Chapter 227: The Prime Minister Zhang fought hard, and Pingyang Mansion was in trouble. The city was broken!

On April 11, outside Pingyang Prefecture City, Yang Zaixing led his troops to Niugao Camp and was shocked to meet.

"How did Deputy General Niu make such a embarrassing? Zhang Hao really guarded this small Pingyang Mansion as solid as a soup?" Before Yang Zaixing entered the camp, he dismounted outside the camp. Seeing that Niu Gao's face was charred and there were many injuries on his shoulders, he couldn't help but look at the defenders in the city with admiration.

"Grandma!" Niu Gao ignored the Yue family's generals and officers, and couldn't help but curse: "This Zhang Hao is just a Han civil servant, who is so determined to work hard for the Jin thief!"

It turned out that when Yang Zaixing led his troops to come, Niu Gao had already fought hard under Pingyang City twice. Each time he barely put a ladder on the city wall, but it was difficult to climb up a single step. When he broke through Zhucheng on the west road of Beijing that day, Yue Yun was in the army and was in charge of the fierceness. At present, there were no such powerful generals as Yue Yun in Niu Gao's army. Although ordinary soldiers were trained for a long time, they did not have much experience in attacking. When they encountered such a tough bone as Zhang Hao, they could not get rid of them for a while.

"Where did Yue Lei's soldiers go?" Yang Zaixing entered the commander's tent and couldn't wait to ask the captains to hang the map.

Niu Gao pointed to the map: "The Forward of Yue Erye will arrive tomorrow, but most of them will be behind. You will always arrive within three to five days."

Yang Zaixing shook his head: "I can't wait. Before Yue Lei arrives tomorrow, he will have to break the city! Where is this Zhang Hao's power? Has Niu Shuai found out?"

Niu Gao was still angry. He heard that Zhang Hao was powerful, but he couldn't say it for a moment. However, the civil servant who sent the letter to the tent that day could speak: "Report to Mr. Yang, Zhang Hao is not as good as an ordinary Jin general. He is an important minister in the capital. He is also a Han Chinese. The difference between the Han people and the Jurchens in Pingyang Mansion is not too serious. Since this person took office, he suppressed the powerful and captured the bandits. The place was a place to be peaceful. Even the former Saliyu captured the Song people in Pingyang Mansion and went north. For Zhang Hao, he did not dare to enter the city to plunder. Therefore, Zhang Hao had a high reputation in Pingyang Mansion. Although he had only more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in the city, nearly 10,000 people went to the city to help with defense, which was difficult to get out!"

Yang Zaixing nodded and said, "That's it! Among the cities on the ground of Hedong, the Song people are not as good as pigs and dogs. They are bullied by the Jin people. There are not many good officials like Zhang Hao who protect Han people. The people's will be more favorable than the city. You must remember it!"

All the soldiers in the tent nodded and received the teachings.

But this statement may not be the truth. Zhang Hao declared early in the city that the Yue family army was just a Taihang bandit, and he raised Yue Fei's banner. If the city was broken, it would be indispensable to burn, kill, and looting. At that time, the jade and stone were burned, wouldn't it be unfair? Therefore, the people in the city were afraid and timid. Seeing that the Yue family army was coming in a fierce manner, they even had the desire to fight desperately. After the first two attacks, they called the boiling oil, lime, and rockets. Niu Gao underestimated the enemy for a while and suffered a great loss.

Now that Yang Zaixing had just arrived, he issued a death order and was about to take down Pingyang Mansion tomorrow, but Niu Gao was a little dissatisfied.

Unexpectedly, Yang Zaixing was more anxious than Niu Gao. It was just after the Youth hour that the army had already ordered the army to gather in four gates and send the rockets into the city with strong crossbows. Although the city has been very tightly guarded in the past few days, many houses have been burned. It was the contribution of the Yue family's powerful crossbow. Now that the same trick has been used again, Zhang Hao said that it was still the same, without caring about it, and only the soldiers and civilians in the city put out fires everywhere.

