The siege of Zhuyang Pass has lasted for half a month, and after more than half a month of large-scale siege, today's siege has finally stopped.

Under Zhuyang Pass, the corpses were piled up, and the wreckage of the damaged catapults, ladders and nest carts fell to the ground in all directions, although the Sui army paid the price of more than 40,000 slave soldiers, but Zhuyang Pass was still not captured.

The Tang army led by Li Shimin was on the defensive, condescending, occupying a favorable geographical position, and there was no shortage of soldiers, more than 100,000 troops took turns to fight, and they were stunned to withstand the Sui army's fifteen days and nights of continuous attack, but Li Shimin's army also paid a heavy price of more than 30,000 people.

The besiegers suffered more than 40,000 casualties, and the defenders also paid the price of 30,000 people, which made people speechless, but it was a fact, all because the siege equipment of the Sui army was too sharp.

The Tang army's bed crossbows and catapults could not reach the siege equipment phalanx of the Sui army under the city, but the other side smashed stones on the city head day and night. If you leave him alone, the slaves will rush forward desperately, and as soon as you come out, huge arrows will greet the city, and a cross arrow will come up, and a living one will be cut in two, and if the soldiers are a little denser, they can kill several under one arrow.

The 'stones' thrown by the catapult were not stones, but hard ice.

That's right, quarrying is troublesome and slow, and throwing it into the city will be used by the enemy, so Da Sui made an ice bomb, just build a square wooden basin, fill it with water and sharp stones, and add some condiments to it, and an ice bomb will be baked quickly.

Ice, not rare in winter, but in the hot summer is a treasure to cool off, Li Shimin remembers that as the father of the Supreme Emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, he had to use ice to cool off, and he had to ask the concubines to save it, after all, it is not easy to pick ice in winter, and there is not much stock, so no one is willing to use it indiscriminately.

It's still a hot day, how can there be any solid ice? The only possibility is that it was moved from Luoyang.

The Tang army held on for so many days, the rolling wood and stones were almost consumed, and they wanted to use the stones thrown by the Sui army to fight back, but now it's good, in addition to the corpses, the city is a pile of broken ice, because of the continuous smashing up, so that some places have condensed into a frost, not to mention the use of it, as soon as you step on it, you will slip, it is cool, but it is a piece of life. When it hits the city, it will shatter and splash, and the damage range is greater than that of a stone bullet.

Helplessly, Li Shimin only divided his troops into the mountains to cut wood and quarry, although there is no shortage of Funiu Mountain, but it also needs people to carry it, so after half a month, the whole army has not had a good rest for a day.

When he was free, Li Shimin would also rack his brains to think about where the Sui army got so much ice, but no matter who it was, he didn't expect that the Sui army had mastered the method of making ice, but simply thought that the other party was a local tyrant, this is not stupid, but the limitation of vision, people will only follow the laws of nature to guess, and no one has ever thought about such a rebellious thing as producing ice in summer.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

At noon, the siege continued.

As the chief general of the Sui Army in Zhuyang Pass, Xue Wanjun didn't bother to go to see it, because he knew that the Tang Army would never come out.

At the beginning, Li Shimin also sent the army out of the city in an attempt to destroy the siege equipment, but as soon as they came out, they were slaughtered by the Sui army's iron cavalry wandering outside, just because from the day when the whole army was riding, Yang Tong had already popularized the theory of movement warfare, if you can not fight with the enemy in close combat, you will never want the enemy to fight close combat, and use the advantage of cavalry mobility and the range advantage of strong crossbows in the movement to eliminate the enemy outside the range, and the vast majority of the soldiers of the ten major regiments of the Great Sui have participated in the battle of Saiwai, He was very familiar with this set of nomadic tactics, whether Li Shimin sent foot soldiers or cavalry out, he was killed cleanly by this routine, and several times he was killed by the slave soldiers who did not want to die along the Tang army's rout into the city.

At this time, in the large camp of the Sui Army, Xue Wanjun and dozens of generals and colonels were deliberating.

"General, there's no way to fight like this?" Yao Junsu still doesn't agree with Xue Wanjun's tactic of playing with human lives, these slave soldiers are all strong men, it's a pity to die like this, this is the best labor. It is not too late to use them to lose weight and get sick, and then to sacrifice them.

Xue Wanjun said with a smile: "In fact, it is not difficult to break the city, the difficulty is that Li Shimin's troops are too many, and the saint is not in a hurry, I have only been playing with him for so long and fighting for so many days, the purpose is to exhaust the Tang army's sharpness and energy, as long as the Tang army is tired, everything will be easy to do." Now I have at least three ways to deal with Li Shimin. ”

"Three ways?"

"One way is to throw sandbags at catapults, lay out a slanted city, and drive fire horses to attack the city. Then send the daredevils to follow and kill them. ”

As soon as Xue Wanjun's words fell, there was a cheer in the big tent, this method is exactly the same as Yang Tong's attack and shouting, although the method is old-fashioned and easy for people to see through, but Zhuyang Guancheng is not high, and it is not difficult to fill out a slanted city.

Yao Junsu nodded and asked, "What about the general's second method?" ”

"The second option is to go up the mountain."

"Up the mountain?"

Yao Junsu is an orthodox general who has never fought with Yang Tong, and his thinking is a little unable to keep up with these strange young generals, so he asked puzzledly: "What is going up the mountain?" ”

"General Yao, there are mountains on both sides of the Zhuyang Pass, the pass is located between the two mountains, and the mountain is connected as a whole, since we are not attacking the city with cavalry, then the soldiers can also turn into the Zhuyang Pass from the mountain, and kill along the two mountains, the Tang army has cut down trees these days to use as rolling logs, but it has cleared a large area, and even the road is well paved, after our army touches the mountain, you can follow these smooth roads into the city, which is much more effective than our attack from the city."

