"Your Royal Highness, this, I'm afraid it's ......, woe, more than 100,000 people, this ......" The generals looked at each other for a long time, and at the end, Cheng Mingzhen was the first to lose his breath, flashed out from the side, and just wanted to persuade one or two, but as soon as he saw Li Zhen's gloomy face, the words were a little unspeakable, and they squeaked and slurred.

"Your Highness, although half of Anshi has fallen into my hands, the inner city is still unbroken, and all matters can be postponed before making a decision." Lin Chenghe has followed Li Zhen for a long time, and is familiar with Li Zhen's temperament, when Li Zhen slaughtered the small tribes in the Western Regions, Lin Chenghe was one of the parties, how could he not know the ruthlessness of Li Zhen's methods, although he was compassionate, but he did not dare to speak out to advise, and when Cheng Mingzhen took the lead, Lin Chenghe also plucked up the courage and stood up to ask for instructions.

"Your Highness, what General Lin said is very true, I implore Your Highness to think twice."

"Your Highness, the last general thinks that the city should be broken first and then the rest, so that there will be no risk of mistakes, Your Highness will think twice."

"Yes, Your Highness......"

……

The generals saw that Cheng and Lin Er came out one after another, and they also followed one after another, although they didn't dare to pick out the matter, but they all asked Li Zhen to think twice, even Li Ji, the initiator, stood up and said a few words, completely forgetting that the proposal to slaughter the city was originally from his Li Ji's mouth.

"You Aiqing's intentions are already known, so let's go to the city." Li Zhen had his own ideas in his heart, and he was not moved by the words of the generals, nor did he explain much, nor did he change the previous order, but he smiled and waved his hand, and led a group of guards to slowly march towards the city gate, and after the generals looked at each other for a while, they all shook their heads helplessly, turned over their horses, and followed closely behind Li Zhen......

Anshi City is built according to Cuo Shi Mountain, the more you go inward, the higher the terrain, but the terrain is also narrower, there are only two miles left in the inner city, although there is also a city wall, but compared to the outer city that is often seven or eight zhang high city wall, the inner city wall is only about four zhang, the highest city gate tower is only five zhang up and down, not that Yang Wanchun does not want to strengthen the inner city, in fact, since Yang Wanchun took office as the city guard of Anshi, there is no less to make a fuss about the reinforcement of the inner city, how can the inner city wall be surrounded by dwellings, Many houses are built close to the city wall, it is very difficult to move, Yang Wanchun has nothing to do about it, he can only put some effort on the city defense equipment, it is simple because of the ugliness, although it is not small, but the improvement of the defensive ability of the entire inner city is extremely limited, at this time, as soon as the Tang army broke through the outer city, Yang Wanchun immediately fell into worry, his face was full of tired fatigue, and a pair of eyes stared at the Tang army who was methodically arranging not far from the city, and did not say a word for a long time.

"Brother Yang." Just when Yang Wanchun was thinking about it, a call suddenly came from behind him, which immediately woke Yang Wanchun up from his hard thoughts.

"General Gao, why are you here, your injury ......" Yang Wanchun looked back and saw that it was Gao Huailong, so he turned around and asked with concern on his face.

"Out of the way." Gao Huailong reflexively reached out and stroked his forehead wrapped with a strip of white cloth, and then said with a wry smile: "Skin trauma ear, Brother Lao Yang remembers, alas, they all complain that the general is incompetent, causing thieves to run rampant, and it is difficult to escape the blame for a certain death." ”

"General Gao must not say so, if it were not for the help of the general, Anshi City ceased to exist two years ago, how can it be delayed until now, although the city is broken now, it is really the mandate of heaven, not a crime of war, and it is a great luck to be able to go to the country with General Gao, and it is a great luck in Yang's life." Hearing Gao Huailong's self-pity, Yang Wanchun smiled and was relieved.

"Hmm." Gao Huailong nodded heavily, held Yang Wanchun's outstretched hand, and held it tightly, with tears faintly surging in his eyes, everything was silent.

