A burst of hurried footsteps sounded above the imperial city, and several soldiers of the imperial army in armor rushed to the two of them, knelt down on one knee, and said something. Fan Xian stood behind the eldest prince and listened calmly. He didn't feel any surprise in his heart. After searching all night, he captured the queen, but failed to capture the prince. The soldiers sent to Ye Qin's two houses also rushed to nothing. .
Just as the Eldest Princess sent people to surround Fan's Mansion, she had no choice but to miss out on the same reason. Even though these people of the older generation are not as fierce as they were back then, they still have a very clear view of the trend of the turmoil. Especially like Ye Qin's two families, since they are determined to rebel by holding the eldest princess's skirt, how can Fan Xian and the others catch any useful hostages.
As for the other pro-schools, they separately reported the defense situation in the capital to the First Prince. The eldest prince frowned slightly after hearing this, waved them down, then turned to Fan Xian and said, "The current situation is that if we shrink into the palace according to the established method... if we hand over all the terrain outside the palace to them. Set up the formation and surround this palace city, we will have no power to shake the sky."
Fan Xian looked at him.
"But the problem is, if we start to harass from the moment the rebels enter the city, it will only play a role of harassment, and it will not have much effect at all." The First Prince said: "I have too few troops."
At this time, the morning sun has risen, and the red light shines on the vermilion palace wall, and then reflects it, covering the entire palace city and a large square in front of it in a warm color, which is the place behind the palace. The clear and secluded moat is also permeated with a palpitating red, like fresh blood.
"If you want to delay time, you must launch a strike at the first moment they enter the gate of the capital." The eldest prince looked at Chaoyang, squinted his eyes slightly and said: "The problem right now is that the spies of your Overwatch Council were captured by the four sides of the city wall. Isolated, it is impossible to pass in information at all, we have to guess which city gate the army will enter Beijing through."
"There is a certain distance from the city gate to the imperial palace, which is enough for us to kill each other." Fan Xian lowered his head and said, "If I really have to guess where the army entered the capital from, I bet...Zhengyang Gate."
"It's the same as I think." The eldest prince nodded. The rebel army went straight to the capital from the Yuantai camp. The nearest city gate was Zhengyang gate, and the office of the Thirteenth City Gate Division was also located there. Although Zhang Deqing rebelled, only the gate of the city was under his personal control, and the army from the eldest princess' side entered the capital through this gate, which was the safest and smoothest.
The First Prince frowned and said, "I left a cavalry team there."
Fan Xian glanced at him, and a strange color flashed in his pupils. The disparity in strength between the enemy and us was too great. It was impossible to keep the enemy away from the city gate, but he and the First Prince had to be at the moment when the rebels entered the city. , then give the other party a painful and memorable blow, in order to slightly reduce the spirit of the rebels.
However, this troop that has been thrown in will definitely be swallowed by the turbulent force of the army, and even one person will not be able to survive.
As if sensing what Fan Xian was thinking, the eldest prince frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice, "As a soldier of the Qing Dynasty, it's only natural that we should risk our lives."
Fan Xian thought slightly, it was just the emperor's family's struggle for power and profit, but these ordinary soldiers were asked to throw their heads and blood. At this moment, a gust of morning wind blows, and with it, there are voices full of blood and murderous aura from all over the imperial city. It is those school officers in the imperial army who began to conduct the last pre-war battle on their subordinates. Mobilization, for a moment, inside and outside the imperial city, there was a chill, and the air seemed to be filled with tension.
"I'm asking you for the last time, do you want to go?" The First Prince squinted his eyes at the eastern city gate, without even looking at Fan Xian. "Wait until the army encircles the palace, it will be impossible to break through."
He and Fan Xian have discussed this issue several times. The eldest prince originally intended to lead the forbidden army to attract the rebels to the capital for a bloody fight, while Fan Xian, with the help of more than a thousand spies from the Overwatch Council, led Those people in the palace found a way out, rushed out of the city gate, and hurried south to Weizhou.
Fan Xian still shook his head lightly as he did in previous discussions, not to mention the rewards for breaking through, even if he could break through, he would not let the First Prince be torn to pieces by the Eldest Princess' army alone. And he still has a great expectation in his heart, let him stand firmly on the city wall with both feet.
He followed the direction of the eldest prince's eyes, staring at Zhengyangmen, which was becoming more and more solemn under the rising sun, without saying a word.
The whole of Kyoto did not wake up with the rising sun. Hundreds of thousands of people stayed at home in fear, listening to the movement outside. Alone, silent.
So quiet, so deserted, it makes people feel that the day at the first arrival is still the endless night, and the whole capital has become a lonely city, a dead city.
At this moment, an ominous sound suddenly came from the morning wind, as if the thick gate of the capital city had been opened.
There is no sound of horseshoes, no horse neighing, no sound of armor and sword colliding, no military flag fluttering, and the sound of the city gate opening and closing should not be heard from such a distance.
