On that day, the imperial court issued an edict to the entire Bianjing to recruit young men to defend the city.
The Song Dynasty has been a country for more than 200 years, and it still has a common people base. In addition, the Xiongnu are besieging the city. Everyone has long understood the ways of the Xiongnu. They know that as long as the Xiongnu breaks the city, the whole city will suffer, so it only takes half a day. More than 100,000 young and strong people joined the ranks of defending the city!
Even if they have not received professional training, even if they only got the most common sword as a weapon, even if the court did not promise any military pay or pension, they still entered the army without hesitation!
The news in the city was quickly spread out, and when the Xiongnu Shanyu Tila got the news, his face instantly became serious.
Now, just 50,000 Japanese troops defending the city cost the Huns such a heavy price. If the Song people mobilized so many young men to join the defense, could they still break the city?
Even a hundred thousand pigs blocking the city wall can cause great obstacles to them, let alone people!
He immediately realized the seriousness of the matter and couldn't delay it any longer!
He immediately wrote a letter and it was sent to Bianjing City through the letter eagle.
In a house somewhere in the city, a person received a letter. After opening it, he quickly sent the letter to the basement of the house.
In the dark basement, even with several torches lit, it was still so dark that people could not see their faces clearly.
The two people sat on a round table in the middle. The recipient handed the letter to one of them, and he immediately laughed out loud after reading it.
"Does the Huns know that they are in a hurry?"
"What's wrong?"
Another person asked curiously.
The person who first spoke explained:
"The Huns knew that the Dog Emperor was recruiting young men to defend the city, so they became anxious. But he didn't know that the Dog Emperor had no food in his hands, and he could trap them alive if he held on for a little longer!
He also asked us in the letter to take immediate action to avoid delaying the war effort. "
"I see."
The man who spoke last nodded, but then said: "But his worries are not unreasonable. Although there is not much food left in the city, who knows if the Dog Emperor has a trump card?
Now that the Forbidden Army has received the news, they have begun to return reinforcements. My spies in Nanyang City have discovered that King Yun is approaching quickly with nearly 200,000 troops.
If we delay it any longer, when these two supporting armies arrive, not only will the Xiongnu suffer, but we will also be liquidated, and the plan will definitely fail, and such an opportunity will never come again.
Now is indeed the time to give it a try!
In this way, your Ding family will be responsible for opening the city gate, and we will be responsible for the palace. We have invested so much for today over the years, and it is time to make Zhao Duan pay the price! "
"Are you sure?"
"Even if you are not sure, you can still stop him for a while, attract the attention of the Japanese army, and create opportunities for you!"
"Okay! Then we will wait for your signal here. As soon as the Japanese army moves, we will move in sync, and we must also communicate well with the Huns.
Otherwise, when we open the door here and he cannot occupy the city gate in time, it will be a big loss! "
"Of course!"
After the two people discussed the division of labor, they disappeared into the darkness.
But the man who just came to report the news was already a corpse.
Some things still cannot be spread out, the fewer people know about them, the better...
The head of the North Gate of Bianjing.
Song Deren was inspecting the city defenses at the top of the city. Somehow, the Huns suddenly stopped attacking the city today, but he was not happy about it. This abnormal behavior made him very uneasy. There was always a feeling that a storm was coming. The feeling of a full building.
Nothing is good without reason, and there are no sudden abnormalities. All abnormalities are prepared and planned.
But he didn't know what the Huns were thinking, so he could only strengthen patrols and try not to give the Huns any loopholes.
until……
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"The general is in trouble! The imperial palace was attacked! More than a thousand assassins in heavy armor are attacking the imperial city! There are also many soldiers from the patrolling imperial army and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division who have defected to the other side!
If Privy Ye hadn't organized a group of soldiers in the palace in time to guard the imperial city, the rebels would have invaded the palace at this moment. But now the imperial city is in danger and is still in a situation where it may be breached at any time! "
Song Deren, who had just finished inspecting the city and was going to take this rare opportunity to go back and take a rest, was stunned when he received the news!
But after reacting, the first reaction was to immediately lead troops to rescue.
"Come here, gather soldiers to protect you!"
After a while, all the Japanese soldiers who had taken advantage of the opportunity to take a rest were summoned back.
In order to prevent the Xiongnu from taking the opportunity to attack the city, leaving 10,000 people and the newly recruited young men to defend the city, Song Derendang even took the remaining soldiers of the Japanese army towards the imperial city.
And not long after he left, the Huns, who had stopped attacking, suddenly launched another attack.
Fortunately, Jiang Wei remained here and immediately commanded the remaining 10,000 Japanese troops and hundreds of thousands of young men to defend the city.
While the Xiongnu and the remaining Japanese troops were fighting to the death, what no one noticed was that a force of more than 500 men and horses was quietly approaching the north gate.
Imperial City!
"Quick! Release! Release! Release! We can't let them attack!"
"Damn it, these damn traitors have never been seen with such fighting power before, why are they not afraid of death now that they betray!"
The once solemn imperial city was now completely reduced to a battlefield.
A group of black-armored troops are continuously attacking the city, and many Song soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the uniforms of the patrolling imperial army are also following the black-armored troops to attack the imperial city!
In the imperial city, Ye Weizheng commanded the palace's imperial guards with an angry face to resist the attack of the black armored army and these traitors.
Originally, he came to see His Majesty today to ask Your Majesty to give him permission to lead some young men to join in the defense of the city.
But I didn't expect that as soon as I entered the palace, I suddenly encountered a rebellion by the patrolling imperial guards in the palace.
After reacting, he immediately gathered a group of imperial guards who had not betrayed in his capacity as Privy Council to encircle and suppress the rebels. Although these rebels were successfully surrounded and suppressed in the end, the news of a black man came immediately. When he received the news that Army A was attacking the imperial city, he immediately led his men and horses to defend the palace city. At the same time, he also sent a team of men to search for traces of His Majesty and the Crown Prince.
When he was defending the city, he discovered that this black-armored army was not simple. Not only did they have full armor, but they also had hundreds of repeating crossbows. These repeating crossbows put great pressure on them to defend the city. Many of them were The soldiers guarding the city were all killed by the opponent's covering blows with repeating crossbows under the city.
You must know that this repeating crossbow is unique to one of his sons-in-law. Where did these black-armored troops get it from?
But after only wondering for a while, he figured it out. He was afraid that the batch of repeating crossbows that his son-in-law gave to His Majesty had been stolen. The fact that this black-armored army appeared quietly in the imperial city was already a good indication of the problem. The imperial court would definitely There was a traitor, and Lian Nu was revealed.
Just when he and his men were defending the city with great difficulty, news about His Majesty finally came from behind.
The team he sent found His Majesty in Funing Palace, who had just experienced a bloody battle.
The rebels who caused rebellion indeed sent people to assassinate His Majesty. However, although the guards around His Majesty were not many, they were all masters. Even though there were many rebels, they were still defeated by the forces around His Majesty.
And His Majesty also sent him news that he was on his way to the palace gate.
His Majesty's whereabouts were known, which made Ye Wei feel relieved a lot, and he began to concentrate on directing the defense of the city and waiting for His Majesty's arrival.
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(End of chapter)
