"Open the city gate and lower the suspension bridge!" Tan Qihan waved his hand, and the defenders under the city gate slowly opened the city gate and then lowered the suspension bridge. The obstacles in front of Li Jicao disappeared in an instant, and now the road into the city was smooth.

Looking around, everything in the city is as before. Li Jicao often goes in and out of Dinghuai Gate, so he is very familiar with it.

"General, this..." Lin Shiquan was a little frightened. If he really went in, he seemed to have offended the face of the king and the princes in the court.

"I don't pay much attention to that little material. Although the Song army has scraped it, it will not be that clean. Besides, it is also good to let the brothers go in and have fun." Li Congshan's attitude made Li Jicao even more excited.

Indulgent, he became more and more convinced that as long as he could win over the elite navy around him, there was nothing Li Congshan could do to him.

"What the general said is good, we might as well go into the city and have a look!" Another navy general rubbed his hands. How could such a big city with hundreds of thousands of people have no oil and water? The Song army would not like it or could not take it away.

There must be quite a few of them.

"General Lin will lead people to guard the suspension bridge and the city gate. The rest of the people, follow me into the city!" Li Jicao waved his hand. Although he was confident that the defenders in the city had nothing to fear, he still had a caution. As long as the suspension bridge and city gate were under their control, Li Jicao waved his hand.

, you can evacuate at any time.

Lin Shiquan nodded. If Li Jicao could entrust this job to him, he would treat him as his absolute confidant.

Tan Qihan turned a blind eye to Li Jicao's command of men to control the city gate, and instead asked his soldiers to evacuate the city gate and surrendered.

Tan Qihan's behavior further fueled Li Jicao's arrogance, and he led a group of generals and swaggered into the city under the protection of his own soldiers.

The pedestrians who were originally on the streets in the city disappeared without a trace the moment the army entered the city. They had just been plundered by the Song army and were already frightened.

"General, there should be something valuable in these shops." The soldiers beside him looked at the shops on both sides of the street. They were all intact. There must be valuable things in them.

Everyone behind him looked at Li Jicao walking forward with his head down, and they cried out in their hearts that it was a pity.

"Let's go to the warehouse first, business is important!" Li Jicao touched his chin. He was robbing just after entering the city. It looked so ugly. He was a general after all, so he still needed the dignity he deserved.

After going to the official warehouse, he only stared at that stall, and pretended not to know about the rest. At best, it was a responsibility with weak restraint.

Li Jicao was very familiar with the roads in Jiangning City. He could walk to the warehouse with his eyes closed. But after walking less than two hundred steps, he felt something was wrong.

"Go and knock on the door!" Li Jicao stopped and pointed to the grocery store next to him.

It is normal for everyone to hide in fear of the army entering the city, but after walking for so long and not even a person peeking in the window, it is very strange. People's curiosity is difficult to suppress.

When the soldier heard this, he ran over and hit the brass button on the door with the handle of his knife.

"Kick it away!" Li Jicao felt something was wrong and ordered directly.

With a sound of "Boom!", the door was kicked open, and the soldiers rushed in directly.

Li Jicao looked at the shop, not knowing the details inside, so he had to wait patiently.

One breath, two breaths...five breaths, but still no one came out. In this late autumn, Li Jicao's forehead was already sweating.

"General, there are still things in here that we can't take." Just when Li Jicao was about to lose it, the two soldiers who went in came out with messy things hanging on them. This meant that

If others go in, they will get nothing if they don't take it.

"Is there anyone inside?" Li Jicao was extremely angry. Now was not the time to get angry. Important matters were important.

"No!" The soldier shook his head, thinking in his heart, this is not nonsense, if there are people, they will take things like this

, there must be some movement.

"Kick open all these rooms and see if anyone is there!" Li Jicao was not sure what was going on, but he began to feel a little uneasy.

The results came out quickly. There were still some things in the shop, but no people.

"Withdraw!" Li Jicao's expression changed drastically, and he was ready to evacuate Jiangning City first. Whether he could reap the benefits was secondary. He must not risk his life. He only had one life, and he couldn't afford to gamble.

Everyone under his command looked puzzled. Why did they just enter the city and leave before they started looting?

"Everyone, something is fishy. There is not even a single person in these shops, which is absolutely unreasonable. In my opinion, this may be a trap!" Li Jicao wanted to ignore it and leave directly, but if everyone else is in the city,

If he's trapped, he probably won't be able to escape alone.

He didn't know what means were available in the city, but as long as everyone worked together and with so many elite soldiers, they would definitely be able to evacuate safely.

"General, you're scared. There are so many of us and there are no city walls. He can use all his tricks. I can defeat them all on my own." A naval general said disdainfully. With so many elite soldiers, there is no way around Jiangning right now.

No one can threaten them.

"Yes, General, if you can, go to the palace for a walk. I heard that the floors in this palace are covered with gold bricks!" After finally entering Jiangning City, I wanted to make a fortune, but before I started, I

What's the point of quitting?

"Everyone, there is something fishy about this matter. In my opinion, there must be some tricks in place in this city. We are currently in control of the city gate and can exit freely." Li Jicao was naturally unhappy when his order was refuted.

But now it is not a means of internal strife. These people are just blinded by interests.

"General, if there is an arrangement, we only need to investigate it. If it is true, it will not be too late for us to retreat!" Seeing that this matter has caused a conflict, naturally some generals came out to smooth things over.

