Seeing that the arrow rain was gone, dozens of rope hooks were thrown upward. After firmly hooking the city head, a large group of martial arts masters began to climb up quickly. For a time, hundreds of people were on the thirty-foot-wide wall.
The bees swarmed up, and He Lianpeng was frightened as he watched.
"Quickly cut off the rope hook! Hurry up and throw the log! Hurry up and shoot the arrow! Get more people on both sides! Knock them all down! Hurry! Hurry!..." Helianpeng didn't care whether the messenger could hear clearly or not, and looked down at the city gate.
The fierce fighting on the west side kept issuing orders.
The end of the rope hook hanging on the wall is made of iron chains. If it is not a sharp weapon or a person with profound skills, it will be difficult to cut it with a knife and an ax. He Qizhou arranges to throw the rope to attack all martial arts masters. As long as the opponent keeps striking,
Before the second sword was struck, people had almost reached the top of the city! But actually climbing up was far from that simple. When one person climbed onto the wall, more than a dozen weapons of all kinds would be stabbed at them at the same time. Many people had already stepped onto the city wall.
, I still had to let go and jump off the high wall again.
But from time to time, masters would rush up with the help of rope hooks and iron guns inserted into the wall. After defeating a group of wall defenders with their superb martial arts, they would help more companions attack the city.
However, the difference in numbers between the attacking and defending sides was too great. As the defenders continued to come in for reinforcements from both sides and were defeated, there were obviously more Eastern Zhou masters who brought down the city wall than those who were climbing up the wall. The small section of ascending passage that had just been opened was blocked in the blink of an eye.
It was blocked, and there were only a dozen or so people left on the wall who were still struggling to hold on, including the murderous brothers Tan Zhuang and Tan Shuo!
Just when Helianpeng was about to take a deep breath, chaos suddenly broke out in the northwest corner of the city wall. A man was seen waving his sword from the top of the cliff and rushing down the sloping city wall. No matter how many people were surrounded, he could not block his direction.
downward momentum.
Before Helianpeng could figure out why someone could attack from such a steep mountaintop, dozens of white-robed warriors suddenly appeared in the southwest corner. Those people had taken advantage of the chaos to climb up, and their combat power seemed to be stronger than those in the middle.
The person is stronger!
"Quick! Quick! Go to the west for reinforcements! Let the people from Zhongzhou Faction and Liangxian Sect go over! Just tell him where He Qizhou is!" He Lianpeng had already guessed who the man wielding the sword was, and followed his words
As soon as it fell, hundreds of people immediately came from the bottom of the city to the northwest corner for reinforcements.
"Everyone, come together! If you kill He Qizhou, I will reward you with another 10,000 taels!" Lian Kang, who was standing on the top of the city and frequently firing cold arrows, did not rush over, but shouted to his disciples to rush forward and kill him.
"Hey, where are the people from the Two Immortals Sect? Where's Fatty Ling?" He Lianpeng saw that among the reinforcements, except for his soldiers and disciples of the Zhongzhou Sect, there was no one from the Two Immortals Sect. Although he arranged them
Reinforcements were placed on the east side of the city wall and at the bottom of the city, but they had promised to be on top when the situation was critical, but now even the little fat man Ling who was standing near the middle section at the beginning was gone.
"General, it's bad, they are attacking from the east gate!" Before the crisis in the west city was resolved, someone suddenly came running from the east wall screaming, raising his head and shouting to Helianpeng.
"Impossible, there are only 500 people there, how can we attack them?" He Lianpeng shouted angrily.
But before he finished speaking, there was a loud killing sound from the east gate, and a horse riding an Eastern Zhou war horse rushed into the city. The horse was already rushing along the ramp, up the city wall, and rushing towards the city tower!
"Hold it! Don't run! Rush up!" He Lianpeng shouted, but it was of no avail, because the enemy troops rushing in from the east gate had already opened the central north gate from the inside out, and countless cavalry began to attack the tower.
As they rushed through the gate, no one among the thousands of Anzhou troops preparing for war in the city dared to stop them. When they saw the white robes pouring in, they rushed to their knees and surrendered, fearing that they would become the dead souls of the other side!
On the city wall, a rider standing in front suddenly stopped under the city tower, and then a white figure swept up and pointed a sword at Helian Peng, who was drawing his sword.
"Qiang!" There was a loud sound, and there was a crisp sound of the sword being sheathed. He Lianpeng changed his mind in an instant and immediately sheathed the half-drawn sword. Then he knelt down on one knee and shouted: "Surrender! I surrender.
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"Louder! Scream at your soldiers! Until no one resists!" Yuwen Lingyun, who was flying down the city, slapped the other leg of He Lianpeng with his sword horizontally. He knelt on one knee and suddenly turned into two.
Kneel down.
"Surrender - stop fighting - stop resisting -" He Lianpeng's hoarse shouts came from the top of the city, and the no longer fierce fighting above and below the city gradually stopped.
On the wall below the city tower, He Qizhou, who rushed to the north gate, was inspecting the first batch of injured people who rushed up. In order to attract the attention of the defenders, he covered the 500 cavalrymen from the Liangxian Gate and the east gate opened by Yu Wenzhu.
After successfully charging in, the group of people who stormed in the middle suffered the heaviest casualties.
"Brother He, can my eldest brother be saved this time?" Tan Shuo, covered in blood, cried.
"It can be saved! It's just that I can only eat with my left hand from now on!" After the victory, He Qizhou didn't look happy at all. After speaking, he touched several acupuncture points on Tan Zhuang's right arm, and then used the Frost Sword to cut Tan Shuo's bloody right palm up to the wrist.
