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The next morning, the King of Yan led his troops to leave Yongping City.

The army successively crossed the Great Wall from Liujiakou, followed a mountain road between the mountains, and headed straight to the direction of Daning City. At this time, the grass and trees in the mountains were withered and yellow, and the wind was filled with a bleak and killing atmosphere.

After walking five or six hundred miles, the King of Yan led his troops to the foot of the city of Daning City.

The gate of Daning was closed. The King of Yan sat on the horse and looked up. He saw the city walls full of swords and weapons, with flags everywhere, looking like he was waiting for the battle. A man wearing a red robe on it was very conspicuous.

The King of Yan stopped him from left and right and rode alone near the city tower. After a closer look, the young man wearing a red dragon robe was not Ning Zhu Quan, who was it?

Zhu Quan also saw the King of Yan who was coming alone. His face was facing here and shouting on it: "The Fourth Brother leads his army to come. Are you going to hit me?"

The King of Yan shouted, "Seventeenth brother, I am the fourth brother! I have been forced to the point of being desperate by the Lord. How could I beat you?!" The King of Yan said, his voice choked up, and he was crying. "I didn't expect that I would fall into such a field. The Lord of Yan insisted on saying that I rebel..."

Zhu Quan's voice said, "It turns out that the fourth brother didn't rebel?"

King Yan cried, "How dare I? That's forced! There must be treacherous ministers in the court. I really can't do anything... Seventeenth brother, Fourth brother, I'll ask you something, please write a letter to the emperor and talk about love for the fourth brother..."

Zhu Quan shouted: "Fourth brother, don't worry, go back, I will definitely ask the emperor for help."

King Yan said, "Where am I going back? Now the vassal states are almost gone, and there is really nowhere to go. Seventeenth brother, how can I take in the fourth brother for a while? When the emperor saves me from my sins, I will go back to Peking."

He shouted again: "Seventeenth brother, please ask someone to open the door!"

Zhu Quan said: "I can't open the door, so I'd better go back to Peking!" After that, he turned around and left the city.

King Yan choked and shouted: "Seventeenth brother, stay, 17th brother, you can't stand there and die!"

However, Zhu Quan's red robe was no longer visible. King Yan stood there in confusion and waited for a long time.

At this moment, the city gate suddenly sounded "ga..." and slowly opened a crack in the door.

...

On the day when the King of Yan left, Zhu Gaoxu also set out from Yongping City, leaving only a few hundred people to the government office, and other infantry and cavalry took them to Peking.

Zhu Gaoxu returned to the Prince's Mansion and settled the army first. Removed his armor and went straight to the Princess Yan's Mansion to meet Princess Xu first. It was estimated that the prince might also be in Princess Yan's Mansion... At this moment, Li Jinglong's army of hundreds of thousands is about to arrive in Peiping!

As expected, when Zhu Gaoxu was taken to a hall by eunuchs, Princess Xu and the prince were there.

Princess Xu stood up and said happily: "Gao Xu, it's the best you can come back!"

Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Mother, eldest brother."

The prince seemed a little unhappy when he heard Princess Xu's words just now... In the mother's mind, when something happened, she might still think that Zhu Gaoxu was the most useful among her three sons.

The three of them didn't care about their well-being and soon talked about the defense of Peking. When the King of Yan left, he had already ordered the prince and the generals to defend the death to the death and not to leave the city. He arranged the defenders of each city, and asked Yao Guangxiao and the prince to take charge of military power and dispatch troops.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "It's October soon, and the weather is getting colder. I heard from experienced generals in the army that as long as the colder the air is colder, the head will splash water on the city at night, and it will freeze overnight, and it will be even more difficult for the official army to attack the city."

After hearing this, Princess Xu nodded slightly, raised her eyebrows and showed a bit of heroic spirit: "As long as you stick to it for ten months, when your father returns from the army, we will go out to meet the prince!"

...In just two days, Li Jinglong's army had arrived at the city. Princess Xu took the prince and Zhu Gaoxu to the city tower to boost morale at the fortress!

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu climbed up the city tower, he was stunned when he saw the scene outside the city!

Compared with the magnificent scene of people outside the city of Peking at this time, the siege that Zhu Gaoxu had seen in Yongping City before was simply a siege! The righteous way was to leave the wolf's den and enter the tiger's nest again. It seems that Zhu Gaoxu was surrounded to death again!

In an instant, he was a little suspicious: Is it really so easy to keep Peking?

Peiping is an important city in a big city. The walls are indeed high and thick, but no city is guarded by the wall alone. It must have sufficient military strength. Especially for such a big city, the military strength is more scattered and more people are needed!

The Yan army had a total of less than 100,000 people, and the King of Yan took away the main force. At this time, the Beiping defenders were probably a little short of their strength.

