Chapter 602: Bloody Battle at Xiangzhou (Sixth)

"General Cheng, there is movement at the base of the East City Wall!" A soldier reported urgently to Cheng Qianli.

Cheng Qianli was intoxicated by the joy of winning the victory of defeating the nest car. He suddenly heard this sentence and was shocked and ran down the East City.

There was already a circle of people under the base of the East City Wall. Twenty large tanks were buried neatly on the ground. This was used to monitor the movements underground. More than a dozen soldiers were lying on the tank and listening carefully.

"The general is here!"

Everyone dodged away, Cheng Qianli strode forward and asked, "Is there any movement?"

"Report to the general, we just heard the sound of digging and knocking underground, and it is gone now."

"let me!"

Cheng Qianli lay down, his ear against the big tank closed his eyes and listened. Suddenly, he heard the 'dong! Dong!' knocking sound, his eyes lit up, and the soldiers next to him shouted, "Here's coming again! They're starting again."

An experienced soldier made a quick judgment. Judging from the sound of the knock, the other party was only thirty steps away from them at most. Thirty steps, which means that the other party had already descended from the moat.

Cheng Qianli understood that An Lushan must use tunnels to attack the city, but he had no good experience in defending against such tunnels. He pondered for a moment, and the Lord of Dongcheng, Liu Qingyun, stepped forward and offered advice: "General, if the tunnels attack, the army will usually concentrate in the front first, and then rush out to have the lethality of the sudden attack. Therefore, the best way to deal with tunnels is to cut off its back and then smoke it with poisonous smoke."

"good!"

Cheng Qianli nodded, "This task is handed over to you. I have done it, and I have a great reward!"

"Don't worry, General, I will do it."

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At this time, the battlefield had become quiet. An Lushan's army retreated three miles away, which created an opportunity for the Tang army. Liu Qingyun personally led more than 100 people to take a cage car and get off the city wall. They did not participate in collecting arrows, but crossed the moat and ran towards the battlefield. The battlefield was full of collapsed nest cars, flesh-sticked rocks, broken ladders, and corpses all over the ground.

After about a hundred steps, they stopped and began to lie on the ground with a special metal earpiece to look for the tunnel.

"Finished!"

A soldier shouted in a low voice, and the rest gathered together. They listened carefully with their earpieces. Sure enough, they heard a slight running footsteps underground. They slowly climbed forward along the footsteps, climbing out five hundred steps away. The footsteps finally disappeared. In other words, all the soldiers involved in the raid underground ran to the city, and there was no one in their back.

"Do it!"

With Liu Qingyun's order, more than a hundred soldiers took action together and dug down with the tomb-robbing shovel. After a moment, two deep pits were dug out. With a "boom!", the soil collapsed, and a dark cave appeared in front of them, about one meter from the ground. The cave was five feet high and wide, and it was not bottom-out. You could run forward with a cat waist.

The five soldiers jumped down, and for a moment, with only a few muffled groans, the soldiers dragged a Yan soldier. He was very young and was so scared that he was trembling all over, "Give up your life! Give up your life!"

Liu Qingyun grabbed his clothes and said viciously: "To be honest, I won't kill you."

"I said! I said!"

“How many people are there in the tunnel?”

"There are about three thousand people, all of whom are in front of me. I have stomachache and am out of the way."

"good!"

Liu Qingyun knocked him out with a punch, turned around and said, "Go to do it!"

Hundreds of soldiers took action together, filled the entrance of the cave, and pushed a few large stones and pressed them on the landfill tunnel. At this time, a soldier waved his red gauze scarf and reported to the city. The tunnel had also been found in the city, but it had not been dug. After hearing the order, the soldiers waiting here took action together and dug out a corner of the tunnel. The tunnel was already full of soldiers. Suddenly, dozens of soldiers were about to emerge, but were shot to death by the Tang army with arrows.

The fire was lit, and the soldiers threw the poisonous vines such as oleander, kudzu, and ivy that had been prepared into the fire. The smoke rolled and poured into the tunnel. The sound of coughing and screams of fear of death kept coming from the tunnel. Some people kept rushing out of the smoking, and they were shot to death by Tang Jun. Tang Jun simply threw tinder oil on the corpse and burned the corpse together.

