In this way, the imperial court did not let Guo Wei personally send troops to fight the rebellion, but issued orders to other scattered generals in the northwest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Under the arrangement of the Privy Council, the imperial court established two major camps of the rebel army.

In Hezhong, the imperial court appointed the envoy of Shaanzhou Jiedu, and the seventy-two-year-old veteran Bai Wenke built "the soldiers and horses of the Hezhong Mansion are deployed", and the camp in the river should confront Li Shouzhen;

In Yongxing, the imperial court made Guo Congyi "deploy the Yongxing army and his troops and horses" to besiege Chang'an City. In this camp, there is also a little-known general Wang Jun, who is the imperial court set up for the Yongxing camp.

In addition to the elite tooth army, it also includes various regimental training troops, township soldiers, town soldiers, etc., in addition to the necessary left-behind troops, they must be concentrated on standby for the two major camps.

In Chang'an City, Zhao Sijuan originally wanted to threaten the imperial court to posthumously recognize himself as the envoy of Yongxing Festival and stay in Chang'an, so as to exchange the black-faced army for not betraying Li Shouzhen. However, when he received news in April that the imperial court had officially appointed Guo Congyi to quell the rebellion and to grant him the title of envoy of the Yongxing Army, Zhao Siwan was furious and finally decided to unite with Li Shouzhen.

He not only showed favor to Li Shouzhen, but even personally sent someone to send a royal clothes and jade belt, saying that he not only recognized his identity as the "King of Qin", but also supported him to establish himself as the emperor. Li Shouzhen was cautious, so he awarded the seal of the Yongxing Military Festival envoy to Zhao Sijuan's envoy, and then humbly declined the dragon robe.

Li Shouzhen also appointed Zhao Sijuan to serve as the commander of the black-faced army - the black-faced army was officially expanded into an army, and it was used as a military horn in the open.

In mid-April, the Chang'an Black-faced Army also received military rations from Wang Jingchong's assistance.

Wang Jingchong had not officially torn his face with the imperial court, so these grains and reinforcements were allocated privately......

In today's Chang'an City, Zhao Pu has taken the place of Liu Jingyun and has been promoted to the official of the capital.

A few days ago, Zhao Pu had just tied the deployment in the city to the feather arrow and shot out of the Tonghua Gate. Zhao Pu actually wanted to inform Guo Congyi: Zhao Siwan sent a lot of troops out of the city, wanting to take advantage of the fact that the crusading army of the imperial court was not ready to attack, and quickly looted the mausoleum of the former Tang Dynasty. If Guo Congyi is really a capable person, then he will wave his army over as soon as possible, and take advantage of the relatively empty defense in the city to quickly fight and take Chang'an City in one fell swoop.

Zhao Pu knew that time was very urgent, and the Tang Emperor's Mausoleum was like eighteen beans sprinkled near the mountains around the various tributaries of the Wei River, and Zhao Siwan would never dare to drive his troops to Fuping to dig Dingling and Yuanling, let alone go north to Guangling and Jingling near Pucheng. Moreover, most of the 18 Tang Tombs had already been dug up by Li Yantao (Note 1), the Jiedu envoy of the Liang Dynasty, so it is likely that Zhao Siwan drove his Faqiu soldiers to the west to dig the only surviving Qianling Tomb (Note 2). Because of this, Zhao Pu knew that time was very short. Don't miss the opportunity, lose it again!

However, three days have passed, and there is still no movement on Guo Congyi's side. Although Zhao Sijuan's city defense deployment is largely completed, there are still omissions that have not had time to be solved, what a good opportunity it is at this time? What Zhao Pu didn't expect was that Guo Congyi and Wang Jun in the Yongxing camp actually quarreled over this......

"General Guo, there is a report from the inner line of Chang'an, there are now less than 4,000 defenders in the city, and the remaining more than 2,000 people have gone out of the city with Zhao Siwan, and my subordinates guarantee that as long as we march quickly, we only need less than 20,000 or 30,000 tooth soldiers to achieve great things!" This is Wang Jun's opinion.

Guo Congyi resolutely disagreed: "Wang Dujian, the siege equipment is only half prepared, and now it is safe to rush to attack the city." In my opinion, the city will still be besieged. ”

Wang Jun didn't think so, he had a big quarrel with Guo Congyi, and threatened him with "if he hesitates to enter, he will join him", Guo Congyi finally agreed to him.

However, Guo Congyi only agreed to allocate some soldiers and horses to Wang Jun for him to fight by himself, and he did not come forward, and the siege equipment was not very sufficient. In fact, it is just a sentence: you can do it, don't rely on me if you fail. Guo Congyi decided that his mission here was only to besiege the city and send reinforcements, waiting for Guo Wei to enter the army in the summer and autumn. Wang Jun had no choice but to rush to the front with more than 10,000 vanguard troops.

It was already three minutes on this day, and Zhao Pu finally found that a group of soldiers and horses on the opposite side were slowly driving away with the flying billowing yellow dust.

However, as soon as he saw the military appearance of this army, Zhao Pu couldn't help but scold Guo Congyi in his heart.

It turned out that most of these attacking sergeants were not in armor, obviously Guo Congyi sent some township soldiers and towns to temporarily put together an army, such a rabble and the number was less than 20,000, how could it be possible to break through the fortified city guarded by the 4,000 wolf-like and black-faced army?

