Although there were only 3,000 soldiers and horses, Li Chengli's name made Gao Tansheng and Gao Kaidao dare not go out of the city to fight. Li Chengli is not only the first general under Marshal Luo's account, but also the second grandson of General Li Benlei, the chief of staff of the General Staff Headquarters, and the Duke of Youguo. Not only that, but he himself was already a captain of the Yue cavalry in his early years when he was in the second expedition to Liaodong, and then he was always a confidant general in Chen Kefu's Liaodong army.

Now less than thirty, but he has been crowned as the Marquis of Anshi and the general of Huben, and his subordinates have 3,000 light cavalry, which is the famous Flying Bear Battalion. Although the Liaodong Army was reorganized several times, every battalion number, division number, and military number that was used was not abandoned, and all of them were changed to the battalion number of the most elite division. Any unit that can obtain a battalion number must be the most elite division in the Liaodong Army.

The Flying Bear Battalion was the Flying Bear Division and the Flying Bear Army back then, and now this winged Flying Bear Banner is led by Li Chengli, with a large battalion of 3,000 people, commanding ten regiments of men and horses.

Li Chengli had already led the army to Xianyu City yesterday, if it weren't for Luo Dashuai's order, let him arrive first, only responsible for blocking the rebels, and not letting him attack the city, he might have already taken this city and killed Gao Tansheng and Gao Kaidao.

The snowflakes fell and fluttered, and soon covered the remnants of snow that had not yet melted away.

The snow was heavy and there was no rain, but the whistling north wind was still blowing, and the people were about to turn into popsicles, and the clouds in the sky were even lower. It was as if it had fallen directly into the city occupied by the rebels.

"Woooooo

In the gloomy snowy sky, a sudden sound of trumpets was heard from the west side of the city.

Li Chengli, who was patrolling the camp in the camp, turned pale, and said to the captains behind him with a smile, "It seems that our reinforcements have arrived, and I don't know if it was Marshal Luo who came in person." It's still my third brother who has arrived. We're going to meet them, and if it weren't for the snow, they would have arrived in the morning. Just wait for them to arrive early. Capture Xianyu City early, and we won't have to spend the night in this snow tonight. ”

Li Chengli led his subordinates and officers to ride on war horses and go out of the camp to greet them. When I saw a light rider coming in the snow in the distance. There is also the high Li character general flag in the team. Li Chengli also smiled.

Needless to say, I also know that it was not Luo Dashuai who came, but the third brother Li Chengzhi.

Li Chengli and the others clapped their horses forward, and a lieutenant ran forward and shouted, "General Li, the general of the Flying Bear Battalion, has come to greet you, and the brothers have worked hard." ”

The front soldiers and horses who rushed to the front were separated from the left and right, and a general came with dozens of captains. Behind him were two flag bearers, one on the left and one on the right. The flag held by the flag officer on the left is the flag of the general Li Zi, and the flag officer on the right is a battalion flag embroidered with the battalion number. On the black battle flag, the word "flying horse" is embroidered. This is another elite army awarded by the battalion number.

"The Flying Cavalry Battalion was ordered to come for reinforcements. Greet you! ”

Li Chengli stepped forward with a smile and struck the armor of the third brother with his fist. Watching Li Chengzhi march all the way, his body was covered with snow and water, and he couldn't help but say, "It's snowy all the way, why don't you rest for one night first, and then attack the city tomorrow morning?" ”

Li Chengzhi was even more anxious than the second brother, shook his head and said, "The brothers have traveled so far, but they don't want to sleep in the snow again tonight." 【Bajie Chinese Network High-quality Update】Attack the city directly, just ten thousand chaotic troops, why be afraid? ”

"Okay, kill this feeding!" Li Chengli also said heroically.

Most of the people in the Sui period had a two-meal system, and the first meal was the morning meal, which was around seven to nine o'clock in the morning. The second meal is from three to five o'clock in the afternoon, before dark.

In ancient times, there was a famous general who happened to have breakfast before the battle, but in the face of the enemy, he said, "Destroy this dynasty." He asked the brothers to follow him to fight the enemy and defeat him, and then he came back for breakfast, and the battle turned out to be so, and it was not long before the enemy army was defeated, and he came back just in time for breakfast. So, to extinguish this morning food, that is a very bullish sentence in the army. …,

And now that it is snowing heavily, it is dark early, looking at the time, it is almost time for dinner, but Li Chengzhi asked to extinguish this feeding, that is, to rush back for dinner after the battle, which shows how bullish it is.

