Chapter 282
Li Jue stood outside the palace, listening to the shouts of killing from the east side of the city, constantly raising his hand to wipe away the sweat from his forehead, and constantly instructed his personal soldiers around him: "Check the situation at the east gate and report it to this Grand Sima at any time."
The personal soldiers left him one by one and went to the east gate to check the situation of the Jizhou army's siege. At the same time, some personal soldiers were sent to the north gate and the south gate. Although the Jizhou soldiers outside the city gates on both sides had never attacked the city, they were enough to make people terrified. Moreover, there were many subordinates who were ill-intentioned. Who knew when they would suddenly rebel? Therefore, Li Jue felt it necessary to understand the situation in various aspects in a timely manner.
Just when Li Jue was nervous, a sudden sound of horse hooves came from the street. After listening for a while, he heard the horses coming towards him. He couldn't help but feel shocked all over and an ominous premonition surged in his heart.
A cavalry came to Li Jue, strangled the war horse, then turned over and dismounted, and knelt down on one knee in front of Li Jue: "The little man met the Grand Sima."
Seeing the cavalry's panic look, Li Jue's heart sank. He realized that something must have happened to him. He quickly asked in a trembling voice: "What's the matter?"
The cavalry quickly replied: "If you go back to the Grand Sima, Wang Chang, the commander in the west of the city, has opened the city gate and released the troops in Jizhou into the city. The troops in Jizhou are divided into two groups and are coming towards this place."
When Li Jie heard this, his head buzzed, and his face suddenly turned pale. His body shook a few times and fell back straight. Fortunately, Li Xian reached out to support him in time, and was still shouting: "Uncle, what's wrong with you?"
Li Jue was supported by Li Xian and several personal soldiers and sat on a brocade puncture, saying with a blood-faced look: "It's over, now it's all over. Wang Chang lets the Jizhou army enter the city. As long as they open the north and south gates, we will be unable to escape."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a mess outside ringing, and countless people shouting: "The soldiers and horses in Jizhou have entered the city, and the soldiers and horses in Jizhou have entered the city..."
When Li Jue heard this shout, he was even more scared and looked bloodless. Fortunately, Li Xian was quite calm, so he quickly ordered his personal soldiers to protect Li Jue and retreat into the palace. They planned to use the palace walls to resist stubbornly.
Not long after Li Jue retreated into the palace, he heard the sound of killing outside, and the sound of metal and iron clashing with weapons became a whole. He came to the city tower tremblingly and looked down, and saw his soldiers fighting with Jizhou soldiers. After looking for a while, he found that his troops were fighting less and less, while Jizhou soldiers were becoming more and more. Although he was not sure that this was because the soldiers entering the city from the west gate killed the defenders of the north gate and the south gate and put Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong outside the city in, according to his experience, the soldiers and horses in the city could not last long.
Besides, when Han Zhan arrived at the post station, he comforted him a few words and came to the palace together. When he came to the palace, he saw that it was already in chaos, and thousands of soldiers and horses on both sides were fighting here. Seeing that Li Jue's number of soldiers was at a disadvantage, if they were trapped in beasts, they would inevitably cause huge casualties to themselves. Thinking of this, Han Zhan frowned and immediately came to his mind.
He turned his head and rushed to Chen Dao who was following behind him and said, "Shuzhi, ordered the soldiers to shout: Only kill the evil, never ask, those who abandon their weapons will avoid death!"
After hearing Han Zhan's instructions, Chen Dao did not dare to neglect. He immediately rushed towards the crowd of people who were fighting, and shouted: "Only punish evil, never ask, those who abandon weapons will avoid death!"
First, Chen Dao was shouting alone, and soon several of his personal soldiers also shouted, and finally, the soldiers in Jizhou outside the palace shouted loudly. Li Juejun, who was fighting to the death, suddenly lost the courage to continue to fight when he heard the Jizhou army shouting like this. Of course, there were followers. First, one or two soldiers stopped resisting and threw away the weapons in their hands, then more than a dozen or twenty soldiers, and finally hundreds of soldiers threw away the weapons. For a moment, only the sound of weapons falling to the ground was heard.
