|||->->On the other side, Li Yuan has already adjusted his tactics immediately.
He ordered the remaining catapults to be dispersed to the four walls and attack the Chang'an city tower from different angles.
Finally, he drew out the horizontal sword from his waist, pointed at the city head of Chang'an, and shouted loudly: "Send the order, the first to climb the city will be promoted to the third level, and will be rewarded with a thousand acres of land and ten thousand taels of silver!"
"Woo-wu-wu-wu!" The horn sounded continuously. It is said that a brave man must be rewarded with a big reward. Li Yuan's big reward ignited the blood of all the Li family's troops.
Fifteen groups of infantry pushing ladders on each of the four walls suddenly accelerated, bypassing their own shield bearers and archers, and charged straight at the Chang'an city wall.
In an instant, sixty ladders were set up on the top of the city. The pusher quickly opened the mechanism under the carriage and nailed the ladder, box base and city wall firmly together.
Liu Yonggang, the captain of Li Yuan's command, was a well-known brave general in the Li family's army. At this time, he was leading the way, holding a dagger in his mouth, holding a shield with one hand, and using his other hand and feet alternately. He was as agile as an ape, climbing up the city wall.
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Li Shimin's siege equipment, imitated by craftsmen poached from Yancheng, Fanyang County of the Far Eastern Army, attacked Chang'an City from all directions or crashed into the Chang'an City Gate.
However, all of this was directly destroyed with a series of explosions, and the long-range equipment and the attack on the city gate were directly paralyzed.
However, grenades are limited after all and cannot be abused at will, and the number of people who can use grenades is also limited, so the soldiers of the Li family army who climbed the ladder have not used grenades.
"Go up, kill them, and take the gold and silver in the city!" Li Yuan immediately realized that he could only rely on climbing ladders to attack the city. He called a soldier, and the soldier rushed forward on horseback and shouted at the top of his lungs.
This sentence immediately triggered thunderous cheers.
Each ladder was instantly filled with people, and sixty black lines like moving ants moved in on the four walls. Arrows rained down from the walls, constantly shooting down climbers.
The following Li Jiajun warriors immediately filled the vacant position of the fallen one, turning a deaf ear to the arrows and stones that were just around the corner. A basin of boiling water poured down a dozen brothers on the ladder on the far left, and the archers responsible for covering it fell.
Launch a counterattack immediately.
The defenders on the top of the city were hit by arrows, screamed and fell down, and fell to the ground at the same time as the wounded on the ladder. The cold earth opened its arms and accepted them, no matter who was in Guanzhong or who was in Hexi.
The morale of the defenders has dropped sharply in the past few days. Although the appearance of grenades has greatly improved their morale, their overall combat strength is still weaker than that of the Li family's army outside the city.
Therefore, after paying the price of nearly a hundred lives of his subordinates, Li Yuan's fierce general Liu Yonggang led a group of elite soldiers to climb to the top of the city first.
"Kill!" He threw the shield full of arrows in his hand towards the top of the city, knocking down two defenders who were trying to get close to him.
Then, he jumped up with both feet and landed on the city wall like a kite in mid-air.
However, before he could gain a firm footing, two long poles were pushed over immediately, one to the left and the other to the right.
Liu Yong just dodged one of them, and yanked the blade of the other with one arm, risking his arm being cut off, and pushed the blade away from his lower abdomen.
At the moment when the enemy was stunned, he quickly took the horizontal knife from his mouth with his right hand and pushed it flat against the pole. He exerted force on both feet at the same time and ran forward quickly. Four fingers were neatly cut off,
Liu Yonggang stopped suddenly, swung his sword across with one hand, grabbed the pole that was about to fall with the other hand, and quickly twisted his body.
A series of screams followed his movements. Two of the city defenders were hit hard and fell to the bottom of the city by the sweeping pole. The other man covered his broken finger with his hand and jumped in pain. Liu Yonggang quickly wiped his neck.
One stab ended his pain.
"Captain Liu is up, Captain Liu is up!" The Li family soldiers and horses shouted like crazy, jumping up to the top of the city one after another. The well-trained soldiers immediately formed a small formation, with their backs against their own robes, and continued to attack the breach.
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However, at this moment, a group of soldiers with different equipment from other defenders ran over and fired a few volleys of fast crossbows in their hands, killing nearly half of Liu Yonggang's group. Then he also passed a grenade and directly destroyed the pile of people.
The Li family army led by Liu Yonggang, who were together, killed most of them at the top of the city, and the rest were all shot to death by other defenders.
Liu Yonggang was injured by a grenade, and finally used his strong martial arts to fight off the defenders besieging him, and jumped off the city wall in retreat. However, as soon as he landed under the city wall, he was enveloped by a wave of arrows and shot into a hedgehog.
On the other side of the city wall, a wave of elite soldiers organized by Hou Junji also attacked the city. The defenders' attention was quickly attracted by the breach. A large number of defenders ran towards it, shouting.
"The people from Hedong will massacre the city!" Those who were still holding grenades on the top of the city suddenly spread the rumor loudly, which suddenly ignited the hatred and determination in the eyes of the defenders.
"We have stripped the ancestral graves of Li Yuan's family. If he enters the city, no one in our family, old or young, will be able to survive." Yin Shishi's eyes flashed, he shouted loudly, and asked his soldiers to quickly spread his words throughout the surrounding city.
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As soon as the defenders who stayed in Chang'an heard this, they felt that they had no way out and surrender was impossible, so with red eyes and howling, they started a life-and-death fight with the attacking Li family soldiers.
