Chang'an City, in recent days, with the land of those civil and military ministers, although Li Xian and others have become more unscrupulous, but in comparison, when there is no conflict, Chang'an is relatively calm.

The flaming torches had been extinguished, and a faint blue smoke drifted out of the city with the breeze, and finally dissipated without a trace, revealing the white of the fish belly in the eastern sky.

"Hasn't it been time for the Changing of the Guard yet?" A night vigil Xiliang stretched his waist, the early morning of midsummer is the most comfortable time of the day, the coolness in the air is not easy to feel in this midsummer season, standing up against the wall of the enemy building, sitting all night, his legs are a little numb, patted the soldier next to him and asked.

", are you dying like Lao Tzu!?" The soldiers standing next to the women's wall were slapped by him, and almost fell from the enemy tower. After kicking the other party hard, he leaned on the female wall and looked outside and said, "It's still a moment." ”

"I didn't mean to, let's have a drink together for a while, and then get some sleep?" The previous soldier was kicked, but he was not angry, and grinned.

Now in Chang'an City, the Xiliang Army is the sky, especially after Li Dao left recently, if they had to take turns to inspect Chang'an and keep vigil on the city wall, they would almost forget that they were soldiers.

"Okay." The soldier nodded, and glanced at the plain outside the city bathed in the morning light casually, and a black shadow was vaguely swept from the corner of his eye, he didn't care about it, and continued to discuss with Pao Ze where to drink for a while, but the next moment, he felt that something was wrong, and he hurriedly looked outside the city.

"What's wrong?" The companion wondered.

"There are armies!" The soldier looked solemn and stood on the city wall and looked into the distance.

"Could it be the general's triumphant return?" The companion looked in the direction of the other party's gaze suspiciously, and his face was difficult to see, obviously not.

"Hurry up, there's an enemy!"

The combat quality of the Xiliang army is quite high, after perceiving that it is not Li Wei's army, or even the Xiliang army, it reacts quickly, the poignant horn sound resounded throughout Chang'an, and at the same time someone ignited wolf smoke on the enemy tower, in the early morning light, a pillar of wolf smoke was erected one after another, accompanied by a series of horn sounds, resounding in every corner of the city.

The sleeping Xiliang army walked out of their camps one after another and quickly assembled under the command of generals at all levels.

In Li Xian's mansion, Li Xian, who was sleeping soundly with the Huangfu clan in his arms, was heard by a rapid knock on the door, and Li Xian sat up a little impatiently: "What's the matter?" ”

"General, traces of the state army have been found outside the city!" The guard outside the door shouted.

Li Xian rubbed his sore head, glanced at the beauty who was also awakened, lying on the couch with a blank face and looking at the mosquito net, kneaded it twice irritably, got off the couch, got dressed, and said, "Go and call Li Li and Hu Feng to come over." ”

"Whoa!"

The guards quickly left, and Li Xian quickly got dressed and beckoned the Huangfu clan to help him put on his armor.

"Hurry up, if you delay the military plane, I will punish your entire clan!" Li Xian glared at the Huangfu clan and said.

The Huangfu clan's delicate body trembled, silently put on his clothes, and came to Li Xian's back to help Li Xian put on armor and destroy the Huangfu clan? If it was Li Dao, he might have a lot of concerns, but Li Xian and these people are not so particular, in the time since Li Dao left, Li Xian has led his troops to destroy several Shi clans who were against Li Dao or Li Xian in the past, such a threat is that the Huangfu clan has become numb to life, and there is no way to really be indifferent.

Soon, Li Xian put on his battle armor and pushed the door out, Li Li and they hadn't come yet, but the sound of the alarm in the city, Li Xian didn't dare to wait, and immediately said to the guards: "Inform them, go to the city to find me, others, follow me!" ”

After all, Li Xian is a person who has experienced the battle array, after the seizure of power in Yique Pass, guarding Dagu Pass, although he was finally defeated by Yuan Shu, but it is also a lack of strategy, but in terms of leading troops, Li Xian has been in the army for a long time, and he still has some ability, otherwise Li Xian would not have been able to let Li Xian lead the troops.

