717, Han Sui withdrew his troops (2)
Faced with the current situation, Han Sui naturally did not dare to continue to stay in Chang'an City and fight to the death with Zhu Wei and Ma Teng's coalition forces.
Therefore, Han Sui decided to withdraw the troops without hesitation, but the withdrawal of troops is not a one-time thing, and it still takes some time to arrange, for example, if you retreat, the necessary grain and grass must be carried, and all kinds of money and materials also need to be sorted out and loaded and transported first.
In addition, Han Sui also had to inform the palace lieutenants and the troops stationed in other places to prepare to retreat, of course, in the process of withdrawing troops, it was also necessary to make various arrangements such as breaking off the rear to block the pursuit of Zhu Wei and Ma Teng's army, otherwise it would not be a retreat, but a rout.
However, when Han Sui was arranging the withdrawal of troops, Chen Qun, who was originally stranded in Ma Teng's army, also returned to Zhu Wei's army under the protection of a team of Ma Teng's soldiers.
Chen Qun was sent back after seeing Ma Tengjun enter Changxin Palace with his own eyes, so he actually came to inform Zhu Weijun of the information that Ma Tengjun had entered Changxin Palace.
Chen Qun came forward to explain the situation, on the one hand, it could ensure the authenticity of the information, and on the other hand, it would also allow Zhu Weijun to be convinced of Ma Teng's sincerity.
Therefore, after Zhu Weijun knew that Ma Teng had already invaded Changxin Palace as agreed, Wei Yan naturally would not continue to fish on the frontal battlefield, he wanted to put more pressure on Han Sui, and he could not let Han Sui easily withdraw from Chang'an City.
Therefore, under the command of Wei Yan, Zhu Weijun finally launched a final attack on Changxin Palace.
At this time, Wei Yan arranged for the next group of soldiers who had been recuperating for a while, and stepped forward to replace the soldiers who had been fighting for a long time on the battlefield in front, and at the same time, the various cave houses and tiger cars and knife walls that had been prepared in the rear were also pushed up to the front battlefield with the offensive of Zhu Weijun.
With this sudden change in Zhu Weijun's new force, the new force quickly killed the unguarded soldiers of Han Sui's army on the battlefield ahead.
Han Sui's soldiers couldn't help but retreat quickly, wanting to put Zhu Wei's army within the range of the archers in the rear, and use the cover of the rear archers to dispel the strong offensive momentum of Zhu Wei's army as before, and then find an opportunity to counterattack back.
But this time, as Han Sui's army retreated, Zhu Weijun did not directly pursue it, but stopped in place to reorganize the military formation.
Immediately, the siege equipment such as the cave house car, the tiger car knife wall, and the wall climbing ladder in the rear were also pushed up, so under the protection of the shield array composed of sword and shield hands here, Zhu Weijun slowly approached the Changxin Palace in front.
Not far from the outer wall of Changxin Palace, Zhu Weijun used the tiger car knife wall as a barrier and the cave house car as a passage to form a mobile barrier, so that the Zhu Wei soldiers in the rear could be killed more safely near the outer wall of Changxin Palace.
At the same time, a large number of crossbow archers and archers in Zhu Wei's army were also protected by the wall formed by the Huche knife wall, and when they arrived near Changxin Palace, they threw crossbow arrows and feather arrows on the palace wall and the city wall behind them, suppressing the defensive counterattack ability of Han Sui's army.
Then a large number of sword and shield men rushed to the outer wall of Changxin Palace, set up ladders one after another, and began to climb and charge towards the wall of Changxin Palace.
For a while, the war became brutal.
The feathered arrows of the attacking and defending sides staggered through each other in the air, and the feathered arrows with the speed of the arrows were like the eyes of death, once the target was selected, it could make people bleed and die, although the soldiers on both sides could use their shields to protect themselves, but in the chaos of the battlefield, it was impossible to take care of all aspects.
