The king behind the empress

Chapter 395 Hu Ming commits suicide
Yang Yanzhang, who was leading the horse, had the momentum to break through the battalion alone. He waved his long-inch spear in his hand, and the guards of Yining City fell down in large numbers.

Looking at Yang Yanzhang's power, Hu Ming didn't even have the slightest intention of turning back. He took his guards and fled towards the city. No matter how fast Yang Yanzhang was, he still needed to chase and kill the defeated soldiers, and they just needed to run away. Compared with Yang Yanzhang, they are even faster than Yang Yanzhang with two legs.

As for the routs under Hu Ming's command, Hu Ming couldn't take care of them at all right now, and now that the formation is in such a mess, even if he wanted to take care of them, he might not be able to command and move those routs.

Therefore, he only asked the banner officer to give orders to retreat to the city for those battalions that were relatively close to him. As for whether they could see it, he couldn't control it.

Yang Yanzhang led the Chiyan Dragonrider because he still needed to charge from behind, so he gradually distanced himself from the fleeing rout soldiers, and Hu Ming, who ran at the forefront, was already approaching the city.

"Quickly open the city gate!!!"

Before Hu Mingren reached the city gate, the generals under his command began to shout loudly, "Hu Shuai is here, open the city gate quickly!"

"Whoosh whoosh~"

After the generals under Hu Ming shouted, instead of opening the city gate, a wave of arrows rained down from the top of the city, and immediately shot the unsuspecting soldiers under Hu Ming's command. That general was given special care. Four or five egg-thick, bed crossbow-specific arrows directly nailed that general in place, without even leaving him a whole body.

After shooting a wave of arrows, Xu Boyuan poked his head out from above the city wall, and shouted loudly to the people below: "Patriarchs have said that the defeated generals, besides being able to attract the enemy, , is of no use at all, so I ask you all to fight to the death under this city."

"We will assist you on the city wall, please rest assured."

"what?"

Hearing Xu Boyuan's words, the hearts of the people in the city immediately began to fluctuate. The Red Flame Dragonriders are so ferocious, letting them fight to the death below the city, isn't it going to let them die in vain?
"These bastard things, the uncles are fighting under the city, and it's fine if they don't give support, and they actually cut off our retreat."

A burly camp owner looked at Xu Boyuan above, spat fiercely, and cursed loudly: "Brothers, why should we give our lives to such scum!"

"Yes, Brother Boyi is right!"

Another camp owner also echoed: "Since they voluntarily gave up on us, there is no need for us to sacrifice our lives for them."

"Anyway, we didn't do much to the imperial court. It's better to demote the imperial court directly. Even if the imperial court will settle the score, it's better than dying in this city."

"That's right, I can die, but I can't bring my brothers to die with me."

The battalion owner named Boyi who spoke before said, "I'm a general, at worst, let the prince cut me down, it's better than bringing all the brothers to die under this city."

After finishing speaking, these battalion owners did not hesitate, and directly led the soldiers under their command to stay away from the city wall, and then threw all the weapons in their hands aside, looking like they were being slaughtered.

"Asshole, how could this happen?"

Looking at the appearance under the city wall, Hu Ming couldn't help being a little startled and angry. If he hadn't been cautious by nature just now and asked the generals under his command to speak out, but he didn't take the initiative to come forward, he might be the one who is crucified on the ground now.

I have long known that the aristocratic families in the city are short-sighted, but I didn't expect them to be so short-sighted. If the soldiers under their command can't enter the city, with the 2 people in the city, what will they do to defend Yining City?

And these people are really daring. After showing their banner, they dare to shoot and kill the generals under their command. It is obvious that they are here for themselves. If they do this, aren't they afraid that the teacher will find them to settle it?
They...

"wrong!!!"

At first, Hu Ming, who was extremely angry, thought that he was from a family in the city, but after all he was a top general, and it took him a while to realize that something was wrong.

Even if those people on the top of the city are family members, if you want them to fight to the death in the city, you will only close the city gate to prevent them from entering, and you will not and should not take the initiative to attack them, let alone say those words on purpose.

Those words didn't seem like asking them to fight to the end, but more like forcing them to surrender directly to the court.

"The city wall was taken away? Those aristocratic families in the city are really rich and rich!"

