The fierce attack of the Sui army caught Zhang Shihong a little off guard, especially the powerful power of the heavy catapult army, which made him even more frightened, but after all, he was also a fierce general who killed from the pile of dead people, and after the initial panic, he quickly calmed down.

"Bow and arrow with projectile!"

He found that the Sui army's arrows had pressed the defenders so that they couldn't raise their heads, and he was so anxious that he shouted loudly, when a soldier rushed to report, "General, the wide ladder of the Sui army has been set up at the head of the city!" ”

Zhang Shihong also saw it, in the west section of the city, several Sui army ladders set up the city, and he could see it very clearly in the moonlight, the huge iron hook hooked the battlements, and only dozens of soldiers were defending, so anxious that he was in a cold sweat, and stomped his feet and scolded: "Spearmen are on the top!" Fuck, don't be an idiot, plug me up. ”

Under his command, hundreds of spearmen rushed up the battlements, blocked the stairs, and the rolling logs and stones fell like hailstones.

The Sui soldiers swarmed up along the ladders, but the boulders and wood smashed in front of them made the Sui soldiers scream and roll down the city, not only a ladder suffered a setback, but all the dozen or so ladders on the city wall encountered stubborn resistance from the enemy, and a heavy boulder rolled down the ladder, and instantly smashed over more than a dozen Sui soldiers.

Niu Jinda saw that the rapid attack was ineffective, so he immediately shouted: "Bow and arrow cover!" Attack in formation. ”

In front of each ladder, there is a captain who is specifically responsible for commanding, and the five ladders are led by a Lang general, who receives the order of Niu Jinda and immediately brings in hundreds of crossbowmen to suppress the defenders at the head of the underground city with dense arrows.

The lieutenant commanded the attack of each ladder, and the Sui army no longer charged at a rapid pace. They were in a row of five, raising shields and spears, and slowly marched up in formation.

Although suppressed by the Sui army's bows and arrows, the rolling logs and stones did not completely stop, and still continued to roll down from the city wall and smash at the Sui soldiers, and the arrows on both sides of the city wall were also as dense as a torrential rain. They used shields as cover, withstood the arrows under the city, and fired arrows at the Sui troops on the ladder from both sides.

Then. The iron hooks of the ladders were broken by the enemy, and the ladders were pushed out of the city wall by the defenders with iron forks and fell backwards. The Sui soldiers scattered and fled, and dozens of people were stoned to death.

Despite the stubborn resistance of the defenders, the Sui soldiers still rushed to the head of the city step by step, and the spearmen of the defenders swarmed up, and in front of each row of stairs, there were hundreds of attacking and defending armies engaged in fierce battles at the head of the city.

At this time, the night was already dark, and countless torches were lit up above and below the city, illuminating the front of Linyu Pass as if it were day, and the desire to kill with the soldiers in Luo Shi's faith was stimulated. He didn't want to be a spectator, that was not his Luo Shixin style, he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart anymore, and said to Yang Yuanqing: "Boss, let me fight!" ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced at him. said lightly: "You are the main general, I am not, you decide for yourself." ”

Luo Shixin bit his lip tightly, turned around and ordered loudly: "If I die in battle, Niu Jinda will be the main general!" ”

His great iron spear slashed in the air, urging his horse to run towards the city. The dozen generals behind him were full of worry, but the chief manager did not agree, and the main general actually went into battle.

At this time, the shame in Cheng Yanjin's heart also made him burst out of courage, and he picked up his axe and shouted: "Brother Luo, don't worry, brother is here to help you!" ”

He also urged the war horse to follow Luo Shixin to rush, Yang Yuanqing did not stop him, his eyes calmly looked at Luo Shixin and ran towards the city, he could understand Luo Shixin's mood, this is a kind of courage to take the lead, not every commander is like himself to wait and see, many commanders prefer to lead the soldiers to charge, his master Zhang Xutuo is such a commander, this courage to be the first soldier was inherited by Luo Shixin.

With a heavy shield and spear in hand, Luo Shixin rushed up the ladder with all his might, and he turned around and shouted, "Kill me with me!" ”

There were already corpses piled up on the ladder, and the first wave rushed up, and the Sui army lost more than half of it and was forced to retreat, leaving more than 100 soldiers to follow him under the inspiration of Luo Shixin.

A thick log fell head-on, Luo Shixin did not face a hard blow, he leaned, with a shield to push the log outward, the log flew out of the ladder, Luo Shixin ran a few steps, only a zhang away from the city, dozens of spear soldiers raised their spears to stab at him, the tip of the spear was sharp, from three sides stabbing at the rush.

Luo Shixin's shield blocked the spear on the left, and the big iron spear quickly stabbed and picked, and in an instant, four or five people were pierced through the throat and fell to the ground, he suddenly roared, and the spear shook, piercing the chest of an enemy captain, and actually picked him up in the air with one arm and threw him out.

Luo Shixin's courage frightened the soldiers at the head of the city into dispossession, and shouted in unison, the soldiers turned around and fled, Luo Shixin simply threw away the shield, jumped on the city, and shouted, "Take your life!" ”

He was like a tiger like a flock of sheep, killed into the enemy, killed all the ghosts, invincible, followed by a hundred Sui soldiers also killed the city, they were inspired by the courage of the main general, shouted and rushed to the enemy, Luo Shixin's brave killing opened a passage to the city, and the Sui army began to rush to the city in a steady stream.

