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Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty Nine Tragedy Rebellion (Part 2)

The soldiers of the Yan army have seen the scenes. In Jicheng City, many Yan army soldiers not only experienced the Chu-Han War, but also participated in the war between the princes outside the pass to jointly destroy Qin. Those who have experienced many wars can find them in every Yan army. However, even these veterans who crawled out of the dead have never encountered such a situation today, such a terrifying scene today.

In the early spring sunshine, huge rocks larger than millstones continued to fly up, like birds returning to the nest, whistling and rotating, hitting the top of Jicheng City one after another. The huge rocks fell, and the land collapsed, and directly smashed out of a deep pit, hitting the female wall, the wall collapsed, and the arrow piles disappeared directly, smashing into the defenders, with flesh and blood flying, internal organs and brains bursting together. The smashed people and armor turned into meat sauce. Those who were hung were usually broken and broken, and the screaming sound was comparable to that of pigs.

When I encountered such a scene for the first time, the defenders on the city wall were of course already in chaos, with countless people running around to avoid stones, and many people risked their heads to escape from stone bullets. However, the huge stone bullets of the Han army were not polite, and continued to smash the city and into the city, smashing the city and the city of Jicheng City with holes and holes, and smashing the houses in the city to collapse and breaking the roof. The soldiers and civilians ran and screamed, and the scene was as chaotic as the end of the world.

Without the need for others to persuade, Zang Tu, who cherished his life, fled to the west gate of Jicheng early and hid at the dead corner of the Han army falling rocks behind the city wall. However, a huge rock rolled down from the wall behind him, smashing several Yan soldiers not far away into meat paste. Zang Tu completely lost the courage to stay on the front line to boost morale. He could only send someone to send orders to Zhai Xu and Li Hao, ordering the two generals Zhai and Li to guard the west gate to death, and then quickly led the guards back to the palace, for fear that they would be delayed for a long time on the front line and were unlucky to be killed by the Han army's huge rock.

After escaping back to the palace, Zang Tu realized that the situation of the east gate and the north gate of Jicheng was similar. Gongsun Tong and Xia said that the two armies had also set up more than 40 counterweight trenchers and bombarded the north gate and east gate of Jicheng. They destroyed the city towers on the city wall and the Pengping that resisted bows and arrows without any effort. The Yan army defenders had no choice but to hide on the city wall with their heads in their arms, trembling, gritting their teeth and enduring.

Zang Tu's face turned pale, but he was helpless. After a while, he said to himself: "No matter how you smash it, it is impossible to collapse my city wall directly. It is amazing that there are more casualties and more difficult to fight. The key is to rely on the ant to fight. As long as we can withstand the ant to fight, we can still defend Jicheng."

Zhang Sheng did not agree with Zang Tu's words, but subconsciously turned his gaze to the west and said in his heart: "The key is the West Gate. As long as the West Gate can be kept, there will be hope for the East Gate and the North Gate."

Zhang Sheng's intuition was very keen. Just when he was muttering like this, the anxious Han army general Tao Xi had ordered the Han army gunners to stop throwing stones, and changed to ladders and flight ladders to go forward, and were the first to launch an ant attack on Jicheng. Seeing this scene on the city wall, Zhai Xu, the commander of the West Gate of the Yan army, was extremely hesitant in his heart, but considering that his subordinates might not be following him, and the city gate was controlled by friendly troops, Zhai Xu hesitated for a while, and gritted his teeth and ordered: "Prepare the rockets and swallowtail torch."

According to Zhai Xu's order, buckets of precious turbulent oil were quickly moved to the top of the city. Rockets and swallowtail torches wrapped in linen were quickly dipped in turbulent oil. Just when the Han army ladder trucks entered the range, they would immediately ignite and set fire to burn the ladder trucks that pose the greatest threat to the city wall. However, when Zhai Xu and the Yan army soldiers were confused, rows of Yan army rockets were ready to take their positions, and the Han army's ladder trucks were about to enter their range. Suddenly a flag flashed over the Han army, and the ladder trucks stopped advancing and stayed at the edge of the Yan army's rocket range.

