While Wei Qing was fooling Bo Yao, Ma Ren was leading his army to attack the capital of Tang, and Chu Chao Hui, who was sitting in the northwest county, had already arrived at the river crossing near the capital of Tang by boat.
Ma Ren attacked the city in the same way as Wei Qing, by digging a hole under the city wall and burying dynamite to blow up an opening. Around the hole, the Tang defenders were not killed, but they were half-dead and had no power to resist. The Wu soldiers came in like a tidal wave from the openings. When the Tang Wangdu defenders saw that the situation was over, their will to resist was weakened, and amidst the slogan of 'surrender your weapons and don't kill', the Tang soldiers dropped their weapons and crouched down on the ground to show their surrender. Ma Ren easily led 3,000 soldiers to the entrance of the Tang King's palace.
Although the land area of Tang Kingdom is not as big as Wu Kingdom and its population is not as big as Wu Kingdom, the palace of the King of Tang Kingdom is much more opulent than that of Wu Kingdom. Tang Palace is not only a magnificent building, the palace walls are built quite lofty and strong, the palace seems to be a small castle.
"General! The battering ram couldn't break the palace gate, should we use explosives to blow up the palace wall?" The officer who commanded the attack on the palace came back to ask Ma Ren for instructions.
Ma Ren raised his head and looked at the palace wall, the palace wall, although built lofty and solid, is not as difficult to break through as the walls of the royal capital, and there are very few Tang troops defending the palace wall, only a thousand or so.
"No need for explosives this time, a royal palace with less than three times the number of guards than us, you all can't attack it, what face do you have to call yourselves an invincible army?" Ma Ren didn't want his soldiers to rely too much on explosives.
The explosives in this time and space were quite difficult to manufacture, and in this attack on Tang, the Wu army brought one-third of the explosives they had accumulated. The quantity was only enough to blow up a few large cities with strong defenses, while other small and medium-sized cities had to rely on soldiers to fight hard with siege equipment.
"Noe! Please don't worry General, my humble servant will definitely take the Royal Palace as soon as possible!" The officer looked aghast and led the way.
The Wu army stepped up their attack, using two feints to attract most of the palace guards, and concentrating most of their own forces on attacking the open areas of the Tang army's defenses. Wu soldiers clad in armor and holding big shields climbed up the wall of the royal palace against the enemy arrows and engaged in a fierce physical battle with the Tang palace guards.
Boss Mao was the first Wu soldier to leap onto the wall of the royal palace. Boss Mao climbed up the wall before standing still, two palace guards raised their swords and slashed at him, Boss Mao took the iron shield in his left hand to block the weapon of one palace guard, and his right hand steel sword grasped the other incoming swords, only to hear a clanging sound, the Tang guard's sword was grasped and broken by Boss Mao's steel sword, the sharpness of the Wu weapon was firm enough to give Boss Mao the upper hand in a one-against-one fight. Boss Mao took advantage of Tang Shoujun's daze and swung his sword with a forceful slash, knocking him to the ground with a slash.
Boss Mao took care of one enemy and used his steel sword to force back another Tang Wang Palace guard, moving himself forward to vacate the area and give his comrades on the ladder a place to stand. As the Wu soldiers stood firm on the palace wall, the Wu soldiers had a foothold, and more and more of them climbed up from the ladder. The Tang soldiers saw that the situation was not good. Many soldiers began to flee the battlefield, leaving fewer and fewer behind to resist, and the will to resist grew weaker and weaker.
Boss Mao and his comrades fought bloody battles from the palace wall to the gate of the palace wall, moved the long stone pillars holding the gate and opened the gate of the royal palace. The Wu soldiers outside the palace wall entered like a tidal wave, and the Tang royal palace was captured by the Wu soldiers.
"Capture the Younger King alive!"
"Don't let the Faint King escape, capture him alive and cut him into a thousand pieces!"
The Wu soldiers rushed towards the inner palace with high shouts, the palace where King Tang lived was in the inner palace, the wall of the inner palace was not high, and there was no garrison to defend it, there were only more than a hundred attendants guarding the inner palace gate. The attendants heard the shouts of the Wu soldiers outside and knew that the wall of the former palace had been broken, all these attendants surrendered without a little thought struggle, they opened the inner palace door to welcome the Wu soldiers to enter.
King Tang's tyrannical temper, the attendant service is slightly less than satisfactory, will make the palace guards flogging, in recent times, the King of Tang because of Wu's army pressure, more temperamental, serving his attendants waitresses have had bad luck, flogging and maiming is commonplace, was executed every day, the King's Palace of Tang every day to drag out a few bloody corpses, attendants waitresses trembled and dared not speak out of anger.
Before the Wu army did not attack the palace, there were palace guards who were loyal to the Tang King to suppress them, or they were afraid of the Tang King's counter-attack and liquidation, and the Tang King's palace attendants did not dare to rebel and defect, and after the Wu army captured the palace, the attendants no longer had any fear, and the Tang King would no longer be the master of their lives and deaths.
