"Take Anshi Castle!"

The sound of the horn echoed outside the city of Anshi, and the Tang army launched a strong attack on the city of Anshi, which had become an isolated city, and hundreds of trebuchets took turns to bombard the walls of Anshi City, with a thunderclap-like sound whistling, and stones constantly bombarded the wooden buildings on the city walls!

The eaves of the castle tower were shattered by high-speed stones, and the rubble was splashed!

The defenders at the head of the city subconsciously closed their eyes, and the oppression brought by the trebuchet was terrifying.

The bricks wrapped around the outer layer of the walls were smashed, revealing the rammed earth layer inside.

The cities of Goguryeo were not much different from those of the Central Plains, and they were all too familiar to the Tang army.

The huge ballista was pushed out by the Tang army, and the bare-shouldered Hercules turned the winch together, and one by one, the meter-long giant crossbows shot out, destroying the Lou Lu!

Several giant crossbows sank into the soil of the walls, and the sand fell.

Two kinds of long-range siege equipment are powerful, and a large number of siege towers, ladder vehicles, wooden curtains, hook cars, slug cars, ramming vehicles, flying ladders and other siege equipment are also ready.

The trebuchets of the Don army were projectile from morning to noon, and the soldiers who pulled the ropes of the catapults were sweating profusely.

The main forces of the Tang army and the Han army ate a full meal without hurry, and after the great defeat of the Goguryeo reinforcements, the initiative to attack the city was in their hands. They can attack the city whenever they want.

After a month of preparation, on the thirtieth day of the start of the national war, when the four towering earthen mountains were built, the Tang army finally began to storm.

The four earth mountains are more than 20 meters high, and each is stationed with a team of sharpshooters and bed crossbows of the Tang Army, condescendingly, with a bird's-eye view of Anshi City. The reality and movement of the defenders of Anshi City were mastered by the Tang Army.

The Second Army of the Han Army in Chutian was also in the offensive sequence.

Seeing the Tang army's trebuchets and ballistas, Chu Tian's scalp was numb, if Xia Cheng was bombarded like this, it was estimated that the army's heart would soon be shaken.

The opponent's defender, Yang Wanchun, seems to have the bonus of defending the city, and the defenders of Anshi City have not yet collapsed.

Hua Mulan has a Tang knife tied to her waist and currently serves as Chutian's bodyguard.

She finally gave up the Zhangba Horse Lance, which made Chu Tiandu a little scared, this kind of weapon was not suitable for use after dismounting.

Trebuchets and ballistas had been bombarded for three days, and the towers and arrow towers of Anshi City were almost destroyed by large siege machines, clearing the way for the Tang army to storm the city.

Knock Knock Knock –

The low sound of drums seemed to come from afar, and the Tang army under the city of Anshi was ready to go.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin sat in the line, followed by the eldest grandson Wuji, Wei Chi Jingde and others, and watched the battle in person.

The arrow towers on the earth hill began to shoot at the city wall, and the Tang army's siege phalanx embraced the crashing car and the siege tower and began to attack!

Catapults and ballistas were still roaring, adding to the tension on the battlefield.

Goguryeo or Goryeo defenders were constantly killed.

The wooden curtains and the shields of the heavy infantry held back the rain of arrows, and covered the crossbowmen and siege equipment to attack the castle on the back.

"Shoot the arrows!"

The defenders of Anshi City fired thousands of arrows, and the rain of arrows covered the Tang army!

An arrow hit the iron helmet of the Tang general, rubbing a spark of shattering stars, and then it was bounced away!

The Tang generals were not killed by stray arrows because of the defense of the iron helmet, but the impact of the sharp arrow hitting the helmet made his ears ring.

The planks of the mantle were filled with arrows, and a group of archers hid behind, and as they approached range, they turned out from behind the mantle cart and rained arrows at the walls.

The two sides poured arrows on each other, and at this time, the archers of the Tang Army on the earth mountain were mighty, and the defenders of Anshi City were facing two heavy arrows rain from the top and bottom.

