Chang'an City has been in chaos, the city gate and the square gate that were originally opened at dawn have been closed, seriously affecting the normal travel of the people, coupled with the military door-to-door recruitment of young and strong people to defend the city, so that Chang'an City fell into a panic.

All kinds of rumors circulated in Chang'an, some people said that the Turkic army went south to kill the pass, and some people said that the Sui army entered the pass, the beacon fire of Lishan made the rumors of the Sui army enter the pass became the mainstream, and the news that Yang Yuyuan and Qing led an army of 100,000 to attack Chang'an spread more and more widely, making the city full of storms.

In the area of Chang'an Mingde Gate is particularly chaotic, the night of the beacon fire made tens of thousands of panicked people living outside the city gather outside the major city gates, shouting loudly to open the city, the scene is extremely chaotic, Dou Liang has no choice, so he has to order the Mingde Gate to be opened for an hour and let the people enter the city.

At this time, the Suzaku Street in the Mingde Gate was crowded with people entering the city, carrying baskets on their backs, carrying household belongings, crying for their fathers and mothers, shouting and scolding, the scene was extremely chaotic, and a group of heavily armed soldiers drove the people fiercely.

The four squares close to the Mingde Gate, Yanqi, Anyi, Guangxian, and Boryeong, have been opened, and the soldiers want to drive the tens of thousands of people who fled into the city into the four squares.

However, many residents in the workshop resisted the refugees from entering the workshop, and moved all kinds of obstacles to block the door of the workshop, making the gate of the workshop crying and screaming, crowded and chaotic, and even rogue ruffians rode on the wall of the workshop and used slingshots to flick shè young women for fun.

The circumference of the Great Wall is about 60 miles, but the defenders only have more than 20,000 people, and can only be deployed in the east and south cities.

Dou Liang stood at the head of Dongcheng City, staring into the distance with complicated eyes, he had probably gotten a little news, it was indeed an invasion of the Sui army, the number of people was about 10,000 to 20,000, but what surprised him the most was that someone recognized that the general of the Sui army led by him turned out to be Yang Yuyuan Yuqing.

This news really made him nervous, his eyes were full of anxiety, and Sun Shunde, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, who was in charge of the Yulin Army next to him, said with a smile: "Why is Dou Xiangzai so nervous, isn't it good that Yang Yuyuan Yuqing personally led the troops to Guanzhong?" Wouldn't it be a great thing to wait for the army of the prince and the king of Qin to return, and directly catch him in the urn? ”

Dou Liang sighed, "Although it seems inappropriate for a gentleman not to stand on a dangerous wall Yang Yuyuan Yuanqing personally led troops into the pass, but he is actually using himself as a bait to attract the return of the main force of the Tang Army, once the main force of the Tang Army returns to Guanzhong, I am worried that the previous efforts will be lost, and he will never let us catch it, which will increase his prestige." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier suddenly shouted in horror: "The Sui army is here!" ”

Dou Liang and Changsun Shunde were startled at the same time, they looked into the distance, only to see that in the snowy fields in the distance, a team of black dots was rushing towards the white side, stretching for seven or eight miles, and it seemed that there were about a thousand people.

The city wall suddenly became nervous, the soldiers shouted, and even some soldiers were so nervous that they trembled, the defense of the east city area was mainly the soldiers of the Yulin Army, the Yulin Army was actually a kind of honor guard, most of them were children of Gaomen, the family was well-off, the armor was bright and majestic, and the treatment was also very generous, not to mention the battle, as long as the appearance was neat, majestic and solemn.

So when they encounter a real war, the fear of death makes them unable to control their emotions and vent their inner panic by shouting loudly.

