The city gate opened wide, and the Hu cavalry followed An Shouzhong and rushed out of the city.
Everyone waved their weapons and shouted loudly.
When An Shouzhong and two thousand Hu cavalry were about to rush to the Tang army's camp, they saw all the Tang army's camp.
All the tents fell down, revealing the cavalry phalanxes.
The swords and guns gleamed coldly under the sunlight, and the reflected light shone directly into the eyes of An Shouzhong and the Hu cavalry behind him.
An Shouzhong was shocked when he saw this scene.
He immediately covered his eyes with one hand and reined in his horse with the other.
The two thousand horsemen behind him also reined in their horses and stopped.
However, under such a high-speed charge, how could they stop?
Hu Qi rushed up and knocked the Hu Qi in the front row off his back.
At this time, only the sound of a drum was heard, and the Tang Army cavalry formations in small square formations from far away immediately began to move closer, forming a huge wedge formation while the rebel Hu Cavalry was still in chaos.
Li Sheng rode his horse to the front and laughed: "Hahaha, the enemy general is stupid.
I have been waiting for you for a long time, and I risk my life to drive him."
After that, the horse rushed towards An Shouzhong with the horse's shaft raised.
Behind them, the Tang army officers and soldiers saw that the leading general Li Sheng had been killed, so the generals of each battalion rushed towards the rebels with their subordinates.
Suddenly, the shouts of killing were loud and thousands of horses galloped up, stepping on neatly The pace creates huge momentum.
When An Shouzhong saw Li Sheng's tall, mighty and fierce appearance, and the Tang army's cavalry rushing over in such a dense and neat formation, he immediately became timid.
He immediately turned his horse around and ran to the side, with people everywhere behind him.
It was Hu Qi who was in chaos.
There was no way at all, so he could only run eastward.
The rebel Hu Qi saw An Shouzhong fleeing without fighting, and saw the Tang army charging towards him with murderous intent.
Before he could reach him, he fired several waves of arrows in succession, and arrows fell like raindrops.
The rebel Hu Qi There were countless horsemen killed and injured, and the remaining people were blown apart on the spot.
They beat their horses and fled.
The Tang army rushed into the rebel Hu cavalry and killed them, and then chased and killed the rebel Hu cavalry.
Seeing An Shouzhong escape, Li Sheng quickly arranged for a general to lead a thousand soldiers and horses to chase and kill the fleeing rebel Hu Qi, while he himself led the remaining 3,000 horsemen to chase An Shouzhong.
This An Shouzhong Zhong was riding a fine BMW horse, which was very fast.
The war horse under Li Sheng's crotch was a big food horse and a rare BMW.
He chased An Shouzhong all the way to the gate of Tongguan City, but could not catch up with An Shouzhong.
The dozens of soldiers who followed An Shouzhong had already run away because their horses were exhausted, so they were caught up and killed by Li Sheng.
At this time, An Shouzhong was left alone and ran to the gate of Tongguan City.
When he looked back, he saw Li Sheng.
Still hanging on behind with perseverance, thousands of riders riding behind him a few miles away Soldiers swept in, and the smoke and dust along the way went straight into the sky.
He was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder burst.
He immediately slapped the horse's buttocks desperately.
Before he reached the gate of Tongguan City, he shouted from a distance: "I am An Shouzhong." , Li Guiren, General Li, open the city gate quickly, open the city gate quickly."
Li Guiren, the guard general of Tongguan, was shocked when his soldiers reported that a large army was coming from the direction of Huayin to Tongguan.
He immediately took his weapons to the tower of the east city wall to observe the situation.
As soon as he got on the tower, he saw a general of his own who was extremely angry.
He was so embarrassed that he galloped over on horseback, closely chasing a Tang Army general not far behind him.
Hearing An Shouzhong's cry, Li Guiren took a closer look and found that it was indeed An Shouzhong.
At this time, An Shouzhong had an arrow stuck in his back.
This arrow was obviously shot by the Tang army general who was chasing after him.
If the person yelling was not An Shouzhong but someone else, Li Guiren would never open the city gate without even thinking about it.
It would be too dangerous to open the city at this time.
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If he was not careful, he would be rushed into Tongguan by the Tang army.
