Chapter 461: Attacking Chang'an (1)

"Does the pharmacist have a strategy to break the enemy?"

Yang Yu asked with a smile.

Early the next morning, Acting Wang Yang Yu went to Li Jing's house in person. I have to say that this kind of behavior of Corporal Lixian made Li Jing a little flattered. Although the Great Sui has messed up the world and the huge country is about to collapse, the royal family is still the supreme existence in the hearts of ordinary people. The people scolded the Yang family in their hearts, but if there was really a member of the royal family standing in front of them, they would also beat the drum in their hearts.

Although Li Jing is not an ordinary person, His Royal Highness the dignified King still feels a little moved in his heart when he values him so much.

It's just that when he remembered the words that Li Shimin said by holding his hand before coming to Chang'an, his heart tightened.

"Don't make a mistake about yourself, don't come back alive."

The entanglement in Li Jing's heart almost made him want to shout out, looking at the sincere face of Yang Yu, the acting king, thinking of Li Shimin's confession, his heart swayed from side to side. If he hadn't voted for Li Shimin first, even if Tang Gong's army was still besieging the city at this time, he would have agreed to Yang Yu's request without hesitation. As Yin Ping persuaded him, Tang Gong's army surrounded Chang'an, which was a great danger for Chang'an, but it was also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him.

Li Jing was conceited, he was confident that he would rely on 20,000 defenders and the people in the city to hold on for at least two months, and within two months, the help of the eastern capital would inevitably come. At that time, the internal and external attacks will be able to defeat Li Yuan's army and relieve the siege of Chang'an, and this credit is enough to go down in history. If he held the military power again and led the troops to suppress the bandits as a champion general, Li Jing was even confident that he would bring back all the lost territory on both sides of the Yellow River in one fell swoop.

But it was precisely because of Li Shimin's reluctance that he hesitated.

You shouldn't stay in Chang'an and not leave!

Li Jing thought with annoyance in his heart, and when he saw Yang Yu's expectant eyes again, his heart swayed more and more violently. After a long while, Li Jing let out a long sigh and said, "Your Highness can call on the people to defend the city." ”

"The people were terrified and did not dare to go to the city!"

Yang Yu sighed and said.

"Can ......"

Li Jing gritted his teeth, and finally got the upper hand by the fiery desire in his heart.

"Your Highness can ...... like this"

He whispered in Yang Yu's ear, and Yang Yu's eyes lit up after listening: "The pharmacist's method is really good, in this way, I am afraid that the people will not be able to go to the city." When the time comes, the people will suffer with it. With your method, hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City are mobilized to defend the city in turn, even if Li Thief has 100,000 horses, there is nothing to fear. As long as you hold on until the arrival of reinforcements in the eastern capital, it will not take much, only two months, and the Li thief will be defeated! ”

"Your Highness, Your ......"

"Don't worry!"

Yang Yu looked at Li Jing's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, smiled and said gently: "This matter will not be said, no one will know that you came up with this method." Lone only said that he thought of it himself, and the courtiers would not doubt it, and the people would naturally not doubt it. ”

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Li Jing sincerely thanked him.

On the afternoon of the day Yang Yu left Li Jing's mansion, many people were agitating the people on the street. Someone on almost every street was scolding Li Yuan, saying that he was a wolf with ruthless ambitions, and he did not hesitate to sacrifice the people of Chang'an City in order to conquer Chang'an City. He knew that the walls of Chang'an were tall and strong and difficult to fight, so he came up with a vicious way. Li Yuan ordered the soldiers to burn all the wheat that had turned yellow in the fertile fields outside the city, trying to starve all the people in the city to death.

There was agitation everywhere, and more and more people gathered around. By night, the indignant people could no longer control it. But if you can't control it, it's not that you can't guide it. Someone deliberately led them in the direction of Li Yuan's house in Chang'an, and the angry crowd smashed the Li Mansion to pieces. After smashing the house, the people felt that it was not enough to relieve their anger, so they dug up Li Yuan's ancestral grave in Chang'an City.

The bones of the ancestors of the Li family were all dug up, and the anger of the people was vented.

