Two days later, on September 12, most of the rebels arrived at Jinan City. ?
Zhang Chen stood on the top of the city, holding a telescope and saw the man riding next to the coach's banner, and said bitterly: "Xie Guo has really rebelled and commanded the rebels! Really, after the rebellion was suppressed, Your Majesty will never let him go!"
Because Xie Cheng was determined to rebel and was a veteran general with rich experience in fighting, Lu Yuan immediately asked Xie Cheng to command the army.
After Xie Cheng led his troops to Jinan City, he immediately set up camp and quickly began to attack the city! Because Xia Zi led the cavalry to escape, Jinan City already had several days of preparation time, and he could no longer waste any more time. .
These days, Zhang Chen, He Yuan, Zhuang De, Xia Zi and others have tried their best to organize the defense of the city, but they are still not optimistic. When they defended the city last time, they consumed a lot of defensive equipment, and now there is no oil in the city. There are not many, and there are also very few rolling wood and stones. If you want to get rolling wood and stones, you have to demolish the house.
Although the heavy artillery is still in Jinan City, Xie Cheng took most of the gunpowder with him when he left, making the cannon almost a display, allowing the rebels' light artillery to wreak havoc.
In addition, the morale of the rebels was not low, and the morale of the people defending the city, both officers and soldiers, was low. Therefore, although Zhang Shen and others had tried their best, on September 14th, just two days later, On that day, the rebels under the command of Xie Cheng scaled the city wall of Jinan City from the south city wall, and the city of Jinan was breached!
When the city of Jinan was almost broken, Zhuang De and Xia Zi led their cavalry to break out from the north gate.
Zhuang De originally said to Xia Zi: "Brother Xia, we must take away the cavalry before the city of Jinan is broken!"
"If all the cavalry also falls in Jinan City, then there will be no army in Shandong that can stop the rebels except Denglai Second Prefecture, and Denglai Second Prefecture is isolated by Qingzhou and Luxi, then the rebels can completely occupy Shandong Most of the areas, such as Dongchang Prefecture, cannot be defended! The rebels can even go north to Baobei, west to Henan, and south to Jianghuai. So the cavalry must withdraw!"
Xia Zi said: "Zhuang De, you can evacuate with me."
Zhuang De said: "I am now the general guarding the city of Jinan. How can I leave Jinan City and leave?"
At this time, Zhang Chen said: "Zhuang De, you can leave too! You are not the commander of the Jinan Guard. The general who defends the city was just appointed by Xie Chengdu. Now that Xie Chengdu has rebelled, his words will naturally not count. "
Then Zhang Chen continued: "I am the political envoy of Zuo Bu in Shandong, and I am the highest official in Shandong now. I order you to lead the troops to break out of the encirclement. There is no need to consider other things!"
"Also," Zhang Chen took out a memorial and said, "This is my legacy. It will be passed on to His Majesty after you break out of the siege!"
He Yuan also took out something and handed it to Zhuang De and said: "This is also my legacy, and I will pass it on to your majesty."
Zhuang De usually only had an average relationship with Zhang Chen and the others, but when he saw them like this, he cried and said, "I know, I will definitely send your legacy to the capital!"
He Yuan said to Yang Shiqi again: "Follow them to break out! There is no need for you to be trapped in the city!"
Yang Shiqi said: "How can I leave!"
He Yuan said: "Why can't you leave!"
Zhang Chen also said: "You are not an official from Shandong, why can't you leave?" Then he said to Zhuang De: "Tie Yang Shiqi to the horse, and be sure to take away Yang Yushi safely."
Zhuang De said: "Yes!" Then he called to his guards, who picked up Yang Shiqi and took him away without any explanation, ignoring Yang Shiqi's constant words of "let me go!" and his struggle.
Although Xie Cheng's troops were much more than those in Jinan City, in order to break Jinan City as soon as possible, Xie Cheng did not dare to put too many people in other gates, so the cavalry led by Zhuang De paid a certain amount of casualties. Then successfully broke through.
Yang Shiqi knew that his friend He Yuan would not survive to serve the rebels, so he looked back at Jinan City where the shouts of killing were loud and said firmly: "He Yuan, I will definitely avenge you!"
In the city of Jinan, in the backyard of Si Yamen, the governor of Shandong Province, Zhang Chen waved the guards back after hearing the words of the escorting guards: "The rebels have captured the outer city and are attacking the inner city."
Zhang Chen was wearing an official robe at this time, which was Zhang Chen's best-preserved official robe. Next to him, his wife was also wearing her best clothes.
Zhang Chen said to his wife: "Today is the day when we die, and one daughter and two sons will go to hell with us. If you had known the outcome of today thirty years ago, then you would still marry give to me?"
His wife smiled and said: "I have spent most of my life with you and I have no regrets. Even if I knew the ending would be like this thirty years ago, I would still marry you."
Zhang Chen also smiled, took out a bottle of wine, and then ordered his daughter and two sons to be called.
When they all arrived, Zhang Chen said to them: "Drink this drink."
Zhang Chen's youngest son immediately said: "Dad, I don't want to drink! I don't want to die!"
