Chapter 649: Breaking through Hedong

The first rain of the year fell at the beginning of June, so that the crops that had been thirsty for several months could finally be drunk once, but the rain came too late at this time, and I don't know how much of the land was cracked, and even a large part of the wheat did not bear strong ears, and it was all deflated when I pinched it with my hands.

This year is destined to have no joy of harvest, only the people look at the wheat that has dried up and yellow, and shake their heads and smile bitterly. In some places, the people cut the shriveled wheat stalks in advance, ploughed the ground and planted some grain with a relatively short harvest period, and it was worth celebrating just to catch up with this rain, as long as they boiled for another two or three months, they could eat coarse grain, at least they could fill their stomachs.

There are far more places where you can't eat than where you can eat enough, Datang has just been established and encountered a natural disaster that is not big or small, officials from all over the country asked for instructions to open a warehouse to send grain to help the victims of the disaster flew to the Taiji Palace in Chang'an City like snowflakes, Li Yuan's brows became more and more wrinkled.

The Tang Dynasty has just been established, and at this time the people's hearts must not be lost, and all the places that ask for instructions to open the warehouse Li Yuan will be approved, fortunately, there is a granary that has been filled year by year since the opening of the Great Sui. I also want to thank Yang Guang for his decision to rather starve the people to death than take out the grain, otherwise the situation faced by Datang is not just as simple as being overstretched in terms of troops.

If the new country can't even cope with a natural disaster that is not particularly large-scale, then it can only be said that this country has no qualifications and necessity for existence, and the people who have just experienced the turmoil of the Great Sui Dynasty have no feelings for the new empire, and after nearly ten years of natural and man-made disasters, their sense of belonging to the country has long been as thin as a piece of paper, and it will be broken when stabbed.

Officials within a radius of hundreds of miles from Chang'an are busy providing disaster relief, but Hedong County, which is separated by a river, cannot see a single official from the Tang Dynasty helping the people. Because what is doing this now is the army of more than 100,000 people in Yanyunzhai, as for the officials of Datang in Hedong County...... If they are not dead, then they are no longer officials of the Tang Dynasty. In order to appease the people, Xu Shiji had a large amount of grain and baggage mobilized from Liyang Cang and distributed it to all counties in Hedong County, and then used this as a condition to tempt the people in Hedong City to open the door and surrender.

Wang Duo, the defender of Hedong City, didn't have the heart to care about the people's affairs at all, because there was another thing that gave him a headache more than appeasing the people. The elites of Hedong County were all transferred to Chang'an, the capital division, and Wang Duo was temporarily promoted to serve as the county guard of Hedong, originally this son was Liu Wenjing's, but because he offended the emperor and tried to rebel, Liu Wenjing was beheaded when the Tang Dynasty was just founded. As for whether this crime is true, anyway, that's what the notice issued by the imperial court says.

Wang Duo's status was suddenly promoted to the position of a local official of Zhengsanpin, and he was naturally overjoyed, but before he could be happy, the hundreds of thousands of troops of Yanyunzhai poured into Hedong County like a wave. In just one month, under the dual effect of absolute military deterrence and countless grains, all places in Hedong County have been reduced except for Hedong City, which is governed by the county. The people in Hedong City, which had barely been breached, were also panicked, and the food in the city was already insufficient to hold out for seven days, if the reinforcements from the imperial court arrived, Wang Duo had to open the city gate by himself and let Yan Yunjun in.

This was not the main reason for his upset, the main reason was that there was a prince in the city who was a little overwhelmed by the fright.

He has not gone down on the city wall for the past few days, the defenders of less than 10,000 people in Hedong City have held on for six whole days, and the loss of troops is great, the east gate has been broken once, but he organized a death squad to push the Yanyun army back, and then sealed all the city gates with civil engineering. Yan Yunjun had the thing that could scare people to death and burst into fireballs, and the city gate was almost breached because the power of that thing was really amazing.

Fortunately, his reaction was fast enough and smart enough, no matter how much pressure on the city wall was, he didn't use the death squad of nine hundred people, until the city gate was blasted open, he ordered the death squad to rush out, and the city gate was recaptured, but none of the nine hundred elites were left, and they were all surrounded and killed by Yan Yunjun near the city gate.

After eating a trench and growing wisdom, Wang Duo immediately ordered the four gates to be blocked. He couldn't get out, and Yan Yunjun naturally couldn't get in.

But there was not enough food in the city, and there was a person who would send him twice every hour to ask him if he could keep the prince there, and he was exhausted from torture.

As soon as he ordered the soldiers to repair the city defenses, he saw two eunuchs running towards him in a hurry, Wang Duo couldn't help but curse, turned his head and walked out to the side.

"Lord Gunshou, please stay, please stay!"

A eunuch shouted at the male duck: "Your Highness has sent a slave and maid to ask your lord, do you have to stay today?" His Highness said...... His Highness said that if you can't hold it, please say it in advance, and Your Highness will be ready to drive out of the city. ”

"Outside the city is a hundred thousand Yan Yun Army! What can Your Highness do when he goes out of the city?! ”

Wang Duo asked in a cold voice.

The eunuch lowered his voice and said, "Your Highness said that although Your Majesty has not yet made an edict to the world, there is no doubt that King Yan is his imperial uncle...... If he goes out of the city and surrenders, thinking of this relationship, Yan Yunjun Xu Shiji will not embarrass His Highness. ”

These words almost blew up Wang Duo's lungs, if that highness was his son, he would have sent someone to break the two legs of the coward, from the beginning of the war, the cowardly guy wanted to run away and surrender, did not go to the city wall to encourage the army, but every half an hour he sent someone to ask if he could hold it! How could his father, such a brilliant person, give birth to such a despised guy.