The next day, when the horn of the Li Jiajun preparing to attack the city outside the city sounded, the government dispatched a large number of messengers to beat gongs and shout along the streets, calling on the people to go to the city to defend the city with the official army. The people were naturally reluctant to send them to death, and those servants sneered and said, You even dug up Li Yuan's ancestral grave, and the corpses of the ancestors of the Li family were smashed to ashes by you, even if you don't resist on the city wall, can Li Yuan let you go after the city is broken?

I'm afraid that on the day the city is broken, the first thing Li Yuan will do is to slaughter the city!

The people were in an uproar, but no one doubted what the officials said. No matter who it is, the ancestral graves have been dug up, and the bones of the ancestors and fathers have been smashed, and such a shame is impossible to bear. On the day the city was broken, it was impossible to say that Li Jiajun would really kill after entering the city.

In this way, the people were driven to a dead end.

They didn't want to go to the city to die, but if they didn't go to the city, they were afraid that if the Li family's army broke the city, they would still die, and they would die even worse.

Therefore, from the first day that the Li Jiajun began to attack the city, the people in Chang'an City began to go to the city under the organization of the government. The men in the prime of life were arranged as reserves, and once there was a gap in the city defense, these men would rush forward with the weapons issued to them by the government. The women and the elderly were responsible for transporting supplies and equipment and arrows to defend the city, and for a while, almost all the people of Chang'an City were mobilized.

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"Who wants to be the first to fight Chang'an?"

Li Yuan, who didn't know that his ancestral grave had been dug up, asked with a smile.

He glanced at the generals under his command, and he was inevitably a little proud in his heart. It has only been a few months, and when the army was raised from Taiyuan, there were only 30,000 horses, and now the number of troops has exceeded 200,000, and most of them are still officers and soldiers who have conquered counties along the way, and their combat strength is not bad. What surprised him the most was that Song Laosheng gave him more than 10,000 government soldiers in one go, which was a big gift, with more than 10,000 well-trained government soldiers, Li Yuan felt that he had another sharp horizontal knife in his hand.

"Subordinates are willing to take the lead!"

General Liu Hongji said loudly: "The subordinates are vanguard generals, and the vanguard army from Taiyuan to Chang'an has never flinched, and the first battle of this siege should naturally be fought by subordinates." ”

"That's why!"

Huya Lang General Duan Zhixuan smiled and said: "The credit has been robbed by you, are you still unwilling to let go of the first battle of the siege?" You've eaten all the meat, and you won't leave a mouthful of soup for us people to drink? Lord, no matter what, you can't let Hongji fight this first battle today, otherwise he won't brag in front of us every day in the future? ”

"Haha!"

The generals burst into laughter.

General Yin Kaishan hugged his fists and said: "After the subordinate all the way to the palace, my hands have long been itchy and unbearable." The lord has mercy, and the first battle against Chang'an will be handed over to his subordinates. The subordinates promised not to disappoint the lord, if I couldn't take the lord of Chang'an today, he would deal with me by military law. ”

"Huh"

The eldest grandson Shunde smiled and said, "General Yin is in such a hurry to make a military order, isn't he afraid that he will lose his hand?" ”

"Don't be afraid!"

Yin Kaishan patted his chest and said, "The lord gave me 5,000 men and horses, and I pushed the Chang'an city wall down." ”

"Courage is commendable!"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "I'll give you 10,000 people, the main attack on the West Gate, I will send others to feint to attack the other gates of Chang'an to contain the defenders, go, don't let them see your jokes!" ”

"Don't worry, lord!"

Yin Kaishan smiled heroically, took the arrow and turned around and walked out of the big tent.

"Hongji!"

Li Yuan instructed: "You are still with Shimin, and the two of you will take the men and horses of your headquarters to feint to attack the north gate and involve the defenders in the city." ”

"Order!"

Liu Hongji and Li Shimin hugged their fists.

"Built!"

Li Yuan picked up another arrow and said, "You and the eldest grandson Shunde will lead 10,000 troops to feint to attack the east gate." Only the south gate was left unattacked, leaving a way for the people in the city to survive. ”

"Order!"

Li Jiancheng and eldest grandson Shunde hugged their fists at the same time.

