When the 23,000 Guanlong coalition troops arrived in Chang'an, their slogan of 'Qing Jun's side, punishing the traitorous king, and upholding the dynasty' was recognized by many people, and the people enthusiastically participated in the coalition army, and the ranks quickly expanded to more than 40,000 people. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Dugu Huaide stationed the logistics camp in the ancient city of Chang'an of the Han Dynasty about 30 miles away from Chang'an, the ancient city of Chang'an of the Han Dynasty has been abandoned for nearly 30 years, the houses in the city have been very dilapidated, but the outline of the city wall is still relatively intact, the original old city only left more than 1,000 old and homeless people to live, but since the implementation of the high-pressure terrorist policy by Li Yuanji, the king of Chu, in the city of Chang'an, more and more people have fled from Chang'an City, and the population of the ancient city of Chang'an of the Han Dynasty has also increased significantly, the population has exceeded 20,000, the weeds have been removed, the desolate streets have been reorganized, and they can barely live in it. The Guanlong coalition army put the logistics here.

Another reason is that the transportation of the ancient city of Chang'an is convenient, a wide official road connects all parts of Guanzhong and Chang'an City, and is close to the Wei River, which is conducive to the transportation of grain and materials.

Dugu Huaide left 10,000 troops to guard the ancient city of Chang'an, he led 30,000 troops to continue to attack Chang'an, set up a large camp outside the west city of Chang'an, every day the war drums rumbled, the army showed off outside the city, but the coalition army did not attack the city in a big way, even if Dugu Huaide had this idea, the leaders of other families would not agree, their family owners were still in the hands of the Tang army, and rashly attacking the city would threaten the life of the family owner.

The gate of Chang'an was closed, and 10,000 troops stationed in Chang'an were strictly defended at the head of the city, although Li Yuan reactivated Li Xiaogong to defend the city, but Li Xiaogong could only command 10,000 troops stationed in Bashang, while the 20,000 imperial forest troops in the city were controlled by Li Xuanba, the king of Zhao, and 5,000 Xuanwu Jingwei were controlled by Li Yuanji, the king of Chu.

Although Li Yuan gave Li Xiaogong full responsibility for the defense of Chang'an City, in fact, Li Xiaogong only controlled 10,000 troops, and the internal guard army, including the Imperial Forest Army and the Xuanwu Jingwei, was not under his control.

Li Yuan also didn't think of sending the Imperial Forest Army to defend the city, this was the team to protect him, no matter what, Li Xiaogong was not allowed to call it, and finally let Li Xiaogong make a dojo in the snail shell, and only led a mere 10,000 troops to defend Chang'an City, which had a circumference of seventy or eighty miles.

Li Xiaogong also understood this, so he took the first step to snatch the heads of the various families of the Guanlong nobles into his army and used them as hostages, so as to offset the threat of the army under the city to a certain extent.

At the head of the western city, Li Xiaogong coldly looked at the performance of tens of thousands of troops under the city, sometimes drumming loudly, sometimes arranging in formation, and sometimes tens of thousands of soldiers rushed forward, shooting arrows like a storm to the head of the city, provoking the Tang army to the extreme.

But the Tang army has always stood still, and does not fight back, Li Xiaogong already knows how to clean up this army, at this time, a soldier rushed over, whispered a few words in Li Xiaogong's ear, Li Xiaogong nodded, turned around and went down to the city, he came to a big tent in the barracks, this is the big tent of Hou Mo Chen Duo under house arrest, but since yesterday afternoon, Hou Mo Chen Duo was named the secretary of the military department by the Son of Heaven, his house arrest is just a form, and the nature has completely changed.

There are three family heads sitting in the big tent, one is Hou Mo Chen Duo, one is Zhao Kuan, and the other is Sima Shen, these three families have an extraordinary relationship, belonging to a small group of Guanlong nobles, it is obvious that Hou Mo Chen Duo has persuaded the other two family heads to prepare to make concessions to Li Yuan in the matter of private army.

Li Xiaogong saluted the three of them, "What do the three family heads command?" ”

Hou Mo Chen Duo took out three brocade bags and handed them to Li Xiaogong, and said with a smile: "This is a letter we wrote to our respective armies, and there are also various self-confidences, please Your Highness find a way to hand them over to the leading generals of each family, we estimate that we can affect six thousand troops." ”

Li Xiaogong was overjoyed, and immediately said: "This problem is not big, I can send soldiers to infiltrate the enemy camp, and I also know who I need to find." ”

"May I ask Your Highness, what is the situation outside the city now?" Zhao Kuan couldn't help but ask.

"Basically, there is no change, every day is to show off their might, or to release arrows to the city, but today there are no arrows, and it is estimated that they also find that it is too expensive to use arrows."

"Aren't they showing signs of a siege?" Sima Shen asked worriedly.

Li Xiaogong said with a smile: "From the current point of view, they will not attack the city for the time being, at least we have not found their siege weapons, maybe they have not been shipped over, but at least they will not attack the city for three days." ”

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief, they were worried that the army under the city would attack the city desperately, in that case, they, the heads of the family and the Guanlong nobles in the city, would suffer.

Hou Mo Chen Duo got up and hugged his fists and said, "Then please ask Your Highness to send the letter out as soon as possible!" ”

Li Xiaogong nodded, "I'll arrange it tonight!" ”

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Li Shimin led an army of 60,000 to the east of Chang'an, and Li Shimin left 20,000 troops to guard Pujin Pass, and he led the main force to kill Chang'an in the starry night.

