Chapter 4: Mending the Heavens (6b)

Yang Baobao walked through the empty streets of Chang'an, as if he was in a ghost. Rumors always spread faster than official news, and it seemed that all the people had already heard the news that Li Yuan was about to slaughter the city. Behind some closed doors and windows, Yang Baobao clearly saw the cold light peculiar to ironware. "If the military discipline is slightly untidy after the enemy army enters the city......." He suddenly thought of this, and the whole person shuddered.

The people of Guanzhong will definitely not stretch their necks and wait for the slaughter. Li Yuan's team may have taken Chang'an, but it may also have turned it into their own grave due to a misunderstanding. Thinking of this, he admired Li Jing's wisdom even more. At the same time, he also became more and more incomprehensible to the orders of the Yin World Master. The person who can try all kinds of means to push the Li family to the brink of disaster will definitely not be an undercover agent sent by Li Yuan. Then why did the Netherworld Master treat him like an enemy? Does he think Li Jing will find an opportunity to betray everyone? Yang Baobao didn't believe it, and could only hope that when he arrived in the west of the city, Li Jing would never make any resistance.

The battle for the western city wall looked even more tragic than the eastern city wall, and the distance was far away, and Yang Baobao heard a deafening shouting of killing. Giant crossbows hung with human debris whizzed over the streets, and huge stones smashed into the roofs of houses near the city gates. The earth trembled beneath his feet, and the closer he got to the walls, the more he trembled, accompanied by a trembling rhythm and a dull crashing sound, "Knock, knock, knock!" ”。 Yang Baobao knew that it was the enemy's siege vehicle crashing into the city gate. However, he was not worried at all, as early as the day of Wei Wensheng's defeat, Li Jing had already sent people to use straw bags and soil to tightly plug the two gates of the outer city and the urn city.

The man he admired and bewildered was now standing in a corner of the tower. Looking along the horse road, Yang Baobao could clearly identify the slightly thin figure of the other party. As a military general, Li Jing's figure is indeed a little weak. But Yang Bao was very aware of the tremendous power that lay beneath that seemingly fragile body. It is said that when he fled from Taiyuan to Chang'an, this son rode alone. There were so many cottages and locks along the way, but none of them dared to take the initiative to rob and kill.

Compared with the hectic chaos of the Yin World Division, the two commands of Li Jing and Gu Yi looked more organized. Most of the soldiers were placed on the road leading to the wall, so that the enemy's bows and arrows rarely hurt the brothers, and when the city was covered with arrows, the brothers could rush to the designated position for reinforcements at any time.

Another corner was tightly defended, Li Jing grabbed the corner flag and dispatched troops. The soldiers raised their shields and bent over with swift and agile movements. Along the way, the corpse of the robe was found, and it was immediately lifted up by the person who walked in front and gently placed on the inside of the city wall. The man who was in charge of cleaning up the battlefield tied a rope around the waist of the corpse and carefully dropped the dead from the city walls. At the base of the city wall, hundreds of recruited people grabbed the remains of the war dead and quickly pushed them into the nearby courtyard with carts. Everyone's face was full of sadness, and everyone's movements were orderly.

Yang Baobao knows a lot about the person of Jing Zhao Yin Guyi. This son's greatest ability is to save money, and it is impossible for the brothers to maintain such a strict military appearance. Therefore, he believes that everyone's confidence comes from Li Jing. Therefore, he was even more reluctant to rush to the city tower and disturb the morale of his family at a critical moment.

A strong crossbow shot up the city, hitting the wooden pillar beside Li Jing. "Ahh Many people exclaimed, but Li Jing, who was not even wearing armor on his body, smiled and reached out to pull out the crossbow arrow that was still trembling. The arrows are so deep into the wood that they are very laborious to pull out. Without waiting for everyone to come forward to help, he grabbed the tail end of the arrow shaft, shook it a few times, and actually relied on the force of the arrow shaft itself to force the arrow out of the wooden pillar.

"Treasure, why are you here, is there a fierce fight over there in Dongcheng?" The moment he pulled out the crossbow arrow, Li Jing also saw Yang Baobao, raised his eyebrows in surprise, and asked loudly.

"Li Yuan felt sorry for his brothers, so he removed everyone for breakfast!" Yang Baobao shouted in reply, his voice overpowering the drums above and below the city. "General Yin sent me here to help, see how you are doing?" He tried his best not to look at Li Jing's eyes, lest the lie be directly exposed.

