It is also the coldest time in the night, the cold wind is biting, 10,000 Sui cavalry are silently marching in the direction of Chang'an on the official road, they are getting closer and closer to Chang'an City, in the moonlit and starry night, you can already clearly see the long city wall in the distance.

At this time, a scout rushed in the dark night, and soon came to Yang Yuanqing, bowed down on the horse and said, "Your Highness, the Tang army is mainly protected in the west and north cities, and there are fewer people in the south and east cities, but you can see that there is a faint fire on the city, and there should be a lot of people hidden in the city wall." ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, this must be the young and strong people in the city mobilized by the Tang Dynasty to participate in the battle, and there are enough armor in the arsenal to quickly arm an army of 100,000, it seems that the Tang Dynasty is not stupid, they have realized that they will attack Chang'an again.

"Your Highness, how should I fight?" Luo Shixin asked in a low voice.

Yang Yuanqing stared at Chang'an City for a moment, and sneered, "The Tang army has a headache and a foot pain, and will not fundamentally learn a lesson, or use the method of attacking the west with sound, I will attack the west city and attract the main force of the enemy, and you will lead a thousand brothers to attack the east city." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Luo Shixin rushed away, and heard him shout loudly in the night: "The first and second battalions follow me!" ”

The army began to divide into two parts, and Luo Shixin led a thousand cavalry to the east, and they took with them thirty siege ladders.

The team continued to walk slowly, and when he was still three miles away from Chang'an City, he faintly heard the piercing bell coming from the city, which was heard very clearly in the quiet night, which was the Tang army defending the city that discovered the enemy situation and rang the jǐng bell.

The head of Chang'an city has been in chaos, 50,000 young and strong recruits flocked to the city, under the loud reprimand of the officer, groups of soldiers rushed to the city, while Jin Wuwei quickly retreated to the inner city, building a defensive line of Guer.

Although 50,000 young and strong recruits have been recruited, and many of them are still government soldiers of the former Sui Dynasty, being a soldier does not mean that they can quickly form combat effectiveness.

In addition, it was dark night, dense soldiers crowded on the west city wall, they were nervously holding spears, and the people in the front row were holding bows and arrows, looking at the movement outside the city with a frightened face.

He rode on a war horse, held a horse lance, and was accompanied by more than 100 personal soldiers, and the chaos in the city made him very anxious, and he kept shouting: "Don't stand in one place, each leading general will control his soldiers, and defend the area divided by the day!" ”

Although he shouted hoarsely, in the midst of the noise, his shouts could only be heard by more than a thousand people nearby, and Li Xiaoji's voice was hoarse, and the city walls were still in chaos, which made him extremely depressed.

In fact, it is no wonder that the command of tens of thousands of troops has always relied on war drums and command flags, and these recruits who were recruited only when it was dark looked decent except for wearing armor, but in fact they had not carried out any training at all, and they did not even understand the most basic military orders, let alone night battles, such an army was actually self-deceptive.

In the dark night, the cavalry of the Sui army was slowly coming, Yang Yuanqing saw that the West City, which was more than ten miles long, was crowded with dense soldiers, and it looked magnificent under the light of the torches, he suddenly smiled, turned around and shouted loudly: "Go to Nancheng!" ”

Nine thousand cavalry followed him and rushed towards the southern city, there was a sudden chaos on the western city, shouting and cursing, tens of thousands of defenders followed the Sui army under the city to the southern city, the crowd ran in the dark night, Li Xiaoji was so anxious that he shouted, "Don't be chaotic, all the generals have restrained their own soldiers!" ”

But his command had no effect, no one listened to his command, and at this time, a soldier ran over and said in a loud voice: "Lord Wang, Dou Xiangguo, please control the army, don't mess up!" ”

Li Xiaoji scolded angrily: "How can I command these rabble, I don't care if I have the ability to let him come!" ”

On the inner city wall, Dou Liang looked at the tens of thousands of soldiers in the outer city running in chaos, without any order, he couldn't help but sigh for a long time, I'm afraid that tonight will be more auspicious.

At this moment, the Sui army, which had just rushed to the south of the city, suddenly turned around and ran back to the west city, and the city was in chaos again, and tens of thousands of soldiers were tired of running and ran towards the west city.

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Just when Yang Yuanqing used a teasing way to mobilize the defenders of the city to run back and forth, Luo Shixin led a thousand Sui troops to arrive in the east city, because the main force of the Tang Dynasty was almost all attracted to the west city, there were less than five thousand defenders on the east city more than ten miles long, sparsely standing on the wall, led by Li Zhongwen, the secretary of Taichang Temple.

According to the division of labor in advance, each of the four walls of Chang'an has a minister who can lead the troops to fight, in addition to the north city is the eldest grandson Shunde led by 10,000 Yulin army to guard, the south city is in charge of the palace supervisor Dou Dan, the west city is the Honglu Temple Qing Li Xiaoji is in charge, and the east city defenders are led by Taichang Temple Qing Li Zhongwen, and then by the unified command of the Xiang Zai Dou Rail.

Since the Sui army came from the west, the focus of defense was on the west city, and the rest of the south and east cities each deployed 5,000 people! Originally, it was considered that if the Sui army turned to Nancheng or Dongcheng, then the army would be quickly transferred to Nancheng or Dongcheng, so that it could not only concentrate forces for defense, but also flexibly and maneuverably support.

They thought it through, but they didn't expect that the Sui army would come back in the middle of the night, let alone the difficulty of commanding new soldiers.

