"Listen to the chaos outside, people outside, our prince has said that as long as you are willing to retreat, we can give you money, three or not five thousand taels." On the tower of Prince Dai's Mansion, someone shouted to the tiger-character flag warriors surrounding the Nine Dragon Wall. road.
Zhang Sancha, who heard the sound, looked towards the direction where the sound came from.
"Five thousand taels of silver just want us to retreat. What a waste!" Zhang Hongtu replied to the people on the tower, and then said, "The entire city of Datong has fallen into the hands of our tiger-character flag. Tell your family. The king quickly opens the palace gate and surrenders."
There was silence on the tower for a moment, and the people above shouted again: "Five thousand taels of silver are not enough. We can add more. As long as you are willing to withdraw, we can discuss how much silver we need."
"How much do you plan to pay?" Zhang Hongtu asked jokingly.
The Tiger Banner army that entered the city has surrounded Dai Wang's Mansion. In order to reduce unnecessary casualties, they need to wait for the siege weapons from outside the city to be delivered before launching an attack on Dai Wang's Mansion.
The people on the city tower shouted: "How about six thousand taels of silver? As long as you are sure to retreat, I will immediately have the silver thrown from the city."
"Bah! Such a big man, who took six thousand taels of silver from the Prince's Palace, wants me to retreat and send the beggars away!" Zhang Hongtu spat on the ground.
The people on the tower shouted: "Six thousand taels is a lot. General, if you take six thousand taels, you can become a rich man wherever you go. It is better than staying in the ranks of the bandits."
"Hehe, there's no need. When I rush into Prince Dai's Mansion, I won't be able to take as much as I have inside." Zhang Hongtu noticed the artillery cart in the distance and chuckled.
The artillery has arrived, and the palace gate of Prince Dai's Mansion will be breached soon.
As a mud-legged person, the best place he has ever seen is the Khan Palace in Qingcheng, but compared with the Palace of the Prince, there is simply a difference between a royal palace and a thatched hut.
Thinking that I will soon be able to enter the Prince's Palace and see this palace that is comparable to a royal palace with my own eyes, I can't help but feel excited just thinking about it.
"If six thousand taels of silver is not enough, we can discuss it. How about eight thousand taels? Otherwise, if you follow Liu Heng for ten thousand taels, you may not be able to get so much silver in your life. As long as you are willing to withdraw, I can give you one right away. Twenty thousand silver." The man on the tower said in a panic.
Obviously, standing at a high place, he also saw the cannons being transported on the street.
Zhang Hongtu smiled at the tower and said nothing.
"If ten thousand taels are not enough, you can add more. If you are willing to defect to the acting king, you will not only get the money, but you will also be able to be promoted to a noble position in the future, and you will not have to be captured as a traitor." The people on the tower shouted eagerly.
The artillery cart was getting closer and closer, and it was about to arrive outside the palace of Prince Dai.
Zhang Hongtu shouted to the city tower: "Datong City has been captured by us. Do you think the small Prince Dai's Palace can stop our tiger-character flag army? So I advise you to put down your weapons as soon as possible and open the palace gate to surrender." "
There was silence on the tower for a long time.
Zhang Hongtu didn't care. When the cannons were set up, the palace city of the palace could not hold out for more than a few cannons.
More than a dozen artillery carts were quickly transported to the street outside the gate of Dai Wangfu Palace.
In addition to the gun carriage, there are also ladders and crash carts.
The car crashed and was not used when they attacked Datong City. This time it was transported into the city and prepared to be used on the palace gate of Prince Dai's Mansion.
Lin Ping, captain of the artillery team, ran over.
"Deputy Commander, the cannons are here." Lin Ping saluted Zhang Sancha and nodded to Zhang Hongtu.
Zhang Sancha said: "It seems that the people in Prince Dai's Mansion will not surrender. Let the artillery team prepare. They will blast open the palace gate with cannons and go straight in."
