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Volume 1: Saving the Three Thousand Beauties in the Harem Chapter 422: The Last Round in Yanjing

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    Pharmacist Guo died, and Yanjing was in chaos.

    Only he could control the Han army of Yan State recruited by Medicine Master Guo, but the Jin people refused to give him command, and instead gave it to Li Cheng to command.  But Li Cheng was from the South, and he led a rebellious Southern army.  As a result, the southerners and the northerners naturally had conflicts of interest. There were fewer southerners and more northerners. However, the southerners, who were guest troops, had a higher status than the northerners who were the main army.  In this way, the Yan people and the Nan people can never be of the same mind, and there will be no great chaos in Yanjing.

    The Jin people had only taken control of the Central Plains for a few years, but they had almost learned the Southerners¡¯ methods of dividing and conquering and containing each other.  In a complex and changeable area like Yanjing where people's hearts are treacherous, it is indeed impossible not to do this.  Only in this way can the basic stability of Yanjing be guaranteed when the Jin Kingdom has insufficient troops and it is difficult for the Jurchen soldiers to supervise.  However, the consequence of this is that the contradictions that are usually covered up will become more and more acute when a disaster strikes.

    Pharmacist Guo is originally a tool used by the Jin people to balance this situation and alleviate this contradiction.  But he never thought that this tool would hurt its owner. Under such circumstances, the golden man had no choice but to abandon this tool reluctantly.  Once the balance is broken, the situation becomes chaotic.

    Li Cheng was already unpopular among the extremely xenophobic Yan people. In addition, the conflict between the north and the south had been simmering for a long time. With the death of Guo Yaoshi, it suddenly broke out.  The army fought with weapons to attack and kill, and the soldiers lowered the city and fled. People inside and outside Yanjing were in panic.

    Li Cheng, who was so angry that he couldn't play the role of a cheerful instructor, could only suppress him with cruel killings.  Within one day.  There was a bloodbath in the three military camps, and densely packed human heads were hung above the camp gates.  The bloody massacre indeed suppressed any changes in the military camp, and the army was temporarily stabilized - but even Li Cheng himself knew that this method was tantamount to drinking a dove to quench his thirst. It succeeded for a while, but would never last long.  The volcano will eventually erupt one day, it seems sooner or later

    The third day of June.  Li Cheng withdrew his limited troops to the inner city and defended them.  Immediately, the remaining three gates in the outer city of Yanjing were all occupied by the Tianzhu Army.  The nearly 10,000 Jin troops have all been surrounded by the iron barrels of the Tianzhu Army.

    Um.  By this time, Di Lie no longer wanted to besiege the city. In a word, he was just making dumplings!

    Di Lie learned about the current chaotic situation in Yanjing from the Jin soldiers who fled from the city and came to surrender.  Immediately issued an order to stand still and besiege but not attack.  Use strong military pressure to suppress Yanjing's enemies bit by bit, striving to make the enemy collapse without a fight.  When the husband fights, he attacks the city.  The priority is to attack the heart. Under the current situation where we have an absolute advantage, we should try our best to obtain the maximum benefit with the minimum cost of casualties.

    Di Lie's military pressure was effective. Within three days, more than 300 Jin soldiers returned with weapons.  At this rate.  One month at most.  Yanjing has no soldiers left to fight.

    Just when Li Cheng was considering whether to carry out another bloodbath to suppress the enemy, the Tianzhu Army launched its last killing move.

    The seventh day of June.  In front of the northeast gate of the inner city of Yanjing, four Hu people wearing Zuojun Hu clothes, Kuntou, or golden rings appeared. They were escorted by Tianzhu sergeants and appeared at the bottom of the city.  Then, everyone shouted at the top of their lungs to the defenders at the top of the city:

    "I am Xiao Dalu, the guard of Zongzhou City! Zongzhou has been defeated by the Tianzhu army, and Yanjing's retreat has been cut off. Brothers, surrender!"

    "Zheng Xiong, deputy commander of a certain Jinzhou Horse Infantry Army, Jinzhou has been captured by the Heavenly Punishment Army. Yanjing has no way to retreat. If you don't surrender, you will die! Brothers of Yanjing, we are all Han people and should have recognized our ancestors long ago.  La! Surrender!"

    "This state knows the state's high skills and benefits the state's military and civilians. They have abandoned the secrets and surrendered to the light and surrendered to the heaven. His Royal Highness, the King of Hua, has a kind heart and regards surrender as home. If you don't surrender now, when will you wait?"

