The war-torn Chang'an City is destined to be a sleepless night, from the princes and ministers, down to the people of Limin, everyone is panicked, no one can sleep peacefully in this night, and is afraid that the ruthless war will burn to their bodies for no reason, of course, for Li Tai, the king of Wei, who is in the heavy defense, has no such concerns, but the anxious mood is no different from ordinary people, he is not so worried that his old man can not win the final victory, what he is worried about is just whether he can get the greatest benefit in this big fight, therefore, Although he was anxious in his heart, he could only wait for the time to come.

Urgency is inevitable, now the situation has changed drastically, the prince has fallen, Wu Wang Li Ke is suspected of Qizhou rebellion, and the old Jiu Li Zhi, who originally thought that he would be the biggest competitor, is still far away in Qizhou, and it is impossible to make war achievements in this chaos anyway, so that Lao Jiu, who is already cowardly and incompetent and has no one in the court, naturally lost the largest promotion capital to compete for the position of the East Palace, but Li Zhen, the king of Yue, who was originally not a big threat, became a roadblock in front of Li Tai. How to reap the merits of the war and then pit Li Zhen has become a difficult problem in front of Li Tai.

The source Li Tai is not lacking, although the "bell" in his hand is not as large and strong as the "rising sun" in Li Zhen's hand, but it is not vegetarian, when the war just started, Li Tai has already scattered all the people and horses of the "bell", the news has been coming back in a steady stream, he has a number of battles everywhere in his heart, several times he can't help but want to send troops, but in the end he still forced himself to endure it, without him, Li Zhen has not moved, Li Tai naturally did not dare to move, he can only wait, waiting for the news of Li Zhen's dispatch.

The emperor always lives up to his wishes, just when Li Tai was waiting impatiently, Wan Chongshan, dressed in black, rushed in, and reported in a slightly excited tone: "Your Highness, the soldiers and horses of the King of Yue have moved, and they are rushing to the area of Chengtianmen, and it is estimated that there will be a quarter of an hour to arrive, and in addition, the Yulin Army of his department has already rushed to the East Street with His Royal Highness the King of Shu, and the movement is unknown. ”

"Oh?" Li Tai, who was walking back and forth in the study, immediately paused, his face twisted for a while, hesitated, and rushed to the sand table placed in the center of the study, looking at Sima Su of the palace who was squatting in front of the sand table with a look of expectation, and asked in a slightly trembling voice: "Uncle, is it time?" ”

Su Miao didn't pay attention to Li Tai's anxiety, just looked at the sand table silently, casually inserted the small flag representing Li Zhen in the direction of Chengtianmen, and then picked up the small flag representing the King of Shu, groaned for a while, and compared it to Dongdajie, but it never fell, his hand hung in the air, and his brows wrinkled into a Sichuan character.

"Uncle, Xiaoba's subordinates are all cavalry, I won't move until I wait, I'm afraid it's too late!" Seeing that Su Miao was silent, Li Tai couldn't help but raise his voice and shouted, his tone full of urgency.

"Hmm." Su Miao replied noncommittally, but his eyes were still staring in the direction of Dongdajie, and the small flag in his hand hesitated up and down for a long time, but he still couldn't find a proper position, in desperation, he had to shake his head, casually threw the flag on the sand table, stood up, looked at Li Tai, who was so anxious, and smiled bitterly and said, "Let's start!" ”

"Okay, Chongshan, pass the order, everything starts according to the original plan!" As soon as he saw Su Miao open his mouth, Li Tai suddenly became excited, shook his fists, and shouted with joy.

"Yes, my subordinates obey!" Wan Chongshan hurriedly replied and hurriedly exited the study, and after a while, the originally silent Wei Wangfu immediately became lively, and the roaring horses and horses became a one.

"Uncle, where do you see the sixth child of the Little Eight Sect going?" It wasn't until the excitement had passed that Li Tai remembered what Su Miao had considered before, and hurriedly asked.

"It's hard to say." Su Miao shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like it's a division of troops to reinforce the training gate." ”

"Well, what my uncle said is reasonable, and this king thinks the same." Li Tai nodded and said: "Xiaoba is a cautious person, he should know the reason why his father handed over the Yulin Army to him, if there is no major reason, I am afraid that Xiaoba may not dare to hand over those old soldiers to the sixth child, besides, now that the East Palace has fallen into the hands of Hou Junji, even Xiao Ba himself does not dare to lead people to rush into the East Palace, otherwise the melon field Li Xia, hey, then there will be a look, unless Xiao Ba plans to pit the old six, but the sixth is not a fool, how can he do such a stupid thing?" There must be an article here! ”

Li Tai said that Su Miao had already thought about these reasons, but he still couldn't think of the reason for Li Zhen's division of troops, at this time, seeing that the battle was about to start, but he didn't have the intention to think about Li Zhen's move, he took a deep breath and said: "Your Highness, now you don't have to care about the meaning of His Royal Highness King Yue's move, just send someone to keep an eye on His Royal Highness the King of Shu, the current situation is still chaotic, the previous flower is only afraid that it is the signal of Hou Junji's general attack, Your Highness should pay more attention to the battle situation." ”

"Well, too." Li Tai shrugged his shoulders, said no more, squatted down, stared at the sand table with a pair of eyes, and fell into deep thought......

