Xu Yunchu kowtowed to the leader's decree, obeyed the emperor's order, and quickly left the Golden Luan Hall. After a short while, he lit the beacon tower.
Beacon towers were lit up one after another, and within half an hour, like a long dragon, it meandered and circled to send emergency signals for the capital in all directions.
After Xu Yunchu left, Ye Chang ordered people to take out the defense map of the capital, and discussed with Su Che and other courtiers about the defense of the capital in the Golden Palace.
There are only less than 20,000 soldiers and horses in the capital, and the soldiers from all the prefectures are counted, which is only 25,000. With such a small number of soldiers and horses, if they resist 80,000 to 90,000 soldiers and horses, it will be three or four times less. If the eldest prince succeeds and captures the soldiers and horses of the Jinglu soldiers and horses camp, then nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses will also be reduced. It was nearly ten times less.
With such a huge gap, how difficult is it to keep the capital
The civil and military officials only hoped that Liu Wen and Su Fengnuan could successfully seize the soldiers and horses of the Jinglu Army and Horse Camp, destroying the plans of the First Prince. Then, the capital will be less in danger.
Ye Chang ordered Xuan Zheng Zhongwei to enter the palace.
Zheng Zhongwei led dozens of people under his command to search all over the capital, but found no trace of the 80,000 to 90,000 soldiers and horses. He was horrified, and when he heard that Ye Shang had announced him to enter the palace, he immediately hurried to the palace. into the palace.
The former son of Prince Rong'an, today's new Emperor Ninety-Five Supreme.
The change of identity made Ye Chang's flamboyant and careless body fade away. From the inside to the outside, Ye Chang's whole body exuded the weight of a mountain.
After Zheng Zhongwei went up to the Golden Palace, he saw Ye Chang sitting on the dragon chair, he was startled for a long time before he woke up, and immediately knelt down and bowed down, "Long live the emperor!"
Ye Chang asked in a deep voice, "Zheng Zhongwei, can you check? How many soldiers and horses are currently available in Beijing?"
Zheng Zhongwei quickly replied, "Back to the emperor, there are 5,000 Imperial Guards left, 5,000 soldiers from the Five Cities, 8,000 Imperial Forest Army, and 1,000 government officials."
Ye Chang nodded, and said to Su Che, "Father-in-law, I will give you the nineteen thousand soldiers and horses. According to the countermeasure we discussed just now, we will deploy and deploy the four cities within half an hour."
Su Che immediately cupped his hands, "I accept the order."
Ye Chang instructed Zheng Zhongwei, "Zheng Zhongwei cooperates with General Su without any mistakes."
Zheng Zhongwei immediately said, "The minister receives the order."
Ye Chang waved his hand.
The two quickly left the Golden Palace.
After the two left, Ye Chang said to the crowd, "Thank you dear friends, go back to the mansion as soon as possible and call out the guards. I will wait for you for half an hour, and the guards will gather at the gate of the palace for deployment."
Everyone knows that the capital city is in a very critical moment. Today, only half of the people who went to the Golden Palace after listening to the bells and drums, civil and military officials. The other half must have defected to the camp of the eldest prince and the prime minister's residence. The half of them surrendered to the new emperor. If the eldest prince is allowed to lead troops to attack back to the capital, then the lives of all those loyal to the imperial power in the Golden Palace will be confessed. Therefore, no matter what, the First Prince cannot be allowed to break through the capital.
So, everyone kowtowed in unison, and quickly left the Golden Luan Hall.
After everyone left, only the empress dowager, empress, head of state, Patriarch Ye, Bachelor Wang, and Ye Rui remained in the Golden Luan Hall.
Ye Chang said to Ye Rui, "You are responsible for guarding the palace. I will entrust the lives of the elders to you. Be sure to ensure their safety."
Ye Rui bowed his head and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty."
After Ye Chang finished making arrangements, he walked outside the Golden Palace.
The queen mother hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, where are you going?"
Ye Chang stopped in his tracks and said, "Go to the gate of the palace and wait for the guards to gather. I will dispatch them myself."
The Empress Dowager knew that the capital was in critical condition, Ye Chang would naturally not stay in the palace and wait for the eldest prince to attack the city, he was going to the city gate. Nodding her head, she instructed, "Your Majesty, you belong to all people, so be careful, don't worry about Aijia and others."
Ye Chang nodded, "Don't worry, Queen Mother."
The mansions of the ministers, the guards ranging from two to three hundred to as many as four to five hundred, came to the gate of the palace one after another.
Xu Yunchu lit the beacon tower and entered the palace to renew the order. When I came to the gate of the palace, I saw the guards of the courtiers' mansions wearing different costumes, and Ye Chang standing in front of the palace gate.
Ye Chang stood at the gate of the palace, looking at the people who came one after another, his face was cold under the reflection of the torch.
Xu Yunchu stepped forward and bowed his hands to Ye Chang to salute, not as casually as before, respectfully said, "Your Majesty."
Ye Chang looked at Xu Yunchu, "Have all the beacon towers been lit?"
Xu Yunchu shook his head, "The beacon towers in the west, north, and south directions are all lit, but the beacon towers leading to the east are not lit. I am afraid that once the king of Xiang County in the east gets news, he will take advantage of the fire and rob him."
Ye Chang nodded, "Okay."
Xu Yunchu said, "Just now the guards got the news that there was movement ten miles away from the east city. It seems that a large number of soldiers and horses are coming to attack."