Cut off.
The stubborn Tan Zhuang didn't say a word. Instead, he raised his head and said to He Qizhou: "General, don't abandon me, I want to go to Qingcheng!"
"Okay! Luo Yu, hurry up, come here and bandage the wounded!" He Qizhou felt his heart heat up and yelled at Luo Yu who was flying towards the city.
"Here we come!" Luo Yu, with more than a dozen medical and nursing soldiers, was running towards the wounded everywhere.
"Do you know how Ling Su is doing?" He Qizhou began to worry about Ling Su, who had made his first contribution and captured the east gate.
"Master, I'm fine!" Under the city wall, Ling Su, who had indeed lost a lot of weight, ran up quickly, but his face didn't have the joy after a great victory.
"The Ling family sacrificed six people to hold on to the two gates!" Sixth Uncle Yu Wenzhu also followed, with blood stains still unwiped from the corners of his mouth.
Yuwen Lingyun jumped down from the city tower with He Lianpeng in his arms and said: "The defense behind the city gate is indeed very strict. Thanks to the Ling family who gritted their teeth and resisted, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to rush in at all!"
He Qizhou looked at Ling Su, who was also injured, and asked in a low voice: "Is the gate master okay?"
"He was stabbed twice in the stomach. His skin is thick and he can't die!" Ling Su said.
"Thank you, father." He Qizhou felt relieved and immediately issued a military order: "Clean up the battlefield; confiscate the property of He Lian Peng and He Lian Xing; remove the government offices in the city; demobilize and collect prisoners; rest for a day and continue setting off tomorrow morning!
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"Don't forget the Lian family! It's enough for us to eat for several days!" Ling Su kicked his feet and squatted at the top of the city to surrender to the stunned Lian Kang.
"Okay! Listen to you!" He Qizhou patted Ling Su on the shoulder and finally showed a smile.
After a fierce battle in the middle of the night, the slanting moon had not set in the west, but the first ray of dawn had already shone on the peak at the west end of Mu City;
At the south gate of Mu City, Pan Shuzhi, who had been hiding in the city, saw that the defeat was certain, and hurriedly led several followers to escape from the south gate in a hurry;
Two hundred miles away to the south, more than ten men in black, like a dark cloud, flew into the next stop on He Qizhou's march: Wuchuan Town!
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"His Royal Highness, something serious has happened. Mr. Pan sent someone to report urgently. Mu County was lost early yesterday morning!" Late at night, an official from Tutang rushed straight into the East Palace Bedroom.
"What? Where are the others?" Helian Changji ran out in his pajamas.
"He said he will be able to enter the city soon and has sent someone to report the battle situation to the emperor! Your Highness, Wuchuan is undefeated and the rebels will reach the city in less than three days!"
"Do you even need to say this? When Lord Pan comes, call him to my place immediately!" Helian Changji suddenly felt as if the sky was falling and said viciously to the official who reported the news.
"Yes! I'm resigning." The Tutang official saluted hastily and was so frightened that he immediately turned around and fled.
"Come here." Helian Changji growled.
"Here!" Immediately a night guard appeared from the darkness.
"Go quickly! Send someone to call the boss, the third, the fourth, the ninth, and Yu Qingdu!" Helian Changji said anxiously.
"What if..." The guard hesitated, worried that he wouldn't be able to call someone.
"What are you waiting for? Go quickly! Tell them clearly that Mucheng has been lost!" Helian Changji roared at the guard.
"My subordinates will make arrangements now!"
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The lights in the East Palace meeting hall were on all night, and Helian Changji finally got what he wanted. The four princes agreed to send 5,000 yamen servants and soldiers from all the yamen they controlled, and also agreed to let nearly a thousand servants and guards also
Participating in the city defense, if Qingcheng is destroyed, they will not get any benefits, so even if they hate Helian Changji, they can only use the force they have at their disposal.
In the middle of the night, Helian Changji summoned many generals, including Weiwei and Tingwei, as well as the various halls of Qinglong Temple to discuss the defense of the capital. He even lowered his profile and even low-level military officials such as those who managed horses and manufactured ordnance were called.
When they arrived at the East Palace, they had more or less soldiers available for dispatch.
"There is no danger in Wuchuan. There is only a single wall in the outer city of the capital. We must find a way to keep the enemy out. Hall Master Yu, when will my father's reinforcements arrive?"
"It took almost three days. Master Xiao Duo personally led a team of ten thousand tornadoes!" Yu Qingdu said.
"So where are all the people who were urgently transferred from Hengzhou? Where are the people that you guys transferred from surrounding states and counties? How many are there now?"
Pan Shuzhi, who had not slept for two days and one night, said: "Your Highness, the five thousand infantry from Hengzhou will arrive in four days. Currently, Tutang has 300 people entering Beijing from neighboring states, and another 400 or so will arrive within two days.
Including the officials in the city, there are about 1,500 people in our Tutang who can participate in the defense. The order to move all the people from Kuocheng and Wuchuan towns into the capital has also begun to be carried out overnight. The rebels will not get a chance outside the city.
Grains of grain!”
"Well done, Shuitang!" Helian Changji began to roll his name.
"One hundred and fifty people have arrived, and it is estimated that about two hundred people will arrive within three days."
"Jintang!"
"Your Highness, most of the people in our Jintang are following a few princes, and they have all been included just now."
"Mutang!"
"Your Highness, haven't the two deputy hall masters brought all the disciples in the hall long ago?" the chief of Mu Hall said angrily. Ye Cai and Yelu Xingsheng directly brought all the disciples in the hall without his consent.
The disciples took him to defend the city. This chapter has been completed!