Chapter 262: The Battle of Chang'an X
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When Meng Kai returned to the barracks, his face was angry and resentful, but this was not the time for him to be angry and resentful, he had to come up with some achievements to prove that he could not get it today from his fellow villagers in Huangchao.
Wang Mingyuan, the head of his own soldiers, greeted the military master, and after saluting, he said: "The Meng army is here, but the Yellow King has given us an order?" ”
Meng Kai lowered his head and said in a muffled voice: "Well, King Huang asked us to take the lead in attacking the city." ”
Hearing Meng Kai's order, Wang Mingyuan gasped, and he pondered: "Meng Jun makes think twice, this Chang'an city wall is towering, and the city wall is thick, if you want to attack the city, you must have the lives of the Lang people there to fill it." ”
When Meng Kai heard this, he was even more angry, and he said angrily: "What's the noise, why don't you pass it on quickly, let the sons and daughters prepare." A certain has already made a military order in front of the Yellow King. Just go! ”
Wang Mingyuan looked at Meng Kai, as if he was looking at a stranger, Meng Kai, who was respected by Huang Wang on weekdays, changed his Buddha and became an arbitrary person.
Wang Mingyuan felt that this matter still had to be reminded to Meng Kai again, he groaned, and said: "Envoy Meng, this siege of the city, the brothers are not good at it, besides, since we sent troops from Guangxi, there are few opportunities to attack the fortified city, and the siege equipment is also lacking." ”
After Meng Kai heard this, he was also stunned in his heart, if this is the case, Huang Chao led the army to ravage most of the Central Plains, because today's Tang officials are all greedy for life and afraid of death, and few are determined to defend the city. So they came to Chang'an City all the way, but now they have no way to say it in the face of the magnificent and solid Chang'an City.
But he has already received a military order from the Yellow King, and if he doesn't do it, he won't be able to explain to Huang Chao. So Meng Kai said anxiously: "Don't be noisy, let you go quickly, and let people build it if you don't have tools and instruments." Be quick! ”
Wang Mingyuan had no choice but to give the order.
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Li Bao stood on the tower of the city gate and looked at the peasant army under the city, and from a distance, the black crowd seemed to be like a locust outbreak. Li Bao had to sigh, the thief army was very big!
However, he was very confident in the walls of Chang'an City, which were more than five meters high, and these peasant soldiers were poorly clothed and armored, and presumably siege equipment was very scarce. It was not easy for them to conquer Chang'an City.
However, there are no absolutes in the world, and Li Bao did not dare to hold it up, so he ordered Zhang Zhifang and Zhang Chengfan to organize the army to defend the entire Chang'an City in sections. And send the army to constantly patrol in case anything goes wrong.
In addition, he remembered that there were still thousands of prisoners of the Chai Cun Vanguard Army that they had captured a while ago, and that Huangchao had already attacked, so there was no need to keep these people to waste food, and while the peasant army had not yet attacked the city, he asked Hu Sanbao to take his warrant to drive all these prisoners out of Chang'an City.
However, he urged the people in the city and Ding Zhuang to carry stones, wooden sticks, and set up a large iron pot to boil hot oil, once the peasant army attacked the city, these are the traditional tools for defending the city, they prepared early, and the houses near the city wall have been demolished a lot, and those brick and stone beams and so on have all moved to the city wall, lined up in turn.
Although there are a lot of these materials, the walls of Chang'an City are more than 12 meters wide, so the long dragon in Baicheng is also very durable. It can also help defend the city walls.
Everything was ready, just waiting for the peasant army to attack the city.
After waiting for almost an hour, the peasant army under the city began to act, before this Li Bao had been staring at the city, he was nervous, this siege battle was the most serious one he had crossed to the Tang Dynasty for more than ten years, and he couldn't relax.
Hu Sanbao is the same, the master and servant are both very nervous, but Zhang Zhifang and Zhang Chengfan are very relaxed, they command Ruoding, looking at Li Bao's somewhat pale face, Zhang Zhifang is very considerate to persuade Li Bao: "The thieves under the king city have begun to attack the city, it is very dangerous here, the king might as well move and let a certain and Zhang Junenvoy command the defense of the city." ”
Li Baoqiang calmed himself, at this time, if he left, other people would have nothing to say, after all, he was a clan, so it was okay not to stay in such a dangerous place. However, he was reluctant to take this opportunity, so he smiled and said, "You are busy with yours, I'll just watch from the side." ”
Zhang Zhifang and Zhang Chengfan looked at each other, and both of them were a little worried in their hearts, but this King Ji had a lot of ideas, and if he decided that it would be difficult for others to persuade him.
