Chapter 124: Entering the Weiyang Palace
Different from the general small city, Han Chang'an City is not only high-end, atmospheric and high-grade, but also has some special urban defense design, such as "double gate and one gate"; However, it is precisely because of the pursuit of loftiness that Weng Castle with great defensive value was not set up during this period.
Take, for example, the Anmen Gate, located in the center of the southern city wall; Relative to the 12.6-meter-high city wall on both sides, there is a huge castle tower with a total of three doorways, the base alone is 16 meters wide, 60 meters long, and the total height even reaches 26.6 meters, absolutely majestic;
In the center is an 8-meter-wide and 16-meter-deep gatekeeper, and on the left and right are two small doorways that are both 6 meters wide; The so-called "double door and one gate" refers to the fact that there is a thick gate inside and outside each door opening, and a giant gate that can be dropped is also set in the middle; In fact, before the appearance of Weng City, such a city gate design was already bull's nose to the sky; Sima Yi dared not to block the city gate, and this was what he relied on.
Halfway through, Chang'an City was silent.
No one noticed that one after another black shadows appeared silently in the inner area of Anmen; Outside the Anmen, countless black shadows were cautiously approaching, two of them had even lurked on the inner edge of the moat, and if you looked closely, you could find that there was a one-armed man among them.
The Governor's Mansion, located in the southeast corner of the original Beigong site, is barely the center of Chang'an City, which is convenient for officials and generals to come and go; Outside the gate, the night guard yawned, counted the time, and waited for the shift to come; The 30 unsmiling stalwarts of the battalion all sat on the ground to recuperate, while the other group of braggart and fart soldiers leaned against the wall outside the governor's mansion, drowsy; On both sides of the long street, hundreds of black shadows slowly leaned towards the gate of the Governor's Mansion, and stopped when they were up and down a hundred meters away.
Click! Click! ……
The sound of footsteps that were not slow or hurried attracted the attention of the night guards; A figure walked steadily down the street on the right...... Just one person, without making any of the guards nervous; As the visitors approached, the guards couldn't even ask questions; Although the light of the 8 large lanterns is average, you can also see the costumes of the people who come, using halberds as weapons, and a bit of special armor, except for the backbone battalion soldiers, who else can there be?
Well, it seems to be a song length?
However, the guards were too lazy to take care of it; Lao Tzu, these people are the personal guards of Sima Yi, the governor of the capital, what about a Qu Chang? Is the backbone battalion very? No, there are 30 of them on the left side of the gate!
"What's the matter, General Dian hasn't come out yet?"
Qu Chang looked at the 30 backbone battalion soldiers on the other side and asked in a deep voice; However, he did not go over and say this, but stood at the main entrance; The closest guard was only 2 meters away, but he didn't care at all, the arrogance of the backbone battalion soldiers has always been like this.
The 30 backbone battalion soldiers sitting on the ground had all gotten up, and when they heard Qu Chang's question, they naturally leaned over...... However, only half of them really came over; Fifteen more, lagging behind, seemed to lean towards the guards brought by the other generals.
This small detail, under the cover of night, is difficult to detect; In fact, no one will doubt that everyone is a soldier of the Wei State after all, even if some of them don't look at each other, they generally don't think about other aspects.
Mutation, sudden outbreak.
Dozens of small halberds shot out in the night, and then the dancing halberds opened the prelude to death; In terms of the level of infantry melee combat, the only one in the Wei State that can be on par with the backbone battalion is the Wuwei battalion in Luoyang, and the combat effectiveness of the other infantry battalions of the existing Wei army is much worse; The 20 night guards, plus 16 guards of the generals of various departments, were only slightly more than the backbone battalion in number, and they were definitely not opponents.
The battle broke out suddenly, and ended quickly; In two breaths, the night guards and the personal guards of the generals were all slaughtered, and they didn't even have time to shout a warning. The combat strength of the two sides was a big difference, and the guards were unguarded, the incident happened suddenly, and there was no time to draw their swords; Several guards who sat on the ground and rested against the wall, because they did not defeat the sleepy insects, were completely killed by the backbone battalion soldiers in their sleep, but fortunately, Lisuo who died did not suffer much.
"Bang...... Syllable! ”
Although the soldiers of the backbone battalion worked hard, they still couldn't avoid the crisp sound of the halberd falling to the ground and the muffled sound of the guards falling; In the quiet of the night, this little movement is still relatively obvious.