"Two adults, look, Tang Jun has moved!" Just when Gao and Yang staged a general peace, a sharp-eyed guard suddenly shouted, causing Gao and Yang to turn their heads to look at the city, and immediately found that the Tang army that was originally lined up under the slope in front of the city gate had a commotion, and then saw a group of Tang troops pushing the rushing cart turned out from the corner of the street.

One, two, three, in the blink of an eye, the Tang army has already pushed five rushing cars to appear on the street under the slope, so that the defenders of the city head of the second monk are puzzled - the inner city is built on the mountainside, there is a large slope about 100 steps long in front of the city gate, the slope is full of private houses, although the slope of the slope is not too steep, but no matter how to say there is a large elevation angle, it is already an extremely difficult thing to push the bulky car up the slope, not to mention the use of the car to hit the door, If the Tang army really did this, in addition to creating a record for the crossbowmen on the head of the city in vain, I am afraid that there would be no other use, besides, if you really want to use the rushing car, one or two will be enough, this guy has five cars, and the people in the city really don't know the intention of the Tang army's move, so the sound of nonsense all over the city will be loud.

The mystery was soon revealed, just when the defenders of the city were talking, another large group of Tang troops turned out from the corner of the street, did not stop at all, rushed directly into the houses, and drove all the civilians hiding in the houses out of the houses without saying anything, but anyone who dared to resist was killed, and for a time the crying and miserable howls on the streets were extremely piercing, which made the defenders of the city full of anger, and jumped and cursed at the city regardless of it, but the Tang army did not care about the hustle and bustle of the defenders in the city. Still methodically clearing the houses, and then rushing out of the car, against the street houses is a burst of slamming/banging, Shengsheng washed the originally neat neighborhood into a large area of ruins, and then, another team of Tang officers and soldiers escorted a large number of young people in the city to clean up the rocks and miscellaneous trees one by one, before and after only more than an hour of effort, it has been sorted out under the slope a hundred zhang square open space, one after another Tang officers and soldiers pushed ballistas, trebuchets to the open space, as if no one was around, on the open space to build, A few moments later, a position of dozens of trebuchets had risen in the clearing, and the charging cars did not stop at all, slamming all the way forward, sweeping a semi-circular clearing nearly twenty zhang wide around the inner city.

"General Gao, what is Tang Kou doing? Are you planning to fight at night? Yang Wanchun ignored the insults of the officers and soldiers around him, but carefully observed Tang Jun's every move, but he couldn't see what was going on, so he had to frown and look at Gao Huailong, and asked suspiciously.

Gao Huailong did not answer immediately, but raised his head to look at the sky that had been tilted to the west, and after thinking silently, he hesitated and said: "It's hard to say, if according to common sense, after breaking the outer city, when the inner city is attacked in one go, our army has just been defeated, and the army is not strong, even if it has the advantage of geographical advantage, it may not be able to block its sharpness, and now our army has stabilized, even if the enemy army wants to attack, it is not possible to go down overnight, well, if it can be delayed until dark, Gao has a strategy, which can make the Tang army chaotic without a fight, and it is not known if it can win a big victory." ”

"Oh? What can General Gao do? As soon as Yang Wanchun heard that Gao Huailong had a plan to break the enemy, his frowning brows were immediately displayed, and he hurriedly asked.

Gao Huailong did not speak, but wrote the word "fire" on the city plate with his hand, and then said with a wry smile: "This is a bitter strategy to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred. ”

"Hiss......" Hearing Gao Huailong's words, Yang Wanchun couldn't help but gasp, and after being stunned for a while, he shook his head helplessly and said: "It's okay, sitting still is death, and it's okay to fight once. ”

Raising fire to the city is the so-called scorched earth resistance, the loss of Anshi City can be imagined, even if the Tang army is defeated, the people of their own country are also very sad, if this is the case, as the city guard Yang Wanchun has to bear how much responsibility Gao Huailong knows in his heart, at this time seeing Yang Wanchun say this, he can't help but feel a burst of emotion in his heart, just about to say something, but when he heard the Tang army under the city suddenly sound like a tsunami of cheers, he hurriedly stopped talking and turned his head to look, However, when he saw dozens of generals dressed in bright light armor and a burly young man slowly coming out of the Tang army array, his heart couldn't help but be shaken, and an ominous premonition was about to come up.