Lin Ping nodded and ran back to prepare.
A group of soldiers carried several ladders and stood guard next to the artillery team, and the crash car was also arranged aside.
boom! boom! boom!
After the artillery team was ready, the cannons were fired one after another, and the cannonballs fell on the palace walls and towers of the Daiwang Palace.
The blue bricks on the palace wall were smashed and wood chips were scattered everywhere.
"We surrender, we surrender!"
Before the second round of shelling started, someone on the top of the city shouted loudly to surrender.
Zhang Sancha signaled the artillery team to stop firing.
The sound of artillery stopped for a while, and a head poked out from the palace wall, crying and shouting: "Stop fighting, we surrender, we surrender."
"Throw down all the weapons from the city, and then everyone walk out of the palace gate." Zhang Hongtu ordered the defenders on the city.
Not long after he finished speaking, weapons fell off the palace wall one by one.
Soon, the palace door was opened from the inside, and a group of defenders filed out from inside with their heads down.
Zhang Hongtu said to Zhang Sancha next to him: "The palace gate has been captured. My subordinates will lead people to guard the palace gate."
Zhang Sancha nodded.
A group of soldiers rushed out and took custody of all the officers and soldiers who came out of the palace gate. Then another group of soldiers walked into the palace gate and guarded the palace wall.
After taking down the palace gate, Zhang Sancha rode towards the palace gate.
"Who is this guy who is tied up?" When he arrived at the palace gate, Zhang Sancha saw a guy in official uniform among the prisoners whose hands were tied with a rope.
One of the prisoners answered cautiously: "This man is the chief historian of the Prince's Palace. It was he who persuaded the general to surrender on the tower just now."
"I didn't expect that he was still an official." Zhang Sancha looked at him carefully.
"I am willing to surrender even if I am a lower official. I am also willing to surrender even if I am a lower official." The chief historian of Daiwang Palace knelt under Zhang Sancha's horse and kept kowtowing.
Seeing this, Zhang Sancha laughed and cursed: "This damn official actually kowtows to me and begs for mercy. He really has no fucking backbone."
"Xiaoguan has no spine. Xiaguan has no spine at all. I am willing to work for the general in the future. I just ask the general to give me a chance." Shi begged, acting chief of the palace.
Zhang Sancha frowned in disgust and asked, "Since you are the long history of Prince Dai's Mansion, you must know everything about Prince Dai's Mansion?"
"Xiaguan understands. Everything in Daiwang's Mansion is very familiar to Xiaguan." Shi, the head of Daiwang's Mansion, seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and crawled a few steps towards Zhang Sancha on his knees.
Zhang Sancha pointed at him and said to the soldiers on the side: "Untie him and hand him over to your camp, and let him lead the way in to capture King Dai and his family."
The soldier on the side walked over and used a knife to cut off the rope on the wrist of the acting palace chief.
"I would like to thank the general for not killing. I would like to thank the general for not killing." As soon as the rope around the wrist of the acting palace chief Shi was untied, he hurriedly kowtowed to Zhang Sancha.
After kowtowing, he followed the soldiers beside him into the palace gate.
Zhang Sancha hesitated outside the palace gate, but finally did not go in, turned his horse's head and retreated.
The men of the artillery team were cleaning the barrels of the guns and remounting the artillery carriages with horses.
"I think too highly of them. No one with a strong will will lose Datong City so quickly." Zhang Sancha curled his lips in disdain and said, "I'm afraid it was the money that was used by the Prince's Palace to make these people willingly sacrifice their lives."
Zhang Hongtu sighed and said, "It's all our Tiger Flag's money, which gives these people a free advantage."
"Why don't you take over Prince Dai's Mansion? You should treat everything inside as your own." Zhang Sancha rolled his eyes.
Zhang Hongtu chuckled and said: "Sooner or later, the small Prince Dai's Palace will not be able to stop our Tiger Flag's army."
