Chapter 265: Chiseling through Chang'an City
"Woo....!"
The long sound of the horn reached the head of Chang'an City, and the defenders of the city were awakened, and from the high city head, they saw the phalanx with torches surging on the dim horizon in the distance, and immediately someone picked up a stick and struck a gong and shouted:
"Siege, Da Kun army is attacking!"
The whole city woke up in an instant, countless soldiers hurriedly got up from the barracks and poured onto the city wall, a large number of heralds shuttled back and forth on the city wall to deliver orders, the officers shouted loudly, and the chaotic voices resounded.
Fortunately, although Ye Chen attacked the city in advance, he did not carry out any surprise attacks, and there was no need for a surprise attack, the army slowly pressed towards the city wall, and stopped about a kilometer away from the city wall.
He did not choose to besiege the city, the 120,000 army seems to be a lot, but it is unrealistic to besiege Chang'an, in fact, the defenders in Chang'an City are not inferior to his troops now, if the army is scattered in all directions, with Li Shimin's courage and courage, he will definitely dare to attack out of the city, and it is easy to defeat the army on both sides.
"Attack!"
Zhang Ling rode on the war horse, waved the war knife in his hand, with a huge drum sound, countless soldiers held siege ladders and rushed to the Chang'an city wall like a tide, in the back, a trebuchet bounced up a huge stone and flew towards the city wall, more than a dozen siege vehicles braved the rain of arrows and the stones thrown in the city to rush to the city gate.
As the cloud ladder was erected on the city wall, Ye Chen stretched out his hand in the middle of the Chinese army, and the two pretty palace maids took off the dragon robe on his body, revealing the strong muscles that were entwined like a big python, and the muscles that were raised high were like undulating mountains.
Shirtless, he took the customary broadsword from the Praetorian guards, and rode an exceptionally tall black war horse to slowly break away from the Chinese army.
This war horse was brought by him when he took Shang Xiuxun back to Beijing, and it was a horse king she caught from the Saibei grassland, the whole body was black and shiny, muscular and full of a sense of strength, he liked it at first sight and named it Black Star. This king of horses also lived up to the name of the king of horses, and could easily hump him on the battlefield to gallop, and no horse had been left for him to ride to finish a battle.
The distance of one kilometer has arrived in less than a minute, and the black god has already been psychic, and his super fast speed and flexibility are dodging the arrows falling from the sky, and when he quickly approached the city wall, he slashed the four-meter-long big knife in his hand, smashing the hard granite city wall into a large pit nearly one meter deep and more than one meter in diameter.
It's easier to smash the walls than to smash the gates.
He was sure that Li Shimin had already made various arrangements at the four city gates, which might not hurt him, but he didn't have the interest to cooperate with the attempt, and directly broke through the city wall and went off the beaten path, making them depressed.
The city wall that is more than ten meters thick is difficult for even the great grandmaster to penetrate, it only takes a little effort for Ye Chen, and in less than ten minutes, a huge gap of four meters high and more than ten meters wide has been punched, and then he slashes it with a knife, piercing the last thin layer, Wang Meng, who has been waiting not far away, immediately waved his war knife excitedly and roared:
"Soldiers, Your Majesty's Divine Martial Invincible has broken through the city wall for us, what are we waiting for!"
"Kill !!"
Countless shouts gathered together and the battle spirit soared into the sky, earth-shattering, Wang Xuan rushed to the gap opened by Ye Chen first, countless soldiers followed, the morale of the entire Dakun army soared, and the morale of Li Tangjun on the city wall decreased sharply.
Morale is a very magical thing, invisible and intangible, but it does exist, and it plays an incredible role on the battlefield, obviously the combat effectiveness of the Li Tang Army and the Da Kun Army is not much different, but when the morale of the two sides is reversed, the actual battle result is very different.
When Ye Chen dug out three huge holes in Chang'an City in a row, the morale of the defenders of Chang'an City plummeted to the extreme, and some soldiers began to flee.
Three holes more than ten meters wide were lined up, and a steady stream of troops entered the city, where the fighting had stopped at the gates, and the two sides fought a decisive battle in this gap.
In the center of Chang'an City, the palace of Youda is magnificent, the majestic Taihe Hall stands in the center of the palace, the faces of the defenders in the palace are usually solemn and majestic, but today it is the people are panicking, and the inside of the closed Taihe Hall is arguing fiercely at this time.
Li Yuan is on the emperor's throne, and the heads of the ministers on the left and right below are Li Shimin and Li Yuanji, who were originally Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng as the heads of the ministers, but Li Jiancheng is dead, so he is replaced by Li Yuanji.
It's just that at this time, he didn't have much joy on his face, and he was usually hostile to his second brother Li Shimin, but today, the two brothers no longer had the-for-tat confrontation in the past, but frowned.
"Report!"
A herald ran all the way to the temple, knelt down and shouted:
"The enemy army has destroyed three sections of the city wall more than ten zhang wide, a large number of enemy troops have poured into the city, the morale of the soldiers is low, and it may be difficult to defend!"
The herald's face was unconcealed with horror, Ye Chen's direct attack through the city wall of Chang'an City was really terrifying in the eyes of ordinary people, this god-like power was the most demoralizing, if he could find a way to kill it, it would be fine, but Ye Chen was unstoppable all the way, and even the stone thrown by the trebuchet hit it head-on, the morale of the Tang army would have been frightened long ago, if it weren't for the fact that there was nowhere to escape from Chang'an City, the Tang army would have collapsed long ago in the field battle.
Waving his hand to let the herald retreat, the hall was even more silent, none of the courtiers dared to speak, Li Yuan's eyes on the throne turned around on the courtiers, and finally fell on his second son, and asked:
"Shimin, do you have a way to repel the enemy?"
Li Shimin looked up after a while and said:
"Unless you can lead the puppet emperor into the trap, no one can stop you!"
Li Yuan immediately said:
"There is a trap in this Taihe Palace, even if the Great Grandmaster is trapped, it is a dead end, you have to find a way to lure him over and put him to death."
Li Shimin couldn't, and said:
"Respect my father's decree!"
Li Yuan waved his hand and signaled to retreat.
Waiting for all the courtiers to retreat, Li Yuan still sat still, and after a while, some courtiers turned back, but the number was only less than one-third of just now, including his two sons, Li Yuan did not beat around the bush and said directly:
"The enemy army is strong, I am determined to move the capital to Chengdu in Shuzhong, and leave immediately!"
These courtiers who came back are all important ministers in the court, of course they know what it means to move the capital now, and some people are unwilling, an old minister said:
"Your Majesty, Chang'an and even Guanzhong are the important places of my Datang, if you lose it, the national strength will be greatly damaged, although Shuzhong is rich, but it can only be a corner of peace, it is difficult to counterattack Chang'an, in the long run, my Datang will no longer have the opportunity to compete in the world."
Of course Li Yuan knew about this, but he couldn't help it, not to mention that the Dakun army had invaded Chang'an at the moment, just to say that the Turkic coalition army would go south soon, and at that time, in the face of Ye Chen's joint attack with the Turkic coalition army, it was certain to die if he stayed in the Hetao and Guanzhong areas.