When the ugly time is right, the tragic battle of Xuanwu Gate is still continuing, Rao is to reinforce the Longzhou soldiers are extremely strong, and they are a new force, but because of the terrain, they have never been able to drive the Hou family soldiers off the city - Longzhou soldiers are from the palace wall of Chengtianmen, although a face will be a little careless Hou family soldiers killed a lot, but when the Hou family soldiers gave up continuing to pursue the remnants of the Yulin army, back to the city gate tower, immediately lined up on the city gate tower, forming a dense defense, Desperately resisted the attack of the Longzhou soldiers, because the width of the palace was only three zhang wide, the Longzhou soldiers who could not expand the formation could only be the defense of the Hou family's children and soldiers, although the Hou family's soldiers were frequently pressed backwards, but they could not break through the Hou army's interception, and naturally they could not drive the Hou family army off the city wall, as for those embarrassed Yulin army after the shock was settled, they also attacked several times as a team, and feinted to attack the Hou family army along the stairs at the city gate tower, trying to rush up to the city gate tower, and the Longzhou soldiers who came to help the Hou family army, It's a pity that the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of Yulin is really flattering, let the general Li Hezong dispatch the order, rushed several times, not to mention that he did not rush to the city gate tower, but was seized by the Hou family army, played a beautiful defensive counterattack, in addition to heavy casualties, almost lost the corridors on both sides that were hard to recapture, which made Li Hezong angry, but he had no choice but to change the strong attack to scratch, from time to time sent some archers to put some cold arrows on the city gate tower, and the main force withdrew to the barricade to hold on, watched the tragic battle on the palace wall, but he could only do it in a hurry.

"General, the enemy is too fierce, let's wait to remove the city wall first, and then go back and fight, the brothers will not be able to withstand it!" While Hou Guozhong was standing at the city gate tower and observing the battlefield situation, Hou Chengwang, who was covered in blood, ran over with a horizontal knife full of gaps in his hand, and reported in an anxious tone.

At this point, Hou Guozhong already understood that it was impossible to take the Xuanwu Gate, even if Hou Junji sent more people to reinforce - the ambush in the Tang Army Palace was out, and the soldiers and horses outside must be about to arrive, in the case of being attacked on three sides, it was even more difficult to break through the Xuanwu Gate than to ascend to the sky, it was obvious that all the Hou family's disciples who attacked the Xuanwu Gate were all outcasts, even if he Hou Guozhong was Hou Junji's son, there was no difference. At this moment, there are only two roads in front of Hou Guozhong - one is to take advantage of the fact that the Tang army reinforcements outside the palace have not yet arrived, withdraw from the city gatehouse, and retreat under the cover of the night, so that there is still a glimmer of life; The second is to fight to the death, try to attract the main force of the Tang army as much as possible, and buy time for Hou Junji's next surprise attack.

"Bastard! Er'an dares to speak vainly about my army's heart! The horizontal knife in Hou Guozhong's hand swung violently, and Hou Chengwang's head was cut off with a knife, and with a copy of his hand, he lifted the head that was about to fall to the ground in his hand, raised it high, and shouted: "If there is anyone who dares to retreat, this is the end, and those who retreat will be killed. As soon as the words fell, he casually threw Hou Chengwang's head off the city gate, waved the knife in his hand, and strode to the front of the battle, and went to the front line to meet the surging Longzhou soldiers.

Not to mention, Hou Guozhong's hand killing will motivate Fa Zhen to be somewhat effective, the Hou family's children saw that Hou Chengwang, who retreated, was beheaded, and his own master will go to the front line in person, and immediately his morale was greatly boosted, and they each screamed and killed the Longzhou soldiers, not only stopped the decline of retreating for a while, but also retreated a long distance in the future, but unfortunately the Longzhou soldiers were too strong, all of them were good hands rolling out of the sea of corpses and blood, although the retreat was not chaotic, and they were not chaotic because of the sudden outbreak of the Hou family's army. After withstanding the three-plate axe of the Hou Jiajun, he immediately began to counterattack again, and the two sides launched a tragic tug-of-war on the palace wall.

