Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 711 The Battle of Chang'an (1)

Deng Yi and Chen made a tentative attack on Dongshi where Han Sui's army was stationed, but they also tested that Han Sui's army still had some fighting will, and the soldiers under them were quite brave.

Soon Deng Yi and Chen withdrew their troops and went back to tell Wei Yan, Jiang Wan, and Zhang Xiu about the situation of Han Sui's army in Dongshi, and also described the situation of the temporary street fortress in Dongshi.

Of course, such a street fortress transformed from a bazaar would naturally be difficult for Zhu Wei's army.

Although Wei Yan's Jingnan Battalion didn't have any siege equipment, they brought craftsmen along with the army, and they could easily create siege equipment like a wall-breaking cart.

Then it took half a day for the artisans accompanying the army to transform the three ordinary carriages into holed carts with broken walls and pillars hidden inside, which is enough to deal with this kind of street fortress.

On the second day, Wei Yan led the main force of Jingnan Battalion, using the three cavernous carts as the vanguard, and launched a strong attack on the street fortress of Han Sui's army in Dongshi.

As a result, the cave car protected the soldiers in the inner city and easily approached the high wall of the East City. With the continuous collision of the wooden pillars in the inner city, it quickly collapsed the not very thick wall of the East City.

Next, Wei Yan, Chen Jiu, and Deng Yi each took the lead with nearly a thousand swords and shields and rushed in. Han Sui's soldiers in the East City were completely unable to resist the charge of Wei Yan and his three generals, so Zhu Weijun easily captured this place. It was built in Han Suijun's stronghold on the street.

Li Kan and Cheng Yin, who were responsible for guarding Dongshi, saw that their side could not withstand Zhu Weijun's offensive, so they could only lead their troops to retreat along Shangguan Back Street again to Changxin Palace where Han Sui's main force was located.

It's just that although Wei Yan, Chen Jiu, and Deng Yi led troops all the way to chase and kill the defeated soldiers of Li Kan and Cheng Yin, they were soon blocked by soldiers and horses from several subsequent strongholds of Han Sui's army.

After passing through Dongshi, the frontier street fortress of Han Sui's army in Chang'an City, although you can go all the way to Changxin Palace along the back street of Shangguan, the Han Sui garrison of Taishanghuangmiao and Gongwei can also send troops from the side to kill Shangguan at any time. on the street.

In this way, Wei Yan led Chen Jiu and Deng Yi to pursue Li Kan and Cheng Yin's defeated troops for a while, but almost fell into the siege of Han Sui's army who came out from the side. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wei Yan stopped the pursuit and led his troops. Slowly withdrew back to Dongshi.

However, although the street fortress in Dongshi was easily captured, it was not so easy to attack the Taishanghuangmiao, Gongwei and other strongholds guarded by Han Sui's soldiers.

Dongshi is a street fortress built on the main street, but the two strongholds occupied by Han Sui's army, Taishanghuangmiao and Gongwei, rely on the towering Chang'an North City Wall behind them, so Han Sui's army stationed on the North City Wall can take advantage of the condescending advantage to use Feather arrows covered Zhu Weijun who attacked the Taishanghuangmiao and Gongwei.

In this way, if Zhu Wei's army wanted to attack these two Han Sui army strongholds, it would inevitably face the counterattack of Han Sui army in the front stronghold.

In this way, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of Zhu Wei's army is, it will be greatly reduced. It is very likely that it will be suppressed by the arrows shot from the city wall and will not be able to carry out an effective offensive.

Even if Wei Yan could use the cave car to get close to the outer walls of the two strongholds of Taishanghuangmiao and Gongwei, and collapse the outer walls protecting the strongholds, it is still difficult to withstand the feathered arrows shot on the city walls, and he can easily attack such The stronghold of Han Sui's army.

However, the Chang'an city wall behind the Taishanghuang Temple and the palace captain has been disconnected from the other city walls of Chang'an City, and there are at least four or five sections of the other city walls. Zhu Wei's army wants to solve the city wall in this area first. It is not easy for Han Sui to garrison troops.

