Under the white battle flag, Li Anyuan led 5,000 soldiers to carry out a frantic attack on the eastern wall of Chang'an City. About half a dozen of the brothers fell on the way forward, and the red blood froze on the ground, causing the brothers who followed to slip step by step. However, Li Anyuan did not let the team stop to rest, he only had ten days, and if he could not defeat Chang'an, the back road of the brothers to the north to resist the Turks would not be preserved. The Li family will be destroyed at any time in the tide of competition for the world, and his dream of being a founding hero will also drift away with the wind.

Li Anyuan didn't want to see that ending. He could not tolerate the Turks trampling on the people of the Central Plains, and at the same time, he was not willing to lose the glory and wealth that was about to come. Therefore, he could only do his best to take down the fortified city in front of him within ten days, even if it would cost most of his lives to do so.

Attackers disperse an array of hundreds of people. The brothers who walked in front of them held their shields aloft, keeping out the line of arrows flying from behind the smoke. The shield-bearers were followed by the archers, who bent their bows as they went, and fired a volley at the command of the captain, their arrows tearing through the smoke and striking the defenses of the walls.

More than ten paces away from the archers, there are towering siege ladders. The soldiers pushing the ladder should try to get as close as possible to the carriage where the ladder is placed, so as not to become a target for the opposing archers. Despite their caution, some were shot by stray arrows along the way. The blood of the dead smeared on the edges of the white stubble, and it was so red that it made people's eyes ache.

Dozens of ladders were followed by five behemoths made of giant logs, cow tendons, iron nails, and ropes. It was a siege weapon that the Taiyuan martial arts family spent a lot of money to build for Li Yuan, which could launch more than two hundred catties of stones one hundred and fifty steps away. When attacking the West River, this thing made the defenders suffer enough. The civil tower was smashed down in only about half a day, and when the body of the guard was found under the girders, the soldiers of the city immediately dispersed.

The first wave of tentative attacks quickly failed. The Yin Shishi, the general of Zuo Yiwei, who defended the city wall on the east side of Chang'an, was very timid, but he had a lot of experience on the battlefield. He dealt a great blow to the morale of the attackers with stones and boiling water, causing many of the brothers to tremble as they looked at the walls when they withdrew.

"Shieldman, stand still!" After the front platoon of soldiers advanced to within fifty steps of the city wall, Li Anyuan ordered loudly. Immediately, the guards beside him blew their horns, and the orders of the leaders reached the ears of every soldier.

"Woo-woo-woo-woo!" The Li family army announced the start of the second round of attacks with a poignant rhythm. The shield-bearer quickly poked the massive wooden shield into the dirt beneath his feet, then crouched down and hooked his arm to the handle behind the shield. Simple fences were built on the battlefield in an instant, and behind the fences, the archers raised their bows at the same time.

"Archer, three rounds of shooting!" Li Anyuan's order turned into a horn sound. The archers who heard the command quickly loosened their bowstrings. Feathered arrows were like flying locusts, breaking through the smoke and smashing into the city with the sound of the wind. Most of them are blocked by the opponent's shield wall, and a few of them drill through the gaps in the shield and kill the enemy soldiers behind them. There are also a few that fall halfway and smash on the surface of the city wall, shattering the blood ice that has just condensed, revealing the original face of the city bricks.

Swarthy, heavy, and as clear as history.

"Ballista, attack the city, salvo!"

With the sound of the horn of death, the powerful crossbows in the ranks of the archers also began to wield, whistling through the space of dozens of paces, shattering the shields and smashing the defenders' formations to pieces.

The second round of feathered arrows caught up in time to make up for the gap created by the strong crossbow. The screams on the city wall were incessant, and the shouts under the city wall shook the sky. Without any emotion, Li Anyuan pulled out a yellow corner flag and danced back and forth. The sharp weapon contributed by the samurai family began to exert its might, and the huge stone projectile flew up with a "soaring" sound and disappeared. After a few breaths, there was a dull thud over the city, followed by a series of desperate wails.

"Put!" Aim for the enemy building! Li Anyuan ordered again. Another stone projectile rose into the air, piercing through the smoke and smashing into the looming tower. The projectile had a slightly larger range and flew past the roof of the enemy building, bringing up a piece of broken bricks and tiles.

