Zhao Ziliang and the generals were discussing the matter of Wei Jiansu and other ministers slandering in the court, and the soldiers outside the tent came in and reported: "Report to the marshal, General Li Siye and Wang Sili have arrived!" ”

"Let them in!"

Li Siye and Wang Sili walked in, clasped their fists and saluted Zhao Ziliang: "The last general will meet the handsome!" ”

"Excuse me!" Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and asked, "Li Siye, how is it going for you to preside over the reorganization and training of the surrendered troops?" Is it useful? ”

Li Siye hugged his fists and said: "Marshal, now in addition to the more than 10,000 surrendered troops captured by our army in the towns west of Tongguan at the earliest, it can barely be used on the battlefield, and it will take at least one and a half months to complete all the training and running-in after defeating Sun Xiaozhe's 80,000 or 90,000 surrendered troops!" ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned and said, "Is there only more than 10,000 people available?" The emperor has already issued a holy decree, let me wait to immediately wave my troops to attack Tongguan, this matter cannot be delayed, Zhao Ting is out! ”

Zhao Ting, who received fifty sticks yesterday, stood up with a fist and hugged his fists with the pain in his hips: "The last general!" ”

"You return with Li Siye, Li Siye will bring more than 10,000 available soldiers to attack the city, and you will take over the infantry training! Try to speed up the progress of the whole training! ”

Li Siye and Zhao Ting promised: "Obey!" ”

The generals also understood Zhao Ziliang's intentions at this time, the emperor's holy decree could not be disobeyed, if you didn't want to rebel, you could only follow the decree, so no matter how many soldiers there were, fight first and then say, stop and stop, and then stop and fight, so that there is no disobedience to the holy decree, and you can wait for the follow-up 80,000 or 90,000 infantry to complete the whole training and come in handy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhao Ziliang looked at Wang Sili again and asked, "Wang Sili, how have you completed your drill subjects?" ”

Wang Sili hurriedly saluted and said, "Hui Dashuai, I have completed all the drill subjects!" ”

Zhao Ziliang touched his chin and thought for a moment, and said: "Last time, Ben Shuai did not hold you accountable, it does not mean that you are not guilty, and now Ben Shuai gives you a chance to make meritorious contributions, it depends on whether you can seize it!" ”

Wang Sili had already done the post of Hexi Jiedu envoy before the An Lushan rebellion, but because of the defeat in the battle of Lingbao, he was swept to the end by Zhao Ziliang after fleeing back, and became a small soldier again, and was also rectified by Zhao Ziliang's personal soldiers like a recruit, it can be seen how aggrieved he is in his heart, and now he has a chance to come out, he was shocked, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Please command, the student will never give up!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked: "How did you escape after Tongguan was broken by the rebels?" ”

Wang Sili replied: "There are six earthen forts and camps between Tongguan and Qinling, which are set up to prevent the enemy from crossing the Qinling Mountains to attack Tongguan. ”

Zhao Ziliang asked: "If you are asked to return the way you escaped, can you still remember the way back?" ”

"Of course I do!" Wang Sili blurted out, but was quickly stunned, "Dashuai means ······"

I saw Zhao Ziliang looking at Duan Xiushi, taking out an arrow and shouting: "Duan Xiushi, Wang Sili listen to the order!" ”

Duan Xiushi immediately stood up and hugged his fists with Wang Sili and said, "The last general (student) is here!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Duan Xiushi, you have 3,000 Anxi infantry, this commander ordered you to be the main general, Wang Sili is the deputy general and guide, and the two of you will lead these 3,000 Anxi infantry to return along the mountain road that Wang Sili fled back!" On the third day of the first month of October, when I was in the middle of a frontal siege battle, you quickly attacked the six earthen forts and camps leading to Tongguan from the Qinling Mountains, and then entered Tongguan City in one fell swoop to help my frontal troops break through Tongguan! ”

"Command!" Duan Xiushi and Wang Sili took the order and turned around to prepare for departure.

Zhao Ziliang said again: "Passing on the commander's military order, all the craftsmen in the army immediately began to build siege equipment with all their might, and the generals have their own responsibilities, and there must be no mistakes!" ”

"Obey!"

Two days later, Li Siye led 10,000 infantry from Huayin to the front line of Tongguan, and at this time, the siege equipment had already been finished under the full efforts of all the craftsmen in the army.

Zhao Ziliang ordered the more than 10,000 infantry to rest for two days, and the supply of good wine and meat, and when Zhao Ziliang gave an order, Li Siye immediately commanded the 10,000 infantry to attack Tongguan.

This was the first official siege of the city under the city of Tongguan by Zhao Ziliang's troops in two months, and Li Guiren, the rebel general of Tongguan, did not dare to despise it, and personally commanded the defense of the city at the head of the city.

The rebels in Tongguan have 15,000 people, and the attacking Tang army infantry is only 10,000, how to look at this siege is a bit of a child's play, but Li Guiren, the defender of the Tongguan rebel army, does not know the reality of the Tang army, he thinks that since Zhao Ziliang dares to launch a siege, there must be sufficient troops, otherwise who has the courage to fight more siege with less? Unless the brain is rusty! However, for the Tang army, there is no need to worry about the rebel counterattack, after all, the Tang army has tens of thousands of cavalry of the Beiting Army sweeping the formation, but it is not afraid that the rebels will come out from the pass to attack the siege infantry.