The poor three thousand Yan troops underground had no way to escape. After a quarter of an hour, they were all killed in the depths of the ground.

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After receiving the news, An Lushan was furious and pointed at An Shouzhong and ordered: "Put him out and behead him!"

An Shouzhong was so scared that he shouted: "Master, you are guilty of humble duties, but you will not die!"

"Master, this is a mistake in intelligence. Master, the humble position is innocent!"

"stop!"

An Lushan waved his hand and said coldly: "What information is wrong, you said!"

An Shouzhong wiped the sweat from his forehead and knelt down and said, "Master, I read the information and said that the Tang army did not listen in burial, so I thought of using the tunnel to break in. But today's situation, the Tang army obviously listened, why didn't the information and not say it? Master, this is the information wrong!"

One sentence reminded An Lushan. He remembered it. The information seemed to say that Tang Jun was not buried in the ground and listened. What's going on?

"Go! Invite Mr. Gao."

"Is the Grandmaster looking for me?"

A noble voice came from the door of the tent, and he walked in quickly, bowed and said, "I am not good at ease, see the commander!"

"Mr. Gao, your information is wrong! You said that the Tang army had not been buried, but today I lost 3,000 people."

An Lushan's tone was a little bit blamed, and Gao Shang apologized: "Master, the information was four days ago. It was not buried at that time, but it is possible that it would be buried now."

In fact, Gao Shang also felt something was wrong. This time the tunnel siege failed, and the information sent by the spies in the city was obviously wrong. Even if it was not four days ago, the Tang army should have told him in time when they heard it. However, it didn't. This made Gao Shang feel suspicious. When he thought about the delay last time, he felt something was wrong. Has something happened to them?

He had just received an information from the city saying that Cheng Qianli reduced the food ratio for the people. Last night, a civilian robbery incident occurred. Gao Shang could not believe the news. He did not want to tell An Lushan.

However, although he did not believe in the city's intelligence, in front of An Lushan, he could not admit that he had received false information. He explained: "They didn't know that the general wanted to attack with land, and it was reasonable that the general was not in time. I will blame this mistake and ask the general to calm down."

An Lushan respected Gao Shang very much. After hearing his explanation, it was hard to blame him. He had to wave his hand and said, "Let him go!"

An Shouzhong escaped and died, and hurried forward to thank him, "Thank you for not killing him!"

Although An Lushan spared him, he hated him, so he ignored him, sighed and said to Gao Shang: "Sir, the city is strong and difficult to capture for a while, I am so anxious!"

Gao Shang smiled slightly and said, "The first time the general tried to attack the city, he almost succeeded. Why is that?"

An Lushan thought for a moment and said, "That's because I used the nest car. The other party had no solution, but this time they used the Pili car, which invalidated my nest car."

"Yes! The problem is here. I found that Cheng Qianli did not have enough experience in defending the city and lacked emergency response. The Grand Marshal used a nest car to attack the city at first, and it was difficult for him to adapt for a while, so we almost succeeded. This is his biggest weakness and the key to our capture of Xiangzhou City. Does Grand Marshal understand what I mean?"

An Lushan didn't react at once, and An Shouzhong said: "The military advisor means that we should use new siege tools and succeed in one go."

"I know, what do you need to talk too much!"

An Lushan glared at him fiercely, scared An Shouzhong so much that he was silent, lowered his hands and did not dare to speak. An Lushan then said to Gao Shang: "With Mr.'s plan, how should we deal with it?"

Gao Shangyin smiled and said, "I still said the same thing, unexpectedly attack him and unpredictable."

He whispered to An Lushan with his ears, An Lushan nodded, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Just follow the teacher's plan. In any case, you must take Xiangzhou before the Yellow River freezes."

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In the afternoon, the soldiers guarding Nancheng found that the Yan army besieging Nancheng had completely disappeared, leaving only an empty camp, which shocked Cheng Qianli and wondered where An Lushan had drawn his troops?

