Crazy, completely crazy, whether it was the Goguryeo defenders at the head of the city, or the Tang officers and soldiers who were attached to the city under the city, they all fell into an extreme madness, killing! Or killing, either killed, or killed, the city and the city are full of blood, countless lives are like grass mustard, the Tang army's attacks wave after wave, there is never a time to stop, but no matter how desperately the Tang army attacked, but never able to climb the city again, even with the support of powerful weapons such as trebuchets to attack closely, the Tang army is still difficult to take a step beyond the thunder pool, as time goes by, the last rays of the sunset finally disappeared in the sky, and the darkness slowly descended, It's as if God doesn't want to see such a human tragedy again. /。

Attack! Attack again! Nearly 100,000 Tang Army soldiers took turns to attack the city defense of Anshi City, and the infantry and cavalry armies attacked the city in turn, and the cavalry army rushed to the city in turn, and the cavalry army carried out indiscriminate coverage and shooting at all the movable targets at the head of the city, even the Tang Army's trebuchet, which could not be accurate because of the dark sky, was still firing frantically, even if many of the missiles fell into their own rushing troops, they did not hesitate, The bitter battle continued brutally, gradually, after midnight, the Goguryeo defenders who defended the city were somewhat unable to support, although the troops were still sufficient, but the equipment to defend the city had been exhausted, whether it was a wooden rolling stone or an arrow was nearly exhausted, and the strength of the Tang army's siege of the city was never weakened, and the Tang army continued to rush to the city, and the defenders started hand-to-hand combat, the huge gap in strength between the two sides, so that the Goguryeo defenders were always in an endless high-intensity fight, that is, even the respite time was rare to enjoy the last time.

Cheng Dawu, who had been fighting hard at the head of the city for most of the night, saw that most of his 4,000 troops had lost most of them, and he became anxious in his heart, handed over the task of commanding the battle to his deputy, rushed through the chaotic crowd, ran to the city gate tower where only a foundation remained, and shouted at Gao Huailong with an anxious face.

Gao Huailong was slashed by a Tang army who was desperate to kill the head of the city in the previous hand-to-hand combat, although there was a heavy armor to block, and did not hurt the bones, but this knife was coincidentally cut in Gao Huailong's right shoulder injured by Liu Tietao's deathly blow, at this time Gao Huailong had no power to hold the knife, so he could only retreat to the back, commanding the armies to fight, and when he saw the bloody Cheng Dawu came to ask for help, Gao Huailong's face sank down when he became Dawu is the first fierce general under Gao Huailong, and has always been known for daring to fight for his life and not being afraid of death. At this time, even he personally ran to ask for help, it is conceivable that the rest of the sergeants must have reached the final limit, it is said that there are still more than 10,000 elites in the city at this time, and it is not too difficult to transfer to the city to face the battle, but the problem is that Gao Huailong can't do this, just because half of the Tang army is still resting in the big camp, and they will attack with all their strength early tomorrow morning, once there is no reserve, this battle will not be able to continue.

Through the light of light and darkness, Gao Huailong stared at Cheng Dawu fiercely, but saw that the originally bright iron armor on his body was already draped on his body like a rag at this time, covered with blood, and his heart couldn't help but hurt, but for the sake of the overall situation, Gao Huailong still did not let go, pulled out the waist knife with his left hand, raised it awkwardly, and shouted angrily at Cheng Dawu: As soon as the words fell, he was about to rush to the chaotic city, and Cheng Dawu was so shocked that he hurriedly stretched out his hand to block Gao Huailong's way, and stomped his feet hatefully, roared angrily and said: As soon as the words fell, he pounced on the city again with a knife, deliberately ran to the brightest place that the Tang army bonfire could illuminate, roared and fought again and again, and killed a group of Tang soldiers rushing from a cloud ladder with his own strength.

The power of example is absolutely infinite in this cruel fight, with the encouragement of Cheng Dawu's strong performance, the Goguryeo defenders who were originally physically exhausted have cheered up one after another, fighting desperately, and successively pressed the Tang army that finally rushed to the head of the city again, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate again, and the Tang army that had been fighting for a long time also appeared tired at this time, and was no longer able to launch an uninterrupted attack, so it could only stop for a long time after a wave, and then rush again, as the war continued, The interval between the various waves of attacks of the Tang army became larger and larger, and the impact force became more and more insufficient, and when the sky showed the whiteness of the fish's belly, the Tang army, which had fought hard for a day and a night, finally reluctantly stopped attacking the city defense of Anshi.

