At the beginning of April of the second year of the Tang Dynasty, the final battle of the Persian Annihilation War began, and the start of this battle meant that many things, such as the massive losses of the rebel army, began.

On the real battlefield, the rabble has no place to stand, and the army that does not know how to cooperate with each other and the arms is the rabble, and no matter how many the rabble are not the opponents of the elite army, the elite army knows how to exchange the minimum price for the greatest benefit, and the rabble only knows how to rush up, either die together or live together.

So the battlefield is cruel, when the Tang army has not yet arrived under the Persian imperial city, the rebel army has basically been assembled, the angry rebels watched the shameless government army threaten them with Isam's life, so that they are not allowed to attack the imperial city, Issam laughed, let the rebels not care about him, must break the imperial city, and then Issam struggled desperately, seemingly completely disregarding his own life, what happened next The rebels did not know, because in a fit of anger, the siege began, Whether Issam is dead or alive has been ignored on the chaotic battlefield.

The siege war began in this chaos, and the first line of defense of the imperial city was destroyed - Issam could no longer be a reliance on restricting the actions of the rebel army, so the defenders of the imperial city were forced to start counterattacking and began to defend the city, and since ancient times, the losses of the defending side will be less than the losses of the besieging side, and if the besieging side does not have more than six times the strength of the defending side, it is not possible to rashly attack the city, and the end of the siege will be very miserable, and the rebel army obviously does not know this principle, they came all the way, They all took the initiative to open the city and surrender, and they never captured the city.

So the result is obvious, just the first day of siege. The rebel army suffered an unprecedented defeat, with corpses beaten all over the field by bows and arrows and rolling logs and stones, but they did not even climb the city walls, more than a dozen weak rebel armies were wiped out, and several powerful rebel armies were also severely attacked. The leaders of the rebel army were terrified, and they finally realized how much water was in the previous victory.

But the other party only has this city, Issam doesn't know life and death, if so many people here can't even take this city, isn't it too faceless? How will you mix it up in the future? How can you still hold your head up in front of others? Obviously, no one can accept this humiliation, and the leaders of the rebel army are naturally not willing to accept it, so what to do? Someone said, there are many of us. There are few of them, so let's fight, and sooner or later we can get in!

They thought about it and felt that it was also the case, at least five or six hundred thousand people were surrounding here, and how many officers and soldiers were there? Just those people, can't we fight for one of the five of us? If that weren't enough, we'll gather all the Persians together to clean them up. Clean up the damned emperor, it's just a city anyway. One person can drown it with a mouthful of spit, there are many people with great strength, and they are so capricious! Thus, the more capricious siege began.

Perhaps even the old generals in the city themselves did not think that there was no need for siege weapons, no such thing as ladders and wells. He actually used his flesh and blood to fight against the towering and tall city, which was the rhythm that was bound to turn into a meat pie, so it was no surprise that all these rebel soldiers who fought bravely became meat cakes, and the blood flowed like a river. It was no longer enough to describe the horror of the war, and three days later, the old general began to have a headache about the lack of weapons to defend the city and what to do with so many corpses outside the city.

Defending weapons such as arrows may be able to make up for it through trees and demolishing wooden buildings, and the arrows shot in by the rebel army can be used for a second time, as for iron, then step up forging, all iron items have been confiscated throughout the process, and have become military supplies, and private possession is not allowed, as for food, there is no need to worry, and there is no need to worry about water, these are all preserved, and the only thing to worry about is that there are so many corpses, if they are not disposed of in time, they will begin to rot, There is the possibility of a terrible famine.

With so many corpses, where can the defenders in the city dispose of them? So do you need the old general to send out and tell the rebels that you must hurry up and dispose of the corpses, lest the plague break out and we will be finished together? The climate here is relatively dry, the weather is quite cold, and it is not so easy to rot, but the veteran general who has been in battle for a long time understands the horror of the plague that occurs after the corpse is decomposed, and the Tang army naturally understands this very well, so the blood droplet spies hidden deep in the rebel army began to act.

After hearing such rumors, the leaders of the rebel army, who did not understand these things at all, were so frightened that they were so frightened that they began to order the corpses to be disposed of, and those who could be buried were buried, and those who could not be buried could only be burned, and they couldn't stay anyway, that's it, it was at this time that they knew how severe the losses were, how heavy they were, and in just three days, so many people died, so many people lost their lives, and the rebel army once again suffered huge losses, and they failed to break through the city.

Without ladders and wells, what's the point of such an offensive? The city gate has long been ordered to be blocked, they can't destroy the city gate to enter the city, they can't use the tricks that Suning has used, and there are no raw materials to use.

Therefore, when the Tang army had not yet arrived, these rebel armies staggered step by step in the heavy losses, and actually learned how to attack the city, the cloud ladder appeared, and the rolling log that hit the city gate was born, all of which were the rules of thumb that they themselves summed up.

