On the first day of summer, the rebels attacked Yangzi City without stopping day and night.
Under the cover of a strong attack, they dug trenches not far from the city.
The rebels erected the ladder in a trench, with the trench bottom supporting it and people pressing on it, so the ladder would not be easily pushed down.
For the rebels, there seems to be some hope of breaking through the city, but of course they will not be able to feel comfortable under the city.
The river was fishy and smelly. In addition to throwing feces into the river, the defenders also pushed the corpses of the rebels into the river.
In such an environment, everyone feels like breathing is a burden.
After the ladder is set up, the stronger practitioners use flying instruments or their sharp blades to cut off the ladder.
What ordinary people cannot do, practitioners above the Diocesan realm are at the forefront at this moment.
No rebels were able to attack the city wall on the first day, and the same was true on the second day.
On the third day, the rebels continued their fierce attack and finally killed them, but they were unable to gain a foothold on the city wall.
By the fifth day, the rancid smell from the city walls was so strong that people couldn't even breathe.
Although the garrison soldiers on the city wall could smell the smell, at least they didn't have to come into direct contact with the rotting things below.
The scale of the rebel army is so large. They have been burning, killing and looting all the way, so they may not be short of food and grass right away.
But they must be short of medicine.
On the seventh day, Lin Ye stood on the city wall and looked towards the rebel camp. He saw many people carrying a large number of corpses out with their mouths and noses covered.
These corpses may not have died of disease, but may have died of infection due to lack of medication to stop bleeding, or they may have been simply abandoned.
On the tenth day, more and more bodies were being transported out of the rebel camp.
In such a war, the injured were not treated and the weather became hot again. They were just waiting to die.
Looking at the morale of the rebels attacking the city, it is obviously not as high as before.
Every day when the rebels attacked the city, Lin Ye asked the defenders to shout while defending.
He said that Tuoba Lie didn't take the lives of the rebel soldiers seriously at all and just wanted them to die.
Lin Ye also invited some village elders from Guzhu to stand on the city wall and shout in Guzhu dialect, saying that Emperor Jade was still there and that the rebels had all been deceived by Tuoba Lie.
Originally, a few days after the war started, the emperor was going to the city wall to boost morale. Lin Ye requested that the emperor come back in a few days.
At this time, seeing that the morale of the rebels was low and the morale of the army was shattered, Lin Ye immediately sent people to the palace to invite the emperor to come to the city.
On the morning of the eleventh day, the rebels attacked again, and the emperor's yellow umbrella appeared on the city wall.
Emperor Jade personally arrived, and the morale of the soldiers on the city wall was greatly boosted.
The emperor didn't need to say anything, just showing up on the city wall, Tuoba Lie's lie that Lin Ye was plotting to rebel and kill the emperor was self-defeating.
By the eleventh night, perhaps Tuoba Lie already knew that the morale of the army was difficult to stabilize and could not be delayed any longer.
So a night attack was ordered.
Under the command of Beiye Army General Gu Wansheng, the rebel soldiers began to dig tunnels, trying to dig holes under the city wall to enter the city.
Feng Xiu ordered the defenders on the city wall to throw stones down to slow down the rebels from digging tunnels.
As the capital of Guzhu, Yangzi is not as good as Geling, the capital of Dayu, but the foundation is deep and solid, so it is not so easy to dig through, and it is not like tofu. You can just poke a hole.
The first night the rebels tried to dig through the city wall was not very successful, and there were many casualties.
On the twelfth day, Tuoba Lie ordered that he didn't have to wait until night and started digging during the day regardless of the cost.
Dayu's army was frantically harvesting the lives of the rebels on the city wall, and the number of casualties every day was so large that it made people feel numb.
On the thirteenth day, the river channel was finally cleared and leveled by the rebels, and the rebels' trucks began to push forward.
Lin Ye stood on the city wall and observed carefully. He determined that not only did the rebels not have enough medicine, they might not even have enough food.
Most of the rebel soldiers looked lethargic, and their movements were far less vigorous than at the beginning.
Tuoba Lie knew this would happen from the beginning. He kidnapped the people and used them as cannon fodder to attack the city. The momentum was huge, but it could not last long.
How much food does an army of more than 1.5 million people consume every day?
Moreover, they failed to get supplies from Yunzhou. Even if each person was only given half a catty of grain per day, how long could they sustain 1.5 million people.
Originally, according to the emperor's plan, when Wan Yulou met Tuoba Lie in Yunzhou and replenished food and supplies for Tuoba Lie, Ning Weimo would meet the soldiers and horses of Xiangshan Camp and cut off the rebels' food and grass supplies.
Izumo Prefecture pursued from behind, completely disrupting Tuoba Lie's plan.
But because Wan Yulou guessed that Ning Weimo came back secretly and was found by him, Yunzhou's plan changed.
However, even if the plan changes again, the Xiangshan camp behind Tuoba Lie will not change when it marches towards Lone Bamboo.
On the sixteenth day of the rebel siege, Tuoba Lie knew that there was no chance left.
His original intention was to quickly capture Yangzicheng with an absolutely superior force.
However, the failure of the food plan in Yangzi City meant that the emperor's army was not short of food.
His fast break tactics became meaningless.
For such a sophisticated and huge serial plan, Tuoba Lie and Mei Luowu did nothing wrong from the initial design to the execution. Unfortunately, their opponent was the emperor and a fledgling Lin Ye.
By this time, Tuoba Lie knew that he had to prepare to leave.
The scouts who stayed on the border hurried back to report the news that soldiers and horses from Dayu Xiangshan Camp had entered Guzhu.
If he doesn't leave, there will be no chance for him to leave.
