Chapter 4: Mending the Sky (5 times) When I woke up in the morning, it was still dark. The remaining fire in the charcoal basin was hazy, giving the helmet and armor placed beside the bed a light pink halo.
It's very warm, just like the family love in a dream. Li Yuan turned over hard and didn't want to get out of the quilt too quickly. The inspiration that popped up while half asleep and half awake last night is evocative, but it is very difficult to predict whether the reality is as beautiful as a dream.
There were already messy footsteps outside, mixed with people shouting and horses neighing. Vehicles ran over the ice tracks, making hoarse whines. The attack would start after sunrise. Li Yuan suddenly remembered the agreement he had made with the soldiers yesterday. He quickly
He jumped up and reached out to touch the armor. The concubine sleeping next to him quickly rolled out of bed and stood barefoot on the ground to help his master buckle his belt and tidy up his crown. Li Yuan gasped and lowered his head, seeing ten pink toes as red as beans!
The concubine snatched from Jinyang Palace was only seventeen years old. She was a bit clumsy, but innocent and cute. Li Yuan had reached the age where he needed to use the body of a young woman to show off his still strength, so he was usually very accommodating to the concubines and grabbed their money.
Land, grabbing women, he thought of Pei Ji's words again. To a certain extent, what Pei Ji said was not exaggerated at all. It seems that these are the things that men fight for all their lives. They start fighting when they are teenagers until they are six or seventy years old, and they will never do it.
Not satisfied
"I would like to ask Mr. Tang to order your general!" Pei Ji's voice came from outside the tent. It sounded very serious. This is the advantage of this person. He always knows how to respect the superiors in front of everyone. When Li Yuan needs it, he will change at any time.
own appearance
"Blast the drum!" Li Yuan lowered his voice and shouted, then quickly walked out of the tent and took a breath of the crisp north wind, trying to shake off the fatigue. Surrounded by the guards, he held the sword on his waist and strode towards
The outline of the Chinese army emerged little by little in the morning light.
The weather was very cold, but the soldiers were very enthusiastic, especially some veterans who had followed the Li family for many years. Their faces had unprecedented excitement. Everyone's armor and shields seemed to have been wiped overnight, reflecting the coldness.
The flames on the ground were like a long forest tree, which was held high in the hands of the brothers. The three-foot-long tree was so cold that it dazzled people. When they saw Li Yuan walking past them, the brothers all stood in awe, their eyes full of heartfelt expressions.
respect and worship
The other soldiers and horses who joined the Li family on the way were obviously not as high-quality as the Taiyuan veterans. They were running around in one direction and the other. It was as lively as if they were attending a big market. However, they were not carrying egg baskets and baskets in their hands.
Instead of steamed buns and pastries, there were wooden guns and flat knives. Many bandit-born rebels hurried past pushing a cart as high as two people. The cart shed was covered with mud that was frozen hard by the cold wind. The mud was frozen and as cold as steel.
, even if a strong crossbow is fired at it, it usually can only shoot a white mark. This is a very simple siege weapon, but it can effectively help the soldiers resist the attack of bows and arrows.
"Tang Gong!" "Tang Gong!" The bandit soldiers did not understand etiquette and expressed their respect with enthusiastic cheers. Li Yuan clasped his fists in all directions, kind and noble. He was intoxicated by this enthusiasm, like drinking fine wine.
With a bit of drunkenness, Li Yuan summoned all the generals to personally raise the flag and announced that the final attack on Chang'an City was officially launched. Then, amid warm cheers, he mounted his horse and led the Chinese army around Chang'an City.
Due east was the attack point he chose for himself. Li Yuan firmly believed that his skills were not inferior to those of any young man.
When the first ray of sunlight hit the top of the city, the first powerful crossbow roared down. After holding on for more than ten days, the frightened defenders immediately jumped up and stumbled towards the green-brown battlements.
The crenels soon turned red again, the old bloodstains were shot away by the arrows, and the new bloodstains re-covered the surface of the cold city bricks, solidifying and freezing, bright and picturesque in the sun
"Blow the horn!" Li Yuan pulled out the horizontal sword and waved it forward with all his strength. "Woo-wu-wu-wu." The shrill sound of the horn resounded through the distant fields and treetops of the field. The morning mist hovering between the farmland and treetops was immediately frightened away by the sound of the horn.
, big beams of sunlight shot down from the gaps in the clouds, accompanied by feathered arrows flying everywhere, "Woo-woo--woo---woo" under the blue sky, there were constant sounds of horns echoing, like tigers roaring and dragons roaring, like
The wind passed through the wall. Li Yuan felt that all the blood in his body was burning. He shouted angrily and raised his sword forward. However, several personal guards blocked his way very rudely and used their bodies to form an insurmountable barrier.