The higher the city, the more difficult it is to attack, and the greater the risk that the soldiers who climb the ladder to attack need to take, and there is no other reason, not to mention fear of heights, just say that such a long distance, who can finish it unharmed? In case one is not seen by others, a guy will overturn the top of the ladder, and it is not just one person who dies, and it is not a person who climbs on a ladder, plus the lack of quality of the ladder, so the rebels lost their troops and lost tens of thousands of deaths in one day.

The loss ratio was terrifying, but they had to accept it, and they surrounded the city. Don't let the official army have any chance to break through, but it seems that the official army doesn't plan to break through, just defend the city, as if they have no other ideas, which makes the rebels somewhat depressed, compared to the inexperienced siege warfare. They are better at field battles where they can fight more and less, and they prefer to do so, which gives them a greater chance of winning.

Of course, although the leaders of the rebel army mobilized troops and horses to attack the city every day, the excessive casualty ratio was really unacceptable to them, they were all human beings, they all had seven emotions and six desires, and they all ate grains and grains, who was willing to kill all their men and horses. And then wait for others to enjoy the fruits of victory? No one is stupid, and those who can be the leaders of the rebel army on the other side are not ordinary people, so no matter who they are, they don't want to be stupid to let others die, let themselves lose their strength, and indirectly achieve others.

So after the initial period of rapid attack, their attack actually stopped, and only the siege remained. No more attacks, no one wants to be wronged. So everyone was unwilling to be the wronged leader, so everyone didn't do the wrong, and no one would attack the city, and the direct consequence of no one attacking the city was that small-scale friction began between the rebels, and gradually there was a tendency to expand.

When the old general learned about it, he couldn't help laughing, saying that these people were indeed a rabble. It is precisely because of these rabble that we have a chance of victory, and the general expected that these so-called rebels really wanted to preserve their strength and not attack like this, because of the relationship between Isam. They are pulling each other again, so there is friction, and it is really a rabble, and after a while, these people will definitely break out into a large-scale civil war, hahahaha, we have a chance, we have a chance, and the sky will not die in our country!

The development of events in the next few days did develop with the old general's speculation, the rabble outside the city began to attack each other on a large scale, civil strife began, the defenders of the city hid in the city and smiled at the wonderful real battle, looking very happy, laughing while still cheering, happy for the cannibalism of these people, worthy of a rabble, not at all the climate, temporary success can not cover up the humility of these short-sighted people!

At the same time that the Persian imperial city is becoming more and more dramatic, Suning's investigation of the assassination of Li Er's Xià has also progressed, the main tension is to basically rule out the suspicion of the people in the mansion, they are determined to be not suspected of committing crimes, and the recent records of the entrance and exit of the palace also show that no one left the Su Mansion at night, and the people who left the Su Mansion during the day also have legitimate things, judging from the time, they are reasonable, and they also have their own families in Chang'an City or the surrounding county capital, There is no reason to hate the Su family and the emperor.

Obviously, there is no suspicion of the subordinates, at least those who have families and rooms are not suspicious, as for those who have no father or mother, or a very small number of subordinates whose hometowns are far away, there are also people who go to reconnoitre, at least to determine the hometown of origin, as long as a person has no ghosts in his heart, he will not tell lies, make up his hometown and place of origin, and provoke suspicion in vain.

Of course, this will take time, and Suning believes that Xiao Xiazi can do it, and he will definitely be able to do it.

As for another person who absolutely trusts, Suning also has high hopes for Cui Xiaoyi, hoping that Cui Xiaoyi can also find out some things, so that he can be more stable, these days there are rumors in Chang'an City, and the news that there is no clear punishment in the court has come out, but it seems that some people want to see Suning in this matter, Li Chengqian's pressure seems to be very great, although the Emperor Li Shimin publicly proclaimed that this matter was done by a despicable and shameless villain, and it has nothing to do with the emperor, but, at this time, to say this kind of thing, It doesn't seem convincing.

After all, how can this kind of thing be said clearly? There are 10,000 Hamlets in the eyes of 10,000 people, Suning doesn't care about rumors for a long time, and this kind of rumors has no substantial harm to Suning, it can only make Suning know more clearly who the person who wants to make him unlucky is, and who the person who wants to make himself fall behind, in the past, they didn't stand up, Suning didn't know, but now that they stand up, Suning will know.

Of course, Suning also has its own bottom line, at this time, it doesn't matter how you say yourself, but you can't say the emperor, you can't say the ongoing war, you can't talk nonsense about the war of the 150,000 army that the Tang Dynasty just launched, this is a national policy, a national policy that has been determined a long time ago, and a century-old national policy line that has been determined a long time ago is unshakable, if anyone wants to shake the national policy, Suning will not hesitate to fight with it.

The battlefield in the Western Regions is full of flames, and the battlefield in Chang'an City seems to be filled with gunsmoke, although it can't be seen or touched, but everyone can clearly feel the helplessness and sorrow they are in, two wars, one external, one internal, it seems that no matter when, there are always so many centrifugal forces within the Tang Dynasty, although Suning understands that it must be saved, but it always feels very unhappy.

Then you can only kill a batch when there is a batch, that's all...... (To be continued......)