high official

Chapter 1229
"Tongzhou City is lost?" Seeing Yang Rong vomit blood, left and right rushed to support them, now Xueshi Yang no longer had the strength to break free from them, and murmured in despair: "How could this happen, how could this happen..."

Yang Rong's gaze slowly turned to Xu Huaiqing's corpse, and finally realized that the other party deliberately didn't run away, not to be provocative, but to irritate and attract him!Nail yourself firmly outside Tongzhou City, and let all your attention be on him!To create opportunities for Wang Xian to make money...

"This old man is a sinner through the ages!" Yang Xueshi let out a mournful cry, and suddenly pulled out the Son of Heaven Sword, intending to wipe it off his neck!
Left and right quickly grabbed his arm, so Yang Rong didn't commit suicide.Weeping left and right, he tried hard to persuade: "Master Ge, don't do it! Let's take Tongzhou City back again!"

"How to take it..." Yang Rong said with tears in his eyes.He knows the situation of Tongzhou City very well. The city has high walls, thick walls, complete facilities, and mountains of food and grass in the city. With Wang Xian's ability to stick to it for a year or so, it is easy.And the imperial court, without the food and grass in Tongzhou, couldn't last long at all...

"Maybe Tongzhou hasn't been lost yet..." At this moment, Li Xian whispered suddenly.

When everyone heard the words, they looked at Li Xian in unison, Yang Rong also stared at him, gritted his teeth and said, "What do you mean?"

"There are still [-] troops in the city, and the south gate, north gate, and east gate are also in our hands..." Li Xian did not dare to look Yang Rong in the eye.

"What?!" Yang Rong suddenly came alive, stepped forward and grabbed Li Xian, angrily said: "Then why did you run out?!"

"I..." Li Xian said timidly, "I'm here to report to Mr. Ge..."

Naturally, this statement cannot be false.The real situation is that he was driven out of his wits by the pursuers behind him, and he ran to the north gate in one breath!
At this time, there were still thousands of defenders at the north gate, and upon seeing this, they hurried forward to take over the chief general.However, Li Xian was completely frightened. Seeing thousands of cavalry rolling towards behind Wu Wei and others, he was filled with fear. How could he dare to stay in the city? Quickly open the city gate!"

The guard had already seen that the city was in chaos. It would be meaningless to close the city gates at this time, instead it would prevent reinforcements from coming. Naturally, he obeyed immediately and opened the closed city gates!

While waiting for the city gate to open, Li Xian dragged a cavalryman off his horse.As soon as the city gate opened a crack, there was a sound of slipping, and the horse galloped out of Tongzhou...

How dare he tell Yang Rong about the real situation...

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Hearing that Tongzhou City had not been captured yet, Yang Rong didn't care about dealing with Li Xian, so he mounted his horse and led his army back to help.

More than ten miles away, the fast horses galloped and arrived in an instant. In a blink of an eye, Yang Rong led [-] cavalry to the city of Tongzhou.

Because the west gate had been captured, Yang Rong went straight to the north, trying to enter the city through the north gate, but he saw that the gate that was open for Li Xian was closed.

Yang Rong thumped in his heart, but he still didn't give up, and asked someone to call the door.The one who answered him was the bed slave at the head of the city, and his crossbow whizzed towards him, nailing the shouting thousand households with their men and horses to the ground forcibly!
The officers and soldiers under the city were dead silent, who didn't know that the North Gate had also fallen into the hands of Wang Xian, Yang Rong resentfully pulled his horse, and gritted his teeth: "Go to the East Gate!"

The [-] cavalry had no choice but to continue to circle the city. After a while, they turned to the east gate, and happened to witness the scene where Wang Xianjun captured the top of the city and threw the imperial dragon flag down the city wall.

Yang Rong's face was ashen, and he didn't stop, so he pulled on his horse and continued to circle the city, leading his men to the south gate...

The defenders at the south gate were enthusiastic, and urged them to come over quickly, and pretended to lower the suspension bridge halfway.It's just that Yang Rong and the others have been tricked too many times. If the suspension bridge is completely lowered, how can they move forward?
Sure enough, the suspension bridge stopped falling, and the defenders at the top of the city sighed in disappointment.

"Still lying to us? Don't even think about it!" Seeing through the enemy's tricks, Yang Rong couldn't help being proud for a while.

"What a fart!" Yang Rong's face was livid, and even the dirty words popped out!
Left and right woke up suddenly, oops, why have all the four gates of Tongzhou been taken down?How amazing is this...

"Elder Ge, why don't we go to Ximen again..." Some subordinates suggested in a low voice, as if they felt that it would be incomplete not to go around the city for a week.

Yang Rong didn't even have the strength to swear, and fainted as soon as his eyes went dark...

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The nine gates of the city of Beijing are closed tightly, and it has entered a wartime state a few days ago.

Not surprisingly, rumors abounded in the city, various prophecies and nursery rhymes spread, millions of soldiers and civilians panicked, and it was a scene of the end of the world.Naturally, the imperial court could not let the people's morale slack, and tried their best to turn the hearts of the people around.

Aside from the useless talk, two big things did play a role.First, Yang Rong led an army of 20 and [-] civilians to Tongzhou to transport grain.The second is that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally took command of the expedition and led an army of [-] out of the city to fight Wang Xian.

