After all, the bed crossbow is extremely lethal, and it often happens that it hits two or three times in a row. As long as it is aimed correctly, even if someone is blocking it, it can kill with one hit.
The lethality of bows and arrows is limited. If you want to make a string of two or three, you have to let the archery gods who can shoot a thousand-jin bow, such as Yang Kan or Yang Youji, who really existed in history, be unable to do it.
of.
Therefore, for ordinary people, when defending a city, the crossbow is far more effective than a bow and arrow.
"Is everything ready?"
Li Yuanji followed Li Shimin to inspect the defenses on the city wall. When he walked to the city gate building, he happened to see the steward of Xiangyi Racecourse waiting in front of the city gate building. He immediately asked a question without hesitation.
The steward bowed and said calmly: "Everything is ready. Your Highness can inspect it at will!"
Li Yuanji nodded.
He had already checked what needed to be checked, everything was prepared properly, and there were no omissions, so he knew that the person in charge was not telling lies, and there was no need to check again.
"You seem confident and not nervous at all?"
Li Yuanji stared at the steward and smiled.
The manager grinned, "There's nothing to be nervous about, it's just six thousand cowards..."
When Li Yuanji heard this, he laughed and said: "Oh, what a loud tone!"
The steward hurriedly said with a smile: "It's not that I'm arrogant, but I've seen bigger scenes. When I accompanied my family A Lang in Shizhou, Jieli led tens of thousands of troops southward and filled up the entire outside of Shizhou City.
When it was full, the servants were not afraid at that time, so how can they be afraid at this time?"
The reason why the person in charge calls himself a servant, rather than a villain or a minister, is because he is a subordinate of Li Shenfu and has entered the Li family. When he meets a direct descendant, he is naturally called a servant.
Li Yuanji nodded and said with a smile: "That's right. People who have seen big scenes will not be intimidated by such small scenes. Then I will leave this place to you. My second brother and I are quietly sitting in the city gate building.
Waiting for your good news."
The steward raised his chest without hesitation and promised: "Don't worry, unless the servant dies, we will never let the thief jump even half a step onto the city wall!"
Li Yuanji nodded, without saying another word, and stepped into the city gate building.
During this period, Li Shimin kept rolling his eyes.
After Li Yuanji found a couch in the small city gate building and sat down, he couldn't help but look at Li Shimin and said, "Do you have an eye disease?"
Li Shimin also found a couch in the city gate building. After searching for a long time but not finding it, he simply sat down on the only low table in the city gate building and said angrily: "Have you forgotten?
Yes, you have given me full authority over this war?"
I finally had a good time to relieve my itch, but my account was banned before I even started to show my talents. No one would look good on me.
Li Yuanji said funny: "It's my fault. I was just talking to Li Lu and forgot about this matter. You think this is good, everything that follows is entirely up to you. I won't say a word."
"
Li Shimin snorted, crossed his arms, and gave an expression of reluctant agreement.
Not long after Li Shimin finished humming, bursts of neighing could be heard outside the city.
Li Shimin stood up slightly first, then sat down again, raising the corner of his mouth sarcastically and saying: "You say Yang Zhengdao is stupid, Yang Zhengdao is really stupid! He can fall into such an obvious trap, how can such a person dare to lead troops?
"
War horses generally neigh only when they are resisting something, or are injured, or are having fun.
And now it is the middle of the night, which is not the time for war horses to have fun.
War horses seldom neigh when they are moving naturally.
Therefore, the bursts of neighing outside the city must be the neighing of Yang Zhengdao's horses after they fell into the horse pit.
Just as Li Shimin said, the trap he designed is indeed obvious, and Yang Zhengdao will definitely find it as long as he sends his scouts to search carefully.
But now that Yang Zhengdao's horses were trapped, it means that Yang Zhengdao most likely took back all his scouts when he arrived ten miles outside Aries City and began to charge towards Aries City.
As a result, it would be difficult for the horses under his command not to fall into it.
From the perspective of Li Shimin's superb military vision, Yang Zhengdao's behavior was undoubtedly stupid, and it was extremely stupid, so he couldn't help but ridicule him.
Li Yuanji was quite able to understand Yang Zhengdao. After all, Yang Zhengdao was not a general with outstanding military ability, and there were no generals like Li Jing, Su Dingfang, and Xue Wanche around him.
If he uses his troops like a counselor, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes and omissions.
If there are no mistakes or omissions, then there will be problems.
Not everyone is Liu Rengui, and not everyone is Xin Qiji.
Picking up the pen can bring peace to the world, and picking up the horse can make peace with the world.
Although Chinese people have liked all-rounders in civil and military affairs since ancient times, and there have been many all-rounders in both civil and military affairs in history, there are not many of them if we really count them.
Even fewer have made great achievements in both civil and military fields.
