Chapter 173: Siege
One hundred thousand Song troops came towards Chang'an City, and some Jurchen and Khitan people on the city wall finally found out that something was wrong, and they immediately raised the alarm!
It was the same last night, the forbidden army originally wanted to sneak attack Tongguan, but in the end it was discovered by the defenders of Tongguan, and finally had to fight with the defenders of Tongguan! It's just that the scene in Chang'an is very different from Tongguan, Chang'an City is much larger than Tongguan, and even if the alarm is raised, it is impossible for the defenders to arrive at the first time! Moreover, the walls of Chang'an City are too long, and the Song army can land from different directions, and no one knows that the Song army is the strongest in that direction!
Before the Jurchen and Khitan defenders arrived completely, the Song army had already occupied the North City Gate!
Then I heard a bang, the north gate was opened, and countless Song troops entered Chang'an City!
The Song army has been preparing for this battle for a long time, planning for a long time, and the soldiers are preparing in an orderly manner! The Forbidden Army, the Jingyuan Army, and the Huanqing Army each have their own offensive directions, and they also have a strategy for cooperation! And the Jurchens and Khitans in Chang'an City are defenseless, even if they wake up, but they don't have any organization, all of them are guerrillas, how can they fight with the whole team of Song troops?
In just half an hour, the battle on the city walls was over!
Wan Yan Haili was sleeping at the moment, and at this time, the door was knocked open!
Even so, Wan Yanhai still didn't wake up!
"General Wanyan? General Wanyan? "There was a shouting voice from the side!
But Wan Yanhai slept too deeply, and still didn't wake up!
The person next to him was really helpless, and when the next person raised his hand, he slapped it towards Wan Yanhai's face!
After a few slaps, Wan Yanhai finally opened his hazy sleepy eyes!
"What happened? Looks like someone hit me just now? Wan Yanhai muttered as he yawned.
The people next to him all showed helpless looks! Although this Wanyan Haili is the nephew of Wanyan Lou and the cousin of Wanyan Huonu, his ability is too low, and he doesn't know if he is woken up at night!
"General, something is wrong, the Han people have already entered the city!" Yelu Yu was also here at this moment, and he said anxiously.
"What do you say? Han Chinese into the city? Wan Yanhai said in surprise.
"Not bad! Just half an hour ago, they had already launched an attack on Chang'an City! We are not opponents! Jeruyu said.
"What nonsense are you talking about? The Han Chinese siege was nothing more than a bluff, they were just trying to deceive their emperor! Do you think they really have the ability to conquer Chang'an City? Wan Yan Haili said.
"General, they're already in the city! You smell the blood in the air! Yelu said anxiously.
"What?" After Yan Haili came to his senses, his face changed greatly after a while, and he said, "Did the Han people really enter the city?" What do we do now? ”
"General, we must flee Chang'an quickly! Now we still have a chance, and by tomorrow day, it will be impossible for us to escape! Jeruyu said.
"Good!" Wan Yan Haili immediately got up from the bed!
He is used to sleeping naked, and at the moment it is a slippery piece! He anxiously searched for clothes, but he couldn't find them for a long time! Yelu Yu couldn't see it, so he found a sheet and put it on Wan Yan's body, and said, "General, let's leave first!" Time is running out! ”
Wan Yanhai was furious and said, "I am a Jurchen nobleman, how can I go out like this?" ”
Yelu pouted, thinking that you Jurchens were just barbarians before, hiding in the deep mountains and old forests, wearing animal skin clothes, and only fishing and hunting! It's only been a few years, and it's ridiculous that you say what kind of aristocracy you are! However, as a Khitan, he would never dare to offend the Jurchen in Wanyan Haili! At that moment, he had to ask people to light the lamp, and then look for the clothes in Yan Haili! After finding the clothes, Wan Yanhai was dressed neatly, and then he was ready to leave!
However, at this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from outside - boom!
"What's wrong?" Wan Yanhai was shocked and said.
"Oh no! The Han Chinese have arrived! Run! Jerod said loudly.
At this moment, Yelu Yu couldn't take care of Yan Haili anymore, and strode outside! Wan Yan Haili saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly ran outside!
It's just that the speed in Wanyanhai is too slow, and after a while, I saw countless Song troops pouring into the courtyard!
Wan Yan Haili was anxious and afraid, and at this time, countless arrows on the opposite side had broken through the air! Wan Yan Haili was first hit by an arrow in the face and let out a miserable scream, and then he was hit by another arrow in his chest and fell to the ground!
"This damn Jurchen didn't make it to escape in time! What a Jurchen aristocracy, just a barbarian! Yelu Yu scolded angrily in his heart at this moment, but he was already very close to the palace wall, and a relaxed expression finally appeared on his face!
