The chief general in Bianliang City was Du Rong, the commander of the capital. He was the first guard of Bianliang's Chenzhou Gate. He once opened the city gates and sent golden soldiers into Bianliang, and massacred many county towns. Knowing that he was guilty of serious crimes, he decided to defend Bianliang.
Liangcheng, and ordered the entire army to kill anyone who dared to surrender!
As night fell, Du Rong had just returned home to prepare for dinner when a general on duty hurried over and said, "Capital Commander, look at this!"
Du Rong took a look at the flyer and jumped up immediately, "How many copies have been sent to the city?"
"I don't know, probably thousands of copies, all shot into the city with arrows."
"Go and collect them immediately. Don't let any of them fall into the hands of soldiers. Go quickly!"
The general on duty left, and Du Rong was not in the mood to eat. He just took a few bites, then threw down his bowl and hurried to the city.
On the top of the city, all the soldiers were gathered. Du Huan, the commander of the military discipline battalion, led hundreds of soldiers to conduct body searches one by one. Du Huan was Du Rong's nephew. He was fond of killing and had a very bad reputation in the army.
At this time, a leaflet hidden in a soldier's shoe was found.
Du Huan was furious, drew his sword and stabbed the soldier in the chest. The soldier screamed and fell to the ground dead.
Du Huan raised the bloody sword and shouted: "Hurry up and hand over the leaflets if you have them. Anyone who dares to hide them secretly will be punished."
After a while, a soldier came out and threw the leaflets on the ground. Soldiers kept coming out and placing the leaflets on the ground.
But from beginning to end, all the soldiers were silent, even the generals were silent.
Du Rong gritted his teeth and said: "There must be someone hiding in the cracks in the wall. Everyone will search for it. If you find one, you will be rewarded with money!"
At dawn, a total of more than 4,500 leaflets were seized, and 1,500 more were not found. But the key point was that Du Rong did not know how many leaflets there were. He couldn't find them, so he ordered a handful of leaflets to be seized.
Burn away with fire.
As the soldiers on night duty returned to the military camp, Chen Qing's "Message to the Soldiers of the Bianliang Army" quickly spread in the military camp.
'Boom! Boom! Boom!'
At dawn, the war drums were beaten in the Western Army camp in the south. The dull sound of the war drums made all the Bianliang defenders nervous. Du Rong urgently ordered 20,000 troops to go to the city. The ten-mile-long southern city head was filled with defenders.
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A small city three miles away is Qingcheng, and the Western Army's camp is still to the south of Qingcheng. At this time, a phalanx of ten thousand people appeared on both sides of Qingcheng. It seemed that all the Western Army soldiers were looking at Qingcheng, and they were still there.
Many people ran out of Qingcheng. All the Western troops squatted down and covered their ears.
The defenders on the top of the city looked puzzled. They didn't know what the other side was up to.
Suddenly, there were two consecutive earth-shaking explosions in the distance, "Boom! Boom!" The soil and bricks of Qingcheng rose into the sky, the ground began to shake, and the city walls were shaking as well, as if there was an earthquake. The soldiers were unsteady.
They all squatted down.
After a while, the soldiers slowly stood up and looked towards Qingcheng. They saw thick smoke filling the air, but they could see clearly that Qingcheng had completely collapsed.
All the soldiers gasped, oh my God! What kind of firearm is this? It was so powerful that it blew up a military city and collapsed!
Du Rong's face turned pale. This is the legendary Iron Fire Thunder. I thought it was only a little stronger than the Wood Fire Thunder, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful. This is just a threat from the Western Army. If the Western Army puts it into actual combat,
Bianliang cannot be defended for a minute.
The Song army did not continue to attack the city. The 100,000-strong army withdrew to the camp, and the soldiers who defended the city also returned one after another. However, last night's leaflets and today's explosion have caused many people to change their hearts.
In a private house near the military camp, five generals gathered together. The leading general was called Li Taigu, a commander, and the other four generals were his confidants.
"We are called here because Du Rong is too insidious. He will send people to watch our every move. Once generals gather, he will suspect us of rebellion."
"Brother wants to offer the city, right?" said a general.
Li Taigu nodded, "Wanyan Wushu ran away, but he asked us to resist the 200,000 Western Army. It was obvious that he wanted us to die. Wanyan Wushu really knows how to choose people, and he chose Du Rong. Sure enough, he read that right.
people."