Many of the defenders had to hold wooden shields to ward off the rain of arrows falling from their heads.

"We must destroy these dirt mountains!"

The lord of Anshi Castle ordered the trebuchets in the castle to bombard the dirt mountain.

The lord of Goryeo hurriedly instructed his soldiers to operate the trebuchet.

They thought that the three-month defense time was fleeting, but they did not expect that in just one month, Anshi City would be in danger.

The stones of Anshi Castle smashed on the dirt mountain, and the stones rolled down!

"The defenders want to take down our dirt mountain!"

"Let them smash. We used 100,000 men and carefully calculated mountains of dirt to be destroyed so easily by trebuchets. ”

Lao Qin is in charge of protecting the four earth mountains, which is his masterpiece.

The siege tower more than ten meters high was close to Anshi City, and the earth mountain was the horn of each other, and the archers of the Tang army shot arrows unscrupulously to hunt the defenders on the city wall.

The defenders of Anseong City released rockets in an attempt to burn down the siege tower.

The Don army covered the siege towers in advance, and the rockets did not burn them so easily.

A large number of Tang crossbowmen stepped forward to suppress the defenders and buy time for the ramming car advance.

"The Tang Army's ramming car is approaching the city wall!"

"The Tang Army's Bow is about to arrive under the city walls!"

"The ladder truck and the flying echelon team have been dispatched!"

All eyes were on the battlefield, and a terrible ramming car slowly approached the city gates, and dozens of Tang soldiers died under the rain of arrows from the defenders in order to push the ramming car.

Once the crashing car crashes into the city gate, the Tang army will rush up and will be able to trap the city!

"Damn it!"

The lord of Goryeo, Lee Min Chol, turned pale, and the city gate was hit by a crashing car, which was no joke.

"Don't worry." Yang Wanchun, the city lord of Anshi City, put one hand on the shoulder of the Inhuman Lord, "Take your other martial arts class and go to guard the city gate, I have already arranged an ambush." ”

"Yes......"

Li Minzhe had never seen such a huge siege scene, and was almost frightened, but fortunately, Yang Wanchun, as the city lord, was in charge of the overall situation.

Rumble!

The ramming car began to pound the city gates!

Every time the huge battering ram hits, the city gate is overwhelmed and wails!

"One, two, three!"

The soldiers of the Tang Army pushed the battering ram and were bound to knock the city gate open!

Everyone, including Chu Yun, felt a tightening heart.

If the city gate can be breached, maybe Anshi Castle will fall, and the national war will end.

The earth mountain and siege tower are shooting arrows at the city wall, the sappers are digging tunnels and trying to destroy the city wall, a group of Tang soldiers are attached to the ants, and even the giant crossbow inserted in the city wall just now can become a wooden ladder for Tang soldiers to enter the city.

However, most people's eyes are on the city gates.

Cracks gradually appeared in the wooden gate of Anshi City, and finally, after another violent impact, the wooden gate was completely broken, and the soldiers of the Tang Army swarmed in!

The generals of the Tang Army who rushed to the front held an infantry lance and led hundreds of Tang soldiers to kill!

"No, it's a trap!"

The officers of the Tang Army on the earth mountain were constantly observing the movements in the city of Anshi, and when they saw the knife carts pushing out of the alley, they hurriedly used the flag to inform the commander of the Tang Army.

However, it was too late, and the sharp wooden fence fell, isolating hundreds of Tang soldiers from the reinforcements in the rear!

There are also several wooden fences inside the city gate, and a simple urn city is built!

Hundreds of adventurous Tang troops strayed into the city of urns, and behind the wooden fence were sword carts and Goguryeo and Goryeo soldiers armed with bows, arrows, and spears.

Bows and arrows were fired, and the Tang army that stepped into the trap could not advance or retreat, so they could only hold their shields to resist.

Reinforcements from the rear successively chopped down wooden fences in an attempt to converge with the encircled Don army.

