Although the two of them ridiculed Li Mi's character and ability verbally, they did not dare to ignore him when they used soldiers. At this moment, although the rebels have not experienced any serious training, the training level of the Xiongwu Battalion is not much better than that of the other party. It's just that he has experienced a bloody battle in Liaodong and has more courage. It's okay to bully and bully a civilian official like Yuan Wuben who doesn't know anything about marching and fighting with a soldier with such a level of training, but if he takes more than 4,000 brothers out of the city to face the 70,000 army commanded by the descendants of the generals like Han Shixu and Li Mi, it is indeed impatient.

Therefore, Yu Wenshi and Li Xu stopped the generals from messing around. ordered Zhao Ziming to take millet and calculate the chips, and in front of everyone, deduced the attack and defense plan of Liyang City one by one. Zhao Ziming, who has a long history, is also a scheming person, and since the army entered the city, he has been studying the terrain of the mountains and rivers near Liyang. Under his guidance, the staff used millet to pile up the general outline of Liyang City in a while. Zhao Ziming used his fingers to wipe a small ditch outside the city wall to make the Yongji Canal, and used the chips to make a square shape to make mountains and rivers, although the whole map is a little rough, it looks clear at a glance.

Liyang City is sandwiched between the Yellow River and the Yongji Canal, and the surrounding terrain is very gentle. There is a big billet mountain three miles away from the west of the city, which can be regarded as an important place, but it is too far away from the city, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is really weak at this time, so Li Xu and Yu Wenshi did not dare to divide the troops into each other's horns. At the moment, the safest way is to close the four doors tightly and not be able to shrink out. Liyang City is a heavy place for grain, in order to prevent thieves, the city wall is quite tall. If everyone blindly defended it, as long as there were no major mistakes in command, Li Mi and Han Shixu would not be able to enter the city without ten days and half a month's effort. In addition, if the enemy sacrifices his life to attack, those rolling logs and stones placed on the city wall can also come in handy. The only pity is that the bed crossbows built in the Kaihuang period in the city tower are too old to continue to be used. Otherwise, while Li Mi and the others were not prepared to bombard him a few times, everyone would be able to do a miracle if they didn't do it well.

The soldiers discussed and slowly finalized the details of the city's defense. Since this city is boxy, the soldiers and horses of the Xiongwu battalion are also divided into four parts. Zhao Ziming, Li Mengwei, Li Anyuan and Cui Qian each led 5,000 soldiers and horses to be responsible for a city wall, and the remaining 1,000 or so "veterans" of the former Xiongwu battalion who were not scattered to the middle of the soldiers to be officials were left to Li Xu and Yu Wenshi, and the two of them were responsible for supporting all parties at any time.

There are also some old and weak soldiers who really can't go to the battlefield, and they are left to Qin Gang, who joined the army in the Ming Dynasty. Liyang City is the starting place of Yang Xuangan, and when the enemy army attacks the city, maybe someone tries to meet the inside and outside. Qin Gang was cautious and harsh, just enough to take on the responsibility of suppressing the rebellion.

Another day passed, and Han Shixu led the troops to kill. These more than 70,000 people are considered the main force of the rebels, and the weapons and armor seem to be much stronger than those under the command of the Japanese military capital, but the guys in the hands of ordinary soldiers are still mainly wooden sticks and kitchen knives. Seeing that the enemy army refused to go out of the city to fight, Li Mi and Han Shixu were not in a hurry to attack the city, and led the troops to show their might outside the city gate, and then set up the military camp on the billet mountain in the west of Liyang City.

"These rebels are so strange, we have taken the granary, but they refuse to rob it back!" Standing on the city tower, Zhang Xiu pointed at the banner in the distance.

"The more anxious they are to retake Liyang, the more they have to look good in front of us. In this way, let the unknown think that they were full of confidence, and they lost three points in momentum without waiting for the battle! If you don't believe it, wait and see, by this evening at the latest, the rebels will definitely attack in a big way!" Yu Wenshi and smiled as he explained. He was born in a general's family, and he has seen the world and heard more battles than others. Therefore, some judgments on the enemy's situation can be told to penetrate into it.

Sure enough, it was only after the afternoon, and the rebels couldn't wait to kill them from the big billet mountain. This time, in addition to kitchen knives and wooden sticks, the soldiers also had more than a dozen rams made of big trees and dozens of newly made ladders. Carried by the soldiers in the front row, it looked menacing.

"Master Li just can't hold his breath, and the bark of the tree has not been peeled clean, so he is embarrassed to use it as a ladder!" Yu Wenshi glanced at the city and commented lightly.

