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Although Xie Shufang put on an angry look, Xiao Ling and Xiao Zhong also looked at Xie Shufang with annoyance, and they were ready to do it if they didn't agree. And Li Jing, who was sitting opposite Uncle Xie, still looked light.

"Uncle Xie, you old man gave me such a set as soon as we met, but it was really not kind enough. If I hadn't mentioned a heart, this matter would be really hard to say! Li Jing opened his mouth lightly, and there was still no anger on his face.

"If you are enemies of each other, you should do whatever you can...... Success or failure is destiny, I have nothing to say! Xie Shufang's calm defense, his heels were wrong, and the actions of his body showed that his heart was not as calm as he appeared.

He still wanted to escape.

"Your Excellency, stay here quietly!" He was about to make a move, but he noticed a slender figure "slowly" walking to his side, holding his shoulder with one hand and whispering.

Uncle Xie watched him coming, he wanted to dodge, but his body seemed to be numb, and he couldn't move at all. I can only watch helplessly, feeling the other party's soft-looking but tough suppression.

"Not an opponent!" Xie Shufang felt this, and he could only reluctantly accept his fate.

He was quiet. His quietness made Xiaoling behind him involuntarily breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the suppression formed by Fang Cai's series of actions was a kind of momentum secret method formed by him, Xiao Zhong, and Li Jing. Through this kind of tantric method, he has the momentum of a grandmaster for a short period of time, but this momentum is also a burden to himself.

"Now that the other party has accepted his fate, then he doesn't need to continue to carry such a burden, which is also a good thing for himself." Xiaoling thought.

"Okay, Xiaoling better let him go!" After breathing a sigh of relief, Li Jing's words came from Xiaoling's ears.

"Good!" Xiao Ling nodded and let go of Uncle Xie's shoulder, but he was still roaming around, doing surveillance.

Uncle Xie is sure that if he makes any more moves, then the other party will definitely make a move. He knew that the strength of the other party was far above his own. This means that once the other party makes a move, there will be no room for resistance.

"Let's listen honestly to what the other party says! Judging from Li Jing's performance...... It seems that things are still turning around. Xie Shufang guessed. From Li Jing's move of directly ordering his arrest without giving an order, he slightly guessed some of the other party's calculations. He didn't know whether such a calculation was right or wrong, but no matter how bad it was, it shouldn't be worse than what was in front of him.

"It's a big deal!" Xie Shufang made up his mind, but his mind was determined.

He had nothing left to fear. So, his expression regained his original composure.

At this time, after settling his mind, he heard Li Jing's words: "It's not wrong if you want to say that." But you have forgotten what is the most important thing for your prince to watch out for. His greatest enemy is not us, but his good brother. ”

This is quite a damning statement. For such words, Xie Shufang fully agreed in his heart, but because it involved the dispute over the royal throne, it was not good to show traces in front of others.

So, Xie Shufang was silent.

And his silent appearance, it seems that in Li Jing's eyes, it is a tacit behavior.

"If you don't insist on seizing Wuguan, I think we should be able to achieve some cooperation." Li Jing smiled.

He didn't wait for Xie Shufang to answer, so he ordered someone to bring pen and paper to write a letter and handed it to Xie Shufang: "This is my reply to your Highness." You can see what you said, I really hope ...... The two of us can coexist peacefully. ”

After receiving the reply, Xie Shufang left Wuguan as if in a dream. He didn't think that Li Jing would really let him go. Except for the fact that the final goal of the whole meeting was not achieved, everything seemed to be developing in a good direction.

With doubts and regrets, Xie Shufang returned to Shangluo City. He reported the results of his operation to Li Jiancheng, the long-awaited prince of the Tang Dynasty, and his colleagues.

Although the planned plan was discovered, after all, he also got a reply letter from Li Jing. Nor can it be said that it is fruitless.

It's just that the content of this reply letter made everyone, including Li Jiancheng, involuntarily shut their mouths.

What a good thing it was written in the letter!

The biggest threat to us is indeed the Tiance Mansion, and not the other ......

It's just that, in this case, isn't it a bit ridiculous to have Li Jing's Da Wu put forward?

There are enemies on both sides!

However, they are indeed right.

"Your Highness, you see ......" Wang Qi asked Li Jiancheng cautiously.

He didn't say much, but the meaning of the words was very obvious—should we do what he said?

"I'm still the prince of the Tang Dynasty." Li Jiancheng said this with a straight face, and then gave an order, "The army is ready to send troops to Wuguan tomorrow." ”

"Your Highness...... This! Li Jiancheng's sudden order made everyone under his account suspicious.

