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The common people who had escaped from the city had naturally noticed the enemy troops outside the city long ago. Many of the common people crowded in the city gates and on the bridges over the moat had also seen them, but they did not care.

Those who can’t see behind are just busy squeezing in.

The servants of the rich and powerful who drove the carriages kept whipping the people around them, and some guards even drew their knives and stabbed people.

But not all the people are easy to bully, not to mention that there are a few defeated soldiers who want to escape among them.

So they hurt each other.

The truly kind and honest people can only die innocently under the knives and guns of these people.

If someone is pushed down, he will be trampled by hundreds and thousands of people and will never be able to stand up again until he becomes a puddle of mud.

When the people in front saw the Hui army pulling out the artillery, they immediately shouted in fear.

"Run!"

“It’s time to fire!”

"Let me out now, asshole!"

"Stop squeezing, stop squeezing!"

"Daughter, my daughter!"

"···"

For a moment, before the enemy troops even fired a single shot, the city gates and the bridge over the moat had already become a living hell.

Although a few soldiers felt reluctant, no one moved under military orders.

Boom boom boom...

Soon, the artillery of the Hui army opened fire, and stone shells fell near the city gate.

The area near the city gate became more chaotic and crowded because of the artillery fire.

But near the city, some people heard the sound of cannons and finally came to their senses, or became frightened, and stopped trying to get out and instead fled into the city.

In this way, after three rounds of artillery bombardment, the Hui army finally took control of the main city gate of Chengdu.

The Hui army has established rules for controlling chaotic cities, and the vanguard generals have certain experience.

Therefore, after taking control of this city gate, he did not rush into the city, but instead divided his troops to control other nearby city gates.

"Remember! After you take control of the city gate, anyone who dares to approach the city gate will be killed directly if warnings are ineffective!"

"As ordered!"

The vanguard force is a brigade with more than 10,000 people.

They divided themselves into teams of hundreds to thousands of people, and finally managed to take control of more than ten city gates of Chengdu before nightfall.

As night fell, the chaos in the city became even worse.

Seeing this, the brigade's military and political officer suggested, "Since we have control of the city gates, why not send out some patrols to try to curb the chaos in the city."

The brigade commander of the border army was also worried that there would be too many casualties in Chengdu due to the chaos. Since he had some experience in martial arts, he agreed to this matter.

He just repeatedly reminded the selected patrol teams to be careful and prudent so as not to fall into the hands of rebel soldiers and bandits.

Chengdu is a vast city, crowded with a population of 700,000 to 800,000.

Therefore, even though the Hui army sent dozens of teams to go deep into the area and try their best to control the chaos, they still failed to achieve much effect.

The chaos continued into the next day, with many murderers and robbers still occurring in the streets.

As for those who ran away like headless flies, there were even more.

It was not until before noon that Liu Yu arrived with the main force and sent tens of thousands of troops into the city, and then he gradually took control of the situation...

Liu Yu brought a group of Tiger Guards to the "Great Chu Palace" as a guard. Looking at the corpses scattered outside the palace gate, he couldn't help but frowned.

Among these corpses, there were those of palace servants, the Chu imperial guards, and other Chu soldiers.

It can be imagined that a chaotic battle must have taken place here yesterday or last night.

Soon, a general of the Hui army came out with a group of people, and the soldiers were carrying a body in a yellow robe. "Your Highness, we found the body in the Qifu Palace. According to the remaining palace servants, this person is the Guangxi Emperor Xiong Xing."

Liu Yu rode forward to take a look and found that Emperor Guangxi had disheveled hair and looked very embarrassed. There were also multiple knife wounds on his body, and it was obvious that he had been hacked to death.

He then asked, "What about Emperor Jiahua? Have you found him?"

The general said: "Our group is still searching inside, and has not found anything yet."

Liu Yu frowned even deeper.

Although he looked down on Emperor Jiahua and did not think that he could make a comeback after escaping, if he really disappeared, he would not have done his best.

So he said, "Send two more regiments into the palace and search carefully. Don't miss any corner. Make sure to find Jiahua."

