9. Counterattack Wuguan Road
At this time, Chen Xianqi, the banner general of the Huaining Army, reminded Li Xilie: "This Li Yuanping guarded Ruzhou City, and he couldn't hold on for even an hour, and his plan was just wild words." ”
But in the end, Li Xilie laughed and said no, the current situation is as he said: ten percent of the imperial court's troops, forty percent are concentrated in Heshuo, forty percent are concentrated in the eastern capital, Biansong, and the remaining two percent are in Fengxiang, Jingyuan, Lingyan and other places in western Beijing.
Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that Emperor Chang'an's attention is all in the east, let's go against the trend and smash his lair along Wuguan, which is a very good choice!
Tian Yue, Wang Wujun, Zhu Tao and Li Na, which of them has my courage?
At the foot of the majestic Fangcheng Mountain, Li Xilie immediately turned over and got off the mule, summoned all the door flag generals, door gun generals, tooth generals and fake sons around him under the big pine, pressed the trembling Li Yuanping's neck with one hand, broke off a pine branch with the other, and drew a map route on the sandy soil:
"Send a message to Wu Shaocheng and Wu Shaoyang, take Xuzhou as the gate, and continue to send cavalry (all horses on horseback) to move east and west, or attack Luoyang, or attack Bianzhou, and contain the imperial army; Chen Xianqi, you return to our Shenguang Cai Sanzhou, win over the mountain sheds and river thieves, go south to attack Qizhou and Huangzhou, and threaten Chen Shaoyou in Huainan Province, telling him to pay 'begging money' to save his life; Han Shuanglu and Liu Zhen continue to attack Suizhou and Jingnan in the four prefectures of Xiang, Deng, Jun, and Fang, and remember not to fight a decisive battle with the official army, just plunder everywhere, there is no need to stay in one city and one place, so that the court cannot judge where I am......
And I, with 15,000 elites (Huaixi Town could not make up the 30,000 people that Li Yuanping idealized) and more than 1,000 false soldiers, immediately returned to Nanyang, and then went west from there, along the Danshui, and attacked Wuguan. ”
Unexpectedly, Li Xilie really agreed to Li Yuanping's crazy plan, he laughed and patted Li Yuanping's shoulder, like a cat slapping a little quail: "Remember, I am different from the group of self-defending thieves of Wei Bo and Hengji in Heshuo, and I, Li Xilie, like to do big!" I heard that you are a child of the clan, aren't you? ”
Li Yuanping was so frightened that he quickly nodded.
"When you enter Chang'an City, I will support you to sit in the Zichen Palace, and I will come to the Generalissimo of the soldiers and horses on the same day, do you dare?"
Li Yuanping thought of Yunhe in Tanzhou, Hunan, the Xiangshui elf who was smiling in the pavilion, as long as she could be the Son of Heaven, I wanted her, and I wanted her to be my imperial concubine, it must be like this!
In fact, I know in my heart that just a few Ruzhou don't drive, it will not let Yunhe really move for me at all, I, I, I also have the blood of the royal family flowing in my body, I can also sit in the three halls of Hanyuan, Xuanzheng and Zichen, at that time, Yunhe should no longer question my possibility, right?
When a man is crazy for women, he will not hesitate to make enemies of the whole world.
"With me here, I will definitely let the servants attack Chang'an City! When the time comes, I also hope that the servant will not break his word. Under the pine trees, Li Yuanping's shrill voice echoed among the mountain passes.
"Never break your word." Lee Hee-yeol may have made a promise.
A few days later, Li Xilie returned to Nanyang, Dengzhou, and then went to the west of the Huai Army, and praised this as "Baishui Zhenren (referring to Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu's hometown Nanyang) residence, and Wanshang Luo Yan". The high-rise building is against Zimo, and the first is even the green mountain. The prosperous city was plundered, and the flames burned straight to the Wuque Mountain west of Nanyang, and then the ant-like Huaixi army, carrying leather belts, small flags, swords, bows and arrows, drove groups of mules, carrying the materials looted from Xiangyang and Nanyang, passed through the valley, and then crossed the Xichuan River, and approached Wuguan.
