Will Ming

Chapter 610 Why didn't you do it?

The rebels had been attacking Xuanwumen for more than half an hour, and the dead bodies piled up under the city wall were already half the height of a person, but it was obvious that the rebels did not shrink back because of the blood flowing into the river. They shouted loudly to kill the prince and establish the king of Qin With the slogan, stepping on the corpse of the same robe, he desperately erected the ladder.

It wasn't until this time that the generals defending the city, including Li Jiancheng, realized that everyone had a violent rebellious heart in their hearts. This rebellious heart may even have no reason, just want to overthrow all the oppression in front of them .Even if they knew that what they did was self-defeating, they were flying moths to the flame, but once they flapped their wings and flew towards the candle flame, they would never back down again.

Human nature is crazy and full of violence.

A soldier from the Cracking Tiger Battalion climbed up the city wall, and started laughing excitedly when he was only showing half of his body while holding on to the battlements with one hand.In his opinion, being able to climb here is already a great victory, with satisfaction and pride in his smile.At the moment when he was struggling to put his feet on the city wall, the guarding soldier slashed his forehead with a knife, and the sharp horizontal knife directly cut off half of his head, and the head with the hair fell down with a slap Glued to the face of a soldier below, who fell from the ladder in a moment of panic.

The soldier who broke his leg was chopped to death by his comrades with knives before he could stand up. Those rebels who had already killed their red eyes couldn't tell whether he was one of their own or an enemy.Being unable to attack the city wall for a long time made the rebels below crazy like beasts, but anyone who fell from the top, whether they were enemies or colleagues, became the target of their killing intent.Six or seven horizontal knives chopped down one by one, and when the knives were raised, a lot of minced meat would be thrown out.

The soldier from the Liehu Camp who lost half of his head didn't die for an instant, but he could subconsciously reach out and grab the hem of the defender who had cut him, and the two of them fell down together amidst the panicked shouts of the defender.The corpse fell into the crowd below the city, and once again a bloody spray was stirred up.

The general Yin Kaishan frowned very tightly. He kept urging the soldiers to fight hard, but his heart became colder and colder. He knew that the hope of attacking the Taiji Palace had become very small, and the failure was really over. In front of him, as a third-rank general, he knew what it would mean if he failed, not only his fame and future would be reduced to dust, but his family would also be implicated.

He looked back at His Highness the King of Qin who was sitting on the back of the Zhaoye Jade Lion, and found that His Highness the King of Qin had been looking at a certain place on the city wall from the beginning to the end.He couldn't understand why His Royal Highness King Qin didn't retreat when there was clearly no hope in sight?Before the imperial troops blocked the city gate, after rushing out, as long as the king of Qin led everyone back to the Tang army camp in the eastern capital to join Duan Zhixuan, it would not be difficult for the king of Qin to still have 10,000+ troops in his hands to lay down a piece of land.

But King Qin seemed to be still waiting, but he didn't know what King Qin was waiting for.

"Archers! Three salvos!"

Qu Tutong ran back and forth in front of the formation, and when he saw a gap in the city wall finally opened by the soldiers of the Liehu Camp, his eyes lit up immediately, and he mobilized hundreds of archers to rush to the city wall against the rain of arrows. , roared towards the small section of city wall where the soldiers of Liehuying were struggling to defend: "Tear apart the enemies on both sides of the city wall, brothers, and let brothers guard the ladder behind them!"

Hundreds of archers took the lead, and began to shoot one arrow after another towards the city wall with all their strength.Some people's fingers have been strangled by the bow strings, but they don't seem to feel the pain. They still draw the hard bow in their hands to the full and then roar and send out the spiked arrows.

The dozen or so soldiers of the Liehu Camp who charged up the city wall only occupied a small area on the city wall, and were quickly pushed back by the defenders mobilized by Chai Shao.But these soldiers still gritted their teeth and persisted, hoping that their comrades who were climbing the ladder behind them would be faster.

At this moment, a hail of arrows came over, and the defenders who were squeezing from both sides of the city wall were shot over one floor, and the pressure on the dozen or so soldiers of the Liehu Camp suddenly eased. With a shout, a blade of light splashed out, and the occupied place was expanded four or five steps away.

On the two ladders behind them, the rebel soldiers climbed up one after another to join the array of guard ladders, and just like that, relying on their lives to forcefully fill in a section of the city wall that was five or six meters away.Qu Tutong was overjoyed and kept urging the archers to fire arrows to relieve the pressure on the soldiers on the city wall. Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he saw that the hope of success was sitting on the horseback and kept silent.

"Dugu Wynn!"

Li Shimin personally issued an order for the first time: "Gu will give you thirty personal guards, and you go to the city to guard that section of the city wall for Gu Jiang. As long as you stick to it for a stick of incense, a group of people can go up!"

Dugu Huai'en's face changed for a moment, knowing that nine points in the upper city were doomed.But when he thought about what His Royal Highness King Qin said about grabbing a future, he gritted his teeth and nodded, "Don't worry, Your Highness, even if I die on top, I won't take a step back."

