The city gate was wide open, the Hu cavalry rushed out of the city with An Shouzhong, everyone brandished weapons and shouted loudly, when An Shouzhong was about to rush to the Tang army camp with two thousand Hu cavalry, only to see all the tents in the Tang army camp fall, revealing a cavalry phalanx, swords and guns under the sun's rays, the cold light flashed, and the reflected light directly illuminated the eyes of An Shouzhong and the Hu cavalry behind him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

An Shouzhong was shocked when he saw this scene, and immediately covered his eyes with one hand, and stopped his horse with the other, and the two thousand Hu horsemen behind him also stopped their horses, but under such a high-speed charge, how could they stop, and the Hu horses who rushed up from behind knocked the front row of Hu horses over.

At this time, only a drum was heard, and the cavalry formations of the Tang Army, which had a small phalanx, immediately began to move closer, forming a huge wedge-shaped formation when the rebel Hu cavalry was still in chaos.

Li Sheng rode his horse to the front and laughed: "Hahaha, the enemy general is stupid, the general has been waiting for you for a long time, and he still takes his life?" Driving-" With that, he rushed towards An Shouzhong with his horse lance.

Behind him, the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army saw that Li Sheng, the leading general, had been killed, so the generals of each battalion rushed towards the rebels with their subordinates.

An Shouzhong saw that Li Sheng was tall and mighty, extremely fierce, and the Tang cavalry rushed over in such a dense and neat line, he immediately became timid in his heart, and immediately turned around and ran to the side, and there were chaotic Hu cavalry everywhere behind him, there was no way at all, he could only run to the east.

The rebel Hu cavalry saw An Shouzhong flee without a fight, and saw the Tang army rushing over murderously, and before he rushed to the front, he released several waves of arrows in a row, and the arrows fell like raindrops, and the rebel Hu cavalry suffered countless casualties, and the rest of the people were blown up on the spot, and they all beat their horses and fled, and the Tang army rushed into the rebel Hu cavalry and slashed and killed, and chased and killed the fleeing rebel Hu Cai.

Seeing An Shouzhong fleeing, Li Sheng quickly arranged for a general to take a thousand soldiers and horses to chase and kill the fleeing rebel Hu Cai, while he himself took the remaining 3,000 cavalry to chase and kill An Shouzhong, this An Shouzhong rode a good horse, extremely fast, Li Sheng's war horse under the crotch is a big horse, and it is also a rare horse, and he chased until the city of Tongguan, but he did not catch up with An Shouzhong.

An Shouzhong's dozens of pro-soldiers who followed him had already fled on the way to escape because of the exhaustion of the war horses and were chased and killed by Li Sheng, at this time he was left alone to run to the city of Tongguan, looking back, only to see Li Sheng still hanging behind with perseverance, thousands of cavalry swept behind him, and the smoke and dust along the way went straight into the sky, he was suddenly frightened, and immediately beat the horse's buttocks, and before he reached the city of Tongguan, he yelled far away: "I am An Shouzhong, General Li Guiren, open the city gate, open the city gate quickly!" ”

Tongguan guard Li Guiren heard his subordinates report that a large army was coming to Tongguan from the direction of Huayin, he was shocked, and immediately came to the east city wall tower with weapons to observe the situation.

Hearing An Shouzhong's shout, Li Guiren fixed his eyes and saw that it was indeed An Shouzhong! At this time, An Shouzhong also had an arrow stuck in his back, which was obviously shot by the general of the Tang Army who was chasing after him.

If the person who shouted was not An Shouzhong, but someone else, Li Guiren would never open the city gate, don't even think about it, it is too dangerous to open the city at this time, and if he was accidentally rushed into Tongguan City by the Tang Army, this Tongguan natural danger would not play any role at all, but An Shouzhong is not someone else, he is the cousin of An Lushan, the Great Yan Emperor, Li Guiren can't help it, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to An Lushan in the future.

