On the first day of summer, the rebels attacked Yangzi City without stopping day and night.
Under the cover of a strong attack, they dug trenches not far from the city.
The rebels erected the ladder in the trench, with the trench bottom supporting it and people pressing on it, so the ladder would not be easily pushed down.
For the rebels, there seemed to be some hope of breaking through the city, but of course they would not be able to feel comfortable under the city.
The river was fishy and smelly. In addition to throwing feces into the river, the defenders also pushed the corpses of the rebels into it.
In such an environment, even breathing feels like suffering for everyone.
After the ladder is set up, the stronger practitioners use flying instruments or their sharp blades to cut off the ladder.
What ordinary people cannot do, practitioners above the Diocesan realm are at the forefront at this moment.
No rebels were able to storm the walls on the first day, and the same was true on the second day.
On the third day, the rebels continued their fierce attack and finally killed them, but they were unable to gain a foothold on the city wall.
By the fifth day, the rancid smell from the city walls was so strong that people couldn't even breathe.
Although the garrison soldiers on the city wall can also smell the smell, at least they don't have to come into direct contact with the rotting things below.
The scale of the rebels is so large. They have been burning, killing and looting all the way. They may not be short of food and grass right away.
But they must be short of medicine.
On the seventh day, Lin Ye stood on the city wall and looked towards the rebel camp. He saw many people carrying a large number of corpses out with their mouths and noses covered.
These corpses may not have died of disease, but may have died of infection due to lack of medication to stop bleeding, or they may have been simply abandoned.
By the tenth day, more and more bodies were being transported out of the rebel camp.
In such a war, the injured were not treated and the weather became hot again. They were just waiting to die.
Looking at the morale of the rebels attacking the city, it was obviously not as high as before.
Every day when the rebels attacked the city, Lin Ye asked the defenders to shout while defending.
He said that Tuoba Lie didn't take the lives of the rebel soldiers seriously at all and just wanted them to die.
Lin Ye also invited some village elders from Guzhu to stand on the city wall and shout in Guzhu dialect, saying that Emperor Yu was still there and that the rebels had all been deceived by Tuoba Lie.
Originally, a few days after the war started, the emperor was going to the city wall to boost morale. Lin Ye requested that the emperor come back in a few days.
At this time, seeing that the morale of the rebels was low and the morale of the army was shattered, Lin Ye immediately sent people to the palace to invite the emperor to the city.
On the morning of the eleventh day, the rebels attacked again, and the emperor's yellow umbrella appeared on the city wall.
Emperor Jade arrived in person, and the morale of the soldiers on the city wall was greatly boosted.
The emperor didn't need to say anything, just showing up on the city wall, and Tuoba Lie's lie that Lin Ye was plotting to rebel and kill the emperor was self-defeating.
By the eleventh night, perhaps Tuoba Lie knew that the morale of the army was difficult to stabilize and could not be delayed any longer.
So a night attack was ordered.
Under the command of Beiye Army General Gu Wansheng, the rebel soldiers began to dig tunnels, trying to dig holes under the city wall into the city.
Feng Xiu ordered the defenders on the city wall to throw stones down to slow down the rebels' ability to dig tunnels.
As the capital of Guzhu, Yangzi is not as good as Geling, the capital of Dayu, but the foundation is deep and solid, so it is not so easy to dig through, and it is not like tofu. You can just poke a hole.
The first night the rebels tried to dig through the city wall was not very successful, and there were many casualties.
On the twelfth day, Tuoba Lie ordered that there was no need to wait until night, and he would dig like this during the day regardless of the cost.
Dayu's army was frantically harvesting the lives of the rebels on the city wall, and the number of casualties every day was so large that it made people go numb.
On the thirteenth day, the river channel was finally cleared and leveled by the rebels, and the rebels' trucks began to push forward.
Lin Ye stood on the city wall and observed carefully. He determined that not only did the rebels not have enough medicine, they might not even have enough food.
Most of the rebel soldiers seemed to have little energy, and their movements were far less rapid than at the beginning.
Tuoba Lie knew this would happen from the beginning. He kidnapped the people and used them as cannon fodder to attack the city. His campaign was huge, but it could not last long.
How much food does an army of more than 1.5 million people consume every day?
Moreover, they failed to obtain supplies from Yunzhou. Even if each person was only given half a catty of food per day, how long could they sustain 1.5 million people.
Originally, according to the emperor's plan, when Wan Yulou met Tuoba Lie in Yunzhou and replenished food and supplies for Tuoba Lie, Ning Weimo would meet the soldiers and horses of Xiangshan Camp and cut off the rebels' food and grass supplies.
Izumo Prefecture pursued from behind, completely disrupting Tuoba Lie's plan.
But because Wan Yulou guessed that Ning Weimo came back secretly and was found by him, Yunzhou's plan changed.
However, even if the plan changes again, the Xiangshan Camp behind Tuoba Lie will not change when it marches towards Lone Bamboo.
On the sixteenth day of the rebel siege, Tuoba Lie knew that there was no chance.
His original intention was to quickly capture Yangzicheng with an absolutely superior force.
However, the failure of the food and grass plan in Yangzi City meant that the emperor's army was not short of food.
His fast break tactics became meaningless.
For such a sophisticated and large-scale serial plan, Tuoba Lie and Mei Luowu did nothing wrong from the initial design to the execution. Unfortunately, their opponent was the emperor and a fledgling Lin Ye.
By this time, Tuoba Lie knew that he had to prepare to leave.
The scouts who stayed on the border hurried back to report the news that soldiers and horses from Dayu Xiangshan Camp had entered Guzhu.
If he doesn't leave, there will be no chance for him to leave.
