In Dantu City, there is also a doomsday scene where the sky collapses and the earth breaks.

As the people who escaped from the city towers and walls and plates and fled back one after another, the news spread from the brave men; various panic and shocked emotions and strange rumors also became a surging and rushing trend in this undescending city.

"The bandit army used the magic trick, and let the earth dragon turn over and swallow the official army alive... but the bandit army was safe and sound."

"The thief has a magical skill that can attract thunder and fire with the clear sky, and destroy all the officials."

"The thief used a magic trick, and the officers and soldiers in the city gate were dead..."

"The thief's magic trick made the officials guarding the city sleep, and they opened the door obediently and came out to die by themselves..."

"The officials who were hit by the demon magic wiped their necks, chopped their heads, and jumped into the river again..."

(In fact, it was driven to the riverside to get water to clean up, but was mistakenly thought to kill the prisoners. At that moment, they cried and cried, and were watched by a few of the most fun, so they were able to obey...)

The soldiers and horsemen on the back of the horse galloped across the long street and hit the inner city gate of the Zhenhai camp. They had no time to take care of the people who were yelling and shouting in all directions like headless flies on the streets; some were the illegal and scattered people who were robbing on the fire and cried and shouting as scattered; some were the rich and powerful families who gathered their servants, gangs, and slaves, picked up swords and blocked the door, and fought against them to the end.

He almost ran away without stopping, rushed out of the inner city gate to greet him, but he couldn't avoid several famous men, and then kicked over the other party's screaming and struggling body, and rushed to the long street where Yacheng was located. This place had been gathered and rushing to the fugitive crowd, carriages and horses of various colors, were once again stuffed into the air.

He could only shout and scold with his personal soldiers, kick and beat and draw a knife to split a temporary path, and then he was able to rush to the gate of the aconitum at the entrance of the Yacheng and the exit of the Jieya. Then he saw some soldiers in Xuanshan who were a little nervous and at a loss, but still insisting on duty.

Diao Bao summoned them to follow him, and then walked quickly inside. At this time, he found that there were already messy figures running around in the various offices inside.

From time to time, there were people carrying these big and small bags of items, and without any hesitation, he ran over them and ran outward. Diao Bo had no intention of paying attention to them, and rushed away these subordinates along the short and wide middle road. He saw the main hall of the yamen again;

However, many officials gathered at the door, and the military generals' drums and the entire row of music bells that sang verses were already pushed to the ground and scattered. Diao Bo couldn't help but feel shocked, and then turned into a kind of erotic aura, and couldn't help but shout.

"Where is the envoy, and where is the envoy..."

"Why is no one calling on the left and the right to preside over the situation..."

However, as he drove straight into his figure, no one answered his question, only like snakes and rats emerging from a flooded ditch, the figures of officials, officials and officials appeared from time to time; and the shouts came one after another.

"I'm going to get dark. It's better than the thief army entering the city and plundering it."

"This is an old robe I used to help my life. You can't steal it..."

"So what if I share some of it? You can also buy another one at the street market."

"I want to kill myself to serve the country. I will quickly criticize my armor and then bring a knife."

"I will kill you first, and the great officials must not be humiliated by the thief..."

"You can't burn it. If you want to die, look for something else. I still have to count on these things to find a way out."

They were almost performing live farces, and some people argued that they would beat each other up in a ball without caring about the gentleness, or tripping on the ground while running, while the handsome guy came out of his arms with a pile of gold and silver goods.

The only person who mingled among them claimed to be a killer to serve the country was actually a white beard and turbid eyes. He usually acted as a home leader of the door pavilion. Before he could get the man in his armor, he was already knocked to the ground and couldn't get up.

Then Diao Bo, who became stronger behind him, crashed into the back house of the Jieya, which was originally strictly controlled by the tight access; but was shocked by the loud screams and cries coming towards him and he couldn't help but cover his ears.

"Good luck, king..."

"Poor Tianjian..."

"The thief is coming in..."

He rushed through several corridors and pavilions, and finally came to Zhou Bao's daily life, although he was in front of the birthday hall, but he saw the door open and the curtains and curtains were pulled down to the ground.

