Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 326 Attack Chen Du Again!

On the evening of September 25th, outside the Chendu palace.

As the city gate creaked open, the rebels cheered violently, and people frantically crowded inside.

Gibbon, Geng Ji, Wei Huang, Jin Yi and others who were in charge of commanding outside the palace gate wiped the sweat from their faces, but they couldn't restrain the smile on their faces.

Only a middle-aged man standing beside them had a serious expression on his face.

Gibbon was not happy to see him, and said, "Commander Wang, now that we have entered the palace, why are you still so sad?"

Commander Wang's name is Wang Xing, and he is the spy chief Shen Chen placed in Chendu. He shook his head and said in a deep voice: "It took us three days to break through the outer palace, and there is still an inner palace to be broken. easy."

Next to him, Geng Ji said: "Commander Wang, don't worry. General Shen has dispatched troops, and Yan Kuang is still on the way to transport food. There will be no support in Chendu for seven or eight days. It will be a matter of time before the inner palace is breached."

"It's them I'm afraid of."

Wang Xing turned his head, and behind them was the empty Chendu Street.

Since they launched the rebellion, the originally bustling streets of Chendu seemed to have turned into a ghost town overnight. The doors of every house were closed, the streets were empty, and the end of the street could be seen from the street at a glance.

From late autumn to early winter in September, the fierce north wind blows, making the shop signs hanging on the street jingle, as if there are wind chimes and bamboo horses whirling in it.

However, Wang Xing knew that there were countless pairs of eyes staring at them in the seemingly deserted streets and houses. The window on the second floor of which house was cracked, and a figure appeared on the pavilion of which house. It is very clear in my heart.

Many people have been watching these days, but there are still many Yanzhou families who are loyal to Cao Cao secretly dispatching troops. For example, the Weizi family, a spy who worked as a servant in the Wei family reported back, saying that Wei's mansion had already gathered several people. Hundreds of people, I am afraid they will do it at any time.

Although Chen Du is empty, they have assembled more than 2000 people, which is already a great force, and even the guards at the palace gate are hard to resist, but if those aristocratic families unite together, plus the guards, I am afraid that their situation will be worse. will be very difficult.

Wei Huang put his hands in his sleeves and said with a serious face: "People with lofty ideals and benevolent people, there is no way to live to harm others, but to kill to achieve benevolence. When things have reached this point, we can only continue to face difficulties. As long as the emperor is rescued, we will leave immediately. Chen Du, flee south to Nanyang, I believe Cao Cao can't do anything to us."

"I hope so."

Wang Xing nodded, turned his head and continued: "We broke through the Outer Palace, followed by the Prime Minister's Mansion, Jingfu Hall, Chengguang Hall, and Yongshi Terrace. These places are safe and we can break through, but the last Chen Liu The palace is the residence of His Majesty, just like the West Palace in Luoyang back then, surrounded by city walls, it is not easy to rush in, we should act quickly."

"it is good."

Gibbon turned his head and said to his two sons, Jimiao and Jimu, "You should lead people in immediately, and you must find His Majesty."

"Yes, father."

The two rushed forward in a hurry, and gave orders to lead the servants into the deep palace.

But Gibbon and others walked a little slower and also entered the palace.

The main reason is that they are very old, like Gibbon is already over 60 years old, it is difficult to run again, so they are slightly out of touch with the front army.

As a result, at this time, thousands of people rushed out of the street outside, killing them.

"Kill!"

"Don't go rebel!"

"Catch Gibbon alive, the king of Wei will definitely reward him."

"Protect Your Majesty!"

The dense crowd rushed towards the palace gate, Wang Xing's expression changed suddenly.

In the past few days, they have also thought about whether those aristocratic families loyal to Cao Cao will gather troops to suppress the rebellion, but their first task is to break through the palace gate and find Liu Xie first, so some omissions are inevitable.

As a result, I never expected that in just a few days, so many people would gather and besiege them all at once, and the matter would be at stake.

"Quick, retreat into the palace!"

Without hesitation, Wang Xing picked up the slow-moving Gibbon, and hurried into the palace with a greeting.

The Chendu Imperial Palace is actually very small, unlike the Luoyang Imperial Palace, which covers an area of ​​seven square kilometers, and only has four or five palaces. Therefore, there are less than a thousand guards at the gates of the entire imperial palace, and they took it down.

But now there are reinforcements outside the palace, even though the numbers of the two sides are about the same, due to the formation problem, they will be flanked by the opponent on both sides, so they have to enter the palace to adjust the formation first.

At this moment, they were caught in the enemy's situation. Fortunately, Wang Xing ordered the rear team to retreat into the prime minister's mansion and use Cao Cao's residence in the palace to resist, so they withstood it.

The two sides fought together in a mess, far from the orderly cooperation and tacit lethality of the army.

After all, the people gathered on both sides are servants. How can ordinary servants be well-trained soldiers?The only good news is that the opponent's combat effectiveness is not high, Wang Xing has some soldiers who have been on the battlefield to kill the enemy, at least they will kill the opponent.