"Also, have the propaganda team announce throughout the city that a reward is being offered for the capture of Jiahua. Anyone who finds him, whether he's alive or dead, will be rewarded handsomely!"

"As ordered!"

Afterwards, Liu Yu took the Huben Guards to take a brief tour of the palace and then returned to the military camp outside the city.

He is now the commander-in-chief of the army, so naturally he should live in the barracks with the army. In addition, even for safety reasons, living in the barracks is currently safer than living in the city or the Great Chu Palace.

After all, there are many buildings in the city and the terrain is relatively complex. For example, there may be secret passages, dark rooms, etc. in the Great Chu Palace.

If he moved directly into the palace, and some remnant of the Chu State showed up and shot him, it would be a tragedy.

···
On December 15, the 26th year of Dalai, the vanguard of the Dalai army took advantage of the chaos in Chengdu and easily broke through Chengdu.

That night, many groups of defeated soldiers broke into the Great Chu Palace, and bandits also mixed in and engaged in a melee with the few Great Chu imperial guards who were guarding the palace.

During the war, Emperor Guangxi of Chu was hacked to death by the chaotic soldiers, and many other members of the Xiong Chu royal family and clan also died that night, except for the retired Emperor Chu Jiahua, who disappeared without a trace.

Afterwards, under the order of Crown Prince Liu Yu, the Hui army searched the entire city for three days, but there was still no trace of Emperor Chu Jiahua, alive or dead.

The Xiong Chu state, which had existed for nearly two hundred years, was thus declared extinct.

After this battle, although there were people in Guizhou and Yunnan who claimed to be descendants of the Xiong Chu clan and ascended the throne as the Emperor of Chu, they were not regarded as the orthodox Great Chu, but were referred to in history books as the small court of the remnant Chu.

In the following three years, the Hui army successively pacified Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and Liao provinces, taking control of all the territories of the former Xiong Chu, and even expanding the five provinces in the northern border on the original basis.

In the summer of the 30th year of Qianyuan in Dalai, U-Tsang also sent envoys to present a memorial and submit to Dalai...
Nanjing.

After the fall, the nights became cooler, so Liu Sheng put on an extra robe before going for a walk in the Imperial Garden with Hong Niangzi.

Hong Niangzi, Bai Taiwei and other women that Liu Sheng left behind on the other side came here in the 21st year of Qianyuan.

Although he was not there, he left behind a lot of mud pills that could allow people to pass through the space gate at once. Therefore, Hong Niangzi and others knew that he was going to stay here and not go back, so they all crossed the ocean to find him.

At that time, the North Pacific route opened up by the Haijun Navy was already quite mature, with many supply points along the way, and the danger was greatly reduced, so Hongniangzi and her companions had no danger on the way here.

It is a pity that among all his concubines, only Xu Wan was frail and sickly and was unable to come. She died of illness a few years ago.

The remaining dozen or so concubines are now all around him.

Most of the concubines are old and ugly, except for the three concubines who are only in their early thirties and are still considered young.

Even so, since Hong Niang arrived, Liu Sheng still spends more time with her in his daily life.

At this time, Liu Sheng was holding Hongniang's hand and walking in the Imperial Garden, which reminded Hongniang of the days in the Nanjing Palace twenty or thirty years ago.

She couldn't help but smile and sighed, "When people get old, they just like to reminisce about the past."

Liu Sheng also laughed, "That's right."

Speaking of which, although his hair and beard are a little gray now, and there are obvious wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and forehead, he does not look old. He looks like an ordinary man in his forties or fifties here.

Because he insisted on exercising, and after defeating Chu, he continuously assigned state affairs to Crown Prince Liu Yu, so he became more and more relaxed. Now he is still in good health and can be considered strong among his peers.

This can be seen from the fact that a young concubine gave birth to a little prince for him last spring.

However, compared to when he was young thirty years ago, his physical fitness is definitely not as good as it was thirty years ago.

Hongniang likes to reminisce about the past, and so does he.

Old is old. (End of this chapter)