You should know that although Li Guo was Li Zicheng's nephew in a formal sense, in fact, to Li Zicheng, Li Guo was far from being a nephew.
He even trained Li Guo as his future heir.
After all, in these troubled times, if you are not careful, you may die in battle. If there is no heir around you, the power you have worked so hard to build will disappear.
Li Zicheng had no son, so he treated Li Guo as his own son and had worked hard to cultivate him over the years.
In Li Zicheng's view, Li Guo was not only powerful in terms of military force, but his ability to command the army was not inferior to his own, and he even handled the government affairs of the land he occupied.
It can be said that in his eyes, Li Guo was a successor who was capable of both literary and military skills, as well as wisdom and courage.
But now, Li Guo was accidentally injured by a Han general during the battle outside the city. In addition, he lost so many generals at once. Li Zicheng's anger was instantly ignited, so he directly ordered an attack on the city.
It's just that Li Zicheng is Li Zicheng after all.
As a novelist, Li Zicheng almost avoided the shortcomings of history. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to gradually gain control of his power with the support of Gao Yingxiang and develop the Yanzhou Yellow Turban Army to the extent it is today.
Therefore, even if the anger in his heart was burning, he could quickly calm down his restless mood.
If the development of the original history is followed, almost 99% of the soldiers in the Yellow Turban Army were from poor people. They were still somewhat brave and fierce, but when they fought in large groups, they were just a group of hooligans who fought only to be hung up by the Han army.
A portion of the shot.
However, this is only the situation in original history.
In this era, Zhang Jiao's idea of destroying the Han Dynasty with arms and establishing a new system was no longer a year or two ago, especially with the help of the system, there were also top generals in the Yellow Turban Army.
For example, Yun Kuang, Zhang Shide, Zhu Yuanzhang, Xu Da and others.
In addition, there are counselors such as Zhang Bianhe, Feng Yunshan, Su Zhe, and Huang Chao, as well as Yunji, a descendant of a local military strategist.
Take the battlefield in Yuzhou as an example. Li Zicheng had just recently received news that Yunji envoys were out to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao. He proposed a plan to attract more troops and destroyed more than 40,000 Han troops in one battle.
Today, there are only three cities left in the large Yuzhou, which are still in the hands of the Han army. Looking at the Yanzhou battlefield, it is still in a stalemate.
It is precisely because of this that Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were too anxious and accidentally fell into the old man Lu Zhi's plan and fell into the current situation.
Li Zicheng, who was eager to break the situation, wanted to use fighting generals to undermine the morale of the Han army in Wuyan City. But now, not only did he fail to undermine the morale of the Han army, but he also caused certain losses.
Therefore, Li Zicheng decided to use his absolute strength and unleash a thunderous strike to capture the Salt-Free City in front of him.
[Ding dong, Li Zicheng’s skill ‘Chuang King’ is activated;
Chuang Wang: Only those who are called Chuang King have a certain probability of awakening him. The effects of skills held by different people are different;
Effect 1. After this skill is activated, its own force is 5, and its commander is 1;
Effect 2: Fight bravely. When the fighting spirit boils in your heart, your own force value is 3, and according to the strength of the opponent, the force value of all enemies is randomly reduced by 1 to 5 points;
Effect 3: When leading the peasant uprising army to fight, its own commander level is 1 and its own force level is 1. If it is fighting against the official army, the morale of the unit it belongs to can be greatly improved;
Effect 4: When fighting against non-Han foreigners, your own commander will gain an extra 1, and your force will gain an additional 1. When the leader is in desperate situation, the entire army will gain 1 force;]
As expected of King Li Chuang in the novel, the Chuang King skill he awakened is indeed extraordinary. It not only has two points of command increase, but also has a considerable force increase, and a certain degree of suppression effect.
Especially the fourth effect, which allows him to perform exceptionally well in external battles.
Throughout Li Zicheng's glorious life, the only time he fought against foreigners was the battle of Shanhaiguan.
At that time, Dorgon was ordered to lead the Eight Banners Army of Manchu, Mongolian and Han Dynasties with more than 100,000 people, and marched westward from Shengjing (today's Shenyang). It took him eleven days to reach the Liaohe River.
Later, I heard that the Dashun Army led by Li Zicheng had captured the capital on March 19th and that the Ming Dynasty had fallen. So I adopted the suggestion of the Ming surrender general Hong Chengchou and decided to lead the troops through Miyun (now part of Beijing) and Jizhou (today's Ji County in Jin). They moved southward, heading straight towards Beijing, and turned from attacking the Ming Dynasty to competing with Li Zicheng for the dominance of the country.
