On the night of September 18th, dark clouds were covered with dark clouds, as if a heavy rain was about to come.

An Xiulin issued an edict, and the entire army launched a general attack on Jinling, focusing on persuading surrender and Zhao'an, and tried not to cause more damage, nor did they harm the people. We should avoid fire attacks, and focus on protecting the Taimiao and Taishe on both sides of Zhuque Avenue, restraining the army, not harassing the people, and not robbing the aristocratic clans of the surnames and families under any excuses. Even if they are guilty of rebellion, they should be handed over to the Ministry of Justice and Crime before being punished. It is strictly forbidden to kill innocent people!

After all, Jinling is the imperial capital. The road paved with silver and the trees made of gold are made of gold. Xie Xiwen and others are afraid that the three armies will not be able to restrain themselves after entering the city, so they take the opportunity to burn, kill, rob, and it is difficult to recover after pacifying. Therefore, it is really a way to plan for the country by strictly enforcing military laws and preventing problems before they happen.

The battle started by Zhang Huai's Pingjiang Army. In just half an hour, it crossed the tide ditch from Beilimen on the side of Zhoushan and advanced to Qingxi.

Chen Qing was responsible for defending the northern part of Jinling, but his sluggish morale made him unable to organize defense. As soon as the Hepingjiang Army met, he was defeated and fled back to Taicheng from Jianchun Gate in a panic.

However, what is even worse than Chen Qing is the Tunqi Captain Wei Jing. During the Jinling Incident, he betrayed the Left Guard General Liang Xiu, assassinated him, and then opened the city gate and let the prince enter the city. It can be said that he was extremely guilty.

Liang Xiu promoted him from the cold and the military commander to the imperial guards. His kindness was very good, but he did this beastly thing and his reputation was already unheard of. But no one dared to reveal it. This time, as the rebel army surrounded Jinling, An Xiuming's defeat was decided. All the troops in the central army, from the lieutenant army to the sergeant soldiers, were all with different thoughts.

The straw that crushed the camel was He Zheng. He was the general of the auxiliary country personally conferred by An Xiuming. Guiyi during the Battle of Xinting, which directly led to the crushing defeat of Chendu. When He Zheng appeared on the south bank of the Qinhuai River, shouted inflammatory slogans of attracting the amnesty, and used himself as an example to illustrate how generous the reward after Guiyi was, Wei Jing's subordinates could no longer hold back. The first one to attack was Wei Jing's personal bodyguard. He cut off his head from behind. The defenseless Wei Jing might die and not know that good and evil will be rewarded. The imperial guards of his subordinates opened the fence and built a bridge over the Qinhuai River to welcome the Jingzhou army to cross the river.

Seeing that Wei Jing's troops were mutiny, Zhang Chu knew something was wrong, so he took the initiative to tie his hands and surrender to Xue Xuanmo. Xue Xuanmo tied Zhang Chu and sent it to An Xiulin, took over the imperial guards of Zhang Chu's troops, passed the Houzhuli Gate, and went north along the six bridges to prepare to attack Xizhou City.

When I arrived at the city gate, I found that there was no one inside, only seventy or eighty scattered imperial guards were unwilling to go back to Taicheng to die, so I secretly left the team and waited here. So I divided two hundred people to look forward to the barn and treasury guarding the city of Xizhou, and led my troops to surround Ximingmen, blocking An Xiuming's way to escape west.

Xue Xuanmo, who was originally a cannon fodder, had not moved a single sword and a single shot, first captured Chapulei, and then defeated Shitou City, killed Chen Shu, captured Zhang Chu, occupied Xizhou, and Chen Bing outside Ximing Gate. He had outstanding military achievements, but no matter how he looked at it, it was quite dramatic and could be called a lucky general.

The main force of the Jingzhou army crossed the Qinhuai River and went straight to Xuanyang Gate from the Suzaku Road. On the way, they divided their troops to protect the Taimiao, Taishe and Baiguanfu Temple on both sides of the Imperial Street. Then they did not join Zhang Huai and Xue Xuan to surround Taicheng.

Chen Muzhi wore armor and broke into Tai Chi Hall, grabbed the mouth of a little eunuch, and asked angrily: "Where is the Lord?"

The eunuch pointed to the hall tremblingly and said, "The Lord and the Master are inside..."

Before he finished speaking, he was swept to the ground by Chen Muzhi, and he rushed in without waiting for the report. The little eunuch lowered his head, clenched his fists with his hands, and silently exited the hall.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Chen Muzhi pushed open the closed door, and the scene in front of him made him laugh and cry. Yu Daozhen was wearing a strange Taoist suit, with a divine case, and a statue of Jiang Hou. An Xiuming was kneeling on the ground and kowtowed with his hands piously: "...I hope that Zhongdu Hou will help me withdraw my troops. If I get what I want, the bandits will stop. I will grant you the Prime Minister, General, and General of the General of the Chinese and foreign military..."

