All Hail Cousin Brother

Chapter 1059: A Turtle in a Jar

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

The soldiers in heavy armor pulled the crossbows together, and a dense rain of arrows shot towards the city tower.

The King of Liang had already retreated behind the wall. The other party shot wave after wave of crossbow bolts, and every time, they could take the lives of the Liang army guarding the city. The King of Liang’s heart kept sinking. “Open the side door and rush out. Kill one person and you will be rewarded with ten taels!”

The side doors on both sides opened, and the Liang army welcomed the army that was attacking the city like a ferocious tiger.

“Boom—” The side door closed tightly again.

The Liang army, who had rushed out of the city gate, understood that they had no way out. Only by killing the enemy in front of them could they survive.

The dense crowd charged forward regardless of life and death. The arrow rain on the city wall never stopped. Young and strong bodies fell to the battlefield and could no longer get up. Blood dyed the ground outside the city red.

The way forward was paved with blood and corpses, but they were still moving forward. No one took a step back.

Someone had set up a ladder to ascend the city wall.

Warriors climbed the city wall ladder one after another. Just as they were about to ascend the city wall, hot oil was splashed on them, stones were smashed down on their heads, hot water was poured on them, and they were stabbed by long rods. They fell with screams.

Someone raised the logs used to attack cities and hit the city gate hard.

The unbreakable city gate gradually cracked.

The siege lasted from night to dawn, and a golden star slowly rose in the sky.

The King of Liang was mentally and physically exhausted. If it weren’t for the fact that a portion of the Liang army’s main forces were deployed in the defense line of Tianjin, far water couldn’t resolve a nearby fire. The troops deployed in various places in the capital were attacked to varying degrees, causing him to suffer heavy losses and be unable to be transferred over to help defend the city, the Liang army might have been able to fight them.

Hearing the banging of the door one after another, the King of Liang suddenly felt powerless.

In order to take down the capital, he had thought of countless possibilities.

The only thing he did not expect was that the 600,000-strong Di army, as well as Rada Khan, who had unified the grassland, would be so vulnerable in front of King Yue Fei. In less than a year, Yin Huaixi flattened the grassland and quietly returned with his troops. Moreover, he had made arrangements in the capital and caught the King of Liang in a trap, making the King of Liang fight like a cornered beast.

There was a loud clang.

Someone shouted, “The city gate is open. Kill…”

The siege army braved the rain of arrows and charged forward, rushing towards the city gate like a swarm of bees. The crowd quickly pushed open a gap in the city gate that could accommodate a single person. Warriors squeezed into the city one after another.

The Liang army guarding the city tower was in chaos, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

With a bang, the city gate was pushed open by a crowd.

Shouts, killing cries, and screams intertwined.

When the deputy general saw this, he grabbed the King of Liang’s arm. “Your Highness, the city gate can’t be defended anymore. Let’s retreat quickly…”

King Liang gritted his teeth and cut off the head of a You soldier who was rushing over.

“Let’s go. When King Yue Fei enters the city, we won’t be able to leave even if we want to.” The deputy general protected the King of Liang and killed the enemy. “If we stay, where’s there’s life there’s hope. We still have 100,000 main forces on the defense line in Tianjin…”

The King of Liang watched as the Liang soldiers fell one by one under the charge of the main force of the You army. Finally, he took a step back and fought and retreated under the cover of his deputy general and soldiers.

When the sun rose in the east, the commoners in the city felt the ground tremble from afar.

Some bold commoners secretly looked through the crack in the door. The black and gold flag fluttered in the sunlight. Warriors in armor were like a long dragon winding around Chang An Street.

Some commoners couldn’t help but tear up. “It’s King Yue Fei’s army. King Yue Fei has entered the city. He’s here to save us…”

King Yue Fei’s achievements of taking in refugees and guarding the North were too deeply rooted in people’s hearts. At this moment, no one suspected that King Yue Fei was the same as Thief Liang, a rebel who had brought war and chaos to them.

They firmly believed that King Yue Fei was the hero who had calmed the flames of war and saved them.

The army broke through the city gate, but the King of Liang had deployed a lot of troops in the capital, and the battle was still ongoing.

Empress Ning was in charge of 10,000 imperial guards and cooperated with King Yue Fei to outflank them. The 3,000-strong Hidden Dragon Army changed from the dark to the light and quickly wiped out most of the King of Liang’s main forces in the capital.

Next, they had to continue to eliminate a portion of the bandits’ troops scattered in the capital.

It was already ten days later when Yu Youyao received the news.

At this moment, Yin Huaixi had already broken into the capital and captured the father and son alive. He had also wiped out Thief Liang’s troops in the capital one by one.

Some of the main forces deployed by the King of Liang at the Tianjin defense line could not save them in time. When they found out that the King of Liang and his son had been captured alive by King Yue Fei, they immediately put away their weapons and surrendered.

Their master had already been captured. No matter how much they resisted, it would be useless.

No one was willing to die if they could live.

Could it be that the King of Dongning, who wanted to reap the benefits, had been tricked by the remaining clans in Shandong?

The matter was not complicated. King Yue Fei had broken into the capital overnight. The King of Dongning immediately felt that something was amiss and evacuated Shandong overnight, planning to retreat to the east.

The King of Dongning had never dreamed that the Liang army, which had broken through the capital like a hot knife through butter, would be so vulnerable. They had lost too quickly.

They did not expect that King Yue Fei and Empress Ning would collaborate from the inside and out, causing Thief Liang to become a turtle in a jar.

He did not expect that King Yue Fei would defeat 600,000 Di army soldiers in less than a year, making him his greatest enemy. Furthermore, he made Thief Liang, who had deployed his main elite troops at the defense line in Tianjin, a joke.

He thought of the King of Zhenxi, who had surrendered quickly and completely.

The King of Dongning sighed. “It’s really fate.”

But it was too late to regret now.

He retreated to the east to express his intention to surrender to King Yue Fei. When the situation in the capital was settled, he would send a surrender letter to King Yue Fei to express his intention to submit.

The east side was also his lair and occupied a natural defensive position. If Yin Huaixi did not take it seriously, he would have to consider it carefully.

He had planned it well.

However, he never expected that on the way to retreat, the Dong army would be jointly surrounded by the navy led by Ye Hanyuan and the remaining forces of the clan.

Only then did the King of Dongning realize that the so-called “riot of the rebel army in Shandong” was clearly a trap that Yin Huaixi had personally set for him.

The so-called “rebel army” was not really a rebel army, but the navy of the Dengzhou Guards.

Dengzhou was an important town on the border with the sea. It was an important road between Goryeo and Japan.

Ye Hanyuan was originally the governor of south Zhili. Shandong was originally not under his jurisdiction, but because the pirates often disturbed the southeast coast, Dengzhou was also a major war zone. The emperor ordered Ye Hanyuan to help defend Dengzhou.

As a result, Ye Hanyuan had the right to enter and leave Shandong.

As Ye Hanyuan entered and left Dengzhou many times, and helped the Dengzhou guards repel the pirates, he was extremely famous among the navy. Thus, the navy of the Dengzhou guards gradually took him as their leader.

Thief Liang had rebelled, and the Imperial Court only existed in name and its control over the place had greatly decreased. Thus, the King of Dongning couldn’t accurately obtain information about the area. Yin Huaixi used these factors to join forces with the remaining forces of the local clans to stage a “rebellion” and confuse the public.