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The siege entered the third day. On the third day, the siege was even more violent, and Li Guangbi sent almost all his troops and horses to storm Chang'an from midnight. Nearly 100,000 siege soldiers and horses took turns to storm the city walls and gates.

In the early afternoon, Hong Lim Gate was breached, but it was recaptured under the fierce counterattack of the rebels. Tens of thousands of newly recruited Chang'an people were forced to block the gap in the city gate with their bodies, and then blocked the entire city gate hole of Fanglin Gate with mud bags and stones, so that the besieging soldiers and horses returned in vain.

The city wall was also breached several times, the Hui soldiers and the Tang army climbed the city wall, the rebels fought to the death under Shi Siming's strict orders, and the city wall on the west side of Hong Lim Gate changed hands several times, but was finally recaptured by the rebels to resist the ferocious attack. Because of the serious wear and tear of the catapults, the casualties of the soldiers on the besieging side were too heavy, so even though Li Guangbi wanted to continue the siege without interruption with red eyes, he was unanimously opposed by Li Mao and Qi Zhanali. Finally, in the evening, Ming Jin withdrew his troops. The siege on the third day, which lasted four or five hours, was also a failure.

The siege on the third day was far more brutal than the siege on the first two days, and the number of casualties even exceeded that of the first and second days combined. More than 40,000 people were killed and wounded on the besieging side, and more than 30,000 were killed or wounded on the defending side. From the very beginning, the whole battle was a constant exchange of dead and wounded, and the battlefield rumbled like a giant meat grinder, devouring flesh and life. At dusk after the end of the war, like a bloody sun, the city was full of corpses, and there was almost no place to stand. On the battlefield three hundred paces deep in Changbali, the corpses of men and horses were stacked, and the frozen soil on the ground turned red and black. The cold wind whistled by, causing the blood to congade into blood ice, reflecting a dazzling red light in the setting sun.

Even the red-eyed Li Guangbi was dumbfounded in the face of such huge casualties. In the three-day siege, nearly 40,000 of the 160,000 soldiers and horses were killed and 60,000 were wounded, and nearly half of the wounded were afraid that they would not be able to recover or become disabled. The camp was overcrowded with wounded soldiers who had been dragged back, and there were terrible screams and painful moans everywhere.

In Li Mao's big tent, Li Guangbi and Qi Zhanali quarreled again. Li Mao, on the other hand, sat on the chair with a pale face, listening to the mutual accusations between the two.

"Li Guangbi, I have never seen you attack the city like this, you are completely inappropriate to take my life back to the soldiers and horses. Don't think that if you have signed an agreement with us to borrow troops, you can not take my life seriously. Every warrior I have returned to is a warrior who is hard to buy. Your two cities are all owed to us, and it will not be able to make up for our losses. My soldiers only have 50,000 left, you tell me, how do I explain? ”

The pigtails on his head fluttered, his arms waved, his mouth foamed, and he roared loudly. He didn't care about etiquette, he didn't care about the presence of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he just wanted to scold Li Guangbi for his incompetence. He regretted that he wanted to die, and regretted that he should not have been moved by Li Guangbi's severed finger behavior that day, and he should have cut off his two fingers to face him at that time, so that he deliberately did not have to promise him to return to the army, and all the soldiers and horses obeyed his dispatch to attack the city with all their might. Now that more than half of the 100,000 soldiers and horses have been killed or wounded, I am afraid that I will not be able to explain to Guli Peiluo. Now it's not a matter of two fingers, it's a question of the head on the head.

Li Guangbi was not to be outdone, he was also in a very anxious mood, and when he heard that Qi Zhanali was playing tricks again, he unceremoniously went back: "General Qi Zhanali, you have suffered heavy casualties in the soldiers and horses of the Hui Dynasty, and my Tang soldiers and horses will be safe and sound?" Of my 60,000 soldiers and horses, there are now only more than 10,000 left. These 10,000 people are still His Majesty's personal guards, that is to say, the 50,000 soldiers and horses participating in the war are almost all wiped out, and you still settle this account with me? You Hui people are people, aren't my Tang soldiers people? I'm also telling you that you are responsible for today's situation. If you had listened to my military orders to attack the city the day before yesterday, you would have broken through the city on the first day, how could there be the tragedy of the next two days? ”

