Sun Ying saw the rockets shot in the distance, he was secretly surprised in his heart, it was only a quarter of an hour, and the Fulong Pass was lost, could it be that the Tang army had prepared sufficient siege weapons? It seemed that he could only hope that the giant wood array three miles away could stop a Tang army's charge. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Three miles away, hundreds of big trees fell on the official road, completely blocked the official road, only the extreme edge of the mountain has a three-foot passage, this is the escape road of the Zhou army of Fulong Pass, dozens of soldiers poured fire oil all over the big trees, at this time, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, two hundred Zhou soldiers fled to the back, one mile away, Li Xuanba took the lead, led hundreds of Tang cavalry to chase closely.

A soldier ran to the front and shouted: "Go from the side, there is a passage on the side!" ”

The cavalry team immediately narrowed, and the cavalry rushed through the narrow passage one by one, at this time, Li Xuanba had killed two hundred steps away, and the last soldier ran through the chaotic wood, and the soldiers were already ready, and moved a few big trees over, blocking the most marginal passage, and a soldier ignited the fire oil of the big tree at the same time, and the flames suddenly burst into flames, spreading rapidly, and the outermost dozen big trees were first ignited.

At this time, Li Xuanba was killed, his war horse was afraid of the flames, and he retreated, constantly screaming violently, how could he refuse to rush up, Li Xuanba was so angry that he had no choice but to scold.

The soldiers of the Zhou army kept moving big trees to block the passage while retreating, and the soldiers also began to set fire to them continuously, hundreds of big trees spread horizontally and vertically all over the road of more than 100 zhang, only for a moment, the raging fire engulfed the official road that was 100 zhang long, the smoke was filled, the flames were monstrous, and even the shrubs on the mountains on both sides were also ignited by the fire.

After a while, the eldest grandson Shunde led the army to kill, and the scene in front of them made everyone stunned, they stood hundreds of miles away, looking at the fire dragon raging in front of them, and a fire also burned on the mountain.

"Strange, what's going on?"

The eldest grandson Shunde began to be confused, the army just now was actually cavalry, but the defenders of Beidi County did not have cavalry, where is this army?

The fire burned until noon, and the fire on the mountain was extinguished because it did not spread to the woods, and the mountain was bare and dark, which was shocking.

At this time, Li Shimin also arrived with an army of 10,000, and when he heard that the road to the north was blocked by fire, he was greatly shocked and urged to go forward to check the situation.

At this time, hundreds of Tang soldiers were clearing sections of charred trees, tied them directly with iron chains, and dragged them into the valley and rivers next to them.

The eldest grandson, Shunde, reported to Li Shimin: "At present, there are no casualties among the brothers, but they have only delayed their journey for half a day. ”

Li Shimin's brows furrowed, who is the other party? What's the point?

At this time, the general Qin Qiong whispered on the side: "Your Highness, I feel that there is only one purpose for doing this, which is to delay time. ”

Li Shimin suddenly woke up, his eyes looked at the faintly visible Changwu City in the distance, and he was even more puzzled in his heart, could it be that the army in Changwu City was not the Tang Army?

In fact, Li Shimin has considered this problem, the Zhou army closest to Beidi County is in Yan'an County, if the Zhou army of Yan'an County kills Anding County, even if the defenders of Shangjun and Beidi County can't resist it, there will be beacon fires.

Of course, if it is a thousand people and a strange army going south, the defenders of the northern and upper counties may not necessarily know, but what is the point of doing so?

It was precisely because he thought that it was meaningless for Zhou Jun to do this, so Li Shimin did not consider that Zhou Jun would kill, but if it wasn't Zhou Jun, then who would it be? Could it really be that the Tang army in Beidi County surrendered to Li Yuanji and was ordered to block themselves in Anding County?

Next to him, Li Xuanba shouted impatiently: "Guess a fart!" Don't you know who it is? ”

Everyone laughed, this is really the truth, Li Shimin said with a smile: "The third brother is right, don't guess, hurry up and clear the road." ”

In a short time, hundreds of charred trees were pushed off the cliff by the Tang soldiers, and they covered them with another layer of soil, so that the soldiers could not feel the scorching heat of the land.

Li Shimin gave an order, and the army continued to advance, killing Changwu City three miles away, but when it was still a mile away from Changwu City, Li Xuanba suddenly pointed at the big banner on the head of the city with a sledgehammer and shouted: "Second brother, what kind of flag is that?" ”

Li Shimin also saw it, his heart sank, and the big flag fluttering in the wind was clearly the black dragon red flag of the Zhou army.

