"Tongzhou City is lost?" Seeing Yang Rong vomiting blood, they hurriedly supported him. Now Xueshi Yang no longer had the strength to break away from them, and murmured in despair: "How could this happen? How could this happen..."
Yang Rong slowly cast his eyes on Xu Huaiqing's body, and finally understood that the other party deliberately did not escape, not to show off provocation, but to anger and attract himself! He pinned himself firmly outside Tongzhou City and let all his attention
All the power is on him! Create opportunities for Wang Xian to make money...
"I am a sinner for the ages!" Scholar Yang wailed, suddenly pulled out the Emperor's Sword, and tried to wipe it off his neck!
Zuo Zuo quickly grabbed his arm, so that Yang Rong did not succeed in committing suicide. Zuo Zuo shed tears and urged: "Mr. Ge, please don't! Let's take back Tongzhou City again!"
"How to seize it..." Yang Ronglao said with tears. He knew the situation of Tongzhou City very well. The city has high walls and thick walls, complete facilities, and mountains of food and grass in the city. With Wang Xian's ability, it would be easy for him to hold on for a year and a half. As for the imperial court,
Without the food and grass in Tongzhou, we can't hold on for much longer...
"Maybe Tongzhou hasn't been lost yet..." At this time, Li Xian suddenly whispered.
When everyone heard this, they all looked at Li Xian. Yang Rong also stared at him, gritting his teeth and saying, "What do you mean?"
"There are still 30,000 troops in the city, and the south gate, north gate, and east gate are also in our hands..." Li Xian did not dare to look into Yang Rong's eyes.
"What?!" Yang Rong suddenly came to life, stepped forward and grabbed Li Xian, and said angrily: "Then why did you run out?!"
"I..." Li Xian said timidly: "I'm here to report to Mr. Ge..."
Naturally, these words couldn't be more false. The real situation is that he was driven out of his wits by the pursuers behind him, and he actually ran to the north gate in one breath!
At this time, there were still thousands of defenders at the north gate. Upon seeing this, they hurriedly stepped forward to take over the general. However, Li Xian was completely frightened. When he saw thousands of cavalry rolling in behind Wu Wei and others, he was filled with excitement.
Out of fear, he still dared to stay in the city and actually shouted to the city guard: "Open the city gate quickly!"
The guard general had long seen that the city was in chaos. There was no point in closing the city gate tightly at this time. On the contrary, it would block the reinforcements from coming. Naturally, he immediately obeyed the order and opened the closed city gate!
While waiting for the city gate to open, Li Xian pulled a cavalryman off his horse. As soon as the city gate opened a crack, he slithered out of Tongzhou on horseback...
How could he dare to tell Yang Rong this true situation...
Hearing that Tongzhou City had not been captured yet, Yang Rong did not bother to deal with Li Xian and hurriedly mounted his horse and led his army to quickly return for reinforcements.
For more than ten miles, fast horses galloped and arrived in a blink of an eye. In the blink of an eye, Yang Rong led 20,000 cavalry to the foot of Tongzhou City.
Because the west gate had been captured, Yang Rong went straight to the north and wanted to enter the city from the north gate, but found that the gate opened by Li Xian was already closed.
Yang Rong's heart thumped, but he still refused to give up and called the door. The answer was the bed slave at the top of the city. The powerful crossbow roared over and nailed the man and his horse to the ground!
The officers and soldiers under the city were completely silent. They didn't know that the north gate had also fallen into Wang Xian's hands. Yang Rong resentfully turned his horse and gritted his teeth and said: "Go to the east gate!"
The 20,000 cavalry had no choice but to continue to circle the city. After a while, they turned to the east gate and happened to witness Wang Xian's army capture the city and throw the imperial dragon flag down the city wall.
Yang Rong's face was ashen and he could not stop, so he turned his horse and continued to circle the city, leading his men to the south gate...
The defenders at the south gate were very enthusiastic. They waved them to come quickly and pretended to lower the suspension bridge halfway. But Yang Rong and others had been tricked too many times. They didn't see the suspension bridge completely lowered, so how could they move immediately?
forward?
Sure enough, the suspension bridge stopped descending, and the defenders at the top of the city sighed in disappointment.
"You're still lying to us? Don't even think about it!" After seeing through the enemy's trick, Yang Rong couldn't help feeling proud.
"You're so proud!" Yang Rong's face was livid, he was a dignified bachelor, and he even used curse words!
Only then did Zuo Zuo suddenly wake up, oh my god, how come all four gates of Tongzhou were taken down? What a big deal this time...
"Mr. Ge, why don't we go to Ximen again..." One of his subordinates suggested in a low voice, seeming to feel that it would not be satisfactory if we did not go around the city.
Yang Rong didn't even have the strength to curse, and he fainted as soon as his vision went dark...
The nine gates of Beijing are tightly closed, and it has entered a wartime state many days ago.
Unsurprisingly, rumors spread all over the city, and various prophecies and nursery rhymes circulated. Millions of soldiers and civilians were panicked, and it was a scene of doomsday. Naturally, the court could not let the people's morale weaken, and tried its best to change the people's hearts.
In addition to those useless words, two major events did play a certain role. First, Yang Rong led an army of 100,000 and 200,000 civilians to transport food to Tongzhou. Second, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally led the expedition.
, led an army of 50,000 people out of the city to fight Wang Xian.