Marquis Jiang, named Jiang Ziwen, served as the magistrate of Moling County during the Wu period of the Three Kingdoms. He was injured and died after catching a thief. After his death, he became a god and showed many miracles. Sun Quan was granted the title of Marquis of Zhongdu and built a temple for him in Zhongshan. It was deeply loved and respected by the people of Jinling and the incense was very prosperous.

Chen Muzhi couldn't believe his ears. He siegeed the city without planning how to break the enemy or break through, but instead turned to the help of the vague ghosts and gods. Is this still the master of the human race?

Even the head of a pavilion is worse than that of a pavilion!

Chen Muzhi knelt down and advised: "Your Majesty, all those who should surrender outside have surrendered, and those who have not surrendered are watching. Those who cannot defend Taicheng, follow the old minister to fight out, transport the treasures from the palace and run far away from overseas. There may not be a time for resurrection in the future..."

An Xiuming didn't look back, muttering something and prayed for another quarter of an hour before he stood up leisurely, and shouted unhappily: "What's the matter? The divine master is still there, the sky cannot fall! Even the third brother can't bear the divine punishment and die, and the sixth brother's bald one-eyed pig can't escape!"

Chen Muzhi said angrily: "Even if the divine master can kill An Xiulin, can he kill all the tens of thousands of soldiers in Jingzhou and Yangzhou? Now it has become a landslide. Even if An Xiulin dies, there are other princes. Even if the prince of An is finished, can the bandit army establish a new emperor? Can the divine master kill all the emperor?"

An Xiuming was furious and said, "Chen Muzhi, do you even want to betray me?"

Chen Muzhi raised his head and laughed, with a bit of desolation in the end of heroism, and said, "If I had known that you were such a foolish lord, I should have listened to the general and should not have fought with the lives of the entire Shen clan to help you ascend the throne as emperor."

Yu Daozhen chuckled and said, "I regret it? Chen Muzhi, don't think that Your Majesty is a sloppy goose. If you hadn't been in a hurry to destroy Xu and urged Your Majesty to take action behind your back, how could the late emperor feel disgusted and alert, which led to the position of crown prince that could almost be saved later? It was Shen who harmed Your Majesty for his own selfish desires, but he still wanted to turn the tables on the ground?"

"I won't argue with the woman!" Chen Muzhi didn't look at Yu Daozhen, and said, "Your Majesty, you either follow me to break through now or ask for good fortune. I think in this city, who will work hard for you except the 30,000 elite soldiers of Shen?"

An Xiuming was trembling all over, pulled out the imperial knife hanging on the wall, pointed at Chen Muzhi, and said, "Bold!"

Chen Muzhi hugged his fist expressionlessly, spitted at Yu Daozhen contempt, turned around and stride away. The sound of the banging iron armor echoed in the spacious hall, like a mourning song for this dynasty.

An Xiuming threw away the knife, sat down on the chair dejectedly, and said, "Master, will the gods really help me win this battle?"

Yu Daozhen hugged his head from behind and said softly: "Your Majesty is so tired. Go to bed. Wake up after sleep. This world is yours!"

An Xiuming's nose was filled with a strange fragrance, and the tightly collapsed strings became much looser and he fell asleep unconsciously. When he woke up again, the chaotic world outside the palace became a chaotic world, and the sound of shouting to kill was getting closer and closer. He suddenly sat up and looked around, no one walked out of the room and shouted loudly: "Come, come, come..."

Only the little eunuch who had talked a lot with Shen Muzhi before hurriedly ran over, knelt on the ground, and said, "Your Majesty!"

"Where have people died? Where are the divine masters? Where are Chen Muzhi and Yin Su?"

"The divine master left the hall half an hour ago and told me not to disturb His Majesty, and never came back. The Shencheqi and the soldiers of the Shen family were breaking out of Guangmomen. As for the Yinyou Guard, he surrendered to the enemy, opened the Xuanyang Gate, led the Jingzhou Army to the Grand Sima Gate, and attacked in after a while. And... His Majesty's guards were gone..."

The little eunuch knelt down and waited for a while, but didn't hear An Xiuming say something. He secretly raised his head, but saw that the supreme emperor had changed his appearance, as if he had lost his soul by these two sentences, and he had no more anger.

"Okay, you guys are all very good, very good..."

An Xiuming ignored the eunuch and turned around and walked into the room. His lonely figure was pulled out by the palace lantern, and then he closed the door heavily.

The eunuch did not leave, but still knelt outside the door. After a moment, An Xiuming walked out. He took off his emperor's clothes and changed into the eunuch's clothes in the palace. He said in surprise: "Why haven't you escaped?"

