The army of the north is going south! This explosive news caused chaos in the imperial court, and the Guanzhong soldiers were weak in air defense, and in the face of the fierce northern army going south, everyone was in danger and did not know how to deal with it.

Li Shimin and Taiji Palace urgently convened various ministers to discuss the response plan. After the dispersal of the Parliament, every minister who came out had a gloomy face and hurried steps, and it was obvious that things were more troublesome than expected, and even the minister who had been through the storm felt that it was difficult.

On this day, the garrison army of Chang'an City acted urgently to collect grain and grass from the people, disperse the people in the towns and villages around Chang'an City, and mobilize nearby materials. And there was an army of thousands of people who went to the strange workshop in the west of the city, and escorted all the stocks and craftsmen inside to a heavily guarded place in Chang'an City, and no one was allowed to approach.

Anyone can see that Datang is really in trouble this time, and a series of actions by the garrison of Chang'an City are showing that the enemy's army may hit Chang'an at any time, and they are preparing the last line of defense!

More than ten years ago, East. Suddenly. Taking advantage of Li Shimin's coup d'état and the turmoil in the country, the Turkic tribe launched a round of fierce attack, led the army south, stepped through Jingzhou, and fought until it reached the Weishui River, which was 40 kilometers away from Chang'an City, and looked at Chang'an City from afar.

If it weren't for Li Shimin's suspicious soldiers, he made a heavy promise to temporarily confuse Dong. Suddenly. It is very likely that Chang'an will be leveled by the other party.

Now, the shame of Weishui has been washed in blood, but no one expected that more than ten years later, Xue Yantuo, the great calamity in the north, would actually follow the example of the east. Suddenly. Turk, taking advantage of the Tang Army's westward expedition to the Western Regions, when the army and air defense were weak, he led the army south, and had already broken through the border, and the army went all the way south, which was overwhelming!

Li Shimin was just just in case, and several cities on the border were equipped with thunderbolt fires, originally thinking that they were used to deter the Xue Yantuo tribe, but he never thought that Xue Yantuo's entire tribe would be dispatched, even if the thunderbolt fire was against the sky, the number was scarce, and it could not resist the other party's thousands of troops.

And out of concern about the power of the thunderbolt, Li Shimin did not equip the cities in the territory with the thunderbolt, not to mention that when he went to the Western Regions, some cities near Guanzhong were transferred some troops, and the remaining defenders were not the opponents of Xue Yantuo's army.

You must know that in terms of force alone, the soldiers of the Xue Yantuo tribe are no less than the Tang army, so in just a few days, Jingzhou fell, and Yi Nan led the army to fight a bloody road and rushed straight to Chang'an.

As long as Chang'an is captured, at least half of the Tang Dynasty can be captured!

Since ancient times, the northern ethnic groups have dreamed of going south to the Central Plains, sitting on a large area of fertile land, countless gold and silver treasures, and no longer have to wander on the grassland and live a hard life.

Now that the dream is about to come true, everyone in the Xue Yantuo tribe is red-eyed because of excitement.

The country, the throne, at your fingertips! Tang ...... It seems like that's all there is to it!

Xue Yantuo's movements were very fast, and after capturing a city, he directly destroyed it, and then directly pounced on the next city, and he didn't hesitate at all, as if in their eyes, these cities were not worth their stay.

The goal is only Chang'an! As long as Chang'an is captured, everything that is destroyed will be there, Yi Nan showed a cruel smile...........

Li Shimin naturally will not sit still, the city defense of Chang'an City has been handed over to Cheng Yanjin to be responsible, Li Jing, Li Ji, Gao Shilian and other civil and military ministers have been sent out of Chang'an, to other places to urgently recruit soldiers to rescue Chang'an.

Xue Yantuo's army is still 300 miles away from Chang'an, and the Chang'an city wall has long been ready for battle, and the cannons and stone-throwing carts invented by Chen Fei have been pulled up the city wall, pointing to the north, ready to fight to the death.