When Ma Ren led his troops to attack the Tang Wangdu, Chu Chao Hui took his personal guards ashore from the ship to supervise the battle near the Tang Wangdu city. When the gates of the Tang King's capital were blown open, Chu Chao Hui happened to receive a short report sent by Wei Qing and Zhou Cheng. Wei Qing had already occupied the west side of Tang's key cities and Zhou Cheng had already taken Tang's coastal salt farms.
After Chu Chao Hui read the report, he gave instructions to Wei Qing and Zhou Cheng respectively, Wei Qing continued to guard the border passes, Zhou Cheng's troops left 5,000 to guard the salt farms, and the rest went north to capture the northern cities of the Tang Dynasty, striving to capture the entire Tang Dynasty within half a month.
Chu Chao Hui here had only finished giving his instructions when Wei Ren sent someone to deliver the good news that the Tang King's Palace had been captured by the Wu soldiers.
"Go! Let's go meet that King of Tang!" Chu Chao Hui waved his hand and led his personal guards straight to the Tang King's Palace.
Wu soldiers have taken control of the main roads in the city of the Tang king's capital, and the resisting forces in the Tang king's palace have been cleaned up, the surrendered Tang soldiers cleaned up the battlefield under the surveillance of the Wu soldiers, and the blood on the ground had not yet coagulated when Chu Chaohui rode into the king's palace, but the corpses of the soldiers who died in the battle near the high wall of the king's palace had already been carried away and put in peace separately, the remains of the Wu soldiers were cremated and brought back to the Wu country for burial, and the corpses of Tang soldiers were identified and claimed away by their relatives. The corpses of Tang soldiers were claimed by their relatives, and the unclaimed ones were concentrated in the wilderness of the royal capital for burial.
"Ma Ren, where is King Tang?" Chu Chao Hui rode to the Harem, and Ma Ren was frowning at a three-story attic, which was surrounded by a regiment of Wu Bing.
"Report to the Great General! That dimwitted ruler wants to set himself on fire!" Ma Ren saw Chu Chao Hui coming and hurriedly dismounted to report.
"King Tang is going to set himself on fire?" Chu Chao Hui then realized that the attic was surrounded by piles of dry wood.
"When the dim king saw that the palace walls were broken down, he forced his personal attendants' maids and favored concubines with their sons and daughters to go up to this attic with him."
"Then why didn't King Tang light the fire?" It had been at least an hour since the palace wall was broken.
Ma Ren smiled bitterly, "Reporting to the Great General, that dusky king couldn't lay his hands on himself."
Chu Chao Hui raised an eyebrow, "Since King Tang can't get down on his own, why don't you help him out a bit?" What Chu Chao Hui meant was that King Tang was afraid of death and didn't have the courage to light the dry wood, Ma Ren was perfectly capable of helping him light it.
Ma Ren shook his head and sighed: "Reporting to the Great General, this attic is the Tang King's Treasure House where he stores his gold, silver and jewels, and the Duke has the care that the Tang King's Palace's belongings shall not be lost."
Ma Ren is concerned about these treasures, even if the attic has been surrounded by the Wu soldiers, Ma Ren does not dare to let the soldiers force the attic to board the attic to capture the King of Tang alive, for fear of stimulating the King of Tang to have the courage to ignite the dry wood, so that the attic treasures are damaged.
Chu Chao Hui stroked his chin, rode his horse around the attic, and had a countermeasure afterward.
"Is King Tang here? Chu Chao Hui of Wu is here!" Chu Chao Hui made up his mind and shouted towards the attic.
King Tang is carrying a sword on the roof of the attic rooftop circles, attic rooftop center has a burning fire tripod, rooftop of the surrounding kneeling full of King Tang's children, concubines and servants served his servants. Chu Chao Hui shouted before, the king of Tang is mumbling, he can not decide whether to kill his children and concubines and subordinates to commit suicide, or directly light a fire to burn to death.
Wu Bing's delay in taking action made King Tang's courage to commit suicide disappear little by little, while his fear of death grew stronger and stronger. King Tang walked frantically on the rooftop of the attic while his eyes showed a ferocious light as he scanned the men and women kneeling at his feet. The kneeling people who were swept by King Tang's sight were all trembling in fear, afraid that King Tang's sword would cut into them.
"I am here! Thou art the Great General of Wu?" When King Tang heard Chu Chao Hui shout, hope suddenly grew in his eyes, and he pounced on the rooftop railing to look downward for Chu Chao Hui.
"King Tang, you have committed so many sins that your death will not be enough to cover your crimes! I, Wu, have abolished the punishment of the company, only your atrocities will be investigated, and other people will be exempted from the crime! If you want to die, go ahead and die, why do you force your children and concubines to follow you, as well as those attendants and maids, how innocent are they?" Chu Chao Hui loudly condemned the King of Tang.
