At the beginning of the day after the snow, the red sun shines on the white snow, which is even more delicate.

On the Puban City by the Yellow River, Pei Zi will wave the flag in the wind and hunt loudly.

Under the flag, Pei Xingyan and his brother Pei Xingjian stood on top of the city tower, their eyebrows locked, and they looked at the black line on the vast snow that had not yet melted far away.

Pei Xingyan, who had the title of 10,000 enemies, pressed the horizontal knife in his hand, and his eyes rose with battle intent, and he turned around and was about to go down the city.

Pei Xingjian frowned and turned his head to look at Pei Renyan, "Where is the second brother going?" ”

"The soldiers are coming, the water is flooding, of course I want to meet this Li Shimin. I never thought this kid had any ability, but he climbed to this position by betrayal and betrayal, and he was a shameless man with a backbone in the back of his head, and I went to collect him today. Pei Xingyan's words were full of contempt for Li Shimin. In his opinion, he was also on the same level as Chen Pojun, so Li Shimin was just a small soldier under Li Shimin. relied on Chen Pojun's nepotism to climb up, and later relied on betraying Chen Pojun to become a county prince and a general.

And now, Li Shimin, who has a long backbone in the back of his head, actually killed the monarch and rebelled, and he suffered a big loss from him when he was in Taiyuan. The previous account had not been settled with him, but this time he came to the door himself. Then he will not let him go no matter what, and it is his honor to die under his own lance.

"Reckless!"

Pei Xingjian glared at his younger brother, "Have you forgotten the will that Your Majesty gave when he went north?" I am the one left behind in Pusaka City, you are only the deputy general who assists me in defending the city, and you must obey me in all matters in the army. ”

Although Pei Xingyan is known as the enemy of ten thousand people, he is a little more afraid of facing this eldest brother of Xiuwen than he is facing his father. pressed the horizontal knife, stood there, and finally didn't dare to go downstairs, turned back to the eldest brother. said a little angrily, "But this Li Shimin anti-bone thief has led troops to the door of the house." We can't just ignore it and let him take the city, right? Quite a few words"

"Plan before you act." Pei Xingjian said indifferently, "Your Majesty and your father led the army north, and at this moment they should be confronting the Li family by the Fen River. Previously, the Li family had been avoiding and not fighting. Yue Yu did not fight. But now, Li Shimin suddenly appeared here with his troops and horses, and then don't you think it's strange? ”。

"What's so strange, it must be Li Yuan's old fox who dragged His Majesty and his father to them. Li Shimin, the anti-bone thief, led a light ride all the way south. It's nothing more than trying to take away our Pusaka, to cut off our back road, and to cut off our grain road. ”

Pei Xingjian also felt that this should be the case when he heard this, they went all the way north from Jianghan, and seized several counties one after another, from Jianghan to Henan, and finally to Hedong, which can be said to be a thousand miles of battle. After the army crossed the Yellow River and went north to the east of the river, Puban was already their first important city on the north bank of the Yellow River. As soon as Pusaka is lost, the Jianghan army that penetrates deep into Hedong may be imprisoned in Hedong. Lost contact with Henan, and could not even get grain and grass from the rear. And more importantly, Kabasaka Castle. It is also one of the three passages that His Majesty and his father had planned to defeat Li Yuan and capture Guanzhong after they had planned earlier.

Pusaka is so important, His Majesty knows it, and Li Tang naturally knows it.

After pondering for a while, Pei Xingjian said, "I have already sent a messenger to Longmen, before I get the situation from His Majesty's side. We have to retreat and persevere. ”

"What, you want me to learn from that turtle, and the turtle can't shrink out? I can't do this, Li Shimin's anti-bone thief came to report according to the scout, but there are only 20,000 horses, why am I afraid? When Pei Xingyan heard that he was not allowed to fight, he almost jumped to his feet.

"Li Shimin has 20,000, we only have 5,000, the difference between soldiers and horses is huge, and the situation is unclear now, let alone rush to war. Our mission is to hold Kasaka, and as long as he does not come to attack the castle, let him come and go. If he comes to attack, we will fight back. But you can only fight back against the city, and you are not allowed to go out of the city, do you understand? ”…,

"Is it a military order?"

"Not bad."

Pei Xingyan nodded helplessly, although he was still a little unwilling in his heart, but the military order was difficult to disobey, so he had to obey the order. Now, he only hopes that Li Shimin will come to attack the city immediately.

Li Shimin's 20,000 soldiers and horses galloped to the city, watching the closed door closed and waiting for it strictly, and he couldn't help frowning.

Waving a horsewhip, Li Shimin pointed to Pubancheng Road, "Three days, Ben will only give you three days at most." No matter what method I use, within three days, I will take Pusaka Castle. ”

Chai Shao looked at Puban City carefully for a while, "Puban is backed by the Yellow River, and its north and south sides are also sandwiched between two cliffs, leaving only the east side of the city. The city is nearly five zhang high, the city gate is covered with iron, and there is a moat that is three zhang wide in front of the city, and is more than zhang deep. The strength of this city, I am afraid that it can be compared with Taiyuan, and I also look at the flag of the guard at the head of the city, and I don't ask you to know that the people who stay at this pass must be Pei's two heroes, Pei Xingjian and Pei Xingyan brothers. Pei Xingjian is long in strategy, Pei Xingyan has the courage of 10,000 enemies, one article and one martial arts, and the two brothers are stationed in this annex, which is indeed a strong enemy. ”

Li Shimin looked at this majestic pass, and his face was also full of solemnity.

