"My lord is familiar with Kyoto and knows that after pushing this city gate, there is the outer garden of the palace. After the outer garden is the Jade Bridge! My lord, we invite you to step in with the ceremony of a great Qi victorious army!" The four leaders have been leading the way. When they arrived at the gate of the central city of the Imperial City, they all dismounted their horses and knelt to greet them.
The high-spirited Yang Pangui looked around and saw that his close military advisers and others were all full of pride. No one objected to this request to bring glory to the Qi Dynasty. He immediately waved his hand and shouted: "Yes!"
As soon as he gave the order, the three thousand soldiers and horses immediately divided into three parts. One part of the troops entered the city first, one part of the troops surrounded him, and one part of the troops followed.
Then, the three uniform formations filed in from the city gate and headed towards the gate of the palace outer garden.
"The so-called outer garden is mostly where the royal children study, study, ride and shoot. The main road is twice as wide as the outside of the garden!" Seeing that the tower between the outer garden of the imperial city and the Jade Bridge is within reach, Yang Pangui proudly told his close advisor Introduce it.
Many of the confidants and military advisors often visit Dachu, and even if they have never seen the palace gardens in person, they have heard about it, but now they are waiting for Yang Pangui to explain in detail with curious faces and expectant eyes.
"Huh? Why are the gates of the towers in the outer garden of the imperial city closed?" Yang Pangui saw that the two gates that were supposed to open automatically like the gates of the middle city were not moving, and he immediately looked at the four leaders curiously.
He thought about the scene where three thousand soldiers lined up to greet him behind this door, and he couldn't help but look forward to it.
The leaders of the two sentries in the north and south and the two battalions in the east and west raised their hands with a mocking smile on their faces and said: "My lord is wise! Please allow us to go ahead. When the fireworks are set off and the city gate is wide open, I will invite my lord to come on the red carpet."
"Yes!" Yang Pangui straightened his back, nodded reservedly, and agreed loudly.
Seeing this, the four leaders quietly looked at each other, bowed their hands, and then quickly turned their horses' heads, about to enter between the two slightly opened doors in the blink of an eye.
Out of a counselor's instinct, the close strategist looked around and suddenly saw that there was no light in the distance behind him.
He had clearly arranged for hundreds of people to stand outside the city gate holding torches!
Unless the door is closed,...wait? ! close the door!
"No! It's a scam! Protect the lord!"
"Shoot your arrows quickly and leave them behind!"
The confidant strategist shouted quickly.
As soon as he ordered Nian, the soldiers in the front row squatted down, and in the process, the soldiers in the second row had already set up their arrows. When the sight was clear, they let the arrows fly out in an instant.
"Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!" Nearly a hundred feather arrows rushed towards the four people who rushed into the crack of the door.
It's just that those four people were one step faster, so that the arrows hit the newly closed door one after another and fell to the ground with clatter.
"Lord, let's go!" Seeing that the situation was not right, a close military advisor took out a small flag and waved it.
The team of more than 3,000 people immediately turned around and seemed to want to violently break through the barrier!
"Oh oh oh!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"Hoo ho ho!"
Just as they were about to charge, countless torches lit up in the outer gardens of the Imperial City!
Immediately, the entire outer garden was illuminated like daylight!
At the same time as the torch appeared, there were countless shouts!
The chorus of shouts from thousands of troops and horses was deafening, causing Yang Pan's horse to turn uneasily.
"Shoot!" A horn issued from an unknown direction issued an explicit order.
Before they could react, arrows rained down from all directions!
"Swish, swish, swish, swish!"
After a wave of arrows, all the rebel troops outside Yang Pan's army were hit by arrows and fell from their horses!
"Protect the lord! Protect the lord!" Seeing the soldiers being shaken, the close strategists and others hurriedly shouted orders, hoping to use the lord to calm people's hearts.
But before any of them could say anything, several long crossbows were fired from the tower outside the palace, shooting them out together with the rebels behind them!
"Military advisor!" Yang Pangui saw his trusted men flying out in an instant, and several rows of people flying backwards from their horses, leaving only the bare saddles, like cut rice, and his heart suddenly became cold.
"Charge! Charge out!" He did not dare to raise his head to look at the tower, and hurriedly urged his horse, hoping to lead the team away.
At this moment, drums and whistles began to sound from the front and rear of his team.
The tune of the drums and whistles was strange. Just after it sounded for a moment, the galloping horses suddenly stopped, raised their hooves unsteadily, and then fell to the ground and fell asleep.
Before Yang Pangui could react to such changes, many of his subordinates were either thrown out due to inertia when their horses stopped, or they fell to the ground with the horses.
Yang Pangui jumped off the horse just before it fell.
But before he could stand up, there were dark figures on the left and right, shouting "Surrender! Surrender! Surrender!" and approaching them step by step!
Yang Pangui's troops on the road watched in panic as the two rows of human walls attacked from left and right. In their panic, they didn't bother to obey Yang Pangui's instructions, so they started firing crossbows one after another.
It's a pity that all their arrows hit the shields held by the soldiers in the first row twice on the left and right!
Occasionally a fish slipped through the net, but it only stuck on the edge of the soldier's tight armor.
The weapons of Yang Pan's troops had been consumed outside the outer city gate, but General Luo, who was responsible for replacing, replenishing weapons and ammunition, and providing troops, did not return, so that their feather arrows and crossbows quickly ran out of arrows.
Seeing two rows of people shouting and approaching, some people in Yang Pan's army finally couldn't stand the pressure. They broke down and threw away their weapons in tears: "I surrender! I surrender!"
"How dare you?!" Seeing this, someone shouted angrily and tried to swing his halberd over, hoping to intimidate those who were timid and surrendered.
But before he could swing his halberd, the man was shot through by an arrow.
The surrendered soldier was so frightened that he didn't know how to react. When he found out that he was safe and sound, he immediately screamed, grabbed the weapon from the person next to him, and hacked at random: "I surrender! I surrender."
With him taking the lead, other people who wanted to surrender were afraid of being stabbed in the back by their colleagues, so they all took the lead and struck first. Suddenly, internal strife broke out among Yang Pan's troops.
"Don't chop me! Don't chop me! I surrender! I surrender too!" The man who was chased by his crazy colleagues and had nowhere to hide shouted while resisting, "I really surrender! I really surrender!"
Sure enough, as soon as he shouted this, the single sword stabbed at his chest was deflected, only injuring his arm.
Immediately, more soldiers opened their eyes and hurriedly surrendered loudly.
In an instant, Yang Pan returned to his troops and insisted that less than 30% of the combatants remained, and these forces soon became prisoners of most of the surrenderers.
The moment Yang Pangui shouted for surrender from his men, he knew the situation was over.
He laughed tearfully in the direction of Qian Qi in a self-deprecating and desolate manner. After a moment, he suddenly drew out his sword and placed it on his shoulder, intending to kill himself.
"Ah!" Unfortunately, the people on the city wall didn't allow it.
A sharp arrow shot through his wrist, and the sword clattered to the ground, only cutting his sleeve.
"Yang Pangui, why don't you just capture him without hesitation?"
A loud shout came, and Yang Pangui looked up unconsciously and saw that the brightly lit tower was full of people.
Among the two people in the middle, one was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe and the other was wearing an apricot yellow regular uniform.
(End of chapter)