"I can hold it on my side, the enemy army is numerous, but the level of training is not high!" Li Jing pointed to the city with the shaft of the arrow and replied with a smile. "If General Yang has time, it's best to go to the south gate and the north gate to have a look, there is also a lot of pressure on both sides.......

In the middle of his sentence, his voice suddenly stopped. His brows furrowed tightly, and his eyes were full of doubts.

Yang Baobao did not listen to Li Jing's arrangement, he had to find a way to protect Li Jing without offending the Yin World Master. In a hurry, of course, it is difficult to think of a solution. So he could only stand beside Li Jing and observe the enemy situation with the other party.

Looking in the direction Li Jing was looking, he could see dozens of enemy generals standing side by side on a dirt slope in the distance. The distance was well chosen, just outside the effective range of the feather arrows, and the human eye could clearly see the development of the battle.

'The enemy general is not a wasted person!' Yang Baobao thought to himself, "No wonder he can make Li Juncheng pay so much attention!" Looking closely, he also understood the reason why Li Jing was surprised. The main general who led the troops to attack Xicheng was actually a woman, wearing a black armor and a red cloak, which looked particularly dazzling among the tens of thousands of troops.

"It's Li Wan'er from the Women's Army!" Gu Yi is not good at fighting, but he inquires very clearly about the enemy's situation. "I've heard that she seduced a bunch of men with her beauty to be her skirt ministers. Those guys are all deadly robbers. The Hedong County Guard sent troops to recruit her, but she was defeated every time! ”

"If she is beautiful alone, I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to let so many green forest characters follow her!" Li Jing disagreed with Gu Yi's point of view, and pointed at the enemy general with the shaft of an arrow, "That guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes should be Sun Hua, on both sides of the Yellow River, the official army has been repeatedly defeated by his hands. The one wearing the lotus leaf armor was Chu Shili, who was the son of Jiaozhi Taishou Qiu He. The old man next to him was called Li Zhongwen, and he was Li Mi's uncle. The big man in the black house is called Xiang Shanzhi, and he is a famous lone thief......"

Every time he said a name, Gu Yi couldn't help but gasp. After pointing out more than a dozen people one by one, Jing Zhao Yin Guyi's face had become as white as snow, "Pharmacist! He shouted Li Jing's words and muttered, "We, let's keep it today, can we keep it?" ”

"It's expected that there will be a fierce battle. The enemy's attack just now was huge, but they didn't do it with all their might. The more elite troops are eating and resting in the distance, recuperating! Li Jing smiled and replied very frankly. But we won't lose, these people are all famous when listed separately, but the time together is too short to form an effective cooperation for the time being! ”

"That's good, that's good!" Gu Yi immediately became happy and nodded at Li Jing. He was very happy to hear the other party say that there was still hope for him to continue to persevere, but he didn't see that while cheering for himself just now, Li Jing, who had never commanded Ruoding, actually sighed quietly.

"General Li seems to be worried!" Yang Baobao, who had been looking for an opportunity to ask Li Jing about countermeasures, keenly saw the change in Li Jing's expression, and secretly wondered in his heart. He looked at the enemy generals again and found that Li Jing's guidance just now had obviously missed a person. That person stood side by side with Li Wan'er, wearing a pale pink brocade robe, looking like a jade tree in the wind. But she is obviously not a man, because Sun Hua, the tycoon of the green forest, has been circling around this person like a fool.

is three points less resolute than Li Wan'er and five points more soft. Although the distance was far away, although the other party was wearing men's clothes, Yang Baobao's heart was still pounding. If you can get such a woman to look back and smile, it is worth going bankrupt. I don't know who her husband is, and he is willing to let such a beautiful stunner show his head outside?

Before she could take a few more looks, the woman in the brocade robe suddenly hit the mound and jumped down her horse. She instigated her mount, running back and forth in front of thousands of lightly armed footmen. While running, he kept talking about something. The footmen responded with cheers, "No! "No!" They shouted loudly, lest the female general would not hear their answer.

The sound of the drums under the city wall suddenly tightened, sonorous and powerful, like thousands of horses galloping. Li Jing was full of color, called the generals around him, and told loudly. A moment later, twice as many defenders as they had been before, running briskly up to the city, shoulder to shoulder, and lurking within the walls.