Hu Ming came to a conclusion in an instant, but he just cursed secretly in his heart and didn't dare to say anything. Now there are quite a few people who are determined to surrender to the aristocratic families in the city. Not only can it not save those people just now, but it will make some people who are desperate for the situation continue to surrender.

"Go, go to other city gates."

Hu Ming gritted his teeth secretly. He didn't realize that there were internal responses from the imperial court in the city, but even if there were, their number would definitely not be too many.

There are [-] troops left in the city, and it's fine if they take down the north city wall if they don't notice for a while, I don't believe that they can take down the rest of the city gates.

As long as he can let himself into the city and gather the remnants of the soldiers, things may turn around a little bit, but the outer city must be unable to defend, so he can only retreat to the inner city.

With a decision in his heart, Hu Ming did not hesitate at all, and immediately bypassed the location of the city gate, and started walking along the city wall to another city gate in the North City.

"Whoosh whoosh~"

Hu Ming led the soldiers under his command, but as soon as he approached the second city gate, before he had time to shout, another wave of arrows rained on the city wall, but because the arrow rain was shot earlier this time, no more In addition, Hu Ming had already prepared, so he did not cause too many casualties.

"Hahaha, the surname is Hu, this road is blocked!"

Liu Ruqian's fat face poked out from the top of the wall, looking at Hu Ming who was in a state of embarrassment below. At that time, he let out a bad breath.

"Liu Rugan?"

Hu Ming looked at Liu Rugan at the top of the wall in shock and anger, and suddenly became furious, "Bastard, I should have killed you that day!!!"

After seizing Liu Ruqian's power, he originally wanted to kill Liu Ruqian to avoid future troubles, but because some aristocratic families in the city had been on good terms with Liu Ruqian on weekdays, they pleaded for him, and Liu Ruqian's reputation in Yining City was not bad. That's right, Hu Ming took advantage of his fame to gather some people to guard the city, so he saved his life, but he didn't expect that today he would be backlashed by Liu Rugan, who he didn't like at all.

This person is very familiar with Yi Ning City, if he turns his hand now, most of the ordnance in that city will fall into the enemy's hands.

"Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world."

Liu Ruqian withdrew his smile, stood on the top of the city and looked down at Hu Ming, "And what if you killed me that day? Like you, a rebellious official and thief who is causing trouble in the world, do you really think that you can win if you kill me, Liu Rugan?" ?"

"Regarding the common people for nothing, killing innocent people indiscriminately, do you really think that the sky has no eyes?"

Hu Ming, who was worried about the ordnance, had no intention of arguing with Liu Rugan at all. He turned his horse's head and led his soldiers to continue towards the south wall. But it is getting less and less.

There were originally tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, but now there are only a few thousand left, and most of these thousands are his own soldiers. The soldiers who really belong to Yining City can be said to be ten thousand. Not one.

Hu Ming also knew this situation, but he had no choice but to grit his teeth and run towards the south wall.

When he was about to arrive at the southern city gate, Hu Ming was overjoyed instantly, because the guards at the southern city gate immediately opened the city gate the moment they saw them coming, which meant that the southern city gate was still in their hands.

"This city wall is still in our hands, as long as we enter the city, we can survive!!!"

Seeing hope, Hu Ming cheered up the morale of those who shouted loudly, "speed up, enter immediately..."

Hu Ming shouted and shouted, his voice suddenly became quieter, because he found that the city gate, which had been completely opened, was gradually closing at this moment. At this speed, they had no time to rush to the city gate, and the city gate had to be completely closed.

"Why close the city gate? Don't close the city gate! We are our own people, our own people!!!"

Hu Ming took the lead, galloping his horse towards the city gate while shouting loudly, but he stopped after only shouting the words twice, because the sound of rumbling horseshoes came from his ears, at this moment, He finally understood why the South City Gate was closed.

Hu Ming, who was riding on the horse, looked back in a daze. Behind them, the Red Flame Dragon Knight had already caught up. It seemed that the number of them was only a small part, at most a thousand or so.

But now, except for those personal guards who followed him, the rest of the troops under his command were all frightened and defeated troops, let alone a thousand cavalry, even five hundred cavalry, he couldn't stop it at all.

"Has the general trend gone?"

Hu Ming felt a little sad in his heart, he wasted so much time by going around three city gates in a row, so that the Red Flame Dragonriders who were chasing and killing the [-] army could spare some of their troops to chase him down.

