The Beidu Dragon City Wall is high and the river is wide. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is a hard nut to crack. With the idea of promoting his legitimate son, Zhao Ying personally led five thousand soldiers and horses, non-stop, and swept to the city at lightning speed, clamoring for a fight, but the city was silent and there was no movement. He climbed up and looked around, and saw only a few officers and soldiers behind the wall. They were all weak and seemed to have not had enough to eat.
I have long heard that Longcheng Deputy Remainer and Longcheng Yin Tang Xianren is a greedy and short-sighted rat. He embezzles military pay and enriches his own pockets. He is notorious. However, he has the support of important officials in the imperial court. Although the military has strong opinions, it can never do anything to him. The situation of Daliang Kingdom is deteriorating. With such a loser stationed in Dragon City, there is no need to be too cautious! Zhao Ying immediately felt relieved. He sent his confidant General Hong Tao with eight hundred soldiers to attack the city. With an order, the soldiers shouted in unison, forcing the common people to move forward and fill in the moat.
The nearby people, regardless of gender, old or young, were forced to demolish their houses, cut down trees, and carry earth and rocks to fill the river in order to survive under the threat of daggers and guns. The northern capital has been at peace for a long time and has not suffered any military disasters. Hundreds of people have multiplied in the villages outside the city. Zhao Ying's army came quickly. The people could not evacuate into the city in time, so they were all captured. The living came forward with arrows, and the dead filled the river with their corpses. For a time, the whole country was wailing, and it was too miserable to watch.
Zhao Ying rides a tall horse with a black body and white hooves. It is known as "dark clouds tread on snow". It is a good horse given by Zhao Hongtu, and it is also famous among Fan Yang's army. He witnessed the officers and soldiers slaughtering innocent people, with expressionless faces and a heart of stone. There is a saying that "compassion does not control soldiers". In troubled times, human life is as cheap as a dog, and caring for the people's livelihood and caring for the people like children will not be discussed until the world is calmed down.
God is on Zhao Ying's side. The moat of the northern capital has been silted up for a long time, and arrows are sparse at the top of the city. It was filled up in half a day. Hong Tao was well prepared and launched eighteen ladders. He personally led the soldiers and fought bravely regardless of his own safety. superior. The top of the city suddenly turned into a mess, with people coming and going, and the sky was full of boiling water. Yin Tang Xianren of Longcheng did not dare to show his face at all. A general in armor shouted at the archers, but no one paid him any attention. He looked at the ladder It was crawling with people, and the general was so anxious that he stamped his feet, but could not organize an effective resistance.
Zhao Ying looked at them carefully for a long time and confirmed that the chaos was not a fake. He pointed at the city with a riding crop and sneered: "Those people who only eat and don't shit, strangling them is easier than strangling an ant!"
Huang Bi, the personal guard, had at least read a few military books. He was worried that after a long journey, the troops and horses would be tired and their morale would inevitably be low. However, Longcheng was obviously unprepared and was caught off guard. Seeing Hong Tao attack the city first, he breathed a sigh of relief. He joked: "The general's reputation is far-reaching, and the heavenly troops are overwhelming the city. Those people have been scared to death, and they can't resist!" Zhao Ying glanced at him, shook his head slightly, and still had a clear mind in his heart, so he listened to the flattery. Although it feels comfortable in the ears, it is also a dangerous weapon. The overall situation is still uncertain, so there is no need to be careless.
While he was sipping tea, Hong Tao led his men to climb over the wall, gain a firm foothold, and rush into the flock of sheep like a tiger, killing them wantonly. The war was one-sided, and the city tower soon fell. Hong Tao took the opportunity to cut off the iron chains and lower the suspension bridge, dispersed the officers and soldiers in the urn city, pushed open the heavy city gate with all his strength, and laughed high-spiritedly.
The opportunity was not to be missed, Zhao Ying immediately ordered the army to enter the city.
