At night, there are only a few torches lit on the west wall of Chang'an, which is much worse than the whole night of the east city wall, and only occasionally there are dark shadows walking on the city wall.

Due to the lack of water in the Wei River in Guanzhong and the fact that Chang'an City is too large, there is no moat, but only a high city wall as a defense. In fact, since the Tang Dynasty used this Sui Dynasty Daxing City as the capital, it has never been attacked by foreign enemies, and now the scene of soldiers coming to the city is the first time!

Therefore, Tian Qianzhen, who personally led the team under the city, couldn't help but smile proudly in the face of the high city wall. If there is also a moat several feet wide, and there are sufficient defenders in it, then it will definitely be very difficult to attack, not to mention ten days and half a month, or even a few months. But Li Longji self-destroyed the Great Wall, quietly took away all the most elite North Gate Forbidden Army and fled westward in a hurry, and the defenders in the city were not enough, and they used all the volunteers recruited in a hurry, which left him with an opportunity to take advantage of. Cui Qianyou's plan to attack the east and west came from this.

On the edge of the city wall not far away, ladders were quietly erected, and carefully selected sturdy sergeants stepped on the ladders to climb up. Each ladder had been tested, and the soles of each sergeant's feet were wrapped in a thick cotton cloth to ensure that they did not make too much noise. In fact, at this moment, a huge offensive was being launched on the Chunming Gate side of Chang'an East City, which was enough to make up for the small movement from their side. Just as Tian Qianzhen looked at the elite soldiers under his command who had already climbed halfway to the middle with satisfaction, a loud shout suddenly came from the city wall.

"The rebels are attacking the city!"

When such a voice sounded everywhere in the dark night, Du Youlin, who had already sounded the alarm bell for the generals everywhere early, took a deep breath. He was able to confirm that reinforcements had arrived, and it was by no means a bluff, but he was really not sure how many there were. At this moment, he was standing on the tower of the Golden Light Gate on the west city wall. Pei Kuan relayed Yuwenxian's reminder to him, and he immediately volunteered to personally inspect the north, south, and west sides, and finally found that the western city wall was the most slackly defended because of well-known psychological factors. So, he simply gave the Son of Heaven a generous gesture and directly offered a high reward of 100 yuan per person for keeping tonight.

Anyway, there is money in the left treasury!

Stimulated by money, even if there was no enemy at the moment, the soldiers who defended here were all in their spirits as if they had been beaten with blood. Just after nightfall before, a group of more than 1,000 new troops quietly made up, and when they learned that this was Jin Wuwei patrolling the city, they were all in good spirits from top to bottom. As the shouts of slaughter from the eastern side of the city grew louder and louder in the silent night, and the sound of huge stones thrown by catapults on the city walls could be heard from time to time, the atmosphere here was initially rather somber.

After all, despite the haste of the rebels, there were only a few such siege equipment, but this was the one that had caused the most casualties on the eastern wall before, and everyone was afraid that such a scene would also happen to the west.

Therefore, the scouts, who were carefully selected to be the best at night vision, discovered these movements in the night in the west early and alerted them in time. The sound of the rebels attacking the city was like a code, and for a while, countless boiling oil and quicklime and other materials that had been prepared for a long time poured down the battlement, which caught the rebels who were busy landing the city by surprise. Even Tian Qianzhen couldn't help but gasp when he saw this sudden scene, and then scolded angrily: "I thought that the news of the arrival of reinforcements would make the whole city relax their vigilance, but I didn't expect that someone else would see through this plan to attack the west!" ”

"General, what now?"

"What to do? I don't believe that there are many defenders in the city who can withstand the all-out attacks of Sun Xiaozhe and me from the east and west. Don't hide it, order the crossbowmen, shoot the walls for me, and the rest of the people will storm for me! Even if there were still forbidden troops in the city, how many years had they not fought and could cope with a night attack? ”

Tian Qianzhen turned the sneak attack into a night attack with real knives and guns, but it really brought strong pressure to the officers and soldiers and volunteers on the western city wall. As he judged, the rebels from Youyan had rich experience in actual combat, and night attacks were commonplace, but even if many of the forbidden troops in Chang'an City were selected because of their outstanding martial arts, the young men recruited were more or less powerful, or they were rough in martial arts. But they are not familiar with this night battle, but they face countless difficulties. Seeing his companions fall beside him, seeing sharp arrows piercing through the human body, and even seeing the rebels leap onto the city wall, finally the timid let out a desperate wail.

The Son of Heaven has already run away, why do we still fight so hard?

Just as the wailing sergeant knelt down on his knees in the face of the bright steel sword, someone suddenly pounced on him and slashed the rebel in the head with a sword. Taking advantage of this, three or four people rushed over all around, waving the swords in their hands and fighting back, but they actually dismembered the rebels who had easily climbed the city wall. But such a scene did not turn the tide of the battle, on the contrary, more and more people climbed the city wall, and in the blink of an eye, it jumped from a few to a dozen!