"Where are the teeth soldiers of Zhou Yanei and the back buildings of the Yiling Gong, why are they gone?"

A military general who accompanied him still shouted in a tone containing crying and horror.

Then he unwillingly collected the entire huge garden, and except for the concubines and slaves who could only cry and beg for mercy, he still lost his life; Zhou Linggong, Zhou Jieshuai, who was once a powerful "four dynasties" and Zhou Jieshuai, together with his special guards of the back house.

In the end, they only found the small gate of the courtyard that was demolished and pushed down by the front, and some scattered objects and many faint ruts that extended away. At this moment, the generals behind him seemed to have lost their last backbone. They no longer took into account his constraints and orders, and turned back into the courtyard and rushed into the courtyard and rampantly;

Soon after, they held the objects wrapped in step barriers and curtains, dragged the women in tears and clothes; while walking, they took off their hats and helmets representing the identity of the official army, wrapped their heads, iron-piece protective covers, and belly-bearing, covering their knees and boots, and walked towards the distant city yard.

"Since Ling Gong is no longer here, let me be loyal to the court for the last moment... You all disperse and escape."

But Diao Bo, who had a bleak face, sighed heavily and said to the back.

"We were originally the corps and furniture that brought the Lord out of the countryside, so how could we leave the Lord alone and survive..."

An old-faced and personal soldier shouted with a pretentious look on his face.

"Will the elders in my hometown laugh at you forever? Even if they get to Jiuyuan, they will be really shameless to meet you..."

"Then let's kill us quickly and die with the thief..."

So, he took dozens of subordinates and relatives who refused to disperse in the end, and resolutely rushed to the nearest inner city gate.

......

When the sun rose again the next day, the basic process of changing the king flag on the city wall was already completed.

A vigorous start and preparation, a result and a close end; even the blasting method of the hole that had been prepared in advance did not have time to come in handy; when the last stubborn official army outside the city abandoned its weapons and begged for mercy, the remaining defenders of Dantu City opened the Dongjiao Gate overnight and surrendered.

This news was both an unexpected and an unexpected result; because according to the statistics of the battlefield, with the attack of the five gates, the Zhenhai camp soldiers outside the city were destroyed, and the united soldiers and the fang soldiers were united, totaling at least eight or nine thousand, which occupied most of the essence of the military power in the city.

Therefore, even if there are still some stubborn defenders in the city who are still fighting stubbornly, they are more of the Tumen and local soldiers who are not very useful in combat effectiveness and morale, or are newly recruited from the residents of the city to strengthen their courage.

There are always some "smart people" who can't stand the possible outcome and try to take self-rescue measures, which makes the Taiping Army's subsequent city strategy process easy and worry-free.

It’s just a pity that the tunnels under the city have been dug up, and they have to be abandoned before they can be used; although this greatly saves the excess casualties that the Taiping Army may have caused. Except for the slightest resistance when attacking the west gate of the inner city and the Jieya, they encountered some stubborn resistance; other parts of the city were invincible and surrendered on the spot.

However, Zhou Bao, the governor of Zhenhai, who was the number one target, actually ran away; probably before the defeat outside the city was a foregone conclusion and the defenders opened the door to offer, they had already taken a car to find out the inner city under the escort of some of the fang soldiers and a small number of new troops - Houloudu.

Although the patrol team formed by the Taiping Army who entered the capital was still conducting locations and screenings in the city, it is estimated that the possibility of finding them is not high. Because according to the report from Wang Chongba, the naval ships that were left on the river to guard and standby also discovered and bumped into the dozens of large ships that had dived out of Dantu Port overnight.

However, due to the limited staffing of troops and the ability to support the shore, only some of them were intercepted and captured, and seven or eight other large ships were able to rush out of the river estuary to escape. Based on the previous news, I am afraid that Zhou Bao's chances of being in it are really great.

When Zhou Huaian walked onto the city tower outside the west gate with this mixed feelings, all the remaining messy traces on the street market had been cleared, leaving only the pools of blood that could be seen on the walls or the ground that could not be wiped off for a while, or other stains that had been smoky and burnt.

