Chapter 157: The Dingzhou Army’s Determination

The sound of killing shook the sky, and suddenly, all without warning, countless cavalrymen wearing Dingzhou’s smoke on their bodies began to attack the Qin family from all directions of the square. A group of about a thousand cavalrymen, like a scythe, swept sharply from under the Imperial City, and those ladders that towered up to the city, in an instant, were like ripe grains in a paddy field, and with a clattering sound, they were neatly cut off at the roots.

The wheat is always heavy, there are many rebels on top of the ladder who are bravely climbing upwards, and they simply can’t imagine that there will be a friendly army that will kill them from below, and the defense below the ladder didn’t take this into consideration either. So many sets of three ladders, from the sides to the center, then this miserable collapse, the rebels above the miserable trumpet fell from the high school, like cutting rice spilled grain.

Many fell to their deaths on the ground, blossoming out blood and internal organs, and were pressed down to the bottom by the heavy ladders that were stacked haphazardly like rice stalks. The rebel soldiers who have already ascended the imperial city, suddenly realized that the rear is different, can not help but all feel appalled.

On the contrary, the only remaining part of the Imperial City of the forbidden army and the Supervisory Yuan department, found that the situation below the battlefield suddenly changed, foraging for the last chance of survival, courage suddenly rushed into their chest. The people defending the palace rushed up, dividing and surrounding the rebels who had ascended to the imperial city, leaving the Qin family’s soldiers, who had no way of retreat, in a desperate situation.

There were already rebels who had attacked into the main gate of the palace and were carrying out a surprise kill without even realizing what was happening behind them. Ye family’s two teams of cavalry approached from the west and the direction of Taiping Square, and after sweeping away the ladders, they did not slow down a bit, and directly galloped into the black hole of the main gate of the palace, and launched an attack behind the rebels who entered the palace.

And in the square above, occupy a favorable position of the Dingzhou army, also has long begun to the Qin family counterattack. The Qin family today’s upper echelon generals were too many dead and wounded, coupled with the suddenness of the incident, for a while, there was no way to organize an effective defense and counterattack.

On the battlefield, what determines victory or defeat is often the moment the battle begins. The Dingzhou army’s generals carried out the commander’s secret order before entering the city extremely well, and attacked with a thunderous force, catching the Qin family’s army off-guard. For a while, the rebel army suffered heavy casualties, and the balance of victory had tipped in favor of the Dingzhou army.

The reason why the balance had fallen was not something that everyone could figure out, especially in the middle of the square, those forbidden troops and black riders who had already experienced two hours of desperate fighting, exhausted to the extreme, and were about to face death, were even staring at each other with their eyes wide open, obviously somewhat confused.

The blood-covered Grand Prince and Jing Ge with his head lowered stood in one place, shocked at the immediate surroundings of the hooting and killing, black smoke, sword light, sword shadow, listening to the muffled grunts, miserable cries and wails in the square, and realizing that the long sword in his hand was actually so heavy.

At this time, the rebel army internal suddenly attacked each other, the Qin family is not enough to protect themselves, the Dingzhou army is deliberately staggered in the square right in the middle of that area. The Grand Prince, these people who were protecting the palace, stood in a daze in the open space, somewhat unable to understand what was happening.

One moment, they were still fighting for their lives with people, but the next moment, they …… seemed to have turned into pure bystanders, and what happened in Kyoto seemed to have nothing to do with themselves …….

The Grand Prince glanced at Jing Ge, who was covered in wounds beside him, and frowned. As the commander-in-chief of the Western Conquest Army, he certainly knew how important it was to react on the battlefield, regardless of what exactly was going on within the rebel army at the moment, but if he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity, he had to immediately give the order to gather the nearly 2,000 living forces that were left inside and outside the palace.

However, his eyes were a bit bewildered, because the inside and outside of the palace city up and down has been divided into several war zones, at this time the forbidden army wants to screw together, basically it is impossible, and from the bottom of his heart, the great prince is also not willing to let these subordinates that have already been overdrawn to the peak, once again out of the rare momentary safety at this time, and threw himself into the middle of those battles.

So he must see clearly, Dingzhou army’s sudden backlash what exactly is the meaning, is the oldest two want to take this opportunity to get rid of the crown prince, their own ascension to the throne as the emperor? But why was the Dingzhou Army deliberately staying away from this forbidden army and was working hard to protect the palace? He suddenly thought of everything Fan Xian had done since early this morning, and his heart thumped.

Could it be that Fan Xian knew that the Ye family would make a move? That was why he had issued those instructions to seek a good opportunity for the other side? At this moment, a forbidden soldier rushed to his side and whispered a few words in his ear, giving a brief account of the accident that had occurred in the rebel army’s center camp that had been noticed earlier.

The eyes of the Grand Prince brightened slightly as he looked around at the Dingzhou troops weaving in and out, at the retreating Qin family troops not far away and the dragon flag at the Crown Prince’s location, finally relaxing a bit while his admiration for Fan Xian grew even heavier.

