Chapter 429: We Will Definitely Hold On
"The princess is out!"
"Look, the princess didn't abandon the city! I told you she wouldn't abandon us!"
Everyone saw that Princess Chang'an not only came out, but also admitted that there was a secret passage in the palace leading out of the city.
But even if the princess could leave, she didn't.
The people gathered in front of the palace gate immediately asked in unison: "Princess, can we save Xizhou City?"
"When will the troops besieging Xizhou City withdraw?"
"Will Prince Chang'an come back to rescue us?"
"Yes." Chunzhi replied solemnly, "We can definitely defend Xizhou City."
She told the people, "The prince is far away in Jiangyang City and can't come back for a while. But he knows that Xizhou City is in trouble and will definitely try to rescue it. So we must work together to save Xizhou City!"
Chunzhi did not let the people just sit and wait for King Chang'an to bring his troops back to rescue Xizhou City. Instead, he asked everyone to join the camp to defend Xizhou.
Xizhou City is everyone’s home and should be protected by everyone together.
Moreover, the international market in Xizhou is getting bigger and bigger. Many Beili people, foreigners from small border countries, and even Xiling people come to Xizhou to do business. This time Xizhou City is under siege. Even if the people are not angry, those foreigners will definitely make trouble.
So Chunzhi directly spread the word that there was a secret passage in the palace leading to the outside of the city, and anyone who did not want to stay in Xizhou City could come to the palace and leave through the secret passage.
As soon as these words were spoken, the people became confident in defending Xizhou City.
After careful consideration, those foreigners were reluctant to give up the huge wealth of the mutual market, and they didn't know what they would encounter after leaving the secret passage. After all, the Beizhou Army was everywhere outside the city. If they were blocked and killed by the Beizhou Army after leaving, it would be better for them to stay in Xizhou City and live longer.
So the civil unrest in the city was suppressed.
There were only 30,000 soldiers in the city. The commander of Beizhou led 70,000 soldiers to attack for three consecutive days, but failed to break through the gate of Xizhou.
There were countless casualties on both sides, and many young and middle-aged people in Xizhou took the initiative to join the guard team.
Chunzhi brought a group of generals' wives to personally treat the wounded. Soldiers on the city wall fell down one after another and were replaced by new ones.
The siege lasted for three days and three nights.
Perhaps the commander of Beizhou did not expect that these people in Xizhou City would be so determined to defend the city. The more this happened, the more he wanted to take Xizhou City in one go.
Once Xizhou City recovers, changes may occur in Jiangyang City.
The commander of Beizhou, regardless of casualties, issued a death order to capture Xizhou City and take all the gold, silver and beauties in the city.
Today, Xizhou is the place with the most gold and silver in the whole Daxing and even in all the countries. There are commercial markets everywhere and beauties everywhere. As soon as the Beizhou commander said this, the Beizhou soldiers who were exhausted and gasping for breath immediately continued to attack the city desperately as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
After three days of attack, the Xizhou city gate, no matter how strong it was, was about to collapse.
Several generals who stayed behind in Xizhou were injured. Seeing that Xizhou City could not be defended, an official came to persuade Chunzhi, "Xizhou City is about to be lost. Princess, please take the young master away through the secret passage as soon as possible."
Chunzhi said, "If I leave, what will happen to the people of Xizhou?"
Chang Lei, the extremely rigid Lord Chang, who had previously said that the princess's involvement in government affairs was like a hen crowing at dawn, couldn't help but advise her, "If the princess and the young master fall into the hands of thieves, the prince will definitely be cautious—"
"Wrong," Chunzhi said, "In Huo Zheng's eyes, the people of Xizhou are as important as us, mother and son. So I can't let Xizhou City fall into the hands of thieves."
Chang Lei looked at the Princess Chang'an in front of him with a complicated expression. Even though he had personally witnessed the princess doing countless practical things for Xizhou in the past three years, even a rigid person like him began to reflect. It turns out that women in the world are not only weak and delicate. They can also do many things like men, and even because of their delicate minds, they can make up for the side that many men consider.
But Chang Lei still felt that women were women and they just needed to do their best. Now that Xizhou City was about to be breached, they should leave immediately. But the princess said that in the heart of Prince Chang'an, the people of Xizhou were as important as them and their son.
The eyes of several Western State officials present were filled with tears.
The sound of fighting outside the city gate was deafening. After three days and three nights of siege, the troops in the city were on the verge of collapse.
Chunzhi not only refused to listen to the officials' advice and took the young prince out of Xizhou City through the secret passage, but also rode to the city gate, climbed up the city wall, and personally beat the drum to cheer on the soldiers defending the city, "Defend the city gate to the death, kill the enemy army, and swear to live and die with the Western Zhou Dynasty!"
Princess Chang'an was such a thin and slender person, dressed in purple, beating the war drum on the city wall against the wind and snow. Her weak body was like a tough weed in the wind and snow, and the sound of the war drum spread throughout the city.
The soldiers who had been almost exhausted suddenly burst out with unprecedented strength and shouted, "We will live and die with the Western Zhou Dynasty!"
Kill the Beizhou soldiers who kept climbing up the city wall.
Many people in the city saw that the city gate was about to be broken down, and more and more people ran over to hold the gate together.
Several Western Province civil servants went up to the city wall and shot arrows at the Northern Province army. Gentlemen learn the six arts, and they also know how to ride and shoot.
The Beizhou army outside the city originally thought that this was the final blow and they would be able to break open the city gate soon, but these people in Xizhou City suddenly went crazy and fought to the death.
Suo Hongkai, the chief general of Northern Province, looked at the purple figure on the city wall and narrowed his eyes. "Prince Chang'an is so lucky to have such a princess."
No matter how much Princess Chang'an can inspire people, Xizhou City must be captured today!
Suo Hongkai shouted the order, "Capture Xizhou City and capture Princess Chang'an alive!"
The commander of Beizhou wants to capture Princess Chang'an alive.
Princess Chang'an, however, ordered the chief general of Beizhou to be shot and killed.
The fighting continued here, and at this time inside the palace.
Rendong, who was supposed to treat the wounded, went straight to the courtyard where Huo Yan was after learning that the princess had gone up to the city wall.
She had been busy treating the wounded these days, and Huo Yan's injury was not that serious, so she didn't pay much attention to it.
When Rendong rushed into the courtyard, Huo Yan was sitting under the eaves admiring the snow.
Xizhou City was about to be undefended, and the situation outside was in chaos. Even ordinary people could not bear to watch Xizhou fall, and they all wanted to rush to the battlefield.
His Royal Highness the Ninth Prince is so good that he still has the mind to enjoy the snow here.
Ren Dong rushed to Huo Yan and said, "You are also the son of an emperor, and you have been supported by millions of people since you were a child. Can you really just watch Xizhou City fall and let innocent people suffer in this war?"
Huo Yan looked up at Ren Dong, but before he could say anything, he heard her say, "Perhaps in your eyes, the fall of Xizhou City is nothing, and the princess and the young master falling into the hands of thieves is nothing. But don't you want to pick up the dignity and pride you lost in Xizhou?"
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