The city gate of Anshi City has obviously also been reinforced by Yang Wanchun, but all experienced city defenders know that the city gate is the weakest place in the entire city defense line, and it is also the easiest place to be attacked by the enemy, so the defense of the city gate has always been the top priority.

The north gate of Anshi City has been bombarded by the earth-shaking thunder for half an hour, seeing that it seems to be trembling, but it has not yet fallen, it is still nailed to the city gate Yongdaokou, on the city tower directly above the city gate, the defenders countless arrows are frantically shooting downward, the simple assembly of the stone-throwing car keeps pouring boulders and boiling oil under the city wall, carefully observe the dynamics of the defenders at the head of the city, although they are running back and forth rapidly, but they do not see the slightest chaos, every move of each soldier is meticulously executing the orders of the generals.

A whole morning passed, and there was still no progress in the battle, the city gate did not fall, but the thunder throwers on the Tang army's side were killed by nearly a thousand, all of them were killed by the defenders on the city tower with arrows when they threw earth-shaking thunderbolts at close range, or were killed by boulders thrown by catapults.

Near noon, Li Shimin squinted his eyes and stared coldly at the battle situation in the distance, snorted indifferently, raised his hand and pointed at the north city gate, and said: "In the past, ten stone-throwing carts threw fire oil into the city, and then set fire to the city, and there were also bow and arrow battalions in formation, shooting arrows at the city tower, and then ordered the thunder throwers, concentrate a little to throw thunder at the city gate, and be sure to blow up the city gate for me!" ”

The herald officer left in a hurry, and soon, the Chinese army launched ten huge stone-throwing carts in the formation, behind the stone-throwing carts, followed by a phalanx of archery battalions, near the drawbridge and stopped, a huge clay pot was placed on the stone-throwing cart, the soldier fiercely triggered the bracket, the stone-throwing car made a piercing sound, and with a loud sound, the huge clay pot drew a high parabola in mid-air, crossed the towering city tower, and fell directly into the city.

The clay pot was full of extremely flammable fire oil, which fell to the ground and shattered, and the fire oil flowed all over the ground, and in the phalanx of the bow and arrow camp outside the city, with the generals shouting loudly, round after round of ignited rockets also crossed a parabola and shot into the city.

The fire in the city suddenly broke out, and soon burned, black smoke billowed up, accompanied by the panicked shouts of the defenders and people in the city, the orderly defensive rhythm was suddenly confused by this burst of fire, and the defenders on the city wall were obviously a little panicked, and under the punches, kicks and scolding of the generals, they gradually returned to calm.

Burning the city, is also one of the means of siege throughout the ages, this means is somewhat cruel, once the fire in the city, it is not divided between soldiers and civilians, and does not care about the buildings in the city, many people are burned alive by the fire, at the same time many difficult to conquer the city with the fire and fall into chaos, the military heart is shaken, the people's heart is unstable, and the not too firm simply opens the city gate and surrenders.

This is also the reason why Li Shimin ordered arson, the fire can demoralize the enemy army, can shake the hearts of the people in the city, his purpose is to make the city chaotic, and the Tang army can profit from the chaos.

Seeing the fire in the city in the distance, Li Shimin and the generals watching the battle hooked up a smile on their lips.

War is never merciful, and once the flames of war are burned, the life and death of the people are not in the consideration of the warring parties, and the armies of both sides seek only one purpose, that is, victory. For the sake of victory, it does not matter how many people die, and the post-war literati will only sensationally whitewash the death of innocent people with the phrase "the price that must be paid".

It is undeniable that no matter how many times Li Shimin has been boasted about and how many years he has been bragged about, he is also a ruthless monarch, no different from the monarchs of the past and present, and he only has the word "victory" in his eyes, as for the people, especially the people of the enemy country, it is impossible for him to take it to heart, otherwise he will not give the order to allow the slaughter of the city. Since he didn't care anymore, it was naturally no pressure for him to set fire to the city, he only hated that the fire was not big enough and not enough people were burned.

The fire in the city became bigger and bigger, and the smiles of Li Shimin and the generals became deeper and deeper.

The bigger the fire, the more chaotic the city, and the easier it was for the Tang army to profit from it.

