Zhang Danian was killed.

On the day he was killed, a lot of people gathered at the entrance of the vegetable market in Chang'an City.

When Zhang Danian's head was thrown into the air, many people suddenly understood one thing, their prince of the Tang Dynasty was not as kind as it seemed on the surface.

When you are really ruthless, you can kill people, and even blood will flow like a river.

The changes in Xuanwumen, which have been in the past few months, have once again reminded many of the old party members of the East Palace.

But what they thought of was not revenge, but the ruthlessness that Li Shimin showed in that coup.

And this is a little ignored by them after the beginning of spring.

After Zhang Danian was killed, Li Jiancheng's old party suddenly lowered its profile a lot, and of course, they quickly understood something.

Perhaps, as Cheng Yanjin, Qin Shubao, and Wei Chigong, who have the merits of the dragon, they can be a little willful, but they, the old party of the East Palace, had better not come forward before they have made an inch of merit for Li Shimin.

Chang'an is beautiful, and a storm is coming.

At the same time, on the Lingzhou side, it is a different situation.

The Lingzhou guard general is named Zhu Dagui, and he has 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands for the town guard of Lingzhou.

Since the Shangyuan Festival, the Turkic 50,000 pioneer soldiers and horses have begun to attack Lingzhou, and on the Turkic side, there are still 100,000 soldiers and horses waiting for them.

As long as the time is ripe, he will soon be able to rush to Lingzhou City.

Zhu Dagui was under a lot of pressure, although they relied on the strength of Lingzhou City and the Turkic soldiers and horses were not good at attacking the city, they held on for more than a month, but if they continued like this, they were afraid that they would not be able to hold on for long at all.

But Zhu Dagui knew very well that even if he died, he must defend Lingzhou City, and the Turks were not allowed to step into the Tang Dynasty for half a step.

"General, the Turkic soldiers and horses are attacking the city again."

This is already the seventh siege of the Turks in seven consecutive days, and they will generally attack the city for about ten consecutive days, and then rest for a while.

According to this law, they may have a few more days to defend, and they cannot relax at all.

"Brothers, take up arms, follow me up to the city tower, we must not let them attack, this is our home, there are our relatives, we must not let our family be harmed."

"Kill ......"

"Kill ......"

Under Zhu Dagui's encouragement, the morale of the soldiers and horses, who had only more than 10,000 people left, suddenly rose, and they followed Zhu Dagui to the city tower and continued to fight with the Turks.

The battle lasted for a long time, and it was not until nightfall that the Turkic soldiers and horses temporarily retreated.

After a day of fighting, the officers and men of the Tang army were very tired, and because of the rapid Turkic attack, their casualties were not small.

"When will my Datang reinforcements arrive?" Zhu Dagui went down the city tower, his body was covered with blood, both his own and other people's.

"General, according to the report from the spies, around dusk tomorrow, my Datang reinforcements should be able to arrive."

Zhu Dagui nodded, it won't be until dusk tomorrow, which means that they still need to resist for another day.

Judging from the current situation, it does not seem to be a difficult task, but the casualties will be greater.

"Let the brothers take turns to rest and keep an eye on the enemy's movements."

"Whoa!"

The night was peaceful, and the next morning, as soon as it was dawn, the Turkic soldiers and horses swarmed to kill them.

They probably knew that there were not many defenders in the Tang army, so this time they attacked the city quickly, as if they wanted to take the entire Lingzhou City in one fell swoop.

The Turkic soldiers and horses kept entering the palace, and after being beaten down, they came again.

They don't seem to be afraid of life and death.

Originally, Zhu Dagui felt that there should be no problem in resisting them for a day, but now it seems that the situation is a bit serious.

"Brothers, kill me ......"

Zhu Dagui drew his knife and slashed at the enemy, the enemy's blood splashed everywhere, and the smell of blood stimulated everyone's sense of smell.

"Kill ......"

The Tang army killed bravely, and the Turks also attacked quickly.

It's a scramble, and it's a brutal killing.

There are people falling, and death is coming.

Tang Jun has already killed a little prostration, but he is still desperately killing.

Night fell again, and the Turkic soldiers and horses did not get any better after this battle, they did not expect that Lingzhou City, which only had such a small number of people, would be so difficult to attack.

I thought I could capture it today, but now it seems that I can't.

They are not good at night and can only retreat.

The Turkic soldiers and horses retreated, and Zhu Dagui looked at their distant team, and then suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and then his whole person sat down on the ground all of a sudden.

"Where are my Datang reinforcements?" said that it would come around dusk, but it didn't appear until now, which made Zhu Dagui a little angry.

"General, after receiving the news, they are already very close to Lingzhou, and they should be coming soon."

Zhu Dagui frowned, and then walked down the city tower.

"General Ben is waiting for them tonight."

The night is getting deeper and deeper, and there is still some coolness in Lingzhou on a spring night.

In the Lingzhou military camp, Zhu Dagui sat upright, although he was very sleepy, he did not rest.

"General, my Datang reinforcements are here."

Hearing the news, Zhu Dagui immediately got up and walked out, the reinforcements were so slow to move, he had to find this marshal and say no, even if that person was a marshal.

Zhu Dagui walked out and soon saw Li Jing leading the soldiers and horses.

"Marshal Li, you came so late, if you come one day late, this Lingzhou City will not be able to hold it."

There were complaints and complaints in Zhu Dagui's tone, Li Jing glanced at Zhu Dagui and said, "If we come, we will be able to arrive before dusk today, and the reason why we have to delay it for an hour or two is because Marshal Ben has a big plan." ”

Hearing that the Tang reinforcements could arrive but didn't, Zhu Dagui suddenly wanted to go crazy, just because the Tang army didn't come, how many brothers did they die?

If it weren't for their bloody fight, this Lingzhou City might not be able to hold it, he felt that Li Jing was really crazy, how could he dare to take such a risk?

Anger, I don't know how to describe that kind of anger, anyway, it makes people want to go crazy.

"Hehe, Marshal Li is really confident in my Lingzhou guard, are you sure we can hold it?"

The irony in this sentence is too strong, but the corners of Li Jing's mouth twitched slightly: "Two thousand soldiers and horses can hold Lingzhou City for a few days, not to mention that you have seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses, if you can't hold it, it can only be said that it is a problem for you, a guard." ”

"You ......"

Li Jing didn't want to tell Zhu Dagui more, what he actually wanted was this situation, which was the kind of situation that made the Turks think that their Tang army was about to be unable to hold it, because only in this way could the Turks be confused.

It was very beneficial to his actions tonight.

"Mobilize a hundred soldiers who are familiar with the Turks for Marshal Ben, and Marshal Ben will lead troops to attack the camp tonight."

"You're going to attack the camp?" Zhu Dagui frowned, they had never confronted the Turkic soldiers and horses head-on.

(End of chapter)