At the same time, in order to reduce casualties, Li Shimin took the initiative to abandon the surrounding cities, evacuate the army and civilians, and stick to Chang'an.

He's going to fight a defensive counter-attack! Relying on thunderbolts, cannons and other advanced weapons to resist the Xue Yantuo tribe in Chang'an, and then relying on the soldiers and horses transferred from other places to recover the captured cities in the rear and surround Xue Yantuo in it, this battle, Li Shimin plans to annihilate Xue Yantuo!

If you offend me, you will be punished even if you are far away!

Dare to go south and follow the example of the east. Suddenly. Faint? Then do it as if the East. Suddenly. Prepare to be exterminated!

Li Shimin is really annoyed, since he came to power, he has never been so despised, the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions jointly attacked, captured a large area of land in Longxi, and Xue Yantuo in the north also took the opportunity to join in the fun, all the way south, destroying several cities, the goal is Chang'an.

What is this doing with him Li Shimin? Soft persimmons? Can all small countries pinch at will?

Especially those countries in the Western Regions made Li Shimin feel angry.

Okay, I haven't sent troops to attack you yet, but you came to the door first, don't you take me Li Shimin in your eyes? Even if the thirty-six effects are condensed into a rope, they will definitely burn you all, and my Li Shimin's anger is not something you can afford!

is respected as the Heavenly Khan, but now he has been provoked again and again, and it has involved the life and death of the country, which has to make Li Shimin hold back a ball of anger in his chest, and almost want to go crazy, if he does not destroy these blind bastards, what prestige will he Li Shimin have in the future?

Therefore, in this battle, only victory cannot be defeated!

The surrounding cities were all evacuated to other well-guarded cities far away from Chang'an under the escort of the defenders, and the defenders who withdrew from the cities either followed the people to other cities, or stationed in Chang'an to defend the imperial city.

Nowadays, there are defenders in Chang'an City, including 80,000 Praetorian Guards, 100,000 thunderbolts, 50 red-coated cannons, more than 100 Francophone cannons, and more than 30 stone throwers. With such a perverted defensive configuration, if the Xue Yantuo tribe doesn't know what to do, it is very likely to be attacked by a wave of counterattacks and directly annihilated!

Chang'an City has already laid out the copper walls and iron walls, just waiting for Xue Yantuo's troops to come to the door to beg for hardship!

On the other hand, Li Ji, Li Jing, Wei Chigong, Gao Shilian and others hurriedly left Chang'an City and went to Hedong Road, Hebei Province, and Henan Province to mobilize soldiers, hoping to form a huge encirclement to fill the city in the north of Guannei Province that was broken by Xue Yantuo, and block all the Xue Yantuo tribes in Guanzhong, and fight to the death!

A large net has been opened to the 150,000 troops of the Xue Yantuo tribe, but they know nothing, immersed in the beautiful dream of the iron horse to level Chang'an.

At the same time, the Western Expeditionary Army led by Hou Junji also encountered the Western Regions Alliance.

The Western Regions Coalition Army is attacking Liangzhou City, Liangzhou is a difficult bone to gnaw, the coalition army has not captured it for a whole day, but unexpectedly encountered the murderous Western Expeditionary Army.

A shocking battle broke out outside the city. The number of troops invested has reached more than 200,000, which can be regarded as a super-large-scale war in recent years.

In the second half of the night, the coalition forces were defeated with the numerical superiority, leaving behind tens of thousands of corpses, and fled to Anxi.

After this battle, the number of coalition soldiers was sharply reduced to 100,000, and although the Tang army also suffered losses, it was much smaller than that of the coalition army.

Especially the Mo Dao team of the Tang Army, the formation of 10,000 people is like a huge meat grinder, I don't know how many enemies have been strangled, the blood has been left for miles, and the earth is dyed red.

The momentum of the Tang army was high, and after a short rest, Hou Junji took advantage of the victory to pursue and led the army to attack Anxi!

(End of chapter)