Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 712 The Battle of Chang'an (2)

Wei Yan was also inspired by Yan Xing's act of burning down the East City with a rocket that day, and planned to burn down the Taishanghuang Temple with a rocket.

Although many places in the Taishanghuang Temple are made of earth and stone, there are still many places where wood is used as pillars. As long as there are enough rockets, this Han Suijun stronghold can indeed be set on fire.

It's just that there is an underground canal in the Taishanghuang Temple that connects to the Weishui River outside Chang'an City. Therefore, although the rocket caused the Taishanghuang Temple to catch fire, it was finally rescued by the soldiers commanded by Yan Xing with sufficient water sources, and the fire did not spread.

At the same time, Gong Wei and Han Suijun from Changxin Palace saw that Zhu Wei's army had launched a fire attack on the Taishanghuang Temple, so they also sent out [-] or [-] troops to support the Taishanghuangmiao.

As a result, this fire attack on the Supreme Emperor's Temple eventually turned into a scuffle between Zhu Weijun and Han Suijun on the back street of Shangguan.

Although judging from the performance on the battlefield, the combat effectiveness of Zhu Wei's soldiers is obviously stronger than that of Han Sui's army, and they don't need Zhang Xiu's heavy armored cavalry to dispatch. Only relying on the soldiers of Wei Yanjing's southern battalion, Han Sui's army has been beaten several times. He chased Han Suijun several times to the front of Gongwei and Changxingong.

However, because Han Suijun had a geographical advantage on the side of Gongwei and Changxing Palace, when Zhu Weijun chased and killed Han Suijun to the front of Gongwei and Changxin Palace, facing the arrows shot by Han Suijun from a high place, he could only retreat temporarily. After all, it still failed to fully open the situation.

At the same time, more than ten thousand Qingqi led by Zhang Liao encountered Han Sui's cavalry outside Chang'an City, who were trying to attack the city. As a result, Han Sui's cavalry was defeated by Zhang Liao's Qingqi, which eliminated Han Sui's counterattack.

In this way, the battle situation in Chang'an City became obviously stalemate. Although Han Suijun could not do anything to Zhu Weijun's offensive, Zhu Weijun could not easily conquer the Taishanghuangmiao, Gongwei, and Changxing Palace for the time being. Han Suijun's station.

After discussing with Zhang Xiu, Wei Yan, and Jiang Wan, they were still patiently preparing to capture the Supreme Emperor's Temple first. In order to make it easier to deploy troops, Zhu Weijun first cleaned up the abandoned houses and folk squares in the north of Chang'an City.

In fact, it is enough to set fire to the remaining buildings here first, and then send people to bulldoze the remaining earthen walls. In this way, after a day or two of hard work, Zhu Weijun completely let the area in the north of Chang'an City close to Han Sui's army become A scorched open space.

During this period, Zhu Weijun's craftsmen built some cave carts and tiger cart knife walls, so the attack on the Taishanghuang Temple began again.

This time Wei Yan was determined to forcibly capture the Taishanghuangmiao, so he set up a tiger-cart knife wall outside the Taishanghuangmiao direction, and also set up a moving barrier made of a tiger-cart knife wall in the direction facing Gong Wei and Changxin Palace. It is used to prevent Han Sui's army from rescuing the Taishanghuang Temple.

Next, Wei Yan first fired rockets at the Taishang Emperor Temple again, disrupting the defensive formation of the Chinese and Korean Sui troops inside. Then he asked the sword and shield men to form a shield array and cooperate with the cave chariot to rush towards the Taishang Emperor Temple. The rear also asked the archers to follow. Arrows were fired on the north wall behind the Supreme Emperor's Temple to suppress the attack of Han Sui's archers on the north wall.

As a result, this attack, which was like a forced demolition, directly destroyed the outer walls and inner buildings of the Supreme Emperor's Temple, causing Han Sui's army hiding here to finally give up and evacuate.

Next, Zhu Weijun will face the two strongholds of Han Sui's army, Gongwei and Changxing Palace, which are almost in the north of Chang'an City, and there are nearly [-] troops of Han Sui's army piled up here, so in Chang'an City and Han Sui The ultimate decisive battle is quite unfortunate.

Han Sui gathered so many troops here, naturally he didn't wait for Zhu Weijun to attack instead of fighting back, so when Wei Yan led the army to kill, Han Sui also sent troops to fight immediately.

Although in frontal confrontation, the soldiers of Han Sui's army were somewhat unable to resist the well-trained Zhu Wei's soldiers, but when they retreated to the area with a geographical advantage in the rear, facing the suppression of Han Sui's archers from high places around them, Zhu Weijun could not easily impress Han Sui's army. formation.

The situation at this time is a bit different from the previous storming of the Taishanghuangmiao. Although Yan Xing was able to send troops to fight back at the Taishanghuangmiao before, the strength of the army is still lacking. Now Han Sui's army is basically assembled, so Wei Yan even launched a strong Attack, still unable to push across.

In particular, the Changxin Palace is completely like a city within a city, and the palace walls are four or five paces wide. It should be Han Sui who filled in the lanes outside the Changxin Palace, thus making the palace walls outside the Changxin Palace It became like a city wall.

The Changxin Palace also occupies a very wide area, which can accommodate Han Sui's 2 or [-] troops. To the west of the Changxin Palace, there is the Ya Temple of Fufeng Mansion, which can also be the place where Han Sui garrisons. So at least half of the remaining nearly [-] troops were stationed in Changxin Palace.

Then there were six or seven thousand troops stationed on Gong Wei's side, and two or three thousand troops were stationed on the rear wall, and then Li Kan and Cheng Yin who had withdrawn from Dongshi were placed in Han Sui's house again. Went to the West Market to the west of Changxin Palace.

Now Wei Yan's Jingnan Battalion on Zhu Weijun's side is only more than 5000. Although there are nearly [-] heavy cavalry from the Huyi Battalion and about [-] troops from Chengyi and Mawan who surrendered before, they may be able to attack Changxin Palace, The main force of Gongwei is also Wei Yan's Jingnan Battalion.

Besides, Han Sui has a geographical advantage, so Wei Yan has to fight more with less, but also faces geographical disadvantages. It is really not easy to defeat Han Sui and drive Han Sui out of Chang'an City.

However, good news came soon, and Ma Teng finally made up his mind to bow to Zhu Wei, so Ma Teng also passed through Huayang Street from the west of Chang'an City where he was located, and prepared to face Han Sui from the west of Changxin Palace. attack.

In order to show his sincerity, Ma Teng had already found an opportunity to lure Zhong Yao and Wu Xi into his territory, then suddenly changed his face and arrested them and sent them to Zhu Weijun.

This time, the situation in Chang'an City finally changed. Zhong Yao and Wu Xi, who had escaped from Luoyang, did not have to think about their next step. After they were escorted to Zhu Weijun, they were locked up with Duan Yan, who was captured before. We can only wait for how Zhu Wei arranges them in the future.

However, in order to obtain better results, Chen Qun also gave Ma Teng some ideas. On the surface, Ma Teng seemed to be supporting Han Sui.

So although Ma Teng's army dispatched from the west of Chang'an City, Ma Teng also deliberately sent a message to Han Sui, saying that he was going to join hands with Han Sui to deal with the foreign Zhu Wei first, hoping that Han Sui could cooperate with him to launch a counterattack against Zhu Wei's army. .

Although Han Sui was somewhat suspicious of Ma Teng's statement, he still responded to Ma Teng's request in the current situation.

So the two sides agreed for a day to launch a joint counterattack against Zhu Weijun...

(End of this chapter)