The eunuch said timidly: "After entering the palace, the villain was serving in the Tai Chi Hall. After leaving this, there was no place to go. It would be better to wait. If His Majesty has any instructions, he would be in a hurry to do it."

An Xiuming couldn't help but laugh at himself: "I call myself the emperor, but I didn't expect that when I failed, there was only a lowly eunuch who was loyal. Okay, you go with me and take advantage of the chaos. Our clothes are not hindering, and we can't get out silently. When we enter the Yangtze River, we will have a good place to go, and we can't treat you badly!"

The eunuch said, "Your Majesty, it's too dangerous to go out now. What if you encounter a blind eye-opener who slashes over and hurt the dragon body? The villain knew that there was a dry well that had not been used for many years in the secluded backyard of Hanzhang Palace. It was covered with weeds, but there was a small hole in the horizontal line, which was hidden inside. People outside could not find it. After tonight, the thief army thought that Your Majesty had escaped long ago, so they relaxed their vigilance. I led Your Majesty to quietly go out from the hole in the corner of the palace wall, without anyone noticing..."

An Xiuming hesitated. It was actually not difficult for him to leave the city now. After all, he was also an eighth-grade warrior with a strong body and convenient legs. Hundreds of thousands of people from both sides were mixed together. It was difficult enough to tell who was his own and who was the enemy in the middle of the night. It was unlikely that he would accurately catch him and change his clothes.

But the problem is that there are many young masters in the enemy. If they guard various places, there are still certain risks. Listening to the little eunuch's hiding may be a trick to secretly escape Chen Cang.

"Leading the way forward!"

The reason why Chen Muzhi chose to break through Guangmomen was very simple. Guangmomen was the north gate of Taicheng, and there were no enemy sieges. This is a typical military strategy of encircling three quarries and one. It can prevent the defenders in the city from fighting to the death and destroy their fighting spirit. This is just right under Chen Muzhi, he did not intend to defend the city, and there were no reinforcements outside. It was a fool's job to defend a dead city. As long as he escaped from Guangmomen, Xuanwu Lake was not far away. The lake was the training base of the imperial navy, which stored a large number of warships. As long as he seized a hundred ships, he could escape from the death land of Jinling along the Yangtze River. Then he ran to the south to find a place to continue rebelling, or directly surrender to the Northern Wei to get a single official and a half-term position. He could slowly consider it.

Guangmomen did not have any enemy troops, but Chen Muzhi was a man who knew the soldiers. He surrounded the three que and one not really let you escape, but buried ambush outside the city, chasing them until the entire team collapsed, and then calmly reaped the results. So he specially increased the defense of the two wings, ordered Chen Qing to break the rear, and the entire army formed a geese-shaped formation and advanced towards Xuanwu Lake in a slightly panic.

But strangely, I didn't encounter any obstacles along the way until I saw the dense warships listening to the lakeside, and there was no ghost. Chen Qing whispered: "Father, I feel a little bad. The rods of these ships have been removed..."

Chen Muzhi said resolutely: "Without the slap, at least there is a boat. Stay there is a waiting for death. Now there is no other choice. Qing'er, send an order to board the ship!"

With the ship, there was hope of escaping from Jinling. Everyone rushed to find the ship, and the springboard squeezed many people to fall into the lake. They swam and climbed onto the side of the ship. The heads of the tribes could no longer restrain the troops, and the scolding at the top of their lungs was useless. Chen Qing drew his sword and killed a few, and ordered the supervising team to form a formation, chopping more than fifty heads, and then barely controlled the situation.

It was finally easy for all the crew to board the ship, but when more than 100 warships were started one after another, more than 20 small boats were pulled over and overturned, and the big boats were also tilted and unable to sail smoothly. After inspection, it was found that the bow and stern of the ship were not easily noticed and the stern were connected with large rivets and slivers with bowl-shaped ropes. If it were not for the uniform and skilled boatmen, they would not have driven these ships at all.

Chen Qing, who received the report, was furious and was about to take someone to cut off the rope. Suddenly, he saw a few fishing fires lit up in the darkness in the distance, from far to near, getting faster and faster, and in his breath, he had already arrived in front of him.

Fireboat!

More than fifty fireboats were also connected with ropes and plunged into the fleet docking by the lake. Without even time to react, a loud bang, a huge fire filled Xuanwu Lake. Countless Shen's children screamed and jumped into the lake water, as if thousands of fire-ridden pigs and sheep were thrown into the boiling soup pot. The scene was spectacular.

"Sewel oil...the cabins at the bottom of the ship are covered with seswel oil..."

The faint sea dragon boat followed the raging fireboat and crossed the east and west sides of Xuanwu Lake, reflecting the firelight. A boat with a mountain flag in the middle sounded in the wind. A man stood on the bow of the boat, wearing black clothes and black robe. Although he was thin, he was amazing. It was the head of the pirate Yuanming, and the leader of the Youdu Army, Shanzong.