"Tongzong, does this Du Rong have no thoughts of surrender? He is so desperate to serve the Jin Kingdom."
Li Taigu sneered and said: "That's because you don't know his past. In the second year of Jingkang, he was the guard of Chenzhou Gate. He sacrificed Chenzhou Gate, and the Jin soldiers entered Bianliang through Chenzhou Gate.
Later, he led his army to massacre more than a dozen county towns. It was a heinous crime. How dare he surrender to the Western Army? But we are different. We have not massacred any city, and we have not done anything that is outrageous. Why should we sacrifice our lives for him?
, follow him to destruction?"
"Brother is right. Du Rong wants to die, but he wants to tie us up and die together. We won't do it!"
"Brother, tell me! What should we do?"
Seeing that everyone was willing to follow him, Li Taigu said slowly: "We have a total of five thousand soldiers. The nights are long and we have many dreams. We will take action tonight to control the North City Gate!"
At noon, on the north tower, under the cover of the people around him, a soldier climbed a rope and slid down the city wall, swam across the moat, disappeared into a willow forest, and disappeared.
An hour later, the soldier met the Western Army's patrol cavalry and was immediately taken to the camp.
Someone came to deliver a message in the city. This news was not surprising to Chen Qing at all. The enemy forces in the city could never be monolithic. The Jurchens had already withdrawn, so these signing troops actually wanted to fight with him to the end?
Under normal circumstances, this situation will never occur. There is only one possibility: the general will fight to the death with himself! So what about the other main generals? They must have their own ideas.
It's just that Chen Qing didn't expect the effect to be so good. The iron fire thunder exploded in the morning, and someone turned against it at noon.
He got all the information in the city at this time.
Chen Qing was not very familiar with Li Taigu, so he asked again: "Where was your General Li originally stationed?"
"My General Li has been stationed in Laizhou, and later he was transferred to Bozhou and Jeju. Later, he served as the commander of the imperial army in front of Liu Yu, the monarch of Qi. After the fall of Qi, he was appointed as the commander of the capital by Wanyan Wushu.
Li Cheng, the commander, led the army to fight Zhang Jun in Caizhou. Later, he had a bad relationship with Li Cheng and was transferred back to Kaifeng Prefecture to garrison."
Chen Qing understood, hadn't he heard of this person? It turned out that this person was Liu Yu's trusted general. He had been working in the internal affairs and had never participated in the war. This person should be an official and probably would not fight, so he and Li Cheng
bad relationship.
"Are you, General Li, planning to take action tonight?"
"Exactly! He will open the North City Gate around the first watch."
Chen Qing ordered people to take the messenger down to rest, and discussed with several generals. Liu Qiong was a little worried that this was a trap by the other side. He worriedly said: "If it is a fake surrender, the other side has set a trap, which will cause us heavy casualties."
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Zhang Xiao laughed, "Little Liu Dutong is like leading a dozen burly men to fight a group of three-year-old children, because he is afraid of the traps set by the children."
Everyone burst into laughter, and Liu Qiong also realized the absurdity of his worries. In the face of absolute strength, any trap would be crushed by strong strength. He suddenly turned red with shame and did not dare to say a word.
Chen Qing said with a smile: "If Liu Dutong is afraid of a trap, then he can just use iron fire thunder to blow up the iron chains on both sides of the suspension bridge, and then use iron rods to block the city gate. This way, everything will be foolproof."
Liu Qiong took the opportunity to stand up and clasp her fists and said: "I am willing to be a pioneer in this humble position!"
"permit!"
Chen Qing approved Liu Qiong's request, and all the generals shouted dissatisfied. They even suspected that Liu Qiong was deliberately pretending to be stupid to get the opportunity to enter the city first. This is not an ordinary city, but Bianliang. Everyone hopes that he will be the first to enter the city.
He took the lead in entering Bianliang, but he didn't expect to be snatched away by Liu Qiong.
Chen Qing ignored their shouting and said to Yang Zaixing: "Once the city is defeated, Du Rong will definitely lead his army to flee from the east city. You lead 20,000 cavalry to encircle and suppress them, and take Du Rong's head!"
"I humbly obey the order!" Yang Zaixing accepted this task simply. He didn't get the chance to enter the city first, so hunting down the opponent's general was his second greatest achievement.
