Li Xu discussed with Yuwen Shiji 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. After blocking all the city gates with sandbags, Yuwen Shiji and Xu Zi arranged
Human hands, carrying sandbags, divided the city wall into several small sections with an interval of five feet. Each section of the city wall was only connected by a gap for a single person to pass. If a certain section of the city wall was lost, the soldiers in the adjacent area could
Quickly use sandbags to block the connection with the lost paragraph.
Li Mengchang led his men to demolish the houses close to the city wall, and Li Anyuan led his men to drive wooden piles into the inner walls. The tactics used by the Goguryeo people to defend Liaodong were all arranged in Liyang City based on the information they heard from hearsay.
The grain reserves were enough to feed the Xiongwu camp for twenty years. They did not believe that the Goguryeo people had withstood the strategy of 600,000 Sui troops and that using it 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 army doctor, applied a lot of medicine to the wounds on his body. Now,
He could no longer feel the 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 much 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; he was very 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 the local rich man who treated people enthusiastically, but had to do things well in Zizhu. In a daze, Xuzi remembered Zhang
Liang was Wu Heita's employer, and Niu Jinda seemed to be on the same team as Zhang Liang. When he was excited, it was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on his head, and his thoughts instantly became particularly clear.
Liu Hongji said that day: Zhang Liang's employer has very big plans, and he is not a bold and courageous person. He may 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 him at that time.
Brother Liu, he followed Zhang Liang instead!" Xu Zi 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, his parents will definitely die of grief. 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
The books he had read and the environment in which he grew up still made him unable to agree with Wu Heitai's choice.
When daybreak was about to break, Xuzi finally fell asleep. Drowsily, 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 horn sound echoed between heaven and earth. Xuzi drew his sword across his chest, with the blade pointing downward and the back of the sword tilted outward. This was a broken weapon taught by the coppersmith master and instructed by General Qian Shixiong.
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 sound of the horn was right next to her ears. Xuzi turned over and sat up, punched her chest, and suppressed the rapid beating of her heart. The enemy was attacking! It was dawn, and the piercing siren sounded.
He was brought back from his dream! Several soldiers rushed into the house and helped Master Lang put on his armor. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Xiu, the captain of the army, rushed in. "A large stock of stocks was found outside the west city wall."
The enemy is carrying a lot of sandbags!" Zhang Xiu reported while helping Li Xu put on his helmet and put on his weapon. "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 orders. Personal soldiers, 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 barrier thirty steps below the city wall.
Green wooden wall. Behind the wooden wall, at least more than 3,000 archers took turns drawing their bows, suppressing the defenders on the city wall unable to raise their heads. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of rebel soldiers carried sandbags and quickly moved towards the root of the city wall. Turn around
In an instant, they used straw bags and sand to pave a passage three feet wide and more than twenty feet long five feet to the right of the west 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. Amidst the thunderous sound of golden drums, a group of soldiers attacked the city.
The Yuliang Avenue gradually took shape. The tail end formed a slope with the ground, and the head end approached 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. But those soldiers seemed to be possessed by evil spirits, ignoring the life and death of their companions. They stepped over pools of blood, stepped over the corpses of their companions, and walked towards
He threw down the sandbags on the weirway, turned around and ran back to the main formation. In the main formation, some soldiers shoveled up the sand with wooden shovels, filled the straw bags, and once again placed the straw bags on the shoulders of the road builders.
"Send an order to Qin Canjun and ask him to pull the reserve soldiers to an empty room outside the west city and have breakfast while waiting for the battle. Order the other city wall brothers to take turns eating and be ready to come to support at any time!" Li Xu looked at the enemy troops for a while.
movements and 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. At the moment, everyone
The armored infantrymen 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 forward, 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 be used by an armored soldier.
Inflicting fatal wounds on the enemy. 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 place 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 deep 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 his luck was extremely bad. The soldiers of the Sui Dynasty had just used this trick outside Liaodong City. The attacking side's strategy and the defensive side's cracking method were clearly seen by the soldiers of the Xiongwu Camp under the Liaodong City.
Chu.
"Let the brothers work harder. After taking Liyang, each person will be divided into three hundred kilograms of rice!" Li Mi, who was famous all over the world when he was young, didn't know that Xu Zi and Yu Wenshi had already thought of a countermeasure. Looking at more and more
As he got closer to the Yuliang Avenue at the head of the city, he shook his feather fan lightly, feeling high-spirited.
It was Li Mi's idea that Yang Xuangan took advantage of the Sui Dynasty to attack the Liao Dynasty with overwhelming force and raised troops to rebel. 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 fulfill his friendship.
Help. But for this moment, in order to add another layer of glory to the family, he has been preparing for a long time.
Over the years, there were few heroes and gangs from all over the world in the Sui Dynasty who had not received his favor. With his extraordinary talent and outstanding reputation in official circles and among the people, Li Mi believed that he should assist the Ming Dynasty to win the world.
It's a matter of communication. It's a pity that Yang Xuangan refuses to fully comply with his own opinions. It's a pity that Wei Zici and others are always trying to block him. It's even more pity that Yuan Wuben is so incompetent that he was defeated by two unknown men.