Facing these thousand red flame dragonriders at this time, Hu Ming felt that he was at the end of the road.

"If you can't get out of the city, why are you here?"

Looking at the closed city gate, Hu Ming rode his horse back into the formation in a somewhat bleak manner. If this battle is fought according to what he said at the beginning, if he can't hold on, even if the Red Flame Dragon Knight is stronger, he can consume half of his energy. The above men and horses.

Unfortunately, what Liu Ruqian said is right, there are no ifs in this world.

"After I die, you don't have to fight to the death, just surrender."

Hu Ming glanced at his personal guard who had been with him for many years, and shook his head with some reluctance, "If you still have a chance to see the teacher in the future, please transfer to him, the student is embarrassing to him."

After finishing speaking, Hu Ming took off his helmet and killed himself without waiting for the guards to dissuade him.

"Hu Shuai, Hu Shuai..."

The few guards standing beside Hu Ming couldn't stop him, they directly caught Hu Ming's loss of consciousness when he fell from the horse, and couldn't help but feel extremely sad, "Life is life, death is also death, the commander died, we will be safe in the world .”

After placing Hu Ming's corpse on the ground smoothly, they drew their swords and followed in Hu Ming's footsteps without the slightest hesitation, and all the corpses fell on Hu Ming's side, as if death was also protecting him.

Looking at the corpses of Hu Ming and several personal guards, the rest of the guards were silent for a moment, but their relationship with Hu Ming was not enough to allow them to be buried with Hu Ming, so they performed the last one on Hu Ming's corpse. After the military salute, they all put down their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender to the rushing Red Flame Dragonriders.

The battle between the Red Flame Dragonriders and the defenders of Yining City lasted for more than an hour in total, but it took almost a day for the Yuzhi Army to gather the prisoners.

After learning that Xu Boyuan had captured the two city gates, Mo Zizai asked Han Qu to gather the prisoners, and at the same time let Yang Yanzhang enter the city to completely defeat the resistance forces in the city and directly take over Yining City.

When everything was almost done, and it was gradually getting late, Yang Yanzhang, who had finished all his work, rushed over with a corpse.

"My lord, this is Hu Ming's corpse."

Yang Yanzhang bowed and bowed, with a little shame in his tone, "I couldn't take care of him during the war, and I didn't expect him to kill himself."

"Suicide."

Looking at Hu Ming's corpse, Mo Zizai shook his head lightly, and said, "Although his methods were a bit excessive, each is his master after all. Since he is dead, forget it."

Mo Zizai didn't have the habit of whipping corpses, and Hu Ming didn't make him hate him to such an extent, but it was obviously impossible for him to treat Hu Ming's corpse favorably, so he said casually: "When he is sent, he will be killed with the rest of the soldiers." Throw the dead bodies together and transport them to the mass grave."

"If someone helps him restrain himself, let them restrain him. If no one restrains him, forget it. There is no need to worry about him."

"Here."

Yang Yanzhang responded, and had no opinion on how to deal with Mo Zizai, but he needed to ask Mo Zizai for instructions on how to deal with those aristocratic families in the city, "My lord, what should I do with those aristocratic families in the city?"

"Let's check it out. Those who actively support Hu Ming will be punished as treason and punish the nine clans."

Mo Zizai thought for a while, and then continued: "As for those who are forced to support Hu Ming, check their past actions. If they have a good reputation, they should be dealt with lightly. If they have a bad reputation, they should be dealt with as accessories. , should be exiled, there is no need to be soft on them."

Because the empress's new policy has been finalized, there is no need for Mo Zizai to kill these aristocratic families and then divide the land.

As long as they implement the New Deal, they will score points here sooner or later. As for whether they score early or late, it makes little difference to Mo Zizai.

Of course, Mo Zizai just said that people will not be killed, and the family should be copied or copied. After spending so much money in the accelerator, he is almost at the end of his life now, so he pointed at these families in Yuanling County to give him a wave of blood. .

After all, even if he doesn't upgrade the accelerator in his hand, he is still very short of money now. After all, the places he has laid down are in a state of waste, and money is needed everywhere, and the road, track, and water conservancy are still being repaired in the rear , in this way, there are more places that need money.

(End of this chapter)