"go with!"

Li Shimin pointed to the city wall and said, "If you break through the Xuanwu Gate, I will grant you a county prince!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Dugu Huai'en responded, and ran towards the city wall with Li Shimin's thirty personal guards.While running, he threw away the iron helmet that obstructed his sight, and took off the clumsy skirt armor. He rushed to the city wearing only a single shirt, and stuffed the horizontal knife into his mouth. Dugu Huai'en I silently said a sentence in my heart that I want to grab my own future, and then climbed up the city wall with all my strength.

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Chang'an City is really too big, so that when the fight at Xuanwu Gate has been over half an hour, most of the people in the [-] squares in the city still don't know that something shocking is happening on the side of Miyagi. It is a major event in the world, but many people have smelled something from the unusual behavior of the government today. The common people are very smart to choose to stay at home and not go out.Squads of city defense troops on the street rushed towards the direction of the north city, and the sound of their boots on the bluestone road made people feel very uncomfortable.

Half an hour after the start of the battle, Pei Chengchun, the general guarding the south three gates, dispatched [-] elite soldiers to the north city, and Li Daozong, the general guarding the west three gates, dispatched more than [-] elite soldiers to rush towards the Xuanwu gate.Only Liu Hongji, the general guarding the east three gates, has been standing still.

His Royal Highness's military order to send troops to help was placed on his desk, and Liu Hongji, who was sitting on a chair and looked at the prince's handbook, frowned his eyebrows into a knot.After all, the king of Qin still turned his back on him. In fact, he already knew it a long time ago.Before Li Shimin led his army back to Chang'an City, he had already sent someone to look for him, and asked him to rebel together on the day the army arrived in Chang'an.But until now he still hasn't made up his mind, but he has been sending people to watch the movement of Xuanwumen.

"General..."

Chu Qiao, the deputy general beside him, frowned slightly and reminded in a low voice: "Pei Chengchun and Li Daozong have already led their troops to the direction of Xuanwu Gate, shall we..."

"Where's Xin Wenli?"

Liu Hongji asked.

"The troops led by Xin Wenli and the imperial army led by Nayan Peiji trapped Fang Xuanling's 1 troops outside the city."

Liu Hongji was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled wryly: "The four generals of the city defense army guarding Chang'an, Xin Wenli, Pei Chengchun, and I, all came from the original Qin King's army. Only Li Daozong is not... If... If we All three raised troops together with His Royal Highness King Qin, it is impossible to say that today's matter will really be accomplished."

He looked up at Chu Qiao and said, "Do you know why I didn't respond to King Qin?"

Chu Qiao froze for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I don't know why the general didn't do this, but I know that you made the most correct choice. King Qin is indeed very prestigious in the army, but it's not enough So that all the soldiers will follow him to take risks together. You must know that this is a serious crime of treason and disobedience that will implicate the whole family, and no one will take such a big risk lightly and hastily."

"I know you were sent by His Majesty to monitor me."

Liu Hongji suddenly said something, which shocked Chu Qiao.

"General...I..."

He opened his mouth but didn't know what to explain. Liu Hongji waved his hand and smiled bitterly: "I didn't mean to blame you, and I don't have any resentment in my heart for doing this. After all, I am very close to His Highness King Qin." , when I wanted to send you here, Your Majesty already expected that the King of Qin would rebel."

"General!"

Chu Qiao plucked up her courage and said: "I know that you value kindness and righteousness, but you can no longer hesitate. The General respects your character, and has never told His Majesty that there is anything wrong with you in front of His Majesty. I don't want to do it today. Seeing you make mistakes, if you don't make up your mind, you will eventually be willing to replace the general and lead the troops to help Xuanwumen."

Liu Hongji sat on the chair, watched the prince's troop dispatching letter and was silent for a long time, finally nodded slowly and said: "Go... If... If King Qin is defeated, I will bind myself to His Majesty to plead guilty."Although I did not send troops to assist the King of Qin in the rebellion, but if I knew about it and did not report it, there would be no redemption for a hundred deaths.If you take over my soldiers in the future, don't make it too difficult for them. "

Chu Qiao felt sore and didn't know what to say, she just sighed and then grabbed the prince's handwriting and walked out quickly.

"Life is in a hurry for less than a hundred years..."

Liu Hongji looked at the sky outside the door and muttered to himself: "Your Highness, after all, you are not a person who voluntarily gives up. Regardless of victory or defeat, perhaps your life like this will be wonderful and worth living."

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Imperial study room

Because there was no early court today to welcome the coffin of King Qi, the memorials reviewed by Li Yuan were all accumulated in the past few days.These are the most important copies of all the memorials, Prince Li Jiancheng did not dare to be presumptuous but respectfully sent them back to him.He hasn't even looked at Li Yuan's desk for the past few days, and he doesn't know what happened today.