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The dawn of Dongyue was very late, making this night particularly long.

Shi Yan led his troops to Anzhenmen, but the order he received was "the Yuan army is blocking the city. It will take time for the army to enter the city. Let the soldiers sleep first."

He felt that the order was absurd as if it were a joke, but the military order could not be questioned.

So the soldiers temporarily set up tents to block the wind in the snow, and lay down next to each other.

The shouts of killing in the distance are still coming incessantly, making people sleepless.But there are also many old soldiers who fell into a deep sleep as soon as they closed their eyes, with a kind of open-mindedness that treats the sky as a quilt and the ground as a bed, and ignores life and death.

This kind of open-mindedness fell in the eyes of the recruits, which made them feel more at ease.

But Shi Yan didn't sleep, he kept looking around at the edge of his garrison, and asked other soldiers and horses passing by, so he asked them.

"How's the battle ahead?"

"General Shi, don't worry, I will let you enter the city after occupying the city gate, so let's take a rest first."

"How can you rest?"

Shi Yan dared to say this to other generals, but when he returned to his soldiers, he seemed calm again, and he closed his eyes when he lay down there, but his mind was still so excited that he couldn't fall asleep at all.

After an unknown amount of time, a whistle sounded from the front.

"The Commander-in-Chief ordered that Shi Xun's troops prepare to enter the city..."

Shi Yan immediately sat up and ordered the soldiers to get up and eat.

The dry food was also frozen hard, and it made a crunching sound in the mouth, as if it could crush a person's teeth.He picked up Xuexue from the ground and ate two mouthfuls, and wiped the rest on his face, feeling a lot more awake.

Looking up and looking forward, the progress of the siege is extremely slow.

After waiting from the dark night to the dim light, they finally arrived under the city wall.

In addition to soldiers and horses waiting in front of the city gate, there are many ladders on the city wall.

"Quick! Go up the ladder!"

There are ten ladders assigned to the 1000 people of Shi Yan, but they have to wait for the Tang army on the top of the city to get out of the way. Because they have not yet broken through the Yuan army's defense line and occupied more places to deploy troops, the speed of climbing the city is not fast.

At this speed, even if all the [-] troops were to enter the city, the comrades behind would have to have lunch first.

Suddenly, with a "bang", a huge boulder fell on the tower, and Zhang Jue's banner immediately fell down.

"Handsome?!"

Shi Yan was climbing the ladder, and was taken aback when he saw this scene, but fortunately, he saw the big flag was erected again after a while.

Then the flag was waved on the tower, and the drums urged.

Shi Yan received the flag order, but ordered him to lead his troops to fight from the top of the city to the west, and seize Jiandemen on the west side of the north city wall.

"Have you already ascended the city, this way!"

After running dozens of steps on the top of the city, just as the sky was getting brighter, he turned his head and looked to the south, and he could already see the appearance of the newly built capital city of Yuan Dynasty.

Compared with the cities in Sichuan and Shu, Shi Yan's first impression of this city was "how damn majestic!"

The layout of the city is square, and a house that can be built with one mu of land must occupy three mu of land.

The streets and alleys are clearly defined, straight and straight, especially the street to the south of Anzhenmen, which is extremely wide.

The Yuan army lined up on the street, firing arrows and thunderbolt cannons non-stop, and at the same time, they could see several giant cannons being transported here.

There are also cavalry of the Tang Army trying to cut the formation of the Yuan Army, and it seems that the banner is Hu Legen's department.

"General, this city is really big."

"It will be our city soon, hurry up!"

The battlements rushed behind them one by one, the sky was still snowing, but the snow on the top of the city had been trampled, mixed with blood and dripping, there were corpses everywhere, from both sides.

It is four miles from Anzhenmen to Jiandemen, and Shi Yan only ran for more than two miles when he heard the screams ahead.

"It's General Liu!"

"There are so many Yuan troops."

Liu Jinsuo was leading his troops to seize Jiandemen, but the Yuan army was prepared, piled up wood and stones to block off the top of the city, hid behind the wood and stones and kept shooting arrows and thunderbolt cannons at the Tang army.

At the same time, more and more Yuan troops in the city rushed over, blocking the way for Liu Jinsuo to bypass the city.

Shi Yan looked up again, and found that there were still many Yuan soldiers on the tower, firing arrows condescendingly.

"Let's go down the city wall and go around from the inside!"

"General, the city ladder is blocked."

"Afraid of this from Diaoyu City? Hang a rope ladder, and others will shoot arrows."

As soon as the rope ladder was hung on the battlements, Shi Yan thrust the ax up his back, and the first one climbed down.

When encountering arrows from the Yuan army, he kicked his feet left and right on the city wall. Occasionally, he didn't care if an arrow hit his cotton armor, and soon jumped down into the city.

The main general is like this, and the rest of the soldiers also quickly climbed down.

However, as the long-range weapons such as crossbows and grenades on their bodies were gradually exhausted, and more and more Yuan troops rushed up, and the rain of arrows became denser and denser, they stopped supporting.

"Oh!"

A stone was thrown over, and several Tang Jun were hit.

Another returning gun carriage appeared in the south, and it was still moving slowly here.

Seeing that he was about to be surrounded, Shi Yan hurriedly shouted: "Siege tower! Let's go!"

Thankfully, since their backs were against the city wall, the Mongol cavalry would not charge straight into them.

