Chapter 601: Ending

"The Emperor, in accordance with the will of Heaven and the Mandate of Heaven, proclaims: The Sixth Prince Zhao Fang, as a member of the royal family of Dasong, has no intention of serving the royal family, and has been in close contact with the traitor Yuan Li in secret, intending to rebel. He deserves death, and the Regent Prince Zhao Xu is ordered to take back Jinzhou and arrest him. This is the order!"

In the meeting hall of the palace, Liang Cheng read the imperial edict to Zhao Xu. Reading

Not long after the news that the Sixth Prince disobeyed the order and intended to rebel reached Zhao Heng's ears, Liang Cheng came over.

Handing the imperial edict to Zhao Xu, Liang Cheng smiled flatteringly, and said: "The Emperor said that the Sixth Prince has repeatedly made serious mistakes, and he has forgiven him several times. Now he has done his best. Your Highness does not need to care about him, just act according to your own ideas."

Zhao Xu nodded. Zhao Fang was a prince after all.

Before killing Zhao Fang, he felt it was necessary to inform Zhao Heng.

Now that Zhao Heng promised this, he no longer had any concerns.

After receiving the imperial edict, Zhao Xu sent people to Feihu Pass.

There were 10,000 royal troops led by Niu Cha.

This time, he asked Niu Cha to lead 5,000 people to Jinzhou to capture the Sixth Prince.

According to the information provided by Xu Ke, the Sixth Prince had managed to gather more than 30,000 troops during this period.

After all, the population of Jinzhou is so small, and this is basically the limit.

Now, the Sixth Prince is going around to capture able-bodied men. In his opinion, no matter how hard he tries, he can't gather more than 80,000 troops.

Moreover, since Jinzhou is surrounded by Yancheng and Sizhou, the Sixth Prince's army has no access to muskets and artillery, and currently uses only swords and armor.

Moreover, since this army was forcibly recruited, the morale of the soldiers is worrying, and the training is also very poor. It is just a group of rabble.

More importantly, even among these 30,000 soldiers, 70% of them are under his control. As long as he gives an order, these 70% of the soldiers will rebel, leaving the Sixth Prince dead without a burial place.

However, in order to reduce the casualties of this part of the soldiers, he decided to let Niu Cha go.

Five thousand soldiers of the palace with rifles, together with the internal support, will quickly resolve the war.

Two days later, Zhao Xu's order arrived at Feihu Pass.

After counting the five thousand soldiers, Niu Cha led the troops to Jincheng.

As soon as the troops of the palace were dispatched.

The Sixth Prince's men sent the information they had found to Jincheng.

The Sixth Prince immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

He said to Yuan Hang: "I know that the King of Yan just wants me to die. It doesn't matter whether I accept this imperial edict or not. In this case, let's fight to the death."

Yuan Hang nodded, and his heart was tightened at the same time.

Originally, they thought they could attack Yanzhou from both sides with Qi.

But it is obvious that the King of Yan did not give them this opportunity at all, and was ready to solve the problem of Jinzhou immediately.

Just as the Sixth Prince said, they had no choice but to fight to the death with the King of Yan

"Your Highness, I will go and count the troops and defend Jincheng, hoping to hold out until Qi attacks Yanzhou, so that we will be safe by then."

The Sixth Prince nodded and urged Yuan Hang to go quickly.

At the same time, when Niu Cha marched towards Jincheng, Xu Ke also secretly sent people into Jinzhou.

After arriving in Jincheng, they contacted the Sixth Prince's army.

Let them cooperate with Niu Cha to take Jincheng.

Three days later, the five thousand troops led by Niu Cha arrived outside Jincheng.

Looking at the soldiers wearing various tattered armors and holding swords on the city wall, he and the generals burst into laughter.

"This Sixth Prince really doesn't cry until he sees the coffin. With such an army, he still wants to fight us. It's just a foolish dream."

