The sky is getting colder and the snow is getting heavier and heavier. The dense snowflakes are drifting with the wind, wrapping the sky, earth, mountains and rivers inside. Even if you stand on the city wall and look up, you can't see ten steps away. You can only see snowflakes flying in the sky, and the dark wilderness hidden in endless terror.

Late at night, the Chunming Gate, the main gate of Daxing East City, was wide open. A few days ago, for the Sui army soldiers outside the city, this situation was a good thing that dreamed of. But today it really appeared, and there was no figure of the Sui army soldiers outside the city, and no one crossed the moat and entered the city.

Even if the weather was not so cold that it was almost ice-cold. The rebel civil and military officials such as Pei Ji and Zhu Can on the city wall had cold sweats on their foreheads. They all knew that something was wrong, but they didn't know where something was wrong. Li Jiancheng and Li Er who were waiting in the city were also confused and didn't understand what was wrong. Why haven't they seen the Sui army soldiers enter the city to attack?

After waiting for half a stick of incense, Pei Ji finally confirmed that the Sui army could no longer launch a sneak attack. The arrangement of the self-army today was already in vain. In a panic, Pei Ji grabbed Zhu Can's collar and asked angrily: "Why didn't Chen Yingliang's dog thief come? Have you played something? He notified the official army with a secret code that there is an ambush here?"

"I'm wronged, you're wronged and died in the last time." Zhu Can quickly shouted for justice and twisted his body and said, "Pei Changshi, you see, my hands and feet are tied up by you, why are you sending a secret code outside the city? Besides, I'm always holding my life now. Is there any courage to play tricks?"

"Why didn't Chen Yingliang's dog thief come?" Pei Ji asked in a furious manner.

"How do I know?" Zhu Can cried and analyzed: "Maybe it has been discovered by the Chen surname. Pei Changshi, you know that the dog thief Chen surname is more slippery than a loach. It is harder to fool him than anything else. Also, it is possible that your subordinates had a problem and secretly reported to him. You know, now your army is unstable, and quite a few people have secretly contacted Chen surnamed privately..."

"Go to your mother." Pei Ji, who was always elegant, couldn't bear it anymore. He raised his legs and kicked Zhu Can over the city wall, shouting: "Close the city gate and send someone to contact the left and right governors, and ask them to come here immediately."

The rebel soldiers next to him agreed, and rushed down to close the city gate and invited Li Da and Li Er to discuss matters. However, just as the city gate was slowly closed, the gongs suddenly shook the sky outside the city, and the horns kept ringing, frightening the rebel soldiers who were closing the door to the point of being pissed. Pei Ji was also in a dilemma. He didn't know whether to continue closing the door or to open the city gate again to continue to lure the Sui army into the city. Considering that the rebels were well prepared in the city and the narrow gate corridor did not allow the Sui army to enter the city quickly, Pei Ji bit his teeth and shouted: "Open the door again, send someone to rule the left and right governors, let them wait."

The city gate was opened again, but the outside of the city soon returned to peace. The Sui army soldiers who were still missing a soldier entered the city. After wasting a lot of precious time again, Pei Ji realized that he was fooled by the bluffing Sui army drum team. He could only order the city gate to close again in anger, and ignore the Sui army drum horns that sounded again outside the city. At the same time, he sent someone to invite Li Jiancheng and Li Er to go to the city to discuss matters immediately.

Li Jiancheng and Li Er had long noticed that the situation was not good. As soon as they received Pei Ji's invitation, they immediately went to the city and came to meet Pei Ji. Pei Ji quickly told the situation to the Li brothers. Li Jiancheng was furious when he heard this, and immediately grabbed Zhu Can and asked him if he had notified the Sui army outside the city with a secret code. Zhu Can continued to shout for justice with a sad face, but Li Er was extremely calm and chanted: "It's impossible that Zhu Can sent the secret code, it's Chen Yingliang's dog thief who knew that Chunming Gate was a trap, otherwise, Chen Gou Thief would not have arranged a drum troop to play with us."

"The second young master said it is reasonable, this is the reason." Pei Ji also woke up, and then he was puzzled again, saying, "Why didn't Chen Yingliang's dog thief pass the trick? Isn't this his style of using troops?"

Without using the trick to rebel the Yin rebels, this is indeed not Chen Sangliang's despicable style. Li Er was also puzzled by this. At this time, the answer finally came out. A sharp-eyed rebel soldier suddenly pointed to the northwest and shouted: "Look, the fire is not much brighter than before, the palace city and the imperial city."

The three rebels quickly turned their heads to look northwest, and saw that the firelight in the palace city and imperial city in the northwest was indeed very wrong. It was much brighter than before, and the brightness was still increasing rapidly. It was just too far away and there was no sound of shouting to kill. But this was enough, it was enough to make the three rebels numb and the back of the back of the spine. They said in their hearts: "Don't be an accident in Xuanwu Gate."

