No matter how perfect the disguise is, the flaws will be seen by those who are interested. However, in Chang'an City right now, there are not many people who are as interested as Hengrou arresting the head, but there are many smart people like Sun Renyu. From the moment Guo Ziyi's envoy was safely sent down to the city wall.
From the moment everyone knew that Li Guiren and Zhang Tongru were planning to give up on Chang'an. No one wanted to get into trouble at this moment. They didn't want to bring disaster to themselves and the family behind them just because they were being serious for a moment.
Walking through the long street and passing through the narrow alley, he left the grain depot behind him in the blink of an eye. When he looked up, the West City Gate was already close at hand. Jia Chang waved his hand behind him, quickly jumped off his mount, and deceived Bai Tian from Zhang Tongru's hands to Ling Jian Gao Gao Gao.
He raised it up and walked at the front of the team. Song Wuze led a group of brothers, abandoned their horses, held horizontal swords, and followed menacingly. The group approached the city gate arrogantly, leaving more than a hundred brothers on standby.
The other half, under the astonished gaze of the defenders, trotted along the horse paths on both sides of the city gate and broke into the enemy tower.
The general on duty tonight is a distant nephew of Zhang Tongru. His name is Zhang Baoyu. His character and skills are not top-notch. His only advantage is that he obeys his uncle's orders, so he was assigned to the most critical position by Zhang Tongru.
Supervise, contain other generals, and ensure that the city gates are in perfect condition. Of course, the four captains who were supervised were not willing to be called around by a loser every day. In their free time, they often gathered together to drink and complain. After going back and forth, they became familiar with Jia Chang.
A lot of benefits have been gained from the Jia family
Several captains were short-tongued. When they saw the person coming was Jia Chang, and saw the command arrow held high in his hand, of course they couldn't say anything harsh. The guard general Zhang Guogui was hiding in a small cubicle on the second floor of the watch tower.
While sleeping soundly, I heard the noisy footsteps outside. I turned over lazily, frowned and shouted, "Who is outside? You have to mess around so much in the middle of the night to let everyone sleep."
"It's Mr. Jia, holding Lord Tongshou's command arrow, saying he's here to inspect the city defense." The soldiers who were dozing at the door turned their heads and reported in a very low voice.
"He? Uncle, no one has any use for him anymore? Why not make him a general? Don't talk to him, let him fiddle with it." Zhang Baoyu didn't even bother to think about it, and gave an instruction casually.
"Yes." The Guardsmen, who were very sleepy, agreed and continued to sleep with the Hengdao in their arms. A captain surnamed Wang who was closest to the watch tower heard the conversation between the two. He spread his hands to Jia Chang very apologetically and said:
A helpless expression
"It's okay, I'm just going through the motions. Chang'an City will be handed over sooner or later anyway, so there's no need to take it too seriously." Jia Chang wished that Zhang Baoyu would ignore him, and said with a smile. Then he walked slowly to the city wall, unplugged his
The torch shined downwards, and then slowly inserted the torch back.
Song Wu, who was wearing a captain's uniform, followed suit and walked slowly to the other side of the city gate, pulled out another torch, and shook it once, twice, three times outside the city, paused briefly, and then
Once, twice, three times. He paused for a while, then raised the torch and continued to shake it back and forth, once, twice, three times...
"Brother, what are you doing?" The captain surnamed Wang who was accompanying Jia Chang suddenly became alert. He pressed the handle of the knife and rushed towards Song Wu. After taking a few steps, Jia Chang was caught in the act of stumbling over the armor and silk sash.
He grabbed the latter and said loudly: "He is cautious in nature. He is probably afraid that he didn't see clearly just now. What's the point of you arguing with him? Anyway, this city will be handed over sooner or later."
"He..." Captain Wang was stunned for a moment, turned around, and looked at Jia Chang in astonishment. He met Jia Chang's kind eyes.
"Brother, think about it for yourself, is there any hope for the Yan Kingdom?" In Jia Chang's other hand, he had replaced the command arrow with a short dagger at some point, and it was green and shining coldly.
"You..." The hairs on Captain Wang's body stood up and he wanted to warn the surroundings, but he was afraid of being stabbed by Jia Chang with a poisonous dagger. Both parties died together. When hesitating, he only heard "Hmm -" "Hmm -
"After a few muffled groans, not far away, the other three captains, who had been brought by Jia Chang, covered their mouths and cut their throats with a horizontal knife.
"Send the signal and seize the city." Jia Chang made a decisive decision and loudly ordered Song Wu, Chu Duyan and others to take action immediately, swinging his sword and slashing the rebels near the enemy tower. They were caught off guard, and most of them were chopped down immediately. The remaining half pulled out the sword.
