In the next ten days, the peasant army learned a lesson, and did not blindly attack the city again, but divided the troops to surround Chang'an City, leaving no one to besiege in the north.

Li Bao knew that this was the "encirclement of three and missing one" in the art of war, although there was no one on the west side, but the thief army must have arranged for men and horses to hide in the dark and ambush.

Now the city of Chang'an, which is surrounded by groups, has become an isolated city, because the emperor is not in the city, and he has not issued the edict of King Qin, so until now, there has been no army of King Qin to relieve the difficulty.

Li Baowai's peasant army, he was also a little uneasy in his heart.

When the peasant army first arrived that day, I don't know if it was to test the strength of the city or what, after losing nearly a thousand lives, they withdrew their troops.

Through these observations, Li Bao and others learned that the peasant army was building siege equipment, and they made up their minds to attack Chang'an City.

In addition, there were still people in the peasant army who knew how to engage in public opinion warfare, and hundreds or even thousands of copies of the "Letter to the People of Chang'an" were shot into the city almost every day. It is nothing more than that: the Yellow King raised an army, originally for Er Cao, did not abuse the people, only killed corrupt officials, and so on.

On the one hand, Li Bao ordered the defenders to seize these letters, and on the other hand, he also retaliated.

He asked the scribe of Jing Zhao Yinzhong to edit out all the bad things that the peasant army had done, and then use movable type printing to print thousands of copies every day, and then sprinkle them on the side of the peasant army.

Later, Li Bao had an idea, and used his well-informed advantage to ask the scribes of Jingzhao Mansion to assist him in running a tabloid. The main content of this tabloid was to expose the rumors and anecdotes of the top brass of the peasant army.

Among them is Huang Chao's resume and his hypocritical face, as well as the fact that he failed to make the list because of his lack of talent.

In addition, there are some small news from the top of the peasant army, such as Zhu Wen's lust, Meng Kai's greed for money, Shang Ranghao's vassal elegance, etc., all of which are provided by traitors in the vanguard army who were previously captured.

Li Bao instructed those scribes to try their best to use their imagination to ensure the acceptance of the audience, and they must be white and fragrant. Let them try to write these things as plots written by a third-rate lyric novelist. With such content, that is, gossip and good articles, how can there be no market?

Therefore, this tabloid printed and distributed by Li Bao had a very wide audience among the peasant army, and every day the peasant army waited for the latest tabloid to come over, grabbed it and hid it as soon as possible, and then found an opportunity to slowly enjoy the gossip and scandal of the upper class with his friends from the township party.

After Huang Chao and the others protected the tabloids, they were so angry that their lungs were about to explode. He ordered that anyone in the army who was found to be secretly in possession of such tabloids would be given forty military sticks, and that they would not be allowed to share the looted property.

But this kind of harsh criminal law did not stop the peasant soldiers who did not have the heart to gossip, and after they got the tabloids, they first found people who knew how to read, and then destroyed them. Wait for no one to be there, and then let the newspaper repeat it, and then spread it to each other.

After Huang Chao and the others found out that his strict order had failed, he could no longer hold his breath and ordered his generals to immediately start attacking the city.

In order to deal with the moats around Chang'an City, Huang Chao ordered his subordinates to take all the civilians around Chang'an captive when the peasant army was building equipment, and let these civilians transport sand and gravel day and night.

Of course, there were many casualties among these civilians, many of whom were abused and killed by the peasant army, and others were shot to death by the defenders of Chang'an. Li Bao was also very heartbroken by some tragic scenes, but for the sake of himself and the soldiers and civilians in the city, this was also a helpless move.

If it is freezing cold today, it will not be easy for the peasant army to storm Chang'an. However, difficulties must also be done, and the current situation is extremely unfavorable for the peasant army.

The peasant army set out from Guangxi and reached the city of Chang'an within two months, although there was little resistance along the road, and they coerced the people to be strong and strong, but they were only strong from the outside.

The armed forces in the Tang Dynasty have not suffered much damage, and now almost all the feudal towns with military power are waiting. If Huangchao can't attack Chang'an City for a long time, then those feudal towns that are waiting and watching, and those who pretend to surrender, will lose their heads and besiege Huangchao again.

At that time, Huang Chao will not be able to escape even if he has wings, Huang Chao understands this situation, Shang Rang and other high-level officials can also understand this situation, and Li Bao also understands this truth.

But understanding does not mean that they can make any changes, both of them can only desperately mobilize their forces to the maximum, and the rest is fine.

So when he found out that the peasant army was urgently mobilized, Li Bao also clapped his hands and said loudly: "It's just right to come, it's boring enough for someone to stay in this city every day, just so that those thieves can relieve their boredom." ”

Li Bao's words made the members of the Chang'an City Guarding Committee laugh, but their faces immediately tensed after laughing, this time the thieves are going to be serious. Each of them was asking themselves in their hearts: Can they hold on to such and such a thing this time?

However, muttering in my heart can but not on my face, after all, they are all high-level personnel, and the city government still has this.

Li Bao made a division of labor at the moment, Li Bao sat in the south, and Zhang Zhifang and Zhang Chengfan were in charge of the east and west respectively. As for the place where there is no one in the north, Zhao Zhizhao is still allowed to go to the town, and Yang Yan stays in the center and is responsible for logistics.