"If it's the Tooth Army," Zhao Pu thought to himself, "The Tooth Army is dressed in armor, so that they can have the morale to rush to the city wall, and let these township soldiers and regimental training soldiers climb such a high wall, isn't this tantamount to death?" ”

Although it was evident that Wang Jun's urging had done his best, Zhao Pu felt that the pace of the troops' advance was obviously too slow, and in this way, the information he had sent at the risk of his life, especially the information about which city gates were empty in defense, was also wasted. After all, the dispatch of the black-faced army's defense is very flexible and fast, and they can quickly transfer troops to key positions for supplementary defense.

Wang Jun's army had already settled, and while he hastily arranged for the soldiers to rest for a while, he ordered someone to set up a ladder. Zhao Pu looked at the siege equipment on the opposite side, and there were only twelve or thirteen ladders......

You must know that the number of ladders determines whether the besieging side outputs an iron fist or water. With limited offensive output, no amount of strength you have is of any benefit.

The black-faced soldiers were already in position behind the battlements, and the shouts had already sounded, and the officers and soldiers on the opposite side had already begun to push the ladder and spread out. Zhao Pu felt a few feathered arrows whizzing past him, it was Wang Jun's archers who had already begun to cover for the siege.

"Zhao Duzhi," Chang Yanqing called him, "The situation on the city wall is dangerous, you better leave." ”

"Don't worry about me." Zhao Pu shook his head, Chang Yanqing has now been promoted to the head of the capital, and he is also the deputy commander of the black-faced army, and the command is temporarily under his control when Zhao Siwan is not in the city.

Wang Junjun began to charge, and the feather arrows flying up became more and more dense, but what was the use of this? Only eight of the ladders of the officers and soldiers successfully hooked the city wall, and the ladders were constantly pushed away by the defenders, and these knocked down ladders fell down with the soldiers who climbed them, and whoever climbed faster and braver in this case fell the more bloody the ladder fell.

Wang Jun under the city knew that if this situation continued, then the soldiers who were more and more afraid of heights would become more and more across-oriented, and the ladder would be more easily pushed down by the defenders, which was the so-called vicious circle.

What's more, the black-faced soldiers are constantly throwing stones down, so that their morale will completely collapse. He had no other way but to go to the city to supervise the battle, while letting everyone rush to the time to continue to raise the ladder and hook the city wall, and at the same time swing his sword to kill the timid soldiers, and supervise the siege troops to go up. As long as the soldiers successfully rush up and start the battle with the soldiers on the city wall, then this ladder will be firmly erected and can continuously transport troops.

Dusk was approaching, Zhao Pu saw that Wang Jun had broken a lot of soldiers, but still failed to make substantial progress, the ladder was constantly pushed down, and was helped up, Wang Jun could only ensure five or six siege ladders that effectively transported troops. Although a few groups of people grabbed the city wall, they were quickly swept into the crowd of black-faced soldiers and wiped out.

Zhao Pu knew that Guo Congyi was only to blame for everything, and it was his hesitation that missed the big thing. Seeing that the deaths and injuries of the soldiers in the countryside in the city were becoming more and more unbearable to witness, Zhao Pu had no choice but to walk down the city wall with a long sigh......

Suddenly, I heard a shout in the distance, and the two people and horses screamed and killed from the west, it was the two thousand Faqiu troops led by Zhao Siwan himself. The morale of Wang Jun's army finally collapsed, and thousands of remnants of the defeated army fled for their lives and wanted to withdraw from the battlefield.

Zhao Pu hurriedly ran back to the city wall to continue looking, only to see Zhao Siwan rushing in front of the horse, and after a while, he rushed into the pile of deserters, he brandished a long-handled Mo knife, just like chopping melons and vegetables. Those clusters of township soldiers and township soldiers were first scattered by Zhao Siwan, and then cried and were cut into pieces of meat by the black-faced sabers and swords that surged up from behind.

The west gate opened at this time, and the Faqiu troops rushed into the city with cheers, and the first person carried a skull on his spear, and he was still holding something in his right hand, but the distance was too far for Zhao Pu to see clearly:

"Haha, Li Shimin's head, and his words that he has entered Wu Zetian!"

Zhao Pu's eyes darkened, and his chest seemed to have been hit hard......

It turned out that Zhao Siwan still failed to dig up the entrance of the Qianling Underground Palace, so he ransacked the Zhaoling Tomb that had been destroyed by Li Yantao again, and even the body of Emperor Taizong Wen of the Tang Dynasty was dug up and humiliated by them.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin - the founder of the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, his era left the "Zhenguan Political Dignitaries", his people fifty taxes and one, and there were only a few hundred central officials under him who ate the king's fortune......

However, at this moment, his body is being trampled on like this.

Zhao Pu suddenly knelt down and faced the direction of Zhaoling. He wept bitterly......

Chang Yanqing commanded the city defense for a whole afternoon, and was tired of sweating, at this time, seeing Zhao Pu's tearful kowtow to the west, he couldn't help but wonder: "Zhao Duzhi, what are you crying about?" To whom to kowtow? Is Daddy dead? ”

"I'm helping you," Zhao Pu replied to him in a cold tone, "I'm accumulating yin virtue for you, please God let you hold on for a few more days, so as not to take your life too early." ”

After that, Zhao Pu sighed, stood up, and slowly walked down the city wall......

Note 1: Li Yantao is Wen Tao, this guy has no explosives, but he is even more powerful than Sun Dianying when he digs up the grave.

Note 2: Qianling is the joint tomb of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Zetian Great Sage Empress, this tomb has not been able to be stolen and excavated, and fortunately it has been left to this day.