After a breath, there was a rush of footsteps inside the gate; Before anyone arrives, the sound comes first.
"Old Yutou, what are you doing?" There was a low scolding sound from the inside of the door, and the door creaked open.
Qu Chang slowly danced his halberd in the air twice, and the figures on both sides of the street all showed their figures, no longer shrunk their hands and feet, and quickly approached the gate of the Governor's Mansion; For a while, the streets were dark and oppressive, and it was obvious that this Qu Chang had brought all his men.
The door was only opened by a large crack, and the people inside and outside the door had not yet looked at each other, but the action of opening the door suddenly stopped; The old man did not respond, there was a smell of blood in the air, and a large number of footsteps suddenly sounded, these three things were added together, and the guards who were opening the door, as long as they were not pig's heads, could naturally find that something was wrong outside.
"Old Yutou!"
A loud shout came from inside the gate; There were 10 guards inside the door, and they happened to pass by during the night patrol, and when they heard something abnormal, they came to ask, in fact, they wanted to take a fart by the way; But now that the situation was not right, the leader was experienced, and immediately asked a loud question, and signaled his subordinates to close the door immediately.
When it is said slowly, it is fast at that time.
Everyone in the Governor's Mansion heard this shout, and before they had time to think, a loud muffled sound followed.
"Bang!"
The gate of the Governor's Mansion was far from reaching the level of the city gate, and more than a dozen stalwarts of the battalion slammed into it, and the gate burst open.
"Kill!"
Qu Chang roared, and the soldiers behind him continued to pour into the Governor's Mansion, and the sound of killing was everywhere, directly breaking the silence of Chang'an City.
The Governor's Mansion was suddenly in a mess.
Sima Yi's personal guards took up arms and rushed to the influx of backbone battalion soldiers, loyalty and courage were reflected, the only thing lacking was combat effectiveness; There are many people and strong combat power, and the soldiers of the backbone battalion are completely slaughtering Sima Yi's personal guards, and the battle is going on at a very high pace.
In the conference hall, the tension was tense and the atmosphere was extremely strange.
Dian Lin used a small halberd to cross Sima Yi's throat; Hao Zhao, Sima Zhao and others, all with blue faces, cast rat bogeys.
When the sound of the door being knocked open came, Dian Lin kicked Sima Zhao who was blocking the way and jumped to Sima Yi's side; All this happened so quickly that even Sima Yi himself, who was kidnapped, didn't react, and the cold halberd body was pressed to his throat.
"Okay, you Dianlin, you actually took refuge in Wang Jun!"
Sima Yi gritted his teeth, eager to cut Dianlin with a thousand knives; Thousands of calculations, I can't imagine that this guy will actually join the enemy!
In Sima Yi's thinking, Dian Lin is definitely a diehard loyalist of the Cao family, and if he wants to surrender to the enemy, he must vote first...... Sima Yi has never taken Cao Ying's family seriously; Living under people, not under people, this was once a portrayal of Liu Bei, but it is also Sima Yi's innermost thoughts.
The stalemate lasted only a few dozen breaths; Before Sima Zhao and the others could figure out a way, a large number of soldiers from the backbone battalion poured into the conference hall, Hao Zhao and Sima Zhao had an average level of force, and the 8 miscellaneous generals...... The soldiers of the backbone battalion are all one in a hundred, and 3-4 soldiers are enough to get a miscellaneous general.
After some scrambling, everyone was arrested; In the rather majestic Governor's Mansion, Sima Yi and other bigwigs were tied up, and General Hulie Dianlin temporarily became the speaker of the Governor's Mansion.
Rewind the time of a stick of incense.
Excluding the backbone battalion, the Wei army in the city now has only more than 60,000 men; Because of the need to defend more than 20 kilometers of city walls, coupled with shift changes, mobility and other reasons, there are not many soldiers assigned to the one-sided city tower; Taking the southern city wall as an example, in order to prevent the Han army from attacking at night, Sima Yi released more than 5,000 people, and usually put up to 1,000 people.
Don't think that 5,000 people are a lot, more than 5 kilometers long south city wall, an average of 1 meter down a soldier; Relatively speaking, the city gate is a key defense area, not only with the addition of city towers, but also with a high density of soldiers; In the area of the ordinary city wall, the density of soldiers is lower. As one of the three gates of the southern city, Anmen, in the three-story city tower that only occupies more than 60 meters of the city wall, 300 soldiers were arranged to be on duty at night; In order to facilitate the reinforcement of the city tower by the soldiers in the city, the inner side of the city wall at a distance of 70 meters from the left and right of Anmen was built to climb the city...... But if the number of internal annihilation is huge, this design is enough to choke.
