At the same time, different people have different dreams.

The recruits who had just joined the Xiongwu battalion were thinking about how to survive the last two days and get alive the ten stone of polished rice and two stones of grain promised by the main general. Yu Wenshi was thinking about how to lead this slowly forming army under his command to build more achievements. But what Xu Zi thought about was how to secretly save the lives of his mentor Yang Fuzi and his friend Wu Heimin after the end of this battle.

He deliberately used a strong bow to shoot Wu Heimin at close range, in order to get the other party to leave Yuliang Avenue. Although that heavy blow could have left Wu Heimin lying on his stomach for several months, or even losing an arm forever. But in either case, it would be much better to lead the crowd to siege the city and be burned alive by the oil fire.

But now, Xuzi began to worry about whether Wu Heimin could escape safely. The rebel general Li Mi did not seem to be a man who cared about the lives of others, as can be inferred from his crazy actions of driving the people who had no armor and weapons to participate in the siege. Once the soldiers and horses of the Great Sui arrived, Li Mi would definitely not carry the wounded when he was defeated and fled. And if Wu Heimin, who was seriously injured, was captured, with his stubborn personality and sharp mouth, the end would definitely not be better than Yuan Wuben.

What to do? Xuzi looked at the smoke and dust outside the city, and began to worry about the enemy's defeat. He is not a qualified commander, and he can't treat human life like a mustard. He is not a qualified newcomer, and he is reluctant to exchange his friend's life for his own fame. After so many ups and downs, he is still the kind and cowardly Xuzi in his bones. He knew that his weakness was terrible, but he couldn't change it for a while.

During the meal, Xu Zi even imagined that Li Mi could realize that Liyang City was a difficult bone to gnaw on, and decisively evacuate before the other 300,000 Great Sui soldiers arrived. This is the best ending, he no longer has to hunt down and kill his former partners who lived and died together, and these brothers in Liyang City no longer have to face the threat of death. But this idea was obviously a bit naïve, Li Mi and Han Shixuan just pulled the team down to make a slight repair, and half an hour later, they launched the next round of attacks.

Xu Zi, who was standing at the head of Liyang City, couldn't see what was happening hundreds of miles away, in fact, Li Mi couldn't afford to fail. The small city of Liyang has become a lifesaver for the rebels at this moment, and without this straw, the 300,000 upretakers will be doomed.

A few days ago, Yang Xuangan's younger brother Yang Xuanting was shot dead by a stray arrow while fighting Wei Wensheng. Yang Xuan felt excessive grief, advanced and retreated, and was copied by his defeated general Fan Zigai, and lost hundreds of cronies and staff. Yang Xuan was furious and returned to attack Luoyang, but Wei Wensheng turned back and killed him, wanting to attack him from behind. When Yang Xuangan turned back to attack Wei Wensheng, Fan Zigai took the soldiers and horses out of the city and fought at the end of the battle.

Yang Xuangan, who prides himself on knowing soldiers and is good at fighting, was exhausted by two "shameless" Sui generals, and at this time, Xizuo sent even more depressing news. Knowing that Liyang was captured by the Xiongwu battalion, the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion, who had been hesitant from all walks of life, were pouring into the two cities of Luoyang and Liyang from all directions.

Zuo Yi's general Yu Wenshu, who was in charge of the counterinsurgency army, sent Wu Benlang general Chen Ling to reinforce Yu Wenshi, and the vanguard was said to have reached Qinghe County, only two days away from Liyang. Wuwei general Qu Tutong first crossed the Jingcheng Pass to the west, then turned around and headed south, along the official road of the Hedong counties, and went straight to Hanoi. And General Lai Hu'er, who was in charge of the Great Sui Water Division, was also going up the Yellow River and killing Luoyang with great momentum.

In order to reassure Yang Guang, Laihu'er sent the other two sons to meet the saint and act as hostages. and announced in public that the son of the enemy, Lai Yuan, would be removed from the family. His righteous act of killing his relatives was highly appreciated by the imperial court, and Yang Guang immediately issued an order after receiving the recital from Laihu'er to give him a knighthood. It was also announced to all officials that if there were children in the family of hundreds of officials who were forced to surrender to thieves by the army, the court would not investigate the responsibility of their families. And those officials and nephews who have taken refuge in Yang Xuangan, as long as they can repent and escape from the rebels, the court will also remember the past for their father's achievements.

The surging reinforcements, the magnanimity of the imperial court, and the news of the loss of Liyang all worked together, causing the rebels to be in turmoil, and many people were desperate for the future. Taking advantage of Yang Xuan's unpreparedness, among the more than forty noble sons who surrendered to him, seventeen actually secretly escaped from the barracks and disappeared. Among the remaining twenty people, except for a few who were entrusted by him with important tasks and were fighting on the front line, the rest were a little restless. And those bandits who tried to establish their merits in the troubled times and sent troops to respond to Yang Xuangan refused to listen to his dispatch after losing the temptation of Liyangcang's military rations. The bandits burned and looted in the counties around Luoyang on their own, which made it even more difficult for Yang Xuangan's army to replenish.

