Poor Family Chapter 602

  Chapter 602 Capture of Yanjing

  A soldier rushed over and reported to Li Yanqing in a hurry: "Report to control, more than half of our troops were killed in the battle for Yanjing Prefecture Yamen, General Zhang was unfortunately killed in battle, begging for reinforcements!"

  Li Yanqing's heart was bleeding, the fourth battalion was in charge of attacking the Yanjing government government, but he didn't expect that the general Zhang Wenxiao was killed in battle, he turned around and shouted: "Yanqing!"

  Yan Qing hurried up, "The humble job is here!"

   "You lead the scout battalion to support the government!"

   "Humble post obeys orders!"

  Yan Qing waved her hand, "The Scout Battalion follow me!"

  He led 300 scout battalion soldiers to the government office.

   At this time, another cavalry sent an urgent report, "The Song army suffered heavy casualties in the street battle in Nancheng, and two generals were killed in battle. General Cao Xing asked for reinforcements!"

Li Yanqing knew that if Cao Xing was not in a critical situation, he would never ask him for help, but he had only 1,700 people left, while the opponent had 3,000 people, and it was impossible to divide his troops to support him, so he had to take out a command arrow and hand it to him. The soldiers said: "Go to the east city quickly, and Wang Gui must spare 500 people to support the south city!"

   "Follow the order!" The soldiers took the arrow and urged the horse to gallop away.

  Li Yanqing was very anxious. If the fight continued like this, more than half of his right army would suffer casualties. He could not wait for reinforcements. The battle in the palace must be ended immediately, even if Empress Dowager Xiao escaped.

  He immediately ordered: "Throw a shocking thunder and blow open the palace gate!"

  A small trebuchet was pushed up rumblingly. This small trebuchet could shoot a 60-jin sky-shocking laser fifty steps away, almost the distance from the palace gate.

The soldiers lit the match, and when the match was about to reach the mouth of the pot, the trebuchet was fired suddenly, throwing the black thunder towards the gate of the palace, and all the soldiers of the Song Army covered their ears and lay on the ground together. Likely to be deafened by the explosion.

  嗤嗤 The Thunderbolt, emitting white smoke, landed ten steps in front of the palace gate, 'Bang! ' With a loud noise, several stone slabs were smashed, and it continued to slide towards the palace gate by virtue of its inertia, and just when it hit the palace gate, it exploded suddenly.

  'Boom—' The earth-shattering explosion shook the entire city of Yanjing, the palace gate was blown to pieces, the palace gates on both sides of the palace gate also collapsed, and more than 300 Liao army soldiers guarding both sides of the palace gate were all shocked to death.

  Li Yanqing shouted, "Go to the palace!"

  1,700 soldiers of the Song Army led by Li Yanqing rushed to the gate of the palace. Xiao Fengxian shouted hoarsely: "Go up to me and block the gate of the palace!"

A thousand Imperial Guard soldiers rushed to the palace gate, and the soldiers from both sides fought fiercely in front of the palace gate. The Song army was extremely brave under the leadership of the mighty general Cao Meng, but the Liao army soldiers also resisted desperately, and the corpses continued to pile up on the ground. But no one is willing to take a step back.

  At this time, a soldier rushed over and presented an arrow letter to Xiao Fengxian, "It's another arrow letter from the golden soldiers!"

  Xiao Fengxian quickly tore off the arrow, opened the letter, and there was still only one sentence in it, "The Song Army's tens of thousands of reinforcements are less than thirty miles away from the East City!"

  Xiao Fengxian felt cold, as if he had stumbled and fallen into an ice cave. He still counted on Xiao Qian's reinforcements, but he didn't expect that the Song army's reinforcements would arrive first. It seemed that the capital could not be defended and had to be evacuated immediately.

  He immediately ordered: "Order General Yelupu to guard the Shengtianmen for me, even if the whole army dies in battle, I must resist the Song army!"

  He turned around and ran towards the palace. In front of the steps of Ziyang Palace, Xiao Fengxian met the terrified Empress Dowager Xiao. He hurriedly said: "The Empress Dowager must leave Jinjin City immediately. The reinforcements from the Song Army are about to arrive, and the capital can no longer be kept!"

