It seems that a lot of things happened when Li Jie was away, as soon as he mentioned surrendering, Zhang Shigui and Zhang Jian first showed strong unwillingness, but they lowered their heads and said nothing, pinching their chin and beard, Li Ji actually thought deeply for a while, and then wrinkled his brows and shook his head.

"I'm afraid that Ke Shouli will not accept surrender now."

"What's going on?" Li Jie asked curiously, but Zhang Jian lowered his head, and Zhang Shigui was also embarrassed, and it took a long time before he muttered and explained: "The day before yesterday, we just lost the battle." ”

The matter is still out of the Guanzhong Army and the Yingzhou Army on the cooperation of the not tacit understanding, Li Jie walked for more than ten days, Zhang Shigui and Zhang Jian also took turns to attack the city for more than ten days, but Gaimu Mountain City is really too difficult to attack, located at an altitude of hundreds of meters on the cliff of Tashan Mountain, the steep mountains naturally surround the mountain city, the city wall that can be attacked is only more than 100 meters, in order to resist the Tang Army, a large number of soldiers were specially retained, the Guanzhong Army and the Yingzhou Army took turns to attack more than once, but the mountain city did not move.

Especially yesterday, the rotation of the Guanzhong Army and the Yingzhou Army was also caught by Ke Shouli, taking advantage of the retreat of Zhang Jian's department, a thousand cavalry rushed out, and hit the retreating Yingzhou army a poke out of hand, if it was not for the critical moment Zhang Fubu stepped forward and stared at the Goguryeo cavalry, Zhang Jian himself was a little hanging, Rao is so, the Yingzhou army still killed more than 1,000 on the spot, and the wounded are not counted.

No wonder one by one is like a defeated rooster, listening to Zhang Jian's shameful narration for a long time, Zhang Shigui also nodded in embarrassment, Li Jie understood and scratched his head, Li Jie sighed helplessly: "Cousin Zhang Jian, and Manager Zhang, if you continue to attack, I suggest that you still besiege it!" ”

"We can't besiege it, it's going to be too late." As soon as he mentioned this, Li Ji scratched his head very depressedly: "Your Majesty has led the crowd from Youzhou, and it is expected to arrive in Yingzhou in mid-April. ”

"Shuo Wang Xian's nephew, tell me about your plan!"

In the afternoon, there was a commotion under the city of Gaimu Mountain, and the Yingzhou army, which had been attacking for more than ten days, the Guanzhong army retreated one after another, and instead of some fierce sergeants wearing several pieces of armor arrived under the city, because they had been attacked by a surprise attack, even if they retreated, the Yingzhou army was cautious, and the cavalry pressed tightly on the foot, and slowly retreated.

"Hmph, a different group of people came to die again." On the city wall of Gaimu Mountain City, looking at this scene, Shao Mucheng was full of confidence, and he raided the Tang army once the day before yesterday, winning this guy with a high spirit, as if tens of thousands of Tang troops under the mountain had become ants, in contrast, Ke Shouli frowned, and looked at the guard below worriedly.

The Ke family has been in Gaimu City for a long time, and it is one thing to be the king and hegemon, but the disadvantages are not taken seriously, and now Ke Shouli can be sure that the Goguryeo army of the Great Wall in the north has basically retreated to the vicinity of Liaodong City, as for the south of the Liaodong Peninsula, where the army is already weak, not to mention, will the Tang Dynasty not go back to the sea to attack? Today's Gaimu Mountain City is already a caged bird, and I don't know how long it will last.

Just thinking about it, Ke Shouli's eyes suddenly slammed into the sky, and he exclaimed, "It's actually him!" ”

At the same time, Li Jie also walked out of the military formation lazily with a yawn, glanced at it, and waved his hand directly at Wang Xuance, the commander of the front formation, and ordered: "Let's start!" ”

It is worthy of being the king of Shuo, as soon as he makes a move, he is different from others, in front of the formation, the sword and shield soldiers and the long lance soldiers are closely arranged into a dense formation, and the hedgehog-like large array looks not only not like a siege, but like a defense.