"If we have to, even if we pay more damage, we have to win this as soon as possible. If you wait until Yang Jun sends troops to help, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult at that time. The army has been delayed for too long, and the longer it is delayed, the more difficulties we will have in entering the customs. Time is running out, and when necessary, a strong man can break his wrist! ”

Chai Shao said in shock, "Erlang, you are crazy, these 20,000 horses are already our entire army." Without these 20,000 soldiers, what will you do to fight with Da Lang then? This is the foundation of your life, and you can't afford to lose it. ”

Li Shimin's face was full of solemnity, "You don't need to persuade me, I have already figured it out." There are eggs under the nest? Now that it has already come to the time of my Li Tang's life and death, at this time, my father, son and brother are not united, how can we talk about the great cause in the future? As long as you pass this level first, there will be later. In order to get into the customs, what if you lose all the 20,000 brothers? As long as you and the other brothers are here, sooner or later we can raise another 20,000, 50,000, 100,000 troops. ”

Chai Shao looked at Li Shimin seriously, and when he saw that he was indeed determined, he no longer persuaded him.

"The Qin State has an order, the first person to attack the city, will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, an official promoted to the third level, and a thousand acres of land. Those who have obtained the second Pei head will be rewarded with the same reward. After the destruction of Kasaka City, all the money in the city belonged to the officers and soldiers of the army. ”

Under the heavy reward, there is no shortage of adventurous people.

When the soldiers and horses arrived at the city, Li Shimin did not order to camp and rest, but immediately issued an order to bury the pot and make rice, and the siege order was about to start after the meal, and a heavy reward was issued. And before the siege, all the soldiers were rewarded with half a pound of good wine to help their courage. In addition, some soldiers and horses were sent to the vicinity to cut down trees and make all kinds of siege equipment on the spot.

There is enough food and wine, and the first batch of simple siege ladders has also been made.

The bold death squads, who had drunk strong liquor, roared with the gold and silver they had just received in their pockets, and had already rushed towards the moat with their shields and sandbags. Bags of sand were filled into the river.

On the head of the city, the flag is unfurled, the war drums are thundering, and the hearts are shocked.

The arrows on the city were like flying locusts, dense like rain.

The cavalry of the Tang Army couldn't block the whole body with the small round shield of the cavalry, and even the big wooden shield made in a hurry could not completely prevent the rain of arrows in the sky. The sound of arrows breaking through the air continued to roar, and from time to time the Tang army fell to the ground with arrows.

The Tang army was not to be outdone, countless shield arrays had been gathered under the city, and behind the shields, countless archers were facing the city, you come and go.

The craftsmen of the Tang Army in the back had already made a long wooden ladder that could completely cross the moat, and hundreds of soldiers used shields to block their upper bodies, carrying the long ladder forward like ants. …,

"Catapults, smash those long ladders that build the river." Pei Xingjian stood on top of the city tower and saw dozens of long ladders being transported forward, and immediately knew that the Tang army wanted to build a bridge directly over the moat, so he immediately ordered.

There was a loud bang, and hundreds of catapults smashed into the long centipede-like ladder. The huge stone, every time it hits, it can directly break the long ladder from it, and when it falls on Tang Jun, it can instantly smash people into meat sauce.

You have a good plan, I have a wall ladder.

The Tang Army and the Jiang Han Army attacked and defended me, full of wisdom, and for a while on the battlefield, arrows and stones flew sideways, and war drums were like thunder.

There was only one side of the special terrain that could be attacked, that is, the defenders could concentrate superior forces to defend without having to take care of other places, and it also gave the Tang army who was besieging the city a resolute heart and was determined to storm the eastern city.

One team was replaced, and the other team was immediately replaced, and the Tang army launched a continuous attack without interruption.

By the end of the afternoon, the craftsmen of the Tang army had already made a lot of crude catapults, which were rudimentary, but they added great pressure to the defenders of the city.

The moat has long been filled with corpses, even under Pusaka Castle, the bones are piled up very high, some people simply step on the corpses, climb with a ladder, and are shot down by the random arrows in the city, and soon join the ranks of those corpses. The water of the moat was full of purple blood, and the sun shone on it, turning over a disgusting smell.

The entire city and the city are already hell on earth, and the Tang army attacking the city has already been red-eyed, blindly desperately attacking wave after wave of onslaught in the rumbling drums of war. The soldiers defending the city have already killed red eyes, arrows, wood, rolling stones, hot oil, catapults, and crossbow beds. Everything has become a killing weapon in the hands of the defenders, and every breath and every moment, one after another Tang troops have fallen, increasing the height of the mountain of corpses under the city.

Three hundred steps away from the city, although Li Shimin only had one arm, he still held a drumstick and kept beating the cowhide war drum, next to him, a column of hundreds of war drums, hundreds of drummers were already in the snow, took off their robes, naked and naked, sweating and beating the hammer wildly. And among them, Li Shimin's one-armed drumming, in the rising mist, one after another raised red and purple hideous scars make people look discolored.

The winter wind is blowing, the war drums are beating, and the offensive has not stopped! (To be continued) ......,