The third update was also the coldest moment of the night. The wind was cold and ten thousand Sui cavalry were silently advancing towards Chang'an on the official road. They were getting closer and closer to Chang'an City. On the moon-like night, they could clearly see the long city walls in the distance.

At this time, a scout rushed over in the darkness and soon came to Yang Yuanqing. He immediately bowed and said, "Your Highness, the Tang army mainly protects the West and North cities. There are fewer people in the South and East cities, but you can see a faint fire on the top of the city. There should be many people hidden in the corridor of the city wall."

Yang Yuanqing nodded. This must be the young and strong civilians in the city mobilized by the Tang Dynasty to participate in the war. There were enough military armor in the military weapon supervision warehouse to quickly arm the 100,000 army. It seemed that the Tang court was not stupid. They had realized that they would attack Chang'an again.

"Your Highness, how should I fight?" Luo Shixin asked in a low voice.

Yang Yuanqing stared at Chang'an City for a moment and sneered, "Tang army is a headache for treating the head, and a foot hurts. They will not learn from the fundamental lessons. They will use the method of hitting the west. I will attack the west and attract the main force of the enemy. You will lead a thousand brothers to attack the east and the east and the west."

"I understand!"

Luo Shixin ran away, and heard him shouting loudly in the dark: "First Battalion and Second Battalion follow me!"

The army began to be divided into two parts. Luo Shixin led a thousand cavalry to run eastward, and they took away thirty siege ladders.

The team continued to move slowly. When he was three miles away from Chang'an City, he faintly heard the harsh bells coming from the top of the city. It was particularly clear in the quiet night that the Tang army guarding the city discovered the enemy situation and sounded the alarm bell.

The city of Chang'an was already in chaos, with 50,000 young and strong new soldiers swarming up the city. Under the loud scolding of the officers, groups of soldiers rushed to the city, while the Jinwu Guard quickly retreated to the inner city and built a second defensive line.

Although 50,000 young and strong new recruits were recruited, and many of them were the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty in the past. Being a soldier does not mean that they can quickly form combat effectiveness. They have never conducted training, and the soldiers do not recognize their generals, and the generals do not recognize their soldiers. The command is not smooth and the orders are not fulfilled, which is actually no different from a group of mobs.

In addition, it was dark night, and dense soldiers were crowded on the west city wall. They were nervously holding spears, holding bows and arrows in the front row, looking at the movement outside the city with horror. The commander of the Tang army in charge of commanding this team was Li Xiaoji, the Minister of the Honglu Temple and the Prince of Yong'an County.

He rode on a war horse, holding a horse spear, and followed more than a hundred personal soldiers. The chaos in the city made him very anxious. He kept shouting loudly: "Don't stand in one place, the generals of each leader control their soldiers and defend according to the area divided during the day!"

Although he shouted loudly, amid the noise, only more than a thousand people nearby could hear his shouting. Lee Hyo-gi's voice was dumb. The city wall was still in chaos, which made him extremely depressed.

In fact, it is no wonder that the command of tens of thousands of troops has always relied on war drums and flags. These recruits recruits who were recruited when it was dark, except for wearing armor and being decent, but in fact, they have not conducted any training at all. They don’t even understand the most basic military orders, let alone night battles. Such an army is actually deceiving itself.

In the dark night, the Sui army cavalry was slowly coming. Yang Yuanqing saw that the western city, which was more than ten miles long, was crowded with soldiers, and looked spectacular under the torches. He suddenly smiled and turned around and shouted loudly: "Go to the south city!"

Nine thousand cavalry followed him to the south city, and the west city was suddenly in chaos, shouting and cursing. Tens of thousands of defenders followed the Sui army under the city to the south city. The crowd ran in the dark. Li Xiaoji was so anxious that he shouted, "Don't be confused, all the generals restrained their own soldiers!"

But his command had no effect, and no one listened to his command. At this time, a soldier ran over and said loudly: "Prince, Prime Minister Dou Xiangguo please control the army and don't be confused!"

Lee Hyo-gi was so angry that he cursed: "How do I command these mobs? If you have the ability to let him come, I won't care!"

On the inner city wall, Dou Gui looked at the tens of thousands of soldiers in the outer city running in chaos, with no rules. He couldn't help but sigh. It would be a long time for him tonight.

At this moment, the Sui army, who had just arrived at the southern city, suddenly turned around and ran back to the western city. The city was in chaos again, and tens of thousands of soldiers ran to the western city with exhaustion.

...........

Just as Yang Yuanqing mobilized the defenders on the city to run back and forth in a teasing manner, Luo Shixin led a thousand Sui troops to reach the East City. Since almost all the main forces of the Tang Dynasty were attracted to the West City, there were less than five thousand defenders on the East City, which was more than ten miles long, standing sparsely on the wall, led by Li Zhongwen, the minister of Taichang Temple.

According to the prior division of labor, each of the four walls of Chang'an had a minister who could lead troops to fight. In addition to the North City where Changsun Shunde led 10,000 Yulin Army guarding, the South City was in charge of Dou Dan, the Hall Supervisor, and the West City was in charge of Li Xiaoji, and the East City was in charge of Li Zhongwen, the Taichang Temple Minister, and then the Prime Minister Dou Gui was in charge of Dou Gui.

Since the Sui army came from the west, the focus of defense was on the West City, and the remaining Nancheng and Dongcheng deployed 5,000 people. Originally, if the Sui army turned to Nancheng or Dongcheng, the army would quickly transfer to Nancheng or Dongcheng, so that it could not only concentrate troops to defend, but also provide flexible and mobile support.