Here's the real challenge. All the defenders felt the tension. They put their feathered arrows on their bow arms and slid them back and forth. The rainstorm of carved feathers shot up from under the city, and in an instant, a layer of white hair grew near the battlement. Blood burst out, and wails continued.

After the feathered arrows were covered, the enemy approached the city again. Divided into about two dozen teams, five points were selected on both sides of the city gate to break through at the same time. The shieldbearer is currently taking cover, followed by a large group of minions carrying improvised ladders. There is no siege ladder with wheels and carriages like in the east of the city, and the ladder of the women's army is just two thick bamboos, with many beams nailed in the middle. Lined with the ladder were chariots that could hide people, covered in filthy mud, and the defenders' feathered arrows shot up only to splash strings of ice ballast.

"Don't rush to fight back, let them get close!" Li Jing finally gave an order. Then he dropped the crossbow in his hand and took a large bow from the guard. The great bow was much longer than the ordinary foot bow, and the feathered arrows used were also specially made, nearly half a foot longer than ordinary arrows. From the perspective of an onlooker, Yang Baobao knew that the range of this bow would definitely reach a hundred and fifty paces away. If Li Jing's archery skills were very skillful, the enemy generals who came to lead the siege had no choice but to ask for more blessings for themselves.

As the enemy approached within twenty paces, the covering archers began to change tactics, moving away from covering the fire, to focus on targets near the battlements. "Shoot, aim at the traitor carrying the ladder!" Li Jing ordered loudly, and at the same time released the bowstring and overturned the enemy general who was organizing the battle in front with one arrow.

The defenders, who had been held back for a long time behind the battlements, immediately raised their bodies and fired head-on at the ladder bearers below the city. Due to the heavy loads in their hands, the traitors who carried the ladder could not dodge and fell in the path of the charge alternately.

The attack under the city did not abate in the slightest, and the person who organized the attack was replaced by the brocade-robed woman. Seven or eight strong men with shields surrounded her to prevent another cold arrow attack. The woman in the brocade robe waved the order flag and urged the soldiers to continue to press forward. There were also people in the car who ran out and picked up the ladder that had fallen to the ground. The archers in charge of suppression focused on the soldiers in the city who dared to show their heads, and concentrated their efforts on shooting. In a few breaths, the threat of the defenders was suppressed to a minimum.

Hundreds of chariots crashed directly into the city walls, shaking the blue-gray brick walls to the ground. Right under the noses of the defenders, the attackers took out a large pile of ropes, bamboo poles, and iron hooks from the Yun cart, waved their arms and slammed them several times, throwing the iron hooks directly onto the city. Nearby, the ladder was also set up at the battlement, and countless people swarmed up to climb up, and countless people climbed up along the rope behind the iron hook, juggling one by one.

The defenders who had never seen this tactic were almost stunned. They finally understood why the soldiers under the brocade-robed general were lightly armed. Only by traveling lightly will the power of this tactic be exerted. Defenders can cut off part of the rope and knock down part of the improvised ladder. But hundreds of people climbed at the same time, and they couldn't clean it up at all.

Moreover, the attacker did not give everyone a chance to clean up. Under the command of the brocade-robed general, the archers adopted a tactic of shooting in turns, constantly suppressing the city's head. One of the defenders had just cut a rope, revealing half of the battlement's body that had been shot like a hedgehog. The attackers, who fell from mid-air, were caught in their own robes with something similar to a fishing net, and were not harmed at all.

In the blink of an eye, the enemy army had jumped onto the wall. The defenders had to get up from their hiding places and fight back at the risk of being sniped by feathered arrows. But the first batch of rebels who climbed the upper city were obviously some green forest experts, and with only a few single knives, they would quickly lay a foothold in the city. The brocade-robed female general quickly adjusted her deployment, sending more of her minions towards the breakthrough point.

"That woman must be killed!" Yang Baobao saw the key. At this moment, he could no longer tolerate mercy, and the organizers of the attack were not inferior to Li Jing in their ability to grasp the battlefield. If she is not killed in time, the city is in danger.

He quickly turned his head away, hoping to give Li Jing some hints. only to find that Li Jing, who had never changed his face in the face of thousands of troops, was so nervous that he could barely hold the bow!

Li Jing's hands were trembling, as if they were frozen, and they kept shaking, trembling, trembling.

Finally, he closed his eyes and loosened the strings.

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