The eldest grandson Shunde was furious, turned over and rushed towards the soldiers, whipped the frightened soldiers with a whip, and scolded: "Don't make a fuss, and if you are surprised, you will be killed!" ”

As the cavalry of the Sui army got closer and closer, the city gradually became quieter, and Dou Liang saw clearly, the head of the general was burly, silver helmet and iron armor, young and brave, holding a thick iron spear, and the person next to him had a black face like the bottom of a pot, his appearance was fierce and ugly, and he held a Xuanhua big plate axe.

"It's Luo Shixin and Cheng Biting Jin!" The eldest grandson, Shunde, blurted out that he knew these two people.

Dou Liang was stunned, so where is Yang Yuanqing? Is it at the back of the line?

At this time, the soldiers of the Sui army galloped to the city, and at the same time fired arrows at the head of the city, the arrows were like a torrential rain, whistling, and the city head was screaming, and the soldiers defending the city were caught off guard, and a large piece was thrown down by shè, and the fog track was knocked down by a soldier in time, but his hat was blown away by shè.

Dou Lianggen had to slap himself in the mouth, the Sui army had already killed in front of him, he actually forgot to give the order to release the arrow, and the eldest grandson Shunde also responded, he shouted loudly: "Release the arrow!" Hurry up and release the arrows! ”

The Tang army in the city began to counterattack, but they were pressed by the arrows of the Sui army and couldn't raise their heads, so they had to hide behind the city wall, and put arrows down in the way of throwing shè, the arrows in the city were like rain, and the shouting and killing sound shook the sky, and the momentum was magnificent, but the casualties on both sides were not large, and the Tang army hid behind the battlements and did not dare to raise their heads, and the way of throwing shè, shè Cheng was not enough, and could not hurt the Sui army.

In a moment, the arrows of the Sui army suddenly turned into rockets, and a sharp arrow rushed to the city head with a ball of fire, a large number of rockets shè in the city tower, the city tower began to burn, the fire burned bigger and bigger, the raging fire went straight to the sky, the smoke was billowing out, and the city was in chaos.

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At the same time that the Sui army attacked Chang'an City in a sāo disturbance way, Yang Yuyuan Yuanqing took two thousand Sui cavalry to detour to Longshouyuan outside the northern city, which was later the construction of the Daming Palace, but at this time it was a dense forest, which had been opened up by the Tang Dynasty as a forbidden garden, a royal mountain forest, and no one was allowed to enter.

This is the highest place in Chang'an, looking down from the heights, you can clearly see Chang'an City. But the closest to them is the imperial city and palace city of Chang'an, they are behind the Taiji Palace, the Taiji Palace is majestic and magnificent, the Yaoying golden chess, the silver-topped jade brick, in the sun crystal show off, breathtaking.

However, they did not lean directly against the palace wall, between the palace and the mountains and forests behind, there was also a forest and grassland, that is the west inner garden of the palace, which was the place where Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian raised rare birds and beasts, and it was also the station of the Yulin Army.

There is also a huge military camp on Longshou Plain, which is the residence of Jin Wuwei, but Yang Yuyuan Yuqing did not go to the barracks, that is not his goal, his goal is the Tang Dynasty Imperial Palace.

The palace of the Tang Dynasty is usually guarded by 10,000 Yulin troops, and it is heavily guarded, but this is it, the role of the Yulin army is only used to deal with thieves and assassins, not to fight.

But this time it was extraordinary, the Sui army took advantage of the emptiness in the pass to kill directly under the city of Chang'an, but the Yulin army was transferred to defend the city, there were only more than 2,000 guards in the entire palace city, and there was a loophole in the defense of Chang'an, and Yang Yuyuan Yuqing was very clear where this loophole was?

Yang Yuanyuan Qingqing led the cavalry through Longshouyuan, and came to the valley where he saved Yang Jian, this valley led directly to the gate of the West Inner Garden, at this time the valley was covered with thick snow, Yang Yuanqing looked at this familiar valley, and a kind of infinite nostalgia for his youth surged in his heart.