Qi Zhanali said angrily: "You came to bring up the old matter again, is it not that you want to recruit Shi Siming, which caused the first day of the siege to be ineffective?" If you want to blame it, blame it for your poor plan. Blame you for not planning well beforehand. ”

Li Guangbi sneered at each other: "You will shirk responsibility, don't think that we don't know your tricks to return to the people." You said that you would lend us 100,000 soldiers, but you felt your conscience and told Ben Shuai that your 100,000 soldiers and horses were all elite? This commander has led the army for many years, and I know at a glance what kind of soldiers and horses you have lent us, and half of the 100,000 soldiers and horses you have lent us are indiscriminate. They are all old and weak soldiers and Tibetan soldiers. On the battlefield, you waste soldiers are the ones who are greedy for life and afraid of death, running around and shouting and stirring up the situation. We all know it, but we don't name it. You are still jumping high and scolding nonsense here, and your Hui people's credit is low, and you have ghosts in your heart, and you can't conspire with them. ”

Qi Zhanali was annoyed and angry when the truth was exposed, and said angrily: "We Hui people kindly helped you to quell the rebellion, but we were so slandered by you. Can't conspire, right? Okay, let's break up, I'll leave with my 50,000 soldiers and horses at once, and you'll do your own thing. ”

"You dare!" A cold voice sounded behind the two of them.

Li Guangbi and Qi Zhanali turned their heads and saw that Li Mao's face was as cold as ice, his face was gloomy as ink, and his whole person exuded a sense of fierceness. Li Mao's gentle and calm appearance is very different from that on weekdays. The two of them felt the anger and gloom emanating from Li Mao's body, and they both took a cool breath.

"You've been arguing countless times in front of me, do you still take me seriously? I am the son of the Tang Dynasty, and being undignified in front of me is a capital crime, do you think I am just a decoration at all? Well? Li Mao walked slowly and said word by word.

"Don't dare!" Li Guangbi hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and repeatedly accused: "The minister is rude to death, please punish Your Majesty." ”

Li Mao frowned and glanced at Li Guangbi, then turned his head and glanced at Qizanali, who was still standing with his neck crossed and his arms crossed, and anger rose on his face. Suddenly, Li Mao shouted: "Beggar Zanali, you barbarian, do you dare to be rude to me?" Don't kneel yet. ”

Qi Zhanali was stunned and at a loss, he really didn't take Li Mao in his eyes, in fact, the entire Hui people didn't take Li Mao in their eyes. However, Li Mao is His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire after all, and he has the power of the Son of Heaven. As a citizen of a foreign wilderness state, he has always kept the majesty and worship of the powerful Tang Empire in his heart, and at this moment, his legs and feet are trembling, and his throat is dry.

"You Hui people have been favored by my Tang Dynasty for many years, otherwise you would have been wiped out by the Turks. Now that I am in trouble in Datang, I thought you would send troops to help me because you were grateful. But I didn't expect that you have no gratitude. If you don't know how to be grateful, how is it different from an animal? I have given you everything in my making, and I am even willing to exchange two cities for you, do you think I don't know your thoughts? I just don't want to be too you. And you don't really help me, half of the 100,000 soldiers and horses are old and weak, and you don't listen to my Tang generals' orders. Now that there are some dead people, they will be clamoring to lead the troops away. I only warn you, if you dare to lead your troops to leave today, you Hui people will be the enemies of my Datang. After I put down the rebellion, the first one to be destroyed is you, the Hui people, so that you know that the price of treachery and ingratitude is the destruction of the whole people. I won't stop you, if you want to lead the army away, then get out of here now. ”

Li Mao reprimanded, and the scolded beggar Zhanali didn't dare to raise his head. He had the heart to raise his feet and leave, but he also knew that the words of the Tang Emperor in front of him were by no means for fun, and once the Tang Dynasty stabilized, he was afraid that the Hui people would really suffer. If the Hui people were strong enough to resist the future retaliation of the Tang Dynasty, it would be fine, but after the war with Tubo, the northern grasslands suffered heavy casualties and serious damage. What the Hui tribe needs now is to recuperate, and they can't deal with the powerful Tang Dynasty at all. Even if Datang is now riddled with holes, it is by no means something that the Hui people can contend with. This consequence is not something he can be responsible for.

