Lei Haomiao was unwilling to exchange his own death for peace. The undercurrent in the city was one after another, and the atmosphere of rebellion spread throughout the city.
In fact, ordinary people are fine. After all, as citizens of the capital, they have always been given preferential treatment. At most, they are only slightly envious of Bei'an County's rapid development.
Now both parties are "benevolent kings". When there is enough food, waiting for news behind closed doors is the most common practice.
But for the powerful people who fled from everywhere and crowded in Dingzhou City, they could not sit still.
If we don't take action, this broken ship will sink, and they and their family will sink with it.
If you give it a try, you may be able to show your face in front of the new owner, and you can also maintain a certain status and wealth in the new dynasty in the future.
Following the fire incident, in just a few days to March 27, the powerful forces in Dingzhou City collaborated with several battalions of soldiers and launched multiple uprisings.
Of course, Lei Haomiao, who was experienced in internal fighting, had taken precautions and did not let these "rebels" succeed.
He did not trust the ordinary defenders, but sent the palace guards to suppress them brutally. For a time, blood flowed into rivers and people were killed.
However, although the rebel warriors failed to capture the palace city or occupy any important official offices, under the guidance of the Xuanyi Guards and the powerful forces, a considerable number of the formation nodes had been destroyed.
On March 28, with the assistance of the engineering battalion and the Taoist priests, the city's moat river, which was dozens of feet wide, was close to drying up, and its water was diverted elsewhere.
The person in charge of city defense named Lei appointed by Lei Haomiao has no authority and no talent to know how to deal with it.
There were only a few soldiers and monks who came out of the city to harass, and they all walked around in a casual manner. The engineering battalion was working extremely smoothly, and the large wooden bridge was built under the eyes of the defenders.
The entire city of Dingzhou is lifeless and in decline. Anyone can see that the city will be destroyed soon.
On March 28, most of the Dingguo Taoist Regiment fled. The leader Lei Ming did not stop him. Lei Haomiao angrily heard this and announced that Lei Ming would be cut off from all his positions.
That night, Lei Ming sneaked out of the city and asked to see Zhou Bai, willing to be suppressed by a hundred thousand troops.
In this case, even if Zhou Bai was just an ordinary person, he would not think that Lei Ming could pose a threat to him, not to mention Zhou Bai's own Four Realm cultivation.
Throughout the ages, the monks who penetrated into enemy camps and beheaded them all needed the right time, place, and people. The Dingguo army did not cooperate at all, so how could you make a surprise move?
"The foreign minister Xiaodao, Lei Ming, Fu Wei begs for surrender, and is willing to obey whatever your Majesty says."
Lei Ming's whole body was stiff at this moment, and the flow of magic power in his Dantian fell into unprecedented inertia. He deeply felt what the domineering dragon energy was, and his spiritual consciousness did not even dare to leave the sea of consciousness to test it.
As both masters, why is his nephew so different from this one?
A false dragon and a real dragon?
Lei Ming was puzzled and just knelt there silently, lowering his eyebrows and bowing his head, holding a complex array plate inlaid with more than ten spiritual stones in his hands.
Zhou Bai saw a real person kneeling in front of him, kowtowing and begging for surrender, and was filled with emotion. With his eyesight, he could naturally see that this was the core hub of a large formation.
After playing with the array plate presented by Lei Ming for a while and confirming that it could temporarily suspend the operation of the city defense array, Zhou Bai immediately signaled Lei Ming to stand up: "Master Lei is sincere, I know it."
"Offering this city-protecting formation disk means that you betrayed Lei Haomiao and the clan. Why is this?"
Lei Ming bowed his hands and said seriously: "Those who know the current affairs are heroes. Lei Haomiao wants me to take my people to flee to another state, but I don't know that this is an act of betrayal of the clan."
"After three hundred years of accumulation, the Lei Clan finally crossed the threshold of a noble family after the founding of the country. Even if it only lasts for half a year, there is still a blessed land in the underworld."
