In Dantu City, there is also a scene of the last day of the world breaking apart.
With the news spread by those people who have escaped from the watchtowers and wall discs from the supervision of the defenders, and are rushing back, all kinds of panic and panic emotions, as well as strange rumors, also It has become a turbulent and turbulent wave in this never-falling city.
"The thief army used the demon technique and made the earth dragon turn over and swallowed all the officers and soldiers alive... but the thief soldiers are safe and sound."
"The culprits have amazing skills, they can attract thunder and fire from the ground and clear the sky, and put out the officers and soldiers..."
"The thief used a different technique, and the officers and soldiers in the entire city gate were dead..."
"The thief's demon method made all the officers and soldiers guarding the city sleep soundly, open the door obediently and come out to die by themselves..."
"The officers and soldiers who have been hit by the demon method wiped their necks, chopped off their heads, and jumped into the river again..."
(Actually, it was driving the prisoners to the river to fetch water for sanitation, but they were mistaken for killing the prisoners. They cried and cried out, and were watched by a few of the most troublesome, so that they were able to obey the process.)
Riding on horseback and galloping across the long street, he ran into the inner city gate of Zhenhai Yingying, the soldier and horseman of the right side of Zhenhai. There was no time to take care of these headless flies on the street, shouting and screaming and running away. Citizens; or those lawbreakers and prostitutes who were clamoring by fire and robbery, crying and crying; or those who have gathered family members, tribes, and slaves one after another and took up swords to stop them. The gateway, the home of the big family of Zhumen and the Hao surname, who fought to the end.
He flew almost non-stop, rushing out from the inner city gate to greet, but avoiding several gatekeepers who couldn't make it. Then he kicked over the opponent's screaming and struggling body, and rushed to the long street where Yacheng was located. on. And here has been gathered and rushed, and the fleeing crowds, carriages and horses of all kinds of silk and brocade have once again been blocked.
He could only scream, kick, and slash a temporary path with his soldiers, and then he was able to rush to the gate of the aconite at the mouth of Yacheng and Taijieya intermittently; only then did he see a little panic and peace. Sergeant Xuanshan who was at a loss, but still insisting on guarding.
Diao Wei summoned them to follow behind him, and then sprinted towards the inside; only then did he discover that the various bureaus and offices inside were already full of messy figures holding things in and out.
From time to time, there are people carrying and carrying this large bag of objects, and they will not avoid them and rush towards the outside. And Diao Wei didn't even care about them anymore. He rushed away from these subordinates, subordinates and others along the short and wide middle, and he saw the main hall of Jieya again;
However, by the door, the Dengwen drums of many officials and generals and the entire row of music bells that sang verses have been pushed to the ground and scattered. Diao Xuan couldn't help but his heart was startled, and it turned into some kind of violent resentment, and he couldn't help shouting loudly.
"Where is the Lord, where is the Lord..."
"How can no one convene the left and right and preside over the situation..."
However, with his presence, no one came to answer his questions, only the figures of government officials, doormen, and officials, like snakes and rats emerging from the flooded ditch; and One after another shouts.
"Hurry up and blacken your face. It won't be too late if the thief army enters the city to plunder..."
"This is the old robe I used to save my life, you can't grab it..."
"What if I share some, you can go to the market and buy another one"
"I want to kill myself to serve the country, quickly give me a sentence and then get a knife..."
"I'll kill you first, and you must not be humiliated by thieves..."
"You can't burn it. If you want to be martyred, you can go somewhere else. I have to count on these things to find a way to survive..."
They are almost staged scenes of live farce, and some people are arguing that they will no longer be able to beat each other into a ball, or trip on the ground while running, while Shuai gets out of the pile of gold and silver goods in his arms.
And the only one among them who claimed to be killing himself and serving the country was actually a man with a gray beard and muddy eyes, who usually served as a gatekeeper; he was knocked down out of breath before he came to get his armor. Can't get up on the ground anymore.
Then Diao Wei, who had grown stronger behind him, once again rammed into the formerly tightly guarded back house of the government; but he was shocked by the oncoming loud screams and crying and covered his ears.
"My lord, please be merciful..."
"Poor Tianjian..."
"Thieves are coming in..."
