Bright Spring

King Yan also said: "Huh... I have long said that King Ning is good at planning, this brother is really good at planning! He just waited for me to attack him, and pretended to be reluctant to follow me. In case of the situation of Fourth Brother in the future Unfortunately, he was arrested and returned to Beijing, and he must cry and complain that he was forced to do nothing, and wanted to save a way out, so he could get away with it!"

"Yes! Your lord is right..." Everyone echoed in unison.

"That's all! I will obey him." King Yan turned around and said decisively, "We will break out of the camp early tomorrow morning, and we will go out from Liu's mouth and go straight to Daning City!"

"The last general waits for the order!" Everyone clasped their fists in salute.

King Yan looked at Zhu Gaoxu again and said, "There is nothing unusual in Daning, so Gao Xu doesn't have to go with me; there is nothing left in Yongping Mansion, so there is no need to defend it. Now that Li Jinglong's army is suppressing Beiping City, I give way. Yan Fuzuo's son could only defend the city, but there were not many soldiers in Beiping after all. Gao Xu returned to Beiping first to assist the generals in Beiping to defend the city."

Zhu Gaoxu clasped his fists and said, "My son takes orders."

King Yan waved his hand and said: "When I come back from Daning, I will have a strong army and a strong horse, then I will deal with Li Jinglong!"

After a while, everyone left one after another and went to prepare separately.

Chapter 60 Always Besieged

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

The army crossed the Great Wall from Liujiakou one after another, followed a mountain road between the mountains, and headed straight for Daning City.At this time, the vegetation in the mountains were all withered and yellow, and the wind was filled with a killing atmosphere.

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

The gate of Daning City was closed.King Yan sat on his horse and looked up. He saw that there were many swords and soldiers on the city wall, and banners were planted everywhere, as if he was ready for battle.A person in a red robe above is very conspicuous.

King Yan stopped the left and right, and rode close to the tower alone. After a closer look, the young man in the red dragon robe was not King Ning Zhu Quan, who was it?

Zhu Quan also saw Yan Wang who was riding alone, his face was facing this way, and he shouted from above: "Fourth brother led the army to come, is he going to beat me?"

Yan Wang shouted: "Seventeenth brother, I am the fourth brother! I have been cornered by the Holy Majesty, how can I come to beat you?!" Yan Wang said, his voice was choked, and he was crying, " I didn't expect to end up in such a situation, the Holy Majesty insisted that I rebelled..."

Zhu Quan's voice said: "Did Brother Dare love you?"

Yan Wang cried: "How dare I, it was forced! There must be treacherous ministers in the court. I really can't help it... Seventeenth brother, fourth brother, I beg you to do something, you should write a letter to the sage, and replace the fourth brother." Let me talk about love..."

Zhu Quan shouted: "Fourth brother, don't worry, go back, I will help you pray to the Holy One."

Yan Wang said: "Where am I going back? Now that the feudal kingdom is almost gone, there is really nowhere to go. Seventeenth brother, why don't you take fourth brother in for a while? I will return to Peiping when the Holy Lord pardons my crime."

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

Zhu Quan said: "I can't open the door, brother four should go back to Peiping!" Then he turned and left the city.

King Yan choked with sobs and shouted: "Seventeenth brother, stay away, seventeenth brother, you can't just ignore death!"

However, Zhu Quan's red robe was no longer visible.King Yan stood there wonderingly, waiting for a long time.

At this moment, the city gate suddenly opened a crack with a "Ga...".

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On the day King Yan left, Zhu Gaoxu also set off from Yongping City, leaving only a few hundred people to the government office, and took all the other cavalry away to Peiping.

Zhu Gaoxu returned to the county palace and settled down the army first.After unloading his armor, he went straight to Prince Yan's Mansion, and first went to see Princess Xu, guessing that the prince might also be in Prince Yan's mansion... At this moment, Li Jinglong's hundreds of thousands of troops will soon arrive in Beiping!

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

Concubine Xu stood up and said happily: "Gao Xu, it will be best if you come back!"

Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Mother Concubine, Big Brother."