In the city, the Tongguan natural barrier had no effect at all, but An Shouzhong was none other than the cousin of Emperor An Lushan of Yan Dynasty.
Li Guiren had to save him, otherwise he would not be able to explain to An Lushan in the future.
Seeing An Shouzhong approaching on horseback, Li Guiren gritted his teeth and shouted: "Hurry up and put down the suspension bridge, open the city gate and let General An enter the city!"
The soldiers on the tower who were responsible for guarding the drawbridge and guarding the city gate below heard the order and quickly lowered the drawbridge and opened the city gate.
The timing was extremely precise.
When An Shouzhong passed through the city gate hole, Li Sheng was about to chase him.
At that time, the suspension bridge was pulled up again, and the city gate was slowly closed.
"Lu" saw that the suspension bridge had been pulled up halfway, and Li Sheng could only rein in the horse to stop.
The horse neighed, raised its front hooves, and slid its hind legs on the ground for one meter before stopping.
This Tongguan natural barrier is the east gate of Chang'an.
Its main function is to prevent enemies from attacking Chang'an from the east.
Its entire defense system is divided into several parts, namely Tongguan City Wall, Huangxiang Ban, Forbidden Valley, and Twelve Connected Cities. , Qinling Mountains and Yellow River.
Tongguan Pass is adjacent to the Qinling Mountains to the south and the Yellow River to the north.
There are city walls on the east and west sides.
To the east of the east city wall is a five-mile long slope called Huangxiang Ban.
Although it is not very steep, if the enemy coming from the east is To attack the city wall, you must attack from this long slope.
Attacking from above is more difficult for the attackers.
Countless times larger, before the siege army reaches the city gate, the defenders on the city wall will throw down rolling stones and wood.
These two things are definitely super weapons on the way downhill, and under the city wall, there is another The trench is two feet wide and one foot deep.
If you want to fill this trench, there will be countless casualties, let alone attack the city.
The Qinling Mountains are a natural barrier, but it is not insurmountable.
In order to prevent the enemy from climbing over the Qinling Mountains and attacking Tongguan, the garrison guarding the pass built more than a dozen fortresses of various sizes in strategic locations on the Qinling Mountains.
There is a natural long, narrow, deep, and extremely dangerous ravine between Huangxiang Ban and Qinling Mountains.
This ravine is called the Forbidden Gorge.
There are six fortresses built on each side of the Forbidden Gorge, for a total of 12 fortresses.
There are city walls for protection, watchtowers, and archery holes.
Each fort is stationed with a hundred soldiers and stores a large amount of rolling stones, wood, arrows, and kerosene.
Therefore, these twelve forts are called the Twelve Linked Cities.
The combined defense system of Forbidden Valley and Twelve Liancheng directly made the army coming from the east look at Tongguan City Wall with dismay, and could only attack from Huangxiang Ban despite casualties.
The Tongguan City Wall faces the Yellow River to the north, and the Yellow River is a natural barrier that blocks the enemy from attacking by ferry from the north.
Therefore, if you want to attack Tongguan from the east, you can only attack from the front up to Huangxiang Ban.
There is no other way.
Other methods are truly one man's fault and ten thousand men cannot open them.
Therefore, Tongguan is mainly used as a barrier to the east of Chang'an to prevent enemies from attacking from the east.
If an army attacks Tongguan from the direction of Chang'an, it will be much easier, because its defense system is mainly aimed at enemies coming from the direction of Luoyang. .
Tongguan guard Li Guiren had long received the news that Chang'an had been recaptured by the Tang army, so he had arranged a large number of manpower to dig a trench two feet wide and one foot deep in front of the west city wall these days.
This trench could effectively Prevent the Tang army from attacking Tongguan from the west.
Li Sheng looked at this trench and remembered that he only brought three thousand cavalry here, and he was afraid that he would be powerless against this trench.
At this time, a loud shout came from the tower: "Set an arrow and shoot him to death for me!"
After hearing the order, the rebel soldiers on the city tower opened their bows and fired arrows.
Li Sheng had no choice but to wave his horse to knock away the arrows shot from the city wall.
While blocking, he turned his horse around and got out of the range of the opponent's bow and arrow.
When Li Guiren saw that the opponent had run away unscathed, he could only order the archers to stop firing arrows.
Li Sheng rode his horse and ran to a stone's throw away and turned around again.