He has been rushing between several corridors and pavilions, and finally came to Zhou Bao's daily residence although Shoutang, but he saw the door opened wide and the curtains and curtains were torn to the ground.
"Where's the tooth soldiers in Zhou Ya'ai, the back building of Ling Gong's wings, why are they all gone..."
An army general who came with him still shouted out in a voice that contained crying and horror.
After that, he did not give up and searched the entire huge garden. Except for those Ji concubines and slaves who could only cry and beg for mercy, he still rushed to the air; the once powerful "four dynasty good general" Zhou Linggong, Zhou Jieshuai , Together with its special guarding the back building of the back house.
In the end, they only found the small courtyard door that had been demolished and knocked down from the front, a few messy objects scattered outwards and many hidden ruts extending away. At this moment, the generals behind him seemed to have lost their last backbone, and regardless of his restraints and orders, they turned their heads back into the courtyard and raged;
Soon after, they hugged the objects wrapped in step barriers and curtains, dragging the weeping and disheveled women; as they walked, they took off the hats, helmets, headbands, iron protective pockets and belly holdings that represented the identity of the officer and army. Covering his knees and boots, he walked towards the middle of the city in the distance.
"Since Ling Gong is no longer where he is, let me be loyal to the court for the last moment... you all go and escape."
But Diao Xuan, who had a bleak expression, let out a long sigh; he said behind him.
"We were originally the trilogy and furniture that brought the Lord out of the village, so how dare we leave the Lord alone and live alone..."
An elderly soldier pretending to be an old soldier shouted.
"Wouldn't you let your hometown elders laugh at Yu Sheng, even if you get to the Jiuyuan Underground, you will be really shameless to meet..."
"Then let us kill one time and kill with the thief..."
So, he took dozens of his subordinates and relatives who refused to leave at last, and then resolutely rushed to the nearest inner city gate.
. . . . . .
When the sun rose again the next day, the basic process of changing the head of the city to the Great King Banner had already been completed.
A vigorous opening and preparation, anticlimactic results and endings; even the pre-prepared blasting methods of the cave did not have time to come in handy; when the last stubborn army outside the city abandoned their weapons and begged for mercy, the remnants of Dantu City The defenders also opened the Dongjiao Gate overnight and left.
This news is neither an accident nor an unexpected result; because according to the statistics obtained in the battlefield, with this five-door offensive, the belongings of the Zhenhai battalion, united soldiers and dental soldiers outside the city were destroyed. The total amount is at least eight or nine. Thousands of people can be regarded as occupying most of the essence of the city's military power.
Therefore, even if there are still some stubborn defenders remaining in the city, they are more of the soldiers of the local regiments whose combat power and morale are not enough to use, or they are newly recruited from the residents of the city.
There are always some "smart people" who can't stand the possible end and try to take self-help measures, so that the Taiping Army's subsequent raiders of the city will become easy and worry-free.
It's just a pity that the tunnels under the Daocheng have been dug, and they have to be abandoned before they can be used; although this also greatly saves the unnecessary casualties that may be caused by the Taiping Army. Except for a little bit of stubborn resistance when attacking the west gate of the inner city and where Jieya was located; other places in the city were the result of unruly look and surrender on the spot.
It’s just that the number one goal of Zhenhai Jiedu made Zhou Bao ran away; probably just before the defeat outside the city was a foregone conclusion and the defenders opened the door for offerings, they were already under the escort of some dental soldiers and a small number of new troops—Housoudu. , Yizhuang rides out of the inner city where it is compressed.
Although the patrol team formed by the incoming Taiping army still conducts inspection and screening in the city, it is estimated that the possibility of finding it is unlikely. Because according to the report from Wang Zhongba, the navy ships that remained on the river for alert and standby were also spotted and collided that night, and more than a dozen large ships that dived out of Dantu Harbor overnight.
However, due to the limited manpower for the division of troops and support on the shore, only a part of it was intercepted and captured in the end, and another seven or eight large ships rushed out of the river mouth and escaped. Combined with the previous news, I am afraid that the probability of Zhou Bao being in it is not small.