But in such a deathly quiet Kyoto, any movement from the city gate will touch the sensitive minds of these people in the palace.
Fan Xian suddenly turned his head, looked at several directions to the west and south, and stared at the smoke of intelligence from the secret agents of the Overwatch Council, his pupils shrank. After a while, he and the eldest prince looked at each other and said, "We all guessed wrong."
The eldest prince's face was extremely serious, and he nodded.
Green smoke rose everywhere, and the horn gradually sounded. Looking down from the imperial city, one could find that dozens of clumps of smoke and dust appeared in different directions on the outer city wall of Kyoto at this time. , along the avenue extending in all directions in Kyoto, and kill in the direction of the imperial palace!
Fan Xian and the eldest prince guessed that the rebel army would enter the capital through Zhengyangmen, but they did not expect that the rebel army would enter the capital from... the nine city gates at the same time in such an upright manner!
The two princes above the imperial city gasped, wondering how many rebels were there under the Eldest Princess? How dare they divide their troops into the city through the nine gates and overwhelm the city with a dignified and upright momentum, creating such a terrifying momentum!
In an instant, Kyoto was surrounded by wolves.
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Outside the Zhengyang Gate in Kyoto, the loess was trampled and crushed by the galloping horseshoes, and then kicked up again, turning into a cloud of dust and smoke, which gradually rose to become a cloud of yellow smoke, covering the place where the rising sun initially rose above the horizon. The projected light made the entire city gate a bit dark inside and out.
A cavalry army of 5,000 cavalry is riding five in a row, driving towards the open Zhengyang Gate at a steady speed, everything seems so silent and fast, the smoke and dust brought up by the horseshoes, rushed by these horses, towards the city. Scraping the inside of the door, it looks like a yellow dragon with no head or tail, struggling to enter the capital, intending to devour those poor mortals.
In the loess all over the sky, a large army flag is waving in the wind. On the black flag is painted a big Qin character. The last stroke of the Qin character is thrust out forcefully. Amidst the smoke and dust in the sky, it was still full of murderous aura.
The former deputy envoy of the Privy Council, the current commander of the Kyoto garrison, and the leader of the second generation of the Qin family, Qin Heng was under this banner, watching his army calmly, and entered the capital with an irresistible momentum.
He squinted his eyes, but didn't cover his mouth and nose to avoid inhaling the loess. He just watched all this calmly, with extremely complicated emotions in his chest. As the leader of the Kyoto garrison, he was very familiar with Zhengyangmen. Knowing that if the gates of the city are closed, if only relying on these 3,000 cavalry, they may not be able to enter the capital for three years.
The capital of the Qing Kingdom had been besieged by foreign enemies in history, but it had never been invaded by the enemy. This Kyoto, which has a short history, has fully demonstrated its strong defense power.
However, today, the gate of this capital city was finally captured—as Zhuang Mohan once said in his book, the most powerful capital in history is captured, often from within.
Today's Qing rebellion is no exception.
Qin Heng looked at all this, and as a soldier of the Qing Dynasty, he felt very complicated. He felt incomparable admiration and fear for Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess who easily controlled the gate divisions of the thirteen cities.
However, the current situation does not allow him to think too much. Today the army entered the capital through nine city gates. The cavalry brigade he led went through Zhengyang Gate. He had to rush to the palace ahead of everyone else.
This time the army gathered the Qin Ye family's army and the Kyoto garrison, a total of more than 30,000 people, while the total defense force of the imperial palace was less than 6,000 people. The people in the palace who must be suppressed were scared and surrendered!
For Qin Heng, fighting this battle with a six-to-one force is really not a difficult task. He never thought that those acquaintances in the palace could contend with such a powerful force.
His pupils flashed the galloping horses in front of him, soldiers... and then a person's name flashed. For Qin Heng, he was not so worried about the palace right now, but worried that Ye Zhong would get ahead of him. , rushed to the palace.
Thinking of the name Ye Zhong, Qin Heng let out a sigh of relief. The permanent garrison of the capital had received the Queen Mother's order, but he did not return to Dingzhou! Although it seems that the Ye family's non-retreat is a secret arrangement of the eldest princess, which is of great significance to today's battle in Kyoto, but to the Qin family, the existence of the Ye family's military strength has other meanings.
Ye Chong is the father-in-law of the second prince, and the Qin family naturally supports the prince. Therefore, Mr. Qin issued a death order. In order to stabilize the prince's throne in the future, the Qin family's army must be strong enough in this battle, and must arrive before the Ye family!
Qin Heng clamped his horse's belly, led his personal battalion, joined the team entering the city, and became the brightest scale on Huanglong.
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The rebel army entered the capital from nine directions, the Qin family occupied six routes, and the Ye family occupied three routes. It was precisely because the rebel army was powerful that they knew that the defense of Kyoto was empty, so they didn't care about dividing troops. The courage to break through was weakened again.