    The last person, a Jurchen, was tied up and held in the city without saying a word. However, the soldiers at the top of Yanjing City recognized him and exclaimed: "It's Mr. Wu Liangchao, the transfer envoy of Dading Mansion! It's over.  Dading Mansion is over! Yanjing is over!"

    The consequences of thinking are extremely terrible. Although Dading Mansion is actually still in the hands of the Jin Kingdom at this time, the fall of Jin, Li, and Zong Prefectures is an ironclad fact.  It is so true and false that it is a pity for the enemy. The city of Yanjing has not been broken, but the people's hearts have been dispersed.

    On the ninth day of June, when Li Cheng, the de facto supreme commander of Yanjing, led his troops into the camp for patrol, they were suddenly surrounded and killed by nearly a hundred troops.

    When Li Cheng fought his way out of the siege with a big ax in hand and blood all over his body, there were less than twenty of the fifty guards around him.  Li Cheng quickly mobilized troops to suppress the rebellion. Although more than a hundred rebel troops were eventually killed, the fire of the entire Yanjing rebellion had been ignited, spread rapidly, and could not be contained.  The defenders opened the city gates and swarmed out to surrender. There was chaos everywhere in the city. The rebels broke into houses and shops, raped, looted, and set fire to houses. The chaos was out of control.

    Yanjing, ???Broken.

    Li Chengcheng is not the kind of unyielding person who would rather die than surrender, otherwise he would not abandon Song Dynasty to invest in Jin and mix with foreigners.  At this time, the Tianshu forces represented the orthodoxy of the Central Plains. If Li Chengruo surrendered, it would be an act of abandoning the dark side and turning to the bright side.

    However, the Tianzhu Army never sent anyone to negotiate terms and persuade them to surrender, and Li Cheng was in trouble and could not raise the white flag.

    Although there were disputes between Li Cheng and the Tianzhu Army in the past, it was not a big problem. The real stalemate was that during the confrontation with the Tianzhu Army a few days ago, a large number of Qingzhou children were killed and injured, especially the two dead brothers.  : Ma Jin and Shang Yuan.

    The core of Li Cheng's army is his Qingzhou Army, and the predecessor of the Qingzhou Army is the bandit army of his disciples that Li Cheng struggled with when he was a bandit in Longlu Mountain in Xiangzhou.  Most of them are relatives, not only fathers and sons, brothers, uncles and nephews, but more often sworn brothers. The relationship between them is complicated, and if one person dies, the whole army will take revenge.

    Such an army of disciples is united in wartime and will fight hard without retreating. Their combat effectiveness is undeniable and they are indeed powerful.  But there is also a disadvantage - once the casualties are too heavy, or important people are killed or injured, it is absolutely difficult to compromise.

    Ma Jin and Shang Yuan are not only Li Cheng's disciples, but also the deputy commanders of the Qingzhou Disciples Army. Their popularity and status are second only to Li Cheng.  These two men were killed in battle one after another. In addition, in the Battle of Yanjing, more than half of the Qingzhou Army was killed or wounded. This has made the Qingzhou Army and the Tianzhu Army forged an inextricable bond. The two armies have only one ending, and they will fight to the death.

    No matter how much Li Cheng wanted to surrender, he could only grit his teeth and go on, unless he abandoned his army and surrendered alone - but a bare general surrendered.  What's the use?  In addition to saving one life, all other positions of power and status will be reduced to smoke. Who can bear it?

    Therefore, Li Cheng had no choice but to escape to the hinterland of the Kingdom of Jin. For half his life, his wealth could only be tied to the Kingdom of Jin.

    Li Cheng only led more than a hundred of his own Qingzhou Army, plus 300 of the Daming Army, to fight out from the northwest gate.  Rush out of the inner city of Yanjing and go straight to the north gate of the outer city.  Of course Li Cheng didn't want to break through the north gate. He was not so desperate as to attack the city gate with hundreds of soldiers.  Long before Pharmacist Guo took office.  Li Cheng was the actual commander of Yanjing. At that time, Li Cheng ordered the Qingzhou soldiers to dig a secret tunnel under the city wall near the north gate, connecting it to the outside of the city, in case of emergency.

    Only Li Cheng and his close disciples knew about the existence of this secret passage.  Even Pharmacist Guo didn't know that it was time to activate it now.

