On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 521 Jiuyi Highland

Cui Che did not live in his own old house, but moved directly into the Han family palace.

Gao family and Guanyin's maidservant were also brought to Chang'an by Cui Che. Regardless of whether the city was in ruins, they at least had a foothold in Weinan.

Just after they checked in, Cui Che asked Guanyin:

"Xin'er, do you know why Emperor Gaozu moved the capital to Daxing?"

Guanyin is nine years old now, and Cui Che can't always call her by her baby name.

So he named her "Xin" and still gave her the surname Changsun, so she was named "Changsun Xin".

This little question didn't bother Maid Guanyin at all, and she immediately replied:

"Chang'an was dilapidated and the sewage was blocked and difficult to drain, so Emperor Gaozu moved the capital."

However, Cui Che shook his head and said:

"What you said is just an appearance. The real reason why Emperor Gaozu moved the capital was because there were evildoers hiding in the Chang'an palace."

As he said this, he pretended to be mysterious and frightened Guanyin:

"The monster will come out to eat people in the middle of the night, and many palace ladies have been harmed by it."

Guanyin's face turned pale with fright, and Mrs. Gao quickly comforted her and said:

"Don't listen to your father's nonsense, he is trying to scare you."

Seeing Cui Che's evil smile, Guanyin was so angry that she pouted and refused to pay attention to him.

Jokes with his concubine and stepdaughter are just adjustments in life. For Cui Che, winning Daxing is the top priority.

Li Yuan surrendered, Qizhou changed its banner, and upon seeing this, many county governors in Guanxi had private contacts with Cui Che. As long as Cui Che captured Daxing, he could spread the word to many places.

On the same day, Cui Che transferred 5,000 soldiers from Weibei to guard Chang'an. The next day, he led an army of 150,000 soldiers south to prepare for the siege of Daxing City.

The focus of Cui Che's attack is in the north, and to the north is the Jiuyi Highlands.

Jiuyi Highland is the main line of Longshouyuan, and it is also the location of the dragon head. It is twenty feet high. Standing on it and looking to the south, you can have a panoramic view of Daxing City.

In the later Tang Dynasty, the Daming Palace was built on the Jiuyi Highlands. As the main palace of the Tang Dynasty after Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, the Daming Palace was the largest palace complex in the world at that time.

It can be seen from this that the terrain of Jiuyi Highland is open. Once Cui Che occupies Jiuyi Highland and sets up a trebuchet here, he can attack Daxing Palace directly under his nose from a high position.

Daxing Palace City is located in the north of Daxing City, facing the threat of Jiuyi Highland. Naturally, Yu Wenshu and others knew the importance of this highland.

Therefore, camps were set up in the Jiuyi Highlands early, and thousands of soldiers were stationed to guard the highlands.

The main battle was to attack the Jiuyi Highlands. Cui Che personally took command and supervised the battle at the foot of the mountain. Fifty thousand infantry attacked the Jiuyi Highlands from the east, west and north.

Cui Che also sent out 30,000 elite cavalry to patrol the south of Jiuyi Highlands and ambush the Daxing defenders who were going up the mountain to support them.

The remaining 70,000 soldiers remained stationary. Once the forward mountain attacking force was frustrated, they served as a reserve team and took turns taking over the task of attacking the mountain.

Cui Che believed that as long as the Jiuyi Highlands were captured and trebuchets were set up on top, the war would develop into the Battle of Feng Yi.

As for stones, Cui Che naturally has no shortage of them. He has lived in Daxing for many years and is well aware of the terrain here. He decided early on to seize the Jiuyi Highlands and bombard Daxing City from a high position.

Previously in Weibei, many people were sent into the mountains to collect stones.

Yuwenshu left him many hungry people in Weibei, but Cui Che's army rations were not wasted in vain. Cui Che adopted the method of working for relief and hoarded a large amount of stones, enough for Yuwenshu to drink a pot.