The brothers of the Li family are from a family of generals, and they are experienced as soldiers, and they have seen war scenes that are a hundred times more severe than those in front of them. In the face of the rebel army composed of thousands of monks and homeless people, with a full two elite men and horses reinforced by 6,000 light cavalry who had been awarded the battalion number, they really had nothing to worry about.

An order was given, the flag was unfurled, and a group of heralds galloped back and forth in the snow, conveying the general's order.

The war drums sounded majestically, and the horn of the bull horn was also sounded one after another, and as soon as the horn sounded, the elite soldiers and horses in the army immediately surged with enthusiasm, and the fighting spirit rose. Raise the troops and put on armor, and assemble in the tent. The two brothers of the Li family did not discuss much in the face of this Xianyu City, and immediately the two brothers attacked the west gate and the east gate.

On the snow-covered ground outside the city, two armies of men and horses soon gathered. Although the Flying Bear Battalion and the Flying Cavalry Battalion were both light cavalry battalions, and they didn't bring much equipment with them to suppress the bandits this time, the Liaodong Army had gunpowder weapons that all other forces had not been able to possess so far.

Combined with gunpowder weapons, the light cavalry only had to carry catapults that could be quickly disassembled and assembled, and the combat power immediately increased. Especially in the face of these monks and homeless people in the city, there is no fighting power of the chaotic army.

Soon, dozens of gunpowder projection vehicles had been assembled, and they were ejected in front of the city gate, so that the bald monks who only held improvised weapons on the city head, and the displaced people who had hurriedly gathered during this time in Gao Kaidao, looked at them one by one with sweaty faces and hearts.

Although Xianyu City is a county town, but several years of war, this time the city wall has long been seriously damaged, although after the imperial court recovered, and reinforced and repaired, but also only focused on repairing the city gate, and those collapsed city walls, as for the damaged, and has not yet come and the whole repair is good.

One poison gas bomb after another was the first to be loaded, and one lieutenant carefully corrected it and fired one first. With a whew, the projectile threw the gas bomb onto the city. There was a thud and an explosion, and in an instant, countless yellow smoke filled the air.

The monks at the head of the city who were reciting the scriptures, after seeing the loud noise at the beginning, they did not love the blessing of the Bodhisattva but were secretly excited, thinking that they were not injured because of the blessing of the Bodhisattva. But the next moment. The yellow smoke had enveloped them, and they were in the yellow mist, invisible. And the smoke can also make people cry and snot immediately. Poor breathing and a violent cough.

This kind of smoke, which had never been seen before, immediately alarmed many people in the city.

When the monks at the head of the city were panicking. They are the only ears that still retain their sensitive senses. Immediately a succession of whistling sounds were heard, followed by violent explosions one after another.

Although this kind of gas bomb is not very powerful, and the poison gas is unlikely to poison a dead person, if it really explodes around you, it is still immortal and crippled. Countless monks standing at the head of the city were in chaos, covering their bleeding wounds, and scurrying around in panic.

Stay on top of this city, and not only will you not see the enemy. And the pain in my eyes is getting hot, and even my throat is on fire. They had never faced such a weapon before, and had no idea that if they covered their mouth and nose with a damp cloth dipped in water, they would be able to minimize the damage.

One by one, they only know how to yell and scream. Many people even fell off the city with one foot in the air. It didn't take long for the rebels who didn't know how to hide in the poison gas for a long time. began one after another people vomited and fainted.

Li Chengli stood in the snow under the city, looking at the panicked figure in the fog at the head of the city, with a firm face.

"Swap shots!"

"Swap shots!" Receiving the order, the heralds shouted loudly.

The shooters in the front row have replaced with shells made of pig iron, and the gunpowder in them is mixed with many scattered bullets of poisonous iron nails and iron sheets. This kind of bullet basically can't kill people directly, but the countless poisonous iron nails and iron pieces sputtered out after the explosion are the most ferocious. Such a bomb is even more powerful in positional warfare or in urban warfare. …,

"Launch!"

Scattered bombs were thrown onto the city, and more screams were heard amid the violent sound of the explosion and the light of the fire.

"The gunner extends forward and continues to scatterfire!"

"The ladder is ready, the landing force is covered with wet towels, and is ready to climb the city for melee!"

