling.
"Stand up. If I kill you, it's useless for you to kneel. If I don't kill you, you don't need to kneel." Li Xiuyuan shouted.
"Yes, General." The clerk's face was pale and he stood up tremblingly, not daring to look at Li Xiuyuan.
Li Xiuyuan said: "Since they are refugees, why don't you take care of them and instead let them fend for themselves here?"
"This, this matter is under the control of the adults. The younger ones don't know much about it either." The clerk replied cautiously.
"I'll give you an errand. If you do it well, there will be no reward, but you can survive. If you don't do it well, I will send someone to remove your head." Li Xiuyuan said.
"Please give me your orders, general." The clerk was so frightened that he knelt down again.
Li Xiuyuan said: "There must be official residences in Jinling City. The residences of the civil and military officials who left the city before have been used to house refugees. Anyone who dares to stop them will be killed." After saying this, he looked at a group of defenders on the roadside.
"You garrison troops, come here and follow this little official to resettle the refugees. You have to prepare food and clothing. The money will be taken from the houses of your respective civil and military officials. If you do this well, you will be rewarded. If you don't do it well, you will have to move your head as well. How do you decide on the specifics?
Be sure, I just want results."
"Yes, General."
The dozen or so defenders were overjoyed when they heard this and hurriedly responded with clasped fists.
This thing is so easy, how could it not be done well?
Many nearby refugees heard Li Xiuyuan's arrangements, and they all raised their heads and looked at Li Xiuyuan, with hope in their eyes.
This is the hope of survival.
He did not look at these refugees because he felt ashamed.
I just poured a spoonful of water on a pile of weeds when they were about to die.