As a sharp and ear-piercing cry pierced the sky, the fifty thousand infantrymen at the foot of the mountain were mobilized to attack the mountain.

Attacking a mountain is a tragic thing. From time to time, soldiers are hit by arrows or thrown down the hillside by rolling rocks. Screams and wailings are endless.

However, although Jiuyi Highland is at the highest point of Longshouyuan, based on the Sui Dynasty calculation of one foot being about 2.96 meters, the height is less than 60 meters.

Cui Che started from Chang'an County on the northern slope and climbed to Longshouyuan in the south.

Then they went south along Longshouyuan to attack the Jiuyi Highlands. The relative height of the Jiuyi Highlands was even lower, even less than tens of meters. From a distance, it was just the height of a mound.

Compared with the towering and steep Gaobi Ridge during the Hedong War, it is obviously not worth mentioning.

Cui Che personally supervised the battle from the rear, which inspired the soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty. Although the defenders' arrows and rolling stones caused a lot of casualties to them, they still could not stop the charge.

The hills of tens of meters are not insurmountable. After launching three consecutive attacks, the soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty finally rushed to the top of the mountain carrying a simple long ladder.

They relied on long ladders to climb into the camp on the top of the mountain and engaged in bloody hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

Located at the Xuanwu Gate at the north gate of Daxing Palace, Yu Wenshu and Gao Jiong were also watching the mountain attack on the Jiuyi Highlands.

Seeing billowing black smoke rising from the top of the mountain, and countless Eastern Sui infantry swarming up to the Jiuyi Highlands, the two of them were anxious, but there was nothing they could do.

The 30,000 Eastern Sui Jingqi located on the southern slope of the Jiuyi Highlands completely cut off the connection between Daxing City and the Jiuyi Highlands.

Even if Gao Jiong and Yu Wenshu had the intention, they were unable to rescue him.

Could it be possible to drive 50,000 defenders out of the city and break through Cui Che's most elite 30,000 cavalry head-on? This is nothing more than a dream.

The battle ended before dusk, and corpses were strewn all over the Jiuyi Highlands, both inside and outside the camp.

The 50,000 foot soldiers attacking the mountains in the Eastern Sui Dynasty suffered more than 8,000 casualties. Some of them died on the way to attack the mountains. They died on the slopes before they came into contact with the enemy.

The other part is the casualties caused by storming the mountaintop camp.

If he really wanted to put them on the plains and let the two armies form a majestic formation and fight with open swords and spears, Cui Che believed that these five thousand defenders would not be able to defeat his own soldiers.

But when attacking a city or a mountain, the defenders already had the advantage. They were able to completely wipe out the defenders on the top of the mountain and occupy the Jiuyi Highlands. The casualties of more than 8,000 people were acceptable in Cui Che's opinion.

Walking up to Jiuyi Highland, there were many burnt corpses, and the smell of barbecue went straight to Cui Che's nose.

The soldiers were already cleaning the battlefield. Cui Che stood at the Hanyuan Hall, the main hall of the later Daming Palace, and looked south. With the help of a telescope, he could see the situation in Daxing City clearly.

After a long time, Cui Che put down the telescope and ordered:

"Instruct all ministries to surround the three towers and release the west passage from tomorrow."

"promise!"

The accompanying generals and followers responded in unison.

Cui Che didn't care whether he let Gao Jiong and Yu Wenshu go. In comparison, he hoped to capture Daxing quickly, send a message to all the places in Guanzhong, then organize his troops and horses, cross the Longshan Mountain, and take over the land of Longyou.

Therefore, Cui Che adopted the strategy of surrounding three towers and one, leaving an escape route for the defenders on the west side, so that they would not be determined to die and fight to the death with him, and hold on to the end.

That night, Cui Che checked into the cottage on the Jiuyi Highlands. The cottage had been cleaned inside and out, but the sporadic blood stains in the corners still told that this place had just experienced a bloody battle earlier.

(End of chapter)