The son seemed a little unhappy when he heard what Princess Xu said just now... In the heart of the mother and concubine, when encountering troubles, among the three sons, Zhu Gaoxu may still be the most useful.

The three of them didn't bother to inquire about their health, and soon talked about defending Beiping.Before King Yan left, he had already ordered the son and the generals to guard and not leave the city. He had arranged for the guards in each city, and asked Yao Guangxiao and the son to take charge of the military and dispatch troops.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "October is coming soon, and the weather is getting colder and colder. My son heard from experienced generals in the army that as long as the cold weather is colder, pouring water on the city overnight will freeze overnight. Siege will be more difficult."

Concubine Xu nodded slightly after hearing this, and raised her eyebrows with a bit of heroism: "As long as you stick to it for ten months, when your father returns with his army, we will go out to meet the prince!"

... Within two days, Li Jinglong's army had approached the city one after another.Concubine Xu took her eldest son and Zhu Gaoxu to the tower to boost morale!

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

Compared with the magnificent scene of people and horses outside Beiping City at this time, the siege that Zhu Gaoxu witnessed in Yongping City before is simply nothing!The right way is that he just left the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den again. It seems that Zhu Gaoxu was besieged to death again!

In an instant, he was a little skeptical: Is Peiping really so easy to hold?

Beiping is a big city and important town, the city walls are indeed high and thick, but any city cannot be defended by the walls alone, there must be sufficient troops, especially in this kind of big city, the more scattered the troops, the more people are needed!

The Yan army has less than 10 people in total, and the king of Yan has taken away the main force. At this time, the strength of the Beiping defenders may be a bit stretched.

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

Surrounding the city on all sides, using all kinds of heavy equipment to attack the city, and beating it with long-range weapons, the method is a bit stupid, but it hardly requires any talent. Li Jinglong probably can do it, he has enough troops!

What's more, not all the generals in the army are Li Jinglong, such as Sheng Yong, Ping An, and Zhu Gaoxu were almost beaten to annihilation in Zhending...

It is indeed possible to defend the city of Beiping right now, but the risk is also not small.

"Princess!" "Meet the concubine, the prince, King Gaoyang..." The voices of the generals came from all directions.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at his concubine mother. Although she was nearly forty years old, she was already beautiful. Today she was wearing a robe with a collar, which made her look even more heroic.

This is the first time Zhu Gaoxu has seen such a side of mother and concubine.

She stood facing the wind and said loudly: "The King of Yan has always treated the soldiers well, but now the enemy is at hand, I hope you will work hard and fight the enemy bravely!"

All the generals clasped their fists together and said: "The last general will swear to die!"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say a word, just followed Princess Xu, listening to her keep boosting morale wherever she went... Many generals said that they wanted to defend King Yan's wife and children.

Suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu felt cold!

I remember that when the King of Yan was greeted in Yongping, the third brother Gao Sui was also in the King of Yan's army.At that time, Zhu Gaoxu didn't think much about it, but now he suddenly had a bold guess: In case Beiping was captured, King Yan would have only one son left, and that would be Gao Sui who followed him! ?

King Yan also felt that Peking might be breached, right?

The more Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, the more he felt that he had guessed right.Otherwise, the third younger brother Gao Sui would not know anything on the battlefield, so what's the use of King Yan taking him with him?

He took another look at Concubine Xu and the plump prince not far in front of him, and he felt mixed feelings... Maybe he really thought too much.

"Boom!" There was a sudden sound of a cannon, which startled Zhu Gaoxu, who was distracted, as if he had been enlightened!

All the generals persuaded one after another: "Princess, be careful, everyone, go down to the city quickly, the southern army has fired cannons!"

Concubine Xu showed no fear, and still insisted on patrolling the city wall.Zhu Gaoxu also secretly admired her a little. The mother and concubine have been in the inner courtyard of the palace all year round, but after all, she is the eldest daughter of the general Xu Da, with a soft exterior and a strong temperament, ordinary battles can't scare her at all!

When Zhu Gaoxu looked at the army camp outside the city, he saw a cloud of white smoke still in the sea of ​​people, that's where the cannon should have been fired just now.This official army is also strange, and they will not let go after firing a cannon.