Chapter 204: Attacking the Heart
The north wind of Huchuan shook the ground and roared, and the clouds were thick for thousands of miles. Goose feathers fly like wings and catkins, and the old country is changed in an instant. The city outline is difficult to find, the smoke rises, and the wilderness only sees plum blossoms thin. The misty goose is lost, and the vast snowfield is as night as day.
One night north wind, one night snow.
Chang'an City has become a white world overnight. At the end of the day, the sky was already bright, and standing at the head of the castle, you could see the whole Shirakawa. However, the first snow of the second year of Yongan did not stop its pace, but became more and more urgent and bigger.
The Xiliang soldiers on the straight gate of Chang'an City held their hands tightly in their sleeves, hugged them tightly in front of their chests, and kept stomping their feet on the city.
"Team Lu, Wang Li's army shouldn't come today, right?" A soldier struggled to pull his hand out of his sleeve, held it to his mouth, took a hot breath, and asked the captain beside him.
Team Na Lu smiled: "What's special, this Wang Li's army has been besieging the city for several days, except for the first day, the rest of the time is also besieged but not attacked, today is even more wind and snow, presumably they should not be so stupid, come to the door and hang around!" ”
"It's still Team Lu's wisdom, unlike us rough people who don't understand anything." The soldier nodded, patted the Lu team's ass, and said, "Wang Li's soldiers and we were born to our parents, where are we the only ones who are afraid of the cold, and those birdmen are not afraid of the cold?" If those birdmen come again today, wouldn't they be alive and dead? ”
As soon as the soldier spoke, he heard an exclamation from one of the people beside him: "Three monkeys, look at the birdman, oh no! The ghost is coming! ”
"What about your spring and autumn fart, little wolf cub, are you sleepy and haven't woken up yet? You didn't hear from Team Lu... Words? The three monkeys slapped the little wolf cub next to him on the head, but his eyes seemed to have fallen.
Hundreds of meters in front of him, there were 350,000 black-clothed and black-armored soldiers riding horses, or walking like flying out of the wind and snow, as if the wandering spirit under the nine lands suddenly appeared under the Zhicheng Gate, and suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
The wind and snow are like a note, and the iron armor is cold.
The 350,000 troops stood quietly under the city gates in columns and rows, allowing the cold wind to rage and the snow to flutter, like sculptures without temperature, motionless.
Immediately afterwards, the team thundered apart on both sides, dozens of stone throwers were pushed from the middle to the front of the formation, and two generals rode out, one in white robe and white armor, one in white armor and red armor, and two spears were particularly dazzling in the wind and snow.
"Ah, it's Zhao Zilong and Ma Yunlu!"
"Enemy attack, quick, quick, sound the alarm!"
There was a look of horror on everyone's faces, which couldn't be blamed on them, but these two people were too shocking. Two years ago, Meng Jin closed Zhao Yun to challenge Lu Bu, and a few days ago, Ma Yunlu and Pang De fought Cao Xing and Cheng Lian's image has long taken root in the hearts of everyone and is indelible.
Before the three monkeys could put their eyes back, the Lu team had already shouted angrily, rushed to the city tower, picked up the drumsticks that hung down in the air, and fell down on the war drums.
"Knock knock!"
The drums sounded suddenly, as if an air defense alarm had been sounded at the head of Chang'an City.
Before the puppet emperor and Lu Bu, who had arrived in a hurry, had not yet walked out of the palace, they heard dozens of dense war drums exploding around Chang'an City at the same time like thunder in the nine heavens.
A string of hurried footsteps rushed from a distance.
"Report! Xu Rong led an army of 10,000 troops, and the soldiers went out of the Zhangcheng Gate, and the Zhangcheng Gate was in an emergency! ”
"Report! Zhang Liao led an army of 10,000 troops out of Yongmen, and Yongmen was in danger! ”
"Report! Ma Chao and Pang De led an army of 30,000 soldiers out of the Qingming Gate, and the Qingming Gate was in an emergency! ”
"Report! Li rate one
Ten thousand troops, soldiers out of Yipingmen, Yipingmen is in an emergency! ”
"Report! Liang Xing led an army of 10,000 troops, and the soldiers went out to dominate the city gate, and the kitchen city gate was in an emergency! ”
"Report! ……”
A herald and scout rushed down from the city.