Seeing that Qi Zhanali bowed his head and was silent, Li Mao's tone softened a little. Today, he was also extremely angry and anxious in his heart, and when he heard that Li Guangbi and Qi Zhanali were arguing again, he finally couldn't help but reprimand. But he didn't want Qizanali to really run away, and the battle to attack Chang'an would end without a problem, and he also became the Emperor of the Light Pole, and he didn't have much strength in his hands.

"In the past three days, the city has been besieged repeatedly, and although the army has suffered heavy losses, it has not yet reached the time of victory or defeat. Are the losses of the rebels small? What I saw was that the rebels were also suffering heavy casualties. The rebels should be more difficult to bear than we are. Because Shi Siming is now a lone soldier, there will be one less of his soldiers and horses, and there is no way to replenish them. In today's battle, he has been forced to drive the people to fight, which shows that he has seriously underwhelmed his troops. His more than 100,000 rebels are probably less than half of them. In such a situation, whoever can grit his teeth and hold on will be the victorious side. Besides, I had already made a decision to put the last pressure on Shi Siming to surrender to me. At this time, the two of you are in a mess, and I am really disappointed. ”

Li Guangbi kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty is Mingjian, it is the fault of the minister, and the minister has failed His Majesty's expectations. ”

Li Mao waved his hand and said: "I can understand your feelings, and you also want to take Chang'an as soon as possible, which is also what I desperately want to see." I don't blame you for being in a hurry, I just don't want you to blame each other and make a lot of noise because you're frustrated. I have no way out, you also have no way out, and Shi Siming has no way out. But compared to Shi Siming, I have another means. Li Guangbi, get up, I want to discuss something with you. ”

Li Guangbi thanked him and stood aside with his hands down. Qi Zhanali also restrained his appearance and stood aside respectfully. For the first time, he had a heartfelt sense of awe for the Tang Emperor in front of him. The new emperor of the Tang Dynasty showed his majesty, and he wanted to know what new ways the Tang Emperor could break the deadlock.

"Two, I think, in such a situation, the siege can be suspended for a day. My army has less than 70,000 capable soldiers, and I don't want to bury them all here. Li Guangbi, you send someone to send a letter of persuasion into the city, and tell Shi Siming that this is his last chance. I will immediately issue an order, and order Wang Yuan's Shence army to approach Chang'an immediately. At this time, once Shi Siming found out that the Shence Army was approaching Chang'an, it would be the last straw that crushed him. Li Guangbi, what do you think of my idea? Li Mao said slowly.

Li Guangbi thought about it calmly and said, "Your Majesty, this method is feasible. The only thing to worry about is that Wang Yuan took the opportunity to attack the city and capture Chang'an. His Majesty must strictly order Wang Yuan not to attack the city in the holy decree, and not to let Wang Yuan take advantage of the fire to rob. It is precisely this that the minister is worried about, so he has not asked His Majesty for a long time. ”

Li Mao nodded and pondered, "I understand your worries, and I am actually very worried. But for now, it seems to be the only option. I don't dare to openly resist Wang Yuan's decree, so I will be careful in my wording and comfort Wang Yuan more. Didn't he and Gao Xianzhi jointly congratulate me on my accession to the throne? I think Wang Yuan is still afraid of me, as long as I give him some sweetness, I am afraid that he will not make any changes. If you have no objection to this, do it immediately, so as not to have too many dreams at night. ”

Li Guangbi bowed and said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

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Chang'an City woke up from the cold morning fog in the early morning. It has been a long time since the sound of the bells and drums of the Shuntianmen Gate has been heard, and the hundreds of thousands of people in the city feel empty in their hearts. In the past, the sound of bells and drums in the evening and early morning was the most hateful sound, and once they sounded, people rushed to the houses where they lived, or they would be arrested and whipped by the Marquis of Wu. The ringing of the bell in the morning will also make the sleeping people wake up anxiously to meet the harsh reality of survival. If there is anything most disgusting in Chang'an City, I am afraid that it is the sound of the morning bell and the dusk drum.

However, in the nearly a year that was occupied by the rebels, the people who did not flee Chang'an were extremely nostalgic for the sound of the morning bell and the dusk drum. What the rebels did in Chang'an City made them miss the days of a year ago. Although it was not easy at that time, it was like heaven compared to the days now.

