My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 189: People left the city empty, King Xia’s deceit

"General...General Cao...the soldiers and horses of the Yan Kingdom are coming to kill!"

Cao Zhong, who was patrolling to the corner of the city, was startled by the words shouted by the soldiers who came over. Just after noon, didn't the imperial envoy team go to the Yanguo military camp?
Did the talk break down?

He hurried to the tower in the middle of the north gate with his soldiers, stood behind the wall and looked into the distance. The sound of war drums came from far and near, and a black line came like a tide.

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
In a neat array, countless feet stepped forward slowly to the rhythm of drums. Excluding the wounded soldiers, [-] Xiliang soldiers and [-] Youyan soldiers formed two military formations and advanced. Young and strong laborers pulled the shafts and ran behind the array, and a large number of cavalry roared past.

In the middle of the two arrays, there were [-] shield warriors and [-] flying bear troops guarding the Chinese army's banner, a cart pulled by eight war horses with the curtain removed, and Su Chen's horse wearing a white velvet gold-edged mountain armor. The man with the golden sword was sitting on a big tiger-skin chair, with a statue of a saint spread out behind him in the car.

The big flag with the characters "Yan" and "Xia" is flying.

Walking on both sides of the cart were Dian Wei, who was dressed in ferocious iron armor and carried two halberds on his back, and Li Xuanba, who was also wearing iron armor and holding two hammers in his hands.There were also generals Xia Houyuan, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Li Jue, Zhang Yi, Ma Dai and other generals around, riding horses and holding their own weapons, accompanying the king as he marched slowly.

"This posture...isn't it so majestic in all dynasties?"

Su Chen leaned back on his chair and looked at the city wall in the distance, thinking.

Cao Zhong on the wall in the distance didn't know whether he was powerful or not. The only thing he knew clearly was that Yan State was really going to attack the city, and more generals were dispatched at the same time than in the previous few days.

This time we are not here to train troops, but to actually attack the city.

"Get ready!" Cao Zhong looked at the 'black line' spreading in the distance and ordered softly.

The messenger waved the horizontal flag and shouted: "Get ready to defend the city!"

"Fart, I'm talking about surrender!" Cao Zhong turned his head and shouted at the messenger: "There is an isolated city with tens of thousands of exhausted soldiers. How can we defend it? Guard it with your head!"

The soldier was stunned for a moment and quickly waved the command flag again.

The archers who originally came forward were stunned on the spot, their raised bows were drooped, and the hands in the quivers were all retracted. Cao Zhong could not move one arm, and he turned around and walked down the tower with his other hand holding the sword head. With a wave of his hand, He spoke very quickly: "Open the city gate and send your cavalry to the King of Xia to beg for surrender. Be quick!"

Watching Ling Qi get on his horse and rush out of the slowly opening city gate, the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. At this time, the chief arrester Fang Tianling came with a group of arresters and servants from the Yamen. He knew that the city's defense was weak and the soldiers There were many casualties, so some subordinates from the Yamen who could wield swords and guns were specially brought here.

However, what he saw was Ling Qi flying out of the city. He dismounted and walked towards Cao Zhong who was standing against the wall over there.

"You surrender!? Do you know how many people died and you surrendered to the Yan Kingdom?!"

Cao Zhong broke away from him, put his left hand on Fang Tianling's chest, and knocked him away with one palm: "If you don't surrender, you will die more. What if the city is massacred? What happened in Fenzhou, what if the other party wants to take revenge in Chendu County and come back?" , people all over the city will die!"

"If he really takes revenge, he won't kill him if he surrenders?!" Fang Tianling reached out to grab the knife.

"Then I have to take a gamble!" Cao Zhong grabbed his hand, put the sword back into its sheath, and shouted loudly in front of the soldiers and government officials above and below the city: "I will try my best. It's over! We have been guarding for three days... My subordinates are almost gone!"

"You have no spine! Just like Wei Jintang!"

"You have backbone, okay, now you take your people out of the city gate and fight with the Yan army. Ask the policemen and government servants behind you if they dare? Are they afraid of death?"

Fang Tianling gritted his teeth and followed the direction Cao Zhong pointed. The city gate opened wide, and the horseman had already galloped towards the spreading military formation. In the drumbeat of war, he waved a white flag and pointed at a finger. Under the incoming arrow, he ran in a straight line into the Chinese army array two miles behind.

The slowly moving ancestral hearse stopped.

Su Chen stood up from the big tiger-skin chair and looked at the Wei army commander who was brought forward to kneel down by the soldiers, "Surrender?"

"Yes, General Cao knew that he was no match for the king, so he led the people in the city to beg for surrender!"

"Ha ha."

