It has been repeated many times. Jiankang city covers a huge area. As a result, the city wall is not straight at all. It is necessary to turn the road after reaching some positions. The layout of the city gate is also set up according to the shape and position of the city wall.
The road that Fu Wei led his troops to Jiankang was not tortuous. When they crossed the Jin army's defense line, they didn't even move any sword handle soldiers. Only because the Jin army on the defense line took refuge in the Han Army under the instructions of the door lords and aristocratic families behind it, and at this time, Wang Xizhi was still on his way to camera mountain.
The ship of the small imperial court in the Eastern Jin Dynasty has been broken into thousands of square holes, and there are rebellious aristocratic families all the time, so that the situation has evolved into that the small imperial court not only wants to be the enemy of the Han Army, but also bears constant rebellion, which is the evil result of aristocratic family politics.
In fact, the aristocratic family really won't be loyal to anyone except the family. Everything is based on their own interests. When the situation is serious to a certain extent, keeping the family interests is the first choice. In addition, everything is an option that can be sold.
Nearly 20000 troops belonging to the Han camp appeared in Dongcheng. This news is undoubtedly bad news for the people trapped in Miyagi.
The east of Jiankang has been a battlefield in the past few months. There are dozens of miles of defense depth and 178000 Jin troops stationed there. The Han army came from the East, so can it be said that the Jin army over there has disintegrated, and even the Wang clan has jumped backwards?
Chu suanzi's sadness is that the royal family only controls the combat power of about 10000 in the palace city, and Chu's seven patchwork is only to put together less than 4000 absolutely credible armed forces. It is basically a delusion to rely on those forces to break through the siege, and the situation has deteriorated again and again. Those aristocratic families on their side may change their position at any time.
"I think the Han Army just came to the east city by chance. It's not that there's a problem with the troops there." After the demise of Li's Chenghan Dynasty, Chang Yu became an official here in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He said: "we should send people to the East and send troops back to break the siege."
Chu Li would like to say that anything can happen when people are in danger. For example, the Huan family did not show signs of rebellion before, so he directed this big play. He thinks Huan's gate can do that, so why can't Wang's gate? But he dared not say these words.
Their quarrel and quarrel have lasted for a long time. Outside, bad news has been sent back one after another, but inside, they have not been able to come up with ideas for a long time. It is better for Chu suanzi, who has been watching, to think of even a bad idea than to continue such quarrel.
In the midst of the noise, someone came to report that the Han army who had entered Beicheng had pushed towards Gongcheng.
"Gentlemen." Chu suanzi said for the first time, "would you like to go to the city building with the mourning family?"
Regardless of what the people present were thinking or had made up their minds, Chu suanzi, as empress dowager, was willing to go with them.
The palace city of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was built on the basis of the Soochow royal family. Due to the overall weakness of the Sima family, no new palace has been built or even repaired for a long time, which makes the palace city look like this country, showing a dilapidated atmosphere.
No matter how small the palace city is, a group of people waiting for cars and horseback riding must be on foot. They went north out of the core Hall of the palace city, passed through Donglin garden and came to Datong gate.
Chu suanzi saw with his own eyes along the way that the palace city, which should have been extremely solemn, became extremely messy. Patrolling guards could be seen everywhere. In addition, palace maids and attendants were killed on the road. The doors of some palaces were open, which seemed like looting. Together with the originally beautiful Donglin garden, it became a mess, and many trees were cut down.
Now is not the time to pay attention to pomp. Chu suanzi didn't wear a gorgeous chapter suit, the little emperor Sima Huang didn't wear a crown suit, and the vehicle didn't plug in any emperor's day.
The accompanying group of people were dressed in disorder, some in regular clothes, some in official clothes, and more in military uniforms. According to the different clothes, we can judge the state of jiankangsheng when he was in chaos, and he was invited to the palace city one after another.
The north of Miyagi is not a residential area. There is a Tongqin temple outside Datong gate and Guishan Temple next to Daxia gate. The incense of the two temples in Jiankang is not bad. Further north, there is Jilong mountain, which is the cemetery area of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The former emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty are buried. To the north of Jilong mountain is Xuanwu Lake.
Standing at Datong gate to the north, the temple of Tongqin temple can be seen clearly. There is no human shadow there at this moment, but it can also be seen from the corpses and sundries everywhere. It has also experienced chaos.
