The total route from Xishoujiang City (Bayannur) to Zhongcheng is 490 miles long.
The grassland is convenient for war horses to run. Even so, the urgent report from Xicheng used 800 miles to report to the main tent of Xue Chongxun's army in Zhongcheng, and the Turks had already crossed the Yinshan soldiers and headed straight to Xicheng.
The Tang army soldiers facing the war could not wait for the reply or reinforcements from Zhongcheng. They even started the war immediately. It is hard to say whether the messenger sent out has arrived in Zhongcheng.
At this time, Zhang Renyuan was dead, and all the senior generals were forced to go to the central city, at the critical moment...
The highest level of the remaining military generals is the lieutenant. It is not certain whether such generals have the ability to coordinate the overall situation, at least they have no authority.
Therefore, the army in the city did not have a unified command and arrangement system at all, and the arrangement of the four-door defenses could not adjust the defense changes in time after the battle began...
It can be said to be a mess.
There are also staff and civil servants such as the chief and the minister in the city, but it is okay for these literati in Xicheng to give advice. It may be a bit blind to make decisions in person to mobilize troops.
The troops stood on the city wall and stared northward, and saw a team of horses surging around the mountains under the shadow of Yinshan.
The enemy soldiers were very far away from Yinshan to the north, but looking from a distance, it looked like they were just below the mountain.
At this moment, a group of herders and soldiers were yelling to let the city gate open.
The troops stationed in this town will also be in production when there is no war. According to local conditions, some herders and soldiers will be summoned to herd their livestock to grazle some of the military supplies and food. When military information came from the early warning point of the sentry and fort on the other side of Yinshan, most of the herdsmen had already run back to the city to hide, but some people who were too far away from the city did not have time to come back, and some even started fighting before they learned the news.
Now the group of people under the city gate drove cattle and sheep back too late, and the city gate had already closed the martial law.
Many men and women shouted below, some looked up at the soldiers on the city tower, and some looked back at the Turkic soldiers getting closer and closer in the distance and shouted in fear.
Zhang San, Zhang San!I am the fifth brother!Ask them to open the city gate...
A soldier on the upper floor finally heard someone calling him, lying on the pile of arrows and looking down, and immediately shouted: Lao Wu...
The young general named Lao Wu may be a general like the team leader, so he hurriedly advised another general on the city wall: The captain should open the city gate quickly, it is still time to let them in now!
The captain shouted: When the enemy troops are at the city, open the city gate?If there are enemy soldiers and spies inside, who will bear the responsibility!
The young player almost cried: How could he be a spy? I know someone below, and it is absolutely impossible to be a spy!
No, go back to your position and prepare for the battle!The captain roared, and his saliva flew to the young general's face.
The young general gritted his teeth and said: Seeing that so many Han people under the city were slaughtered by enemy soldiers and refused to be rescued, the lieutenant also had to be responsible!If you report to the top of the peak, you will definitely not be able to see you dead and save you!
Up the peak?Where can we get to the top now?
The captain pulled out his sword with a silence and said angrily, "I am the highest-quality here, what I say is military orders. Those who disobey military orders can behead them now and go back!"
The young general stared at the sight of him: Then kill me, I saw that the villagers were not saved and had no shame to live in the world.
The captain was furious, but he felt that he was indeed a little inappropriate. In this mood, he wanted to kill the officers and soldiers who were together day and night, so the atmosphere suddenly became a stalemate.
At this moment, a voice suddenly said: When will you disobey the military order in the face of battle and not kill?
When the soldiers heard the sound, they looked back and saw a handsome young man who had just walked up the stone steps. He was at least eighteen or nineteen years old. He was wearing a white felt robe and a sword with his waist. He saw that he was a noble man with noble spirit.
The highest-level general and lieutenant here must respectfully clasp their fists and bend down and shout: Mr. Li.
This person is from an incredible background, his name is Li Shizhi, and his grandfather is Li Chenggan; who is Li Chenggan? The eldest son of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, and the eldest son of Empress Changsun!Authentic bloodline of Emperor Gaozu, Li Tang’s prince and grandson!
How could he be in this remote place where wars and lives are at risk at any time?