Ye Chang narrowed his eyes, "As expected, the First Prince took the capital instead."
Xu Yunchu said, "Since there are soldiers and horses coming to attack, does it mean that Liu Wen and Shi Zifei have not received the soldiers and horses from the Jinglu Army and Horse Camp?"
Ye Chang said, "Perhaps."
Xu Yunchu couldn't help feeling a little worried.
Ye Chang's eyebrows were deep, "Even if you don't get it, Nuan'er will be fine." After finishing the sentence, he said, "If I were the eldest prince, judging from his plan to seize the capital quickly, he should focus on attacking the west city. Now The movement came from the direction of the east city, presumably he used a tactic of attacking the west from the east, and wanted us to get the news of the west city, and immediately deployed heavy troops on the west city, but he didn't know that after deploying heavy troops, he would attack the city from the east city."
Xu Yunchu thought for a while. In terms of the defense of the four cities in the southeast, northwest, and east, the east city is not dominant in terms of terrain, and is considered the weakest. If the eldest prince wants to seize the city quickly, the first choice is the east city. But now, the movement came from the direction of the east city. Although it is inferred according to common sense, it is in line with common sense, but it is not guaranteed that he really took advantage of the large number of troops and went the other way, and forcibly seized the strongest defense of the west city.
He said, "Your Majesty, I ask for orders to go to the west city."
Ye Chang said, "Don't worry, I will go to the west city with you after all the government soldiers have gathered."
Xu Yunchu nodded, he knew that now that the capital was in danger, even if Ye Chang was the emperor, he would not hide in the palace and wait for someone to protect him.
Not long after, the guards from all the mansions gathered, and the guards from dozens of mansions in the middle and middle dynasties, such as Rong An Wang Mansion, Guozhang Mansion, Wang Mansion, Su Mansion, Li Mansion, etc., all gathered at the gate of the palace. After counting, there were more than six thousand people.
Ye Chang got on his horse, led the troops himself, and went to the west city with Xu Yunchu.
Su Che guarded the east city, held a binoculars, and looked from a distance. Ten miles away, smoke and dust billowed, and the fire was soaring into the sky. He couldn't help frowning, looked at it for a while, and said to Zhongwei Zheng, "Lieutenant Zheng, find Chu Han quickly. Call him."
Lieutenant Zheng only met the famous Prince Beizhou today. From the time he went to Beijing as a proton, to the time he left the capital and went back to Beizhou and came back again, he never showed his face in front of people. Today, he brought along the guards of Prince Rong'an's mansion and the emperor's Qingwu guards to cooperate with Xu Yunchu's actions, so he was able to see him.
Now, Chu Han is patrolling the city.
Lieutenant Zheng should be, and hurried to find Chu Han.
Not long after, Chu Han came to the west city and greeted Su Che, "General Su."
Su Che handed the lookout mirror to Chu Han, "Second prince, take a look, why do I think this looks like a suspicious array, not like soldiers and horses attacking the city?"
Chu Han took the observation mirror, looked at it for a while, and said with certainty, "What the general said is true. If it is as expected, this is a tactic to attack the west. Their purpose is to let us lure heavy troops to the east city after we hear the movement. In fact, it is We must attack the western city with heavy troops."
Su Che said, "You stay here, I'll go to West City."
Chu Han shook his head and stopped Su Che, "General, let me go!" After speaking, he waved his hand and led the people, and hurriedly rode towards the west city.
Seeing that Chu Han left without saying a word, Su Che could only stay in the east city.
Not long after, soldiers and horses from the direction of the east city approached. Su Che took a look through the binoculars. There were about 20,000 soldiers and horses, all of which had brooms tied to their tails. The billowing smoke and dust rose as a result.
Even 20,000 soldiers and horses are not a small number for the meager soldiers and horses in the capital of Southern Qi today.
Su Che didn't dare to be careless, and immediately ordered people to set up defenses.
When 20,000 soldiers and horses came to the city, someone shouted "Siege the city", climbing wall ladders, climbing ropes, rolling chariots... After a while, there were shouts of killing everywhere.
Su Che commanded people to release arrows and smash down the city wall with rolling thunderstones.
Four thousand soldiers and horses were deployed in the east city, but the number of 20,000 was still several times different. However, Su Che has gone through countless battles in which the few win the many, so there is nothing wrong with dealing with such a huge disparity of troops.
Not long after the siege of the east city, a large number of soldiers and horses came from the direction of the west city. The black soldiers and horses were real soldiers approaching the city.
Standing on the tower, Ye Chang and Xu Yunchu could feel the city wall under their feet trembling slightly due to the sound of horseshoes attacking by a large number of soldiers and horses.
Xu Yunchu said, "No fewer than one hundred thousand troops."
Ye Chang nodded, "Not bad."
Earlier, Su Che deployed 10,000 troops in the west city. Considering the total remaining 19,000 in the inner city, the west city has already deployed a heavy army with only the maximum number of soldiers and horses. Ye Chang brought more than 6,000 guards from various prefectures, so that there are 16,000 troops in the west city.
However, compared with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, there is still a gap of several times.
The First Prince personally led the troops. After a large number of soldiers and horses arrived at the city wall, he saw Ye Chang standing on the city wall. He reined in the horse's reins and shouted loudly, "Ye Chang, surrender!"
Ye Chang ignored him, and stretched out his hand to the side, "Bring a bow and arrow!"
Someone hastily handed him the bow and arrow.
Ye Chang drew his bow and set an arrow, aiming at the First Prince.
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