Six hundred and fiftieth chapters open the door three
"Shoot! Don't stop! Shoot with all your might!" The enemy's scream came from outside the doorway. The more than ten Qi soldiers who were still in the doorway were all shot to death in just one breath.
He Qizhou fell down and retreated to the corner, barely blocking the flying arrows in front of him with his rapidly dancing long sword. He was shocked and even more disgusted by the enemy's behavior of not caring about the life and death of his comrades in the cave! But now he was facing a situation more than ten feet away. It seems that it is becoming more and more difficult to fire salvos of hundreds of people. From time to time, chopped arrow clusters are bounced from the cave wall to the body, legs and even faces... The charging, shouting and miserable screams of the blizzard warriors outside the door seem to be clear. Smellable!
"Can't wait any longer!" He Qizhou roared secretly, swung his sword, squatted down, lifted a hedgehog-like corpse with one hand, and carried it behind his back. He then jumped up and cut off the thick door bolt with one sword. When the copper ring was pulled again, the door "squeaked" and opened a crack, and the blood accumulated in the door hole immediately accelerated and flowed along the door crack!
"Quick, hurry in and close the door!" As the crack in the door gradually widened, the door was no longer dark, and the enemies at the entrance screamed again. The bows and arrows stopped shooting, and countless sergeants holding straight knives stepped on the bodies of their comrades and marched towards them. He Qizhou rushed over after struggling to open the door.
Seventy feet east of the city gate, after seeing the gleaming crack in the door, the Snowstorm cavalry, under Tang Yan's command, fired thousands of arrows at the top of the city tower and launched a charge towards the open west gate!
He Qizhou threw down the body behind him in pain and turned to face the charging group of soldiers. Many arrows pierced the body, and many arrows also penetrated into He Qizhou's thighs and arms, which was equivalent to nailing the two together. They were together, so He Qizhou felt extremely painful when he threw the body away!
In addition, there were three arrows stuck in his poorly protected calf, and one arrow in his arm. With these four feathered arrows, He Qizhou stepped forward and shouted: "Whoever stands in my way will die!"
With an all-out "Pai Shan" move, the more than 20 Qi soldiers who were at the forefront were killed on the spot. However, after hearing He Qizhou's violent shouts and the sound of horse hooves getting closer and closer, the others no longer cared about their enemies. Ordered, they all retreated out of the cave.
He Qizhou, who was covered in blood, ran out of the door immediately, but saw that no one was commanding the entrance. Thousands of Qi troops were in a mess, most of them fleeing towards the imperial city in the east, and the one who ran the farthest had already escaped. When we arrived at the center of the lake, we were wearing a magnificent cloak.
"Give me the horse!" Riders rushed in one after another. He Qizhou didn't bother to remove the arrows from his body, grabbed Tang Yan's horse, and immediately chased towards the center of the lake!
"Tap, tap..." Qiu Xin felt that the heavy sound of horse hooves was like trampling on his heart. He looked back several times and saw that the sound was really coming towards him after bypassing countless deserters! There is also the east gate of Jiuzhou Pond. More than a hundred feet away, and that damn horse was only twenty feet away from me. No matter how good my qinggonggong was, I couldn't outrun that tall horse...
"He Qizhou, I surrender..." Qiu Xin already knew who the person in the doorway was, and also knew who was chasing him. Because he knew the rules of blizzard not to kill those who surrendered, he decided to simply surrender! But when he just started shouting , a heavy sword penetrated the chest!
A big horse galloped past Qiu Xin. He Qizhou, who was on the horse, pulled back the frost-defying sword he had thrown from Qiu Xin, turned around and ran towards the city wall, while muttering softly: "Follow your mother!" Go and be reincarnated!"
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At the east gate, two thousand horsemen from the Eastern Zhou Army attacked the ground with thunderous thunder and raindrops. They retreated to both sides like a tide. In a blink of an eye, no one was left. Jiang Di also left quickly. Jiang Di retreated in the direction of course.
It's the imperial city.
Almost at the same time that he received the news from the West City messenger that He Qizhou was attacking the west gate, the bad news that the west gate was breached came from the city wall, and then in front of him, the east city cavalry began to run to the north and south.
Jiang Di was well prepared for the fall of the inner city, but he didn't expect it to fall so soon. Faced with such an unfavorable situation, Jiang Di immediately showed the determination of a strong man to cut off his wrists, and loudly ordered to the generals of Dongcheng: "Dongcheng
Everyone at the top and bottom should immediately retreat from the east gate of the imperial city and enter the imperial city!"
"Do you want to move the crossbows in? Do you want to notify the defenders at the north and south gates to retreat into the imperial city?" Mod was asking hurriedly.
"It's too late! Take only your personal weapons, don't bring anything else, hurry up!" After Jiang Di said this, he took the lead and ran down the tower and ran towards the imperial city a mile away. Tens of thousands of soldiers from the east city followed closely behind, fighting desperately.
Run towards the east gate of the imperial city.
As a large number of Eastern Zhou cavalry broke in, the south gate was opened, and the north gate was opened. Above the two-foot-wide city wall, the cavalry rushed past. The defenders either fled or surrendered. The large number of defenders who stayed under the city also rushed to the emperor.
They fled towards the city, but except for the east gate, the city gates were closed everywhere in the imperial city. However, when these people ran to the east gate, the Eastern Zhou cavalry had already rushed there. The Zhou cavalry flying everywhere seemed to have formed a threat to the imperial city.
surrounded by!
Jiang Di stood expressionlessly on the imperial city, looking at the defenders running around like headless flies outside the city, and couldn't help but sigh. Due to his decisive retreat, more than 12,000 people finally retreated in.
