Whoever is an emperor, seeing that there is a contradiction between his heavy generals, in fact, he will not feel that there is anything wrong, on the contrary, he should steal the fun, otherwise, God knows what the generals will come up with together, in fact, the contradiction between the generals is Li Shimin in the past, intentionally or unintentionally, the purpose, whether it is to let the generals compete with each other, or to balance, in short, it is just a kind of emperor's heart art, but there is nothing to say, the problem is that the war is now fighting, It's really not the time to play those ways of balance, if you really let the generals continue to argue like this, I'm afraid that this battle won't be able to continue, and in addition to a headache, Li Shimin had to keep a straight face and snort coldly. /

As soon as the generals who were making a fuss saw that Li Shimin's face had changed, and there seemed to be a trend of an outbreak, they calmed down immediately, and no one dared to make any more trouble, even Su and Cheng, the two bigwigs in the army who were staring at each other angrily, also stopped, and all of them honestly retreated to both sides, silently waiting for Li Shimin's order.

To fight or not to fight? This is a very tangled question, Li Shimin is a handsome man in a hundred battles, how can it not be clear that the opinions put forward by the generals are actually justified, and the fire is together, and the first battle has been lost for a while, and the morale of the whole army will inevitably be affected, this is an indisputable fact, however, if the troops are withdrawn here, I am afraid that the degree of morale setback may be even greater, although after a period of adjustment, the morale can be boosted again, the problem is that the length of this period of time is not easy to grasp, as far as Li Shimin's heart is concerned, He never wanted to be delayed under the city of Anshi, it was time to make a decision!

After Li Shimin looked around at the generals with a serious face, he waved his hand and spit out a word in a categorical tone:

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As soon as Li Shimin's words came out, Zhang Junyi and other generals of the main battle became excited and expressed their loyalty, and as for Li Daliang and other generals who advocated a delay in the war, seeing that Li Shimin had made up his mind, they did not dare to give more advice, and for a time the Chinese military department was full of the passionate voices of the generals of the main battle faction.

The name of the Tang Dynasty's strong army is naturally not caused by luck, no, as soon as the holy decree of the war was reached, tens of thousands of soldiers immediately took action, under the command of the generals of each battalion, took sand to extinguish the fire, and then removed the wreckage of the trebuchet all over the ground one by one, and immediately, the intact one hundred and three trebuchets and more than 20 large ballistae have been lined up in turn again, and all the actions are carried out in an orderly manner under the strict protection of Xu Junke, who has made meritorious contributions. Although the Goguryeo defenders at the head of the city tried their best to disrupt the deployment of the Tang army with strong crossbow shooting, the Tang cavalry attacked in time, relying on the riding power of a large number of men and horses, and suppressed the strong crossbowmen on the city, and after losing nearly half of the 3,000 Goguryeo strong crossbowmen who fired at the Tang army, they had to retreat to the back and watch the Tang army's trebuchet position stand up under the city.

Seeing that the trebuchet position was built extremely smoothly, Li Shimin's always straight face finally showed a slight smile, and when he was laughing and talking with the eldest grandson Wuji beside him, a herald came from the front on horseback, and when he got close, he threw off his horse, touched the ground on one knee, and reported loudly:

Li Shimin was actually still half-convinced about the power of the trebuchet supervised by Luo Zhengsheng, and when he heard that he was going to test fire, his curiosity was aroused, and he waved his hand with a smile, and agreed with a little excitement.

The herald replied respectfully, saluted, and quickly got on his horse again, and hurried towards the trebuchet position not far away.

Luo Zhengsheng was originally just a craftsman in Beijing, only because he had a good carpenter work, he was able to enter the Yan Ji Factory, and later because of his diligence and studiousness, he was deeply loved by Yan Qi, the head of the workshop, so he was recommended to the Shenji Battalion in the middle of the job, and he was in charge of the research and manufacture of large siege equipment such as trebuchets and ballistas. Earlier, Li Zhen had said that he would serve in front of the Northern Expedition first, and if he could make meritorious contributions, he would be transferred to the Ministry of Industry, and then Li Shimin also said similar things, which made Luo Zhengsheng excited, and he took out all his ability, and tried his best to supervise the construction of many trebuchets and ballistas, but he didn't expect that before he had tested once, he had been destroyed by one-third of the Goguryeo army. As soon as he received the holy order, he did not rush to launch, but went to the various positions, checked the training of the trebuchets one by one, and after making sure that all the trebuchets were operating correctly, Shi Shiran walked to the rear formation, raised a small red flag in his hand, and ordered in a loud voice: As soon as this order was given, the terrible horn sounded immediately, and the trebuchets that received the order were launched one after another, and in an instant, more than a hundred stone bullets of different sizes took off into the air, and flew towards the city with a strong whistling sound.

