The afternoon sun shone through the cracks of the clouds in Jiankang City. The streets among the ruins were in a mess. Chen Jun soldiers pushed temporary carts and advanced from east to west on the street.

In front of the road (the western section), there were barriers built by Zhou Bing on the streets temporarily, and they were already waiting for the battle to attack the soldiers.

King Chen Shuying of Yuzhang looked at Zhou Jun’s barricade with a thousand-mile mirror at this time. He looked quite nervous. The guards surrounded him and looked around. He was very alert and was careful to beware of cold arrows.

The night before yesterday, the Zhou army invaded Jiankang and Taicheng. The whereabouts of the emperor, the queen mother, the prince and a number of royal families were unknown. Chen Shuying, who was fighting at Beilimen at that time, was anxious and led his troops to counterattack Taicheng, but he was unable to get close to him.

Zhou Bing, who entered the city, built a barricade on the street east of Taicheng to block Chen's army from advancing west. The two sides fought fiercely around the barricade and surrounding Lifang. Yesterday, they fought for a day, and Chen's army was unable to move forward. Chen Shuying and other generals discussed countermeasures for a night and continued to attack today.

Although he carefully planned several tactics, Chen Shuying was still not sure that he could break through the barricade of Zhou's army, let alone attacking Taicheng. He is now dark because he has not had much rest in the past two days.

First, I am worried about the situation, and second, I am worried about the safety of my family.

His princess, princess and other families were all in the Taicheng Palace that night. Now his life and death are unknown. How can Chen Shuying not be angry? And if the enemy occupies Taicheng, if he cannot repel him as soon as possible, the situation will become worse and worse, and it will be difficult to recover after being delayed for a long time.

However, what made Chen Shuying and other Chen army generals calmed down was that today the defeated soldiers came to report that night, before the Zhou army broke the palace, the empress dowager took the emperor, prince, queen and a group of inner servants, and the royal family fled westward and rushed to Shitou.

Chen Shuying didn't know whether the Empress Dowager and his party fled to Shitouzhu. However, since the Zhou army did not escort the prince out to surrender them in the past two days, I think the Empress Dowager and others are safe and sound.

But this is just a relatively optimistic guess. Chen Shuying didn't know the exact situation of the Empress Dowager and others, so he sent people to the west of Jiankang City to inquire about the news, but no one came back. So the only thing he could do was to recover Taicheng as soon as possible and drive the enemy out of Jiankang.

Welcome the Empress Dowager and Prince as soon as possible and clean up the mess as soon as possible.

Of course, I will be able to reunite with my mother and family by then.

When Chen Shuying thought of this, she continued to observe the front. Seeing that his soldiers were approaching the barricade, she couldn't help but feel nervous.

Zhou Jun had a strange weapon, which seemed to be a large cart with chimneys on it, and black smoke kept emitting. When his soldiers approached the barricade, the cart would spray hot water vapor, which was very lethal.

Even though the soldiers were wearing iron armor, with zithers and face armor, they could not resist such weapons. After suffering a few losses, Chen Jun at least summed up some experiences and lessons.

This weapon does not seem to spray water vapor for a long time. After each spray, it will take some time to spray again.

Now, Chen Bing took advantage of this gap to launch an attack on the Zhou army barricade in front of him, slowly approaching with the car as a cover, and then launched hand-to-hand combat, fighting with the enemy, and relying on the number of people to force the attack.

Seeing the fierce battle about to break out, Chen Shuying, who was watching the battle, opened her eyes wide and held her breath.

With a loud "boom", a large amount of smoke suddenly erupted from the street under Chen Bing's feet, and then a fire broke out. A huge explosion occurred on the street without warning, blowing Chen Bing who was pushing the car forward.

At that moment, Chen Shuying's heart seemed to be hit by a hammer and shook.

The thick smoke gradually dissipated, the barricades of Zhou Jun were basically intact, while the Chen Jun team had disappeared, the soldiers fell to the ground, with broken limbs and broken arms everywhere, and the car turned into wreckage, and they could not even see the shape.

Chen Shuying, who had a gray face, couldn't figure it out. He didn't notice that Zhou Jun threw the sky-booming thunder, so why was he bombarded by the sky-booming thunder?

Looking at the stunned general beside him, Chen Shuying was extremely helpless and could only order the withdrawal of troops and make plans.

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The explosion came, and Liang Pi followed the sound and saw a smog of smoke rising from the east of Taicheng. It seemed that the government army used thunder to kill the enemy, which was quite large, so there was such a movement.

Footsteps sounded, and a large group of people walked towards a courtyard under the escort of soldiers. These people were captured officials of Chen and their families, and were now scattered in various places in Taicheng.

Looking at the group of people in front of him, Liang Pi was worried: his side was short of troops, but now he was stranded in the city. He not only had to control the city, but also divided his troops to guard the prisoners. In this way, the troops were diluted and it was easy for the other party to choose a little breakthrough.