"Order the thunderbolt, speed up, blast the city gate open for me, the first to break the city, I will seal the marquis of ten thousand households, and reward a thousand taels of gold!" Li Shimin ordered in an impassioned tone, in order to break the city of Anshi, Li Shimin really made a bloody investment.

As the order was conveyed, the Tang army thunderers under the city wall became more and more frenzied, and one by one the earth-shattering thunders emitting green smoke flew towards the city gate, and the explosion sound was even denser than just now.

Finally, the city gate began to shake in the endless explosions, and the monarchs and ministers in the Chinese army saw it clearly, their eyes couldn't help but light up, and their breathing began to be short.

The destruction of the city is now!

After another hour of incense, the gate shook more and more, and at last there was a piercing creak, and the huge gate fell unwillingly.

At the same time, the soldiers outside the city let out a deafening cheer, Li Shimin was so excited that he rode on his horse and rubbed his hands, looked up to the sky and laughed: "The city is broken!" ”

The one who laughs last is the one who laughs the best, and it turns out that Li Shimin laughed too early.

After the city gate of Anshi City fell, the Tang army was preparing to rush into the city, who knew that the cavalry was just about to urge the horse, the dust and smoke when the city gate fell had dissipated, but the city gate was dark in the corridor, and then took a closer look, the Tang army was shocked to find that the lengthy city gate corridor was blocked tightly with boulders, and there was no trace of gap, and all the huge stones in the nearly ten zhang corridor were blocked inside, according to this thickness, even if the Tang army threw all the earth-shattering thunder that was stored, it may not be able to blow up the ten zhang long Yongdao.

The Tang army gasped up and down, this Yang Wanchun was so well prepared, the Tang army had completely blocked the city gate before attacking the city, and I believe that he blocked more than this city gate, and the city gates on the east, west and south sides must have been tightly blocked, and it can be inferred that these huge stones should have been newly blocked during the truce yesterday, because just the day before yesterday, an enemy army was killed from the city gate, and the Tang army's thunder thrower was killed.

I have to admire Yang Wanchun's talent and strong will, which is basically a posture of living and dying with the city, and vowing to fight with the Tang Army to the end.

In the middle army formation outside the city, Li Shimin's face suddenly became very ugly, staring at the blocked road with an iron face, his burly body trembled slightly, and his eyes seemed to be about to erupt fire.

It took a morning and wasted countless earth-shattering thunders, and when the city gate was finally blown up, I didn't expect it to be such a result.

Li Shimin was so angry that his head was dizzy, and his head hurt for a while, it was really painful. Holding his forehead with one hand, Li Shimin gritted his teeth and began to imagine, imagining how many pieces Yang Wanchun should be cut into if he broke Anshi City one day, and what size and shape should be cut into to eliminate the hatred in his heart.

For this famous Goguryeo general, Li Shimin really felt very powerless.

It's just a matter of attacking your city, why are you so serious?

After the city gate fell, the Tang army was shocked, the generals looked at the city gate in amazement, and the soldiers below were also a little at a loss, for a while the battlefield outside the city was silent, the generals were busy in a daze, without the general's order, the soldiers below didn't know what to do, everyone was stunned in place.

Fortunately, Yang Wanchun sealed the city gate, otherwise at this time, if a soldier and horse were killed in the city and launched a charge against the Tang soldiers who were in a daze on the battlefield, the Tang army would suffer again today.

The city gate is blocked, what happens next?

Li Shimin stared at the city gate coldly for a long time, and a sentence burst out coldly from between his teeth.

"Mingjin, collect the troops!"

The morale has been weakened, the strength has weakened, there is no point in continuing to attack the city, and with the city gate sealed, the difficulty of breaking through Anshi City has increased infinitely, and it is by no means something that can be taken overnight.

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Returning to the camp without any gain, Li Shimin jumped like thunder in the tent, but Li Su basked in the sun leisurely outside the camp tent of the logistics army.

It snowed heavily for three days in a row, and it was rare to clear this morning, the snow was very thick, and the weather was still very cold, but the scenery of the northern country after the clear was really good.

Li Su asked Gao Suhui to spread a blanket and a thick mattress on the snow outside the tent, and built a bonfire in front of him, so Li Su sat cross-legged by the campfire, basking in the sun and roasting mutton.

Li Su's camp tent is a little biased, there are not many soldiers coming and going nearby, the hundred troops brought out from home will tie their respective camp tents around Li Su's camp tent, the standard plum blossom shape distribution is left and right, Li Su's camp tent is guarded in the middle, it looks very neat and symmetrical, pleasing to the eye.

