As soon as the sky dawned, Chang'an City was already in chaos, and the city gates and various square gates that were originally opened at dawn were all closed, which seriously affected the lives of the people, and the Li Tang military forcibly recruited young and strong people to defend the city from house to house, causing Chang'an to fall into a huge panic.

All kinds of rumors spread in various squares of Chang'an, some people say that it is the Turkic army that goes south, and some people say that it is the Sui army that enters the customs, but undoubtedly, the latter is more convincing, just because Yongbei is the land of the Great Sui, and it is impossible for the Turks who have been defeated by the Sui army to cross Yongbei and enter the pass. What's more, the Lishan Beacon Fire shows that the enemy who came from the east came from the east! After spontaneous arguments between the left and the right, the Sui army's entry into the customs soon became the mainstream theory. But a new controversy arose, some people said that Yang Tong led an army of 100,000 to attack Chang'an, others said that Yang Tong led 300,000, 500,000, and even said that it was a million troops who crossed the Yellow River westward. All in all, the arrival of the Sui army made Chang'an full of storms and panic.

Five beacon fires burned for a whole night, so that more than 100,000 people in the villages outside the city rushed to take refuge in the city, but the nine gates of Chang'an were all closed, and the panicked people gathered outside the city gates and shouted loudly to open the city, and the scene was very chaotic. As the south gate of Chang'an, the area around Mingde Gate is particularly chaotic, and Zhao Cijing, the commander of the city defense, had no choice but to open the Mingde Gate and let the people on the outskirts of Chang'an take refuge in the city for an hour.

The city gate is so big, and the people need to be strictly inspected, how many people can be put in an hour? When the gates were closed again, the people who had been separated from their loved ones were shouting and crying through a portal.

On the Suzaku Street inside the gate, it was crowded with people entering the city at this time, carrying baskets, carrying household goods, leading livestock, and riding ox carts...... The big ones called for their children and daughters, and shouted and scolded; The little crying father shouted to his mother and ran around, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

Close to the Mingde Gate, Yanzuo, Anle, Anyi, and Ande four squares, the doors of the fangs have been opened, and a team of well-equipped soldiers viciously drove the fleeing people inside. However, many residents in the workshop resolutely resisted refugees from entering the workshop, moved all kinds of obstacles from their homes to block the door of the workshop, and even ruffians took the opportunity to take advantage of young women and rob the people's property! It makes the door of the square cry and shouting, crowded and chaotic, and the livestock and poultry feces and urine make this piece of the world stink.

Above the city tower, Zhao Cijing's handsome face was full of worry, he was not worried about this fleeing people, people in troubled times are not as good as dogs, life is lucky, how can he be too demanding?

He was worried about the defense of Chang'an City.

The circumference of Chang'an City is more than 60 miles, but the defenders are only 50,000, which can only be deployed in the north and south, but despite this, the troops on the city wall are still very sparse, and in desperation, they can only recruit tens of thousands of young people to assist the soldiers in defending the city.

At this time, a scout team galloped from afar, the number of people was only ten, and Zhao Cijing did not issue combat alert, waiting for them to get closer, he shouted and asked, "Is there any news from Feng Yi?" ”

"100,000 urgent! Please forgive the General! The leader of the squad lightly shot a book of arrows on the top of the city, and then waved his hand and led the team to gallop away.

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The Daxing Palace, shrouded in melancholy clouds, fell into the highest level of alert, and you can see a team of well-armed morale walking around all the time, especially in the area of Xuanzhongmen, it is heavily guarded and heavily guarded, and the dragon head behind is also widely spread light and dark sentinels, which is the lesson that Yang Tong brought to Li Yuan by burning Daxing Palace.

It's noon.

Li Jiancheng rode a war horse and entered the palace with a flying horse. He had only been away for less than an hour, and his father had ordered him to urgently see him, although the eunuchs didn't know what was going on, but everyone knew that it must have something to do with the Sui army.

The guards were not surprised to see him riding in the palace, in this extraordinary period, both civil and military have this privilege.

In front of the Taiji Palace, Li Jiancheng jumped off the horse, threw down the reins, walked up the steps quickly, and walked all the way to the main hall, and an old eunuch greeted him, "Your Highness, please go directly to the Ganlu Palace." ”

Li Jiancheng walked forward quickly without looking back, and asked in a low voice quietly: "Why is it so hasty?" ”

The old eunuch trotted a few steps, glanced around vigilantly, and saw that the guards were standing far away and didn't pay attention to this, so he took advantage of the threshold under his feet to support Li Jiancheng, and quickly whispered: "Feng Yi has an accident." ”

"Thank you!" Li Jiancheng seemed to be grateful to the old eunuch for his support, and as if grateful for his prompt, and then quickly walked to the Ganlu Palace, and the eunuch at the door reported for him, "Holy Lord, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived." ”

"Let him in!"

