HCB Chapter 219 Huai Jun Arrives
Chapter 219 Huai Jun Arrives
For the emperor, even if the capital city fell, as long as his palace was still there, he had not lost.
Reinforcements from other places will continue to arrive, and by then King Huai will be annihilated by the endless stream of reinforcements.
Thinking of King Huai, this bastard, Emperor Wu was filled with rage. He never expected that the guy who was so timid and cowardly and looked like a rat to him would dare to rebel, and even join forces with the barbarians and Fang Chengyu to rebel. How could he not be angry?
The entire capital city looked chaotic.
The wealthy families in the capital city sent out many of their servants.
This time, Emperor Wu issued a strict order: whichever family does not send out people will be dealt with first.
They didn't want to have their property confiscated and their clans exterminated by Emperor Wu before King Huai could capture the capital.
Yang Long ordered a large number of Yang family servants and guards to wear armor and take weapons to go out and defend the city.
But he will still leave some people behind to be responsible for protecting the Yang Mansion. It is better to be safe than sorry. If they cannot resist, then these guards will be the last guarantee.
If King Huai really broke through the capital, he would have no choice but to surrender, and would not have time to care about the Sixth Prince. He should protect the Yang family first.
If they were to resist to the end, the Yang family would be truly gone.
I believe that even if the Sixth Prince leads the army back, it will not matter. He will definitely not make things difficult for the Yang family for the sake of his daughter and Han Dingtian in the north.
He even sent someone to pick up Yang Ziqin and bring her to the Yang family. No matter what, he couldn't ignore his daughter.
But when Yang Long sent people there, they were stunned to see that hundreds of imperial guards had forcibly taken Yang Ziqin and the ninth princess of the barbarian tribe into the palace.
They were taken away for protection in the name of protecting the Sixth Prince's family.
Yang Long was helpless and felt depressed as he looked towards the Eastern Palace. The old emperor still didn't trust his son at this time.
What protection? It's obvious that he just wants to take them as hostages, fearing that his own son will not come to rescue the palace.
The entire Beijing camp entered the capital city one after another and defended the city walls at various locations.
Adding the soldiers stationed at various city gates, there are more than 40,000 soldiers in total. It can be seen how serious the problem of collecting empty salaries is on the side of the Beijing camp.
In the direction of Xiqing Gate, here is the last troop of soldiers left behind by Ning Yi in the capital, all of them are his servants.
There were less than three thousand people in total. They originally wanted to quietly take away the two princesses from the Sixth Prince's Mansion. To them, they were their master's wives.
However, he did not expect that he would be taken away by the Imperial Guards so shamelessly, and he had no choice but to choose to resist in the direction of Xiqing Gate.
Moreover, the Sixth Prince had given them the order to stay where they were and not to worry about anything else.
However, in order to be on the safe side, Ning Yi told Zeng Zhizhong in advance because he was afraid that the troops defending the capital would be too ineffective.
Mobilize all the troops that can be mobilized in the base to prevent King Huai's army from coming and attacking the base.
Their base was located fifty miles west of the capital, which was also where King Huai passed by.
It is also the place of defense of the Yongying Camp.
But now the Beijing Camp is drawing troops from everywhere, and the Yongying Camp that was originally left behind has to recruit a bunch of useless people again.
Zeng Zhizhong gathered a total of more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, took their tattered weapons, and went to the capital to deal with the situation.
I was worried that if I just threw a few hundred sets of tattered armor to these two thousand people to fool them, the people in the capital would find out something.
Unexpectedly, after arriving in the capital, they found that the other Beijing camps were all more shabby than each other, and some were even worse than theirs.
Originally, Zeng Zhizhong was still worried about his daughter. After all, the Sixth Prince was not in the capital, and Zeng Rou was still in the Prince's Mansion. The capital was currently under martial law. Once Prince Huai's army arrived and broke through the capital, what would happen to his daughter?
Who knew that news came from the city that his daughter was taken into the palace by the prince's wife to hide.
This made Zeng Zhizhong speechless. He also understood that Zeng Rou was the Sixth Prince's personal maid and was always by his side.
Now that the Sixth Prince is not in the capital, the Emperor has brought the two princesses into the palace as hostages.
But the princess pulled Zeng Rou over, probably with the same idea in mind.
He was not worried about his son, who had been following the Sixth Prince on the northern expedition. He was protected by tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and secretly cooperated with the First and Third Armies. The so-called Duke Dingguo was bound to be defeated, but his only worry now was his daughter's safety.
The First and Third Armies transported a large amount of supplies and have not yet returned completely.
Especially the First Army, which had just transported a large amount of money, food and supplies, and now went to Hushan Pass to transport weapons and equipment.
The Third Army was stationed to the west of Hushan Pass.
The Second Army had already gone to lie in ambush in the direction of Jizhou, and even the First Cavalry Army had left.
In the entire base, there are almost no regular troops except for the so-called Second Cavalry Army, which has just been established and has more than a thousand people.
Fortunately, there are still thousands of defensive troops in the base. Their training is very strict and their combat effectiveness is not weak.
Zeng Zhizhong even organized a large number of absentee workers and other craftsmen.
There isn't much else in the base, but there are a lot of weapons and equipment. Just pick them up and put them on, and you'll be ready to fight.
What's more, after all the fighting, they actually had almost 10,000 troops.
But these soldiers are not regular troops after all. Except for the 3,000 defense troops defending the base, who often train in the Mandarin Duck Formation, the others are just a group of craftsmen.
Zeng Zhizhong had to hide the base as much as possible, and had to give up some areas close to the official roads and move as far into the mountains and forests as possible.
Only in this way can we avoid being suspected by King Huai's army.
As for the thousands of Fang family army prisoners newly sent by the First Army, Zeng Zhizhong did not make any further preparations except separating their soldiers and officers.
He knew that the Sixth Prince wanted to take these prisoners from the Fang family army for his own use, but these people were all Fang Chengyu's direct subordinates and were not easy to win back.
Time is short now, so we don’t have time to deal with them. Just lock them all up first.
When King Huai's army came in a mighty force, Zeng Zhizhong, who was high up in the mountains, saw the vast army that had no end in sight and took a deep breath.
How many troops did King Huai organize? Judging from the size, it seems that there are nearly 200,000 of them.
For the first time, this old scholar was really worried about whether His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince could defeat King Huai.
With so many soldiers and horses, if they encounter tens of thousands of elite troops, even if they all rush over and fight with them for heads, no elite troops will be able to withstand them.
Originally, Zeng Zhizhong was worried that King Huai's troops would come and attack their base first, which was the former camp of the Yongying Camp.
However, they discovered that they had only sent a small number of troops to wander around, and when they found it was not easy to attack, they turned around and left. Seeing how hurried they were, it was clear that they were heading straight for the capital without any delay.