Outside Chang'an City, Tai Shici also saw the wolf smoke rising from the head of Chang'an City, and couldn't help but feel a little regretful in his heart, he originally wanted to attack at night, but the troops he led were all new troops, and the night attack had high requirements for the army.

"The general doesn't need to be discouraged, according to the information from Chang'an, the people left by Li Dao to defend the city are all the elite of the Xiliang army, and it is not so easy to attack and break the city at night." Next to Tai Shici, Wang Biao smiled.

Although Chen Mo took Tai Shi Ci as the vanguard this time, after all, Tai Shi Ci had no experience in fighting alone, so Chen Mo sent Wang Biao to Tai Shi Ci's side, first, Wang Biao had a calm personality, and second, Wang Biao had the experience of guarding Qi County, not to mention how powerful it was, but at least he could check and fill in the gaps, so this time Tai Shi Ci led the vanguard army to attack Chang'an, Wang Biao and Zheng Tu were his lieutenants.

Tai Shi Ci nodded when he heard this, looked at the towering city wall and said, "It's just such a majestic city, it is not easy for our army to attack it." ”

Wang Biao nodded and said: "Our army only has 5,000 people, such a strong city, it is not easy to attack, I remember that the Xiliang army of more than 100,000 people attacked this city for three days, or because Lu Bu left, the garrison in the city was empty, with the strength of our army, it was really difficult to storm this city." ”

Tai Shici nodded and said, "General Lao Wang commanded the soldiers to set up camp, and I took my personal guards to investigate the layout of the other party's city defenses. ”

Wang Biao is Chen Mo's elder, and Tai Shici naturally knows this, although he is his deputy general, Tai Shici is quite polite to Wang Biao and Zheng Tu.

"The general doesn't have to be like this, there are rules in the army, and the general commands." Wang Biao saluted.

Tai Shici nodded, turned on his horse, and took Zheng Tu and his guards to patrol along Chang'an City to check the other party's garrison, while Wang Biao arranged for the soldiers to start camping.

On Chang'an City, Li Li, Hu Feng, and Li Jin had also hurried over to investigate the city defense with Li Xian.

"Brother, there don't seem to be many people on the other side." Li Jin lay on the women's wall, looked at the other party, and saw that the other party began to set up camp, and said with some doubts.

"Thousands of people." Li Xian nodded, just looking at the other party's military appearance, he could estimate the general range, this ability, Li Xian still has this ability: "It should be Chen Mo's vanguard." ”

"Look, there's a detachment over there!" Hu Feng pointed to the enemy road.

"It's supposed to be the other party's scout." Li Xian didn't care, and the other party only rode a dozen or so.

Hu Feng smiled: "Brother, I'll bring some people to arrest a few people back, so that I can probe the truth of the other party." ”

Li Xian is now in charge of Chang'an, Hu Feng is naturally hot-eyed, and he also wants to make some meritorious deeds, and there will be such good things in the future, his uncle can think of himself, and now the three Li Xian brothers are all Zhonglang generals, but he is just a cavalry captain, to say that there is no dissatisfaction in his heart, it is impossible.

Li Xian glanced at it from a distance, nodded and said, "Be careful, the leader seems to be a general, you bring a soldier and horse over, it is best to capture the general alive." ”

"Whoa!" Hu Feng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly agreed and ordered his troops out.

Tai Shi Ci and Zheng Tu were inspecting the surroundings of Chang'an City, but when they saw that the city walls were towering and the city gates were heavy, they felt that they had nowhere to start, but they saw that the city gate on the opposite side was suddenly opened, and a group of men and horses rushed towards this side.

