Chapter 210: Yancheng Crisis

"what happened?"

Zhao Xu suddenly felt uneasy in his heart.

Xu Ke said: "After Your Highness went to Yan Pass, a Yuan family army entered Yan County and killed the people. Although the people of Yan County tried their best to resist, they were not as powerful as them in numbers. They were defeated repeatedly. Now they have surrounded Yan City. , and attacked for several days.”

When Zhao Xu heard this, his heart sank immediately, "Why didn't you come and report earlier?"

He did not expect that the Yuan family not only sent troops to stop him, but also encircled Wei and rescued Zhao.

If he got the news early, he would really be distracted.

"Liu Wangfu said that Yan is a big deal and cannot distract His Highness. If Yan City is defeated, only one city will be lost. If Yan Pass is defeated, everything will be lost. When the officials saw that Yan City was in danger, they hung off the city wall at night and came here. Looking for His Highness," Xu Ke said sadly.

Hearing this, Mo Yu said: "Your Highness, the Beidi army has retreated now. We should immediately clear out the remnants of the Yuan family and leave this place to the general."

"Your Highness, Mo Yu is right. The foreign enemies have retreated. The most important thing now is Yan County. It is time to seize the opportunity to clear out the Yuan family once and for all. Moreover, Yuan Li is still in Fan Yang, so we cannot allow him to seek opportunities to cause trouble again."

Zhao Xu nodded.

Beidi most likely retreated, and Sui Bing's plan was to fake a retreat and then attack again, but Beidi retreated so far that they had sufficient time to prepare.

Now, as Mo Yu and Chang Wei said, the civil strife should be put down immediately.

Otherwise, his territory will suffer huge losses.

"Take away twenty field artillery pieces and leave the other artillery pieces at Yanguan in case of emergency. The royal family's troops are divided into two groups. They will accompany the king to support Yancheng all the way, and send troops to Fanyang all the way. They will besiege but not attack until the two armies meet. Don’t worry about it anymore,” Zhao Xu said.

"Yes, Your Highness." All the generals of the royal family said in unison.

Nodding, Zhao Xu took ten field artillery, 10,000 infantry, Chen Hu's heavy cavalry, and Zhongli's light cavalry and headed towards Yancheng.

The others were handed over to the command of Chang Wei and marched towards Fan Yang.

For him, these Yuan family soldiers and the troops he led were enough.

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Yancheng.

Bursts of shouts of killing echoed from the city walls.

The new soldiers recruited by the royal family went back and forth on the city wall and fought with the soldiers of the Yuan family who climbed up the city wall.

Liu Fu was walking on the city wall holding a long sword. Although he was a scholar, he couldn't care less at this time.

We can only bite the bullet and supervise the battle at the top of the city.

Outside the city, there was a crowd of Yuan soldiers, shooting arrows at the top of the city.

Only three days after King Yan left, these soldiers of the Yuan family arrived at the gate of Yancheng.

They set up a formation and attacked Yancheng, with a total of 20,000 people.

It stands to reason that there are more than 20,000 soldiers in Yancheng, so there is no need to worry that the city will be breached.

However, these soldiers were all newly recruited and had not yet been trained and had low morale.

Seeing so many people attacking the city, many soldiers were immediately frightened and their legs weakened.

If he hadn't been forced up the city wall by some generals, he would have been able to escape most of them by now.

Even on the city wall, these soldiers only fought based on instinct and were unable to obey orders.

Because of this, the battle was extremely difficult, and Yuan soldiers repeatedly climbed up the city wall using ladders.

"Come here, there is King Yan's endless wealth in Yan City. Grab it and share it with everyone." A general of the Yuan family shouted.

After receiving Guo Tu's order, he immediately marched northward.

In their opinion, Yan Pass cannot be defended.

To follow the Yuan family at this time is to make a meritorious service in front of Beidi.

In the future, when Beidi people enter the customs, they will naturally be able to live like a fish in water in Yanzhou.

"kill!"

Hearing the general's shout, the Yuan soldiers immediately became excited.

They climbed up the ladder one after another and fought towards the city wall.

Liu Fu felt anxious when he saw that the offensive of the Yuan family's soldiers and horses suddenly became fierce.

He looked at the new recruits who did not dare to engage in the battle and only knew how to evade, and shouted: "Why are you here as soldiers, just for the three taels of silver? The Yuan family is right in front of you. They have robbed your land and looted it." After killing your wives and daughters, are you just going to let them slaughter you like a coward?"

His hoarse voice sounded at the top of the city. Some recruits heard it and gritted their teeth and rushed forward.