Seeing An Shouzhong riding a horse and approaching, Li Guiren gritted his teeth and shouted: "Quickly put down the drawbridge, open the city gate and let General An enter the city!" ”

The soldiers on the city tower who were responsible for guarding the drawbridge and guarding the city gate below heard the order and quickly lowered the drawbridge and opened the city gate, this time was pinched extremely accurately, and when An Shouzhong passed through the hole in the city gate, Li Sheng was about to chase and kill, the drawbridge was pulled up again, and the city gate was slowly closed.

"Li-" Seeing that the drawbridge had been pulled up halfway, Li Sheng could only stop his horse, the war horse neighed, his front hooves raised, and his hind legs slid on the ground for a meter before stopping.

This Tongguan is the east gate of Chang'an, its main role is to prevent the enemy from coming from the east to attack Chang'an, its entire defense system is divided into several parts, namely Tongguan city wall, Huangxiangban, forbidden ditch, twelve cities, Qinling and the Yellow River.

Tongguan Pass south by Qinling, north of the Yellow River, east and west each have a city wall, in the east of the east city wall there is a long slope up to five miles, called Huang Xiangban, although it is not very steep, but the enemy from the east if you want to attack the city wall, you must attack from this long slope, the back attack for the besieging side, the difficulty of the attack is countless times greater, not waiting for the siege army to arrive under the city gate, the defenders on the city wall will drop the rolling stone and the wood, these two things are absolutely super killers on the downhill road, and under the city wall, there is a wide two zhang, A trench that is one foot deep, trying to fill this trench will have countless casualties, let alone siege the city.

The Qinling Mountains are a natural barrier, but it is not impossible to cross, in order to prevent the enemy from crossing over the Qinling Mountains to attack Tongguan, the army guarding the pass has built more than a dozen fortresses in the dangerous places on the Qinling Mountains.

Between Huangxiangban and Qinling, there is a natural narrow and deep, extremely dangerous ravine, this ditch is called the forbidden ditch, there are six fortresses on both sides of the forbidden ditch, a total of twelve fortresses, the fortress has the protection of the city wall, the watchtower, the archery hole, each fort is stationed in a hundred soldiers, hoarding a large number of rolling stones, sassal wood, arrows and fire oil, these twelve fortresses are therefore called twelve cities.

The defense system combining the forbidden ditch and the twelve cities directly made the army from the east look at the Tongguan city wall with admiration, and they could only attack from Huangxiangban despite casualties.

And the north of the Tongguan city wall is adjacent to the Yellow River, and the natural barrier of the Yellow River blocks the enemy who comes from the north to attack by ferry, so if you want to attack Tongguan from the east, you can only attack from the front on the Huangxiangban, and there is no other way, it is really a husband and a man!

Therefore, Tongguan was mainly used as a barrier to Chang'an in the east to prevent the enemy from attacking from the east, and if there was an army attacking Tongguan from the direction of Chang'an, it was much easier, because its defense system was mainly against the enemy coming from the direction of Luoyang.

Li Guiren, the general of Tongguan, had already received the news that Chang'an had been recaptured by the Tang army, so he had already arranged a large number of men to dig a trench two zhang wide and one zhang deep in front of the western city wall, which could effectively block the Tang army's attack on Tongguan from the west.

Li Sheng looked at this trench and remembered that he had only brought 3,000 cavalry over, and he was afraid that he could not do anything about this trench.

At this time, a loud shout came from the castle tower: "Shoot the arrows to Ben General!" ”

The rebel soldiers on the city tower who heard the order opened their bows and released arrows, and Li Sheng had no choice but to wield his horse lance and constantly knock away the arrows shot from the city wall, and while parrying, he turned around and turned out of the range of the opponent's bow and arrow.

Li Guiren saw that the other party ran away unscathed, and could only order the archers to stop firing arrows.

Li Sheng rode his horse to a stone's throw away and turned around again, and at this time, the three thousand cavalry behind also chased after him.