Obviously, the luck was not good. In the past, Wu Zetian slaughtered and suppressed the descendants of the Li family. Later, the turbulent court in the central government was not a good person. Li Shizhi was naturally framed and sentenced several times and became more and more unlucky. At this moment, he became an official in Xicheng, such as a marching counselor, and finally he had a salary to prove that the Li Tang court had not completely abandoned him.
Li Shizhi pointed to the young general called Lao Wu and said: Disobey the order before the battle, throw it under the city and kill it!
When Lao Wu heard that he was about to die, he simply threw himself into pieces and shouted: Why, what official position is you? Why should you point fingers?
After asking this, Li Shizhi really couldn't find a reason. He is now in the army. No matter what your origin is, you don't wear an official robe and have no seal in your hands. What authority do you have to issue military orders?
However, Li Shizhi did not answer such questions that he could not answer directly. He changed his perspective and said righteously: With more than 30,000 soldiers and people in the city, under the threat of enemy soldiers!For the sake of the hundreds of people under the city, they took the fortunes and lives of tens of thousands of people and the great city of the Tang Dynasty?What is your old team? Can you afford the safety of my Li Tang people?!
The captain next to him did not say much, and at the order, the soldiers rushed forward and arrested the young general.
Li Shizhi looked back and said: Even if one or two soldiers and civilians under the city know each other, who can guarantee that there are no spies involved in this juncture?
He stood tall and raised his head and said loudly: Dear soldiers, what are we doing in this Western Suspension City!
The troops immediately became convinced, and this person quickly gained recognition from many people.
After a while, the chief and other bureaucrats came to the city with a group of soldiers. The soldiers behind him were carrying a case. The case was covered with red silk, with red pens, cinnabar signs, flags and other items. It was something Zhang Ren wished to use, but the king's order and seal were not there, and he was taken to the middle city by General Li Gui.
The chief shouted: The generals in the city are not here, and at this critical moment, they have to act expediently. All cities and departments will follow the orders of our Anbei shogunate. Those who violate the violation will be killed!If we kill the wrong person and wait for the enemy troops to be repelled, we should pay our lives with our lives and repay our blood debts with our blood!
The soldiers up and down the city tower suddenly became solemn.
The crowd went into the Qiao Tower and placed the case on the side of the sergeant station, and temporarily formed a command center.
The chief clasped his fists and said: I heard that Mr. Li was able to excel in his military books. When he was alive, he put the overall situation first and did not refuse.
Li Shizhi replied: Li is so arrogant!
After saying that, he brushed his white robe and sat in the upper position.
Pick up the flag and tell: I will order all the troops to be ordered by the central army to jointly deploy defense. Those on duty will go to the city first, and the rest will line up the gates and wait for the orders at any time, and there must be no mistakes!
Get order!A soldier took the flag, repeated it again, and turned around and ran out quickly.
The military order was quickly spread to the four sects. When each department was just catching a blind eye, he heard that the people from the Li family clan and the chief of the Shiqiao Tower had set up a central army. Although it was not as down-to-earth as the generals who followed everyone's understanding, it was better than not...
If there are tens of thousands of troops, if no one tells them what they should do, it would be strange if they are not in trouble.
Afterwards, the orders were passed one by one, and the chaos in each battalion gradually eased.
The troops ordered to go up the city to carry the ordnance tools one after another; the troops as reserve troops were arranged in a row on the avenues within the city gate.
When the order drafted by Li Shizhi was read out, the troops were completely restored to good condition.
An official was standing on the stone steps and read loudly: The opportunity for war is a place of life and death. We should be determined to burn both jade and stone and hold on to the fortifications waiting for assistance. If the city is broken, we will fight with the enemy to one soldier, which shows that our soldiers and civilians of the Tang Dynasty will never bow their knees and beg for mercy...
I saw the military formations on the avenue were even and vertical, with neat lines, and swords and guns standing in the air like forests.
The troops were waiting quietly at the gate of the city, and the bright armor was shining like iron walls, ready to fight with the Turks who were rushing into the city at any time.
All the officials of the Central Army went up to patrol the city wall, and immediately admired Li Shizhi when they saw this scene.