Li Yuan's voice revealed a thick exhaustion, and Li Jiancheng walked quickly into the imperial study. I saw that the crown of Ping Tian fell to the ground and was cut in two, an old eunuch held a vermilion lacquered wooden plate, and several other people picked up the broken crown and fragments of pearls and jade into the wooden plate one by one.

Li Yuantie stood in front of the window with a blue face and a hand in his hand, Li Jiancheng was startled, it seemed that the situation was a bit serious, he suddenly became a little nervous, and quickly stepped forward and bowed, "Son, see my father!" ”

"Stand down!" Li Yuan said in a deep voice.

Waiting for a few eunuchs to retreat in a hurry, Li Jiancheng cautiously asked, "Father!" Is Feng Yi's news coming? ”

"I just received news that Pujin Pass was lost last night, and the reinforcements from various counties were defeated on the reinforcement road, Qu Tutong was ambushed by Yang Tong near Chengcheng, and the 40,000 army was annihilated, and even Qu Tutong was captured. In addition, Gwangtongcang, Shangjun, Beidi County, and Ding'an County are also finished. Li Yuan's voice revealed a deep sense of fear.

It turned out that when Qu Tutong was captured, the reinforcements of Feng Yi County were annihilated outside the city by Wei Chi Gong, and Wei Chi Gong took advantage of the situation to enter the city, and ordered a partial general to lead 3,000 to sit in the town, and then led the army to run a long distance, and forcibly conquered Xia Tai County, and the troops pointed directly at Wannian County in the east of Jingzhao.

Shen Guang ambushed 6,000 reinforcements from Guangtongcang in the southern suburbs of Chaobancheng, deceived Guangtongcang with Zhang Pinggao's corpse, and the piles of materials fell intact into the hands of the Great Sui, and then led the 5,000 army across the Guangtong Canal, conquered Jingzhao Huayin County, and deterred Chang'an from the southeast.

Seeing that the dust had settled and that Pujin Pass had become the 'hinterland' of the Great Sui, Pei Renji sent 10,000 Hedong troops to reinforce Shen Guang.

Yang Tong's side, leaving Niu Jinda to lead the Hedong Army to clean up the battlefield, and left the order to conquer Chengcheng, and Luo Shixin led the Xuanjia Army and Xiaoguo Army to the north, at dawn, at the southern foot of Liangshan to catch up with Li Tang 'Guanzhong Twelve Army' cavalry army chief general Sang Xian and support Longmen Pass 8,000 Tang Army, after a big battle, it was defeated, just like Shen Guang, with Sang Xian and the corpse deceived Longmen Pass, except for the guard general He Chang led a personal army to escape, the rest of the defenders surrendered to the Great Sui.

The four counties of Hancheng, Heyang, Baishui, and Pucheng surrendered without a fight.

Same last night!

After Su Dingfang received the news from the flying eagle at dusk, he immediately marched in a hurry, and raided Luojiao County, Shangjun County when it was dark, and then divided his troops to attack the four counties of Nei, Sanchuan, Yancheng and Luochuan, and he himself personally led the main force south, and before dawn, he had already approached Yijun County of Jingzhao County.

Yijun County is located in the north of Tongguan Road, Tongguan Road is one of the main passages from Yongbei into Guanzhong, that is, the Tongchuan line in later generations, along the Tongguan Water can enter Guanzhong, but this road is rugged and broken, not conducive to large-scale army marching, so the Tang army did not focus on defense on this road, but in Yijun County stationed 10,000 Xuange army, Su Dingfang's siege war, there is no skill at all, he suppressed the defenders of the city with a strong crossbow, personally led the elite soldiers to climb the ladder, and killed the Xuange army in the 12th army in Guanzhong Lu Junge, as soon as the lord died, all the Xuange troops surrendered, and after that, he led 40,000 elites of Yan'an County to enter Tongguan County, like a sharp blade, hanging above the head of Chang'an.

