Huang Chao's soldiers and horses gradually approached Chang'an City until a few days later.
The previous pioneer Qiao Qian was reprimanded and left in Huazhou because of his tragic defeat at the hands of Li Yunze.
He was succeeded by Huang Chao's general Shang Rang, who was named the Pioneer of Ping Tang.
With the lessons learned from the past, Shang Rang acted very cautiously, and it took several days before he arrived at Chang'an City.
The delay of just a few days gave Li Yunze valuable time to reorganize the city defense.
By the time they came over, there were no more people to be seen outside the city.
Not only were there no personnel, food or items, there were not even any larger trees.
The famous willow trees in Baqiao were chopped off and dragged into the city.
If the bandit army wanted to build siege equipment, they would have to go to the distant Qinling Mountains to cut down trees.
Shang Rang rode his horse to the outside of the city and looked at the city wall carefully.
There are really so many soldiers, why weren't they sent to Tongguan before?
In an instant, Shang Rang was planning to withdraw his troops quickly to defend Tongguan.
The moat of Chang'an City leads to living water, and eight rivers surround Chang'an's living water.
He was cruel and stomped his feet, and simply stayed to help Li Yunze handle the civil affairs, planning to wait until the city of Chang'an was destroyed before committing suicide.
But the prerequisite is that Chang'an City can be defended.
After several rounds of arrow rain, most of the crossbowmen who were covering the shooting had already laid down, and the ground nearby was filled with arrows, as if a field of arrows had grown out.
It is indeed the largest, richest and most important city in the world, Chang'an, that it can produce so many armors and weapons to equip so many people.
With an expressionless face, Shang Rang called for the troops to retreat, began to choose a place to set up camp, and arranged for men to go to the Qinling Mountains to chop wood.
After putting on armor on his war horses, Li Yunze led the cavalry out of the city from Yanxing Gate, detoured for several miles and arrived at the Shangrang Army barracks outside the Spring Gate.
The target of the arrows was not the cannon fodder climbing the ladder, but the crossbowmen covering the moat.
This is necessary. If the reward is not in place, these warriors will immediately turn their backs. Even the emperor dares to beat him on the spot.
But the new recruits couldn't do it. Many of them had just put down their hoes. Looking at the so many bandit soldiers outside the city, they looked terrified and swallowed their saliva wildly. Their legs and feet were so weak that they couldn't even hold weapons.
There are not many professional warriors who are afraid of death. As long as the price is in place, it doesn't matter if they follow the general through fire and water.
Previously, Li Yunze sent a eunuch to send a message to the fleeing emperor, saying that the city of Chang'an was not lost and he asked the emperor to come back.
Li Yunze didn't pay much attention to the reward.
Originally, this kind of work could be left to the captured cannon fodder, but unfortunately the walls around Chang'an City were clear and there were not many mice for them to catch, so the sergeants in the army had to do it themselves, which naturally aroused a lot of complaints.
Without the cover of the crossbowmen, those who were climbing the wall were out of luck.
Afterwards, he met Prime Minister Lu Xie who came to talk to him about something.
After hearing the news, Li Xuan was indeed very concerned.
It goes without saying that Chang'an City is tall and majestic.
It's a war, so be serious.
On the city wall, looking at the noisy and bustling bandit soldiers in the distance outside the city, Li Yunze frowned slightly, "Look down on me?"
The veterans were not afraid of life or death. Even when they saw the enemy troops outside the city, their faces were calm and composed.
The defenders mustered up their courage, or in other words, after Li Yunze appeared at the top of the city, the soldiers around Li Yunze were photographed with their cold swords.
Before he could finish his words, the counterattack on the city wall began.
The conflict between him and the eunuch group has reached its peak, and even if he follows the emperor, he will not end well.
The supplies carried by the army are being moved to the ground. Some sergeants have already gone to the Qinling Mountains to cut wood, and some are busy building military camps.
This is hundreds of times better than being dragged out into the wilderness to fight, and in the end it depends on your fate to survive.
If you cannot defend it, you will either be defeated and die, or you will be punished after fleeing.
But he was persuaded by Tian Lingzi.
There are everything from rejecting horses and deer antlers to trapping sheep in walls.
Seeing Li Yunze, Lu Xie's first words were, "General, His Majesty's edict has arrived."
After all, this is the prime location just outside the city wall at the feet of the Emperor. The rich and powerful families in the capital, down to the common people, can take advantage of it. Who will care about the loss of defense facilities, which will lead to a decline in defense capabilities.
Not even Li Yunze can do anything about this kind of thing. In just a few days, even if he drives an excavator, he cannot restore the defense facilities outside the city that have been destroyed for two hundred years.
But later I learned that the rebels who entered the city were wiped out by officers and soldiers, so I was curious and wanted to see what happened.
Immediately, the cannon fodder ran over carrying an extended ladder and set it up on the moat.
After crossing the moat unsteadily, we faced the city wall.
As the capital of the country, there are also all kinds of defense facilities.
Needless to say, the result was that the unprepared Huang Chaojun was severely hit by hundreds of armored cavalry.
Originally, there were a large number of defense facilities on both sides of the moat.
Shang Rang, who was watching the battle carefully, saw that the long ladder successfully leaned on the city wall, and immediately stroked his beard and smiled, "It's just that."
Shang Rang responded quickly and arranged for people to build a batch of simple siege equipment.
It was just a tentative attack, so of course there was no need to fill in the moat. And if you wanted to fill in the moat of Chang'an City, it would be a really big project.