Compared with Xunyang and Jiangning, which have been seen before, Wangyi, an ancient famous city in Wangyi, this Dantu City is obviously an anomaly. It is not only a city with two inner and outer walls that are built on the riverside, but also a large city built with Yacheng, but also a prosperous and prosperous city.

Because he was in a place where southeastern products were circulated, he had been in a corner for a long time and had little military power; the only rebellion of Zhenhai Jiedushi Li Qi was soon extinguished by his rebel subordinates.

Therefore, this place was able to survive the chaos since the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty, and it has successively attracted and gathered one after another. Over the years, a large number of wealthy families, officials and large families in the southeastern areas moved into the property management camp with their families.

Therefore, the ruts are paved along the stones and pebbles, and the ruts are obvious, and the vertical and vertical streets and spider web alleys are almost everywhere. There are almost no trace or existence of thatched hut roofs;

Neat and colorful, adjacent to the previous Penghu Thatched Cottage, the vegetable beds and chickens and dogs are mixed with ancient sites in Jiangning, forming a sharp contrast between the present and the past.

In the distance is the famous Xijin Ancient Ferry across the sandbank in the river. It is also the focus and ancient battlefield for the battles between the north and the south during the battles of the north and the south. More famous major events, such as the unprecedented "Yongjia South Crossing" during the Six Dynasties, where most of the northern refugees landed here.

In the fifth year of Long'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (401), Sun En, the leader of the rebel army called for Wudou Midao, led "100,000 soldiers and thousands of ships", entered the sea from the river, went straight to Zhenjiang, controlled the Xijin Ferry, cut off the north-south connection, and besieged the Jin capital Jianye (now Nanjing). Later, he was defeated nearby by the Northern Palace soldiers led by Liu Yu.

Of course, because of the constant wars in the late Southern Dynasties, it quickly declined, and with the battle to destroy Chen in the early Sui Dynasty, it was dormant in the depression for many years; it was only after a century of rest and rest between the Zhenguan rule and the Kaiyuan prosperous era, it became prosperous and prosperous again.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, this place was also one of the important hubs and nodes for the transfer of wealth and wealth in the southeast. The goods and goods from the fish and rice towns of Liangzhe, Jiangdong, all had to gather here through various water systems connecting the Jiangnan Canal and then cross the river to the other side, thus entering the middle section of the Grand Canal in Huainan.

Especially after entering the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Dantu, including Xijindu, also together with Jiangdu City, Yangzhou, became an important node for the central government of the Tang Dynasty, which was facing internal and external troubles and was declining, and maintained its authority and operational foundation. It was a matter of course for the two major military governors of Huainan and Zhenhai.

The ability to allow the generals of the past dynasties here is also the top choice for the middle rank and power among the vassal states in the world. They often serve as officials and hold the title of commander or minister of the camp, and can be the choice of a generation of important officials and famous generals in the local area.

It can be said that after the Danzhe was sent, the source of wealth that the Tang Dynasty relied on to maintain in the southeastern roads was basically cut off and cut off; while the many wealth and property detained and stranded in the local area were completely lost, it also lost the basic control and basic channels for maintaining its influence south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, now there are many trekking ships between the wharfs and trestles with warehouses, or are surrounded by many official and civilian ships; they only look like sails are lined up and dead, which squeezes the inner and outer port area formed by the artificial dike, like an arm-enclosed port area.

On the east side of the dike, there are also Dantu Navy troops stationed, one large and one small, and a series of water and land camps. Dozens of wide-headed and flat-body official warships are usually moored. Now, amidst a roar and roar, the blue horizontal flag has been quickly pulled out and replaced by Taiping Qing flags.

"The court offices, transportation offices, ministry, salt and iron, patrol offices, governors, and governors' yamen have all been sealed and counted. Should they be selected first to settle in?"

Yuan Jing, the Chengfa official who was rotating next to him, also spoke.

"No, let's go to Beigu Mountain by the river first..."

Zhou Huaian waved his hand.
Chapter completed!