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The next morning, Tianxiong Army and Lanzhou Xiang Army arrived in Datong one after another.

Including the Qing Shun Army, which surrendered to Shuozhou, the Western Route Army not only attacked and captured the outer city of Datong, but also expected to complete the assembly of more than 35,000 troops in Datong in three days, and the speed was extremely fast.

Of course, the troops who arrived in Datong one after another early in the morning were exhausted and needed rest and had no ability to continue fighting.

Although the physical fitness of the vanguard troops recovered a lot after seven or eight hours of rest, Ge Huaicong still refused to dismount the horse and fight with the city.

When Ge Huaicong saw that the enemy troops in Yingzhou, Jincheng, Huairen and other places were all guarding themselves and did not act rashly. Except for sending hundreds of troops to control the other three gates early in the morning, he still wanted to wait until the main forces of the Tianxiong Army arrived in Datong before starting to attack the inner city.

In the early morning, several generals and soldiers walked into a Xi family food shop in Xicheng for dinner. They wanted to leave after eating before they could eat, but were caught by the owner's house.

During the beating, the shop owner stabbed one person to death with a knife and then ran away.

These generals and soldiers were not willing to kill two men, set fire to the food shop, and gathered dozens of people to search for the criminals.

When Zhu Han learned about this, he went to persuade Ge Huaicong to restrain his subordinates, but all the generals of the Tianxiong Army firmly opposed it.

All the generals said that there was no general and the Hu murderer escaped when they were assassinated. They further advocated driving out all the Khitans and the captives in the Xicheng area in time to avoid disturbances, so that more troops would gradually advance to the south, north, and east cities after entering, and finally control the four cities and form a siege to attack the inner city.

Not to mention that the Han and Fans are no longer in harmony, if they cannot search wildly and expel the Khitan and the miscellaneous prisoners, how can the soldiers benefit from this war?

Relying on the imperial court to reward three melons and two dates?

As a new general, Cao Shili said nothing about seeing the generals of the Tianxiong Army being aggressive and did not want to be isolated in the future.

Yue Hailou knew that during the border raids more than ten years ago, the Tianxiong Army was beaten by the Khitans and abandoned their armor and retreated step by step. In the end, relying on the Jingsheng Army to recover the lost territory. So far, the Tianxiong Army still has no face and is deeply ashamed and has long wanted to avenge bloody hatred.

Before attacking Yan, the Tianxiong Army had indulged the generals and soldiers to plunder the foreign people in Lan Dai and other places. At this time, they entered Datong City, and the generals and soldiers were bloody. They suddenly thought of restraining military discipline, which would only cause hatred in the army to grow.

The 6,000 soldiers recently added to the Tianxiong Army were all bandits collected from Tongbai Mountain; and according to careful statistics, almost 60,000 soldiers were refugees and bandits.

Compared to burning, killing and looting, which would arouse resistance from the Khitan and the foreign people, Yue Hailou was more worried that restraining military discipline at this time would cause disturbances and make things more difficult to deal with.

In fact, when the people were controversial about this matter, more and more generals had already walked out of the garrison and entered the door to rob property under the name of searching. The Khitans and the people of the foreign countries also picked up their blades and stood up to resist.

At noon, Zhu Guangwu, the sixth general of Tianxiong Army, led 6,000 ban troops to Datong. Ge Huaicong saw that they had gathered in Datong had more than 20,000 troops, and more than 15,000 soldiers and horses arrived tonight. He determined that he had completely controlled the situation in Datong and ordered the expulsion of tens of thousands of barbarians in the Xicheng area, and indulged the generals and soldiers to massacre all Khitans and miscellaneous robbers who tried to stop and resist.

Although the Khitan and the foreign people frequently resisted, and even gathered together in groups to resist the strong courtyards, or knocked down the houses and created street barriers, and set fire everywhere to prevent the passage of the army, Ge Huaicong and others still believed that small-scale resistance was not fearful.

Ge Huaicong and others thought that as long as they were watching the remaining enemies trapped in the inner city, they would not dare to act rashly, and they would soon suppress the resistance at zero o'clock in the Xicheng District, and then formally sent troops to advance to the South City, North City, and East City.