After a long struggle in the city here, the Turkic soldiers arrived two miles away.The sight of the grassland is wide open, and I have seen their horse team for a long time. It looks not far, but the actual distance is not close.
The Ximen city gate was still closed, and the Han people below were already desperate, but there was no other way to scream.
They are like victims who are about to be burned to death in a fire, and they are like people who have no way to escape in the face of floods...
And now, disasters come from human beings themselves, but they are as ruthless and cruel as disasters jackals.
Sure enough, a group of people rushed towards the west gate first, and probably saw a group of people chaotic here and thought there was an opportunity to take advantage of it.
When the cavalry rushed closer, they found that the city gate was closed, and the city wall was full of strong bows and crossbows. Below were only a group of herders and semi-armed military and civilians.
Just as sharks could not smell blood, these nomadic cavalry could not stand the living people, and soon rushed over to catch people and rob cattle and sheep of property.
At this time, a commander rushed over the city and shouted: If the central army has orders, the enemy soldiers can attack when they are close to the city!
The general received the authorization and ordered the arrow to be fired.
The arrows do not have eyes, so naturally, no matter whether Turkic soldiers or civilians, there are people who are constantly being shot by arrows under the city.
The vanguard of Turkic soldiers was few, and they were attacked by a rain of arrows and drove the looted people, horses, cattle and sheep to retreat one after another.
In a hurry, those who were not caught were also shot by riding and shooting. The unprotected military and civilians were killed and injured, and corpses were quickly left behind in the city.
The Turkic soldiers approached the sky, but they stopped advancing nearly a thousand steps away. The Tang army's bed crossbows had a range of hundreds of steps, and they became living targets when they were closer.
The former army robbed some Han people and returned to the main force, and a massacre happened in public soon.
The Turkic generals believed that there was no need to keep prisoners of slaves when siege, so they ordered men and children to be cut and killed, leaving only young women as tools for venting desires. Women in the grassland are also a resource worth robbing.
When they learned that Ximen had strong bows and hard crossbows, they threw away Ximen and sent three teams to feint attacks on the other three sides to test the firepower.The battle of siege gradually began.
The grassland is convenient for war horses to run. Even so, the urgent report from Xicheng used 800 miles to report to the main tent of Xue Chongxun's army in Zhongcheng, and the Turks had already crossed the Yinshan soldiers and headed straight to Xicheng.
The Tang army soldiers facing the war could not wait for the reply or reinforcements from Zhongcheng. They even started the war immediately. It is hard to say whether the messenger sent out has arrived in Zhongcheng.
At this time, Zhang Renyuan was dead, and all the senior generals were forced to go to the central city, at the critical moment...
The highest level of the remaining military generals is the lieutenant. It is not certain whether such generals have the ability to coordinate the overall situation, at least they have no authority.
Therefore, the army in the city did not have a unified command and arrangement system at all, and the arrangement of the four-door defenses could not adjust the defense changes in time after the battle began...
It can be said to be a mess.
There are also staff and civil servants such as the chief and the minister in the city, but it is okay for these literati in Xicheng to give advice. It may be a bit blind to make decisions in person to mobilize troops.
The troops stood on the city wall and stared northward, and saw a team of horses surging around the mountains under the shadow of Yinshan.
The enemy soldiers were very far away from Yinshan to the north, but looking from a distance, it looked like they were just below the mountain.
At this moment, a group of herders and soldiers were yelling to let the city gate open.
The troops stationed in this town will also be in production when there is no war. According to local conditions, some herders and soldiers will be summoned to herd their livestock to grazle some of the military supplies and food. When military information came from the early warning point of the sentry and fort on the other side of Yinshan, most of the herdsmen had already run back to the city to hide, but some people who were too far away from the city did not have time to come back, and some even started fighting before they learned the news.
Now the group of people under the city gate drove cattle and sheep back too late, and the city gate had already closed the martial law.
Many men and women shouted below, some looked up at the soldiers on the city tower, and some looked back at the Turkic soldiers getting closer and closer in the distance and shouted in fear.
Zhang San, Zhang San!I am the fifth brother!Ask them to open the city gate...
