At the same time when Li Yuanji was inspecting the Sui army camp at the head of the city, Yang Yuanqing was also observing the Taiyuan city wall in the military camp two miles away, this thick and strong tall city wall he had been looking at for ten days, and he knew in his heart that he could capture this city, but he would have to pay a heavy price. Rushing to the head of the city like an ant colony, being smashed by trebuchets to a blur of flesh and blood, using a few ladders or nest cars to storm the city, paying tens of millions of dead and wounded, that is a stupid thing that only the Turks do, he Yang Yuanqing would never attack the city like this.

Yang Yuanqing has a wealth of experience in defending the city, and he knows where the weakest part of the city is? His gaze fell on the city gate, yes, any city, the city gate is its weakest point, it is its cover gate, the defenders also know the weakness of the city gate, so they designed the moat, designed a high drawbridge, the drawbridge is like the outer armor of the city gate, if you want to attack the city gate, you must first break the drawbridge, and the hub that controls the drawbridge is at the head of the city, are two huge iron chain winks, two wrist-thick iron chains pull the drawbridge high.

But no matter what kind of armor the city gate wears, it is never as heavy as the city walls, and it is always the weakest point of the entire city.

The second is the timing of the siege, Yang Yuanqing knows very well how to choose the timing of the siege, even if there is no opportunity, he will create the opportunity, he let the Taiyuan defenders rest for ten days, just like the lion also has a moment of napping, the defenders of this city have changed from nervous to numb to the Fengzhou army, and when their defense began to become a little lax, the time came.

Yang Yuanqing has received the news that Li Shimin led an army of 50,000 into Hedong, but they can't cross Huoyi City, so they can only take a long way to Longquan County or Shangdang County to save Taiyuan, so they will spend at least four more days, at least ten days before they can reach Taiyuan City, there is still plenty of time, Yang Yuanqing looked at the sky, the sky is gloomy and cloudy, tonight will be a dark night without starlight and moonlight.

At this time, a captain of the fortification corps rushed to Yang Yuanqing to report. "Chief Qiqi, the tunnel has been completed and can be passed smoothly."

"Good!"

Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered: "Order Yang Sien and Qin Qiong to come to see me?" ”

After a while, Yang Sien and Qin Qiong rushed over, and the two stepped forward to salute, "See the manager!" ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced at them and said slowly: "I came to the two of you to tell you." The siege will begin at the first watch tonight. According to my prior deployment, the heavy task of attacking Taiyuan City tonight will be handed over to you. ”

The two of them perked up at the same time, and saluted: "The humble post will definitely capture Taiyuan City!" ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded. "Pass my order, the first one to enter Taiyuan City will be promoted to the third level. Reward 1,000 taels of gold. ”

Yang Yuanqing also looked forward to the moment of attacking the city for a long time, and at this time, his eyes turned to Taiyuan City again, I don't know what surprise the Pei family can bring to him?

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At the beginning of the night, the dark clouds hung low, obscuring the starlight and moonlight, and the thick night shrouded the city of Taiyuan, due to the siege of the Sui army of Fengzhou, a curfew had been imposed in the city of Taiyuan. Pedestrians are not allowed on the street after dark.

Bands of soldiers patrolled the empty streets, 'Click! Click! The sound of footsteps was particularly clear in the darkness of the night, when a man on horseback appeared on the corner of the street, followed by five or six family members, who were obviously not soldiers, but appeared in the street where the curfew had been curfew. And he didn't panic, he walked slowly and calmly.

"Stop!"

A squad of sentry soldiers spotted them, and rushed up to surround them, spears aimed at the few pedestrians who dared to appear in the night.

"Blind your dog's eyes!"

The man on horseback was furious, drew his sword and pointed at the captain at the leader. "Who do you see who I am?"

The captain recognized it as Wang Huan, the son of Taishou Wang Xu. He is also the eldest grandson of the Taiyuan Wang family, he is less than thirty years old, but he is very shrewd and capable, and the affairs of the Wang family are represented by him, and there is no one in Taiyuan City who does not know him.

"It turned out to be Wang Gongzi!"

The captain scolded secretly, but he didn't dare to offend, waved his hand, ordered the soldiers to put down their spears, and said with a smile: "The main thing is that there is a curfew, and people are not allowed to go out at night to prevent the Fengzhou army from spying." ”

"Then am I a spy of the Fengzhou Army?" Wang Huan asked coldly.

"Wang Gongzi said with a smile, how can you be a spy of the Fengzhou army."

Having said that, the captain still did not order the soldiers to give way, Li Yuanji gave a strict order, and all the people who dared to go to the street at night were arrested, and those who resisted were killed, and the captain hoped that Wang Huan could give him something to explain to the above, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only let Wang Huan understand by himself, Wang Huan understood what he meant, and took out a silver medal and shook it in front of the captain, "That's okay!" ”

The silver medal is the pass card of Taishou Wang Xu, which can be unimpeded in the city and is not subject to curfew, and the captain immediately smiled and said: "It turns out that Gongzi has a silver pass card, then there is no problem." ”

He immediately commanded, "Get out of the way!" ”

The soldiers got out of the way, Wang Huan snorted coldly, urging the horse forward, the soldiers watched their backs disappear into the night from a distance, and a soldier scolded in a low voice: "What is it, so arrogant!" ”

The lieutenant kicked him hard, "Don't make trouble for Lao Tzu, the Taiyuan Wang family is not something you can afford to provoke." ”

Wang Huan soon came to a large mansion, and his men went up and knocked on the door, and a small window opened on the door, and the people inside saw that it was Wang Huan, and hurriedly opened the door to let him in.