When the first ray of sunlight broke through the sky, Cheng Mingzhen, who was unable to attack again, had to order the troops to be withdrawn, but he galloped back to the Chinese army, and knelt deeply on the ground in front of Li Shimin, who always insisted on watching the battle from the Chinese army, and asked for guilt.

Li Shimin saw this bitter battle from beginning to end, although he was extremely disappointed that he failed to take Anshi City, but Li Shimin knew very well in his heart: such an attack of intensity was the limit of what the Tang army could do, as far as the command operation itself was concerned, Cheng Mingzhen did not make any obvious mistakes, and he couldn't bear to blame Cheng Mingzhen, so he personally stepped forward, stretched out his hand to help Cheng Mingzhen, and said gently:

; As soon as Cheng Mingzhen heard that Li Shimin had taken all the responsibility for the failure of the siege on his shoulders, a burst of excitement rolled in his heart, and tears couldn't help but flow, looking at Li Shimin, who looked haggard, choked up and couldn't speak.

Li Shimin gently patted Cheng Mingzhen's shoulder, comforted him, and was about to order Li Daliang's troops to attack the city again, but at this moment, a flying horse hurried from the trebuchet position, bringing Li Shimin a very bad news After a night of fierce battles, the trebuchet and the giant ballista have destroyed half of the Tai, even if you count the newly replaced trebuchets and large ballistas, there are only more than 50 trebuchets and ten ballistas that can barely be used.

As soon as he heard the news, Li Shimin's originally mild face immediately sank, looked up at the direction of Anshi City, and after thinking silently for a while, he said coldly:

After a day and a night of hard fighting, the more than 100,000 Tang troops who participated in the war lost nearly 20,000 horses, but they never broke through the city defense, and the veteran generals who stood by Li Shimin's side for a day and a night could no longer stand it, at this time, seeing that Li Shimin still insisted on fighting again, the veteran generals did not want to lose their troops in this way, but Li Shimin's Chrysostom had been opened, but the generals did not dare to admonish, and they were anxious, but they saw Su Dingfang flash out from the side and said:

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All the generals didn't want to fight again, and when they saw that Su Dingfang took the lead, they all echoed it, even Cheng Yanjin, who was the best killer in the past, didn't want to fight like this anymore.

Li Shimin actually didn't want to attack so strongly, but he refused to give up because he couldn't get over his face.

Li Ji had not spoken with the generals before, but at this time, seeing that Li Shimin's fighting spirit had been shaken, he hurriedly stood up and said:

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and said:

Li Ji saluted and said:

Li Shimin thought about it carefully, and also felt that this plan could be done, and applauded his palms and said: Li Shimin gave this order, and the horn of the Central Army Department sounded, and the Tang Army, which had been fighting hard for a day and a night, slowly retreated and moved towards the camp.

Although Yang Wanchun, who fought hard all night, did not personally swing his knife into battle, but he was also hit by the Tang army's arrows while guarding the city, and his arms and thighs were wrapped with bloody bandages, but because he repelled the Tang army's strong attack, his spirit was very good, although the defenders at the head of the city had changed their guards one after another, but Yang Wanchun did not go down with the remnants to rest, but limped to Gao Huailong, who was looking at the enemy formation, and asked suspiciously.

At this time, Li Daliang's department of the Tang Army had just sent people to dig up the mountain, and there was no follow-up action, although Gao Huailong was suspicious, but he had not fully understood the actions of the Tang Army, so he frowned and said:

Yang Wanchun looked at the Tang army's trebuchet position under the city with palpitations, and couldn't help but shudder, but he didn't ask any more, and when a large number of Tang troops carried dustpans full of soil down the mountain one after another, Yang Wanchun's heart suddenly shuddered, and he shouted in a hurried tone:

When Gao Huailong heard this, he was also anxious that the reason why the Goguryeo defenders were able to repel the Tang army's repeated strong attacks relied on this high city wall.

Gao Huailong was anxious, but Yang Wanchun calmed down, stroked the long beard stained with blood on his chest, and said with a smile:

When Gao Huailong heard that there was a way to deal with Tang Jun's move, he felt a little calmer, and stroked his palm and chuckled.

Yang Wanchun saw that the Tang army had begun to act, so he didn't dare to slack off, and after politely bowing his hand, he limped and led the people to retreat from the city in a hurry, and went to arrange relevant matters without mentioning them;

Time flies, it's June when I see the sky, and it's the hottest time in midsummer, that is, I hide in the shade with a single coat, which can still heat people out of stinky sweat, which is really unbearable, even if there are two huge ice basins in the study, the temperature has dropped very low, but Li Zhen, who is dressed in bright yellow clothes, still feels extremely hot, but it is Mo Li and Nalong, who are sitting neatly in the lower hands, but the two strategists Mo Li and Na Long, who are sitting neatly, have a calm bearing, sitting upright without saying a word, waiting for Li Zhen to speak.

