Lan Zhen led the army to Texas City non-stop. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThey were originally only thirty miles away from Texas City, and after a while, they came to Texas City. Then, they noticed, the Texas City Gate was opened!

Lan Zhen couldn't hold back her joy: this was probably the general defending the city, thinking that they were rebels going north, so the city gate was opened.

Of course, Lan Zhen would not allow such an opportunity to be thrown away from his eyes. He ordered to speed up again, and the smoke and dust rolled up became so thick that it was almost impossible to see Texas City.

At this time, the defenders of Texas City seemed to have noticed that something was wrong: if their own people were already at the city gate, they would definitely slow down, but these people were even faster. The men who were guarding the gates immediately ordered the gates to be closed.

But by this time it was too late. Without waiting for Lan Zhen's order, the people who rushed to the front opened their bows and arrows and shot at the city gate. Although there was no accuracy, there was not much space at the city gate, and more than a dozen people were shot dead in an instant. Without these dozen people, the gate, which was already difficult to close, could not be closed at all, and the guards at the city gate knelt on the ground and wanted to surrender.

But who will stop and accept his surrender in this moment of racing against time? Lan Zhen's subordinates once again shot all those who were at the city gate with their bows and arrows, and then rushed directly into the city through the city gate.

One of the things that made ancient warfare different from today's warfare was the emphasis placed on city gates. In modern warfare, even if most of the entire city has been lost, as long as there is still a small area, or even all the ground places have been lost, and only the sewers remain, the soldiers defending the city will insist that they will not completely lose hope.

And ancient times are different. In ancient wars, once the city gate was lost, the soldiers defending the city would instantly collapse and then completely disperse. If there is an inner city, all the soldiers will retreat to the inner city and continue to hold on; But if there is no inner city, the defenders of the city are completely finished.

Although Dezhou City is not small, it is not a provincial government, second, it is not a prince's fiefdom, and third, it is not a border town, so there is no inner city. Therefore, after seeing the loss of the city gate, the army collapsed and kept retreating.

In order to prevent accidents, Lan Zhen left hundreds of people to guard the area around the southern city gate, and then divided the remaining people into several units in thousands of households to rush and kill in the city, to completely disrupt the order in the city and prevent the army defending the city from gathering together.

Zhao Zhijing, the defender of Dezhou City, saw that the matter had come to this point, and it was completely irretrievable, so he came down from the city wall with his cronies, and gathered some people along the way, gathering a total of more than 100 people to escape from the north city gate. He knew that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, had already responded to the rebellion and wanted to run out from the North City Gate to join Zhu Di. Lan Zhen and the others haven't sealed the north gate yet.

But he didn't want him to just leave the North City Gate when he ran into soldiers returning from the post station north of Texas City. This soldier didn't know what was going on in Dezhou City, and when he saw Zhao Zhijing, he said to him: "General Zhao, King Yan's army has reached ten miles north of Dezhou City, and it will be able to reach Dezhou City in a while." ”

"His Royal Highness King Yan asked me to tell General Zhao to prepare the place where the army is stationed and dinner, and they will rest in the city at night."

"Ahh Hearing this soldier's words, Zhao Zhijing's heart suddenly rose with hope: "You can also recapture the city!" ’

Zhao Zhijing immediately said to the soldier who came to deliver the message: "You go and inform Your Highness immediately that the army of the imperial court has arrived under the city of Dezhou, and the city of Dezhou is about to be lost!" ”

"What!" The soldier who sent the message was stunned for a moment after hearing Zhao Zhijing's words to him, and did not move.

But of course, Zhao Zhijing couldn't wait for him to react. He came up and slapped two big mouths in the face of the messenger soldier, and shouted, "Don't go yet! What are you doing here! ”

3 When he came back to his senses, he hurriedly turned his horse's head and went the way he came. Zhao Zhijing was still not at ease, so he let one of his cronies also ride a horse to follow.

Then Zhao Zhijing turned around and said to the remaining soldiers: "You have also heard, King Yan's army is about to arrive, we just need to guard the city gate, and wait for King Yan's army to arrive after a while before we can recapture Dezhou City." So now give me to guard the city gates, if anyone dares to escape without permission, there will be no mercy! ”

After all, Zhao Zhijing is the defender of Dezhou City, and at this time, Jiwei is still there, and they continue to flee north in the hands of King Yan's army, so it is difficult to say what King Yan will do with them if they flee in the past, so although everyone is trembling, they all stopped at the city gate and guarded the city gate without any cover.

Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to rush back and forth in the city, which was very enjoyable. This battle was also his first time on the battlefield, but he felt as if he was born to belong to the battlefield, and he was at home on the battlefield without being cramped at all.

However, the guard Zhang Wuji (Chapter 233) he received last year was very nervous, for fear that someone would suddenly shoot Zhu Gaoxu with a cold arrow. Now in the city, there are houses everywhere, and if someone hides and suddenly throws cold arrows, it is almost impossible to defend against them.

Zhang Wuji said to Zhu Gaoxu: "Lord Wang, it's better to be careful, what if someone suddenly throws a cold arrow?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, and also felt that it was easy to dodge the open gun and difficult to defend against the hidden arrow, wouldn't it be too unlucky if he was killed by a cold arrow? So I decided to go out of the city as well.

However, at this time, the more than 1,000 people he led had already rushed to the vicinity of the north gate, and Zhu Gaoxu said: "I have arrived at the north gate, and then turn back and go out of the city from other city gates, and rush out from here!" Then he rushed over.

At this time, hundreds of defeated soldiers had gathered at the north city gate, and the city gate was empty and narrow, if there was morale, it should be able to stop Zhu Gaoxu and them.

But now the morale of the rebels is completely lost, and when they see the cavalry rushing over, they will collapse, and if it weren't for the small terrain here, it is estimated that they would have collapsed.

However, they couldn't stop Zhu Gaoxu for long, although Zhao Zhijing tried hard to stop them and did his best, but he was still completely defeated by Zhu Gaoxu and his own death.

The remaining rebel soldiers who were still alive fell to their knees and tried to surrender. But how could Zhu Gaoxu be in the mood to surrender? He said loudly: "You follow the rebels and rebel, and your sins are unforgivable. Then he rode to and fro and trampled them to trample them to death.

At this time, a rebel soldier suddenly shouted: "Lord, Lord, I have something important to tell Lord!" In order to make meritorious service and leave a life! ”

Zhu Gaoxu said indifferently: "What important things can you have?" "Ignore this man and continue to trample.

This person then hid and said loudly: "Lord Wang, the army of His Royal Highness King Yan has arrived in the north of Dezhou City, and it is about to enter the city!" ”