Sure enough, his concern was right, behind the infantry formation, a large number of troops in light armor shouted and pushed up carts of black stones, and actually built stoves on the spot and lit fires, this time it was not like a siege, but like a picnic, just in Ke Shouli's puzzled and vigilant old eyes, the Tang infantry was busy filling the black stones into the furnace, and after a while, bursts of black smoke rose.

"Hehe, Liaodong is so good, there is a lot of coal!" Under the big umbrella cover, watching his subordinates busy with their work, Li Jie couldn't help but smile, haha boasted, but before he could laugh for a while, a strong smell of burnt paste came into his nose, which immediately made the dignified king jump up full of confusion.

"Luo'er, can you bake it, if you can't bake it, I'll come!"

"Who, who said I wouldn't bake, sit and wait!" Pouting and saying, Changsun Zhi secretly threw a poor Liaohe grass carp into the grass with a weak heart, and saw the other big fish on the plate winking at him with an innocent look, and Li Jie himself kneaded his face into a bitter gourd face.

In the kung fu of grilling fish, the cannon fodder army was hey yelling and carrying a big log, these are the beams and pillars of the Goguryeo aristocratic mansions under the mountain, etc., which were quickly punched and assembled in the busyness of the carpenters in the army, and for a full hour, the Tang army did not attack, and within an hour, more than ten tall triangular brackets appeared under the city of Gaimu Mountain.

"Trebuchet? Impossible? It's definitely not enough to do it in such a place! Pinching the beard on his chin, Ke Shouli muttered suspiciously, he hadn't seen a trebuchet, and this thing was not used less during the pre-Sui attack on Liao, but all trebuchets basically need more than 100 people to pull the strings, pull the trebuchet arm with a thick rope, and quickly throw stones or weapons out on a seesaw.

Not to mention that Li Jie's trebuchet is small, the position in front of Gaimu Mountain City is even smaller, and it is blocked by a dense infantry formation, and a hundred-man team carrying trebuchets in this place can't be opened, let alone ten.

Of course, things will not stop according to Ke Shouli's doubts, after assembling the trebuchet with the steel bearings brought from Wuyuan, the craftsmen hung a large net on the short wall of the trebuchet, and kept filling the net with stones, a stick of incense time, the strong net has completely pulled the short arm down, in Ke Shouli's amazed gaze, the long arm of the stone thrown high was slowly pulled down again, Ke Shouli was stunned, Tang Jun quickly used a small shovel to dig out the black stone blocks that had been burned red in the furnace, and put them into the stone throwing spoon.

"It's not good, the Tang army wants to attack with fire!"

"Put!"

Before Ke Shouli's words fell, Wang Xuance, who was full of novelty, had already shouted, and in the buzzing sound, the rope that hooked the stone throwing wall was suddenly released, and the trebuchet roared under the huge gravity and threw the red-hot briquette into the sky, it was really a meteor shower, and I don't know how many briquettes were thrown into the mountain city with black smoke, and immediately a large number of screams rang out.

One or two pounds of sturdy briquettes fell from a height of 100 meters, and the gravitational acceleration was enough to knock people out, even if they were wearing helmets, they would be broken bones, not to mention that they were still burning red, and dozens of people were beaten screaming and rolling in the sound of the landing, and the skin was hot, hissing and emitting the smell of meat, and the red-hot powder fell into the collar, which made hundreds of people roll on the ground.

Although Gaimu Mountain City is strong, there is another problem, it is small, a few hundred meters wide makes the trebuchet's attack range spread over two-thirds of the mountain city, and there are just a few briquettes thrown into the hay pile, and after a while, billowing smoke comes out!