They were all huddled together and didn’t know how to deal with it.
"Woo-wu-wu-wu-wu-" A low horn sounded from under the city wall, and immediately, countless iron hooks were thrown onto the top of the city with crossbows, while the brothers brought by Jia Chang
Lean towards the battlements, protect the iron hooks and ropes, and support the Anxi Army below to climb up.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" At this moment, Zhang Baoyu, who was sleeping in on the second floor of the watchtower, was completely awakened. He put on his clothes and asked outside
"It's okay, you're always sleeping, so I'm here." Captain Wang suddenly made up his mind, raised his neck and shouted to the commander in the enemy building. Then he stretched out his hand to push away Jia Chang's poisonous dagger, raised his arm high, and pointed towards the surroundings.
The brothers who were in a mess shouted: "Don't move, I have dedicated the city gate to the Tang Dynasty. If you don't want to die with Li Guiren, put down your weapons and follow me to build the suspension bridge."
"Put down your weapons and build the suspension bridge to capture Chang'an. Everyone can play with the cockfighting and women in Jiajialou as they please." Jia Chang took over the words of the captain surnamed Wang without politeness and added loudly.
"Put down your weapons, Li Guiren is ready to run away, why are you still stupidly guarding the city gate for?" Song Wu and others continued to kill with their swords, while loudly admonishing.
On the one hand, there is an outcome that cannot be changed, and on the other hand, there is the emperor-level enjoyment of Jiajia Tower. Only a fool does not know how to choose "Danglang". Except for a few slow-responsive people, most of the defenders near the west city gate have given up.
He resisted and threw the weapons in his hands all over the ground.
"Lower the suspension bridge, swing open the iron gates of the Wengcheng, and let the brothers of the Anxi Army enter through the gate. There is no need to bother climbing such a high wall." Since the captain surnamed Wang has chosen to surrender, he might as well be a good man and do it to the end.
He waved and rushed towards the oar of the suspension bridge first.
Jia Chang and Song Wu looked at each other and tacitly ordered their brothers to get out of the way. The defectors immediately followed behind the captain surnamed Wang. Some went to build the suspension bridge, and the other went to pull the bridge between Weng City and the inner city.
iron gate
In the city gate cave under the iron gate, a dozen panicked defenders, led by a captain, were desperately resisting the attack of Wang Shisan and others. Suddenly, they heard the sound of iron chains behind them. When they looked back, they saw the city defense.
The vital gate was already slowly rising. Knowing that it was pointless to resist any longer, he sighed and took the initiative to throw down his weapons.
Wang Shisan did not make things difficult for the other party. He immediately led his brothers to rush over, and unbolted the door of the outer city with all his hands. He pulled the city gate from the inside and "squeaked" the city gate that had been locked for more than half a month.
Groaning, a gap opened, exposing tens of thousands of newly lit torches outside the city.
"The city gate is open, the city gate is open." Someone cheered loudly, followed by countless people responding in unison. The Han Wan Qi Yu Xie led the elite Tiger Wing Battalion, and the first wave rushed through the city gate and followed the horse road again.
Rushing to the city wall to prevent a sudden reversal of the situation, Wei Feng led the heavy armored infantry to assemble on the streets inside the city gate, forming a formation to prepare for the enemy's reinforcements sent from other locations.
The area above the city gate had long been in complete chaos. Song Wu and his brothers who had sneaked into the city before were trying to fight for the enemy tower. The rebel leader Zhang Baoyu and his soldiers who were on duty tonight had returned to their senses.
Later, they blocked the entrance to the enemy tower and tried to protect the last stronghold. The two sides attacked each other through the narrow stone door. At every moment, corpses were pushed in or thrown out. Others had just climbed up the rope to the top of the city.
The elite Tiger Wing Battalion tried to use the old method and threw iron hooks tied with ropes to the crenels on the second floor of the enemy building to create more attack channels.
"Don't do anything, don't do anything, just listen to what Jia has to say, listen to what Jia has to say." Seeing that the last nail could not be pulled out, Jia Chang jumped out again, "Baoyu, let your people
Don't be in a hurry to die. Listen to Brother Jia's words: General Song, don't be in a hurry to make meritorious service. Baoyu is my good brother. If he has any shortcomings, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life."
Song Wu had already killed several brothers at the entrance of the enemy tower. If he had the chance to persuade him to surrender, he would certainly not insist on attacking Zhang Baoyu, the general on duty inside. Zhang Baoyu, who was not very determined at first, heard Jia Chang's words with kindness.
, his nose suddenly became sore, and he cursed with a cry: "Go away, I don't need you to be a good person. If I hadn't heard that it was you outside just now, I wouldn't have taken it lightly. You killed me, you killed me."
