Sure enough, it was only after midnight in the afternoon, and the rebels were already eager to kill from the big mountain. This time, in addition to kitchen knives and wooden clubs, the soldiers had more than a dozen battering rams made from big trees.
There were dozens of newly built ladders, carried by soldiers in the front row, and they looked menacing.
"Master Li just couldn't calm down. He didn't even peel off the bark of the tree, so he had the nerve to use it as a ladder!" Master Yu Wenji glanced down at the city and commented calmly.
After hearing this, the generals looked into the distance and saw a faint green thing on the edge of the ladder. They immediately pointed and spread the new discovery. The prisoners who had been forcibly enlisted were originally frightened to death, but they saw the generals talking and laughing freely.
, I became a little more courageous. When the enemy approached, I saw the bark on the ladder and the battering ram clearly, and I felt that the opponent's image was funny. Unknowingly, my nervous mood relaxed a lot.
The rebels' siege skills were mediocre. As soon as they approached the city wall, they fired several rounds of upward shots. When they discovered that their brothers' arrow skills had no effect on killing the enemy, the Chinese army's flag changed, and immediately some soldiers carried battering rams and fired.
The ladder rushed towards the city gate and wall. The shooting skills of the defenders were about the same as those of the attackers. They intercepted the arrows several times but failed to stop them. They watched helplessly as the siege equipment came into contact with the city wall.
"Throw the log!" Li Anyuan jumped up and shouted loudly.
The soldiers guarding the city put down their bows, lifted up the rolling logs from behind the battlements, and smashed them down along the ladders. There were wailing sounds from below the city, and the rebels who tried to climb the city and hold up the ladders were knocked down one after another, and the offensive suddenly stalled.
Several veterans of the Xiongwu Camp who had participated in the Liaodong battle took the opportunity to pick up a scratching hook, hooked the end of the ladder, and pulled hard along the direction of the city wall. The ladder with bark on the surface could not hold the city wall, and slipped in the direction of the hook, pulling down the city.
The rebels smashed another large area.
"Release the nails!" Li Anyuan succeeded with one blow and continued to show off his power. The soldiers guarding the city gate released the iron hooks. Three of them were more than five feet long and more than two feet wide. The thick wooden boards covered with iron nails were accompanied by iron hooks.
The chain crashed down with a sound. The enemy soldiers who were hugging the giant tree and the city gate and shouting were caught off guard, and more than a dozen were knocked down by the nail slap. The survivors were not strong enough, and the whole battering ram fell from their hands. It was like a thunderbolt.
, suppressing those who hit the door and knocking them over their feet.
The morale of the rebels was not high to begin with. After receiving a head-on blow, they immediately retreated like a tide. "Don't waste rolling wood, release arrows, release arrows, aim and shoot!" Li An saw that the enemy's momentum was slightly depressed, and immediately changed his strategy.
Under the leadership of the veterans of the Xiongwu Camp, the newly recruited soldiers picked up their bows from the top of the city, leaned out half of their bodies, aimed at the hastily retreating enemy troops, and fired another hail of arrows.
The effect of the shooting this time was much better than before. The hurriedly fleeing enemy troops had neither archers nor shields to cover them, and suffered heavy casualties. "Keep shooting, keep shooting!" Li Anyuan shouted, urging his brothers to catch up.
With arrows, another five or sixty unlucky people were shot to death on the way back from behind.
"Close the nail shot, close the nail shot. Stop shooting arrows, stop shooting arrows!" Li Anyuan ran back and forth at the top of the city, so excited that his voice changed its tone. When attacking Liyang, he led his troops to feint towards Jixian County.
He failed to perform any meritorious service, so today he deliberately grabbed the west gate, which was most vulnerable to enemy attacks, to defend it. Sure enough, the rebels focused all their attention on the west gate. At the end of the first round, less than twenty of his brothers were lost.
The total number of dead and wounded under the city wall was more than three hundred. If he continued like this a few times, there would be dozens of heads recorded on his head. Even if he could no longer be promoted, Ce Xun San
The transfer is also guaranteed.
The enemy troops who had retreated in a hurry were gathered together, and in front of both the enemy and ourselves, the rebel general who had just led the team was executed under military law. After simple threats and mobilization, the rebels, led by a new lieutenant, once again
Move closer to the city wall. First, suppressive shooting with feather arrows, and then a rapid charge. He propped up the ladder on the corpse of his companion, raised the battering ram, and tried to create a miracle at the cost of his life.
Li Anyuan decided not to give the enemy a chance to create miracles. He held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, running back and forth on the city wall, constantly adjusting his tactics according to the actual situation. Rolling wood, pounding stones, nail bats, scratching hooks, Liyang City Headquarters has been equipped with many weapons for many years.
The defensive equipment finally came in handy. The rebels approached one after another, and were smashed to death under the city wall one after another. The corpses quickly piled up into a hill, but the rebels stepped on the corpses of their companions and climbed toward the top of the city like ants.
At the beginning of the battle, the movements of the defenders were still a bit unfamiliar. Gradually, they gained experience in killing people. Under the leadership of the "veterans", the new soldiers smashed down the enemies on the ladders with rolling logs again and again.
