Chapter Seventy-Four: Variables
It was just noon, and Canghu led the Yun family's townsmen to rush over non-stop.
After cutting out those who were wounded, Canghu only brought more than 500 people. However, these bloodthirsty killers were full of energy, as if they were wolves that only smelled blood.
"Lord Gongsun, the inside of the forbidden army came to report that the Marquis of Lintong's family will enter Chang'an. The people of the Imperial Lieutenant Office personally put them into the city with the warrant of Lord Zhidu. Could it be that our plan was discovered by the imperial court, and if that was the case, it would be difficult for you and me to protect our heads. ”
A staff member in charge of liaising with the forbidden army rushed into Gongsun Wei's study with a roar.
Gongsun Yi was closing his eyes and recuperating, and he had just sent off King Liang in the morning. Now is the last time to rest, and there is a bad battle to be fought in the evening. I don't know when the next time I'm going to go to bed, so it's always a good idea to take a break.
"Really?"
The words of the staff made Gongsun Yi open his eyes suddenly, and it was definitely a variable to have such an army at this time.
"It's true, my subordinates have already sent someone to the Yun family to see it. There were 500 cavalrymen, all heavily armoured and armoured. ”
"Is there any news in the palace?"
"Palace...... Oh yes. Someone in the palace said that his majesty was going to review Yu Linwei tomorrow, and he said that he was going to do a drill. ”
"Proofreading Yu Linwei? Drill? Could it be that these cavalry of the Yun family want to give Yu Linwei a drill? This is possible, these people from the Yun family have just come down from the battlefield. Maybe in order to improve Yu Linwei's combat power, let them play a drill. ”
Gongsun said the conjecture in his heart. But that's just speculation. For such a big matter, you should never make a decision based on your own conjecture.
"Closely monitor the movements of these people in the Yun family, and report back as soon as there is news." Gongsun Wei sat up from the ground and walked around the study with his shoes on, thinking about the variables of tonight's actions.
These people of the Yun family are all guys who have survived a hundred battles, if they fall to which side at a critical moment. The battle situation is difficult to say, the forbidden army of Chang'an City is in charge of all the gates of Chang'an. But the palace ban was in the hands of Yu Linwei, and after a few days of silver bullet offensive, it was just that the forbidden army of Xi'anmen was bought.
Most of the people in the Hosoliu battalion went to the Great Wall to the north to garrison them, and only 4,000 people remained. The main force of the Liang State was also transferred, and the only people who could pass through Hangu Pass to support were only three or four thousand. The two sides together are only eight or nine thousand people. And there are more than 3,000 Yulinwei stationed in Weiyang Palace. The total number of feather forests in the other palaces is no less than 5,000.
This number of people didn't have too much advantage, but at this time, there were five hundred hundred battle elites. Gongsun Wei had a strong premonition in his heart, I am afraid that tonight's things will not be so smooth. But now it's too late, the arrows have already been shot. Never to pour back again. I have to go on hard. Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven. If God bless the King of Liang. It's bound to come true.
When it came to the end, Gongsun Wei could only use this self-hypnotic Ah Q spirit to anesthetize himself.
In the midst of many expectations, night finally fell into the city of Chang'an. The large full moon slowly rises above the horizon. All the gates of Chang'an City were slammed shut.
Chang Jie, the guard of Xi'anmen, looked at the moon in the sky and gave the order to close the city gate. Sixteen sturdy sergeants, shouting trumpets, creaked and closed the heavy gates.
Chang Jie is a Jianzhong lieutenant with 800 stones, and his official position is not low. However, Gongsun Wei still bought him with 5,000 gold and the position of a general of Pingyu. He has already received a letter from Gongsun Wei, and tonight there will be Zhou Taiwei leading the soldiers of the Xiliu Battalion to enter Chang'an from his Xi'an Gate. Seize Weiyang Palace and support King Liang to ascend the throne.
There were originally 1,000 soldiers under his command, but 600 were taken away due to the tension of the war in northern Xinjiang. Now there are only more than 400 people under his command, and Chang Jie looked at the forbidden soldiers who were patrolling everywhere. After a period of calculation in his heart, he was not sure that everyone would rebel with him. His calculation was that as long as he controlled the more than 100 people guarding the city gate, the rest of the people would have to obey the coercion.
Tonight, he deliberately arranged his brother-in-law at the city gate, as long as he gave an order, there would be absolutely no problem in opening the city gate. The drawbridge is guarded by his own soldiers, and these more than 30 people are absolute loyalists who have been fed with their own silver.
As the gates closed, the unsuspecting soldiers began to look for shelter from the cold winds. Standing on the head of the city and drinking the wind in winter is really not a good job. Many of the soldiers went into the turrets, or towers. A bonfire was lit and bragged about the past while keeping warm.
Chang'an City is still prosperous, and it is not yet time for the city to close. The vendors in the east and west markets are trying their best to sell goods that have not been sold today, and the wandering warblers of the brothel are greeting customers warmly. At this time, you can't get out of the Qinglou, so you can only spend the night in the Qinglou. The girls' night-time silver is expensive.
A fire dragon meandered towards Xi'anmen, and Chang Jie had already discovered this team under the guidance of his own soldiers. The street drums of Chang'an City began to beat, and the officials of each city also waited at the side of the door, waiting for the bell of the drum tower to ring and then close the door.
The patrol officers have begun to patrol the streets, urging passers-by to hurry home.
The fire dragon meandered to the foot of Xi'an Gate, and at the same time, the Weiyang Palace was also full of Yulin guards.
Chang Jie looked at it and found that all the cavalry that came was a water of cavalry. Everyone was dressed in pitch-black scale armor with hideous visors on their faces. Even the horses were covered in jet-black makai, and each carried a long spear with a crossbow made of metal from the horse's buttocks. A stiff bow was placed in the bow pouch on one side of the collar, and a curved sword was carried at his waist, the silver-white scabbard reflecting the cold light of metal in the moonlight.
Chang Jie swallowed a mouthful of saliva, such a team is not something he can afford to provoke at first glance. Even the Yulin guards of Weiyang Palace did not have such equipment. There was only one family in the Manchu Han Dynasty that had such a cavalry, and that was the Marquis of Lintong, the general of the town army.
And in the evening, Chang Jie just heard that the Marquis of Lintong had entered Chang'an.
"Someone, don't come close. If you get closer, you will release the arrow. The Praetorian soldier on the tower shouted.
"The general of the town army, the Marquis of Lintong, is here, and the general of Xi'anmen will come to meet him quickly."
The bear's gong-like voice has a thick Guanzhong accent, and it can be heard in the empty night.
Chang Jie has no choice, Zhou Yafu's Xiliu Army has no shadow yet. The group of lynx beasts under his command were not the opponents of the Yun family's elite soldiers in a hundred battles at all, and Chang Jie took thirty personal soldiers to walk down the city tower in a panic. (To be continued......)