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Chapter 251 The Commander-in-Chief's One-shot Sets the World 【Order】

In the palace, Zhu Zhiyu suddenly heard the cheers coming from the city, his face showed a bit of joy, and he couldn't help but smiled at Sun Jingwen: "Hahaha, the army's heart is available, and this king has nothing to worry about. !"

Sun Jingwen, who was originally worried, also heard the cheers from the soldiers in the city. Naturally, he understood what was going on, and he was also secretly relieved.

If the city of Anhua is not broken, then they will not fall into the hands of the court. As long as they can persist until the arrival of the Tatar army, then they will be saved by then.

Taking a deep breath, Sun Jingwen bowed to Zhu Zhixiu and said, "Congratulations, congratulations to the lord, Anhua City will be safe."

The king of Anhua, Zhu Zhiyu, was quite complacent at the moment, as if he was proud of having figured out a way to stabilize the morale of the army.

Then Zhu Zhiyu said to Sun Jingwen: "Mr. Sun, follow me to the city wall to meet the mighty general sent by the faint king."

outside the city
With tens of thousands of cavalry and nearly [-] infantry accompanying Cao Xiong, nearly [-] troops are encircling Anhua City.

Although Anhua City is not considered a strong city, it is much taller and wider than Ningzhou City.

Such a big city, if the defenders guard the city to death, to be honest, without several times the number of soldiers and horses, there is really no possibility of breaking through without spending a period of time.

Under the city, Li Huan and others were looking at the defenders above the city wall from afar.

Needless to say, the soldiers guarding the city were some local hooligans and other bandits temporarily recruited by King Anhua. For these people, there is nothing more attractive than money.

This is also the direct reason why these mobs burst out with high morale when they learned that King Anhua had offered such a high reward.

After all, as long as the asking price is high enough, the desperadoes among these people dare to risk their lives.

Of course, most of these improvised soldiers are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Li Huan under the city wall couldn't help raising his brows with some surprise when he heard the shouts from the city, "I didn't expect King Anhua to have such a method."

Cao Xiong, Ren Ping, Chen Ang and others were standing beside Li Huan, and they also heard the shouts from the city.

Cao Xiong's expression changed slightly, and he looked at Li Huan with a bit of worry on his face and said, "General, if the soldiers in the city are determined to fight to the death, I am afraid that Anhua City will not be so easy to capture."

Compared with people like He Jin and Zhou Ang, Cao Xiong is obviously capable, so after feeling the morale of the rebels defending the city, he naturally felt a little worried.

Li Huan nodded slightly and said: "That's right, King Anhua's move was quite unexpected. Li thought that King Anhua was a miser, and he refused to give up his belongings to motivate the soldiers to defend the city."

Hearing what Li Huan said, Xu Ying and Ren Ping couldn't help but look worried.

You must know that according to their previous thinking, Anhua City should be defeated in one go, and then they can concentrate on dealing with the Tatars who are about to go south.

But now Anhua City will have such a change, anyone who is not a fool can see that, if there are no accidents, this Anhua City may be difficult to break through for a while.

But if the city of Anhua is not broken, then Zhu Zhiyu, who is an anti-king, will be a serious problem after all, and even they can't be distracted from dealing with the Tatars.

"General, let the last general lead the troops to try."

He heard Ren Ping open his mouth to challenge Li Huan.

"The end will fight!"

"The end will fight!"

Several people challenged Li Huan to fight.

Although seeing the changes in Anhua City, everyone is not sure that they can break through Anhua City in one go, but if they don't try, who knows if they can break through.

In the event of an accident, Anhua City might be broken easily.

However, Li Huan shook his head slightly.

At the same time, there was a sudden movement on the city wall, and several figures appeared in the sight of Li Huan and the others.

On the city wall, Zhu Zhixiong, who was dressed in a python suit, looked down at the army below the city, and at a glance, it was dark and dense. It was really amazing.

Seeing so many imperial troops under the city, Zhu Zhixiu couldn't help but panic, but he quickly stabilized his mind, looking at the crowd beside him, Zhu Zhixiu became a little more confident.

Zhu Zhixie's eyes fell on Li Huan, who made Li Huan and the others only a few tens of feet away from the city wall, and the two sides could even clearly see each other's expressions.

When he saw Li Huan, Zhu Zhiyu was taken aback for a moment, although he said that he had heard that Li Huan was very young, even less than twenty years old.