The boy led thousands of soldiers and horses to kill and annihilate the entire army.
Through scouts and careful investigation, Li Mi had already grasped the details of the Sui generals guarding Liyang City at this time. They were not veteran soldiers of the Sui Dynasty who deserved his serious response, but two reckless men who accidentally captured Liyang.
The name of one of them was familiar to Li Mi. He was Wei Yuwenshiji, the prince-in-law of the Sui Dynasty. In Li Mi's impression, this person had no other advantages except his handsome appearance. The other one had never even been named by him.
He actually dared to lead a few soldiers and horses to confront the 70,000 troops under his command.
Although after yesterday's failed surprise attack on Dongcheng, General Han Shihe and Lieutenant Commander Wu Heitai praised the enemy general's martial arts prowess, but Li Mi did not think it was true. In order to cover up his incompetence, the guy who lost the battle did not
Don't you praise your opponent's ability to the sky? This person is neither a general nor a disciple of a famous teacher. How can he have such a strong ability?
"Li Junshi, Li Junshi?" A low voice called out, waking Li Mi up 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.
, his dry frame was covered with a blue-grey robe, as if he could be blown over by the wind.
"Yang joined the army, what happened?" Li Mi frowned and asked. The person who called him was named Yang. It is said that he had followed Yang Xuangan's father, the late Chu State Duke Yang Suping, to conquer Nanchen and experienced countless battles. But
Li Mi could not see any scheming temperament in his opponent. On the contrary, this person was very short-sighted and always opposed him. When Yang Xuangan started to raise troops, Li Mi proposed three strategies: upper, middle and lower. Among them, the most certain one was to advance northward.
The best plan to travel thousands of miles to attack Zhuojun and starve a million troops to death outside the Great Wall was this man who took the lead in rejecting it.
"Commander Li, look at the top of the city. The enemy general has piled a lot of sandbags on the top of the city, completely dividing the city wall into several sections. If the weirloom road is paved, it will be difficult to expand the victory!" Old Master Yang took a breath and said with a trembling voice
The voice said. 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 giving trembling advice.
"It doesn't matter, I have ordered each group of heavy-armored infantry under General Wu to carry a long rope. As long as they 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 shook his feather fan, smiled and revealed 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. There is a big "Li" character on the general's flag floating at the top of Liyang City. According to the scout's report,
The general who defended the city had a surname of Li, a given name of Xu, and a given name of Zhongjian. Master Yang was 70% certain that the man was his disciple. But he did not dare to say it, as the topic was too cruel. His intuition and understanding of his disciples told him that if
It is really Zhong Jian who defends the city, and 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 regaining Liyang, the Sui officers and soldiers who came from afar would be deprived of supplies.
He dispatched soldiers and horses to block several ferries on the south bank of the Yellow River. With the front road blocked and the rear uneasy, Yu Wenshu could not threaten the back 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 Dongzhu captures Luoyang before Liyang falls again
, the 300,000-strong army will be re-supplied, and they can use hundreds of officials and their families as hostages to intimidate the Holy One 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 smiled.
Explanation: "When Yuliang Avenue connects with the city, all troops and horses will be dispatched at the same time. The number of enemy troops is far inferior to mine, so 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 continuously send people up 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 have come all the way in the city, and the rest are
All of them are remnant soldiers under the command of Yuan Commandery. He leads 20,000 suspicious people with 4,000 exhausted troops, so his 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 good advice from the military advisor!" Master Yang cupped 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. Whether these countermeasures would work or not would only be known in the fight.
The two armies have not yet come into contact, so the outcome 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.
"The Mongolian military advisor asked for information. The seat of Shanggu County is in Yixian County. 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 constantly being shot by stray arrows, and they rolled down the Weirang Road screaming, and their blood dyed the entire passage red. Military Advisor
Li Mi turned a blind eye to this, as if Master Yang's personal experience was 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 from a distance with his feather fan and asked with a smile.
"How is it possible? The oldest students I teach are only eighteen or nineteen years old. The highest official position of their fathers is Hucao, County Lieutenant. They are not well-known. How can they become generals and marquises?" Master Yang answered with a smile while stroking his beard.
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"That's true, when has the imperial court ever reused a child from a poor family?" Li Mi, who knew the rules of the Sui Dynasty officialdom, nodded and said. He no longer randomly contacted the generals on the city and Old Master Yang. The man named Li was said to be from Li Yuan's clan.
Nephew, the children of serious aristocratic families all invited their husbands to their homes. Who would go to the county school to hang out with those sons from lower-class families?!
"The imperial court has made a good start, but it's just a little late!" Master Yang raised his head, his eyes leaped over the soldiers of the army, and fell on Liyang City in the distance. At the top of the city, two large red scrolls rolled up and down like two
A ball of jumping flames.
"Da Sui, Xiong Wu" There are four big characters written on both sides of one of the big flags.
On the other big flag of "Li", the general's surname is highlighted in vivid colors.
"He is my disciple, the successor of my mantle!" Old Master Yang looked at the banners of the Xiongwu camp and thought silently. Unknowingly, tears welled up in his eyes. (To be continued)
