Chapter 464: Attacking Chang'an (4)

July is the hottest time, and even the wind blows on the face, which makes people feel uncomfortable. If you move casually, sweat will come out of the pores, and you will soon stick to your clothes, and if you have to wear a thick leather armor on the outside and a helmet on top of your head, you can imagine how uncomfortable it is.

It was precisely because of the high temperature that Li Xian led the army to leave Leize County for two days, and before he entered the territory of Wagangzhai in Dongjun, he ordered the team to stop and rest. Li Xian is the person who likes to use light cavalry the most, and he is also the best at using light cavalry, from this point can actually infer some things about his character, he likes the dexterity and speed of light cavalry, how can he be a slow person in character?

Therefore, the army is a little puzzled by King Yan's arrangement this time, and no one knows how King Yan thinks about it.

The army was stationed in a small village called Liujiapu, and it stopped for three days.

Liujiapu is a small village that can not be found on any map, there are only fifty or sixty households, but the villagers who still live here are not the original villagers, the original villagers do not know where they fled, and now they live here are one hundred or ten people who fled from other places. This is not a place where soldiers must fight, but because it is located at the junction of Dongping County and Dongjun, there are naturally more wars.

Although the big battles between Yanyunzhai and Wagangzhai are not often fought, the small friction has never stopped. The original villagers fled, and the new people saw that the village was still intact, so they simply stayed.

Therefore, the villagers of Liujiapu now do not know that this place is called Liujiapu.

Li Xian stood under the big tree at the entrance of the village, looking at the rangers patrolling back and forth in the distance. Although there was a large tree not far behind him, there was a large black umbrella above his head. Where there is a big black umbrella, there are naturally green kites. And where there are green kites, most of the time the phoenix is there. The reason why it is said most of the time, not absolutely, is because after arriving in Yanyun Village, the two of them became free, and they didn't have to wait for Wen Jiao's orders together anytime and anywhere as before.

Today, both are there. Not only are the two of them here, but Ye Huaichong is also there, and Jia'er is also there. These are women, as for men, in addition to Li Xian, there are Qin Qiong, Pei Xingyan, Cheng Zhijie, Xiong Kuohai, Yu Wenshi and.

In other words, it looks like they are standing at the entrance of the village and doing nothing, but if you think about it, how can these people be idle when they are together?

"There has been news from the north, Dou Jiande personally led 100,000 troops, with Su Dingfang as the vanguard general and Yin Qiu as the deputy general, planning to cross the river and go south while we are heading west."

Ye Huaisleeve said indifferently, as if he was not surprised and anxious for such a big thing.

"It's such a great place."

Li Xian did not respond to Ye Huaisleeve's words, but said something that made people a little confused. There is a barren area for dozens of miles here, and only the people who fled from the village have opened up dozens of acres of thin fields. Looking around, it was still a large wasteland, and it didn't look like a good place at all.

"It's a great place indeed."

The same sigh was Yu Wenshiji, he squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, he didn't know what good scenery he was attracted by, and his expression was a little intoxicated.

He sniffled and exclaimed, "The taste is so strong." ”

"What does it smell like?"

Pei Xingyan asked a little puzzled.

Yu Wenshi turned his head, approached Pei Xingyan and said three words seriously.

"The smell of blood."

Pei Xingyan was a little uncomfortable by his appearance, took a step back and said with annoyance: "I don't see anything good here, I only see a barren land, and I can't smell any blood, only a stench!" ”

Yu Wenshi looked Pei Xingyan up and down, and then said seriously: "The realm of people is different, and the nature of seeing is different, the lord said that this is a good place, and you can't see it, which means that your realm is not as good as the lord." I said I smelled blood, but you said I smelled stench, which means ...... You should look under your feet. ”

Pei Xingyan looked down, and sure enough, he stepped on shit.

He rubbed his boots on the ground as he glared at Yu Wenshiji, who smiled and stopped teasing him.

Qin Qiong smiled and said: "From here, a hundred miles to the west, into the East County, it is estimated that the people and horses of Wagangzhai a hundred miles away have been assembled, just waiting for us to crash over." A hundred miles to the north, to the Yellow River, Chen Que'er's sailor stopped on the river. We can get there in one day, whether we go west or north. ”

"So it's a good place."

Li Xian smiled and asked, "Have you discussed it now, who wants to stay?" ”

Ye Huaisleeve didn't overdo it and automatically ignored this problem. Jia'er naturally didn't think about this, and Qing Kite and Huang Luan raised their chins proudly, which meant that they didn't need to think about such annoying problems. And what needs to be tangled seems to be Qin Qiong and them.

"Lone will leave 20,000 people, and the reinforcements from Juyeze will also come over within ten days after Lone leaves, no matter who stays, they must block Wagangzhai for at least a month, which is indeed a very difficult thing."

"That's why I said, the smell of blood is so strong."

Yu Wenshi hugged his fists and said: "The last general has not made an inch of success in Yanyun Village, this place is so good, this credit is so great, the last general wants to try." ”

"Good!"

Li Xian smiled and said, "It's you!" ”

Yu Wenshi sighed and said, "Thank you, lord." ”

Li Xian waved his hand and said: "Thank you, I told them just now, no one is allowed to rob you of this errand, it is you and you, not you and you." ”

Yu Wenshi smiled bitterly: "This is very troublesome......"

