Although it was extremely difficult to defend Chang'an City under the circumstances of Wuma Hua Cai using various tricks and unexpected moves, it also reduced a lot of losses.
At any rate, the city has not been breached so far.
For example, he made a cylindrical rotating repeating crossbow. He only needed to place two of them at the corners of each city wall. As long as the crossbows had enough arrows, they could rotate in the wind without risking the soldiers' faces.
There is also the formation in front of the city gate, which always makes the rebels inexplicably get lost in the formation. They are obviously less than a hundred feet away from the city gate, but they can't get past it.
The rebels fought a bloody path with fire and human lives, and Xiao Mubai's military strength was gradually exhausted. After holding on for seven or eight days from the initial 40,000, there were only more than 10,000 left.
King Mo's troops were decreasing day by day, and although more rebels died in battle, they were becoming more and more confident in capturing Chang'an.
At the same time, the situation in the west was also extremely bad.
The Marquis has already met up with Gu Weiyi, but it's not because they rushed there too fast, but because Gu Duanfei came back too fast with Gu Jiajun!
Even if the Marquis sent letters to neighboring cities, he could not stop Gu Duanfei from returning to the capital with an army of 200,000 people.
Marquis and Gu Weiyi met in Shangyang, and Gu Duanfei, with his army, had occupied Linshun, another city only a hundred miles away.
There were only 20,000 defenders in Shangyang. Gu Weiyi stood on the city tower and Linshun, who was looking ahead, suddenly laughed bitterly. When he saw the Marquis looking at him suspiciously, he couldn't help but said: "I just think this The scene seemed familiar.”
The Marquis had never experienced Han Yang's battle, so he naturally looked puzzled.
Gu Weiyi then continued: "At the beginning of the year, we also relied on the 20,000 defenders of Yucheng to resist the 200,000 Hu troops. At that time, we thought that the worst battle would be this. I never thought that now I would actually have to use Lin Shun's 20,000 city-defending troops are going to counter the 200,000 Gu family troops."
He didn't say the next words, but the Marquis already understood it.
At that time, Gu Weiyi and the others still had some hope. Although no one knew whether King Mo's army would be able to come to their aid in time, at least they had some hope.
But their situation now is even worse than then.
To take a step back is to lose territory.
Going further is absolutely impossible.
The Marquis pursed his lips and patted him hard on the shoulder. Gu Weiyi sighed in his heart. He didn't expect that he would fight side by side with the man he hated most. What a twist of fate.
But the Marquis suddenly spoke to him and said, "You know you can't beat us, why don't you hurry up and get ready and go break out of the camp by yourself."
Gu Weiyi suddenly opened his mouth. He originally thought that he would try to cheer each other up and say something passionate about dying in battle and being shrouded in horse leather, and I will accompany you.
As a result, when the Marquis opened his mouth, he actually let himself attack the enemy alone
"Hey, you old fox, even if I hate you to the core, I won't take this opportunity to kill you. Are you still not a human being?" Gu Weiyi's mouth twitched in anger.
"After all these years, you finally admit that you hate me... On the wedding day, you pretended to be free and relaxed. I wish us a happy marriage." The Marquis snorted and glanced at him sideways, as if he had known you were petty.
"What else? If Lan Sheng is willing to come with me, I will snatch someone and run away. If she is with me, she will never lose her beauty..." Gu Weiyi stopped abruptly here.
The Marquis's face was full of sadness, and he knew that he had said the wrong thing. It was not that the Marquis treated Zhao Lansheng poorly, but that she chose to risk her life to save the emperor.
Even if it were him, what could he do...
Gu Weiyi coughed lightly: "What about that? You shouldn't have asked me to die."
The Marquis followed his words and put aside the previous topic: "I'm not here to fight with you."
When Gu Weiyi was retorted by him, the trace of guilt that had just arisen in his heart suddenly disappeared: "If you don't fight me, I will go back to your Marquis Mansion to enjoy peace and happiness. I won't care about it either."
The Marquis sneered: "Didn't Chu'er tell you in his letter that this battle cannot be fought? We can only find a way to take back the military power."
When Gu Weiyi heard him mention this, his anger became more and more intense. It was not until the lieutenants of the army jointly wrote the letter that Xiao Mubai posted to Dali Temple that Gu Weiyi knew that the knife in the clothes was Xia Chu.
Only then did he realize why General Zhao's temperament changed drastically after he interrogated Yi Dao alone in the tent, and he treated Yi Dao with care and greetings.
At that time, he thought for a while that it was because he had enough dignity that Old General Zhao gave Yi Dao a lenient sentence for his sake.
Is it really him? He is just being sentimental and is very embarrassed...
Gu Weiyi was holding back the sullen feeling of being deceived by his father and his wife, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Your son has the same virtue as you, but his letters are very light. How can we take back the military power? I'm going to wave the flag and shout, Let him offer it with both hands?"
The Marquis wiped the spittle on his face, then stretched out his hand to wipe it on his robe, and said disgustedly: "It's been all these years, and you can only grow old without gaining brains."
Gu Weiyi became even more angry when he heard this, and just as he was about to open his mouth, he heard the Marquis continue: "Manpower has been placed in the Gu family army. Wei Feng pretended to surrender and secretly joined forces with the old army, only waiting for one person to take over the Gu family army. .”
Gu Weiyi became quiet after hearing this. Gu Jiajun was different from Zhao Jiajun.
General Zhao accepts young sons and appoints them only based on their talents, and does not hesitate to give up military power.
However, the Gu family army has been passed down from generation to generation for many years. It is difficult for people without the surname Gu to appoint generals, and the generals in the army respect their direct lineage.
Prince Hui has two sons. Gu Xingyun's life and death are unknown and he is still in Jicheng. Although Gu Duanfei was deprived of the title of Prince Duan by the emperor and demoted to a commoner.
But after all, he is also the biological son of Prince Hui. As a branch of the Gu family, how can he compete with his legitimate biological son for military power
Sometimes soldiers are too loyal and will not distinguish right from wrong and will just follow him blindly. Otherwise, they would not follow Gu Duan and fly to the Western Regions.
They stayed in Jicheng for many years, and they had long regarded Prince Hui's lineage more seriously than the emperor.
Even though Wei Feng was able to win over and instigate rebellion, he was no different from the other generals in the Gu family army as a side branch. How to convince the crowd was the problem.
Seeing that he was silent and had a gloomy expression, the Marquis said jokingly: "Why, you just sprayed spit on my face, and now I am mute?"
Gu Weiyi rolled his eyes at him: "There are a lot of generals surnamed Gu in the Gu family's army. Why do they still follow Gu Duanfei? Their noble bloodline is irreplaceable. You and Gu Shiqing were also very close back then. The Gu family It’s not like you don’t know about the military’s bullshit customs.”
After hearing what he said, the Marquis sighed and nodded in agreement, but then he suddenly said: "Chu'er gave you that orchid hairpin, right?"
(End of chapter)