Soon it was dark, and the rebellion was once again in an embarrassing situation.The Chenliu Palace in the inner palace was temporarily unable to enter, and the outside was surrounded by the enemy. The rebels were in a situation of advancing and retreating.

But in the middle of the night, this embarrassing situation was quickly broken, because Yan Kuang came back with [-] Diannong troops, he rushed into the city, and was soon surrounded by the Wei family's children.

"There are more than two thousand rebels in the palace, and they are now surrounded by us."

"They are currently guarding the Prime Minister's Mansion and have locked the gate tightly. There are spears on the wall, and we cannot attack them for the time being."

"They don't have crossbows."

One by one, the news came to Yan Kuang, which made him feel relieved.

There were torches all around outside the palace, and many so-called "Hanchens" who fell in whichever way the wind blew saw Yan Kuang enter the city to put down the rebellion, and brought their slaves out to help out one after another.

With a whimper, there were nearly tens of thousands of troops outside the womb, and the entire palace was completely surrounded.

Seeing that the situation was good, Yan Kuang issued a series of orders.

The first is to send people to Beicheng, enter Chenliu Palace through Xuanwu Gate, and help the guards at the gate of the palace to resist the enemy.

The second is to let your soldiers rest for a while, and then attack the city tomorrow.

The last is to send people to persuade them to surrender and shake the enemy's morale.

None of these three are wrong.

The Chendu Imperial Palace is located in the northwest corner of Chenliu County, covering an area of ​​less than one square kilometer. It is a very small imperial palace, only one-eighth the size of the Luoyang Imperial Palace.

The Chenliu Palace where Liu Xie lives is located to the west of the palace, similar to the location of the West Palace where Liu Hong, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, lived in the Luoyang Palace.

Since there is no city gate to the west of Chenliu Palace, there is no west gate in the whole Chenliu Palace, only three gates, namely south, east and north.

The rebels entered from the south gate, and now occupy the prime minister's mansion to the east, which is closer to the Eastern Qinglong Gate.

Yan Kuang ordered people to enter through the Xuanwu Gate, and he guarded the Suzaku Gate in the south. In addition, there was no Baihu Gate in the west.

But he himself will lead his soldiers to hide outside the east city gate, and once the enemy comes out, he will catch them all.

And the second is easy to attack the city tomorrow.

They traveled all night, and the soldiers were exhausted long ago without rest. Therefore, if they couldn't rest, they might not be able to fight if they attacked.

The last one is simpler, it’s a heart attack.

Soon his order was carried out, and someone shouted outside the prime minister's mansion, saying that Yan Kuang had returned to help, and he would surrender to avoid death.

For a moment, the rebel army in the Prime Minister's Mansion was in great chaos, and their low morale completely collapsed.

"What to do, the reinforcements are back."

"This is a great crime to exterminate the three clans."

"Let's go out and surrender."

The servants gathered by Gibbon and others panicked and wanted to flee.

Gibbon was terrified and shouted: "Don't listen to their words, Dingling is more than [-] miles away from Chendu, how can they arrive in just three or four days, not to mention that General Shen has already delayed Cao Hong, this is their lie to you."

However, no one listened to him. Someone raised a torch and wanted to rush to the gate of the prime minister's mansion to open the door to let the enemy in. At the critical moment, a steel knife chopped off his head.

"Don't leave, whoever leaves will die."

Wang Xing rushed over with more than a dozen elite soldiers, staring at the crowd coldly.

The servants were captured by him and dared not move rashly for a while.

Ji Ben, Geng Ji, Wei Huang, Jin Yi and others quickly reassured everyone, telling them that the enemy outside was deceiving them, and that Shen Chen would soon defeat Cao Hongyunyun.

But this kind of words will obviously only make people doubtful, but because of Wang Xing's oppression, they can only silence.

Fortunately, the frozen atmosphere didn't last long. Since Yan Kuang's army hadn't attacked outside for a long time, and the sky was too dark, they didn't know whether the other party had come to reinforce them, so they gradually believed what Gibbon and the others said.

Wang Xing believed that the first task now was to break through Chenliu Palace, so he ordered his elite soldiers to guard the Prime Minister's Mansion, while he personally led the servants to Jingfu Palace through the back door.

They have been preparing for so long, but they actually brought a ladder.But the guards had bows and crossbows, so they hadn't knocked down the gate of the outer palace for a few days.

At this time, they went to Chenliu Palace, and the disciples of the Wei family had arrived with reinforcements. There were hundreds of guards left at the gate of the palace before. With their support, their strength increased greatly, and they quickly brought Wang Xing away. repel.

Wang Xing noticed that the number of enemies had increased, and he was horrified. Knowing that something might be wrong, he had no choice but to retreat to the prime minister's residence.

Everyone was tired and sleepy, and many people simply lay down and fell asleep.

Gibbon and the others were anxious and angry, but their plan was a suicidal act, and the plan was not thorough, and the personnel were not elite, so there was really nothing they could do about it.

After dawdling until it was almost dawn, there was finally a change.

Yan Kuang attacked.

A ladder was placed on the palace wall outside the prime minister's mansion.

Thousands of fully equipped soldiers climbed up and rushed into the prime minister's mansion.