The front and back were full of his own subordinates, and Li Su felt very safe barbecuing in the sun outside the tent, even if the person waiting for him next to him was once a female assassin.

Gao Suhui knelt down in front of him without saying a word, pouting to add firewood to the bonfire, and the fire burned more and more under her teasing.

"My Wang Shi just attacked the city and returned again, have you heard about this?" Li Su closed his eyes as if he was asleep, and asked as if in a dream.

There was no one else around except Gao Suhui, and since Li Su opened his mouth to ask, he was naturally asking Gao Suhui.

Gao Suhui's expression remained unchanged, and she said calmly: "The slave just knew." ”

Li Su hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Yang Wanchun, this guy is very powerful, if it weren't for the difference between the enemy and me, I should really invite him to drink once, and he can drag my army of more than 200,000 people under the city of Anshi, it can be seen that this person's ability is not small, this person is like a god with soldiers, unpredictable, do you know who he learned the art of war from?" ”

Gao Suhui shook her head: "The slave maid only knows that he is really powerful with soldiers, when Quan Gai Suwen usurped power, Yang City Lord openly declared that he did not accept Pyongyang's announcement, Quan Gai Suwen was annoyed and angry, and led 200,000 troops to attack Anshi City, the slave and maid remembered that the battle made Quan Gai Suwen suffer a lot, and others defended the city with the city gate closed, but Yang City Lord often sent cavalry out of the city, took the initiative to find fighters, sneak attacks in the middle of the night, fire attacks, ambushes, bribed enemy generals, created enemy infighting, and even assassinated enemy generals, etc., everything was done, However, all the means that can damage the enemy army can be used, because the lord of Yang City is also a Goguryeo, and he has left a sense of proportion in attacking the army led by Quangai Suwen, and Quangai Suwen only lost more than 20,000 soldiers and had to withdraw his troops back to Pyongyang, acquiescing to the ...... of the city of Yongzhen Anshi for generations of Yang City Lord."

Li Su listened with a smile, but his heart became heavier and heavier.

Yang Wanchun is really not easy to deal with, originally from the two sides of the army to attack and defend each other in the past few days, it can be seen that Yang Wanchun is very strange with soldiers, no one can predict his thinking, every time he can always be surprised, such an enemy is often very terrible, a little crazy, maybe crazy even fight himself.

After listening to Gao Suhui's words, Li Su became more and more vigilant against Yang Wanchun, when more than 200,000 Tang troops faced such a terrible enemy, this enemy was in a rock-solid city, and there were 120,000 desperate soldiers under his command, how could such a terrible enemy defeat him?

Li Su thought about it for a long time, and then found out that he couldn't help it.

This is not a question of whether to wear or not, the wisdom and talent of the ancients are not necessarily lower than those of a thousand years later, and the only advantage of the descendants is to manufacture firearms, but the facts have proved what Li Su once said, war depends on people, not weapons, no matter how powerful the weapon, the enemy will eventually think of a way to deal with it, only human wisdom is endless and unguardable.

So the once invincible Heaven-Shaking Thunder was useless in front of Yang Wanchun, Yang Wanchun was a smart man, since he heard about the power of the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, he must have been thinking about how to deal with it, this smart man quickly came up with a way, and his method proved to be very useful.

Where is the weakness of this clever and terrible enemy? Li Su has thought countless times about how he can find his weaknesses and then defeat him if he is the commander of an army and wants to fight such a terrible enemy.

It's a pity, Li Su thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't come up with a way, this Yang Wanchun doesn't seem to have weaknesses, unless Li Su can sneak into the city of Anshi, make friends with Yang Wanchun, and then eat and live with him every day, only when you are close can you slowly understand what a person's strengths and weaknesses are, now that the two armies are at war, the information inside and outside the city is not smooth, and the enemy's character and intentions can only be guessed, everyone is so far away, Li Su can't find out Yang Wanchun's weaknesses.

After being stunned for a while, Li Su's eyes glanced and saw Gao Suhui, who was silent.

"You once said that you were an assassin trained by Yang Wanchun?" Li Su stared at her with interest, looking up and down.

