Being on the city wall, of course Li Er couldn't hear the screams of the soldiers in the city gate, but with just his innate intuition, Li Er already knew that the situation at the city gate was definitely not good, and subconsciously came up with a coping strategy, yelling and ordering: "Li Deliang, go down to the city immediately, take the army to load soil and stones with straw bags, and block the city gate and Yongdao!" Fast! The sooner the better! ”

The situation was extremely urgent, but Li Deliang did not immediately obey his fate, but asked Li Er with a sad face: "Right Governor, there was no preparation in advance, in a hurry, where did the last general go up to find so many straw bags to contain soil and stones?" ”

Hearing this, Li Er's body was shocked, and he immediately lowered his head weakly, and said secretly in his heart: "No wonder in Daxing, he refused to use this tactic to attack the outer city, he just prevented us from blocking the city gate, so he wanted to keep it until the inner city war, and he left it until today, and finally used it on me." Traitor, scheming is really deep. ”

At the same time, Li Er did not give up the dying struggle, and instructed Li Deliang: "Then first plug the city gate with firewood, grass and debris, and light a fire to block the city gate!" Then go and collect straw sacks and fill them with earth and stones to block the city gates! Hurry, we don't have much time! ”

Li Deliang finally sang the promise this time, and hurriedly rushed down to the city to organize the army to act according to the order, and at the same time, the news that the city gate had been broken by the Sui army's artillery also flew to the city, so that the generals of Li Erjun who heard the report were all as white as earth, and their legs trembled, but Li Er's face was as heavy as water, and he did not speak, and kept praying in his heart for the blessing of his father's heroic spirit, so that the Sui army would find this as soon as possible.

The Sui army soldiers did not immediately find that the tactics of artillery bombardment had been successful, but it didn't have much to do with it, the Sui army artillery under the guidance of the traverser Chen Fuliang and the genius scientist Yuan Tiangang personally supervised the construction, in many details is a direct jump forward, knowing that the wooden stick wrapped in cotton dipped in water to clean the cannon barrel extinguishing the fire star, the unified specifications of the shell and the cannon barrel do not need to be dedicated to the shell, so that the shell can be directly used, and the proportion of the components of the propellant has been repeatedly studied, and the amount of gunpowder has a unified standard and is packaged separately, It not only avoided waste but also greatly accelerated the speed of charging and ammunition, so when Li Deliang had just begun to organize the defenders to carry firewood, grass and debris into the city gate, the third round of salvo fire from the Sui army's artillery came again.

Of course, the target of the third salvo of Sui artillery is still the most vulnerable city gate, half of which bombarded the city wall at both ends of the city gate, and the rammed earth city wall was splashed with dust, smoke and dust, revealing six large pits, and the other six shells accurately hit the city gate, and the result also made the Huoyi city gate exposed at once, one door was smashed inward, and the other door was directly broken into two, so that the Sui soldiers could directly see the situation in the city.

Next, without hesitation, Chen Fuliang of course ordered the long shield men to go out, strode forward to the outside of the moat to set up temporary fortifications, cover the archers to suppress the defenders of the city, the general Qiu Shili volunteered, and asked the order to lead the death squad to seize the city gate, Chen Fuliang immediately agreed, and asked Qiu Shili to charge forward from the side of the artillery array, so that the Sui artillery could bombard the city gate with a third salvo.

Seeing from a distance that the infantry of the Sui army had begun to move out to prepare to grab the gate, Li Deliang, who was in charge of blocking the city gate, was so anxious that his eyes were red, and he roared and shouted to urge the soldiers to step forward and throw all the objects that could be burned into the city gate.

Facts have proved that this tactic of Li Erjun can only be effective against flesh and blood, not only has no effect in front of the Sui army's artillery, but also hurts themselves, after the Sui army's third round of salvo against the city gate bombarded, the roaring artillery shells smashed heavily on the debris pile, smashing the debris pile that had just begun to smoke and collapsed, countless debris with flames flew into the city, smashed the heads and faces of the soldiers of Li Erjun, and turned the soldiers of Li Erjun directly into burning people, screaming and rolling on the ground, Then it ignited the houses and streets adjacent to the city gate, and the shells were castrated, and they smashed into the city and killed and injured many soldiers of Li Er's Army.