In addition, even if Zhang Xiu took the heavy armored cavalry and forcibly raided the Changxin Palace where Han Sui was located, it would not be meaningful. After all, the Changxin Palace was built like a fortress, and the heavy armored cavalry naturally couldn't break it directly. into the wall.

But the battle in Chang'an City was still to be fought, so Wei Yan led his troops back to Dongshi to recuperate, and then decided to focus on the Taishanghuangmiao, the stronghold of Han Sui's army, as the main target.

Then Wei Yan led the soldiers of the Jingnan Battalion to try to attack the Supreme Emperor's Temple once, but even with the cave car as the vanguard, he was forced back by Han Sui's army.

On the one hand, Han Sui's archers on the wall behind the Taishanghuang Temple are too suppressive to attack. On the other hand, Han Sui's army has a large number of troops. Now Han Sui's army stationed in the Taishanghuang Temple can fight back.

As a result, before the three bridal carts brought by Wei Yan could get close to the outer wall of the Taishanghuang Temple, Han Suijun came out, so the three bridal carts had to retreat first and then back.

Seeing this, Wei Yan knew that continuing to attack would only cause great losses, so he led his troops back to Dongshi first.

For a while, the battle situation seemed to be a little unsatisfactory, so the day's fighting came to an end with the arrival of night. Unexpectedly, Han Sui's son-in-law Yan Xing, who was stationed at the Taishang Emperor's Temple that night, was unwilling to be beaten. That night, he led five thousand Han Sui troops to launch a sneak attack and counterattack on Dongshi.

Many residential houses and folk squares around Shangguan Back Street in Chang'an City have been destroyed into ruins in the past wars, but after all there are still many ruins, so Yan Xing led Han Suijun to borrow the help of these ruined residential houses. As a cover, he sneaked up to Dongshi and launched a rocket attack on Dongshi occupied by Zhu Weijun.

Thanks to Zhu Weijun, Wei Yan and Jiang Wan saw the environment in Chang'an City and already guessed the possibility of Han Sui's army's sneak attack, so they only sent a small number of soldiers and horses to garrison in Dongshi at night.

At the same time, a soldier was ambushed in the ruins of Minfang in the south of Dongshi, so Yan Xing's sneak attack did not achieve any results, but Zhu Weijun's ambushed soldiers counterattacked with crossbows, bows and arrows, and shot and killed many in the dark.

It's just that Yan Xing's sneak attack this time completely burned Dongshi to ashes with a big fire. For the safety of the follow-up, to avoid another sneak attack by Han Sui's army, Zhu Wei's army retreated to Xuanping Gate to garrison.

On the second day, Wei Yan did not intend to lead troops to attack the Supreme Emperor's Temple again, but took the initiative to challenge Yan Xing in front of the Supreme Emperor's Temple.

It's a pity that Yan Xing, who was stationed at the Supreme Emperor's Temple, also didn't intend to come out to fight. As a result, Wei Yan debated for nearly an hour, but didn't get any response, so he had to lead his troops back to Xuanping Gate again.

Next, Wei Yan asked his craftsmen to build some siege equipment such as cave chariots and tiger carts and knife walls. Almost two days later, he took these siege equipment and led his army to prepare to storm the Taishang Emperor Temple.

Under Wei Yan's arrangement, Zhu Weijun used cave carts and tiger carts as barriers to block Han Suijun's attack in the Taishanghuang Temple, and then let the sword and shield guards protect a large number of crossbowmen and archers, and then shot a round at the Taishanghuang Temple. round rocket.

Apparently Wei Yan was also planning to learn from Yan Xing's method, and wanted to directly use rockets to ignite the Supreme Emperor's Temple, and use the fire to burn down the Supreme Emperor's Temple, which is the stronghold of Han Sui's army...

(End of this chapter)