The third stone projectile quickly adjusted its trajectory and smashed into the center of the enemy building. The wooden guardrail and a small section of the low wall collapsed, and the entire enemy tower crumbled.

The defenders quickly counterattacked, and dozens of bed crossbows were fired at the same time where the stone bullets were raised. A catapult fell apart in an instant, and the stones that didn't have time to fly out rolled down from the broken swing arm, smashing the panicked soldiers directly into meat sauce.

"Help!" The sergeant, crushed under the wooden beam, cried out for help. Several brave robes stepped forward to help, but before they could lift the beam, another round of crossbow arrows burst through the air, piercing both the fallen and the helper.

The sound of wailing was incessant. Li Anyuan couldn't hear anything, he quickly adjusted his tactics, scattered the remaining catapults, and attacked the enemy tower from all different angles. Then he drew the horizontal knife at his waist and aimed at a section of the city wall a little far away from the enemy tower, "Inner battalion, attack it!" Those who ascend to the city first will be promoted to three levels, and the field will be rewarded with thousands of acres! ”

"Woo-woo-woo-woo!" The sound of the horn was incessant, igniting everyone's blood. Twelve teams of foot soldiers pushing the ladder sped up, bypassing their shieldmen and archers, and swooping down on the walls. In an instant, twelve ladders were mounted on the city. The cart bearer quickly pulled open the mechanism under the carriage, nailing the ladder, the box seat, and the wall firmly together. Wang Yuanhua, the captain of Zhaowu, held a short knife in his mouth, holding a shield with one hand, and alternately cooperating with his other hand and feet, as agile as an ape.

"Go up, kill it, take whatever the gold and silver in the city are!" I don't know who shouted at the top of his voice, which immediately caused thunderous cheers. The ladders were instantly filled with people, and twelve black lines like ants moving went hand in hand. The walls were littered with arrows, constantly knocking down climbers. The Warriors who followed immediately filled the place vacated by the faller, turning a deaf ear to the nearby feathered arrows and stones. A basin of boiling water poured down a dozen brothers on the leftmost ladder, and the covering archers immediately launched a counterattack. The defenders at the head of the city were shot by arrows, screaming and falling, and the wounded on the ladder slammed to the ground. The cold earth embraced them openly, no matter who was in the middle of the river and who was west of the river.

Most of the enemy's attention was drawn to the catapults, and in order to ensure that the castle tower was not destroyed, the Netherworld Division mobilized almost all the bed crossbows on the eastern wall to counter this sharp weapon that could fire stone projectiles. His panicked actions led to a severe shortage of heavy weapons to defend the walls, and greatly reduced the lethality of the attackers. After paying the price of nearly 100 lives of his subordinates, Wang Yuanhua, the captain of Zhaowu, was the first to approach the city.

"Kill!" He threw his shield full of arrows at the city, knocking down two officers who tried to get close to him. Then, with a strong jump of his feet, he fell from mid-air like a harrier to the city wall. Before he could gain a foothold, the two lances immediately pushed left and right. Wang Yuanhua dodged one of them, slammed the blade of the other with one arm, and at the risk of being cut off his arm, he pushed the blade away from his lower abdomen.

At the moment when the enemy was a little stunned, he quickly took the horizontal knife from his mouth with his right hand and pushed it flat against the mallet. Push your feet together and run briskly. The four fingers were neatly cut off, Wang Yuanhuahua stopped suddenly, swept with one hand with a knife, grabbed the lever that was about to fall with the other hand, and quickly twisted his body. A series of screams rang out as he moved. Two guards of the city were smashed to the bottom of the city by the sweeping mallet, and the other hand covered his finger and jumped in pain. Wang Yuanhua quickly smeared a knife on his neck, ending his pain.

"Captain Wang went up, Captain Wang went up!" The Taiyuan soldiers and horses shouted like crazy and jumped onto the city one after another. The well-trained ones immediately formed a small formation, with their backs against their own robes, constantly expanding the breakthrough.

The attention of the defenders was quickly attracted by the breach. A large number of officers and soldiers ran here with shouts. Li Anyuan commanded his men to shoot nearly one-third of the soldiers halfway, but the remaining two-thirds still rushed towards Wang Yuanhua and the others without fear of death.