In this battle, Li Zicheng's Dashun army was unprepared for the Qing army's entry into the Pass to assist in the battle. At the same time, it lacked experience in fighting the Qing army's cavalry. In the end, it was taken advantage of by the Qing army. The elite suffered heavy losses and could not recover.
The Qing army took advantage of the situation to occupy Beijing and gain national power.
In the final analysis, it was Li Zicheng and other leaders of the Dashun Army who fostered the idea of being arrogant and underestimating the enemy amidst the triumphant songs. They lacked a clear-headed estimate of the armed intervention of the Manchu nobles that would inevitably occur with the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
It seems that in their minds, the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty was a matter of the "previous dynasty", and they did not have any enemies with the Qing Dynasty. They could live their lives peacefully without disturbing each other.
It is precisely because of this mentality that the Dashun Army was caught off guard by the Qing army. In addition, Li Zicheng stationed troops in various strategic locations, which further dispersed the troops. At the time of the decisive battle, the Dashun Army did not have as many people. What advantages.
As a result, Li Zicheng was completely defeated in the battle at Shanhaiguan.
However, the reason is that Li Zicheng replaced the Peasant Rebel Army. A very easy problem to suffer from is pride, complacency and arrogance.
At this time, Li Zicheng was still just a small commander in the Yellow Turban Army. He was not yet proud and complacent, so he naturally performed at a normal level.
[Ding dong, Li Zicheng’s skill ‘Chuang King’ activates effect 1, and activates effect 3 one after another. Since he is currently leading the peasant uprising army in battle, his own commander is 2 1, and his own force is 5;
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Zicheng’s basic commander is 95 (1), basic force is 98 (3), ghost head machete 1, green mane horse 1, the current commander has increased to 98, the current
Force increased to 103;】
[Li Zicheng's current basic five dimensions are: Commander: 95(1), Force: 98(3), Intelligence: 86(1), Politics: 93, Charm: 92(2);】
The current Yellow Turban Army, with the participation of many historical figures, is no longer comparable to the Yellow Turbans in original history. Naturally, the siege equipment is not the hand-climbing ladder, but the lifting ladder.
After all, Yun Kuang's grandfather Yun Ji was one of the descendants of the military strategist, and he also inherited some of the military tactics and strategies of the Xiang family of Chu State, as well as the skills of building some siege equipment.
Before Zhang Jue launched an uprising and swept the Han Dynasty, he took advantage of the aristocratic family's desire to treat them as pawns and asked for some craftsmen from the Yuan family and other aristocratic families.
The status of craftsmen at this time was not very high. In order to enhance the strength of Taiping Dao to a certain extent, the Yuan family and other aristocratic families naturally gave some craftsmen to Taiping Dao.
Of course, Zhang Jue would not be satisfied with just these words, especially after he had Su Zhe as a counselor. Under his suggestion, Zhang Jue immediately approached the craftsmen of hundreds of schools of thought.
Su Zhe chose to accept Zhang Jue's invitation. Zhang Jue's personal charm was only one aspect, the most important of which was his heart for the people, which deeply moved Su Zhe.
Su Zhe said this, since the hundreds of families use Taiping Dao as a pawn, Taiping Dao can take the opportunity to expand its own strength and get rid of the constraints of hundreds of families in the future.
To this end, Su Zhe also provided some useful strategies, which made Zhang Jiao amazed and regretted that he had not met Su Zhe earlier and had taken so many wrongful paths.
It was precisely because of Su Zhe's plan that Zhang Jiao had the opportunity to win over those talents from hundreds of scholars who came from poor families and had complaints against the Han Dynasty.
Among these talents, there were many craftsmen. After Zhang Jiao recruited a certain number, he began to build an ordnance depot in a secret place to be responsible for the construction and storage of siege equipment.
It is precisely because of their existence that after the Yellow Turban Army captured the city, they began to govern as usual, stabilizing people's livelihood in various places and bringing fresh blood to the Yellow Turban Army.
Although the Yellow Turban Army had a large number of soldiers and armor equipment could not be popularized, many soldiers still wore single clothes, and at most they wore leather armor, and the armor coverage rate was not high.
But this is only for ordinary soldiers. For their carefully trained Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Jiao is not picky at all. Not only do they wear leather armor, but some elite troops also wear fish scale armor.
Moreover, in order to expand the number of equipment of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Jiao personally went to Bingzhou more than a year ago and met with Wang Yu, the real owner of Bingzhou. He wanted to use the money accumulated by the Yellow Turbans to purchase some horses and equipment.
