The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 136
In the main hall, no one dared to speak, Prime Minister Cui Qi bent down, picked up the map, and handed it to an eunuch who came over.

"Your Majesty, the matter has not yet reached the point of endangering Chang'an. We still have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses at our disposal. The victory or defeat is yet to be known. Zheng Tian in the west is old. If he can fight again, the number of soldiers and horses will be limited. As long as Li Ke can't use them in time Going south to echo, a single army can't make the climate."

As soon as he finished speaking, the guards in the palace outside hurried to the front of the main hall with a battle report and handed it to the eunuch, who quickly walked up the side of the imperial steps with slight bows and handed the battle report to Huang Chao.

The old man took it out and took a look, then pressed the paper and took another photo on the dragon case.

"Cui Xiang's mouth is really amazing."

"Li Keyong wandered around and stopped moving?" Cui Jiao showed a smile on his face.

"Move your mother!" Huang Chao couldn't hold back his emotions, and the vulgar temper of the leader of the rebel army broke out. He cursed at him and threw the battle report outside: "This is just written by Meng Juehai. He is almost at Baqiao , Li Ke's cavalry has been biting them, and [-] Shatuo soldiers are coming soon!"

"Your Majesty, we are willing to fight to the death in the city!"

On the military commander's side, many generals clasped their fists in response. On the imperial steps, Huang Chao closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then raised his hand and waved: "I have decided to withdraw from Chang'an so as not to be trapped in the city. However, I just left like this." Wouldn’t it make the world think I’m timid? Let’s fight one battle first, and if we win, we’ll take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand our victories to the west; if we’re defeated, we’ll retreat from the south gate, find Zhu Wen and his troops, and go south to Jingxiang again!”

In such words, the imperial court dispersed, the emperor's orders were continuously issued to all levels of the Qi army, and the soldiers and horses moved together, preparing to enter the city and stand firm.

The sun slanted down on the top of the mountain, looking east from the top of Chang'an City, groups of soldiers and horses coming from the northeast fled in a panic, and their formation was lost.

Geng Qing was lying on the horse's back, with a tiger head leading the reins and quickly shuttled through the crowd, while Meng Juehai raised a knife and led more than a hundred soldiers to keep turning their heads and urging them.

"Quicker!"

In the rear, a long cloud of smoke and dust and the sound of rumbling horseshoes crazily rolled up. In the fields and hills at a glance, the smoke and dust filled the air seemed to have countless war horses galloping.

The densely packed cavalry roared wildly, and from time to time several cavalry rushed out first, shooting arrows on their horses and falling behind them.

"Hurry up, the city gate is just ahead!"

Meng Juehai's voice resounded in the chaos, surrounded by terrified subordinates, some of the soldiers felt that the weapons in their hands were cumbersome, so they simply threw them on the ground and ran wildly.

At this time, the Chang'an city wall has also found an abnormality in the distance. The archers shot loud arrows, and the messengers rushed to the top of the city. The archers stood behind the wall and held their breath.

The general defending the east gate, named Zhang Guiba, hurried over with his two brothers, Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guibian, listening to the reports of his subordinates, while watching the broken soldiers rushing madly towards this side.

"If the Shatuo cavalry pursues closely, they will definitely let the opponent enter the city!" Zhang Guiba discussed with the two brothers and said, just as he was making up his mind to let the city gate be closed below, a galloping horse galloped in the distance. Among the soldiers, they shouted towards the top of the city.

"I'm Meng Juehai, let me wait for the soldiers to enter the city first, followed by Geng Qing and Zhang Guiba, the servants of the Ministry of War. The defense envoy saw you, so don't close the door, otherwise I will never end with you!"

Zhang Guiba gritted his teeth, punched the wall with his fist, turned his head and roared downwards: "—Close the city gate!"

Boom
The heavy door leaf was slowly closed under the push of dozens of soldiers. Suddenly, an arrow flew from the front and hit the door of one of the soldiers. The horse galloped wildly. Meng Juehai screamed and rushed straight with his bow In the past, when you raised your hand, you drew the bow on both sides of the soldiers, and the fighters turned their backs.

The next moment, thousands of rout soldiers swarmed over, people crowded people, bodies crowded together, they slammed the gate of the city completely open with a bang, and rushed into the city in a swarm, even shattering the formation formed under the city tower. The impact was staggering.