Although Li Jinglong was looked down upon by the King of Yan, what if he was like Wu Gao, the Marquis of Jiangyin, and then he built fortifications without saying a word and then fought against him?

Surrounded by all sides, using various heavy equipment ants to attack the city, and with long-range weapons, the method is a bit stupid, but it almost does not require any talent. Li Jinglong probably can do it, he has completely enough troops!

What's more, not all the military generals in the official army were Li Jinglong, such as Sheng Yong and Ping An, and Zhu Gaoxu was almost defeated in Zhending...

At present, it is indeed possible to defend the city of Peking, but the risks are also quite large.

"Princess!" "Greetings to the princess, prince, and Gaoyang..." The voices of the generals came everywhere.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at her mother. Although she was nearly forty years old, she was already pretty. Today she looked even more heroic and cool in a group collar robe.

This is the first time Zhu Gaoxu has seen his mother like this.

She stood in the wind and said loudly: "The King of Yan has always treated his soldiers well, but now the enemy is in front of him. I hope you can work hard to fight the enemy bravely!"

The generals clasped their fists and said, "The Generals and others swear to serve to the death!" "The Generals and others bear heavy responsibilities, Princess Dingbao, Princess, Gaoyang, etc. are safe..."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, just followed Princess Xu, listening to her constant boosting morale whenever she went there... Many generals said they wanted to defend the wife and children of King Yan.

Suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu felt cold on his body!

I remember when Yongping welcomed the King of Yan, my third brother Gao Sui was also in the King of Yan's army. Zhu Gaoxu didn't think much at that time, but now there was a bold guess: If Peiping is captured and King of Yan has one son left, then it would be Gao Sui who follows him!?

The King of Yan also felt that Peking might be compromised, right?

The more Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, the more he felt that he was right. Otherwise, the third brother Gao Sui would not know anything on the battlefield. What is the use of King Yan taking him with him?

He looked at Princess Xu and the fat prince not far away in front of him, and his heart was filled with emotions... Maybe he was really thinking too much.

"Boom!" A sudden cannon sound came, which scared Zhu Gaoxu, who was distracted, as if he was enlightened!

The generals advised one after another: "Princess, be careful, everyone, go down the city, the Southern Army has set off firecrackers!"

Princess Xu was not afraid and still insisted on patrolling the city wall. Zhu Gaoxu also secretly admired her. Her mother was in the inner courtyard of the royal palace for many years, but after all, she was the eldest daughter of General Xu Da. She was soft on the outside and hard on the inside, so she could not scare her at all!

When Zhu Gaoxu looked at the army camp outside the city, he saw a ball of white smoke in the sea of ​​people. The shot just now should have been set up there. The official army was also strange, and he stopped firing one shot.

...The routines of Duke Cao Li Jinglong and Marquis of Jiangyin Wu Gao were completely different. Li Jinglong did not repair fortifications at all. He set off fire early the next morning and fired on all sides.

The bowl guns and Hongwu cannons on the walls of the Beiping city were also fired and counterattacked. For a moment, the entire city was firing, and the city wall was filled with smoke. On the foggy ground, countless lights flashed from time to time, just like lightning in the clouds.

The wooden pieces of cloud ladder transported from somewhere have been assembled. The smoke of gunpowder has blew away, and countless infantrymen under the city walls are filled with shields and various weapons, pushing the tall cloud ladder like a tide and slowly approaching.

"Boom boom boom..." The artillery seemed to have not stopped for a moment.

Zhu Gaoxu was attracted by the raging fire in the distance again. A ladder close to the city wall caught fire. Black smoke rolled, and many soldiers jumped down from the smoke. The black smoke was too thick and could not be burned by wood or ordinary vegetable oil. Zhu Gaoxu guessed it was the "hard turbulent oil" stored in the city... In fact, it was the oil dug out from the ground.

"Boom!" Suddenly, a loud noise came, and a round stone hit the nearby walls. Suddenly, bricks and stones flew around, and a soldier fell to the ground and screamed loudly.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and saw half of the soldier's face full of flesh and blood. He stretched out his hand and trembled on his face, but he didn't dare to press it down, just shouting "Ah! Ah..."

As the smoke filled the gunpowder, the slender black shadows swayed, and the arrows were flying in the air. The soldiers around them pulled out their feathers from the quiver, put on their bows and put on arrows, and did not aim at them at all. They probably shot arrows with a "bang" at the bottom.

Soon, arrows flew up from the city wall. A soldier was caught in an arrow in his chest, and had already thrown his bow away. He sat behind the wall and reached out to grab the arrow and shouted.

Zhu Gaoxu pressed the hilt of the knife, dragged the heavy armor with a "ding-clang" sound, and walked into the city tower. Such a war is almost useless, and whether he dies depends entirely on luck. Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to stand there.

Soon, Wang Bin, Wei Da, Liu Ying and others followed in, and everyone had nothing to say.
Chapter completed!