The heavens start from saving Daming

Huang Chao's soldiers and horses did not gradually approach Chang'an City until several days later.

The previous pioneer, Qiao Qian, was reprimanded and left in Huazhou because of his disastrous defeat at the hands of Li Yunze.

He was replaced by Huang Chao's general, Shang Rang, who was named the pioneer of Pingtang.

With the lessons learned from the past, Shang Rang was very cautious in his actions, and it took several days to arrive at the city of Chang'an.

The delay of these few days gave Li Yunze precious time to rectify the defense of the army and horses.

When they arrived, there was no one to be seen outside the city.

Not only are there no personnel, food items, even larger trees.

The willows of the famous Baqiao broken willows were all chopped up and dragged into the city.

If the rebel army wanted to build siege equipment, they had to go to the distant Qinling Mountains to cut down trees.

Shang Rang rode his horse to the outside of the city and carefully looked at the city wall.

Needless to say, Chang'an City is tall and majestic.

As a national capital, all kinds of defense facilities are also available.

More importantly, Shang Rang saw that the city wall was full of soldiers, shining in the sun, which was really daunting.

"How is it possible?" Shang Rang was shocked, "Where did the imperial court get so many soldiers?"

There are really so many soldiers, why didn't they be sent to Tongguan before?
In a split second, Shang Rang was planning to quickly retreat to defend Tongguan.

Fortunately, he had a lot of experience, and after observing carefully for a while, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"They're all recruits, I'm scared to death."

After he breathed a sigh of relief, he was so envious of the court that he was dying.

It really deserves to be the largest, wealthiest and most important city of Chang'an in the world, which can produce so many armors and weapons to equip so many people.

Although they all wear the same armor, there is an essential gap between recruits and veterans.

The veterans were not afraid of life and death, even when they saw the enemy army crowded outside the city, their faces were calm and composed.

But the recruits couldn't do it. Many of them just put down their hoes and looked at so many bandit soldiers outside the city.

When fighting in this state, either the recruits would drop their weapons and run away in fright as soon as the enemy came up, or they would step forward to resist but be killed.

This is all impossible.

If you want to make a change, besides daily training, the most important thing is battlefield experience.

If you come out of the battlefield of life and death alive, you will naturally ignore life and death and become a qualified veteran.

Li Yunze has already extended his advantage to the limit, defending the city of Chang'an, which has the strongest defense in the world, and has the best equipment and logistics.

This is a hundred times better than being dragged into the wild to fight in waves, and finally relying on fate to survive.

Shang Rang responded quickly and arranged for a batch of simple siege equipment.

Don't even think about ladders, goose carts, or shield carts, just simply build hundreds of long ladders, and then arrange people to launch a tentative attack.

The strength of the opponent can only be known after the fight.

A very standard tentative attack on the city. First, a large number of crossbowmen stepped forward and shot at the defenders at the top of the city all the way to the bank of the moat.

Immediately, the cannon fodder ran over carrying the extended ladder and put the ladder on the moat.

It's just a tentative attack, of course there is no need to fill the moat.And if you want to fill the moat of Chang'an City, that's really a big project.

The moat of Chang'an City draws running water, and the eight waters surround Chang'an's running water.

He staggered across the moat, and then faced the city wall.

Originally, there were a lot of defensive facilities on both sides of the moat.

There are everything from rejecting horse antlers to trapping sheep.

After all, that was all 200 years ago.

Over the past two hundred years, these defensive facilities outside the city have already been dismantled and buried.It has already been turned into buildings, houses, fields and so on for other purposes.

After all, it is at the foot of the emperor, a golden location just outside the city wall.The aristocratic families in the upper capital, down to the common people, can occupy it as much as they can. Who will control it? The loss of defense facilities will lead to a decline in defense capabilities.

Of course, most of these illegal buildings had already been demolished by Li Yunze, and those that couldn't be demolished were simply burned down to prevent the bandits from taking advantage of them.

Even Li Yunze couldn't do anything about this kind of thing. Even if he drove an excavator in just a few days, he couldn't restore the defense facilities outside the city that had been destroyed for 200 years.

So Shang Rang managed to reach the city wall with just a tentative attack.

Shang Rang, who was watching the battle carefully, saw that the long ladder had successfully leaned against the city wall, and immediately stroked his beard and smiled, "That's all."

Before the words fell, the counterattack on the city wall began.

First of all, there was a rain of arrows all over the sky, and even a few nearby eight-ox crossbows also turned on the shooting mode.

The target of the arrows was not the cannon fodder who was climbing the ladder, but the crossbowmen covering by the moat.

These crossbowmen, who at most wore leather armor, could not withstand this level of arrow rain.

After several rounds of arrows rained down, most of the crossbowmen covering the shooting had already lay down, and the nearby ground was filled with arrows, as if a field of arrows had grown out.

Losing the cover of the crossbowmen, those who were climbing the wall were out of luck.

The defenders had the courage, or rather, when Li Yunze appeared at the top of the city, they had no choice but to raise thunder stones, roll wood, ash bottles of gold juice and so on to smash down the cold horizontal swords of the soldiers around Li Yunze.

Although the hit rate is not high because they are too flustered, it is safe enough and there are enough numbers.

The bandit soldiers who climbed the wall kept falling down like dumplings.

When the defenders used the forks and directly overturned the ladders, this probing attack also came to an end.