"What are the tyrant army doing?"

When a relatively stubborn Yan general finished speaking, the answer appeared. As the flag was shaken, the Han army catapult, which had been silent for a while, opened fire again. He used centrifugal force to throw out huge pottery jars and directly hit the Jicheng city wall, which was already full of archers. It was too late to avoid it when the Yan army crossbowmen screamed and scattered. The pottery jar fell to the ground and burst out countless fire charcoal and thick smoke. It immediately burned many Yan army crossbowmen who could not avoid it, and also ignited all the ignitable combustible materials around them - of course, including expensive precious turbid oil.

"Turn the tincture oil quickly! Protect the tincture oil!"

Some smart Yan generals quickly understood the vicious intentions of the Han army and quickly ordered the soldiers to rescue the tinder oil. However, the Han army's catapult was merciless and threw some primitive incendiary bombs and sheep head stones one after another. Although the sheep head stone was small in size and could not harm the battles of the city wall, it was numerous and was very effective in dealing with the Yan army soldiers. The stones with sheep heads fell like hail raindrops. Many Yan army soldiers lay down in the pool of blood with unwilling roars. The city walls quickly burst into flames, and there were fire everywhere. The fire was everywhere, and there were also soldiers running and shouting everywhere.

After smashing out the five-wheeled sheep head stone in one breath, causing many casualties and chaos to the defenders, the Han army's ladder truck began to move forward again and approached the city wall slowly and firmly. As a result, although rockets were quickly shot on the city wall to block the city wall, the number was obviously far from enough. The strength was weak and the head deviation was posed, which poses little threat to the Han army's ladder trucks that had undergone a certain fire prevention treatment, let alone blocking the Han army's advance speed.

It's also very good. The Yan army still has hope. When two Han army ladder trucks approached the city wall with a few fire heads, Zhai Xu's orders, the Yan army soldiers who had been preparing for a long time immediately threw out the swallowtail torches one after another, and set fire to burn the Han army ladder trucks. The Han army soldiers who were carrying the flying ladder forward were not willing to be outdone. They immediately charged at the foot of the city wall, quickly put the flying ladder on the wall, and launched an ant attack upwards against the rolling stone wood. The shouts of killing on the city wall were completely boiling.

Hearing this sudden boiling cry of killing, Li Hao, who led the Yan army reserve team to guard the inside of the west gate, knew that he could do it. After hesitating for a while, Li Hao first arranged his confidant to guard the Qianjin Gate, and told him that without his own personal order, no one was allowed to put down the Qianjin Gate. Then he went down to the city with a serious expression and came to the inside of the city gate. However, when Li Hao was shocked, when he came to the city gate, Zhai Xu, the guard general of the Yan army's western gate, seemed to have emerged from the soil, and appeared first at the city gate, with a team of his personal guards beside him.

Seeing Li Hao appear, Zhai Xu's face also changed, and he was obviously a little shocked. Before Li Hao could speak, he took the initiative to say, "General Li, I'll take a look at the situation at the city gate. Why are you here too?"

"I'm also worried about the situation at the city gate, come and take a look." Li Haoqiang smiled and asked Zhai Xu again: "Zhai Jun Zun, listen to the sound. The violent army is already in the ant. Why haven't you been in command and supervising the battle in the city?"

"Go up immediately, go up immediately." Zhai Xu's eyes were obviously a little wandering, and he said with a forced smile: "General Li, I'll ask you here, I'll leave first."

After saying that, Zhai Xu turned around and headed towards the upper city corridor. Li Hao breathed a sigh of relief. Then Li Hao hesitated for a moment and said to the city gate official: "Give me the key, and the key to the city gate. In case of precautions, from now on, the city gate key will be personally controlled by the general."