"Go, go, go!"

Geng Qing followed behind on his horseback, approaching the gate of the city, he kept calling out to the surrounding soldiers, and looked back at the Shatuo soldiers hanging behind him from time to time.

In fact, where there are so many soldiers and horses, it is the illusion created by Li Cunxiao gathering the horses he captured before, with the purpose of forcing Huang Chao and shaking his determination to defend the city.

As for the Shatuo cavalry in the rear, they will not rush into the city, otherwise, if they are noticed, they will close the door and beat the dog.

Just as he was thinking, when the crowd entered the city gate in a hurry, the rout soldiers who had not yet entered the city rioted violently, and saw the chasing Shatuo soldiers rushing into the arrow shooting range of the city, chasing Killed behind the rout.

In the confusion, Geng Qing seemed to see that Li Cunxiao was also inside, pushing towards him like a chariot.

'Damn, doesn't this guy really want to use this little cavalry to rush into the city and take Chang'an? '

He sat up straight from his horseback and kept turning his head. Among the rout soldiers pouring into the city gate, a figure in a beast-headed bright armor frantically waved his long spear, leading more than a dozen Shatuo cavalry who followed closely behind him, cutting through the waves like Come against the current.

The next moment, he passed through the city gate, headed straight into the city, and killed the army array assembled under the city tower.

"Drink-"

The figure of the beast-headed bright armor stretched its arms backwards on the horse's back, and the long lance flew out from above the rushing horses, passed over the heads of the rushing people, and slammed into the erected front of the army formation. The shield, copper skin, and sawdust were broken and scattered, and the body behind the shield was strung together, piercing straight back through the two soldiers behind, and strung together on the handle of the lance, nailed obliquely into the ground, with the remaining strength slightly trembling.

Step on.
The moment the flaming horse stomped on the corpse and knocked away a running soldier beside him, he neighed loudly and jumped up. The figure above pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist.

Time seemed to slow down.

The blade of the sword shone coldly against the sun, and as the horses fell to the ground, they slanted down against the forest of spears pierced by the army formation. The moment the heads of several spears broke and collapsed, there was a sound resounding.

"I am Li Cunxiao——"

The blade slashed the helmet of the shield step, and held the blade with inhuman strength to pull the blood line straight. Once it was cut to the end, the Qi soldier who lifted the shield and the shield in his hand turned into two halves, split left and right, flesh, internal organs In an instant, it lifted into the sky.

The war horse roared loudly, its limbs fell to the ground smoothly, and the horse's body was tilted. Li Cunxiao stretched out his arms obliquely with a knife, grabbed the long spear nailed to the ground, dragged the three people on it, and swung it away. , turned the people who were beaten by the gun array on their backs.

More than a dozen Shatuo cavalry who came from behind, armed with spears and steel knives, fiercely chiseled into the chaotic formation.

"pass!"

Geng Qing huddled in the chaotic crowd, looked at Li Cunxiao who was red-eyed over there, approached, and shouted at him, "It's over, don't overact it"

In the noise, the figure who was excited to kill could not be heard, and he was still rushing back and forth among the crowd.

Soon, the news that Shatuo soldiers broke through the city gate and entered Chang'an spread wildly. The people in the nearby streets and alleys ran back home in panic, and the Lingqi who brought the news rushed into the imperial city.

Huang Chao, who had originally discussed the war with Cui Jiao and continued to stick to Chang'an, opened his mouth slightly when he heard the news, with unspeakable complexity in his eyes.

After a while, the palace became chaotic.

The emperor rushed out of Anfumen with the empress, Wenwu, and rushed to the south gate of Chang'an in a chariot. At the same time, he issued an order to the army outside the city to prepare to evacuate to the southeast.

The news of the Shatuo people's invasion of Chang'an was flying all over the sky. In the chaos, there were corners that others could not see.

Ministry of Punishment.

Qin Huaimian spread out his hands, looked at the horizontal long sword, and heard the news from outside, without much expression on his face. Soon, Tu Shifei brought someone over.

He just opened his eyes and nodded.

"See you soon, it's our turn."

Below, there is a team of gangsters and policemen lined up neatly. They changed their different clothes and dressed in a uniform, with beautiful peonies embroidered on their close-fitting black clothes and horizontal knives on their waists.

　Lonely~~Lonely~~

　　
　
(End of this chapter)