Yang Xuan was at a loss and asked Li Zixiong, the former general of the Right Wuhou, who thought that Li Mi and Han Shixu were attacking Liyang City, and the city was just around the corner. And Zuo Xiaowei's general Qu Tu is well versed in military affairs, if he leads the people to cross the river from Hanoi County, it will be difficult to decide the victory or defeat, it is better to divide the troops and refuse. If Qu Tutong can't help the river, Fan and Wei will lose help. Yang Xuangan took Li Zixiong's strategy as a good thing, and divided the soldiers and horses into two routes, one led by Li Zixiong to continue to deal with Wei Wensheng and Fan Zigai outside Luoyang City. The other route was led by himself and went north to Heyang to intercept Qu Tutong.

As a result, as soon as he divided his troops, Li Zixiong was defeated by Wei Wensheng and Fan Zigai. Yang Xuangan had no choice but to turn around and kill back, merge the two troops and horses again, and make every effort to deal with the two generals Fan and Wei. On the other hand, he sent people to send the army to Li Mi and Han Shixu with a fast horse of 800 miles, and ordered the two to take Liyang before Wu Benlang sent Chen Ling's soldiers and horses.

"If there is no food for the dawn, the army's spirit will be scattered. If the army's heart is scattered, you and I will be ruined, and the master brother is talented, so you can do it yourself! Yang Xuangan wrote in tears in his expedited military letter to Li Mi.

The situation is extremely critical, and Li Mi does not want his fame and dreams to be wasted. Therefore, he mobilized his soldiers and launched a more fierce attack on Liyang City.

Amid the fierce drums of war, the rebels once again approached the western wall of Liyang. Li Mi apparently summed up the reasons for the failure of the first wave of attacks, and this round of attacks, he commanded very carefully. All the troops and horses marched almost in unison, giving the defenders no chance to break through alone. At the head of the line, of course, is the shield bearer who takes on the cover mission. They were still shirtless, armed only with giant shields made of tree branches. However, each giant shield was covered in wet mud.

Sandwiched between the Yellow River and the Yongji Canal, Liyang City is rich in underground water sources. Dig seven feet in any place, and you can dig up the well. This point was well known to Li Xu and Yu Wenshihe, who had been worried about the enemy's cutting off of the water source in the city, and Li Mi, who organized the attack, was also very clear.

Li Mi not only used the wet mud on his shield, but soon the brothers of the Xiongwu battalion realized the superiority of the enemy general. But for them, it's definitely not good news. "He***, Li Mi is a bastard, this kind of dirty trick, he can come up with it." Zhang Xiu pointed to the enemy army under the city and scolded angrily.

In the direction of his finger, tens of thousands of people, shirtless, carrying wet mud with straw bags, crossed the soldiers and horses of their own team, ignored the feathered arrows falling above their heads, and quickly rushed towards the Liyang City Wall and rushed onto Yuliang Avenue.

The defenders unceremoniously shot hundreds of Minzhuang to death in the middle of the process, and the black wet mud fell to the ground, mixed with the red blood, and the piles were very conspicuous. The person who was not shot by the feather arrow refused to stop at all, carrying the straw bag, with a desperate cry from his mouth, and continued to rush to his destination.

"Poof!" The first wave of Minzhuang who rushed to the city of Liyang dropped the mud, turned his head, and bypassed his own attack array. The second wave continued to rush up, covering the corpses and bloodstains of the predecessors, covering a thick layer of mud. The third wave, the fourth wave, the fifth wave, one after the other. The archers shot their arms limp, but they couldn't stop the mud from stretching under the walls and on the Fishbeam Avenue. Beneath the city walls was full of running people, and time was lost in an endless, repeated process of setting up arrows, drawing bows, and letting go. The attacking echelons were getting closer and closer to the walls, and through the "war of attrition" between the Minzhuang and the defenders, they had plenty of time to prepare.

Oil is flammable and cannot be drawn by water. Cover it with mud and destroy it immediately. People who live at home have such common sense, Li Mi is very smart, he first used wet mud to turn the roots of Liyang City into a swamp that cannot be ignited. Once the flesh-and-blood swamp had basically taken shape, the men lifted more mud and piled up several mountains of mud seventy paces from the city walls. If the defenders set fire again during the engagement, the men would use the mountains of mud to crack their ruse.

Suddenly, the drumming stopped, and there was silence on the battlefield. After paying more than 2,000 lives, Minzhuang, who was transporting mud, completed the task, lined up, and slowly retreated into the distance. The shields, ladders, archers, and ironclad soldiers all stopped about thirty paces away from Liyang City, and looked up at the blood-stained and smoke-blackened city walls. Then, the drums erupted again, and the rebels burst into a shout, rushing towards Liyang.

