Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 527 Tragic Rebellion

It’s not that the generals of the Yan army have never seen the scene. In Jicheng, many soldiers of the Yan army not only experienced the Chu-Han War, but also participated in the battle where the princes outside the pass joined forces to destroy Qin. They can all be found, but even these veterans who climbed out of the dead have never encountered such a situation today, such a terrifying scene today.

Under the sunlight in early spring, boulders bigger than a millstone kept flying up, like flying birds returning to their nests, whistling and spinning, hitting the top of Jicheng City one after another. In the deep pit, hitting the parapet wall, the wall collapsed, the arrow pile disappeared directly, and smashed into the defenders, blood and flesh flew everywhere, the internal organs and brains shot together, and the people who were smashed were turned into meat paste, and were hanged The ones usually have broken tendons and bones, and the screaming sound is comparable to that of slaughtering a pig.

It was the first time I encountered such a scene. Of course, the defenders on the city wall were already in a mess. There were countless people running to avoid the stones. The army's huge stone bombs were not polite, and continued to hit the top of the city one after another, smashing into the city, smashing the upper and lower walls of Jicheng City, and smashing the houses in the city to collapse. There are countless soldiers and civilians running and screaming, and the scene is chaotic like the end of the world.

Without the persuasion of others, Zang Tu, who cherished his life, escaped from the top of the west gate of Jicheng early on, and hid at the dead corner of the Han army behind the city wall. After the army soldiers were smashed into meat, Zang Tu didn't even have the courage to stay on the front line to boost morale, so he could only quickly send someone to Zhai Xu and Li Liao to order Zhai Xu and Li Liao to guard the west gate, and then quickly led the army. The guards rushed back to the palace, fearing that they would be delayed for a long time on the front line, and if they were unlucky, they would be directly crushed to death by the huge stone of the Han army.

It was only after he fled back to the palace that Zang Tu realized that the situation at the east and north gates of Jicheng was similar. The gate and the east gate were bombarded indiscriminately, and the towers on the city wall and the screens that resisted bows and arrows were destroyed without any effort.

Regarding this, Zang Tu's face was livid, but there was nothing he could do, and he said to himself after a while: "No matter how you smash it, it is impossible to smash down the wall of the widow. The great thing is that the casualties are greater and the battle is more difficult. The key lies in the ant-attached battle, as long as we can withstand the ant-attached war, we can still defend Jicheng."

Zhang Sheng didn't agree with Zang Tu's words, but subconsciously turned his eyes to the west, thinking in his heart, "The key is the west gate. As long as the west gate can be guarded, there will be hope for the east gate and the north gate."

Zhang Sheng's intuition is very keen. Just as he was muttering this, Tao Xi, the impatient general of the Han army, ordered the gunners of the Han army to stop throwing stones. Ants attack.Seeing this scene on the city wall, Zhai Xu, the guard of the west gate of the Yan Army, was extremely hesitant, but considering that his subordinates might not follow him, and the city gate was controlled by friendly troops, Zhai Xu hesitated for a while, Still gritted his teeth and ordered: "Prepare the rocket and swallowtail torch."

According to Zhai Xu's order, barrels of precious kerosene were quickly carried to the top of the city, and rockets and swallowtail torches wrapped in linen were also quickly dipped in kerosene. It will ignite and shoot out, setting fire to the ladder truck that poses the greatest threat to the city wall.However, when Zhai Xu and the generals of the Yan army were puzzled, after the rows of Yan army rocketmen were ready to take their positions, and when the ladder vehicles of the Han army were about to enter their range, the flag of the Han army suddenly flashed, and the ladder The car stopped advancing immediately, staying at the edge of the Yanjun rocket range.

"What is the tyrant's army doing?"

