Since the new emperor ascended the throne, the alien troops, especially the cavalry troops, have been constantly entering and leaving the city gates, and they don't know what they are doing.

This is only on the surface, whenever the night comes, Chang'an City is extremely slaughtered.

With the assistance of the Chinese military officials of the DPRK, Ouyang Shuo dispatched Shenwu Wei to quietly launch a major purge in Chang'an City, and pulled out An Lushan's eyeliner in Chang'an as much as possible.

However, one is limited in time, and the other is that Shenwuwei is not a professional in doing this, and the ministers of the DPRK and China are afraid that they all have their own agendas, and the purge operation is not very smooth.

There will be fish in Chang'an City.

Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to order Shi Hu to strengthen the guards at the city gate and cut off internal and external communication channels.

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On the fourth day of the battle, Baqiao.

Baqiao is located on the Bahe River ten miles east of Chang'an City, which is the east gate of Chang'an City, connecting the main traffic arteries in the east of Chang'an.

Early in the morning, Ouyang Shuo quietly rushed to Baqiao to bid farewell to the phoenix prisoner and his party.

The trick of soldiers and horses entering and leaving Chang'an City for several days was just to cover up the withdrawal of the main force from the barracks. There were only 20,000 tigers and leopards left in the military camp in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, which were commanded by Ma Xiu, the commander of the division.

The remaining 100,000 elite horsemen were led by Ran Min as the main general, Ma Chao as the deputy general, and the phoenix prisoner accompanied him, all the way north, to Lingwu City to join the Tang Dynasty army led by Guo Ziyi.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to use Chang'an City as a bait to attract the main force of the rebels, win an opportunity for Guo Ziyi's troops, annihilate Shi Siming's troops in one fell swoop, and then directly take Fan Yang, An Lushan's old nest.

In order to make a quick decision, Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate to take risks and transferred 100,000 elite horsemen to the north to help.

With the help of this elite soldier, with Guo Ziyi's talent, there is neither the eunuch supervising the army, nor the colleagues rushing to each other, he will definitely be able to live up to expectations and eliminate the rebels' nest in one fell swoop.

The premise is that Chang'an City must be able to survive the attack of the main rebel army.

As soon as the new emperor ascended the throne, he issued a letter to the whole country to suppress it, ordering the king of the world to live and die with Chang'an. If Chang'an loses, then everything is over.

In order to defend Chang'an City, in addition to recruiting new soldiers, Ouyang Shuo, in the name of the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, ordered the Jiannan Jiedu envoy to lead 30,000 elite soldiers to the north to support Chang'an City.

Roughly calculated, the troops guarding Chang'an include 30,000 mountain barbarian hoplites, 20,000 tiger and leopard cavalry, 30,000 Jiannan elite soldiers, and 60,000 temporarily reorganized recruits, totaling 140,000 troops.

It is expected that the number of young adults recruited will be around 100,000.

With this army, Ouyang Shuo has the confidence to fight the rebels.

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In the blink of an eye, a week passed in a flash.

The preparations for the battle of Chang'an City are nearing completion, and the vanguard of the rebels has also appeared on the outskirts of Chang'an. Just the day before, the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu led 30,000 elite soldiers, day and night, and finally arrived in Chang'an.

A big war is about to begin.

On the tenth day of the battle, the main force of the rebels finally arrived outside Chang'an City, and it was mighty.

In addition to the 300,000 Inhuman troops in the An Lushan camp, there were also 150,000 rebels, led by An Qingxu, the son of An Lushan.

An elite army of 450,000 is enough to devour everything.

In addition to this, there was a special group of visitors in the procession, dressed in tatters and with terrified faces, who were like ordinary people, driven forward like cattle and sheep by the army.

The army set up camp ten miles outside Chang'an City, and further on, it was the Bahe River.

Di Chen and the others rode across the Baqiao, observing the towering Chang'an City from a distance, and seeing the Daodao ditch outside Chang'an City, Di Chen smiled slightly, "I knew that the old fox would play this trick." ”

In the battle of Muye, Ouyang Shuo used the trench to win a battle, and now he is repeating the same trick.

"Donkey skills are poor." Chun Shenjun smiled confidently.

After watching for a while, Emperor Chen rode back.

"Let's go back, tomorrow the city will be officially attacked, I want to see what the old fox is capable of."

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Early the next morning, the mighty army crossed the Bahe River and approached the city.

There are wide moats and ditches on the north and east sides of Chang'an City, which are not easy to attack, and the rebels attacked the city this time, and selected the west city gate and the south city gate.

The mighty army bypassed the east and took its place.

In order to avoid confusion in command, Di Chen agreed with An Qingxu that 300,000 Inhuman troops would be responsible for attacking the South City Gate, and 150,000 rebels would be responsible for attacking the West City Gate.

It took two hours for the army to be in place alone.

On the city wall, the newly reorganized new army looked at the vast army outside the city, and there was panic in their eyes, as soon as they learned to queue, they were thrown into a cruel battlefield.

In order to temper the new army, Ouyang Shuo divided the 60,000 new army equally between the west and south city walls, and 30,000 Jiannan elite soldiers and 30,000 mountain barbarian hoplites were also arranged on these two sides.

In addition, the mountain barbarian infantry also acted as a supervisor.

The real battle began at 10 a.m., but groups of ordinary people, driven by the army, laboriously pushed siege engines, trebuchets, and mobile arrow towers towards the city walls.

