The moment he saw Aiko's body, Heikimori knew that everything was over.

As a military strongman, his political and physical life have come to an end and no one can stop him.

Once the core competitiveness of a strong man regime is destroyed by stronger external forces, the internal conflicts that are suppressed by the strong man will first erupt, and together with the external forces, the strong man will be torn to pieces.

The stronger he is in power, the ugly he is when he dies.

The Ming army was a qualified external force factor. After the war, they did not stop and did not even care about how to clean the battlefield. Kong Zhende led the main army to pursue the victory and chased the city of Ping'an Jing.

The Ming army used powerful firepower to clear all military facilities, destroyed three military camps, and completed the siege of Heianjing in just one day.

Before the Ming army arrived in Heianjing, a large number of residents and nobles from the periphery of Heianjing were flocking into Heianjing.

They were also panicked and had no idea where they were safe. As a result, most of them poured into Heian Kyo, and only a small number of people fled to Tamba in the northwest region.

Several former emperors, the current emperors, all fled to Heian Kyo, and all the nobles and bureaucrats who followed him also fled to Heian Kyo. The army that had not had time to complete the preparation also fled to Heian Kyo.

At this moment, they had no other support, only this city, the city, the city's Hei Kiyomori and his Ping's army.

Although the drainage function of this city is very poor, there are very stolen goods inside, there are many stinky places, and there are only a small piece of clean and refreshing place, this is a city after all.

Although the 30,000 troops who went out were wiped out, there was an elite force in the city to defend the city, which they could confirm.

After they flocked into the city frantically, they went to find Ping Qingsheng together, but Ping Qingsheng locked himself in the house and stayed with Ping Chongsheng's body, and no one saw him. At present, the Ping family could only rely on Ping Qingsheng's third son, Hirozosheng.

However, compared to Ping Zhongsheng, Ping Zongsheng did not show any military and political talents. On the contrary, he was arrogant and had a timid and fearful style in major events, so he was never favored by everyone.

But who would have thought that Ping Zhongsheng would die like that?

Faced with the extreme dilemma between Heian Kyo and the extreme outside of Heian Kyo, Heizomoto could not come up with any effective solution. Faced with the inquiries of the Hie clan retainers and the inquiries of the subordinates sent by the Houbai River Dharma Emperor, he was at a loss and hesitated, unable to even say a complete sentence.

Some of the veteran retainers knelt outside Ping Qingsheng's room, crying and asking Ping Qingsheng to come out to take charge of the overall situation.

But Hei Kiyomoto seemed to be addicted to the pain of losing his son and could not respond to their crying for a long time.

Kong Zhende would not give them too much time. The Ming army also had a very urgent feeling, worried that it would delay it. This raid would be blocked by reinforcements from other places, so while scattering a large number of sentries to investigate the surrounding situation, they rushed to attack Heianjing.

All the artillery carried by the army was pushed into battle, and fierce shelling round by round.

A large number of siege equipment obtained from the surrounding Japanese military camps was also useful at this time. The Ming army also found a small number of catapults in the Japanese military camps, which were just pulled out and used to throw Thunder God cannons and enhance their attack power against the city walls.

Under the overwhelming bombardment of Thunder God cannons and artillery shells, there was chaos inside Heian Kyo.

Due to the lack of unified orders, it is difficult for soldiers on the city to prevent effective defense, soldiers on the city to prevent effective logistics, and it is difficult for the army of various departments to coordinate and help each other, and the goal of effectively defending the city cannot be achieved.

The Ming army began to attack the city wall without waiting for them to recover.

The elite hand-to-hand combat troops approached step by step under the cover of the shield soldiers. The Ping army on the city finally reacted in the horror of the gunpowder explosion. Just when they wanted to shoot arrows to stop them, they had to face the attack of the Ming army's musketeers.

The walls of Ping An Jing are not high or thick, and their defense is very limited.

Although it was built in imitation of the Tang Chang'an City, in the final analysis, the only similar ones are the planning on the drawings. With Japan's national strength, it is simply not enough to build a giant city like Chang'an City.

Because of the great problem of site selection, the urban terrain tilted from northeast to southwest, which led to the long-term puddles of Youjing, named Chang'an. The nobles of the Heian era were unable to solve the drainage problem of Youjing, resulting in the rapid abandonment of the right part of Heianjing, and the vast majority of people gathered in Zuojing, named Luoyang.

Kong Zhende learned the news from the secret spies of the Tianwang Army, so he planned to concentrate artillery and main siege weapons on Zuojing once an attack was carried out, creating a huge momentum to force the defenders in the city to place their main military forces in Zuojing.

Then he sent Qi Hetong, the commander of the 41st Division, to lead a 2,000-man army to hide behind the large army, and took advantage of the war to marching quietly to the Ukyo part. Sure enough, he found that the part of Heian Kyo-Ukyo part was very dilapidated and desolate, and even the city was almost gone.

According to the spies, the large walls in Ukyo were originally almost dilapidated, almost the same as those with or without, and had no defense at all.

It was not until after Hyoki Hyo took over the trade with Song Dynasty that he made a lot of money. He was rich and wealthy, so he felt that Hyoan Kyo should look like a capital city, so he allocated funds to repair Hyoan Kyo, but it only repaired part of Zuo Kyo where the dignitaries lived.

The Ukyo part is mainly homeless people such as civilians and homeless people, so they can repair their appearance, which looks a little better, and that's all.

Moreover, due to bureaucratic corruption, the repair funds were embezzled a lot, and Ukyo's repairs were really just a good thing, and they did not solve any drainage problem at all. They were dirty and even homeless people rarely appeared here.

So much so that the city walls in some areas can really be kicked out by just kicking them, let alone using siege equipment to attack.

At this time, under the command of Kong Zhende, Zuo Jing of Heian, the artillery troops were fighting fiercely. Everyone's attention was on Zuo Jing, and no one paid attention to Youjing at all. Qi Hetong seized this opportunity very well and led two thousand elite troops into Youjing in one fell swoop.

What’s funny is that after Qi Hetong broke into Youjing, he did not encounter the city guarding army. There were only a large number of civilians in ragged clothes, with a dish-like face and a short stature looking at them in horror.

Then ran around.

Qi Hetong had no intention of caring about these civilians, and led his troops through Youjing and went straight to Zuojing, and caught the Japanese defending the city off guard.

The center blossoms equals it.

With the inside and outside cooperation, the Ping'an Jing quickly fell, the Ming army rushed in, and the palace city was quickly captured.

When the news was delivered to Ping Qingsheng's ears, he was shocked.

As soon as his son died, he just wanted to be a little sad, but how long after it was so sad that the city was destroyed?

The Ming army treated everyone fairly.

You won’t be able to show your nobility just because of your noble identity. No matter who you are, you will be killed as long as you resist. You will be let go if you throw away your weapons and kneel down and beg for mercy.

Ping Qingsheng's retainers and elite private soldiers protected the Ping family and wanted to break out with a bloody path, but this idea was undoubtedly very dangerous in the face of the elite and war-friendly Ming army.

What's worse is that the Ping family's breakthrough army accidentally encountered a complete Ming army formation, and more than 20 muskets shot directly exploded them in one round.

Ping Qingsheng finally witnessed what happened to this strange firearm that killed his son. After a loud bang, a large stream of white smoke came out. A guard next to him was inexplicably interrupted by his knife-holding arm, fell to the ground and twitched and died.

What a brutal and powerful weapon?

Kai Kiyoshi didn't know.
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