The Yuan army's temporary tactics were still that the Han army fought in front and the Mongolian army shot arrows behind.Therefore, its advantages cannot be brought into full play, but it seems a bit restrained.

Therefore, Shi Hao went straight into the tower, despite the casualties.

Soldiers of the Tang army carried shields and rushed into the Yuan army against the rain of arrows, smashed open the wooden gate of the tower, and hacked with axes.

"kill!"

Shi Yan was young, with a childish face, but his arms were extremely thick, and he swung his ax as if chopping melons and vegetables.

"Puff puff puff..."

For a moment there was the sound of iron objects piercing into flesh. Shi Xun chopped down several people one after another, and he himself was hit a few times, but his armor was thick, so he didn't care if the injury was not deep.

The winter in the north seems to make people feel less pain, no wonder it is said that the northerners can fight.

Killing the tower, they cut down an enemy every few steps. They cut down the tower like this. The defenders on the tower were shooting arrows at Liu Jinsuo's department. When they turned their heads and saw the bloody Tang army rushing up, they couldn't help being shocked.

Shi Yan didn't care, rushed forward and chopped.

When the blood was splashing everywhere, he suddenly saw something, kicked the enemy general in front of him away, and looked to the south.

"Damn, I thought I was wrong."

The city tower is relatively high, and it can be seen that the black crows in the distance are full of Mongolian cavalry, extending to the end of the line of sight.

Shi Yan's heart skipped a beat immediately, thinking that if these tens of thousands of people surrounded him again, all his troops would definitely die in Jiandemen.

But he was still uttering harsh words, and said to himself: "Gou Lu, come on..."

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Naiyan raised her binoculars and swept across the chaotic northern city wall.

"Brother Yixiang is right. If we want to fight the Tang army in the city, the terrain will not be favorable for our cavalry."

"After all, it was originally expected that the Han army could defend the city, and the cavalry was not intended to be used to defend the city."

The person who answered was a middle-aged man, wearing a red robe, with a hood covering his head, and a cross hanging on his chest, but there was a lotus flower under the cross.

His name was Macherigis, and he was an elder of the Nestorian sect of Christianity, also known as Nestorians.Naiyan is a Nestorian believer, and even embroidered a cross on her banner.

With this layer of faith shrouded, the conspiracy between Naiyan and Ma Xueli Jisi seemed to be protected by God.

"Then we can only go out of the city to fight."

Ma Xuelijisi asked: "Your Majesty really wants to lose warriors to defend the Central Plains for Kublai Khan?"

He spoke in Old Turkic, low and mysterious.

"If you can defend the Central Plains." Naiyan also responded in ancient Turkic, and whispered: "Since you want to rebel, it is better to be the emperor of the Central Plains as well as the Great Khan of the Grassland."

Ma Xuelijisi was a little surprised, and said: "After the Han people defeated Kublai Khan, it would be easy for the king to return to the grassland to proclaim his sweat. But after defeating the Han people, it would be very difficult to snatch Kublai Khan's sweat position."

"But there is no way out, Juyongguan has been lost, and if I want to go back to the grassland, I have to go through a fierce battle. In this case, I would rather fight for the world than fight for my life."

"The strange thing is that Kublai Khan suddenly said that Juyongguan was lost, but there was no news about it before. The Han people have two words called 'break the cauldron and sink the boat' and 'fight with one's back'."

"If Kublai Khan has such determination, why can't I 'break the boat and sink the boat'? The Jin family has never been afraid of fighting." Naiyan said: "Before I was unwilling to contribute because I thought that sooner or later I would have to return to the grassland. But now, Kublai Lie has the possibility of defeating Li Xia. You think, Li Xia is wiped out, and Kublai Khan's strength is also very weak."

Ma Xueregis narrowed his eyes and began to think about this possibility.

After recruiting soldiers and horses from Hara, Lin and Grasslands, the Yuan army has not a lot of troops, and has been shrinking the line of defense.

In the whole battle up to now, what the Yuan army has lost is not its strength, but its momentum.

Now, the Tang army seems to have made a strategic mistake... Divided into two directions to attack the city, the south and the north. Although they can make a surprise attack, if they are too far away, they cannot respond from the beginning to the end.

It was already difficult for Li Xia to command the troops in the north of the city. This was like the mistake Yan Chengyu made in the Battle of Yehuling.

"We almost forgot about Kublai Khan's ambition, he has a chance to win, but when he wins, you see, Zhenjin is dead, Mangge is sick, Namuhan is a fool, the Tuolei family came here gone."

As Naiyan said, she rolled her eyes to look at the sky, and asked, "Will the Lord bless me?"

Marcel Regis closed his eyes, as if communicating with God.

After a while, he murmured in a deep voice, "The Lord will bless you, and you will be the new sweat of this land."

Naiyan then leaned down, held up the crossed lotus in front of Ma Xuelijisi and kissed it.

They all forgot that at the beginning they just felt that Kublai Khan's situation was not good and they should save their strength to seek independence.

It's just that the growth of ambition is faster than the change of the situation...

In the distance, there was a loud bang, a tall return cannon fell down, and the Yuan army began to retreat.

It was that Tang Jun had conquered Jiandemen.

Naiyan was not interested in this kind of offensive and defensive battle in the city, and thought to let those Han people surround the city wall to consume.The Mongolian cavalry should go to a wider battlefield to regain the glory of their ancestors.

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This day is the second day of November.

The west gate of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty was opened, and cavalry rushed out of the city.