Tonight's situation is precisely that there are a large number of internal annihilations, and all of them are very strong in combat.
As soon as the Governor's Mansion started, there was an abnormality in Anmen, which was 2.6 kilometers away from the Governor's Mansion.
The number of 1,000 soldiers of the backbone battalion began to forcibly ascend the city from both ends of the Anmen Gate at the same time; The soldiers on duty at night were stunned at first, and they didn't understand how to beat their own people for Mao's own people?
When they came to their senses, some of the soldiers began to resist, but it was all in vain.
Raids were originally a matter of taking advantage; And the powerful troops, coupled with the numerical advantage, raiding their own people at night naturally took a huge advantage; The 300 soldiers on the night duty on the city tower, plus less than 200 soldiers on the two nearby sections of the city wall, were disarmed in ignorance, and some of those who dared to draw their swords to resist were all killed by the backbone battalion soldiers.
Relatively speaking, the soldiers on the second and third floors of the city tower were mostly killed because they had more reaction time; And those who stayed on the city wall and the first floor of the city tower basically became captives; For ordinary people, many times, slow reaction is also a good thing.
The soldiers of the backbone battalion were familiar with everything here, and soon, one large and two small doorways, the inner and outer doors were opened; The inner gate was slowly raised, and the huge suspension bridge was already flat on the moat.
On the walls on both sides of the majestic city tower, the Wei army, which arrived one after another, was engaged in a small-scale and high-intensity battle with the soldiers of the backbone battalion...... The width of the city wall is really limited, and in a short period of time, the two sides are not competing for the number of people, but for the level of individual combat power, which is precisely the strength of the backbone battalion. When Ada and Arno climbed the left and right walls, respectively, the battle stopped; and the soldiers of the backbone battalion are desperate, ordinary Wei soldiers can still muster up courage, but to "interact" with the Han army's killing gods, no one has this heart; Ada and Arnold stood on the city wall 100 meters on both sides of the tower, killing only the Wei army that tried to pass.
A flare rose into the air, and the dazzling light illuminated a radius of 1 kilometer outside Anmen; The Wei soldiers on the left and right sides of the city wall, who were blocked by Ada and Arnold, were suddenly frightened...... All the Wei pawns who participated in the night battle of Chen Cang didn't know what it was, but they all knew that it would be the beginning of a nightmare.
At this moment when the white light shone on the earth, the earth-shattering cry resounded through Anmen; I saw that the field was like daylight, densely packed with Han troops, and the black and oppressive flow of people was frantically pouring into Anmen!
You're a big man!
Didn't the Metropolitan Governor say that there were not many soldiers and horses in the Han army? There are at least 100,000 horses out there!
Also, why are we so unlucky? Four city walls, for Mao Han's army to choose to attack this direction?
"Run!"
The Wei soldiers on the city wall were full of grievances, shouted in unison, turned around and began to run along the city wall; The tower of Anmen could not be snatched down, and the Han army began to enter the city in large numbers, in this situation, it would be a fool not to run!
In fact, the men and horses used by Wang Jun tonight really reached 100,000; The Han army placed in the area of Fufeng County was originally 65,000, and the total number of troops that had basically completely incorporated Xu Zhen had reached more than 120,000. In the city of Fufeng County, there are now more than 20,000 men and horses left, all of whom are surrendered by the Wei army and temporarily handed over to Zhang Hu to command; For some reason, these soldiers, who originally belonged to Xu Zhen, would rather accept the Han generals to manage them than accept Xu Zhen and others...... The bitter Xu Qian, after he wakes up from hypnosis, I don't know if he will commit suicide in shame?
"Those who descend will not be killed!"
The neat shouts of the Han army filled the entire Chang'an City.
Expelled or captured, this was the order of the king of Han, and the entire Han army did not chase and kill the Wei army everywhere, but only drove the Wei army to the north of the city with open fire; Because of the collective "disappearance" of the bigwigs, tens of thousands of Wei troops were reduced to the point of going their own way, and the maximum number of establishments that could maintain effective command was only 2,000; For middle- and low-level officers who are running around with their subordinates in a daze, the choice is also very simple, just two words, "escape" or "surrender".
