There were 10,000 people, boundless, and more than 500,000 troops gathered, almost surrounding the city with companies and camps on three sides.

Moreover, Su I Ezo is not a mediocre talent, the layout is quite orderly, and the profound use of the principle of the strength of many people, the outside of the camp is full of horses, wooden stakes, and a trench is dug, not like to attack, but more like to defend.

For such a stable enemy, Li Ji also had a headache, but fortunately, for the attack on Wajima, he had already prepared for the attack on Wajima, and there was not a single house in the city, which was used to build city defenses.

In the middle of the war, the two castles of Izumo were not only heightened and thickened, but also had all kinds of female walls, watchtowers, enemy platforms, suspension bridges, and urn castles, and even the moat was widened to two zhang, plus three zhang high, and a one-zhang thick city wall, I am afraid that it was enough for the Japanese slaves to attack.

Moreover, within a mile of the city, all the trees have been cut down, the stones have been polished into stones, and there are two hundred eight-ox crossbows in each city, plus tens of thousands of captives have been helping to make arrows for several months, it can be said that they are armed to the teeth, whether it is Li Ji or Feng Daiwen, they are full of confidence in the defense of the city.

Su I Ezo looked at the tall city wall, very helpless, and at the same time knew that Izumo was in the same situation, so in desperation, he had to let people step up to make a siege ladder.

If you want to attack the city, you must first fill in the moat, and Soga Ezo is also very military-minded, first let people make a lot of wooden planks as shields, and then collect a lot of stones, and after being fully prepared, let people hold shields and start to protect the soldiers to fill the moat.

It's a pity that Su I Ezo still underestimated the Tang Dynasty, and the eight bull crossbow easily pierced the plank, and was nailed to the ground together with the soldiers behind, constantly wailing, and the guards were all nomadic soldiers, all of whom were masters of archery, and they could shoot and wound the Japanese slaves with needles.

The only good news for the Unons was that there weren't many crossbows and they didn't attack quickly, but they still caused many casualties, almost every one of them took at least one life.

Due to the fact that there were too many Japanese slaves, Li Ji and Feng Daiwen did not use catapults, after all, although they could bring casualties to the Japanese slaves, it would also increase the materials for them to fill the moat.

The soldiers didn't arrange much, but they just selected people with excellent archery skills to shoot arrows in turn, and for the live targets under the city, they simply didn't shoot too happily, and occasionally a few people bet to see who would shoot more.

I didn't care too much about the bows and arrows that were fired from the bottom of the city, first, they were protected by shields, second, they were well-equipped and could effectively defend against stray arrows, and thirdly, the short bows and arrows of the Japanese slaves didn't have much lethality when they shot at the city walls.

This is also one of the biggest shortcomings of the Japanese slaves, the personnel are generally short, and the longbow used is only two-thirds as long as the Tang Dynasty, after all, if you use a hard bow as long as the Tang Dynasty, it is unrealistic to draw the bow to a full circle with the short arms on their short stature.

Soga Ezo looked at the soldiers who were constantly being shot to death with a gloomy face, and then ordered the corpses to be thrown into the moat as well, and at the same time found that Datang seemed to have few people, so he sent many people to start filling the moat.

It makes sense that there are many people and great strength, and it only took two days for Su I Ezo to fill in the moat, but it also cost nearly 10,000 casualties, and it can be said that there are several sections of the moat that are completely piled up with corpses.

The two castles were almost the same, after all, they both had the same way of attacking, except that the Izumo moat was only built, and it was slightly narrower, and the Japanese slaves died a little less.

On the second day of filling the moat, Su I Ezo wanted to bully the Tang Dynasty with few people, so he arranged a team of 10,000 people to attack on three sides, dreaming of taking the city with one breath.

It's a pity that the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny, although there are not many people on the Datang city wall, but the catapult began to go crazy, and the huge stones were thrown out, and there was absolutely no possibility of survival when they hit the soldiers, and they would be bounced up on the ground, forming a secondary injury to the Japanese slaves.

In order to dodge the catapults, the eight oxen crossbows, the Japanese slaves had to be divided and attacked in a loose formation.

Li Ji also stopped the catapult and the eight-ox crossbow at a glance, and only counterattacked with a bow and arrow.

In order to let the Japanese slaves see hope, they kept sending people to death, and each city wall was only arranged with 2,000 archers and 1,000 sword and shield soldiers.

It's just that archers have a huge physical exertion, but the most important thing is also archers, almost everyone can turn into archers when they put down their swords.

The Japanese slaves climbed the city wall several times, but they were easily eliminated, and they knew that the most important thing in the Tang Dynasty was to command the generals, these young generals may not be able to command large-scale battles, but they are handy for leading 1,000 people to defend the city wall.

Xue Rengui, Qu Tuquan, Li Chongyi, Li Dejian, Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Wuting, Liu Renshi, Cheng Chubi and more than a dozen people took turns to defend, which was very easy.

Since this group of young people is either behind the gate, or many of them have already proven themselves on the battlefield, Li Ji is also very relieved to use it.

On the first day of the siege, the Japanese slaves left thousands of corpses, but it also made Su I Ezo firmly believe that there were not many people in Datang, so from the second day, people continued to attack, thinking of using the number of people to drag down Datang.

And he brought in many women, cut down trees, carried stones, and began to pile them up under the city, along with the corpses of his own men, with the intention of lowering the height of the wall.

Su I Ezo has indeed increased the difficulty for the Tang Dynasty, in order to defend against the continuous attack of the Japanese slaves, rolling wood, thunder stones, and also began to be used, fortunately, the armor of the Tang soldiers, the shield is really strong, for the stray arrows, the weapon defense is outstanding, at most it is to suffer some minor injuries, and there are many unlucky eggs who were dragged down the city wall by the Japanese slaves, of course, there is no possibility of survival.

The battle has lasted for 10 days, continuous attack, whether it is bows and arrows, stones, and rolling logs, the Tang Dynasty has been consumed, especially the continuous fighting, has not been able to get a good rest, for the soldiers' physical strength, mental pressure is too great, the corpses outside the city are piled up, and the Japanese slaves can climb the city wall without a siege ladder.

Both sides can say that all kinds of means have been taken out, digging tunnels, there are many large vats under the base of the city wall, any movement in the ground can be easily heard, and hundreds of Japanese slaves have been buried underground.

Night Raid? Even more impossible, each wall has several huge glass mirrors, which make the outside of the city seem like daylight under the reflection of the firelight.

Just when Soga Ezo piled up 200,000 soldiers and saw the dawn of victory, a fire shattered his hopes.

Li Ji poured all the fire oil in the city, lit a fire, the fire burned for two days and two nights, and the Tang soldiers also ushered in a rare rest, and these were all expected by Li Ji, the outside of the city wall was smeared with thick soil, and he was not afraid of fire.

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