"The people of Hedong will slaughter the city!" Rumors were spread loudly, igniting hatred in the eyes of the brethren. "The ancestral graves of Li Yuan's family have been picked up by us, and he has entered the city, and no one in the family can survive." The officers and soldiers who stayed in Chang'an cried and cried, fighting to the death with the besiegers.

Wang Yuanhua stood in the middle of his own brothers, pushed by the regressive flow of people, and retreated. "Hold on, hold on, we can't go down!" He shouted and reminded the brethren that this was the wall and that there was no way back. But the effect is extremely limited. The two outermost robes had just killed the opponent when they were stabbed through by the wooden spears that rushed straight at them. A brigade commander who followed them swung his sword in quick succession, slashing several iron-clad enemy soldiers. But he was accidentally held by the wounded soldier who was already lying on the ground waiting for death, and couldn't move, and then was cut into meat paste by the incoming blades.

A group of defenders held torches, rushed to the ladder with boiling oil, and poured their heads first, scalding the mature meat of the Taiyuan soldiers who tried to climb up to the city for reinforcements. Immediately after, the torch was quickly dropped, and the red serpent flew on the ladder, turning into a flaming dragon that could not be climbed. Another group of defenders braved a rain of arrows to stop them and threw their spears at the climbers, smashing the upward surging ant array into two pieces. Crossbow arrows, nail shots, iron rakes and other sharp weapons began to concentrate near the breach, and the support that Wang Yuanhua and others could get became smaller and smaller, and the pressure they were under was increasing. His horizontal knife had long since broken, and the lance in his hand had been chopped in two by the enemy with an axe. A Sui soldier stabbed with a spear, Wang Yuanhua held the gun with one hand, and the half of the lance in the other hand stabbed the opponent in the throat. The enemy soldier fell down with a scream, but his hands refused to let go of the wooden guns. Wang Yuanhua retracted vigorously, and as soon as his arm was bent back in front of him, a huge wooden stake was pushed straight against his chest.

"Ahh The wooden stake, which was held by more than a dozen Sui soldiers, hit him again, knocking the soldiers who tried to rescue him cleanly. The second and third stakes roared, shattering shields, flying horizontal knives, and knocking down the Taiyuan soldiers who poured into the city like dust. Soon, that section of the city wall was recaptured by the Sui army. Wang Yuanhua's head and his general flag were picked out of the battlements together, drenched in blood.

"Damn the Yin Master, Lao Tzu will definitely kill your whole family!" Li Anyuan's eyes cracked when he saw it under the city. He roared and organized his men to attack again. If the enemy's reaction was a little slower just now, he would have made the first contribution to breaking through Chang'an. But he saw that the duck in his hand flew away, and he took several of his henchmen.

Feather Arrow is once again the protagonist on the battlefield. Above and below the city, human blood gathers in one place, winding like a stream. As if lest everyone couldn't see clearly, a gust of morning wind blew through, quickly blowing away the thick smoke that shrouded everyone's heads. The cold sunlight instantly illuminated thousands of corpses and thousands of pairs of dead eyes.

The Yin World Master who was in charge of organizing the defense had already killed the red eyes. Ignoring the dissuasion of his own soldiers, he personally rushed to the head of the city to block the enemy's attack. A Taiyuan soldier who climbed up the ladder had just revealed half of his head, and he forcibly cut off the city wall. Another climber attempted to attack him in the knee with his shield, but the Netherworld raised his boots and kicked the shield and shield bearer into the air.

A third enemy soldier who was not afraid of death appeared at his feet, a horizontal knife in his mouth, and a one-handed hook of the battlements. The underworld master raised his sword and chopped it, and the besiegers behind him used an iron fork to hold the blade. Before he could change his moves, the man with the knife in his mouth had already rolled up to the city, clenched his palms into fists, and struck him directly into his lower yin.

Despicable and shameless! The Yin Master didn't have time to dodge, so he had to bend down as best he could, unloading half of the power that hit his lower body. Despite this, he was still speechless in pain. As soon as the enemy soldier struck a successful blow, he immediately took the knife from his mouth and wiped it into the neck of the Netherworld. Just then, one of the guards rushed forward, grabbed him, and jumped from the city.

