lady, please calm down

In the Jiazi year, on the fourth day of June, the dragon is in the north, the moon is broken, and the past is dead. It indicates a heavy death and great misfortune.

At the end of midnight, a deafening roar suddenly sounded from the west side of the southern city of Huanglongfu, the capital of the Jin Dynasty.

The huge, rapidly expanding fireball illuminated the area within a thousand steps as bright as day, and was followed by brick and stone debris thrown high into the air, which smashed down on the people's faces.

The defenders nearby who were lucky enough not to be killed by the explosion were suddenly met with a rain of bricks and stones, which injured those who rubbed against them and killed those who were hit by them.

The houses inside the city close to the city walls were also not spared.

Suddenly, the southern city of Huanglongfu was filled with chaos and noise, with bricks and stones smashing through roofs.
Just now, Wanyan Ang, who had just climbed up the city wall with his guards, nephews and nephews, came to his senses and found that he had "flown" from the city wall to the bottom of the city without knowing when.

He tried hard to get up, only to find that he had lost all feeling below the waist. Only then did he realize that he must have been blown down from the top of the city wall by the horrific gust of wind and broke his waist.

"Come on, come on!"

Wanyan Ang half-supported himself, raised his upper body and shouted twice, wanting the guards to help him up, but there was no response for a long time. He wondered if the guards had all died in the explosion.

While looking around, Wanyan Ang's sight suddenly focused. He saw a young man in armor, about twelve or thirteen years old, lying on the ground more than ten steps away from him. Half of his head was cut off by something, and red and white paste was scattered all over the ground.

The face could no longer be identified, but Wanyan Ang recognized the armor on the boy as the first leather armor that his ancestor had personally given him when he joined the army.

Half an hour ago, Wanyan Ang personally put this armor on his most beloved grandson.
Ever since the first day he followed his ancestor in starting the rebellion, Wanyan Ang had put life and death behind his mind. Even when his own grandson died in front of him, he did not spend too much time grieving and quickly turned his gaze back to the location of the explosion.

I saw a gap more than ten feet wide on the west side of the south city, and the collapsed city wall formed a gentle slope. In the flickering firelight, I saw a large number of Qi troops swarming into the city.

The Han-Liao slave soldiers who were driven to the top of the city seemed to be frightened by the devastating explosion. A large number of them knelt down and surrendered at the first sight, while more fled into the city in terror.

"Stop! Anyone who retreats will be killed without mercy!"

Wanyan Ang, who was half-sitting, was furious and shouted twice at the top of his lungs, but no one in the slave army, who were like headless flies, paid any attention to him.

In a rage, Wanyan Ang reached out and grabbed a goose-feather knife on the ground, and swung it fiercely at a hapless Liao man who passed by him. Although Wanyan Ang was old, he was a fierce general under his ancestor. Even though he was limited by his waist injury and could not exert his full strength, he still cut off the Liao man's calf with one knife.
"what!"

With a scream, the Liao man fell to the ground, holding his calf and rolling around in pain.

The group of people who had just run to Wanyan Ang were so frightened that they all stopped in their tracks.

"Turn back and kill the enemy! Anyone who dares to retreat will be exterminated with his entire clan!"

Wanyan Ang stretched out his sword and pointed it forward, his hair and beard standing up in anger.

This group of Liao-Han slave soldiers numbered about thirty or forty people. They were indeed frightened by Wanyan Ang at first and subconsciously looked back. However, they saw that the Qi army, which was as fierce as a tiger, was rapidly approaching them.

But the Jurchen nobleman in front of him was only one person, and he was a paralyzed old man.

Everyone looked at each other silently, and then looked at Wanyan Ang in tacit understanding.

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Wanyan Ang watched helplessly as a group of people surrounded him, and suddenly felt that something was wrong. "How dare you! I was conferred the title of Marquis of Huntong by the late emperor, and you are all..."

The pursuers were behind them, and the group of people finally didn't have the patience to listen to the old man finish his words, so they drew their swords and guns and stabbed him.
At three quarters past the hour of the Chou Emperor, the entire Huanglong Prefecture was like a honeycomb roasted by fireworks. Small-scale battles were spread all over the city, interspersed with some nobles fleeing for their lives.

When the Qi army first broke into the city, some nobles escaped from the north gate. After Xiao Xin entered the city, he quickly sent people to seize the city gates.

At this point, Huanglong Mansion turned into a huge cage.

Due to the fall of Wanyan Yong and the collapse of the Han-Liao slave army, there was no organized resistance in the city. However, the Jin nobles knew that the Han-Liao-Bo people might have a chance to survive if they surrendered, but the Jurchens had a blood feud with the Han people and would not have any good results if they surrendered, so they relied on the various mansions to resist stubbornly.