A fast horse shouted a slogan of 100,000 yuan and rushed directly to the city wall from the ramp of the upper city. As soon as he saw the three rebels, he shouted before he could dismount: "Governor-General Pei Changshi, something happened to the palace city. It seemed that an official army entered the palace city from Xuanwu Gate. We asked the Zhaoyang Gate guards what had happened. They didn't know. They only heard shouts and fires on the Xuanwu Gate, but they did not dare to leave their posts without receiving the order from General Chai to participate in the battle."

Hearing this report, Pei Ji sat directly on the city wall, his whole body trembling as if he was shaking. However, Li Er did not hesitate and immediately shouted: "Uncle Pei, please give me a request here for the time being. If the official army attacks the city and fights with all his strength, you and I will lead the army back to the palace quickly."

After saying that, Li Er immediately got on the horse and ran down the city, his face was so gloomy that it was almost dripping with water. He was also thinking quickly in his heart, and he thought to himself: "How did Chen Yingliang's dog thief enter the Xuanwu Gate? Why didn't Chai Shao order the army to reinforce the Xuanwu Gate? Why didn't he ask for help from us? Did a traitor appear in the palace city and Chai Shao opened the Xuanwu Gate? Or...."

Thinking of a certain possibility, Li Er subconsciously shivered and was so scared that he didn't dare to analyze it. He just quickly led the rebel cavalry who was in Houming in the city, rushed back to the imperial city and went straight to the imperial city from the Suzaku people, and then went straight to the southern three gates of the palace city. When he was heading to the nearest part of the palace city, there was already a sea of ​​torches under the southern three gates of the palace city. Countless rebel soldiers gathered with Houming under the imperial city gate under the leadership of Li Shentong, the southern three gates of the palace city were still closed, and the rebel soldiers could not enter the city to reinforce. You could also vaguely see rebel soldiers carrying a wooden bump into the gate.

When there was a shout of killing sound on the city wall of the south gate of the palace city, Li Er came to his cousin Li Shentong. As soon as he met, Li Shentong said sweatingly: "Erlang, Zhaoyang Gate, Yong'an Gate, Changle Gate keys were taken away by Chai Shao, Chai Shao disappeared, and the official army rushed to the corridor of the city gate again. Our people could not cut open the door bolt, so we could only hit the door."

"Use a human ladder to go up the city, guard the city wall first, then talk about it," Li Er shouted.

Li Shentong, who had not turned his head before, came to his senses and quickly ordered the rebel soldiers to go up the city with human ladders. A large number of rebel soldiers quickly formed human ladders to climb upwards. Some rebel soldiers who were good at climbing were also biting weapons and climbing the wall with bare hands. However, it was too late to do so. The city wall was already full of fire, and swords and guns were constantly colliding. You could vaguely hear the slogan of surrender and not killing, and the corpses of rebel soldiers began to fall off the city wall.

Finally, the first yaksha full of pointed bodies fell down and smashed into the dense rebels. On the spot, several rebel soldiers directly smashed into meat sauce, and then there were hail-storm-like sheep-head stones, gray bottles and rolling wood. There were also rebel soldiers and lit gunpowder bottles, which made the rebel soldiers cry and howl and scream. A gunpowder bottle fell on the rebel ladder and exploded, causing the rebel ladder to burst into pieces. The rebel soldiers at the top also screamed and fell to the ground one by one.

In order to protect the last hiding place of the palace city, the rebels prepared sufficient city defense supplies on the palace wall. At this moment, these city defense supplies became the best weapons to kill rebel soldiers. Rebel generals such as Li Er and Li Shentong were of course very terrible. However, in order to win the last opportunity to counterattack, Li Er and Li Shentong still kept urging the rebel soldiers to continue to move forward and strive to attack the three gates of the palace city. The rebel soldiers continued to roll stones and woods on the city walls. The sounds of killing and dying screams came one after another, and the sounds of killing were heard one after another, and the symphony of Li Yuan's rebels struggling to death.

No matter how hard it is, it is useless. The Sui soldiers obviously had controlled the city gate corridor and held the city gate to buy time for the city to go to the battlefield. How the rebel soldiers hit the palace gate was declared useless. At the same time, without any preparation of siege equipment, the rebel soldiers who climbed the city with bare hands could not quickly and effectively rush up to the city wall to help with the battle. As time went by, the shouts of killing and the sound of swords and guns on the city wall became less and less. Instead, they fell more densely with sheep-headed stones and rolling woods. At the same time, feather arrows began to fall on the city wall. It was obvious that the Sui soldiers had gradually freed up their hands, and it was only a blink of an eye that completely destroyed the rebels on the city wall.