Wang Yu was speechless at that time.
Before 1989, the Wang family did cooperate with Taiping Dao, selling some weapons and providing funds to support Taiping Dao. However, due to Wang Yu's intervention, the cooperation was terminated.
During this period, Ma Yuanyi, Huang Chao, Deng Mao and others went to Luoyang to spread the teachings of Taiping Tao and found Wang Yu.
In addition to having a lucky mentality and trying to win Wang Yu into Taipingdao, the biggest purpose is to seek cooperation with the Wang family, or Wang Yu to be precise, for resources and horses.
Wang Yu refused at the time.
But now, Zhang Jiao has come in person, and there may be hundreds of arrangements involved, which makes Wang Yu feel unhappy and at the same time consider the pros and cons.
Finally, after some consideration, Wang Yu agreed to sell some war horses and equipment to help the Yellow Turban Army develop its power. However, Wang Yu had a condition, which he did not say. He only said that he would mention it when needed in the future.
But he reassured Zhang Jiao that this condition would not harm the Yellow Turbans. Zhang Jiao agreed in order to get Wang Yu's support, and it would not threaten the Yellow Turbans anyway.
I'm afraid Zhang Jiao would not have thought that Wang Yu would plot against him at this moment. Otherwise, how could Wang Yu agree and lay a big hole for himself.
With the help of Wang Yu's resources, Zhang Jiao immediately asked Yun Ji to train his troops well, so that he could achieve such a brilliant record at the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Not only that, when the Yellow Turban Army attacked the government offices of various states, they also looted a lot of equipment, weapons, bows and arrows, wells, etc. Taking this siege as an example, Li Zicheng was quite well prepared.
There are all kinds of siege weapons such as rams and ladders. Moreover, in order to support Li Zicheng's siege, Gao Yingxiang also matched him with a large number of wells and siege catapults. At this moment, they were being slowed down by Yellow Turban soldiers.
Pushing forward slowly.
"Wuyan City will fall today." Li Guo raised his head and looked at the strong Han Dynasty city in front of him. When he thought of his brothers who had just died in the battle, a strong murderous intention suddenly flashed in his heart, and then he said loudly, "The catapult troops are listening to the order.
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"Here." The Yellow Turban soldier in charge of launching the trebuchet immediately shouted loudly.
"Get ready for the first wave of attack." Li Guo gave the order to attack.
If Li Zicheng was the commander of the entire army, then Li Guo would be the vanguard general responsible for the task of ascending and capturing the city first.
Under Li Guo's order, more than a hundred catapults advanced slowly, and there were 15,000 Yellow Turban soldiers guarding him.
"There are more than a hundred trebuchets, now we are in trouble." Liu Guang looked at the trebuchets under the city wall, his eyes full of fear.
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At the same time, the trebuchets, escorted by the Yellow Turban soldiers, slowly moved forward until they were 300 steps away from Wuyan City, and then they began to throw stone projectiles.
However, in an instant, the Yellow Turban soldiers, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately controlled the trebuchet in their hands and fired towards Wuyan City. Thousands of stone bullets were fired in one shot.
In the public consciousness of later generations, the catapult was invented by Liu Ye, a counselor of Cao's army during the Battle of Guandu.
In fact, this statement can only be said that when watching TV dramas, there are too many romance novels, and the plots of movies, dramas and novels are substituted into history.
Take the trebuchet as an example. It was not invented by Liu Ye at all. Liu Ye just made some improvements to the trebuchet of that era and called it the Thunderbolt Chariot.
In fact, catapults have been used as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The structure of the original catapult was very simple. It was a huge lever, with stones loaded in a leather sheath or wooden basket at the long end, and dozens of ropes tied to the short end.
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When the order is given, dozens of people pull the rope at the same time and use the principle of leverage to throw the rocks violently. In one throw, dozens of kilograms of flying rocks can be shot out at one time.
The quality is different, and it can shoot distances ranging from hundreds of meters. It can be called a cannon that leads the age of weapons.
In this era, the first large-scale use of catapults was during the Warring States Period, when Qin general Li Xin attacked Chu.
And you can't get rid of that one.
After all, he and Qu Yuan were close friends. The fact that May 5th has such a long history in this era is due to his initiative.
Just like the trebuchet, Qu Yuan once obtained a specific parchment in his hand, which contained its construction pattern. However, no one knew why, the Chu State did not use it at that time.
Until the appearance of Xiang Yan, the military god of Chu State and Xiang Yu's grandfather.