Several cavalrymen quietly left the Tang Army camp and rushed towards Luoyang City.
They wrapped cotton cloth around their horses' hooves and did not dare to run too fast. When they could see the shadows of the defenders reflected in the bonfire at the top of the city, they got off their horses and continued walking forward with their backs bent.
This matter is actually quite dangerous. If someone accidentally makes a movement, arrows from the top of the city will be shot down.
Lin Zi was okay, he was used to such risky things, but this time he brought Lu Xiufu with him, and he couldn't help but worry that he would accidentally kill his husband. Looking back, he could also feel Lu Xiufu's face in the darkness.
His face must be tense and serious.
The faint moonlight illuminated the corpses piled up under the city wall. When they got closer, something among the corpses moved, and then they stood up.
That's a figure.
The man came over cautiously, and after meeting Lin Zi, Lu Xiufu and others, he quietly walked into the small forest on the edge of the city. "Who sent you here?" Lin Zi asked first.
"Does your army have a member of the Shuntian Zhang family as the commander-in-chief?" "Our commander-in-chief is Zhang Jue, and you have seen the banner."
The man was silent for a moment and asked: "If my general surrenders, what can you guarantee?
After a long while, these people discussed it and dispersed.
Lu Xiufu looked back again and saw that the figure had disappeared into the darkness under the city wall.
After a while, Lin Zi arranged some things and came back: "Let's go."
"Let's go."
The group returned to the main tent and reported the details of the night's meeting to Zhang Jue.
"Now that the conditions have been agreed upon, they can open the city gates tomorrow night to welcome our troops into the city.
Zhang Jue was still worried and asked: "Who told the other party?" Lin Zi and Lu Xiufu looked at each other.
Lu Xiufu said: "We didn't press, but it's not difficult to guess... At dawn the next day, Boyan got up early and inspected the defenses in Luoyang City.
As soon as he reached the west city, he saw Ashahan.
What was placed in front of Arakhan were two corpses covered in bruises.
"What happened?" Boyan strode forward and asked. "Prime Minister.
Although Arahan did not salute, he turned his head and called out, which was quite polite to Boyan.
He pointed to the corpse on the ground and said: "Last night, my warriors discovered that this soldier secretly pulled this soldier up the city wall. They must have secretly contacted the Tang army.
"Whose person?"
"The execution was interrogated, but the person died without asking any questions."
Boyan frowned and stared at Arahan's rough face.
If this was not a close Mongol general sent by Kublai Khan, Boyan would have almost suspected that he was deliberately suppressing the news.
"There are people in the city who want to defect to the Tang army, that's for sure." Azahan said, "Prime Minister, what should I do?
"I'll check it out.
"Do we still need to check? It's just those few people." Boyan nodded, knowing what he was doing.
There are more than a few suspicious people in Luoyang City.
First of all, Dong Wenzhong, Dong Shigan and his son, Dong Wenyong of the Dong family surrendered to Li Xia after being captured early, which is very suspicious.
Next is Shang Ting, a large number of disciples and former officials left by Zhao Bi. Kublai Khan transferred them back to the center because he did not trust these two people. However, their connections in Luoyang were intricate and difficult to touch.
He Wei, the commander of the Eagle Guard Henan Road, is also extremely suspicious. For no other reason than Boyan and Azcha are planning to kill He Wei.
Both commanders of the Eagle Guard were involved in major treason cases. The root cause is that this intelligence agency was under the control of Han ministers when it was first established.
Most of the Han ministers support Zhenjin.
Now that both commanders have been executed, it at least means that Kublai Khan has completely given up on controlling the Eagle Guard.
This was also the time when Kublai Khan was most disappointed with Han Chen, and the Eagle Guards must be the first to realize this, so betrayal became expected·
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At the same time, He Wei was standing on the tower in the distance looking at the scene here with a lookout tube.
In the picture of the lookout tube, Boyan leaned over and looked at the body lying there.