During the year of occupation by the rebels, the people of Chang'an City experienced countless lootings and lootings, and experienced the fear of being dominated by the rebels and the Hu people. Although they did not have the fear of the morning bell and the dusk drum of Wuhou in the streets, the fear they experienced was greater than when those things existed. The rebel soldiers were doing mischief in the city of Chang'an, and every day people were killed in vain and women were raped. Sexual insults, all have their property robbed. People live in trepidation, and they all have a sense of precariousness.

Moreover, the rebels were enlisting in Latin almost every moment in the city, and almost all the young and strong men in the city were looted, so that the drooping boys of thirteen or fourteen years old, and the old men of fifty or sixty years old could hardly be spared.

Under the harsh policy of the rebels, all their belongings and food were looted, and the rebels implemented a rationing system, with a daily quota of half a liter of rice for a family of seven or eight people. And for this half liter of rice, they had to be driven to fortify the city walls, dig fortifications, build arrow towers, and other hard labor. The people of the whole city are alive like pigs and dogs, and they don't know when this disaster will end.

And now, even the most basic subsistence food quota has been stopped, and the day before the imperial army began to attack the city, hundreds of thousands of people in the city have run out of food. The rebels no longer gave food to the people, which caused the whole city to enter a great crisis at once.

It has been three days since the food was cut off, and most of the people's homes are no longer able to support it, except for those who used to secretly hide it. After three days of starvation, even adults can't stand it, let alone those children and the elderly. In such a situation, in order to replenish the consumed soldiers and horses, the rebels drove the people in the city to participate in the battle to defend the city. Involving the skinny elderly, women and children in the battle is tantamount to pushing the people to the edge of a cliff.

At such a time, the last trace of anger in the hearts of the people was finally forced to burst out at the moment of life and death. Left and right is a dead and they begin to realize that they can no longer be silent. The lamb is up.

The cause of the incident was a forced conscription in the early hours of the morning. In yesterday's battle, the rebel defenders suffered heavy casualties, with more than 35,000 soldiers and horses killed and wounded. Faced with this situation, Shi Siming once again ordered his generals to forcibly recruit troops in the city. After many conscriptions, although there are still hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City, most of them are old, weak, women, children, sick and disabled. After being grate-like a dozen times, there are very few people who can serve as soldiers.

Faced with this situation, the rebels can only do what they do, but all the men who can move, regardless of age or age, will be dragged and captured to confiscate the army. Yongping Fang to the west of Yong'an Fang is just an ordinary folk square in the west city of Chang'an. Like Yong'an Fang, it is inhabited by ordinary people. Because of this, when the catastrophe came, they, like most of the other ordinary people, had no chance to escape the capital. After many conscriptions, most of the old, weak, sick and disabled people remained in Yongpingfang.

In the early hours of the morning, the hungry, cold and frightened Yongping Fang ushered in the rebel soldiers who were like wolves and tigers. Fangbei Li's family is an ordinary family, living in the first one at the entrance of Beifang Street. There are only two old husbands and wives and a daughter whose husband has died and lives in her mother's house. The old man is nearly seventy years old, and he used to work as a coolie in Chang'an City, but his body is still quite tough. But because he was too old, he was not pulled into the army in the previous conscriptions, and this time, he couldn't dodge.

The old man has been hungry for the past few days, his body is very weak, and he has suffered a cold and coughed all night at night. The old woman waited for the old man to drink a bowl of hot water, hoping that his wife would get better soon. Just then, the rebels broke down the door. They lifted the quilt and pulled the old man off the kang to pull him into the army. The old woman hurriedly stepped forward to ask for help, informing the rebels that the old man was old and very sick and weak in the past few days. The rebels were willing to take care of it and insisted on dragging the old man out of the house. During the pull, the old woman was kicked to the ground by the rebel soldiers, hit her head into the corner of the wall, and immediately died with a whimper.

When the old man saw his wife of decades dead in front of him, he felt sad and indignant. Snatching the saber from the soldier's waist and killing a rebel soldier. The rebel soldiers were horrified and angry, and immediately drew their blades and cut the old man into several pieces. All this was seen by the old man's daughter hiding in the side room. Seeing the tragic death of the old father and mother in front of her, the woman climbed over the courtyard wall and went out, shouting for help.

