The walls on the north and south sides of Liyang City were not attacked by the enemy. Therefore, before those craftsmen with black cloth strips on their arms could do anything, they were alerted by Yu Wenshi and his soldiers at lightning speed.
The performance of Xi Zuo, who was able to take down the rebels lurking on the west wall, was the most bizarre. I don’t know whether it was because Li Mi’s show of weakness and feint attack was too realistic and made them despair of the future, or because they were influenced by Yu Wenshi and deliberately created
Confused by the rumor that Yang Xuangan had ceded all the land north of the Yellow River to the Goguryeo people, the less determined ones among them quietly confessed their identities to Li Anyuan before receiving instructions from the rebels below the city.
After receiving the information, Li Anyuan immediately took action and removed all the people with black cloth on their arms from the city defense team. When Li Mi learned that the surprise attack on Dongcheng failed and wanted to create chaos on the west side of Liyang, he was only answered with a burst of taunting curses.
The tense battle came to a hasty end after the sun set. Han Shihe and the exhausted rebel elite disappeared. Li Mi also took his brothers who were in charge of the feint and retreated to Dabi Mountain. As a price for underestimating the strength of the defenders, the rebels abandoned a total of about four thousand people.
Most of the corpses are on the west side of the city. Although the intensity of the fighting on the east side of the city is much higher than that on the west side of the city, the rebels who are responsible for the main attack mission are well-equipped and well-trained, so the chance of escaping unscathed is much higher than in Liyang.
On the east side of the city, Paoze, who is responsible for the feint attack
Although he knew that the possibility of the enemy attacking the city at night was very small, Li Xu still arranged 300 night watchmen on each side of the city wall. "Night attacks require very high training levels for soldiers!" Yuwen Shiji shook his head and sneered.
Li Xu was timid, but when he saw the wounds that Li Xu had just bandaged, he quickly changed his mind: "Some of the rebels are quite good at fighting. Fortunately, they are not many in number, and many of them died today!"
His words caused a burst of laughter among the generals, and at the same time left a shadow in everyone's heart. Not many people could hurt Xu Zi to this extent. At least with the same number of soldiers and horses, all the generals in the Xiongwu Camp
There is no guarantee that such a result can be achieved. If two hundred enemy soldiers who have been trained to this level risk climbing up Liyang City in the middle of the night, everyone has no guarantee that the city gate will not be lost.
"It's best for us to imitate the Goguryeo people and block all four city gates!" Cui Qian, the school captain, suggested in a low voice that this was the Goguryeo people's way of defending Liaodong. He moved it to Liyang, which can be regarded as a practical example of learning and applying it.
Li Xu and Yu Wenshiji discussed it and immediately assigned the task. Life was more important than face, so a fool pretended to be a gentleman in front of the two armies and blocked all the city gates with sandbags. After Yu Wenshiji and Xu Zi arranged manpower,
Carrying sandbags, the city wall was divided into several small sections at intervals of five feet. Each section of the city wall was connected by a gap for only one person to pass through. If a certain section of the city wall failed, the soldiers in the adjacent area could quickly block it with sandbags.
Connection to the lost passage
Li Mengchang led his men to demolish the houses close to the city wall, and Li Anyuan led his men to drive wooden stakes all over the inner walls. The Goguryeo people used the tactics of guarding Liaodong, and everyone arranged the grain storage in Liyang City one by one based on the information they heard from hearsay.
They did not believe that the Goguryeo people had withstood the tactics of 600,000 Sui troops and that using them to deal with the rebels would have no miraculous effect.
Everyone was busy until late at night before taking turns to go back to the county government office to rest. Li Xu was lying on the large wooden bed, feeling tired in waves, but he was tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep. Sun Jin, the doctor who followed the army, applied a lot of medicine to the wounds on his body, and now he felt
There was no pain, but the scenes of the battle during the day were always replayed in front of his eyes, making it impossible for him to turn a blind eye no matter how hard he closed his eyes.
"You actually became a dog officer?" Xuzi heard Wu Heitai asking in his ear. At this time, it was not just Wu Heitai who was swaying in front of his eyes, but also Niu Jinda, a veterinarian who didn't talk much but was very kind; carefree,
Liu Jizhen, who wanted to prove that he was the authentic owner of the grassland, and..., the last thing that came to his mind was his enthusiasm for treating others, but Zhang Liang, a rich man who worked hard in Zizhu, was in a daze, and Xu Zi remembered that Zhang Liang was...