The twelve city gates of the ancient capital of Chang'an: Zhicheng Gate, Zhangcheng Gate, Yongmen, Xi'an Gate, Anmen, Fu'ang Gate, Bacheng Gate, Qingming Gate, Yiping Gate, Luocheng Gate, Chucheng Gate and Hengmen are in an emergency at the same time.
Each main gate is attacked by 30,000 soldiers and two generals, and the two secondary gates are assisted by a general or deputy general with 10,000 troops and horses.
Sixteen generals, 200,000 horses.
Where did Wang Li's gang suddenly come out of so many fierce generals and soldiers?
The puppet emperor was already stunned, but Lu Bu and Li Ru had already taken the lead in reacting, and the original alliance of Ma Teng, Han Sui and Li seemed to be on Wang Li's side now. No, Bacheng Gate, Qingming Gate and Yiping Gate are all their armies.
"General Dong and General Fu, each of you led the athletes under your command to the Chucheng Gate and Anmen respectively, and I asked Cao Xing, Cheng Lian and Wei Xu to assist you. Your Majesty and I personally went to the Zhicheng Gate, the Zhangcheng Gate, the Yongmen Gate and other places! Lu Bu also deserved to have some chances, and quickly threw out all the cards in his hand.
The puppet emperor looked at Lu Bu suspiciously: "How to deal with the Qingming Gate, the Bacheng Gate and the Yiping Gate?" ”
"Your Majesty, don't worry, Weichen also has a plan at this time!" Lu Bu bowed his head to the puppet emperor, "Your Majesty, do you still remember Cao Mengde's sneak attack on Luoyang a month ago?" ”
"Cao Mengde took advantage of Wang Lijun's presence in Guanzhong and planned to go down to Luoyang at night, but the general under the account was captured by Huangfu Song." It seems that the puppet emperor has indeed done a lot of homework these days, and it is also the head of the way, and the puppet emperor was stunned for a moment as he spoke, and immediately reacted, "You mean that there are also veterans like Huangfu Song in Chang'an City?" You mean Zhu Gongwei and Lu Zigan? ”
Lu Bu nodded and continued: "Zhu Gongwei broke the Lianglong in the past, and Lu Zigan also shocked the Jiujiang barbarians. Both of them are veterans of the DPRK and China, and both have experience against barbarian aliens. Weichen thought that His Majesty could edict the two of them to defend the three gates of Qingming, Bacheng and Yiping, and he would definitely let Ma Chao and the others return in vain! ”
"But aren't they sick in bed?" The puppet emperor looked at Lu Bu suspiciously.
Lu Bu shook his head: "No, they just can't get used to Dong Thief's arrogance and pointing at the deer as a horse, and they are a little disappointed in the court situation!" However, Weichen still thought that both of them were ministers of the Han Dynasty, and believed that His Majesty's edict could make the two of them retire from illness and stand in the army again. ”
"No!" As soon as Lu Bu's words fell, Li Ru had already taken over the topic and admonished the puppet emperor, "Zhu Gongwei and Lu Zigan are indeed talented, but when they went out to fight against the moth thieves, Wang Li once saved Zhu Gongwei's life, and Confucianism thought that Lu Zi was enough to do it alone!" ”
Lu Bu and the puppet emperor glanced at each other and nodded, at this time, Zhu Gongwei is indeed not suitable to appear at the city gate, if he fights back because of Wang Li's life-saving grace, can this Chang'an City still be defended?
The puppet emperor immediately issued an edict to restart Lu Zhi, as for Zhu, since he likes to pretend to be sick so much, then he should continue to pretend to be sick.
After the three of them said goodbye to everyone, they hurried to the gate of the straight city accompanied by a group of personal guards and Yulin Jun and Zhi Jingo, and the scene in front of them only made the three of them numb.
The soldiers under the city had already lined up, except for more than 5,000 soldiers who were around thirty or twenty stone throwers and kept running back and forth to load ammunition, the remaining 25,000 soldiers and soldiers stood quietly behind Zhao Yun and Ma Yunlu and did not move.