In addition, Wu Shaocheng and Wu Shaoyang, the two righteous brothers, in response to Li Xilie's march, really came out of nowhere, fiercely attacked Luoyang, and soon Peng Po and Yique on the edge of Luoyang City appeared Huaixi's mule army, the clothes and armor were all black, connected to the end for several miles, galloping like the wind, burning and looting everywhere - the people of the Eastern Capital dragged their children and daughters, and fled everywhere, and Henan Yin Zheng Shu and Liu Dexin of Yang Zhai did not dare to fight, and all the troops were withdrawn to Luoyang Xiyuan to defend, and constantly asked Chang'an for reinforcements.
The emperor was at a loss for a moment, so he could only go to Jingxi to make up his mind.
At this time, it was already in June of the third year of construction, Gao Yue stood on the Fengwei platform on the top of Liangshan Mountain, blowing the comfortable mountain breeze blowing from the Qianling, and beside him stood Gao Gu, Guo Xiaofeng, Gao Chongwen, and Mingxuan monks, overlooking the fruits of their hard work in the past seven months: Xinfengtian City.
The new Fengtian City, the old city and the new city formed a "convex" shape with a circumference of eight miles, the east of the city introduced Mogu water, dug a canal to surround the surroundings, and the excavated soil was all piled up in the area between the canal and the city wall, forming an earthen wall-shaped sheep and horse wall, and planting trees to consolidate the soil and hinder the movement of the enemy soldiers.
In the northeast of the city, Gao Yue also ordered people to dig and widen the river channel of Mogushui to form a bag-shaped wide lake, which is between Fengtian City and Xianyang Chen Taoxian and Ludian, so that this artificial lake is used to cut off the hole between Fengtian and Xianyang, so that the enemy soldiers can not advance on a large scale.
The valley road of Mogu in the north of the city and the valley road of Liangshan in the northwest of the city have all built the city barriers, guarded them, and are connected with the Fengwei on the mountain with the city wall of the Yongdao road, there is a police in one place, and all directions know it.
The corners of the city wall of Xinfengtian City are also all made into an arc shape, replacing the original vertical shape, so that troops can be stationed on it to prevent enemy soldiers from taking advantage of the dead corners of the city wall to sneak attack. Every 100 steps of the city wall, the horse face wall protruding from the road is added, the wall foundation is all reinforced with bricks and stones, a long war shed is built on the horse face, the outer side of the wall is built with bricks and stones to build a five-foot-high female wall, and the inside is hollowed out, separated by wooden planks to separate three layers of space, connected by ladders, and the garrison materials such as grain, arrows, ash bottles, sasswood, and fire oil are stored inside.
The outer city is built with six thoroughfares, and there are workshops such as woodwork, goldwork, ironwork, stonework, and military weapons in the qu between, as well as barracks, markets, stables, post stations and other equipment, and there is also a "heavy wall" that runs through the outer city, which divides the space in the city: in this way, even if the enemy soldiers break into the outer city, they will be blocked by the heavy wall, and there is not enough space for rest and assembly.
In addition to the first tower, salt warehouse, barn, pavilion and other buildings in the inner city, there are also towering watchtowers erected in front of each city, which can overlook the area of more than ten miles outside the city, a bell tower, a drum tower, and this is the center of command during the war.
"With such a city, even if tens of thousands of enemy troops come to attack, it is enough to hold on for a long time." Gao Yue was very satisfied.
At this moment, the handshops on horseback and whips hurried to the distant road, raising their hands and shouting something as they ran, and the soldiers and craftsmen in the felt tents outside the city avoided them.
Soon, in the post station in the outer city, the postcoaches who handed over the shops were sweating like rain, and they were drinking the water in the sink with their heads down.
Under the corridor, Shen Cejun hurriedly opened Gao Chongwen's letter, looked at it, and then handed it to Gao Yue: "Gao Wailang, come and see!" ”