Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 241

An Lushan has always been preparing for the rebellion. In fact, he has already completed his preparations by now. All the soldiers will be fully equipped with weapons and armor, and they will gather in Youzhou City. Only An Lushan can make up his mind and be able to send troops immediately. go south.

Datang Tianbao November 14th.

"The treacherous prime minister Yang Guozhong, deceived the sage, acted perversely, disrupted the government, and caused harm to all the people in the world. Today, His Majesty's adopted son, An Lushan, king of Dongping County, raised troops on the side of the Qing emperor to punish the traitorous prime minister Yang Guozhong! Anyone who disagrees and shakes the morale of the army will be killed. The whole family!" An Lushan rebelled in the name of killing Yang Guozhong on the side of the Qing emperor, just like in history.

Immediately, An Lushan left the general under his command, Fan Yang's deputy Jiedu envoy Jia Xun guarded Fanyang Road, Pinglu's deputy Jiedu envoy Lu Zhihai guarded Pinlu Road, and Gao Xiuyan did not guard the East Road. The old nest, while An Lushan himself led an army of 15 to the south and went straight to Chang'an City.

An Lushan weighs more than 300 kilograms, and has lost the agility of more than ten years ago. He is not good at riding a horse, so he sits on an iron cart. Behind him is a murderous and terrifying army of 15. Every soldier has Armor, and they are all true elites in all battles.

In particular, there are 1 Hu cavalry mainly composed of Xi and Khitan, including 8000 Xi and [-] Khitan.

The Xi and Khitan tribes were originally fierce, but after being bewitched by Anlushan, Anlushan equipped them with sophisticated armor and even more sophisticated bow and crossbow weapons. It can be said that the combat effectiveness of these [-] Hu tribe cavalry is no better than a full set of armed forces. The elite Datang Iron Cavalry is not even the slightest bit worse.

"Rise up!" With An Lushan's cold shout, 15 troops marched southward from Youzhou City.

"Boom--" A cavalry of thousands of people rushed to the front to open the way, followed by An Lushan and other main forces.

Under the horse's hooves and footsteps, billowing smoke and dust were stepped up, like a raging battle cloud, they quickly left Fanyang Road and entered the territory of Hebei Road.

"The anti-army is coming, run!" Hebei Road is guarded by Fan Yang and Ping Lu in the north. The people here have not experienced war for more than 100 years. When they heard that Anlu Mountain rebelled, everyone was shocked. full of fear.

Not to mention resisting the army of Anlu Mountain, some small counties saw the army of Anlu Mountain attacking from a distance, and the defenders collapsed in fright, or directly opened the city gate to surrender, or abandoned the city and fled. In just two days, Anlu Mountain The army went all the way to Boling City without any hindrance.

Boling was the first city that An Lushan's army really attacked.

Although the prefect of Boling did not directly open the city gate to surrender, nor did he abandon the city and flee, but chose to resist.But Boling is not a big state city, nor is it a strong city. It is just a low-level state city with a population size that can only be reached a few years ago. The defenders in the city are also ordinary defenses that have never experienced war. Soldiers, they usually just patrol the countryside, but they never had a day when they would actually fight against the elite rebels.

Looking at the brightly armored and murderous rebels below the city wall, the defenders on the city wall were terrified, their legs trembling.

Shi Siming is An Lushan's forward general. He is good at leading troops and is extremely brave. He is highly valued by An Lushan.Shi Siming looked at the terrified and pale defenders on the city wall and smiled disdainfully.

Such a timid person dares to resist, he doesn't know how to live or die!

"Kill!" Shi Siming raised his knife and ordered the rebel soldiers to attack.

"Kill!" The ladders, siege vehicles, etc. were carried or pushed by the rebel soldiers and rushed towards the city wall of Boling.

"Hoo! Shoo——" Arrows rained from the walls of Boling City, but the defenders were too frightened. Many of them couldn't open their bows and arrows with trembling hands. The two rebel soldiers made the rebel soldiers rush to the city wall.

Bang!Bang!
The ladder was erected to the city wall, and the rebel soldiers below began to quickly climb the city wall.

Every anti-army soldier is an elite who has really experienced war, and they are all equipped with the most sophisticated armor and equipment in the world that originally belonged to Datang. They are more ferocious than wolves.

A defender soldier was frightened by the ferocious face of a rebel soldier climbing up the city wall and sat down, trembling, unable to hold the knife in his hand steadily.

"Pfft!" Blood splashed!The result of being unable to resist was to be beheaded by the enemy. The defender was directly slashed in the chest with a knife, and blood was directly splashed out.

The siege engine had just rushed to the city gate and began to hit the city gate, and a large number of rebel soldiers had already climbed up the city wall.

"Hold it! Kill the rebels!" The prefect of Boling roared, hoping to stop the retreat of the defenders.

However, to lose is to lose. Compared with the defenders and the experienced rebels, the gap is too great.Not only morale, battlefield experience, but also the weapons in hand, and the armor on the body is inferior, how to resist!
Most of the city wall has been captured by rebel soldiers, and the rebel soldiers began to organize to attack the city from the city wall.

As the city wall was almost captured by the rebels, more than a dozen defenders behind the city gate also fled in fear.

"Crack, bang!" The city gate was knocked open, and more rebel soldiers rushed into the city.

"The general situation is over, Boling is over, Your Majesty, there is nothing I can do!" The prefect of Boling looked sad and full of despair, the city walls had already been occupied, and the city gates had been knocked open.

Boling City couldn't even block the first wave of attacks by the rebels, and even failed to kill a few rebel soldiers before being breached by the rebel soldiers.The prefect of Boling was also taken to Anlu Mountain by rebel soldiers.

"If you don't surrender, you will die, kill!" An Lushan waved his hand, but he was just a little prefect. Although he had a little courage, he didn't take it seriously.

After capturing Boling and killing the prefect of Boling, An Lushan continued to lead the army south to Changzhou.

Changzhou is also known as Changshan. Compared to Boling, which was just a Xiazhou with a population size that reached the standard a few years ago and was approved, Changshan is an old-fashioned big city with a population of nearly [-] households. And the city walls are quite tall and strong.

However, Yan Gaoqing, the prefect of Changzhou, did not intend to resist the army of Anlu Mountain like Boling.

"Although Changzhou is a large state, its defense is only three to 4000 people. I am afraid that it will be difficult to stop several waves of attacks by the anti-army. It is better to pretend to surrender the city and surrender to Anlu Mountain. It may be a nail in the future. Maybe it will play a bigger role in the future." role!" Yan Gaoqing is loyal to Datang, but he is very decisive, knowing that the defenders in his hands are not much stronger than Boling, Boling can't stop a wave of attacks by the rebels, even if Changzhou's strength resists. After not being able to last for a long time, he planned to pretend to surrender to Anlu Mountain.

The most important thing is that Yan Gaoqing has learned that almost all the officials who surrendered to An Lushan along the way were retained by An Lushan. Changzhou is very important. If he is also retained by An Lushan, when the time comes in the future, The role played is enormous.

Changzhou did not resist after all. Under the leadership of the prefect Yan Gaoqing, he directly opened the city gate and surrendered to Anlu Mountain.
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