Li Zhen knocked on the two folds on the right table irritably, and frowned.

The excerpts are all dense folds, all from the system, there are two copies, one is from the west, talking about the battle to unify the northern Xinjiang, talking about the advantages and disadvantages of the musket team, and asking Li Zhenneng to allow most of the Anxi armies to change their clothes, and then it is to ask for instructions on the scale of the next battle, and the other is from the northern battalion, saying that the war in Anshi City is not going well, and the question is also about Ji Jiang's An's exit. As soon as these two excerpts arrived, Li Zhen immediately summoned the two strategists to come to discuss, but after the two strategists read the excerpts, they all kept silent, which made Li Zhen's already irritable mood suddenly a little more annoyed, and at the end, he had to speak first to urge.

The two folds are important matters of the military, and they affect the whole body, if one is not careful, not only can not make meritorious contributions, but will make mistakes, the two strategists are all understanding people, and they are unwilling to open this mouth easily, but since Li Zhen has given the order, the two strategists can no longer remain silent, so after glancing at each other, Mo Li, who is proficient in military strategy, took the lead in speaking:

Li Zhen responded, but his face immediately became solemn, the battle of Anshi was not smooth, it was something that Li Zhen had long expected, although Li Zhen made a lot of private arrangements for this, but it still failed to work, and now the war situation is deadlocked, it can be said that the initiative of the war has been lost, even if the latter can storm Anshi, but it is useless, the reason is very simple, just two words grain and grass! Now it has entered the stage of green and yellow, although the new rice has been harvested, but it is not easy to transfer from the south to the north of the grain, it is too late in time, and the grain and grass hoarded by the Youzhou camp on the front line can only support until September, even if more grain and grass are squeezed out from the nearby granary, it is not enough for the consumption of 300,000 troops for a month, it is obvious that the army of the Northern Expedition to Goguryeo will definitely withdraw and return to Korea around the end of September, which is no longer the result that manpower can recover.

; Li Zhenchang let out a long breath, but he still couldn't suppress the irritability in his heart, Huo Ran got up, paced back and forth in the study for a few steps, frowned and thought for a while:

Since knowing Li Shimin's overall strategic concept, Li Zhen is not optimistic about the Northern Expedition, for this reason, privately operated in many ways, trying to reverse this unfavorable result, in addition to Li Daozong, Cheng Biting Jin These two arrangements, also prepared a spare plan, that is, to leave a punching bag for Li Shimin, who returned to the dynasty, there is no doubt that Xue Yantuo in the civil strife is a good target, of course, in order to erect such a target, it is necessary to sacrifice some of the low-hanging fruit of the Anxi Army, In order to ensure that the two sides of Xue Yantuo's civil strife are still inextricably linked, so that the old man has a place to vent. Seeing that Li Zhen had made up his mind at this time, he would not have any objections, but for the equipment of the musket unit, Na Long was obviously the same as Liu Qi, and he was a little puzzled.

What is the power of firearms Li Zhen is naturally the most vocal, since he knows that this thing is the darling of the historical trend, and the troops equipped with it only need to use it properly, and sweeping the world is just a matter of turning the palm of his hand, but now is not the time, not to worry about the loyalty of the Anxi Iron Army, or even not entirely worried about the old man's suspicion, in fact, even if Li Zhen is now the emperor, he will not be in a hurry to popularize muskets in the army, the reason is very simple, At this time, there were great flaws in the Tang army system, and the invincible Tang army did not have a unified command organization, except for the main force in Guanzhong, which was under the direct control of the emperor, the rest of the military strength was all under the control of the emperor, and the rest of the military strength was all under the control of the states and even the princes, which was very easy to cause the situation of warlord secession, which was fashionable and not obvious, but once the government military system declined, the military system would inevitably be corrupted, and the warlord secession would inevitably follow, so before the military system problem was solved, Li Zhen never wanted to popularize such epoch-making sharp weapons as firearms. And this kind of work requires a lot of time and energy, and Li Zhen at the moment has neither the time nor the corresponding power to integrate the armed forces of the world, and everything has to wait until the future.

Although the two strategists were confidants, Li Zhen still didn't want to explain more about the military system, and after a little silence, he dropped a death order, and then walked to the study and transferred to the harem;

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