Xiao Xin acted decisively and ordered the Tiger Regiment and the Sixth Regiment to break up into smaller units and clear out the enemy street by street, leaving only the Second Guards Regiment as a reserve in case they encountered a large number of enemy forces.

Fan Chaoyou, the commander of the 5th Company of the Tiger Regiment, led his troops along a wide street and unknowingly separated from the main force and entered the core area of ​​the city. The surroundings were quite quiet, with only the sound of friendly troops fighting coming from a mile behind him.

Fan Chaoyou had joined the army with Xin Qiji during the Huaibei rebellion in the ninth year of Fuchang, and was promoted to company commander due to his merits. As an old soldier, he naturally had to be cautious.

To prevent an ambush nearby, Fan Chaoyou immediately stopped advancing and called his subordinate Lu Jiu to order: "Take a few people to scout ahead. If you encounter the enemy, don't fight to the death, come back immediately."

Lu Jiu was originally a Han Chinese from the Liao Dynasty. After the Liao Dynasty was destroyed, he was captured and enslaved by the Jin people. He was later rescued by the Tiger Group and joined the escort army that cooperated with the Tiger Group in combat.

This person has many skills and is extremely alert. If he were not a little old and illiterate, his future would not be limited to this.

Lu Jiu took the order and left, while Fan Chaoyou remained on guard.

Not long after, Lu Jiu came back excitedly, and before Fan Chaoyou could ask, he said excitedly: "Captain! There is a wealthy family ahead, their house is more magnificent than the house of the Jin centurion in Qinhudun, and the courtyard wall alone is 50 to 60 feet high."

The originally tense atmosphere was aroused by Lu Jiu, who caused a burst of laughter.

Lu Jiu used to be a serf in the home of a Jin centurion. The centurion's house was probably the most magnificent courtyard he had ever seen, so whenever he saw a nobleman's mansion, he always liked to compare it with it.

But to the experienced officers of the Huaibei Army, these words were naturally a bit laughable.

So a platoon leader laughed and said, "It's still 50 or 60 feet high. Why don't you say that there is heaven in front of it?"

"Hey! Platoon Leader Wang, you don't believe it, come on, I'll take you to see it!"

Lu Jiu pointed at the night behind and argued.

Their mission was to attack the residences of the Jurchen nobles and officials in the city. They rushed forward so close just to catch a big fish!
Fan Chaoyou immediately said: "Everyone, keep alert formation and search forward!"

At the command, the 5th Company and more than a hundred militia followers changed their formation and advanced carefully.

After walking for more than a hundred steps, the crowd held torches and carefully crossed an empty square. After walking a few dozen steps, Lu Jiu suddenly said, "We're here! Look, did I brag?"

A high crimson wall suddenly appeared before them. Everyone looked up at the same time. After all, the range illuminated by the torches was limited, and it seemed that they could not see the top of the wall.

In the darkness, this high wall can't help but give people a huge sense of oppression.

The platoon leader who had just questioned Lu Jiu couldn't help but look up and mutter, "My God, if it's really that high, what a high-ranking official must be living inside!"

However, Fan Chaoyou, who had entered Tokyo City with the army that year, seemed to have sensed something and his breathing became rapid.

You have to know that pigments are not cheap nowadays. How can you paint the walls all over with red paint?
"Quick, spread out to the left and right, find... find the door!"

While I was obeying the order, I couldn't help but feel puzzled. Our company commander was a man who had been awarded medals by the King of Chu himself. He had seen all kinds of big scenes, so why did his voice suddenly tremble?
Soon, the subordinate who went to the right shouted: "Found it, found the door!"

When Fan Chaoyou hurried over, he saw a huge city gate with five doorways open in the light of the torch. The plaque above it could not be seen clearly due to the lack of light.

Looking inside through the wide-open city gate, one can vaguely see the outline of a huge palace.
For a moment, everyone was talking about it, arguing whether the person living in this house was a big landlord or a high-ranking official.

At this moment, several women dressed in Jurchen costumes and holding bundles rushed out from the doorway, but they did not expect that the outside was full of Qi soldiers.

After a brief moment of shock, he turned around and ran back in horror, shouting in the Jurchen language which Fan Chaoyou could not understand.

Everyone became more curious and looked at Fan Chaoyou. They didn't dare to rush in without the order from their superior.