In their opinion, as long as the troops are sent quickly and decisively, they should be able to control the four cities before dark and complete the encirclement of the inner city.

Ge Huaicong and others underestimated the resistance of the Khitans and the foreign people in the city. The soldiers below were full of thoughts about robbing property, and they did not forget to hold a long-legged and fat-breasted Hu Ji to enjoy the fun, which made the entire afternoon of driving away the Qingxue operation fragmented. Even if they killed and injured hundreds of Hu Qingqiang, they forced more and more Hu Qingqiang to pick up the knife bow and stand up to resist.

As dusk approached, in addition to controlling the other three city gates, it was difficult for the troops to advance half a step deep into the south city, north city and east city areas. There were even hundreds of generals and soldiers killed and injured due to the resistance launched by the Khitans and the people of the foreign countries.

Ge Huaicong and others had mainly focused on the movements in the inner city. When they realized something was wrong, the Khitans and the foreign people had already gathered on a large scale in the other three cities.

Most of the Khitans and the foreign tribes in Datong City have been urbanized, and the old tribal structure has been dismantled and deconstructed by the Lane-Fang system imitating the Han system.

However, as the clouds of war enveloped the Huihe River, the Khitan tribes on the south bank of the Huihe River retreated northward and fled to Datong City with their animals to avoid the disaster of war.

These young and strong tribes are not only good at riding and shooting, but also have both civilian and military personnel, but also retain a relatively strict quasi-military organization.

With these tribes avoiding disasters as the core, the loose Khitans and the foreign people in the city gathered together to form combat units. The combat effectiveness in the streets and alleys was no longer invisible. Soon the Tianxiong Army was pushed to the south and north cities, and the originally not very sharp army was curbed.

In fact, at this point, even though Xiao Linshi did not secretly send people to lurk in Datong City to stir up the wind and waves, before the main force of the Eastern Route Army came to reinforce, it was difficult for the Tianxiong Army to seize the combat will reflected by the soldiers with its existing forces and the combat will reflected by the generals.

When Ge Huaicong rushed to the front to watch the battle, the sky was already dark, his vision was restricted, and he could not see clearly. He was also worried that his subordinates would suffer losses when they were not familiar with the streets and alleys in Datong City. He ordered the shrinking of his troops.

After suffering such a great loss in the afternoon, the battle stopped and the troops were temporarily stopped at night. Where did the generals of the Tianxiong Army willing to return to the camp to rest?

Each of them vented their resentment and vented their resentment to the heads of the Khitans and the foreign people who were still drowned in the Xicheng area. They broke into the house with butchers' knives and broke into the door and slaughtered them, not even letting go of women and children.

However, such killing is meaningless. It will only make the hearts of many generals and soldiers become more irritable and difficult to restrain. It will only prompt the South City, North City, East City, and South City areas, which are not controlled by the Tianxiong Army, to become more united, and even launch a raid on the other three city gates late at night.

Ge Huaicong concentrated his troops mainly in the Xicheng, and only divided two thousand troops to control the other three city gates.

This manpower controlled these three city gates before dusk, and did not expect that the mobs in the city would gather to fight back. They were caught off guard and failed to hold on for long, and they retreated one after another, watching the other three city gates being taken away by the rebellious Khitan and the foreign tribes.

Even at this point, Ge Huaicong, Yue Hailou, Zhu Han and even Cao Shili all thought that they were just careless and had insufficient estimates of the intensity of resistance of the people in the city and suffered minor setbacks.

At this time, the main forces of the Tianxiong Army had arrived in Datong, with a total of more than 40,000 banished troops controlling Shengde Gate and Xicheng. The troops headed straight to the inner city where the remaining troops were defending, and temporarily lost control of the other three city gates. What could it be considered?

In addition to Datong City, they also had more than 20,000 imperial guards gathered in Shuozhou, Ningwu, and the Eastern Route Army gathered to the east and south of Yingzhou, as many as 100,000 troops.