King Tang thought that Chu Chaohui was negotiating with him when he saw him, he thought that he still had a chance of survival, but he didn't want Chu Chaohui to ask him to die quickly and not to drag others into it, he looked around and found that his attendants and maids all showed hope in their eyes, and his two young concubine consorts also stopped crying and looked at him with anticipation. Of all the people, surprisingly none of them showed the expression of sharing his life and death.
"I am the king sent from heaven to Tang, and Tang people should live for their king! He should die for his king!" The Tang King's face muscles twisted, in his conception, all people should be like Fu Chou's mentor Jitu, who went to death for him without complaint, even if it was his own flesh and blood.
"Thou art a man of lethargy and cruelty! Thou art a follower of the people, and hast refused to spare the faithful to the end of their lives! Thou shalt die ten thousand times to thank heaven and earth! Thou shalt not be so obstinate as to martyr thyself with innocent lives." Chu Chao Hui noticed the change in the faces of the attendants around King Tang and continued to irritate him.
"Haha! I'd like to see who can live and die!" King Tang's eyes glowed red, and his entire person was a little crazy.
"Your Majesty! Sixth son is still young, I hope your majesty will have mercy," a concubine hugged her three year old son tightly, sobbing and pleading with King Tang.
King Tang stared viciously at his Ji Concubine, "Bitch! In vain of Lone's previous favor, on the occasion of breaking the country, you are so afraid of death!"
Concubine Ji knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, "I am not doing this for myself, it is because my son is too young, so I hope that Your Majesty will have mercy on him and give him a way out!"
King Tang looked up to the sky and laughed maniacally, "Since I was born in the King's family, I have to die for the King's family!"
The king of Tang finished straight cut to their own young children, ready to young children Ji Fei all cut to death and then self-immolation. Weeping Ji Fei saw the sword stabbed at the wailing son, swooped down on his son to protect, only to hear a scream, the King of Tang's sword penetrated the back of the Ji Fei.
King Tang's concubines and waiters and waitresses were habitually afraid of King Tang's lustful authority, and because the defeated monarchs and clansmen would be killed by the victors, and those who served the monarchs could not be spared, and they felt that it was all a matter of death, so no one was born to resist when King Tang forced them to be martyred in the Jumbo Pavilion.
Chu Chao Hui's words gave the martyrs on the rooftop a way out, and the hope of life was right in front of them, giving them the courage to fight back, while the King of Tang's persistent and unrepentant brutality stirred up the people's anger, and one of the attendants roared out, and violently pounced on the King of Tang, and pounced the King of Tang to the ground.
King Tang's sword hadn't been pulled out of Concubine Ji, and without a weapon, he could only physically fight with the attendant, and the two of them rolled on the rooftop to fight.
"Those who capture the Faint King alive will be rewarded generously!" Seeing the chaos on the rooftop, Chu Chao Hui hurriedly inspired more people to rise up in resistance.
As soon as Chu Chao Hui's words fell, a few more attendants stood up and pounced on King Tang. The Wu soldiers surrounding under the attic hurriedly moved the firewood in front of the attic door and hit the attic door with the battering ram, and after opening the door, the Wu soldiers swarmed up.
When King Tang was brought to Chu Chao Hui by his attendants bound, he was already in quite a sorry state, the crown on his head had fallen off, his hair was spread out, the king's clothes on his body were torn, his shoes were lost in the fight, and he was bare with two big feet.
Chu Chao Hui looked at the Tang King who was paralyzed in front of him with a smile and instructed Ma Ren, "Empty the treasures in the Treasure Pavilion and seal them together with those in the other palaces to send them to the Premier Minister."
Chu Chao Hui imagined Zheng Yuming's expression when he saw the gold, silver, and jewelry belongings, and he must have smiled with a wide-eyed smile.
"Yes, sir!" Ma Ren cupped his fists and led the order, he looked at the paralyzed Tang King and asked Chu Chaohui for instructions, "Is this dusky king also sent to the Premier Minister?"
"No, it's better to return King Tang to the attic rooftop, let's do something good and let him have his wish!" Chu Chao Hui wouldn't let Zheng Yuming get blood on his hands.
Paralyzed on the ground, the Tang King was horrified to hear that Chu Chao Hui was still going to burn himself to death with fire, and just as he opened his mouth to make a sound, a piece of rag was stuffed into his mouth, and he was re-dragged by the Wu soldiers to the rooftop of the attic like a dead pig.
History records that in the third year of King Sheng of Wu, the capital of Tang was captured by the army of Wu, and the King of Tang rebelled against his own family and set himself on fire alone in the Treasure Pavilion of the inner palace, and countless treasures disappeared into the fire along with the King of Tang.