Chapter 289: Liyang City Breaks

At the head of the city, the defender of the city will look coldly, and he will look at the place where the commander of the enemy army outside the city is in the distance, but his brows are furrowed.

The enemy's siege of the city was fierce, beyond his expectations, in just one hour, the defenders of the city had already suffered thousands of casualties, and Liyang City was already crumbling!

At this time, a general surnamed Liu rushed over, "Report to the general, the first batch of 3,000 people who assisted in defending the city have arrived!" ”

The general of the city defender was overjoyed when he heard this, and looked up at the general surnamed Liu A hundred steps away, three thousand young and strong people were ascending to the top of the city under the arrangement of the defenders.

The city lord thought for a moment, and then ordered: "Arrange for 1,500 people to assist in the use of trebuchets, and the rest of the people will arrange for all the people to assist in carrying and throwing rolling logs and stones."

"Yes!" The general surnamed Liu replied and ran down quickly to make arrangements.

With the help of 3,000 people, the rolling stones and logs were thrown faster, and the six trebuchets that had been standing at the head of the city began to show their power.

The six trebuchets, like six long-armed beasts, waved their long arms, and suddenly threw the big stones weighing more than 100 catties into the air, and the six big stones swirled in the air, whistling and flying to the Wagang soldiers.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The big stone fell, rolling among the Wagang soldiers, each stone had more than a dozen people smashed, smashed to death, the flesh and blood were blurred, miserable, a terrible scream, one after another, converged, resounded all over the audience.

"Click!" A siege ladder was hit by a big stone, and the siege ladder was suddenly broken several times, and dozens of Wagang soldiers who were climbing on the siege ladder fell down instantly, and they were seriously injured immediately.

The addition of 3,000 young and strong people was able to stabilize the crumbling Liyang City, but Xu Shiji, who was outside the city, frowned and roared, "Drum! ”

Xu Shiji thrust the spear in his hand into the ground, turned over and dismounted, held the drum hammer, and beat the war drum himself.

"Knock knock! Knock knock knock ......"

The huge drum beat, the rhythm changed instantaneously, more intensively, more urgently, one after another, the morale of the Wagang soldiers suddenly soared, and they once again went forward to kill the enemy.

They all know that the second master is watching themselves and beating the drums of war for themselves!

Constantly people fell down with arrows, and people were constantly hit by boulders, but at this time, the Wagang soldiers were not afraid of life and death, and never retreated.

The Wagang soldiers were like crazy, climbing upward, they held wooden shields in one hand, long knives and spears in the other, etc., and fought fiercely against the defenders of the city.

Overhead, huge trees rolled down, big stones fell down, and there were always several Wagang soldiers who were hit, screaming and falling down the siege ladder, but immediately people rushed up.

"General, look at this offensive, the enemy general is determined to capture Liyang City, it is difficult for us to defend it, let's ask for help from the garrison of Liyang Cang!"

Looking at the offensive of the enemy army under the city, wave after wave, wave after wave, wave after wave, the face of the captain surnamed Wang was a little pale, and he once again put forward a suggestion to the city defender for help.

"I also agree with Captain Wang's suggestion!"

The general surnamed Liu spoke out in agreement, "The enemy generals disregarded the casualties, continuously commanded the army to attack the city fiercely, it seems that they intend to break through the city gate in a short time, in this case, the casualties will increase significantly, and the young and strong people who assist in defending the city will soon be frightened by a large number of casualties, once they have chaos and cowardice, only our thousands of soldiers will not be able to hold on for long!" ”

The city keeper did not speak, and then looked at his henchmen, who wanted to hear their advice.

The staff surnamed Li nodded and sighed: "I misestimated before!" The enemy generals didn't want to besiege the city for reinforcements, but really wanted to capture Liyang City! I'm in favor of asking for help! ”

The city defender general trusted his staff very much, nodded immediately, and immediately arranged for the messengers to go to Liyang Cang to deliver the letter.

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Liyangcang Barracks, Hall of the Chinese Army.

The two teams of the Liyangcang garrison and the reinforcements, a total of more than 30 middle and senior generals, gathered together and were discussing whether to send troops to aid Liyang City.

