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"Could it be that this time the sky is really going to kill my Li family? After several years of planning and hard work, in exchange for such a result? ”

Li Shimin, who was outside Chang'an City, looked at the tall and majestic city wall in the distance, silent on the surface, and desperate in his heart.

Unlike what the Yin Shishi had expected, the soldiers and horses of Jinyang did not collapse or retreat after three rounds of fire from the Wanjun crossbow, but the offensive continued unabated. At first, the siege troops only carried simple equipment such as flying hooks and ladders, but now as more and more follow-up troops enter the battle, siege equipment such as wall carts, angry cars, nest carts, wooden ox carts, and pointed heads have also been pulled to the front line one after another.

When the world was in turmoil, the princes of the world were indifferent to the fact that they were fighting for the country. In troubled times, human life is as light as mustard, and no one will be stingy. However, the premise of this kind of killing is to target the enemy army or the people who are useless to themselves, otherwise they will not hesitate to fill it with the lives of their subordinates if they believe that the battle is winnable.

If the outcome is uncertain, the princes will not waste their troops. After all, the people are killing fewer and less, and even if they sweep the floor, they can't find the young and strong, and the troops are not easy to replenish. The soldier is the capital of his own life, and once he has no soldiers and horses, it is difficult to save his life.

At that time, the defenders of the city pulled out the Wanjun Divine Crossbow and launched it, and the princes had to collect their troops and retreat, so as not to lose their troops in vain. Besides, most of those soldiers were forcibly recruited or even captured, and they did not have much training. Seeing the power of the Wanjun crossbow, they want to flee, and often after two rounds of crossbow arrows are fired, no one dares to rush up.

However, since ancient times, there must be great governance after the great chaos, and the Great Sui has been mixed with one for decades, and it is not a waste of time, and people's hearts are very different from the beginning. In particular, the vanguard army of the Li family is mainly loyal to the soldiers and horses of the Jinyang headquarters, even if those newly attached soldiers and horses are coerced by the instigation of the soldiers and horses of Jinyang, they can only grit their teeth and move forward. No matter how strong the Wanjun Divine Crossbow is, it will not be like at the beginning, and it will only rely on a few salvos to break up the troops. And the appearance of these siege equipment gave the soldiers enough courage.

The pioneers of the Li family brothers stationed troops under Chang'an City were not blindly empty in the past few days, and their soldiers and generals were mobilized to cut down trees and create various siege equipment. The main general supervised effectively, and the sergeants really worked hard, and countless siege equipment was built. However, due to the skill of the sergeant, most of these instruments are bulky, not easy to carry and move, and they are not strong themselves.

Li Shimin's initial purpose in sending troops was to cooperate with Xu Le, and he paid attention to one fast and three slow. There was no need to bring these bulky utensils, so I only brought a ladder and a hook to kill them. But now that the situation has changed, the city gate has not been opened for a long time, and if you want to attack the city, you must rely on a large number of people to attack, and these equipment have become indispensable and important utensils, and they naturally have to be transported to the front line to help the war.

The soldiers bared their teeth and pushed the vehicles with all their strength, and the generals shouted trumpets and ordered their subordinates to push the heavy wooden carts towards the city little by little. These painstaking efforts to build the equipment will naturally not be useless, in fact, no matter which equipment reaches the designated location, it can affect the city defense. But only if it ...... You have to arrive.

The uneven ground, as well as the weight of the equipment itself, were natural allies for the soldiers defending the city. Even if the Li family soldiers pushed with their dead force, the speed at which these instruments advanced was still slow. After all, the soldier is not a craftsman, and the craftsmanship cannot be compared with the craftsman who will be the prisoner, and the quality of the equipment itself is not good. Besides, it is wartime now, and there are still arrows falling on the head, and no one can concentrate on pushing the cart, so the effect will naturally be discounted.

