995 Bloody Battle Chang An (1/2)

Chapter 995 – Bloody Battle Chang An

Since the ascension, the player forces, especially the cavalry forces, continuously entered and exited the city gates. Who knows what they were doing. As time went on, everyone felt that it was normal, and they were not weirded out by it anymore.

This was only on the surface. Each time night fell, Chang An City was really solemn.

With the help of the officials and the generals, Ouyang Shuo used the Divine Martial Guards to cleanse the city, wiping out the An Lushan spies in Chang An City.

Helplessly, time was limited, and the Divine Martial Guards were not professionals at this. Furthermore, the ministers in the dynasty were all afraid, so the cleansing process did not go really smoothly.

There were definitely fishes that escaped the net.

Ouyang Shuo was helpless, and he could only order Shihu to increase the city gate defenses and cut off contact with the outside world.

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4th day of the Battle Map, Baqiao.

Baqiao was located 10 miles away from Chang An City at the Ba River. It was the east gate of Chang An City, which connected the various cities in the east of Chang An.

Early in the morning, Ouyang Shuo sneaked to Baqiao and sent off Feng Qiuhuang and her group.

The cavalry going in and out was mainly just to cover to main force moving away from the camp. There were only 20 thousand Tiger Leopard Cavalry in the city east camp led by Ma Xiu.

As for the remaining 100 thousand elites, with Ran Min as the main general and Ma Chao as the deputy, they would go up north toward Lingwu City to gather with Guo Ziyi's troops.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to use Chang An City as a bait to attract the rebels to buy time for Guo Ziyi to destroy Shi Siming's troops, and then proceed to attack An Lushan's base Fanyang.

To end this fast, Ouyang Shuo had to take the risk and move 100 thousand elite cavalry up north to help.

With such elite forces helping, coupled with the ability of Guo Ziyi, he would be able to destroy the rebel base if officials were not monitoring him and other Jiedushi's were not butting heads.

The prerequisite would be that Chang An City must be able to survive the attacks of the rebels.

The new emperor sent out the signal to wipe out the rebels as soon as he ascended. He sought the people's help and showed a sign of wanting to survive together with Chang An. If Chang An was lost, everything would be over.

To defend Chang An city, apart from recruiting new troops, Ouyang Shuo also ordered Jiannan Jiedushi to lead 30 thousand troops up north to assist Chang An City.

Based on rough estimations, including the 30 thousand heavy armored mountain barbarians, 20 thousand Tiger Leopard Cavalry, 30 thousand Jiannan elite soldiers, and 60 thousand new troops, they had a total of 140 thousand soldiers.

As for the young people they recruited, they numbered around 100 thousand.

With such an army, Ouyang Shuo was confident about fighting the rebel army.

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In the blink of an eye, a week had passed.

Chang An City's battle preparations were nearing their end, and the rebel vanguard forces had appeared on the outskirts of Chang An. A day ago, the Jiannan Jiedushi led his 30 thousand troops and finally arrived in Chang An.

A huge war was about to begin.

On the 10th day of the Battle Map, the rebel army finally arrived outside of Chang An City.

During this expedition, the An Lushan camp, apart from the 300 thousand players, there were 150 thousand rebels led by An Lushan's son, An Qingxu.

450 thousand elite troops were enough to swallow everything.

Apart from that, there was a group of special guests. They were dressed shabbily and looked terrified. They were normal people that were herded forward.

The army set up camp 10 miles outside of Chang An City. If they headed forward any further, they would be at the Ba River.

Di Chen and the others crossed the Ba Bridge and looked on at the towering Chang An City. Looking at the moats outside, Di Chen smiled, ”I knew that the old fox would use this trick.”

During the Battle of Muye, Ouyang Shuo had made use of moats to win the clashes. Now, he was repeating the same trick.

”He is lacking in tricks.” Chun Shenjun laughed confidently.

After a while, they rode their horses and returned.

”Let's return. We will siege tomorrow; let's see what skills that old fox has.”

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The next morning, the huge army crossed the Ba River and arrived right under the nose of the city wall.

The north side and the east side of Chang An City had a wide city protection river and moats that made it hard to attack. Hence, the rebels chose to siege from the west and the south.

The huge army went around the east and got ready.

To prevent chaos during the commanding, Di Chen and An Qingxu agreed that the 300 thousand player forces would attack the south while the 150 thousand rebels would attack the west.

Just getting the army into position used up two hours.

On the city wall, fear rose up in the eyes of the newly organized army troops when they saw the gigantic enemy troops. They had just learned how to form up, and they were already tossed onto the cruel battlefield.

To train the new troops, Ouyang Shuo evenly distributed the 60 thousand on the west and south gates. The 30 thousand Jiannan elites and the 30 thousand heavy armored barbarian infantry were both arranged on these two sides.

Apart from that, the barbarians also acted as monitors of the troops.