"There is no need for Mr. Tang to take action himself!" Pei Ji comforted him very considerately, quickly waved the horn flag, and ordered Li Anyuan to lead the army to fight. In the blink of an eye, the sound of the horn was replaced by the shouts of killing. Teams of Taiyuan soldiers pushed ladders and attacked the city.
The car quickly approached the city wall under the cover of archers. The frightened defenders gradually regained their composure and launched a counterattack.
The arrows came and went like the wind, taking countless young lives up and down the city. The ladder walking halfway was instantly "overgrown" with arrow shafts more than three feet long, and the weight increased sharply. The wooden cart installed at the bottom of the ladder made a squeaking whine.
, the center of gravity became increasingly unable to withstand the sudden change. Another powerful crossbow shot, hitting the top crossbar of the ladder in the middle. The huge thing shook and fell with a crash.
Before the defenders could re-erect the ladder that fell apart along the way, thousands of rockets dragged down the city with long tail smoke. Dozens of fireballs simultaneously rose on a ladder and quickly gathered into a ball of flames. The soldiers around the ladder were surrounded by fireballs.
They had to give up and turned around to escape. At the same moment, more ladders and siege engines were set alight, and the thick smoke made people cry. Even with the visibility reaching this point, the whistling sound of arrows was still noisy, and people kept falling.
Someone screamed, rolling and struggling in the smoke
Master Yinshi stood in the city tower, his heart filled with despair. He did not expect that Li Yuan suddenly went crazy overnight and actually attacked Chang'an City from all sides. Referring to the art of war, this tactic of leaving no way out for the defenders would
It greatly stimulated the fighting spirit of the city defenders, but Yin Shishi knew that no matter how high the fighting spirit was, it could not save Chang'an from falling. The Sui Dynasty was over, the city of Chang'an was over, and his glory and wealth were about to come to an end.
If Li Yuan surrounded the Three Gorges, he still had hope to escape to Luoyang under the protection of his personal guards and borrow tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Duan Da to find an opportunity to make a comeback. But Li Yuan clearly did not want to give him a chance to survive, and would not give it to all the guards in the city.
Chance to Survive Before the Li family in Taiyuan raised the flag of rebellion, Yin Shishi, Gu Yi and others led troops to raid the Li family. More than 30 masters and servants who could not escape in time were beheaded in public. They followed closely.
Under the instigation of Li Jing, the magistrate of Yi County, the graves of Li Yuan's father and grandfather were dug up, and the corpses inside were crushed and thrown into ashes.
Therefore, from the moment Liu Hongji's banner appeared outside Chang'an City, Master Yinshi had no intention of surrendering. He knew that Li Yuan would not let him go.
If we explain it by the reasons, the latter act that insults people’s ancestors is an unremitting hatred that can never be resolved.
Thinking of this, Master Yin Shi couldn't help but be filled with resentment towards the person who had given him advice. If it hadn't been for the guy named Li Jing who went all the way to Chang'an to report the matter, the important ministers who stayed in the capital would not have believed that Li Yuan was indeed preparing to rebel, and everyone would not have
Kill other people's wives and children, and still leave room for each other to meet each other. If the man named Li Jing hadn't said that as long as Li Yuan's ancestral tomb was damaged, the blessings of the Li family would be broken, his Yin Shishi would not do it.
Just like doing boring things like digging graves and robbing tombs, after showing enough loyalty to the Sui Dynasty, the Yin family can still surrender in the name of "Li Qu" and the family's glory can still be preserved.
"Where is Li Jing?" He rubbed his smoke-red eyes bitterly and yelled. In this situation, Master Yinshi already understood that he, Wei Wensheng and others had been cheating on Li Jing from the beginning.
The reason why I gave them the idea to dig graves was not to destroy the Li family's feng shui, but to stop all the defenders from surrendering and let them all die for the Sui Dynasty.
Since everyone is going to be buried, Yin Shishi will of course drag Li Jing, the instigator, to his side. On the day after Wei Wensheng's death, he has been ordering Li Jing to follow him and never miss a step. "If I exterminate the clan, I won't let you."
You can fool others while you are still alive!' he thought bitterly, his heart full of resentment.
"Li Jing has been recruited to the West City by Master Gu, and the offensive there is even more intense!" Yang Baobao, the captain of the light carriage, ran to Yin Shishi and loudly reported that according to his duties, this person should have led the internal guards to protect the palace, but now he is not caring
It's incredible, if the outer city is captured by Li Yuan, the palace and the inner city won't be able to support it for long.