The besieging side does not have a heavy crossbow like the Wanjun crossbow, but there are also hard crossbows such as the Zhangzhang crossbow and a strong bow. Archers shoot arrows at the head of the city with bows and crossbows, hoping to suppress the defenders. The tall nest carts were also full of soldiers, with bows and crossbows in hand, shooting at the head of the city and killing each other.

These nest cars were originally used for siege cities, and if they encountered a remote town, the height of the nest cars might be higher than the city walls, but the besieging side would shoot condescendingly. After a few rounds of fire, the morale of the defenders can often collapse and flee in embarrassment. It's just that Chang'an City is too high, and it can only barely achieve flat shooting. The defenders relied on the battlements and city walls to cover them, and the casualties were far smaller than those of the besieging side, and they were not to break up.

In particular, these nest carts swayed slowly from side to side, and the soldiers standing on them could not stand steadily, and the power of bows and arrows was greatly weakened. It takes a long time to shoot an arrow, and the arrow is crooked and slanted, and it has no lethality and does not scare people at all.

The situation of other equipment is not much better than that of the nest car, although it takes time and effort to build it carefully, but compared to the cost of building a city and manpower, it is naturally impossible to move out the equipment to work.

Yin Hongde laughed wildly: "The Li family is capable of this? Relying on these playthings, I want to capture our Daxing, I'm afraid it's not a pipe dream! Let's give them some color to see, let them know how good we are! ”

Yin Hongde, who used to be a wise general, was already full of madness in his eyes at this time, and he shouted at his subordinates hoarsely. The reload of the Wanjun Divine Crossbow has not yet been completed, and it cannot be fired again. The soldiers and horses of the Li family were put too close again, and some people had already approached the city head and were about to form a white blade. But the defenders, under Yin Hongde's command, did not collapse in confusion, but fought with an equally morbid euphoria, firing back with bows and arrows, and throwing stones, logs, ash bottles, and other objects into the city. For the Li family soldiers who were about to rush up in front of them, they greeted them with poles, yakshas, and wooden slaps.

From time to time, there was the sound of wood breaking. The ladder that finally reached the head of the city was smashed to pieces, and the besieging soldiers could only let out a desperate wail and fall down the city. The soldiers below had become numb, and even when they saw the robe smashed into meatloaf beside him, they were indifferent, and they still gritted their teeth and rushed towards the city and the city gate.

For both the attacker and the defender, the most critical place is the city gate. Although the soldiers and horses of Jinyang pushed out all kinds of equipment and rushed towards the city wall, they did not relax their attack on the city gate. A team of sturdy soldiers has rushed into the city gate, the general shouted the trumpet, and the soldiers carried the wooden transport, and slammed into the city gate with all their might!

Under the impact of a huge external force, the seemingly impregnable city gate was also trembling slightly, and even the chrysanthemum nails on the door were shaking.

There were exclamations from the defenders of the city gate, and soon the news was reported to the city wall, and someone exclaimed: "General...... Someone has gotten into the hole in the city gate! ”

Yin Hongde didn't look at it, but only ordered: "What are you panicking about? Splash oil! ”

The soldiers defending the city also shouted the trumpet, and overturned a copper tripod that had been roasted on the fire for an unknown period of time, and the boiling oil in the ding had already been poured down like a waterfall, followed by several screams. Immediately after that, a few more lit straw handles were thrown down, and the soldiers thought that it would be safe to hide under the hole in the city gate, but they did not expect that the catastrophe had just begun.

The raging flames quickly engulfed the soldiers' bodies, and they threw down the slamming wood and desperately threw out the fire on them, either rolling or running out. The shouting general screamed and ran towards his own formation, screaming for help as he ran. But before he could take a few steps, he was pierced by a stray arrow from nowhere, and then fell straight down.

The fire was blazing under the city gate, and the soldiers and horses either died in the flames, or were shot by random arrows or trampled to death by robes while fleeing, and they did not survive.