Many reasons are superimposed, and the battle in Chang'an City has become extremely "soft".
The Han army was not in a hurry or slow, and advanced steadily; If it is too anxious, the rabbit will bite when it is anxious, and if the Wei army who wants to run away does not survive, it will definitely resist desperately; If it is too slow, the rebel army will inevitably take the opportunity to rob civilians, kill people and set fires; As for the sudden appearance of a "heroic" figure, he raised his arms and shouted to unite all units of the Wei army to counterattack...... It's hard to say, it didn't happen that night anyway.
In fact, throughout the night, the two battles of the Governor's Mansion and the capture of the Anmen Tower were fierce; In addition, until the entire Chang'an was taken, there was no high-intensity battle.
There was no Wei army thinking of desperately resisting, and no Han army thinking of killing them all; Those who wanted to flee for their lives fled as long as they could, and several gates were all opened, and no one stopped them; If you want to surrender, it's even simpler...... Among the Han troops who entered the city, there were more than 30,000 surrendered troops, and the purpose of their coming was to be responsible for recruiting surrenders.
Inside the Governor's Palace.
Hearing the shouts and killings in the city, Sima Yi's face was like ashes.
The huge Chang'an City was taken by the Han army so easily? Countless thoughts of regret swirled around Sima Yi's head......
"General Dian, I want to see King Han!"
Sima Yi suddenly raised his head and said to Dian Lin.
"Oh? …… I'll talk about it at dawn. Dian Lin's tone was flat.
When the morning glow covered Weiyang Palace, Wang Jun was strolling inside.
After several damages and repairs, Weiyang Palace is huge in scale, with more than 40 large and small palace buildings, which are magnificent and abnormal.
Wei originally also had the idea of setting the capital of Chang'an, so it took a lot of manpower and material resources to restore the Weiyang Palace beautifully; Now, it is just used as a palace, as soon as Emperor Wei Ming came, it was full of people, and as soon as he left, it was extremely empty, and there were few figures.
In order to avoid the destruction of Weiyang Palace, Wang Jun took a lot of effort; Before the attack last night, there were only 3,500 people in the backbone camp in the city, 500 to attack the Governor's Palace, 1,000 to seize the security gate, and 2,000 men and horses, all of whom were sent to control the outer walls of Weiyang Palace; For the backbone battalion that was originally the royal guard, they are more familiar with Weiyang Palace than Sima Yidu, and they are particularly suitable for doing this, even the small number of guards guarding the palace city are relatives and fellow villagers.
With such an arrangement, Wang Jun was still worried that it was not enough; After entering the city, the Han army divided 10,000 horses, all of which were used to protect Weiyang Palace...... For Wang Jun, this is his own scheduled den, and he can't be careless.
In addition to Weiyang Palace, there were originally many palace complexes in Chang'an, but unfortunately they were all destroyed by the war one after another; Changle Palace, Mingguang Palace, Gui Palace, North Palace, and Jianzhang Palace, which was built outside the city, were all abandoned, and Sima Yi's Governor's Mansion was not built in the southeast corner of the original North Palace...... Because of this, Wang Jun attaches great importance to the safe takeover of Weiyang Palace.
It is said that modern architecture is bullish, but Wang Jun does not think so now; The topography plus the building itself, the buildings of Weiyang Palace are generally higher than the outer city wall of Chang'an, and even some of the palace foundations are higher than the Chang'an city wall! Around the Weiyang Palace, a tall wall with a circumference of 8.8 kilometers was built, and a circumference of 9.2 kilometers was built around the periphery.
I was fortunate to see the complete Weiyang Palace, and Wang Jun was a mess with emotion, this is the real high, big, and up!
The majestic city of Chang'an was taken down by the Han army intact and was rarely damaged; In four directions, on the 12 towering towers, the Chinese character golden dragon flag flutters; In the battle of Chang'an, the number of casualties was only 4,000, and 10,000 prisoners were captured; The more than 40,000 Wei troops who fled were running desperately on the Guanzhong Plain, and Deng Zhi with the Yulin cavalry was following the sheep.
Striding on the stone steps in the center of the front hall, Wang Jun was full of ambition, and about 200 dragon cannon guards followed in a neat line...... The hegemony of unifying the world has just begun. (To be continued.) )