Now that it is a time of crisis, everyone is an ally who lives and dies together, Li Bao arched his hand at the three of them, and then said: "Today's battle is up to you." ”

Everyone replied: "A certain person is willing to live and die for Chang'an!" The king cherishes. After speaking, they went to their respective defense areas.

When Li Bao took Hu Sanbao to the southern city wall, the peasant army under him was much smaller than before, but the battle under the city was not small. Rows of catapults lined up under the city, as well as columns of peasant armies with ladders, to say the least, hundreds.

Li Bao finally saw the cruelty and slaughter of war, the cold battlefield made him a little depressed, he looked up at the sky, the clear winter, the fiery red sun made people not feel a little temperature, and the howling north wind was still uncomfortable.

Li Bao turned around the soldiers on the city tower, most of their faces also had a resolute and solemn look, he smiled at the nearest soldier, and then he shouted loudly: "Sons, today's battle is not for other people, but for your lives and relatives and friends in the city, are you willing to sacrifice your lives for this?" ”

The soldiers at the head of the city did not answer, Li Bao and they were very nervous, he didn't blame them, he continued: "The city is a group of demons, we can't tolerate them, you must know that they all came here with a dream of breaking through the city gate to make a fortune, if we don't fight hard, it will only let these jackals take away your home and relatives, and then you will regret that you did not do your best to defend against these hungry wolves, so answer me, are you willing?" ”

This time, no one hesitated, and they replied in unison: "Yes, so-and-so!" The shouts of the officers and soldiers drifted far away with the cold north wind.

The shouts of the city tower startled Huang Chao and the others who were commanding in front of the battle, and they didn't know what was happening on the city wall. However, they didn't care about what the king of Ji who was guarding the city had, they only recognized one truth, that is, holding a knife and gun in his hand to speak the most powerfully.

After muttering a sentence in Huang Chao's mouth, he then said to the soldiers beside him: "Start the siege." ”

Li Bao's peasant army had begun to assemble, and the battle of the city would begin soon, he stopped talking and said to Hu Sanbao: "Our artillery and palm thunder are ready, right?" ”

Hu Sanbao didn't speak, he just nodded vigorously.

Li Bao's catapult was already in operation, and in a short time the stone bullets projected by the catapult were projected one after another. Perhaps it was because the peasant army's skills were not perfect, or it may have been the first test firing, and the more than 20 stone bullets fired were fired only recently into the moat outside the city wall of Chang'an.

As a result, the Shangguan army on the city wall was obviously a little happy, and Li Bao took the opportunity to say: "Help the rice bucket, it can't threaten us at all, the big guy can relax." ”

His words also made many people relax a lot, and many sergeants laughed.

Then, after the adjustment, the accuracy of the catapults of the peasant army increased, and ten rounds could hit the city wall three or four times. However, it has only hit the city wall, and has not been able to hit the city wall yet.

is accurate, Li Bao knows that the peasant army under the city is really not without capable people. The peasant army under the city had also begun to charge, and the peasant army in front of them were all peasant troops with ladders, and they passed through the almost filled moat, intending to erect the ladders in their hands on the city walls.

He stopped talking, then drew his sword and shouted at the city: "Wound up and open your bow and fire!" ”

With Li Bao's shout, the officers and soldiers on the city wall were not polite, and with Li Bao's order, the three steps were in full swing.

Because there were too many officers and soldiers at the head of the city, Li Bao asked them to fire feather arrows round after round according to the method of "three-stage attack", so that the killing area covered the widest area and the results were the highest.

Sure enough, the peasant army running at the front was immediately wiped out by the feather arrows at the head of the city, and the peasant army that had lost its combat effectiveness had nowhere to hide at this time, so it was trampled to death by the comrades who rushed up from behind.

For a while, no new contingent of the people's army rushed up, and Li Bao ordered the officers and soldiers to shoot freely, and no longer issued unified orders.

When the team behind rushed up again, Li Bao ordered the officers and soldiers to fire several rounds of feather arrows again as ordered.

In this way, the arms of the officers and soldiers at the head of the city have become numb, and the peasant army under the city has not decreased. Li Bao immediately ordered to change weapons.

At this time, the secret weapon on the head of the Tang Dynasty Chang'an City-artillery began its first roar.

"Boom!"

When Huang Chao heard this explosion, he thought it was thunder, and he was still wondering how there could be thunder on this sunny day, and after a while, he found out that it was originally from the Chang'an City Tower, where there was a smoke, and as the smoke dissipated, the city revealed a black cylinder.

And after the cylinders burst into flames one after another, the peasant army under the city would inexplicably fall in a group.

With the roar of thunder, the ranks of the peasant army fell one by one like crops in the fields.

But this fallen ridge was dyed red with blood.

, Huang Chao exclaimed, and the rumor of the "reincarnation of Thor" said by the captives released in the city came. Could this be the legendary Leifa?

The effect of the artillery was immediate, and after the peasant army under the city heard the thunder, and then the companions who died somehow, they were timid, and the blood and courage that had been slowly in their minds were all in vain at this moment.

Immediately the peasant army began to rout, and this rout came so suddenly that even the Huangchao guards who were supervising the formation behind the formation could not stop this wave of retreat.

"Haha, the peasant army has been defeated and retreated." Not only Li Bao smiled, but all the soldiers and generals in the city laughed, this victory was more refreshing than the victory a few days ago.

Huang Chao under the head of the city was even more depressed and annoyed, and then he received the news of the same rout on the other two sides, and he immediately looked like ashes, and said in his heart: Is this the day that is going to kill me?