Chapter 258 Fire, Demon Sect, Mutiny
The shouts of "The Ming King came to the world, swept away the demons, the world of light, and enjoy the paradise forever" were heard as Wang Jian's troops retreated to Dongbianmen, and the slums in the east wall of Lin'an City had been closed except for the East Gate, and even the thousand-jin gates that closed the city gate had been lowered. On the city wall, one of the few soldiers of the Sanya Army were looking at the chaos in the city with panic eyes.
The fire in the city was spreading northeast along the southwest wind, with flames soaring into the sky and thick smoke rolling. I don’t know how many families and how many wealth would turn into ashes. The slums in the east of the city have become the world of the Demon Cult! The slogans of the Demon Cult are louder and louder, and every soldier guarding the city wall can hear it clearly. The Yuhang Gate in the north of the city was captured by the rebels, and the one who caused chaos was the top elite in the world - the Pili Navy!
The fire, the magic sect, and the mutiny. Three great disasters actually happened at the same time! Every official and soldier in it was thinking and wondering - this rich and prosperous journey is Lin'an, is it going to be ruined today?
The officers and soldiers subconsciously looked towards the direction of the imperial city in the south of the city. It seemed as if they were looking forward to the Song Dynasty officials in the imperial city taking out some heroic spirit at this moment of chaos and suppressing the chaos no matter what!
The official family has now entered the imperial city from Chaotianmen. The terrain of Lin'an City is high in the south and north. The imperial city built against Phoenix Mountain is the highest point of the entire Lin'an City and a solid castle. In fact, the entire Lin'an Xingdu is a castle that contributes to the south in military terms.
The west city is surrounded by a lake, the south city is surrounded by a river, and the north city is surrounded by a canal. The east city also has a wide moat. The city walls are so tall and solid. The 18 city gates are 18 small fortresses. They guard the head of the Song Empire. In addition to the city walls, there are also a series of branch cities and villages. Brilliant and attendants guarding the important places.
If such a city is Zhengcheng City, even if there are millions of enemies, they will not be able to do anything. But do the millions of residents, 70,000 imperial guards and officials of the court really have the determination to fight to the death with the city?
If they had such a determination, when the Mongolian army was approaching the south of the Yangtze River in history, Lin'an City could not be defended? If Lin'an, Jiankang, Shaoxing and Qingyuan were everywhere, the city was defending the city. The Han family was so beautiful that there might not be no room for recovery!
Unfortunately, although Lin'an City is a must-be guarded city, there are no ones who will defend it.
The orders to mobilize the soldiers of the Three Yamen have long been heard from the yamen of the Privy Council, the Palace Front Office, the Guards Horse Army Office, and the Guards Infantry Office. The sounds of gathering troops were heard from the military camps in the city. The knights wearing war jackets rode their horses on the streets and alleys, sending various, sometimes even contradictory orders to various military camps and yamen offices.
However, after orders were given one after another, there were never many soldiers from the Three Yamen to the military camp. In addition to being gathered to disarm the Pili Naval Army in Lincao Town, only the city gates were left. There were less than 10,000 soldiers stationed in the imperial city in various yamen offices and less than 10,000 soldiers stationed in the imperial city could barely find figures. The remaining 50,000 people, when the chaos came, the first thing they thought was not to protect the Song Dynasty and the official family, but to hurry back and protect their wives, children and parents.
There are only a few dozen pounds of brown rice a year, and there are still hundreds of kilograms of brown rice. I really don’t have to pay a lot of life!
Anyway, the demon sect in Dongcheng, Lin'an is not a mess, and most of them were incited by Chen Dexing. These Lin'anzis are not capable of fighting, but they are all good at judging the political situation. Today's disaster is mostly because Chen Dexing wants to mutiny and seize power. Dingtian is the ending of "holding the emperor and ordering the princes". These three soldiers always have a meal of peace. At worst, they don't join the army and become ordinary people. Anyway, no one depends on those few Zhang Huizi to live!
If you can hide this kind of life-threatening thing, just hide it for a while.
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"Taiwei! Wang Taiwei was defeated, and the east of the city was in a hurry. Seven gates of the eight gates on the east wall were closed, and only the East Gate was left for entry and exit. Wang Taiwei asked the Taiwei to send troops to support quickly..."
"Taiwei! There are fires everywhere in the east and north cities. Lin'an Mansion is unable to extinguish them. We want our three yamen troops to dispatch 3,000 troops to rescue..."
"Taiwei! There is also an uprising of the Demon Cult in Xiaoshan, Shaoxing. The Xiaoshan Ferry has been controlled by the Demon Cult. The situation in Xiaoshan County and Shaoxing Prefecture City is unknown!"
"Taiwei, according to Zheng Yulai's report, there were about 300 rebels occupying Yuhang Gate, including iron armor, strong crossbows, scimitars and other equipment. They also plundered the bed crossbows and thunderbolts in the Yuhang Gate arsenal. They are now deploying defenses in the Yuhang Gate Tower and the urn city. In addition, everyone has horses, and the horses are all inside the Yuhang Gate's urn city..."
"Taiwei, the left army in front of the palace in Lincao Town has not been contacted yet, and I still don't know the main trends of the rebel army."