A soldier on the upper floor finally heard someone calling him, lying on the pile of arrows and looking down, and immediately shouted: Lao Wu...
The young general named Lao Wu may be a general like the team leader, so he hurriedly advised another general on the city wall: The captain should open the city gate quickly, it is still time to let them in now!
The captain shouted: When the enemy troops are at the city, open the city gate?If there are enemy soldiers and spies inside, who will bear the responsibility!
The young player almost cried: How could he be a spy? I know someone below, and it is absolutely impossible to be a spy!
No, go back to your position and prepare for the battle!The captain roared, and his saliva flew to the young general's face.
The young general gritted his teeth and said: Seeing that so many Han people under the city were slaughtered by enemy soldiers and refused to be rescued, the lieutenant also had to be responsible!If you report to the top of the peak, you will definitely not be able to see you dead and save you!
Up the peak?Where can we get to the top now?
The captain pulled out his sword with a silence and said angrily, "I am the highest-quality here, what I say is military orders. Those who disobey military orders can behead them now and go back!"
The young general stared at the sight of him: Then kill me, I saw that the villagers were not saved and had no shame to live in the world.
The captain was furious, but he felt that he was indeed a little inappropriate. In this mood, he wanted to kill the officers and soldiers who were together day and night, so the atmosphere suddenly became a stalemate.
At this moment, a voice suddenly said: When will you disobey the military order in the face of battle and not kill?
When the soldiers heard the sound, they looked back and saw a handsome young man who had just walked up the stone steps. He was at least eighteen or nineteen years old. He was wearing a white felt robe and a sword with his waist. He saw that he was a noble man with noble spirit.
The highest-level general and lieutenant here must respectfully clasp their fists and bend down and shout: Mr. Li.
This person is from an incredible background, his name is Li Shizhi, and his grandfather is Li Chenggan; who is Li Chenggan? The eldest son of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, and the eldest son of Empress Changsun!Authentic bloodline of Emperor Gaozu, Li Tang’s prince and grandson!
How could he be in this remote place where wars and lives are at risk at any time?
Obviously, the luck was not good. In the past, Wu Zetian slaughtered and suppressed the descendants of the Li family. Later, the turbulent court in the central government was not a good person. Li Shizhi was naturally framed and sentenced several times and became more and more unlucky. At this moment, he became an official in Xicheng, such as a marching counselor, and finally he had a salary to prove that the Li Tang court had not completely abandoned him.
Li Shizhi pointed to the young general called Lao Wu and said: Disobey the order before the battle, throw it under the city and kill it!
When Lao Wu heard that he was about to die, he simply threw himself into pieces and shouted: Why, what official position is you? Why should you point fingers?
After asking this, Li Shizhi really couldn't find a reason. He is now in the army. No matter what your origin is, you don't wear an official robe and have no seal in your hands. What authority do you have to issue military orders?
However, Li Shizhi did not answer such questions that he could not answer directly. He changed his perspective and said righteously: With more than 30,000 soldiers and people in the city, under the threat of enemy soldiers!For the sake of the hundreds of people under the city, they took the fortunes and lives of tens of thousands of people and the great city of the Tang Dynasty?What is your old team? Can you afford the safety of my Li Tang people?!
The captain next to him did not say much, and at the order, the soldiers rushed forward and arrested the young general.
Li Shizhi looked back and said: Even if one or two soldiers and civilians under the city know each other, who can guarantee that there are no spies involved in this juncture?
He stood tall and raised his head and said loudly: Dear soldiers, what are we doing in this Western Suspension City!
The troops immediately became convinced, and this person quickly gained recognition from many people.
After a while, the chief and other bureaucrats came to the city with a group of soldiers. The soldiers behind him were carrying a case. The case was covered with red silk, with red pens, cinnabar signs, flags and other items. It was something Zhang Ren wished to use, but the king's order and seal were not there, and he was taken to the middle city by General Li Gui.
The chief shouted: The generals in the city are not here, and at this critical moment, they have to act expediently. All cities and departments will follow the orders of our Anbei shogunate. Those who violate the violation will be killed!If we kill the wrong person and wait for the enemy troops to be repelled, we should pay our lives with our lives and repay our blood debts with our blood!
