Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 269 Yan Gaoqing's Defeat

Early in the morning of the third day, the rebels began to attack the city again.

However, Yan Gaoqing still didn't see any sign of reinforcements coming to rescue him. Yan Gaoqing was desperate, and he didn't even know how to appease the other guards under his command.

"Why didn't you come to the rescue?" This was something Yan Gaoqing couldn't figure out anyway, and it was also the ultimate reason for his grief and indignation.

There are not many arrows stored in Changshan City. Although they have been continuously manufactured these days, the speed of arrow manufacturing is far behind the speed of consumption.After all, it may take half an hour for a worker to make an arrow, from the body of the arrow to the whole process of making the arrow, but it only takes one breath to shoot it.

The fierce offensive and defensive battles in the past two days have almost consumed [-]% of the arrows.

The offensive and defensive battle on the third day had just started less than two hours before the defenders shot out the last arrow in reserve.

"My lord, all the arrows have been exhausted. If the reinforcements don't come, the soldiers will be unable to stop them." A general came anxiously and said to Yan Gaoqing.

Yan Gaoqing had a look of grief and indignation. The reinforcements refused to come. What could he do? He still couldn't figure out why Wang Chengye refused to bring reinforcements to rescue Changshan. Once Changshan fell, he would be a hundred miles east of Changshan. Can you escape the counterattack of the rebels?
If you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out, and you are sad and angry. Yan Gaoqing still has to persevere in resisting the siege of the rebels.

The fierce attack and defense not only consumed all the arrows, but even the soldiers defending the city suffered heavy casualties.

In order to defend Changshan City, Yan Gaoqing personally commanded and killed the enemy on the city wall.Many people in Changshan City also spontaneously came to help Yan Gaoqing defend the city.

This moved Yan Gaoqing to tears.

Look at how the people in Changshan City are against An Lushan for the Tang Dynasty. The situation is so good, but is Wang Chengye cowardly or has other selfish motives? Injustice!
"Pfft!" Yan Gaoqing personally beheaded a rebel soldier climbing up the city wall with his sword.

Although he is over sixty years old and has gray temples, the Yan family has been a big family in Hebei for hundreds of years. His descendants have not only inherited literature but also martial arts, and there have been many governors or prefects. Yan Gaoqing and his cousin Yan Zhenqing Each is the prefect of a state, Yan Gaoqing has learned a lot of martial arts since childhood, and has grown stronger and stronger. At this time, the No. 6 rebel soldier was beheaded and killed by him.

Yan Gaoqing's old age and bravery boosted the morale of many defenders and people who volunteered to help defend the city.

However, without reinforcements, the morale of Yan Gaoqing and Changshan's soldiers and civilians would not last long. It was just a battle between trapped beasts, and after all, it was hard to stop Shi Siming, Cai Xide's two great anti-army generals and [-] anti-army elites from attacking.

"Their arrows have been used up, and they can't last for a long time!" Shi Siming saw that there were no more arrows shot down from the walls of Changshan City, and immediately knew that the arrows stored in Changshan City had been used up.

"Take advantage of this opportunity to break through Changshan City in one fell swoop, and pass on the order that the whole army will launch the most violent offensive!" Shi Siming had an eye for the battlefield, and he knew the opportunity to break through Changshan at a glance.

Immediately, all the [-] cavalrymen of the rebel army pressed down under the city wall of Changshan and shot arrows at the city wall. Thousands of infantry also gathered under the city wall densely, and continued to climb the city wall through ladders.

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu of arrows to rain.

A defender lifted a stone and just exposed his upper body. Before the stone was thrown down, an arrow hit his chest. go down.

Like this garrison soldier, there are many other garrison soldiers.

Without arrows, the defenders could only fight back with stones and rolling logs. Even the rebel cavalry who shot arrows more than ten meters away from the city wall had no choice but to be suppressed by the rain of arrows from the rebel cavalry. Some rebel soldiers began to climb successfully. Go up the city wall.

These anti-army soldiers are elite soldiers who have fought many battles. After successfully climbing the city wall, their fierce individual qualities were immediately displayed.The defenders such as Yan Gaoqing had to kill three to five people on average in order to kill a rebel soldier who climbed up the city wall, so that the morale of the defenders was getting worse and worse.

Although Yan Gaoqing led the defenders to fight fiercely on the city wall regardless of his own life, but without arrows to suppress the rebel archers, more and more rebel soldiers successfully climbed the city wall, and there was no end to them.

"Ah—" About a quarter of an hour later, Yan Gaoqing's hands were already weak, and he was slashed on his right arm by a rebel soldier, and suffered serious injuries.

"Your Excellency is injured!" A soldier exclaimed.

Yan Gaoqing was injured, and the morale of the defending soldiers became even lower. They were defeated by the rebel soldiers who kept climbing up the city wall, and there was a tendency to be driven down from the city wall by the rebel soldiers.

"I'm afraid Changshan can't hold it anymore!" Yan Gaoqing was desperate, he knew that according to this situation, Changshan City would be destroyed in a short while, and the reinforcements he was expecting were still missing.

Yan Gaoqing didn't know at all that in a small town thirty miles east of Changshan City, Wang Chengye had been waiting here with [-] soldiers of the Tang Army under his command for almost two days.

The reason why Wang Chengye would rather wait in this small town for nearly two days than go to rescue him is because Wang Chengye has already reported his great achievements in leading the uprising in Hebei provinces to the imperial court and transferred flowers to himself. If Qing dies, of course he won't save Chang Shan.

No, Wang Chengye heard that the scouts sent out came back to report that Changshan was about to break down the city. Not only was he not in the slightest bit of anxiety, but he was secretly happy.

Leading the uprising of more than a dozen prefectures in Hebei and returning to the Tang Dynasty. With such great achievements, he can at least get the title of Duke of a county, and his official career will be smooth in the future, so Yan Gaoqing must die!
Wang Chengye was thinking that when Changshan City was broken and Yan Gaoqing died in battle, the rebel army would be exhausted and suffer heavy casualties after attacking the city for three consecutive days. The army is the best, and they can't defeat the rebels. At worst, they will fight for a short time and then return to Hedong, so that they can say that he has fulfilled the responsibility of 'leading' the rebels in the states of Hebei.

Due to Wang Chengye's reluctance to save him, when it was about to enter noon,
The rebel soldiers gradually captured the city wall, killing the defenders and retreating into the city.

Soon, Changshan's city gate was also opened from the inside.

"Kill!" Shi Siming and Cai Xide personally led the anti-army cavalry and a large number of anti-army infantry into the city. It was inevitable that Changshan would be captured.

Yan Gaoqing organized the remaining defenders to fight and retreat, but the defenders couldn't even defend the city wall. How could they resist the rebel cavalry who had rushed into the city? scattered.

The general situation is over, Yan Gaoqing wanted to kill himself, but because of his right arm injury, he failed and was captured by Shi Siming instead.
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(End of this chapter)