Temperatures are lowest before dawn, especially in winter.

And it is often the time when people let their guard down the most.

Li Jie took more than a dozen of his guards out of Daming Palace, and while running towards Yanxing Gate, he raised his heart.

If someone really seized a city gate, then it means that the defense of the entire Chang'an will be completely defeated.

He had already made up his mind, once it was really as he thought, then his only choice was to run back to Daming Palace as soon as possible, and take Li Yi directly from the Xuanwu Gate in the north of the city.

Then detour to Tongzhou and return to Hedong, the fundamental place of the Li family, and try to take it again.

Because of the preservation of Li Yi, that is to keep the last trace of luck of Datang!

Otherwise, even if he had sent his younger brother Li Yi to Fengxiang in advance, Li Yi was too young, and it was inevitable that he would be coerced by other people with ulterior motives to make the princes become puppets.

There are many examples of this in history.

The reason why he insisted on holding Chang'an, instead of choosing to take refuge,

Because this seems to be no loss, but from the perspective of his descendants, it is the biggest price.

That is, Li Tang completely lost the hearts of the people, lost the prestige of the emperor in the court and the people, and quickly went to extinction in just twenty years.

Even if the real Li Jie, that is, Tang Zhaozong, exhausted his life's work, he still couldn't take back the collapsed people's hearts.

The biting cold wind penetrated into his neck, and he wrapped himself in a large coat wrapped around his body, and walked along the Tonghua Gate of the East City Wall, and the Chunming Gate all the way to the south.

The two gates had been sealed with rocks and timber and earth as he had ordered, and a large amount of water from the river had been poured into the city, forming an iceberg four or five meters high.

Once Huang Chao really breaks through the city gate, then what will be in front of them will be an even more difficult bone to gnaw.

Although the sound of fighting in the south still continues,

But he felt a little at ease in his heart, since these two city gates had been sealed, the Yanxing Gate in front should be similar.

When a team of people hurried to Yanxingmen, everyone sighed at the same time.

Sure enough, Yanxing Gate, like the other two city gates, was sealed by an iceberg behind the gate, and the city gate was unharmed and still tightly closed.

And in the open space inside the door, nearly a thousand gods and martial guards were fighting with a group of black-clothed people, and it was time to drink tea when these people were exterminated.

Captain Eagle Yang was called to stand in front of the horse and return to the process.

It turned out that this group of people took advantage of the high wind in the night, relying on their good martial arts, and sneaked up to the city with ropes, intending to open the city gate.

As soon as they entered, they saw this ridiculously large iceberg, and in a moment of astonishment, the gong representing the enemy attack sounded, and they were immediately surrounded by the dragon guards in charge of this section of the city wall, and an encirclement and suppression began half an hour ago.

Li Jie completely put his heart back in his stomach,

"Leave me a few to live, and interrogate Huang Kou carefully if he has any tricks."

Ignoring the dying struggles of these people, he found a safe corner to stay and watched the battle, but he kept cursing in his heart.

Because he had carefully looked at the layout design of each city gate in Chang'an in Taiji Palace, he scolded the original designer of Chang'an City.

In such a world-famous metropolis, except for a few gates near the north wall of the palace city, the nine city gates on the other three sides are not designed to urn the city!

I don't know if Emperor Wen of Sui was in the water in his brain at the beginning, or if he paid too much attention to the so-called Feng Shui, this anti-intellectual plan was actually passed.

In addition, as the most important moat for city defense...

No water!

Or that there is no intention of diverting water into it at all, this is a trench!

The only thing that made him a little comfortable was that this big pit was deep enough and wide enough to cause some trouble for the other party for the time being.

The battle in Yanxing Gate soon came to an end, and Long Wuwei stabbed almost all of this group of so-called martial arts masters and rangers to death at the cost of more than 30 casualties.

Once again, it has verified that no matter how good an individual's martial arts are, it is also the truth that he will not be able to face the regular army that has been formed.

Several people in black who were still angry were all taken away by the people of the bad handsome mansion.

Li Jie believes that

Under the pressure of these agents, you can always get some useful information from them.

After all, even if you are a good man with iron beating, in the face of the cruel torture tools left by Wu Zetian, you have to confess all the colors of your wife's pants.

A black horse came galloping, and Zhang Bingchen handed over a food box with white air.

"Your Highness, this is the three treasure soup that His Majesty specially ordered the imperial chef to boil overnight, you drink it while it's hot."

Li Jie was moved, and hurriedly drank the soup made of unknown materials into his stomach, a hot breath rose in his abdomen, and the pores of his whole body seemed to be refreshed.

Zhang Bingchen did not leave, but jumped off the horse and handed the reins to one of Li Jie's personal guards.

"This black horse has an excellent load, although it is not as good as Zhang Lin's Qingyun Beast, it is a good war horse, Your Majesty ordered the slave maid to send it."

Li Jie thought of the situation when he asked Li Yi for 300 royal horses to pull the cart last night, and he was amused.

So, riding his own white horse around the black horse a few times, it felt a lot better than the current one.

Thinking that I have to go to meet that Chai Cun today, I don't have a similar horse, how can I rob his Qingyun Beast?

patted the horse on the neck with his hand,

"It's up to you today!"

A large pot of hot soup made him sleepy, and seeing that the sky had begun to glow white, he did not go directly to the city wall and entered the gatehouse to keep warm, but took people to start walking along the root of the city wall.

When passing by the Lizheng House, this large square close to the east city wall has been fully requisitioned, and the inside is still brightly lit, and you can walk into a courtyard at random to see that nearly 100 craftsmen here are rushing to make bows and crossbow arrows overnight.

In fact, such workshops for making weapons are generally set up in some military towns outside the city, and they are not allowed in the city.

But fortunately, the north and south yamen have their own arsenals in the city, and over the years, they have unknowingly hoarded a large number of arrowheads, although most of them are rusty, but with a little grinding, they can be used with arrow shafts.

Li Jie touched his chin, called the head of the craftsman and said, "Just grind the tip and edge of this arrow, and keep the remaining rust!" ”

The man was stunned for a moment, "Your Highness, although this can speed up the production and make the middle one get "tetanus", but with rust, it will affect the penetration of the arrow, and a slightly thicker iron armor will not be able to shoot into it." ”

Li Jie stroked his forehead, "Outside the city, most of the troops are composed of peasant tenants, except for some soldiers who surrendered, how many people can wear iron armor?" Don't ask anything, do as I tell you! ”

After leaving this workshop for making bows and arrows, he also inspected other places where various types of defense equipment were made.

But Li Jie didn't say anything, after all, he really didn't understand, so he could only listen to the accompanying guards explain one by one.

I have to say that the war of any era is the most high-tech confrontation at that time, and many strange things are not told to him, and he is really confused.

The Ministry of War has issued a recruitment notice to forcibly requisition young men and even strong women in the city to participate in the defense of the city, and the Criminal Department has even released some criminals whose crimes are not serious to offset their achievements.

The first step in Li Jie's plan is to eliminate the discordant voices above the court.

For this reason, he almost killed a small half of the eunuchs and female officials in the palace who were related to Tian Lingzi and Liu Xingshen and held a certain amount of power.

At the same time, he took advantage of the opportunity to recover the city defense materials and knocked on those nobles and officials again, which can be regarded as temporarily unifying the voice.

And until this time,

The second step of enveloping the entire Chang'an City to resist the Yellow Nest has finally begun to officially operate.

"Do your best, listen to the destiny of heaven!"

When he looked up at the newborn sun, a black line in the distance had swept away and slowly approached...