    It¡¯s early morning on the tenth day of June.  At the foot of Yuquan Mountain in the northwest of Yanjing, an army was as panic-stricken as a bereaved dog. They threw off their helmets and armor, abandoned their banners and drums, and fled in panic.  In the process of fleeing, soldiers continued to fall behind, get separated, and escape The team of hundreds of people was getting smaller and smaller, and a mountain road had not yet been completed.  The entire army became "thin" in a circle.  There are less than 200 troops left

    When the defeated army, holding the fluttering "Li" flag, reached the end of Yuquan Mountain, the east gradually became brighter.  There seems to be a dazzling light in the distant sky.

    There were only eight sentry riders at the front of the team. The horses under their crotches suddenly hesitated and became restless. No matter how many times the riders spurred them, they just whinnied and whirled in circles.

    The Sentry Cavalry was in a state of shock and confusion, looking straight ahead, unable to move his eyes away - the dazzling light in the distant sky was getting brighter and brighter, and getting closer and closer, and there were waves of silent vibrations coming from the ground

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? They are actually an infantry soldier with strong armor and strong swords!  The army came from the north, and the slanting sunlight from the east reflected the soldiers' leather helmets translucently, and the iron leaves on their armors were like scales, glowing with layers of light, making it impossible to stare at them.

    Ambush!  The Tianchu army ambush!

    The sentinels screamed warnings in panic - but there was no way to retreat, there were valleys on the left and right, and there were ambushes in front of them. Faced with such a desperate situation, what was the use of issuing warnings?

    The defeated army was already frightened. It had fallen behind and deserted without being attacked. Its morale was completely depleted. How could it withstand such a fright when it was actually being ambushed at this moment?  Seeing the strong troops and horses in front, and the momentum like a rainbow, the deserter team first let out a noisy scream, and then dispersed like a frying pan, fleeing into the mountains on both sides.  Although it may not be easy to live in the mountains in such chaos, it is still better than being slaughtered with swords and guns, and being slaughtered like wild dogs.

    After the bleak situation of the fallen trees and the scattered hozens subsided, there were less than a hundred soldiers left, but the number of ambushes coming up from the front was no less than a thousand This was not a battle, it was a massacre!

    Surrounding the defeated army was an army flying a large flag with the word "Guan". On both sides of this large flag, a red and blue flag was erected. The red one was the Tianzhu military flag, and the blue one was embroidered with "Guan".  The division flag with the word "Bohai".  Under the banner, a general with a horizontal sword stood on his horse, standing high in the pavilion.

    The horse is a tall and handsome bay-red Hequ horse. It will be a broadsword general with a gilded octagonal helmet on its head, a gold-coated iron armor, and a beautiful beard under its chin.

    Bohai Division.

    The sword passes and wins.

    As an auxiliary offensive division, one of the combat tasks of the Bohai Division is to encircleBlock the fleeing enemy.  There are really not many escape routes around Yanjing.  You can't go to the east, but you don't dare to go to the south. There are only two or three places on the west and north sides where you can escape. The Bohai Division has arranged ambushes at these places, just waiting for the blindly fleeing enemy to crash in without knowing whether to live or die.

    Guan Sheng originally commanded the army to block the north gate, but after learning about the death of Medical Master Guo, he knew that there was no more fighting in Yanjing City and he could leave soon.  In this case, it would be better to ambush and intercept.  Sure enough, he caught a big fish.

    Guan Sheng lightly kicked the horse's belly, rode out, and said loudly to the opposite side: "Li Cheng, the matter has come to this, why don't you dismount and be bound! Guan will protect your life."

    Among the fleeing enemies on the opposite side, a cavalryman came out, with black armor and black horses, iron spears and big bows. It was Li Cheng, the commander of the Yanjing Horse and Infantry Army.

    "General Guan has invited me." Li Chengyuan cupped his hand and said loudly, "But I still remember that outside Jinan City in the past, you and I agreed to fight three times, but two of them broke up, leaving one unfulfilled."

    Guan Sheng stroked his beard and laughed: "Why don't you remember that if Commander Li is willing to surrender, you and I will be peers from now on. Not to mention a single alliance, it will be a three-hundred-round battle, so why not?"

    A wry smile flashed across Li Cheng's face, and he managed to pull himself together and said loudly: "General Guan, just remember. We have something to discuss with a certain family."

    "But it doesn't matter."

    "You and I are on this battlefield, in front of the two armies, finishing the last round - you win, I die! I win, I leave. How about that?"