"You go back and tell Your Highness that there is Wang who is as safe as a mountain in Hedong City!"

"That's good! That's good! ”

The eunuch hurriedly said a few good words, turned around and ran back. Looking at the back of the eunuch, Wang Duo spat at the mouth and scolded: "If the city is broken, Lao Tzu will slaughter all of you eunuchs first!" ”

"Enemy attack!"

At this moment, the soldiers let out an exclamation, and then the horn of warning whistled and whistled.

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"Get down all of them, don't stand up! Get down! Wait for the thieves to get close to the city wall and then stand up and shoot arrows, and if you don't want to die, you will fuck Lao Tzu down! ”

Wang Duo shouted a few words loudly, and then quickly lay on the city wall, and shrunk under the battlements, not daring to move. His shout fell, followed by countless large stones. Outside the city, the Yanyun army set up hundreds of stone-throwing vehicles, which can throw hundreds of catties of boulders onto the city wall from 400 steps away, which is very powerful. The defenders on the city wall have been tortured for the past few days, and even the battlements do not know how much they have collapsed.

Hundreds of pounds of boulders smashed down violently with the sound of the whirring wind, and immediately stirred up a cloud of dust, smoke and rubble on the city wall. The roaring sound was incessant, mixed with the terrible wails of those who had been hit by the boulders. Less than ten meters away from Wang Duo, a boulder crashed into the battlements and rolled down, the battlements were smashed down, and the soldiers hiding below were directly crushed into pulp.

A soldier's left leg was crushed by a boulder, and he screamed for his mother. The part of the leg that was hit under the stone is estimated to have broken into a puddle, and even if it can pull people out, I am afraid that it will not survive. In this era, there was no amputation, and even bleeding could kill the soldier.

A boulder was in the middle of the city gatehouse, and with a loud bang, half of the city gatehouse collapsed, and at least 20 soldiers were pressed down by the collapsed roof, and the dust and smoke rose all at once, and there was a thick dust within dozens of meters, and even the comrades who were close at hand could not see it.

After hundreds of stones were smashed, the walls were in shambles. These days have to be baptized by boulders every day, and the soldiers have developed a habit. As long as the Yan Yunjun moved, they would lie down, and they would never dare to get up and shoot arrows before the soldiers of the Yan Yunjun army arrived.

The city wall of Hedong City has long been smashed beyond recognition, the battlements have almost been smashed, and the city walls are all big pits smashed by boulders.

A stirring gravel hit Wang Duo's face, and a deep cut was immediately made. Blood kept spilling out of the wound, Wang Duo gritted his teeth in pain, and was about to call the soldiers around him to come over to wipe the blood for him, but when he looked back, he saw that the closest soldier was hit through the eye socket by a piece of rubble, and he saw that he was not alive. He tore a piece of cloth from the soldier's corpse and wiped the curse on his face.

After the three rounds of the stone throwing cart were crushed, the defenders on the city wall lost at least three or four hundred men. The main thing is that the city wall has been smashed out of cracks, and if nothing else, it is very likely that the outer wall tiles will collapse in a large area if they are hit by a few more blows. The walls were made of blue bricks on both sides, but the middle was filled with earth.

"Get up, those who are not dead are all fucking stand up for Lao Tzu! The archers, the archers all stood up, let the thieves go one hundred and sixty paces away and then throw, no one was allowed to shoot arrows indiscriminately, and obeyed Lao Tzu's military orders! ”

"Whoa!"

The soldiers responded piecemeal, but no one dared to stand up at this point. The power of the catapult is indeed too great, and I don't know how many people have been scared.

"Ballista, check if the ballista is still working!"

Wang Duo was the first to stand up and ran around the city wall shouting.

"It's gone! It's long gone! ”

A Tang soldier replied hoarsely, and then grabbed the hard bow with trembling hands, but because his hands trembled too much, he didn't put the feather arrow well several times. Wang Duo walked over quickly, took his hand and helped him put the feather arrow away, and then patted him on the shoulder, but he didn't know what to say to encourage the soldiers to fight bravely.

He didn't know how to comfort his soldiers, or even whether it was right or wrong to resist. He knew that Hedong City would never be able to hold it, and he was still holding on, but he didn't want to fall into the notorious reputation of defecting to the enemy and treason. But because he didn't want to, more than 3,000 people had died on the walls in the past few days. Wang Duo himself sometimes hated why he hadn't surrendered yet, and he didn't dare to think that if he was also killed in battle, how would he face those thousands of unjust souls after he went down?

"Projectile!"

He gave the order with red eyes, and the archers, who had risen from the ground, sent the feathered arrows out. The dense white feathers as rain fell down, leaving small pits like rain hitting the beach. The Yanyun army outside the city is the beach, and the small pits are the soldiers who have been shot to the ground.

"The walls are cracked!"

Liu Man, the general of the Yanyun Army, who was standing under the protection of the giant shield of his own soldiers, shouted and bowed forward, and he pointed at the crack in the city wall with his horizontal knife and shouted: "Go up with your skills, ignite the gunpowder bag and withdraw it." The city wall collapsed, and I will ask you for credit to King Yan! ”

The huge shield above his head crackled, and it was the sound of feathered arrows falling. Liu Man had no doubt that as long as this giant shield withdrew from him, he would be shot into a hedgehog immediately.

He is the vanguard deputy general, the marquis of Feng County, and the general of Huaihua, with his official position, he didn't have to go into battle in person, but Wu Tianxi, the vanguard general who had already killed the red-eyed, had just personally led his men and horses to rush and kill for a while, how could he shrink back and pretend to be stupid?

"Break through Hedong and go straight to Chang'an!"

He shouted with all his might, and the dense soldiers of the Yanyun Army immediately erupted into an earth-shattering shout.

"Break through Hedong and go straight to Chang'an!"