Chapter 54 North Gate Fierce Soldier

For the people in Chang'an, June 4th in the ninth year of Wude was a creepy day. "Chang'an", which originally symbolized the long-term peace and stability of the world, completely lost its peace.Neighborhoods that were usually full of flowers are now closed, soldiers and horses are running around the city, and the streets are so chaotic that even the tyrants who usually run rampant dare not show their faces.The soldiers and horses of the East Palace, Qi Wang Mansion, and Tiance Mansion were dispatched as if they were in no-man's land.The Zuojinwuwei Mansion, which was located in Xicheng and responsible for the security of the capital, almost blew up the battalion. Letters and reports came from all over the capital. However, those petty officials who were on duty in the Weifu suffered a lot. Letters and reports from all directions came in like a storm, but they couldn't mobilize their soldiers and take control. They just searched for General Liu all over the world.At that time, Cen Wenwen, who participated in secrets in Zhao Wang Li Xiaogong's mansion, recorded in "Emperor Zhenguan Miscellaneous Notes": "On June 4, Prince Yin rebelled, and the palace soldiers rebelled against Xuanwu Gate. If he couldn't, he disturbed Hongyi Palace again. The market was overturned. Li Shu was restless, Jing Zhaoshou disappeared, the whole city was in chaos, and the world was in chaos until the King of Huai'an brought his edict to find it, and it stopped."

There was a chaotic group in front of Xuanwu Gate. Donggong led troops, Changlin soldiers, Qi government guards, imperial north gate guards, city defense patrols, Tiance personal soldiers, and Qin government guards. Several armies were entrenched here, and they did not belong to each other. , It is said that it is a war, but it is our own people fighting our own people. The banners of both sides are the same "Tang" in seal script.Among them, the imperial guards led by Jing Junhong and Lu Shiheng, the East Palace Changlin Army led by the Feng brothers, and the Qi Mansion Guards led by Xie Shufang were the most vigorous.Among these soldiers, the Changlin soldiers who had participated in the suppression of the Shandong Rebellion were the most powerful and fierce. The Forbidden Army who lived in Chang'an for a long time was incomparable with the guards of the various prefectures and the soldiers led by the East Palace.Although the city defense patrols were present, but the commander was not there, the commanding army would not dare to join the battle without authorization. The battle was also involving the Forbidden Palace Army, Eastern Palace Soldiers, and Qi Mansion Soldiers. None of them could be offended by the city defense forces, so they just stopped outside the battle circle. standby.Gao Shilian led more than 1,000 people to line up outside the Fanglin Gate, but his mission was to help the imperial army when it was exhausted, so he did not participate in the battle at the beginning.

After the gate of Xuanwu Gate was closed, Xie Shufang had a brief discussion with the Feng brothers.The walls of the palace city are strong and thick, and there are heavy soldiers stationed in the city. Without sharp siege equipment, it may not be easy to get down.Xie Shufang put forward two practical plans. One is to immediately send people out of the city to call Xue Wanche, the general of You Xiaowei, to lead the East Palace and most of the troops back to the city, control Chang'an city defense and the main roads in the city, and then surround the Taiji Palace and talk to Li Shimin. Conditions, it is of course best to save the prince or King Qi. If the prince is unfortunately killed, after controlling the military power in Gyeonggi, he can deploy field siege equipment to capture Taiji Palace and kill Li Shimin, and then support the eldest son Anlu King Li Chengdao to ascend the throne. Another plan Xie Shufang himself thought was a bad idea, which was to protect the prince and Qi Wang's wife and family members to escape from Chang'an, but Li Jiancheng could go to Luoyang without leaving Chang'an like Li Shimin.But even so, there is still no way out. Li Yi, the king of Yan who is guarding the front line of Taihang, told the prince that as long as he escapes to Hebei, it will not be difficult to find a place to stay under the protection of the Tianji army. The great general Xue Wanche led the army to protect him, so that he would not fall into the grass and become a bandit.