The wind is very strong, the snow is very strong, and the wind and snow are very strong. However, they did not move in the slightest in the wind and snow, and they did not even blink their eyes and brows.
Its Xu is like a forest, and it is not moving
Mountain!
Before the three of Lu Bu came to their senses, Zhao Yun had already made a big move in his hand, and the stone thrower behind him shot up at the same time, and hundreds of stone bullets flew up from under the Zhicheng Gate, intertwining into a vast stone rain in the sky.
Lu Bu and Li Ru subconsciously protected the puppet emperor under them, and at the same time shouted loudly: "The children are on the shield and form a formation, cut their robes and protect their noses!" ”
The soldiers were dazed for a moment, and in an instant, they quickly cut off their robes, tightly wrapped them around their lips, and then formed a shield formation in groups of three or five, raising the shields high above their heads, looking for a suitable place to hide in the city like a moving turtle shell.
However, the stone bullets did not fall, no, it should be said that they did not fall at the head of the city, except for a few stone bullets, most of the stone bullets jumped over the top of the city and landed on the roofs of Chang'an City, in the market and in the market.
It immediately exploded in the crowd of onlookers and evacuators, and there was no white rain or red dust that flew out, only notes full of words.
After being frightened and frightened, people finally regained their curious Chinese mentality, grabbed the notes one after another, and then dispersed in a hurry, and then quietly gathered in the teahouse, wine shop and even the green building, discussing the content of the paper.
"I heard that General Zhu in Chang'an City had an old relationship with Huangfu Song in the past, and he was rescued by Wang Li under Yangzhai City, and he has secretly taken refuge in Wang Li." A scribe in the teahouse sighed as he looked at the note in his hand.
The literati at the same table nodded, and then said: "I think that back then, Huangfu Song, Zhu and Lu Zhi were valued by the first emperor and were the three major generals in the court, and now they have done such a betrayal of the imperial court, which is really hateful!" ”
"Fart, you're all farting!" A son-in-law ascended to the teahouse under the escort of the guards, pointed at the two and scolded, "This Zhu and Lu Zhi are both confidants of the first emperor and are loyal, how can they betray the Son of Heaven, this must be Wang Li's divisive plan!" ”
The guard next to Brother Gongzi also took over the topic and said, "I heard that the three generals under Lu Bu are the real spies. Think about it carefully, what kind of person is Lu Bu? The people who betrayed Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo successively, how much loyalty do the people around him have? ”
The teahouse immediately responded.
"No wonder when Lu Bu went out to Pubanjin, Yang Fang, the head of Chang'an City, was killed in battle, while he and Wei Xu escaped from the heads of Zhang Liao and Gao Shun."
"And that Cao Xing and Cheng Lian, who was captured by Wang Li under the Zhicheng Gate that day, but was released by Wang Li in public, if there are no ghosts among them, I'm afraid the sow will be able to go up the tree!"
"There is really what kind of master there is, what kind of slave, I also have a note here, which says that Wang Li is the reincarnation of King Chu Xiang, and he came to Chang'an to avenge the revenge of Wujiang in the past, and Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao are the generals under his command, Long and Zhong. Today, these three killers will all return to Wang Li, open the gate of the city, and welcome Wang Li's army into the city! ”
Rumors are flying all over the sky, who can distinguish the truth from the false? One after another, one after another, speculation spread rapidly in the mouths of everyone, and quickly flew to the next wine shop, green building, horse market, city tower, and even the homes of officials and ordinary people.
After the stone throwers of the four main gates fired about 2,000 stone bullets each, a cymbal sound sounded around Chang'an City at the same time.
More than 200,000 troops retreated without hesitation under the leadership of Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Ma Chao and other generals.
The puppet emperor of the Zhicheng Gate, Lu Bu and Lu Zhi of the Qingming Gate were suddenly relieved, but the hearts of Wei Xu, Cao Xing and Cheng Lian on the Kitchen City Gate and the Anmen were raised, and they looked closely at the distant Wang Li army, with a strange light flashing in their eyes.