Li Yuan's arrangement can be regarded as a profound meaning, Liu Hongji and Li Shimin - joining forces to fight all the way from Taiyuan to Chang'an can be described as invincible, the cooperation of the two of them is already familiar, Li Shimin is sharp, Liu Hongji is old, and they complement each other. And Li Jiancheng was too close to Chen Yinshou, so he was more or less indifferent to his eldest grandson Shunde. Although he is still polite on the surface, he is still a little repulsed in his heart. Li Yuan's arrangement was also intended to let Li Jiancheng have more contact with the eldest grandson Shunde, the eldest grandson Shunde was Li Yuan's most trusted person, and he didn't want to be discordant with his subordinates after his eldest son succeeded to the throne in the future.

After the arrangement was made, Li Yuan smiled and said: "I will personally sit in the Chinese army and see how you make meritorious contributions!" I have ordered a thousand jars of spirits to be prepared for your celebration! ”

"Whoa!"

The generals responded in unison, everyone's eyes were eager, Chang'an was in front of them, and they were all looking forward to the arrival of this day. After laying down the western capital of the Great Sui, the major events became more than half. They all seemed to see that there was a hand in Chang'an City that represented a bright future, constantly beckoning to them, which was fascinating.

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At the end of June of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Li Yuan's army began its first offensive against Chang'an City.

Modern people in later generations may not know much about Yin Kaishan, but when it comes to Journey to the West, everyone knows it. In Journey to the West, Chen Guangrui, the champion of the new department, was hit by a hydrangea, and the woman who threw the hydrangea was called Yin Wenjiao, who was Yin Kaishan's daughter. Later, after Chen Guangrui married Yin Wenjiao, the two of them were calculated by gangsters on the way to other places, Chen Guangrui was killed, and Yin Wenjiao was forced to be the wife of the gangsters, gave birth to a son, and took the name Jiang Liuer. This Jiang Liuer was later adopted by an old monk in a temple, and after being raised, he was given a legal name, named Xuanzang.

This is just a mythical story, and there is no way to confirm whether Tang Seng is Yin Kaishan's grandson.

Yin Kaishan is extremely brave, and he makes good use of a horse chopping knife, which is one size larger than the heavy Mo knife, the Mo knife blade is seven feet long, and the horse chopping knife in his hand is eight feet long! On the way to Chang'an, when Li Yuan's troops rushed all the way to Chang'an, he and Li Jiancheng were responsible for cleaning up the situation behind the palace. The vanguard army of Liu Hongji and Li Shimin marched too fast, leaving many cities and bandits along the way. Li Jiancheng sent him to appease the rebels and the fleeing officers and soldiers, and within a month, he actually gathered more than 60,000 people, which shows that this person's intelligence should not be underestimated.

Yin Kaishan took 10,000 horses to the west gate of Chang'an, put his hand on the pergola and looked at the situation on the city wall, only looked at it for a while and he regretted it, not to mention that the Chang'an city wall was tall and strong, and a ballista was installed every thirty meters, just looking at the dense defenders on the city wall, Yin Kaishan regretted that he had said a big thing in front of Tang Gong.

It's just that now, it's too late to take it back.

"Li Biao!"

Yin Kaishan ordered loudly: "I will give you three thousand men for the first offensive." ”

"Uncle Wang, you also lead 3,000 troops for the second round!"

"Chen Chu! You lead 3,000 troops, the third round of siege! ”

"Whoa!"

The three generals under him answered.

"The shieldmen formed a formation, and the covering archers stepped forward to suppress the defenders of the wall. Storm the Ram! Push it up! ”

Yin Kaishan shouted loudly: "Tang Gong is watching behind us, don't lose my face." Whoever is the first to climb the city wall of Chang'an, I will worship him as a brother! In the future, I will share it with my brothers! ”

"Kill!"

Ying Yanglang shouted Li Biao loudly and rushed out with the men and horses.

He looked back at Wang Shubao and Chen Chu and laughed: "I'm afraid that you second and third groups of siegers won't have a chance, I'll wait for you in the city!" Ha ha! ”

He laughed heartily and was in high spirits.