There was nothing much to say, so he pulled down his visor, held his horse in hand, and rushed over at high speed.
Although I don’t know where Li Yunze came from, for the sake of his surname, he was right. It was not based on merit but on surname. He was directly given the position of Commander of the Shence Army and Jing Zhaoyin.
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Li Yunze has already extended his advantage to the limit. He defends Chang'an City, which has the strongest defense in the world, and has the best equipment and logistics.
How could these crossbowmen, who at best wore leather armor, withstand such a level of arrow rain?
The thieves climbing up the wall kept falling down like dumplings.
"The combat effectiveness of Huang Chao's army is not strong, but this vanguard general is too smart." Li Yunze on horseback originally thought it was a trap, but after careful observation, he did not notice the trap at all.
When Lu Cide heard that the bandits had entered the city, he wanted to commit suicide.
If Li Yunze could have an elite force of 10,000 soldiers at this time and take advantage of the situation to go out of the city to cover up the attack, he could directly defeat Shang Rang's troops.
First, there was a rain of arrows all over the sky, including several nearby Eight Ox Crossbows that also turned on their shooting mode.
However, the benefits should be given, after all, Li Yunze now defends Chang'an City.
Over the past two hundred years, these defensive facilities outside the city have long been demolished and buried. They have long been turned into buildings, houses, fields, etc. for other purposes.
People from the Lu family also ran away, but Lu and his wife could not leave.
Turning a blind eye to the defenders and going about their own business, is this looking down on the defenders and assuming that they dare not leave the city to fight back?
When engaging in battle in this state, either the enemy will scare the recruits into dropping their weapons and running away as soon as they come up, or the recruits will be too weak to resist but will be killed.
It's a pity that he only has rookies on his hands now.
Li Xuan expressed his deep understanding of this. How could Chang'an city be as dangerous as his own?
At this glance, I saw families running away.
When Li Yunze and the armored cavalry left in style, Shang Rang looked at the mess all around and gritted his teeth, "Go back and find General Chongtian."
These are all things that can't be helped.
The more you walk out alive on the battlefield where life and death can happen in a split second, you will naturally ignore life and death and become a qualified veteran.
"They are all new recruits, I'm scared to death."
Of course, most of these illegal buildings have been demolished by Li Yunze, and those that cannot be demolished will be burned directly to prevent the thieves from taking advantage of them.
There is no doubt that the position is very high.
And it’s getting late, so if you don’t want to sleep in the field at night, you have to build the camp as soon as possible.
If you want to make changes, in addition to daily training, the most important thing is battlefield experience.
The charge of hundreds of cavalrymen with flying hooves immediately brought a shocking panic to Shang Rang's troops.
Shang Rang was indeed careless. When he made a tentative attack before, he noticed that the defenders in the city were all rookies who could not find the entrance for the first time. He immediately felt that as long as he was well prepared, a feint attack from east to west would be successful.
Take it.
Li Yunze, who returned to the city, first distributed rewards to the armored knights.
The rookies are naturally not scary. Being able to stand on the city wall is already a sign of courage. How could they dare to go out to fight outside the city?
Not to mention the human losses, the torches scattered everywhere and the burning of a large amount of baggage were really fatal.
Even though they all wear the same armor, there is an essential difference between recruits and veterans.
The smooth journey from Lingnan made him so conceited that he thought everything could wait until tomorrow as it was getting late.
So Shang Rang only made a tentative attack and successfully reached the city wall.
The military camp had just been established, and the fence had not even had time to be erected.
Tian Lingzi said, 'Chang'an City is not lost now because Huang Chao's army has not arrived yet. If your Majesty goes back now, wouldn't he be throwing himself into a trap?'
"How is it possible?" Shang Rang was shocked. "Where did the imperial court get so many soldiers?"
Whether it is building a camp or building siege equipment, a large amount of wood is essential.
It was a very standard exploratory siege. First, a large number of crossbowmen came forward and fired at the defenders all the way to the moat bank.
Li Yunze immediately turned around and told the soldiers behind him selected from Boye Army and Fengxiang Army to "recruit warriors who are skilled in bows and horses to follow the general out of the city to defeat the enemy. The appearance fee is one hundred guan per person, and the battle merit will be counted separately."
Fortunately, he had rich experience, and after observing carefully for a while, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
How strong your opponent is can only be known after defeating him.
Although the hit rate is not high because of too much panic, the victory is that it is safe enough and there are enough numbers.
More importantly, Shang Rang saw that the city wall was covered with soldiers, shining in the sun, which was really intimidating.
So Li Yunze quickly gathered a group of hundreds of cavalry.
He could see that there was an elite group of people guarding Chang'an, and the generals under their command were very powerful. He couldn't take it down by himself, so he had to find Huang Chao's main force.
After all, that was two hundred years ago.
In one sentence, it can be summed up as being in an unprepared environment.
After he breathed a sigh of relief, he was extremely envious of the court.
When the defenders used the pull fork and directly overturned the ladders, this test attack came to an end.
Don't even think about ladders, goose carts, or shield carts. They simply built hundreds of long ladders, and then arranged for manpower to launch a tentative attack.
Historically, Li Zhenmao, who was just a team leader, was able to become the commander of the Shence Army. It was natural for him to do the job.
What he cares about is "Has His Majesty come back?"
Lu Xie's face showed disdain, "How can you dare to come back when people like Tian Lingzi are around?"