In the evening, on the east wall of Chang'an, seeing that the soldiers and horses who had been besieging the city before finally retreated, the people who had not been able to rest for a moment during the whole day couldn't help but cheer. Soon, someone couldn't hold it and sat down. Although this was only the fourth day of defending the city, the strong pressure lingered in everyone's hearts, especially today when the rebels even shouted under the city that if they still resisted, they would slaughter the city after breaking it, which immediately caused a great panic. If it weren't for Pei Kuan personally supervising the battle on the city wall, and preaching that Shuofang's reinforcements would arrive soon, I was afraid that the morale would not be able to support it at all!

Of course, the most important thing is that it is the 800 soldiers led by Chibi who support the beam here! Without these people, the guards in the city who had not yet had time to leave with the Son of Heaven, plus the strong men temporarily recruited by the residents of the city, would have been disheartened, and they would not have been able to withstand the tide of the rebels' endless attacks for the past three days.

Although Pei Kuan was a little worried that the rebels were just retreating, and then regrouped the offensive despite the fact that it was too late, he knew that the soldiers had no strength left when he saw the exhausted soldiers sitting on their swords, or gasping for breath with their backs against the city wall, or the lightly wounded helping each other to bandage their wounds. Outside of his sight, dozens of doctors were busy treating the seriously injured, hoping to save more lives. However, in just three days, the number of dead was already in the hundreds, and the number of injured was several times greater. And because the Son of Heaven abandoned the city and fled, there were not a few soldiers and civilians who complained!

"Doctor Pei!"

Hearing this shout, Pei Kuan looked sideways and saw that it was Yuwen Xun who hurriedly came up with a team of volunteers, and rotated a group of exhausted people to go down. In the past two days, he didn't care about the security in the city, so Yuwen Xun took on the duty of inspection, and those powerful children who did not dare to go to the city to fight at the risk of their lives, under the persuasion of Yu Wenxian, thought that if a mob took advantage of the fire to rob, it might affect their own family, so they also obeyed his words, organized the family, and patrolled between the various squares, even Yang Zhen and Yang Jian brothers who did not leave.

Although the two brothers were timid and afraid of things and did not dare to go to the city wall to fight, they also knew that the people's hearts were not conducive to them at the moment, so they even went to take out all the food and property of Mrs. Qin Guo and their own families, and distributed them to the citizens of Chang'an who were willing to accept recruitment and participate in the battle to defend Chang'an, which successfully alleviated the people's bad feelings towards their two legitimate Yang disciples. As for why they didn't leave, the reason is very simple, the brothers can't trust Yang Guozhong!

At this time, Pei Kuan said gratefully: "Thanks to Wen Shen, you mediate inside and outside, otherwise, if there is a bloody battle on the city wall, but there is any mutiny in the city, it will be in vain." ”

Yuwen Xun couldn't help but ask, "This is what I should do." But Dr. Pei, you haven't rested for a few days and nights, so I'll take over from you tonight! ”

"Others can go down to the city, but since I am staying in Xijing, if I am not on the city wall, the generals will be cowardly and even flee, who can hold it down? Du Youlin, Cui Peng, Jiang Du, Dou Yi, although they are all noble, they are usually not important ministers in the DPRK after all, and they can't hold it down at critical moments! When Pei Kuan said this, he looked at the banner of the rebel army again, and said worriedly, "Now the news from Luoyang is almost completely cut off, and An Lushan has never traveled with the army, I see that among the rebels attacking Chang'an, it is only Cui, Tian, and Sun, and the three banners will not exceed 40,000 generals, if the Heluo side draws out the army to come over......"

"Doctor Pei!"

Before Pei Kuan's words were finished, he was interrupted by Yuwen Xun. He immediately realized that this was not in his Jingzhao Mansion, but on the unobstructed city wall on all sides! If his words of lack of confidence were heard by the exhausted soldiers, the consequences would be unpredictable. He immediately glanced left and right, and sure enough, he saw the shocked expressions of the soldiers who heard his words. He suddenly chuckled in his heart, and secretly regretted that he had been exhausted for days, and he had forgotten what to say on what occasion. But at this moment, he suddenly heard a startling sound from the side of the city.

"What's going on? But the rebels are attacking the city again? ”

"Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming!"

Pei Kuan only felt a rush of ecstasy to his mind, and he couldn't care whether the pessimistic prediction just now would affect the morale of the army, so he rushed towards the place where he was shouting, and his steps were vigorous, as if he had rejuvenated. When he finally saw the green meteor slowly falling in the sky under the guidance of his generals, but there was no sign of reinforcements, he couldn't help but be a little puzzled. At this moment, he saw the joyful Du Youlin shouting loudly.

"Grandpa is in the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei, with such a messenger as the number, red for the enemy, green for reinforcements, yellow for the suspension of advance, the rest of me is an outsider after all, I don't know so much. But what I can guarantee is that except for the Protectorate of Anbei, no army in Datang will use such a transmitter! ”

Du Youlin didn't see Pei Kuan, and was explaining loudly to the soldiers gathered in all directions, his expression full of excitement. At this moment, he could no longer care about the clumsiness of the past, kept a low profile, and trumpeted the great military exploits of the generals of the Shuofang Jiedu Embassy and the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and finally raised his arms and shouted: "Everyone cheer up, as long as you stick to this night!" ”

The reinforcements that people talked about before were just painting cakes to satisfy their hunger, but now, a real signal appeared in the sky, and the morale of the city was suddenly boosted. Moreover, Du Youlin had not been down the city wall for three days and nights, and when dozens of rebels attacked the city before, he still had a few knife wounds on his body, and his face was even more bloodstained at the moment. Fighting side by side, people are willing to take his word for it. Watching the sound of cheers one after another, Pei Kuan knew that it was not the time to interrogate Du Youlin whether this matter was true or false, but he couldn't help but have great hope in his heart.