He couldn't understand what the navy admiral Wang was trying to face this situation.

As the envoy (deputy envoy) of Zhou State, Liang Pi temporarily stayed in Jiankang after completing his mission. As a result, not long after, in order to protect the Zhou people who were temporarily living in Jiankang, he had a conflict with Chen State. After a few days, he was shocked to hear that the Zhou State navy had fought undeclaredly and raided Jingkou.

He was then placed under house arrest by Chen State. Before he could come back to his senses, the Zhou army had already attacked Jiankang and occupied Taicheng.

The navy admiral Wang Jun was the commander of this Zhou army. Liang Pi recognized the other party, so he was very speculating about his real motives.

Wang Jun fought undeclaredly this time, and the banner of rescuing Zhou's expatriates was to rescue Zhou's expatriates. Liang Pi felt that this statement was a bit nonsense.

Previously, the State of Chen sent troops to arrest Cai Tuoer, who fled into Lifang, who gathered in Lifang, and surrounded Lifang. There were indeed Zhou people who fled on a boat and went down the river to the sea, and happened to meet the Wangzhang fleet returning north.

Therefore, Wang Wu was eager to save people. Without asking the court, he directly attacked Jingkou, the important town of Chen State, and then attacked Jiankang. This was too domineering!

Liang Pi felt that if Wang Xu really wanted to save people, a safer way would be to negotiate with Chen State first, then submit a memorial to the court, and then take the next action according to the court's orders.

At least you have to be polite first and then soldiers, but as a result, you will fight without declaration as soon as you come up. What is this? Do you still have the imperial court in your eyes if you have any trouble?

Without receiving the orders of the court, he fought and attacked the State of Chen without declaring his order. This was not an excuse to save people. Liang Pi did not believe that the king's move was mainly to save people.

Then, Wang Na claimed that he would still avenge his father. This reason seemed to be a thing of the past, but when Liang Pi thought about it carefully, it didn't seem like that.

Wang Xunbian, the father of Wang Xunbian, was therefore the Secretary of Liang, who was killed by Chen Baxian. If Wang Xun wants to avenge, he must capture Chen Baxian's descendants.

However, Chen Baxian's direct descendants have been cut off, and only the clan members, the royal family of the Chen State, are alive. Now, the captured Changsha King Chen Shujian and the surrendered Jian'an King Chen Shuqing are alive and have not seen Wang Zhu kill anyone to vent his anger.

Of course, destroying Chen State is the best way to avenge, but Liang Pi always felt that the king's plan had failed, because the empress dowager, the emperor and others of Chen State had fled to Shitouzhu and then took a boat to leave the shore, not knowing where to go.

Wang Feng, the general who pursued the Chen royal family the night before yesterday, was Wang Feng's brother. Liang Pi met Wang Feng yesterday and didn't feel that the other party was very frustrated about it.

The performance of these two brothers made Liang Pi a little confused, and what made him even more difficult to understand was that even though his troops were insufficient and he was alone in the army. If he forced himself to stay in Taicheng, he would sooner or later not be able to withstand Chen's counterattack. So why did Wang Zhu insist on his own way and stay in the city and not leave?

The best choice now is to take the Zhou people who lived in Jiankang temporarily, as well as the captured Chen officials and Gong Kuli's money, and retreat to Jingkou as soon as possible, then take a boat into the sea and head north to Qingxu.

As a result, Wang Jun did not do so.

He neither transported away the property or treasures of the palace treasury, nor planned to take away the captured officials and their families. He locked people in Taicheng and even divided his troops to guard them.

The already tense military force is getting more and more difficult. Although Liang Pi is not from a military general, he also knows that there are great hidden dangers. Now the official army can barely control Taicheng, but cannot control Jiankang.

Chen Shuying, the king of Yuzhang of Chen, led his troops to occupy the east of Jiankang City. He continued to counterattack in the past two days, and the opponent's troops had an advantage. However, the Zhou army in Jiankang was full of enemies, and it was impossible to get the support of the people in the city. If you don't leave now, will you stay waiting to die?

Liang Pi felt that Wang Nai might be waiting for reinforcements, but there was no time left.

Even if the Hongzhou General Administration Office in the upper reaches receives the news, it must report to the court. Only after the Prime Minister's order can the army advance eastward. This process takes time, and gathering the army also takes time.

When the Zhou Navy went downstream and broke through the Chen Army Navy and arrived near Jiankang, it was probably more than half a month later. How could Wang Xu defend Taicheng alone during this period?

The emperor, the queen mother, and the prince are safe and sound, so Chen is not now without a leader. Once the other party comes to his senses, mobilizes surrounding troops to Jiankang and surround Taicheng, what should we do then?
Chapter completed!