709, Battle of Chang'an (1)
Deng Yi and Chen made a tentative attack on Dongshi, where Han Sui's army was stationed, but they also tested that Han Sui's army still had some will to fight, and his soldiers were relatively brave.
Soon Deng Yi and Chen collected their troops and went back to tell Wei Yan, Jiang Wan, and Zhang Xiu about the situation of Han Sui's army in Dongshi, and also described the situation of this temporary street fortress in Dongshi.
Of course, such a street fortress transformed from a bazaar will naturally be difficult for Zhu Wei's army.
Although Wei Yan's Jingnan battalion did not have any siege equipment prepared now, it also brought craftsmen with the army, and it was easy to create siege equipment like a wall-breaking car.
In the next half a day, the craftsmen of the army transformed three ordinary horse-drawn carriages into cave houses with broken walls and pillars inside, which was enough to deal with this kind of street fortress.
On the second day, Wei Yan led the main force of the Jingnan battalion, using the three wall-breaking and cave house vehicles as the front drive, and launched a strong attack on the street fortress of Han Sui's army in Dongshi.
As a result, the cave house car protected the soldiers of the inner middle and easily approached the high wall of the eastern city, and with the continuous collision of the wooden pillars in the inner middle of the city, it quickly collapsed the already not very thick wall of the eastern city.
Next, Wei Yan, Chen Qi, and Deng Yi each took nearly a thousand sword and shield soldiers and took the lead in killing them, and the Han Sui soldiers in the East City were completely unable to resist the charge of Wei Yan and their three generals, so Zhu Weijun easily captured this stronghold of Han Sui's army on the street.
Li Kan and Cheng Yin, who were responsible for guarding the East City, saw that their side could not resist the offensive of Zhu Weijun, so they could only lead their troops to retreat along the back street of Shangguan to Changxin Palace, where Han Sui's main force was located.
It's just that although Wei Yan, Chen Jie, and Deng Yi led troops to chase down Li Kan and Cheng Yin's defeated soldiers all the way, they were soon blocked back by the soldiers and horses killed by Han Suijun's follow-up strongholds.
After the front street fortress of Han Sui's army in Chang'an City, although you can go all the way along the back street of Shangguan to Changxin Palace, but the garrison of Han Sui of the Taishang Imperial Temple and the palace captain on the side can also send troops to the back street of Shangguan from the side at any time.
In this way, Wei Yan took Chen Jie and Deng Yi to pursue Li Kan and Cheng Yin's defeated troops for a while, but he almost fell into the encirclement of Han Sui's army, which was killed on the side, so Wei Yan saw that the situation was not good, so he stopped the pursuit, and led the troops to slowly withdraw to Dongshi.
However, although the street fortress of Dongshi was easily captured, the Taishang Emperor Temple, Gongwei and other strongholds guarded by Han Sui's soldiers were not so easy to attack.
Dongshi is a street fortress built on the street, but the Taishang Emperor Temple and the palace captain are two strongholds occupied by the Han Sui army, and the back relies on the towering north city wall of Chang'an, so the Han Sui army stationed on the north city wall can take advantage of the condescending advantage to cover the Zhu Wei army who attacked the Taishang Huang Temple and the palace captain with feather arrows.
In this way, if Zhu Wei's army wants to attack these two strongholds of the Han Sui army, it will inevitably face the counterattack of the Han Sui army in the front stronghold, and the threat of the bow and arrow of the Han Sui army above his head is equivalent to facing a three-dimensional defensive position.
In this way, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of Zhu Wei's army is, it will be discounted, and it is very likely that it will be suppressed by the feather arrows shot down from the city wall, and it will not be able to make an effective offensive.
Even if Wei Yan could use the cave house car to get close to the outer walls of the two strongholds of the Taishang Imperial Temple and Gongwei, and he could collapse the outer walls that protected the strongholds, it was still difficult to withstand the feather arrows shot from the city wall, and he could easily capture such a stronghold of Han Sui's army.
