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Chapter 1511 Da Zhou is back

"Your Majesty, there is no movement in the palace, and the Imperial Guards have never left the imperial city!" Li Jing and others had long ago arranged for civil servants like Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui to temporarily act as scouts to keep an eye on the situation in Chang'an City.

After all, these civil servants cannot actually lead troops to fight, but they have also practiced Taoism, so they have no problem serving as eyes.

"Where are the city defense troops?" Yuwen Chan asked.

"Most of the city defense troops have not taken any action, but some of them are killing us. I have calculated that most of the city defense troops that have not taken any action are controlled by the Guanlong nobles, while those that have taken action are controlled by the direct generals of the Yang family!" Li Jing continued.

"City Defense Army..." Yuwen Chan couldn't help but smile and said, "My father taught me when I was a child that if I didn't study hard and practice martial arts, I would be like those useless people in the City Defense Army when I grow up, and I wouldn't be worthy of being a descendant of the Li family!"

Yuwen Chan... or rather, Li Shimin in his body at this moment said with a nostalgic smile, and this joke can also show what the current state of the city defense army is.

As a force guarding the capital, it should have been second only to the Imperial Guards. However, the entire city defense army had long been reduced to a force for nobles and officials to send their children to gild their reputations. Anyway, the city defense army had always been guarding the capital, blocking the oil and water of more than a dozen gates of Chang'an City.

There is no risk of fighting on the battlefield, and one can earn a considerable amount of money every day and get promoted very quickly. It is most suitable for those useless children of noble families.

After laughing, Yuwen Chan immediately ordered, "Brother Yao, take Shubao, Yaojin, Maogong, Jingde, and Zhang Liang's 5,000 soldiers to deal with the city defense troops who dare to attack. Although the officers in these city defense troops are all rubbish, the soldiers are not bad, and they are all good families for generations. They still have feelings for our Great Zhou, so it will be easy to recruit them!"

"After taking down these city defense troops, you will continue to lead them to recruit other city defense troops that have not taken action. You must take down all the city defense troops within three hours, and then bring them all to the palace. In this way, the victory or defeat will be determined. Do you understand?" Yuwen Chan said.

"Yes!" Li Jing said without hesitation. On the contrary, Qin Qiong on the side said with worry, "Your Majesty, we took away 5,000 soldiers and horses, so you only have less than 5,000 people here. How can you deal with the 40,000 imperial guards in the palace? Isn't this too dangerous!"

"Why not let General Li Jing stay and command the army? Yaojin and I only need 2000 people to wipe out those city defense troops!"

"Why, do you think my ability to command the army is not as good as that of the pharmacist?" Yuwen Chan asked with a smile, and Qin Qiong was speechless. Indeed, he almost forgot that if Li Shimin had not been trapped in the palace in the later period and could not go out to command the battle, then the real military god of the Tang Dynasty, the one who destroyed the Turks and the Western Regions and the one who made the achievements at Yanran should be his own emperor.

When it comes to fighting, there are probably few people who are better than Li Shimin.

"Don't worry. If these 4 guards were to come out all at once and given some rewards, I would be in real danger. But now that they have chosen to hide in the palace, they have lost all their confidence. They are nothing more than a bunch of dead bones in a grave. I can easily destroy them!"

"As for the city defense troops, they are scattered all over Chang'an. Pharmacist cannot take care of them all by himself. You, the great Tang generals, have to subdue them separately. I will only give you three hours. After three hours, you must see all 50,000 city defense troops become my army!" Li Shimin said loudly. The morale of several generals was immediately boosted, and they led their guards to attack everywhere.

Li Shimin himself still led the remaining 5000 imperial guards on the Suzaku Street in Chang'an, and was still interested in observing the old scenes of Chang'an City that he had never seen before. At this time, there was no one to be seen on the originally prosperous Suzaku Street. All the people of Chang'an hid back in their houses and only dared to observe the rebellious army outside through the cracks in the windows.

Most of the people still don’t know where this rebellious army came from, and why do they look so much like the original imperial guards?
Li Shimin saw this scene and was moved. He immediately ordered the imperial guards to select hundreds of soldiers with loud voices and ordered them to take turns shouting, "People of the Great Zhou, don't be afraid. I am Emperor Yuwen Chan of the Great Zhou. I am not dead. I have killed the traitor Yang Jian and am now leading the army back to the palace. People, don't be afraid. Rest at home today and live your life as usual tomorrow. This world is still my Great Zhou!"

The soldiers kept shouting in this way, and soon all the people along Zhuque Street heard these words. Only then did they realize that it was the Dading Emperor Yuwen Chan who had come back to fight!

"The Great Zhou is back! Oh my god, the Great Zhou is really back!" Of course, most people were indifferent. It made no difference to them who was the emperor. But the Sui Dynasty had only been on the throne for a few months, and there were still many loyal ministers of the Great Zhou.

So even though Li Shimin asked all of them to stay at home and not go out, there were still many people who had received favors from the Yuwen family, or former military generals, who came out with tears in their eyes, wanting to join Yuwen Chan's team.

However, after ten minutes, thousands of people came out to join Yuwen Chan's army.

"These are the values ​​of this body!" Li Shimin sighed in his heart. Although only a few thousand people took the initiative to join, this meant that the Yuwen family still had the support of the masses throughout the entire Chang'an city and even the entire world. This was the greatest value of this body.

It took Li Shimin nearly an hour to lead 5000 imperial guards back to the outside of the palace. In fact, if they had gone at full speed, they would have arrived in 20 minutes at most.

But Li Shimin deliberately made the entire imperial army circle around Chang'an City, in order to convey the news of his return to the people of the city as much as possible. At the same time, he actually gained tens of thousands of Chang'an citizens to join his team.

Moreover, these citizens were not ordinary citizens, but veterans who had fought in the battlefields with Yuwen Yong, Yuwen Chan's grandfather. Yuwen Yong was a man of extraordinary talent, who not only snatched power back from his own Cao Cao, but was also extremely brave and led his army to defeat the Northern Qi Dynasty and finally destroyed it, thus establishing the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

If Yuwen Yong had been given twenty more years, there would have been no Sui Dynasty or Tang Dynasty, and Yuwen Yong would have become a figure comparable to Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin.

Unfortunately, Yuwen Yong died early. When Yuwen Yun, the son of Qin II Hu Hai and Yuwen Chan's father, came to power, the Northern Zhou Dynasty was doomed to perish.

But this did not prevent many old people from missing Yuwen Yong. These old people were too old to serve as soldiers, so they settled down in Chang'an City and watched Yang Jian snatch the world from the orphans and widows. They wanted to support the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but there was no one to take the lead. In addition, they all had family businesses, so they became silent.

Now that Yuwen Chan had fought back with his army, they were filled with uneasy emotions. With their blood boiling, they naturally joined Yuwen Chan's army with their last bit of passion.

(End of this chapter)