Wu Heita's employer, Niu Jinda, seemed to be on the same team as Zhang Liang. He felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on his head, and his thoughts instantly became extremely clear.
Liu Hongji said that day: Zhang Liang's employer has very big plans, and he is not a man of courage and courage. I am afraid that he will harm others and himself in the future. This sentence should refer to either Li Mi or Yang Xuangan. "If I had not chosen to follow Brother Liu at that time."
, but followed Zhang Liang!" Xuzi thought with great fear, feeling cold all over his body
The Li family has been loyal for generations. If a gangster breaks out in the family, their parents will be heartbroken. Xuzi is still frightened by the scene that day. Personal experience tells him that Wu Heitai, Zhang Liang and others are not treacherous people, but they have read
The books and the environment in which he grew up still made him unable to agree with Wu Heitai's choice.
At dawn, Xuzi finally fell asleep. He dreamed of meeting Wu Heitai again. Both of them had soldiers behind them and rushed towards each other without hesitation.
"Woo--Woo--" The shrill sound of the horn reverberated between heaven and earth. Xuzi drew his sword across his chest, with the blade pointing downwards and the back of the sword tilted outward. This was a broken sword taught by the coppersmith master and pointed out by General Qian Shixiong.
Shi Wu Heitai stabbed Wu Heitai with a fork, Xuzi raised his arm and turned his wrist, knocked open the steel fork with one knife, and then wiped Wu Heitai's neck with the knife
"Woo-wu-wu-wu-wu" the horn kept sounding, and he saw Wu Heitai's blood spurting out from his neck, dyeing the black sky red.
"Woo--Woo-Woo!" The horn sounded right next to his ears. Asahi turned over and sat up, punched his chest, and suppressed the wild beating in his heart. The enemy was attacking. At dawn, the piercing sirens pulled him away.
A few soldiers were pulled back from the dream and rushed into the house. They helped Mr. Lang put on his armor with all their skills. Then, Zhang Xiu, the captain of the soldiers, rushed in. "A large group of enemy troops were found outside the west city wall.
There are a lot of sandbags!" Zhang Xiu reported while helping Li Xu put on his helmet and put on his weapons. "The reserve team has been assembled, and the generals are waiting for your further instructions!"
"Order the generals to each guard the city walls they are responsible for. The reserve team will enter the county office and rest while waiting for the personal troops. Follow me to the enemy tower in the west city to watch the battle!" Li Xu straightened his helmet and ordered without hesitation.
When he rushed to the west city watchtower with his soldiers, the enemy's attack had already begun. Thousands of strong men holding huge shields made of tree branches and wearing nothing on their upper bodies erected a green line thirty steps below the city wall.
Behind the wooden wall, at least more than 3,000 archers took turns drawing their bows. The defenders on the city wall were so pressed that they could not raise their heads. Tens of thousands of rebel soldiers carried sandbags and moved quickly towards the root of the city wall. In an instant, they were
Use straw bags and sand to pave a passage three feet wide and more than twenty feet long five feet to the right of the city gate.
The rebel soldiers who dropped the sandbags took a few steps around and ran into the distance without looking back. A new wave of soldiers came and used sandbags to raise the passage to a higher level. Amid the thunderous sound of golden drums, a siege weapon was launched.
Yuliang Avenue gradually takes shape, the rear end forms a slope with the ground, and the first end approaches the city head little by little.
The archers on the top of the city fought back desperately, and rebel soldiers carrying sandbags were constantly shot down at the bottom of the city. However, those soldiers seemed to be possessed by evil spirits, ignoring the life and death of their comrades, stepping through the pool of blood, stepping over the corpses of their comrades, and heading toward the fish beams.
Throw the sandbags on the road, turn around and run back to the main formation. In the main formation, a soldier shoveled up the sand with a wooden shovel, filled the straw bag, and once again placed the straw bag on the shoulders of the road builder.