With a cold light flashing in his eyes, He Wei stopped looking any further and hurried down the tower and hurried back to his station.
He had gathered his trusted men overnight, a thousand of them.
He had to advance his plan. He didn't even have time to screen it. He had already strode among these people and directly encouraged them to rebel. "Brothers! Let me tell you some bad news. The two commanders of our Eagle Guards have been ignored.
Must be killed!
This is not a trivial matter. The deaths of Zhang Yi and Shi Ji have now caused an uproar in the north. He Wei, who was a spy, bribed a thousand households in the Akhan army and got the news.
He is not easy to deal with either.
"Why did Kublai Khan kill them? Because Kublai Khan has been lying to us! The Han law is fake, the rewards are fake, and the inheritance of the real golden prince is also fake. In their eyes, we Han people will always be just
Pigs and dogs."
He Wei suddenly tore off his leather and held it up high. "This is the symbol of Yabaochi or the eagle-raiser, but I am not an eagle-raiser. No eagle will rest on our shoulders. We will only be born and die.
But in the eyes of Kublai Khan, we are worse than birds!"
It has to be said that this sentence "not even as good as a bird" aroused strong resonance among the Eagle Control soldiers. They tore off the leather from their shoulders and threw it to the ground.
He Wei's eyes were red, and he shouted in a hissing voice: "Those who are not from my race will have different thoughts! Kublai Khan wants to kill us, so why not do the opposite! Open the city gates and join the Tang Dynasty, and get a promotion!"
"Non-my family, its heart must be different!"
It's hard to tell how much of their actions at this time were based on integrity. Perhaps there is always a balance between personal future and national integrity.
The deaths of Zhang Yi and Shi Ji were, in a sense, a sign that Kublai Khan had given up on Han law, which broke the balance.
Then, people's hearts rolled down like water. "Open the city gate!"
The soldiers of the Eagle Guard rushed out of the station with their swords in hand. "Whoosh whoosh whoosh."
In front of them, there was a rain of arrows falling from the sky, and they shot over quickly, knocking the angry soldiers to the ground.
Arahan shouted: "Fire the arrow!"
Another round of arrows came, and He Wei was shocked and quickly ordered to shrink his defense.
Light up the smoke! Notify the Tang army outside the city to respond... Brothers, hold on!
The fighting in the city suddenly broke out, and it was actually more intense than when the Tang army attacked the city.
Boyan stood on the top of the city, raised his telescope and looked around, feeling a little relieved.
What he expected was good, the traitor in the city was indeed He Wei.
Fortunately, although the soldiers controlling the Eagle Guard were elite, they were not many in number, and the situation was still within control.
As a column of wolf smoke rose into the sky from the city, war drums sounded outside the city, followed by the thundering sound of cannons. That was when the Tang army began to attack the city.
Already.
Boyan saw that Ashahan's offensive to suppress the rebellion was rapid, so he turned around and left to arrange the defense of Luoyang City.
This battle was not easy for him. Firstly, the Yuan army was good at attacking but not good at defending. Secondly, Yuan Dynasty had just experienced a defeat at Helan Mountain and the country was in turmoil. Thirdly, the morale of the Tang army was high and they took advantage of firearms.
Boyan didn't think he could hold Luoyang City to the end, but he could hold it for a few more months, allowing Kublai Khan to stabilize the situation in Kaiping, consume the Tang army's food and fodder, and then reach an alliance with the Song Dynasty.
Can gradually reverse the offensive and defensive momentum.
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The two battles of countering the rebellion and defending the city lasted until the afternoon.
Arahan's soldiers had already entered the Eagle Controller's station, turning the entire station into a bloody mess, with corpses strewn all over the ground.
There are also soldiers who control the Eagle Guard who want to surrender, but more people understand that it involves a major treason case, and the fate they will face is to be killed without mercy.
Therefore, even if they knew they were outmatched, they could only continue to resist desperately.
