Chapter 931 Defense Switch
Chapter 931 Defense Switch
Starting from August 19, the offensive on Chang'an suddenly became more intense, but most of the attacks were concentrated in the north of the city.
Hearing that King Liang was coming, he was no longer stupid enough to play tricks. Even if it was just for show, he had to work hard, otherwise who knows what would happen next.
King Liang claimed that "both the barbarians and the Chinese are at peace", but he was merciless when he fought the Huns in Henan and Hebei, and he was also very ruthless when he attacked the Tuoba Xianbei. If he were to find fault with you and target your tribe, there may not be many people who would stand up for you.
On the morning of the 19th, the Fengyi Di Qiang took the lead in launching an attack, and fought repeatedly with the Huyan tribe, but was defeated.
This time, someone really shouted "Our army is defeated."
Fortunately, this was a siege war, and each unit had its own camp, which was independent of each other. The collapse of one unit could only cause a small-scale disturbance.
The most important thing is that there are people who are eager to make progress and take the initiative, such as the Di chief Pu Hong.
He personally led 5,000 infantry and cavalry to attack and repelled the Huns' offensive.
Yao Yi Zhong's Qiang tribe took advantage of the situation and killed Liu Xian, King of Runan, before Pu Hong. The remaining 2,000 people of Huyan's tribe abandoned their camp and clamored under the city, demanding to enter the city.
Hu Xun, the Grand Master of Imperial Households, was ordered to deliver food and fodder. Upon hearing the news, he suggested letting the remaining soldiers into the city and stationing them in Xiaoyao Garden. Strictly speaking, Xiaoyao Garden did not belong to the city of Chang'an. It was just a place for the royal family to play, although it had a wall.
Jin Ming, who was guarding the gates of the northern city, suppressed the commotion and refused to release anyone on the grounds that Xiaoyao Garden led directly to the palace.
In desperation, Huyan's troops rode their horses around to the east city, but were intercepted by Liang Xun's troops outside the Qingming Gate. More than half of their troops were killed or wounded, and the rest were captured.
There was a small episode during the battle: Pu Hong was very dissatisfied with Yao Yi Zhong's behavior of stealing the credit, and it could even be said that he was extremely angry. For this reason, he shot Yao Yi Zhong with an arrow on the spot, but missed.
Of course, he denied it afterwards and Yao Yi Zhong didn't mention it either, so it was just as if it never happened.
As to whether it really didn't happen and whether there is any resentment, only God knows.
That afternoon, a fierce offensive was also launched in the south of the city.
Zhao Gu, who had been silent for many days, led his troops to fight repeatedly with the Huns in that densely populated residential area, trying to advance to the outside of Anmen and Xi'anmen.
Zhao Gu was a greenhorn in his youth, even worse than Wang Mi, and his troops had been badly damaged many times, but after so many years of war, they had made great progress.
In particular, a group of veteran thieves have lived with Zhao Gu for many years and have rich military experience. When they serve as officers at all levels, they can teach the new recruits how to fight. In addition, Zhao Gu's troops have not suffered a devastating blow in recent years, and the new recruits have gradually grown up, so their actual strength is quite good, probably at the same level as the Yellow Head Army.
The 5,000 men of the Xubu tribe guarding the south of the city were unable to defeat the enemy in the residential area, so they sent out cavalry to intercept the retreat of Zhao Gu's tribe.
Zhao Gu sent out a second group of troops, formed a battle formation and advanced, forcing the Xiongnu cavalry to retreat.
Some of the mixed Hu cavalry took advantage of the situation to pursue the enemy and made considerable gains.
By the evening, the Huns retreated to their camp south of the city and did not attack again.
After nightfall, the Tuge tribe in the west of the city selected two thousand elite soldiers to launch a night attack, and more than ten thousand of the Hu people besieging the city were defeated.
The Lushui Hu defended their camp carefully, neither fleeing nor attacking.
The soldiers of the wealthy families in Anding, Xinping and other counties were all the same, which avoided a larger-scale chaos.
It was not until dawn that they sent troops out of the camp, where they ran into hundreds of Hun soldiers who had been separated during the night and surrounded and killed them all.
Human heads were piled in front of the formation, looking very arrogant.