On another row of ladders, Cheng Biting Jin picked up an axe, even chopping more than a dozen people to death, and also rushed to the head of the city, but he did not rush into the enemy group like Luo Shixin, but waved his hand back, "Brothers, rush up!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers rushed up from behind him, and Cheng Biting Jin stood at the head of the city, majestic and radiant, shouting loudly, encouraging the soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

As more and more Sui soldiers rushed to the city, the battle situation gradually shifted to the Sui army, the Sui army war drums were excited, urging the Sui soldiers to swarm upwards wave by wave, more than 20 ladders that were not damaged, densely packed with Sui troops besieging the city, the city was overwhelming Sui soldiers, the drums were like thunder, a huge fireball crossed the city, flew towards the pass, and the blazing fireball crossed the night sky.

At the head of the city, Zhang Shihong had shouted to the fullest, but the soldiers could no longer hear his shout, the three-mile-long city wall was in chaos, thousands of Sui troops rushed to the city, it was difficult to distinguish the enemy from me in the night, only close to be able to distinguish whether it was the enemy or himself, screams and angry scolding resounded throughout the city.

With the loss of defense, more and more Yan troops realized that the general trend had gone and fled to the city, but Zhang Shihong was red-eyed and led hundreds of dead soldiers to fight fiercely with the Sui army at the head of the city.

Luo Shixin stared at Zhang Shihong, this is the enemy's main general, killing can determine the battle situation, but the soldiers are dense, so that he can't rush up, one of his soldiers grabbed a spear in his hand, jumped on the battlement, struggled to wave his arms, a spear in the dark night through a wind shadow, stabbing the enemy general.

In the darkness of the night, Zhang Shihong let out a long scream, and the spear pierced his chest, nailing him to the ground.

The death of the main general caused the enemy army to collapse quickly, the defenders threw spears and surrendered, the city gate of Linyu Pass was unloaded and the huge stone blocking the gate was unloaded, the city hole was opened, and tens of thousands of Sui troops entered the city...... The sky is gradually brightening, the sea is sparkling, a round of red rises from the sea level, radiating ten thousand rays of light, dyeing Linyuguan with a layer of magnificent color.

Yang Yuanqing stood at the head of the city with his hands behind his back, staring at the clouds and clouds on the sea from afar, and there was a sudden open-mindedness in his heart.

"Humble Luo Shixin, ask the chief for sin!"

Luo Shixin's voice suddenly came from behind him, Yang Yuanqing glanced back at him, only to see him kneeling on one knee, bowing his head, and clenching his fists high, "Tell me yourself, what are your crimes?" Yang Yuanqing asked quietly.

Luo Shixin thought about it for nearly two hours, although Yang Yuanqing did not prevent him from participating in the battle, but as the main general, he gave up the responsibility of commanding the whole army, but rushed to the city like a charging general, which violated the duty of the main general in any case, and Luo Shixin also began to be annoyed in confidence.

He didn't know how to explain, he could only ask for guilt, Yang Yuanqing smiled faintly, "I said it, you are the boss, everything is up to you, if you feel that you have behaved inappropriately, then you can blame yourself, or explain your inappropriateness to the soldiers, and you should not say anything to me, I don't care how you fight, I only care about the outcome of the war, if you can't take Linyu Pass, I will ask you for guilt!" ”

Yang Yuanqing has gradually delegated power to his generals in the past two years, and gradually let them stand in their way, such as Xu Shiji in Hanoi and southern Hebei, Qin Qiong can also lead the army to confront Dou Jiande, Su Dingfang passes through the Western Regions, Pei Xingyan is in charge of the six counties of Guanbei, Luo Shixin fights Liaodong and so on.

Since he let them stand alone, he won't care about some details, as a superior, he pays more attention to the result, rather than the process, how to play, that's the coach's own business, so when Luo Shixin asked him for instructions last night, he would downplay it and not express his position.

Having said that, it is impossible for him not to interfere completely, for example, Luo Shixin proposed to transport the soldiers to the Guanhou by boat, but he denied it, which is also a very contradictory thing, Yang Yuanqing cannot avoid it, he can only respect Luo Shixin in all details.

For example, Yang Yuanqing made Cheng Yanjin the main general of the siege, but in the end he was replaced by Niu Jinda by Luo Shixin, and Yang Yuanqing did not interfere, as for the trivial matter of Luo Shixin leading the army to charge, he would not take it to heart.

Luo Shixin already understood what the chief manager meant, the chief only cared if he could take Linyu Pass, and how to fight it, it was his own business, that is to say, he didn't care about charging up to the city.

Luo Shi was moved by confidence, and immediately hugged his fists and said: "I understand the humble position, and the humble position will not bother the chief manager for such a trivial matter in the future." ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "But if I am the coach and you go out to fight without my orders, then you will be careful of the board." ”

Luo Shixin scratched his head and smiled bitterly: "I understand the humble position!" ”

"Alright! Now that you have won Linyu Pass, how are you going to fight next? ”

Luo Shixin pondered for a moment and said: "The lowly has a request, the lowly wants to call a hundred warships, I wonder if the chief manager agrees?" ”

"That's fine, but have you considered it, is there enough crew to steer the ship?"

"I have considered that the shipyard can transfer 2,000 shipwrights to temporarily operate the ships, and the lowly office has recruited 2,000 boatmen with inland shipping experience from Youzhou to assist the shipwrights, which can basically deal with 100 seagoing ships."

"Now that you've thought it through, I can agree......