"Shoot the arrow!"

"Into the water!"

The overwhelming rain of arrows came, easily taking away one young life after another. Thousands of water ghosts wore tight water, held the water dividing spear and quietly hugged the man who fell into the water, and stabbed them hard toward the back and heart. The Shen family army, destroyed by the fire attack, could not organize a powerful counterattack, let alone the pirates circling the sea. This small scene was simply too simple for them. Even if there was no fire attack first, just by comparing the water battle strength of both sides, Shen was at an absolute disadvantage.

Blood flowers spurted out from the bottom of the lake, and in a short while the lake surface dyed red. The bodies floating everywhere were mixed with burnt boats. Chen Muzhi's hair and beard were burned by the fire, and his face was covered with sadness of a hero's end. He sighed: "I, Shen, are about to draw my sword and commit suicide, but Chen Qing hugged him tightly. Then he led his personal guards to protect Chen Muzhi back to the shore. He was about to find a road and suddenly three thousand people emerged from Jilong Mountain, and three thousand people emerged from Zhoushan, surrounding them and the remaining troops who were still fighting stubbornly.

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Combat strength is related to the number of people, equipment, training and psychology, but the most important thing is the morale of the army. Once the team's desire to win or lose disappears, no matter how good the equipment, the number of people, or the strict training is a tree without foundation.

After experiencing the panic of the siege, the surprise of breaking through, and the depression of being trapped, Shen finally fell into the net of heaven and earth. He had no intention of winning or losing. He threw away his armor and fled everywhere, and was defeated like a mountain of defeat!

This is not a battle, this is an inhuman massacre!

When the sky was getting brighter, the fighting sounds of Xuanwu Lake became unknown. Shanzong tightened his collar and calmly landed on the shore. About 10,000 disarmed Shen soldiers kneeling on the shore. Chen Muzhi and Shen Qing were all captured alive.

"You're Chen Muzhi?"

Chen Muzhi was tied with his hands behind his back, and two fierce soldiers were holding his shoulders, unable to struggle. He raised his head and said, "Why do you want to rush to the sea to gather in Minghai? Aristocratic families have no good feelings for the pirates in Minghai, so they are not afraid of rabbits and dogs cooking, which will cause all of your tens of thousands of brothers to die without a place to die?"

Shan Zong laughed and said, "I thought the Shen family of Wuxing was so powerful. After fighting today, I realized that the only one who was powerful was just a tongue. Our heroes, free and easy, could not see the foolish kings who were in charge of Jiangdong. Now they are the lords of righteousness, and they are in accordance with the will of heaven and the hearts of the people. The pirates in the sea should surrender. Why should they be afraid of the nonsense of the rabbit and the dog cooking?"

Chen Muzhi failed to get apart and said, "I am the General of Cheqi and Cavalry, the head of the Shen family of Wuxing. Even if you are defeated, you cannot humiliate me like this..."

Shanzong was so happy that he stepped on his left foot on the stone. He slapped the knife in his hand at the bend of his legs, looked down at Chen Muzhi and said, "What do you want?"

"I want to meet the Saint!"

Shanzong shook his head and said, "You can't see you, Lord, but General Cavalry misses you very much. Let's wait here first. I guess you don't have much time to live in the world. Look at the scenery around you. When you arrive in the underworld, you will inevitably miss the good things in the world..."

"Charles?"

Shanzong's cold gaze made Chen Muzhi shudder and said, "General Cavalry... is Xu Langjun who was killed by you!"

Chen Muzhi sat down depressedly, and no longer had the intention to resist.

Feng Donglai stood behind Shanzong and asked in a low voice: "How to deal with these prisoners?"

Shan Zong said lightly: "Cut your head and throw it into Xuanwu Lake!"

"This...more than 10,000 people? They were all killed?"

Feng Donglai was startled. He had always been brave, but he didn't expect that the Shanzong would dare to publicly kill prisoners in the capital. If this was spread, the contributions he had made through great hardships might be wiped out again.

"What?" Shanzong smiled and said, "You don't dare?"

In recent years, the Shanzong's temper has become increasingly difficult to figure out. Even Feng Dongshan, who is a brother of life and death, gradually did not dare to joke with him in person anymore. He was a little nervous because of this smile and hurriedly said, "What's there to dare? Isn't it just killing people? I'll go and chop..."

"Okay, how can a military deputy from the army be executed? Tell your brothers to eliminate all evil things, kill all these thieves and throw them into the lake to feed the fish." Shanzong patted Feng Donglai's shoulder and said, "Remember, we are the swords in the hand of the Langjun. Sometimes, the hands holding the knife are not dirty, but this knife cannot be afraid of being dirty."
Chapter completed!