Now everyone knew that Yan Kuang had really returned, and the servants immediately fled, crying for their father and mother.

"It's over, it's over, General Yan is really back."

"Run, or you will die."

"I surrender, I surrender, don't kill me, ah!"

The servants scattered like birds and beasts.

Yoshimoto Gengji and others were terrified, not knowing what to do.

At the critical moment, Wang Xing yelled: "The Imperial Physician ordered that nothing can be done. Let's fight out from the east gate."

"Yes, go out from the east gate."

Jimiao also said.

At this moment, all the talents woke up like a dream, and hurriedly followed Wang Xing to the east gate.

Hundreds of spies under Wang Xing were well-trained, they rushed all the way from the north gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion into Gyeongbokgung Palace, and then ran eastward.

The east gate was not guarded. Although the city gate was closed, there was no one on the palace wall or around it.

When everyone came to the east gate, they just opened the palace gate and rushed to the street outside the palace.

"Fire arrows!"

There was a loud shout from outside.

Countless arrows were shot towards them.

Gibbon, who was supported by Wang Xing to run at the front, was shot in the heart by an arrow.

Wang Xing was terrified, pulled him back and retreated, the soldiers under his command hastily closed the palace gate, only the sound of countless footsteps coming towards the palace could be heard outside.

"The Imperial Physician's Order, the Imperial Physician's Order."

Wang Xing hugged the old man.

With blood dripping from the corner of Gibbon's mouth, he smiled bitterly and said, "This is God's will, Your Majesty, I am incompetent."

Turning his head, he lost his vitality.

"Father!"

Brother Jimiao and Jimu wept loudly and were very sad.

Geng Ji, Wei Huang, and Jin Yi also had sorrowful faces. They were attacking back and forth at this moment, and it was the end of the road.

"Forget it, surrender."

Geng Ji smiled wryly and shook his head: "I hope Cao Cao will just kill us, the chief culprits, and let those innocent people go."

Wang Xing put down Gibbon's body, gritted his teeth and said: "We must not sit still and wait for death. Soldiers, we are in the middle of Chendu. We are dead soldiers. If we surrender, we will die. If we rush out with me, there is still a chance of survival."

"kill!"

The spies roared.

Their morale and combat effectiveness are much higher than those of the servants. Most of them are able to kill Wan Qian and rush into the palace gate.

Wang Xing took the lead and led the soldiers to the palace gate.

At this time, footsteps continued outside.

Chenliu Avenue is two cross streets intersecting north and south. The Imperial Palace is at the northwest corner of the cross. When you leave the east gate of the palace, you will be on the street above the cross street, and the north gate is the north gate of Chendu.

Although the wolf was in the front and the tiger was in the back, Wang Xing felt that the street outside was not empty, and the number of enemies would definitely not be too many. As long as they could be killed, they could rush out from the north gate.

Soon a ladder was set up outside and began to climb the palace wall, and the pursuers of Jingfu Palace also rushed towards the east gate, and they were about to fall into death. rush away.

Yan Kuangjun outside didn't expect the enemy to rush out without defending himself. He was caught off guard for a while, and was cut by Wang Xing, killing a bloody path.

Everyone fought all the way to the north street.

The streets were full of people constantly crowding over. Wang Xing led his soldiers to protect Geng Ji, Wei Huang, Jin Yi and others, and rushed towards the north gate.

Seeing that when the enemy rushed out before the encirclement contracted, the sound of galloping horses sounded.

At the end of the road ahead, more than 2000 heavily armed soldiers rushed out. The leaders were riding horses. Yan Kuang rode on the horseback, and smiled contemptuously: "I knew you would run from the north gate!"

The scene suddenly froze.

In an instant, everyone was desperate.

Wei Huang collapsed on the ground, lost his mind and said: "We have completely failed."

"What fear is there in death?"

Jin Yi cursed angrily, and shouted: "Cao thief bullied the emperor, I am willing to kill myself to be benevolent."

After saying that, he rushed to the enemy with a knife and was stabbed to death by the enemy's spear.

Wang Xing was panting heavily, he had exhausted his strength to fight here, and too many brothers around him were killed and injured, only less than 200 people followed him.

They were besieged by a large number of enemy troops, and they were surrounded so tightly that everyone here would not live until tomorrow.

"Kill them!"

A sneer appeared at the corner of Yan Kuang's mouth, and with a wave of his hand, he gave the final order.

But also at this time.

All kinds of screams suddenly came from the streets in the south.

There was chaos in the distance.

The Cao Jun soldiers around didn't know what happened, and looked behind in surprise.

on the street.

The footsteps of thump, thud, thud, moved forward slowly, like a rumbling tank.

"Report!"

Cao Jun's scouts came flying horses to report: "Three thousand Shen Chen troops have come from the south gate!"

"Huangmen soldiers!"

Yan Kuang squeezed out these three words from between his teeth.

He will never forget in his life how Xu was attacked several times by the Huangmen soldiers who could travel two hundred miles a day.

He also couldn't forget how Ren Jun, his predecessor and boss, was ambushed by this army and turned into ashes in the end.

That ghostly army attacked Chen Du again!

(End of this chapter)