However, it was too late, and the dense rain of arrows and spears stabbed hundreds of Tang troops to death. The generals of the Tang Army were killed in the face of more than a dozen piercing spears.

"Give up attacking the gates!"

Li Daozong, the main general of the Tang army, decisively gave up attacking the city gate. It is obvious that the other party has laid a net behind the city gate, waiting for the Tang army to enter through the city gate, and then taking advantage of the narrow terrain to kill and injure the Tang army as much as possible.

Although the city gate was difficult to capture, part of the Tang army had climbed to the city wall and fought hand-to-hand with the defenders of Anshi City on the city wall.

"Drive the Don Army down!"

The Goguryeo heavy infantry pressed over with shields and pushed the Tang army that had ascended the city to the city wall.

The eight-meter-high city wall will make even a military commander fall to his death.

The defenders of Anshi City turned the winch and put down the wolf's tooth slap, and the Tang army infantry who were relying on the siege found that there was a darkness overhead, and hundreds of sharp wolf's tooth iron nails fell!

The Yaksha rolls against the city wall, and the oil is spilled!

"The siege tower of the Tang army is already approaching!"

"Destroy it!"

The twelve-meter-high siege tower posed a great threat to the defenders.

More than a dozen iron hooks hooked the siege tower, and hundreds of defender soldiers pulled the ropes together! The bulky siege towers lose to manpower and have a tendency to tilt and collapse!

"Slash the claws!"

The Tang archers on the siege tower did not care about continuing to shoot arrows, but drew their Tang knives and tried to cut off the flying claws.

Rumble!

The unsupportable siege towers were finally pulled down by the defenders, and dozens of Tang soldiers died.

The siege battle was extremely fierce, and even the most elite army would lose its troops in front of the strong city.

"At the beginning, the Mongols crisscrossed Europe and Asia, and were blocked by Xiangyang for five years, and the Song general Lu Wenhuan surrendered on the premise that there were no reinforcements outside and no food inside. The Mongol Khan Meng Ge sent hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the Diaoyu City in Sichuan, and was killed in the city. It can be seen that it is difficult to attack the city, especially the fortified city surrounded by mountains and rivers. ”

Chu Tian saw that the Tang army attacked Anshi City, but it still suffered a lot of losses, and it was not possible to conquer it, so he felt that it was not easy to attack the city. Under the premise that the opponent has a defensive general, a city may not be able to be captured for a year and a half.

Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry could not cross the strong city walls.

The first strong attack was unfavorable, and the Tang army Mingjin withdrew its troops and dispersed like a tide.

Fang Xuanling witnessed this fierce siege battle, and said to Chu Tian: "Lord, attack the heart first, attack the city first. If this kind of strong attack continues, perhaps the morale of the Tang army will be lost. ”

"How to attack the heart?"

"If the defenders surrender, forgive their actions, and everything will be the same."

"This may have to convince Tang Taizong."

Chutian sent Fang Xuanling to lobby Li Shimin, and the success rate would rise.

Some generals don't like each other, and some generals feel inexplicably close.

Probably because Fang Xuanling's advice had an effect, Tang Jun shot the letter of persuasion into the city of Anshi. If the defenders of Anshi surrender, then His Majesty the Emperor will forgive all the people of Anshi Castle and will not be guilty of the past.

The letter of surrender fell into the hands of the defenders of Anshi City, and the defenders finally began to waver.

Seeing the four tall earth mountains outside the city and the well-formed Tang army, they doubted whether they could continue to hold the city of Anshi.

Not only that, Li Shimin also ordered Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen, two Goguryeo generals, to persuade them to surrender outside the city, shaking the morale of the defenders of Anshi City.

Now even the lords of Goryeo don't have the courage to fight.

They had never seen hundreds of thousands of Tang and Han troops, besieging the city of Anshi layer after layer. This fear of being surrounded is a sleepless night.

The only thing that prevented the Goryeo lords from surrendering was the accusations of other Goryeo players after returning to Goryeo.

