When the crown prince Li Jiancheng heard the third brother say it so seriously, although it was just a prediction, he also attached great importance to it, because he himself was worried that the city would be captured or killed in the chaos, which would be too wronged. If he returns to Taiyuan alive, then he is still the prince, and if he dies here, he is nothing.

The north city of Chang'an City, because it is close to the Longshou Mountain, plus it is a royal garden, there are layers of city gates and thick walls, and it is directly the back of the palace city, so there are heavy troops to defend, and they are all elite royal forest troops.

Li Jiancheng had long wanted to break through here, so the open space inside and outside the Xuanwu Gate was connected by large and small camps, and more than 20,000 soldiers and horses were stationed, including 10,000 cavalry alone, which were well-armed, and were not used to defend the city, but to escape

He sent people to contact some confidant ministers, generals, and entourage, and within half an hour, all of them arrived, and after learning that they were going to break through tonight, they were all surprised, and wanted to ask why, but Li Jiancheng stopped them from asking, and everything was done according to orders.

It was midnight, the Xuanwu Gate opened, Li Jiancheng and Li Xuanba were wearing battle armor, and under the escort of the elite cavalry, they rushed towards the north city gate, to pass through the royal garden, cut out diagonally, and break through.

At the same time, several lanes near the South Third Gate of Qixia Gate and Mingde Gate, such as Tongji Fang and Quchi Fang, gathered many elite soldiers in several mansions, all of whom were Dahua's death squads, and they were going to attack Qixiamen tonight.

A large number of men and horses had already gathered outside the city, and they waited for the sound of explosions to remember, and then the cavalry was the first to pour into the city.

The moonlight is like a silver plate, and the brilliance is sprinkled down, with a little bit of coolness after autumn.

Whoa!

A group of Dahua elites poured out from Quchifang and Tongjifang, each with about 2,000 people, and directly killed Qixiamen and Mingdemen.

"Who? Report the password! "Some of the guards of the city spotted this group of guards with knives and asked in a loud voice.

Woohoo!

The Dahua death squads, responding with crossbow machines, instantly took the lead and rushed forward amid the chaotic arrows.

"It's not good, immediately send a warning signal, there are rebels in the city and attack the city gates." There is a Tang Lieutenant on duty, and he immediately gives orders.

"Whoa!" The soldier fired a signal arrow.

However, Dahua Elite is brave, holding a high-quality Mo knife, like a tiger out of the cage, rushing to kill the past.

"Kill—"

Near Qixiamen, there was a fight, and two thousand Dahua elites attacked more than 1,000 army guards, and there was a scuffle for a while.

The south city wall of Chang'an, there are three city gates, respectively, the Mingde Gate in the middle, the left and right are Anhua and Qixia two gates, a total of 15,000 guards, the Mingqixia Gate has a total of 4,500 soldiers, after the fight the day before yesterday, more than 1,000 people were killed, and there are more than 3,000, and they need to take turns to be on duty at night, so 1,000 people are guarding, and they have attached great importance to it.

However, Dahua was well prepared, and suddenly launched an attack, and soon broke through the city gate defense, and came to the entrance of the city cave, which was blocked by many stone bricks and rough wood, and Dahua soldiers cleared the obstacles, and then under the blocked stone bricks, smashed out the live mouth, put black powder, and retreated after ignition.

Bang!

The brick walls were blasted open, revealing the heavy stone doors inside.

The Dahua soldiers continued to blow up with black powder, and then opened the city gates, cleared the ground at any time, and sent signal arrows to the outside of the city.

"The city gate is broken, rush!"

Xue Wancheng, Hou Junji and others outside the city reunited with the cavalry, and the infantry followed and entered Chang'an City.

Suddenly, Chang'an City issued a book with earth-shattering shouts of killing, and the soldiers on both sides fought together.

The Tang army couldn't resist it, and retreated one after another, constantly withdrawing to the city, and the Tang army, which had slept in the barracks, came out in panic and dressed up, and when they saw that the general trend had gone, they gave up resistance and surrendered directly.

The people in Chang'an City were awakened and did not dare to go out, and secretly prayed at home that the Dahua army would not kill innocents indiscriminately.

The fighting was fierce inside the city, and the same was true outside the city. Li Jiancheng led people to break through, and there were also garrisons outside the north city gate to prevent the Tang army from breaking through, but the Dahua side never imagined that the Tang army broke through earlier than expected, and their ambush was not completely ready, and the Tang Iron Cavalry began to rush.

Puff puff!

Many war horses tripped over the stumbling ropes, and people turned over on their backs, falling directly into the spikes, and their flesh and blood were blurred.

But the Tang cavalry desperately attacked, to break through the blockade of the Dahua army, they wanted to move eastward and flee to the east of the river.

"Intercept the Tang Army!"

"Block, don't let it go!"

The faces of the Dahua generals changed greatly, especially General Chen Qi, who was sitting here, almost not long after he arrived, the ambush circle had not yet been arranged, and the Tang army caught them by surprise, at least an hour earlier than the expected assault time.

They all thought that the Tang army was going to be in chaos in Chang'an, and in the second half of the night, when the palace was difficult to protect, the Tang army would break through.

"Miscalculated, but it's not so easy to escape, follow and kill!" Chen Qi commanded 20,000 soldiers and horses to encircle and intercept them.

But under the night, it is difficult to fully unfold the formation, and the Tang cavalry opens the way, the speed is very fast, and the Tang vanguard cavalry has broken out of a gap in the battle for this time, and it is the first to stand out in the layers of defensive lines.

Li Xuanba did not leave the prince an inch, and many royal forest troops, like the stars and the moon, escorted Li Jiancheng away, and there were sounds of fighting everywhere, but they ignored everything, as long as the main personnel could leave safely, even if the breakthrough was successful.

The Dahua army pursued closely, killing from midnight to light, and still let thousands of Tang troops escape.

At this time, the fighting in Chang'an City gradually stopped, without the organization of the royal family, some generals who defended the city led people to gather near the palace to join forces with the Imperial Forest Army to defend the palace, but found that the palace suddenly opened the palace gate, and many palace maids, eunuchs, and guards ran out, and these generals knew that the prince and others had already broken through.

Having lost their allegiance, all the soldiers dropped their weapons and obediently accepted the surrender.

The huge Chang'an City, tens of thousands of defenders, all fell overnight, and the battle was not as fierce as predicted, mainly Li Jiancheng and others, who did not command the soldiers to resist and left without a fight, so the scale of the battle was quickly terminated.

When Luo Zhaoyun heard the news, he was silent for a while, he didn't care, he just ran away with Li Jiancheng, and he really didn't take it seriously, so many generals secretly called it a pity, but he smiled calmly, and there was no Li Jiancheng as an opponent at all.

When the morning light shone on Chang'an and the people in the city opened their homes, the Dahua army had already taken control of the majestic imperial city.

There are Dahua sergeants stationed in each Lifang, and the errand officers, martial artists, and catchers in the Lifang are cleared, and they gather together to listen to the verification, and they must be reselected and appointed.

Some of the ministers' residences were also fenced, nominally to protect them from gangsters taking advantage of the chaos to ransack the ministers' homes, and of course, there were also overseeing the escape of these old Tang and Sui courtiers.