The spring breeze in February is not only like scissors, but also like a warm hand, gently caressing from the earth, erasing all the cold, and giving the earth a warm spring.

Everything was as Li Ji said, the south wind blowing from the sea drove away the cold of winter, and under the warm sunlight and the spring breeze, the ice on the walls of Anshi City began to melt and fall off layer by layer. At first, the city took advantage of the cold night to pour water on the city walls to freeze, but soon the speed of freezing could not keep up with the speed of the ice melting during the day, and finally it stopped freezing even at night, so that Anshi Castle had to give up this futile move.

In the south of Anshi City, the city wall here is just facing the sun hanging in the south sky, coupled with the sea breeze in the south, the ice on the south wall melts faster than the other three sides, and some places where the ice is thin have exposed the gray and yellow city wall inside, and even the city gate has been exposed.

On the plain facing the city gate, 60,000 Tang troops lined up neatly, their swords unsheathed and their bows wound, and the horses of the cavalry snorted from time to time, ready to rush out at any time. Although tens of thousands of people stood on the battlefield, there was no noise, and people only felt a sense of slaughter rushing to their faces, and even a sense of tension that could not breathe.

Today is the day of the Tang army's siege, in addition to the 60,000 people in the south is the main attack, there are tens of thousands of reserve troops in the rear, although some Tang troops are also arranged in the other city gates, but they do not plan to attack the city at all, after all, the ice there is relatively small, and the siege can only do unnecessary casualties, so most of the Tang army is concentrated here at the south gate.

The movement of the Tang army had already been discovered in the city of Anshi, and countless defenders gathered on the southern city wall. Even King Rongliu and the city lord Yang Wanchun stood at the head of the city and watched down. I saw that the Tang army rode to the bottom of the city and shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has an order: King Rongliu will go out of the city to see the driver!" ”

The Tang army marched under the banner of rescuing King Rongliu, and there has been no large-scale attack on Anshi City, plus Goguryeo is still nominally a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, and now that the Tang Emperor is here, it is also a natural thing to summon King Rongliu to see him.

When the king of Rongliu at the head of the city heard this, his whole body was shocked. The expression on the old man's face changed for a long time, and he opened his mouth and shouted to the herald below: "Xiao Wang obeys, and he will go out of the city to see the driver." Please wait! ”

"The king can't, although the Tang Army is under the banner of helping our country pacify civil strife, its intentions are well known to everyone. The king must not put himself in danger! Hearing that King Rongliu promised to go out of the city to see the Tang Emperor, the city lord Yang Wanchun immediately stopped with an anxious face. This city lord of Anshi, who has single-handedly blocked the tens of thousands of troops of the Tang Dynasty in history, is only in his forties this year, tall, thin and elegant, although he is wearing an official uniform, he looks more like a scholar.

"Wan Chun, you are too worried, as Emperor Tang, you must disdain to do anything unfavorable to me. Otherwise, not only will the prestige be lost, but also the people in the city will be aroused to hate the enemy, it can be said that the gains outweigh the losses, with the wisdom of the Tang Emperor, he will never do such a stupid thing! King Rongliu said a little weakly.

Actually, from the heart. He hoped that the Tang Emperor would do something unfavorable to him, since the Yuan rebellion, his family, wives and loyal courtiers were all killed, and now there is no place for him except Anshi City. As a king, it can be said that it is a failure. Therefore, he already had the will to die in his heart, but now that the Tang army is pressing, he doesn't want Goguryeo's demise in his own hands, so he has been supporting it until now, and he wants to do something for his country.

looked at the king in front of him, who was the same age as himself, but in just a few months, he had turned white. Yang Wanchun was also extremely uncomfortable in his heart, the current Rongliu Wang's face was full of wrinkles, and he looked like an old man of sixty or seventy years old, and he no longer had the appearance of the promising king who was high-spirited and bent on eradicating the Yuan clan.

King Rongliu has made up his mind, Yang Wanchun, as a courtier, no longer objected, the city gate has been blocked with earth and stones, so he had to send Rongliu down from the city by ropes, and the Tang army also immediately sent horses and led King Rongliu to meet Li Shimin.

Li Shimin was wearing that set of golden helmets and golden armor, riding a snow-white horse, looking at King Rongliu who walked slowly with a majestic face, and Li Su was also by his side.

"Gao Rongliu, the lord of the lower country, meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!" When King Rongliu saw Li Shimin on the horse, he immediately turned over and dismounted, walked a few steps and knelt on the ground, and saluted respectfully.

"Are you guilty of the King of Rongliu?" Li Shimin reprimanded sharply without warning.

King Rongliu's aging body shook slightly, raised his head to look at Li Shimin, and still replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, Xiao Wang doesn't know what crime he has committed?" ”

"Hmph, I saw that the Yuan clan in your country rebelled, and kindly led troops to help you quell the chaos, but when you saw the army of the Celestial Empire, not only did not open the door to welcome the king, but closed the city and defended itself, what is the reason?" Li Shimin snorted coldly, and the color on his face became heavier. And the surrounding soldiers were also very cooperative, their faces were murderous, and their hands also held the handle of the waist knife, as long as Li Shimin gave an order, he would divide the body of King Rongliu into a mess.