At this time, a mountain bird flew over his head, Yang Yuyuan Yuqing quickly drew the arrow and opened it, but he didn't shè out of this arrow, the bowstring slowly loosened, he shook his head self-deprecatingly, the big battle is coming, the soldiers still know how to restraint, he is the commander of the army, but he still recalls the past shè killing the mountain cone, let the soldiers see it, what will they think?

Yang Yuyuan Qing urged the horse to lead two thousand cavalry to the west of the inner garden to run a moment to the outer wall, the periphery of the west inner garden is a long wall, the wall is two zhang high to build a rich score of solid and solid, in the position of due north stands a magnificent palace gate, called the west garden gate, usually there are three hundred soldiers here to guard, but at this time there are only more than fifty defenders here.

The soldiers were patrolling back and forth on the gatehouse, and suddenly, they spotted the Sui army rushing towards the valley in the distance, and immediately panicked and shouted: "The Sui army is here!" The army is here! ”

"When! While! While! , The hurried jǐng bell rang at the head of the city, and Yang Yuyuan Qing gave an order, "Do it!" ”

Two thousand cavalry came quickly, the arrows were like a storm, shè towards the gatehouse, more than a dozen guards were overturned, screaming and falling from the gatehouse, hundreds of Sui soldiers dragged the big forest to cut down, leaned the trees against the gatehouse, and quickly climbed up along the trees, and the rest of the defenders saw that the situation was not good, and fled in all directions.

In a moment, the Sui soldiers pulled the chain noose, the gate of the West Inner Garden rumbled open, and the two thousand Sui cavalry brandished their swords and rushed into the West Inner Garden, killing the Xuanwu Gate, the north gate of the Taiji Palace.

The Xuanwu Gate is the most critical gate to enter the harem, the city gate is cast of pig iron, and it takes thirty people to push the hinges on the gatehouse to open, and the gatehouse is as high as four zhang, extremely majestic.

At this time, the bell of Xiyuan Gate has alarmed the defenders of Xuanwu Gate, there are 500 Yulin troops stationed here, they have seen 2,000 Sui cavalry from the grassland, the defenders are terrified, they never dreamed that the Sui army would kill from behind.

Without waiting for the Sui cavalry to approach, the defenders of the gatehouse released arrows together, and the arrows in the sky hindered the Sui army from approaching, but the Sui army distributed two roads, one to attack the Xuanwu Gate, and the other to rush to the oblique stab.

The cavalry of the Sui army rushed along the palace wall, thousands of rockets shè entered the palace, several palaces close to the palace were ignited, the tongue of fire swallowed the curtain of the palace curtain, the fire burned rapidly, among which the Guanlin Pavilion belonging to a corner of the queen's bedroom was engulfed in flames, and the fire and smoke went straight to the sky.

Li Yuan was hiding in the quiet room of the inner palace, pacing back and forth restlessly with his hands behind his back, he only longed for the Sui army to attack the city, walk around the city, let Chang'an City go, no matter how upside down Guanzhong was turned upside down, he didn't care, he only cared about keeping Chang'an.

At this time, he suddenly heard a sāo movement outside, as if there was a palace maid crying and running, he was shocked, and walked quickly to the window, only to see many palace maids and eunuchs were fleeing in panic, as soon as he looked up, he suddenly found that the smoke was billowing not far away, and the fire was soaring to the sky.

This...... What's going on? Was there a fire in the palace? Li Yuan was shocked in his heart, and at this moment, a guard rushed over, "Your Majesty! ”

The guards rushed to the door and reported loudly: "Your Majesty, Yang Yuanyuan Qingqin has led two thousand Sui cavalry into the West Inner Garden, and is fighting fiercely with the defenders at Xuanwu Gate, Your Majesty should evacuate the palace as soon as possible." ”

This news frightened Li Yuan's soul, he stood in the room like a wooden chicken, his mind was blank, and his heart was so frightened that he felt like he had fallen into the abyss.