There are currently 32,000 people guarding the two-mile-square imperial city.
Before retreating into the imperial city, Jiang Di also did one more thing. He made the few dozen scout cavalry wear white robes similar to those of the Eastern Zhou Army, hoping that some of them could sneak out of the city and attack Jiang Shan as quickly as possible.
Report the news! I pray that my father will come back as quickly as possible, because can I hold the imperial city? How long can I hold it? I am starting to lose confidence.
The sporadic resistance in the inner city was basically eliminated before noon, and He Qizhou had almost finished bandaging his wounds, mostly arrow wounds, and a few stab wounds. After a morning of breath adjustment, the depleted true energy had recovered to 40 to 50%.
Pleasant battle reports kept coming:
The walls on all sides were cleared, and 22,000 people were surrendered;
The city's defenders were cleared and 21,000 men surrendered;
After the Jiuzhou Pond was cleared, Jiang Xing found Concubine Yun who was under house arrest, and Eunuch Tian who was familiar to He Qizhou;
Break the Wuchasi Yamen, break the Ducha Yuan Yamen, break the Punishment Department Yamen, break the Dali Temple Yamen... He Qizhou requested that Wan Zhiyuan, Ge Quan, Duan Xianjue and other familiar people be released first, and then let them clarify the real truth.
Criminals and wronged Yang Dang, Liu Dang, loyal ministers and good generals...;
The Ministry of War, the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Works, and the Ministry of Rites opened their doors and surrendered;
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Due to the sudden fall of the inner city, most officials had no time to follow Jiang Di and escape into the imperial city. Most of Jiang Shan's cronies who were circled by He Qizhou before the siege became prisoners of the Eastern Zhou Army soon after the cavalry entered the city.
Pang Yuan, the imperial censor of Zuodu, Hu Mao, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Jin Yue, the minister of household affairs, and Bu Hang, the minister of rites, were all arrested. Only the chief assistant Jin Yan who lived in the imperial city and Wucha who followed Jiang Di were on the list.
Sikyong Shi Lan was able to escape.
He Qizhou originally wanted to take advantage of the victory and attack the Imperial City, but he could not gather the troops until night because almost half of the people were detaining officials and searching businesses. When he heard that the defense of the Imperial City was tighter than the inner city, he gave up decisively.
The thought of attacking immediately.
The inner city is the main gathering place for officials in the capital, and it is also the place where the major commercial banks and banks are most densely populated. The Xiao family and the Chen family have a large number of properties in it. Behind those big business houses, there are almost the shadows of princes, nobles, and high-ranking officials.
.So He Qizhou didn't mind at all by letting his men search the residences of high-ranking officials and the treasury of companies.
It seems that collecting wealth can make people forget their tiredness. The search work continued from noon to the evening of the next day. The gold and silver treasures concentrated in Jiuzhou Pond were piled up like mountains, almost filling the emperor's palace on Xiaoyingzhou.
The busiest people were not the soldiers who were in charge of ransacking homes, but the "Iron Rooster" who led dozens of people to settle accounts. The numbers that kept scrolling upwards made He Qizhou start to be a little bit dumbfounded.
After nightfall, the flow of people transporting treasures gradually subsided. The latest number He Qizhou heard was 140 million taels! It was more than double what Qingcheng had obtained. But this was only a figure converted from gold and silver.
Counting dozens of boxes of pearls, jade and precious stones! There was no time to move things like calligraphy, paintings and antiques. Those soldiers, mostly from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, looked down upon these things that Qi officials regarded as treasures.
He Qizhou finally understood that most of the wealth of the powerful people who fled from north to south along the way were concentrated in the inner city. Coupled with the wealth that had just moved in from the outer city, the small inner city of Luoyang suddenly became
Become extremely rich.
He Qizhou had already planned for these properties. Part of them would be used to demobilize captured soldiers. Most of them were weak brigades put together temporarily and could not ride horses. Of course, he would not recruit them;
Part of it will be used for the poor people in the outer city and Kuocheng. Civilian security notices have been widely issued since entering Kuocheng. Soon after entering the inner city, He Qizhou gave the second copy to the inner city, outer city, and Kuocheng.
The city announced:
"The Eastern Zhou Army is an ally of the orthodox emperor Jiang Lang of the Great Zhou Dynasty. They promise not to disturb, rob or do evil to the civilians. On the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month, from Yin time in the morning to You time in the evening, they will provide disaster relief, food relief and charity sales at the nine gates of the outer city.
Each household can receive ten taels of silver and ten kilograms of rice and noodles. The items for the charity sale are the confiscated treasures of corrupt officials. The rush buying depends on the household registration. Those with household registration who participate in the rush buying are not allowed to receive relief."
This relief plan had been tried several times in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He Qizhou thought it was quite fair. Qi State's household registration system was more stringent, so as long as a mark was made on the household certificate, he would not be afraid of repeated recipients of relief.
The last paragraph of the notice was quite long, detailing how Jiang Shan and Jiang Gui forced the palace to seize the throne, and how they framed Yang Zheng, a hero of the Zhu Kingdom, and told the people of Luoyang that the real imperial edict was in the hands of Jiang Lang! He Qizhou also copied it.
The whole family was threatened and Hu Mao, Pang Wan and other officials who knew about it were forced to sign and stamp the notice to prove what they had done.
Tens of thousands of notices were plastered all over the place except the Imperial City overnight. Of course, people had to do the copying work. Almost all the thousands of members of the six departments had good calligraphy. Many middle- and low-level officials also secretly
Participating in the rush buying is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to find out, and the team rushing to buy for this reason is often the noisiest!