In the first month of the second year, in the rainy month, cool rain fell in front of the temporary palace of Tang Emperor Li Yu in Haizhou City, Haizhou City, Nanyue Kingdom. Dongfang rushed all the way back to Nanyue from Youzhou, and the good news reached the ears of Li Yu, the temporary palace of the Tang Dynasty, as soon as possible. When Li Yu heard that Shi Jingfeng of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun was willing to pour all the troops of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to the south to jointly defeat Huang Chaoge, he stood up excitedly from the dragon chair, so he immediately summoned Li Quanzhong, the prince of the royal family, and other generals to discuss the Northern Expedition.

In the middle of the rainy month of the second year, Li Quanzhong, his son Li Ketian and his godson Zhu Yitian rectified the 600,000 Tang army and divided it into three routes to march north, Li Quanzhong led the dragon cavalry army of 200,000 to march from the Pujiang waterway, Li Ketian led the Dragon and Tiger Army to march along the left side of the Pujiang River by land, and Zhu Yitian led the Long Xiang army of 200,000 to march along the land route on the right side of the Pujiang River. At the same time, Li Quanzhong's 200,000 dragoons totaled tens of thousands of warships, carrying enough military rations for 600,000 troops for a month. The land and water sides marched side by side, and although the march was slow, the danger of being broken one by one was avoided. Shi Jingfeng transmitted military information through the Heavenly Eagle specially trained in the north to ensure that the northern and southern armies could reach Chang'an City at the same time, in case they were exploited by Huang Chaoge.

In the second half of the second year, Li Quanzhong's dragon cavalry army, Li Ketian's dragon and tiger army, and Zhu Yitian's dragon army of 600,000 troops arrived outside Tangzhou City, and at the same time, Shi Jingfeng's 200,000 Youyuncheng German army and Shi Jingchao's 200,000 Youzhou Yide army also arrived outside Tangzhou City. The 200,000 Yellow Turban Army in Tangzhou saw that there were one million Tang soldiers coming, so they planned to rely on the city wall of Tangzhou to resist desperately, waiting for reinforcements from Chang'an City to come to the rescue. Who would have thought that at that time, the remaining Tangzhou people in Tangzhou City, who had not been used as military food, picked up all kinds of sticks, flocked to the gates of Tangzhou City, and desperately opened the city gates from the inside, as a result, in just half a day, Li Quanzhong, Li Ketian, Zhu Yitian, Shi Jingfeng, and Shi Jingchao broke through the Tangzhou army guarded by the 200,000 Yellow Turban Army, and killed all the 200,000 cannibal Yellow Turban Army.

After occupying Tangzhou, the gateway to Chang'an City, in the evening of the same day, the 300,000 Yellow Turban Army that originally came to the rescue of Tangzhou retreated back to Chang'an City and joined forces with the remaining 200,000 Yellow Turban Army in Chang'an City. In the last two days of the rainy month, the dragon cavalry army, the dragon tiger army, the dragon Xiang army, the Cheng German army, and the Yi German army of one million Tang troops approached the city of Chang'an.

In the afternoon of the same day, in front of the Taihe Hall in Chang'an, on the golden jade platform, the yellow beam carved dragon and jade masonry, the incense burner was full of fragrance, and the red cotton carpet was several zhang. Nearly 100 officials of the Great Qi Imperial Court stood on both sides of the Taihe Palace, holding wat boards and not daring to speak.

On the day of Shenshi, Huang Chaoge sat on the dragon chair inlaid with gold and jade carvings of dragons and phoenixes and said: "Now that I am in the autumn of life and death, who can solve this crisis." ”

None of the civil and military officials in the Taihe Hall answered, silent, and silent.

Huang Chaoge said again: "If you don't offer any more plans, the country will be ruined in front of you, and you and I, the monarchs and ministers of the Great Qi Kingdom, will have to move our heads." ”

At the time of the day, after a long silence, a loud voice resounded through the Taihe Palace, and the Minister of State Liu Huaiyin stood in the middle of the hundred officials and said: "Chang'an City is located in the plain, backed by the King's Landing Mountains, and the loss of the gateway of Tangzhou City has caused the enemy soldiers to come to the city, and now they are already on the defensive, if they do not defeat the other party in the field battle outside the city, the war advantage is in the hands of the attacking enemy." ”

After hearing this, Huang Chaoge said: "According to the thinking of the prime minister, who should lead the troops out of the city to fight in the field now." ”