At this time, the Sui army's long shield hand had rushed to the city to cover the archers to release arrows, and the defenders of the city panicked and fired arrows back, and the Sui army death squad led by Qiu Shili also rushed to the vicinity of the city gate with round shields, knives and guns, and directly crossed the moat that the Sui army had worked hard to fill with shrimp and toad carts. At the same time, the trained Sui gunners also seized the last opportunity to blast out a salvo into the city gate, and most of the whistling shells rushed directly into the city, sweeping away the debris piled up by the soldiers of Li Erjun at the risk of their lives again, and by the way, taking away the lives of many officers and soldiers of Li Erjun, including Li Deliang, the castration was still unabated, and the streets and houses in the city were destroyed by two before stopping, bringing more chaos and panic to the defenders in the city.

Qiu Shili's army rushed into the city gate with smoke and fire, rushed into the city before the flames, fought desperately to seize the road into the city, the Sui army infantry brigade also strode forward, racing against time to rush to the front to reinforce Qiu Shili, the Sui army artillery immediately shifted the target, free fire bombarded the dense enemy on the city, heavy shells bombarded the city one after another, the bounce raged, everywhere Li Erjun soldiers broke their tendons and fractures, either dead or wounded, the soldiers and generals ran to avoid bullets and screamed continuously, individual soldiers panicked and fell directly off the city wall, The army's heart was flustered to the extreme.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Li Er still knew very well in his heart that the defeat of the army had been decided, and there was no way to reverse the situation and turn defeat into victory, but Li Er still didn't want to give up, and while ordering Li Shentong and Zhu Cang to lead the army into the city to fight street battles with the Sui army, he rushed to the south gate, personally led the cavalry out of the city from the south gate, and went back to attack the Sui army's artillery position, striving for the hope of stabilizing the battle situation on the last line. However, for the sake of insurance, Li Er did not dare to bring his handsome flag to the cavalry army this time, and changed to Duan Zhixuan's banner to command, so as to avoid exposing his position and becoming the key target of Chen Fuliang.

Li Erjun previously declared that the Sui army was going to slaughter the city lies, at this moment played some role, saw the Sui army rush into the city, although Li Erjun soldiers panicked in their hearts, but still at the request of the generals to summon up the courage to step forward, and the Sui army soldiers to start hand-to-hand street fighting, the main battlefield of the east gate of the city is like ants, the sound of killing shocks the sky, the soldiers of the two armies each fight for their lives and victory to the death, in the sword light and sword shadow and flesh and blood flying inch by inch to fight for the position in the city, the battle is cruel and fierce.

Cavalry assault is Li Er's magic weapon, Chen Fuliang in the study of the tactical characteristics of the enemy, but also often feel headache and fear for Li Er's tricks, but today it doesn't matter, Li Er hurriedly led the cavalry from the south gate just out of the city, Chen Fuliang before the infantry team arranged in the southeast corner of Huoyi has already strode forward, taking the initiative to meet the cavalry of Li Er's army. Chen Fuliang also immediately ordered to report * to attack, and went directly to fight with Li Er in a tough cavalry battle, Guo Feng and Chen Ci led the order to sing the promise, Chen Fuliang also said half-jokingly: "Li Erlang likes to personally lead the cavalry charge, although I didn't see his handsome banner this time, but he may still be in the thief cavalry team, I don't like this kid the most, who can get his head, who am I in-laws with, marry my first daughter to his son!" ”

After hearing the reward of Chen Fuliang conveyed by Guo Feng and Chen Ci, the four regiments under their command currently have nearly 700 people, and the **** soldiers suddenly all had red eyes, all of them charged like chicken blood, screaming and rushing directly to the cavalry of Li Erjun, the excitement made Chen Fuliang a little inexplicable, and said secretly: "I only have a son and no daughter now, can my daughter, who may still be in her mother's womb, have such a great charm?" ”

