Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

The city gate slowly opened, and thousands of cavalrymen marched out of the city in order, forming a terrifying scene with the tall city wall behind them.

"Fight, fight, fight!"

At the same time, the defenders on the top of the city were shouting loudly under the command of the generals, completely suppressing the noisy people outside the city.

Seeing the enemy troops leaving the city, Li Tai did not order the front to fight. Instead, he ordered his troops to withdraw to the rear and withdraw from the area where the firelight could illuminate the city. He only left more than 200 riders in place to fight with the enemy out of the city. The men and horses looked at each other from a distance.

Dugu Yongye, who was leading the crowd out of the city, saw this scene and suddenly felt a little troubled. Master Shedi just ordered him to force the enemy back and not to attack outwards. But now the situation is whether he is forcing the enemy back or not. ?

He personally led his troops across the moat defense line and shouted loudly to the loosely formed cavalry team on the opposite side: "Thieves come here to cause trouble, but they don't dare to fight. You are really cowardless!"

"The high thief is dead, the townspeople are descending quickly!"

Although the crowd on the opposite side became smaller, they still refused to be outdone. After hearing the words, they responded like this. The combatants were so angry that they just wanted to rush out and kill these thieves who were talking freely.

However, it was dark in the countryside, and no one knew how many bandit soldiers and horses were hidden in the night. If they advanced rashly and failed to retreat in time, they might be surrounded and killed by the cunning bandit army.

Seeing that the other party had no intention of fighting, Dugu Yongye led his troops to retreat slightly. When the enemy knights wandering outside saw this scene, they immediately moved forward more than ten feet, and there were also galloping in the night. The sound of horse hooves sounded, and hundreds of cavalry rushed into sight, and then quickly retreated.

Seeing this scene, Dugu Yongye's heart sank. He knew that his group of troops leaving the city had been targeted by the enemy. If they retreated back to the city defense, the enemy would wait for an opportunity to rush in and attack the city. Door.

Unable to fight or retreat, he was a little confused for a moment and didn't know what to do next.

Faced with such a situation, Dugu Yongye couldn't help but secretly complain that Shedigan's city defense strategy was too conservative. The thousands of troops who had withdrawn into the city from the surrounding areas failed to bring about a qualitative improvement in the strength of the city's defense. Instead, a large number of troops were left behind. Trapped in the city, giving up a large area of ​​tactical space outside the city to the enemy, so that the huge Jinyang Bafu outside the city is as dangerous as an enemy country!

Of course, he did not reach the level of Shedigan, but he only had this criticism in his heart from the perspective of city defense tactics. Naturally, he could not feel the pressure brought by the aggressive and suppressive style of the Gao family.

Shediqian was not unwise, but when faced with any two choices before him, what he considered was not which one was more effective and comprehensive, but which one was more stable.

Even though the army was pressing down on the territory at this moment, these enemies were like headless flies. In addition to stimulating the soldiers and civilians in the city with words and making people panic, they actually could not cause any substantial harm to the Jinyang city defense.

From this point of view, Shedigan's choice was not wrong. As long as this situation can be maintained until the night recedes, the field of vision becomes clear and transparent again, and the enemy's forces are exposed before our eyes, we can become more comfortable in both offense and defense.

At this time, Shedigan on the top of the city also noticed the embarrassing situation of Dugu Yongye's troops, frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "This thief will be treacherous and cunning. I am afraid he will not specialize in fighting here. He will spread the news to other places." Guard generals must guard against attacks from other places, guard their positions strictly, and must not attack without authorization.”

In the absence of the initiative, as a defensive side, the best option is to remain unchanged in response to changes.

The thieves were rampant before, so Shedigan sent Dugu Yongye out of the city to fight to boost morale. The thieves' immediate retreat also proved that they did not have the strength and ideas to attack Jinyang City, so they only need to stabilize the moment and avoid exposing more flaws. Then the bandit army will retreat without a fight. At that time, whether to pursue or not, the initiative will naturally return to one's own hands.

Although it was a bit embarrassing to have the thieves break into their lair, block the door and scream without taking any countermeasures, a little face was nothing compared to the safety of Jinyang City.

Shedi Qian was even faintly glad that the bandit army went straight to Jinyang. With his ability to defeat the troops he sent before, he knew that his strength was definitely not weak. If he did not come to Jinyang and poisoned other places, it might have caused even greater consequences. Loss. At least now, with the strong city of Jinyang and enough left-behind troops, we can try to make the opponent leave without success.

As Shedigan's order was passed on, his prediction soon came true. A few miles away, at a weak point in the city wall between Luocheng and Zhoucheng, he was suddenly attacked by enemy rockets. .

In order to appease the hearts and minds of the soldiers and civilians in the city, the city was so brightly lit that some weaknesses in the city's defense were exposed, so they would be targeted by the enemy's precise attacks.

However, due to Shedigan's careful deployment, far more garrison troops were stationed in these places than elsewhere. Coupled with the previous transmission of orders, the garrison was full of vigilance. As soon as they sensed the enemy's cavalry approaching quickly, They quickly responded, and most of the rockets were blocked by the city's shields. Occasionally, a few stray arrows crossed over the city and fell into the city. They were all extinguished in time, without causing the fire to spread.