But before he could think about it, the offensive in the North City started again. This time, An Lushan invested 100,000 troops to attack the city, focusing on the western section of the North City. The offensive was like a tide, and fierce attacks followed one after another. The corpse was crossed and the battle was fierce. The soldiers on the city were suppressed by An Lushan's 30,000 crossbow troops and lost the advantage of crossbows. More than 100 ladders were placed on the city. The Yan army climbed the city like an ants, and the ladders were constantly overturned, but the Yan army continued to attack the city, breaking through the gap, and soon was flooded by the supporting Tang army.

In this siege, An Lushan was determined to let go and refused to withdraw his troops. He fought until late at night. He still fought at night. On the city, corpses were piled up like mountains, blood staining the city. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Yan army had more than 30,000 casualties, and the Tang army had more than 10,000 casualties, and both sides were red-eyed.

Cheng Qianli's voice was hoarse. This was a tragic battle he had never seen in his life. He knew in his heart that it would be time tonight if he could defend Xiangzhou City. He had already made a desperate bet and invested 30,000 troops to fight the Northern City. Only 5,000 people were left in Xicheng and Dongcheng, while the defenders in Nancheng were simply transferred to Beicheng.

The fires surged into the sky above and below the city, and ladders were burned into fire. The Yan army, who were covered in fire, screamed and fell to the city. However, the ladder rushed to the city. The desperate soldiers rushed to the city again. The two sides were exhausted from killing. Many Yan army wanted to retreat, but An Lushan sent three thousand swords and axes to supervise the battle, and all those who retreated were beheaded.

On the wooden platform, An Lushan pressed the hilt of the sword with his hands, and his blood-red eyes stared at the sky-storming fire on the city wall. At this time, the wild nature of the Hu people in his bones was also burning in his blood. He issued a strict order. If he could no longer take Xiangzhou City this time, all the Generals and the Generals of the Central Army were killed!

"Transfer my order, and invest another 30,000 troops to attack the North City, and order Cai Xide's troops to attack the east and west cities!"

It was already an update, and the East City and West City came to report, and both sides found signs of enemy troops siege. Cheng Qianli yelled in a hoarse voice, "Tell them that if they cannot defend the city, the whole city will be destroyed."

The war has entered a fierce attack. The north, east and west cities have launched an attack. An Lushan has invested an unprecedented 200,000 people to attack the city. At this time, the Tang army still has more than 30,000 people, and they have all been involved in a bloody battle. Even 30,000 civilians have joined the battle. That night, Xiangzhou City was at the time of life and death.

During the second update, the Nandaying, which had been silent, suddenly had a strange movement. There were only more than a thousand defenders on the top of the Nancheng. They were alarmed by the loud rumbling sound. They looked into the darkness in horror. They saw a dark behemoth slowly approaching the city wall in the dark night, like a prehistoric monster. It was four feet tall and ten feet long. When it was still a hundred steps away from the city wall, all the soldiers shouted at the same time: "Break the city hammer!"

Yes, this is an incredibly huge broken city hammer. The hammer is a thousand-year-old giant wood, eight zhang long and ten zhang in diameter. It is covered with fine iron at the front end and is conical. The wooden frame that holds this broken city hammer is even more huge. The wood used is thicker than a person's thigh. Dozens of iron chains that are hundreds of feet long are pendant with the hammer body. The chassis below is equipped with eighteen giant wooden wheels that are one person tall.

There are more than a dozen siege rams in An Lushan camp. However, they are all small and almost useless. This behemoth was built by An Lushan for a year. It was the secret weapon he originally planned to attack Chang'an. It just arrived in Xiangzhou this morning.

The entire siege ram weighs tens of thousands of pounds and is controlled by four hundred oxen cows and three thousand soldiers. This is the surprise of the noble. At this time, the south city was empty, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack the city.

The warning beacon at the south city was lit, and the beacon fire illuminated the night sky. Cheng Qianli was a little stunned. He sat down tiredly, and an unprecedented sense of despair poured into his heart.
To be continued...