"Wuguan, we have to fight a dozen because of today's events!" Li Jiancheng said lightly. This is also an explanation, and soon Wang Qi and Feng Deyi understood that Li Jiancheng's scruples, the spies of Tiance Mansion, are also pervasive.

The boss made a decision, and the officials and generals below immediately began to prepare.

Wuguan is located in the tributary of Danshui, the north of the Wuguan River, Guancheng is built on a relatively flat plateau between the canyons, the north is dependent on the lofty Shaoxi Mountain, and the south is in danger. The circumference of the city is six miles, and the city wall is built with soil, nine zhang high, slightly square. A door was opened in the east and west, and the roll hole was covered with bricks and stones.

On October 13 of the first year of Xingtong, Li Jiancheng, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, descended on Wuguan with 70,000 soldiers.

Li Jiancheng's Chinese army was spread out on a small hill, mainly heavy infantry, and cavalry as the secondary.

The vanguard army consisted of shield soldiers, archers, axemen, and fortifications, and was equipped with the necessary tools for siege, such as alberjacks, ladders, and building carts.

The left and right flank armies each had 5,000 men, and all of them were cavalry.

There were still two units in the rear of the Chinese army, which could be used to defend the rear road and serve as reinforcements.

At this time, the sun rises in the middle of the sky, shining on the earth, reflecting the shimmering brilliance of weapons, adding to the atmosphere of killing.

The drums of war are beating.

More than 150 iron cars with iron plates to block arrows began to move in the direction of Jingling, and more than 10 archers were hidden behind each vehicle, and as long as they reached an appropriate distance, they could shoot arrows from behind the large iron plates that were erected up to two zhang high to the city to cover the attacks of others.

It seems that the iron-plated cars that are only like tombstones are not a joke, and in the course of the war, these stupid and thick black things can bring the best protection to the party.

The carts began to push forward, moving towards them like towers.

The warriors on the stairs can not only cover the entire city within the range of arrows because the height is similar to the wall, but also directly step on the wall and attack the city when it is close to the wall.

The trumpets sounded.

Hundreds of catapults, driven by hundreds of fortifiers, came first, overtook the building trucks, and chased after the arrow-blocking trucks.

Behind the catapults, the fortifiers carrying the ladders and the shieldmen protecting them, as well as a large number of archers, began to move, followed by the wooden chariots that stormed the gates of the walls.

The first wave of suppression was carried out with trebuchets and bed crossbows, and the iron cars were used to escort the building cars, archers, and ladder soldiers to approach the city, and bows and arrows were used to cover the erection of the ladder and the attack of the sword and shield soldiers—this was basically the case in ancient sieges.

Li Jiancheng is no exception at this time.

In fact, he also went one step further and sent the shadow assassin Yang Xuyan to assassinate Li Jing, intending to kill Li Jing at the very beginning, leaving the Guancheng dragons leaderless and completely chaotic.

Although Xie Shufang, who went to Wuguan, told Li Jiancheng that Li Jing was guarded by a master, Li Jiancheng still didn't take this matter to heart: "Master? How tall? Is it a grandmaster? Even if it's a grandmaster, it's useless, but the shadow assassin Yang Xuyan is someone who even a grandmaster can kill for you. ”

With the main battle and the odd combination, Li Jiancheng is still very clear about the basic combat rules.

"The defenders of Wuguan are only a little more than 20,000...... I'd like to see how long you can resist me with these little soldiers. Li Jiancheng thought and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Wuguan did not have a moat, so Li Jiancheng's soldiers and horses drove directly to the city at the beginning.

Looking at the surging Tang army, Li Jing at the head of the city unconsciously frowned: "I thought I could persuade Li Jiancheng to leave, but I didn't want Li Jiancheng to make the most surprising choice." Strange, is Li Jiancheng going to fight me to the end? Why would he do that? ”

"I don't know! However, what I do know is that we must teach Li Tang a lesson and let them know that our Dawu is not something they can abuse at will. The young man standing behind Li Jing said vigorously.

"Well, that's what you say. Xiao Zhong, I'll leave this side to you. Li Jing smiled and gently patted the young man's shoulder.

"Don't worry, I, Kou Zhong, won't let you down." The young man patted his chest and promised: "First Wang Shichong, then you...... Master asked me to be General Zuo, so I had to make a name for General Zuo. Kou Zhong whispered.