Yin Hongde laughed and said, "Come on! Let's see who else is not afraid of death! What we have is ordnance, so it doesn't matter if we keep it for a year! Let me see how many means the Li family has, and how many lives can be consumed! ”

Since ancient times, attack and defense have been like spears and shields, and they are natural opponents. From the battle between Mozi and Gong to the present, the besieging side can always come up with a few weapons to pose a threat to the city, and similarly, the defending side will also create enough weapons to deal with it. Teaching each other, there is no invincible siege artifact, and there is no impenetrable Xiongguan fortified city. In the final analysis, it still depends on the Lord's ability to adapt to the situation, as well as the right time and place.

The city is big and difficult to defend, compared to those small city fortresses, a huge capital like Chang'an is actually not conducive to defense. The attacker has more than enough options to attack from different locations. As a defender, you can only passively accept the move and play a guessing game with the attacker. Estimate the possible locations of the besieging troops, and then place them in advance.

If you guess wrong, you have to make the soldiers move quickly to avoid being outnumbered and attacked by the enemy. However, this kind of movement itself also has a huge consumption of the soldier's physical strength, and if the soldier who is full of armor and holds a weapon runs back and forth several times in a giant city like Chang'an, he will be tired and paralyzed without fighting.

However, this does not mean that the defenders are naturally in a weak position, on the contrary, in the current siege war, it is always the defenders who enjoy the convenience brought by the geographical advantage. Including the grandson of a generation of martial saints, he also clearly stated in his own book of war: The law of siege is a last resort!

The biggest difficulty in fighting at night lies in the dispatch and command, even the soldiers and horses of Jinyang are subject to the current means of communication, and they cannot be like a finger in the daytime. What's more, the vanguard army that is now attacking the city belongs to Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng respectively. The contradictions between the main generals also affected the soldiers below. In addition to listening to orders to fight, generals should also consider the relationship between the commanders, so as not to spend half a day's effort and end up in vain. There is a knot between each other, and it is impossible to cooperate tacitly, and the night environment magnifies this problem infinitely.

Often, one army rushes forward, but the other fails to reach its assigned position and is unable to provide cooperation to friendly forces. Or they fired a volley of arrows at the head of the city, but instead of hitting a few enemies, they killed and wounded most of their robes in the city. When the front army withdrew, it was blocked by friendly forces again. They collided and trampled on each other, causing unprovoked casualties.

Compared with the Jinyang soldiers, the Chang'an defenders were much better in this regard. As early as during the offensive and defensive battles of Pujin, the Yin World Division transferred all the Jingzhao Yingyang to the Beijing Division and trained them by their own sons and nephews. Although the children of the Yin family are not famous generals, there is no way to let these eagle soldiers turn from weak soldiers to fierce pawns in such a short period of time.

However, after the exercise, purely in terms of cooperation, the tens of thousands of eagle soldiers in the city did not lose to the Jinyang people, especially in the night battle. After all, Li Yuan did not specialize in training for night battles and siege projects, and the Yin Shishi Division had drills on how to defend the city at night, so in tonight's battle, the soldiers and horses of Jinyang lost three points before they went into battle.

In terms of the main generals, the relationship between the sons and nephews of the Yin family is far more harmonious than that of the Li brothers. There is no obstacle to cooperation between subordinates, which is also stronger than the Li family.

The most important point is that Li Shimin did not have many options to attack the city. No matter what, he had to pick Xu Le out, which also determined the location that Jinyang soldiers and horses could choose to attack tonight, only a few city gates and related city walls on this side. As the attacking side, it lost the biggest advantage of flexibility and mobility, and turned into a contest between Jinyang soldiers and horses and the Jingzhao defenders in terms of pure offensive and defensive skills.

Several unfavorable conditions are superimposed, and the outcome of this contest is naturally unknown. Although more and more siege equipment was invested, the situation on the battlefield was still unprogressive. Seeing that the elite soldiers and fierce generals created by the Li family with several years of painstaking efforts fell under Chang'an City in pieces, Li Shimin's heart was like a knife, and he felt that there was no hope of breaking the city, and what he was most worried about was about to happen.