Zhang Chen's eyes widened and he said: "Our Zhang family is full of loyal people, how can there be anyone who would stoop to serve as a thief!" Then, regardless of his son's struggles, he asked his servants to pour it into his mouth.
Then Zhang Shen waited for his son, daughter and wife to finish drinking. He also picked up his glass and drank it all in one gulp. Then he said to his servants: "You should also run away for your lives! Don't stay in the Yamen, otherwise be careful with your life." No guarantee!" Then he leaned so hard that he couldn't move on the table.
Xie Cheng led his troops into the inner city of Jinan City. Luo Ren, who led the troops into the city first, said to him: "General Xie, Zhang Chen, the governor of Shandong Province, has committed suicide, and the inspector has also committed suicide. Zhuang De and Xia Zi led the cavalry and fled with Yang Shiqi..."
"However, He Yuan, the prefect of Jinan, was very strange. He neither committed suicide nor surrendered. Instead, he sat in the middle of the hall and asked Prince Qi to go see him."
Xie Cheng thought for a while and said: "I just want to reprimand him face to face and have fun with it. His parents, wife and children are not in Jinan, so there is nothing to worry about. Of course, he cannot surrender."
Normally, after Xie Cheng said these words, he would no longer care about He Yuan. But today, he suddenly became interested and said: "Now that the city has been destroyed, gather the troops quickly. There is no need to harass the people. I'll go and take a look. He Yuan."
Not long after, Xie Cheng came to the Jinan government office and saw He Yuan sitting in the lobby. Because of Luo Ren's order, the soldiers surrounding him just stayed around He Yuan and did not do anything to He Yuan, so He Yuan You can sit safely in your seat.
He Yuan saw Xie Cheng walking in and said, "Why are you here? Where is the King of Qi! I want to see the deposed King of Qi!" He now knew that Yunxi had decreed to depose Zhu Su as the King of Qi, so
He called Zhu Su the Fei King of Qi.
Xie Cheng said: "You want to see King Qi just because you want to rebuke King Qi in person."
He Yuan heard what he said and knew that he had guessed his purpose, so he didn't expect Zhu Shu to come and be scolded. So he planned to scold Xie Cheng: If he can't scold the King of Qi, it would be good to scold Xie Cheng.
It's just that I can't achieve my other goal.
But Xie Cheng immediately asked the soldiers to retreat. He Yuan smiled and said: "What? You still want to cooperate with me?" He was a little confused.
Xie Cheng said: "I don't mean to be scolded by you. But since you mentioned King Qi, I want you to be clear, so I asked the soldiers who are not in a position to hear what happens next to retreat."
He Yuan felt in a daze that what Xie Cheng said next must be something very important.
Sure enough, Xie Cheng said next: "Actually, this rebellion was not initiated by King Qi, but by people from Prince Qi's palace who hijacked Prince Qi."
He Yuan immediately said in surprise: "What!"
Xie Cheng said: "I'm not talking nonsense. Faced with a person like you who is about to die, I either don't say anything, or if I say it, there is no need to deceive you."
Then Xie Cheng, before He Yuan had finished digesting such a news, continued: "And, I'm afraid you also want to know why I rebelled. Then I will tell you." Then Xie Cheng said why he rebelled.
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Then, before He Yuan could react and speak, Xie Cheng said directly: "I have solved your doubts, so you can go with peace of mind."
Then Xie Cheng called his guards in and took out a rope to strangle He Yuan to death. He still left He Yuan with some official dignity.
Before He Yuan was strangled to death, He Yuan did not speak, but he thought to himself: 'Although I did not achieve the first goal, I achieved the second goal. This is probably something you can't imagine at all.'
Xie Cheng stepped forward to check He Yuan's body, and after confirming that he was indeed dead, he said: "You guys, please find a place to bury him outside Jinan City. Then build a tombstone for him. I'm afraid you are in a hurry.
There’s nothing we can do about the stone monument, so let’s build a wooden monument.”
After a pause, Xie Cheng continued: "Not only him, but also the officials who committed suicide, including Zhang Shen, the political envoy to the left, must have been buried as well."
He had enmity with Yunxi, but he had no enmity with these officials, and he had a good relationship with these people when he was the commander of the capital in Jinan, so he had them buried.
Naturally, it was not very satisfying to be appointed by Xie Cheng to bury their personal guards. When Xie Cheng left, he called all the servants in the mansion and the civilians serving in the service and said: "You guys, follow me and I will bury them."
Kill them!" He wouldn't do it himself.
The servants Nono responded. The personal guard led them out of the mansion and did not notice that there was an extra person in the team following him.
Then when they arrived outside the city, they immediately found a place to bury them.
After they finished burying the people, these people said: "Sir, we are all people from the countryside near Jinan City, not people in Jinan City. Let us go back."
The guard said: "No! Come back here!"
But he thought again, pointed at a few old men and said, "You can go." The young men would be very useful whether they were recruiting men or working, but the old men were of little use, so they could be let go.
Several old people knelt down and said, "Thank you, Sir." Then they got up and left.