Once again, he turned over the ladder hook with a scratching hook, put down the nail pat again and again, stirred the windlass, and pulled up the nail pat with blood and minced meat.
The soldiers on both sides soon began to become numb. The Sui army guarding the city saw their companions rolling and struggling beside them after being hit by arrows. They were no longer afraid and did not bother to save them. The rebels attacking the city watched helplessly as the rolling wooden generals watched.
The row of robes in front of him became disabled, but he turned a blind eye. He held a kitchen knife in his mouth and continued to work hard towards the city head along the ladder.
Finally, someone climbed up to the top of the city and occupied a piece of territory with a kitchen knife. Before he could cheer, more than a dozen spears stabbed him at the same time, lifting him up like a skewer. Immediately afterwards, the still-living body was picked up by the defenders.
Swinging out, flying in mid-air, struggling, and then falling in despair, falling into dust.
A new row of arrows shot up the city wall, wounding four or five spearmen who stood too close to the battlements. The injured man watched in disbelief as his blood spurted out along the arrow shafts, and put down his spear.
He tried to cover the wound with his hands, but he could not cover the wound. He stumbled and ran a few steps on the top of the city. Suddenly, he tripped over the corpse at his feet and fell down the top of the city screaming.
More than a dozen rebel soldiers climbed up. The newly recruited Xiongwu camp soldiers were a little panicked. They stopped throwing logs under the city wall and rushed towards the nearest attacker with their swords. This common sense mistake led to
More enemies swarmed up to the top of the city wall, and the enemy and we began to fight in small groups. Every foothold as big as a palm was stained with blood.
"Don't panic, keep throwing stones, keep throwing stones!" Li Anyuan's eyes were red with anger, and he loudly ordered his old brothers to restrain the soldiers and prevent more rebels from climbing up the city. He himself led his soldiers towards the nearest
A group of enemies rushed forward.
A kitchen knife and the hand holding the knife were thrown away by Li Anyuan. Without hesitation, he kicked the rebels who were holding their broken arms and screaming down the city wall. A sharpened wooden stick stretched out from the side, and Li Anyuan used the back of the knife to knock the rebels down.
He separated the sticks and cut off the neck of the owner of the stick with another knife.
There was an endless stream of enemies, and it seemed that they could not be killed no matter how hard they tried. Just when Li Anyuan felt that his side was about to collapse, his vision suddenly became clear. The last group of enemy soldiers who rushed to the top of the city were forced in by Yu Wenshi and his personal guards.
A blind spot.
The second round of attack lasted only a quarter of an hour, but the generals on both sides felt as if a whole day had passed. Finally, the rebels participating in the attack lost their courage and retreated into the distance in panic. Li Anyuan stretched out his hand and wiped it.
There was sweat on my face, but my hair felt sticky, and I didn't know when it had been splashed with human blood.
The enemy troops under the city began to change their formations again, with flags surging repeatedly and the sound of golden drums continuing. When all the noise gradually subsided, more than two hundred strong men in neat armor used giant shields to protect a man in silver armor and white robes.
The general walked towards Liyang City.
"General Li, General Li!" the rebels shouted loudly, cheering for their general. Accompanied by the cheers, the strong men erected a wooden wall with giant shields one hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall. The silver-armored general came from
He leaned out half of his body from behind the wooden wall, waved his hands first to lower the cheers around him, then clasped his fists and shouted towards the city, "Who is the hero guarding the city? Can you come out and see him?"
"Heroes guarding the city, my general invites you to meet him." The strong men shouted arrogantly, as if they already had a chance to win.
"Show your head if you have the ability, don't be a coward!" Countless rebels shouted loudly, shaking the sky.
"Li Mi, that bastard, if my bed crossbow still works, I'll just wear you and let him fuck you!" Yu Wenshiji scolded angrily. When it comes to quarrels, Xiongwu camp regards him as the best, so he had to start from
He exposed his body at the crenel, clasped his fists and returned a half-salute, and shouted at the moment when the noise around him subsided again: "Brother Dharma Master, you are all right. I haven't seen you for many years, and you look more and more suave! Even Pan An
After rebirth, Song Yu will be reincarnated, and his appearance will probably be inferior to that of his brother!"
The silver-armored general at the bottom of the city was Li Mi. He was not upset when he heard Yuwen Shiji add a spear and a stick. He pushed aside the shield blocking the front, took a few steps forward on horseback, and sincerely advised: "For many years
No, I didn’t expect that my wise and benevolent brother was still so sharp in his words. Wei Wensheng was defeated and executed, and the Eastern Capital was about to fall, so why would my benevolent and wise brother be trapped in Liyang and buried with that faint king?”
His voice was broad and resonant, and even though he was more than a hundred steps away, everyone on the top of the city could still hear him clearly. Some of the soldiers who had just joined the Xiongwu camp did not understand the situation on the battlefield, so they were confused by his words. They raised their heads and looked up.
Xiang Yuwenshiji waited eagerly for his response.
The rebels below the city also consciously stopped shouting. They stared at Yuwen Shiji, waiting to see how he would answer.