As a result, of course, this pit the cavalry of the Li Second Army, the front team finally rushed through the resistance of the Sui infantry, and the rear team was still entangled by the Sui infantry in close combat, and the **** had already rushed over like a chicken blood, slashing and stabbing the stick, and the crazy was just a variety of weapons to greet the cavalry of the Li Second Army, and it was the same way of fighting at every turn, and he was desperate to be injured and killed, and he had to cut the knife in his hand on the cavalry of the Li Second Army - of course, this was also based on the newspaper **** The soldiers were all dressed on the basis of the good Ming Guang armor. The slogans of capturing Li Er alive came and went, and those **** soldiers who had seen Li Er kept shouting, "Find a little white face to kill!" Li Erlang, like our prime minister, is a little white face! As long as it's a little white face, it's right to kill it! ”

The cavalry of Li Er's army, which looked a little handsome, all fell into bad luck because of this, but unfortunately Li Er was not among them, in fact, Li Er, who had suffered a big loss in the Battle of Lishan, had always been very afraid of this army, and when he saw Bao * rushing head-on, Li Er, who had always liked to take the lead, had quietly retreated to the interior of the cavalry of his own army, avoiding the edge of Bao *. At the same time, Li Er didn't have time to pay attention to why Bao **** was so excited, and carefully commanded the cavalry to get rid of the entanglement of Bao **** as much as possible, and took as many cavalry as possible to detour back to attack the Sui army's artillery position.

Li Er soon found that he was just wishful thinking to do this, and when he finally approached the Sui army's artillery position with hundreds of cavalry in a roundabout way, Luo Shixin, who also made him suffer a lot in the Battle of Lishan, had already blocked his way with the infantry, and withstood the crazy impact of the cavalry of the Li Second Army with a spear, and did not give the cavalry of the Li Second Army a chance to break them, and at the same time, the **** quickly turned around and turned behind the cavalry of the Li Second Army. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Erchang sighed, and could only take the cavalry to the north in a roundabout way and flee to the north gate of Huoyi to seek answers.

During the detour, Li Er sent people back to the city and issued three orders, one was to order the Huoyi defenders to open the north gate and go out of the city to intercept the chasing soldiers, and the other was to order the self-army to re-erect their handsome flag that was bombarded by the Sui army's artillery on the east gate of the city, creating the illusion that they were still at the east gate of Huoyi, and the third order was to let Li Shentong and Zhu Cang and others break through the siege and flee for their lives in due course. Then, naturally, Li Er of course rushed to the thousand-mile path northwest of Huoyi with his cavalry, and fled to Taiyuan by bypassing the Bird Mouse Valley.

Not to mention, Li Er's hand really deceived the soldiers of the Sui army, and his handsome flag that reappeared on the east gate of Huoyi, just like a beautiful woman who had stripped off her clothes and was pushed into the pervert pile, immediately attracted the attention of almost all the soldiers of the Sui army, Chen Fuliang also misjudged at this moment, in order to fight for the greatest hope to kill Li Er, and in order to take Huoyi City as much as possible to avoid extraneous branches, Chen Fuliang decisively ordered a general attack, concentrating superior forces to storm Huoyi City, which had opened the gap in the east gate, also went to fight for the opportunity to catch the turtle in Li Erurn.

In fact, there is no suspense about the results of the offensive and defensive battle of Huoyi City, after taking the East Gate Yongdao, the soldiers of the Sui army, who have the upper hand in strength and combat effectiveness, were able to quickly enter the city, and fought hand-to-hand street with the defenders in the city under the condition of little geographical disadvantage, and it was only a matter of time and the size of the casualties to take Huoyi City, and with the full launch of the Sui army's general attack, the destruction of the Huoyi defenders officially entered the countdown.