"As for the third method, it is even simpler, when Li Shimin was crusading against Wang Shichong, all the grain and grass were moved to Hongnong, there were many troops in the city, and the grain and grass in Zhuyang Pass were far from enough, so his logistics were in the inner countryside of Xiyang, and it was transported here along the Xishui, but the inner countryside was too close to here, and it was very difficult to attack his grain road, and according to the news that our scouts fed back, the current grain and grass of the Tang army was replenished by Nanxiang County, it can be seen that the grain and grass in the inner township have been exhausted, and we can let the right servant shoot and send a cavalry, Destroy Li Shimin's logistics powerhouse, once the supply is interrupted, Li Shimin can only roll back to Xiangyang, but at that time, it is not up to him to have the final say. ”

Shi Jin, Yu Zhan, and Gao Yan were amazed when they heard it, Xue Wanjun was actually a few years older than them, but they were already generals and national dukes, first of all, they were not convinced by Xue Wanjun and other generals, everyone felt that if they defected to Dasui a few years earlier, they would have won such an honor, and even did better than them, but when they were still racking their brains for Zhu Yangguan, they already had three methods.

"After our offensive day and night for a period of time, the Tang army is exhausted, and I decided to take a three-pronged approach, not only to recover Zhuyang Pass and the whole county of Xiyang, but also to gnaw this Tang army." Xue Wanjun's eyes flashed with ambition and hatred.

Although he is young, he is one of the veterans of the Great Sui, and after he was put into the command of Yang Tong, he is also a battle-hardened man. Up to now, the victory can no longer make him happy and moved, and only the great victory of destroying the country and the army can make him crazy.

Before coming out, he and many young generals were all bachelors of the Lingyan Pavilion Jingwu Pavilion, as the 'pavilion master' Yang Tong forced them to write a military log every day, when the march log was passed to Yang Tong, he would always review and reply in time, and the deficiencies would be answered, and Yang Tong would find Yang Gongren, Pei Renji, Yang Shanhui, Li Jing, Wei Yunqi and others to solve, and then add their own understanding, and then feedback to the bachelors.

They are the people brought out by Emperor Shengwu of the 'Great Sui Army God', and each of them has undergone the training and guidance of the 'Great Sui Army God', and can be regarded as the students of the 'Great Sui Army God'.

And Yang Tong, the teacher, has never disappointed them, let alone failed, but not long ago, he was held hostage by Li Shimin's rogue methods, causing the Tang army to run out of the encirclement safely; Yang Tong himself was not at ease, after all, he won the entire Hongnong, as well as countless grains and grasses in the Luoshui camp, and swallowed tens of thousands of Tang troops, but the results were a little smaller.

However, Xue Wanjun, a 'student', was nurtured by Yang Tong's series of brilliant victories, he felt that not to annihilate the enemy was a failure, and it was a matter of the dignity of the king and the teacher, so Xue Wanjun vowed to leave Li Shimin and his army in Xiyang, so he had a way to trap the city early in the morning, but he has not used the fundamental reason.

This is also the prestige of the Great Sui army, there is a concept from top to bottom, and if you don't destroy the other party in the war, you will lose......

"General, will the right servant shoot cooperate?" Shi Jin put away the gangsterism on his body and became much more submissive.

"Yes!" Xue Wanjun gave a positive answer, and did not forget Yang Tong's explanation, and taught the little junior brother a lesson by the way: "A big ship needs the full cooperation of people of various professions such as helmsmen, crews, and observers in order to sail to the sea, and the war is also a whole, and it needs to cooperate with each other to win, and this cooperation not only refers to our side, but also includes the right servant, Li Shangshu, and the farther left servant shoots them." Pseudo-Tang is different! Xue Wanjun stared at the direction of Zhu Yangguan for a moment, and sneered, "Pseudo-Tang has always been a headache for headaches and feet for foot pain. After so many years of defeat, we will not fundamentally learn the lessons of failure. Yu Zhan and Gao Yan, tomorrow you will each lead an army, sneak into the two mountains on the left and right, and have a good night's rest, and be sure to hide well; I will build a ramp the day after tomorrow to attract the attention of the enemy, and when you see the beacon fire of the camp, you will kill it down the mountain."

"The Admiral understands." The second general responded excitedly.

Xue Wanjun's eyes fell on Shi Jin, and in the past two days, he begged to see Xue Wanjun, hoping to get a chance to play.

Shi Jin saw that the two good brothers had been taught, but he was the only one who was left to the side, and his heart was quite unpleasant, and suddenly, Xue Wanjun looked at him, his heart was pounding, and a look of extreme anticipation shot out of his eyes.

"Where is General Shi Jin?"

Shi Jin was overjoyed when he heard this, stepped forward, hugged his fists and saluted: "The end will be!" ”

"General Shi, the ramp is paved, first the fire horse siege, then the slave soldiers, and then my Great Sui's siege army, I need someone to lead the siege army, this is a more difficult task, I heard that your martial arts are good, this task will be handed over to you."

Shi Jin was overjoyed, and said energetically: "The last general will take the order!" ”

"In the coming day and night, you don't just have to rest! It is also necessary to get acquainted with the generals of the trap camp so that they can cooperate tacitly in wartime. ”

"Whoa!"

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