Chapter 121: Genius Guards the City

After An Qingxu killed his father An Lushan, he successfully ascended to the throne with the help of Yan Zhuang and Shi Siming, and since then he has reached the pinnacle of his life. The era name was changed to Zaichu. Yan Zhuang served as the imperial historian and monopolized the military and political power. As for Shi Siming, he continued to be his Fan Yang Festival envoy, but he had a lot more money to go back than when he came, and he could be regarded as making a windfall. Li Zhu'er still became his eunuch again, and the service object became An Qingxu.

After Liang Xingfa escaped from Luoyang, he rushed back to Yangcheng day and night. The Seven Monsters of Songshan and the Martial Arts Alliance Master and others all warmly celebrated his successful return. Li Wanyue also came over to Liang Xingfa and said, "I have already seen my mother. Thank you for saving her back. The great kindness is really beyond repayment. ”

Liang Xingfa said to Li Wanyu: "It's easy to repay the favor, just make a promise." He originally said it in a joking tone, but he didn't expect Li Wanyue to agree shyly. Everyone celebrated with great fanfare that he had hugged another beauty.

At this moment, there are already three beauties around Liang Xingfa, just enough to make up the number of mahjong players on a table. He wanted to have fun with them, but within a few days he received a distress letter from Marshal Guo Ziyi. It turned out that Guo Ziyi's 50,000 army was besieged in Guangling by the 200,000 army of Yongwang Li Lan, and if there were no reinforcements to save him, he would be trapped to death.

There was no way, who let Liang Xingfa take the Tang Army's Yulu, so he had to abandon his hedonistic life and lead his 10,000 horses to help fight.

Yongwang Li Lan has always looked down on Tang Suzong. In his eyes, Tang Suzong was born a little earlier than him, and he was simply a gentleman. He became the emperor without any military exploits, and even if he became the emperor, he didn't work hard, and he also took in many fireworks girls to accompany him in the palace to drink and have fun. The ability to govern the country has not grown, but the art of composing music has grown a lot. Therefore, Yongwang Li Lan was not convinced when he thought that a waste could also be an emperor from above. So the battle for the throne was launched.

When Liang Xingfa and the others arrived at the outer encirclement of Guangling City, their subordinates were worried about how to enter the city, and some advocated a strong attack, and they could enter by breaking through an opening. Some also objected, believing that Li Lan's soldiers and horses were too many and there was only a dead end if he rushed hard. Some also said that even if you rush in, Guo Ziyi's side may not open the door, and the situation on the battlefield is the weirdest, who knows if you are friend or foe.

Liang Xingfa felt that their analysis was not unreasonable, and if they couldn't get over the ground, they could only fly. Or the old way, make a hot air balloon. They bought a lot of materials locally and built ten large hot air balloons, each of which could seat 20 people, and a total of 50 round trips could transport all 10,000 people to Guangling City.

The soldiers of Yongwang Li Lan stared at the sky every day, and they didn't know what it was, but they just exclaimed that it was a visitor from heaven.

Liang Xingfa watched Li Lan's army below from above, and saw that it was densely packed with human heads, and it was true that each person could form a small river by pulling a bag of urine. It is not easy to repel so many people.

After Liang Xingfa came to Guangling City, Guo Ziyi was busy asking him if he had a good plan to defend the city? Liang Xingfa did not answer him directly, but asked him what he planned to do now? Guo Ziyi's answer is that she can only stick to it.

Liang Xingfa asked Guo Ziyi to accompany him to inspect the three armies, and found that there was a general atmosphere of despair in the army, and everyone thought that this battle was lost, because the enemy army was so numerous, and now it was besieged again, and the grain and grass were almost exhausted. It is impossible for the imperial court to send reinforcements anymore, and there are still so many places in the country to defend.