When the generals heard this, they saw something green and faint at the edge of the ladder. Immediately pointed and spread the new discovery. The prisoners who were forcibly conscripted into the army were scared to death, but when they saw the generals talking and laughing freely, they became a little more courageous. When the enemy approached, he saw clearly the bark on the ladder and the ram, and felt that the other party's image was ridiculous. Unconsciously, the nervous mood relaxed a lot.

The rebels' siege skills were lackluster, and as soon as they approached the walls, they fired several rounds from their backs. When they found that their brothers' archery skills really did not have any killing effect, the banner of the Chinese army changed, and immediately some dead soldiers carried rams and ladders to the city gates and walls. The archery skills of the defenders were between half a catty and eight taels of the siegers, and the feather arrows intercepted several times without stopping, and they watched the siege equipment and the city wall come into contact.

"Throw the log!" Li Anyuan jumped up and shouted loudly.

The soldiers defending the city lowered their bows, lifted the log from behind the battlements, and smashed down the ladder. A wail rang out from below the city, and the rebels who tried to climb the city and the ladder were smashed down one after another, and the offensive stalled. Several veterans of the Xiongwu Battalion who had participated in the battle in Liaodong took the opportunity to pick up the hook, hook the end of the ladder, and pull it hard along the direction of the city wall.

"Put it on the nail shoot!" Li Anyuan succeeded in one blow and continued to exert his might. The soldiers guarding the gate let go of the iron hooks, and three thick planks more than five feet long and two feet wide, covered with iron nails, smashed down with the sound of iron chains. The enemy troops who were clamoring for the giant tree and the city gate were caught off guard, and more than a dozen of them were knocked down by nails. The survivors lacked strength and the entire ram fell to the ground. Thunderbolt, the slammer pressed everyone on their backs.

The morale of the rebels was already low, and after receiving a head-on blow, they immediately retreated like a tide. "Don't waste the log, shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows!" Seeing that the enemy's momentum was a little frustrated, Li Anyuan immediately changed his strategy. Under the leadership of the veterans of the Xiongwu battalion, the newly recruited soldiers picked up their bows from the city, leaned out half of their bodies, and aimed at the hastily retreating enemy army and another rain of arrows.

This time the effect of the shooting was much better than the previous one, and the enemy troops who fled in a hurry had neither archers nor shields to cover them, and suffered heavy casualties. "Keep shooting, keep shooting!" Li Anyuan shouted and urged the brothers to mount arrows and shoot another 50 or 60 unlucky people from behind on the way back.

"Shoot the nail, shoot the nail. Stop the arrows, stop the arrows!" Li Anyuan ran back and forth in the city, so excited that his voice changed tone. When attacking Liyang, he failed to make meritorious contributions because he led his troops to feint in the direction of Jixian, so today he deliberately grabbed the West Gate, which was most vulnerable to enemy attacks, to defend it. Sure enough, the rebels turned all their attention to Simon. By the end of the first round, his brothers had lost less than twenty, while the dead and wounded under the walls together numbered more than three hundred. If you do it a few more times like this, there will be dozens of heads recorded on his head, and even if he can't be promoted again, the third turn of Cexun will be stable.

The enemy troops who had retreated in a hurry were concentrated, and in front of both the enemy and us, the rebel generals who had just led the team were subject to military law. After a simple threat and mobilization, the rebels, led by a new governor, moved closer to the walls again. First the feathered arrows fired suppressively, then the rapid charge. Lifting a ladder over the corpse of a companion and lifting a battering hammer, trying to perform miracles at the cost of his life.

Li Anyuan decided not to give the enemy a chance to create a miracle, holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, running back and forth on the city wall, constantly adjusting his tactics according to the actual situation. Rolling logs, rocks, nails, and hooks, the defensive equipment that has been equipped for many years at the head of Liyang City finally came in handy. Waves of rebels approached, and waves were stoned to death under the walls. The corpses were soon piled up into a hill, but the rebels trampled on the corpses of their comrades and climbed towards the city like ants.

At the beginning of the battle, the defenders' movements were still a little rusty, and gradually, they gained experience in killing people. Under the leadership of the "veterans", the pawns smashed the enemy on the ladder again and again with rolling logs, flipped the ladder with a scratching hook again and again, lowered the nail racket again and again, and stirred the roller to pull up the nail racket with blood and minced meat.

The soldiers on both sides soon began to become numb, and the Sui army defending the city saw that their companion had been hit by an arrow, and rolled and struggled beside them, no longer afraid, and could not care about saving people. The rebels besieging the city watched as the rolling logs turned the row of robes in front of them into a cripple, but they turned a blind eye, and with kitchen knives in their mouths, they continued to work along the ladder to the top of the city.

