The battle of the original Taiyuan City was started three days after Pei Shiqing entered Taiyuan City, but it was not as tragic as Li Yuanji said in his letter to his father, in fact, he just exaggerated the battle situation in order to urge his father to send reinforcements quickly, since Yang Yuanqing led nearly 100,000 troops to arrive in Taiyuan City, ten days have passed, and only one battle has occurred in these ten days: Yang Yuanqing personally led the army to capture Jinyang Palace again, and in only half a day, he shot the five thousand defenders who guarded Jinyang Palace, and the guard Sun Da was killed.

Perhaps in Li Yuanji's eyes, this battle can be called tragic (newlyweds are not sweet.

Taking Taiyuan City is the core of Yang Yuanqing's entire Hedong chess game, and the other counties south of Taiyuan are not important to him now, he does not have so many troops to disperse and fight, Yang Yuanqing withdrew all his troops, except for Su Dingfang who led 5,000 cavalry to stay in Hedong County to contain the second reinforcement of the Tang army, and Cui Pojun led 5,000 troops to defend Huoyi County, and the rest of the army all concentrated on attacking Taiyuan City.

When Taiyuan City defended Liu Wuzhou at the beginning of the year, two deep and wide trenches were dug under the city, including the moat, a total of three defensive lines, and the Taiyuan defenders carried out peripheral defense on the opposite side of the trench, but in the attack of Liu Wuzhou's army in the past two months, wooden bridges were built on these trenches, and the moats on the east and west sides were also filled with mud by Liu Wuzhou's army, but Liu Wuzhou finally failed to capture Taiyuan City, and his efforts were completed by Yang Yuanqing.

Outside the east and west cities, the military flag covers the sky and the sun, the camp tents stretch for several miles, the Fengzhou army arrived in Taiyuan has been the tenth day, but has not launched an attack on Taiyuan City, perhaps because they have no siege weapons, Liu Wuzhou left the siege weapons were destroyed by the Taiyuan defenders, and the Fengzhou Sui army does not seem to have time to make ladders, battering rams and other weapons, they came empty-handed, which gave the Taiyuan defenders a line of elimination.

The Sui army of Fengzhou did not seem to be in a hurry, they were not in a hurry to prepare for the siege of the city, a team of military horses galloped outside the city, and in the distance, a carriage transported a long and straight giant tree, which was a cedar giant tree transported from Yuci County, more than ten miles away. There the Sui army found a dense cedar forest, collected thousands of giant trees as high as five or six zhang, using these long and straight giant trees, the Fengzhou army could create a simple and effective siege weapon - the ladder, which was the Turkic army left a profound inspiration, when this kind of ladder up to several zhang wide hooked the city, the army could rush to the head of the city in groups (god-level star.

At the head of the city, Li Yuanji, the Duke of Qi, rode on the east city wall to check the siege preparations of the Sui army in Fengzhou. At this time, he no longer has his usual flying and domineering. He also lost his usual arrogance, with a trace of unconcealable fear in his eyes, especially when he heard that the 20,000 elite soldiers who supported him were completely annihilated by Yang Yuanqing. He felt isolated, as if the entire Hedong had fallen, leaving only a lonely city in Taiyuan.

Li Yuanji has not experienced war. Without any experience in defending the city, in the face of the strong Fengzhou Sui army, his heart was full of fear of death, he wrote to his father more than once, asking his father to allow him to abandon Taiyuan City, asking his father to change the guard, but he only waited for his father to scold again and again.

Behind Li Yuanji stood a group of Li Yuan's staff and officials who stayed behind to assist him, the deputy stayed at Xiahouduan, and the governor Shi Doudan and Sima Liu Dewei stayed behind in Taiyuan. Recorded the military Yu Wenxin, Weiwei Temple Shaoqing Liu Zhenghui, Taiyuan County Taishou Wang Xu, and dozens of generals.

In the face of the upcoming offensive of the Fengzhou Army, everyone's hearts were complicated, and they all knew very well that the Fengzhou Army was not a bandit, and Yang Yuanqing was not Liu Wuzhou. He is famous all over the world for defending the city, and how can a person who is good at defending the city not be good at attacking the city?