Liang Xingfa said to Guo Ziyi: "The morale of the army is so low, this battle is not easy to fight, and it is not good to fight. ”

Guo Ziyi said: "Then how can we improve morale? ”

Liang Xingfa said to Guo Ziyi: "Call all the officers above the fire commander to gather, and wait for me to say a few words to boost morale." ”

Guo Ziyi immediately called all those officers over and concentrated them in the center of the city. Liang Xingfa glanced at them majestically, and then said to them in a loud voice: "Please firmly believe that victory belongs to our Tang Army. Because it's based on facts. When you see that I know so many things, you should guess that I have the ability to be a prophet of the unknown. So I ask everyone to fight with all their might, fight for a wife, and don't forget to be rich and wealthy another day. ”

When those officers heard the words of wealth and promotion, they immediately came to their senses, saying that they must work hard to make military merits and make a fortune if they were promoted or promoted.

Guo Ziyi couldn't help but sigh, it is still the most tempting and realistic fame and fortune.

There are a total of four gates in Guangling City. It is divided into East Gate, West Gate, South Gate and North Gate. Liang Xingfa asked Guo Ziyi to distribute all the troops evenly among these four gates, and he responded in the middle to see which side would rescue when the time came, to put it bluntly, he is now playing a firefighter.

Yongwang Li Lan couldn't hold back his temperament anymore, because they had shouted many times under the city for Guo Ziyi to surrender, but he would not vote, so he angrily decided to cut off Guo Ziyi's head.

Li Lan sent 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack the east gate of Guangling City. Why do you want to attack here first, because Li Lan thinks that this road is the best to take, this gate is also the largest, and the surrounding environment is empty enough.

The offensive began. Li Lan's 100,000 men and horses flocked to the east gate like a tide. More than 10,000 defenders of this gate desperately defended it, pushing one ladder after another to the city, and shooting groups of soldiers close to the gate into hedgehogs.

After Liang Xingfa learned that Li Lan had attacked the east gate, he rushed to support without stopping. Of course, he, the fire captain, did not come empty-handed, he prepared a lot of large logs and large stones, and threw them from above to below. Although Li Lan's army wore armor and held iron shields, it was to no avail, and they were stoned to death and wounded in droves.

Li Lan's army attacked for a day, but had nothing to gain except for the mountains of corpses, so he had to temporarily stop the attack and rest. But his subordinate Ji Guangsen thought that the attack could not be stopped, because there were many people on his side, and he used the wheel formation to exhaust Liang Xingfa and others. Li Lan felt that it was right, and ordered an attack, and everyone could not retreat, and those who dared to escape were immediately beheaded.

With Lord Yama supervising the battle behind, Li Lan's soldiers had to risk death to rush forward. You can't climb the tower and cut down the city wall to get angry. As the so-called embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed in an anthill, a large hole was actually cut in one of the city walls, and Li Lan's soldiers rushed into it like a pack of mad dogs.

The situation is extremely critical, if this loophole is not blocked, Li Luan's more than 200,000 horses rush in, Liang Xingfa and the others will be wiped out. But Liang Xingfa did not panic, he quickly organized his musket team to come to the loophole to face those drilled Li Luan soldiers to carry out accurate strafing, and immediately killed and wounded, and everyone who came in was shot. Li Lan's soldiers had never seen such a powerful weapon, and they didn't dare to enter it despite the abuse of Li Lan and others.

Liang Xingfa also ordered his men to throw the big red-hot iron chains off the city and sway them from side to side, so that the soldiers were either killed or wounded as soon as they touched it. Moreover, it has a large lethal surface and can be called a weapon of mass destruction. His subordinates were full of praise for Liang Xingfa's move.

There is no way, the city gate is broken, and it has to be repaired in a hurry. So, they fought and worked as cement workers. Liang Xingfa said to his subordinates: "This must be the gang of people who built the city wall in the first place, cutting corners, causing the city wall to be not strong enough." Whoever dares to cut corners in the future must not spare his life. ”

Li Lan's army saw that this gate was really evil, not only could not penetrate it, but also the magic weapon of muskets, which caused them to feel ghostly in their hearts, and when they saw the muzzle of the gun, they were verbose. They had no choice but to retreat. (To be continued.) )