Chapter 101: Breakthrough of Jiankang

Ren Zhong left the palace with two bags of gold. The dozens of guards left beside him hurriedly surrounded him and shouted anxiously: "General, how are you doing, what do you think of the emperor?"

Ren Zhong threw the gold in his hand to his personal soldiers and smiled bitterly: "This is what the emperor rewards us."

A soldier said angrily: "I've lost my life. What's the use of gold now? If I had listened to the general's advice and did not go out of the city to fight, why would this be?" Even so, the soldier still put the gold tightly on the horse.

Ren Zhong shouted, "Let's go to the south gate." Although Jiankang still has 20,000 soldiers, it is already panic. Once the news of the emperor leaving the city will be revealed, it will probably lead to the collapse of the whole city. He can only secretly draw troops to protect the emperor from leaving the city. The Nancheng army is the most, so Ren Zhong will choose Nancheng.

"Wow!" Less than dozens of steps, the personal soldiers in front stopped. A green and dark sedan chair blocked their way. Two palace maids and a young woman of ten years old had just come out of the side door of the palace and were about to get into the sedan chair. Most of them were nobles from the palace when they entered and exited from this side door. Ren Zhong's personal soldiers had to let him pass first.

A palace maid lifted the curtain of the sedan chair. When the young woman was about to bow her head into the sedan chair, for some reason, she suddenly turned her head and looked in Ren Zhong's direction. Ren Zhong felt a little surprised. The young woman looked very familiar. She was Xiao Mohe's concubine. After Xiao Mohe married this concubine, she was very fond of him and often asked him to come out to enter the guests. Ren Zhong recognized him at a glance. He was puzzled and couldn't help but hit him and asked, "Madam Xiao, why are you here?"

The young woman's snow-white face suddenly turned red. Of course she knew Ren Zhong. She didn't expect to meet her husband's friend when she left the palace. The young woman suddenly felt like she was caught on the spot when she was having an affair. Her face turned blushing and she said hesitantly: "I...I..."

Seeing Mrs. Xiao's shameful face, Ren Zhong thought of today's failure and suddenly understood many things. When the Sui army attacked in the morning, the central army suddenly seemed to be no one to dispatch it. It turned out that Xiao Mohe had a problem. Ren Zhong seemed to be stabbed hard in his heart, and waved his hand weakly: "I understand, please, Madam."

Mrs. Xiao was blessed and silently got into the sedan chair. Four healthy husbands lifted the sedan chair and disappeared quickly. The personal soldiers next to him also guessed that it would be not a good thing for Mrs. Xiao to leave the palace. The general was fighting for the emperor outside the city, but the king summoned the general's wife into the palace for fun. No matter what, a personal soldier couldn't help saying, "General, why should we protect such a foolish monarch? Why would we surrender?"

"Shut up, you are impatient in your life. You dare to say such a bold statement. I will beat you to death." Ren Zhong raised the whip in his hand and pulled the whip at the spoken soldier.

The personal soldier let Ren Zhong's whip twitch on his face, stammering his neck, and without asking for a whip. He just took it silently. After several whips, there were several bloody whips on his face.

"General, General." Several people who were close to the personal soldiers shouted quickly, and one of them reached out to hold Ren Zhong's arm. The relationship between the chief general and the personal soldiers was like a father and son. Ren Zhong was also angry and beat the personal soldiers hard. Seeing that someone was dissuading him, Ren Zhong could no longer whip the whip.

Han Qinhu personally led the vanguard toward Jiankang. Halfway through, a scout hurriedly reported: "General, General Chen Ren Zhong welcomed the general in Shizigang in front."

"Oh!" Han Qinhu was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting that Chen Jun would go out of the city to fight. However, he immediately reacted and asked, "How many people are there in Chen Jun?"

"Sir, there are less than fifty people."

The scout's answer made Han Qinhu confused. There were less than fifty people. What the hell was Ren Zhong doing? Teng thought of a possibility and was immediately overjoyed: "Is he here to surrender?"

"Go back to the general, that's right!"

"Okay! OK!" Han Qinhu laughed and rushed forward with a horse's belly: "Go!"

Seeing that the chief general took the lead, the personal soldiers hurriedly chased after him. In an instant, smoke and dust rolled, people roared and horse neighed, and tens of thousands of troops rolled forward like waves.