Fan Chaoyou trembled as he took out a flare from his leather bag and lit it with a fire starter.
After three or five breaths, the red flare shot straight into the sky with a bang, drew a beautiful arc in the night sky, and slowly fell. With the help of this red light, I could see clearly that there was a huge square behind the doorway, and the sight continued to extend to a tall palace located on the nine-story white marble steps.
Fan Chaoyou continued to look up and softly read the words engraved on the plaque above the city gate, "Wu Men. God! Lu Jiu, what you found is not a wealthy family! This is the fucking Jin Dynasty Palace!"

At the hour of Chou, the whole city was not yet clean.

The orders received by the soldiers of the Tiger Regiment and the Sixth Regiment were very simple: anyone who dared to resist, regardless of whether they were women, children, old or young, from the Jin, Han, Liao or Bohai region, would be killed!

Xiao Xin rode his horse across the long street specifically to find Tiedan. As soon as the two met, before they could say anything, they saw a red flare rising on the north side.

"Seventh Company, go over and see if our friendly forces have encountered a large group of enemy troops!"

After giving the order, Xiao Xin said to Tiedan, "Captain Shen, more than ten mansions in the south of the city have been destroyed. Captain Shen, please ask someone to guard the property."

In the past, the Jinyi Uniform Force would naturally be responsible for temporarily managing the spoils of war, and would then reward the troops based on their merits afterwards.

But in the capital of the Jin Dynasty, there are naturally no people from the Jinyi Uniform Service, and the Second Guard Regiment has a special status, so it is most appropriate to entrust it to them.

After several contacts with Xiao Xin, the deputy commander of the Second Regiment, Pang Shengyi, could not help but secretly think that this person was meticulous, arrogant on the outside but very sensible. After this battle, he would become the most powerful arm of the King of Chu!

Tiedan was not polite and immediately sent his subordinates to receive the spoils.

Not long after, a Tiger Knight came galloping over, dismounted, and immediately whispered a few words to Xiao Xin. Xiao Xin couldn't help but look surprised and couldn't help asking, "The palace gate is open? No guards are seen?"

After getting the knight's confirmation, Xiao Xin immediately came to Tiedan, first laughed as if relieved, then said: "Captain Shen, good news. There are no more defenders in the imperial city, so we don't have to send troops to attack! Now our fifth company has blocked all the palace gates of the imperial city, please go and take over, Captain Shen"

Xiao Xin even temporarily handed over the spoils to the Second Guards for safekeeping, and he would never go into the imperial palace. After all, the meaning of such a place is too special.

A huge amount of wealth, concubines, palace maids, royal utensils, and the dragon throne that attracted heroes from all over the world to compete for it.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang almost died at Hongmen because he entered the Qin Palace privately. Xiao Xin, who was well-versed in poetry and books, would naturally not do such a stupid thing.

Tiedan had no such concerns. Firstly, she was a girl. Secondly, the whole army knew that Shen Zaixing had entrusted his daughter to the King of Chu before his death. They would be a family sooner or later. With her leading him into the palace, he would have fewer excuses to be criticized in the future.

Quarter of an hour later, Tiedan, Xiaoxin and Wu Kui all appeared in front of the Meridian Gate.

Even though I was mentally prepared, it would be a lie to say I wasn't excited when the moment finally came.

Xiao Xin even specially called Fan Chaoyou and Lu Jiu, and said jokingly: "Good luck, you two will also leave a mark in the history books in the future. In the Jiazi year, on the fourth day of the tenth month, Longhua Lu Jiu and Yingzhou Fan Chaoyou broke into the imperial city of the Jin Dynasty! Hahaha."

Throughout history, there have been countless famous generals who have destroyed bandits and enemies without ever being defeated, but how many of them have ever conquered the imperial capital and entered the imperial city?

Afterwards, Pang Shengyi led his men into the imperial city, immediately controlled the concubines, palace maids and eunuchs who had not had time to escape, and sealed off the treasury.

Although Tiedan, Wu Kui and Xiao Xin did not discuss it, the three of them walked across the square and went to the Tianan Hall where all officials held court.

At the request of the Qi army, a group of young eunuchs lit candles in the hall and huddled in the corner, shivering.

Wu Kui walked straight to the front of the imperial steps, looked at the dragon throne in the light, suddenly laughed, turned his head and said to the two people: "It would be great if Chu Ge'er was here, he could go up and try it out to see if it fits."

The next day, the chaos in the city continued until the afternoon when it gradually subsided.

Xiao Xin used the same trick again and drove all the noble ladies, the elderly and the weak in Huanglong Mansion to the front line of Dalingh River. When they left the city, they were not allowed to take any jewelry with them. Apart from the clothes on their bodies, they only had a bag of dry food to avoid starving to death on the road.