In the sound of war drums that were more violent than thunder, the soldiers of the Sui army carried and pushed all kinds of siege weapons, lined up in dense horizontal formations, like waves, and continuously attacked the Huoyi city wall, one after another trench bridge vehicles took the other side of the moat that had not been completely filled, built temporary bridges, and opened more roads that could reach the city directly. At the same time, more light flying ladders also continued to ride the Huoyi city wall, biting the weapon and climbing up frantically, the soldiers of Li Erjun in the city did not know that the commander had already fled, but still used bows and arrows ash bottles and sheep's head stones and other things to fight back desperately, but no matter what, they could not stop the morale of the Sui army soldiers, only the first round of ant attack, there were more than 20 Sui soldiers successfully rushed to the city wall.

The situation in the city is the same, unable to withstand the crazy impact of Qiu Shili's army, the two streets near the east gate of Huoyi City have been lost, and the Sui soldiers who have grabbed the position space have flocked into the city, more powerful and more rapid impact on the street battle defense line of Li Er's army, the slogan of surrender and not killing has come and gone, and many Sui soldiers have rushed up the steps of the city, outflanking Li Er's handsome banner left and right, Li Er's army is losing and retreating, and there are countless surrenderers.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhu Cang was the first to lead the troops out of the city from the West Gate, followed Li Er's example and fled into the depths of the mountains and forests, and was very smart to change into the clothes of ordinary soldiers early, and brought a guide who knew the path of a thousand miles.

Li Deliang has already died under the Sui army artillery, Li Shentong is still stubbornly resisting in the street battle, another important minister of Li Erjun Tang Xian has taken a few personal soldiers to disguise himself as a common man early, and fled from the north gate to the Qianli path, but unfortunately his luck is not good, after leaving the city, he encountered the collapse of the Li Erjun team that met the ****, and was overturned and pushed down by the defeated soldiers of the Li Erjun who were scrambling to flee for his life, and stepped on it alive into meat sauce, and the bones were gone, causing the Sui army to continue to put him on the wanted list after the war, and he was wanted for more than ten years.

When Li Shentong finally couldn't resist abandoning the city and fled north, the soldiers of the Sui army finally found that Li Er's handsome flag on Huoyi City was just an empty flag, and asked the captives that Li Er had gone out of the city with the cavalry before, and after the thunderous Sui soldiers sent the news to Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang couldn't help but be a little angry, and scolded Li Er for being despicable and cunning, so that he missed the best opportunity to kill him. And after calming down a little, Chen Fuliang quickly ordered again: "Send an order to the whole army, let everyone shout the slogan that Li Erlang has been caught, and let the enemy know that we have obtained Li Erlang." ”

"Prime Minister, there's no need for this, is it?" Sun Fujia, the new staff member next to him, said suspiciously: "We have a solid chance of winning, and the Li family's thief army has collapsed and collapsed, so we don't need to hit the enemy's morale anymore, right?" ”

Sun Fujia was originally the law of Wannian County in Guanzhong, because of strict law enforcement, honesty and self-discipline, he was appreciated by Chen Fuliang's old accomplice Wei Zheng, and was transferred to Daxing into the Ministry of Civil Affairs in charge of money and grain. So after listening to Sun Fujia's question, Chen Fuliang explained again, "I am not doing this for the present, but for the future, Li Erlang is too powerful, don't pour some sewage on him and carry some suspicions, let him flee back to Taiyuan directly, I am afraid that it will become our scourge in the future." ”

Sun Fujia nodded as if he didn't understand, remembering Chen Fuliang's arrangement with his heart, and then figuring out the purpose and reason for Chen Fuliang's doing so when he had the opportunity in the future. The heralds around him rushed to the heralds of the various armies, Chen Fuliang turned his eyes to the direction of Taiyuan in the north, and said secretly in his heart: "Brother Jiancheng, your precious brother is likely to flee back to you, you have to hold on, don't let him rob your territory and army, let alone let him harm you." ”

As soon as Shen Shi arrived in the afternoon, the Sui army had already taken the whole city of Huoyi, although he failed to get the head of his rival Li Er as he wished, and Li Er's lackeys such as Li Shentong and Zhu Cang also escaped into the northern mountains, but to Chen Fuliang's surprise and joy, the soldiers of the Sui army actually captured Sheng Yanshi, the general of Li Er's army, who assisted Li Deliang in guarding Huoyi. Others don't know how much weight Sheng Yanshi has, and Li Er has never reused Sheng Yanshi, the Chengcheng County Order who took the initiative to take refuge in his father, but Chen Fuliang knew it very well, so before Chen Fuliang entered the city, he had already ordered Sheng Yanshi to be mentioned in front of him, and he personally loosened the tie for him, and tried to surrender with kind words and comfort.