But when Du Youlin quietly left the crowd and went to the temporary command post on the upper floor of Chunming Gate City to rest for a while, Yu Wenxian, who came up, reminded: "Doctor Pei, that green meteor, since the generals on the city have seen it, the rebels will definitely not ignore it, not to mention that the generals just now cheered for reinforcements, and they will definitely take measures." Tonight, maybe the rebels will take advantage of the night to attack the city, be careful with it! ”

As reminded by Tongyu Wenxian, Cui Qianyou, who originally planned to postpone the offensive and immediately attack the city at dawn tomorrow, noticed this scene and immediately became alert. He was ordered by An Lushan to break the rabble of Ge Shuhan and open the passage to Tongguan, so after receiving the military order to attack Chang'an, he captured Tongguan without hesitation, and then traveled all the way west to Chang'an City. Knowing that the Son of Heaven had fled westward, he originally planned to try to surrender, but the envoy sent out was killed by random arrows before he could enter the city, which immediately angered him deeply, and immediately ordered the siege of the city.

However, Chang'an City was able to hold out for three whole days under his kind of offensive!

"General, I've already confirmed, after the green meteor rose and fell, the city just shouted that reinforcements had arrived!"

As soon as Tian Qianzhen stepped into Cui Qianyou's temporary tent, he said such a sentence. Hearing this, Sun Xiaozhe immediately laughed: "It's a joke, where are the reinforcements?" The marshal had already asked people to spread false news, saying that the city of Anbei was in an emergency, and the Shuofang Jiedu Embassy also spread rumors, saying that it was Yang Guozhong's fault for repeatedly preventing the dispatch of troops. Since Guo Ziyi and the others are Du Shiyi's old department, they may have been worried about the old lord going north for a long time at this moment! Only allowed Li Longji to cross the river and demolish the bridge, and no one else was allowed to die and not save him? ”

Sun Xiaozhe is a Khitan man, he took refuge in An Lushan in his early years, his martial arts are superb, but his military strategy is mediocre, but because of his mother's beauty, he often fornicates with An Lushan, so he is extremely important. For such an An Lushan faction who said that he was an assistant, or a role of surveillance, Cui Qianyou only felt that it was like a rat, which made him tired. So, he simply ignored it, looked at Tian Qianzhen and said, "General Tian thinks this matter is true or false?" Is it a rumor spread in Chang'an City to appease people's hearts, or is it really true? ”

"It's better to believe what you have than what you don't!"

Tian Qianzhen saw that Sun Xiaozhe was about to interject, and immediately continued: "No matter what, if we drag on under Chang'an City for a day, the danger of Shuofang and Helong soldiers and horses coming to rescue will be greater. We set out from Youzhou all the way to fight here, it has been almost two months, and the soldiers are now fighting hard because we preach that there are countless gold and silver treasures in Chang'an City, and when the time comes, they will be robbed, so they will fight hard, but if they can't take this place in one go, they will decline again, and they will be exhausted! General, I ask you to immediately take Chang'an City tonight! Since Li Longji has fled west in a hurry under the command of the North Gate Forbidden Army, Chang'an City is just a bunch of rabble! Since the general can even defeat the army of Geshuhan, let alone these people? ”

Cui Qianyou was immediately overjoyed. Sun Xiaozhe was deeply favored by An Lushan, but Tian Qianzhen, a powerful general, really won the trust of An Lushan, and even often called Ah Hao affectionately in the past. At present, Tian Qian's construction really coincides with himself, even if he ignores Sun Xiaozhe's arrogant judgment, he doesn't have to worry about being reprimanded by An Lushan. So, he immediately said: "Okay, immediately regroup the offensive and take the city overnight!" ”

Seeing that Cui Qianyou actually adopted Tian Qianzhen's construction, Sun Xiaozhe suddenly felt angry, and secretly thought that he would sue An Lushan after he turned around. Thinking about it this way, he didn't dare to disobey the military order at this moment, stood up and arched his hand, and strode away in response. As soon as he left, Cui Qianyou sighed and said: "Sun Xiaozhe is just expensive because of his mother, and he doesn't have the slightest bit of Khitan pride, I really don't know why Dashuai took a fancy to him!" ”

Tian Qianzhen was not good at talking, so he could only divert the topic, and when he was about to go out of the big tent to deploy the re-siege of the city, he suddenly stopped and turned around and said: "General, we have been attacking Chunming Gate for several days, that is, Chang'an East City, if we wait for a feint to attack Chunming Gate tonight, and then send dead soldiers to attack the city from the west, how about this?" ”

"Okay, that's it!"

Cui Qianyou nodded kindly, and then suddenly smiled: "The feint attack will be handed over to Sun Xiaozhe, and I will hand over all the sneak attacks in the west to you!" ”

This undoubtedly means that Sun Xiaozhe will do the hardships and hardships, and it is very likely that the first credit for winning Chang'an City is given to himself, Tian Qianzhen was overjoyed and hurriedly took over the military order. When he came out of the big tent, he heard Cui Qianyou say a sentence behind him.

"If you can take Chang'an, I will definitely protect you as Jing Zhaoyin to the marshal! This Chang'an City needs to be guarded by someone who knows the general situation! ”