The 60,000 elite army led by Li Shimin was not a big problem in defeating the rebel army in one fell swoop, and Li Shimin knew very well that although the other side was well equipped, it was difficult for the army formed by the entanglement of more than a dozen family private armies to form a strong group combat effectiveness in a real war, and it was easy to be broken by each one.

Now Li Shimin is not thinking of annihilating this army, but to collect this army for its own use, the Tang Dynasty is already in an extremely dangerous situation, if the crisis of the Guanlong rebellion can be turned into an opportunity, then the Tang Dynasty may still have a glimmer of hope for a reversal.

Li Shimin did not know the situation of the Taiyuan battle, he only knew that the two armies of Taiyuan City were still facing each other, Zhang Xuan had closed the door for the Taiyuan City army to retreat westward, if they could incorporate this well-equipped army, then he would be able to open a channel for the Taiyuan army to withdraw to Guanzhong, which was of great significance for preserving the strength of the Tang Dynasty.

In the big tent, Li Shimin looked at the map in front of him, pondered for a long time and said to the eldest grandson Wuji: "Wuji should be very familiar with Dugu Huaide!" Does he really have the ability to command the overall situation? ”

The eldest grandson Wuji smiled and nodded, "Your Highness, this question is a good question, the biggest feature of the Guanlong aristocracy is that one generation is not as good as the next, the older generation is very powerful, like my father, as well as the three brothers of the Yuan family, as well as Dou Qing, Yu Zhongwen, Dugu Luo, He Ruobi, etc., are all generals who can stand alone, and the current generation of the imperial family Li is not counted, barely a person who can be regarded as a famous general, can only say that Li Mi is good, but unfortunately he has died early, as the so-called Shu has no general, Liao Hua is the vanguard, there is really no available person, only to pull Dugu Huaide out as the main general, Of course, this is also directly related to the dominance of the Dugu family, but Dugu Huaide is okay as a pioneer general, but let him be the coach, which is really a bit overestimating him. ”

Li Shimin nodded, pointed to the ancient city of Chang'an, and said: "He actually placed the logistics in the ancient city of Chang'an, didn't he expose the back of his neck to us?" ”

"Your Highness is planning to stab them from behind?"

Li Shimin sneered: "Surrendering without a fight is the best policy!" ”

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In the darkness of the night, a cavalry of 5,000 men was galloping silently along the Wei River to the west, all the horses were wrapped in thick linen, and they galloped through a forest, and the hooves of the horses struck the ground, and instead of the roar of the thunder that had been rumbling before, there was a deeper, muffled sound, like a gust of wind sweeping across the south bank of the Wei River.

Li Shimin personally led this Xuanjia light cavalry, the goal went straight to the ancient city of Chang'an dozens of miles away, the ancient city of Chang'an is about fifty miles away from Bashang, the cavalry rushed quickly, less than an hour to arrive, two watches, five thousand Tang cavalry approached the ancient city of Chang'an, only five miles away from the ancient city of Chang'an, at this time, Li Shimin ordered the army to stop moving forward and rest in place in a forest.

After a short time, the scouts who arrived at the ancient city of Chang'an first came back to report the situation, "Your Highness Qiqi, the ancient city is very busy at night, the city is full of torches, shining like day, thousands of soldiers are carrying food and weapons on the Weihe River, ox carts, mule carts all the way shuttle. ”

Li Shimin frowned slightly, "Isn't there a Cao River leading to the old city on the Wei River?" Why do you need to use big trucks for transportation? ”

"Your Highness, the Cao River has been blocked by silt for more than ten years, and it has become a flood and cannot be navigated."

"How's it going in the city?"

"The city was very busy, and they couldn't find too many people, so they had to do it themselves, repairing leaky warehouses, carrying food and supplies, and staying up all night as they saw it."

"What about the sentry at the head of the city?"

"Only the north gate has hundreds of sentinels on it, because the gate is open and the carts are flowing through, but there are no sentinels in the other cities."

Qin Qiong next to him said in a low voice: "Your Highness, shoot people first and shoot horses, capture thieves and capture kings first, and sneak in from the south gate to capture their main generals in one fell swoop, so the city army naturally surrenders without a fight." ”

Li Shimin shook his head and said, "The problem is that we can't be sure where the Lord is?" We don't even know who the main general is, not to mention the risk of touching it in this way, and it may not be able to achieve the goal, in my opinion, it is better to start from the dock, first encircle and suppress the army on the pier, and then kill into the city, and obtain the greatest victory at the lowest cost. ”

Another general, Wu Yunzhao, said: "Your Highness, I'm afraid that the wharf will startle the snake, so it's better to do it on both sides at the same time." ”

Li Shimin thought about it and made sense, so he said to Qin Qiong: "General Qin can lead five hundred soldiers to lurk into the city, and after General Wu makes a move outside the city, he can join forces to seize the north city gate." ”

He summoned Wu Yun again: "It's now the second watch, let's make an appointment to start at the third watch, I will shoot three rockets in the direction of the dock, and the general will lead two thousand cavalry and General Qin to capture the city." ”

Qin Qiong and Wu Yunzhao bowed together and saluted, "Obey!" ”