In order to inspire the hearts of the people, the imperial court also held a grand expedition ceremony. Seeing His Highness the Crown Prince in golden armor leading [-] soldiers out of the city mightily, the people in the capital really felt a little at ease.Secretly said: "When the Duke of Zhen Guo kills Zhu Zhanji, will he calm down and stop fighting..."

To this day, no matter how the court propagandizes, the common people have already determined that it was the crown prince and Yang Shiqi who forced Wang Xian to rebel.The common people seem to hate these two people more than Duke Zhen who pacified the grassland...

But the first thing is indeed what everyone likes to hear. If there is food at home, there is no panic in the heart;Seeing the carts of grain and grass being transported back to the capital, the common people lining the road to welcome them finally felt less panicked.

It's just that after a while, the follow-up grain trucks entered the city disappeared, and the common people looked at each other, not knowing what happened again.After a series of bad news, everyone became extremely pessimistic.Sadly, it turns out that they were right to be pessimistic...

After waiting for an hour, they finally waited for dozens of grain trucks to return to the city in a hurry, and then the gate of the city was closed with a loud bang.Although the officers and soldiers were secretive about what happened outside the city, the news still spread through the mouths of the civilians, and the common people finally knew that Wang Xian sent troops to cut off the channel for transporting grain!

In other words, Wang Xian's army is dozens or dozens of miles away from the capital!No wonder the officers and soldiers were so frightened that they closed the city gates and sent all the troops to the city walls!
"It's over, it's over," the extremely disappointed common people, no longer caring about any East Factory spies, vented their emotions loudly: "There is no way to transport the grain in Tongzhou back to the capital!"

"No way..." Some people said in disbelief, "There is an army of [-] from Elder Yang Ge."

"Damn it!" Countless voices retorted at the same time: "Didn't the imperial court's 200 million troops make Lord Zhen Guo come to the capital in one go? Yang Rong's [-] troops are not even enough to fill his teeth!"

"That's right, that's right..." More people were extremely pessimistic: "Look, you don't have to wait until next year, the capital will be named Wang!"

"Isn't it? It's less than a month before the Chinese New Year. Why can't such a big capital survive a month?"

"Let's get it down, hurry up and finish the counting ball, and you can live a safe and healthy year..." There are definitely not a few people who hold this kind of argument: "Whoever is the emperor is not an emperor, what does it have to do with us ordinary people?"

"That's right, I heard that in Shandong, the life of ordinary people is booming..."

As we talked, the common people's fears were eliminated a lot, and many people even hoped that Wang Xian would end the war quickly.After all, they were too familiar with Wang Xian. After all, he was the hero who swept the Tartars. After all, Shandong under Wang Xian's rule was not too far from the capital...

In the final analysis, this is not a foreign invasion, but a civil war of the same clan. Just like Zhu Di replaced Emperor Jianwen, the common people did not have to fight him to the death.

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However, the ministers in the court could not be as indifferent as the common people. No matter from the standpoint of loyalty to the emperor, or the reality of one emperor and one courtier, they could not accept Wang Xian as the replacement of the Zhu family.

All the ministers gathered in the palace, anxiously waiting for the results outside the city.Whether it is in the direction of Daxing or Tongzhou, as long as there is good news, they can let go of their hanging hearts.

While discussing the battle situation sadly, the ministers looked at the empty dragon chair from time to time.I heard that the emperor was seriously ill this time, and some gossip said that he was even terminally ill... This is really a leaky house and continuous rain, and a broken ship with a headwind.Could it be that the Zhu family is really going to die?

They waited until it was dark, and heard that the food transport team had formed an formation to protect themselves, and Xu Huaiqing was unable to make a sneak attack. He also heard that Yang Rong had personally left the city and organized an army of [-] to encircle and suppress Xu Huaiqing, encircling him within a radius of more than ten miles.Only then did the ministers heave a sigh of relief, and went home to eat and sleep, so that they had the strength to continue to stay in the palace in the future.

In the early morning of the next day, the ministers reunited in the palace, each of them yawned again and again, their eyes were darkened, and they greeted each other with wry smiles.

"Master Chen, didn't you sleep well?"

"Hey, I have nightmares when I close my eyes, how can I sleep well."

"Dreams are reversed. It seems that there will be good news today."

"I hope so..."

They didn't make them wait for too long, just as the sun was rising, messengers broke into the palace in a hurry.

The messenger went straight to Yang Shiqi, knelt down and reported: "Shoufu, His Royal Highness has a military report!"

Yang Shiqi took it over with a sinking face, took a deep breath, and opened the military newspaper.

All the princes and ministers held their breath, and when Yang Shiqi finished reading, he hurriedly asked, "Shoufu, what's the situation?"

"His Royal Highness has joined Daxing's army, but there is no sign of Wang Xian. According to His Highness, Wang Xian should have gone to Tongzhou to rescue Xu Huaiqing." Yang Shiqi did not hide anything, and said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness has led the army, Go north to Tongzhou."

After finishing speaking, Yang Shiqi hurried to Qianqing Palace to report the latest situation to Emperor Hongxi who was bedridden.

"Haha!" As soon as Yang Shiqi left, all the ministers laughed happily: "Now the man surnamed Wang has thrown himself into a trap, surrounded by an army of 20, it is difficult to fly even with wings!"

(End of this chapter)