Speaking of which, the original concept of the so-called imperial city in Li Yi's heart was the same as what he saw in the Forbidden City in his previous life, a small boxy city built in the city. However, after going to Luoyang, he realized that the imperial city was not just a small square city......

Take Luoyang as an example, the imperial city covers an area of one-third of Luoyang City, and there are three huge palace cities of the North Palace, the South Palace, and the Yongan Palace, of which the North Palace and the South Palace are connected by a road. In the past, when Yuan Shao was crusading against the Ten Standing Servants, Zhang asked them to take Liu Wei and others to escape from the South Palace all the way to the North Palace through the Tianqiao Pavilion Road, and finally fled out of the Valley Gate along the Yellow River to Xiaopingjin.

It was also at that time that Li Yi knew that these emperors were actually more luxurious than he imagined, because in his opinion, the three palace cities in Luoyang, except for Yong'an Palace, there was no need for others to exist at all.

It was only after arriving in Chang'an and seeing the capital city established by Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, that Li Yi's concept of luxury went up to a new level. Because there are five palaces in this city, covering an area of more than half of Chang'an City. There is even a Jianzhang Palace outside the city, but in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, this palace has been destroyed in the war.

Of course, in addition to showing off the royal prestige, these palaces also have one of the biggest functions, which is to protect the safety of the royal family.

Weiyang Palace is located in the southwest of Chang'an, and Changle Palace is located in the southeast of Chang'an, with two palaces separated by the main street of Chang'an, and an arsenal in the middle. At the same time, in the north of Weiyang Palace, there are two palace cities of Gui Palace and North Palace, and there is Mingguang Palace in the north of Changle Palace. These palaces are like horns of each other, forming a group of palaces that are laid out in the city.

It can be said that if according to this layout, as well as the level of defense that the royal palace should have, coupled with the 100,000 elites of the Taiping Army and sufficient military reserves, Li Yi wants to capture this palace city group, even if it is a strong attack regardless of casualties, I am afraid it will take a year and a half.

It's a pity that this palace city group does not have the same level of preparedness as when it was designed and built in the past, because of the rebellion of Wang Mang in the past, and the first army destroyed this palace city a lot after attacking Chang'an. Although the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty would restore these palaces when they visited Chang'an, they were only a small part.

Well, in fact, it is also normal, after all, Chang'an, as a companion capital, covers an area larger than Luoyang, which is already a little too much, if these palaces are repaired to be more magnificent than Luoyang's, then what should Luoyang, the real Han Emperor, do?

Subsequently, the riots caused by Dong Zhuo's killing once again caused great damage to this palace city. After Ma Teng and Zhang Ning came to power, they didn't pay much attention to it because of problems such as capital and labor. Although Zhang Ning repaired this palace city group to a certain extent when preparing to defend Chang'an, how much can it be restored? In this case, the difficulty of making Li Yi attack this palace city group has been reduced a lot at once.

Mingguang Palace, North Palace, Gui Palace, above the three palace cities, hundreds of catapults frantically threw flying stones. After not worrying about the safety of the people, Li Yi directly played a covering strike. Countless Taiping soldiers died in wailing, and many did not even see the enemy before they died.

"My lord, although this method can reduce the casualties of our army, I am afraid that most of these three palaces will also be destroyed. When the time comes, I'm afraid it will take a lot of money and labor to repair. Xu Shu looked at the countless flying stones in the sky and said worriedly.

"Repair? Why do you want to repair it, after taking Chang'an, these palaces will be demolished directly. Li Yi laughed strangely when he heard this.

"Directly dismantled?!" Hearing this, Xu Shu and the others immediately looked at Li Yi in shock, as if they were doubting whether they had heard it wrong.

"Yes, it's dismantled directly!" Li Yi nodded and repeated, then looked at everyone and sighed, "You say, what's the use of these palaces?" Although it does have the effect of defending against the enemy, it is more than that, but it is only for the so-called royal prestige. ”

"It's a huge area, and most of it is useless. In this case, it is better to dismantle it directly. Whether it is converted into a private house or something else, it is more real than such a dilapidated palace. Li Yi looked at everyone and laughed.

Yes, that's what Li Yi thinks, although he has lived in this era for more than 30 years, so that Li Yi has long been integrated into this era, but in his body, there are still some characteristics of modern people. For example, meritocracy, pragmatism, and so on. As for doing this, will the archaeologists who will scold him for destroying cultural relics thousands of years later? Well...... Well, Li Yi had never thought of such a boring thing at all.

Under the blow of such covered flying stones, the morale of the defenders in the three palace castles plummeted rapidly, and no matter how much the defenders were encouraged, they could not play any role. In this way, after half a month, Mingguang Palace and other three palace cities were easily captured by the Li army, which not only captured more than 10,000 soldiers and the enemy general Cheng Gongying, but also killed Zhang Ning's disciples Zhao Ang and Yin Feng.

"Pull it out, cut it." Seeing Cheng Gongying who was escorted in front of him, Li Yi didn't even bother to ask, and directly waved his hand and ordered.

"Zhao Gong! The villain is willing to surrender! The villain is willing to surrender! Cheng Gongying kept struggling and begging for mercy, but unfortunately Li Yi didn't bother to pay attention to him at all.

"I didn't expect that there were such people under Jun'an's command who were greedy for life and afraid of death...... Li Yi pursed his lips and muttered disdainfully, and then he was ready to discuss with everyone about attacking Weiyang Palace.

Just a moment later, a soldier hurriedly walked in, "Zhao Gong, the enemy army has withdrawn from Weiyang Palace, and at the same time abandoned the arsenal, it seems that they plan to defend Changle Palace to the death!" ”

"Really? In that case, give the order to go down and surround Changle Palace! In addition, the Wushuang Battalion and the Vermilion Bird Battalion were stationed in Weiyang Palace with me. Li Yi ordered calmly when he heard this, and there didn't seem to be any surprise about this, maybe it was because this matter had long been expected by Li Yi.

As the emperor's dormitory in the Western Han Dynasty, Weiyang Palace is the most seriously damaged palace in this palace complex over the years. Especially in the former Wang Mang period, after the first army attacked Chang'an City, it directly burned Weiyang Palace with a fire. Although successive emperors such as Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu continued to restore it, the results were ...... It has already been mentioned above.

As the queen mother's bedroom, Changle Palace has not been damaged much in the turmoil of these years. In this case, Li Yi didn't believe that Zhang Ning would defend the dilapidated Weiyang Palace after losing the three palace cities in the north.

"No!" Everyone responded respectfully.

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