"Prince Wang, the master is waiting for you!"

Wang Huan nodded, and walked quickly towards the mansion, the owner of this mansion is named Xue Shen, who is a famous local tyrant in Taiyuan City, with hundreds of family members under his command, and can also gather a large number of ruffians and scoundrels, which is a force to be reckoned with in Taiyuan City.

Xue Shen is about forty years old, he looks like a tiger, burly and strong, he and his two brothers worked hard step by step from the son of a blacksmith to become a strong man in Taiyuan City.

Xue Shen knew very well in his heart that although they were strong, they couldn't afford to provoke the government, and the government couldn't afford to provoke the Wang family, and it was not only their honor to be able to do things for the Wang family, but also their opportunity.

Xue Shen and his brother Xue Jing welcomed Wang Huan into the secret room of the Xue Mansion, the three of them sat down, and Wang Huan asked, "My father wants to know, are you ready?" ”

"It's ready, we can gather more than a thousand people, as long as the siege starts outside, we can launch a riot and cooperate."

Wang Huan nodded, "Also, how many people know that this matter is related to our Wang family?" ”

"What's the matter?" Xue Shen didn't understand what Wang Huan meant.

"It's the Wang family looking for you." Wang Huan said with some displeasure.

Xue Shen hurriedly patted his chest, "Please rest assured." Only our two brothers knew about this matter, we didn't tell anyone, not even the third brother, we just told him to help the Fengzhou army, and we would never pull the Wang family out. ”

Wang Huan was quite satisfied with his attitude, and said: "It is estimated that the time for the Fengzhou army to attack Taiyuan City will not be too long, you must be ready to respond at any time, if there is any difficulty." You can find the Wang family. ”

"Thank you, childe. There is no difficulty for the time being, we are all set. ”

"So be it!"

Wang Huan's tone was relatively cold, he looked down on the Xue family in his bones. In his eyes, these so-called local tyrants are just the leaders of the ruffians, and the Wang family actually bends down to beg them for help. He despised it in his heart, couldn't sit down for a moment, stood up and said, "I just came to confirm, my father is still waiting for my report, so I will leave." ”

Wang Huan arched his hand, got up and said goodbye, the Xue brothers kept sending him out of the gate, watching him disappear into the darkness, Xue Jing lowered his voice! 'Sighed. He could feel the arrogance in Wang Huan's bones.

Xue Shen had a solemn expression, he slowly walked back to the secret room, as if he had something on his mind, Xue Jing asked in a low voice, "Does the eldest brother think that the Wang family is not sincere?" ”

Xue Shen shook his head, "It's not that he is not sincere to us, but he is not sincere to Yang Yuanqing, and the Wang family does not allow us to divulge our relationship with him." I think they are afraid that Li Yuan will know that the Wang family helped Yang Yuanqing seize Taiyuan, and the Wang family is quite a bit of a rat. ”

"So what do we do?"

Xue Jing was a little worried: "Then do we still want to help Yang Yuanqing?" ”

Xue Shen sneered, "Why don't you help, but we have to let Yang Yuanqing understand that we have nothing to do with the Wang family to help him." ”

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It's getting closer. The lights were bright in the study room of the left-behind mansion, and Li Yuanji sat in front of the couch and stared at the ground gloomily. His henchman, Yu Wenxin, who was in the army, whispered to persuade him on the side.

"Duke Qin has already crossed the east of the river, once he settles in Taiyuan City, then the credit for keeping Taiyuan City is his, and the young master's previous fight against Liu Wuzhou and other credits will be erased by him, and more importantly, he will collect all kinds of evidence from Taiyuan City that is unfavorable to the young master and report it to the prime minister, and the young master's future will be over."

Yuwenxin tried his best to persuade Li Yuanji to abandon the city and flee, although Li Yuanji himself wanted to abandon the city and flee, but he also knew that if he did this, his father would not spare him, he frowned and said: "But I gave up the city like this, there is no reason, my father can't spare me." ”

Yuwen Xin shook his head, "The young master is wrong, the power to defend the city is in the hands of Xiahou Duan, that is, he can't defend the city, the responsibility should be Xiahou Duan, and it has nothing to do with the young master, the prime minister will scold the young master a few words at most, and he won't really punish you, but if the Fengzhou army enters the city and the young master is caught, what are the consequences, has the young master thought about it?" Will the Qin Guild borrow Yang Yuanqing's hand to kill the young master? He was ruthless when he killed Zhiyun, wouldn't he take advantage of this opportunity to kill people with a knife? ”

Although Li Yuan strictly forbade spreading the news of Li Zhiyun, Li Jiancheng still wrote to tell Li Yuanji, and Li Yuanji told his henchman Yu Wenxin that this matter became a heart disease for Li Yuanji, on the one hand, he was extremely jealous that his second brother Li Shimin was reused by his father, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the second brother would attack him at some point.

Li Yuanji was a little moved, Yu Wenxin meant to tell him that if the city was defended, the final credit would be owned by the people, and if the city could not be held, then he would be caught by Yang Yuanqing, and the people would borrow Yang Yuanqing's hand to kill him.

But even if he can't kill him, he will plummet in his father's mind because he was captured, and it doesn't matter whether Taiyuan City can be defended, the important thing is that he can't be captured.

Instead of cheapening the second brother Shimin for nothing, it is better to find a way to save himself first, Li Yuanji finally made up his mind, "Okay! I'll leave Taiyuan City first. ”