At the second hour of You, the soldiers and civilians in the city heard several sounds at the north gate, like the earth shaking, and then the north gate tower collapsed, the suspension bridge hinge cable exploded, and the Yue family army rushed across the suspension bridge and rushed straight to the city gate.

"North Gate! Go to the North Gate! Block the thief!"——" Zhang Hao was panicked. Knowing that something was wrong, he hurriedly summoned all the troops to the North Gate. At this time, the defense troops in the city had rushed to the North Gate. For a moment, thousands of soldiers and horses at the North Gate were killed, but they saw torches shaking, people shouting, horses neighing, swords and guns colliding loudly, shouting, and screaming, and screaming!

Although Yang Zaixing did not rush forward in person, he was in charge of Niu Gao in the back. Seeing this situation, he nodded and said, "The military and civilians are united and willing to use it. Zhang Hao is considered a talent, and on the ground in Hedong, he is the first person in the Jin army!"

However, at this time, four or five figures quietly emerged from the Jincheng business Pingyang Mansion branch side of Yao Temple in the city, and scattered into the streets and alleys of the city. After a while, four or five fires suddenly appeared in the city, making the sky bright. Except for the lack of fire near Yao Temple, there were no less than ten fires. When the soldiers on the top of the city saw that it was obvious that the fire in the city was not done by the Yue family army, but by other masterpieces.

"Sir, it's not good. There are Yue's army in the city. Now there are fires everywhere. This city is hard to defend. It's better to take advantage of the night to leave the city quickly, or there is still a way out!" The officials in Pingyang Mansion saw that the situation was over, and they all came to Zhang Hao to advise.

Zhang Hao's face turned red and he was at a loss. After a while, he said, "Let's go? Where are the small families in my family here? On the day I left the capital, I was waiting for the crime. It is a great blessing to spend a safe day here. If I lose the city again, how can I explain to the monarch and ministers in the capital? Let's go! When I go to see the leader of the Yue family's army, the former once wrote a letter saying that he would not kill the people, let's see if this is still useful now!"

Now I no longer pay attention to the people in the mansion and set off for the north gate.

Before we reached the north gate, we saw the defenders panic and collapsed everywhere. The fire in the city was apart, and the Jin army had no fighting spirit anymore. The day before yesterday, they were all determined to deal with the soldiers outside the city, but they were not worried about the future of the city. At present, there was a sea of ​​fire in the city. There was obviously a fine work of Yue's army making chaos in the city, so how could they still defend it? The loud noise like thunder at the north gate had already scared the Jin army, and the chaos in the city caused the Jin army to lose its soul. The defeat was like a mountain falling down. A large number of Yue's army soldiers rushed in like a tide at the north gate. Who dared to fight?

Zhang Hao followed several personal guards behind him and rushed to the north gate. Seeing the city gate open, the city tower was in chaos. He didn't know what kind of weapon it was caused by, so he could only sigh and knew that God would not bless the Great Jin.

"Stop! Get off the horse and be tied up!" The Yue family's army was still red before they could kill. After entering the city, the Jin people fled all over the road in front of the north gate. However, a civil servant led several assistant officials to stand in the way, and they did not advance or retreat. They knew that they were not here to fight. The brigade had passed by these several people and went to the city to search and kill, but several school lieutenants surrounded the group of civil servants and wanted to capture them to the camp to show their merits.

"Where is your coach? I am Zhang Hao!"

Several Yue family military captains were all happy. After looking at each other, they no longer acted harshly at Zhang Hao. They just asked Zhang Hao to get off the horse and then guided him to Yang Zaixing outside the city.

Niu Gao and Yang Zaixing met with the major events in the city, and no longer had any doubts, they were all extremely relieved outside the city. Just when they were happy, they saw Zhang Hao coming to their front several times.

"Master Yang! Master Niu! This is Zhang Hao, the prefect of Pingyang!" The head of the school stepped forward and bowed.

"You old--" Niu Gao was so angry that he was so angry that he wanted to go forward and fist on the spot, but Yang Zaixing grabbed him.