can make so many senior generals carefully accompany him, except for Li Zhen, the current prince of the Tang Dynasty, there is no one else, but seeing Li Zhen calmly passing through the cheering military formation, he slowly came to the front of the formation, raised his hand slightly, called Gao Yanshou to the front, and said with a smile: "Gao Aiqing, there is Raul to go on a trip." ”

"It is an honor for the minister to serve His Highness, Your Highness, please wait, Weichen will go." Gao Yanshou bowed very respectfully on the horse, then turned the horse's head, and rushed to the inner city gate at the top of the slope along the long slope, and when he got more than 20 steps away from the city, he restrained the war horse under his crotch, ignored the many bows and crossbows pointed at him on the head of the city, and raised his voice and shouted: "Brother Huailong, Brother Huailong knows that Er is at the head of the city, can you show up and talk to your brother?" ”

Gao Yanshou waited for a while, but he couldn't wait for a reply, so he sighed, and then said: "Brother Huailong, don't show up, you only have one word for your brother, and listen to it: My Tang Emperor has a goal first, and when the city of Anshi is broken, he will be slaughtered!" However, God has the virtue of a good life, if the virtuous brother is willing to abandon the secret and cast into the light, His Royal Highness the Prince is willing to protect the old and young in Anshi City, and the wish of the whole virtuous brother to protect the family, otherwise, the disaster of jade burning is in front of him, and Hugh blames the brother for not predicting. ”

"You are violating my country, it is really a bandit's trip, a certain and you have nothing to say, if you want to fight, you will come, Hugh will bully people!" As soon as Gao Huailong's words fell, Yang Wanchun had already poked his head out of the city and scolded righteously.

"It's Brother Wanchun, I haven't seen you for a long time, this has always been good?" Gao Huailong was not moved by Yang Wanchun's words at all, twisted the long beard on his chest with a smile, and said a greeting.

"Hmph, a certain is different from Erdao, not for the sake of planning, you don't have to bother anymore, if you want to take the city, just come and attack it, the old man is waiting!" Yang Wanchun's voice was full of emotion, but the hesitation on his face did not match his words.

Gao Yanshou is an old and spicy person, and he has a hand in watching his words and listening to his deeds, at this time, seeing that Yang Wanchun's words and deeds do not match, his heart is moved, and he said with a smile: "Why should Yang Chengshou be so insistent, according to the old man, the inner city is only two miles, and the soldiers are not nearly 10,000, even if everyone fights to the death, they can have a few chances of winning, after the first battle, the city is destroyed and people die, but why bother, of course, Yang Cheng's death war can leave a good reputation, but how can he bear to let the people of the city be martyred?" How can I bear this. ”

Yang Wanchun was silent for a long time, seemed to be a little moved, and after muttering for a while, he sighed and said: "The war is hideous, what does it matter to the people, I have heard for a long time that the Khan is lenient, how can I bear to add swords and soldiers to the people?" ”

"Brother Wanchun also knows that the Khan is merciful, and he will not easily destroy the people who return to obedience, with the great talent of Brother Wanchun, it will be easy to enter and exit, if he can surrender now, the old man dares to use the head of the person on the item as a guarantee, not only the people of the city can be pardoned, but the virtuous brother can also be of great use, the best of both worlds, the virtuous brother does not do it?" As soon as he heard that Yang Wanchun's tone had loosened a little, Gao Yanshou was overjoyed, and immediately persuaded while the iron was hot.

"This matter is important, and I can't be arbitrary, can I allow Yang to discuss one or two with the generals, and how about talking back tomorrow?" Yang Wanchun frowned and pondered for a long time, then he glanced at Gao Yanshou with a solemn face, and replied cautiously.