From time to time, urgent military orders came from all around, and amidst the dust and smoke in the sky, forces from all sides were gathering to charge. The Grand Prince with the only remaining two hundred people and the forbidden army that returned to help at the Taiping Square had the good fortune to converge in one place, slowly pressing towards where the Imperial City was. And in the smoke and dust cover in the distance, the bright yellow dragon flag was faintly visible as it was withdrawing from the square.

The entire square had turned into a Cultivation Ground. Although the Qin Family rebels had suffered heavy deaths and injuries, they were outnumbered by the Dingzhou Army, and although the military order was not in order, they still made the Dingzhou Army pay a great price by virtue of the Qing Army’s naturally excellent single soldier quality.

The scene was chaotic, all of the Qing soldiers had been transformed into countless tiny battle groups, fighting together. This kind of situation arose precisely because of the chaos that arose at the very beginning when the Dingzhou Army had been ordered by the Crown Prince to prepare for a change of formation with the Qin Family.

Along the line of the Imperial City, there were battles taking place on all sides, people dying in all directions, people crying out in misery in all directions. The autumn sun hung high in the middle of the sky, finally piercing through the smoke surrounding the palace and shining clearly on everything. Blood and water dripped on the ground, especially in the three sides of the imperial city where there was a moat, the blood and water had already seeped into the river. Many dead and wounded soldiers also fell into the river miserably, some rebels who were not dead, were dipped in the cold moat water, woke up, but they were unable to get to the shore, extremely miserable struggling, sinking down to the river, it looked as if there were countless water ghosts in the moat, pulling them by the ankles.

Facing the sudden blow from the Dingzhou army, the Qin family finally retreated in defeat after barely holding on for a while. A few generals escorted the crown prince and led the gathered back ranks, evacuating the square and starting to retreat along the streets of Kyoto towards the City Gate Division, which the rebels still had control over.

As soon as the dragon flag retreated, the army was defeated again, and the Dingzhou army shouted in unison and rushed forward with courage. The battlefield suddenly spread from about three miles around the palace, once again towards the entire Kyoto. Chasing and being chased, killing and being killed, arrows flying randomly, swords and spears coming out ruthlessly. The entire Kyoto began to tremble, knowing that today would surely face a turmoil and bloodshed unseen in sixteen years.

Tak Tak Tak, a series of heavy hoofbeats cut through the only remaining smoke on the ground, bringing the general on the horse, appearing in front of the forbidden troops and black riders under the imperial city, appearing in this corner that seemed to have been forgotten by the rebels.

Countless sounds of metal clashing rang out. No one issued an order, no need to issue an order, these already exhausted to the extreme forbidden army and the black cavalry with heavy deaths and injuries, steeply erupted with vigor, strangely quickly changing their formation, surrounding that general and the battalion of personal soldiers behind that general in the formation!

The personal soldiers behind that general’s face changed drastically, and they unsheathed their swords in unison!

The Grand Prince slowly walked out and looked at the familiar figure on the horse, frowning as he remained silent.

Ye Chong slowly raised his right arm, and dozens of soldiers slowly withdrew their swords with a wary face, but still nervously watched these remnants of soldiers who had once brought them countless spiritual impacts. Earlier on top of the square, these hundreds of cavalrymen, charging twice in succession, rushed the rebels into a great turmoil, picking Qin Heng with their guns and breaking ten thousand troops with their swords, it was really too terrifying.

“The last general will transfer three thousand ministry soldiers to help your highness defend the city.”

Ye Chong looked at the blood-covered Grand Prince in front of him, a flash of admiration in his eyes, but his tone remained calm.

“Gong Dian will arrive soon. He helped Your Highness control the situation.”

The Grand Prince looked at him and still did not open his mouth. Ye Chong had already put his hand into his bosom at this time and took out a waist plate, throwing it far towards the Grand Prince.

The Grand Prince raised his right arm, which was already sore to the core, and grabbed the waist plate in his hand, fixed his eyes on it, and realized that it was the waist plate that Fan Xian had retrieved from his subordinates only in the wee hours of the morning yesterday, and could not help but frown, and raised his head to look at Ye Chong’s calm and steady body like a green mountain on the horse, and asked, “Father …… ”

After saying only two words, Ye Chong interrupted him. Because he knew what the Great Hall was going to ask, and he simply did not know how to answer.

There weren’t many fools in the royal family, when Ye Chong showed his identity at this point and had Fan Xian’s waistband as a token, the Grand Prince had already clarified the role Ye Chong was performing in this rebellion, and he also knew clearly that a character of this tier like Ye Chong was categorically not something Fan Xian could talk his way out of, and could only be described as having made arrangements for the Dingzhou army that had falsely come to offer their captives before Father Emperor left the capital!