Lei Ming was unable to use Taoism, but Zhou Bai followed the guidance of his luck and looked into the darkness.
Below, somewhere in the underworld of Dingzhou, a piece of blessed land emitting a faint white light stands impressively. Although the regulations are not complete, the area is no smaller than the Zhou clan's blessed land.
"Yes, this blessed land of your Lei family is enough to attract ancestral spirits and shelter ghosts." Zhou Bai nodded slightly and expressed appreciation.
Lei Ming secretly marveled at Zhou Bai's magical power, and explained: "It's just a prototype, and it is already shrinking. When the monarch dies and the country is destroyed, it will lose the characteristics of a blessed land in less than three hundred years."
"If we leave Dingzhou and continue to offer incense in other states, the blessed land will decline faster, and maybe it will turn into ordinary ghosts in a hundred years."
A normal blessed land can last for thousands of years. During the existence of the blessed land, it can always feed back to the Yangshi family. This is also the foundation of the thousand-year-old family.
At present, the country is destined to perish, and the Lei family has lost its millennium foundation, but the difference between three hundred years of bad luck and a hundred years of bad luck is not even a little bit.
If the blessed land can feed back three hundred years of bad luck, it will not be difficult for the Thunder Clan to not only restore its current prosperity, but also maintain the status of a county magnate or even a county magistrate.
However, Zhou Bai would not let the Lei family off so easily. He asked instead: "You have stubbornly resisted the king's army for so long, causing the loss of your troops and generals, delaying the unification of Dingzhou, and you want to beg for forgiveness for just a formation?"
This is actually a bit unreasonable. If you attack me, why can't you resist?
But now that the situation is stronger than others, Master Lei Mingtang can only keep apologizing. At the same time, he gritted his teeth and took out several storage bags: "This is my family's century-old savings. Please forgive me and give the Lei family a way to survive."
Zhou Bai opened the storage bag and saw that it was filled with gold, silver, jewelry, and a large number of spiritual stones and rare medicines.
Pure value will indeed take away most of a county prince's family's wealth.
"In addition, our clan has nearly 100,000 stones of food stored in the cellars of several manors outside the city..."
After listening to the follow-up additions, Zhou Bai shook his head and looked at Lei Ming with a faint smile: "Lei Haomiao didn't give you the military ration bag?"
Lei Ming looked at Zhou Bai's mocking eyes and didn't understand. This man had already seen through the tacit understanding between him and Lei Haomiao.
It's just like putting eggs in separate places. In the face of the danger of annihilation of the country and the genocide, as long as one lineage can maintain a certain degree of power, the Lei family will not be doomed.
"Please take it for yourself after your Majesty breaks through the palace city. There are two extremely hidden secret passages that only Lei Haomiao himself knows. It may be difficult for ordinary patrolling monks to detect them."
"The military ration bag and part of the capital for the family's comeback should all be in his hands." Lei Ming sighed, no longer hiding anything, and confessed to Zhou Bai.
Cunning Rabbit only has three caves, but Lei Haomiao has been running Dingzhou City for many years and actually built nine secret passages.
After seven of them were discovered and intercepted, they had no choice but to destroy and seal them. The last two have never been used.
Maybe he wanted to wait until everything was safe and then send the clansmen away with high concealment.
Zhou Bai took a deep look at Lei Ming and said with admiration: "With the resistance so far, the Dingguo Ancestral Temple must be destroyed and no longer worshiped. However, the main lineage of the Lei family only allows you to worship the family incense."
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On March 29, the Dingzhou City formation was defeated, and a formal battle to attack and defend the capital was about to begin.
In fact, in terms of comparison of military strength, the gap between the two sides is not big, and since one attacks and the other defends, according to common sense, the defending side has the advantage.
But the reality is that the defenders are in low morale and have no intention of defending, while the attackers are in full strength. The soldiers are eager to try, brave and fearless, and just want to gain military exploits in the war to destroy the country.
