Jinyang City was surrounded on three sides, and the strong attack was not stopped, and the courage of the Dahua soldiers rolled forward like a wave, rolling nine zhang high.

The crossbows, trebuchets, artillery, etc. outside the city constantly suppressed the defenders at the head of the city, bringing great trouble and damage to the Tang army.

The superiority of various weapons is not obvious in making up for the disadvantages of the besieging side, resulting in casualties on both sides.

The art of war is cloudy, and ten rules are encircled, which means that when the strength of the defenders in the city is ten times that of the defenders, they will choose to fully encircle and attack and disperse their forces, and at the same time, the casualties are also huge, and they will be many times larger than the defenders.

Now 200,000 troops are besieging Jinyang, there are 100,000 Tang troops in the city, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, in fact, in terms of troops, Dahua is not completely dominant, and there will be a counterattack by the Tang army at any time. However, the destructive power of the soldiers and artillery on the city and the large number of casualties on the defenders did play a great role.

"Kill—"

Some tiger generals under the city, such as Cheng Zhijie, Luo Shixin, Pei Yuanqing, Niu Jinda and others, charged into battle, eager to climb to the top of the city in person, but the Tang army was counterattacking, sticking to the defensive line, and countering with all kinds of protective arrows, rolling wood, hot oil, etc.

The two sides fought a bloody battle, and thick corpses were piled up under the city, bleeding incessantly, with stumps and broken arms, everywhere.

This is the battlefield, unusually bloody and brutal.

Luo Zhaoyun would come to supervise the battle every three or five times, and once he personally beat the drum to stimulate morale and almost break the city, but in the end, the Tang army stubbornly regained control of the city, and the city gate was blocked.

After more than ten days, Dahua soldiers lost more than 40,000 people, but Jinyang City still has not been conquered.

"Newspaper-" A flying horse galloped into the battle quickly, and then a scout jumped off his horse in a state of confusion and sweat, and galloped forward.

"What's the information?" The chief of the guards of the Imperial Guards stopped the scouts.

"Expedited military intelligence!" Then the scout replied.

"Submit it." Luo Zhaoyun waved his hand in the midst of the layers of protection of the military array.

"Whoa!" The guards took the information and delivered it forward.

Luo Zhaoyun opened a piece of information from the rear, it should be the abbreviation of a certain general in a hurry, there was no envelope, only paper folded and packaged, opened the letter, and the words on it were also very concise: The grain road was intercepted, 50,000 stones of grain and grass were burned, and the attackers were strong in martial arts, suspected of a group of swordsmen and reckless people!

"Is that them?" Luo Zhaoyun's face sank, and he guessed that it might be a group of people who were starting guerrilla attacks in the grain channel behind him.

This kind of guerrilla warfare is very tricky, even if it is sent to encircle and suppress the army, those people in the green forest, the rangers in the rivers and lakes can hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and cannot pursue.

The grain road is hundreds of miles longitudinal and horizontal, the baggage is heavy, and the grain guard team generally has two or three thousand soldiers, plus the coachman, etc., there are also five or six thousand people, they can't keep hurrying, and they will always rest at night, which leaves a gap for this group of people in the rivers and lakes, and they attack the grain and grass barracks, and they can't prevent it.

"Your Majesty, what happened?" Qin Qiong, who is also the general of the left guard, saw Luo Zhaoyun's unhappy face at this time, and knew that sometimes it happened.

"There's something wrong with the grain." Luo Zhaoyun understated it and didn't say much, so as not to leak out the news and affect morale.

"Oh, do you need to go and deal with it?" Qin Qiong clenched her fists, intending to serve the country and eliminate worries for the king.

"Wait for today's battle to end, go back to the camp to discuss." Luo Zhaoyun didn't say much, but he was thinking about how to clean up this group of unstable factors.

.........

After the end of the one-day campaign, Luo Zhaoyun gathered some generals and strategists in the camp to discuss the process and specific details of the burning of the grain road.

Shi Danai, the general in charge of the grain and grass in the rear, received follow-up information, and a sub-general, Zhang Chao, personally arrived on a fast horse and asked the general and His Majesty for guilt.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on, who is doing it?"

Zhang Chao faced Emperor Dahua's personal inquiry, and broke out in a cold sweat, for fear that the king would be angry and pull him out and behead him.

"Your Majesty, in the second half of last night, there was a sudden sound of fighting, that group of green forest people, Jianghu rangers, superb martial arts, elusive, broke into the camp, set fires everywhere, killed soldiers and grooms, we couldn't organize a team to encircle and suppress, but were killed by them, and when we finally integrated the team to fight back, this group of bandits had burned most of the grain and grass, and then retreated."

"Do you see who is leading?" Luo Zhaoyun asked.

Zhang Chao said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, they are all fresh faces, and I don't know each other. ”

Luo Zhaoyun nodded, then asked the guard behind him to pick up a portrait and stepped forward, the portrait was lifelike, it was a young man, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, heroic and cold.

Zhang Chao's face changed, and he pointed to the portrait and said: "It's him, yes, it's him, I've seen this person, his martial arts are very high, he kills one person with one sword, it's very powerful, and he kills a hundred people in a moment!" ”

"Sure enough, this son is in turmoil!" Luo Zhaoyun snorted coldly, this is none other than Li Xuanba!

When he was outside Jinyang City, Luo Zhaoyun could vaguely guess that this matter might be related to Li Xuanba, because when Taigu City was attacking, he had never seen this person, and there must be a demon when something went wrong, and Luo Zhaoyun was suspicious at that time, this Li Xuanba was probably brewing something.

At this time, it was confirmed that it was him, Luo Zhaoyun was not afraid, but was just thinking about what method to use to trap these people.

It is unrealistic for the army to close the mountains and encircle them, so they can only continue to lure them out with grain and grass.

Luo Zhaoyun had a bold idea in his mind, he felt that he had been pampered for a long time, and it was time to sharpen the knife out of the sheath again, otherwise people would rust.

He planned to set up a bureau to hunt Li Xuanba, so he used the means of the rivers and lakes and the cooperation of the foreign army to wipe out this group of people!