The Grand Prince took a deep breath, and without saying anything else, he directly issued the order, “Give chase.”

He knew that Ye Chong was waiting for his order. Although at this time, the Qin family had already lost, and the sounds of killing in the square were still present, but the Ye family’s Dingzhou army had practically taken control of the entire situation in Kyoto, and Ye Chong still had to come to see himself, so naturally, he needed himself, the Forbidden Army’s Grand Commander, the Royal Eldest Son, to give him a verbal order.

At this time the situation, the hands of the strength has allowed Ye Chong can be the controller of Kyoto, but he does not want to, also dare not let anyone in the aftermath of this speculation, so only to the great prince extraordinarily respectful.

The war has already spread to the middle of Kyoto, inevitably spread to those who closed the door not to come out has been up to a day and a night of civilians, all around the war tragedy occurred. And the cavalry brigade of the Dingzhou army had already chased after the Qin family’s main battalion, marching towards the orientation of the nine gates of Kyoto.

The Crown Prince, however, was not under the dragon flag at all, and this young man who was on the verge of storming the palace and becoming the new monarch of the Qing Kingdom was suddenly struck by a blow across the waist, his dreams shattered in front of his own eyes, and his countenance had long since become dismal and unrecognizable. Luckily, the Qin family’s several loyal generals, reacted surprisingly fast, and led the remnants of the army to kill a bloody road.

Li Chengqian does not want to retreat, because he knows, his hands can have only the Qin family of this army, if the withdrawal of Kyoto, although the world is big, but where there is their own place to stay? I’m afraid that even my aunt didn’t think that the Ye family would rebel, right? The corner of the young prince’s lips spread a bitter smile, underneath the war horse’s upheaval, also did not let him seem to be frozen expression has the slightest change.

He had previously thought that after ascending to the throne, how to win over the Ye family from the side of the oldest two, and become a real emperor, how to resist the pressure of his aunt, mother, grandmother and Master Qin, and pardon those civil officials on the city walls who were determined to fight against him, especially the two great scholars of Shu and Hu.

Who would have expected that the Ye family would rebel like this!

Auntie is only afraid that she still does not know this shocking news, mother and grandmother are still trapped on top of the imperial city, and Master Qin …… is already dead.

Prince’s chest a sharp pain, in the horse has been almost can not stand straight body. A rebel general beside him said with tears in his eyes, “Your Highness, as long as you get out of the city, and then collect soldiers, Banshanchong a place, there are still our people, and at that time, we will charge straight to the north, and meet with Yan Da Dudu, and the great thing will be accomplished!”

This was reasonable, yet Li Chengqian didn’t really believe it. Because Fan Xian came back alive, I’m afraid that Yan Da Dudu is also dead, and since the Ye family rebelled, Uncle Liu Yun is only afraid of …… Alas, Li Chengqian’s heart sighed, along with the horse’s gallop toward the city gates, his heart doesn’t know what kind of waves are swirling.

Under the imperial city, another one of the masterminds of the rebellion, the second prince is looking at his father-in-law with a look of resentment and despair. Before Ye Chong personally led the Dingzhou Army forward to pursue the attack, he somehow returned to his center camp and glanced at his son-in-law.

“If you want to live, what my Dingzhou Army said today, you must remember it all.”

The second prince, whose entire body was restrained at this moment, stood forlornly under his horse, looked up stubbornly at Ye Chong, and spat. He knew what Ye Chong’s words meant, the Dingzhou Army’s final reversal was nominally because he wanted to avenge his father’s death and carry out his father’s last decree, but he knew in his heart that it wasn’t the case.

Of all the parties involved, the one with the most desperate, shocked, and angry mood was actually the Second Prince. He didn’t even know that on the Great Eastern Mountain, the Emperor of Qing had said extraordinarily in his explanation to Fan Xian that if possible, he would leave his second son alive, and at such a moment, the second prince hadn’t even thought that he could still survive.

And what makes him feel the most angry is that he seems to have been planning for a long time …… It turns out that in the end, he is the one who is the most stupid! Everything he had done, nowadays it looked like it turned out to be so ridiculous, so comical!

His eyes contained anger, and his usually gentle and incomparable face looked extraordinarily chilly: “Father-in-law, you are really a good dog …… Just what will you do if Father Emperor really dies?”

Ye Chong didn’t say anything and slowly turned his horse’s head, the look on his face became a bit gloomy. The second prince hissed behind him, “You bunch of liars!”

Right at this moment, a heavy object suddenly crashed down above the Imperial City, hitting the hard stone slabs with a muffled sound. What fell down was a person, wearing a beautiful fancy dress, by this heavy blow, her whole body’s tendons and bones were broken, blood flowed horizontally, and she had long been killed, only her head was preserved still intact, revealing the face that was haggard and despairing and crazy in that dignified manner.

Watching the dragon flag far away, the desperate queen finally helplessly fell to her death.