It's a pity that Sheng Yanshi didn't want to receive Chen Fuliang's affection, and categorically refused to surrender and only wanted to ask for death, when Chen Fuliang asked the reason, Sheng Yanshi replied calmly: "Because the late general had the grace of knowing me, when I was just a district and county order, the general not only invited me to join his righteous teacher again and again, but also undressed me, pushed me to eat, and named me Yinqing Guanglu Doctor, the head of the march, and rebuilt my kindness, I can't live up to his kindness." ”

was completely brainwashed by the old Li family with such a little empty favor, Chen Fuliang almost had the intention of strangling Sheng Yanshi, but after seeing Sheng Yanshi's firm expression, Chen Fuliang changed his mind again and said: "General Sheng, even Li Yuan's son Li Shimin has been captured alive by our army, and the Li family's thief army is about to be destroyed, why are you still so obsessed?" Haven't you heard that good birds choose trees to perch on, and virtuous ministers choose their lords to serve? ”

Sheng Yanshi still categorically refused to surrender, Chen Fuliang was helpless, and could only sigh and say: "The general is really a righteous man, since the general insists on not surrendering, then I won't force you, you go, I will let you go back to Taiyuan and continue to serve your benefactor's son." ”

"You let me go? Really? Sheng Yanshi asked in surprise.

"Of course it's true, I'll not only let you go, but I'll also give you dry food and horses." Chen Fuliang said casually: "But I also have one condition, you help bring a letter to Li Jiancheng, so that I don't have to send someone else to the north to take risks." ”

Seeing that Chen Fuliang's attitude did not seem to be fake, Sheng Yanshi also saluted and thanked Chen Fuliang for his grace of not killing, and also promised to carry a letter to Li Jiancheng for Chen Fuliang. Then Chen Fuliang called Sun Fujia to the front again, and whispered in his ear: "Explain to my personal soldiers, let them pretend to chat when they are guarding Sheng Yanshi, and let Sheng Yanshi hear these two news, one is that Li Erlang has surrendered to me after being captured, and the other is that Li Erlang was deliberately let go by me, let him escape back to Taiyuan to make me an internal response, and when he has the opportunity, he will kill Li Jiancheng for me and help our army take Taiyuan." ”

While Sun Fujia sang the promise, he was also very good at thinking and asked: "Prime Minister, Li Erlang has neither left his family members as hostages, nor has he left any fatal handle in your hands, so you will directly let him go back to Taiyuan to be a hostage to our army, I'm afraid it will be difficult to win the trust of the enemy, right?" ”

"That's a good question." Chen Fuliang nodded approvingly, and said in a low voice: "Let the pro-soldiers who are guarding Sheng Yanshi also mention this question, and then let the pro-soldiers who pretend to see this situation answer, just say that I have long seen that Li Erlang just wants to deceive and save his life, and I just want to take the opportunity to escape, I deliberately put him back, because I know very well that Li Erlang is a jackal, let him go back, whether he is really willing to give me an internal response in the future, he will inevitably peep into the military power in Li Jiancheng's hands, and once he and Li Jiancheng are fratricidal, It will be much easier for us to take the plane back to Taiyuan. ”

Sun Fujia suddenly realized, and immediately sang a promise, Chen Fuliang nodded with satisfaction, and said in his heart: "Brother Jiancheng, I didn't do this to harm you, but to save you!" If you don't be careful, you'll die at the hands of your brother! ”