Who would believe that Dayue would lose this battle at this time?

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Xu Huai stood on the northwest corner building, and didn't know whether it was because of the Tianxiong Army's intentional setting fire when it retreated or some other reason, he saw that the Beicheng Gate Tower was in the sky-storming fire.

The rebels in the city were blocked by the fire and could not be chased out of the city.

More than a hundred soldiers who escaped from the North City Gate were fleeing towards the Shengde Gate, Xicheng, at this time, following the outer wall.

Some soldiers did not have time to retreat from the North City Gate Tower, and together with the city guards who had been on the western section of the North City Wall, they fled along the city wall to the corner tower where Xu Huai stood.

However, on the walls on both sides of the corner tower, Xu Huai had previously used the excuse of dividing the warning range and placed multiple horses to block the city road.

Almost two hundred soldiers were chaotic and blocked by the northern city wall by the Jima. They were furious and cursed, and were about to step forward to push Jima down the city.

Xu Huai stood on the corner tower all day long, watching Ge Huaicong and others holding great power, but were arrogant, greedy and incompetent. Every decision was causing the situation to collapse step by step. His chest was always blocked by anger and could not be vented.

The pursuers were blocked by the fire in the city gate tower and could not even climb the city wall. These unreliable things actually wanted to grow one leg and escape here. Xu Huai couldn't suppress the resentment in his heart, and the murderous thought suddenly arose.

He didn't say a word to warn him, and reached out to take the spear from the soldiers beside him and roared, activate the force, and the spear was roaring out of his hand, and threw it out in the next moment, and the three generals who were about to push the horse down the city wall, pierced their chests together with their chests.

"The military supervisor Xu Huai is supervising the battle here. Those who retreat without mercy will be killed!"

At this time, Xu Huai slowly walked to the front of the horse, then took off the knife from his waist, crossed it in front of him, staring at the faces reflected by the flames with murderous aura.

There is not much panic on these people's faces, but more of violence and hatred; there is also fear of him in their eyes.

It is obvious that these generals and soldiers did not think that the Tianxiong Army would be defeated, nor did they think that the loss of the three city gates was a big deal. They just didn't want to fight tough battles with the mob that fought in the city, especially when the victory was within reach, they did not want to use their lives as a stepping stone to other people's glory and wealth.

Xu Huai took a light breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, pointed at the three people who were still twitching at this time, staring at the rioters and said,

"You immediately retreat from the city of locking the city, otherwise these three people will be your role models!"

The Datong City Wall is five miles long from east, west, south and north. The wall from the northwest corner tower to the North City Gate Tower is 1,200 steps long, and it is already extremely long in the world.

Although the city walls are rammed earth and are not covered with bricks and stones, the shape is quite complete.

Except for the city towers built above the four city gates and the corner towers built at the four corners of the city wall, a horse-faced wall is built every 100 to 150 steps.

In addition to strengthening the overall structure of the city wall, the horse-faced wall protrudes outwards, and standing on the horse-faced wall can shoot enemy troops attacking from the flanks; and there are also garrisoned combat sheds on the horse-faced wall, which serve as a node to control each section of the city wall.

From the northwest corner tower to the east and south, there is a horse-faced battle shed at 120 steps apart. Each battle equipment is three or four meters deep, made of bricks and stones, which is extremely strong.

The generals and soldiers guarding the city can usually hide in the battle shed to rest, and are also used to pile up fighting weapons such as cabinets, horses, wood beatings, weapons, bows and crossbows.

Only by mastering the two horse-faced wall battle sheds as nodes can one complete control of a section of the city wall.

Xu Huai did not have much force in his hands, and on the other hand, the situation was not completely chaotic, so he could not pull the two hundred military supervisors directly to the city wall.

At this time, he would limit the more than 200 scattered soldiers to the north city wall, so that they could withdraw from the corner tower. In addition to the need for some soldiers on the north city wall to guard the war shed in the east to prevent the rebels from raiding along the city wall to the corner tower, if necessary, he could directly incorporate these soldiers and horses to solve the shortage of manpower...

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