Liu Huaiyin replied: "According to what your subordinates have seen, your majesty should lead all the Yellow Turban Army, go out of the city to fight in the field, and fight to the death with the enemy." ”

Huang Chaoge snorted coldly after hearing this, and then one of Huang Chaoge's favorite ministers came out to see the wind and rudder and said: "Chang'an City is high and deep, backed by the King's Landing Mountain Range, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

Liu Huaiyin retorted: "The city wall of Chang'an City is 100 kilometers long, if the enemy army is pretending to attack the city, how can we distinguish the true from the false, if we can't distinguish it, how to focus on defense, if we disperse our forces to deploy defense, then the enemy only needs to have an elite soldier to break through the city defense, then the city defense of nearly 100 kilometers of Chang'an City will only be broken in an instant." After the defense is broken, our Yellow Turban Army will be blocked by the King's Landing Mountain Moat, and there will be no retreat, and there will be no defense, and the army will be dissolved, and the strong city will be defeated. ”

After the favored minister was refuted by Liu Huaiyin, his face turned red for a while, and then the favored minister said: "How is it the best policy for you to let His Majesty the Emperor personally go out of the city to fight, I still have a plan, that is, to attack the empty city with fire." ”

Liu Huaiyin said with a little displeasure: "You are talking about what kind of empty city plan and what kind of fire attack." ”

The favored minister said: "Spreading rumors outside the city that our army is weak but is afraid of Li Quanzhong and does not dare to confront his military horses, one makes Li Quanzhong arrogant, and the other is to divide the relationship between Shi Jingfeng and Li Quanzhong. When our army pretended to lead part of the Yellow Turban Army to abandon the city and escape, and opened the city gate, Shi Jingfeng must be the first to attack the city in front of the army in order to seize the first attack, and after he entered the city, the remaining Yellow Turban Army of our army ambushed on both sides of the city gate, prepared flammable objects such as fire oil and rockets, and besieged it with fire. Taking advantage of the fact that the men and horses on both sides of the city were in dispute between saving or not saving, the Yellow Turban Army, which had already left the city, took advantage of the fire attack to kill him and return his horse gun to leave no armor. ”

Huang Chaoge said: "What Aiqing said is very good, so act according to this plan. ”

Liu Huaiyin arched his hand and said: "This plan is not safe, I fought with that Li Quanzhong in the past, and that Li Quanzhong is not an arrogant person, he must not believe it." ”

Huang Chaoge said: "This is not good, that is not good, do you really want me to go out of the city to fight in person, if it doesn't work, won't this Chang'an City be lost." ”

Liu Huaiyin was silent for a long time, but he couldn't say a word for a long time, and the civil and military officials were silent for a while, and the Taihe Hall once again returned to the previous dead silence.

At the end of the day, in the evening, the civil and military officials of Daqi had nothing to say, and Huang Chaoge felt physically and mentally exhausted, so he returned to the inner hall to rest, and the civil and military officials in the Taihe Hall dispersed.

In the middle of the day, in the dark night, outside Chang'an City, Li Quanzhong, Li Ketian, Zhu Yitian, Shi Jingfeng, Shi Jingchao and a group of generals gathered in the military tent to discuss the countermeasures to break the city.

Zhu Yitian first said to Li Quanzhong: "Father-in-law, I have a plan in my heart, I don't know if I can talk about it?" ”

Li Quanzhong said: "Yitian bluntly said that in the last two months, you and others sent the intelligence to Nanyue as soon as possible, so that we could take precautions early and break the Yellow Turban Army." I believe you should have prepared in Chang'an City, if there is a good plan, but it doesn't hurt to say. ”

Zhu Yitian walked up to Li Quanzhong and whispered a few words, and Li Quanzhong immediately said with great joy: "Yitian, you just have to act according to the plan, and the rest of the matter will be fully cooperated with your father-in-law." ”

Zhu Yitian took two steps back and half-knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you father-in-law for your success, I will be ashamed of the Tingce army today." ”

Li Quanzhong immediately stepped forward to help Zhu Yitian and said: "Good boy, don't be sad, although you act according to your plan, you have your father-in-law to back you up, and swear to kill Huang Chaoge, a traitor." ”

Zhu Yitian arched his hand and said: "Without further ado, I'll set off." Then he turned and left the tent. Li Ketian, Shi Jingfeng, Shi Jingchao and a group of generals left under the puzzled eyes.

