Chapter 666: Siege
Li Shimin, who returned to the palace of the king of Qin, immediately gathered his staff and said his decision, although the staff were surprised, but since they took refuge in the king of Qin, they must plan for Li Shimin, the higher Li Shimin climbs, then the higher their position will be, although now the Great Zhou army is pressing, but the camel that starves to death is bigger than the horse, Li Tang finally established the country, as long as he can survive this crisis, he will be able to make a comeback. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
After the Great Zhou army came to Chang'an City, Chang'an City has closed four gates, and the city wall is in full swing, although all the people are not recruited on the city wall, but it is also to arm the young and strong, when the Great Zhou army arrives, many guards are even trembling.
"Li Yuan, Li Tang has reached the end of the road, why not open the city and surrender and leave a way for yourself to live."
Sun Yang looked at a middle-aged man in a dragon robe on the city tower, he must be Li Yuan.
"Anti-Wang Sun Yang, Hugh is rampant, if you have the ability, come and take my life, otherwise, don't want me Li Tang to be obedient to you."
Li Yuan is very hard-mouthed, he will not surrender to death, he has achieved the position of the emperor, who is willing to come down, but Li Yuan is not willing to die, he is ready to defeat the Great Zhou army, he signed an alliance with the Great Zhou army, Li Tang pays tribute every year, in exchange for his own life.
"Well, when Chang'an City is broken, I hope you can continue to be so hard-mouthed."
Sun Yang didn't know that Li Yuan had so many ideas, since he was unwilling to surrender, he would wait for the Great Zhou army to break through the city and capture Li Yuan alive.
Chang'an City is also a giant city, with a long history, Chang'an City has begun large-scale construction since the Han Dynasty, especially after Dong Zhuo kidnapped the Han Emperor to come to Chang'an, it has also been built for a long time, Chang'an City is not smaller than Luoyang City at all, especially in Chang'an City in the Li Tang Dynasty, it is the largest city in the ancient world and the largest capital city in China at that time, Chang'an City is a city built in accordance with the traditional Chinese planning ideas and architectural style, the city is composed of three parts, the outer Guo City, the palace city and the imperial city, covering an area of nearly 100 square kilometers, The walls are also nearly 20 meters high, which is equivalent to five or six floors.
This time Sun Yang went on the expedition, but there were siege equipment designed by Lu Miaozi, the ladder car was quickly assembled, and then set up, placed in front of the military formation, the archers were also ready, and with an order, the ladder car and the archers began to move forward, and the infantry behind was also ready.
In this kind of war of attrition, Sun Yang did not send the Tiger Army, the elite of the other party is still there, and the loss of sending the Tiger Army will be very large.
The Great Zhou army was in action, and the soldiers defending the city of Li Tang were also ready, and the archers pulled their bows apart, aimed them below, and began to shoot as long as they entered the range.
With the advance of the Great Zhou army, the siege ladder car and infantry entered the firing range, and the arrows on the city wall immediately rained down, and there were many rockets shot at the ladder car, wanting to ignite the ladder car, but unfortunately it was so easy? Could it be that Lu Miaozi is a fool? I don't know if the ladder cart will be ignited, of course it can't be, all the ladder carts are treated, unless you set up a fire under the ladder cart and keep calcining, or with the small flame of the rocket, don't try to burn the ladder truck.
And the arrows shot at the soldiers were blocked by the shield, Sun Yang asked the soldiers to imitate the Roman shield array, like a turtle covered with a shell, the arrows couldn't shoot in at all, and the effect of those stones thrown down was not great, with the slowdown of the shield, at most it rolled down from the gap, smashed into the feet of one or two soldiers, and made them hurt, and there was no other effect at all.
After the shield array came to the city wall, the shield in the middle of the shield array was suddenly withdrawn, and the crossbowmen hidden under the shield shot the arrows in their hands towards the city wall.
Suddenly the shooting above and below the city began, losing the protection of the shield, and the crossbowmen began to have losses, but not much, the ladder car had come to the edge of the city wall, a section of the ladder was directly put down, and it smashed heavily on the city wall, and the infantry behind rushed up, using the gentle slope of the ladder car, and rushed to the city wall quickly. It's much more comfortable than climbing a ladder, at least your hands are free, and you can hold a shield against bows and arrows.
When the soldiers rushed to the ladder car, the real battle began to start, the flesh and blood grinding disc of the siege battle began to turn, and there was a crazy scramble around several points of the ladder car, when the soldiers of the Great Zhou army rushed to the city wall, there would be a large number of soldiers to attack them, the city wall was more than ten meters wide, enough for a skirmish.
Siege warfare is bloody and boring, it is the will of both sides that fights, who can persevere, if one side is a little lax, then the balance of victory will tilt.
The morale of the Great Zhou army is strong, it has hit the capital of the other party, the other party has no way to retreat, and he is also a member of the expansion of the territory, of course, the morale is very strong, and he can't wait to take the city wall in one go and capture Chang'an.
And Li Tang's side, although the morale is not high, but there is a team of supervisors, and at the same time, Li Yuan took out a lot of gold and silver, using money to boost morale, so although the morale of Li Tang's soldiers cannot be compared with the Great Zhou army, but they have not fallen into the trough, but these morales are very vain, at most they can blind people's eyes for a while, and when they find that they are invincible, this fictitious morale will collapse violently, and the consequences will be more serious at that time.
After sending nearly 10,000 people in a row, but they were not able to break through the city wall, Sun Yang Mingjin collected his troops, and even the ladder car was recovered, this is Lu Miaozi's level, as long as the ladder car is not destroyed, then the springboard can be re-erected and the ladder car can be retracted.
However, on the first day of the siege, eight ladder cars were also lost, all of which were burned by the other party with fire, but more than ten ladder cars were also withdrawn, which is good, basically all the wounded soldiers were also brought back, the Great Zhou Army has a military doctor, and the medicine is sufficient, can treat the wounded soldiers as much as possible, as long as it is not missing arms and legs, there is no way to fight again, then the cured soldiers are elite veterans.
Sun Yang is ready to establish a police mechanism to replace the original government service, the government is in charge of too much, a little unclear responsibility, and the government also has a bit of a lack of responsibility, a county can do the public security, administration, people's livelihood, etc., this is a bit chaotic, we must distinguish the responsibilities, what departments manage what, we must distinguish well, and we can't do it alone. (To be continued.) )