In order to inspire people's hearts, the imperial court also held a grand expedition ceremony. Seeing His Royal Highness the Prince in golden armor leading 50,000 troops out of the city in a mighty manner, the people in the capital did feel a little at ease. They secretly thought: 'Wait until the Duke of Zhen Guo kills Zhu Zhan.
Ji, will you just calm down and give up...'
To this day, no matter how the court publicizes it, the common people have already determined that it was the prince and Yang Shiqi who forced Wang Xian to rebel. Compared with the Duke of Zhen Guo who pacified the grassland, the common people seem to hate these two people more...
But the first thing is indeed something that everyone likes to see. If there is food at home, the heart will not panic. If there is food in the city, the soldiers and civilians will not panic. Seeing the carts of grain and grass being transported back to the capital, and the people lined the streets to welcome them, they finally felt less panic.
.
But after a while, the following grain trucks disappeared and entered the city. The people looked at each other, wondering what had happened. After a series of bad news, everyone became extremely pessimistic. What is even more sad is that it turned out that their
It’s right to be pessimistic…
After waiting for an hour, dozens of scattered grain trucks finally returned to the city in a hurry, and then the city gate was suddenly closed. Although the officers and soldiers were very secretive about what happened outside the city, the news spread through the mouths of the people.
Come, the people finally know that Wang Xian sent troops to cut off the food transportation channel!
That is to say, Wang Xian's army is dozens or more than ten miles outside the capital! No wonder the officers and soldiers were so frightened that they closed the city gates and sent their troops to the city walls!
"It's over, it's over," the extremely disappointed people, no longer caring about the Dongchang spies, loudly vented their emotions: "Tongzhou's grain is no longer shipped back to the capital!"
"No way..." Some people said in disbelief: "There is an army of 100,000 soldiers of Mr. Yang Ge."
"What the heck!" Countless voices retorted at the same time: "With two million troops in the imperial court, why didn't Duke Zhen Guo come to the capital in one fell swoop? Yang Rong's one hundred thousand troops were not even enough to fill his teeth!"
"That's right, that's right..." More people said extremely pessimistically: "Let's see, there is no need to wait until next year, the capital will have the surname Wang!"
"No way, it's less than a month before the Chinese New Year. Why can't such a big capital survive a month?"
"Get over it, hurry up and finish the calculation, and you can still live a peaceful life..." There are definitely many people who hold this opinion: "Who is the emperor or not, what does it have to do with us common people?"
"Yes, I heard that people in Shandong are living a prosperous life..."
As he talked, the people's fear actually disappeared a lot, and many people were even hoping that Wang Xian would end the war quickly. After all, they were too familiar with Wang Xian. After all, he was the hero who swept across the Tartars. After all, under Wang Xian's rule,
Shandong is not too far from the capital...
In the final analysis, this is not an invasion by a foreign race, but a civil war within the same race. Just like Zhu Di replaced Emperor Jianwen, the people did not have to fight to the death with him...
However, the ministers in the court could not be as indifferent as the common people. Whether from the standpoint of loyalty to the emperor or from the reality of being an emperor and a minister, they could not accept Wang Xian replacing the Zhu family in the world.
All the ministers gathered in the palace, anxiously waiting for the results of the battle outside the city. Whether it was from the direction of Daxing or Tongzhou, as long as there was good news, they would be able to let go of their worries.
The ministers discussed the war situation sadly, while looking at the empty dragon chair high up from time to time. I heard that the emperor was very ill this time, and there were rumors that he was even terminally ill... It was really a leak in the house and it was raining continuously.
The broken ship encountered another storm. Could it be that God is really going to destroy the Zhu family?
Waiting until dark, I heard that the grain transport team had formed a formation to protect themselves, and Xu Huaiqing could not succeed in a sneak attack. I also heard that Yang Rong personally went out of the city and organized an army of 90,000 to encircle Xu Huaiqing with all his strength, and had surrounded him within a dozen miles.
The ministers relaxed a little and went home to eat and sleep, so that they would have the strength to continue working in the palace the next day.
Early the next morning, the ministers gathered in the palace again. They all yawned again and again, with dark circles under their eyes. They smiled wryly and greeted each other.
"Master Chen, you didn't sleep well either?"
"Hey, I have nightmares every time I close my eyes. How can I sleep well?"
"The dream is reversed. It seems there will be good news today."
"I hope so..."
They didn't have to wait too long. As soon as the sun rose, a messenger rushed into the palace.
The messenger went straight to Yang Shiqi, knelt down and reported: "Chief Assistant, His Royal Highness has a military report!"
Yang Shiqi took it with a serious face, took a deep breath, and opened the military report.
All the princes and ministers held their breath. After Yang Shiqi finished reading, they quickly asked: "Chief Assistant, what's going on?"
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has joined Daxing's army, but there is no sign of Wang Xian. According to His Highness's inference, Wang Xian should have gone to Tongzhou to rescue Xu Huaiqing." Yang Shiqi did not hide anything, and said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has led the army.
Heading north to Tongzhou."
After saying that, Yang Shiqi hurried to Qianqing Palace to report the latest situation to Emperor Hongxi, who was lying in bed.
"Haha!" As soon as Yang Shiqi left, the ministers laughed happily: "Now the man named Wang has fallen into a trap. An army of 200,000 has surrounded him, and it is difficult for him to fly even with wings!"