  Empress Xiao tremblingly said: "If the capital cannot be kept, where will Ai's family go?"

   "The queen mother can go to the late emperor. He is currently in the Jiashan area and is actively recovering Xijing. I am willing to protect the queen mother."

  Empress Xiao had no idea, so she just nodded and said: "Let the Ai family clean up, and inform the ministers in the palace to go to Jiashan together."

   "It's too late, the Song army has already broken through the palace gate, and will soon reach here, we must leave now!"

   "The jade seal has to be taken!"

   "Where is the jade seal?" Xiao Fengxian asked anxiously.

   "In the hands of Lu Hanerhua, the Ai family doesn't know where he is now?"

  Lu Han Erhua is the confidant **** of the Empress Dowager Xiao. The earth-shattering explosion of the thunder just now scared him out of his wits and hid him.

Xiao Fengxian hurriedly ordered to search left and right, but no one was found after several rounds of searching. At this time, several violent explosions were heard from the palace gate, and a soldier rushed over, "Song army's weapons are too powerful, we can't resist them soon!" gone."

  Xiao Fengxian stomped his feet in hatred, "It's too late, the queen mother should get in the car!"

  Empress Xiao was so frightened that she completely lost her mind. She didn't bother to look for Yuxi again, and immediately took a few confidant ladies into a carriage pulled by eight strong horses.

  Xiao Fengxian was worried about the interception of the Jin soldiers outside the city, leaving only 1,000 soldiers to fight fiercely with the Song army. He personally led the remaining 2,000 cavalry guards to guard the Empress Dowager Xiao and rushed out of the Xuanwu Gate and fled towards Gubeikou in the direction of Tanzhou.

   Sure enough, as he expected, as soon as they rushed out of Xuanwu Gate, three hundred Jin cavalry outposts immediately rushed out from the woods, shouting and shooting arrows at Liao army cavalry in an attempt to intercept Empress Dowager Xiao's car.

  Xiao Fengxian ordered a general: "You must lead a thousand cavalry to stop the Jurchens, and I will **** the Queen Mother away!"

  The general shouted, and led a thousand cavalry from the Liao army to fight, and fought fiercely with the three hundred cavalry from the Kingdom of Jin. Xiao Fengxian led the rest of the cavalry to guard the carriage and rushed along the North Official Road.

   At this moment, there was another continuous explosion sound from the direction of the palace behind him, black smoke rose into the air, Xiao Fengxian sighed lowly, the palace must have fallen.

As more than 20 iron fire mines exploded among the soldiers of the Liao army, the Liao army suffered more than 300 casualties. More than a thousand people rushed into the Liao Palace.

   "Light the Guantian Tower for me!" Li Yanqing ordered immediately.

  Guantian Tower is the tallest building in Yanjing City, and it can be seen in the whole city. When Guantian Tower is lit, it tells the soldiers of the Liao army in the city that the palace has been captured by the Song army.

With the fall of the imperial palace, the morale of the Liao army in Yanjing began to gradually weaken. The Song army finally gained the upper hand. Liu Kai led another 500 people from the palace to support the battle for the government office. The five hundred Liao army soldiers who were guarding the government office finally let go Arms surrender.

  The tragic Fuya battle ended, just like the second domino falling, a thousand soldiers split into two groups and went to support the east city and the south city.

With the five hundred soldiers led by Liu Kai fighting from behind, the resistance of the Liao army melted away, and the Song army quickly captured the east gate. In this tragic battle for the east city, more than a thousand soldiers of the Liao army were killed, and nearly 600 soldiers of the Song army were also killed.

   "Our reinforcements have arrived!" A soldier pointed outside the city and shouted.

  In the darkness, Wang Yuan's 3,000 reinforcements forward had already killed outside the city, while the other 7,000 people led by Zhang Shuye had also killed five miles away, and were rushing towards the east city.

   "I won and they came here, bah!"