The central army, which was the army in front of the hall and the Lin'an Pacification envoy, is now located on the Chaotianmen City Tower. In the Chaotianmen, the brigade and brigade of bright clothes and armor and complete equipment, has already assembled and is about to be dispatched.
Military newspapers from all over the city were sent over like flowing water. The news was very bad, and Han Zhen was so angry that Wang Jian suffered a loss at the hands of the Lin'an Demon Cult! The east wall gates were closed... Although they were not worried about the Demon Cult siege, the east wall of Lin'an City could not be ignored, right? The defenders with less than 2,000 gates on the east wall and the remnants of Wang Jian's guard are probably not enough.
In addition, Xiaoshan Dun was actually occupied by the Demon Cult of Shaoxing! Xiaoshan Dun is the main throat of Qingyuan from Lin'an to Shaoxing. And in the east and north of Lin'an, the north of the city is controlled by Chen Dexing and the Demon Cult. If Lin'an cannot be defended, where should the official retreat? Do you have to dig into the mountains in western Zhejiang? Who knows if there are any ambushers of the Demon Cult there?
Why did this seemingly impregnable Lin'an Xingdu become shaky in a blink of an eye? Ma Guangzu, who was sentenced to Lin'an Mansion, hurriedly came.
"Master Ma, why are you here? Is there anything you can ask the people below to give me instructions?" Han Zhen did not dare to be a big shot in front of Ma Guangzu, so he quickly stood up to greet him.
Ma Guangzu looked furious and waved his hand and said, "Han Zhenfu! Half of Lin'an City is almost burning, when will you send troops to put out the fire?"
The fire in Lin'an first started near Deshou Palace, and it spread quickly with the wind. However, it did not burn half of the city, but it was only burned in the east and north of the city. There were official offices under Lin'an Prefecture that were dedicated to firefighting, and there were two county government offices. There were also lizheng and chief officials under the county government office. Now they were all working hard to put out the fire. Although it was difficult to extinguish it for a while, it was already under control. However, as the head of a government office, Ma Guangzu always hoped to put out the fire earlier.
Han Zhen looked helpless: "Bachelor, there are only 12,000 people in his hands... At least 4,000 people must be left to guard the imperial city and the official family, and only 8,000 people must be used. The Taiwei Wang from the east of the city has sent people to ask for help. He has to divide 3,000 to guard the east wall. How can the Demon Cult be destroyed into the city? Is the remaining 5,000 people still have to take the Yuhang Gate? If you can't take it down, let Chen Ni's 3,000 people enter the city..."
What will happen if Chen Dexing's 3,000 people enter the city? Han Zhen also understood not only if Ma Guangzu knew about this incident! After this incident, even if Chen Dexing robbed him and left, the Song Dynasty would have lost half of his life. As the official reached Ma Guangzu, he certainly knew what the situation was in the Song Dynasty. The two Huai, Jinghu, and Sichuan were already separatist! The reason why those vassal lords were relatively obedient is not as lawless as the governors of the Five Dynasties of Tang and Ji was because of the remaining power of using literature to control martial arts for 300 years!
For 300 years, the military officials of the Song Dynasty were suppressed by civil servants. Even the warlords like Yue Fei, who once had troops, did not dare or did not want to resist the court led by civil servants.
Now, Chen Dexing has brought 3,000 soldiers and dared to cause rebellion in Lin'an. In the end, if he cannot punish this lawless military leader, the last layer of painted skin for the military with his civil servants will be peeled off!
Several officers in armor and armor walked up to the city tower and saluted Han Zhen with their hands crossed their hands: "Taiwei, all the troops have been completed, please give the order!"
Han Zhen smiled bitterly at Ma Guangzu and bowed: "Bachelor, the lower officials have led 5,000 people to attack Yuhang Gate... Please ask the bachelor to gather some people as much as possible just in case!"
"What if? What if...whether...will go?"
"Prevent the Chaotian Gate!" Han Zhen was silent for a moment, "You can't let the official family go outside the city to cover the dust..."
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"What's the situation with the Demon Cult...Ming Cult now? Can you contact their leader?"
"Master, do you want to take the Ming Cult for your own use? These people are all eating vegetables and worshipping demons, and are afraid they will not be driven..."
"Brother, my old Taoist and the monk Dingtian of the Demon Sect know each other, so you may ask him to come forward. But the Demon Sect has their own set of ideas, so our righteousness and the Heavenly Taoist Sect may not be able to dissolve them."
"Now it is to conquer the world. When it comes to conquer the world, the better! As long as the people of the Ming Cult are willing to work with us, there is no way tolerant? Taoist priest, can you contact the real person now?"
"Yes, my old Taoist Taoist temple is on the north shore of West Lake. I will go there in person when it gets dark!"
"Okay, just do it like this, find a way to make an appointment with the monk Dingtian from the Ming Cult."
On the Yuhang Gate Tower, Chen Dexing was discussing with Ren Yijiang and Liu Yang about how to attract people. Mobilizing the poor in the east of the city has long been a planned thing - the poor hope to rebel, and rebellion depends on the poor. Chen Dexing knew very well. If he wanted to recruit people, he could only attack the gangster proletariat. No one would join the literati and noble officials, of course, there was no one without them.
Chapter completed!