"Mr. Zhang, my family is polite!" Yang Zaixing followed the courtesy. Although Yang Zaixing can be regarded as the prefect of the two prefectures of Jin Kingdom, and is at the same level as Zhang Hao, he was still there after all, and he was a minister of Shangshu. It is not wrong to respect him at all.

Zhang Hao was already quite timid when he saw Yang Zaixing's big arms and round waist. However, he was surprised to see that the thief leader was so polite. He plucked up Yu Yong and went forward and said bluntly: "The day before yesterday, the king issued a letter, Zeng Dao would never kill anyone! Now I am the prefect, and I will take it as the crime of fighting and defending myself, but I ask the king to keep his preface carefully to avoid hurting innocent people!"

Niu Gao was still waiting for the start of the attack, Yang Zaixing reached out and said slowly: "The Yue family's troops are now just restoring the mountains and rivers for the Song Dynasty. Most of the people in the city are the people of the Song Dynasty. How could they kill one person indiscriminately? This is very inappropriate!"

Zhang Hao said angrily: "This is Dajin--"

Then I suddenly felt painstakingly awakened that this place was still in the Song Dynasty more than ten years ago. I said that my family was an invader, so where was it my turn to ask someone else not to kill him?

Yang Zaixing smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang is so quick! A few years ago, someone was killing here, I don't know who it was? Someone was plundering and killing outside the city the month before. Who came? Now I'm asking someone not to kill indiscriminately? It's ridiculous! It's ridiculous!"

Zhang Hao was angry and could no longer control himself. He pulled out the sword at his waist and wanted to go forward to fight his life. But such an old scholar, how could he dare to use a knife and a gun in front of Yang Zaixing? Before anyone could react, Yang Zaixing raised the iron spear in his hand and wrapped it around Zhang Hao's sword like a spirit snake. With a "bang", the sword flew out of his hand and landed far into the moat.

"Iron spear! Iron spear! You are Yang Zaixing!" Zhang Hao has heard of Yang Zaixing's reputation for a long time since he arrived in Hedong. Now that he saw the mountain king playing an iron spear like a finger, he felt the same way. He was shocked and immediately remembered the legend related to Yang Zaixing, and was both devastated.

"I dare not!" Yang Zaixing smiled: "It's the first time that Yang has fired a gun at a civil servant. Lord Zhang laughed!"

The next day, when the 3,000 cavalry of Yue Lei's vanguard arrived at Pingyang Prefecture, even the hinged cables of the suspension bridge outside the north gate had been repaired. All the troops and horses of the Yue family were moved into the city to stay. Among the three thousand defenders, except for more than a thousand Jurchen soldiers, two thousand Han soldiers were almost killed, and two thousand Han soldiers were tied up. Seeing that the Yue family's troops were purged, they refused to disturb the people easily. The four gates were wide open, and they couldn't help but enter and exit, and were arrogant. But what made the people even more relieved was that Zhang Hao also personally participated in the work of comforting the people.

"Mr. Zhang is safe, I hope the Yue family army is well-known!"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Hao was unable to say anything. Yang Zaixing was a reason, but Niu Gao raised Zhang Hao before dawn and said in a terrible way: "I'll be happy to appease the people in the city. If there is any mistake, the Jin army will be your role model! Old Niu was impatient for a moment, and the Zhang family was hard to protect the whole family!" He didn't know what Yang Zaixing said, but Zhang Hao dared not take the risk to cry to Yang Zaixing? At that moment, he had to honestly hand over the treasury of the Yue family's officials to the city's treasury and take the initiative to appease the people in the city.

"Uncle Yang came so early?" Yue Lei entered the city and headed straight to the camp's tent. Seeing that Yang Zaixing had already settled here, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: "My nephew was on the road overnight. If he hadn't been to the fatigue of troops, he would have arrived at Pingyang Mansion yesterday, but he was still one step behind Uncle Yang!"

Yang Zaixing left his seat and stroked Yue Lei's back and said, "It's because of my uncle who refused to let my nephew make such a contribution. It's because my nephew's army is worthy of other things, so I refused to let my nephew spend more troops in Pingyang Mansion!"

Yue Lei's eyelids twitched: "Alu?"
Chapter completed!