The devil is coming

Chapter 864 The Imperial Capital falls!
Over the past hundred years, countless literati and poets have praised this city. Even literati from other countries, when writing poems and lyrics, like to compare "Shangjing" to the paradise in their hearts;
This is a label, a seal imprinted on the times and culture;
To be more lyrical, it is no exaggeration to say that even in ancient history books, it cannot hide its brilliance.
But right now, this magnificent city is suffering from military disaster.
It is so beautiful, yet so fragile;
How charming it is, how much it can inspire people's desire to destroy beautiful things.
The disputes between Yan and Qian can be traced back a hundred years ago. In recent years, old hatreds and new hatreds have increased a lot.
In the past, Yan people ridiculed Gan people for their cowardice, and Gan people laughed at Yan people for their vulgarity.
In the eyes of the Gan people, the territory to the north of the three sides was the territory of the barbarians. The so-called people of the Yan State were the Yan barbarians.
Generations of people have actually grown up with “regional discrimination”;
The so-called Zhu Xia, the so-called people of the same origin and the same clan, there are very few people who really understand this truth, not to mention that among these very few people, there are still many who clearly understand but pretend not to understand.
A hundred years ago, the Gan people took advantage of the decisive battle between the Yan people and the barbarians to carry out the Northern Expedition and backstabbed them. A few years ago in the Jin region, the Chu people and the barbarians joined forces to treat the Jin people as two-legged sheep;
The former Emperor Yan had a heart to swallow up all the Xia, so he would naturally exercise restraint in certain aspects;
But this does not include Prince Pingxi named Zheng.
This does not include the officers and soldiers of the Yan Army who are currently attacking Shangjing.
For Zheng Fan, he had already chosen to risk his life and survive, but for the Yan army soldiers, when the mental and physical exhaustion reached a certain level, the next swing of the sword had become a kind of instinct.
but,
Fortunately among misfortunes,
Even if Chen Yang issued the military order "not to seal the sword" in the name of Yi Shanbo and the commander-in-chief of this army,
But now that the army has dispersed into Shangjing City, the organization will inevitably be chaotic, and it is almost impossible to fully convey the military orders;
Secondly, the number of soldiers and horses of the Yan army this time is still too small. Compared with the size of this big city, it is really unrealistic to throw [-] soldiers into it and try to swallow them all in an instant;
After the Yan army entered the city from Zhengyang Gate, they were basically divided into two groups. One group, led by Fan Li, shouted the slogan "Capture the Empress" and attacked the imperial city;
Another group, led by Chen Yang, began to attack the resistance that was about to gather in the city.
These two sequences alone accounted for almost most of the Yan army's troops.
And with the destruction of the outer city of the imperial city, when Fan Li led his army to attack the inner city, which was the area where the emperor and the harem actually lived, he finally encountered stubborn resistance.
The Yan army was too successful at first. The defense camp outside Shangjing City had been almost emptied before, so it was unable to block the incoming enemies from the outside;
Naturally, there was no time to clean up and fill in the walls of the capital city. Without being prepared to defend the city, the Yan people rushed in like wolves and tigers;
Even this imperial city, due to the chaos of the situation, was stabbed in by the Yan army, who had no idea which side or faction they were carrying.
But when the Yan people's blade was about to touch the entire Shangjing City, not only the core and most vulnerable area of ​​the entire Qian Kingdom, when the Qian people here realized that they had absolutely no other way out, they burst out with dismay. A small will to resist.
The silver-armored guards responsible for the safety of the inner palace, the palace guards, and the guards brought by other adults, and even the father-in-laws in the harem all began to pounce on the vicious Yan people.
The wall of the inner city is actually not high, and it is basically just a formality. But relying on this small small wall, the Gan people inside and the Yan people outside started a desperate fight.
This forced Fan Li to give the order and continue to call Yan Jun from outside the palace to come in and join the attack.
On Chen Yang's side, after defeating more than a dozen attempts to organize by no one knows which yamen, prince, or big family, they encountered another blockade by the guards of each household.