In the middle of the night, Zhu Yitian sneaked into Chang'an City under the nose of the heavily defended Yellow Turban Army with his superb martial arts and extraordinary courage. Along the underground drainage ditch of Chang'an City, all the way to West Street, straight into a hidden and dark residence. After Zhu Yitian saw the eldest brother Zhu Quanyu, the second brother Zhu Gaozhan, and the third brother Zhu Yougong, he didn't have time to greet the brothers and went straight to the point and said: "Big brother, you have always acted calmly and meticulously, you go to inform the thousands of brothers who are lurking in Chang'an City to gather, and then ambush at the west gate of Chang'an City, and wait until the army attacks the city, and you and my brothers will work together in the city to respond." Second brother, you have always been bold and quick to act, and you are responsible for selecting hundreds of short and agile people in the Tingce army to post notices in Chang'an City, spreading the news that the Tang Army's million-strong army has come to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army throughout the city, making the Yellow Turban Army's military spirit unstable. Third brother, you have always been outstanding in writing, and you are responsible for selecting dozens of people in the Thunder Army who can write words, and help the second brother write and post notices. ”

The next day, before dawn, the four brothers of the Zhu family began to act separately.

The next day, by the glimmer of dawn, Zhu Yougong had already written a notice in the room that "One Million Tang Army Northern Expedition Rebels".

The next day, when the sun rose and dawned, Zhu Yitian wandered around Chang'an City, secretly watching the deployment and mobilization of the Yellow Turban Army in Chang'an City. Zhu Yitian had just walked a short distance when he saw a group of Yellow Turbans collecting flammable items such as fire oil in front of the cross street. At this time, an old man, wearing a torn cotton jacket and cotton pants, knocked Zhu Yitian with a stick in his hand, looked left and right, pulled him to a dark corner in the corner of the wall, and whispered nervously: "Young people don't go quickly, let those Yellow Turban soldiers see it for a while, either they were arrested to eat, or they were arrested to be used as laborers, and they disliked me for my old bones." ”

While the two were talking, they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, Zhu Yitian looked up, a team of people and horses galloped past, and the soldiers on horseback shouted while running: "Listen to the people, all the burning materials such as fire oil in the house will be handed in, and if there is a little concealment and refusal to hand it over, they will be beheaded on the street after the inspection." ”

The old man hiding in the corner of the wall continued to whisper: "Just now I picked up a notice, and after reading it, I was so frightened that I immediately threw the notice back to its place, and the notice said that the million Tang Army was exterminating the rebels outside the city. Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army is all over the city to loot fire oil, I am afraid that there will be a big battle. After speaking, the old man's nose couldn't help but sour, and a few lines of tears flowed out, and he couldn't help crying for the people in Chang'an City who were used as military food.

So Zhu Yitian immediately pulled the old man out of the cross street, and after coming to the alley, Zhu Yitian settled the old man, and was about to leave, when the old man stopped him and said: "Young man, I can guess from your behavior that you are a soldier, it is not easy to attack this Chang'an City, the city wall here was built in the period of the First Emperor, the city wall is high and thick, there are rolling logs, and there are crossbowmen hidden in both compartments, if it is attacked, there will be huge casualties." When I was young, there was a temple in the King's Landing Mountains called "Tianqi Temple" in the Junlin Mountains at that time, so everyone secretly chiseled a gap in the west most next to the King's Landing Mountains in order to worship the temple. Later, the "Tianqi Temple" somehow declined, this gap was unpassable, after the weeds and trees were overgrown, the gap was hidden in it, the Yellow Turban Army had not yet discovered, there was no one stationed in the Yellow Turban Army, there was the only hidden gap in the wall of Chang'an City of nearly 100 kilometers, you cut down the weeds and trees for the army to pass through the grain and grass. After hearing this, Zhu Yitian hurriedly thanked the old man and left in a hurry.

After the old man looked at Zhu Yitian's departing back, he returned to his hiding place alone, before the frost moon, he was still the minister of the Tang Dynasty in Chang'an City.

The next day, Zhu Yitian found his eldest brother Zhu Quanyu and immediately changed his plan, asking him to transfer the thousands of Tingce troops in Chang'an City that had been assembled to the hidden gap near the King's Landing Mountain Range that the old man said. And he took all the tools for cutting down the trees, and opened the gap as fast as possible for the army to raid.