"Send an order to Qin Canjun and ask him to pull the reserve soldiers to an empty house outside the west city. While eating and cooking, he is waiting for the battle order. The other brothers on the wall will take turns to eat, and are always ready to come to support!" Li Xu looked at the enemy troops for a while.
movements, whispered orders
This time it won't be a feint. Wu Heitai, who was indistinguishable from him yesterday, is standing 200 steps away with hundreds of armored infantry, waiting for the moment when the Yuliang Avenue reaches the city. Each armored infantry
The soldiers all pulled down the iron nets that covered their faces. The people on the top of the city couldn't see their expressions, but they could feel the murderous intent in the ranks.
"Order Li Anyuan to prepare more spears. When the armored army rushes up, the brothers will fight with spears!" Li Xu thought for a while and issued the second general order. The experience of yesterday's battle showed that it is difficult for a horizontal sword to defeat an enemy wearing iron armor.
The army can cause fatal wounds, but the spear can find the gap between the opponent's two pieces of iron armor or the weakly defended leg to attack.
"Ask Qin Xingshi to transport 200 barrels of rapeseed oil from the granary and put them on the city wall and near the horse path for waiting!" Yu Wenshiji thought for a while and added next to him.
This is a vicious method demonstrated by the Goguryeo people. Li Xu raised his head and looked at Yuwen Shiji, and saw a thick smile in his eyes. Li Mi was smart enough to think of using the advantage of numbers to build Yuliang Road to attack the city. But he
However, his luck was extremely bad. The soldiers of the Sui Dynasty had just used this move outside Liaodong City. The attacking side's strategy and the defensive side's cracking method were clearly seen by the soldiers of Xiongwuying under Liaodong City.
"Let the brothers work harder. After taking Liyang, each person will be given three hundred kilograms of rice!" Li Mi, who was famous all over the world when he was young, didn't know that Xuzi and Yuwen Shiji had already thought of a countermeasure.
Approaching the Yuliang Avenue at the top of the city, he shook his feather fan lightly and was in high spirits.
Yang Xuangan took advantage of the Sui Dynasty to attack the Liao Dynasty with overwhelming force and raised troops to rebel. It was Li Mi's idea. Although Li Mi was not in Liyang when Yang Xuangan raised his troops, and after the opponent's uprising, he pretended that he had to come to help just to fulfill his friendship.
But for this moment, to add another layer of glory to the family, he has been preparing for a long time
Over the years, few heroes from the three mountains and five mountains in the Sui Dynasty, and gangs from all over the world, have not received his favor. With his extraordinary talent, and his outstanding reputation in official circles and among the people, Li Mi believed that assisting the Ming Dynasty to conquer the world should be
It was a pity that Yang Xuangan refused to fully comply with his opinions on matters that were determined by communication. It was a pity that Wei Zici and others were always trying to obstruct him. It was also a pity that Yuan Wuben was so incompetent that he was led by two little-known boys.
Thousands of troops were killed and the entire army was annihilated.
Through scouts and careful investigation, Li Mi has grasped the details of the Sui general guarding Liyang City at this time. He is not a veteran of the Sui army who deserves his serious response, but one of two reckless men who accidentally captured Liyang.
The person's name was familiar to Li Mi. He was the prince-in-law of the Sui Dynasty, Wei Yuwenshi. In Li Mi's impression, this person had no other merits except his handsome appearance. The other person, whose name he had never even heard of, actually dared to lead him.
With a few soldiers and horses, he faced off against the 70,000 troops under his command.
Although after the failed surprise attack on Dongcheng yesterday, General Han Shihe and Lieutenant Zhechong Wu Heitai both praised the enemy general's martial arts, but Li Mi didn't think it was true. The guys who lost the battle were trying to cover up their incompetence.
Praise your opponent's abilities to the sky! This person is neither a general nor a disciple of a famous teacher, so how can he have such strong abilities?
"Li Junshi, Li Junshi?" A low voice called out, awakening Li Mi from his meditation. He turned his head and saw an old and sad face. Because of overwork, this man had lost a few ounces of flesh and was dry.
Baba's frame was covered with a blue-grey robe, as if he could be blown over by the wind.
"Yang Changshi, what's the matter?" Li Mi frowned and asked. The man's surname was Yang. It is said that he once followed Yang Xuangan's father, the late Duke of Chu Yang Suping, to conquer Nanchen. He went through countless battles, but Li Mi
There is no hint of scheming temperament in the other party. On the contrary, this person is very short-sighted and always goes against him. When Yang Xuangan raised his army, Li Mi proposed three strategies: upper, middle and lower. Among them, the most certain one was to march thousands of miles north and attack.
