Outside the Chunming Gate, Yao Jin led 10,000 cavalry to wait two miles away, according to the agreement, between the third watch and the fourth watch, the tower of the Chunming Gate will raise fire as a letter.

Yao Jin was not worried that Zhang Yun would miss, with Zhang Yun's ability, it was easy to win the Chunming Gate, he was just worried about whether he could control Chang'an.

Yao Jin silently looked at the distant city, the dark city was hidden in the looming moonlight, this is Chang'an, this is the majestic capital of the Tang Dynasty, it is a city high in the clouds, more than ten years ago he was just a small brigade commander, and he didn't even have the qualifications to look up to Chang'an, but today from now on, he will lead the army to control this big city in the world.

Yao Jin was very emotional, the wonders of life are indescribable, as if everything is in a dream, but it is real, all of this stems from Guo Lao Linggong's military selection.

Yao Jin couldn't forget it, that morning, his lieutenant came over to him and said, "Lao Linggong wants to select three hundred elites, you go and try it!" ”

He signed up in a daze, and in the big tent of the Chinese army, Guo Lao Linggong asked him a few words, and he was selected in a daze, and his fate has been closely linked with a young man named Guo Song since then.

Yao Jin's thoughts flew into the distant past, and at this moment, a soldier rushed to report: "General, an official is here, it seems to be Jing Zhaoyin, surnamed Du!" ”

Yao Jin was stunned, could it be Du Wenxing? Guo Song told him that after taking Chang'an, he would continue to let Du Wenxing serve as Jing Zhaoyin, and it seemed that His Royal Highness the King of Jin admired this person very much, and of course, he valued the Du family even more.

Yao Jin hurriedly greeted him.

After Du Wenxing met the head of the family in the afternoon, he went home to visit his parents, accompanied his parents to dinner, and chatted with the two brothers until late at night, and then he set off to return to Chang'an.

But two miles away from Chunming Gate, he unexpectedly found an army, all cavalry, more than 10,000 people, which made Du Wenxing really a little confused, Zhu Jinqing's cavalry were all transferred to Luoyang, where are the 10,000 cavalry here?

He was about to approach, but was stopped by a team of patrolmen who told him to leave quickly, otherwise his life would be lost.

Du Wenxing suddenly remembered the words of the head of the family, Guo Song would not let Zhu Jun mess up Guanzhong, and he realized that this was Guo Song's army, and Guo Song had already arrived in Chang'an?

Du Wenxing hurriedly asked his men to go down to greet them, wanting to see their main general.

After a while, a general came over with more than a dozen soldiers, and the general looked at him and asked, "Are you Du Wenxing?" ”

"It is here, may I ask if His Royal Highness the King of Jin is in the army?"

The general was silent for a moment and said: "I am Yao Jin, the general under the command of King Jin, we will have an operation tonight, in order to ensure the safety of Du Yuanjun's life, before we enter the city, please do not leave you and your subordinates!" ”

"It turned out to be General Yao, and I've heard of it for a long time."

Du Wenxing was surprised, the Jin army came from Tongzhou, how could he know nothing? Judging from the situation of the city defense, Zhu Jinqing did not know.

He nodded hurriedly, "I support His Royal Highness the King of Jin, Zhu Zhu wants to move away the rich households in Chang'an, and we have been looking forward to His Royal Highness the King of Jin." ”

Yao Jin smiled: "That's the best, I don't know if Zhu Jinqing knows that we are coming?" ”

Du Wenxing hurriedly shook his head, "I still see him today, he is still thinking about the relocation of rich households, and he doesn't have any nervousness at all, it seems that he shouldn't know." ”

Yao Jin nodded, "If Chang'an City is taken, His Royal Highness the King of Jin still hopes that Du Yuanjun will continue to participate in maintaining the prosperity and stability of Chang'an." ”

"It is my honor to serve His Royal Highness King Jin, and I will never postpone it!"

"Good! We look forward to it, please wait. ”

..........

When the third watch finally came, Zhang Yunbing divided into two routes, and 500 soldiers who were responsible for seizing the twelve city gates left the palace gates, disguised as street patrol soldiers, and went to various city gates.

Zhang Yun led a thousand soldiers to the backyard, and some soldiers hung a few soft ladders on the top of the city, which were blocked by trees, and everyone climbed up to the top of the city with the help of the cover of the big trees.

Now is not wartime, the defense of Chang'an City is far from entering the state of war, not even the state of alert, that is, the state of peacetime, a city gate of thirty people guards, divided into day shift and night guard, the day shift is a little more, about twenty people, the night guard is only ten people at most, if it is a big city gate like Chunming Gate, there will be a little more soldiers guarding the city, fifty people in peacetime, hundreds of people on guard, and five hundred people in wartime.

