The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 342 Yongping
"Boom!" The gate of the city was finally smashed open with a big hole, and Yang Pan Guibu outside the city eagerly looked at the doorway that looked like the mouth of an abyss in the dark night, "Hurry up! Continue!"

Boulders were constantly being transported behind the catapults in front of the city gate, and people climbing ladders on both sides of the city wall continued.

The pile of bones outside the city was like a mountain, and some soldiers continued to climb on their robes.

The flat city wall became potholed due to the excavation of these climbers' shovels and shovels.

Climbers push up step by step according to the finger-sized potholes. Although there are feather arrows like rain, and although they are smashed and fell by fellow robes who fell in front of them from time to time, more climbers are like ants. , Constantly climbing on the city wall.

Everyone knows that this is a war of attrition, until the opponent's vitality or weapon stock is consumed, it is a victory.

At this time, the people on the city wall were even more hopeless.

The ammunition and arrows gradually bottomed out, and the few remaining city guards looked down at the city dumbly and resolutely.

"We shall live and die together with the city gate!" The guarding captain with a face full of blood and sweat nodded miserably to a dozen of his subordinates, "Let's go in the direction of the city and thank the parents at home for the kindness of birth!"

After saying that, he took the lead, raised his casually bandaged arm, lifted the hem of his robe, and kowtowed heavily in the direction of home.

A dozen or so people followed behind him, and a few young soldiers sobbed softly, calling for their parents.

The sound of kowtowing is deafening; the sound of weeping is soul-stirring.

"Come on! Lords of the lords guard the gate of the Great Chu Kingdom together with me!" The captain guarding the city shouted loudly, leading the crowd to divide up the few remaining arrows and ammunition, and shoot the enemy troops climbing up the wall with ten to one.

"Boss, I have no more arrows!"

"Boss, the bowstring is broken!"

"Boss, the youngest's gun has exploded!"

"Boss...cough cough cough, the ammunition is out!"

"Boss, the caltrops are all thrown away!"

"Head..."

The guard guard looked around at the last few subordinates, with a warm smile on his expressionless face.

Then he sang his favorite military song: "【Expelling captives and expelling slaves in the desert, looking at Yanshan Mountain and thinking about the Central Plains; on the cold moon and starry Jiuquan, entering Qilian with the general.】"

He roared so loudly that he couldn't hear the tune, which made the blood of the soldiers beside him boil, and they all blushed and sang to him, as if every tune could be turned into a sharp weapon and a heavy stone to throw at the enemy.

The only nine people on the city wall crazily threw everything they could throw down, including destroyed crossbows, exploding firecrackers, weapons boxes, torches, and even... the corpses of their comrades.

In the end, there was nothing to throw away, and the captain defending the city covered in scars showed his teeth glowing with coldness towards the first enemy army to climb up the city.

After a haha, he hugged the opponent and jumped down, rolling down and bringing down all the enemy soldiers on that ladder.

"Ah~~~"

Yang Pangui rode on the horse and watched the nine groups of people rolling down the city wall one after another, a sarcasm flashed in his eyes: "Stupid!"

"My lord, the city walls are no longer guarded, and we can enter the imperial city immediately!" Excitement flashed in the eyes of a general, and he unconsciously licked the corners of his lips, as if the thousands of years of savings of the aristocratic families in the city were just around the corner.

As he said this, a group of people climbed up the city wall first.

"Why don't you open the door!" After waiting for a while, there was still no movement, the general glared at the front impatiently, and his horse kicked impatiently.

"Return to the general, there is a letter from the front, saying that the city gate is full of heroic rebels, and they must be eliminated if they want to open the gate."

"Hmph, just burn it!" The general hummed disdainfully.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Yang Pangui called him warningly: "General Luo!"

Immediately, the general surnamed Luo stopped talking.

Yang Pangui made arrangements: "Send the vanguard to climb the city one after another. After ascending the city, the first team will continue to advance and meet with the friendly army in the middle city. The first team will stay to help clear the city gate."

Following his order, a group of dozens of people began to climb the wall again.

When the fifth watch was approaching, the city gate of Kyoto, which was guarding with all its strength, was finally pushed open, and bursts of rumbling sounded from afar.

Yang Pangui found that he had never heard such a pleasant loud noise.

"Enter the city!" With a smile on his lips, he looked straight ahead, and with a light wave of his hand, he led thousands of soldiers towards the capital.

Although it is still far away from the real imperial city, Yang Pangui's heart is very hot, as if the supreme position in the imperial city is within easy reach.

"Young thief, let's go!"

Just when he was excitedly preparing to meet the pinnacle of his life, bursts of loud shouts came towards him one after another like surfing waves not far away.

The soldiers guarding him immediately lined up and looked vigilantly towards the army that raised dust and mist in the southeast direction.

Yang Pangui still had a smile on his lips, but the coldness in his eyes wanted to freeze him layer by layer.

It wasn't until the incoming army stopped a few dozen feet away that he could see who was coming.

Immediately behind the horse is a girl in her twenties.

This girl was at the age of marriage, but she still dressed in a boudoir with her hair in a bun.

At this time, she was wearing a red robe and a silver helmet, and the spear in her hand was glowing coldly.

The five-foot-tall bay red horse rattled from time to time, which made her a bit domineering in her grace.

"Who is here!" Yang Pangui glanced across at Shu Xiu and the others beside this girl, without any surprise on his face, he looked straight at this strange girl.

"Da Chu Yongping, Jiang Yu wakes up." The girl in front patted her horse and stepped forward, answering loudly.

When Yang Pangui heard the words, he couldn't help being shocked: "Princess Yongping!"

There is a saying in the Jiang family of Great Chu that although the current Emperor Chengyuan arranged the former Crown Princess Hong'an Princess and her daughter Yongping Princess in Huangzhuang in the suburbs of Beijing, he also sent two thousand elite soldiers to them.

They were even given the authority to mobilize troops from the outskirts of Beijing.

As far as he knows, there are about 2 troops in the barracks on the outskirts of Beijing.

Thinking of this, Yang Pangui felt as if ice water was pouring into his heart.

When he was terrified in his heart, Princess Yongping also looked at this handsome gentleman.

"Yang Pangui, grand-nephew of Empress Yuan's grandmother, the only son of the Duke Protector of the current state?" Princess Yongping calmly identified the other party, and looked at the soldiers near him, "Or should I call you the former grandson of Qi?"

"The princess led thousands of soldiers to help, I'm afraid it's not enough." Yang Pangui smiled, without any hesitation, skipping Princess Yongping's question and speaking at his own pace.

The same is true of Princess Yongping, who continued to talk to himself: "It is said in the world that the grandson of the former Qi emperor was in charge of the remnants of the army, and all the connections and financial resources of the former Qi were stored in his hands... I am afraid that the emperor's grandson is just pretending to cover you. Is this the real eldest son of the former Prince Qi?"

"Princess Yongping is so confident that one can fight against ten, but I don't know that when you and I are confronting each other, hundreds of my soldiers have quietly entered the city."

"You don't have a sliver of manpower from the Duke Huguo's mansion here. It seems that these so-called elite soldiers are just mobs gathered together." Princess Yongping noticed the gesture of his confidant from the corner of his eyes, and the smile on his face became more obvious.

"If the princess is sensible, she will step down quickly, and the change of dynasty will not hurt you girls. The Daqi royal family still has a heart to treat the royal girls of the previous dynasty... so as not to hurt you all with swords and guns."

"Yang Pangui, open your eyes and look around, who is surrounded!"

(End of this chapter)