The weather in July was so hot that wearing armor was like being suffocated in a steamer. He Wei was sweating profusely.
I was injured and suffered from heat stroke, and I felt that I couldn't hold on countless times.
He thought he was vigilant enough, but in the end he still couldn't escape the fate of Zhang Yi and Shi Ji.
Maybe everyone who betrayed Kublai Khan must die.
However, in the colorful halo reflected by the sweat, he saw a large flag appearing in the distance.
What is written on the flag seems to be the character "Tang".
He Wei took a few steps back, supported his body with a knife, shook his head, and tried to listen. He finally heard clearly what the voice was shouting in the distance.
"The Tang army has entered the city..."
Turning his head again, he saw Arakhan's flag moving back. "How did the Tang army enter the city?! Where is the prime minister?"
"Rebellion! Someone in the city rebelled. The Prime Minister asked the marshal to break out from the North City..."
A'achan got on his horse and hurriedly led his troops towards Beicheng. Suddenly he pulled the reins and shouted: "Follow me to the granary."
Burned.
This group of soldiers and horses quickly turned around and headed straight for the Luoyang granary. From then on, Ashahan didn't actually understand what happened. He only knew that the Tang army could not seize the grain.
Suddenly, another troop of soldiers and horses hurried over from the other end of the long street, holding Dong Wenzhong's flag.
"Marshal, run away!" a general shouted. But it was Dong Wenzhong's son Dong Shifan.
Arakhan was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses and shouted loudly: "Don't come over!"
However, Dong Shifan did not retreat but instead advanced, commanding his soldiers to speed up and crash into Arahan's formation.
"Don't come here!" Arahan shouted: "Fire the arrow!"
He has been able to determine who in the city rebelled and allowed the Tang army to enter the city.
However, the Yuan army here hurriedly raised their bows, but Dong Shigan's soldiers over there had already shot arrows.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
One by one, Yuan soldiers fell down in response.
Seeing this, A Ci reined in his horse and walked away. However, a group of Tang troops came out of the alley on the diagonal ground and cut the Yuan army into two pieces.
The Yuan army was not good at street fighting, so they immediately fell into chaos and their defeat was certain.
During the fight, Dong Shifan rushed up on his horse and shot Ashan in the throat.
"Lend me a head to your grandfather, and give it as a greeting gift to the commander-in-chief of the Tang Army!
"The setting sun is like blood."
More and more flags of the Tang army were planted on the top of the city of Luoyang. The Tang army captured Luoyang. It could not be called a bloody battle, but it did focus on recruiting surrender and saved the city and the people as much as possible.
Dong Wenzhong led a group of Han officials to greet the Tang army commander Zhang Jue at the south gate.
Like He Wei, Dong Wenzhong decided to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty and return to the Tang Dynasty.
This was not a decision made overnight. In the past few years, Dong Wenwei and Dong Wenbing even died fighting for Dayuan one after another. There are many reasons. In the final analysis, after all factors are combined, Yuanmeng is more worthy of loyalty.
But now the balance has tipped.
When all the conditions were in place, the detailed work arranged by the Military Intelligence Department in Luoyang City only needed one sentence to convince him.
"In this day of the Book of Changes, if Shi Ji dies, the real gold will surely perish. The day when Kublai Khan abandons the laws of the Han Dynasty and all the people will betray their relatives and leave is not far away. The Holy Dynasty will respond to the time of the sky, and the earth will change when it comes down, and the Yuan Dynasty will be peaceful. You guys are clinging to nothingness.
Name, where is the person who lives the whole family?
At dawn, even He Wei in the city turned against him, and Dong Wenzhong became even more determined.
At this time, he took off the helmet on his head, took off the armor on his body, slowly prostrated himself in front of the Tang army's horse and shouted in mourning.
"Those who lost their country and lost their families in the north, whose ancestors have been trapped in the dust for three hundred years, now we, will finally return to the Han Dynasty..."