In fact, there are many city gates in the north of the palace city. Datong gate is only the exit of Donglin park. Other places are connected to the outside square city. There are so many city gates purely due to some etiquette, as if they go in and out from any gate.
There is a straight Avenue on the east side of Tongqin temple, which connects Gongcheng and Xuanwu Lake. Located on the southeast side of Xuanwu Lake is Fuzhou mountain. There is a stream on the edge of the mountain, which leads to a lot of bridges here.
"The fire in Jilong mountain hasn't stopped..." Chu Li turned to the West and said, "we can see our army flags flying over the stone city."
In fact, the stone city is very far from Datong gate. People can see the flag flying with their naked eyes, but it is so fuzzy that it is difficult to identify the color. How can we see whose flag it belongs to.
Xuanwu Lake is the largest lake in Jiankang City, and its area is definitely larger than that of the whole palace city. When there was a sudden heavy rain in previous years, Xuanwu Lake was a disaster in Jiankang City, so that the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty spent a lot of money to continuously build a long dike. The total length of the long dike built over decades was definitely 180 Li, which was thicker and higher year by year, so that Xuanwu Lake could become a pure place to enjoy and no longer have any harm.
The area where the Han Army entered the city was Xichuan mansion, located on the west side of the Long embankment of Xuanwu Lake and on the north side of stone city. Judging from the terrain, before the Han Army wanted to reach the palace city, it should capture the stone city first, otherwise it would be cut off. Chu Li stressed that the stone city was still in the hands of the Jin army.
Xie AI is really studying stone city at this moment.
As the name suggests, stone city is built on the basis of full of stones. It is a scene in Jiankang city. The mountain is a stone mountain. At the foot of the mountain is a stream in the East and the Yangtze River in the West. It is a square in the city on the mountain at a low altitude. There are citizens and troops stationed for a long time. The garrison is to monitor the movement of the Yangtze River. There are already large military equipment fortifications, waiting for the Han Army to increase after the overall dominance of the Yangtze River. At present, at least hundreds of eight horse crossbows are aimed at the Yangtze River.
"If you don't attack here, it's really inappropriate to invade the palace city!" The map in Xie AI's hand is provided by Huan Yun. It seems to have sufficient original features, that is, it only depicts the general, and there will be no data. He rolled up the map and asked, "there are about 3000 troops on it?"
"Three thousand troops are stationed to guard against the Yangtze River. Now there are definitely more than three thousand." Huan Yun said with a wry smile, "I wanted to take advantage of his unprepared, but I didn't succeed."
Xie AI has learned from Huan Yun that the garrison in stone city is under the control of Xie's gate. It has been confirmed that Xie's general's command has been handed over to Chu Li about Xie Li's death. In fact, he still doesn't understand what Xie's gate valve thinks. In addition to Xie an's service in the state of Han, Xie's gate valve still opposes the state of Han everywhere. It's really not a wise move.
Four thousand Han troops and three or five thousand miscellaneous people arrived at the north side of the stone city. Looking from this position to the location of the stone city, the first thing to see is the towering and steep mountains. The colors of the stones are earthy yellow and red. There are few plants on the cliffs, and there is no upward passage.
"This is not the stone city area. It is a barren mountain in the north. There are only two mountain bags and a Valley Road. There is an upward passage inside." Huan Yun pointed to the stone mountain in the distance, on which there were dense figures of the Jin Army: "if the general wants to attack the stone mountain, he needs to bypass the Xili gate, just..."
The West fence gate is one of the exits of the outer fence wall of the palace city. This fence wall with a total length of nearly 300 Li is one of the three walls of Jiankang city. The shape is not straight. If you can overview it, it is actually a distorted olive shape. In other words, it was not enough for the Han Army to enter the city. It had to face such a fence wall. In fact, the fence wall was not exactly. Its height should be about two feet. The wall was protected by a fence. In fact, it was a rammed earth structure.
It was precisely because of the extreme lack of security of the small imperial court in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. If the Han army was allowed to push forward in a dignified manner, due to the terrain constraints, it would not know how long it would take to conquer the first city wall. When entering the city, it would have to face hundreds of thousands of soldiers and people to attack the Waiguo city wall. Even if the Waiguo city wall was defeated, there would be a palace city wall that would not lose to the first city wall, It's really not that easy.