Zheng Tu was a little worried: "General, why don't you withdraw first?" ”

"There is only one on the other side." Tai Shi Ci looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said: "It's not a big army attacking, and it's all cavalry, if we retreat, we can't outrun the other party, prepare for war!" ”

With Tai Shi Ci's order, the guards quickly lined up in formation, Tai Shi Ci rode in front of the formation, took off his own treasure bow from the horse, and saw the other party's horse array surging, quickly bent the bow and arrows, and did not look closely, after the bowstring was full, it suddenly shot out.

Don't look at the result, followed by another draw from the quiver bag two arrows cluster on the string, the bowstring even trembling, the straight forward Xiliang cavalry has not rushed to the front, was shot down several horses, Tai Shi Ci shot not people, but its sitting down war horse, the front row of war horses fell to the ground, the rear of the Xiliang cavalry some can rely on superb riding skills to cross, but more is caught off guard by tripping, the original momentum disappeared in an instant.

Hu Feng wanted to restrain the war horse, but the cavalry behind him followed too closely, he just saw a person strangle the war horse, and directly collided with the cavalry rushing up behind, leaving a corpse with no bones, and at this moment he could only shout loudly, signaling the cavalry to stop slowly.

Tai Shi Ci didn't care about the other party, seeing that the other party's momentum was blocked, the arrows shot even faster, and kept shooting the arrows in the bag, Tai Shi Ci threw the bow in his hand to the guards on the side, took off the halberd on the horse's back, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, the horse was in pain, and spread his hooves and rushed to the enemy formation.

"General!" Zheng Tu was shocked when he saw this, but he couldn't stop screaming, and immediately shouted: "Rush!" ”

With Tai Shi Ci's personal guards, he chased after Tai Shi Ci and rushed over.

Tai Shi Ci's horse was fast, and he had already rushed to the front of the enemy formation in an instant, and the two Xiliang iron horsemen were a little unable to react, but seeing that the cold light flashed in front of them, the cold halberd blade had already swept through their throats, bringing up two puffs of blood, but Tai Shi Ci had already passed through between the two.

Hu Feng finally stopped the formation, and was about to drink the order, but when he saw that the enemy general had rushed to the front, the halberd swept around in the air and slashed from top to bottom, so frightened that Hu Feng hurriedly raised his spear to parry.

The halberd and the spear intersected, making a crisp sound, but Hu Feng did not feel much strength, was puzzled, but saw Tai Shi Ci drag the halberd rod, so that the small branch of the halberd hooked the spear shaft, Hu Feng did not react, he felt that his hands were light, the spear in his hand had been hooked by Tai Shi Ci, and with a flick of his hand, the two Xiliang cavalry who rushed up were shot down from the horse, Tai Shi Ci had already rushed to Hu Feng's front, not waiting for Hu Feng to draw his sword, and grabbed his belt, Hu Feng only felt the force on his lower back, and was picked up from the horse by Tai Shi Ci with his hands dancing, Looking at the oncoming Xiliang Iron Cavalry, a group of Xiliang soldiers were worried about hurting Hu Feng, so they had to retreat, Tai Shici took the opportunity to press Hu Feng on the horse's back, turned the horse's head and left.

The Xiliang cavalry wanted to catch up and recapture their own general, Zheng Tu had already rushed up with Tai Shi Ci's personal guards, let Tai Shi Ci, dozens of spears stabbed out, lined up in a long spear formation, and killed or forced the Xiliang iron cavalry to catch up.

Tai Shi Ci retreated into the formation, threw Hu Feng off the horse, and fell so hard that Hu Feng felt like he was falling apart, and his own guards stepped forward and tied Hu Feng.

Tai Shici rode his horse to the front of the battle, looked at the Xiliang army that had lost its command and was sluggish, and sneered: "Withdraw!" ”

The Xiliang army had no commander, and he didn't know what to do for a while, and he watched the Bingzhou army take Hu Feng away, and Tai Shi Ci rode his horse to the end, and retreated a hundred steps until he walked back with a swagger of his own guards......