When a stubborn general of the Yan Army finished his sentence, the answer appeared, and while the flag was shaking, the Han army's catapult, which had been silent for a while, fired again, throwing out huge pottery urns one by one with centrifugal force, and directly smashed them into the ground. The walls of Jicheng, which were already full of shooters, were already too late when the crossbowmen of the Yan army screamed and scattered to escape. The pottery urn shattered, shooting out countless charcoal, smoke and fire, and immediately burned many Yan soldiers who were unable to escape. The crossbowman also ignited all the combustibles that could be ignited in the surrounding area - including of course the expensive and precious kerosene.

"Move the kerosene! Protect the kerosene!"

Some clever generals of the Yan army quickly understood the vicious intentions of the Han army, and quickly ordered the soldiers to rescue the kerosene. However, the Han army's catapults were merciless, and they threw some primitive incendiary bombs and sheep's head stones one after another. Although the stones are small in size and cannot damage the arrow stacks on the city wall, they are large in number and are extremely effective against the soldiers of the Yan army. Stones as big as sheep's heads fell like hail and raindrops, and many soldiers of the Yan army lay down in a pool of blood with unwilling roars. In the middle of the battle, the city wall also quickly burst into flames, with fire and smoke everywhere, and there were also defenders running and shouting everywhere.

After smashing out five rounds of sheep's head stones in one breath, causing many casualties and confusion to the defenders, the ladder carts of the Han army started to move forward again, approaching the city wall slowly but firmly. Rockets were fired to stop them, but the number was obviously far from enough, and the strength was weak and the aim was misaligned. The threat to the Han army's ladder vehicles that had undergone certain fire protection treatment was very small, let alone blocking the advance speed of the Han army.

It's also very good, the Yan army still has hope. When two Han army ladder vehicles approached the city wall with a small amount of fire, without Zhai Xu's order, the Yan army soldiers who had been preparing for a long time immediately threw the swallow tail torches one after another, Crazy set fire to the ladder carts of the Han army. Not to be outdone, the soldiers of the Han army carrying the flying ladders rushed to the foot of the city wall. As a result, the shouts of killing on the battlefield completely boiled up.

Hearing the sudden boiling sound of killing, Li Liao, who led the reserve team of the Yan Army to guard the inner side of the west gate, also knew that he could do something. After hesitating for a moment, Li Liao first arranged for his cronies to guard the Qianjin gate, and said no. His own personal order, no one is allowed to put down the Qianjin gate, and then he went down to the city gate with a stern expression, but when Li Liao was surprised, when he came to the city gate, Zhai, the west gate guard of the Yan army, As if he had emerged from the ground, Xu appeared at the city gate first, with a team of his personal guards beside him.

Zhai Xu's face changed when he saw Li Liao appearing. He was also obviously shocked. Before Li Liao could speak, he said, "General Li, let me see what's going on at the city gate. Why are you here?"

"I'm also worried about the situation at the city gate, so come and have a look." Li Yao forced a smile, and then asked Zhai Xu: "Jun Zhai, listen to the voice, the tyrant's army is already attached to the ants, why don't you come to the city to command and supervise the battle?" ?”

"I'll go up right away, I'll go up right away." Zhai Xu's eyes were obviously wandering, and he said with a forced smile: "General Li, I'll leave it to you here, I'll go first."

After saying that, Zhai Xu really turned around and walked towards the upper city corridor. Li Liao breathed a sigh of relief, then Li Liao hesitated, and said to the city gate officer: "Give me the key, and the key to the gate of the Wengcheng City." The key, just in case, from now on, the key to the city gate will be in the hands of this general.”

The city gate officer sang a promise, and immediately took out the key, but when Li Liao was about to reach out to pick it up, Zhai Xu, who had already turned around and left, suddenly turned around, leading his soldiers back, and shouted loudly: "Slow down!" Come on! General Li, I am the guard of the west gate, why did you give the key to you for safekeeping?"

"Oops! Did I show my flaws?" Li Liao groaned in his heart, and quickly said bravely: "Junzun, the king has an order to let the general guard the city gate, urn city and Qianjin gate for you. Of course the key must be given by the general. custody."