When they heard that the rebels did not let go of even the seventy-year-old man, they thought of the young children and the old people at home, and they were afraid that they would not be able to escape the fate of being conscripted. An old man was angry and said angrily: "The left and right are dead, rather than being dragged by these man-eating wolves to fight against the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, it is better to fight with them." slaughtered one is one, and the court soldiers and horses have one less opponent. ”

Unexpectedly, this sentence actually caused a great resonance. The people who had been cornered and felt that there was no way out of life shouted one after another. For a time, the old are young. The young women and old women responded one after another, not to mention that people have no ambition, and ants still have the power to resist, not to mention the people who have been forced into a desperate situation. Soon, dozens of people rushed to the door of Li's courtyard with straw forks, flat poles, pounding clothes, and wooden sticks. Seven or eight rebel soldiers who had killed people were carrying the corpses of their companions outside, and when they saw the people rushing in with great vigour, they threatened and cursed themselves. The people rushed forward and killed seven or eight of them when they were killed by the rebel soldiers.

After that, the whole square was shaken, and the people gathered more and more, and they swept through the square and killed all the more than 200 rebel soldiers who had entered Yongping Fang. Then they closed the doors of the four sides and refused to stand in the middle of the people's houses.

This incident quickly shook the whole city, and the actions of the people in Yongping Fang made the flames in the hearts of the people in the city rise. Soon after, Yong'an Fang, Yanfu Fang, and Jiahui Fang on the left followed suit. The hundreds of rebels who entered the three squares were killed by the angry people, who also closed the gates and leaned against the tall walls of the squares.

The news quickly reached Shi Siming's ears, and Shi Siming was furious. first scolded the generals in charge of conscription, and then issued an order to immediately suppress and punish the people. Although the wall of Minfang is high, it is only a wall after all. Although the people are angry, they are only ordinary people after all, and they cannot compete with the heavily armed soldiers and horses. The rebels mobilized thousands of soldiers and horses to attack, and soon broke through the four people's houses, and at the same time washed the four people's houses in blood, killing more than 6,000 people. Almost all the people involved were killed.

Shi Siming wanted to use this cruel method to deter the people, because he had already understood that the people in the city had become popular and could not be suppressed.

Although the people's rebellion was temporarily suppressed by bullets, Shi Siming knew in his heart that if some basic problems were not solved quickly, the people's rebellion would still occur. The people have been without food for three or four days, and anything can happen at this time. At this time, the only thing that can soothe the people and calm their anger a little is to stop the conscription and quickly distribute food to them.

For this reason, Shi Siming once again called Shi Chaoyi over and scolded him, telling him that he must open up the grain road today, even if he dies, he must quickly get some food into the city and die again. Shi Chaoyi had no choice but to take 3,000 soldiers and horses to secretly open the south gate and go out of the city, planning to secretly go to the direction of Tongguan to transport some food to save the emergency. However, less than two hours after his 3,000 soldiers and horses left the city, they were overtaken by the 5,000 cavalry of the Tang army thirty miles southwest of Chang'an. The cavalry of the Tang Army, who was in charge of blocking the grain route, rushed over, and Shi Chaoyi was so frightened that he fled and fled back to Chang'an in a panic. More than half of his 3,000 soldiers and horses were lost, and only a few hundred escaped in horror.

Shi Siming almost vomited blood in anger. Not only did they not see a grain of grain, but they also lost 3,000 precious soldiers and horses. This is tantamount to adding insult to injury. Shi Siming took matters into his own hands and used a leather whip to open the skin of Shi Chaoyi's beating, and he came back to life. If it weren't for the persuasion of the people around him, Shi Siming would almost beat him to death. After dark, Shi Chaoyi, who did not have a piece of good meat on his buttocks and back, was carried back to the mansion and lay on the kang and cried mournfully. Although this whip was painful, the more worrying thing was still to come, that is, when he was carried down, Shi Siming pointed to Shi Chaoyi's nose and said: Tomorrow I want you to be the first to go to the city to meet the enemy, and I want you to be the first to die.

Shi Chaoyi could see that Shi Siming had no father-son affection in his eyes when he said this, and he was cruel and resolute. Shi Chaoyi knew that his father was not joking. In such a harsh situation, his father would not think about his life and death, he cared more about the gains and losses of the city and his own situation. The more Shi Chaoyi thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he lay on the bed and cried bitterly.