Li Shimin, who had been in the barracks for many years, had no woman's kindness, and in order to achieve victory, he could count thousands of lives as numbers, and would never be moved by their deaths and injuries. But this belief is based on the ability to win, and driving the soldiers to death is not a general's decision, but pure cruelty.

The current Chang'an city wall is such a dead place. Li Shimin understood that even if it was such a clumsy method to attack the city, it would definitely be able to gnaw down the city. But the premise is that there must be sufficient time and troops, and there must be sufficient material support.

The art of war has clouds, and five are attacked. In terms of offensive and defensive calculations, you must have more than five times the number of troops to ensure a complete victory in the siege battle. Even taking into account the difference in combat power between the two armies, it would take at least three times as many soldiers and horses to have any hope of successfully breaking through the city. But now, the troops in his hands are actually less than the defenders, and he attacked the city with a small number of people, and he didn't know how many military taboos he had committed this night, how could he win in one night?

But now it is impossible for him to retreat, Li Jiancheng's personal soldiers have pulled up a dead line, and anyone who retreats from this line will have their heads on the ground. There is nothing wrong with this kind of method of supervising the war on the battlefield, but Li Jiancheng is clearly coming at himself by doing so, and Li Shimin is now on the verge of riding a tiger, and although he can't advance, he can't retreat. No one under Li Jiancheng is brave enough to cut off his own head, but as long as he orders the withdrawal of the army, he will have a reputation of being afraid of death, and all the responsibilities must be borne by himself.

In addition, Li Shimin also had a vague idea in his heart, Li Jiancheng supervised the war with his own soldiers, but he didn't want to let himself withdraw, or he didn't want to return to the barracks. There are thousands of crossbows and ghosts on the city, and they may die at any time on the front line. If he really dies under the stray arrow, will the eldest brother go to a heart disease?

This thought swirled in Li Shimin's heart, he didn't believe that his brothers and sisters would go that far, but this thought was like a stinger, which always made people feel uncomfortable in his heart. No matter what Li Jiancheng thinks, his decision will not change, and he will definitely capture the city and show it to everyone!

However, the development of things was completely different from his thoughts, and the equipment accumulated by the two generations of emperors of the Great Sui and the embankment composed of tens of thousands of lost retreat soldiers seemed unbreakable. No matter how fierce the Jinyang soldiers and horses are beating, it is difficult to do anything about it.

The familiar sound of breaking the air sounded again, and the Wanjun crossbow, which had completed reloading, was once again powerful. In front of such a giant crossbow, all siege equipment became papier-mâché waste. Whether it is a wall car or a gas car, it can be easily shot through, and even the nest car may overturn or break under the arrow.

The soldiers lay in a pool of blood wailing, and beside them lay the chief officer who had long since died. The soldiers and horses of Jinyang fell into a dilemma, with the crossbow arrows of the fortified city in front and the white blades of the warlord in the back. No matter where you rush, the result is a dead end. With the troops and material resources at the disposal of Li Shimin, it is impossible to break the city overnight, but if it is time to wait until dawn, Xu Le and his party will have nothing to hide in the city, and it will be difficult to escape the annihilation of the whole army. Without them in the city, there would be no hope for the siege.

Maybe God is really going to kill the Li family? It's like extinguishing Yang Xuangan back then!

Just when Li Shimin's heart gradually despaired, and he was even ready to personally lead the team to charge and fight for his life. Suddenly, he found that the movement of the defenders at the head of the city had become chaotic, and the coordination between the troops was not as tacit as it had been. This kind of change cannot be discovered by a famous general, but it cannot escape Li Shimin's insight.

In the competition between two first-class fighting generals, a flaw in someone's tricks often means defeat, and the confrontation between the two armies is no exception. But under normal circumstances, all generals will avoid this kind of flaw, and judging from the previous battles, the chief general of the Sui army is not incompetent. Supposedly, such a mistake will not be made. Don't...... Is it really as Bu Li said, is it Le Langjun who has done his best for himself in the city? But with his dozens of people, if he can't take the city gate, what can he do? And by what means did the defenders become like this?

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