He would not be willing to take this gamble, but before he took this gamble, he had actually understood that there was not much chance of trapping Emperor Jade to death in Lone Bamboo.
So he gave the order to the army to attack fiercely for three days, day and night.
If he could break the city in these three days, he would still have a chance. If he couldn't break the city, he would have to turn back to winter camp.
However, after only two more days of fierce attack, scouts from the north of the city came to report and found that a large-scale army had arrived, with the banner of Dayu, and the general's banner was the word "Ning".
Ning Haitang from Longzhangtai came with a large army, and the soldiers under her command at this time were real Dayu elites.
Not to mention her personal soldiers, not to mention the Kuizi Camp and Quezi Camp that have been subordinated to her, and even Yun Guhong's defeated team in Dongbo were all Dayu's serious troops.
Rebel camp.
After receiving the news, Tuoba Lie frowned and didn't speak for a while.
Tuoba Ningxiu looked at his father like this and didn't dare to say anything he wanted to say.
After a long time, General Gu Wansheng persuaded the general to make a decision as soon as possible.
Tuoba Lie pondered for a moment and then ordered: "Give me the order. The Beiye Army will withdraw from the camp tonight. They only said that they are going to raid the north of the city and ordered other armies to continue their fierce attack at night."
Gu Wansheng immediately responded: "Yes!"
Tuoba Lie looked at his son again and said, "Go and prepare. We will return to Dongbo tonight."
Tuoba Ningxiu asked: "Where is my mother? I want to send someone to pick her up."
Tuoba Lie said: "I have sent someone to pick him up. You don't have to worry. Go and get ready."
Tuoba Ning was overjoyed and quickly went to pack his things.
At night, the rebels continued their fierce attack, but most of the rebel soldiers had actually exhausted their fighting spirit.
It was difficult to supervise them at night, so many people were just pretending to charge and didn't dare to really rush to the front.
War experience tells them that those at the front may not get the military honors promised to them, but they will definitely die faster than those behind.
The entire rebel camp was being mobilized, so the people who were kidnapped did not know that the elite of the Beiye Army had been mobilized overnight.
At dawn, someone discovered it, but they didn't care at first.
Before dawn, the Beiye Army had already circled to the north of Yangzi City and rushed towards Longzhangtai from the other direction.
Ning Haitang, the chief general of Longzhangtai, has already led his troops to rescue Yangzi, so Longzhangtai's troops must be empty.
Instead of going back, Tuoba Lie went to Longzhangtai. At the nearest moment, he was only forty miles away from Ning Haitang's Jade Army.
By the afternoon, the rebels probably came to their senses and they were all abandoned.
So there began to be a large number of people fleeing. At first, some people ran away secretly, and later they ran in groups.
When it was almost dark, the number of rebels fleeing exceeded 100,000.
After Ning Haitang arrived with his army, he ordered a direct attack without rest.
Most of her subordinates are guilty of crimes, and this battle is the only prescription for them to wash away their serious sins.
Therefore, this army from Longzhangtai was extremely fierce. From sunset to sunrise, they pursued and killed them all night long.
Without the Kitano Army, the rebels were no match for Dayama's army. They were already panic-stricken. When they were attacked, they did not even organize a decent resistance.
Because they wanted to atone for their sins through meritorious deeds, these Jade Army soldiers would not even think about whether those rebels were pitiful or not.
All they did was kill, from beginning to end, with blood flowing like rivers.
Whether they are Guzhu people or Dongbo people, they did not come here voluntarily to be rebels, which is really pitiful.
But no one can prevent this ending, not even the emperor in Yangzi City will stop it.
He needed these soldiers to feel that they had been cleansed by a killing. As for the Guzhu people and Dongbo people who were killed, in the eyes of the emperor, if their blood could have such an effect, they were not considered dead.
Worthless.
Ning Haitang led the Yu army all the way to the south to pursue and kill them, leaving corpses of dead rebels strewn across the fields.
Halfway through the escape, they were blocked by soldiers and horses from the Great Jade Elephant Mountain Camp. Naturally, General Ning Shehai would not give orders to treat the rebels leniently.
Even though the rebels at this time no longer looked like rebels, they looked more like a group of refugees.
If everyone in the world knows how serious the consequences of rebellion are, then killing is necessary.
The two generals Ning led Dayu's army to kill the people from the south and the north. The people who were kidnapped by Tuoba Lie suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties in the wilderness of Guzhu.
Some people thought that they would at least survive if they surrendered, but all those who surrendered also had their heads cut off.
Ning Shehai ordered that the heads of the rebels be used as temples on the battlefield to shock Guzhu.
Seven days later, the two jade armies that had joined together arrived outside Yangzi City. The two generals ordered their troops to camp twenty miles away from Yangzi City. They did not bring any soldiers or weapons. They took off their armor and official uniforms.
A man rode to the city gate.
At this point, Tuoba Lie's painstakingly planned Guzhu Rebellion became a thing of the past.
Emperor Jade ordered the city to be opened, and Lin Ye and Gu Xiujin took the Emperor's place to welcome the two meritorious ministers into Yangzi.
The emperor ordered Ning Shehai to lead his army back to Yunzhou, take over the place, and eliminate the remnants of the rebels.
Ning Haitang led his troops to garrison Yangzi to wipe out the rebels in Guzhu. After the situation in Guzhu stabilized, he then entered Dongbo.
The emperor also ordered that all Guzhu people who took in the rebels would be executed.
At the same time, the emperor handed Wu Lingwei, Queziying, Kuiziying, and the Wulingwei new army recruited from Guzhu by Lin Ye, with a total of more than 80,000 troops, to Lin Ye for reorganization.
The emperor said, "You don't have to think about the name of this team. I will help you decide."