"What? Who called him away!" Master Yinshi put his hands next to his ears and asked loudly
"Bone Yi, Lord Bone!" Yang Baobao shouted almost lying on Yin Shishi's ear. The shouts of killing around him became louder and louder. The two of them had to get very close to each other, but doing so made it extremely easy to be
The crossbows under the city were targeted
Sure enough, as soon as he turned his body sideways, an iron-feathered crossbow arrow more than seven feet long whizzed in against the pillars of the city tower, grazed the two people's ears and flew past, forcibly wiping out the Yin Shishi's right face.
A bloody cut
"Protect your lord! Protect your lord!" The soldiers of General Yiwei's Yinshi division pounced on him, throwing the general directly behind the female wall. Following closely, three iron-feathered long crossbows roared towards them, knocking out the two who had no time to dodge.
The soldiers shot through and nailed them to the center of the tower with their body heat.
"Bang!" Sparks flew everywhere, and bricks flew everywhere. The soldier who had a transparent hole in his stomach screamed and tried desperately to cover the hole with his fingers, but he watched his own blood shoot out like a fountain, staining the tower red.
Carved beams covered with auspicious patterns
The carved beams and painted buildings instantly became clear in the eyes of the dying person, then slowly blurred, and finally, hidden behind the boundless darkness, they turned into low Sanskrit chants.
"Hold up your shield, go up to the crenel, hold up your shield and go up to the crenel!" Pushing away the bodyguard who was pressing on him, Master Yinshi shouted crazily. The few feather arrows just now were by no means random shots without targets, they could be shot with such accuracy and speed.
A series of attacks means that the enemy's powerful crossbow has advanced at least fifty steps.
Yin Shishi, who was familiar with his brothers' fighting methods, knew what that meant. This was the last round of crossbow suppression, and then the rebels would attack the city. He knew that he could not defend Chang'an, but he was not willing to bow his head and wait for death. He roared loudly and hid in the tower.
All the brothers who were hiding from arrows rushed to the city wall
On the city wall, the archers who were hiding behind the battlements and fighting against the enemy had already been killed. Most of the remaining people were suppressed by the arrows from below. They were unable to raise their heads after leaning on the battlements. The supporters from the city tower had not yet approached.
, the shield was filled with arrows. Several weak soldiers were pushed back inward by the pressure on the shield. If they were not blocked by the bodies of the robes, they would almost fall off the city wall.
"Put up a shield wall, set up a shield wall, lift up the archers, lift up the archers!" Yin Shishi's voice sounded from behind everyone again, and the cold-hearted soldiers had to squat on the battlements under the pressure of low-level officers.
Finally, he straightened the shield, then used his body to hold up several brigade commanders, who ran crouching behind the shield wall, kicked the surviving archers up with their feet, and forced them to counterattack. The smoke under the city wall was very thick, and it was impossible to fight back.
It's unclear where the enemy is, but as long as the archers fire their bows at the noisiest place, they will surely gain something.
The situation is as judged by Master Yin Shi. The rebels are already very close to the city wall, less than fifty steps away. The trajectory of the crossbow arrow is almost a straight line. In this case, the power of the arrow increases sharply, but it has a negative impact on the people behind the shield.
On the contrary, the chance of harm was greatly reduced. The Sui army soldiers, who were breathing heavily, cheered up and carried the large stones to the edge of the city wall. The enemy was right under their noses. They couldn't see it, but they could feel the sound of breathing getting closer and closer. Finally, almost
A thick wooden stake appeared in front of the defenders. It was the top of the ladder, and it still had traces of smoke and fire.
"Smash!" Someone yelled, and then hundreds of stones fell down the ladder. The screams were almost followed by the sound of the stones hitting the target, which was so shrill that it was unbearable to hear.
Another round of feather arrows, and countless Sui warriors holding stones fell down
Another round of counterattack, the attackers clinging to the ladder fell like ants
Life is as humble as an ant
"ah--!"
"***Ancestor for eight generations!"
Mixed in with the hoarse screams, there were curses ranging from short and fast Hedong accents to deep and soft Guanzhong accents. The two places were very close to each other, and the soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense looked almost the same.
Same black hair, black eyes, yellow skin
Maybe they have the same last name, maybe they are distant relatives
However, at this time today, the people of Hedong and Guanzhong above and below the city must fight to the death.
They are strangers to each other and have no hatred whatsoever
The battle flags above their heads are different. The one under the city is crimson with white. The surname is Li.
The city is as red as blood, and its surname is Yang!