Although Yang Zhengdao received the top education of this era since he was a child, whether a person can master both civil and military arts and make great achievements in both areas does not just depend on study. It also depends on talent and luck.
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Talent can be inherited, but luck can only be granted by God.
And God seems to only love a very small group of people.
He did not spread His love all over the earth.
Therefore, it is not easy for Yang Zhengdao, a strategist to lead the troops and break through the barriers formed by Li Jing, Su Dingfang and others, and lead 6,000 people here.
Another counselor might not be as good as him.
Of course, the counselors here refer to the counselors of Suni who lost his troops, not the counselors of the Tang Dynasty.
There seemed to be a lot of capable counselors in the Tang Dynasty.
For example, Ren Gui, Changsun Wuji, Xie Shufang, Liu Rengui, Wang Xuance, etc. can all be used.
If they were to lead the army, they would definitely do a better job than Yang Zhengdao.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This also proves that Datang is God's most beloved biological son or direct descendant. God has spread all his love to Datang.
Therefore, Datang is destined to become the only overlord on this land and is destined to shine in the annals of history.
"Your Highness, the thief is here!"
About an hour after the neighing of the war horses disappeared outside the city, the deafening sound of horse hooves resounded outside the city.
Six thousand men, one person and four horses, were indeed very powerful when running.
Not only did the earthquake make people's ears buzz, but it also made the earth tremble.
The city gate building, which was not very strong, was even shaken so much that some earth fell.
As soon as Li Yuanji flicked away the dirt that fell on his sleeves, Li Lu, the steward of the Xiangyi Racecourse Courtyard, rushed to the gate of the city gate building to report.
Li Yuanji nodded and said nothing. Li Shimin stood up at this time and ordered with a stern face: "Order all soldiers to be on guard. Once the enemy enters the range of the bed crossbow, immediately shoot the leader with the bed crossbow!"
When Li Lu faced Li Shimin's order, he did not hesitate like Xue Wanche. He agreed without hesitation and went down to make arrangements.
Although Li Shimin no longer has any official title, he is still a direct descendant of the Li family. He, a retainer of a collateral line of the Li family, is a servant in front of the direct descendants of the Li family, regardless of whether he has an official title or no title, so he can give Li Shimin's orders.
listen.
The reason why he said he could listen was because he also had the right to refuse when faced with certain things.
For example, Li Shimin's order conflicts with Li Yuan's order, or it conflicts with Li Yuanji's order.
Then he doesn't have to listen to Li Shimin.
After all, among the current Li family, Li Yuan is the oldest, followed by Li Yuanji, then Li Chengde, and Li Shimin is at the bottom of all direct lineages.
In terms of status and voice within the Li family, he is not as good as his two legitimate sons.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
"Boom!"
"..."
Not long before Li Lu left the city gate building, the sound of crossbow strings and bowstrings could be heard outside the city gate building.
There was no roaring or shouting, just crossbows and arrows flying around.
After the crossbow and arrows flew for about a few breaths, Li Lu appeared in front of the city gate building again, bringing a piece of news that was ridiculous.
"Your Highness, the thief ordered someone to shoot a letter in. Do you want to read it?"
Li Lu asked in front of the city gate building with a letter with an arrow hole in it.
Li Yuanji nodded but remained silent.
Li Shimin ordered, "Send it up!"
Li Lu handed the letter to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin opened the letter and read it quickly with the help of an oil lamp in the city gate building. He laughed out loud at the content in the letter, "Oh, Yang Zhengdao doesn't have much ability, but his tone is quite good.
He said that he knew that there were not many soldiers and horses left in Aries City. He also said that we were no match for him and asked us to leave the city and surrender. In this way, for the sake of his in-laws, he would not embarrass us and the food would be delicious.
Delicious food is waiting for us.”
Li Yuanji nodded and said with a smile: "The tone is indeed loud and arrogant!"
Li Shimin threw the letter aside like trash, and sneered at Li Lu and said: "Since he wants to play, then I will play with him. You go and ask the soldiers to shout, whoever cuts off Yang Zhengdao's head, no matter what
Whoever they are, they are all given the title of Marquis of the country and granted five hundred households!"
When Li Yuanji heard this, he laughed and said: "You are trying to force Yang Zhengdao's people to rebel against him!"
The people under Yang Zhengdao were all Han Chinese who had been in the Turks for many years and had been enslaved or oppressed by the Turks for many years. Their lives were not satisfactory to begin with, and some of them probably wanted to return to the Central Plains.
They came here with Yang Zhengdao to strive for wealth and change their living environment, not to change the dynasty.
If someone gives more and has more credibility than Yang Zhengdao, then they can also turn their guns against Yang Zhengdao.
Li Shimin snorted coldly: "If he dares to underestimate us, then I dare to show him how vulnerable he is!"