One after another improvised ladders have been dragged out of the battalion, and they are improvised ladders that have been made overnight. Each soldier carrying the ladder carried a shield, and behind them were a larger number of lightly armed melee soldiers, all dressed in light armor, with horizontal swords in one hand and round shields in the other, ready to attack.

Although they are fighting a rabble army, the Li Chengli brothers' combat methods are remarkable, and every step can be used as a tactical model in the martial arts hall of the army.

After another heavy shotgun strike, the projectile vehicle had begun to extend the shotgun into the city.

Li Chengli waved his hand, and the herald soldiers behind him waved their flags, and the cloud ladder soldiers and city climbing soldiers who had already been prepared rushed towards the city like cheetahs.

At a distance of two hundred paces, the soldiers besieging the city did not receive any blows, and they rushed directly to the city without any damage.

"Tree ladder!"

One after another ladders were erected, and the lightly armed armor behind them carried a shield in one hand and a knife in his mouth, and quickly stepped on the ladder to climb up.

Li Chengli, who was standing behind and watching the formation, did not relax at all, and waved his hand again, "The crossbowman team and the archer team moved forward, and shot fifty steps below the city to cover the siege!" ”

Bands of light horsemen rushed to the front of the city, forming a neat line and taking long bows from their backs. This is not a cavalry bow, but a longbow designed specifically for long-range shots.

With his bow and arrows, he began to aim at the enemy soldiers who appeared on the city.

"Free fire, shoot!"

The bowstring sounded softly, and the arrows flew away like locusts.

With such a long bow, against the monks and homeless people who did not even have leather armor, the arrows of the cavalry archers were almost all missing, and those chaotic troops fell one by one.

Under the repeated blows, those rebel armies had no foothold in the city at all. More and more people are falling, and corpses are lying everywhere.

The soldiers on the ladder also climbed to their heads at this time, took off the knives in their mouths, jumped up, jumped down from the battlements, flashed their knives, slashed left and right, and the momentum was unparalleled.

From the beginning of the siege to the time when the foot soldiers jumped up to the city through the ladder, it was less than half an hour.

Bursts of shouts and killings rang out, and the rebel army could no longer resist it. Ignoring the leaders behind him, he fled towards the city one by one.

Moments later, all the remnants of the rebels had been killed, and countless archers had climbed up from below.

The soldiers of the Flying Bear Battalion made a slight reorganization at the head of the city, and immediately formed a small phalanx with shields as a strong force and rushed towards the city.

Before long, the city gate was occupied, and the iron-clad city gate was opened from the inside by the soldiers of the Flying Bear Battalion without any blow, and more soldiers of the Liaodong Army flocked in, and Xianyu City was broken.

As soon as the eastern gate was broken, the western gate was also broken.

In the dim afternoon, the snowflakes were still falling, but no matter how heavy the snow was, it was too late to cover the blood all over the ground and the dead soldiers everywhere.

Snowflakes are whistling all over the sky, the east and west gates of Xianyu City, hundreds of troops marched in, horses' hooves resounded through the streets and alleys of Xianyu City, all the streets were blocked, if it weren't for the soldiers walking back and forth on the streets, the whole Xianyu was simply a dead city.

As soon as the east and west city gates were broken, the Liaodong army quickly rushed to the north and south gates, and quickly controlled the two city gates.

The snow shone on the glittering epaulettes on the shoulders of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army, and the military boots stepped on the thin snow, vibrating the bright bluestone pavement, making a rhythmic dull echo.

The people of Xianyu City hid in fear at home, and peeked through the crack in the door in horror at the swords of the cavalry. In just a few days, first Gao Tansheng's monks defeated the officers and soldiers and captured Xianyu City, and then the peasant army Gao Kaidao led the rebellious army into the city and plundered the city. But not two days later, the officials and soldiers of the imperial court arrived again, and what they didn't expect was that this time the imperial court took the city faster, and it was only less than an hour before they entered the city.

The two battalions of Flying Bear and Flying Cavalry attacked the city, and Gao Tansheng retreated to the granary in the north of the city, which is the strongest place in the city, and the high walls around it make this place like a city within a city.

For the rebels who dared to resist to the end, the Li brothers had no sympathy at all. Before coming this time, Luo Dashuai had already told the brothers that this time was not as good as before, but those who dared to resist to the end would be killed without mercy and exterminated on the spot! (To be continued)