Chapter 63: Breaking the City 2
A day of fierce fighting has finally come to an end, and both armies are **** their own wounds waiting for tomorrow to fight again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The domestic city at night is lifeless, and the soldiers will have no will to fight. In the first battle of the day, most of the 3,000 casualties of the defenders of the South Gate, plus the subsequent reinforcements of the soldiers and horses were more than 3,000 soldiers, especially the city gate of the South Gate, if it were not for the emergency, Gao Yanxing ordered to block the South Gate with earth and stones, so that the Tang Army's siege hammer looked at the gate and sighed, maybe the domestic city would become a big camp for the Tang Army to celebrate tonight.
At the west gate of the domestic city, under the illumination of the starlight, a black figure fell from the city with a rope, and fell from the rope to the city, disappearing into the vast night.
"Ladies and gentlemen, how credible do you think this man is?" Liu Shijiang frowned and asked: "If it is a fraud, our army rushes in and is surrounded according to the plan, even if it is a tiger, it will not be able to use it." ”
"I think this person is credible!"
"Oh, what did Liu Dayang say this?"
"Although our army still failed to break through the city in today's battle, our army attacked the city and inflicted heavy casualties on the Goguryeo people. I observed the corpses on the city, plus the thousands of corpses that fell from the city, and the casualties of our army were only more than 900. With such heavy casualties among the Goguryeo people, it was only a matter of time before the city was destroyed, and it was inevitable that those who were afraid of death would choose to surrender. Liu Tao said with a smile.
Li Shangdan, who had not spoken for a long time, said: "What Liu Dayang said is reasonable, the west gate faces Yushan, and the west of Yushan is the pill capital. Yushan Mountain is high and dense, not conducive to gathering a large army to attack the city, and it is easy to be attacked by the enemy, it is the place where the terrain is dangerous and difficult to defend and difficult to attack in the four gates of the city in China, and it is also the safest city gate for the Goguryeo people with the least garrison. The generals stationed here must not be any generals who can fight, and it is understandable that when the domestic city is about to be broken, they will surrender when the city is about to be broken. ”
"What does the general mean that we will do according to the plan?" Xie Qian asked a little excitedly, Kenche's eyes looked at his general, hoping to send the White Tiger Guard into battle this time, since the two battles outside the bridge and the south gate, the White Tiger Guard has always been the place to press the formation, which inevitably makes Xie Qian a little annoyed.
The eyes of the generals looked at Li Shangdan, and Li Shangdan smiled lightly: "As long as they open the west gate according to the plan, it is impossible to drive us out even if there is fraud." So tomorrow day I feint for one day, and tomorrow night I will do according to the plan. ”
On the first day, the Tang army launched another ferocious attack, which made the Goguryeo defenders at the southern gate exhausted, and seeing that there was no hope of breaking the city, Li Shangdan promptly ordered to collect troops and return to the camp.
That night, all the generals gathered in the handsome tent, and their faces were excited.
"Xie Qian!"
"The end will be." Xie Qian stood up with a little excitement.
"You lead three hundred elite scouts, wait for the second hour to quietly touch into Yushan, check whether there is an ambush of Goguryeo people in Yushan, and at the same time keep an eye on every move of the Goguryeo army at Ximen, and report back immediately if there is any situation."
"The last general commands!"
"Ordered Wang Hu's department, and ordered him to keep an eye on the city of Marudu for me tonight, and no one must be released from the city of Marudu, and the defenders of Marudu must be desperately intercepted when they go out of the city, otherwise military law will be engaged."
"When the White Tiger Guards followed the general to ambush in the Yushan forest opposite the West Gate, when the West Gate signal appeared, when the city gate opened, the whole army followed me into the city. When the ugly was called by the three drums before and after the west gate, Qi Biguang and Liu Tao attacked the south gate, Liu Shijiang attacked the east gate, and Wei Chi followed the Yu department to ambush outside the north gate, if the enemy escaped from the north gate, it was intercepted, and the other three gates were in a hurry to retreat for reinforcements. ”
"The last general commands!" The generals all stood up in unison and bowed their hands.
At night, both the offensive and defensive sides in ancient and modern wars are natural cover periods for launching attacks, and many wars in ancient and modern times are overcome by launching surprise attacks at night.