"Hahaha......" As soon as he heard Yang Wanchun say this, Gao Yanshou laughed loudly, pointed to the city and said: "Brother Yang is a true and honest person, but he can't even tell lies, so he has to bluff the three-year-old child, hmph, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of my family has already expected that Brother Yang will give such an answer, don't you just expect to delay until dark, so as to use the strategy of burning the city and retreating?" How can such tricks be put in the eyes of my prince, no matter what, since you are willing to surrender, my prince is lenient, so he will give you a pillar of incense time to think about it, and if it is outdated, once the war starts, the consequences will be borne by you, and the old man will say everything he wants, and he will leave! ”

As soon as Gao Yanshou's voice fell, he turned his horse back and left, but the horse speed was not fast, and he seemed to be looking forward to it, so he walked out of more than 20 steps, but he never heard Yang Wanchun's message, his heart was gloomy, and he shook his head helplessly, so he had to speed up his horse and run back to the Tang army formation. ”

"Hmm." Li Zhen nodded indispensably, looked up at the sky, and said with a smile: "It's hard work Gao Aiqing, since you should give her a pillar of incense time to consider, then naturally you still count, come to someone, put the incense case, and put the incense!" As soon as Li Zhen's order came out, several of his own guards moved the incense case, put it in front of the military formation, and lit the incense pillar, but when he saw that the incense was shining, the light smoke curled up, and then dispersed with the breeze, and tens of thousands of eyes on the incense in the city and under the city, and the entire battlefield was quiet for a while.

The time of a pillar of incense is not too long, and more than half of the incense will soon pass between the bright and extinguished flames, and at this time it has reached the sixth quarter of the Shen hour, although the summer night is late, but there is another hour, and the day will be dark, in view of this, Yang and Gao on the head of the city are slightly relieved, each glanced at each other, and saw the meaning of persistence in each other's eyes, so they did not speak, still silently waiting for Tang Jun's next move.

The incense slowly burned to the end, a breeze swept by, a large section of incense ash fell, and immediately, the incense head burst out with the last bit of fire, a burst of green smoke floated up, it had been quietly extinguished, the hour had passed, and the city had no reaction, in view of this, Li Zhen looked at the city and smiled, and no longer hesitated, raised his hand, and ordered loudly: "Order, the Shenji Battalion will attack immediately!" ”

As soon as Li Zhen gave this order, the horn sounded in the Tang army's formation, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, who had been on call for a long time, did not dare to slack off, and opened the big wooden boxes placed next to the battle position, carefully took out the densely packed fire oil bombs, set up the trebuchet, lit the ignition rope, and with the captain's slogan, Yo Ho pulled the cable tied to the trigger, and suddenly more than 40 fire oil bombs roared towards the inner city, but heard a burst of crashing sounds, The fire instantly burned in the inner city, but the Tang army's trebuchet position did not stop there, it still kept firing, after three rounds, the entire inner city was full of fire, thick smoke was billowing out, and the miserable howls came and went, and it had become a city of flames.

"Fight the fire, put out the fire!" There were also four or five fire oil bombs on the small city gate, turning the head of the house book dragon enemy Wucheng into a sea of fire, Yang Wanchun, who was burned by the smoke and fire, saw that all his subordinates were scurrying around the city, and he was in a hurry, and shouted at the top of his voice. When the defenders heard this, they tried to extinguish the fire in a hurry, but the fire was burned by an oily substance, and it burned wherever it was stained, whether it was stone or wood, it was all burned into a piece, water could not be extinguished, people could not extinguish it, this fire could not be saved at all, from time to time there were soldiers who were burned by the fire and jumped off the city wall miserably, and fell to death, and the worst thing was that the soldiers who broke their legs, but were still alive, although they howled and rolled on the ground, they could not extinguish the fire on their bodies at all, they could only scream and be burned alive to charcoal, The state of affairs can be described as miserable.

"Brother Yang, the fire is too big to be saved, the inner city has been destroyed, go, go out of the city, and fight with Tang Kou." Just when Yang Wanchun was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, Gao Huailong, who was full of scorched hair, rushed over, grabbed Yang Wanchun's hand, and shouted anxiously.

"Okay, open the city to kill the thieves, and get rid of the death!" Although Yang Wanchun is a literati, he has a lot of backbone, knowing that going out of the city to fight is a dead end, but he has no intention of surrendering at all, roared, got rid of Gao Huailong's hand, took out the three-foot Qingfeng used for waist decoration, held it high above his head, and rushed down the city in great strides, leading a group of soldiers in incomplete armor to open the city gate, shouting that the general will go out......

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