But that was just hearsay, and he had never met Li Huan at all. Now seeing that Li Huan was just a young man, Zhu Zhijiu couldn't help but think that Zhou Ang and He Jin could even beat a boy like Li Huan. However, he even lost his life, causing his Anhua city to be surrounded by imperial soldiers.

"Trash, what a waste!"

While scolding Zhou Ang for being a waste in his heart, Zhu Zhixiu also stared at Li Huan.

Li Huan at the bottom of the city saw a look of surprise in Zhu Zhijiu's eyes, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said to Zhu Zhijiu on the city wall: "King Anhua, the governor was ordered to come here to put down the rebellion. Your lord should not implicate innocent people." Well, if the prince can think about the 10,000+ people in this city, please open the gate of the city early, and arrest them without a fight, so as not to hurt innocent people..."

Hearing this, Zhu Zhiyu didn't wait for Li Huan to finish his sentence, and directly yelled at Li Huan: "Young man, don't use your tongue. If you have the ability, you can break through the city and come to arrest this king."

Naturally, Li Huan didn't expect to persuade Zhu Zhijiu to open the city and surrender with just a few words.

Shaking his head slightly, Li Huan looked at Zhu Zhizhen with pity and said, "It's really a pity that the prince is so obsessed with obsession."

Hearing the tone of Li Huan's words, Zhu Zhixie seemed to be doomed, so he couldn't help being angry and shouted at the people around him: "Come on, who will shoot this Li Huan to death for this king?" , this king rewards you with a thousand taels!"

There must be a brave man under a heavy reward, and immediately saw a strong man stand up and said: "The last general asks for his life."

Zhu Zhixiu glanced at it, and said excitedly: "So it's General Lu. If General Lu can shoot Li Huan to death for this king, this king will definitely reward him."

Among the people in the city, Chen Ang and Xu Ying all looked at Li Huan, because at this moment Li Huan said with a smile: "Everyone, prepare to attack the city."

All the people were stupefied when they heard the words, apparently they did not expect that Li Huan would order them to attack the city at this time.

Although he said he was quite puzzled, since Li Huan gave the order, all the people obeyed it.

Before everyone could react, Li Huan stretched out his hand to take the bow and arrow from Li Guo who was next to him, and bent the bow and set the arrow like flowing clouds and flowing water.

squeak

arrow piercing
On the city wall, King Anhua, who was looking at General Lu expectantly, suddenly heard an exclamation, and couldn't help being startled. The next moment, he felt a sharp pain in his chest and a strong force. It flew upside down.

"My lord, be careful..."

Li Huan shot an arrow, and directly shot King Anhua who was defenseless.

Everyone on the city wall was stunned. Earlier, King Anhua clamored to order Li Huan to be shot, but they all knew that.

At a distance of hundreds of feet, it is impossible to shoot someone to death with an arrow alone, even for a master archer. Even if they can hit a target, the power contained in the arrow has already been consumed at a distance of a hundred feet. It is no wonder that it can be fatal. .

It is precisely because of this that some of the generals among the rebels standing beside King Anhua never thought about guarding against someone outside the city who would attack King Anhua with cold arrows.

With that skill, it is better to guard against someone in the city who is not good for King Anhua.

It's just that no one thought that, at a distance of hundreds of feet, Li Huan shot King Anhua with an arrow. Not only that, but also sent King Anhua flying. A group of rebel generals were suppressed.

"My lord..."

When he reacted first, Sun Jingwen's complexion changed drastically, and he couldn't help but rushed towards King Anhua who flew upside down a few feet away with an exclamation.

An arrow on King Anhua's chest sank straight into his chest. At this moment, King Anhua was lying in a pool of blood, his eyes full of fear and despair.

Under the city, Li Huan shot an arrow and shouted without hesitation: "The army is attacking the city."

But the group of people who were stunned by the power of Li Huan's arrow didn't react until now, and each of them showed surprise.

King Anhua was shot into the air by an arrow. Just looking at the situation, he was afraid that he would die or be miserable. The most important thing is that the arrow definitely dropped the morale of the rebels defending the city.

If you were to attack the city at this time, the chances of breaking through the city would definitely be the highest.

Almost immediately, after Xu Ying, Chen Ang, Cao Xiong and others reacted, they all roared excitedly, and then rushed towards Anhua City at the head of the pack.

Although the siege equipment is very simple, and there are not even many siege equipment prepared, but King Anhua's life and death can't be held back. The rebels on the city wall have already been distracted because of Li Huan's arrow. There are many rebels subconsciously resisting, but compared to before, the morale is simply one sky and one bottom.