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At this time, the three thousand cavalry behind him also caught up.
After the three thousand cavalry behind him had finished forming, Li Sheng shouted to the tower: "This general is Li Sheng, the general under the command of Zhao Ziliang, deputy marshal of troops and horses.
Who is guarding Tongguan?
If you have the guts, please tell me by name."
Li Guiren leaned on the wall and laughed: "Hahahaha, Li Sheng is a nobody.
Have you ever heard of me?
I am Li Guiren, a general under the command of Emperor Yan.
Li Sheng, my son, your three thousand cavalry will come to attack my Tongguan.
You You are too careless about life and death, if you have the guts, come and try it."
Li Sheng was furious and shouted: "Gui Ren'er, if you have the guts to come out of the city to fight me to the death, what use is there for you to hide in the city like a turtle after you are decades older?
If you have the guts, come out and see me, General."
I won’t beat the crap out of you.”
"Damn it, damn it!"
Li Guiren was so scolded by Li Sheng that he jumped up and shouted to the people around him: "Prepare your war horses and bring my weapons.
I will tear him alive."
Seeing this, the generals grabbed him and advised him: "General, calm down, calm down.
This is General Tang's treacherous plan.
General, you must not fall into his trap.
General An was killed by him and he escaped alone.
This man must be We have some ability.
We are in danger of Tongguan now.
Why go out and take risks?
General, you see, he only has cavalry and no infantry.
How can he attack the city?
So they have nothing to do with us."
After being persuaded by his generals for a long time, Li Guiren calmed down and thought: "Yes, why should I go out to guard Tongguan?
No matter how powerful your Beiting Army cavalry is, it will be in vain."
Thinking of this, Li Guiren laughed and said to Li Sheng in the city: "Hahaha, I won't come down, what can you do to me?"
Li Sheng was at a loss now, and the general next to him asked: "General, it seems that they will not leave the city.
We are all cavalry.
There is nothing we can do about this city.
What should we do now to return to Huayin?"
Li Sheng also knew that it would be a fool's errand to capture Tongguan with the three thousand cavalry in his hands.
Although its defensive power in the west was far inferior to that in the east, it was not something that his three thousand cavalry could capture.
After thinking about it, Li Sheng said to his generals: "The main force of the rebels in Huayin City has been wiped out by us, and the remaining ones who escaped will definitely be wiped out soon.
Maybe the officials in Huayin City have already opened the door at this time.
Surrendered.
Now that we have come out, of course we cannot go back like this.
I am determined to turn around and go north to seize Yongfengcang.
What do you think?"
The lieutenants stood up and clasped their fists and said: "Everything must be obeyed by the general's orders."
Just as he said, Zhao Ziliang immediately turned around and walked westward.
He walked a certain distance until he was far away from Tongguan and the enemy's sight was turned to the north.
At this time, in Tongguan City, An Shouzhong came to the city wall after treating the arrow wounds.
Watching the Tang army go away, he said to Li Guiren angrily: "Looking at Li Sheng, who looks tall and strong and looks like a reckless man, I didn't expect that.
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He is a very treacherous person.”
Li Guiren turned around at this time and saw that it was An Shouzhong, so he asked: "General An, is the injury okay?"
"It's okay, it's a skin injury.
I took out the arrow and applied medicine."
Li Guiren couldn't help but ask: "Isn't General An guarding Weinan City?
Why did he look like this?"
When Li Guiren asked, An Shouzhong couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Hey, it's all caused by the knife on the head of the word sex.
The day before yesterday, the county magistrate of Huayin City sent someone to Weinan City to tell me that he had a role in Meiji wanted to dedicate her to me in a few days, but I couldn’t wait any longer, so I took the human to Huayin City yesterday.
But I didn’t expect that when I stepped forward, the Tang army followed.
They could kill Huayin, but Weinan City had already fallen.
This Li Sheng was quite scheming.
He camped two miles outside Huayin City.
I didn’t know it was him.
He was a treacherous plot, so he led people to attack the camp, but he didn't expect to fall into his trap, hey."
After hearing An Shouzhong's words, Li Guiren was speechless for a while.
If you want to pick up girls, just pick up girls.
Why don't you even let me go to Weinan City?
How can you explain this to the emperor: