Li Dingguo led his troops to the western suburbs of Chang'an, and a large army camped outside the city.

The next day, Zhang Xianzhong rushed to the camp and immediately led many Western generals to peek at the Chang'an city defense.

Zhang Xianzhong was still wearing iron armor, cloth robe, and Fan Yangmao was on his head. He led dozens of cavalry out of the camp and rushed to a place about three miles away from the west city of Chang'an to stop.

Chang'an is an ancient capital of several dynasties. The city is tall. Zhang Xianzhong looked into the city from afar and couldn't help but breathe. The war horse under his crotch was also frightened by the magnificent city. He sniffed and his horse's hooves twitched the ground.

"Your Majesty! Chang'an City is more than three meters high. The city wall is surrounded by a moat, a urn city, a horse face, and a lot of red barbarian cannons are also equipped with!" Li Dingguo controlled the war horses and pointed at Chang'an with a horse whip and introduced.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Chang'an City and saw the Tang army flags flying above, knowing that it was not easy to capture such a city.

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong did not speak, Li Dingguo asked, "Your Majesty, Li Ji met my army at the city, but did not abandon the city and fled, but defended Chang'an. Should we fight first, or negotiate directly with Li Jiyu?"

"Fight first! Taking advantage of the lack of preparations in the Western Army, the battle was brought down and captured Li Jiyu. I will annex the Tang Kingdom. If I can't fight, I will negotiate with Li Jiyu!" Zhang Xianzhong stared at Chang'an City.

Before going to the expedition, the Prime Minister of the Western Kingdom had deduced several situations of invading Guanzhong.

Now that Li Jiyu has not escaped, the remaining three situations are that the Western Army attacked Chang'an, captured Li Jiyu, forced the Tang Kingdom to surrender, and could not conquer Chang'an, negotiated with Li Jiyu and opened Tongguan and let the Qian army enter the pass.

What Zhang Xianzhong wants to achieve most in these three situations is the first one. If he can't get the first one, he pursues the second one, and the third one he doesn't want to see the most.

Li Dingguo Wenyu understood Zhang Xianzhong's meaning, and the first goal of the Western Army was to annex Guanzhong.

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Starting from the first day of March, the Western Army began to prepare for the siege.

On that day, Li Jiyu had a few bites of breakfast in the palace, and with the help of the eunuch, he put on his armor and prepared to go up to inspect the city.

As soon as Li Jiyu left the palace, he saw several generals hurried in and asked from afar: "Why are you not patrolling the city, why are you here to the palace?"

Tian Jianxiu led several generals to come and saluted Li Jiyu and said, "Your Majesty, the Western Army outside the city shoots books into the city."

After speaking, Tian Jianxiu took out the letter from his arms and presented it with both hands.

Li Jiyu's face seemed to have a layer of frost. Looking at the letter in Tian Jianxiu's hand, he was silent for a while, and finally pulled it over.

He picked up the letter and watched it in public. A book of persuasion written by Zhang Xianzhong personally persuaded him to surrender to Daxi in the name of the Emperor Daxi.

In the letter, Zhang Xianzhong pointed out bluntly that Li Jiyu was defeated in Hedong and was no longer able to compete with the Qian army.

In order to avoid Gao Huan occupying Guanzhong, he could only send troops to Guanzhong. He hoped that Li Jiyu could recognize the situation and surrender to Daxi, and could still be rewarded by kings and princes. He would be rich and honored for a lifetime. I hope Li Jiyu could make a decision early, so don’t hesitate.

After Li Jiyu finished visiting, he couldn't help but snorted coldly. Over the years, how many emperors who surrendered had a good ending.

At this time, Li Jiyu looked at Tian Jianxiu and others, and couldn't help but feel a stern. For these people, no matter who they serve, they are ineffective. Judging from their actions, they are afraid they want to surrender.

Thinking of this, Li Jiyu suddenly tore the letter in anger, and threw it on the ground.

"Zhang Xianzhong wants to disrupt my military spirit, and I will never surrender to him!" Li Jiyu glanced at everyone with a sinister look, "Don't have a second thought even if you wait!"

Tian Jianxiu and others quickly lowered their heads, and no one dared to express any opinions.

When Li Ji met everyone, he lowered his head in obedience, and snorted coldly, "Let's go, go to the city!"

At that moment, Li Jiyu, surrounded by many generals, rode his horse to the city, and then led all the generals to the city.