After that, Niu Cha ordered the generals around him to lay out the twelve artillery pieces they brought in front of the north gate of Jincheng.

Once this city was captured by the King of Yan, laying the foundation for the victory of the Battle of Jinzhou.

The blood and tears of the soldiers of Yanzhou flowed on this land. Now they returned again, just to take back what belonged to them.

"Boom boom boom..." The artillery was deployed. Niu Cha immediately ordered to attack the city. He had nothing to say to the Sixth Prince in the city, no need to talk nonsense.

Most of the Sixth Prince's army were young and strong men captured from the countryside, otherwise they would not be able to gather so many soldiers.

These soldiers had to stay in the army just because of fear, they didn't want to fight at all.

Now the sound of the artillery scared them half to death, after all, many people had never seen this thing in their lives.

The fear of loud noises is engraved in the instincts of every creature, and so are people. At that time, many soldiers were so scared that they covered their ears and squatted on the ground.

At this time, the sound of "bang bang bang" came.

On the city wall, the Sixth Prince's guards in bright armor fell one after another.

These were the elites brought by the Sixth Prince from the capital. It was through these elites that the Sixth Prince controlled his troops.

Niu Cha realized this, so he asked the soldiers to shoot at these guards, so that they could quickly disintegrate this tattered army.

Sure enough, the death of these guards seemed to free the soldiers, and many soldiers simply lay on the ground and did not get up.

"Kill!"

At the same time, shouts of killing broke through the sky.

However, this sound did not come from outside the city, but from inside the city.

When the artillery sounded, the generals who received the secret order from the four courts led the soldiers to kill.

Their slogan was simple, "Kill the Sixth Prince, and Jinzhou will belong to King Yan."

During the battle of Jinzhou, the people of Jinzhou begged King Yan to stay, but there was no order from the court at that time, so the Yanzhou army had to withdraw.

Now that King Yan has fought back, how can they not respond?

And compared to the soldiers who resisted Niu Cha, these soldiers were as energetic as chicken blood, waving swords excitedly, and running faster than rabbits.

There was a great enemy outside the city, and civil strife inside the city.

When the news reached the palace, the Sixth Prince was scared pale.

He thought he could hold on for ten days and a half, but he didn't expect that he couldn't hold on on the first day.

Just as he was thinking, Yuan Hang rushed in in horror, grabbed the Sixth Prince and ran out.

"Your Highness, hurry up, the rebel soldiers are about to arrive at the palace, it will be too late if you don't leave."

As he said, he put a set of clothes on the Sixth Prince, which was the clothes of ordinary people.

After changing clothes, they walked out of the palace and tried to hide in the houses, looking for an opportunity to escape from Jinzhou.

When they arrived outside the palace, the rebel soldiers had already rushed over. Yuan Hang immediately asked the guards to resist, and he took advantage of the chaos to lead the Sixth Prince to escape.

But before they walked a hundred meters, they were suddenly surrounded by a group of people.

They were none other than members of the Fourth Courtyard.

During this period, they had been keeping an eye on the Sixth Prince's palace, so how could they let the Sixth Prince escape?

Seeing that there was no escape, the Sixth Prince knelt on the ground with a plop.

He cried, "Don't kill me, don't kill me, please tell the King of Yan that I surrender, and let him spare my life for the sake of our brotherhood. I am willing to serve him like a cow and a horse in the future."

"You think too much. His Royal Highness the King of Yan ordered you to stay in Jincheng forever." A member of the Fourth Courtyard said.

After that, they waved their swords and rushed towards the Sixth Prince and Yuan Hang.

Amid screams, the Sixth Prince and Yuan Hang fell in a pool of blood.

Once the Sixth Prince died, his guards no longer had the will to resist and surrendered one after another.

Soon, the four city gates opened, and Niu Cha led the army into Jincheng and officially took over the place.

Then, he sent someone to send the news to Yancheng.