After the formation of the three thousand cavalry behind him was completed, Li Sheng shouted to the city tower: "This general is Li Sheng, a general under the command of Zhao Ziliang, the deputy marshal of soldiers and horses. ”

Li Guiren leaned against the wall buttress and laughed: "Hahaha······ Li Sheng? Nobody, right? I haven't heard of it, this general Li Guiren, is a general under the command of Emperor Dayan, Li Shengxiaoer, your 3,000 cavalry rushed to attack my Tongguan, you are too ignorant of life and death, there is a kind of you to attack? ”

Li Sheng was furious and shouted: "Gui Ren'er, you have a kind of going out of the city to fight me to the death, what is the use of a bird if you are dozens of years old?" What kind of skill is it to hide in the city like a turtle with a shrunken head? There's a kind of you coming out to see that General Ben doesn't you! ”

"Abominable, abominable ······" Li Guiren was scolded by Li Sheng and jumped to his feet, and shouted to the people around him: "Prepare a war horse, bring my weapon, Lao Tzu will tear him alive!" ”

Seeing this, the generals grabbed him and persuaded: "The general is angry, angry, this is General Tang's trick, the general must not fall into his trap, General An was killed by him and fled back alone, presumably this person has some ability, we are now in danger of Tongguan, why go out and take risks?" General, you see that he only has cavalry, no infantry, how can he attack the city? So they can't do anything about us! ”

After being persuaded by his generals for a long time, Li Guiren calmed down and thought, "Yes, why should I go out?" Lao Tzu guards this Tong Pass, no matter how powerful the cavalry of your Beiting Army is, it is in vain! ”

Thinking of this, Li Guiren laughed at Li Sheng under the city and said, "Hahaha······ Lao Tzu won't come down, how can you bear with me? ”

Li Sheng was out of luck now, and the generals around him asked: "General, it seems that they will not go out of the city, and we are all cavalry, so there is nothing to do about this city!" Now what do we do? Returning to Huayin? ”

Li Sheng also knew that it was undoubtedly a fool's dream to take Tongguan with the 3,000 cavalry in his hands, although its defense in the west was far inferior to that in the east, but it was not something that his 3,000 cavalry could take.

After thinking about it, Li Sheng said to his generals: "The main force of the rebels on the side of Huayin City has been annihilated by us, and the remaining escapees must have been wiped out quickly, maybe the officials in Huayin City have already opened the door and surrendered at this time." Now that we've come out, of course we can't just go back, I'm determined to turn around and go north to seize Yongfengcang, what do you think? ”

The lieutenants stood up and clenched their fists and said, "Everything obeys the general's orders!" ”

As soon as he said to go, Zhao Ziliang immediately turned around and went west, walking for a distance, until he was far away from the enemy's sight at Tongguan before turning to the north.

At this time, on the city of Tongguan, An Shouzhong came to the city wall after treating the arrow wound, watched the Tang army go away, and said to Li Guiren very resentfully: "Looking at that Li Sheng is tall and stout, with a reckless appearance, I didn't expect him to be a very treacherous person!" ”

Li Guiren turned around at this time and saw that it was An Shouzhong, so he asked, "General An, it doesn't matter if you are injured!" ”

"It's okay, skin trauma, pulled out the arrow, and applied medicine!"

Li Guiren couldn't help but ask: "Isn't General An guarding Weinan City?" How did you get this look? ”

Seeing Li Guiren asking, An Shouzhong couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Hey, it's all the fault caused by a knife on the head of the color word, the day before yesterday, the county commander of Huayin City sent someone to Weinan City to tell me that he had a character Mei Ji who wanted to dedicate it to me in a few days, where can I wait?" So yesterday I took humanity to Huayin City, but I didn't expect me to walk on the front foot, and the Tang Army followed on the back foot, they could kill Huayin, but I was afraid that Weinan City had also fallen, this Li Sheng was quite scheming, he camped two miles outside Huayin City, I didn't know that this was his trick, so he took people to attack the camp, but I didn't expect to fall into his trap, hey! ”

Li Guiren listened to An Shouzhong's words, and he was speechless for a while, if you pick up a girl, you can pick up a girl, why don't you even want Weinan City? I rub it, how can I explain this to the emperor? (To be continued.) )