"Don't stand stupidly, go quickly, go and put out the fire for the old man, put out the fire!" Seeing the fire spreading to the granary, his old heart was raised, and before Ke Shouli finished yelling, the young room next to him was panicked, and he covered his neck and shouted: "It's in the neck!" Quick, help Ben get it out! ”

In less than a minute, before the fire brigade could bring water from the well, the second wave of meteor fire rain was falling to the sky, and then the third wave, the fourth wave, half an hour of projection, the fire in several warehouses where the forage was stored was already out of control, and the mountain city was full of red-hot coals that made people tremble at every step, and more than 100 people collapsed to the ground after being hit by the coal fire, and there was no sound anymore, even if the newly fallen coal smashed on the body and made a hissing roasting sound, More Goguryeo sergeants who were smashed and burned rolled on the ground in pain and wailing.

Especially the carbon monoxide produced by the combustion of coal, colorless and odorless but highly toxic, unconsciously, the weak person has been poisoned and collapsed, and he saw the young room jumping around him fainted, and the shield on the edge of the city wall Ke Shouli couldn't help it, and the wolf full of anger howled out: "Pass the old man's order, the cavalry go out of the city and destroy the trebuchet!" ”

The closed city gate suddenly opened, and the short Goguryeo cavalry riding on the fruit dismounted horse rushed out of the city gate with great agility, with the anger of being smoked for a long time, howling and rushing to the Tang army formation, with a bitter face and a black half of the grilled fish, Li Jie's eyes immediately lit up, and he ran forward excitedly after losing the fish and shouted: "Meet the enemy!" Rejection! ”

The steel crossbows, which had become standard equipment, were all pulled apart, and the infantry aimed at the air, shooting a beautiful parabola elegantly, and a large area of brilliant blood immediately burst into the puff landing, and in the roar of people turning over their horses, the Goguryeo cavalry fell in a large row.

In front of the infantry defense array, Li Xilie, the tall and tall assassin of the former Zuotun Guard, raised his Mo sword and hissed and shouted with all his might: "Shuo Wang Tielin! ”

"Don't move in the wind and rain, kill!"

Facing the oncoming cavalry, the snow bright foot lance is like a steel forest stabbing out, the lance and the spear ratio, the biggest feature is the short sword-like lance, the sharp lance head rolled over, the blade broke the flesh after the sound is brought out of a large share of bright red, the fruit dismounted horse is more than flexible impact is insufficient, a round of iron forest assassination, the first two rows of cavalry rushing out of the city are almost completely wiped out, only the low fruit horse clattered on the big shield in front of the infantry formation.

There were raindrops of steel crossbows, and there was still a forest in front of him, and the Goguryeo cavalry, who had thought that he would not be smashed even if he was dead, faced such a terrifying attack, and suddenly found that it seemed that he was still alive, and he didn't know who shouted, and the remnants of the cavalry were swarming and desperately fleeing back to the city gate, and the old eyes of Ke Shouli who saw it almost glared out, and shouted in panic: "Archer defense, close the city gate!" ”

The 1,000 cavalry who attacked only fled back more than 500 people, the city gate was tightly closed, and on the city wall, the same arrows fell like rain, but under Li Jie's strict order, the Wuyuan army did not pursue at all, and the panicked arrow rain shot many of their own sergeants, and the remnants of more than 200 cavalry under the city were also stunned by this rain of arrows.

Commanding Scar Liu to lead people forward and tie people back, Li Jie led the hand dance to shuttle back and forth in the military formation, and did not come back for half a day, and the eldest grandson behind the anger dug a small mouth higher and higher: "Hmph, it's not that you dislike my grilled fish, you don't eat it, this princess eats it herself!" ”

Muttering, Changsun Weaving took down the grilled fish on the branch on the branch, opened his pink little mouth and bit it, and after a while, the original Changsun Weaving's pink smiling face instantly turned white, and when he turned his head, he spit out a big mouthful.

On the city wall, seeing that his subordinate cavalry was tied down in a string like an animal, and the catapult was pulled down again, Ke Shouli couldn't help but be so angry that his face was whiter than Changsun Zhi, and he angrily slammed his fist on the city wall, full of indignation and roared: "Come on, set up a shield!" Hold on to the city, and don't go out of the city to face the battle again! ”。