The location of the Yan army's entry into the city, coupled with the situation of heading straight to the palace, basically limited the range of activities of the Yan army after entering the city to a very narrow area. However, this area was not coincidentally Residences of famous wealthy families in Beijing;
Because Shangjing City has too many people, it has experienced several expansions in history. Therefore, it is not like other traditional cities that are simply divided into inner and outer cities. The inner city contains nobles, princes, and ministers, and the outer city It’s ordinary people;
The wealthy areas here basically radiate out from one surface, and the diagonal "central axis" also refers to the palace.
Yao Zizhan once mentioned in his poem, "Tonight the broken roofs and rain are exquisite, tomorrow the three streets will be full of books."
Third Street refers to the "rich area" of Shangjing City, and Yao Zizhan never used the term "inner city".
Therefore,
When Chen Yang's order was issued,
The soldiers of Yan Army who had been "restrained" by Lanyang City and Chuzhou City began to "go on a killing spree".
A wealthy family with a high status, kicked them away and went straight in.
The Qiu Ba people are simple-minded, but they still understand that only in such wealthy families can there be real things to chew on.
After rushing in, Gao Zhai's guards immediately began to protect the owner and fight with Yan's soldiers.
These are actually the armed forces hidden in the capital city. They do not actually exist in the military register, but they cannot be ignored.
Some brave people can even ask their guards to take out military crossbows.
Although, in front of the regular army, it is difficult for these so-called guards to take advantage, and they are basically at a disadvantage, but the Yan army has really stirred up a hornet's nest, and they are fighting everywhere.
"Straight bitch, he is so rich in martial arts among the people!"
This is probably the feeling in the hearts of many Yan soldiers.
In fact, if we attack the city seriously, we can give the soldiers and civilians in the city a buffer time. When they realize that the situation is overwhelming, most people will still choose to "bend their knees" to save their lives;
The ones who save their lives the most are often the "Three Streets", but unfortunately, everyone just caught up, bumped into them, and then killed them.
There was still a stalemate on the other side of the palace, with soldiers and horses constantly shouting. Outside the palace, the soldiers were trapped in large mansions and were fighting happily with the guards.
This made the Yan people's military strength increasingly insufficient.
The Yan people entered the city and Zhengyang Gate was also lost, but the Yan people failed to spread their troops out in time. Even now, nearly three-quarters of the area in Shangjing City has not been truly occupied by the Yan army. Of the four main city gates, three are still in the hands of Ganjun.
This is not a command error by Chen Yang, nor is it a problem with Yan Army's military discipline;
But facing this largest city in the Xia Dynasty, the city area, scale, population, etc. are all beyond the imagination of the Yan army. You don't even know how to drill like this because you have never seen it before.
Even Yanjing, the capital of the Yan Kingdom, is still a little small compared to the upper capital.
Therefore, Yan Jun was completely confused when he entered the city as a country bumpkin.
Therefore, it stands to reason that
As long as someone can raise their arms now, oh no, even if it is not a single person, but three or four, or even seven or eight people, they will start to collect the defeated troops everywhere, gathering rangers, guards and those who have the courage to come out No matter how well the common people respond to each other, it is impossible to say that the situation in the capital city will still have a chance to be reversed!
This is by no means an exaggeration, because after all, this is the home ground and the capital of the Gan people, and although the Yan people may look fierce now, they are actually at the end of their war effort. After a really fierce battle, the outcome is still unknown.
But once Chen Yang personally led a group of soldiers and horses to charge back and forth there, and those who were able to organize them in the first place, whether they were officials, heroes, or the so-called sect in the capital, they were all responsible and courageous leaders. However, because they reacted too quickly and had strong organizational skills, this first batch became the first batch of people greeted by Chen Yang's department.
When they were overwhelmed, and many were even killed directly, the quality of what grew from the back was not as high as that from the front.
Moreover, the Yan people's magical soldiers suddenly appeared in Shang Jing City like a sudden drop from the sky. Naturally, the first reaction of the soldiers and civilians in Shang Jing City was not that the Yan people had taken a big detour and touched a corner of Shang Jing City when they were exhausted. They would only react instinctively. The locals believed that the imperial army in the north was defeated, and the officials who personally led the expedition were also defeated, and the Yan people invaded in such a dignified manner;
They have absolutely no hope!
It’s not that no discerning person can analyze it. It is impossible for the more than 20 troops on the official side to be defeated in such a silent and complete mess, and even the news could not be transmitted here;
However, most people are clueless in this situation.