"If Brother Dharma Master can capture Luoyang, it won't be too late to tell me! If you feel that there is no hope of attacking the city and your food and grass are at the bottom, why don't you take the initiative to surrender to me now. The two of us brothers will lead the troops to destroy Yang Xuangan, and I will be promoted to an official.
Sir, you can also commit crimes and perform meritorious service. Otherwise, I'm afraid that within three days, hundreds of thousands of my Eastern Expedition troops will gather here. By then, if Brother Dharma Master wants to surrender, he will definitely have no chance!" Yuwen lied and deceived in the mist of Yunshan.
How had Shiji ever found an opponent? He replied with half truth and half lies, which actually made the faces of the soldiers around Li Mi show a bit of panic.
"What a benevolent person says!" Li Mi saw that he was not as good as Yu Wenshi in comparing the situation between ourselves and the enemy, so he immediately turned around to seize the moral high ground, "As Pu Shanggong, I have a family with tens of thousands of gold. As for wealth, I have nothing to ask for.
Now I don't care about destroying my family, but I only want to relieve the world's urgent needs and save the lives of the common people. If I can eradicate the foolish king and save the people from the fire, even if I am shattered into pieces, what can I complain about!"
"I don't know who the foolish king you are talking about is. But I do know that Goguryeo is an outsider. At the critical moment when we were fighting against foreign enemies, someone rebelled in his home and made the thousands of miles of fertile wilderness on both sides of the Yellow River barren." Yu Wenshiji
Pointing to the scorched land outside Liyang City, he shouted loudly: "Brother Dharma Master, you don't know who burned these crops, do you? May I ask Dharma Master, is this to relieve the people from hanging upside down, or is this
Seeking wealth and killing?!"
The Xiongwu Camp had just arrived at Liyang, and the burning of crops outside the city certainly had nothing to do with them. Since ancient times, troops who have rushed into action have rarely had good military discipline. Li Mi couldn't defend this point even if he wanted to. Pointing to the top of the city,
He was about to say that this was just a temporary measure, and that the Duke of Chu and himself would definitely compensate the victims in the future. However, Yu Wenshiji took advantage of his loss of words and added, "By the way, Brother Dharma Master naturally doesn't care.
I heard in Liaodong that Brother Fa Zhu and the Duke of Chu have ceded thousands of miles of fertile fields north of the Yellow River to the Goguryeo people. Burning the crops in the fields at this time is equivalent to burning the Goguryeo people. How can Brother Fa Zhu feel sad?
Woolen cloth!"
Liyang County is on the bank of the Yellow River. At this moment, the soldiers inside and outside the city are mainly common people near the river. After hearing what Yu Wenshi said, which was true and false, everyone immediately became angry. In an instant, people on and off the city were
There was a roar. Li Mi was so angry that his face turned black. He pointed at the city wall and cursed Yu Wenshi and his shameless lie and deceit. However, Yu Wenshi Ji spoke with a sharp tongue and asked in turn: "I lied? Who is it?"
Lying? Do you dare to say that Yang Xuangan failed to contact the Goguryeo people during the uprising? Do you dare to say that Luoyang City has been captured by you and the defenders in the city have lost their fighting spirit? Do you dare to say that your army still has food, enough for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses?
How many months can you eat? Do you dare to say that you can easily take down Li Yang, and I won’t burn down the entire granary?"
"Answer, answer!" Li Anyan was far away beside Yuwen Shiji, hopping and cheering.
"Answer, answer!" On top of the city, the recruits and veterans of the Xiongwu Camp asked in unison.
"You, you!" Li Mi originally wanted to disturb the morale of the troops in the Xiongwu Camp, but he didn't expect that his own morale was disturbed by Yu Wenshiji. He turned around in anger, slapped his horse and left. Yuwen Shiji laughed loudly and faced Li Mi's back.
He continued to shout: "Brother Dharma Master, the emperor has a decree, only to punish the first evildoer, and the association will never ask. You must think clearly!"
"Only punish the chief culprit, and never ask questions about the alliance! Brothers, let's disperse!" Li Anyuan added fuel to the fire. His words were shouted out by the defenders on the city in unison, causing a commotion among the rebels below.
"Young man, quarrel with me!" Yu Wenshiji concluded triumphantly. He turned around and tried to listen to Li Xu's evaluation of his performance just now, but suddenly found that Xu Zi had disappeared.
"Where's General Li? Which one of you has seen it?" Yu Wenshiji asked loudly. Suddenly, he felt that the noise inside and outside the city was a bit mysterious. Not only was the noise of the brothers on the west wall in the wind, but there was also something hidden in the wind.
Murderous intent.
"General Li went down to the city just after the first round of the enemy's attack!" a soldier reported loudly. The rebels' combat effectiveness under the city wall was so poor, it must not be worth General Li's action.
"The west city wall is handed over to you!" Yuwen Shiji pulled Li Anyuan over and shouted loudly. Then, he led his soldiers and quickly ran down the city wall, jumped on his horse, and galloped towards the other side of Liyang City.
The evening sun was a bit hot, and Yu Wenshiji felt sweat rolling down his forehead. No matter how hard he wiped it, it couldn't be wiped off. (To be continued)