"But the king didn't say that the keys will be handed over to you." Zhai Xu retorted, and stretched out his hand to the city gate officer, ordering: "Give me all the keys!"

The city gate officer looked at Li Liao who also wanted to hand over the key in embarrassment. Li Liao's forehead was sweating, but Li Liao knew very well that once the city gate officer handed over the key to Zhai Xu, not only would he have no chance to quickly Opening the city gate to welcome the Han army to enter the city, with a little delay, all his family members in the palace city will die without a place to bury them, so Li Liao has no choice but to insist: "The king wants me to guard the city gate, Of course the door key must be handed over to me for safekeeping, give me the key!"

Zhai Xu glared at Li Liao, and Li Liao, who was hiding the ghost, was even more panicked, so he could only force himself to look at Zhai Xu, and then Li Liao had an idea, and suddenly reached out to grab the key that the city gate officer had already held. I want to get the key first, but who would have thought that Li Liao's movements were fast, and Zhai Xu's movements were equally fast, and they also suddenly reached out to grab the key, and both hands grabbed the key almost at the same time, and neither of them would let it go. , stalemate in the air.

"Let go!" Zhai Xu roared, "I am the guard of the west gate. For the safety of the west gate of Jicheng, I must be in charge of the key!"

"Let go!" Li Lao yelled, "The king asked me to guard the door by name, and of course I have the key! Let me go!"

"Don't let go, don't blame me for being rude!"

When Zhai Xu and Li Liao yelled this sentence in unison, their soldiers also showed their weapons at the same time. Li Liao and Zhai Xu were shocked when they saw it, and hurriedly shouted in unison: "Li Liao (Zhai Xu), What do you want to do? Want to rebel?"

After yelling these words at the same time, it was Li Liao and Zhai Xu who were so anxious that they came back to their senses at the same time, and then Li Liao was moved in his heart again, and while holding the key tightly, he said in a low voice: "Zhai Junzun , do you really want to rebel and open the city gate to let people from outside come in?"

Zhai Xu's face turned pale all of a sudden, but seeing that there seemed to be no malice in Li Liao's eyes, Zhai Xu was also blessed and said in a low voice, "Do you also want to rebel and open the city gate to welcome the imperial army into the city? "

Seeing that the situation was extremely wrong, after hesitating for a while, Li Liao said in a very small voice: "I am from the imperial court."

Zhai Xu's body shook, and then he smiled a little, and said in a low voice, "I'm also a member of the imperial court."

Looking at each other in surprise, Li Liao and Zhai Xu suddenly laughed together, and they were very happy. Then, while waving their hands to let their own soldiers retreat, they joined hands to open the city gate with smiles on their faces. The city gate officer next to him Seeing the shock, he hurriedly said: "Zhai Junzun, General Li, what do you want to do?"

"Shut up!" Li Liao and Zhai Xu roared in unison again, "One more word of nonsense, and I'll have your head right away! Open the door for us, and you will benefit!"

The city gate officer was stunned, and after quickly recovering, the city gate officer didn't say much, and hurried up to help Zhai Xu and Li Liao remove the gate latch, open the inner city gate, and then accompanied Zhai and Li to run away When they arrived at the gate of the Wengcheng, they opened the gate of the Wengcheng again. As a result, the gate had just been opened. Of course, the soldiers of the Han army who were attacking were bursting with joy, and immediately swarmed into the city. Dancing with hands and feet, he couldn't wait to order the rear army to step forward and directly enter the city of Jicheng from the opened city gate.

"Quick! Quick! The soldiers of the big man, the sooner the better, our family members are all in the palace city, please rescue them, please rescue them!" This is General Li Liao and Zhai Xujun The voices at the city gate were all in unison again.