Fighting in such a narrow space as the head of the city, fighting is courage, all of them are fighting for their lives, and the scene of the same end is not uncommon, if nothing else, this war of attrition fights down, there will be no winner on both sides, it can only be a lose-lose ending, but it is a pity that at this time the two sides have bitten together, either side has no way to retreat, no matter which side can not hold on first, it will immediately be the end of the rout of the whole army, therefore, despite the heavy casualties, both sides can only grit their teeth and fight desperately, for a time the flesh and blood on the palace wall are flying, screams, The clash of weapons rang out. Gradually, relying on the absolute superiority in physical strength, the Longzhou soldiers once again gained the upper hand, oppressed the Hou family army and retreated, even Hou Guozhong shouted and fought and could not stop his own retreat, in the case of this defeat and undefeated, a sharp sound of horses' hooves sounded, a group of people and horses lit torches from the dark and rushed into the small square in front of the palace gate, a big banner on a big "Qin" character in the torch under the reflection of the torch looks particularly dazzling - Qin Huaiyu arrived!

It's chaotic, it's all messy, the Hou family soldiers who were already unable to support it saw that their own back road was copied, and they were immediately chaotic, and they could no longer stop the strong attack of the Longzhou soldiers, the panicked Hou family soldiers either fled along the palace wall in the direction of the East Palace, or rushed down the city gate tower along the ladder, or rushed down the stairs on the side of the city gate tower and ran towards the corridors on both sides of the Xuanwu Gate, the whole team was already in chaos, and there were no longer a few people who fell off the palace wall by the chaotic crowd, the scene was completely out of control, and the unforgiving Longzhou soldiers immediately waved their troops to attack, Roaring to chase and kill the fleeing rebels, and the officers and soldiers of Yulin, who were originally beaten by the Hou family's army, also came to their senses at this moment, mustered up the courage to rush out of the barricades, and also began to fight the water dogs, and the entire Xuanwu Gate shouted and killed The sky suddenly sounded.

Defeated, completely defeated! Hou Guozhong saw that the general trend had gone, and his heart was as distressed as a knife, Hou Guozhong, who didn't want to fight this battle, thought of the consequences of the fiasco, and suddenly lost all his thoughts, and wiped it off his neck with a horizontal knife, planning to come to a hundred, but he never thought that the guards around him had already expected Hou Guozhong to act like this, and rushed up to grab the knife in Hou Guozhong's hand, and rushed down the city gate tower along the ladder with Hou Guozhong, desperately snatched a few ownerless war horses from the chaotic army, escorted Hou Guozhong on horseback, and avoided the chaotic army. Flee west along the avenue next to the palace wall......

Compared with the tragedy of the battle in Xuanwu Gate, although the battle in the area of Tongxunmen in the East Palace is also fierce, it seems to be a lot duller, although it is also an attack and a defense, the attack is also 3,000 Hou family army, and the defense is the 3,000 Nanya Army led by Cheng Yanjin, don't look at the strength of the old man Cheng's hand is less than half of the Xuanwu Gate Yulin Army, and the Tongxunmen does not have as many defensive facilities in the Xuanwu Gate area, but the result is very different - the Nanya Army was not damaged, and the fierce battle lasted for half the night, and only more than 200 people were killed and wounded, However, the Hou family army that launched a strong attack lost its troops and lost its generals, and more than 1,000 soldiers and horses fell under the Tongxun Gate, the reason for this is that the combat power of the Nanya Army itself is much higher than that of the Yulin Army, and it is also due to the old man Cheng's old spiciness, which has to start from the beginning:

The holy oracle received by the old man Cheng is to defend the East Palace and the general training gate, the bottom limit is to hold the general training door, and not let the rebel army rush into the inner court from the general training gate, logically speaking, the East Palace also belongs to the defense area of the old man Cheng, if he changes the others to guard, it must be the posture of the East Palace, without him, after all, the East Palace also belongs to the palace, let the rebels rush in, the catastrophe caused is not small, and the responsibility for the loss of the crime is not something that the subordinates can afford, but well, others are others, but Old Man Cheng is not a bystander, he dares to abandon the entire East Palace, Not even a soldier was left, only concentrated the troops on the level of Tongxunmen, of course, the old man Cheng dared to do this There is also his reason - first, the East Palace is too big, there are more than 20 palaces alone, plus the palace gates on all sides, it is almost impossible to hold the East Palace with 3,000 troops, and furthermore, the Southern Yajun is not familiar with the terrain of the East Palace, and cannot give full play to the geographical advantages, and fortification everywhere is equal to no defense everywhere; Second, although the East Palace is also a part of the Imperial Palace, but in fact it is an independent small world, and the inner courtyard of the Imperial Palace is only a communication door, and the rest have no other way, even the palace of the East Palace is also independent, not only is it nearly a zhang shorter than the palace of the Imperial Palace, but also separated by a corner tower as high as several zhang, it is almost impossible to climb the palace wall of the Imperial Palace from the palace wall of the East Palace, as long as the training door is firmly closed, unless the chaotic army can fly, it is impossible to enter the inner court, of course, the East Palace has been sealed, and the prince is in prison, Everyone in the East Palace was also arrested, and now the East Palace is already an empty palace, so there are no casualties, otherwise, if he gives Cheng three more guts, he will not dare to act like this.