Gao Suhui was a little uncomfortable and straightened her messy sideburns with her hands, and then nodded: "Yes, Lord Yang adopted slaves and maids and trained slaves and maids for many years. ”

Li Su's eyes showed a sense of banter, her sister's acting skills were good, and at this time, she firmly bit Yang Wanchun to death, and she had to have something to do with him, but she didn't know that Li Su had already seen her through.

Soaring acting skills, Li Su doesn't mind accompanying her to play a rival scene.

"In addition to training in assassination techniques, what does Yang Wanchun do to you on weekdays?"

A trace of nostalgia flashed on Gao Suhui's face, and she said quietly: "Lord Yang is very strict with slaves and maids, but he also cares about slaves and maids on weekdays......"

"In other words, Yang Wanchun treats you as his own?"

"Not really, but almost."

Li Su sat up straight with great interest, looked at her excitedly, and said, "If he takes you as a hostage, puts a knife on your neck, escorts you to the city wall, and threatens Yang Wanchun to open the city gate and surrender, do you think he will agree?" ”

Gao Suhui couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Grandpa, don't ridicule the slave maid, the two armies are facing each other, it is related to the national fortune of the two countries, as well as the life and death of thousands of soldiers and people, how could the Yang City Lord surrender for the sake of the slave maid?" If the slave and maid were to guess his reaction, most of them would personally draw a bow and arrow, and shoot the slave and maid under the city wall on the spot. ”

Li Su frowned unhappily: "It's so brutal, is it biological?" ”

Immediately, Li Su was stunned and thought of a cruel truth.

Yes, not biologically.

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Goguryeo capital, Pyongyang.

Pyongyang is an ancient city, according to legend, more than 3,000 years ago, the Emperor of Heaven and the son of the Danjun and the bear girl born to the establishment of the Korean State, its capital Asda is located in Pyongyang, later in the last years of the Shang Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou cut down the Shang Dynasty, in order to avoid the disaster of the new dynasty, the uncle of the King of the Emperor Ji Zi led a family to flee to the east, until the current Goguryeo, founded the Marquis of the Ji family, its country gradually became stronger, until the Han Dynasty was destroyed, so this period of the Marquis of the Ji Dynasty, by the later generations called "Jizi Korea".

It can be seen that the earth is not necessarily a village, but the Asian countries must be a village, and there are more or less kinship between countries, almost a large ethnic group, of course, the patriarch of the ethnic group is naturally the Central Plains Han soil.

The city of Pyongyang is very dilapidated, as the capital of Goguryeo, it is too unremarkable, with low pigeon-cage-like houses, stingy markets, and few ordinary people on the streets, mostly old and weak, women and children, this is the whole scene of Pyongyang City.

At this moment, a court meeting was being held in the royal palace of Pyongyang, and Goguryeo King Gozang was sitting in the middle of the main hall, yawning and looking impatiently at the courtiers below to discuss.

In front of a futon less than three steps in front of Gao Hiding, there sat a middle-aged man in his forties, the man was burly, his face was dark, and his facial features were quite ordinary, but his eyes flashed fiercely from time to time, obviously a not very friendly person. This person is the traitor who killed the former King of Goguryeo and supported the current puppet Goguryeo to ascend the throne.

At this moment, the Goguryeo monarchs and ministers gathered in one hall, and the state affairs that could be discussed were naturally the invasion of the Tang State.

As the monarch discussed the court, Gao Zang, as the monarch, looked bored and uninterested, and turned his head from time to time to look at the sky outside the palace, as if he was in a hurry to end the court meeting, and entered the back * palace to discuss state affairs with all kinds of beauties, obviously wasting his precious time.

As a courtier, Quangai Suwen is the most serious one in discussing state affairs.

He can't help but be serious, in principle, the entire country of Goguryeo is basically up to him, and the king of Goryeo, Gozang, is just a puppet he supports, a traitor usurps power, the monarch is empty, the monarch is not like a king, and the minister is not like a minister.

It is said that it is to discuss state affairs, but in fact, it is basically Quangai Suwen who is giving orders, and the courtiers below only obey, as early as before the Tang army Chang'an swore to the east, Quangai Suwen knew that the emperor of the Tang State Li Shimin had the intention of going eastward, and when the Tang State hoarded grain and grass and built a blade, Quangai Suwen was also in Goguryeo to fight with strong troops and horses, and the army was ready to fight.