The northern capital is a fortified city that protects the capital. Long before departure, in order to boost morale, Zhao Ying promised that after breaking through Dragon City, he would plunder the city and massacre it for three days. They thought it was going to be a hard battle, a battle of fortification, and a war of attrition, but they didn't expect to win so easily. The soldiers thought that they could burn, kill, and loot, and their hearts suddenly became hot. They were worried that the general would change his mind, and they rushed forward to pat him on the horse.
The vanguard troops poured into Wengcheng with overwhelming force, and the sound of killing was loud. Zhao Ying saw that the soldiers could not wait to enter the city and plunder the city. Chaos gradually arose. He frowned, reined in his horses, and shouted loudly: "Capture Longcheng, massacre the city." For three days, I will never break my promise——"
Before he finished speaking, there were two loud "bang bang" sounds, and the iron fence as thick as a child's arm suddenly fell down, blocking the barbican into an iron cage. Countless officers and soldiers rushed out and surrounded the soldiers who entered the city first. They shot arrows like locusts into a hornet's nest, and then calmly fired at the soldiers trapped in Wengcheng. Hong Tao was killed on the spot, and none of the hundreds of brave soldiers could escape. life.
Zhao Ying was so frightened that he could hardly sit in the saddle. "I've been tricked!" A thought flashed through his mind, and his heart became cold. He hurriedly turned his horse's head and galloped out of the city. With the sound of a bang, officers and soldiers appeared at the top of the city, bent their bows and arrows, and arrows rained down like rain. The vanguard was immediately defeated, and they fled in all directions like mercury pouring from the ground.
Zhao Ying relied on his horse to escape a hundred steps away. Looking back, he saw that the sky and the earth were dyed with a layer of crimson blood. The soldiers who followed him south were pierced by sharp arrows, and hundreds of them fell to the ground. In the pool of blood, the sound of wailing and sobbing drifted in the wind, gradually becoming fainter. By a stroke of luck, the horse happened to be reined in in front of the Wengcheng. If he had walked a few more steps, he would have turned into a bloody pile of rotten meat! Thinking of this, Zhao Ying shivered and was still in shock.
Huang Ben, the personal guard, was hit by three arrows in the back and was bleeding profusely. Fortunately, it was not a critical injury, so he could barely hold on. He leaned on the saddle, beat the horse's buttocks with the barrel of his gun, and rushed towards Zhao Ying, shouting hoarsely. He shouted: "General Zhao, General Zhao, there is an ambush! Brothers... brothers..."
Zhao Ying was extremely angry. Huang Ben's voice not only exposed his position, but also further weakened the morale of the army. He couldn't help but sternly reprimanded: "Trash! Bastard! Shut up!" It was too late to speak, but then, a hundred steps away, on top of the city, a man lifted a hard bow and drew a long arrow. The bow opened like a full moon, and the arrow flew away Like a shooting star, the sharp arrow hit Huang Ben's back with astonishing force, nailing him to the ground with both his men and his horse.
Zhao Ying gasped, galloped for more than ten steps, turned around and saw a man behind the wall slowly lowering his long bow, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, his face was blurred, and he looked majestic and majestic. Tang Xianren has always been narrow-minded and jealous of talented people. When did he hire such an outstanding person? Thinking of the fact that the deputy left-behind of Longcheng and Yin of Longcheng never showed up, Zhao Ying realized clearly that he was making do with simple things, was ruthless, and regarded the people as abandoned sons. Someone else should win this battle!
The rebel vanguard suffered heavy casualties, and the morale of the Longcheng defenders was greatly boosted. They lifted up the iron fence, dragged away the corpses in the urn city, and pursued the victory through flesh and blood. Zhao Ying did not know that the situation was over, so he had to sigh, abandon the defeated army and flee to the northeast. The officers and soldiers took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, only to kill corpses all over the field and blood flowing into rivers. They chased them for hundreds of miles before slowly reining in their horses and returning.
Zhao Ying guessed right. There was an expert behind Tang Xianren's guidance. The battle between the Crown Prince and the King of Huai finally came to light. The rebellion in the three towns was just the trigger. The entire Liang Kingdom was sitting on a pile of gunpowder. What followed was a war. A catastrophe sweeping the world.