I have to say that Old Man Cheng's hand is extremely clever, and he was stunned to make the prepared Hou Jiajun suffer a loss - Hou Jun has been in the East Palace for a long time, and he knows everything about the East Palace, in addition to sending the Hou Family Army, there are also "black-clothed soldiers" who are good at stealth assassination to help, if Old Man Cheng guards the East Palace, he will definitely suffer defeat, not only can he not keep the East Palace, but it is dangerous to connect to the training gate, but as soon as the old man Cheng abandons the East Palace, the trouble will fall on the attacking Hou Family's army- Wang Feng, who occupied the East Palace, failed to hit the defenders in the East Palace, and had to concentrate all his efforts to attack the training gate, but the problem is that the training gate is not as good as the palace gates, there is no small square in front of the door, there is only a small courtyard ten zhang square, and the car can not enter this place, and there is almost no possibility for manpower to break through the thick palace gate. There are many people involved in the siege of the city, not to mention, but also in vain to suffer the rain of arrows on the city gate tower, there are fewer people and the attack is weak, poor Wang Feng and other Hou family soldiers attacked half dead, fought for more than two hours, even the city gate tower has not been boarded, but the black-clothed army that cooperated with the battle took advantage of the heavy rain to send people to fly over the corner tower, rushed up to some masters, brought some casualties to the defenders, but unfortunately it was soon wiped out by the strong defenders in the city, stealing chickens did not become a handful of rice, to the end, Wang Feng and others could not attack, In addition to shouting a few times and scratching the defenders, it can only be the result of looking at the wall and sighing.

Wang Feng and the others can't attack, Old Man Cheng is not welcome, not to mention that the current comparison of forces between the two sides has undergone a fundamental change, not to mention that the defenders have an absolute advantage in morale, in terms of physical strength, the defenders are far superior to the Hou army - the city wall is so wide, there is no need for too many troops to handle, and the old man Cheng only sent a thousand men and horses to defend the city in turn, and the rest are resting under the city, I was planning to find an opportunity to attack and give the Hou family army a ruthless, It just so happened that the Longzhou soldiers sent people to reinforce them, and this favorable situation was not easy to take advantage of, so the old man Cheng could not be regarded as a famous general of the Tang Dynasty.

Old man Cheng is a thief with soldiers, since the troops at hand are abundant, he does not intend to let the attacking Hou family soldiers have any possibility of survival - Old man Cheng did not directly send troops to attack from Tongxunmen, but sent 1,200 troops together with 1,000 Longzhou soldiers who came to help, quietly sneaked out of the palace from Yong'an Gate, and went straight to the East Palace along the avenue outside the palace wall, of which 1,200 Nanya troops were divided into three roads, and killed the patrol posts sent by the Hou family army outside the East Palace with lightning speed, and then split up from Guangyunmen, Chongmingmen, Yongchun Gate entered the East Palace with great fanfare, bluffing, in order to make a situation of reinforcements, and then opened the training gate, since the unification of more than 1,200 officers and soldiers to kill the generals, the Hou army caused a siege of the Hou family, forcing the panicked Hou family army to flee from the Xuande Gate, and a thousand Longzhou troops were arranged in the small square outside the Xuande Gate, blocking the escape of the Hou family army, and catching turtles in an urn.

The plan is a good plan, and the implementation is also very smooth, the unprepared Wang Feng's department was besieged by four roads, how can there be a heart to fight, was driven to let go of the sheep, and left the corpse on the ground, the rest of the nearly 1,000 people hurriedly escaped from the East Palace from the Xuandemen "life road" left by Cheng biting the gold, but never thought that he had just left the wolves, and met the tiger of the Longzhou soldiers, and the morale was completely gone, how could he withstand the siege of the Longzhou soldiers, and when he saw the end of the annihilation of the whole army, a mutation occurred - a group of military horses were killed from the East Street behind the Longzhou soldiers, rushed into the Longzhou soldiers who were caught off guard and opened a killing spree, and the situation of the Tang army suddenly became grim......

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