"Okay, send people to search around, and be fast!" Li Jicao took a deep breath. These navy generals know nothing about street fighting. If it were him, they would definitely block all the passages.

Tan Qihan stood at the top of the city, looking at the stopped team, and secretly thought it was a pity.

Then he ordered people to plant a pure black flag at the top of the city and sent orders to all directions.

A large number of elite soldiers suddenly appeared on the originally lax city top, with bows and arrows drawn, and they shot towards the city. The original defenders also lifted up the huge rocks and rolled logs from the city head and threw them down. The navy officers who were originally stationed under the city,

They all took out their bows and crossbows and fired at them.

"Retreat! Retreat quickly!" Li Jicao heard the movement from behind and immediately shouted loudly, then rushed behind with his own soldiers.

A large number of armored elites carrying heavy shields appeared from the depths of the surrounding alleys. As for the pathfinders he sent, they were probably already on the Huangquan Road.

The generals who were originally worried about the treasures in the city ran away now, fearing that they would be left behind.

If they were farther away from the city gate, they might still be thinking of fighting and retreating at the same time. Now that they were only two hundred steps away, they could rush over in one go, but the situation became even more chaotic.

The arrows were flying in random directions, and the navy generals and their personal guards did not care and just rushed towards the city gate. They were all wearing iron armor, so the arrows were not something to be afraid of.

"Hold it to me. If anyone dares to retreat, I will kill his whole family!" Lin Shiquan shouted loudly outside the city. The defenders at the top of the city were condescending. They were extremely passive.

Now that Li Jicao is in the city, he must guard the city gate no matter what, otherwise Li Jicao will die and he will not end well. The number of soldiers obeying his command in Caishiji is only 10/20.

"General, general, look behind you!" The captain pointed in the direction outside the city and asked Lin Shiquan to take a look.

Lin Shiquan opened his mouth in shock at just one glance. He saw more than a hundred elite cavalry leading the way, followed by countless elite infantry, walking vigorously.

Rufei was gathering around him.

They did send scouts outside, but their navy had no war horses at all. They couldn't outrun the cavalry with two legs, so they were naturally taken care of long ago.

"Block them!" Li Jicao braved arrows and flying stones and finally rushed to the city gate, thinking he was about to escape. Unexpectedly, the opponent actually set up a dragnet.

Li Jicao couldn't understand why there were so many elite soldiers in the city at once.

There was an ambush in front of him, pursuers behind him, and a large number of archers on the city, leaving no way for him to survive.

Li Jicao regretted that he should not have been arrogant and only brought so many people.

Although they are well-equipped, they are naval soldiers after all. In front of the elite infantry, land combat is not enough. Lin Shiquan's more than a thousand elite troops were defeated by the cavalry, and then a large number of infantry poured in, chopping melons and vegetables.

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"Surrender, I surrender!" The navy soldiers, who were frightened by the killing, began to kneel down and beg for mercy, hoping to escape with their lives.

"Pfft!" The spear kept piercing the chest of the kneeling soldier without stopping, without any intention of stopping.

Soldiers who knelt down and surrendered were being killed one after another. Lin Shiquan, who originally wanted to surrender and survive, tightened the long knife in his hand and chopped forward with all his strength.

With a "Boom~" sound, and supported by the speed of the war horse, a sledgehammer hit Lin Shiquan directly in the chest, smashing him directly into the moat.

While he was still in the air, Lin Shiquan spurted blood mixed with debris from his mouth. He was definitely not going to survive.

There was no way to survive in front or behind, not even from above. Many navy officers took off their armor and jumped into the moat. They were good at swimming, and if they went into the river, they would at least have a chance to survive for the time being.

Li Jicao gathered the elite around him and tried to break out, but was beaten back every time.

On the city wall, Tan Qihan clearly saw Li Jicao's movements. Every time he sent a signal to Zheng Yanhua with his flag, he quickly mobilized his subordinates to contain him.

It was not known how many times he had broken through, but Li Jicao was desperate. He was so exhausted for the first time in his life. The long sword had long been broken, and the long knife he picked up on the ground also made a gap.

The enemy was surrounding them more and more tightly. With their physical strength exhausted, it was no longer possible for them to break through. However, surrendering would ultimately lead to death. Most of those who jumped into the moat were killed by bows and arrows. Now they had no way to go to the sky and fell to the ground.

No way.

"Why? I am willing to surrender!" Li Jicao threw the knife on the ground. As of now, there are only more than a thousand intact people left around him, and the others are either dead or injured.

There was no point in resisting. Li Jicao was a bachelor, but he still questioned him.

"Your Majesty, do you still recognize me?" The man holding the Yanyue Sword lifted the iron armor on his face, revealing his pale face.

Since the beginning of the war, this iron armor has been covering his face during the day. As time goes by, he has a sickly pale color that cannot see the sun.

"Zheng Yanhua? Why are you ambushing me here?" Li Jicao had long suspected that this army was the elite of the Zhenjun Navy. Although they did not raise a flag, only the Zhenjun Navy could arrive in Jiangning without his knowledge.

When armies came from other directions, it was impossible that he would not know any information about his defense at Shijiu Lake.

"Of course I am following the order of the king to eradicate the traitors!" Zheng Yanhua gestured towards the palace with his hands raised. He still had to speak harshly when he was about to die. I really didn't know what the point was.

"You are the traitor! Without me, the king cannot even cross the river..." Li Jicao was angry. He had done something, and there were many people he could not forgive, but he was the only one who could not forgive Li Congshan.
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