"I think I can support! Anyway, the Wagang army has been withdrawn, Liyangcang has been safe, and we don't have anything to do to stay here, so it's better to go and support Liyang City, and Liyang City is not far away, only less than thirty miles away, we have the ability, and we are so close, if we don't go to support the brother team, it's really unreasonable! A general surnamed He spoke out and expressed his opinion.

"I think it's better not to support it."

As soon as the words of the general surnamed He fell, a general surnamed Zhang stood up and spoke out against it, "The Wagang army retreated too suddenly a few days ago, it is very likely that it is a fake retreat, it is really tempting the enemy, although they have withdrawn to a hundred miles away two days ago, but no one dares to guarantee that they will not secretly turn back, we still need to be careful." ”

"I agree with General Zhang!"

A general surnamed Wei also stood up, "Two days ago, the Wagang army was withdrawn to a hundred miles away, but two days is enough time for them to turn back again, this time the Yuan Treasure attack on Liyang City is too sudden, too urgent, they are likely to have joined forces with the Wagang rebels." Let's think about it, is this time too coincidental, it just happens to be the time when the Wagang army can turn back, I think this Liyang City is a bait, they want to fish us out of Liyang Cang, we are not the opponent of their 150,000 army outside the city. ”

"I agree with General He! However, I also think we need to be careful not to send too many troops, so we can send cavalry to support. ”

The general who expressed his opinion was surnamed Zhou, and he said with a smile: "The Yuan Treasure rebels only have 23,000 people, and we have 5,000 cavalry, which can completely deal with them. Moreover, we use cavalry support, even if the Wagang army has returned, they can't stop us, we can evacuate at any time! ”

One by one, more than 30 generals expressed their opinions, but none of them could convince the dissidents.

On the main seat, Yuan Min and Liu Changgong, the leaders of the two teams, sat side by side, and the two looked at each other and couldn't help but smile a little bitterly.

In general, the generals who expressed their opinions represented the attitudes of the two teams, and the generals who were in favor of sending troops to support were all Liu Changgong's subordinates, and their previous station was in a prosperous county town, and they often went into the city in style.

And this time, in order to support Liyangcang in time, they have been away from the prosperity for half a month since they sent their troops, and in this half month, they are either marching or fighting, or they are bored in Liyangcang, they have long wanted to go out and be chic.

And they are here to support, even if Liyangcang is breached, it has nothing to do with them, they can still withdraw their troops and leave. Therefore, they don't care much about whether they can hold Liyang Cang.

Yuan Min's generals were not in favor of support, and it was their duty to defend Liyang Cang, so they were also more careful.

At this time, a sentry on duty ran in quickly, "Report, Liyang City has sent a letter soldier for help again!" ”

When Yuan Min and Liu Changgong heard this, their faces changed slightly, and they instantly understood that this was a change in the situation in Liyang City, and it was a bad change, could it be that Liyang City was about to be breached?

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Yuan Min said in a deep voice, "Let him come in!"

"Yes!"

Soon, the letter soldier sent by the lord of Liyang City appeared in the hall, and he hurriedly saluted Yuan Min and Liu Changgong, "Report to the two generals, the rebels are storming Liyang City, if no reinforcements arrive, Liyang City will soon be lost, and my general urgently asks the two generals to send troops to support!" ”

Yuan Min's face suddenly changed, and he was secretly shocked in his heart, 23,000 rebels attacked Liyang City, and it was less than two hours, but Liyang City was already crumbling and needed to urgently ask for help, the combat power of this rebel army was too powerful!

Liu Changgong's face also changed a little, obviously, he also thought of the possibility.

Yuan Min waved his hand to let the soldiers retreat, looked at Liu Changgong, and asked, "What does the general think?"

"It doesn't look like a decoy, the rebels really plan to attack Liyang City!"

Yuan Min was a little silent, he also thought so, and after a while, he asked again: "The general is in favor of sending troops?"

Liu Changgong didn't hesitate and nodded, "I'm in favor of sending cavalry to support!" ”

Yuan Min pondered for a moment, and nodded in agreement, "Are you going, or am I going?" ”

"I'd better go!"

Liu Changgong smiled, "You are the master of this place, or it is better for you to stay!" Moreover, the people who were in favor of sending troops just now were all my generals, so I will take them out for a run! ”

Yuan Min also smiled slightly: "Then there is General Lao!"

Half an hour later, the south gate of Liyang Cang was opened, and a cavalry team of 5,000 people rushed out and rushed towards Liyang City!