At this time, Hou Junji was in charge of the side leading the attack on the city. It was a master general under his command. He was standing among the soldiers under his command, being pushed by the retreating crowd, and was retreating steadily.
"Hold on, hold on, we can't get down!" he shouted, reminding the brothers that this was a city wall and there was no way out.
But the effect was extremely limited. As soon as the two Paoze who were blocking the outermost area killed their opponents, they were stabbed through by the spears that came straight towards them.
A brigade commander following them swung his sword one after another and killed several enemy soldiers wearing iron armor. However, he was accidentally hugged by the wounded soldier who was lying on the ground waiting for death and could not move. Then he was forcibly killed one after another.
The random blades that came were chopped into pulp.
A group of defenders held torches and rushed to the ladder with boiling oil. They first poured it into their pockets and cooked the meat of the Li soldiers who were trying to climb to the top of the city for reinforcements.
Immediately afterwards, the torch was quickly thrown down, and the red snakes flew on the ladder, turning into a flaming dragon that could not be climbed.
Another group of defenders rushed forward despite the rain of arrows, threw their spears at the climbers, and smashed the upward surging ant formation into two pieces.
Crossbows, spikes, iron rakes and other sharp weapons began to gather near the breach. The Li army that attacked the city suddenly received less and less support and suffered more and more pressure. Their horizontal knives had already broken.
The long spear in his hand was also chopped into two pieces by the enemy with an axe.
A defender came at him with a spear, and the Li Jiajun general held the gun barrel with one hand, and stabbed the opponent's throat with half of the spear in his other hand. The defender screamed and fell down, but refused to let go of the wooden gun with both hands. Li Jiajun
The general tried his best to snatch it back, but as soon as his arm was bent back in front of him, a huge wooden stake was pushed straight into his chest.
"Ah——" I couldn't avoid this name.
The general took a few steps back, vomiting blood. The wooden stake held by more than a dozen defenders hit the front again, knocking away the soldiers who were trying to rescue him.
The second and third wooden stakes roared in, smashing shields and flying swords, knocking down the Li soldiers who rushed to the top of the city like dust. Soon, that section of the city wall was recaptured by the Sui army. This man
The general's head and his flag were picked out of the battlements, dripping with blood.
"Damn Master Yinshi, I will definitely kill your whole family!" Li Yuan was watching the battle from behind the city, holding a telescope that Li Shimin got for him. He had been carrying it, but at this time, his eyes were broken.
Li Yuan roared angrily and organized a manned attack again. If the enemy's reaction had been slower just now, they might have broken through the city. But he saw that the duck he had obtained flew away and caught up with several of his favorite generals.
But Li Yuan thought in a blink of an eye that in the battle for the city head just now, the defenders rarely used gunpowder weapons. If the most critical moment really came, the defenders would definitely use gunpowder weapons.
Thinking of this, Li Yuan's heart sank again.
When grenades are not used, feather arrows once again become the protagonist on the offensive and defensive battlefield.
Above and below the city, human blood gathered in one place, winding like a stream.
As if to prevent everyone from seeing clearly, a gust of morning wind blew past, quickly blowing away the thick smoke that shrouded everyone's heads. The cold sunlight instantly illuminated thousands of corpses and thousands of pairs of eyes that remained silent.
Master Yinshi, who was commanding and organizing the defense, saw that there was hope for defending the city, and the last fear in his heart disappeared. He also became red-eyed. Regardless of the dissuasion of his own soldiers, he personally rushed to the top of the city to block the enemy's attack.
A Taiyuan soldier who was climbing up the ladder had just exposed half of his head when Master Yin Shi cut off the city wall with force. Another city climber tried to attack his knees with a shield, and Master Yin Shi raised his boots.
Remember to kick, and the shield and the shield holder will be kicked into the air.
The third enemy soldier who was not afraid of death appeared at his feet. He held a horizontal knife in his mouth and hooked the battlement with one hand. Yin Shishi raised his knife to chop, but was held up by the attacker behind him with an iron fork.
The blade of the knife. Before he could change his moves, the man holding the knife had already rolled up to the top of the city, clenched his palm into a fist, and hit him directly in the lower part of the body.
Despicable and shameless!
Yin Shishi had no time to dodge, so he had to bend down as hard as he could to relieve half of the force hitting his lower body. Despite this, he was still in pain and could not speak.
As soon as the enemy soldier succeeded in the attack, he immediately took the knife from his mouth and wiped it on Yinshishi's neck. At this moment, a soldier of Yinshishi rushed forward, hugged the brave Li Jiajun soldier, and walked away from the city.
The head jumps down.
"Kill...the person named Li enters the city. No one can survive!" A hoarse voice sounded from behind Master Yinshi, surprising him.
Master Yinshi turned around quickly despite the severe pain, and saw that Huang Wuhan, the staff member who had given him the advice to dig up the Li family's ancestral graves, actually held a knife and led several masters to charge back and forth, showing an unstoppable force.
You should know that this Huang Wuhan has always been a scholar, but now he has become a master.
Master Yinshi smiled bitterly, said nothing, and retreated to the back with the help of his own soldiers.
"Kill, the old thief Li Yuan wants to massacre the city!" Master Yinshi loudly repeated this rumor again and asked his soldiers to shout this sentence loudly.
ps: Today’s third update comes with more than 3,000 words. Today’s update is nearly 12,000 words. I once again wish everyone is immune to all kinds of poison——————