Therefore, casualties naturally occur all the time, whether offensive or defensive, and they may be killed or injured by feather arrows and crossbow arrows falling from the sky at any time.
At this time, for Zhu Weijun's soldiers, only by killing the wall of Changxin Palace and entering Changxin Palace could they end the current catastrophe as soon as possible, so they rushed forward one after another.
At this time, Han Suijun originally killed the soldiers on the street outside from Changxin Palace and Gongwei, but most of them had been forced by Zhu Weijun to withdraw from the street at the junction of Changxin Palace and Gongwei.
At this time, outside the east wall of the entire Changxin Palace, there were no soldiers of Han Sui's army who could stop Zhu Weijun from climbing the wall and charging, and only on the east wall of Changxin Palace, the defenders of Han Sui's army still used spears, falling rocks, and rolling logs to attack Zhu Weijun who tried to climb up.
Fortunately, the east wall of this Changxin Palace is only two or three people high, after all, it is not a real city wall, so the ladder can be erected, which can completely form a slope for the attacking Zhu Wei soldiers to step on and rush up, so that it is easier to climb 90 degrees to attack the wall.
Of course, the soldiers on Han Suijun's side still have a geographical advantage, and they have various defensive preparations, so if Zhu Weijun's soldiers want to kill the wall, they still need to pay a great price.
At this time, in order to block the right side of Shangguan's back street leading to Changxin Palace, the palace captain stronghold occupied by Han Sui's army continued to send troops to counterattack, and Zhu Weijun also formed a wall barrier composed of a row of tiger car knife walls on this side to block the counterattack and killing of Han Sui's soldiers.
If you stand at the height of the battlefield and look down at this time, now on the battlefield in the north of Chang'an City, the area occupied by Han Suijun looks like a horizontal 7, the horizontal line above the 7 is the outer wall of Changxin Palace, and the side direction is the area of the palace captain and the rear Chang'an city wall.
And the focus of Zhu Weijun's attack was the horizontal line area above the 7 characters, and then blocked the side with the tiger car knife wall, but although Zhu Weijun was able to block the counterattack of Han Sui's soldiers, he still had to face the threat of the palace captain and the Han Suijun archers on the Chang'an city wall.
However, at this time, Wei Yan couldn't care about the feather arrows shot by these archers, which was already an unavoidable loss, so Wei Yan just commanded the soldiers to storm the Changxin Palace in front of him, preparing to enter the Changxin Palace in the fastest time.
Of course, if there is no Ma Teng's army in Changxin Palace now, then Han Sui can send a large number of troops to resist in the front, and send generals to lead the troops from the side, so as to forcibly break through the Zhu Weijun's blockade and kill the cave house car and tiger car knife wall that destroyed Zhu Weijun's army, so that he can still take advantage of the geographical advantage occupied by Han Sui's army to repel Zhu Weijun's strong attack to this extent.
But with Ma Tengjun killing from the western area of Changxin Palace, it was naturally impossible for Han Sui to continue to fight Zhu Weijun here.
Therefore, Han Sui only sent a part of his troops to continue to block the attack of Zhu Wei's army in front of Changxin Palace, which was actually a broken force to cover the retreat of the main army.
In the side direction, Han Sui had already begun to arrange for the army to withdraw from Chang'an City from the gate where the horizontal and vertical corners of the 7 characters were located, so that Han Sui naturally could not send troops to counterattack Zhu Wei's offensive against the Changxin Palace in front.
At the same time, with the withdrawal of Han Sui's army on the flank, the archers of Han Sui's army, who were originally on the palace captain and the north city wall, gradually withdrew, so that the pressure on Zhu Wei's army on the flank was also weakened.
Of course, it wasn't that Han Sui didn't want to take the opportunity to kill and injure more Zhu Weijun, but Han Sui was worried that if he delayed any longer, the palace captain and the army on the northern city wall would be blocked by Zhu Weijun and unable to evacuate.
The current battle situation had already left Han Sui with no time to delay, so he could only speed up his retreat......