At the same time, Peng Tianhu sent an envoy to Weibei to report the names of several tribal nobles who had escaped first last night and requested that they be executed.
Shao Xun suppressed it and did not respond.
But Peng Tianhu's behavior shows that the conflicts among the Hu people are very serious. After all, Guanzhong is such a small place, and the Hu people from all over the country are still pouring in. The population is increasing day by day, and the per capita resources are decreasing day by day. It would be abnormal if there were no conflicts.
Throughout the entire day of the 19th, only the East City around Chang'an did not experience any fighting.
Liang Xun was on high alert for the whole day and discovered that the Huns had been clamoring for a long time. He demanded that the city send reinforcements or let them into the city, but he never received a response.
I don’t know whether it was the decision of the East City garrison commander or the refusal of General Jin Zhun.
On the 20th, the fighting continued.
Someone proposed to transfer the tens of thousands of Hun soldiers who had surrendered at Puzhou Pass and Tongguan, but this was also rejected.
These tens of thousands of Hun soldiers were screened, and the farmhands from the gentry in Guanzhong were conscripted and released to ease the food pressure.
The miscellaneous Hu soldiers were divided into different groups, some were released and some were kept under surveillance.
Not a single real Xiongnu was released, and they were guarded by the Yellow-headed Army and a part of the palace soldiers.
Outside Chang'an, looting became more and more serious.
Shao Xun sent envoys to various counties, demanding that the tribal soldiers disband and return to their families.
Some people listened and decided to stop while they were ahead.
Some people refused to listen, but Shao Xun did not intend to cause trouble for them for the time being. He just took note of it and would deal with it after conquering Chang'an.
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The situation in Chang'an City became increasingly chaotic.
Thousands of people from the Huyan army were almost wiped out, and their end was extremely tragic.
When changing defense, Huyan Shi almost popped his eyes out, wishing he could eat Jin Ming.
"You still hold a grudge about what happened back then!" Hu Yanshi stroked the hilt of the knife, looking at Jin Ming, whose mouth was full of alcohol, and said angrily.
Jin Ming ignored him and only ordered the soldiers to form a battle line and prepare to take over the defense of the palace.
He knew what Hu Yanshi was talking about.
To be precise, there were more than one incident. When Jin Zhun was at the peak of his career, he served as the Central Guard General and led the Xiongnu army to plunder Henan, but was defeated by Shao Xun.
That was a really big setback.
The Tu clan members and the Huyan tribe took advantage of the situation and demoted Jin Zhun to be in charge of horse affairs. He almost never got up again.
If Jin Zhun had not taken the initiative to join Liu Can and had not given birth to two beautiful daughters, he would have had no chance.
Another thing is the death of the master architect Jin Ling.
He supervised the construction of Wenming and Huiguang Palaces for Liu Cong, but was beheaded because he was a little slow.
In fact, there is an old incident which happened more than ten years ago. Jin Chong and Bu Wei led their troops to fight and were defeated. As a result, Jin Chong blamed Bu Wei and killed him.
Liu Cong was furious upon hearing the news and killed Jin Chong as well.
Jin Zhun, Jin Ling and Jin Chong were all prominent figures in the Jin family, but one was demoted and two died. Do you think they hated the family?
If we dig deeper, we will find that Liu Can heard that Jin Zhun's youngest daughter, Jin Yueming, the sister of Jin Yueguang and Jin Yuehua, was the most beautiful and he wanted to marry her.
Jin Zhun could only announce to the public that the woman had died of illness and then let the matter go.
Liu Yao also met the daughter of Jin Kang, the cousin of Jin Zhun, by chance, and he could not forget her and wanted to marry her. However, he died in Shangdang before he could do so.
Jin Kang was very embarrassed and didn't know what to do.
Liu Can heard about this and wanted to marry Jin Kang's daughter. Jin Kang could only claim that his daughter was a widow of Liu Yao. Liu Can thought about it again and again, hesitated again and again, and finally gave up.
Jin Zhun also had a younger sister who was a childmother of the Crown Prince Liu Yi. She was executed for committing adultery with a servant.
Tu Ge Liuquan is a sex-hungry ghost who just won't let go of a beautiful woman. How can he stop after being humiliated like this?