In all fairness, although Xie Shufang's two methods are not clever, they are not completely impossible.But the two brothers of the Feng family were stuck in their heads, Feng Li shouted: "I have received His Highness's kindness, and on this occasion of serving my life, I can only serve with my life, how can anyone else?" Feng Xu also echoed his elder brother's opinion, In Xie Shufang's hands, there are only a thousand guards of the Qi Mansion, and the combat power is not strong. The stronger Changlin Army is in the hands of the Feng brothers. As soon as the two armies fought, Lu Shiheng persuaded Jing Junhong: "The situation is strange and the inside information is unknown, and most of the forbidden soldiers are still stationed. The troops in front of Xuanwu Gate are weak. It is not appropriate to fight with the soldiers of Qifu in Donggong without authorization. It is better to wait and see what happens. After the situation is clear and the troops are assembled, we can go out to fight again, and we can be sure of winning." However, Jing Junhong refused, and he had his own reasons: "I am not the general of the King of Qin, and I have been entrusted with a great responsibility by His Royal Highness. If you shrink back, Wouldn’t it be laughed at by the generals of Tiance? Besides, we are serving as guards at the gate of the palace, sitting and watching the rioting army raging, isn’t it a dereliction of duty? What’s more, how can we see Your Majesty and the King of Qin again?”

So the battle started in a muddle-headed way, with the troops of the Qi Mansion in the East Palace fighting against the Forbidden Army at the North Gate of the Suwei Palace.However, the army of Prince Qin's army, who initiated the attack, was stationed at the Fanglin Gate to watch tigers fight like nothing happened.The more Xie Shufang fights, the more he finds it funny. It was originally a dispute between the palace and the palace, but now he is fighting with the imperial guards in a daze.However, Xue Wanche was not around, and others spoke lightly, so they could only let the Feng brothers mess around.

As soon as the battle situation unfolded, the superiority of troops and combat power of the palace army was immediately revealed. The imperial army was not an opponent at all, and they were killed by chopping melons and vegetables in less than half an hour. Poor Jing Junhong and Lu Shiheng The loyal and brave general was already exhausted before the reinforcements arrived, so he was cut to pieces by the palace army.When about 2,000 Forbidden Army gathered in the West Inner Garden came out of the garden with their swords and guns in hand, they were shocked to find that their two commanders had died heroically for their country.At this time, probably Gao Shilian felt that it was almost the same, so he led more than 1,400 (including more than 900 temporarily armed prisoners) Qin Family Guards and killed them. .

Uncle Xie Fangzheng wanted to form an army with the Feng family brothers to fight the enemy side by side, but unexpectedly, the two shouted: "I will repay the prince's kindness by waiting for the Bloody Xuanwu Gate today!" Leaving the battlefield, he headed east all the way, passed Da'an Palace and Tonghua Gate, and went straight out of the city, but he didn't even say hello to Xie Shufang who was fighting side by side. Xie Shufang's lungs were almost blown up by the pair of kinky brothers. He calmed down a bit. With the troops in his hand, he would definitely not be able to compete with the Imperial Army and Gao Shilian's Qin soldiers. He nodded Gao Shilian's army slightly with his eyes. Immediately, he knew the number of people in his mind. With a wave of the waist knife in his hand, he roared and issued an order: "Don't love to fight, attack in the direction of Beiyuan!"

Gao Shilian saw that the palace army was fleeing to the east, and he was setting up his own soldiers to pursue them, but he didn't expect that more than a thousand troops rushed to the north. Gao Shilian himself was cut off by Xie Shufang with a knife, and the man in his sixties broke out in a cold sweat.In desperation, he had no choice but to watch the Qi government army rush northward.Gao Shilian's heart suddenly lifted. Xie Shufang didn't intend to escape, but to attack another important place in this melee in the capital city - Qin Wang's Mansion located in Hongyi Palace.

Surrounding Wei to save Zhao, taking Qin Wangfei, the eldest son, and the whole family as hostages in exchange for the crown prince and King Qi, this was Xie Shufang's idea at a critical moment.He counted it as a very simple subtraction. Most of the elite palace guards and Tiance's pro-army in the hands of King Qin were transferred out of the city. To control the overall situation in the palace city, there should be no less than five hundred. Gao Shilian had another thousand. Five hundred people, then the Qin Palace is essentially an empty mansion at the moment, so although this method is risky, it is sure.

However, he is not a god after all. What he never imagined was that at the same time that he was leading the army to fight outside the Xuanwu Gate and sent his troops to surprise the Qin Palace, a bloody massacre was taking place in the East Palace and Qi Palace...