Zhang Chengfan thought for a while and said: "The king is willing to supervise the war here, and it is a great honor, but please ask the king to sit in the city tower behind, so that the king will not worry about the arrow and stone hurting the king, and the king can always pay attention to the war." ”
Li Bao turned his head to look at the two-story city tower behind him, and he nodded: "Zhang Jun's method is very good, it is exactly what I want, I will watch you defend the city there." ”
Zhang Zhifang felt that this would work, and through his observation, there were few siege equipment among the thieves who began to act under the city, so he said to Li Bao: "Then please ask the king to enter the city tower to hide, and so on to start defending the city." ”
Li Bao turned around and walked to the city tower behind him, and when Hu Sanbao also stepped to follow, Zhang Zhifang stopped him and said: "After the siege begins, once there is danger, you must take the king to a safe place as soon as possible." ”
Hu Sanbao nodded, and then Hòu followed Li Bao into the city tower.
Li Bao entered the castle tower, and Hòu went up the low staircase to the second floor. The view here is good, and the roofs and eaves are filled with cold winds from time to time, and in this cold season, the worst war in the world is about to begin.
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Huang Chao sat on the high seat of the big tent, and his subordinates waited patiently, they were all waiting for Meng Kai to launch an attack, so as to see how Chang'an's city defense was.
After several rounds of urging, Meng Kai finally began to attack.
Huang Chao said to the attendants on the left and right: "Go and open the tent, I want to see how strong this Chang'an City is." The attendants took the command and went and parted the tabernacle.
As soon as the tent was opened, a strong northern force immediately poured into the big tent, and the charcoal fire of the people living in the tent was blown red by the wind, and the charcoal ash was blown everywhere, and the generals of the rebel army, including Huang Chao, either made their faces black or choked on the charcoal ash and coughed.
After a long cough, everyone quieted down, and at this time all the soldiers looked disgraced, how embarrassed and embarrassed. However, the order to open the tent was given by Huang Chao, and no one dared to say anything more. But Huang Chao couldn't help laughing at himself: "Damn, it's such a big wind!" ”
The generals immediately chimed in, "Yes, this wind is so strong!" ”
Zhu Wen was even more vulgar, and he said loudly: "It's the wind, it's clearly a strong wind." As soon as these words came out, no one in the tent dared to answer his words, because no one wanted to be different from the Yellow King at this time.
Fortunately, Shang Rang knew how to change the topic, and he said: "Look, the people of the Meng army have begun to attack the city. ”
The black peasant army rushed towards the moat not far away with a hastily made wooden ladder and a knife and gun in hand in the cold north wind.
Li Bao sat on the second-floor city tower, watching the attacking peasant army run faster and faster, and Li Bao, who rushed to the front and Li Bao in the city tower behind, seemed to be about the same size.
Looking at these civilians who died in vain, Li Bao felt a little sad in his heart, they, the original obedient people of the Tang Empire, were now going to raise a traitor to attack the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
However, the first thing these peasant armies had to conquer was the moat under the city of Chang'an, yes, the moat.
Because Chang'an City was built on the Longshou Plateau, Chang'an City was high in the southeast and low in the northwest, and the Wei River was in the northwest, and the circumference of Chang'an City was too long, with a total length of about 36 or 7 kilometers, and the water area in the southeast was not enough to build a moat. Therefore, a moat nine meters wide and four meters deep was dug three meters outside Chang'an City.
The peasant army carried wooden ladders, bamboo ladders and door panels, braved the dense rain of arrows of the officials and troops at the head of the city, and charged desperately.
Zhang Zhifang and Zhang Chengfan lined up on the left and right sides of the Suzaku Gate, commanding the soldiers at the head of the city to shoot arrows and throw earth and stones. Kill and injure a large number of thieves. Because the peasant army hurriedly produced too few siege equipment, most of the charging peasant army could only rush to the moat, and there were very few who could rush through the moat.
Meng Kai watched his own sergeants under the city being killed and injured by the officers and soldiers, he was distressed but helpless, after all, today's incident was his meritorious battle, if he wanted to stop, there were only two ways, one was to immediately break through the head of Chang'an City, and the other was to have a large number of casualties.
