The city gate slowly opened, and thousands of foot riders marched out of the city in a neat array, forming an imposing picture together with the tall city wall behind them.

"War, war, war!"

At the same time, the defenders at the head of the city also shouted loudly under the command of the generals, completely suppressing the noise outside the city.

Seeing the enemy army leaving the city, Li Tai did not order the battle in front of him, but ordered the army brigade to withdraw to the rear, withdraw from the area covered by the fire on the city, and only left more than 200 horsemen in the same place, looking at the other party's men and horses out of the city.

Dugu Yongye, who led the crowd out of the city, saw this scene, and suddenly felt a little difficult in his heart, Taishi Di just ordered him to force back the enemy army, not to attack outward, but now this situation is forced to retreat or not?

He personally led his troops to cross the moat and shouted to the loose cavalry on the opposite side: "The thieves have come here to disturb, but they dare not fight, they are really gutsless rats!" ”

"The high thief is dead, and the townspeople are descending quickly!"

Although the crowd on the other side was smaller, they were still not to be outdone, and after hearing this, they responded with this voice, so angry that the soldiers were full of anger, and they just wanted to rush out and cut down these thieves who were opening their mouths.

However, the night is deep in the suburbs, and no one knows how many thieves and horses are hidden in the night, and if they advance rashly and fail to retreat, they may be outflanked and killed by the treacherous and cunning thief army.

Dugu Yongye saw that the other party had no intention of fighting, so he led his troops to retreat slightly, and the enemy knights who were cruising outside saw this scene, and immediately approached more than a dozen zhang, and in the night, there was also the sound of galloping horses' hooves, and hundreds of cavalry rushed into the line of sight, and quickly retreated.

After seeing this scene, Dugu Yongye's heart couldn't help but sink, knowing that his team of people out of the city was targeted by the enemy, and if he retreated back to the city defense, the enemy would wait for an opportunity to rush in and knock on the city gate.

He couldn't fight, he couldn't retreat, and he was a little confused for a while, not knowing what to do next.

Faced with such a situation, Dugu Yongye couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart that Di Gan's strategy of defending the city was too conservative, and the thousands of men and horses who withdrew into the city from the surrounding area failed to bring a qualitative improvement to the strength of the city defense, but instead let a large number of people and horses trap in the city, and surrender a large area of tactical space outside the city to the enemy army, so that the huge Jinyang Tyrant Mansion was as dangerous as an enemy country when he left the city!

Of course, he did not reach the height of the status of Xi Digan, but he only criticized it from the perspective of city defense tactics, and he did not feel the pressure brought by the aggressive and old style of the Gao father and son.

It's not that he is unwise, but if any two choices are placed in front of him, he is not considering which one is more effective and comprehensive, but more stable.

Even if the army is already under pressure at this moment, these enemies are like headless flies, in addition to verbally stimulating the military and civilians in the city to make people panic, in fact, they can't cause any substantial damage to the defense of Jinyang City.

From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with the choice of Di Gan. As long as this situation can be maintained until the night recedes, the field of vision is open and transparent again, and the enemy forces are exposed, whether it is offensive or defensive, it can become calm.

At this time, the city head of the city also noticed the embarrassing situation of Dugu Yongye's department, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "This thief will be treacherous and cunning, I am afraid that he will not specialize in fighting here, and inform the guards everywhere that they need to prevent attacks and harassment from other places, strictly guard against them, and do not attack without authorization." ”

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In the absence of the initiative, it is best to be the defending side and adapt to all changes.

Before the thieves were rampant, Di Gan sent Dugu Yongye out of the city to meet the battle to boost morale, and the direct retreat of the thief army also proved that they did not have the strength and idea of storming Jinyang City, so they only need to stabilize the moment and avoid revealing more flaws, then the thief army will definitely retreat without a fight. At that time, whether to pursue or not, the initiative will naturally return to their own hands.

Although it is a bit embarrassing to be broken into the lair by the thief army, blocking the door and shouting without making a countermeasure, it is nothing compared to the safety of Jinyang City.

Wei Digan was even faintly glad that the thief army went straight to Jinyang along the way, and with its ability to defeat the men and horses sent before, he knew that his strength was definitely not weak, and if he didn't come to Jinyang and poisoned other places, it might bring greater losses. At least now, with Jinyang Jiancheng and enough people left behind, he can still try to let the other party go in vain.

As his prophecy was soon fulfilled as the command was passed on, he was suddenly attacked by enemy rockets a few miles away, where the walls between Luo Cheng and Zhou Cheng were relatively weak.

Due to the need to appease the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in the city, the fire on the top of the city was so bright that some of the weaknesses of the city's defenses were also exposed, so they would be accurately attacked by the enemy.

However, under the careful deployment of Di Gan, these places have also arranged far more defenders to garrison than other places, coupled with the transmission of the previous order, the defenders are full of vigilance, as soon as they perceive the rapid approach of the enemy cavalry, they quickly make a response, most of the rockets are blocked by the city head shield, and occasionally a few lost sparks cross the city head and fall into the city, but they are also extinguished in time, without causing the fire to spread.