When Li Jiancheng led the infantry brigade to the gate of the palace city, everything was too late. The rebel soldiers on the palace city had been completely destroyed, either killed or captured. The Sui soldiers who had completely freed up their hands used various rebels' defense weapons to attack the siege rebels head-on, smashing the rebel soldiers who were carrying large wood to hit the city to death. They also used strong bows and crossbows to shoot the rebel soldiers everywhere, constantly retreating and escaping. Li Er and Li Shentong were forced to retreat a hundred steps away from the arrows. At the same time, the internal flames of the palace city were dense, and there were already signs of Sui soldiers gathering to fight back.

"Daxing is no longer possible." This is the first sentence when Li Er and Li Jiancheng met. Then Li Er said: "Chen Yingliang's dog thief captured the palace city, and our backs were exposed to him. He could fight anyway. Now we have only two choices. One is to fight street battles with Chen Yingliang, defend one or two reinforcements, and the other is to quickly abandon the city, preserve our strength and move to other places, and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback."

"What are you planning to choose?" Li Jiancheng asked back.

Li Er had a gloomy face and did not answer, and asked back, "Do you think we have any hope of persevering until the reinforcements arrive?"

"There is almost no hope." Li Jiancheng replied: "Our morale is not high, the Minfang is not strong enough, and it may be very small to defend it for a long time. Xue Ju may not be reliable. Even if he can arrive in time, he will not be able to fight the government army for us."

Li Er nodded, and it was rare to be consistent with his brother's opinion. Li Shentong next to him was anxious and said quickly: "Then let's abandon the city and take the troops westward to surrender to Dou, Xue Ju, or go to Sanguan to meet Xiao Guojiu, and go there to make a comeback."

In the current situation, the rebels went west to join many allies there, which was undoubtedly the best choice. However, Prince Yin Li Jiancheng and Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Er looked at each other longer than Li Shentong. After looking at each other, Li Jiancheng first said: "I don't think we can't go west. Dou and Xiao Xi are our allies, but their strength is too weak to protect us. Xue Ju has already proclaimed himself emperor. It is obvious that he wants to greedy for Guanzhong. We are eager to surrender. Not only will we not be respected by him, but if we do not surrender to him, we will also be in danger of life."

"No," Li Er nodded and said, "Chen Yingliang sent Ma Sanbao westward before, which was clearly a warning to us to move westward. Li Jing and Qu Tutong in the south of Daxing City have not been moved yet. It is very likely that they are waiting for us in the west. When we are moving west in a hurry, we will not only be hit by head-on attacks, but Chen Yingliang will also chase us to the end and will not give us a chance to escape."

"And," Li Er added: "At this point, General Xiao and Dou are probably unreliable. They had no Yiqi's rebellion. When they saw Chen Yingliang's troops coming to the city, they might even use our heads to express their loyalty to Chen Yingliang in exchange for their glory and wealth."

"Return to Taiyuan" Li Jiancheng made a quick decision and gritted his teeth and said, "Our army is mostly soldiers in Jinzhong and southern Jin. If we take them back, they will not have too many deserters to come home, and they will also surrender to us in reputation along the way, and the resistance is relatively small. If we take them west, the official army will block the front and chase us, and we will collapse without hitting."

Li Er nodded and looked at Li Jiancheng. The two brothers said in unison: "Retreat to the northwest, go around Longshou Mountain and walk north on the Weishui Bridge, take the road to Sanyuan in Jingyang to Shangjun, cross the Yellow River in Wencheng and return to Taiyuan."

After talking in unison, Li Er added, "Let His Highness Dai Wang die at his hands, and he cannot surrender."

Brothers worked together and their strength was to cut off gold. At this moment of life and death, Li Jiancheng and Li Er brothers no longer care about who should be the head coach and who should obey who should follow the orders of whom. They quickly sent orders to their own teams and organized various troops to retreat outside the city. At the same time, they also organized soldiers to set fire outside the three gates of the south of the palace city, temporarily blocking the Sui army's counterattack with the fire, and trying their best to buy time for the self-army to abandon the city and retreat.

Chen Sangliang's reaction was also quick. He received a report of the rebels setting fire outside the palace gate. Chen Sangliang immediately guessed that the Li brothers planned to save their strength and abandon the city and retreat. However, it was very regrettable that Chen Sangliang made a wrong judgment at this critical moment. He did not prevent the Li brothers from retreating to Taiyuan. Instead, he sent a quick horse to Li Jing and Qu Tutong to order them to defend the rebels' road to escape to Fufeng County to the west, and did not give the main force of the rebels any chance to advance westward.