The soldiers up and down the city tower suddenly became solemn.
The crowd went into the Qiao Tower and placed the case on the side of the sergeant station, and temporarily formed a command center.
The chief clasped his fists and said: I heard that Mr. Li was able to excel in his military books. When he was alive, he put the overall situation first and did not refuse.
Li Shizhi replied: Li is so arrogant!
After saying that, he brushed his white robe and sat in the upper position.
Pick up the flag and tell: I will order all the troops to be ordered by the central army to jointly deploy defense. Those on duty will go to the city first, and the rest will line up the gates and wait for the orders at any time, and there must be no mistakes!
Get order!A soldier took the flag, repeated it again, and turned around and ran out quickly.
The military order was quickly spread to the four sects. When each department was just catching a blind eye, he heard that the people from the Li family clan and the chief of the Shiqiao Tower had set up a central army. Although it was not as down-to-earth as the generals who followed everyone's understanding, it was better than not...
If there are tens of thousands of troops, if no one tells them what they should do, it would be strange if they are not in trouble.
Afterwards, the orders were passed one by one, and the chaos in each battalion gradually eased.
The troops ordered to go up the city to carry the ordnance tools one after another; the troops as reserve troops were arranged in a row on the avenues within the city gate.
When the order drafted by Li Shizhi was read out, the troops were completely restored to good condition.
An official was standing on the stone steps and read loudly: The opportunity for war is a place of life and death. We should be determined to burn both jade and stone and hold on to the fortifications waiting for assistance. If the city is broken, we will fight with the enemy to one soldier, which shows that our soldiers and civilians of the Tang Dynasty will never bow their knees and beg for mercy...
I saw the military formations on the avenue were even and vertical, with neat lines, and swords and guns standing in the air like forests.
The troops were waiting quietly at the gate of the city, and the bright armor was shining like iron walls, ready to fight with the Turks who were rushing into the city at any time.
All the officials of the Central Army went up to patrol the city wall, and immediately admired Li Shizhi when they saw this scene.
After a long struggle in the city here, the Turkic soldiers arrived two miles away.The sight of the grassland is wide open, and I have seen their horse team for a long time. It looks not far, but the actual distance is not close.
The Ximen city gate was still closed, and the Han people below were already desperate, but there was no other way to scream.
They are like victims who are about to be burned to death in a fire, and they are like people who have no way to escape in the face of floods...
And now, disasters come from human beings themselves, but they are as ruthless and cruel as disasters jackals.
Sure enough, a group of people rushed towards the west gate first, and probably saw a group of people chaotic here and thought there was an opportunity to take advantage of it.
When the cavalry rushed closer, they found that the city gate was closed, and the city wall was full of strong bows and crossbows. Below were only a group of herders and semi-armed military and civilians.
Just as sharks could not smell blood, these nomadic cavalry could not stand the living people, and soon rushed over to catch people and rob cattle and sheep of property.
At this time, a commander rushed over the city and shouted: If the central army has orders, the enemy soldiers can attack when they are close to the city!
The general received the authorization and ordered the arrow to be fired.
The arrows do not have eyes, so naturally, no matter whether Turkic soldiers or civilians, there are people who are constantly being shot by arrows under the city.
The vanguard of Turkic soldiers was few, and they were attacked by a rain of arrows and drove the looted people, horses, cattle and sheep to retreat one after another.
In a hurry, those who were not caught were also shot by riding and shooting. The unprotected military and civilians were killed and injured, and corpses were quickly left behind in the city.
The Turkic soldiers approached the sky, but they stopped advancing nearly a thousand steps away. The Tang army's bed crossbows had a range of hundreds of steps, and they became living targets when they were closer.
The former army robbed some Han people and returned to the main force, and a massacre happened in public soon.
The Turkic generals believed that there was no need to keep prisoners of slaves when siege, so they ordered men and children to be cut and killed, leaving only young women as tools for venting desires. Women in the grassland are also a resource worth robbing.
When they learned that Ximen had strong bows and hard crossbows, they threw away Ximen and sent three teams to feint attacks on the other three sides to test the firepower.The battle of siege gradually began.
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