However, the Chang'an city wall behind the Taishang Emperor Temple and the palace captain here has been disconnected from the other city walls of Chang'an City, and there are at least four or five steps of the other city walls.
In addition, even if Zhang Xiu took the heavy armored cavalry and forcibly raided the Changxin Palace where Han Sui was located, it could not be meaningful, after all, the Changxin Palace was also built like a dock fort, and the heavy armored cavalry naturally could not directly break through the wall.
But the battle in Chang'an City still had to be fought, so Wei Yan led his troops back to Dongshi to repair it, and decided to take the Taishanghuang Temple, the stronghold of Han Sui's army, as the main target.
Later, Wei Yan and the soldiers of the Jingnan battalion tried to attack the Taishang Emperor Temple, but even if he used the cave house car as the front drive, he was forced back by Han Suijun.
On the one hand, the Han Sui archers on the wall behind the Taishang Emperor Temple were too oppressive for the attack, and on the other hand, the number of Han Sui's troops was originally quite large, and now the Han Sui army stationed in the Taishang Emperor Temple could completely fight back.
As a result, before the three cave house cars brought by Wei Yan approached the outer wall of the Taishang Emperor Temple, they saw Han Suijun counterattack, so the three cave house cars could only retreat first.
Seeing this, Wei Yan knew that continuing to attack would only cause great losses, so he led his troops to retreat to the side of Dongshi first.
For a while, the battle situation seemed to be a little unsmooth, so the day's battle also ended with the arrival of the night, but I didn't expect that Yan Xing, the son-in-law of Han Sui, who was stationed in the Taishang Emperor Temple that night, was unwilling to just be beaten, and launched a sneak attack counterattack on Dongshi with 5,000 Han Sui troops that night.
Although many houses and houses around the back street of Shangguan in Chang'an City have been destroyed into ruins in the past war, there are still many remnants of the broken walls after all, so Yan Xing and Han Suijun secretly approached the East City with the help of the cover of these ruined houses, and launched a rocket sneak attack on the East Market occupied by Zhu Weijun.
Seeing the environment in Chang'an City, Wei Yan and Jiang Wan, who were also at a loss, had already guessed the possibility that Han Sui's army would sneak attack, so they only sent a small number of soldiers and horses to garrison in Dongshi this night.
At the same time, there was an ambush of soldiers and horses in the ruins of the Minfang in the south of Dongshi, so Yan Xing's sneak attack did not get any results, but was ambushed by Zhu Weijun's soldiers and horses with crossbow arrows, bows and arrows, and shot a lot in the dark.
It's just that this time Yan Xing's sneak attack, but he also used a fire to completely burn Dongshi to ashes, in order to follow up and avoid being attacked by Han Sui's army again, Zhu Wei's army retreated to Xuanpingmen to garrison.
On the second day, Wei Yan did not mean to lead troops to attack the Taishang Emperor Temple again, but took the initiative to challenge Yan Xing in front of the Taishang Emperor Temple.
It's a pity that Yan Xing, who was stationed in the Taishang Emperor Temple, also had no intention of coming out to fight, and as a result, Wei Yan fought for nearly an hour without getting any response, so he could only lead his troops back to Xuanping Gate again.
Next, Wei Yan asked his craftsmen to build some siege equipment such as cave house chariots and tiger chariot knife walls, and it was almost two days later that he took these siege equipment and led the army to prepare to storm the Taishang Emperor Temple.
Under Wei Yan's arrangement, Zhu Weijun used the cave house car and tiger car as barriers in front to block the attack of Han Sui's army in the Taishang Emperor Temple, and then let the sword and shield men protect a large number of crossbow archers and archers, and then shot rounds of rockets to the Taishang Emperor Temple.
Obviously, Wei Yan was also preparing to learn Yan Xing's means, and wanted to directly use rockets to ignite the Taishang Emperor Temple, and burned down the Taishang Emperor Temple, a stronghold of Han Sui's army, with a fire......