Finally, someone climbed to the top of the city and occupied a piece of territory with a kitchen knife. Before he could shout for joy, a dozen spears stabbed at the same time, provoking him like a fork. Immediately afterward, the dead body was pulled out by the defenders, flying through the air, struggling, and then falling in despair, into the dust.

A new volley of feathered arrows shot into the wall, wounding four or five spearmen who stood too close to the battlements. The wounded man watched in disbelief as his blood spurted out along the shaft of the arrow, lowered his spear, and covered it with his hands, but could not cover the wound. He stumbled and ran a few steps on the top of the city, and suddenly, tripping over the corpse at his feet, he screamed and fell off the city.

More than a dozen rebel soldiers climbed up, and the newly recruited soldiers of the Xiongwu Battalion were a little flustered, interrupted their action of throwing logs under the city walls, and rushed towards the nearest besieger with their swords. This common-sense mistake caused more enemies to rush to the top of the city, the top of the wall, and the two sides began to fight in small groups. Each palm-sized foothold was stained with blood.

"Don't panic, keep throwing stones, throwing stones!" Li Anyuan's eyes were red with anger, and he loudly ordered his old brothers to restrain his soldiers and prevent more rebels from climbing the city. He himself, with his own soldiers, rushed towards the nearest group of enemies.

A kitchen knife was picked up by Li Anyuan along with the hand holding the knife, and without hesitation, he kicked the rebels who were holding the broken arm and screaming off the city wall. A sharpened wooden stick stretched out from the side, and Li Anyuan separated the wooden stick with the back of the knife, and cut off the neck of the owner of the wooden stick with a single knife.

There is an endless stream of enemies, and it seems that no matter how you kill, you can't kill them all. Just when Li Anyuan felt that his side was about to collapse, his eyes suddenly cleared. The last group of enemy soldiers who rushed to the head of the city were forced into a corner by Yu Wenshi and his personal guards.

The second assault lasted only a quarter of an hour, but the generals on both sides felt like a long day. Eventually, the rebels who had taken part in the attack lost their courage and retreated into the distance. Li Anyuan stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat on his face, but he felt that his hair was sticky, and he didn't know when it was already splashed with blood.

The enemy troops under the city began to change formations again, the banners surged repeatedly, and the sound of golden drums was endless. When all the hustle and bustle gradually became smaller, more than two hundred strong men in neat clothes and armor used huge shields to protect a golden armored general and walked towards Liyang City.

"General Li, General Li!" The rebels shouted loudly and cheered for their own commander. With cheers, the brawny men erected a wooden wall with huge shields at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces from the city wall. The Golden Armor General leaned out half of his body from behind the wooden wall, waved his hand first, lowering the cheers around him, and then clenched his fists and shouted at the city, "Which hero defending the city, can you come out and see it!"

"The hero who defends the city, my general invites you to meet him." The strong men shouted proudly, as if they had won the battle.

"If you have the ability, show your head, don't be a turtle with a shrunken head!" Countless rebels shouted loudly and shook the sky.

"Li Mi, this bastard, if Lao Tzu's bed crossbow can still be used, he will directly wear you and dry him!" Yu Wenshi and scolded. The fight was fought by the Xiongwu Battalion, so he had to expose his body from the battlement, clasped his fists and returned a half-salute, and shouted at the moment when the hustle and bustle around him fell again: "Brother Fa Master, don't come to harm, I haven't seen you for many years, you look more and more graceful!" Even if Pan An is reborn and Song Yu is reborn, I am afraid that his appearance will be lost to Brother Tai!"

The gold-armored general under the city was Li Mi, and he was not annoyed when he heard the words of Yuwenshi and the guns and sticks. Turning aside the shield that stood in front of him, he took a few steps forward and earnestly advised: "I haven't seen you for many years, but I didn't expect that the words of the virtuous brother are still so sharp. Wei Wensheng's army was defeated and ambushed, and the eastern capital was just around the corner, why did the benevolent and virtuous brother bother to defend Liyang and bury the faint king? ”

His voice was thick and loud, and more than a hundred paces apart, it still made everyone in the city hear it clearly. Some of the soldiers who had just joined the Xiongwu battalion did not understand the battlefield situation and were confused by their words. He raised his head and looked at Yu Wenshiji, waiting for him to respond.

The rebels under the city consciously stopped shouting. A pair of eyes stared at Yu Wenshiji, waiting to see how he answered.