Li Huan watched the figures climb up the ladder, especially Xu Ying, Chen Ang and other lieutenant generals took the lead in charging into the battle. Relying on their tyrannical force, they climbed up the city wall in twos and threes. After standing firm, a large number of soldiers rushed to the city wall.

Normally, the siege battle is the most tragic, especially as the siege party, the casualties are absolutely staggering, even if some people can attack the city wall with bravery, they will be pushed down by the prepared defenders, and the casualties heavy.

So in the past, if it was not necessary, the commanding generals would not choose to attack the fortified city by force, because the loss would be too heavy.

But Li Huan hit King Anhua severely with an arrow, so that King Anhua didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

Sun Jingwen looked at King Anhua, who was lying in a pool of blood. King Anhua had obviously been shot to the point. Now that he was lying there, he was already breathing in more and breathing less.

"My lord..."

Zhu Zhiyu looked at Sun Jingwen with a bit of bitterness on his face, and said unwillingly: "This king is unwilling..."

As for his own death method, Zhu Zhixie thought of many ways of death from the moment he chose to rebel, or he was defeated and captured, or given death by the emperor.Or he was imprisoned and died by the emperor, or he was killed by the rebel army, or he was beheaded by his generals to ask the emperor for credit.

Anyway, Zhu Zhixiu never dreamed that one day he would die under an arrow. He hadn't even experienced the feeling of Emperor Taizong Wen galloping the world on his horse in the past, so he just fell down.

A mouthful of blood spurted out, Zhu Zhixiu's body froze, his eyes opened wide, but he was breathless.

"My lord is dead!"

Several generals who saw this scene yelled in panic, but this yell made some resisting rebel soldiers nearby despair.

Zhu Zhixiu is dead, so what's the point of their resistance.

"Escape!"

Many generals who knew that they would die if they fell into the court almost immediately chose to flee for their lives.

Taking advantage of the fact that Anhua City has not been breached, they still have a chance to escape for their lives. If they don't escape now, will they have to wait to die?

More than a dozen generals, the rebel army who fled to defend the city, suddenly collapsed, facing the imperial army that had already scaled up the city wall, they had no power to resist.

About half an hour later, with a large number of soldiers and horses attacking the city, the city gate was opened wide, and the cavalry who had been waiting for a long time rushed into the city, and Anhua City fell with a drum.

Anhua King's Mansion

More than half an hour ago, King Anhua climbed up the city wall in high spirits, full of confidence that he could rely on rewards to boost morale and stick to Anhua City to wait for the arrival of the Tatars.

But half an hour later, King Anhua's body was lying quietly in the hall of the palace.

All the family members of Anhua Palace have been taken down, including King Anhua's concubine, heirs, etc. It can be said that because the city was breached too quickly, the Anhua Palace was captured by the imperial army without knowing what happened. It was taken down, so that none of the people in the palace escaped.

When Li Huan walked into the hall, all the people in Anhua Palace looked at Li Huan.

Prince Anhua's eldest son, Zhu Taijin, looked at Li Huan and the others who came over with a look of horror.

Li Huan and the others in military uniform had an evil spirit on them, and the Zhu family who were born in the royal family had never seen such a situation, especially when Zhu Zhixiu's body was still lying on the ground.

With a thud, Zhu Taijin fell to the ground in fright, not only Zhu Taijin, but also Zhu Zhiyu's younger brother and other royal family members all backed away in fright.

Li Huan just glanced at Zhu Taijin and the others indifferently, and his eyes fell on Zhu Zhiyu's body.

The arrow on Zhu Zhixie's chest was still there, apparently shot to death by Li Huan.

Seeing Zhu Zhixiong's wide open eyes, which were unrepentant, Li Huan took a deep breath and said, "Come here, bring the body of the anti-king Zhu Zhiyu to the capital with all the members of the Anhua Palace, and hand it over to His Majesty for disposal."

Speaking of this, Li Huan said again: "At the same time, the whole city will be seized, but anyone who joins forces with King Anhua and conspires to rebel will all copy their families and exterminate their clans."

Following Li Huan's order, the city of Anhua suddenly fell into mourning, especially many wealthy families in Anhua city had previously supported Zhu Zhixiu openly and secretly.

After all, the banner of Zhu Zhixie's rebellion was to oppose Liu Jin's new deal, on the side of the Qing emperor, and what Liu Jin's new deal threatened was the interests of these wealthy families.

