710, Battle of Chang'an (2)

Wei Yan was also inspired by Yan Xing's act of burning Dongshi with a rocket that day, and prepared to burn down the Taishang Emperor Temple with a rocket.

Although there are many places in this Taishang Huang Temple that are earth and stone structures, there are still many places where wood is used as a beam, as long as there are enough rockets, this Han Suijun stronghold can indeed be burned.

It's just that there is a culvert in the Taishang Emperor Temple that connects to the Weishui River outside Chang'an City, so although the rocket caused the Taishang Emperor Temple to catch fire in all directions, it was finally put out in time by Yan Xing's command soldiers with abundant water sources, and the fire did not spread.

At the same time, the palace captain and Han Suijun on the side of Changxin Palace saw that Zhu Wei's army launched a fire attack on the Taishang Emperor Temple, so they also killed five or six thousand troops respectively to support the Taishang Emperor Temple.

As a result, this time the battle of the fire attack on the Taishang Imperial Temple finally turned into a melee between Zhu Weijun and Han Suijun on the back street of Shangguan.

Although in terms of performance on the battlefield, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers on Zhu Wei's side was obviously stronger than that of Han Sui's army, and they didn't need Zhang Xiu's heavy armored cavalry to dispatch, just relying on the soldiers of Wei Yanjing's southern battalion, the Han Sui army that had been beaten several times was unable to resist, and even chased Han Sui's army several times to the front of the palace captain and Changxin Palace.

However, because Han Suijun occupied a geographical advantage on the side of Gongwei and Changxing Palace, when Zhu Weijun pursued Han Suijun to the front of Gongwei and Changxin Palace, he could only temporarily retreat in the face of Han Suijun's feather arrows shot from a high place, and finally failed to completely open the situation.

At the same time, the more than 10,000 light cavalry led by Zhang Liao encountered Han Sui's cavalry who tried to sneak attack around the city outside Chang'an City, and as a result, Han Sui's cavalry was defeated by Zhang Liao with light cavalry, which can be regarded as eliminating a counterattack by Han Sui's army.

In this way, the battle situation in Chang'an City was obviously a stalemate, although Han Sui's army could not help Zhu Wei's offensive, but Zhu Wei's army could not easily conquer the Taishang Emperor's Temple, Gongwei, and Changxing Palace's several Han Sui's army garrisons for the time being.

After Zhang Xiu, Wei Yan, and Jiang Wan discussed, they still patiently prepared to capture the Taishang Emperor Temple first, and in order to facilitate the deployment of troops, Zhu Weijun first cleaned up the abandoned houses and houses in the north of Chang'an City.

In fact, it is to set fire to the remnants of the buildings here, and then send people to bulldoze the remaining earthen walls and so on, so that after a day or two of efforts, Zhu Weijun completely turned the area north of Chang'an near Han Sui's army into a scorched black open space.

During this time, Zhu Weijun's craftsmen built some cave house cars and tiger car knife walls, so the attack on the Taishang Emperor Temple began again.

This time, Wei Yan was determined to forcibly capture the Taishang Huang Temple, so he arranged the tiger car knife wall in the direction of the Taishang Huang Temple, and also laid a mobile barrier in the direction of the palace lieutenant and Changxin Palace to block Han Suijun's rescue of the Taishang Emperor Temple.

Next, Wei Yan first shot rockets at the covering area of the Taishang Imperial Temple again, disrupting the defensive position of the Han Sui army in China, and then let the sword and shield men form a shield formation to cooperate with the cave house car to rush to the direction of the Taishang Imperial Temple, and then let the archers follow and shoot arrows at the north wall behind the Taishang Imperial Temple, so as to suppress the attack of the archers of the Han Sui army on the north city wall.

As a result, this attack was like a forced demolition, directly destroying the outer wall and inner building of the Taishang Imperial Temple, so that Han Suijun, who was hiding here, finally gave up evacuating.

Next, Zhu Weijun has to face the two strongholds of Han Sui's army, Gongwei and Changxing Palace, which are almost in the north of Chang'an City, and Han Sui's army still has nearly 20,000 troops piled up, so the ultimate decisive battle with Han Sui in Chang'an City is still relatively fortunate.

Han Sui gathered so many troops here, and naturally he didn't wait for Zhu Weijun to attack and not fight back, so when Wei Yan led the army to kill, Han Sui also took the initiative to send troops to meet the battle.

Although in the frontal confrontation, Han Sui's soldiers were somewhat unable to resist the well-trained Zhu Wei soldiers, but when they retreated to the rear to occupy a geographically advantageous area, facing the suppression of Han Sui's archers from the heights around them, Zhu Weijun really could not easily impress Han Sui's army's formation.

The situation at this time is a little different from the previous attack on the Taishang Emperor Temple, although Yan Xing on the side of the Taishang Emperor Temple was able to send troops to counterattack before, but the troops were still lacking, and now Han Sui's army was basically gathered together, so even if Wei Yan launched a strong attack, he still couldn't push it sideways.

In particular, the Changxin Palace is completely like a city within a city, and the palace wall is also four or five steps wide, so it should be that Han Sui filled in the lanes around the Changxin Palace, thus turning the palace wall on the periphery of the Changxin Palace into a city wall.

And Changxin Palace covers a wide area, which can fully accommodate Han Sui's seven or eight thousand troops, and there is also the Yasi of Fufeng Mansion in the west of Changxin Palace, which can also become the location of Han Sui's garrison, so that Han Sui's remaining nearly 20,000 troops, at least half of them are stationed in Changxin Palace.

Then there were also six or seven thousand troops stationed on the side of the palace captain, and about two or three thousand troops were stationed on the rear city wall, and then Li Kan and Cheng Yin, who were withdrawn from the East City, were placed by Han Sui in the West City to the west of Changxin Palace.

Now Wei Yan's Jingnan battalion on the side of Zhu Weijun is only more than 15,000, although nearly 6,000 heavy cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion and about 2,000 troops of Chengyi and Mawan who surrendered before, the strength that can attack Changxin Palace and Gong Wei is mainly Wei Yan's Jingnan battalion.

Besides, Han Sui's side has a geographical advantage, so Wei Yan has to fight more with less, but also face a geographical disadvantage, and it is indeed not easy to defeat Han Sui and drive Han Sui out of Chang'an City.

However, soon there was good news that Ma Teng's side finally made up his mind to bow to Zhu Wei, so Ma Teng also prepared to face Han Sui's attack from the west of Changxin Palace through Huayang Street, where he was located.

In order to show his sincerity, Ma Teng had already found an opportunity to lure Zhong Xuan and Wu Xi to his territory, and then suddenly changed his face and arrested them and sent them to Zhu Weijun.

This time, the situation in Chang'an City has finally changed, Zhong Xuan and Wu Xi, who escaped from Luoyang, don't have to think about what they can do next, after being escorted to Zhu Wei's army, they will be locked up with Duan Xuan, who was captured before, and can only wait for how Zhu Wei will arrange them in the future.

However, in order to get better results, Chen Qun also gave Ma Teng an idea, and on the surface, Ma Teng seemed to be going to support Han Sui.

Therefore, although Ma Teng's army was dispatched from the west of Chang'an City, Ma Teng also deliberately sent a message to Han Sui's side, saying that he was preparing to unite with Han Sui to deal with the foreign Zhu Wei first, hoping to get Han Sui to cooperate with him to launch a counterattack against Zhu Wei's army.

Although Han Sui was a little suspicious of Ma Teng's statement, he still responded to Ma Teng and agreed to Ma Teng's request in the current situation.

So the two sides agreed on a day to prepare to launch a joint counteroffensive against Zhu Weijun......