The news of He Ruhou's failure to transfer troops to Changshui soon reached the ears of the crown prince Liu Ju, and now Liu Ju is also difficult to ride a tiger, so he can only arm the southern army to resist Liu Quyu's army.

At this time, the scale of the southern army was already very small, in the early Han Dynasty, the main military force of Chang'an City had more than 1,000 palace troops, more than 50,000 northern troops and more than 20,000 southern troops. In the first year of Taichu, Liu Che carried out military reform, increased the number of palace troops, and added the two guards of the Son of Heaven of "Jianzhang Camp Cavalry" and "Period Gate Cavalry", which were the predecessors of the famous "Yulin Army" and "Tiger Ben Army". "Jianzhang Camp Cavalry" guarded Jianzhang Palace, and later renamed "Yulin Cavalry", Liu Che took the children of fallen soldiers to support in the Yulin Cavalry, and did not become a "Yulin Orphan Army", with a total number of more than 1,000 people. "Period Gate Ride" is because Liu Che likes to travel to various places, and a special forces protection force is also about 1,000 people. Liu Che basically stayed in the Jianzhang Palace in his later years, and these two forbidden army forces belonged to his direct management.

The increased palace army weakened the southern army, and the southern army at this time was less than 10,000. The Northern Army has also been strengthened, and eight captains have been added on the original basis, which are respectively lieutenants in the middle base, and are in charge of the inside and outside of the northern army's fortress; Captain Tiger Ben, in charge of light vehicles; Lieutenant of the Tun Cavalry, in charge of the knights; Infantry captain, in charge of the Shanglin Yuanyuan Gate Soldiers, the main guard; Captain Peach, in charge of the guards; Captain Hu Cai, in charge of Chiyang Hu Qi; The captain of the Yue cavalry, in charge of the Yue soldiers; Tun cavalry captain, in charge of the Suwei cavalry and Changshui lieutenant, in charge of the Changshui and Xuanqu areas of the Hu cavalry; There were about 1,000 troops in each lieutenant, and there were seven or eight thousand in total. These eight lieutenants are not subordinate to each other, and their official positions are all 2,000 stones, and the army under their command is also a standing elite soldier selected from the local or ethnic minorities.

At this time, the eight captains were also temporarily under the unified command of Liu Quyu.

Liu Ju was quite calm at this time, and there was a place that was beneficial to him that the Northern Army in the north of Chang'an City was close to him, and far away from Liu Quyu, the most important thing was that Ren An, the envoy of the Northern Army who was now in charge of the Northern Army, was the former disciple of Wei Qing, and according to Liu Ju's thoughts, he should also be his own person, and he could win it over.

Having learned from the failed experience of asking He Ruhou to transfer Captain Shui, this time Liu decided to mobilize the Northern Army himself.

Liu Quyu's team was already approaching Chang'an, and Liu Ju, who was in a hurry, ordered Zhang Guang to drive the carriage and personally went to the northern army camp with the Fu Festival. When the carriage arrived at the fortress gate south of the Northern Army, the guards at the fortress stopped it, and Zhang Guang, who was so angry that he was in a hurry, jumped down from the carriage and scolded loudly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here, and he has urgent matters to see the guards, so don't open the door quickly." ”

The guards who took the lead did not show weakness, crossed their waists and said: "Please show the tiger talisman, if not, no one can enter, unless it is ordered by the captain." ”

Liu in the carriage saw this situation, signaled Zhang Guang not to be reckless, and ordered him to go with the talisman to explain his intentions. Zhang Guang held the talisman and said to the guards who took the lead: "Please go and inform Lord Ren that the prince wants to see him." ”

Although the guard didn't know Liu Ju, he guessed that it should be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince by looking at the outfit of their carriage and the talisman in their hand, so they hurriedly ran in to report. As soon as Ren An heard that it was the prince who was looking for him, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran out of the south gate to see him.

"Wei Chen sees His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, what urgent matter does you have to come in person?"

In fact, Ren An has heard of the events that have happened in Chang'an in the past few days, and he also knows the intention of Liu Ju personally coming to him with a rune, but when he saw the prince, he pretended to be indifferent.

Liu Ju lifted the curtain on the side of the carriage, saw that it was Ren An kneeling next to the carriage, and hurriedly said: "Shaoqing, don't come to harm, please get up." ”

Ren An hurriedly got up and said, "Thanks to His Highness, Shaoqing is fine." ”

"When you were in the General's Mansion, you taught me archery, and I haven't forgotten it until now."