When encountering a trench, a temporary trestle bridge was erected.

At the suggestion of Emperor Chen, these people were requisitioned and transferred from the vicinity of Tongguan by An Qingxu, just to be cannon fodder and reduce the losses of the army.

"These brutes are crazy!"

When Shi Hu and the other generals saw it, they showed unbearable expressions, but this was a life-and-death decisive battle, and there was no room for mercy.

"Launch!"

At the sound of an order, the trebuchets arranged on the city walls began to operate.

One after another sharp whistling tore through the sky, black dots rose on the city tower, as if it was a "sparrow" rising in the sky, dense slings expanded rapidly in the field of vision, and thousands of stones the size of a millstone fell from the sky with a terrible momentum, just like a dense meteor shower falling in the sea, splashing blood-red waves. Hundreds of innocent people fell in pools of blood, staining the ground beneath their feet.

The wails of the people before they died resounded in the sky and made people move. When the city guards saw it, they were full of unbearable, but they were their compatriots. But the military order is like a mountain, and he can only launch an attack while crying silently.

Emperor Chen and the others did not have a trace of mercy, hung up a batch, and sent another batch.

"Those who dare to retreat will be killed." Di Chen told the law enforcement team.

For the people, there is still a glimmer of life in moving forward, and if they retreat 100% they will be executed, and they have no choice but to rush forward.

In troubled times, life is like a mustard.

Campaign maps are more likely to stir up the dark side of humanity because they have no side effects. Ouyang Shuo did the abolition of the establishment at will in Chang'an, wantonly used the state treasury, and requisitioned labor; Emperor Chen does not take the lives of ordinary people in his eyes and tramples on them wantonly, which is the same.

With a large army in hand, they can modify the rules of the campaign at will.

For the people of the campaign map, no matter which side they are, they are actually devils from another world.

At the beginning of the battle, it was a long-range competition between the two sides. The rebels' purpose was clear: to suppress the long-range fire of the defenders of the city walls by means of trebuchets and mobile arrow towers, and to clear the way for the infantry to attack.

In just one hour, more than 10,000 civilians died on the battlefield, their corpses filling the trenches to the brim to complete the final mission.

Di Chen smiled with satisfaction and gave the order for a general attack, he seemed to have seen the moment when the army broke through the city wall, slaughtered into the city, and captured Ouyang Shuo alive.

Victory is at hand.

"Kill!"

One by one, elite divisions stepped on the corpses of the people, braved the rain of arrows, and charged towards the city wall.

The crowd of people is like a mountain and a sea, the sound of cars is round, the iron armor is sonorous, and the horses are howling in the wind, such a huge offensive makes the defenders of the city uncontrollable chill.

When the black-pressed army was five hundred meters away from the city walls, the defenders' counterattack began.

"Free Fire!"

The trebuchet was overpowered by the rebels, and the defenders had strong bows and crossbows.

A dense rain of arrows poured down, bringing untold death and fear.

Without an order, even if there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of them, the rebel soldiers did not dare to take a step back, and they stepped on the blood stains of the phalanx in front of them, launching round after round of charges.

The closer you get to the walls, the fiercer the defenders' counterattack becomes, arrows rain down like a torrent of arrows, and stones fall in droves like birds. The boulder that landed was so heavy that the ground was shaking.

Stones fell in the formation, smashing large potholes in the ground, and the rebel soldiers were swept down in patches, crying and screaming.

The rebel soldiers simply pounced forward, regardless of casualties, and continued to move forward.

At this moment, within 100 meters of the west and south walls, it has become hell. Hundreds of large bed crossbows mounted on the castle tower were fired at the same time, and the crossbow arrows were swept away one by one, and the arrows covered the sky and the sun, and everywhere they went, a piece of flesh and blood flew everywhere.

In this terrible metal storm, the flesh and blood were as fragile as paper paste, and the soldiers in the front row didn't even have time to shout "help", and they were instantly crushed by the twist.

Screams, groans, blood, death, panicked men and horses trampling each other, arrows raining like locusts, and the sharp sound of the wind breaking through the sky filled the space and suffocated.

Arrows flew sideways, rolling stones fell like hailstones, the rebels did not dare to raise their heads, did not dare to step, and some soldiers tried to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, but they were immediately trampled into flesh by the follow-up troops.

The soldiers screamed and cried, and you hit me and pushed me to the ground and squeezed into a ball, trampling each other. Someone lay down to dodge, but the panicked horses trampled on their heads, and a miserable howl was heard far away, not like a battlefield, but like a slaughterhouse.

At the head of the formation, Di Chen and the others had solemn faces.

Before the battle, they never imagined that the counterattack of the defenders of Chang'an would be so fierce.

"Didn't you say that the old fox brought all the cavalry? Where did he recruit the garrison from? Emperor Chen was puzzled, and a trace of uneasiness rose in his heart for the first time.

The cannon fodder tactics got off to a good start, but it didn't bring Di Chen the good results he wanted.

The first contribution to this battle was the 100,000 young adults temporarily recruited by Ouyang Shuo, and they were short-handed, and these men who were not even recruits really did not play a role.

They can operate crossbow machines, throw stones, still logs, and carry materials to defend the city, and they are still very competent. When their family and country were in danger, these people showed the bloody nature and courage of the men of the Tang Dynasty, and they were not afraid of death one by one.

In order to protect their wives and children in the city, they did not hesitate to fight to the end.

The majestic style of the Tang Dynasty can be seen at a glance.