    Guan Sheng smiled and shook his head: "Li Duzhi is so calculating! Do you want to avoid the disadvantage and decide the outcome by fighting with generals? As a general, I will not agree to you"

    The fleeing Qingzhou Army on the opposite side suddenly burst into boos and arrogance.

    Guan Sheng turned his head and glanced at his army. The sergeants were very quiet, but their eyes were full of dissatisfaction.  Guan Sheng nodded slightly, took a deep breath, raised his head and said, "But as a warrior, I will complete the final blow against you."

    Li Changchang let out a long breath, and his tense heartstrings relaxed. He smiled for the first time in so many days - he finally got a chance. Life or death depends on this.

    The deputy general of the Bohai Division worried: "General, if we can't capture Li Cheng with one blow, is it possible that we should let them live? How should we explain to the military leader?"

    Guan Sheng glanced at the deputy general and said calmly: "I only said that I would fulfill my promise to deliver the final blow. I never promised anything."

    The lieutenant general was stunned and suddenly realized. He quickly retreated and ordered all the troops to prepare for attack.

    It is midsummer in June. Although it is early morning, it is already hot and windy.  In the desolate wilderness, two strong horses, one red and one black, were driven by their respective owners, first slowly and then quickly, galloping towards each other, their iron hoofs stepping on the soil, kicking up a trail of yellow dust.

    Li Cheng proposed the battle between generals, but he didn¡¯t even have a 30% chance of winning.  In a battle outside Jinan City that day, Li Cheng and Guan Sheng fought two rounds. At that time, he knew that if the fight continued, he would most likely be killed in the third round.

    The situation that day was far less dangerous than today, and the result was only a 50-50 result. Now that we had lost all the people and people in the right place, we had to run away all night, which consumed a lot of horsepower and physical strength. The opponent was waiting for work, and the chance of winning was increased by two points.  The consequences of such a galloping attack are worrying.

    Li Cheng now faces a dilemma, should he use a gun or a bow?

    Use a gun.  Horse fighting and gun attack rely half on experience and half on horse power.  His horse had traveled such a long distance, and its horsepower was definitely not as good as that of his opponent.  Once the swords and guns are fighting each other, the war horses can't hold their strength, and suddenly the horse stumbles It's really a death in peace.

    Use a bow.  It can avoid the problem of horsepower, and you will be more confident when using a bow.  However, in this case, there is only one chance to strike.  Once an arrow fails to kill the opponent, under such a rapid hedging, there is no time to abandon the bow and replace the gun. By then, the opponent will be unable to fight back and be killed by the opponent.

    Fight!  When the two horses approached the final attack distance of thirty steps, Li Cheng finally made up his mind.  Hang the two-foot-long iron gun back to the winning hook in front of the saddle, pick off the two stone strong bows beside the saddle with your backhand, take out a wolf tooth arrow, and at the same time turn the horse to the right.

    Li Cheng¡¯s action of turning his horse to the right was to kill two birds with one stone - firstly, he could avoid Guan Sheng¡¯s sharp edge and shoot from the flank, thus enlarging the target and achieving a high hit rate.  Second, Li Cheng came from the south and rode his horse in a right turn, with his back to the east and to the west. At this time, the rising sun was rising in the east and he could shoot arrows in the backlight.  As for Guan Shengruo, who was chasing after him on horseback, he happened to be facing the east and looking directly at the sun

    In a blink of an eye, Li Cheng has brought his more than ten years of battlefield fighting experience to its fullest.

    Guan Sheng really had to chase him on horseback - if he didn't chase him, he would become Li Cheng's target and be shot at will by his opponent.

    Guan Sheng, you have fallen into a trap!  Li Cheng laughed silently in his heart, stretched his bow like a full moon, and aimed his arrowhead at Guan Sheng, who was twenty steps away¡ª

      Sure enough, Guan Sheng's red phoenix eyes were pierced by the rising sun, but he made a move at this moment - the bent knife under his ribs suddenly stood up, and the broad blade, as bright as a mirror, faced the rising sun diagonally.  Fiery, dazzling flowers.

    Li Cheng, who was about ten steps away and was about to shoot the killing arrow, suddenly shouted. His eyes were hard to open due to the reflected strong light, and the sting was unbearable. His arm trembled, and the arrow flew out - the arrow flew out like lightning.  , shooting the gilt octagonal helmet off Guan Sheng's head.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Guan Sheng leaps on the horse with the sword horizontally, and rushes past with the force of thunder.

    Click!  The bow and head were both broken, and the blood shot into the sky!

    Li Cheng died and Yanjing was destroyed.
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