The next thing is of course easy, because the frontline commander and the reserve team leader both took the lead in shameless rebellion, and Tao Xi's Han army officers and soldiers of course entered the city of Jicheng without any effort, and quickly rushed to the city wall to take over the vital points everywhere.And when the news of Ximen's breach spread, like Zhai Xu, Yan Xiangzhao, who was instigated by the Han army through the secret envoy of the Yan army, dropped his tail and did not dare to hesitate. Responding to the entry of Han army general Gongsun Tong's army into the city, the Yan army general Wei Man who was on duty at the north gate of Jicheng was caught off guard, and the army under his command suddenly fell into chaos. declared fall.

However, the Yan army at the east gate withstood Zhao Jun's attack for the time being, but after seeing the fire in the city and the crimson Han army flags appearing continuously, the Yan army at the east gate also panicked quickly. Chi had no choice but to quickly send someone to ask Zang Tu for orders and seek Zang Tu's opinion. Should he stick to it to the end, or take advantage of the opportunity now to break through and run for his life?

At this time, of course, Zang Tu also knew about the great changes in the battlefield situation. When he learned that Zhao She dropped his tail so shamelessly that he led the reserve team to attack the defenders of the North Gate, and that Zhai Xu and Li Liao joined forces to sacrifice the city, the furious Zang Tu and his son immediately All their family members were brought before Zang Tu, but when Zang Tu ordered them to be executed, his confidant, the little eunuch Zhong Xingshuo, jumped out to stop them, saying, "My lord, you can't kill them, you have family members too! You have to fight for them!" Consider it for your concubine and grandchildren!"

"What do you mean?" Zang Tu turned his head and asked.

"Your Majesty, why don't you think about it? If you kill Zhaoshe Huawei and Zhai Xu's family members, how could they let your family members go?" Bank of China said hurriedly: "The next step is whether you surrender or go out of the city to break through If you kill the family members of Zhaoshe Huawei and Zhai Xu, how could they not kill your family members to take revenge? They have made great contributions to the tyrant army, how could the tyrant army Stop them from taking revenge?"

The Bank of China reminded Zang Tu that even if he broke through the siege, he would not be able to take away his concubine and descendants. In order to give his grandchildren a chance to survive, Zang Tu reluctantly nodded and waved for the guards to take The weeping family members escorted them out, and then they gritted their teeth and said: "Call all the troops that can be restrained immediately, break through the south gate and go north, and go to the grassland to join the Huns! Borrow troops from the Huns to avenge these idiots!" "

In history, Zang Tu rebelled against Liu Laosan, and the process was very tragic. He was easily put down by Liu Laosan in only three months. On the other hand, Zang Tu’s anti-insurgency against Xiang Kang was even more tragic. Before the Han army’s counter-insurgency main force arrived at the Yandi battlefield, the three Han army’s vanguard troops broke through the capital Jicheng and took away the old nest. .

Fortunately, Zang Tu's next luck was pretty good. After leaving the city from the untouched south gate with an army that could barely be controlled, although the Han army pursued with all their strength, they successfully defeated the Yan army's defeated brigade. The army had a large number of cavalry and relatively strong mobility. Zang Tu and his son finally got rid of the pursuit of the Han army with more than [-] cavalry, and fled directly to the northern grassland to join the Huns. Fortunately, they were not beheaded by the soldiers of the Han army. Or captured, but Zang Tu's concubines and grandchildren were all captured by the Han army. The Yandi rebellion initiated by Zang Tu and his son was completely suppressed by the Han army after only about a month.

By the way, maybe it is the inertia of history. After the Yan army general Wei Man led more than ten cavalry to escape to Liaodong, he used his prestige as a county guard in Liaodong to re-raise an army of more than 1000 people. Although Weiman did not dare to continue to be an enemy of the Han army, he still fled to North Korea as in history. A few years later, he launched a rebellion in North Korea, killed the king of Jizi North Korea, Ji Zhun, and established himself as king. .

(End of this chapter)