In fact, this is not a wrong judgment, nor is it that Chen Sangliang intentionally left a way out for his good friend Li Jiancheng. It is because the Li brothers escaped into Sichuan, which is currently very empty and extremely rich, and it would be too difficult to quickly wipe them out. The luck is a little bad. In the future, the Li brothers will have this possibility of establishing the country and becoming emperor in Shu, so Chen Sangliang had no choice but to give priority to blocking the Li brothers' road to Sichuan. In order to prevent the Li brothers from entering Sichuan, Chen Sangliang asked his cousin to distribute more than a thousand troops to guard Ziwu Pass on the dangerous road to Ziwu Valley.

Although the gates of the outer city were still under control and the Sui army had not yet launched an attack from the outside to the inside, the fires lit by the rebels had not yet won much time. The condescending Sui soldiers quickly used water to throw stones to put out the fire outside Zhaoyang Gate, and launched an attack on the rebels who were still retreating from the inside to the outside. A completely one-sided battle in the city began.

The so-called street fighting is actually a massacre. The rebel soldiers who were flustered in the army were only concerned about escaping their lives and had no intention of fighting. Even if they were caught by the Sui army, they were about to collapse. They were just running away and had no intention of fighting. The local soldiers in Daxing and Guanzhong rushed to kneel down and surrender. They were not willing to be buried with Li Yuan, nor were they willing to follow the rebels to escape from the city. The rebels from all gates also opened the city gates and fled out. The Sui army outside the city also took the opportunity to launch an attack, desperately weakening the rebels' ability to fight again. There were shouting and killing everywhere inside and outside the Daxing city, there were torches everywhere, and there were rebel soldiers running with large bags of small bags everywhere.

The Li brothers who went directly to Kaiyuanmen in the northeast of Daxing to escape from Daxing took the initiative and escaped from Daxing City extremely smoothly. Li Jing and Qu Tutong, who were ordered to block the attack, were desperately snatching their way westward. In the dark night, they did not notice that they went directly to the Weishui Bridge to the north. The main force under Chen Sangliang was blocked by Longshou Mountain and did not immediately notice this situation. When the Sui army scout reported the movements of the main force of the rebels to Chen Sangliang, Chen Sangliang would not have time to send troops to stop him. He could only urge the army to pursue him in great depression, but he was also mentally prepared to not be able to lose his love rival Li Er in Daxing.

When it was dawn, the soldiers of the Sui army had basically controlled the cities inside and outside Daxing, but the pursuit was still ongoing, and there were still many rebel soldiers hiding in the city. Chen Sangliang could only command the army to kill the remaining enemies in the city and chase the rebels outside the city, while quickly leaving the list to abdicate the people and strictly prohibit the soldiers of the Sui army from taking the opportunity to rob the people. It was also at this time that Chai Shao, the biggest contributor to the Sui army's revival of the capital of Daxing, was finally led by Kan Jiao to Chen Sangliang. Chen Sangliang and Chai Shao, who were only a little bit close to becoming the relative of the uncle, met for the first time when both sides were friendly.

Chai Shao's expression was still a little embarrassed and shy. Another great hero Dugu Huaien had already crawled in front of Chen Sangliang to flatter and please him, but Chai Shao still hesitated and did not bow his head and kneel down. None of the Sui soldiers beside him blamed or urged him, and everyone knew that he really had an indescribable hidden secret. Finally, after Chen Sangliang helped Gu Du Huaien up with his own hands, he took the initiative to greet Chai Shao and said with a smile: "Brother Sichang, thank you for your hard work. This time I must thank you. You saved at least tens of thousands of lives and made great contributions. Don't worry, I will report to His Majesty Emperor Ming and His Highness the King of Yue immediately to express your merits and reward you."

After gritting his teeth, Chai Shao finally bowed to Chen Sangliang and knelt down. For the first time, he bowed to Chen Sangliang and knelt down, bowed and said, "The sinner Chai Shao dared not take credit for merit and reward. The sinner had offended the left-behind before, but the left-behind did not care about hatred..."

"It's all over, why do you still mention him?" Chen Sangliang interrupted, helped Chai Shao up with his own hands, and said sincerely: "Brother Sichang, you did something wrong before, but you also thought about your own sister's lifelong happiness. This is human nature. If it were me, I might do it like you."

"Brother Sichang, actually I want to thank you." Chen Sangliang said again: "Without you two years ago, I would not have had such a brilliant victory in Yanmen. Without you today, I will not only not be able to win Daxing, but also have a heavy loss. You have done a lot for me, so let him go over the past. We were originally a family friendship. From now on, we will be brothers again, Brother Chai."

"Leave it behind, you..."

Chai Shao's sarcasm was interrupted by Chen Sangliang, who solemnly shouted: "Brother Chai Shi."
Chapter completed!