At noon, the warm sunshine shines on the earth. The originally chilling and desolate military confrontation has turned into a fiery war frenzy today.
In the sky, a five-foot-long red and yellow fish dragon roared with excitement. Its body was almost covered with dragon scales, and the three-toed dragon claws it had swallowed were also beginning to take shape. It was just short of officially annihilating the country before it would be fully advanced.
Zhou Bai stood in front of all the soldiers of the Anbei Army on Jiejing. The fish and dragon banner swayed in the wind. As he gently waved his hand to give the order, the three armies moved together.
As the commander of the front army, Li Dingguo mainly attacked Beicheng with 10,000 vanguard troops and 30,000 garrison troops. What started was the most direct siege of the city.
In the military meeting before the general attack, Zhou Bai's intention was very clear. He would see a brand new Dingzhou City tomorrow.
The atmosphere on the top of the city was tense and heavy. Lei Haomiao's supervising team was waiting in full formation, and the rest of the defenders could only forcefully go into battle.
The sound of drums was loud and the fighting spirit was awe-inspiring.
Anbei's army charged like a black tide, and the air pressure from the upper air force came to a head, and the defenders lost all courage.
Fortunately, relying on the tall city walls, they could still hold on for a while before engaging in close combat.
Sharp arrows cut through the air in the air and poured down, sharp and decisive.
However, it will not cause much harm to the hundreds of Forbidden Forces who rush in front. They can be the first batch to ascend. All of them are warriors of mid-acquired or above, wearing three layers of armor.
The swordsmen in the hands of the first soldiers kept waving, sometimes blowing out their true energy to avoid deadly threats. When the friendly forces caught up, they counterattacked and suppressed them with powerful bows and arrows, and they immediately climbed up the ladder to attack the city.
However, this time they were attacking the tallest and strongest city in Dingzhou, and it was obvious that they would not succeed in one wave.
"Quickly, pour gold juice on me and throw all the rocks and logs at me!"
"The king has an order. If you stick to today, everyone will reward you with five taels of silver and ten acres of land..."
Amidst the shouts of the officers supervising the battle team, the defenders finally showed some of the posture of a national imperial army. They were very skilled in various defensive methods and cooperated with each other tacitly.
It doesn't matter if they don't have fighting spirit. Under the pressure of the supervising team composed of guards and pro-combatants, the soldiers have to make a last desperate struggle.
The first batch failed, and the second batch stopped halfway...
Wave after wave of attacks were repelled, until an hour into the battle, a group of guards forced by the supervising team died in the battle at the top of the city.
The defenders of Dingguo gradually woke up. They understood what kind of enemy they were dealing with. They had fallen into two counties a month ago, and now they still want to defend an isolated city?
If you work hard, you will die, if you don't work hard, you will not die. You only need to pretend to deceive the supervising team behind you.
For example, if a rolling stone is not necessarily thrown at the ladder, if you shoot an arrow, it is not necessary to stick out of the parapet...
When more and more people figured out that the angry shouting of the supervising team was no longer effective, it was so urgent that we could still do it by turning back to you.
The general situation is such that the country will be destroyed today, who doesn’t know it.
Especially after several sergeants of the Supervisory Team died at the hands of their own people, the Supervisory Team itself gradually fell into negativity.
It is clear that the monarch has a palace guard in his hands and must stay with him. If they are at the top of the city, the suppression will be much smoother.
At midnight in the afternoon, the sun was setting.
After Zhou Bai's fish-dragon banner took another hundred steps forward, the vanguard selection army went crazy, rushing one after another with all their might.
Finally, the pressure from the war supervisors became less and less effective. More and more Forbidden Forces were stationed at the top of the city. At a certain moment, the defense line completely collapsed.
The first warriors split open the soldiers blocking their way, and after gathering dozens or hundreds of people, they began to charge towards other sections of the city wall.
Before sunset, the city tower was captured by the Anbei Army, and the Anbei Kingdom's flag embroidered with fish and dragon patterns stood proudly.