Ren Zhong narrowed his eyes and looked at the smoke and dust getting closer. The sound of horse hooves like thunder in his ears was enough to make people lose their fighting spirit before they got close. In fact, the Sui army crossed the Yangtze River safely. The Chen Dynasty's fate was half gone. Faced with such elite troops, even if the entire Chen army could not stand, they would just survive for a little longer.

Thinking of this, Ren Zhong strengthened his confidence: Emperor, it is not your minister who will let you down, but you will let all the ministers of Dachen.

"Boom." Thousands of cavalry rushed over. Seeing that the two sides were getting closer, the Sui army had no intention of stopping at all. Ren Zhong and dozens of his subordinates were like a lonely boat, and were about to face the storm. Ren Zhong's face remained unmoved, but the personal soldiers around him were nervously sweating. If the Sui army did not accept their surrender, it was just an impact, and they would not even be left with scum.

"Langlu." When the running Sui army was only more than ten steps away from them, they finally raised their reins. The galloping horses were suddenly stopped and stopped. A piece of yellow dust floated under the horse's hooves and landed on this small team of cavalry. All of them were immediately covered in dust.

"Ha, ha." A burst of laughter came, and a stout middle-aged man led the crowd out and shouted loudly: "Who is General Ren?"

Ren Zhong was so stupid that he was also the General Chen State. He secretly scolded the other party for being rude, but now he had already left the city, and he couldn't even turn back. He had to reluctantly answer: "I am Ren Zhong, where is General Han?"

"I am Han Qinhu, but General Ren is sincerely surrendering to our dynasty?"

Ren Zhong had a blue face and red face. He heard that the person in front of him was the chief general of the Sui army and was about to throw away his previous unhappiness. Unexpectedly, Han Qinhu's words were so direct, which made him feel embarrassed. He had to bear the embarrassment and quickly leaned over and bowed: "It turned out to be General Han. Ren Zhong paid a visit to General. The person who destroyed the country would be the one who lost his country, and I hope the general will take it in!"

"It's great. General Ren is exempted from courtesy. Now the soldiers are very fast. Please ask the general to get on the horse and lead the way. As long as you take down Jiankang City, I will report General Ren's contribution to the emperor."

Ren Zhong realized that he had misunderstood Han Qinhu. This person was not deliberately embarrassing him, but was too anxious and naturally he didn't have so much concern when speaking. Since he surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, he would definitely not make Han Qinhu unhappy for the sake of face. Thinking of this, Ren Zhong was calm and replied: "The general has his order, and the last general obeys the order."

When the Chen army at the South Gate saw the Sui army rolling in, he hurriedly closed the city gate to fight. Looking at the closed city gate, Han Qinhu said to Ren Zhong: "General Ren, it depends on you."

Ren Zhong pushed his horse forward and shouted at the city tower: "Listen to the brothers in the city, the State of Chen is no longer helpful, and I still surrender to the Sui army. Do you still want to fight to the death? Open the city gate quickly and let the army enter the city."

"Oh my God, it's General Ren!" The exclamation came from the city tower. Xiao Mohe and Ren Zhong were the pillars of Chen's army. When Ren Zhong left the city just now, everyone thought he was going to mobilize troops to rescue the siege, but unexpectedly, after joining the Sui army, the city suddenly became chaotic.

"General Xiao is dead, Jiankang has no reinforcements anymore. If you don't surrender, when will you wait?" Ren Zhong continued to shout.

"Submitted, the general has surrendered, why don't we surrender?"

"Yes, it's down."

Everyone was about to put down their weapons and surrender, but a small school suddenly shouted sternly: "Ren Zhong, you have been given the great kindness of the emperor and you are not willing to do your country. You also have to persuade others to be unfaithful and unrighteous. Can you tell me the word "shame"?

Ren Zhong was furious. As a general, how could a proofreader be allowed to scold him? He was about to refute him, but he heard a loud scream. The school that had just scolded him fell from the city wall and fell to the city with a bang. Blood gushed out from the waist of the school, raised his hand and pointed up, and struggled, "The thief..." and died with his head down.

"This fool, he doesn't have to implicate us all if he wants to die. Open the door! Open the door!"

Amid the chaotic sound, the gate that had just been closed was squeaking and opened again. Cai Zheng, the garrison general of the Nancheng City, came over with several soldiers and smiled at Ren Zhongmei: "General!"

The weapons in Cai Zheng's hand were still bleeding. It was obvious that he killed the small school just now. Ren Zhong felt disgust in his heart for no reason and shouted: "Get back and let the army enter the city."