The expressionless Shang Rang greeted the soldiers to retreat, began to choose a place to set up camp, and arranged for people to go to the Qinling Mountains to chop wood.

Whether building camps or building siege equipment, a large amount of wood is essential.

Originally, this kind of work could be handed over to the captured cannon fodder, but unfortunately Chang'an City is surrounded by strong walls and clear fields, and there are not many mice for them to catch.

On the city wall, Li Yunze frowned slightly looking at the bustling bandit soldiers in the distance outside the city, "You look down on me?"

When it comes to war, be serious.

Turning a blind eye to the defenders and being busy with their own affairs, is this looking down on the defenders and concluding that they dare not go out of the city to fight back?

Li Yunze immediately turned his head and ordered the soldiers behind him selected from the Boye Army and Fengxiang Army to "recruit warriors who are skilled in bows and horses to go out of the city to defeat the enemy. The appearance fee is [-] guan per person, and the battle merit is calculated separately."

Not many professional warriors are afraid of death. As long as the price is set in place, it doesn't matter if they go through fire and water with the general.

So Li Yunze quickly gathered a group of several hundred cavalrymen.

Putting armor on the war horses, Li Yunze led the cavalry out of the city from Yanxing Gate, and detoured several miles to the Shangrang army barracks outside the Spring Gate.

The barracks had just been established, and the fence hadn't even been erected in time.

The supplies carried by the army were being transported to the ground. Some soldiers had already gone to Qinling to chop wood, and some soldiers were busy building barracks.

In a word, it is in an environment of lack of defense.

"The fighting power of Huang Chao's army is not strong, but this vanguard general is too smart." Li Yunze on horseback thought it was a trap, but he didn't notice the trap at all after careful observation.

There was nothing much to say, he pulled down his armor and held a horse lance, and directly accelerated and rushed over.

The charging of hundreds of cavalry with flying horseshoes immediately brought shocking panic to Shang Rang's troops.

Shang Rang was indeed careless. During the 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 prepared, a feint attack would succeed. Take it down.

The rookies are naturally not scary. Standing on the city wall is already a show of courage. How could they dare to go out of the city to fight?

And it's getting late, and if you don't want to sleep in the wild at night, you have to build the camp as soon as possible.

The smooth sailing all the way from Lingnan made him have such a little conceit, thinking that the weather will be late and everything can wait until tomorrow.

As a result, needless to say, the defenseless Huang Chao army was hit hard by hundreds of armored cavalry.

Not to mention the loss of personnel, the torches thrown everywhere and the burning of a large amount of luggage are really fatal.

If Li Yunze had an elite army of [-] soldiers in his hands at this time, and took advantage of the situation to go out of the city to cover up and kill them, he could directly destroy Shang Rang's troops.

It's a pity that he only has rookies in his hands now.

When Li Yunze left with his armored cavalry, Shang Rang looked at the mess around him and gritted his teeth, "Go back and find General Chongtian."

He could see that there was a group of elites among the forces guarding Chang'an, and the general commanding them was very powerful. He couldn't take it down by himself, so he could only find Huang Chao's main force.

After returning to the city, Li Yunze first distributed rewards to the armored cavalry.

This is necessary, if the rewards are not in place, these warriors will immediately lose their face.Even the emperor would dare to beat him up on the spot.

After that, he met Prime Minister Lu Xie who asked him to talk about things.

When Lu Xiede heard that the bandit soldiers entered the city, he wanted to commit suicide.

But later, when I learned that the rioters who entered the city were wiped out by the officers and soldiers, I wanted to see the situation out of curiosity.

Looking at it, you can see that each family is running away.

The members of the Lu family also ran away, but Lu Xie did not leave.

The conflict between him and the eunuch group has reached its peak, even if he followed the emperor, it would not end well.

He stomped his feet cruelly, and simply stayed to help Li Yunze deal with civil affairs, planning to wait until Chang'an City was destroyed before committing suicide.

Seeing Li Yunze, Lu Xie's first words were "General, Your Majesty's edict is here."

Earlier, Li Yunze sent eunuchs to send a message to the fleeing emperor, saying that the city of Chang'an had not been lost, and he was invited to come back.

Li Xuan, who heard the news, had really thought about it.

But he was persuaded by Tian Lingzi.

Tian Lingzi said, "Chang'an City is not lost now, that's because Huang Chao's army hasn't come yet."Your Majesty is going back now, isn't he throwing himself into a trap? '

Li Xuan expressed his deep opinion of this, Chang'an City is no match for his own safety.

But the benefits that should be given still have to be given, after all, Li Yunze is now guarding Chang'an City.

Although I don't know where Li Yunze came from, it's true because of his surname. It's not based on credit but on surname, so he was directly given the position of commander of the Shence Army and concurrently Jing Zhaoyin. .

There is no doubt that the position is very high.

But the prerequisite is that Chang'an City can be defended.

If you can't keep it, you will either be defeated and die, or you will be convicted after fleeing.

Li Yunze didn't care too much about the reward.

In history, Li Zhenmao, who was originally just a team leader, can be a commander of the magic strategy army, so it is only natural for him to do it.

What he cared about was "Has His Majesty returned?"

Lu Xie showed contempt on his face, "With Tian Lingzi and those around, how could he dare to come back?"

Li Yunze and Lu Xie spurned in unison.

"Dog eunuch!"