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On the official road north of Ding'an County, Beidi County, a cavalry composed of 5,000 people under the leadership of the general Luo Shixin rushed south, Luo Shixin immediately sent troops south after receiving the edict of the Son of Heaven, in order to gain time, Luo Shixin's troops were divided into two roads, he personally led 5,000 cavalry first, followed by the general Sun Changle led 20,000 infantry to the rear, each soldier only carried five days of dry food, as far as possible to streamline the equipment, easy to march.

When the cavalry passed through Ding'an County, Luo Shixin ordered the soldiers to shoot a letter to the city, and the army immediately bypassed the county seat and continued to march to the southwest, the order given to him by the saint was to kill Changwu City before dark, and now it is noon, and there are still one hundred and twenty miles away from Changwu City, as long as you hurry up, you can basically complete this task.

But Luo Shixin was also worried that the defenders of Changwu City would not be able to support it, so he did not wait for the reply of the defenders of Ding'an County, but continued to advance with the army.

Ding'an County is the county of Beidi County, there are 5,000 Tang troops stationed in the city, the main general is called Wei Song, born in the Jingzhao Wei family, and Wei Yunqi of the Great Zhou Shangshu Ling is the same clan, his official position in the court is Zhonglang General, but Li Shimin added him as the hussar general of Tiance Mansion, at this time Wei Song stood at the head of the city, and watched the cavalry of the 5,000 Zhou Army go southwest along the official road.

Wei Song didn't know that Changwu City had fallen into the hands of the Zhou army, but he knew that the cavalry of the Zhou army must be heading towards the King of Qin, and the premonition in his heart was getting stronger and stronger, and the final decisive battle was about to begin, and the letter in his hand proved that his premonition was correct.

The letter on the cover reads: 'General Zhou Youwei, Song Guogong Luo Shixin to General Wei Song', it turned out to be a letter written by Luo Shixin, Luo Shixin is among the five thousand cavalry, Wei Song of course knows that Luo Shixin's status in the Zhou army is the first in line, Feng Youwei General, Luo Shixin personally led the army south, which means that there will be a big battle.

"General, what are we going to do?" A general next to him asked in a low voice.

Wei Song read the letter, which said that if he was willing to surrender to the Zhou army, tens of thousands of troops were about to be killed, and he could surrender to the rear army, and if he was unwilling to surrender, he was also asked to stay still.

Wei Song sighed and said, "Don't act rashly for the time being, let's see the situation." ”

Several generals agreed, taking a slight wrong step at this critical moment, their fate will be completely changed, and acting prudently is the king.

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In Changwu City, the siege and bloody battle have been going on for nearly two hours.

The terrain of Changwu City is slightly higher, there is a gentle slope from the bottom to the top, about 300 steps long, at this time on the slope under the city in the west is like hell, the ground is burned black by the fire, hundreds of soldiers who have not had time to withdraw from the first attack died in the sea of fire, and the corpses were burned into black charcoal.

The second and third attacks were followed by countless corpses, which were strewn across the slopes, dozens of broken ladders lying in the dirt, but many more were soldiers killed in battle, more than 2,000 people.

Some were curled up beyond recognition by the flames, some were pierced through the chest with spears and their faces were in temporary pain, some were missing and their bodies were mutilated, and some were .......

Everything was so shocking that even the Tang army itself was reluctant to attack in Xicheng, but shifted the battlefield to Beicheng.

In fact, Li Shimin could go around the city and kill Chang'an directly, but Li Shimin saw that there were only more than 1,000 defenders at the head of the city, and if he couldn't even take this small city, it would seriously affect his reputation.

What's more, Li Shimin's dignity makes it impossible for him to turn a blind eye, and he must take this fortified city.

Li Shimin waved his sword and ordered: "Pass my order, the army will attack again!" ”

The offensive of the Don army began, the fierce drums of war sounded again, and another three thousand Tang troops were thrown into the siege battle, which was already the fourth siege.

The long siege ladder appeared, the red flag flew on the city, and the main general Sun Ying gave the order for the whole army to go to the city, and the five hundred soldiers preparing for battle in the city rushed to the head of the city and joined the fierce battle.

The Tang army under the city organized 5,000 crossbowmen to cover the army's attack, only to see the arrows like dense rain, shooting towards the city, pressing the Zhou soldiers to not raise their heads, and the Zhou soldiers were constantly shot, screaming and falling from the city.

'Boom! With a loud bang, the gravel splashed everywhere, and a siege ladder set up the north city head, followed by more than ten siege ladders successively set up the city head, and thousands of Tang soldiers rushed up like an ant colony, slashing with knives, stabbing with spears, and shooting with arrows, desperately rushing to the head of the city.

The rolling wood and stones on the city fell like hailstones, the knives split the spears, the flesh and blood flew sideways, the soldiers of the Zhou army used the steel forks to defend the city and forked the ladder and pushed it outward, a long siege ladder was pushed out, and it flipped backwards and down, and a frightened shout sounded on the ladder.