The border is full of envisions, and the universe is full of love and triumphant songs.

The right place name king fought to untie his braids, and the distant army was full of war.

The smoke and dust will be gone forever, and the auspicious air will be clear and clear.

We meet the saints and wise men for thousands of years, and we can see the common people and the times.

"Poems of the Recovery of Hehuang"

Cui Xuan [Tang Dynasty]

——I am the dividing line—

When the sky brightened again, the fighting that lasted for a day and a night in Taiyuan City, the northern capital, still did not stop; but Li Siyuan, the commander of the Ducheng City and the general manager of the Han army, who led his troops and retreated to the bank of the Fen River in the middle city, was inevitably filled with wavering and disappointment.

This is certainly because he had tried his best to defend this Beidu City, and thought he could resist many deployments and arrangements for a long time, but it was almost useless, and it collapsed with the internal thief who turned against each other;

What made him even more disappointed was that after the Taiping thieves attacked the city, this familiar and friendly city suddenly turned into another strange appearance. The Tang people, who were usually obedient and obedient, launched rebellion without hesitation.

Just as the slogans of "eliminating the smell of smell and restoring the Han territory" were clamored by the Taiping thieves, more and more Han people who were watching in the city joined the chaos of the Shatuo Hu in the city, or began to assist the Taiping thieves they encountered.

Although as the targeted target, more and more Shatu people spontaneously participated in the blocking war. They even left the scope of individual warfare and each fought for their own and blind warfare, and were integrated into a relatively organized, led, and planned resistance.

Under the leadership of a few military members, they guarded several streets leading to Daming City, setting up obstacles, stones, muds, sandbags, and even grain bags everywhere. Daily households were moved out, piled up on the streets, piled up as temporary barricades, blocking the enemy's advance.

When the Tang people who came to attack were still far away, they hid in the barricade to shoot arrows. When the rebellious Tang people approached, they suddenly jumped out to fight to the death. Sometimes dozens of people were fighting for the death. The rebellious Tang people were afraid that there were people in the barricade and did not dare to approach.

Many women and children in Shatuo, who were in the family, also helped carry sandbags, dig soil and dredge, and helped build barricades. Some hid behind the cracks in the door and shot cold arrows, flashed to the window to throw out tables, chairs, wardrobes and other households to disturb the enemy. Every time the enemy advances for a distance, they will inevitably have to pay some price.

However, compared with the Tang people who were already much larger in the city, although the resistance of these Shatuo and Hu was tenacious and fierce, it was inevitably submerged in a larger number of rebels; including some of the armed resistance, the family members were eventually buried in a ignited house;

Therefore, after dawn, the Taiping Army basically eliminated Xi. The Khitans resisted most of the streets and cities in the city. There were about tens of millions of Hu households who came to fight with weapons and were killed with bare hands. The blood was shed or even the belt bones were turned into ashes, which also made thousands of houses pile up rubble.

However, Shatuo Hu in the prefecture was not killed. Most of them struggled to their lives and fled to other urban areas in groups. While Li Siyuan's resistance was resisting, the defenders in the city also accommodated and accepted these fugitives in large numbers. This increased the defensive power on the books several times.

Therefore, when Taiping finally arrived at the edge of the Fen River passing through the city under the guidance of the people of Zhongcheng, many defeated soldiers of different forms had solidified and frozen on the cracked ice surface where the misty and splashes gradually calmed down.

Li Siyuan, who had just re-suppressed and calmed down the situation on the east coast of the middle city, felt as if he was cut off when he saw this scene, but he was helpless; most of these were the last group of athletes who had followed him and fought to death from the siege of the thieves. However, his crisis did not end.

Because, compared with the Xicheng of the Fucheng where a large number of Shatuo Hu live, the proportion of Tang people in the middle city where business travelers and street markets gathered among the three Guos in Taiyuan is higher; and in the Dongcheng where a large number of poor people live, there is no Zhuhu exists;

Therefore, once they are temporarily unaware of the situation, they will be in trouble, for Li Siyuan and his men, they will be a disaster of being attacked from both sides. At least under the pressure of this enemy, he does not expect his men to have much fighting spirit and continue to get entangled with the chaotic people.

And the familiar scene also happened in the Yunzhong Rebellion more than ten years ago.

Under the joint attack of the five armies summoned by Daibeixing Camp, Li Siyuan (Miao Jilie), who was a personal army school, followed Zhu Xieyisheng and almost drove out of Weizhou to fight the official army. Later, he was blocked outside the city by the rebellious military and civilians of Weizhou.

As a result, Zhu Xie Chixin and Zhu Xie Yi Sheng Sheng and his son fought hard, and of course they defeated three of them one after another. Then, when his later strength was not enough and his teacher was exhausted, he was invited by Li Keju Lu Long to attack Yaoerling and lost. Zhu Xie's father and son only escaped.

Therefore, a new choice was placed in front of him. Do you still have the situation in this city that is already irreversible and continue to stand until the last moment of death in the battle? Perhaps he, who was still called Miao Jilie a few years ago, could die without hesitation, but now Li Siyuan can no longer do it.

Therefore, after several hours and the Taiping Army that broke the new city began to bombard Daming City; the neighbors in the East City of Taiyuan were also ignited one after another. Under the cover of a series of crying and clamoring fireworks that covered the sky and the sun, a group of people drove out from Dongguanmen.

The group of people who restrained all their banners and signs rushed away without hesitation, and intercepted the Shaoxu Taiping cavalry and Youshou who were yelling in the east of the city. They ran towards Tumen Pass, which led to Shangdang land in the southeast without looking back.

At the same time, with the help of a large number of Tang people in the city, the cannons outside the city were transported in from the cleared street market; they were successfully hoisted and erected at Huaide Gate, which was close to Daming City, and bombarded the garrison soldiers in Jinyang Palace from a high place.

Then, more people sent large woods, beams and other building materials for the Taiping Army to build siege equipment on the spot. Therefore, just in the evening of the second day after the city was broken, Yingen Gate on the east side of Daming City was exploded in a loud bang.

With the sound of killings that broke through the wind and snow, the Taiping Army soldiers rushed in from the sky, the small court of the Northern Capital of the Later Tang Dynasty, which had only existed for several years, the young "Son of Emperor" and his inner palace officials, thousands of civil and military officials, and thousands of relatives, and more than 3,000 Yulin guards became prisoners.
Chapter completed!