"If Brother Fa can capture Luoyang, it's not too late for me to talk about it again! If you feel that there is no hope of attacking the city, and the grain and grass have already bottomed out, it is better to take the initiative to surrender to me now. The two of us brothers led the troops to destroy Yang Xuangan, and if I become an official and become a knight, you can also make meritorious contributions to the crime. Otherwise, I am afraid that within three days, hundreds of thousands of troops from my Eastern Expedition will gather here, and if the Dharma Master wants to surrender at that time, I am afraid that there will be no chance!" The clouds and mountains are covered with lies and deceives, and Yu Wenshi and He have never found an opponent. Half of the truth, half of the lie back, but it made the soldiers around Li Mi show a little panic on their faces.

"That's a bad word!" Li Mi saw that he couldn't say anything about the situation between the enemy and us, so he immediately turned his head to seize the moral high ground, "As the Duke of Pushan, my family has a huge amount of gold, and as for wealth and nobility, I have nothing to ask for." Today, he ignores the people who break the family and destroy the clan, but he solves the urgent need for the world and saves Li Yuan's life. If I can eradicate the faint king and save the people, even if I am broken to pieces, what is there to complain about!"

"I don't know who you're talking about. But I know that Goguryeo is an outsider, and some people rebelled in their nests at the critical moment when we were fighting against foreign enemies, and turned the thousands of miles of fertile fields on both sides of the Yellow River into a barren land. Yu Wenshi pointed to the charred land outside Liyang City, and asked loudly, "Brother Fa Master, you don't know who burned these crops. May I ask the Dharma Master, is this to relieve the people from hanging upside down, or to seek money and kill people!"

The Xiongwu battalion had just arrived in Liyang, and the burning of the crops outside the city certainly had nothing to do with them. Since ancient times, there have been few people who have not been bad in military discipline. Li Mi can't defend this point even if he wants to. Pointing to the head of the city, he just wanted to say that this was just a temporary measure, and in the future, the Duke of Chu and himself would definitely compensate the victims. Yu Wenshi Ji took advantage of his words to add, "By the way, Brother Fa naturally doesn't care. I heard in Liaodong that the Fa Zhu brother and the Duke of Chu had ceded thousands of miles of fertile fields north of the Yellow River to the Goguryeo people. At this time, burning the crops in the field is equivalent to burning the Goguryeo people, how can the Dharma master brother feel distressed!"

Liyang County is on the bank of the Yellow River, and at this moment, the soldiers inside and outside the city are mainly people near the river. When everyone heard what Yu Wenshi said and what was true or false, they became angry. In an instant, there was a clamor above and below the city. Li Mi's face turned black with anger, pointed to the head of the city, and scolded Yu Wenshi for lying and deceiving people, and he was shameless. Yu Wenshi and then agitated like a spring, and asked in turn, "I lied? Who is lying? Do you dare to say that Yang Xuangan got into trouble and didn't contact the Goguryeo people? Do you dare to say that Luoyang City has been captured by you, and the defenders in the city have lost their fighting spirit? Do you dare to say that you still have food in your army, enough for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to eat for several months? Do you dare to say that you can take Liyang down easily, and I won't burn down all the granaries with one fire? ”

"Answer, answer!" Li Anyuan was beside Yu Wenshi and others, jumping to his feet and shouting.

"Answer, answer!" At the head of the city, the recruits and veterans of the Xiongwu battalion asked in unison.

"You, you!" Li Mi originally wanted to disturb the military heart of the Xiongwu camp, but he didn't expect that his own military heart would be confused by Yu Wenshi and the words, so he turned around angrily and left. Yu Wenshi laughed, and continued to shout at Li Mi's back: "Brother Fa Master, the emperor has an order, only punish the evil, and never ask." You've figured it out!"

"Only punish the evil, never ask! Brothers, disperse!" Li Anyuan added fuel to the fire next to him. His words were shouted out in unison by the defenders at the head of the city, causing an uproar among the rebels below.

"Sample, bicker with me!" Yu Wenshi and triumphantly summed up. Looking back, I tried to listen to Li Xu's evaluation of his performance just now, but suddenly found that I didn't know when Xu Zi had disappeared.

"What about General Lee? Which of you saw it? Yu Wenshi asked loudly. Suddenly, he felt that there was something mysterious about the noise inside and outside the city. In the wind, not only the roar of these brothers in the west city wall, but also the murderous intent hidden in the wind.

"As soon as the first round of the enemy's attack ended, General Li went down to the city!" There were soldiers who reported loudly. The combat effectiveness of the rebels under the city walls is so poor, it must not be worth General Li's move.

"The West Wall is handed over to you!" Yu Wenshi pulled Li Anyuan over and shouted loudly. Then, with his own soldiers, he galloped down the city wall, jumped on his war horse, and galloped to the other side of Liyang City.

The evening sun was a little hot, and Yu Wenshi felt sweat rolling down his head, and no matter how he wiped it, he couldn't wipe it clean.

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