"Kill. The surname Li entered the city, and no one could survive! A hoarse voice sounded from behind the Yin World Master, startling him. He endured the severe pain and quickly turned around, and saw Yang Baobao and several strong men holding the wooden beams picked from the half-collapsed city tower, charging back and forth, unstoppable.

Rumors can also be used as weapons. The Yin Master smiled bitterly. No one can say who is despicable and shameless, this is a war, there is only victory and defeat, there is no morality.

"Kill, Li Yuan's old thief wants to slaughter the city!" In the next moment, the Yin World Master himself repeated this rumor loudly. And through the mouth of the soldiers, it was quickly conveyed to every corner of the city wall.

The brethren, who had been beaten by the siegers, were thoroughly enraged. They didn't care about investigating the truth of the rumors, they only remembered that the people living within the city walls were their own fathers and villagers. As long as there is a breath of air, they cannot tolerate their loved ones being slaughtered by enemy troops. Li Yuan wants to enter the city, unless all the men in the entire Chang'an City are dead.

The third wave of attacks was quickly repulsed, and several rebels who had lost support and were struggling for time at the head of the city were pushed off the walls by the angry Sui soldiers. A soldier with a big waist raised his axe and slashed at the ladder hooked at the head of the city. One, two, three, and several feathered arrows flew into the air, shooting them like hedgehogs. The dying axe-wielder raised his arm again and roared in furious rage, the bloody blade shivering in the sunlight.

The ladder finally broke away from the city wall and fell to the ground on its side, falling apart. The axe-wielder laughed a few times, hugged the battlements with one hand, and bowed his head and passed away. The shouts of killing above and below the city suddenly stopped, and the brothers on both sides raised their heads at the same time, paying the highest respect to the brave. Then they raised their bows and swords again opposite each other, as if they hated each other.

The fourth wave of attackers was quickly routed by the defenders. The 5,000 brothers under Li Anyuan's command have already suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and their morale is in jeopardy. "Tang Gong is looking at everyone!" He shouted angrily, "Rush forward, don't embarrass Lao Tzu!" ”

The motivating effect of language is very limited. Li Anyuan had to increase the reward continuously. But even when he gave away the greatest official position he could give in his authority, the morale of the brothers was still sluggish. The enemy is so strong that they are almost fighting for a life, and this style of play really makes it impossible for the attacker to raise courage.

"Take it!" Li Anyuan had no choice but to throw the command flag to his deputy general Zhou Wenyong. Without waiting for his opponent to react, he held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, and personally rushed to the city wall. "It's a man's, come with Lao Tzu!" As he ran, he shouted, his eyes shining fiercely.

The sudden sound of a gong from behind him stopped him from doing so. "Dangdang, dang!" A crisp gong sounded from Li Yuan's position, calling all the brothers involved in the siege away from the battlefield. "Grandma's..."Li Anyuan scolded in a low voice, hung his head in frustration, and followed the flow of people away from the city wall, leaving the cheers of the defenders far behind.

The Yin Shi Shi held the battlements with one hand, gasping for breath. If the enemy army organizes another attack, he may confess, but Mrs. Li is reluctant to spend the capital. In the end, he is from Hedong, and he can't do anything.

"Who told you that Li Yuan was going to slaughter the city!" Looking at the retreating enemy, he asked without looking back. At the critical moment, it was rumors that saved the whole army. But this rumor continues to circulate, and it is very likely that it will become a reality.

"It was Li Jinglin who asked his subordinates to do this when he went to the west of the city!" Yang Baobao didn't dare to be greedy for the merits of others, and replied in a low voice. He thought that he could increase General Yin's favor towards Li Juncheng a little by doing so, but who expected it to bring the opposite consequences.

"You take a few people to the west of the city, take down the guy named Li Jing for me, and put him in prison. If he dares to resist, he will be killed! The Netherworld Master grimaced and gave orders from between his teeth.

"This?" Yang Baobao couldn't believe his ears. Without Li Jing's clever plan, the enemy's second round of attacks would have been enough to take the eastern city wall. But the good habits he had developed in the army for a long time made him reluctant to defy his superiors. "No!" Before the Yin Master became angry, he said yes loudly, turned his head and ran down the city wall.

"If this can save you, I hope you can save Da Sui!" The Yin World Master looked at Yang Baobao's back and said secretly in his heart. The next round of enemy attacks won't drag on for long, and he's looking forward to his own ending.

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