They thought it carefully, but they did not expect that the Sui army would come back in the middle of the night, nor did they expect the difficulty of commanding the new recruits.

Two miles away, Luo Shixin looked at the defenders on the top of the city. On the walls that were more than ten miles long, the defenders were mainly distributed in the south and central areas, while the northern ones were few, with only hundreds of people defending. Luo Shixin pondered for a moment, waved his hand and rushed forward quickly and bowed: "Please give me the order!"

"Take seven hundred brothers to the south to attack, and when I go up the city from the north, you will immediately come and support!"

"Abide by the order!"

Dong Xueming led 700 people to go south quickly, with only 300 people left by Luo Shixin. Luo Shixin ordered two soldiers, "You two go to the city to explore the terrain and don't be discovered by the above."

The two agreed and bent down to rush towards the city wall under the cover of the night. Sometimes it was fast and sometimes it was slow. Gradually, it reached the moat, crossed the moat, and stood against the wall.

At this time, Luo Shixin's eyes turned to the south and looked at the situation there. Suddenly, a hurried bell came from the top of the city, "Dang! Dang! Dang!" Someone shouted loudly, and the defenders on the top of the city rushed to the south. It should be Dong Xueming who attracted the attention of the defenders on the city in the south.

Luo Shixin stared at the top of the city, and waited for the defenders on the city to run four or five miles away, he whispered: "Follow me!"

Three hundred soldiers had already turned over and dismounted, carried two siege ladders and followed Luo Shixin toward the city wall, "General!" The two soldiers under the city shouted in a low voice.

The moat had frozen. They rushed over the moat and set up the siege ladder to the city wall. Suddenly, a shout came from the top of the city: "There is an enemy!" Then an arrow shot at the "swoosh!" and hit the shoulder of a Sui soldier. The Sui soldier screamed and turned over and fell to the ground.

Luo Shixin was furious and climbed up to the top of the city with a large iron spear. Dozens of Sui soldiers behind him followed him upwards. The soldiers on the top of the city did not all go to the south to defend. There were more than 200 people. One sentry happened to probe and saw them.

The shouts of sentries alarmed the guards. They rushed up from all directions. Several soldiers grabbed the iron hook of the siege ladder and wanted to push them down. At this moment, Luo Shixin jumped onto the top of the city, roared, and swung his big iron spear, "Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!" Three guns pierced the throats of the three soldiers.

Dozens of soldiers rushing up, and dozens of spears stabbed Luo Shixin together. Luo Shixin's murderous intent broke out, and a large iron spear swept across, and more than a dozen spears were interrupted by his spear head.

He roared and rushed into the enemy group. His big iron spear flew up and down, and he was unstoppable. In a moment, nearly thirty people were stabbed to death by him.

In the city, except for the brigade commander and two teams, the rest were new soldiers. They had never seen such a fierce and domineering general. They killed dozens of people in an instant. Even the brigade commander and team were dead at his hands, as if the god of killing had arrived. They were so scared that they were out of possession. They shouted, turned around and ran away.

At this time, Luo Shixin's subordinates quickly climbed the city and occupied an area in the north city. Several soldiers lit rockets and shot them into the night sky together. Several rockets crossed the heavy night sky, as if sparks blooming in the dark night.

Outside the West City, Yang Yuanqing led the cavalry without launching an attack, restraining tens of thousands of people in the West City. Suddenly, a soldier pointed to the east and shouted: "Look at your highness, rocket!"

Yang Yuanqing also saw dozens of rockets crossed the night sky. Luo Shixin was successful. Yang Yuanqing was overjoyed and shouted: "Go!"

He turned his horse's head and ran towards the East City, and nine thousand cavalry followed him to the East City...

Not only Yang Yuanqing saw it, Dou Zhi in the inner city also saw the rockets. He was stunned. Did the Sui army have already killed the city? He immediately reacted and shouted anxiously: "Order the army in the outer city to support the East City quickly!"

The shouts of killing in the East City were shocking the sky. Li Zhongwen led thousands of troops to fight against Luo Shixin's 300 people. Luo Shixin shouted loudly and went up to fight. The three hundred soldiers withstood the impact of the Tang soldiers and launched a fierce battle on the top of the city.

Luo Shixin's big iron spear was like a storm, and there were corpses everywhere, screaming endlessly. The remaining 300 soldiers cooperated with each other, and 100 people used their shields to defend the rain of arrows shot from the inner city. The other 200 people followed Luo Shixin and the Tang army to fight fiercely, killing the Tang army soldiers backwards step by step.

At this time, Dong Xueming also led 700 soldiers to arrive. They boarded more than a dozen siege ladders, quickly climbed up to the top of the city, and joined the battle.

As thousands of Sui soldiers entered the battle, the Tang soldiers on the East City could no longer resist. They were all new recruits, many of them were shop assistants, and helpers in the West City. Most of them had never experienced the cruelty of the battlefield. When they saw corpses all over the ground, their heads rolling around and their meat flew everywhere, they finally couldn't bear the extreme fear in their hearts and their morale collapsed.

Thousands of defenders turned around and fled, some ran towards the south and west cities, and some rushed directly down the city and ran along the wall corridor. Luo Shixin rushed into the city tower that had been burned halfway through the day. Dozens of soldiers pushed the iron gate winch pole, and the winch turned. With a loud rumbling sound, the Chunming Gate of Chang'an was slowly opened.

......(To be continued...)

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