Therefore,
In spirit,
The official army has been defeated, the official family has been killed, the court has collapsed...
Under the influence of this series of consciousness,
Not only could the defeated Forbidden Army no longer be effectively organized, but even the remaining Forbidden Army who had not yet fought against the Yan people, at this time, directly changed from official troops to robbers;
Everyone began to plunder wantonly, thinking that everything was gone and they could quickly grab a handful to escape.
In the early years, the Yan State also encountered the problem of the lack of combat effectiveness of the Forbidden Army, so the exchange of the Forbidden Army and the Zhenbei Army was equivalent to a defense exchange and training;
Here, after the officials of the State of Qian were furious at the horrific situation of the Forbidden Army in Beijing, which was filled with empty pay, Li Xundao led the newly organized Forbidden Army. Many of the original Forbidden Army generals were sent outside, and the newly organized Forbidden Army was Most are recruited from outside.
Li Xundao once said in a secret report: The people in the capital are happy and carefree, and are not suitable for military training.
And this also led to the fact that the Forbidden Army turned into "bandits" at this time without any psychological pressure;
Most of them were not from Beijing anyway, so they quickly burned, killed, looted and returned to their hometowns with their belongings.
Therefore,
If we look at the overall situation, we can find that the huge Shangjing City is showing a strange bipolar pattern at this time.
On one end, the Yan army was trapped in the imperial city and the wealthy areas, and its troops were temporarily stretched;
On the one hand, Ganren's own officers and soldiers plus rogues, hooligans and rangers with no chivalrous heart began to burn, kill and loot their own people crazily.
Whether it is the Imperial City or Third Street, what these places reflect is that they have large territories, small populations, and strong resistance;
Other areas have a large population and are basically incapable of resisting these soldiers and bandits. At least at this time, the number of casualties caused by Qian Guo's own people is much higher than that of the Yan army.
Later, it even evolved into that when Chen Yang led his army to continue to clean up other cadres in the capital city to resist the establishment, those defeated troops who were burning, killing and looting the people saw the black-armored Yan army appear and instinctively dropped their belongings Start running away.
Which street Chen Yang led his army to, actually settled down.
This made the Yi Shanbo of Dayan feel a little puzzled for a moment:
You bastard, why do you think you are the one who goes to the capital to maintain law and order?
It was because of this strange situation that the Yan army went through a period of chaos after entering the city, allowing Chen Yang to have enough time to redeploy his troops.
He immediately asked his personal guards to go to the Third Street side to deliver orders, asking the soldiers trapped there to rush to the imperial city for reinforcements.
At this time, the fighting on the Third Street is still going on. It is impossible for a large-scale and organized counterattack to occur. Most of them are the guards of a certain family or several families organized together, surrounding a building with the Yan army. Buildings in the courtyard are being fought over;
There were also many Yan soldiers who were injured or killed by some good guardians due to their carelessness. The others in Qi Paoze were chasing that one person hard.
Fortunately, with Chen Yang's new military orders, the Yan army began to be continuously transferred from other battlefields to the imperial city.
Even Chen Yang himself began to consciously shrink his troops and move closer to the imperial city. As for the chaotic Shangjing City, filled with blood and fire, let it go for now.
The resistance in the imperial city was fierce, but as more and more Yan troops entered, the battle was no longer just on the front line, but began to penetrate from other directions, the Ganren's last resistance began to become pale and weak.
at last,
The Yan people rushed into the harem like a tide.
At this time, the sky was already dark, but because the distance to the target was getting closer and closer, the morale of Yan Jun's soldiers gradually showed a strange excitement.
"Catch him alive and present him to the prince!"
"Catch him alive and present him to the prince!"
The soldiers of Yan Army chanted this slogan and began to search everywhere.
It is well known that the official family of Qianguo is not here. It stands to reason that the next step should be to arrest the prince or the prime minister and others. However, the Yan army in the imperial city, from top to bottom, is thinking about the queen of Qianguo. !
Oh, the Queen Mother of Qian can do it!
It may seem ironic, but it is precisely because of this kind of "faith" and "persistence" that these Yan soldiers were able to fight fiercely for so long under long-distance attacks and still maintain their vigor.
at last,
Outside a palace, Ganren's last resistance broke out.