The iron cables rolled up, the suspension bridge was lowered, and the north city gate opened from the inside.
After a long battle, the two armies decided to win or lose with flesh and blood. With wisdom and bravery, the heroic soldiers finally won...
The loss of the north gate of the outer city is a signal. Naturally, the other three gates cannot be defended. Even if it is just a feint attack, it can be easily carried out.
The entire Dingzhou City suddenly boiled, and rebels raised flags in every corner to respond. This was the end of Dingzhou, and it was also the last chance for the old ministers to show their power.
There are wars everywhere. There are those who really want to welcome Master Wang and make meritorious deeds, but there are also many thieves who just want to take advantage of the situation.
Groups of soldiers poured into Dingzhou City and began to quickly capture important government offices and quell the rebellion in the city according to the planned plan.
Needless to mention the discipline of our own army, hundreds of heads of undisciplined soldiers since the Southern Expedition have told the whole army what the king's division is.
But the fact that Anbei's army doesn't act indiscriminately does not mean that others will not act indiscriminately. It will cause too much harm to the residents in the city, and the people's grievances will still be attributed to Anbei.
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In the middle of the night, the large-scale stubborn defenders in the outer city were basically eliminated, leaving only the palace city still under Lei Haomiao's control.
After Li Dingguo inspected the simple defenses of the palace city, he was ready to order a storm. In his opinion, he would definitely be able to welcome the king to take control of the city tomorrow.
However, at this moment, a strong roar resounded through the sky, followed by fire and the sounds of fighting.
"what happened!".
The military situation was urgent, and soon a military academy received an urgent message relayed by a Taoist official: "Report, several monks in the west of the city launched a Taoist breakout, and have now died of the backlash."
"The enemy's five thousand palace guards suddenly came out from the poor alleys in the west of the city."
"No, because there are no important official offices in the west of the city, there are only more than ten thousand garrison troops stationed there." An officer looked pale and suddenly thought of something.
"Five thousand soldiers are comparable to the elite of our forbidden army. General, we should go to support immediately!"
"The main force that has not entered the city in the future is also in the Beicheng camp. If Lei Haomiao is in the west of the city, he won't really run away..."
For a moment, the officers under Li Dingguo were a little panicked. It would be fine if the result of the battle was not satisfactory, but if the biggest fish escaped, the consequences would be endless.
However, listening to the chattering of his men, Li Dingguo looked calm and ordered the siege to continue.
"Without soldiers guarding the city, it will be easier for us. Here is the order, the city must be breached within an hour!"
Everyone was a little confused, but when they thought of the many staff officers, Lou Shuai, and the king, they understood a little bit.
Ninety-nine successes, how could the higher-ups not prepare for the last step?
Sure enough, half an hour later, only a few hundred of the five thousand palace guards were left and fought back into the palace city.
At this time, several palace gates had been breached, and the remaining defenders joined the palace guards and were trapped in front of the only palace.
"Your Majesty, there is an army of demon-suppressing troops outside the city. Brothers will either die in battle or surrender..."
On the throne of the monarch in the palace, Lei Haomiao looked at the loyal general covered in blood without saying a word.
If you observe carefully, you will find that although he looks as decadent as a rotten tree, there is still a glimmer of light in his eyes.
Until a quarter of an hour later, the sound of fighting outside the palace gradually approached.
"You're coming up!"
"Your Majesty is here in person, fight in!"
Snap, Lei Haomiao woke up in a trance, and the two pieces of jade he held tightly in his hands shattered, which meant that the plan of five thousand soldiers as bait completely failed.
Two elite tribesmen who fled from the secret passage were intercepted and killed, and the national treasury was completely lost.
"If you don't want to be alone, why doesn't the sky grant you the fate of Gu Qianlong? Every step is too late, and every step is too late."
"You can take all the dragon energy, but I only want to keep the incense of my Lei family to be passed down to the world. Dingzhou is yours..."
I wish all book friends who have completed the college entrance examination have fun and achieve ideal results!
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