Tang Xizong said: "Tang Zhangwei is my concubine of the Tang Dynasty, and I am ready to decree that my sister Princess Suining will marry him." ”

Zhongguan Tian Lingzi said to Tang Xizong: "That's exactly what I'm worried about, when Huang Chao gave Yu Feiyan to Tang Zhangwei, I didn't expect this guy to betray him." ”

Tang Xizong was not happy, and he said, "Bastard, how do you compare me to that traitor? ”

Zhongguan Tian Lingzi hurriedly said: "Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue, but he has no intention of apologizing." ”

Outside Chang'an City, Tang Zhangwei and Li Keyong and other generals of the feudal towns rode horses in front of General Huang Chao's formation.

Tang Zhangwei said to Li Keyong: "Brother Tai should not rush to kill in front of the battle, it is too dangerous." ”

Li Ke said to Tang Zhangwei triumphantly: "The Shatuo clan is beautiful with strong health!" Those military generals, if they don't take the lead and fight hard, will soon be abandoned by their subordinates. ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "I see, Brother Tai has worked hard. Tang Zhangwei found that because the Nashatuo people had never left the saddle horse since they were young, they were familiar with bows and arrows.

In the third year of Zhonghe, that is, in the first month of 883, Li Ke of the Shatuo tribe led 50,000 troops to Shayuan with Fengzhao, Tang Zhangwei and his allied army, Tang Zhangwei used 60,000 soldiers and horses, and they had a total of 110,000 troops.

Huang Kui led a peasant army of more than 80,000 people, set up a formation, and fought with Tang Zhangwei and Li Keyong's troops, but they were defeated by the Tang army due to their weapons and equipment and numbers. Therefore, although Huang Kui fought hard, he was still defeated due to lack of food.

More than 30,000 people were beheaded by Huang Kuo's troops.

Huang Chao couldn't accept the bad news for a while.

Huang Chao said angrily: "The Tang army is all rice buckets, and it is impossible for my army to lose so badly." ”

Huang Chao's roar made the people in the entire Chang'an City shudder.

In Chang'an City, almost all the people knew that the city could not be defended, but no one dared to say it in front of the peasant rebels.

Tang Zhangwei's subordinate Long Min sneaked into Chang'an City, and in this city, there was lifelessness everywhere.

However, outside Chang'an City, it suddenly returned to its former prosperity.

Near Tang Zhangwei's troops, there were many merchants who followed, Luo's caravan from the Khitan steppe, and the horses and grain sent from the Bohai Sea occupied by Tang Zhangwei, all made others envious.

In Tang Zhangwei's troops, their soldiers ate enough food for one day, enough for the rest of the Tang army to eat for three whole days.

In Li Keyong's ranks, he was followed by many Turks and people from the Western Regions.

In the small city of Chang'an, Huang Chao's subordinate Tang Zhanwei was inspecting the caravan entering the city.

At this time, a Turkic man came. Since the destruction of the Turks, these people have been much more honest.

The caravans of the Khitans, the caravans of the Tibetans, and the caravans from the Western Regions. They passed the inspection of Huang Chao's subordinates, which was different from the torture in Guangzhou.

In the Tang Dynasty Chang'an City, Huang Chao put away the courage to sweep the Arabs and blacks in the city of Guangzhou, and became slightly open.

The caravans from the Western Regions, the caravans from Persia, they unloaded the grain after a simple inspection.

Now, only these powerful caravans can save the besieged Chang'an City from starvation.

Huang Chao had been waiting for a long time, relying on the food brought back from these caravans to barely save the starving people.

Li Ke took the lead and rushed into Chang'an City, and the two sides fought fiercely three times a day.

Tang Zhangwei's people followed behind, but they watched the battle between Li Keyong and Huang Chao.

Bai Cunxiao wanted to send troops several times, but was stopped by Tang Zhangwei.

Tang Zhangwei asked Bai Cunxiao: "How many pairs of iron armor do you have?" ”

Bai Cunxiao said: "Three deputies! ”

Tang Zhangwei shook his head and said, "It's a pity, if you have three hundred pairs, you can fight with Li Keyong." ”

Bai Cunxiao asked strangely: "Why is this?" ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "Think about it! If three hundred heavily armed knights fight with the Shatuo cavalry used by Li Ke, what will be the result? ”

Bai Cunxiao said: "Knock down a large area of them, and our cavalry team is invincible in the world." ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "That's it, in fact, I have already asked the refiner to forge a hundred iron armors for you. These are good plate armor, you see! ”

As soon as Bai Cunxiao turned around, he saw a hundred soldiers wearing plate armor appear behind Tang Zhangwei.

These people are all awesome, they are all six-foot men, and each of them rides a good horse from the Western Regions that they bought from the Khitans.

These horses are all tall horses from the Western Regions, much taller than ordinary Khitan horses.

A hundred ironclad knights, all with a squire, this squire also rode horses, and the main task of the usual time was to help the ironclad knights with weapons and ironclad. When the Ironclad Knights went into battle, they helped them onto their horses and assisted them in their charge.

After Bai Cunxiao saw the iron armor that Tang Zhangwei showed him, he exclaimed: "These equipment are even better than my ancestral guys, the general has raised a lot of refiners!" ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "There are not many, I disassemble the steps of making iron armor, and then let everyone build it separately, and the manufacture of this plate armor is not so difficult." ”

Bai Cunxiao said: "In fact, the main difficulty in the production of plate armor is the air hammer. ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "There is nothing difficult about this, you are only willing to spend money, and there will be brave men under the heavy reward." The key problem is that in the past, craftsmen were regarded as too lowly, and those members of the government always talked big and made small money, so it was naturally difficult to get the favor of craftsmen. ”

Huang Chao dispatched an elite army of salt lords, all of whom were outlaws who sold smuggled salt in the first place.

Under the desperate counterattack of these outlaws, these people finally became the attack of Li Keyong, the leader of the Shatuo cavalry.

Princess Suining began to draw a map of Chang'an city for Tang Zhangwei, and every market and street in Chang'an was clearly drawn by Princess Suining.

Tang Zhangwei called Bai Cunxiao, and they studied the structure of Chang'an City in detail.

Bai Cunxiao said: "Do you want to test the power of the ironclad cavalry in Chang'an City?" ”

Tang Zhangwei shook his head and said, "The ironclad cavalry needs an open field, and it can only be used as a surprise army. In the city, we can only be dominated by light cavalry. ”

Huang Chao heard the sighs of the wounded soldiers and the cries of the people, and he was very frightened, and he said, "Is I really wrong? ”

Huang Hao, the general of the hussars, said: "The emperor is not wrong, but our main force is the peasant army. ”

Huang Chao said: "Then Tang Zhangwei neither sent troops to help Li Keyong, nor attacked me, what does he mean?" ”

Huang Hao, the hussar general, said: "This person is the most treacherous, he is sitting and watching success or failure, and wants to take advantage of the fact that we and Li Keyong are both defeated, and take advantage of the fisherman." ”

Huang Chao said: "He wants to be beautiful, I will order all the soldiers and horses, and fight with Li Ke again." ”