Just as Li Qin was watching intently at the breach in the capital's city wall, witnessing the fierce battle taking place.
On the city wall, Yu Gan was nervously directing his troops to quickly plug the gaps.
He then ordered the soldiers on the city walls on either side of the breaches to immediately attack Li Qin's army with molten gold, bricks, and bows and arrows.
Meanwhile, the army that was attacking those gaps was caught in a pincer movement, and their fierce attack was actually contained by the Wu army.
Upon witnessing this scene, Li Qin immediately gripped his sword tightly.
Just as the Liao army's attack was being contained, in one of the larger gaps that was relatively close to Yu Gan...
Suddenly, a loud voice shouted something.
"Get out of my way, all of you."
Upon hearing the sound, Yu Gan immediately looked over and saw a burly man, as strong as a bear, wearing heavy armor, holding a shield in one hand and a hammer in the other.
He actually took the lead and used his shield to knock aside the Wu soldiers blocking his way. When he encountered a soldier blocking his way, he immediately smashed his head with the hammer in his hand.
For a moment, no one could stop him, and the elite infantry behind him immediately seized the opportunity, shouting after him:
"Follow General Peng Jiahu and charge in."
Soon, with Peng Jiahu, who was wearing heavy armor, leading the charge, the group tore open Wu's defenses at this gap.
Then, countless Liaodong soldiers filed into the capital.
Upon witnessing this scene, Yu Gan did not give up the fight. Instead, he waved his military flag and ordered the remaining soldiers to retreat to the earthen walls inside the city after destroying the cannons.
Li Qin, who was in the outer camp, saw the Liaodong army rushing into the capital through his binoculars and immediately stood up excitedly.
He finally captured the capital.
At the same time that Li Qin entered the capital, at the checkpoint under the jurisdiction of Xuanfu.
A cavalry force of five thousand men also quickly broke through the pass and entered.
They didn't linger at the pass, but instead rushed towards Xuanfu after breaking through it.
"Quickly, quickly, ignore the remaining Wu troops inside the pass, head straight for Xuanfu, that's the core of Xuanfu's army's food supply transportation."
quick.
Xuanfu is even more vulnerable now than Jizhou was back then, and it was completely unprepared because of our swift raid. Hurry up!
Dugu Yu looked at the army that kept breaking through the barriers in front of him and said excitedly.
He is now only one step away from completing the task assigned to him by the young marshal.
After he finished speaking, he continued to lead his army towards Xuanfu.
After a long journey, they finally saw the city walls of Xuanfu.
At this time, the city walls of Xuanfu were wide open, and countless vendors were pushing or driving carts in and out.
Surprisingly, there were hardly any soldiers stationed on the city walls of Xuanfu.
It is evident that after learning that the emperor was trapped and the capital was besieged, Guo Zifeng had taken everything he could from Xuanfu to rescue the capital.
After seeing how empty Xuanfu was and how lax its defenses were.
Dugu Yu drew his sword from his waist and said to the soldiers:
"Change horses, don armor, attack!"
Just as the Henan army was completely wiped out and the Xuanfu army was about to be driven to the brink of destruction.
The governor of Taiyuan, Yang Zhiyong, had just led tens of thousands of troops from Taiyuan across the Taihang Mountains.
At this moment, he was moving at such a slow pace.
Yang Zhiyong looked furious.
"I will impeach Jiang Xiangyang of Datong sooner or later, I will impeach him, he is a treacherous minister."
Now, whenever he thinks of Jiang Xiangyang from Datong, he is filled with anger.
The reason is simple: when he received the letter from the capital pleading for help, he immediately gathered food and mobilized a large army to prepare to rescue the capital.
However, he also considered the fact that he did not have enough troops.
Therefore, he planned to head north, first to join forces with Jiang Xiangyang in Datong, and then pass through Xuanfu to join forces with the Xuanfu army.
In this way, their three armies, united as one, could definitely engage Li Qin in a face-to-face battle.
It could even directly lift the siege of the capital and quell Li Qin's rebellion in one fell swoop.
But who knew that after he led his army to Datong,
The governor of Datong, Jiang Xiangyang, actually blocked the passes of Datong, preventing his relief army from passing through Datong.
He also discovered that although Jiang Xiangyang, the governor of Datong, had also assembled troops, he had no intention of rushing to the capital to provide relief.
Yang Zhiyong immediately understood Jiang Xiangyang's intentions: he wanted to maintain his military power and continue to observe the situation.
Although Yang Zhiyong was very angry with Jiang Xiangyang, he was helpless.
The only option was to return eastward, cross the Taihang Mountains, enter Beizhili (northern Hebei), and then head north to support the capital.
This back-and-forth took up a lot of his time.
At this time, he had just entered the territory of Beizhili when he encountered a group of defeated soldiers who were looting villages everywhere.
After they were captured, the information they provided stunned Yang Zhiyong.
They were originally soldiers under the command of Dong Zhonglou, the Governor-General of Henan.
However, Dong Zhonglou's tens of thousands of Henan troops were easily defeated by a few hundred cavalrymen led by one of Li Qin's generals at the gates of Zhuozhou.
The entire Henan army was wiped out, and Governor Dong Zhonglou disappeared without a trace.
These defeated soldiers, who were fortunate enough to escape capture by the Liao army cavalry, had no idea what to do and could only slowly make their way back to their hometown in Henan.
Upon learning this important and shocking news, Yang Zhiyong angrily shouted:
"An incompetent general can bring ruin to an entire army. I knew that Dong Zhonglou, that eunuch remnant, was a useless piece of trash, but I never expected him to be just as useless as his 'backer Wang Zhen'."
The king's army lost hundreds of thousands of troops in the capital, which led to His Majesty's capture by the rebels and the country's current predicament.
That eunuch Dong Zhonglou, a remnant of the corrupt officials, actually led tens of thousands of troops in Henan to their complete annihilation.
They are a scourge to the nation!
As he spoke, he patted the saddle of his horse.
"The reason why Da Wu has become like this today is entirely due to the machinations of this group of treacherous officials."
Sooner or later, I will completely eradicate these treacherous officials.
To restore justice to the people of the world.
At this moment, Yang Zhiwen, Yang Zhiyong's younger brother, who was standing behind him, also shook his head.
They are from the same family as Grand Secretary Yang Shizhong.
His older brother, Yang Zhiyong, was raised by Yang Shizhong from a young age and witnessed the gradual decline of the country, which pained him deeply.
A personality that takes the world as its responsibility.
In fact, given Wang Zhen's chaotic rule, if it weren't for his intervention and the reassurance from Grand Secretary Yang Shizhong, he would have been in serious trouble.
He estimated that he would bring the large army from Taiyuan and propose the purge of corrupt officials even earlier than Li Qin.
They used force to eliminate Wang Zhen's faction.
However, unlike Li Qin, his brother was genuinely prepared to purge the court of corrupt officials.
It's not like Li Qin is now, using the banner of "purging the court of corrupt officials" to carry out rebellious acts.
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