Now, the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is subject to civil strife due to the situation. The Han Army led by Xie AI entered Jiankang city without any cost. The trouble is only to uproot the stronghold that is still resisting outside the Waiguo city wall.
"Leave some troops and follow me to the Xili gate." Xie AI took a deep look at the mountains with dangerous terrain and was very happy in his heart: [the civil strife in the puppet Dynasty is really great!]
If you want to go to Xili gate, the marching route is a deliberately flowing wilderness, which is heard to be a special place for outing.
Xie Ai saw with his own eyes that although the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty lived in a corner, it never forgot to enjoy it. This can be seen from the layout of courtyards and pavilions and forest gardens on the way.
On the Waiguo city wall, there were guards of the Jin army. When they saw the emergence of the Han Army, they sounded the alarm bell, followed by the sound of war drums.
"There are many defenders on the wall." Xie AI asked Huan Yun, "has the unrest in the Waiguo city wall been quelled?"
"It won't be so easy." Huan Yun replied with great certainty: "Chu Li should use the power of his aristocratic family and dare not mobilize Guocheng to defend the army."
As Huan Yun said, Chu Li did not dare to mobilize the garrison of Waiguo city wall. In addition to sincerely not wanting to empty the city defense, he was afraid that the garrison of Waiguo city wall had Han Army insiders, and for the palace city, unreliable troops were not allowed to enter.
Xie AI directly asked, "is there any arrangement for the Lord Huan to defend the army in Guocheng?"
"Nature." Huan Yun said with a cheerful smile, "the general will know when he is introduced."
Huan Yun's only uncertainty is whether those who arranged will be cleaned after the event of the outer city gate.
The detour didn't take too much time. What happened on the way was only a small-scale chaotic army. Xie AI took his troops to shitoujin on the east side of shitoucheng. At first glance, he frowned very tightly.
On the north side of the stone city, there is only one channel in the bag. On the east side, there are several channels, but the people are trapped by stone Tianjin. There are not only rocks everywhere, but also a lot of flowing water.
"Garrison..." Xie AI frowned deeply and said, "more than three thousand."
In the direction of stone city, many archers and even eight horse crossbows can be seen at the edge of the cliff of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, the garrison arranged a line of defense composed of several horses and fences. Just looking at the garrison, it would not be less than 1000.
Looking at Xie AI in stone city, he found that the movement looked to the southeast, where I don't know how many people shouted loudly, and the crowd looked dense.
The composition of visitors looks very miscellaneous. Most of them are folk costumes, and a few are wearing Jin army uniforms. The banner headed by them is greatly written with the word "righteousness".
The southwest side of shitoujin is on the Yangtze River. The crowd came close to the Waiguo city wall. The garrison above did not attack the crowd. Then I want to know with my knees that the visitor was standing on the side of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Huan Yun saw the head man's face, pulled his cheek and said to Xie AI, "the man is Yin Hao's younger brother, named Yin Kang. There are other noble families such as Guo, Lu and Zhu."
Xie AI was clear about the gate valves and big aristocratic families of the small imperial court in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Some families between first-class and second-class aristocratic families also had a little research. As soon as they heard who they were, they probably had something in mind.
"I didn't expect Sima's family to have a legacy." Xie AI turned to his deputy general and ordered, "the cavalry will disperse. If you don't retreat, kill them all."
When the order was given, five hundred cavalry of the Han army set out, the roaring hoofs were trampled in a moment. They didn't rush directly into the crowd. After all, the crowd was within the cover of the archers above the Waiguo city wall.
Yin Kang was the man who carried the "righteousness" flag in his hand. At the age of about 40, he looked at death like home, and shouted: "fight with the thief army!"
If you know the people of the small imperial family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, you will find that the people with heads and faces are basically the second or concubines of the family, and there is absolutely no such person as the eldest son.
Huan Yun knows very well why there are so many people. Nothing more than that there is no completely rotten aristocratic family. He also pays attention to the integrity of the family and shows the integrity of the family at the price of beating the egg against the stone. He can even guess what those families will do next. If all the people waiting for these deaths are really dead, it means that their families do not owe the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and then these families can safely surrender to the state of Han.