However, he had just climbed over the wall of the mansion and suddenly found that there were countless Song troops at the door!
In an instant, countless arrows were shooting at him!
Yelu Yu was shocked, he waved the steel knife in his hand, and several arrows were chopped down by him, but gradually there were more and more arrows, and Yelu Yu finally couldn't resist and died there!
When it was dawn, Chang'an City finally fell completely silent! At this moment, it is quiet here, and the heavy snow falls, gradually burying the corpses and blood!
The Song army was cleaning up the battlefield, and Zhao Chen and Wang Shu also entered Chang'an City accompanied by the imperial camp at this moment!
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Zhao Chen stood on the wall of Chang'an City and looked at the scenery in the distance!
This is the first city in Guanshan and the first city in the northwest! Compared with Hanzhong City, this Chang'an City is much more magnificent! Historically, it has become the ancient capital of China several times! In the Han and Tang dynasties, all nations came to the dynasty here, and even the center of the world! There have been countless heroes here, Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty all ascended the throne here to become emperors! Of course, it has suffered countless disasters, it has been destroyed several times, and then rebuilt several times!
Looking at Chang'an City in front of him, Zhao Chen suddenly felt a sense of historical vicissitudes flowing through his heart!
"Xing, the people are bitter! Death, the people suffer! Zhao Chen suddenly remembered Tong Guli's words again!
Chang'an City is the city that can best understand the truth of "the rise and fall of the people"! When Qin Shi Huang was in power, he built a three-hundred-mile Afang Palace, and I don't know how many people fell in the process of building the palace! When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the territory of the Han Dynasty reached the peak of history, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would only be poor and not good at people's livelihood, and at the end of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the population of the country fell by half, especially Chang'an City from prosperity to decline! In the subsequent alternation of the Han Dynasty, there is no need to say much about the military disasters here! After several dynasties, there were military disasters here! At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huangchao rebelled, when Huangchao defeated the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, entered Chang'an, and wrote the heroic poem of "Rushing to the sky to incense through Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor", but unfortunately Chang'an has become ten rooms and nine empty because of him, until the Song Dynasty, Chang'an City has not restored the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty!
"What is Your Majesty feeling?" Wang Shu came to Zhao Chen's side and said with a smile.
Wang Shu was very excited in his heart, now that the Song army has conquered Chang'an, it can be said that half of the plan to counterattack Shaanxi has been realized! Now there are still some cities in northern Shaanxi that are occupied by the Jurchens, but those are no longer enough! Of course, the terrain in northern Shaanxi is complicated, and various forces are entrenched there, and it will take some time to take down there, but relatively speaking, the threat there is not very big! Wang Shu was a little strange why Zhao Chen didn't have the slightest expression of joy, but was a little melancholy!
"I am lamenting the countless disasters that Chang'an City has experienced! The Jurchen invasion is also a disaster here! The people of Chang'an City must have suffered a lot! Zhao Chen said.
"Yes, the people of Chang'an City must have been harmed in the past two years!" Wang Shu also sighed softly and said.
The two of them were talking, and suddenly there was a commotion below!
"What happened?" Wang Shu immediately asked.
"Your Majesty, Lord Wang, some people from Chang'an City are here, and they want to see Your Majesty!" A soldier of the imperial camp hurriedly ran up and said.
"Let them come up!" Zhao Chen said.
After a while, there was a sound of footsteps below, and many people climbed up from below!
These people, old and young, men and women, have one thing in common, that is, they are all unusually embarrassed! They are all very thinly dressed, and their bodies look unusually thin! Many still have wounds on their bodies, some of which have been drawn from whips, and some of which are swords and sword wounds!
They had never seen Zhao Chen before, but at this moment, when they saw a young man standing there in a dragon robe, they immediately knew that this was the son of heaven of the Great Song Dynasty, the former crown prince Zhao Chen!
"The grass people wait to see Your Majesty! Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live! Hundreds of people fell to their knees on the walls and said in unison.
"Let's all be flat!" Zhao Chen said.
"Your Majesty, thank you for expelling the Jurchen Tartars and rescuing Chang'an! If you don't come again, I'm afraid we will all die at the hands of the Jurchens! Those people still didn't stand up at the moment, their eyes were full of gratitude, and at this moment an old man with white hair said.
The old man's face was full of wrinkles, and he looked to be over sixty years old! His body was very weak, and he was kneeling there and shaking gently!
"The old man should quickly calm down!" Zhao Chen said.
The old man stood up, and in addition to gratitude, his eyes were filled with tears!
"What is the old man crying about?" Zhao Chen said.
"I'm thinking that if Your Majesty had come a month earlier, my son, daughter-in-law, and two daughters would not have died at the hands of the Jurchens!" The old man said.
The rest of the people also stood up, many of them with tears in their eyes!
"What's going on?" Zhao Chen said.