When Zhou Huai'an stepped on the Guocheng Tower outside the West Gate with this mixed feeling, the only messy traces left in the market had been cleaned up, only the walls or the ground were occasionally visible, which could not be wiped off for a while. A pool of blood that hasn't dried out, or other smudges that have been smouldered.
Compared to Wangyi, a famous ancient city in Xunyang and Jiangning that was generally depressed and ruined before, this Dantu city is obviously an anomaly. It is not only a two-tiered city bordered by the river, but also a big city built by the city of Jamaica. It is also a prosperous and prosperous city.
Because I was in a gathering place of southeastern products, and it was a place where there were few soldiers for a long time; the only one that happened in Zhenhai Festival that caused Li Qi's rebellion was quickly extinguished by the anti-shui subordinates.
Therefore, it has been able to stand alone in the chaos since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and it has successively attracted and gathered a large number of wealthy families, eunuchs, and big clans in the southeast region, bringing their families into it. The result of the camp.
Therefore, there are obvious ruts along the stones and pebbles, and between the vertical and vertical streets and the cobweb alleys; the gray-tiled green-ridged bucket arches and eaves are almost everywhere, and there is basically no thatched roof. Deeds and existence;
Neat and splendid, it is adjacent to the former Penghu Thatched Cottage on the Chengtai, and the old town of Jiangning is mixed with the old town of Jiangning, which forms a sharp contrast between the present and the past.
In the distance is the famous Xijin Ancient Crossing, which straddles the sandbar in the middle of the river. It is also one of the focal points and ancient battlefields to be fought for during successive dynasties’ expeditions between the north and the south. Most of the refugees landed here.
In the fifth year of Long'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (401), the leader of the rebel army, Sun En, who was called by the Wudoumi Road, led "a hundred thousand soldiers and a thousand ships." (Now Nanjing), and later was defeated by Beifu soldiers led by Liu Yu nearby.
Of course, because the non-stop warfare in the late Southern Dynasty also quickly declined, and with the battle to destroy Chen at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, it was dormant in the depression for many years; it was only because of the hundred years of rest and recuperation between the rule of Zhenguan and the prosperity of the Yuan Dynasty. Become prosperous and prosperous again.
Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, this place was also one of the important hubs and nodes for the transfer of wealth in the southeast; the goods and products from the fish and rice homes of Jiangdong and Zhejiang must pass through the various water systems connecting the Jiangnan Canal and gather here before uniformly changing boats and crossing the river. To the opposite bank, enter the middle section of the Grand Canal in Huainan.
Especially after entering the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Dantu, including Xijindu, and Jiangducheng of Yangzhou, became the center of the Datang court that continued to suffer from internal and external troubles, and continued blood transfusion and life, and maintained its authority and operating foundation. It is the node of important national financial plan, and it is listed as the two major ambassadors of Huainan and Zhenhai.
The commanders of the past dynasties who can be indulged here are also the top choices of ranks and powers in the world, and often the officials pay tribute to the Taiwan Pavilion and hold the title of the commander of the camp or the minister, so that they can take the place of the local generation. The choice of important ministers and famous generals.
It can be said that after the fall of Dantu, the source of wealth that the Tang court relied on in the Southeastern Dao to maintain was basically cut off and cut off. At the same time, it completely lost many of the wealth and property detained and stranded in the local area. Lost the basic control over the south of the Yangtze River and the basic channels to maintain influence.
Therefore, between the wharf and trestle bridges lined with warehouses, many government and civilian ships have been densely stranded or blocked; it just looks like a lifeless appearance with many sails. The artificial dike encloses the inner and outer layers formed by the artificial embankment, and the ring is like The port area around the arm was squeezed.
On the east side of Bianshangdiwei, there is also a Dantu navy garrison, one large and one small series of amphibious camps; usually dozens of large and small wide-headed flat-bodied official warships are parked. Now the blue horizontal wave flag was quickly pulled out amid a scream and roar, and it was replaced with the Taiping Green Flag one after another.
"The government offices, Yunsi, Duzhi, Yantie, Xunyuan, Governor's Mansion, and Governors in the inner city have all been sealed up and counted. Do you choose to settle in first..."
Yuan Jing, who was on duty by the side, also opened the mouth.
"No, let's go to Beigu Mountain by the river first..."
Zhou Huaian waved his hand.
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