"Hahahaha~" Hearing Li Shimin's words, King Rongliu suddenly swept away the respect just now, stood up and looked up to the sky and laughed, even more ignorant of the swords and guns standing up beside him.

After laughing, King Rongliu suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty Emperor Tang, you and I are both kings of a country, don't say these foolish words again!" ”

Seeing that King Rongliu was so rude, all the Tang Dynasty soldiers were indignant in their hearts, and many of them pulled out their waist knives, and the 'choking' was endless.

Looking at the wild appearance of King Rongliu, Li Shimin did not look angry at all, and even had a little appreciation for King Rongliu in his heart, and now the other party really showed the demeanor of the king of a country, but there was a desolation of the king of the end in this demeanor.

Li Shimin waved his hand and asked all the soldiers to retreat, and then said to King Rongliu with a smile: "You want to provoke me!" ”

Although Li Shimin only said five words, after King Rongliu heard it, he was like a deflated ball, and his wild posture just now immediately withered, and he said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty the Tang Dynasty is worthy of being a generation of heroes, and even my last little trick has been seen through by you at a glance." ”

After King Rongliu saw Li Shimin, he had already noticed from Li Shimin's words and deeds that the other party had already had the intention of destroying Goguryeo, and he was now alone, and he had already had the will to die in his heart, so he deliberately made the gesture just now, wanting to provoke Li Shimin to kill himself, as long as he died, he could definitely arouse the resistance of the Goguryeo subjects.

"Hmph, do you think that if you die, you Goguryeo will have a chance?" Li Shimin's face suddenly turned pale, and he said sharply again, "With the prosperity of my Datang's soldiers, any resistance you have in front of me is just a joke, today I will let you see with your own eyes how my Datang crushed the Anshi City in front of me into powder!" ”

When Li Shimin said this, he turned his head to look at Li Ji, and Li Ji immediately took the order.

At the head of Anshi City, Yang Wanchun looked at Tang Jun in the distance with an anxious face, since King Rongliu went in just now, he has not come out until now, and Tang Jun has not made any changes, which makes him a little confused when he has always considered himself wise.

"City Lord, is the other party going to use that tunnel?" At this moment, a general next to Yang Wanchun asked.

In addition to the frontal assault, the siege is also one of the common means of digging tunnels, generally in order to prevent, the defense of the city to dig a pit, will be a large vat half buried in the ground, if there is any movement underground, you can hear from the tank, a few days ago the defenders in the city of Tian'an City used this method to hear, the Tang army is digging tunnels, but the strange thing is that these days have not heard any movement.

"Well, this is very likely, order the people below to prepare, if there is a Tang army attacking from underground, immediately dig the previously prepared canal and release water to flood the tunnel." Yang Wanchun also felt that there was only this possibility, so he opened his mouth and ordered, for the tunnel, he had already prepared a way to deal with it, as long as Tang Jun dared to use it, he would immediately let the other party have no return.

But just as Yang Wanchun's order was issued, the general just wanted to leave, and suddenly they heard a roar like thunder under their feet, and before they could figure out what was going on, they felt a softness under their feet, and then a strong force came from under their feet, and they felt that the whole person flew into the sky flutteringly, and then they didn't know anything.

And the king of Rongliu, who was far away in the Tang army camp, saw with a shocked face that under the south gate of Anshi City, layers of loess suddenly rose, and then the underground was like a giant beast trapped in the wilderness, and began to struggle and shake violently, and finally with a loud noise that shook the heavens and the earth, the south gate of the entire Anshi City flew into the sky, and the city walls on both sides of the city gate also collapsed one after another, forming a gap more than half a mile long, as for the soldiers on the city wall, half of it has long been gone.

"Siege! I'm going to spend the night in the city today! Li Shimin also saw the power of gunpowder in actual combat for the first time, and his heart was also shocked, but on the surface he was very calm, pointing to the gap and ordering lightly.

The herald next to him immediately shouted Li Shimin's order, and the generals at all levels, who had already been prepared, received the order, immediately shouted a few times, and led their team to kill the gap, striving to occupy the gap before the defenders in the city could react.

"This ...... This is ......" King Rongliu pointed to the gap in the distance where the dust was still wafting, and he was speechless with a shocked expression. He had long known that the Tang Army had a new type of weapon, which was said to have the power of heavenly thunder and could blow up the city wall, and the reason why Anshi City froze the city wall was to guard against this kind of weapon, so when he saw the scene in front of him, he immediately thought that the other party used that kind of weapon, but he didn't expect that the power of this weapon was so amazing, and it exploded the city wall nearly a mile long at once. (Site. Your support is my biggest motivation. )