Two miles away, Luo Shixin looked at the defenders on the head of the city, on the city wall more than ten miles long, the defenders were mainly distributed in the south and center, and the northern defenders were few, only hundreds of people were defending, Luo Shixin pondered for a moment, beckoned, and the general Dong Xueming stepped forward quickly, bowed and saluted: "Please command!" ”

"Take 700 brothers to the south to make a feint, and when I go to the city from the north, you will come to your aid!"

"Yes!"

Dong Xueming led 700 people to the south quickly, and there were only 300 people left around Luo Shixin, and Luo Shixin ordered two more soldiers, "You two go to the city to explore the terrain and don't be discovered from above." ”

The two of them agreed, and under the cover of the night, they bent down and rushed to the city wall, sometimes fast, sometimes slowly, and gradually reached the moat, crossed the moat, and stood against the wall.

At this time, Luo Shixin's eyes turned to the south, watching the situation over there, and suddenly, a hurried bell came from the city, 'Dang! While! While! Someone shouted loudly, only to see the defenders at the head of the city quickly rushing to the south, it should be Dong Xueming who attracted the attention of the defenders in the city in the south.

Luo Shixin stared at the head of the city tightly, and when the defenders of the city ran four or five miles away, he ordered in a low voice: "Follow me!" ”

Three hundred soldiers had turned over and dismounted, carrying two siege ladders and following the sergeant letter towards the city wall, "General's side! Two soldiers under the city shouted in a low voice.

The moat was frozen, and they rushed across the moat to put the siege ladder on the wall, when suddenly a shout came from the top of the city: "There is an enemy!" "Then an arrow 'whoosh!' In the middle of the shoulders of a Sui soldier, the Sui soldier screamed miserably, rolled over and fell to the ground.

Luo Shixin was furious, and quickly climbed up to the head of the city with a big iron gun, and dozens of Sui soldiers followed him to charge upward, and the soldiers at the head of the city did not all rush to the south to defend, and there were more than two hundred people, and it happened that a sentry probed and saw them.

The shouts of the sentries alarmed the defenders, and they rushed up from all directions, and several soldiers grabbed the iron hooks of the siege ladder and tried to push them down, but at that moment, Luo Shixin jumped on the top of the city, and with a loud roar, the big iron spear swung, 'Poof! Burst! Burst! Three shots pierced the throats of the three soldiers.

Dozens of soldiers swarmed around, and dozens of spears stabbed at Luo Shixin together, Luo Shixin's killing machine exploded, the big iron spear swept, and more than a dozen spears were broken by his spear head.

With a roar, he rushed into the enemy's group, and the big iron spear flew up and down, unstoppable, and in a moment, nearly thirty people were stabbed to death by him.

The soldiers of the Tang Army in the city except for the brigade commander and the two team veterans, the rest are new soldiers, they have never seen such a fierce and domineering general, killing dozens of people in an instant, even the brigade commander and the team are also dead in his hands, as if the killing god is coming, so frightened that their souls are not possessed, shout, turn around and run.

At this time, Luo Shixin's men quickly landed in the city and occupied an area above the northern city, and several soldiers ignited rockets and shed towards the night sky together, several rockets slashed across the heavy night sky, like sparks blooming in the dark night.

Outside the West City, Yang Yuanqing led the cavalry to never attack, pinning down tens of thousands of people in the West City, and suddenly a soldier pointed to the east and shouted: "Your Highness, look, rocket!" ”

Yang Yuanqing also saw it, dozens of rockets crossed the night sky, this is Luo Shixin's success, Yang Wuqing was overjoyed, and shouted: "Go!" ”

He turned his horse's head and ran towards the eastern city, and nine thousand cavalry followed him to the eastern city at a galloping speed......

Not only Yang Yuanqing saw it, but Dou Rail on the inner city also saw the rocket, and he was stunned, could it be that the Sui army had already killed the head of the city? He reacted immediately, and shouted anxiously: "Order the army in the outer city to support Dongcheng quickly!" ”

The shouting of killing on the east city shook the sky, Li Zhongwen led thousands of troops to kill Luo Shixin's 300 people, Luo Shixin shouted, and went up to the battle, and the 300 soldiers withstood the impact of the Tang army soldiers and launched a tragic battle on the city.

Luo Shixin's big iron spear was like a storm, and the corpses were all over the field, and the screams were endless, and the remaining 300 soldiers fought from both sides, 100 people used shields to defend against the rain of arrows from the head of the inner city, and the other 200 people followed Luo Shixin and the Tang army in a fierce battle, killing the Tang soldiers and retreating.

At this time, Dong Xueming, a general, also arrived with 700 soldiers, and they set up more than a dozen siege ladders, quickly climbed to the top of the city, and joined the battle.

With the thousands of Sui soldiers into the battle, the Tang soldiers in the east city can no longer resist, they are all new soldiers, many are buddies in the shop, are helpers in the West Market, most of them have not experienced the cruelty of the battlefield, when they see the corpses all over the ground, heads rolling, minced meat flying, they finally can't bear the extreme fear in their hearts, and their morale collapses.

Thousands of defenders turned around and fled, some ran to the south and west of the city, some ran directly down the city, running along the wall, Luo Shixin killed into the city tower that had been burned half during the day, dozens of soldiers pushed the iron gate winch rod, the winch turned, with a loud rumbling sound, Chang'an Chūn Ming Gate was slowly opened.