He lifted a boulder weighing as much as a hundred catties and shouted at the soldiers on the left and right: "Everyone, don't worry, these people are like this, as long as we are united, we will definitely be able to hold the Wuguan." ”

As he spoke, he let out a loud cry, and with all his strength, threw the boulder at the arrow cart that rushed to the city wall, which was only seventeen zhang from the city wall.

The boulder first raised a foot, then spun sharply and hurried towards the vertical plate of the arrow stopper.

The people outside the city and inside the city stared, but if they could destroy the arrow guard with a stone, no one would believe it.

But Kou Zhong did show amazing divine power and standards.

"Boom!"

The boulder was in the middle of the vertical plate, and the vertical plate was smashed to pieces.

To everyone's surprise, the arrow blocking car did not retreat, but fell to the side, and the "peng" fell sideways, crushing more than a dozen people.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

The defenders of the city burst into an earth-shattering sound.

Kou Zhong knew that the time was ripe, and shouted wildly: "Throw stones and arrows!" ”

In the midst of the shouts, hundreds of boulders bounced up by hundreds of trebuchets and countless powerful arrows rained down on the nearly 10,000 enemies on the wall, which was extremely tragic for a while.

Arrows come and go, and Li Jiancheng's Tang army is not only a weak chicken who is beaten and does not fight back. They advanced against the fierce onslaught of the defenders, returning the favor with the weapons in their hands, and at once dragged the tide of battle into a situation of exchanging lives with each other.

Huge stones and hard iron arrows have left many traces on the walls of Wuguan. Some of the soldiers defending the city were smashed into flesh by boulders, and some were pierced into sugar gourds by iron arrows.

Boulders and iron arrows were hurled at the wall like flying locusts.

The defenders of the city took refuge behind the walls or defensive planks.

In the rumbling sound, the boulder hit the head of the city wall, and the stone chips flew sideways for a while, which was thrilling.

It's hell when it's closed for a while.

And the attack on the gate was fierce, and the attack on the off did not stop. The soldiers of the Tang Army, armed with bows and arrows, did not have the slightest concern for those companions who had already climbed the ladder, and still shot arrows towards the gate to suppress.

And in the face of the countless falling arrows behind him, the Tang soldiers who rushed in front were not timid because of this, they bit their war knives with their mouths, and climbed up the ladder like this.

From time to time, Tang soldiers were either hit by rolling stones, or accidentally injured by arrows behind them, fell from mid-air, and let out screams, but did not make the Tang soldiers behind hesitate.

With the impact of these Tang soldiers who were so desperate, soon, some Tang soldiers rushed to the pass.

Those Tang soldiers were obviously very familiar with the siege procedures, and when they climbed up the women's wall, they took off the war knife that bit their mouths and waved them upwards continuously, and at the same time, they climbed over the women's wall with their arms propped up.

Naturally, the soldiers of the Wu Army would not sit back and watch the soldiers of the Tang Army rush up so easily, and the soldiers of the Great Wu Army, which had been prepared for a long time, began to drop the rolling stones, hot oil and lime bottles, and picked up the swords and guns in their hands to fight with the Tang soldiers.

This time of hard fighting, naturally, everyone did their best to be ruthless.

The sword light and sword shadows, blood spilled, stumps flew wildly, and the fighting on the city suddenly entered an extremely tragic battle.

At that time, the situation was such that the Wu army had the advantage of terrain and weapons, while the Tang army was more powerful.

Under Wuguan, the terrain was narrow, and the Tang army's superiority in strength could not be fully brought into play - the narrow terrain limited the width of the Tang army's frontal expansion, and Li Jiancheng could not only attack Wuguan repeatedly in a rotational manner.

The brutal fighting, the tidal wave lasted from the morning until the sunset, and then ended with the crisp sound of gold.

Broken marks, charred blood stains, the groans of wounded soldiers, the corpses of the war dead. It's just one day's work, and the city is already in shambles.

In terms of casualties, both the Tang army and the Wu army suffered a lot of losses, but no one took them to heart.

It's not that easy, it's a matter of patience.

Although he had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, Li Jiancheng never expected him to win Wuguan in one day. Li Jing on the other side refused to surrender, which made Li Jiancheng clearly understand that if he wanted to take Wuguan, he had to spend more time and more blood to pay tribute.

Today is just the first day, so what's the hurry?

"As long as the casualties do not exceed 30,000 ......," Li Jiancheng muttered secretly, exchanging nearly half of the troop losses for a military pass, he felt that it was still acceptable.