At this time, under Wu Yuan's loud shouting, countless rebel soldiers rushed over, and the scene suddenly became chaotic!
There were screams and shouts at the scene. Many people wanted to take back the city gate, but they were facing two generals, Peng Shuang and Liang Yuan. How could they kill them with just ordinary soldiers? retreat.
Usually, as many as come are killed, and as soon as one comes up, one flies out.
There were also a large number of soldiers holding spears surrounding Xiao Yuan and the other three.
But the three of them were fighting, and they were fighting fiercely. Everyone was throwing rat weapons, and they didn't dare to fire arrows at all for fear of accidentally injuring Wu Yuan.
Wu Yuan was very tall. He was still holding the jade seal in his hand. He tried his best to dodge the attacks of the two men, and kept trying to get away. However, the sharp sword was hurting his body, either pointing at his chest or sweeping towards his body. Neck, let alone fight back, there is no chance of escaping.
The sound of horse hooves outside the city gate was getting closer and closer. Under the fierce storm, Wu Yuan could no longer hold up. He lowered his head sharply, and the sword edge passed over his scalp, directly cutting off the hair binding on his head. Lose.
"Ah -" he roared angrily, his hair disheveled, but before he could make any move, Zhong Bai's sword came at him again, and Xiao Yuan even dodged behind him, raised his hand with a sword, and after stabbing him, he stepped forward with lightning speed. , strangled Wu Yuan's neck from behind.
He strangled Wu Yuan's neck with one hand and put the sharp sword in his hand on Wu Yuan's neck.
At this moment, the latter had many wounds on his body. With his hair disheveled, he was restrained by Xiao Yuan, but he shouted at the hesitant rebels around him: "Fire the arrow! Fire the arrow quickly!"
"Come! Shoot the arrow! Come! Who is afraid of whom?"
Xiao Yuan also yelled, and at the same time withdrew his sword and stabbed Wu Yuan cleanly.
"ah--"
A shrill howl came from Wu Yuan's mouth, and the surrounding rebels, holding spears in hand, became even more hesitant to move forward.
"Back off! Back off!"
Xiao Yuan shouted, eyes wide with anger. He also didn't expect that Wu Yuan, the leader of the thieves, was so skilled and could persist for so long under the attack of him and Zhong Bai.
"Kill them! Kill them—"
Wu Yuan was still shouting.
As the saying goes, to hit the snake seven inches away, capture the king first. The leader of the thief was captured, and the rebels were at a loss. However, they hesitated to move forward. The cavalry outside the city gate did not delay, and soon rushed into the city gate in a swarm.
The cavalry that came were of course the subordinates of Xiao Yuan and Zhong Bai, followed closely by a large number of infantry from both armies.
As the situation reversed again, the city gate had been completely breached. At this time, Xiao Yuan also made up his mind and began to hold Wu Yuan hostage, shouting loudly at the rebels:
"Put down your weapons! Maybe you can survive! Otherwise, there is only death!"
In the current situation, Xiao Yuan, holding Wu Yuan hostage, had completely entered the city and was at the front of his own team. As a large number of regular troops arrived, the rebels began to retreat involuntarily.
Seeing that the rebels were shocked but still holding spears, Xiao Yuan immediately shouted coldly: "Crossbowman!"
Following his order, the sound of armor scraping suddenly came from behind. The soldiers in the front row stepped forward quickly, loaded their bows with arrows, some squatted half-crouched, and some fully drew their bows, all aiming at the rebels on the opposite side.
Under such circumstances, the rebels at the front were startled. While retreating again, they couldn't help but look at each other.
Immediately afterwards, there was a "clang", and I don't know who was the first to throw away the weapon, but as one person took the lead, soon, the sound of weapons falling to the ground was heard one after another.
"Trash! You bunch of trash!"
Wu Yuan yelled angrily, but he was restrained and could no longer reverse the situation.
The dog-headed military advisor under him was also here at this time. After seeing this situation, he became even calmer and quietly retreated into the crowd of rebels.
This was just the turmoil at the city gate. Wu Yuan certainly had more than this amount of troops. But with the city gate lost and the soldiers of Xiao Yuan and Zhong Bai completely entering the city, the rest became obviously much easier.
After collecting the rebel weapons here, Xiao Yuan also ordered Wu Yuan to be taken down and under strict supervision. Then he raised his sword and shouted:
"The leader of the traitor has been eliminated! All the soldiers will follow me into the city and completely kill the traitor!"
"kill--"
At this moment, our own side had captured the leader of the thief alive, and the officers and men were extremely excited, and their morale had been boosted to an unprecedented level.
Subsequently, Xiao Yuan's troops and Zhong Bai's Yangzhou Army began to engage in street fighting with the rest of the rebels in the city.
Previously, because Wu Yuan was preparing to attack Yuyang, almost all the rebels had been gathered by him. In fact, there were not many left behind at the palace. Therefore, the area near the city gate was not only the beginning of the chaos, but also the most fierce fighting. of.
Fighting broke out everywhere, and shouts and fighting could be heard everywhere in the streets and alleys.
In such a situation, the people had their doors and windows closed, and how could they dare to show their heads.
Somewhere in the city.
"Here! They're here—"
Some people screamed in panic, which immediately attracted dozens of regular troops and began to fight with the rebels.
Although the emperor was fatuous, Wu Yuan was even more hateful. It was common practice to arrest women of the people for his pleasure and to plunder the people. How could he win the hearts of the people?
Some rebels wanted to hide in people's homes, but the people would not let them in.
And because the leader of the thief had been captured alive, and the whereabouts of the military advisor was unknown, although the rebels were more numerous than Xiao Yuan's side, they had no backbone, no one to command them, and they were almost in disarray.
There were also smarter rebels who, seeing that the situation was over, threw away their weapons, tore off the cloths on their heads, and began to sneak into the city, acting as civilians to avoid the chaos.
These are not a minority. There are actually not many rebels who actually resist.
This chaotic battle lasted for a long time, and it was not until the afternoon that it came to an end, and the city temporarily returned to calm.
Next, Xiao Yuan and Zhong Bai gathered their troops again and began to besiege the palace.
I thought that a tough battle was going to be fought here. After all, if the rebels were to defend the imperial city, the palace walls were tall and large, and it would definitely take a lot of effort to break through. However, I didn't expect that there was no trace of the rebels here. .
Wu Yuan's situation was over, and there were only a thousand rebels left in the palace. These people did not think of fighting to the death, but in the chaos, they all went crazy and began to fight for the gold and silver jewelry in the palace, carrying them with them to escape. .
At this time, the entire palace was in a mess. Everything was thrown on the ground. I don’t know how many palaces were destroyed by the rebels. The number of gold, silver, jade and stones stolen has been impossible to verify. Some precious calligraphy and paintings were also stolen. The rebels who knew the goods tore them up at will and threw them in the corner...
The two led their troops into the palace. Looking at everything in front of them, Zhong Bai closed his eyes first, and then said quietly:
"The majestic imperial court was robbed by traitors and ended up like this. It's really hateful!"
