Chapter 224: Siege
The army continued to advance, and after seven days, hundreds of thousands of troops approached Chang'an City, while the army on the other line was already inseparable from Shi Siming's troops. Flash Dance
The Dayan border has been attacked by the returning Tang army, but as expected, various foreign tribes have also taken this opportunity to invade the Central Plains.
The soldiers and horses of the three parties scuffled together, today the Central Plains joined forces to resist the foreign tribes, and tomorrow it was Dayan and the foreign tribes to attack the Tang army, and the scene was chaotic.
"Zhang San, you were also my courtiers in the past, why did you rebel?" Li Xiang stood at the head of Chang'an City and shouted.
"If you surrender at this time, I will not care about your sins, and I will pay homage to you as king, and I will be hereditary for all generations." Li Xiang continued.
"The Li family was originally a courtier of the Yang family, but it was not Li to replace Yang? Which dynasty is not like this? Zhang San said.
"Even so, you can't break through Chang'an City, and in the end, you will only be killed by our reinforcements inside and outside." Li Xiang said.
"I'm afraid you have forgotten something, once the troops and horses on your side are mobilized, Tubo, Goryeo, Southern Xinjiang, etc. will all flock to you, and you have no reinforcements, and you should be surrendered." Zhang San said.
"Then I want to see how you conquer my capital." Li Xiang said stiffly.
"Don't forget, who let you sit on this dragon chair, since I can let you sit on it, I can naturally let you come down." Zhang San sneered.
"Kill!" Zhang San roared, and the army swarmed up.
Siege engines, ladders, all appeared, crashing against the city gates, attaching ants to the city walls.
The city also fell one by one, rolling stones, and arrows rained out of the city in the same way.
The city gate was smashed open, and the defenders inside were already waiting solemnly, and even though they broke through the gate, they still failed to enter the city.
But the gates of the city were wide open, the moat was filled in little by little, and the Xuanjia iron cavalry charged up.
Like them, the other party is also a Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, after all, this army was formed by Taizong, and it is impossible to have it in Chang'an City.
At night, Zhang San looked at the smoke rising in the city, it seemed that the tunnels had been dug in, and the crazy digging tunnels regardless of the loss of manpower was like filling the moat, which was completed in one day.
But it's a pity that there are too few people who can go out of the tunnel, and the city gate is obviously guarding against this hand, and all of them died tragically in the city.
In the early morning, I saw that the corpses had been dumped outside the city, and some of them were still hanging on the city wall.
But it doesn't matter, what matters is that as long as the corpse of Qianxing is not found on the city walls or outside the city. As long as Qianxing goes in, then everything is in plan.
The next day, it was another tough battle, still regardless of losses, and the time to break the city today was shorter than yesterday, after all, the numerical advantage was there. Flash Dance
But it was not consumed so quickly, after all, the siege always killed a thousand enemies, and lost five or six thousand.
"It's not a way to go down like this, this Chang'an City is high, the ladder is almost gone, and the city can't rush in." A minister said.
"What's going on over there with Shi Siming?" Zhang San asked.
"Back to the saint, our army's consumption on that line is also very large, and Shi Siming estimates that there will be a day or two before he breaks through the defense line." The minister said.
"What about the other line?" Zhang San continued to ask.
"Just now, the Malai newspaper that the Tang Army, the foreign race, and our army have been circling several cities on our border." The Chancellor continued.
"As long as the Tang royal family is destroyed, those reinforcement troops will have no backbone, no matter what they do at that time, they will have to resist the foreign race with us, and then they will settle the old score, to put it bluntly, that is, to capture this Chang'an City." Zhang San said.
"The majestic Chang'an City, it's really standing." Zhang San said with emotion.
"If there is a city that does not fall, we will let it fall." A minister said.
"There is no dynasty that does not fall, but there is a city that does not fall. This Chang'an can't be poured. Zhang San shook his head, noncommittal.
"How's the offensive now?" Zhang San asked.
"It's very difficult to return to the emperor, you can basically break through the city gate, but you can't completely rush in." The minister said.
"Starting tomorrow, my three hundred guards will be the main force to attack." Zhang San said.
"Your Majesty, this can't be helped, those three hundred guards can be described as the hard work of the rivers and lakes, if it is gone, the rivers and lakes may collapse in the future." There are ministers' comments.
"Cross it, cross it, chivalry, ban it with force, it's better to have no rivers and lakes." Zhang San said.
"Now immediately recruit people from the rivers and lakes, and offer a heavy reward, I want to destroy the entire rivers and lakes." Zhang San thought about it, if he wants the dynasty to be better in the future, this river and lake will be better after all.
"Yes." Someone did it immediately.
At night, looking at this Chang'an City, Zhang San couldn't help but sigh: "How can this majestic Chang'an City fall." ”
"Don't worry about it, this Chang'an is yours after all." Lin Fei'er comforted.
"It's hard to say, the battle is urgent, it's been two days, the number of dead and wounded has reached 150,000, and we are still looking at the city that is almost intact." Zhang San said.
"Hey, what liberal arts did you choose in the first place? It's good to choose science, learn all kinds of science and technology, and learn how to mix gunpowder. At this time, Zhang San was a little blamed for being a liberal arts student.
On the third day, led by the masters of the rivers and lakes, it was much better than the first two days, it can be said that the Tang army was defeated and retreated, but the masters of the Tang Dynasty also came out, and the whole battlefield was a big brawl of people in the rivers and lakes.
Because of the impact, the casualties were even more severe.
On the fourth day, the beheading began, and all kinds of assassins emerged one after another, assassinating Li Xiang and Zhang San, but none of them succeeded.
Assassination is obviously not a no-go, unless it is the kind of person who dominates the rivers and lakes, it will never succeed.
Zhang San originally wanted to send Zhiying to go, but two heaven-level masters appeared on the other side to assassinate him, and Zhang San also knew that Zhiying might not be able to do it.
The battle is still going on, Shi Siming will break through the defense line one day, at that time, Zhang San will be in danger, and a large number of soldiers here have died, but they still haven't broken through the city gate, Zhang San is very anxious now.
But Li Xiang was also very anxious, to see how the soldiers and horses in the city were exhausted little by little, but Lu Finland, who had always trusted him at the critical moment, disappeared.
Lu Finnish is also very anxious, the war is stalemate, if they can't destroy the inside, I'm afraid there will be no chance.
But the grain and grass are now sent to the heavy army commanders, unless the soldiers and horses are exhausted, otherwise there will be no mobilization here. But then it was too late.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, there are righteous people outside the palace who claim to have a strategy to break the enemy." A eunuch hurried over.
"Please, please." Li Xiang said hurriedly.
Dressed in white, with two swords hanging around his waist, he walked into the hall with several black-clothed people.
This white dress is so conspicuous and swaggering against the backdrop of black.
"Minister Bai Qiuluo knocks to see my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live." Bai Qiu knelt down and kowtowed.