The feather arrow reached the head of Liyang City before the footsteps of the soldiers, and it was noisy and cut, playing the note of death. This time the rain of arrows was more dense than the last, and the defenders were pressed behind the battlements, barely able to lift their heads. And Li Mi is like a beggar who suddenly erupts, eager to squander all the savings in his pocket at once. "Shoot, keep shooting, don't stop." He stood in a safe place two hundred paces away, waving his flag and shouting. "The ladder, the ladder don't stop. The Ironclad Army, the Ironclad Army rushed to Yuliang Road! ”

One of the rebel soldiers near the walls was wounded by his own arrows. Most of them only had cloth armor on them, and they couldn't stop the stray arrows that fell from mid-air without their sights. The captains and brigade commanders who supervised the battle in front had no intention of stopping the team, and threatened their brothers with their blades, braving the rain of arrows from both sides to stick the ladder to the blue-black wall.

Immediately a hook came out of the top of the city and grabbed the edge of the ladder. Without waiting for the owner of the hook to exert force, the dense feathered arrows fell, killing him at the battlement. Many feather arrows deviated from the direction and sent their own people holding the ladder to Huangquan Road. Above and below the city, countless pairs of immortal eyes looked at each other, accepting this tragic fate together.

"Archers switch targets and concentrate on shooting the defenders on Yuliang Road!" Seeing that his side had been seriously injured by mistake, Li Mi finally showed mercy and ordered the archers to temporarily stop suppressing the sky above the cloud ladder.

Arrows, the storm generally twisted towards the Yuliang Road, denser, more urgent. The battlements of the city wall grew like hedgehogs in an instant, and the defending archers hiding behind the battlements bowed their heads, curled their bodies, and trembled. The opponent's attack was so fierce that they simply didn't have a chance to fight back. The ironclad foot soldiers walking on the Yuliang Road raised their shields and swaggered forward, occasionally stray arrows from both sides shooting at their iron armor, "Bell! "A string of sparks flew from the ground, and it didn't do anything else.

The rebels under the various ladders began to climb the city very quickly. The defenders, who had lost the opportunity, tried desperately to block them with stones and rolling logs, but they could not recover the decline of their own side. Behind the mud shield wall, there were archers, under the cover of their own shield players, who rushed directly to a place only ten paces away from the city wall, raising their heads and shooting up. The defenders who had been shot lay limply on the wall, blood sliding down the wall like a stream, recoating the blackened blood stains with a thick layer of red.

"Woo-woo-grun!" The sound of drums and horns urges people to grow old. The ironclad foot soldiers marching in the mud on Yuliang Avenue were less than sixty feet away from the city wall, and the defenders facing Yuliang Road were still too pressed to raise their heads. Li Xu organized soldiers in the enemy tower and tried to counter the enemy archers several times. However, there were too few people in the enemy's building, and the soldiers of the Xiongwu Battalion had not undergone rigorous training in archery, so they could not pose an effective threat to the other side.

"Attack more and break through!" This is the siege tactic that Li Xu privately summed up when attacking Liaoyang. At that time, others were soft-spoken, and they couldn't let their suggestions be known to the imperial court. And now, Li Mi has used the same strategy against him, but it has worked. Focus the attack on the vicinity of Yuliang Road, and use feathered arrows to cover the storm ladder in other places to distract the defenders' strength and attention. Once a ladder attack is successful, the non-key point becomes the focus, catching the defenders off guard.

On the battlefield of Liaoyang, there were many attackers and few defenders. On the battlefield of Liyang, the number of rebels was three times that of the defenders. The child hid in the sky and secretly laughed at the "copper block" in the oven. They were about to melt, the door was closed, the last piece of charcoal had been added, and all that was owed was a little wind.

The wind, suddenly, blew from the east, and the battle flag whirled. Xuzi slowly pulled out the black knife from his waist and wiped the red on the blade with a city brick.

"I want to withdraw the brethren on Yuliang Road and relieve the pressure from other directions!" Yu Wenshi rushed to Li Xu's side and suggested in a low voice.

"Order the brethren on Yuliang Road to withdraw into the enemy building. Order Governor Li to block the small gate between the city wall of the Yuliang Road section and the city wall on the left! Li Xu accepted this suggestion without hesitation. So far, Yuwen Shiji has not given him any bad ideas, so Xuzi trusts his prison army very much.

The herald ran out with his body bowed, and after a few breaths, the brothers who were facing Yuliang Road covered each other with their shields and retreated into the enemy tower. The enemy's ironclad infantry keenly caught the fighter, suddenly accelerated, rushed through the last few steps, and with a stretch of his arm, he turned over to the head of Liyang City.

"Herald brothers, storm Yuliang Dao!" Li Mi saw the figure of the ironclad army appear on the city wall, raising a feather fan high. At this moment, he felt that he had become an ancient wise man, and while talking and laughing, the enemy army was wiped out.

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