"Yes, yes!" Despite being dissatisfied with Ren Zhong's attitude, Cai Zheng had to retreat aside in shame.

"Enter the city!" As Han Qinhu pointed his hand forward, countless Sui troops stepped into the gate of Jiankang City, the capital of the Great Chen fell without sending a single weapon.

Chen Shubao was ready to go in the palace, but he had never seen Ren Zhong arrive for a long time. He was secretly anxious. Shangshu Pushe Yuan Xian hurried over and shouted: "Your Majesty, it's not good, it's not good. Ren Zhong surrendered to the Sui army and is now killing the palace with his troops."

"Ah." Chen Shubao was so scared that he sat on the ground, his hands and feet were cold, and he cried: "I treat you very well, why do you let me down? Are all the scholars in Jiangdong unfairly righteous?"

When the Sui army came in, Shi Wenqing, Shen Keqing, Jiang and others immediately left, and only Yuan Xian was still with Chen Shubao and advised him: "Emperor, the great thing is irreversible at this point. The soldiers and horses from the north entered the hall. I hope the emperor will be upright and sit in the main hall to follow the incident when Emperor Wu of Liang met Hou Jing."

Chen Shubao was shocked and said, "I can't hand over the sharp blade, I have my own way." After that, he hurriedly left Yuan Xian and pulled Concubine Zhang and others to hurried to the back hall. Yuan Xian shook his head and sighed. The building had collapsed, and even the gods could do nothing.

Han Qinhu personally led his men into the palace, and now he successfully entered the city before He Ruobi. If Chen Shubao could be caught, it would be even more perfect. However, hundreds of Sui soldiers searched several times, but no figure of Chen Shubao was found. Just when Han Qinhu thought Chen Shubao had escaped from the palace, a whispered voice came from the well behind the palace. A Sui army looked down at the well curiously, but it was deep and there was no figure of him. He hurriedly reported: "Sir, there is movement in the well."

Han Qinhu checked in person, and it was also pitch black, and quickly shouted: "Is anyone in the well?"

After shouting for a while, no one in the well responded. Han Qinhu was annoyed and shouted, "Come on, fill in the well."

"Don't fill it, don't fill it, there are people underground." When I heard that I was about to fill the well, a sound finally came from below.

The Sui army threw a rope down, and several people tried hard to pull the people underground, but it was Chen Shubao, Zhang Guifei and Kong Guifei who hugged each other together. No wonder it was so heavy.

"Report, Prince, General Ren Zhong of Chen surrendered to our army."

"Report, Prince, General Han has entered the city."

The scout sent messages to Yang Yong without stopping. The situation was developing so fast. Everyone expected that Yang Yong had been staying in Xinlin for one night and set off again tomorrow to the city of Jiankang. Hearing that Han Qinhu had entered the city, he was worried about military discipline and no longer cared about staying in Xinlin and immediately ordered the departure.

On the way, there was more news from the scouts, which made Yang Yong even more eager to fly into Jiankang.

"Report, Prince, General Han has entered the palace."

"Report, the prince, General Han has captured the Emperor of Chen."

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"Okay, okay." When Han Qinhu captured Chen Shubao, Yang Yong was overjoyed: "Send the order. After all, Chen Shubao is the king of a country, so you should not neglect it. Also, block the Chen State Palace immediately and not allow soldiers to destroy the palace."

"yes!"

Yang Yong's army was carrying material things and was not moving fast. When Yang Yong had just entered the city, it was almost dark. A scout rushed from the front: "Report, Your Highness, the prince, it's not good. General He Ruobi and General Han Qinhu have started fighting."

Yang Yong's eyes turned dark when he heard this and almost fell from his horse. Lu Mulin quickly reached out to support him. Yang Yong sat down again and shouted: "Nonsense, these two are both generals of the current dynasty, why did they fight?"

"When I go back to the prince, I don't know what's going on?" The scout, Nene, was speechless.

"Where is Gao Ying, King Jin, where are they? Why don't you care?" Yang Yong almost roared.

Lu Mulin reminded: "Crown Prince, only the prince can suppress Chen's feet at the moment. If the two generals were really like this, they would probably become jokes for attacking Chen."

Yang Yong had no choice but to suppress his anger and shouted: "The East Palace Guard, follow the palace to the Chen State Palace."
Chapter completed!