Yang Wanchun, the city lord of Anshi City, thought twice about the letter of persuasion to surrender, and finally said: "As long as it is held until September, the Tang army will definitely retreat, and there is no need to surrender." ”

"The lord of the city has said so, and we obey our orders."

The lord of Goryeo had the assurances of the lord of the castle and intended to continue his stubborn resistance.

"They're offending the heavens."

Chu Tian knew that Li Shimin was not a good stubble, he just didn't want the Tang army to suffer too heavy casualties. But repeatedly provoking his patience, Li Shimin will be furious.

Sure enough, after the city lord of Anshi refused to surrender, Li Shimin, who felt offended, ordered the Tang army to increase the siege of the city.

The Tang army was divided into several groups and stormed the city of Anshi.

Catapults and ballistas roared, a wall was destroyed, and almost all the bricks on the outside fell off, exposing the dirt.

As many as 100,000 arrows are consumed every day.

The Tang army's strong attack on Anshi Fortress was extremely torturous for the defenders of Anshi Castle and the lords of Goryeo.

Li Shimin was okay with the Eastern Han lord, and did not force the soldiers of the Eastern Han lord to attack the city, but the Eastern Han lord himself requested to participate in the war.

If you want to get merit, you can apply to the Tang Army, and the Tang Army will arrange for your army to be in the siege sequence.

Some of the lords who lacked military merit opted for brutal siege warfare.

Chutian did not participate in the siege. The siege of the city consumes a lot of soldiers, and his military exploits have reached tens of thousands, and there is no shortage of this military merit.

"Liu Zongmin, you lead the exile army to attack the city. Be careful not to fight to the death. ”

Hanzhong Ling advocated that when he saw his ranking, he always had to earn some military merits in order to be ranked first.

A stout military general led the Chuang Wang Liumin Army to join the Tang Army's siege sequence.

Liu Zongmin, a general under the command of King Li Zicheng, held a broadsword and shield and participated in the siege.

One by one, the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty took advantage of the opportunity to attack the city to obtain military exploits.

In the Mingliang Strait, the fire spread, the warships of the two sides fought, the rocket salvo fired, and the sailors jumped onto the deck of the opposing side for a broadside battle.

The building ship of the Tang Army was like a behemoth to the Japanese sailors, and the soldiers of the Japanese sailors could only rely on the flying hooks to try to climb onto the ship.

Liu Renliang was surrounded by a group of soldiers of the Tang Army, who cut off the flying hook, and a large number of soldiers of the Japanese State fell into the sea.

There was a big battle between the two sides, and people were killed at every moment.

The archers of the Tang army condescended and shot the soldiers of the Japanese sailors on the opposite side.

"Throw them into the sea and feed the fish!"

The lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty fought with the Japanese sailors, and blood splattered.

Pan Mei, the military general of the Song Dynasty, held an iron spear and swept down a few soldiers of the Japanese Navy!

The soldiers of the Wa Kingdom used blades similar to those of the Han Dynasty ring sword, while the samurai of the Toei lords used katanas, and the ashigaru used bows and arrows and spears. More than a dozen Dongying warriors surrounded Pan Mei, but they couldn't take him down, but were frequently killed by Pan Mei.

Bronze Sparrow arrives with a team of sword and shield men to eliminate the surrounding Dongying warriors.

His face was blackened with smoke, and all around him were ships and a sea of fire.

The sailors of the two sides fought in the Mingliang Strait, and all the means were displayed, and they fought together for five days in a row, until the rockets of the Tang army were almost exhausted, and the Tang knife and the Han knife were curled.

In a small battlefield, the competition is whose will is stronger and whose ship is stronger!

A military general in the Dongying District dragged a big naginata knife and cut down a soldier of the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Asahi General Kiso Yoshinaka is here, and Liu Renliang of the Tang Army dares to come down to fight!" ”

In response to him was the rockets of the Don Army...... In the face of the Tang Army's rockets, the Dongying generals also had to flee in embarrassment.