Of course, this also shows that Jin has good genes.
Jin Zhun's cousin was taken away by Liu Yi, his two daughters were almost fought over by Liu Cong and Liu Can, father and son, and his third daughter was almost lost. Even his cousin Jin Kang's daughter was favored by Liu Yao. This shows that a beautiful woman can also be a disaster, especially for a noble woman of high status.
In the eyes of outsiders, Jin Zhun's daughter was the empress, and he himself was the General of Chariots and Cavalry, who often interfered in state affairs. Being so rich and powerful, they should have no reason to rebel.
No! You don't understand abstract human thinking.
In the eyes of ordinary people, these things would indeed make Jin Zhun angry, but are they really enough to constitute a reason for rebellion? It seems not enough, but Jin Zhun thinks it is enough.
I just want to fucking kill Tu Ge Liu, so what?
Not only did he want to kill Liu Can, he also wanted to dig up Liu Cong's body and behead him. None of Liu's descendants could survive. This was his "minimum standard" for revenge...
Jin Ming only knew that his brother Jin Zhun wanted to rebel, but he didn't know how big a move he would make or to what extent.
At this moment, he just ignored Hu Yanshi's words and didn't want to pay any attention to him at all. After assembling the team, he took his men and left.
As for who will open the city gate after Hu Yanshi takes over the North City, haha, no need to worry about it.
There were others who were willing to join the Jin family in the rebellion, such as the Qiwu clan, which was also a major Xiongnu noble family. Like the Jin family, they had been bullied in the past and could not get promoted.
The sound of rustling footsteps sounded in the city.
After the two thousand men withdrew from the north city, they headed south and then turned east. When they passed Duanmen, they handed over to the more than one hundred soldiers stationed there.
The original garrison troops rushed to the north city and returned to Hu Yanshi's camp. Jin Ming left a hundred trusted men to garrison there.
The large group of people continued to move forward and when they arrived at Xiye Gate, they exchanged goods again.
Afterwards, Jin Ming led his men in from the Xiye Gate, while part of the troops continued to move eastward to the Dongye Gate and other places.
Chang'an is slightly smaller than Luoyang, but its palace is larger than Luoyang's, although it is very dilapidated.
The palace has experienced many wars and Liu Han had some construction work done. It is currently divided into two parts, namely the Imperial Palace on the west side and the Crown Prince's Palace on the east side, also known as the East Palace.
The West Ye Gate leads directly to the Imperial Palace, while the East Ye Gate leads to the East Palace, where Liu Can's crown prince Liu Yuangong lived.
After entering the Xiye Gate, Jin Ming dispatched people to the armory, Taiji Hall, Jianzhang Hall, Forbidden City, the harem and other places to replace the last batch of guards.
He personally led people to inspect the doors inside the Shenhu, Yunlong, Zhonghua and other imperial palaces to ensure that they were replaced by his own people.
As for the pavilions, towers and other places in the palace, they were abandoned because there were not enough people.
After doing all this, he personally went into the Taiji Hall and requested an audience with Emperor Liu Can, but was told that the emperor was still drunk, so he gave up.
At this time, Jin Ming couldn't help but sneer inwardly.
When the army besieged the city, the emperor not only did not go to the top of the city wall to boost morale, but instead looked discouraged and about to perish. How could he rule the people?
Since you feel that your chances of winning are slim and you have given up, there is nothing more to say. I will make it true for you and make sure you are truly doomed.
On the night of the 20th, the fighting outside the city not only did not stop, but became more intense.
The soldiers of both sides fought bravely and killed non-stop in the west, south and north of the city, which attracted the attention of many people.
In the second half of the night, more than 3,000 people lined up in an orderly queue and arrived outside the Duanmen Gate.
Soon, the Duanmen Gate was opened wide, and all the people were let in, and then the gate was closed again.
In addition to pavilions and towers, there is also an armory inside Duanmen.
Dozens of people stood outside the armory gate, urging them on.
More than 3,000 men formed a battle array outside the armory and queued up to go inside to receive armor and other equipment.
At the hour of Yin, General Jin Zhun entered the Duanmen Gate. A sudden yet expected rebellion was about to break out.
(End of this chapter)