Spectacular, unbelievably spectacular! Although it was only a test firing, most of the stone bullets failed to hit the target near or far, but there were still more than 20 huge stone bullets that fell on the city, and in an instant, the Goguryeo strong crossbowmen who had not yet removed the city head suffered heavy casualties. The body was immediately pierced with a transparent hole, the heavy armor that looked thick in the past, it turned out to be like paper paste, and it had no effect at all, and a huge stone bullet accurately hit the city gate tower, and even collapsed half of the stone gate tower that looked extremely solid, and the sound of ghosts crying wolves sounded on the top of the city.

Although Gao Huailong had a premonition in his heart, knowing that the power of the Tang Army's trebuchet was probably not small, he did not expect that its power was far above his own estimate, and he was taken aback, and looked at the half-collapsed city gate tower in a daze for a while, and then he screamed as if he had just woken up from a dream, and ordered the remnants of the strong crossbowmen to quickly withdraw from the city.

Cheng Dawu, who was directing the frightened crossbowmen to withdraw from the city, suddenly found that Gao Huailong had not left, and the city disc was observing the next move of the Tang army.

Gao Huailong knew that the Tang army's siege was about to begin, so he withdrew from the city, pushed away Cheng Dawu's outstretched hand to support, and calmly ordered.

Cheng Dawu hesitated slightly, saw Gao Huailong's face, and did not dare to insist anymore, quickly answered, and led the people to run down the city, except for Gao Huailong and a few dozens of lookouts on the huge city wall, only the mutilated corpses all over the ground confirmed the fierceness of the previous shower of stone bullets.

The results are undoubtedly brilliant, but Luo Zhengsheng is very dissatisfied, in his opinion, only one-fifth of the stone bullets hit the city, this kind of hit rate is really not high, if it is replaced by the well-trained soldiers of the Anxi Army Shenji Battalion to manipulate the equipment, the effect can at least double, therefore, although the full battalion of soldiers applauded, but Luo Zhengsheng's face did not even have a trace of smile, just shook his head regretfully, smacked his thick lips, expressed his dissatisfaction.

Luo Zhengsheng himself was not satisfied with the results of the battle, but Li Shimin, who had seen the sharpness of the giant trebuchet for the first time, was very satisfied, looked at the half-collapsed city gatehouse, applauded and laughed happily, and after a while of excitement, he ordered:

Li Shimin's will was refreshing, but Luo Zhengsheng, who received the will, was a little dumbfounded, although the power of the trebuchet is huge, but it also has to be guarded by enemy troops on the city to see the success, but at this time, the Goguryeo defenders on the city have already withdrawn from the city, and at this time the four rounds are fired, in addition to destroying some facilities such as arrow towers and crossbows, there is only the effect of scaring people, this kind of will is simply wasting the number of shots of the trebuchet, the number of shots of the trebuchet is not unlimited, once the spring device is fatigued and aging, Unless the parts are replaced, otherwise, this trebuchet can only be scrapped, generally speaking, because of the huge weight of the throwing stone projectile, a set of machine springs can only be fired fifty to eighty times, and the parts have to be replaced, Luo Zhengsheng has only fifty sets of spare parts left, and the two-day battle will not have to play, according to the old man's will, counting the previous test firing, five launches have to be wasted at once, which can make Luo Zhengsheng feel distressed, but the holy decree is the holy decree, and it cannot be disobeyed, even if Luo Zhengsheng has objections in his heart, In desperation, Luo Zhengsheng had no choice but to order the trebuchets to concentrate their firepower on important targets such as arrow towers and crossbows guarding the city.

Launch, launch, after four rounds of launches, the city head is already full of smoke and dust, a large area of gray, as for the original fixed facilities, such as arrow towers and other things have long been dilapidated, as for the three crossbows guarding the city were directly bombed into slag, but the lookouts on the city head have almost no loss, except for one or two unlucky eggs who were directly turned into minced meat by the stone bullets that flew around, the rest were just sneezing because they had absorbed too much dust, in terms of results, Tang Jun's four-round launch is just a show of thunder and rain, and it is lively, but the actual effect is really not worth mentioning.

The smoke and dust dissipated, looking at the ruined Anshi City, Li Shimin was very satisfied, waved his big hand, and ordered loudly: As soon as these words came out, the horn and drum sound of the Chinese army suddenly sounded, and Zhang Junyi and Liu Tietao, who had been on call for a long time, immediately rushed out of the starting position with a shout, and rushed to Anshi City with a cloud ladder, and the tragic siege battle officially began.

After the fifth rain of stone bullets in the Tang army, Gao Huailong, who was lying behind the city dish to observe the movement of the Tang army, was keenly aware that the Tang army did not seem to have the intention of firing stone bullets again, and immediately guessed that the Tang army was preparing to storm the city, and had already ordered the defenders who were sticking to the city wall to hurry up to the city to prepare to meet the enemy.