But even though they mustered up their courage, they were still not as good as the trained Yuan family soldiers. After a while of hacking, they were beaten back by the Yuan family soldiers.

Looking at all this, Liu Fu had no idea what to do.

"Follow me, come on." At this moment, Liu Fu suddenly heard a familiar voice.

He turned around and saw that Lu Ran was leading the Lu family children to climb up the city wall.

Behind them, there were Dong Yuan and Yang Cheng, who all came with their own children.

"Liu Wangfu, I see that these new soldiers are not very useful. We have received His Majesty's kindness and are both prosperous and disadvantaged. Let us do our part." Lu Ran said.

They have been observing the battle situation, but these new recruits are not even the slightest bit different from the veterans.

Seeing that Yancheng was in danger of falling, he finally couldn't help but take action.

"Thank you, thank you so much." Liu Fu felt an unspeakable feeling in his heart.

In the past, he was very mean to Dong Yang and Lu San's family, always thinking that they were also a wealthy family in the past and were unclean.

Now they were able to stand in for him, which really surprised him.

Perhaps, after losing their land, they would really be just like him, just ministers of King Yan.

"No need to say thank you." Lu Ran said, "Please lend us some armor first."

As he spoke, he pointed at a group of new recruits who were so frightened that they were hiding at the base of the city wall and shivering.

Liu Fu nodded and immediately called a general to pull off the armor from the new soldiers.

These armors are a great help to veteran soldiers, but they are a waste on these demoralized recruits.

Now he finally understood what the King of Yan said.

The royal army must not be based on weapons alone.

Soldiers who master weapons and armor are the cornerstone of the royal army, otherwise the soldiers are just the enemy's transport team.

The children of the three families of Dong, Yang and Lu put on armor and immediately rushed to the top of the city.

They each had private soldiers, but they were disbanded.

But at that time, all the children in the family had been trained in the army.

After climbing the city wall, they immediately fought with the Yuan family soldiers who attacked the city wall, suppressed the attack of the Yuan family soldiers in a short time, and drove them off the city wall.

The South Gate immediately gained an advantage.

But their number was too small after all, only seven or eight hundred people.

The other three walls were still under great pressure.

The battle lasted from early morning to night, and from night to early morning.

The next day, the defense line of the East Gate was first broken by the Yuan family soldiers.

Hundreds of Yuan family soldiers occupied the city wall and drove down the new recruits of the palace.

Then Yuan family soldiers continued to enter the city through this gap.

They immediately came to the east gate and fought with the soldiers guarding the gate here, trying to open the east gate.

Yancheng was in danger of being broken.

The news soon reached the palace.

Feng'er gritted her teeth and summoned all the servants of the palace.

At this time, she changed into a neat shorts, took a sword, and said to the servants: "Although I am a woman, I am not a coward. Your Highness is now fighting a bloody battle with the Yuan family and the Beidi people in Yanguan. Now Yancheng is surrounded. Once the east gate is breached, the Yuan family soldiers will enter the city to burn, kill and loot. We must not give them this opportunity."

The servants nodded, and they all held swords at this time.

These weapons have always been prepared in the palace. They will only take them out when the palace encounters a crisis.

Obviously, now is the time to use them.

"Let's go to the East Gate." Feng'er said, and then she shouted to the servant.

"Sister, I'll go too." Luan'er came over at this time, holding a short sword in her hand.

Feng'er looked serious, "Your hand is more suitable for holding an embroidery needle, but not a sword."

After that, she asked other maids to look after Luan'er, and she went with the servant.

When she arrived at the East Gate, she suddenly saw a familiar person.

Xu Ezheng looked at the East Gate with a frosty face. More than 50 people dressed as civilians were fighting with Yuan's soldiers with weapons.

Tianxianglou got the news first, and she immediately led Tianxianglou's thugs over.

For her, she could not tolerate the King of Yan's fiefdom being breached by the Yuan family.

Seeing Feng'er coming with the servants, she smiled slightly.

Seeing the tense situation at the East Gate, the servants rushed over immediately.

Feng'er gritted her teeth and was about to go over, but was suddenly stopped by Xu'e, "You, a delicate girl, can't beat them."

"If they break into the city, I'll die anyway, and maybe die even more miserably. It's better to die in battle right now." Feng'er snorted.

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly heard a shout of "Get out of the way, get out of the way."

Wang Chong and the craftsmen from the Armory came over with three horses, each with a musket-like thing behind them.

Stopped in front of them, Wang Chong immediately asked the craftsmen to remove the musket with wheels and pointed the muzzle at the Yuan family soldiers who kept coming down the steps of the city wall.