Seeing that the Jinwuwei generals on the city wall had already shown signs of retreat with weak legs and feet, Du Youlin was very anxious. But even if he sent the soldiers who were left as reserves, he still stepped forward to kill the enemy, but it was still difficult to recover the decline in morale. At this moment, he saw a sudden and continuous thudding sound in the night, and then looked at the night sky in front of him, green meteors continued to rise, followed by the sound of thousands of horses galloping. He had been in Shuofang for a while, but fortunately, the guards around him moved extremely fast and slashed the rebel alive, so that he was not injured.

"Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are really coming!"

Compared to the previous rebels coming, such a voice is tantamount to the Nine Heavens Immortal Music, injecting a force into everyone. With the help of the light in the sky, some people saw the horse army with a large number of people, and some people saw the siege rebels under the city in chaos for a while, and many clever defenders took the opportunity to counterattack and knocked down a siege ladder. There was no need for anyone to command, every defender fought back, and the dozen or twenty rebels who landed in the city, except for those who were killed on the spot, were forced to jump off the high city wall and fall to pieces.

Tian Qianzhen, as a Youyan general, of course would not fail to watch out for reinforcements, but the surprise attack of the two thousand elite horse army still made the soldiers and horses he sent to intercept suffer a big loss under a single look. He laid three tripwires on the official road to the west, but they seemed to disappear into thin air, and did not play any role at all. And the Modao Army, the sharp weapon against the Ma Army, was not brought out because it was a night attack this time.

As a last resort, he didn't care about the defenders in the city, and actually personally led the cavalry under his command to intercept it, but it was just a simple collision with each other, and the feeling of a spear hitting a spear and sparks splashing everywhere made him can't help but scream badly.

This is by no means those soldiers and horses that are not used in the Central Plains, this must be a strong army from Shuofang!

"General, they're back again!"

In siege warfare, cavalry is often used as a surprise attack by the defenders, but now Chang'an City can't pull out a formed horse army at all, so Tian Qianzhen didn't have to worry about this situation before. But now that he had fought such an encounter at night, after a round of confrontation, he was no longer willing to waste his descendants like this. After all, either he can ride a horse or a cavalry, he has accumulated these people little by little over the years, An Lushan's army is full of mountains, if he has no strength, even if he has the trust of An Lushan, he has to stand aside!

More importantly, he keenly felt that this cavalry that suddenly appeared in the dark night really had a deadly style, in other words, it was a dead soldier!

The two teams of cavalry fought hard, and after Azler regrouped, he was not only retreating, but also a little excited. The people in the forward camp were all hand-selected by him, either orphans or slaves, and under his repeated brainwashing and harsh training, all of them were not afraid of death, or they simply regarded death as an honor. In addition, he knew very well that the Shuofang army in the rear would not be able to arrive until at least after dawn, and the Fugu Huai'en department did not know where it was, and seeing that the rebels were showing signs of retreat, he shouted in a deep voice: "The whole army obeys the order, follow me to rush and kill!" ”

In the darkness of the night, Tian Qianzhen didn't have time to count the damage, but he only roughly estimated that there were at least hundreds of casualties. Thinking that this sudden horse army was for help, and it seemed that there would be no more than 3,000 men, and that they would definitely accept it when they were ready, he decided to temporarily withdraw to the camp after opening up the distance, and he did not expect that the other party would rush up again without reluctance. Annoyed, he suddenly moved to kill, and immediately put aside those gains and losses, and went all out to meet it.

One is outnumbered, the other is not afraid of death, the violent collision of these two forces of soldiers and horses suddenly made the defenders who watched the battle at the head of the city for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe sway, although they could only see a rough picture. Colonel Jin Wuwei fought side by side with Du Youlin, and asked in a low voice: "Du Xiaolangjun, is that army of soldiers and horses reinforcements from Shuofang or reinforcements from Anbei?" ”

"I can't see the flag clearly in the night, but I remember that Shuofang Guo Dashuai can attack and defend, but as a festival envoy, he shouldn't be a pioneer. Under Grandpa's command, General Fugu is the most capable of attacking fortifications, often winning more with less, and is known as an iron wall in the army. General Li Guangbi is good at surprise attacks behind enemy lines and is known as a strange general. In addition, there is also the Anbei Forward Battalion is a sharp soldier under the command of Grandpa, often responsible for attacking tough battles, and the most fearless of death, it is said that it has the name of iron drill. Speaking of this, Du Youlin tried his best to look into the battle array, hoping to distinguish the leading general, but it was in vain.

I don't know how long this scuffle lasted, and Du Youlin suddenly heard a strange sound again in the night, which seemed to be a long horn. Just as he looked suspiciously at the place where the voice came from, he saw several green meteors rising from the other side again!

Reinforcements have arrived! And the same people from the Metropolitan Protectorate of Antea!