At this time, everyone came to the top of the city and saw teams of Western Army camps outside the city lined up in the camp, gathering under the city, preparing to launch an attack.

The Shu Road was difficult to move, and the Western army raided Guanzhong without carrying heavy artillery. Before siege, it was exempted from shelling.

At this time, the Western Army soldiers outside the city were all in formation, and the officers were cheering up their subordinates, promoting the rewards for climbing the city and the key points for siege.

"Your Majesty!" The soldiers in the array suddenly shouted. It turned out that Zhang Xianzhong rode a horse and led Li Dingguo and others to inspect the troops.

"Your Majesty!" The soldiers of the Western Army raised their weapons and shouted loudly.

Zhang Xianzhong rode his horse around various formations. Wherever he passed, the soldiers of the Western Army raised their weapons and shouted long live. Zhang Xianzhong kept raising his horse whip to respond, inspiring the morale of the Western Army.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong inspected each formation and returned to the central army and climbed the tall tower.

"Let's start!" Zhang Xianzhong waved forward.

Li Dingguo held his fists and took the order, then rode his horse away from the central army and galloped to the front of the formation. He raised his iron spear, activated his war horse, and ran back and forth in front of the formation.

The soldiers of the Western Army looked at him with their eyes, as they moved, watching him follow his running and moving, and shouted louder than waves.

On the city wall, Li Jiyu looked at the Western Army with high morale under the city, with a gloomy expression, "Zhang Xianzhong wants to capture Chang'an, but he underestimated me."

At this time, Li Dingguo ran back and forth for a while, and the Western Army's shouts shocked the four fields, and his morale gradually reached its climax.

"Attack!" Li Dingguo suddenly stepped down his horse, waved his iron spear forward with force, and screamed loudly.

With a command, the soldiers of the Western Army cheered, and soldiers from various phalanxes held their weapons and began to advance towards the city wall.

"Boom boom boom" Tang army artillery at the top of the city began to fire artillery, bombarding the Western Army formation group, and the shells splashed in the wilderness.

The Western Army soldiers pushed the shield chariot and propelled the cannons at the top of the city, and then formed a shield wall by the moat.

Nearly 10,000 musketeers and archers of the nearly ten thousand Western Army hid behind the shield wall and shot against the Tang army at the city wall, suppressing the Tang army at the city wall.

The soldiers carrying the trench bridge will build bridges on the moat and the soldiers of the Western Army who are carrying the city ladders to cross the river quickly. From time to time, people are hit by bows and arrows and muskets on the city and fall into the moat.

With the sound of the Western Army's thunderous war drums and the fierce shouts of killing under the city, the Western Army's soldiers rushed towards the city wall like a tide, braved the muskets and arrows at the top of the city.

The Western Army soldiers ran with shields, and dense arrows shot on the shields with "ding Ding Dangdang". The Western Army soldiers who rushed to the city wall raised ladders one after another.

However, Chang'an is the capital of Tang Kingdom after all, with abundant supplies for defending the city, and the city tops are full of supplies for defending the city.

For a moment, bows and muskets on the top of the city were fired, huge rocks, rolling wood and pots filled with tinder oil fell like hail, smashing the Western soldiers' flesh and blood and flesh flying. Many soldiers were covered in fire and jumped off the ladder screaming.

Soon the First Boxi soldiers were killed and injured, and the subsequent troops quickly attacked.

Looking upstairs, many Western generals couldn't help feeling distressed when they saw the heavy losses of the siege troops.

"Your Majesty, this Chang'an is a strong city. We have not prepared enough and the cannons have not been shipped. Now the soldiers are suffering heavy casualties. Should they be asked to withdraw?" Feng Shuangli couldn't help but plead and said.

"No one is allowed to retreat without my order!" Zhang Xianzhong looked at Chang'an City and shouted loudly, "Who dares to retreat, kill you without mercy!"

Just as he was talking, a fire suddenly broke out in Chang'an City and thick smoke rose in the city.

When Zhang Xianzhong saw it, he was immediately overjoyed and knew that the Western Army who had been infiltrated into the city in advance had begun to get messy.

Zhang Xianzhong immediately shouted, "Beat the drum and cheer! Attack me!"

The rapid drum sounded again, and the rumbling was shocking. Li Dingguo waved his gun and pointed his fingers angrily, shouting loudly: "Roar up, rush to Chang'an City!"

(Today my wife caught a cold, this is the chapter. I will update it tomorrow)
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