The city gate official Chang Nuo immediately took out the key. Unexpectedly, when Li Hao was about to reach out to pick it up, Zhai Xu, who had already turned around, suddenly turned around and led his personal soldiers back with great strides, while shouting: "Slow down! General Li, I am the Ximen Guardian. Why should I leave the key to you for safekeeping?"

"Oh no! I've revealed my flaws?" Li Hao complained in his heart, and said hurriedly: "Monday Master, the king has an order to let the general guard the city gate, the city and the thousand-jin gate for you, and of course the key must be kept by the general."

"But the king didn't say that the key was handed over to you." Zhai Xu retorted, and then extended his hand to the city gate official and ordered: "Give me all the keys!"

The city gate official looked at Li Hao, who also wanted to hand over the key himself. Sweat was rolling on Li Hao's forehead, but Li Hao was very clear. Once the city gate official handed over the key to Zhai Xu, he would not only have no chance to quickly open the city gate to welcome the Han army into the city. With a slight delay, all his family members in the palace had to die without a burial place, so Li Hao had no choice but to insist: "The king wants me to guard the city gate, and of course the key to the city gate must be handed over to me for safekeeping, and give me the key!"

Zhai Xu glared at Li Hao. Li Hao, who was secretly ill-in ulterior motive, was even more panicked. He could only force his energy to look at Zhai Xu. Then Li Hao had an idea and suddenly reached out to grab the key that the city gate official had already held in his hand. He wanted to get the key first. Who would have thought that Li Hao's movements were faster? Zhai Xu's movements were also faster. He suddenly reached out to grab the key. Both hands grabbed the key almost at the same time, and no one allowed them to stay in the air.

"Let go!" Zhai Xu roared, "I am the guardian of the West Gate of Jicheng. For the safety of the west gate of Jicheng, the key must be under my control!"

"Let go!" Li Hao roared, "The king called me to guard the gate, and of course the key is my control! Let me go!"

"If you don't let go, don't blame me for being rude!"

When Zhai Xu and Li Hao shouted this sentence in unison, their personal soldiers also showed their weapons at the same time. Li Hao and Zhai Xu were both shocked when they saw it, and hurriedly shouted in unison: "Li Hao (Zhai Xu), what do you want to do? Want to rebel?"

After yelling this sentence at the same time, it was actually the anxious Li Hao and Zhai Xu who were so anxious that they came to their senses at the same time. Then Li Hao felt aroused in his heart again, and hurriedly clasped the key tightly while whispering: "Zhai Junzun, do you really want to rebel and open the city gate and let people outside come in?"

Zhai Xu's face turned pale, but seeing that Li Hao's eyes seemed to have no malice, Zhai Xu was also very happy and hurriedly said in a low voice: "Do you also want to rebel and open the city gate to welcome the imperial army into the city?"

Seeing that the situation was extremely wrong, after hesitating for a while, Li Hao said in a very low voice: "I am from the court."

Zhai Xu's body shook, then smiled a little and whispered: "I am also from the court."

Looking at the other party in surprise, Li Hao and Zhai Xu suddenly laughed together, smiling extremely happily. Then, while waving his hands to retreat, they joined forces to open the city gate with a smile. The city gate official next to him was shocked and hurriedly said, "Zhai Junzun, General Li, what do you want to do?"

"Shut up!" Li Hao and Zhai Xu said in unison again and roared: "Another nonsense, I'll ask you for your head right away! You will be beneficial when you open the door for us!"

The city gate official was stunned and quickly came to his senses. The city gate official said nothing. He quickly came up to help Zhai Xu and Li scoop remove the door bolt, opened the inner city gate, and then accompanied Zhai and Li to the gate of the city, and opened the gate of the city again. As a result, the city gate had just opened. Of course, the Han soldiers who were attacking the ant attachment were thunderous and immediately swarmed into the city. Tao Xi, the Han general who was commanding the siege in the distance, danced and couldn't wait to order the rear army to step forward and directly rushed into Jicheng from the city gate that opened.

