Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 342 Northern Han surrender
The thousand-year-old city is full of flames.

Holding a machete in each hand, Shu Yuan rushed towards Zhongcheng along the long street.

When encountering the Han army who came to stop him, Shu Yuan only focused on defeating them, and did not love to fight.

His intention was obvious, to control the east city as quickly as possible, to prevent the foresighted enemy generals from taking advantage of the gap between their battles, to cover the people in the east city, and to escape into the west city through the two collapsed stone bridges in the middle city.

When Shu Yuan rushed to Zhongcheng in a hurry, he saw a scene that made people laugh and cry.

The guards in charge of Zhongcheng didn't know what was going on, so they directly shot bows and arrows at the people whose residences were close to Zhongcheng, heard about the disaster, and intended to flee to Zhongcheng, and forbade them from fleeing into Zhongcheng.

Both Luo Youdu and Shu Yuan overestimated the foresight and adaptability of the Northern Han generals.

Shu Yuan spat in a "bah", such a Northern Han Dynasty, there will be ghosts even if it doesn't die.

Shu Yuan immediately ordered to appease all the people and persuade them to go home to ensure their safety.

Shu Yuan was not close to Zhongcheng either, but took advantage of the surrounding terrain and houses to set up a defensive formation to prevent the defenders of Zhongcheng from rushing out.

As for the remnants of the remnant soldiers in the east city who are still fighting, someone will take care of them.

Liu Jiye rushed up the Zhongcheng tower in three steps at a time. Seeing the guard looking nervously at Shu Yuan's troops ahead, he grabbed his front and roared, "Why don't you open the door!"

The guard's name was Miao Lin. Seeing Liu Jiye like a hungry tiger eating people, he was terrified and said tremblingly: "The situation is unclear, and the city gate has been opened rashly, and the city has fallen. Who will be responsible?"

Miao Lin may not know what the fall of Dongcheng means, but rather than taking risks to turn the tide and become a hero, most people choose to protect themselves and not make mistakes.

Liu Jiye couldn't say a word, turned his head angrily, rushed to Miyagi, and asked Liu Chengjun to send troops to recover the east city.

Liu Chengjun's response was extremely decisive: "The six cities before and after Jinyang City, the east city will be lost, and the remaining five cities are the best policy. If the story of Guo Rongbing's siege of Jinyang in the past, you can't attack rashly..."

Liu Jiye vomited blood depressedly. Can these different situations be compared with each other?
When Guo Rong attacked Jinyang, he really stopped in the middle city and retreated after being defeated.

But before the fall of the Eastern City, they moved the people of the Eastern City to the Central City and the Western City.

When these people are defending the city, they are all ready to fight.

In order to live, for their own homeland, they can risk their lives to fight the enemy.

Now the common people are in the hands of the enemy, without their support, do you expect those merchants, well-to-do families in Xicheng and Xincheng, and even wealthy businessmen and nobles to go to the city wall to kill the enemy?

If you don't take back the east city, Luo Youdu doesn't need to continue to attack the four gates, and then follow the example of Xinzhou and Daizhou and move [-] people in the east of the city.

What else is there in Jinyang City?
Do you really expect the elders to go to the fields to grow grain, raise silkworms and weave cloth?

The entire operating system of the city will collapse, not in a year, but in a few months, Jinyang City will collapse by itself.

Compared with high-ranking officials and nobles, ordinary people are indeed nothing to worry about in this troubled world, and they are even less valuable than livestock.

But a city without common people is like a house without its foundation, and the only way to collapse is naturally.

Liu Jiye said loudly: "Your Majesty, the thieves are now focusing their attention on the East City. Maybe there is an opportunity to take advantage of it. I am willing to lead 2000 people from the headquarters to fight out of the city and fight for our court's last chance to defeat the enemy."

Liu Chengjun was very annoyed, and shouted: "The thieves are attacking the city, and they still want to attack? Don't you think I'm not chaotic enough? Stick to your post and don't move rashly."

He ignored Liu Jiye and walked away.

Liu Jiye walked out of the imperial city ignorantly, seeing that the enemy had not yet invaded the west city, the place where the dignitaries and nobles lived in the new city was heavily guarded, far superior to the middle city and the west city, with a bitter smile, he led his two thousand songs Go straight out of the West City.

Without full support, Liu Jiye knew that with the two thousand soldiers under his command, it would be difficult to defeat the Central Plains soldiers who broke into the city in the streets.

The only hope now is to defeat the commander-in-chief camp located in the south of Jinyang City.

Liu Chengjun's attitude is already clear, no matter what, he will not agree to play.

Instead of sitting and waiting to die, it is better to fight and survive.

Liu Jiye's unauthorized action is the result of his tired heart for the Northern Han Dynasty, his resignation to Liu Chengjun, and the final repayment of his kindness to Liu Chong, the great ancestor of the Northern Han Dynasty.

His enthusiasm spread to the ears of the generals of the Northern Han Dynasty, and undoubtedly became another version.

Liu Jiye has surrendered!
This Northern Han general, the number one fierce general, took advantage of the night to leave the city and surrender. This was undoubtedly a huge blow to the morale of the Northern Han Dynasty.

As soon as he learned of Liu Jiye's surrender, Miao Lin, the defender of Zhongcheng, had a role model and chose to surrender. He sent envoys to find Shu Yuan, who was on guard.

This time, apart from the people in the east of the city, the shops, restaurants and warehouses on both sides of the Fen River in the middle city also fell into Luo Youdu's hands.

Knowing that Zhongcheng also fell, Liu Chengjun was even more frightened, and decisively sent his henchmen to take over the city defense of Xicheng.