In the car, Su Chen nodded with satisfaction. Since the other party surrendered voluntarily, there was no need for him to let Erlang charge into the battle and waste his life. "Allow him to beg for surrender. Go back and tell Cao Zhong that the four gates are wide open and the people in the city are not allowed to leave their houses. The soldiers in the city are Throw all the weapons in your hands to the bottom of the city. If anyone refuses to obey, massacre the city!" Ling Qi pursed his lips, raised his hands heavily, bowed down, then walked out of the armored defense range on foot, got on his horse, and galloped toward the city gate. , there were hundreds of Western Qiang cavalry who passed by. They wanted to control the city gate personally, and when they saw the other party throwing their weapons down from the top of the city.

Six hundred light cavalry jumped into the city gate. Here, the Chendu County soldiers were frightened by the power of the cavalry. They retreated to both sides and looked at them on horseback. Martial arts were enforced around the city and no one in the city was allowed to approach the city gate again. .

"Captain Fang, aren't you going to defend the city? Now that the city gate has fallen, it's your turn!"

Looking at the [-] Northland cavalry formed in formation under the city tower, they were just arresting Jiang Hu Lulin and did not dare to step forward. Even though these cavalry did not know any martial arts, when the military formation was assembled, not one or two Jianghu Lulin could Shaking.

"The king has arrived, the soldiers in the city will kneel down!" Wu Zixun rode up to the back of the six hundred Western Qiang cavalry and shouted loudly.

Cao Zhong knelt down by the roadside, and the surrounding soldiers also put down their weapons one by one and knelt down half-kneeling.The policemen behind Fang Tianling were frightened and knelt down, leaving him alone standing there abruptly.

Stepping into the city with neat steps, the armored warriors like an iron wall cleared the way first, the cavalry urged their horses to separate lanes, and the luxurious cart came into view from behind the armored warriors.

A tall figure stood on the chariot, looking at Fang Tianling who was standing among the kneeling crowd opposite. The latter swallowed his saliva and hurriedly knelt down.

Su Chen turned his gaze and looked at the figure on one side who was wearing different armor than the soldiers. He said in a low voice: "General Cao, I need you to do a few things. First, take all the soldiers in the city and ask the people to leave the city and go to the river bank. The Xiliang army was stationed outside the camp waiting to cross the river and go north, and Gu allowed them to take away as much property and food as they could; secondly, they confiscated the grain, gold and silver from the official warehouses in the city, and loaded them into trucks; thirdly, they left the wounded soldiers in the city; Fourth, if we finish the work within five days, if we can’t finish it, my lonely soldiers and horses can do it for me!”

"General Cao Zhong, could you please ask the king why he asked the people to leave the city?"

"The talks between Gu and your emperor have broken down. Do you think it's better to massacre the city or let the people live? Go ahead, Gu doesn't have much patience!"

"Yes……"

The red clouds and dusk alternated, and the streets that had been hit by several stone bombs gradually became noisy and noisy. Teams of police officers and Chendu County soldiers armed with sticks rushed into individual houses and houses to let the people at home take them. belongings and then driven out into the streets.

Along the long streets, the people looked around in panic. Not long after, a government official rode alone on the street, shouting loudly: "According to the order of King Xia, all the people in Chendu County leave the city immediately and follow the government officials and arresters." Hurry out from the west gate and go to the north. If anyone is found hiding something secretly in his home, he will be executed on the spot according to the law——"

A large number of people were pushed and scolded and began to move. For five consecutive days, the chaos in the city gradually subsided. The people who once lived here were walking on the wilderness heading north, with no end in sight.

Standing on the top of the city of Chendu County, overlooking the streets and alleys in the city, the long streets were in a mess, as if they had turned into a ghost town, dead and silent.

On the sixth day of November, another few days passed.

Thousands of carriages from Luyang were all received by the soldiers and horses of the Yan State. The gold, silver, grain, and herds of cattle and sheep were counted, and the process of moving northward began. This process took nearly half a month.

During the past half month, Liu Gun, along with his team of envoys, two battalions of escorting soldiers and horses, and a large number of tens of thousands of porters, camped twenty miles east of Chendu County, waiting for the order of the Xia King in the north. , don't allow them to move.

When the cavalry from the north came to tell them that they could take over the city, Liu Gun hurried to the east gate with a battalion of two thousand soldiers and horses. The banner with the word Wei was still flying on the city tower, but not a single soldier was seen.

His heart skipped a beat, and he asked the soldiers to push the city gate open. The heavy city gate slowly opened, and Liu Gun mounted his horse and galloped in. What fell in his field of vision was a desolation that looked like a ghost.

"What about people?!"

He sat on the horse and looked at the open and half-open doors and windows around him swaying slightly in the wind. His voice lingered in the empty streets.
Liu Gun beat his chest and shouted heartbreakingly.

"Where are the people?! There are 8 people in Chendu...where have you been...who will come out to answer me!!"

Soon, the news came back to Luyang as quickly as possible. It was already November [-]th, and the Wei court was shaken. Wei Emperor Zhao Chuanting could not suppress the anger in his heart even though he cultivated his energy.

"Junior, so cunning!"

He kicked off the heavy dragon case and slid two feet on the ground, "I and you are at odds with each other——"

(End of this chapter)