In Zhuojun, this man took the lead in rejecting the plan to starve a million troops to death outside the Great Wall.
"Commander Li, look at the top of the city. The enemy general has piled a lot of sandbags on the top of the city. He has completely divided the city wall into several sections of fish beams and paved them up. I'm afraid it will be difficult to expand the victory!" Old Master Yang took a breath and said in a trembling voice.
He said that he didn't want to remind Li Mi, but he couldn't bear to see the 70,000-strong army with broken wings under the fortified city. He thought about it for a long time before tremblingly admonishing him.
"It doesn't matter. I have ordered each group of heavy-armored infantry under General Wu to carry a long rope and rush to the top of the city. They can use the long rope to tie the battlements and fall into the city, seize the city gate and let the army enter!" Li Mi
Shaking the feather fan, he smiled and told the secret of using troops.
"But the enemy will also hide heavy troops in the city!" Master Yang looked at the enemy tower in the distance and continued to remind Liyang that there was a big "Li" character on the general's flag floating at the top of the city. According to the scout's report, the defender
The city's general's surname was Li, his given name was Xu, and his courtesy name was Zhongjian. Master Yang was 70% certain that the man was his disciple, but he didn't dare to say it. This topic was too cruel. Intuition and his understanding of his disciples told him that if the defender of the city was really
It's Zhong Jian who's fighting, Li Mi may not be able to successfully capture Li Yang
And Liyang had to be taken. The 300,000 troops gathered outside Luoyang City were eagerly waiting for the food and grass here. In addition, after Liyang was recaptured, the Sui officers and soldiers who came from afar would be deprived of supplies. The proprietor would then dispatch troops and horses.
Several ferries on the south bank of the Yellow River were blocked. With the road ahead blocked and the rear uneasy, it was difficult for Yu Wenshu to threaten the rear of the army for a while.
This partial force does not need to drag Yu Wenshu on the north bank of the Yellow River for too long. After everyone regains Liyang, they only need to hold on for half a month to achieve results. To say the least, as long as the young master captures Luoyang before Liyang falls again,
The 300,000-strong army will be re-supplied, and they will be able to use hundreds of officials and their families as hostages to intimidate the Holy Spirit into peace talks.
"It doesn't matter, Yuliang Road is just one of the means of siege. I also ordered people to build more than a hundred ladders and two siege vehicles overnight." Li Mi pointed at the army hidden in the woods behind him with his feather fan and explained with a smile.
"When Yuliang Avenue connects with the city, all troops will be dispatched at the same time. The number of enemy troops is far inferior to mine, and we must not be able to care about each other!"
"Besides, as long as I climb up to the top of the city and gain a firm foothold, I can send people up continuously to remove the obstacles on the top of the city. As far as I know, there are only more than 4,000 Sui officers and soldiers who came from afar in the city. All the rest
They are the remnant soldiers under the command of Yuan County Governor. He has commanded 20,000 suspicious people with 4,000 exhausted troops. The morale will definitely not be too high. As long as we start well, the enemy's troops will definitely be in chaos, and it won't take long for them to collapse!"
"I wish you the best of advice from the military advisor!" Master Yang bowed his hands and stepped aside. There was no need to make any more suggestions. No matter what he reminded him, Li Mi had corresponding countermeasures. As for whether these countermeasures would work, we would not know until a fight broke out between the two armies.
No contact has occurred yet, the result is difficult to predict
"I heard that Master once lived in seclusion in Yixian County?" Master Yang stopped disturbing him, but Li Mi suddenly became interested in his personal experience.
"For inquiries from the Mongolian military advisor, the seat of Shanggu County is in Yixian County, and the young man once studied and lived in the county!" Master Yang thought for a while and replied politely.
The Weirang Road was getting higher and higher, and the defenders' counterattacks became more and more fierce. Brothers carrying sandbags were shot by stray arrows, and they rolled down the Weirang Road screaming. Their blood dyed the entire channel red. Military Advisor Li Mique
Turning a blind eye to this, it seems as if Master Yang’s personal experience is ten thousand times more important than the lives of hundreds of soldiers
"The enemy general opposite is also from Shanggu. I wonder if he has any relationship with Master?" Li Mi pointed at the Liyang City watchtower with a feather fan and asked with a smile.
"How is it possible? The students I teach are aged