Most of the people living in Xicheng are the families of soldiers in the city. If Xicheng is lost again, Jinyang City will really be a mess.

South of Jinyang City.

Luo Youdu had been listening to the battle reports from the east of the city, and learned that besides Jinyang Dongcheng, Zhongcheng had unexpectedly surrendered. He was determined, stretched his waist, and said with a smile, "I can sleep well tonight."

While talking, Li Chuyun, who was in charge of defense, strode closer: "Your Majesty, there are enemies around, and the number of them is unknown. They wanted to surprise our army, so they forced them back with crossbow arrows!"

Luo Youdu lifted his spirits and said: "Compared to others, this Liu Jiye is more courageous. Remove the antlers in front of the camp and give him a chance to enter the camp. Let Dangjin and Huyanzan be prepared."

In the big camp where he is now, only Dang Jin and Hu Yanzan can shake hands with Liu Jiye.

Obviously, this method of inviting the king into the urn did not attract Liu Jiye's attention. For a whole night, Liu Jiye did not see him attacking.

In fact, Liu Jiye himself was also very depressed.

With the will to die, he intends to open up the situation.

But there is still a small difference between the inevitable death and courting death.

What Liu Jiye is best at is finding the enemy's flaws. With his powerful martial arts, he can infinitely magnify the flaws and win.

But he walked around three times under the cover of night, but he still couldn't find a place to speak.

In the huge camp, wherever the cavalry can pass, there must be horses blocking the way, and there are three sentry towers in the shape of a character.

No matter how powerful the shooter is, he cannot remove all three sentries at the same time.

Liu Jiye had no choice but to send a team of soldiers and horses to attack tentatively, to see if he could lure the guards out of the camp, and let them move the horses away.

As a result, the opponent calmly shot a wave of arrows, and ignored them when they were pushed back, as if they didn't exist.

Not long after, the other party not only emptied the rejection horse, but also gave up a passage.

Liu Jiye secretly went crazy, do you look like a fool?
Until dawn, Liu Jiye still didn't find a chance.

The disheartened Liu Jiye intended to return to Jinyang City, but unexpectedly found that he could not go back.

"Liu Jiye, you are collaborating with the enemy and treason, and now you want to earn Jinyang City, it is extremely hateful."

Wang Yin cursed at Liu Jiye angrily, "One step closer, don't blame me for being rude."

As he spoke, he directly called the archers to be ready to shoot anytime and anywhere.

Liu Jiye could only retreat.

Jinyang Imperial City.

Sitting on the throne, Liu Chengjun collapsed on the dragon chair in frustration after hearing bad news one after another.

Looking at the noisy civil servants and generals in the hall, listening to the words of surrender one by one.

It is not that there were no capitulators before, thinking that the small country was not enough to resist the army of the Central Plains. They should follow the example of Jiangnan and Bashu, go to the emperor to be the lord of the country, and regard the Central Plains as Zhengshuo.

But this is only a minority, there are still some people who are unwilling to compromise and have the determination to stick to Jinyang and wait for help.

But today someone actually said that "Hedong has belonged to the Central Plains since ancient times, and it should be respected by the Central Plains."

"Khitan wolves are greedy. Half of our Han court's taxes and taxes fall into the hands of the barbarians, making the territory miserable. It's better to respect the Central Plains, the Central Plains is benevolent, and we don't ask much from the vassal states. Our dynasty will have more money to develop Domestic livelihood."

Some people not only changed their tune, but also praised the Central Plains.

The most important thing is that Liu Chengjun found that he was not angry.

You must know that the Central Plains has a feud with them that killed their father.

Now he has a feeling that it was Guo Rong who drove my father to death, and it had nothing to do with Luo Youdu.

Liu Chengjun's limbs were weak, and he never imagined that his only reliance was to break through two cities overnight.

"Could it be that I am a big man who died in the sky?"

This thought flashed through Liu Chengjun's mind.

The instigator of all this, Guo Wuwei, now has a look of grief on his face, "Your Majesty, I have made thousands of mistakes, all of which are my fault. It was my minister who made a mistake in scheduling, and Hou Barong, who mistrusted the wolf's ambition, arranged for him to assist in the defense of Dongcheng. As a result, I, a big man, fell to my death. I am ashamed of my majesty, and I am speechless to my majesty..."

He was so emotional that he bumped into the stone pillar in front of the temple.

He bumped into Zhao Hua, who was also the prime minister, and knocked him to the ground.

Seeing this, Liu Chengjun was terrified, hurriedly came down from the hall, helped Guo Wuwei up and said, "My lord, why did you say that? I think Hou Barong is brave, so he was promoted out of the ordinary, and has nothing to do with my lord."

He took all the responsibility on himself, looked at Guo Wuwei pitifully and said: "Everyone in the court is talking about surrender, what do you think?"

Guo Wuwei sighed and said: "The people in the east city and the merchants in the middle city have all fallen to the head of the bandits. The big man has no labor to farm, and he has lost his daily groceries, and the supply of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar is not available. Trying to support, it is just lingering , In vain." He hesitated to speak, and whispered in Liu Chengjun's ear: "If you stick to it, your majesty may not be able to survive. If you surrender at this moment, at least you have the capital to negotiate conditions and preserve your wealth."

Liu Chengjun pulled Guo Wuwei and said: "Only Mr. Xiang is still thinking about me at this moment, no matter what, no matter what! The man's spirit is exhausted, and my virtue is weak but his position is respected, so he is in today's predicament. The emperor of the Central Plains has always been famous for his virtue. I'm sorry for waiting. Who would like to take this trip for me and express my intentions to the emperor of the Central Plains."

Guo Wuwei didn't say a word, hiding his achievements and fame.

(End of this chapter)