After half a stick of incense, except for a few soldiers loyal to Li Jue retreated into the imperial city, the remaining soldiers either died in battle or threw away their weapons and surrendered to Han Zhan and the others.
Li Xian was stabbed several times, and with the support of two soldiers, he stumbled to the city wall, knelt in front of Li Jue and said, "Uncle, Jizhou's troops are powerful and our army cannot resist, so we should retreat as soon as possible."
"Retreat, where will we retreat?" Looking at the dark Jizhou army under the city, Li Jue smiled bitterly and said, "The imperial city has been so-called by the soldiers of Jizhou, and we can't escape."
"Uncle, go quickly." Li Xian looked at the city and urged Li Jue, "If you don't leave, you really can't leave." After that, he turned his head and said to a soldier who was supporting him, "You are about the same size as my uncle. Take off your clothes quickly and exchange them with my uncle."
The soldier knew that once he put on Li Jie's armor, he would probably not be far from death. But when he saw Li Xian holding the blood-dropping sword in his hand, he knew in his heart that once he did not do what Li Xian said, he would die immediately, so he could only take off the armor on his body and exchange it with Li Jie.
The palace gate was quickly knocked open from outside by the Jizhou army, and the soldiers rushed into the palace shouting. Han Zhan knew that Li Jue was in the imperial city at this moment, so he quickly issued a second order: "Those who capture Li Jue alive will be rewarded with a thousand golds and will be granted the title of Marquis! Those who take Li Jue level will be rewarded with a hundred golds and will be promoted to three levels in a row!"
Soon, Han Zhan's order was shouted in the mouth of the soldiers in Jizhou: "Those who capture Li Jue alive will be rewarded with a thousand gold and will be granted the title of Marquis! Those who take Li Jue level will be rewarded with a hundred gold and will be promoted to three levels in a row!"
Li Juejun in the imperial city was originally a kind of person who was in Cao's camp and was in the Han Dynasty. When he heard the shouts of the soldiers and horses in Jizhou, he couldn't help but be moved. Facing the tide of the soldiers and horses in Jizhou, he quickly raised his hands high above his head and shouted: "I won't beat you anymore, I won't beat you anymore, we will surrender!"
Seeing that the palace gate had not been able to support it for a moment, it was broken. Li Xian hurriedly took the remaining people to guard the real and fake Li Jue and retreated into the palace.
"Where is Li Jue!" Zhang Liao, who had just defected to Han Zhan and had not made any achievements, saw Li Xian retreating to the deep palace with a man wearing Li Jue's armor. He quickly pointed forward with the weapons in his hand and shouted: "Kill!"
Zhang Liao rode his horse forward. Wei Xu, Song Xian, Cheng Yi, and Hou Cheng were afraid that he would make any mistakes, so they followed him tightly, killed Li Jue's army along the way, and chased Li Jue who was running away.
After Huang Zhong rushed into the palace with his troops, he saw Li Jue running away from a distance, and immediately set off his bow and shot arrows at the other party. The arrow from the string flew into the crowd like lightning, accurately hitting the soldier in Li Jue's armor. The man screamed and fell to the ground.
The Jizhou army, who was rushing forward, couldn't help but cheer when they saw Li Jue being shot down by an arrow. Zhang Liao, who was rushing in the front, sighed and slowed down when he saw Li Jue being shot down.
Seeing that the fake Li Jue was shot down by an arrow, Li Xian struggled in panic and dragged Li Jue to the deep palace. Because they were familiar with the terrain in the palace, they quickly got rid of the pursuit of Jizhou soldiers.
When Huang Zhong came to the corpse of "Li Jue", turned over and dismounted, and was about to cut off the opponent's level, Song Xian, who was beside him, suddenly shouted: "This is not Li Jue!"...
Chapter completed!