He would not be willing to take this gamble, but before taking this gamble, he actually understood that trapping Emperor Jade to death in Lone Bamboo had little chance of success.
So he gave the order to the army to attack fiercely for three days, day and night.
If he could break the city in these three days, he would still have a chance. If he couldn't break the city, he would have to turn back to Winter Park.
However, after only two more days of fierce attack, scouts from the north of the city came to report and found that a large-scale army had arrived, with the banner of Dayu, and the general's banner was the word "Ning".
Ning Haitang from Longzhangtai came with a large army, and the soldiers under her command at this time were real Dayu elites.
Not to mention her personal soldiers, not to mention the Kuizi Camp and Quezi Camp that were already under her command, even Yun Guhong's defeated team in Dongbo were all Dayu's serious troops.
Rebel camp.
After receiving the news, Tuoba Lie frowned and didn't speak for a while.
Tuoba Ningxiu looked at his father like this and didn't dare to say anything he wanted to say.
After a long time, General Gu Wansheng persuaded the general to make a decision as soon as possible.
Tuoba Lie pondered for a moment and then ordered: "Give me the order. The Beiye Army will withdraw from the camp tonight. They only said that they are going to raid the north of the city. They ordered other armies to continue their fierce attack at night."
Gu Wansheng immediately responded: "Yes!"
Tuoba Lie looked at his son again and said, "Go and get ready. We will return to Dongbo tonight."
Tuoba Ningxiu asked: "Where is my mother? I want to send someone to pick her up."
Tuoba Lie said: "I have sent someone to pick him up. You don't have to worry. Go and get ready."
Tuoba Ning was overjoyed and quickly went to pack his things.
At night, the rebels continued their onslaught, but most of the rebel soldiers had actually exhausted their fighting spirit.
It was difficult to supervise them at night, so many people were just pretending to charge and didn't dare to really rush to the front.
War experience tells them that those at the front may not get the military honors promised to them, but they will definitely die faster than those behind.
The entire rebel camp was being mobilized, so the people who were kidnapped did not know that the elite of the Beiye Army had been mobilized overnight.
At dawn, someone discovered it, but they didn't care at first.
Before dawn, the Beiye Army had already circled to the north of Yangzi City and rushed towards Longzhangtai from the other direction.
Ning Haitang, the leader of Longzhangtai, has already led his troops to rescue Yangzi, so Longzhangtai's troops must be empty.
Instead of going back, Tuoba Lie went to Longzhangtai. At the nearest moment, he was only forty miles away from Ning Haitang's Jade Army.
By the afternoon, the rebels probably came to their senses and they were all abandoned.
So there began to be a large number of retreats. At first, some people ran away secretly, and then they ran in groups.
By nightfall, more than 100,000 rebels had fled.
After Ning Haitang arrived with his army, he ordered a direct attack without rest.
Most of her subordinates are guilty of crimes, and this battle is their only prescription to wash away their sins.
Therefore, this army from Longzhangtai was particularly fierce. From sunset to sunrise, they pursued and killed them all night long.
Without the Beiye Army, the rebels were no match for Dayama's army. They were already panic-stricken. When they were attacked, they did not even organize a decent resistance.
Because they have to atone for their sins through meritorious deeds, these Jade Army soldiers don't even think about whether those rebels are pitiful or not.
They only killed, from beginning to end, and the blood flowed like rivers.
Whether they are Guzhu people or Dongbo people, they did not come here voluntarily to be rebels, which is indeed pitiful.
But no one can prevent this ending, not even the emperor in Yangzi City will stop it.
He needed these soldiers to feel that they had been cleansed by a killing. As for the Guzhu people and Dongbo people who were killed, in the eyes of the emperor, if their blood could have such an effect, they were not considered dead. Worthless.
Ning Haitang led the Yu army to pursue them all the way south, leaving corpses of dead rebels everywhere.
Halfway through the escape, they were blocked by soldiers and horses from the Dayu Xiangshan Camp. Naturally, General Ning Shehai would not order lenient treatment of the rebels.
Even though the rebels at this time no longer looked like rebels, they looked more like a group of refugees.
If everyone in the world knows how serious the consequences of rebellion are, then killing is necessary.
The two generals Ning led Dayu's army to kill the people from the south and the north. The people who were kidnapped by Tuoba Lie suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties in the wilderness of Lone Bamboo.
Some people thought that they would at least survive if they surrendered, but all those who surrendered also had their heads cut off.
Ning Shehai ordered that the heads of the rebels be used as a spectacle on the battlefield to shock Guzhu.
Seven days later, the two jade armies that had joined together arrived outside Yangzi City. The two generals ordered their troops to camp twenty miles away from Yangzi City. They did not bring any soldiers or weapons. They took off their armor and wore official uniforms. A man rode to the city.
At this point, Tuoba Lie's painstakingly planned Lone Bamboo Rebellion became a thing of the past.
Emperor Jade ordered the city to be opened, and Lin Ye and Gu Xiujin welcomed the two meritorious officials into Yangzi on behalf of the emperor.
The emperor ordered Ning Shehai to lead his army back to Yunzhou, take over the place, and eliminate the remnants of the rebels.
Ning Haitang led his troops to garrison Yangzi to wipe out the rebels in Guzhu. After the situation in Guzhu stabilized, he then entered Dongbo.
The emperor also ordered that all Guzhu people who took in rebels would be executed.
At the same time, the emperor gave Wu Lingwei, Queziying, Kuiziying, and the new Wulingwei army recruited by Lin Ye from Guzhu, totaling more than 80,000 troops, to Lin Ye to reorganize.
The emperor said, you don't have to think about the name of this team, I will help you decide.
Just call it, the cowardly army.