Liu Ju wanted to win over Ren An, of course, he wanted to get closer to him, Ren An was Wei Qing's doorman, and he was recommended by Wei Qing, so it was most appropriate to mention Wei Qing, Ren An also knew his intentions, so he said: "Your Highness is talented and intelligent, I am just a demonstration, you will keep it in mind, Shaoqing is ashamed." "Sweet potato

"You're too modest." After Liu Ju finished his polite words, he immediately entered the topic: "I came here today to summon you for something important, my father has been in poor health recently, and he is often sick; When he was recuperating in the Ganquan Palace, both the palace and the queen sent envoys to ask for peace, but they could not see his father, so the palace suspected that he had been held hostage by traitors; I summoned you today to order you to lead the northern army to attack Ganquan Palace together and rescue your father. ”

After speaking, he handed the rune to Ren An, and Ren An hesitated, whether to take it or not? He has been beating the drum in his heart, the old emperor Yu Prince dispute is the father and son family in the final analysis, it is really difficult to be a courtier in the middle, if the prince wins, then the future will be a hero, if the prince loses, then it is troublesome, with the character of the old emperor, you have to be unloaded.

Liu Ju also saw Ren An's scruples, and in order to show his sincerity, he said: "Take it Shaoqing, you are the future general." ”

The future general, what a good bait, Ren Anxin thought, I don't know if you have ever done your father, everyone knows very well who your father is, and now I don't know if he is dead or alive, if he is still fine, I will fool you around, then it is not my own death.

But I want to come back, if the old emperor really suffers an accident now, then I will help you now to be a great general in the future, besides, I was your uncle's general's subordinate, and I was supported by him, and it doesn't seem good to refuse now, if others know, they still think I'm ungrateful. After thinking about it, Ren An still decided to agree to the prince first, and then wait and see what happens, and help whoever is beneficial to see how things develop.

So Ren An took the prince's talisman and promised to help him send troops. Liu Ju immediately ordered Ren An to lead the northern army north to snipe Liu Quyu's army, and a bloody civil war seemed to begin.

However, after Ren An took over the Fu Festival, he did not immediately organize the army to fight, but ordered the guards to close the camp gate and send his subordinates to closely monitor the dynamics of Chang'an City.

After getting Ren An's consent, Liu Ju was also very excited, thinking that Ren An would organize the Northern Army to fight, and he would return to the Taigong to strategize.

Liu Quyu led the army straight to Chang'an, and soon hit outside Chang'an. Liu Zhi personally went to the various city gates to supervise the battle, but found that the situation was very bad, and Ren An's northern army was delayed, so that Liu Quyu's army soon approached the city, and Chang'an City was in danger at this time.

Without the support of Changshui's cavalry and the Northern Army, Chang'an City is now an isolated city. Liu Ju was as anxious as an ant in a hot pot, and hurriedly called his subordinates to come over to discuss countermeasures, and calculated that the current strength in Chang'an City was less than 10,000, how could he fight with Liu Quyu's tens of thousands of troops. The crown prince and young Fu Shide suggested that all the prisoners with combat effectiveness in Tingwei Prison be released, and then go to the five cities of Chang'an to fight together.

As the so-called horse dies on the ground, it has to be like this so far.

Liu Ju armed the forces in the city and divided them into two teams, one under the command of Shi De and the other by Zhang Guang. Don't look at him as usually gentle and elegant, kind and kind-eyed, in fact, he still has a bit of his father's demeanor when he is ruthless, don't forget, his uncle is the general Wei Qing, his cousin is even more powerful, and Hou Huo, the champion of the god of war, is sick.

However, the aura of the old emperor Liu Che was indeed too powerful. Just as Liu Quyu led the army to besiege Chang'an City, Liu Che also quickly returned to the palace Jianzhang Palace in the west of the city. Liu Che also deliberately stood on the highest rockery in Jianzhang Palace and watched the siege of Chang'an City, but unfortunately there was no telescope at that time, otherwise Liu Che, the commander-in-chief, would definitely take a telescope to watch the battle.

First of all, the guards of the Zhangcheng Gate, which is closest to the Jianzhang Palace, saw Liu Che's figure in the Jianzhang Palace on the city tower, and felt very strange, didn't the prince say that the old emperor was held hostage by traitorous ministers, why did he stand there and watch the battle? Then the guards of the Zhicheng Gate also saw it, and finally even the guards of the Yongmen Gate saw it. Liu Che's trick is indeed clever, as soon as he appears like this, it proves that he was held hostage by traitors is a rumor, and if you continue to reason, it is the prince who is rebelling.

So the news of the prince's rebellion flew all over the sky, and the armed citizens and the released prisoners began to defect, and even the palace guards of the southern army also had some defections, which led to the Zhangcheng Gate, Zhicheng Gate and Yongmen were quickly broken by Liu Quyu, and the army immediately spread all over the streets and alleys of Chang'an City.