The next day, a steady stream of fire oil was collected by the Yellow Turban Army to the east gate of Chang'an City, and at this time, Li Quanzhong, a royal family member in the east of Chang'an City, led a large army to set up a position outside the city. Huang Chaoge ordered Liu Zhiyuan, the general of Chongtian, to rectify the matter of 200,000 Yellow Turban troops disguised as a fake escape out of the city, Huang Chaoge carried the glaive and personally came to the east wall of Chang'an City to supervise the battle, when Liu Zhiyuan was about to leave the city, Huang Chaoge walked to his side and said to his ear: "If you dare to really escape after leaving the city, I will behead your family in Chang'an, as well as your brother Liu Huaiyin's family." Liu Zhiyuan didn't change his color when he heard it, but he didn't answer.

At noon the next day, the unicorn dragon flew to Chang'an City. Huang Chaoge ordered the city gate to be opened, and after Liu Zhiyuan led 200,000 Yellow Turban troops to rush out of Chang'an City, after swaying in front of Li Quanzhong's army, he said loudly to his subordinate generals: "Li Quanzhong is mighty, I can't wait, brothers should flee for their lives." After speaking, he commanded the 200,000 Yellow Turban Army to flee in the opposite direction of Chang'an City.

Li Quanzhong, who was standing in front of the battle, had already received news from Zhu Yitian from the city, and knew that the Yellow Turban Army had collected a large amount of fire oil on the city wall. So, Shi Jingfeng ordered his younger brother Shi Jingchao to lead 200,000 Youzhou Wing German troops to pretend to attack the open city gate in front of him, while Shi Jingfeng led 200,000 Youyun Chengde troops to follow Liu Zhiyuan's 200,000 Yellow Turban Army in the direction of escape. Shi Jingfeng followed Liu Zhiyuan and just watched from a distance, and did not engage him.

When the 200,000 Youzhou Wing German troops led by Shi Jingchao began to advance step by step, Li Quanzhong ordered the dozens of Sky Eagles brought by Shi Jingfeng to be released in one go, and these dozens of Sky Eagles flew to the west of Chang'an City in a uniform in the air.

The 200,000 Longxiang troops who entered from the gap in the west wall of Chang'an City, saw the sky eagles flying in the distance, Zhu Yitian gave an order, and the 200,000 Longxiang troops rushed from Chang'an City to the east city wall of Chang'an City, and for a while, the 300,000 Yellow Turban troops on the east city wall mistakenly thought that Chang'an City had been broken, and the army's heart was a little shaken.

Huang Chaoge felt that something was wrong, and he seemed to have fallen into a trick, so he ordered the soldiers to close the city gate immediately. Shi Jingchao, who had already come to the gate of the city that was wide open in the east of Chang'an City, saw that the city gate was about to close, so he hurriedly ordered 200,000 soldiers of the Youzhou Wing German army to attack the city.

At this time, the 300,000 Yellow Turban Army led by Huang Chaoge was attacked by Zhu Yitian's 200,000 Longxiang Army and Shi Jingchao's 200,000 Youzhou Wing German Army. At this moment, Li Quanzhong ordered the 200,000 dragon and tiger army led by his son Li Ketian to attack from the south gate of Chang'an City, and Li Quanzhong himself led 200,000 dragon cavalry troops from the north gate of Chang'an City. Li Quanzhong and Li Ketian mobilized all their forces to encircle Huang Chaoge's 300,000 Yellow Turban Army from the south and north directions of Chang'an City.

Liu Zhiyuan watched from afar that Huang Chaoge's general trend had gone, so he ordered the 200,000 Yellow Turban Army to throw away the military flag of the Great Qi State to show complete surrender, and then led the 200,000 army to run in the direction of the King's Landing Mountain Range, which was his brother Liu Huaiyin's explanation to him yesterday evening, if Huang Chaoge was defeated, the two brothers would meet in the King's Landing Mountain Range when they escaped from Chang'an City.

Shi Jingfeng saw that Liu Zhiyuan threw away the military flag and surrendered, but he still did not dare to relax in the slightest, and still led 200,000 Youyun Chengde troops to follow him. Until Liu Zhiyuan led the Yellow Turban Army into the Junlin Mountain Range, Shi Jingfeng had seen the Ting Ce Army in the Junlin Mountain Range in the foggy moon last year, and finally almost wiped out the entire army. So, he was stationed outside the King's Landing Mountain Range, waiting for the battle report from Li Quanzhong and Shi Jingchao.

Seven Words Summary:

The rain moon was cool and the rain was dripping, and he returned to Nanyue from afar,

Successfully united with Shi Jingfeng and marched south to the north to encircle Chang'an.

Zhu Yitian emerged, offering strange schemes and surprise soldiers,

Huang Chaoge mistakenly believed slander, and his plan could not be an anti-China plan.