It can be said that the reason why Zhu Zhixiu had the courage to rebel and put it into action was the overt or covert support of [-]% of the rich and powerful families in Anhua City.

Although these wealthy families did not stand up clearly, Li Huan didn't talk about it, and directly searched the letters between these wealthy families and King Anhua from the Anhua Palace, as well as the accounts of their money and supplies, and arrested them according to the list.

In the evening, Xu Ying looked tired, but her eyes were full of vigor, and she walked into a hall with a bit of excitement and said to Li Huan who was looking at a map: "The last general Xu Ying, I have seen the general."

Li Huan turned around, glanced at Xu Ying, and said with a slight smile, "Xu Ying, what's the matter?"

Xu Ying hurriedly said: "General, the last general was ordered to arrest the thieves. According to your lord's order, you have captured all 32 wealthy families in the city. Please let me know if these people should be escorted to the capital together."

Li Huan heard the words and said lightly: "Those who follow the thief, according to the law, they should punish the nine clans, just kill them."

Xu Ying couldn't help being stunned when she heard the words, and looked at Li Huan in amazement, obviously she didn't expect Li Huan to say that.

After all, in Xu Ying's opinion, all the wealthy families in Anhua City supported King Anhua's rebellion, and the evidence of the crime was solid. They must be taken to the capital and handed over to the court for disposal. Instead of being escorted to the capital, he was dealt with directly.

So Xu Ying looked stunned, Li Huan glanced at Xu Ying and said: "What? Is there anything else?"

After reacting, Xu Ying took a deep breath and said, "General, the total number of those families is over a thousand. Are you really killing them all?"

Li Huan glanced at Xu Ying and said, "All the men will be beheaded, and the women's relatives will be sent to the Jiaofang Secretary. Do you still have any doubts?"

Xu Ying straightened her expression, and said in a deep voice: "The last general takes orders."

Seeing Xu Ying's leaving figure, Li Huan's expression was rather gloomy, and his eyes fell on the stack of account books and letters on the table.

These account books and letters were all found from the homes of these wealthy families when Xu Ying led his troops to confiscate them.

From these account books and letters, Li Huan discovered to his astonishment that at least half of the dozens of wealthy families secretly smuggled all kinds of prohibited items to the Tatars on the grassland.

For example, the Liu family in Anhua City, the Liu family is one of the largest merchants in Qingyang Prefecture, and the caravan travels between Daming and the grasslands.

The normal caravans between Daming and the grasslands mostly sell tea oil, cloth and other things, such as salt and iron, which are generally not touched.

However, the Liu family specializes in smuggling salt and iron to the Tatars. Not only that, the Liu family has close ties with several tribes, not only smuggling salt and iron to these tribes, but also helping these tribes The property looted from the Central Plains was realized.

Relying on these shady means, the Liu family is almost the richest man in Anhua City, and this time the King of Anhua rebelled, and the Liu family was the most enthusiastic in helping the King of Anhua connect with the Tatars.

In addition to the Liu family, there is also the Zheng family. The Zheng family is no worse than the Liu family, because the Zheng family has a military supply officer in Ningxia Town, who controls the storage and deployment of military supplies in Ningxia Town. Although the official position is not high, the authority is not bad at all.

The Zheng family had no interest in smuggling salt and iron, they directly sold the weapons in their generals to the Tatars quietly, and made a lot of profits.

Zheng Ping and Zheng Wen'an, who was previously taken as an arm by King Anhua and sent to contact the Tatars and ask for help from the Tatars, were from the Zheng family.

It can be said that most of the dozens of powerful families that were taken down were related to the Tatars. People who have been wronged, but if they kill each other, they will definitely slip through the net.

Xu Ying walked out of the palace with an evil spirit and a dignified face, and saw Chen Ang and Cao Xiong walking towards him.

Chen Ang glanced at Xu Ying, feeling that something was wrong with Xu Ying, subconsciously said: "Xu Ying, what are you doing here?"

Xu Ying raised her head subconsciously, glanced at Chen Ang and said, "Kill!"

Chen Ang, Cao Xiong, and Ren Ping couldn't help being stunned when they heard the words. Anhua City had been completely controlled, and everyone who should be arrested had been arrested. Now Xu Ying actually said to kill people, which naturally made Chen Ang and Cao Xiong Several people were puzzled.

Chen Ang frowned, looked at Xu Ying, and said with some surprise: "Killer? Who?"

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