Now there are only fifty guards at Chunming Gate, and there are only twenty people at night, and the others are sleeping in the city tower.

The city wall of Chang'an has a great feature, that is, the front and rear two city walls, the middle is the sandwich road, the sandwich road leads to the palace, this is the passage of the Son of Heaven out of the city and into the city, the general team of the Son of Heaven is out of the city at night into the city, directly from the city wall back to the palace, mainly in order not to disturb the people.

Such a sandwich structure is at the big city gate, often will form an urn city, after entering the outer city gate, the inside is four high walls, the siege is a square, there is a city gate in the innermost, and it is necessary to pass this city gate before officially entering the city.

On both sides of the urn city are sandwich roads, and two wooden doors are also made, which are usually closed, hung with large iron locks, and will only be opened when using the sandwich road.

In a short time, Zhang Yun led a thousand soldiers to climb the inner city wall, and there were no soldiers patrolling the city wall, only a dozen soldiers standing above the city gate.

Zhang Yun walked up quickly with a hundred soldiers, and when a soldier saw them, he stepped forward and asked in a loud voice, "Password!" ”

"Dragon and phoenix are auspicious!" Zhang Yun said casually.

The password was correct, and the soldier breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"The general has an order, there may be a mob entering Beijing tonight to make trouble, we must strengthen the defense of the city gates, and increase the number of people at each city gate."

The soldier scratched his head, "How can there be a mob, I've never heard of it!" ”

"Stupid, the mob is just our statement, that is, the rich people from all over the country don't want to go to Luoyang, they want to come to the capital to petition!"

The soldier suddenly realized that he also knew that the rich family was going to move to Luoyang.

"A few of you come here, let's discuss how to divide the labor?

The twenty soldiers on the head of the city were all called over by Zhang Yun, and before they could react, a hundred crossbows were aimed at them, and Zhang Yun said coldly: "We are the army of the King of Jin, if you want to live, kneel down!" ”

If it was in the past, Zhang Yun would have killed twenty soldiers directly, but the king of Jin thought that their military discipline was good and did not endanger Chang'an, so he could try not to kill them.

The twenty soldiers were stunned, and after a while, they reacted and knelt down one after another.

Zhang Yun said coldly to them: "It is His Royal Highness the King of Jin who has mercy in his heart and doesn't want to kill you, be smart, cooperate obediently, and wait for the war to end, let you go home, or join the Jin army, who dares to scream and cut off your head with a knife, understand?" ”

The crowd nodded desperately, and the soldiers confiscated their armor, gagged their mouths, tied their hands and feet behind their backs, and lay on the ground.

A hundred soldiers went into the tower again, and thirty of them slept soundly, until one of them was beaten unconscious and tied up in the same way.

Zhang Yun called the captain Zhou Li up and said: "You lead a hundred soldiers to guard the Chunming Gate, don't open the door for the time being, wait for my notice, you raise the fire as a signal, open the city gate, General Yao will lead 10,000 cavalry into the city." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Zhang Yun glanced at the wooden gate of the north sandwich road, it is meaningless to take the sandwich road at present, the gates of several sandwich roads in the Daming Palace have been closed, and they can only walk through the city wall, Zhang Yun led 900 soldiers to run along the inner city wall to the north of the palace........

The north is first of all Daming Palace, along the southern city wall of Daming Palace, is the northern city wall of Taiji Palace, at present Daming Palace and Taiji Palace are closed, the city gate is all locked, only Xuanwu Gate and Danfeng Gate can pass, Zhu Jinqing led 30,000 troops stationed in the West Inner Garden, the West Inner Garden was originally the garrison of the Shenwu Army, there are comfortable military camps here, the Imperial Forest Army of the Sui and Tang Dynasties are stationed here.

Stationed in Nishinaien was actually outside the castle. However, Zhu Jinqing's army firmly controlled the Xuanwu Gate, and they were able to quickly rush to the city gates from the city wall to control Chang'an City.

If the enemy army controls the Xuanwu Gate, it doesn't matter, Zhu Zhu's army can still enter the Daming Palace from the north, and go directly to the Danfeng Gate.

Therefore, Zhang Yun must control the Xuanwu Gate and the Danfeng Gate at the same time, and only by controlling these two gates can he open the Chunming Gate and the Jin cavalry enter the city.

Zhang Yun took the lead in running to Danfeng Gate, he ordered Lang to lead Zhang Yuanzhi to lead 400 people to seize Danfeng Gate, and he led 500 people to continue to run along the sandwich road, running out of three miles, and a tall and majestic city tower appeared in front of him, which was Xuanwu Gate.