A senior eunuch and a silver-armored governor wearing a red official robe, with the last group of guards, started the final fight with the Yan people.
At first, the Yan army that had just entered was caught off guard and suffered a lot of losses.
But then, realizing that they had encountered a real master, Yan's soldiers began to gather crossbows and shields to suppress them.
For these elites, they have their own set of experiences on how to deal with strong men appearing on the battlefield.
The most fortunate thing is that the official convoys took away most of the expert escorts, such as the Baili brothers and sisters, who are not here at all.
If there were enough experts in the imperial city at the beginning, they could break off the enemy along the way and escape with important people along the way. It would not be difficult to take advantage of the chaos and the Yan people had not yet fully entered the imperial city to escape.
But the problem is that Ganren's own confusion and lack of experts prevented them from seizing the opportunity left by the Yanren.
The old eunuch died in the battle, the commander of the silver-armored guards also died in the battle, and the remaining people all fell.
Soldier Yan's soldiers held their shields, lined up, stepped on the corpses, and began to advance.
"boom!"
The palace door was kicked open.
Inside, the lights are brightly lit, and there are luminous gem-like beings illuminating it, making it look extremely majestic.
A group of children and teenagers huddled together, holding their heads.
There is also a group of women who guard the children. Some of them are palace maids, but there are also some women who look at their attires and their outfits are anything but simple. They are probably concubines.
And directly above, a woman in gorgeous clothes is sitting cross-legged, very dignified;
In front of it, there is a sword.
After seeing this woman, all the officers and soldiers of Yan Army became more breathless.
This is...the Queen of Qian Kingdom?
Fan Li tied one arm and held a big ax in the other hand. He pushed aside the soldiers in front of him and walked in.
"Mother, the queen?"
Fan Li looked at the woman carefully. She was a bit older, but she was well-maintained and her figure was quite plump.
Mmmmmm,
Crossed the threshold,
Still the type that the Lord likes.
Among all the demon kings, the one with the least sense of ethics is actually not Mowan, but Fan Li, because his mode of thinking is actually very different from ordinary people.
"Very good, very good. The legs are thick, the waist is thin, and the butt is big. My Lord likes it, hehehe."
Fan Li wanted to rub his hands, but because one arm was broken, he could only rub his chest with the back of an axe. This look was almost perfectly consistent with the folk legend about Yan Manzi.
"I would rather die than be humiliated by a swallow or a dog!"
The Queen's eyes showed determination, she drew out the sword in front of her and put it on her neck.
Without hesitation,
Nourishes...
The neck was scratched,
it hurts
Then the sword also fell down, because it was too heavy and her hand could not hold it.
The Empress was a little surprised, wondering why she didn't succeed in committing suicide. Apparently this was how the troupe in the palace staged suicide?
In fact, it is very difficult for even an adult man to kill himself with a sword, let alone a pampered queen.
Fan Li immediately rushed in, kicked the sword in front of the Queen's Empress, and then slapped the Queen's neck mercilessly, knocking her unconscious.
Then pick it up and put it on your shoulders,
shouted:
"Got it!"
The soldiers of Army Yan let out loud cheers.
...
"So, Xundao, what you are saying is that the main force of the Yan people has already retreated, and their goal is still to go to the capital?"
"When we return to the official home, our army sent out today to try to launch a tentative offensive against the Yan army. The Yan people just chose to shrink, shrinking to the point where no camp with [-] soldiers and horses would be allowed to shrink anymore.
This has proved that the main force of the Yan people is no longer here, and, judging from the time when my three-pronged army encircled them, it has long been gone. "
"There is a prince in the capital to supervise the country, and tens of thousands of imperial troops who stay behind, as well as high-ranking officials from all sides, including several ministers. How can it be possible for tens of thousands of Yan captives to break through my capital?"
"Officials, the remaining imperial troops have not yet been trained, but all the elites in the capital are already by your Majesty's side.
Although the upper capital is towering, it is actually not conducive to defending the city.
There are not enough troops to fight,
Even though there are only tens of thousands of Yan people,
Shangjing,
It’s still as crisp as paper! "
The official is lying on the dragon couch,
His mouth was slightly open and his eyes were a little empty:
"So, my trip to Beijing is gone?"
(End of this chapter)