As time passed, the frequency of nuisances made by the bandit army outside the city became less and less, and it was obvious that the lack of skills and fatigue of the donkey was revealed.

On the other hand, the defenders of the city, because of the success of repelling the harassment of the thief army several times, the initial panic of being attacked by the enemy has disappeared, and the belief of invincibility is once again born in their hearts. Even the people who were in a panic in the streets and alleys of the city before saw that the enemy army had not been able to enter the city for a long time, so they laughed and scolded and went home one after another to make up for sleep.

In addition to personally sitting in the defense line at the head of the city, he also sent troops several times to reiterate that he should defend solidly and not act rashly.

However, just when he thought that he could hold on until dawn, there was a sudden noise from the south of Luocheng, and soon a fire rose into the sky, and its location should be the area between Xishan and Jinyang Palace.

"Not good! Hurry up and find out what's going on in Jinyang Palace! ”

Seeing this scene, Di Gan suddenly panicked in his heart, and hurriedly ordered.

Jinyang Palace is a palace building independent of Jinyang Zhucheng defense, construction began last year, and has not yet been fully completed, so it has not formed a unified defense.

Due to the lack of strength to defend the city, Di Gan arranged most of his troops in several personnel centers such as Luocheng and the Prime Minister's Mansion, while Jinyang Palace was an unimportant area, and the number of troops left was not much.

However, the so-called insignificance of Jinyang Palace is only relative. This palace was built in the name of the royal family, and in fact it was an important military workshop in Jinyang.

King Gao used to have the ugliness of chasing the king, so although the emperor of Yedu was just a puppet, in order not to increase the number of people, King Gao has always treated him with courtesy, so there are many precious materials stored in this Jinyang Palace.

If you add the special political significance of this palace, if it is conquered and looted by the enemy, the consequences will definitely be very serious!

Wei Digan only felt that the enemy had come from afar, and he must be very unfamiliar with the defense pattern of Jinyang City, so he should not have found the hole in the defense of Jinyang Palace so accurately, and he was also a little dissatisfied with Yuan Wei Huangwei in his heart, so he didn't pay too much attention to it.

But when the enemy really launched an accurate attack on Jinyang Palace, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, but before he could send men and horses to reinforcements, the enemy army outside the city, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly made a loud noise, and more than 200 heavily equipped heavy horsemen rushed out of the night and rushed straight to the Dugu Yongye Department who was stationed in front of the city gate.

"The Woman Misled the Country ......"

As soon as he took a look, he saw that these horses and armor were all Jinyang soldiers' equipment, and now they were actually draped on the enemy's soldiers and horses, obviously captured from the army of Xiurongcheng on the front road, and he was full of anger in his heart, and he regretted more and more that he should not listen to Lou's words and attack the enemy with Hu Shang armies.

Dugu Yongye in front of the city gate suddenly looked bitter when he saw this, and he was busy raising a banner in the city to ask what to do. With his combination of light cavalry and infantry and the battle with the opposite mask-mounted heavy cavalry, it is conceivable how the result will be, once it is dispersed, it will be even more dangerous in this outnumbered outnumbered outskirts.

At present, the defenders in the city are not enough enough, and of course Di Digan can't ignore the safety of these thousand men and horses, so he can only immediately mobilize people and horses to assemble in Chengmen and bring back the men and horses of Dugu Yongye's department, but because of this, he has no time to send men and horses to Jinyang Palace for reinforcements.

Li Tai, who had been directing all kinds of harassment in the night to attract the attention of the defenders, also had a smile on his face at this time, and while ordering Li Yunxin to lead nearly a thousand men and horses to retreat to the middle of the wind valley river, he personally led the other men and horses to bypass Jinyang Luocheng at the foot of the West Mountain, and under the guidance of Luo Chao's cronies, they rushed straight to the direction of Jinyang Palace.

At this time, the Jinyang Palace was already in chaos, Zhu Meng, Liang Shiyan and other 800 soldiers sneaked into here from Xishan under the leadership of Luo Chao, followed the Xishan quarry road directly into the palace, and unexpectedly killed the guards.

There were not many defenders here, and after being chased and killed by a sweep, they were quickly expelled to a narrow corner, and there were many defenders who surrendered in a hurry, and then they were forced to ask where the palace gate was, and then they divided into guards.

When Li Tai led his troops to arrive, the palace had already been completely controlled by Zhu Meng and others, allowing them to have a stronghold in the cities of Jinyang.

Looking up at this magnificent palace building, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh that their Western Wei Emperor was really miserable, even if he was a puppet, he couldn't stand up to a powerful minister. Although this Jinyang Palace is only a palace retreat, and the Emperor of the Eastern Wei Dynasty may not even be here, it is still far more magnificent than the palace in Chang'an!