As soon as he saw that the Goguryeo defenders at the head of the city were rushing up to the city in a chaotic manner, Luo Zhengsheng, who was full of seriousness, finally laughed After the fifth wave of stone bullet rain, Luo Zhengsheng ignored the fact that the soldiers who operated the trebuchet were already so tired that they couldn't straighten their waists, and blindly urged everyone to reload again at the fastest speed, even if some soldiers fainted because of this, Luo Zhengsheng did not hesitate, waiting for the moment when the Goguryeo defenders went to the city, and seeing that the time had come, he unceremoniously waved down the small red flag in his hand, and shouted loudly:

With Luo Zhengsheng's order, the trebuchets that were ready to stop were launched at the same time, but seeing more than 100 huge stone bullets roaring up again, roaring towards the city head, the Goguryeo defenders who were rushing to the city to prepare to meet the enemy were caught off guard, and they were smashed into a ghost crying wolf howl, and the huge stone bullets rolled and jumped at the head of the city, wantonly creating grievances, hundreds of Goguryeo defenders who could not avoid it died under the flying stones, and the originally orderly city head was in chaos, no matter how the generals shouted, A large number of Goguryeo soldiers all rushed to the city like headless flies, and at this time, the Tang army's troops were already approaching the city, and the situation was at a critical moment for the defenders!

It's going to be bad! Gao Huailong obviously didn't expect Tang Jun to come to such a d; The power of the trebuchet is huge, but the accuracy is limited, at this time the Tang army rushing into the city has been launched, the trebuchet launched at this time can certainly injure a large number of defenders, but the Tang officers and soldiers who rushed close to the city wall are bound to be injured by flying stones, which can be seen from the actual battle situation Several huge stone projectiles failed to fly on the city, but hit the wall, rebounded back, and finally smashed into the Tang army's charging troops, bringing dozens of dead and wounded to the Tang army who was shouting and charging, of course, Compared with the large number of Tang army's Chongcheng troops, this casualty is actually not large, but for the Goguryeo defenders who are crowding up to the city, it is quite deadly, in the face of the chaotic city, Gao Huailong's face is so anxious that his face is distorted, however, he clearly knows that it is useless to shout at those chaotic soldiers at this time, the only thing he can do is to lead by example, only in this way can the morale of the whole army be regathered, therefore, although he is anxious, Gao Huailong still did not have a seizure, Instead, he calmly ordered:

Goguryeo's trebuchet position is set on the back of the city wall, under the impact of the Tang army's previous stone bullet attacks, it has been damaged a lot at this time, and only more than 30 of them can still be launched, and the stone bullets it can fire are also more than 60 catties, but the range can not be as far as the Tang army can reach more than 250 steps, and can only shoot to a distance of more than 80 steps, but because of the simple structure, its loading speed is much faster than the Tang army's trebuchet, and the previous attack of the Tang army was far beyond its range. The trebuchets of the Goguryeo army could only remain silent, this time since the Tang army's troops had rushed to the firing range, as soon as they received the general's order, the soldiers in charge of the trebuchets of the Goguryeo army, who had already held back their anger, were no longer polite, and as the horn sounded, more than 30 stone bullets roared over the city, and smashed towards the surging Tang army siege troops, which instantly caused a certain amount of panic in the Tang army's city storming troops.

The Tang army's rushing troops obviously didn't expect that there were trebuchets in the Goguryeo army, and after receiving such a sudden blow, the momentum of the charge was slightly suffocated, but it quickly adjusted, and still rushed towards the city wall like a tide, however, such a short pause gave the Goguryeo army a rare time to adjust, but seeing Gao Huailong in his hand, he slashed at the rebel army fiercely, and shouted loudly: As soon as the words fell, it didn't matter whether those rebel troops heard their shouts or not, they yelled, The knife ran to the city saucer, holding his waist knife straight and straight, looking ready to engage in battle at any time.

As the saying goes: the courage of the soldiers, the Goguryeo defenders who were originally rushing into chaos gradually quieted down when they saw that their main general was so heroic, and they didn't know who shouted in the crowd: Immediately, the echoes rose up, and the morale-boosting defenders sped up their pace and rushed to their respective battle positions, swords and guns, bows and crossbows, rolling logs, base stones, etc. were all raised, waiting for the arrival of the Tang army.

The city wall of Anshi City is arc-shaped, and there is no clear water chestnut of the Central Plains City, the front is narrow, therefore, regardless of the attack on the east gate of Zhang Junyi's department is the attack on the south gate of Liu Tietao's department The closer to the city wall, the distance between the two departments will become smaller and smaller, after reaching the city head, in fact, the two departments have almost formed a line, which has brought a certain amount of trouble to the unified command of the Tang Army's siege troops, however, since the troops have come to the city, the two main generals can not care about each other's coordination for a while, Almost at the same time, the battle order was issued: in an instant, the two soldiers and horses had already rushed to the city with a shout, and nearly a hundred ladders were erected one after another, leaning towards the city, and the bloody battle began!

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