Thousands of officers and soldiers of the Thirteenth City Gate Division did not join the ranks of the rebels. The ordinary soldiers watched this scene dumbfounded, not knowing what happened. The first prince rebelled, but he dared not move under the suppression of the officers. Commander Zhang Deqing is a smart person. Knowing about this kind of rebellion, even if he adds a hand, he will not have much credit. It is the really smart choice to cling to his city gate secretary first.
The sound of horseshoes sounded like thunder on the avenue leading directly from Zhengyangmen to the imperial palace. The cavalry of the Qin family army took out their weapons and became vigilant. However, their speed did not slow down at all, and they galloped past like a gust of wind.
Today's world advocates black, and the light armor of the Qin family's cavalry is also very dark, which is very close to the black cavalry of the Overwatch Council, except that the thickest black is missing, and there are a few bright spots on the breastplate.
More than a dozen running cavalry suddenly broke away from the group, accelerated forward, pierced into the quiet street like lightning, wiped the low eaves of the houses, and began to reconnaissance and return for the army's advance.
As usual, the dozen or so cavalry galloped into the streets, made another turn, spread out like arrows, and began to march deep. All this happened extremely quickly and naturally, which fully demonstrated the training level of the Qing army. And the strength of the Qin family's army.
The cavalry brigade did not slow down, and continued to move forward in the direction where the dozen or so cavalry stepped. Qin Heng rode a horse and led his own barracks, staring indifferently at Baiyuezhang ahead. He knew that Fan Xian and the First Prince would not sit still. There would definitely be snipers and tough fights on this long, quiet street. .
But he didn't care, how many people Fan Xian and the First Prince had in their hands, he knew very well, what he wanted was the speed of marching, a strong momentum, no matter what kind of obstacles he encountered, he had to crush them mercilessly with the army!
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The speed of the rebel advance was so fast that the dozen or so leading cavalry could not play the role of scouts at all. To be honest, they were just bravely baiting, and they were a bit like those who bravely rolled over the thunderstorm in Fan Xian's world. The martyrs on the field used their own lives to touch the death-like silence of Kyoto, what kind of danger existed.
However, the rebel army had already charged five hundred feet straight from Zhengyang Gate, and the dozen or so brave cavalrymen still did not encounter any sniper attacks. When they could faintly see the eaves of the imperial palace under the rising sun, the streets and alleys were still full of chaos. Quiet.
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"hiss!"
The rebel brigade, about a hundred feet away from the dozens of cavalry, and the few horses rushing forward, were breathing the air of Kyoto vigorously, maintaining a steady speed, but at the same time, neighing in pain!
The neighing sound stopped from the middle, and several war horses fell to the ground at the same time!
The heavy body of the war horse slammed heavily on the bluestone floor of the street, shaking up a few strands of dust, but the street seemed to tremble. The horse's head hit the ground heavily, and blood gushed out!
And the cavalry on the horses, no matter how good their riding skills were, were caught off guard by this sudden change and fell to the ground. Before they could wake up from the pain of the broken leg, several black poisoned crossbow bolts were shot out from the houses by the street and pierced into their bodies fiercely.
At the same time when the first few horses fell to the ground and the cavalrymen were killed by crossbow arrows, countless hissing sounds suddenly came from the whole quiet street.
These noises did not come from the mouths and noses of those galloping war horses, but from the ground. The streets of Kyoto are paved with square bluestones, and the gaps between the bluestones are filled with loess.
Those hissing sounds came from the fine loess between these bluestone slabs.
At the same moment, the loess between the bluestone slabs on the long street suddenly cracked! There seems to be some magical power on both sides of the street, and a thin black leather rope bounces from the cracked loess. The leather rope is too thin to be attached to the hook, but there is a faint light shining faintly, which should be quenched. Poison needles.
Dozens of special black tripping ropes suddenly and miraculously appeared on the street that was still smooth a moment ago!
Countless muffled sounds sounded at the same time, and the cavalry brigade of the Qin family's army suffered a merciless blow at this moment. There were a total of more than a hundred cavalry, and they fell into the clouds in front of these dozens of tripping ropes and smashed into the deep land.
All of a sudden, people on the street turned on their backs, screaming miserably. I don't know how many people had broken tendons and bones, and smashed together heavily, rolling and bleeding.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of swishing through the air sounded, and these sounds were like whistles coming to reap orders from the nether world, which made people tremble with fear. Countless black crossbow arrows shot out from the houses on the street, and shot at the rebels who fell to the ground, stopping their screams in an instant.
But in an instant, there were more than a hundred dead people on this half of the street, and these dead people were all pierced with crossbow arrows. The ambushers did not shoot the horses, and the horses whose severed limbs were poisoned lay powerlessly on the ground next to the corpses of their masters, neighing in pain while kicking their legs.
The scene looked bleak.
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