At this moment, the battle situation is already very unfavorable for Yuwen Hu, his sphere of influence has been compressed around Chang'an City by Gao Huan and the warlords of Guanzhong, and it is difficult to improve again. Yuan Xin of Jingzhou, www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion, and Dugu Xin were inseparable, and they couldn't tell the winner for a while. Yuwen Hu already felt the aura of despair spreading in the army, and in the face of the overwhelming Eastern Wei army, the entire Guanzhong seemed to be instantly filled with Gao Huan's troops, and the time of the Western Wei and Yuwen clan had entered the countdown. Yuwen Hu decided to abandon the position of Baling, and asked Yang Zhong and Si Chun and others to transfer all the troops to Chang'an for a retrenched defense.

Yang Zhong left Li Jinghe's army of 5,000 people in Huaili just in case, Yang Jian had gathered another 20,000 people in Qizhou, and planned to enter Chang'an at any time to support his father, but Yang Zhong asked him to leave the troops in Qizhou, because there was no need to fight Gao Huan at this moment, and the general trend of the world had already divided the victory and defeat. Yang Zhong thought that his 60,000 people had done their best to help him Yuwen Clan in the final decisive battle in Yongzhou, and there was no need to go bankrupt and be desperate. But just when the two sides gathered all their men and horses to have a final decisive battle in Chang'an, Yuwen Hu received two pieces of news.

The first news was that Murong Fu, the chief of the southwestern barbarian Tuyuhun, sent his first general, Mo Zhe Niansheng, to lead an army of 150,000 troops from Qinzhou to invade Qizhou, and they were under the slogan of supporting Yuwen Hu to crusade against Gao Huan. The second news is that Bashu and Liangzhou assassin Li Bi died. Li Bi's death was an accident, and the author will describe this matter in detail later, and here we will only talk about the 150,000 nomadic cavalry of Tuyuhun.

It turned out that before the war between the east and the west, Yuwen Hu sent Xie Sichun to secretly go to the capital of Tuyuhun, Michang City. He secretly signed a contract with the Tuyuhun chieftain Fu Lianchou to attack and defend the alliance, and Yuwen Hu promised to use the land of the Hexi Corridor as a condition to send troops to help him defeat Gao Huan at a critical moment. These 150,000 troops are all powerful nomadic cavalry, and their combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the Turks, and half of Gao Huan's men and horses are cavalry, but their combat experience is certainly not as strong as these nations that grew up on horseback.

The entire Western Wei Dynasty was encouraged by the arrival of this powerful Tuyuhun army, Yuwen Hu and Yang Zhong and others once again ignited the hope of victory in their hearts, it seems that as long as they hold Chang'an, as long as they wait for a few days for the Tuyuhun army to come, Gao Huan's 200,000 people will be defeated and annihilated. The people in Chang'an City also seemed to rejoice.

This news was obviously an unfavorable sign for Gao Huan, but he didn't care about it, and gave his subordinates an order to attack the city in two days. In his opinion, Tuyuhun is just here to stir up the situation, Fu Lian will definitely not really work hard for the Yuwen clan and him, Gao Huan has the thinking mode of modern people in the new century, and has the most rational analysis of the things in front of him.

In fact, Tuyuhun really didn't really come to Gao Huan and they were desperate, Fu Lian Chip hoped to achieve two goals, the first was to show Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty that he was strong and had no force, so that they could try to take the lead in the future contact with the new dynasty of the Central Plains, and second, in order to fulfill his promise to Yuwen Hu and get the transfer document of the Hexi Corridor. But he also underestimated Gao Huan's personal ability a little, and always felt that there was no grass wherever his army went, and Gao Huan and other Eastern Wei troops would never dare to confront them head-on.

Fu Lian was wrong, even his chief general Mo Xian Niansheng was wrong, they miscalculated the situation in front of them, and also miscalculated Gao Huan's style of acting, the Eastern Wei army not only did not evacuate, but surrounded Chang'an City in all directions, at this moment Gao Huan's 200,000 people, Li Hu's 50,000 people, Gao Bin's 30,000 people, a total of nearly 300,000 people have surrounded the Chang'an Sanfu area.

Yuwen Hu has set up layers of guards in the city, and he has hoarded as much as two million stones of grain, so it is absolutely no problem to hold on for two or three years. But Gao Huan's army outside the city didn't want to spend three years with him in the middle of the pass, especially Gao Huan, he wanted to end China's chaotic state of division as soon as possible, reunify it and build an era comparable to the Tang Dynasty, although he didn't know if it was possible for the Tang Dynasty to be re-established after he crossed over.

Attacking a city, especially a huge city like this, is not an easy task from Ali, you can't just attack the city walls to subdue such a city, the first thing is certain is that you will never be able to take a giant city with a population of nearly one million in the age of cold weapons. There is no doubt about it at this time. Secondly, the first characteristic of such a city is that it is large, so big that you don't have time to fight street by street to clear the enemy, so Gao Huan has his own ideas about the attack on Chang'an.

The human heart has always been the most basic and fundamental thing for a dynasty to establish or perish. The popularity of the Yuwen clan in Guanzhong still has a certain support rate, and Gao Huan wants to take Chang'an in one go at this moment, and the only way to start by recovering the hearts of the people and discrediting the Yuwen clan. So he began to use the power of imperial power and divine power to help him occupy an advantageous position. The first was the issue of Wei Zhengshuo, who had folk scholars begin to preach in the Guanzhong region that the Eastern Wei was the only legitimate successor of the Northern Wei and that the Western Wei was a reactionary regime established by traitors.

Secondly, he used the Dongda Temple in Yecheng, famous Buddhist scholars, and the eminent monks in Luoyang and other places to spread the center and core of Han culture to the world, not in Guanzhong. At that time, the main rulers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty were the Xianbei people, an ethnic minority, and many Han people were attached to or Hu, removing their Han names and changing their surnames to Hu. Gao Huan's idea of respecting Han culture was supported by the people in the Heluo area of Jiangnan, especially in the Nanliang area, where Han culture was prevalent, and Gao Huan's status was very high.

He asked the Han officials to change back to their original Han surnames, and they were all dressed in Han style. In this way, the Huhua of the Xianbei tribe was rebelled by the world from the heart, so not only did the status of the ingots in Chang'an City plummet, but even the Yuan Shanjian of Yecheng was also implicated. He sent eunuchs many times to ask Gao Huan what his intentions were, and Gao Huan always persuaded him with good words.

Most of the main forces in the army were Hu people, including Qiang, Di, Rouran, Xianbei and Turkic. In order to appease and stabilize these people, Gao Huan ordered the Hu people to be officials only in the army, and they could see that Han officials did not have to give gifts, but Han officials should salute within the third level when they met Hu generals, and they should give big gifts outside the third level.

In this way, the Hu generals were able to endure their grievances and reunite within the regime of the Gao Huan clique. At this time, the news of Li Bi's death came from Hanzhong. It turned out that Li Bi had retreated to Chengdu since he was defeated by Gao Yue, and since then he has been sick and has been bedridden. His son Li Yao served him in Chengdu, but Chen Baxian's troops repeatedly clashed with the Chengdu defenders. (To be continued.) )