"Gong Qi, Yang Yuanqing came from afar, they didn't prepare siege weapons, they are making weapons improvised now. There is nothing to worry about, but we are well prepared. There are one hundred and twenty trebuchets alone, which is enough to smash Yang Yuanqing's army into pulp, Qi Gong doesn't need it, we will definitely be able to defend Taiyuan City! ”

The person who persuaded Li Yuanji was Xiahou Duan, who was a friend of Li Yuan and an elder of Li Yuanji, who was responsible for commanding the defense of the entire city, and Xiahou Duan also received a letter from Li Yuan, in which he ordered him to be optimistic about Li Yuanji and not allow Yuanji to abandon the city and escape.

Xiahou Duan knew Li Yuanji's mind very well, he was frightened by all kinds of rumors in the city, and was frightened by Yang Yuanqing's 100,000 army, Yuanji was young after all, he had not experienced war, and he had no experience, so he suddenly asked him to take on the heavy responsibility of guarding Taiyuan, and he couldn't bear it.

Xiahou Duan pointed at the Sui army below with a horse whip, and comforted him in a low voice: "Yang Yuanqing actually only brought 30,000 cavalry, and the rest of the army was Liu Wuzhou's soldiers, and the training was weak, so the Duke of Qi should not worry." ”

Li Yuanji was tired of Xiahou Duan's chatter like an old woman, nothing more than to defend the city by himself, don't give up easily, he glanced at Xiahou Duan, and said coldly: "There are also Li Shuliang's fifteen thousand deaths (read the full text of becoming a Buddha in another world. ”

After speaking, he urged the horse to turn around and dry Xiahou aside, Xiahou looked at his back and couldn't help sighing, how could there be a reason to call his uncle by his name.

Changshi Dou Dan also shook his head and said to Xiahou: "After all, he is only sixteen years old, and he is still a child, so General Xiahou should not embarrass him too much." ”

"Kid?"

Xiahou had a fire in his belly to Dou Dan, "I led the army to fight at the age of fourteen, and at the age of sixteen, I accumulated merit and sealed Yitong, and I have already experienced a hundred battles, you are thirteen years old as the court, and you can go to the court to do things, Yang Yuanqing was ten years old and fought on the side, but our grandfather is already sixteen years old, you still say that he is a child, when he robs the people's girls and plays with women, why don't you say that he is a child, arrogant and indulgent, don't do small things, can't do big things, he is this kind of person, don't think you are his brother-in-law and cover it up for him!" ”

Dou was about twenty-seven or eight years old, was the son of Dou Kang, literary and martial arts, skilled in bow and horse, he married Li Yuan's second daughter as his wife, is Li Yuanji's brother-in-law, Li Yuan ordered him to stay in Taiyuan to stay in the governor's history, to assist Li Yuanji to defend the city.

He was also annoyed by Xiahou Duan's scolding, and blushed and argued roughly: "Do you think I am willing to do this? He is the son of the lord, even if it is not good, we have to assist him, except that he is a child, how can I explain to the lord that he is absurd and tyrannical? ”

"You should at least tell the truth to your lord!"

The two quarreled so much that their faces were red, and at this moment, a goshawk's chirp suddenly came from the sky, and the two looked up, only to see a goshawk circling from the oblique thorn, Xiahou saw a small red tube tied to the eagle's leg at a glance, and he was suddenly surprised: "It's Xinying!" ”

An eagle slave had already rushed to the city, and he shouted and beckoned to the goshawk, who folded its wings and landed on his hand. The Eagle Slave took off the letter tube and handed it to a soldier, while he took out a piece of fresh meat from the bag and treated the Eagle to the Eagle.

The soldier rushed forward and knelt down on one knee and presented the letter tube to Xiahou Duan, "General Qiyu, it is the Eagle Letter of Hedong City (the best personal companion of the latest chapter. ”

The word 'Hedong' was engraved on the letter tube, and Xiahou Duan hurriedly took out the letter and read it hurriedly, with a look of surprise in his eyes. Turning back to Dou Dan, who looked expectant, he said, "Our reinforcements are here." It has already passed Hedong County. ”

Dou Dan was overjoyed and hurriedly asked: "Who led the army, and how many troops?" ”

"It was led by Duke Qin. A total of 50,000 troops! ”

Dou Dan was so excited that he slapped his forehead, Qin King Li Shimin came, this was the prime minister's wise decision. is no longer like last time, with a timid person, the result was destroyed before going north, making Taiyuan City extremely passive.