After receiving the letter eagle, Pei Xingyan, the commander of Honghua County, led 30,000 Sui troops and 10,000 Turkic slaves, from Heshui County along the Malingshui River Valley, at dawn, sneak attacked the county seat of Zhiding'an, Beidi County, this city was commanded by Lei Yongji 10,000 Banner Army, but he also encountered the same barbaric tactics similar to Lu Junge, when the defenders were suppressed by the Great Sui crossbow and could not raise their heads, 20,000 Turkic slaves risked their lives to attack the city, Lei Yongji died in battle, and the remnants of the Banner Army all surrendered to Sui. Then, Pei Xingyan led the army to camp in the shallow water plain at the confluence of Malingshui and Jingshui, and the troops approached the headquarters of Li Xiaogong in Xinping, and the four counties of Luochuan, Pengyuan, Xiangle, and Sanshui changed banners.

The performance of the king of Pingliang County is also good, he led 30,000 Sui troops and 10,000 Turkic slaves from the Kelan Mountain, with barbaric tactics to conquer the county town of Yinpan in Anding County, the main general of the Jingyue army Wang Changkai was killed, and the remnants of the Jingyue army surrendered to the Sui.

After Wang Fubao conquered Anding City, he laid down Zhesha City and Changwu City along the Jing Water Road, and joined Pei Xingyan in Xinping County, and the five counties of Quail, Chaona, Liangyuan, Linjing and Huating in Anding County surrendered without a fight.

The Jingshui Road occupied by the two is flat and wide, which is the most conducive road for the army to go south, and the cavalry and baggage can be unblocked, if the two go south from the Jingshui River Valley, they will be able to take advantage of the situation to enter Jingzhao County, where Chang'an is located, and the biggest obstacle for the two is the 60,000 army led by Li Xiaogong.

After Li Yuan entered the customs, he selected 120,000 elite soldiers from the army and set up the 12th Army in Guanzhong, which was named after the constellation, which were the Banner Army, the Drum Banner Army, the Xuange Army, the Jingyue Army, the Yulin Army, the Cavalry Army, the Zhiwei Army, the Pingdao Army, the Zhaoyao Army, the Yuanyou Army, the Tianji Army, and the Tianjie Army.

Each army has a general and a deputy general, and the main general is filled by a confidant general, who each leads an army to garrison a strategic place, which is an important force in the Tang army. Each unit is not weak in strength and has extremely strong combat effectiveness.

However, in a short period of time, the 12th Army of Guanzhong, which was relied on by Li Yuan, was annihilated by the Great Sui, namely the cavalry army led by Sang Xianhe, the Banner Army led by Zhang Pinggao, the Drum Banner Army led by Lei Yongji, the Xuange Army led by Lu Junge, and the Jingyue Army led by Wang Changkai.

After listening to Li Yuan's narration, Li Jiancheng was stunned, in just one night and one morning, the Sui army had conquered so much territory, the speed and combat power of the Sui army were too terrifying, right? And how did the news spread so quickly?

"I know you don't believe it, and I don't believe it either!" Li Yuan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and continued: "But I think this is the truth, the cavalry of the Sui Dynasty is unparalleled in the world, and it is normal to run hundreds of miles in one night, and it is normal to annihilate the main force of our army with strong strength under the weakness of mental arithmetic!" The general trend has gone, and it is more normal for the counties and counties to surrender the city. ”

"Where did the military intelligence come so quickly?"

"Yang Tong captured our scouts and let them pass them back." Li Yuan said angrily.

"Huh? Could it be a deliberate attempt to mess us up? Li Jiancheng said with a frown.

"Feng Yi was beaten down by him, and he could be killed in Chang'an in the afternoon. I don't think Yang Tong needs to lie to us anymore. ”

Li Yuan sighed dejectedly, sat on the dragon couch in a daze, and muttered to himself: "I don't understand very much, why is Yang Tong staring at me Datang?" Before I could do anything, he disgusted us everywhere, and I don't know where I offended him. Can't you beat Wang Shichong? …… It is said that the son-in-law is half a son, the son-in-law is half a son, and I am the son-in-law and the half-son, who are staring at the father-in-law and beating him, and he is not filial. ”

Saying that, the mother-in-law and mother complained, counting all kinds of Yang Tong's disadvantages.

"......" Li Jiancheng only heard a black line, his mind was dizzy, and he really didn't know how to respond.

There was a strong longing and commission in my heart, and I thought: I don't know how the third sister is doing in Yecheng, alas, I hope Yang Tong will not take the disputes between men to the poor third sister.

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