Li Xian smiled happily and said: "It's not troublesome, it's boring, you have to find some fun......"

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There had been a stalemate outside Chang'an for half a month, and Li Yuan didn't seem to be in a hurry to take down the capital of the Great Sui. It's just that everyone in the city knows that not being in a hurry to fight for the time being does not mean that you are not in a hurry to fight after a while. Every day, the men and horses of the Li family's army would go to Chang'an to call for battle, but the defenders in the city just couldn't hold out and never went to battle. When the Li Jiajun approached, a rain of arrows shot down the city wall, and if they were far away and scolded, they simply ignored it.

I don't know why, Li Jiajun's call for provocation is only staring at Jinguangmen. Wei Xiaojie, the Sui general who was responsible for guarding this city gate, couldn't figure it out, there were so many gates in Chang'an City, why did Li Jiajun care so much about his side? Wei Xiaojie couldn't guess Li Yuan's intentions, but he was on guard every day. Li Yuan's attack was not too violent, and it seemed a little powerless, although it was suspicious, but it was by no means a bad thing for the soldiers and civilians in the city. The longer Li Yuan delayed, the more beneficial it would be to Chang'an. The grain and grass in the city are enough to last for half a year, and the reinforcements from the eastern capital and Qu Tutong's soldiers and horses will never be able to catch up for half a year.

It was only on the fifteenth day that Wei Xiaojie felt that he knew why Li Yuan's rebel attack was not so fierce.

Every day, he stood on the tower of the city and looked up at Li Yuan's camp from afar, and for several days he found that something was wrong. Today, he finally understood what the things he had been paying attention to for the past few days were. From the day before yesterday, he found that Li Yuan's army seemed to be building something, and the height was increasing every day, and today, the height of one of them actually seemed to be almost less than the city wall of Chang'an.

"It's a building car!"

I don't know when, Li Jing appeared next to Wei Xiaojie.

"General Lee noticed it too?"

Wei Xiaojie knew that this person was now a celebrity in front of the king, although he didn't have a good impression of this guy who came out of nowhere, but Wei Xiaojie, who was born in a family, maintained a good habit of aristocrats, that is, he would never lose his courtesy. According to the current grade, Li Jing is still above him, so he looks like he naturally gave a military salute. And the expression on his face is also humble and polite, and he will never find a single flaw.

"General Wei is polite."

Li Jing hurriedly returned the salute, and then pointed to Li Yuan's camp outside the city and said: "I have been paying attention to it a few days ago, Li Yuan is not in a hurry to attack these days, and he is by no means looking forward to the rescue of the Eastern Capital like us." Now it seems that it is not a surprising method, the tactics of this building car, Da Sui used it more than 30 years ago, and now he wants to use it, obviously there are few people in the Li thief army who have real skills. ”

"Oh?"

Wei Xiaojie's eyes lit up and he asked in surprise: "General Li already has a strategy to break the enemy?" ”

"I have ordered the craftsmen to hurry up and build a batch of throwing carts."

"But on the city wall, it can't be installed at all?"

Wei Xiaojie asked, but he despised Li Jing's method to the extreme. Although the Chang'an city wall is tall and wide, it is not easy to transport the huge cart up, and even if it is transported, it is extremely difficult to solve the problem of assembling and stabilizing the city wall. There are also boulders, hundreds of catties of boulders, which are transported up one by one by manpower, which is simply a fantasy!

It's also a vain name.

Wei Xiaojie defined Li Jing in his heart.

"Definitely"

It seemed that he had seen through Wei Xiaojie's thoughts, Li Jing was not angry, he waved his hand and said: "This cart is not the kind of return cannon that can throw a boulder hundreds of steps, it doesn't need to be big, just throw something of three or twenty catties a hundred steps away." ”

"What's the use of that?"

Wei Xiaojie was puzzled: "Fill the vegetable oil with the skin, if the Li thief's building car approaches, he will throw the vegetable oil out with the cart, a hundred steps away, it is not difficult for the archer to shoot so far." ”

"Wonderful!"

Wei Xiaojie couldn't help but slap his hands and praised: "The building car is huge and moves slowly, once it is ignited, I am afraid that it will be burned into a fireball if it can't walk twenty steps away, and none of the rebel archers on the building car will be able to escape." There are still so many bed crossbows on the city wall of Chang'an, and the way Li Thief came up with this building car is simply vulnerable. ”

Li Jing smiled and looked at Li Yuan's camp in the distance.

I don't know why, Wei Xiaojie suddenly felt that Li Jing's smile was full of intense sadness and uneasiness, as if he was sorry for what he had lost, and like he was unwilling to catch something. This kind of look is very complicated, but Wei Xiaojie can see that Li Jing's smile at this time is definitely not happy.

What the hell is he grieving about?

Wei Xiaojie asked himself, but found that he could never find the answer.

The reason why he could feel Li Jing's sadness was perhaps because he also had sadness in his heart, so he didn't care about Li Jing's slightly revealed gaffe. He also looked at the Li Yuan barracks in the far distance outside the city, and could see the small soldiers like ants walking back and forth in the camp, once he thought that he himself was born in a family and stood at a certain height from birth, and then he stood taller, so he was qualified to despise those ordinary people who were as humble as ants.

But today, he suddenly understood a truth, seemingly small and humble ants can also dig a huge empire full of holes, and it may collapse at any time.

This is the power of ants, and people have to have a little respect.