"Quick! Hurry! The soldiers of the Han Dynasty, the faster the better. Our families are all in the palace city. Please rescue them, and rescue them!" This was the second time General Li Hao and Zhai Xu Junzun were talking in unison at the city gate.

The next thing was of course simple, because the front line commander and the reserve commander both took the lead in shameless rebellion, the Han soldiers under Tao Xi of course rushed into Jicheng City without any effort and rushed to the city wall to take over the key points. When the news of the Ximen's defeat spread, Yan Xiangzhao, who was attacked by the Han army through the secret envoy of the Yan army, did not dare to hesitate at all. He immediately took his reserve team straight to the north gate, and joined the Han army's general Gongsun Tong into the city. The Yan army general Weiman, who was guarding the north gate of Jicheng, was caught off guard, and the army led was immediately in chaos. He was attacked by the Han army ant, and took the opportunity to attack the top of the city. The north gate of Jicheng was quickly declared to fall.

However, the Yan army on the east gate temporarily withstood the Zhao army's attack, but after seeing the city's fire and red Han flags appearing, the Yan army on the east gate also quickly became panic. Ying Zuo, who was on duty in the west gate, had no choice but to send someone to ask Zang Tu for orders and seek Zang Tu's opinions. Should we defend to the end, or take advantage of the opportunity now to break through and escape quickly?

At this time, Zang Tu had certainly known about the huge changes in the battlefield situation. He learned that Zhao Shooting was shameless and led the reserve team to attack the North Gate Guards, and Zhai Xu and Li Hao joined forces to offer the city. The furious Zang Tu and his son immediately took all their families in front of him. However, when Zang Tu ordered the execution of these families, his confidant eunuch Zhongzhang said, but he jumped out to stop him, saying, "King, you can't kill, you have family too! You have to consider your concubines and grandchildren!"

"What does it mean?" Zang Tu asked, turning his head.

"King, why don't you think about it? If you kill Zhao Shooting and Zhai Xu and their families, how could they let your family go?" The Bank of China said quickly: "The next step is that no matter whether you surrender or break out of the city, your family will definitely not be able to be protected. If you kill Zhao Shooting and Zhai Xu's families, how could they not kill your family to take revenge? They have made great contributions to the violent army, how could the violent army stop them from taking revenge?"

The Bank of China said this to remind Zang Tu. Considering that even if he broke through, he would not be able to take away his concubines and descendants, in order to give his grandchildren a chance to survive, Zang Tu nodded reluctantly, waved his hand and asked the guards to take out the crying family members, and then gritted his teeth and said, "Call all the troops that can still be restrained immediately, break through the south gate and go north to the grassland to join the Huns! Borrow soldiers from the Huns to find these ordinary men to avenge them!"

In history, Zang Tu's rebellion of Liu Laosan was very tragic. It was easily pacified by Liu Laosan in just three months. The scale, process and influence were so small that the Han Dynasty history books were too lazy to record the records. On this historical level, Zang Tu's rebellion of Xiang Kang was even more tragic. It was so tragic that before the main force of the Han army's suppression of rebellion arrived at the battlefield in Yan, the three Han army's vanguard troops captured the capital Jicheng and lost their nests.

Fortunately, Zang Tu's luck was pretty good. After leaving the city with a barely controlled army, which was not yet enemy, the Han army pursued with all their might and successfully defeated the defeated brigade of the Yan army. However, because the Yan army had a large number of cavalry and relatively powerful power, Zang Tu and his son finally took more than 2,000 cavalry to escape the pursuit of the Han army and fled directly to the northern grassland to join the Huns. Fortunately, they were not killed or captured by the Han army soldiers. However, Zang Tu's concubines and grandchildren were all captured by the Han army. The Yan rebellion initiated by Zang Tu and his son was completely pacified by the Han army after only about one month.
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