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Yuanyang Mountain, located in the southeast of Liyang City, is less than four miles away from the south gate of Liyang City.

Yuanyang Mountain is not high, just a small hill, but the mountain is lush and green, and there are not many tall trees.

Yuanyang Mountain is backed by the big mountain range, facing Liyang City, but it is very open, standing on the mountainside of Yuanyang Mountain, you can see everything outside the south of Liyang City.

At this time, on the mountainside of Yuanyang Mountain, Su Shangzheng was watching the offensive and defensive battle of Liyang City with a team of 300 people, followed by his henchman Wei Zheng, as well as Wei Chigong and other personal generals.

Su Shang arrived in Liyang County two days ago, and in order to take over Liyang Cang this time, he brought a total of 60,000 Allied soldiers, of which 40,000 were newly formed Allied troops from Dongping County, but these 60,000 soldiers were all cavalry.

60,000 cavalry soldiers came all the way by warship, but in order to avoid attracting the attention of the Wagang army, Su Shang led them to land at a remote location more than 60 miles away from Liyang County, and then broke into pieces, divided into more than ten teams, disguised as local rebels, and sneaked all the way to the vicinity of Liyangcang.

Two days ago, they had gathered twenty miles southeast of Liyang City, and then temporarily entered the Great Mountain Range behind Yuanyang Mountain.

Soon after Xu Shiji led the team to Liyang City, Su Shang received a scout letter, Su Shang was a little curious about this famous general in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, he wanted to see Xu Shiji's command ability, and also wanted to see the combat power of the Wagang soldiers, so when Xu Shiji had not yet ordered the army to attack the city, Su Shang took a group of men down to the mountainside of Yuanyang Mountain.

At this time, the battle of the attack and defense of Liyang City was about to come to an end, about a quarter of an hour ago, the Wagang soldiers attacked the city, opened the city gate, Xu Shiji was commanding the army to enter the city, sweeping away the remnants of resistance in the city.

"If you don't move, it's enough, and if you move, it's thunderous!"

Su Shang sighed a little, "From launching an attack to breaking through the city, it only took two and a half hours, this Xu Shiji is really a military wizard!" ”

"As soon as the army arrived, the soldiers launched a strong attack before they rested, I think that he did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of a large number of soldiers in order to break the city and make meritorious contributions, why does the marshal still respect him so much?" Huang Lin asked a little puzzled.

The soldiers and soldiers present, including Wei Chigong and Wei Zheng, all looked at Su Shang, and they were also puzzled and puzzled.

Su Shang looked at everyone, then looked at Wei Chi Gong, and said with a slight smile: "General Wei Chi, if you are asked to lead 40,000 soldiers to attack Liyang City, what will you do?"

Wei Chigong suddenly secretly rejoiced, the marshal is inspecting himself, he has to think about it before answering, if he behaves well, maybe one day he will be released by the marshal, command one side, and become the chief general of the first army, although it is not bad to be a marshal's personal general, but as an eight-foot man, who doesn't want to be able to command an army and command a large army to fight?

Su Shang looked at it with a slight smile, quietly waiting for his answer, and everyone didn't bother him, Wei Chigong thought for a long time, and said: "If there is an internal response, use the internal response, and the internal and external should be combined to break the city." If there is no internal response, then rest first, wait for the right time to attack the city, of course, if there is a time limit for breaking the city, and the army does not have much time to stay and wait, I will also choose to attack immediately. ”

"It's very well considered, and the command is also decent!"

Su Shang smiled slightly and nodded, "If you don't have an internal response, just rest first and wait for the opportunity to attack again, this is a good way." However, this requires you to have the ability to create and grasp the timing, otherwise, it is better to attack immediately! ”

"Why? And ask the marshal to teach! Wei Chi was puzzled and asked very respectfully, and the others were also puzzled and listened attentively.

Su Shang nodded, looked at everyone, and said slowly: "There are two major benefits to attacking immediately. First, it can effectively reduce the resistance of the defenders. Immediately attack the city, although the team has just arrived, has not rested well, but in the same way, the defenders in the city are not ready, if you rest first, and then attack the city, the defenders in the city can also take the opportunity to make various preparations, but also can mobilize a large number of people in the city to assist in defending the city, then the battle of attack and defense will become more intense, and the casualties of the soldiers will be more! ”