Chapter 453: Assault (I)

Want to surrender without a fight?

Li Lingyi chuckled and tore the paper to shreds. Berry narrowed his eyes, "Ivey, you've really been right, Tywin still wants to play a conspiracy." ”

"It's okay, this kind of thing doesn't work. Li Lingyi said confidently, he had long speculated that Tywin would persuade him to surrender, and the old thing must have thought that everyone was afraid of the Lannisters, and that everyone was forced by him to defend the city.

In fact, Li Ling explained to everyone early in the morning that it was a powerful relationship, and everyone had the blood of the Lannister family on their hands, and only three of them ended up. One is to surrender and then to be tortured to death. The second is to die on the battlefield. The third is to defeat the Lannisters, and you don't have to die.

There are three choices, no matter how stupid people are, they know that the first one is the stupidest, and naturally no one will choose. Of course, there are also people who are not very pure in their own purpose mixed in the team, and at this time, they also seize the opportunity to coax.

"I think we're going to come down, right?" a young man muttered to the man next to him, "What the Lannisters want most is Ivy Crane, so why should we die with him?"

As soon as the words came out, several people around suddenly looked at the young man with strange eyes, and one of them sneered in his heart, and asked quietly on his face, "What do you say?"

"What do you think!" the young man suddenly became excited when he saw that someone was interested, "Tywin Lannister's army of tens of thousands is just outside the city, and we won't have to die when the time comes? ”

"If you want me to say, we might as well just come down and open the gates, and the Lannisters will definitely let us go, so that at least we can save our lives. ”

After the young man finished speaking, he found that there was a trace of hostility in the eyes of several people around him, especially the person who took the initiative to ask the question before, laughed, and suddenly knocked the young man to the ground with a punch!

"Catch this Lannister spy!"

Crash!

Several people around him immediately pressed the young man to the ground, and he still struggled to himself, shouting, "I'm not a spy! I'm not!"

"Hmph, Lord Ivey has long drawn our attention, what is it that a person like you is not a spy?" the person who spoke said coldly, "Locked up in a dungeon!"

People were dragged away, and the same happened seven or eight times in just a few minutes. Li Ling thought of this early on, so he selected dozens of people in the army who could be trusted, and then secretly made them the Inspectors. As long as you find someone saying something that shakes the morale of the army, you will immediately be arrested and imprisoned in a dungeon as a spy of the Lannister family!

In fact, were there any spies among the people who were dragged away? Yes. But aren't all spies? Not necessarily.

It's just that Li Lingyi doesn't have time to distinguish now, as long as it shakes the morale of the army, it will be treated as a spy. This is undoubtedly the most efficient way to deal with it in wartime.

At this time, outside the city, Tywin looked at the silent Harrenhal and frowned slightly, obviously, his persuasion did not work, otherwise there should be at least some riots in the city now.

"Your Excellency, the ladder is ready. ”

His generals came to report, Tywin nodded, he looked around Harrenhal, as the largest castle on the mainland, the staggered shape of the ground made the use of the ladder very difficult, much more difficult than ordinary sieges, and it was very easy to be overthrown by the people on the city walls.

However, the small size of the city gate did not allow the army to storm it, and now the huge stone gate was closed, according to Tywin's guess, I am afraid that the city has been reinforced, or something has been placed in it to resist, even if it is a giant crossbow, I am afraid that it will not be able to shoot through, in this case, it can only be forced to attack the city.

In fact, Tywin really wanted Li Lingyi to repeat his old trick, that is, to open the city gate to lure the enemy army in and annihilate him in one fell swoop. Yes, Tywin really wanted to do it again, he had that confidence. He also thought that if he had led the army instead of Jimmy, he might have been able to take Harrenhal with 3,000 men.

Of course, this is impossible to happen, Li Lingyi knows that the opponent is Tywin, and he doesn't want to use any tricks at all. In the face of this strongest military strategist, he planned to follow Sima Yi's example.

I know that I can't defeat you head-on, but I'll shrink back in the city, and although your army is huge, I'm impregnable in Harrenburg. The amount of food that your army has to consume every day is huge, and if it drags on for a long time, the army will be self-defeating.

Therefore, Li Lingyi will never take the initiative to attack, nor will he think of any strategy to defeat Tywin, he will not take risks, he will rely on a procrastination trick.

Tywin naturally understands this, so while scolding Li Lingyi in his heart, he can't help but feel that this son will not get rid of the endless troubles. A seventeen-year-old kid can not only win the championship of the tournament, but also gather a group of people in a short period of time, and if he is allowed to do so, he will definitely pose a huge threat to the Lannisters, so he must be strangled here while he is still in his fledgling.

At this thought, Tywin no longer hesitated, and ordered a strong attack.

The heaven-shattering shouts rang out, and tens of thousands of troops rushed forward in unison, Tywin used a battle formation of a circle, shield soldiers on the outermost periphery, archers in the next circle, soldiers carrying ladders, and spearmen and swordsmen in the back.

There shouldn't be a way to engage in a short period of time, Tywin understands this, and knows that he may lose at least two or three thousand soldiers if he takes it down, but this is also something that cannot be helped.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

One after another ladders were constantly erected on the city wall, and some of them didn't even need Li Lingyi's soldiers to kick them down, and they fell down, because the terrain below was not flat, and the ladders couldn't stand at all.

And finally found a flat one, just set up the ladder, a basin of asphalt or gold juice poured down from above, not splashing people, specifically pouring the ladder. In this way, the ladder became extremely hot, no one dared to touch it at all, and the palm of the hand was directly burned, which led to the first wave of dozens of ladders None of the people successfully climbed the city wall.

Seeing this, Tywin was also angry, and while ordering to continue to strengthen, he let the archers fire a volley to suppress the enemy troops on the city walls. It's just that the rain of arrows passed, but the enemy was almost completely blocked by the big iron shield.

And the only thing that can cause effective damage is the giant crossbow, the iron spear it fires is extremely powerful, the iron shield can't be blocked at all, and it can be pierced by one down, otherwise the giant force will directly knock the people who raise the shield out.

It's just that there is only one giant crossbow, and the damage caused is limited, and the one that falls on the city wall immediately fills in two, and the kung fu of one person who died on the city wall has already killed ten below! The casualty ratio has opened up a huge gap almost from the beginning of the strong attack.

Twenty minutes after the assault, Tywin ordered the attack to stop, and the whole army retreated a little, counting the casualties, which almost made Tywin's sword cut the reporter.