Dou Dan forced himself to calm down, and said to Xiahou: "Since we know this information, Yang Yuanqing will also know that he will inevitably launch an attack in the next few days, and we must strengthen our vigilance." ”

"But what is he going to attack?"

Xiahou Duan's gaze looked at the camp of the Fengzhou Army, so far. He didn't see the appearance of any large-scale siege engines, Taiyuan City has such a thick wall, can they still want to drill into the city?

"General Xiahou should not despise Yang Yuanqing, he is extremely good at scheming." Dou Dan said with some concern.

"I know that he is good at scheming, and I don't despise him, I just talk about things, a person who is not prepared for siege ≤ to Taiyuan City to find trees everywhere to build siege weapons, such a general can capture Taiyuan City, I will give him his head."

Xiahou Duan sneered disdainfully, turned around and went down to the city to deliver a letter to Li Yuanji, and Dou Dan looked at Yang Yuanqing's camp. His brows furrowed, and his intuition told him ♀ that in the past ten days, Yang Yuanqing must have done something they didn't know.

If Dou Dan goes out of the city, or if he stands ten feet high, he will discover Yang Yuanqing's secret, but unfortunately he can't find it from the angle he stands, and no one in Taiyuan City can find it.

In addition to the moat outside the city, the Taiyuan defenders dug two trenches in a hundred steps away and two hundred steps away, the trenches were as wide as one zhang and six feet deep, and there were passages between the two trenches, which were designed to push the defensive line to the periphery, designed for the short range of bows and arrows of Liu Wuzhou's army and the lack of cavalry, 10,000 Tang army crossbowmen hid in the trenches to resist the enemy, these two trenches played a huge defensive role, and shot more than 30,000 Liu Wuzhou's siege army (the latest chapter of Han Hua Yueying.

But with the arrival of the Fengzhou army, these two trenches lost their defensive role, the cavalry of the Fengzhou army was fast, and the defenders hiding in the trenches could not outrun the pursuit of the cavalry, and the Taiyuan defenders gave up the outer defense, and the two trenches became decorations, and the Sui army could easily lay bridges on them.

But at this time, there is a scene in the two trenches that Dou Dan, and even the Taiyuan defenders could not dream of, the two trenches outside the north city have been full of Sui troops, there are hundreds of people, this is the fortification soldiers of the Sui army, hundreds of Sui soldiers sit in the trench, their backs against the ditch wall, holding shovels, these ten days, the Fengzhou Sui army only did one thing: digging tunnels.

Dig a tunnel from the camp to the first trench on the periphery, and then dig another tunnel between the two trenches, so that the Sui army in the camp can directly enter the second trench on the inner side through the tunnel, without being discovered by the city, and the Sui soldiers can appear a hundred steps away from the city wall without knowing it.

This should be an oversight on the part of Xiahouduan, there is also such a trench outside the city of Dali in Fengzhou, but the trench is connected to the moat, and once it is abandoned, it will be immediately flooded with water, which is to prevent the trench from being used by the enemy.

But Xiahouduan didn't think about connecting the moat with the moat, maybe he was too confident in the city wall of Taiyuan, or maybe he was inexperienced, he couldn't think of how to use this trench to attack the city, after all, the Sui army would still be exposed to the rain of arrows when they came out of the trench, at most to avoid the blows of trebuchets.

Everyone will have negligence, the key is whether they can catch the negligence of the enemy army, Xiahouduan's negligence is nothing in the eyes of Liu Wuzhou, who is not good at attacking cities, but it is definitely a fatal negligence for the Fengzhou Sui army, which is good at attacking and defending the city.

[Digging tunnels to siege the city is a very common method of siege warfare, in the Anshi Rebellion, the tunnel battle was staged outside Taiyuan City, in addition, ask for a recommendation ticket!! ] To be continued