  Wang Gui was furious and spat on the ground fiercely. Niu Gao quickly persuaded him, "The golden soldiers are about to arrive, and they are just in time to defend the city!"

  Wang Guizhong snorted heavily, jumped onto the top of the city, planted the banner of the Song Army on the top of the city with his own hands, and shouted: "Kaicheng!"

  East City is Wengcheng, the inner and outer city gates rumbled open, and Wang Yuan led three thousand Song troops into Yanjing City with shouts.

   "Brothers, follow me to the warehouse!"

  Wang Gui shouted, and led more than a thousand soldiers to rush down to the warehouse, but the battle for the warehouse was not over yet, so Li Yanqing ordered Wang Gui to rush to support immediately.

At this time, Liu Kai went up to meet Wang Yuan, who had just entered the city. Wang Yuan cupped his fists apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, we were harassed by the Golden Soldier sentry, and they destroyed two key bridges, which took a little time." .”

  Liu Kai sighed in his heart, if the reinforcements could have arrived half an hour earlier, it would not have allowed Empress Dowager Xiao to escape, but he could not say such complaints, he could only truthfully report to Master Zhong.

  He hurriedly said: "The street fighting in the city is not yet completely over, especially the battle between the south city and the west city is still fierce, the general, please send troops to support immediately!"

  Wang Yuan nodded, turned his head and said: "General Qin, you lead 1,500 people to support the South City, and the rest of the brothers will follow me to the East City!"

  Three thousand reinforcements were divided into two groups and rushed to the south city and the west city. ． ． ． ． ．

At this time, Li Yanqing had already finished his campaign against the palace. Except for hundreds of soldiers who escaped from Xuanwu Gate, all the other soldiers surrendered. The noble ministers of the Liao Kingdom were also searched out one by one by the soldiers and imprisoned in the library.

Li Yanqing walked into the inner warehouse of the palace, which is strictly controlled by the army. The inner warehouse includes two parts above ground and underground, covering an area of ​​tens of acres. Li Yanqing was really shocked. Big boxes were piled up like a mountain, and they had not yet reached the ground. Warehouses, bare ground warehouses are extremely shocking.

The chief manager of the internal treasury said flatteringly to Li Yanqing: "There are 15 million taels of silver stored here, and there are 800,000 taels of gold and countless rare treasures. At least 40% of the savings are here."

   "Why is all the wealth here?"

"The general doesn't know that the Jin soldiers are constantly advancing, forcing the Liao Kingdom to continuously transfer wealth. This is the city of Nanjing in the Liao Kingdom. Originally, more than half of the wealth was transferred from Shangjing, Tokyo, and Zhongjing. Later, part of it was taken away by Yelu Yanxi. The rest is here, and all the remaining wealth of the Liao Kingdom is in this inner treasury."

  Li Yanqing nodded, he now understands that this is the fundamental reason why Jin Guo must seize Yanjing City.

  At this time, Zhang Yingshen ran over mysteriously and handed a jade box to Li Yanqing, "We found an **** hiding in a dry well in the harem, and found this on him."

"What's this?"

   "You will know when the control is turned on!"

Li Yanqing took this rather heavy jade box, and slowly opened it. There were actually three jade seals inside. Next to each jade seal was a gold nameplate with Khitan and Chinese characters engraved on it. One is Empress Dowager Xiao's jade seal, and Li Yanqing was surprised and delighted by the largest jade seal, which turned out to be the heirloom jade seal of the Liao Kingdom.

  He picked up the jade seal, and on the front were eight big characters in Khitan script. Although he didn't know the Khitan script, he knew that the content on the Khitan Jade Seal should be "Ordered by the heavens, passed down to the eternal world".

  Li Yanqing was overjoyed. He thought that the Jade Seal of the Liao Dynasty was in the hands of Yelu Yanxi, but he didn't expect it to be in Yanjing City. Empress Dowager Xiao fled hastily, so she missed it.

   With this Jade Seal of Chuan Guo, it can completely make up for the regret of Empress Dowager Xiao's escape.

  (end of this chapter)

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