A battle is not who has more soldiers who can win, the same is true of siege warfare, the west wall of Tongguan is not long, there are not many soldiers and horses that can be accommodated, if the defender's will to fight is not strong, the combat effectiveness is not good, the defender's command is not effective, and it is a matter of time before it is broken by the Tang army.

After the siege began, to everyone's surprise, the rebels almost couldn't resist Li Siye's first wave of attacks, the Tang infantry attacked the city wall for the first time, killing the rebels and retreating, and the rebels on the city wall even had a large area of rout, if it wasn't for Li Guiren personally leading the pro-army to block the defeated rebels, killing many people to stabilize their positions, and then organizing a large force to drive the Tang army off the city wall.

This time the city wall was almost breached, so that the rebel defender Li Guiren realized the problem in the army, the rebels are rebels after all, the name is not right, the soldiers are already weak and scared in their hearts, ten percent of the combat power can not even play two percent, how can this battle be fought?

Li Guiren was in a hurry, but there was no particularly good way, so he could only adopt strict military law, ordered that anyone who retreated or escaped without authorization should be beheaded, and organized a special team of supervisors to supervise the battle in the back, and once anyone was found to have escaped, he would be immediately killed, so as to stabilize the morale of the army.

In the next few sieges, Li Siye's attack was not so easy, although the rebels were weak-hearted, they were also afraid of death, and under the monitoring and threat of the supervising team behind them, they could only fight desperately against the Tang army.

For five consecutive days, the Tang army attacked the city at least once a day, but there was no progress, and the casualties were getting bigger and bigger.

On the night of September 28, Li Siye reported the casualties to Zhao Ziliang, "As of today, our army has suffered more than 2,200 casualties in the siege of the city in the past five days, of which 1,800 were killed in direct battles, and more than 400 wounded soldiers, and the siege equipment has also suffered serious losses!" The morale of the soldiers is a little low! ”

Zhao Ziliang pondered for a moment and said, "In this way, your department will rest for two days!" There is no need to use such a large intensity to attack the city in the future, and the time has not yet come when you really need to exert your strength! ”

Li Siye hugged his fists and said: "No! ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Chen Xuanli and said, "General Chen, it's time for the Long Wu Army to pull it out and make an appearance, and tomorrow's siege will be carried out by your department!" ”

Chen Xuanli hugged his fists and said: "Take the order!" ”

On September 29, Chen Xuanli led the Longwu army to attack Tongguan.

"Kill! Kill! The soldiers of the Longwu Army carried the ladder and pushed the well to the west city wall of Tongguan, and the catapults in the rear kept firing stone bullets at the city wall of Tongguan, and the whole advance process was chaotic.

Zhao Ziliang sat on the handsome platform and shook his head, frowned, and said: "Looking at the chaotic posture, this Longwu army has never practiced siege warfare at all!" ”

Bai Xiaode couldn't help but smile when he saw it: "Yes, how can there be a siege battle that rushes to the city wall in a swarm, isn't this going to die?" ”

I saw that the Longwu army swarmed across the ditch under the city that had been filled and rushed to the city wall, and the siege ladder and other siege equipment were finally pushed to the city wall to erect, at this time the rolling stones and sassal trees on the city wall fell one after another, the Longwu army under the city wall suddenly suffered heavy casualties, and the soldiers of the Longwu army who were not smashed saw many of their companions die miserably, and some people turned around and fled on the spot, and the escape was as if it was contagious, and soon the attacking Longwu army fled back in an all-round way, and the siege equipment, weapons, and armor were discarded on the ground, and even the banner was thrown on the ground.

Zhao Ziliang's face was not very good-looking, looking at the soldiers of the Long Wu Army who were dressed brightly one by one, tall and strong, and with the shining armor, they looked very powerful, but they were all useless goods, silver-like wax head guns!

"Someone, go and call Chen Xuanli!"

"No!"

It didn't take much effort for Chen Xuanli to walk to the handsome stage and greet Zhao Ziliang: "Big handsome, the last general is ashamed, the first siege battle was like this!" ”

Zhao Ziliang didn't look back at him, just stared at the Tongguan city wall opposite and said: "General Chen, Ben Shuai has given you the siege task, how do you fight, Ben Shuai doesn't care, Ben Shuai doesn't expect your troops to be able to capture Tongguan in just a few days, but you must at least fight decently, if my army fights like you, the rebels are afraid that our army is really no soldiers to send, and the arrogance of the rebels will be even stronger at that time!" ”

Chen Xuanli lowered his head and hugged his fists and said, "The last general understands!" ”

"What about the losses?"

"The loss is not large, only more than 100 people were killed in the battle, and dozens of people were injured, but the weapons and armor and siege equipment were seriously damaged. After Chen Xuanli finished speaking, he couldn't help but sneak a glance at Zhao Ziliang.

Zhao Ziliang stood up and turned to face Chen Xuanli and said: "Ben Shuai will transfer another batch to you, and I hope you will do it yourself, if you lose your armor and flee back next time, you will give me to go into battle shirtless, and if there are those who retreat without authorization, Ben Shuai will send out a supervising team to enforce military law!" ”

"Yes, the Admiral understands! There is no need for the commander to dispatch the supervision team, this time he will organize the supervision team, if there is anyone who escapes without permission, he will be killed! (To be continued.) )