"Du Wei, the brothers have turned over Yushan, and there is no one else except us."
"Ha, it seems that the guard of the West Gate will sincerely surrender, quickly, return to the general."
"No."
There were hundreds of figures crouching in the forest, and one of them quietly left and ran to the Tang Army camp outside the south of SX.
Xie Qian took advantage of the faint starlight to look through the forest to look at the West Gate Tower of the Domestic City, which was extremely conspicuous in the dark night with many torches inserted dozens of zhang away.
Half an hour passed, and hundreds of Tang soldiers in the forest, except for the sentry, all leaned on the tree poles and hurriedly fell asleep, and it was estimated that they would have to kill all night tonight, but there was no time to sleep.
The sound of rustling in the forest came, Xie Qian suddenly woke up, and countless unseen figures in the forest in the distance quietly touched into the mountain.
"Hurry up, someone's coming." Xie Qian gently patted the sleeping subordinates beside him, and in the blink of an eye, all the people on the ground opened their eyes, clenched the bows and crossbows in their hands, and stared at the direction in which the figures appeared.
"The lieutenant is a general who is here with troops."
"Well, take me to the general."
"No."
"How's Simon doing?"
Although the night made Xie Qian a little unable to see Li Shangdan's hard and handsome face, he could recognize him from a distance by his accent and figure.
Xie Qian said disdainfully: "Half of the Ximen defenders are dozing off." ”
"Hehe, it looks like the city is about to be broken tonight!" Li Shangdan smiled knowingly.
The three thousand White Tiger Guards quietly approached the woods closest to the West Gate, and it only took less than two hundred steps to rush to the bottom of the West City, quietly waiting for the signal on the West Gate.
In the west gate of the city, dozens of soldiers came over, and a Bai Chang stepped forward to pat another Bai Chang who was yawning and said, "Brothers, we have worked hard, we are here for a shift change." ”
"Shui Li, you can count it, if you don't come, I'll go back to you to settle the account." Bai Chang was a little unhappy and slapped off the hand that was on his shoulder.
"The brethren have overslept, and it is inevitable that they will be late." Shui Li grinned and apologized.
"Hmph, next time I'm too late, I'll tell General Gao to go, and then you can lead the army."
"I won't dare next time." Shui Li bowed his head and smiled at Bai Chang, who led the troops away, and after the other party walked away and couldn't see anyone in the night, his smiling face immediately changed, and he scolded a few words in a hateful whisper.
Shui Li ordered his subordinate soldiers to stand in the city gate hole, looked up at the defenders on the city tower, and a general in iron armor on the city stood straight and looked at him, nodded to each other, and Shui Li walked into the city gate hole.
"Open the gates quietly." Under the order of Shui Li in a low voice, dozens of defenders of the door hole divided half of their hands to gently remove the door bar and slowly opened the city gate.
"The gates of the General's City are opening." Xie Qian said overjoyed.
"Well, order the soldiers to prepare." Li Shangdan replied in a low voice with an expressionless face, staring at the city gate with his eyes.
The city gate slowly opened a crack, and gradually opened completely, and the squeaky sound of the city gate from time to time made the defenders on the city tower look down a little strangely, but the sound was gone, so they didn't pay attention.
Most of the defenders on the tower were drowsy, but a small number of them were highly concentrated, and if they walked in and looked closely, their faces were already covered with sweat. A guard general gestured to the soldiers standing beside him, and dozens of sober soldiers glanced at each other, their right hands holding the handle of the knife at their waists.
The city gate opened, and the water force took off a torch from the hole in the city gate, stood outside the city gate, waved the torch and drew a circle, and then stabbed it out.
"Up." Under Li Shangdan's order, the three thousand white tiger guards who were ambushed in Yushan clenched the horizontal knives and barrier knives that had been drawn out of their hands, and the ones in front grabbed the bows and crossbows in their hands and quickly rushed out of the dark forest, and rushed to the city gate silently.
The guards on the castle tower watched the dense figures suddenly rush out of the forest outside the city, and a triumphant smile appeared on their gloomy faces.
Thousands of people were silent, but the footsteps were so abrupt in the silent night that the sleepy defenders of the city were all awakened by the sound of tom footsteps, and looked up at the city in horror.