Looking at the casualties of his sergeants and the calm appearance of the officers and soldiers at the head of the city, this matter is delusional. As things stand, it's only a matter of time before there are a lot of casualties.
Thinking of this, Meng Kai was a little irritable, and he hated Zhu Wen more and more, it was you who added fuel to the fire of the Dangshan ruffian, wait and see, you will definitely look good in the future.
After fighting for so long, his subordinates have not yet broken through the moat, Meng Kai looked at such a scene and felt even more irritable, he turned to Wang Mingyuan beside him and said: "You are staring here, all the subordinates under him take turns to attack, and if there are large casualties, immediately let them retreat and rest, and do not force them to die." ”
Wang Mingyuan finally found the appearance of the former military master from Meng Kai's words, and he immediately bowed down to receive the order.
Huang Chao sat in the tent, waiting for the herald to transmit the battle situation at any time, but when he heard that Meng Kai's department could not even pass through the moat under Chang'an City, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed.
Zhu Wen listened to the words of the herald, and immediately gloated, and he whispered: "I have long said that this Meng Kai is useless, and he will only slap the horse, what is the real ability there?" ”
Zhu Wen said it easily, and the surrounding Huo Cunhuang, Ye Lin Yan and others were also very unaccustomed to Meng Kai's style on weekdays, and several of them nodded one after another.
Shang Rang saw it clearly on the sidelines, heard it really, and knew that Meng Kai was unpopular. It seems that he can't get too close to him, after all, Huang Ye and Lin Yan are both relatives of Huang Chao, one of them is Huang Chao's younger brother, and the other is a nephew, but there are more than Meng Kai, fellow villagers.
Just when the generals in the tent were thinking about each other, the soldiers outside the tent came to report that someone in Chang'an City had run out.
When Huang Chao heard this, he hurriedly said: "Who are you, but you can catch them, and if you catch them, bring them in immediately." ”
The herald replied, "There are so many people who have come out, and the army scouts have only brought a few people back. After saying that, three people were brought in, knelt on the ground, and did not dare to speak.
Huang Chao looked at the people kneeling below: "Who are you, why did you come out of Chang'an City?" ”
Among the three people who knelt, one of them was bolder, raised his head, and said to Huang Chao: "Back to King Huang, a certain is a soldier under the Chai Cun Pioneer Envoy, who was captured by the official military plan a few days ago when he entered Chang'an City with the Chai Army Envoy. ”
When Huang Chao heard this, he said curiously: "Since you are waiting for being captured, how can you still come out alive?" ”
The man said: "Not only so-and-so, all the captured soldiers are basically not dead, they are all alive, but they were let go early, and so-and-so will be released today because the Yellow King brought the troops." ”
The generals in the tent looked at each other for a while, what kind of medicine is the gourd of the officers and soldiers in Chang'an City selling, and they don't kill the rebels when they are caught?
Huang Chao laughed and said, "Since you don't die, stay and continue to join the army to attack Chang'an City." ”
The other generals also felt that the defenders in Chang'an City should be afraid that they would be liquidated after the city was broken, so they didn't dare to kill or injure the prisoners, so they also laughed along.
But the soldier who replied continued, which immediately shocked Huang Chao and the generals.
"Don't dare, the prince of Ji in the city is the reincarnation of the thunder god, and he can't be killed. Please also ask the Yellow King to bypass a certain class, a certain class still doesn't want to die without a place to be buried! ”
Huang Chao heard this, and shouted: "Desolate, what is the reincarnation of the thunder god, a bunch of nonsense, the son is silent, the strange power is confused, aren't you waiting for a certain person to lose your mind?" ”
The soldier said: "Don't dare to deceive King Huang, please also ask King Huang Mingjian." After that, he told Huang Chao and the generals what they had seen with their own eyes in the city.
After the soldier finished speaking, the other two behind him also said loudly, this is absolutely true.
All the generals were silent, I believe they wouldn't lie about such things, if it was really as they said, the king of Ji in this city was really a god, then why didn't he come out to save the Tang Dynasty earlier?
Shang Rangduo thought for a long time and hurriedly said: "Let's think about this matter in the long run, it's getting late today, it's better to attack the city tomorrow." ”
Huang Chao thought for a long time before nodding. However, Hòu Shang ordered someone to inform Meng Kai to strike the army.
When the thief army under the city withdrew like a tide, there was a cry at the head of Chang'an City, and the officers and soldiers cursed at the city, and Li Bao was the city tower, and he had great confidence in the battle to defend the city in the future.
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