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"You can't say that. Although what I did today was not very authentic." Jia Chang smiled, handed the weapon to his close confidant, and walked into the gate of the enemy tower empty-handed. "Brother, I will go in empty-handed right now. If you want to
Beat or punish, it's up to you, but you have to think clearly, how long can you hold on with these two and a half men? Why don't I hand over the enemy tower to the Tang army while I, brother, can still make the decision?
Even if no one gives you credit, at least there is no problem in saving your life."
"I, I..., wuwu..." Zhang Baoyu burst into tears, not knowing how to deal with Wan Qi Yu Xie who had just rushed up the city wall. Seeing this, he immediately shouted inside at the top of his voice: "I am Wan Qi Yu Xie"
"Qi Yuxie, as long as you hand over the enemy tower, I promise to ask for credit from the general. If you come to me in the future and hold a position below the fifth rank, you can choose as many ears as you like. You don't have to be afraid that I will deceive you."
"Song's subordinates are also lacking talents like Brother Zhang." Although he despised the guard in the enemy building in his heart, Song Wu still took the initiative to show his kindness to him.
Zhang Baoyu heard it clearly, and his sorrow slowly stopped. He was able to climb to his current position only because of the care of his uncle Zhang Tongru. After his uncle gave up Chang'an, he might be punished by the Great Yan Kingdom instead of being killed along with his uncle.
If you want to be demoted, you might as well just join the Tang Dynasty. Officials can do whatever they want anyway. The latter seems to have a brighter future.
Thinking of this, he let out two more howls, "Woo, wu, wu - it's not that Zhang is unwilling to fight to the death, it's because the current situation cannot be controlled. Wu wu, wu wu..." After crying, he dropped the weapon in his hand,
He walked out of the enemy tower with his face covered.
The loss of the enemy tower announced that the west gate of Chang'an City was completely under the control of the Anxi Army. Wanqi Yuxie and Song Wu sent a signal at the head of the city. Wang Xun ordered people to go and inform Guo Ziyi, asking him to lead the army to seize the city.
Organize the troops and advance into the city in an orderly manner
Guo Ziyi was reading at night. When he heard the report from the soldiers from Anxi, he put down the "Later Han" in his hand and ordered very calmly: "Go back and tell Wang Mingyun that if you continue to attack me, I will send someone to respond." Then, laughed
Hehe ordered the soldiers to beat the drums and gather together, preparing to lay out strategies to annihilate the rebels. He slowly took his time, as if everything that happened tonight had been agreed with Wang Xun in advance, and there was no trace of panic at all.
The Major General Guo Xi who accompanied Guo Ziyi to study at night was not as well-mannered as his father. Before the messenger from the Anxi Army had gone far, he immediately raised his eyebrows and complained loudly: "This guy doesn't take your orders seriously.
We agreed to give the rebels three days to think about it, and this is the second day..."
Guo Ziyi smiled and quickly interrupted, "I just said that I would give Li Guiren three days to consider whether to abandon Chang'an, but I did not guarantee that he would not attack the city within three days."
"Father...?" Guo Xi looked at his father in astonishment, not knowing what to say. Since he received the assistance of the Anxi Army a few days ago and defeated Li Guiren, his father Guo Ziyi seemed to owe Wang Xuntian a favor.
He always tolerated all kinds of rude behavior and created opportunities for him to make meritorious deeds and gain fame.
"The Tang Dynasty today is not as good as the Tang Dynasty back then." While it was still some time before the generals arrived, Guo Ziyi walked towards the central military tent while teaching her son in a low voice, "In the Tang Dynasty back then, as long as you did things seriously, you would be successful."
If you will not be buried, you will not cause trouble. In today's Tang Dynasty, if you want to have a place in the court, you must not only be able to do things, but also learn to be a good person."
"Don't worry, Father, my child has already remembered these words!" Guo Xi responded unconvincingly as he didn't understand why his father suddenly changed the subject.
"In terms of life, the most important thing is to learn to use your heart, not your strength." Guo Ziyi ignored his son's dissatisfaction at all and continued like an ordinary old man, "There are some things in the court that you think should be correct.
You must do some things yourself. If you think it is wrong, you don't have to do it yourself. At least give others a chance. That is to say, give yourself the opportunity to be a father in this life. You don't need to be an upright minister or a straight minister, and you can be worthy of your own conscience.
, it’s enough to do something within your duty. From now on, I don’t want your brothers to become ministers through the ages, or to spread good stories with their lives. In this city of Chang’an, we don’t know how many things will happen in the future. One day, when my father is gone, you
As long as we remember what my father said today, our Guo family will be blessed with endless blessings——, as for, alas”
As he spoke, he sighed, shook his head slightly, and there was a hint of despair between his brows.