Several attacks like this were all resolved by the defenders in the city without any danger. As time went by, the frequency of harassment made by the bandits outside the city became less and less. It was obvious that the Guizhou donkeys were exhausted and exhausted.

On the other hand, the defenders in the city had successfully repelled the harassment of the rebels several times. The initial panic and anxiety of being attacked by the enemy had disappeared, and the belief of invincibility was once again born in their hearts. Even the people who had been watching in panic in the streets and alleys of the city laughed and scolded him and continued to go home to catch up on their sleep when they saw that the enemy troops were still unable to enter the city.

Shedigan had been in battle for a long time and did not panic when attacked by the enemy. Now that his advantage was gradually revealed, he did not relax his vigilance because of this. In addition to personally manning the defense line at the top of the city, he also sent troops several times to reiterate that he should defend solidly and not act rashly.

However, just when he thought he could hold on until dawn, various noises suddenly came from the south of Luocheng, and soon there were flames rising into the sky. Judging from the direction, it should be the area between Xishan and Jinyang Palace.

"No! Find out quickly what happened in Jinyang Palace!"

Seeing this scene, Shedi Qian suddenly panicked and hurriedly ordered.

Jinyang Palace is a palace building independent of the city defenses of Jinyang. Construction started last year and has not yet been completed, so it does not form an integrated defense.

Since the city's defense force was insufficient, Shedigan deployed most of his troops in several personnel centers such as Luocheng and the Prime Minister's Mansion. Jinyang Palace was not an important enough area, and the number of troops stationed there was not large. .

However, the so-called unimportance of Jinyang Palace is only relative. This palace was built in the name of the royal family, but in fact it was an important weapons workshop in Jinyang.

King Gao always had the ugliness of chasing kings, so although the emperor of Yedu was just a puppet, in order to avoid increasing the population, King Gao always treated him with courtesy, so many useful things were stored in Jinyang Palace. To serve as a precious material to the emperor.

If coupled with the special political significance of this palace, if it is captured and looted by the enemy, the consequences will definitely be very serious!

She Diqian had only thought that the enemy had come from afar and was very unfamiliar with the Jinyang city defense pattern. He would not have discovered the loopholes in the defense of Jinyang Palace so accurately, and he was also somewhat disapproving of the power of the Yuan and Wei emperors in his heart, so he did this Didn't pay too much attention to it.

But when the enemy really accurately launched an attack on Jinyang Palace, he suddenly felt alarmed. However, before he could dispatch troops to reinforce, the enemy troops outside the city that had been silent for a long time suddenly made a loud noise again. More than two hundred heavily armored cavalry rushed out of the night and rushed towards Dugu Yongye's troops who were stationed in front of the city gate.

"A woman has betrayed her country..."

As soon as Shedigan took a look, he saw that these men, horses, armors and armors were all Jinyang soldiers' equipment. Now they were actually worn on the enemy's soldiers and horses. They were obviously captured from the troops of Xiurong City on the road ahead. He was very angry and regretted that he should not have done so. He listened to Lou's words and used Hu Shang's armed forces to attack the enemy.

Dugu Yongye in front of the city gate immediately looked miserable after seeing this, and he hurriedly raised a flag to the city to ask what should be done. With his combination of light cavalry and infantry fighting against a pair of masked heavy cavalry, one can imagine the result. Once they are scattered, it will be even more dangerous in this outnumbered countryside.

At present, the garrison in the city is not sufficient. Of course, Shedigan cannot ignore the safety of these thousands of troops. He can only immediately mobilize troops to assemble in Chengmen to bring back Dugu Yongye's troops, but he has no time to dispatch them. People and horses sent reinforcements to Jinyang Palace.

Li Tai, who had been directing all kinds of harassment in the night to attract the attention of the defenders, now had a smile on his face. While ordering Li Yunxin to lead nearly a thousand men and horses to retreat to the Fenggu River, he personally led other men and horses around the foot of the West Mountain. After passing Jinyang Luocheng, under the guidance of Luo Chao's cronies, they rushed straight towards Jinyang Palace.

At this time, the Jinyang Palace was already in chaos. Eight hundred soldiers, including Zhu Meng and Liang Shiyan, led by Luo Chao, sneaked in from the Xishan Mountain and rushed directly into the palace garden along the Xishan quarry road, unexpectedly heading towards the palace. The guards killed them all.

There were not many defenders here. After being raided and chased, they were quickly driven into a narrow corner. Many of the defenders surrendered hastily. Soon they were forced to ask where the palace gate was, and then they split up to guard it.

When Li Tai and his troops arrived, the palace here had already been completely controlled by Zhu Meng and others, allowing them to have a stronghold in the cities of Jinyang.

Looking up at this magnificent palace building, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh that their Western Wei emperor had such a miserable life. Even as a puppet, he couldn't find a more lavish and powerful minister. Although the Jinyang Palace was just a villa away from the palace, and the Emperor of the Eastern Wei Dynasty might not even have stayed here, it was still far more majestic than the palace in Chang'an!