June 14, Dalingh River front.

As early as five days ago, Wanyan Liang had received the news that Weizhou and Huanglongfu had been broken. He was shocked and blocked the news immediately.

I am afraid that the whole army will lose morale because of this.

The Xin bandits are as cunning as loaches. If we want to wipe them out completely, it will be difficult to do so without a military advantage of seven or eight times ours to search the mountains and build strongholds to prevent them from moving around.

However, the Jin army no longer has an advantage in terms of manpower on the Dalingh River front. If more troops are dispatched to reinforce, the defense line may be in danger of collapse.

Fortunately, the Xin bandits were few in number and could only harass farms, villages and towns, but were unable to attack county towns.

Therefore, the fall of Weizhou and Huanglongfu this time was completely beyond Wanyan Liang's expectations. Although the battle reports from the rear were unclear, Wanyan Liang thought that the thief Xin must have received support.

He was limited in the number of troops to defend the winding coastline of thousands of miles, and he was powerless!
But now that things have come to this, we have to withdraw troops to provide reinforcements no matter what. If the soldiers learned that the capital had fallen, the consequences would be disastrous.

Therefore, as early as the tenth day, Wanyan Liang had secretly dispatched troops, determined to spare 20,000 men to recapture Huanglongfu no matter what.

But on that day, a large number of reinforcements suddenly arrived on the other side. Among the densely packed troops, there were not only the Qi State's "Chu" flag, the Great Jin Emperor's dragon flag, but also the Xixia military flag and the Zhou military flag.
There were already 80,000 Qi-Jin coalition troops on the other side of the river, plus at least 100,000 reinforcements, the strength of the troops was nearly three times that of Wanyan Liang's army.

What's even more fatal is that on the other side of the strait, there is the new emperor of the Jin Dynasty who personally leads the army to fight. Because of his lack of legitimacy, Wanyan Liang has not dared to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. The arrival of the new emperor of the Jin Dynasty may be of no use to the Qi army, but it is a fatal blow to Wanyan Liang's followers.

Morale plummeted.

In this case, how could Wanyan Liang dare to withdraw soldiers to support?
For a moment, Wanyan Liang was in a dilemma.

On the afternoon of the 14th, a heavy rain came unexpectedly.

Wanyan Liang stood in the central army tent, looking at the dense rain, feeling melancholy, but he had no one to talk to. Since he started the rebellion, all the civil and military officials who were close to him had died one after another.

The Imperial Edicts Minister Li Chou and the son-in-law Tang Kuo died in the rebellion in Yuzhou. Wanyan Mouyan, who was regarded as an right-hand man by Wanyan Liang, died in Qi after going through untold hardships and crossing the Great Xianbei Mountains. Now, even the experienced and prudent Wanyan Hushe has been killed as Huanglongfu City was broken, and his life or death is unknown.

Now facing such a dilemma, even if I want to find someone to discuss it with, there is no suitable person.

Just when he was feeling sad, he suddenly saw the military counselor Xiao Jianxian coming towards him in the rain, soaking wet, with a terrified expression on his face, "Your Majesty! Something terrible has happened!"

Wanyan Liang subconsciously looked towards the Daling River, but saw that the river was calm, and it was not that the Qi army was trying to force a crossing. He could not help but scolded: "The central army tent is in a panic, how can it be so disgraceful!"

Xiao Jianxian paused, and quickly bowed, then pointed to the back of the military camp and said, "Are there so many people here?"

"Who is coming?"

"Here it comes. Hey! Your Majesty, please follow me out of the tent and take a look, and you will know!"

Wanyan Liang looked at Xiao Jianxian with dissatisfaction, and then walked out of the central military tent as he was told.

However, the soldiers in the camp were in panic and were looking towards the north across the wooden fence. Some anxious men even left the camp without permission and rushed to the north in the heavy rain.

Wanyan Liang was just starting to get angry when he saw a surprising scene. In the endless rain, countless disheveled women dragged their children, and countless old men, who were on their last breath, were staggering forward in the mud.

Still two miles away from the military camp, the loud crying sounds even drowned out the sound of rain and could be heard from afar.

"Our people?" Wanyan Liang blurted out.

"Yes, they are all nobles who escaped from Weizhou and Huanglongfu."

"how many people?"

"The scouts who went to support us said that the group in front was about 4,000 to 5,000 people, and there was another group ten miles behind, with a total of more than 30,000 people."

As soon as Xiao Jianxian finished speaking, Wan Yanliang felt a black screen before his eyes and sat down in the mud. (End of this chapter)