Volume 1 Chapter 263 A Tragic Siege Battle
What's more, Wei Yunqi, the chief general who guarded Anximen in the north of the city, was the first to reinforce us that day.
"Otherwise, how about the junior brother leading the troops and Brother Yuanqing to rush over to rescue Anximen?" Li Shimin said.
"I think it's possible, but if you bring that kind of oil jar with you, this thing will be the most lethal to the enemy who has attacked the city. It's useless to keep it now. "I thought about it and gave my advice.
"I'll go too," Li Xuanba jumped out and said. Li Yao next to him blinked a pair of apricot eyes and was eager to try.
"No, you have to stay, we still have to leave someone to take care of the Li Mansion." Li Shimin shook his head resolutely, this is a battlefield, on the battlefield, the military order is like a mountain, so although Li Yaoguang was a little reluctant, he still nodded. Well, at this moment, I found out that this girl is actually very reasonable.
And Ben Gongzi also stood up and expressed his desire to go over and take a look, in exchange for seven or eight pairs of white eyes. Everyone objected, thinking that it was better for an idler like Ben Gongzi to stay here and control his own parts, and enjoy the excitement by the way.
Of course, Liu Hongji's gang directly belittled the force value of this son very recklessly, thinking that I would only be suspected of causing chaos in the past, and it was better not to take my son with him, he could still kill with a knife.
These words made my son's angry face black, and the seven orifices were smoking, and the angry Lao Tzu almost wanted to fight him alone. But for the sake of his size and strength greater than me. Forget it, we are civilized people, and we don't have to deal with underworld hooligan leaders like Liu Hongji, otherwise we will definitely die twenty or thirty years early.
I grabbed Li Shimin, who was about to rush over, and commanded a few times in his ear, this guy nodded understandingly, led five hundred soldiers, gathered with Pei Yuanqing and his troops, and hurried towards Anximen in the north of the city.
After more than a quarter of an hour, a faint puff of green smoke began to rise from the north of the city, and gradually, more and more smoke began to rise in the area of Anximen, and the heart-rending screams even reached our side.
And a scorched thing, and the smell of barbecue came with the wind, almost everyone changed their faces, Ben Gongzi was the first to can't bear it, and walked quickly to the corner of the city tower in a remote place and vomited, muddy, too disgusting, roast human flesh, if it is roasted other meat, Ben Gongzi will only feel fragrant.
But the thought that this smell came from roasted human flesh made me feel extremely disgusting, and I couldn't wait to vomit out the food from yesterday, the day before yesterday, and even last year. After vomiting, I pushed away Li Yuanfang's hand that wanted to reach over to support me. "My son is not so delicate."
Sitting on the stone steps not far away, he breathed in the air, although he still had that strange smell, but now he couldn't vomit anything, closed his eyes, and tried to get distracting thoughts out of his mind.
At this moment, the sound of light footsteps came. "Here, drink some water, it will make you feel better." Li Yaoguang's crisp voice drilled into my ears.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a pretty face full of concern and pity, which made my heart warm. I took the kettle, and the cool water finally made me feel more comfortable. "Thank you, I didn't expect this to happen."
"Not everyone who goes to the battlefield can be safe, my father once told me that when he first went to the battlefield, he was also very uncomfortable." Li Yaoguang smiled, this is really comforting, thinking about Li Yuan, the dignified founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, vomited a lot when he first went to the battlefield, and this son has been devastated for two days before he can support it, from this point is enough to show that my willpower and strength are higher than Li Yuan.
Thinking about it like this, Ben Gongzi finally felt a lot more balanced in his heart. "It seems that there shouldn't be much of a problem on Anximen's side." After drinking some more water, I stood up and looked to the north of the city, where the smoke was getting thicker and thicker, and the heart-rending screams continued, but above the city, the banner of the king of the Great Sui and the banner of Wei Yunqi were still standing tall and unmoving.
"Didn't you say that no matter how strong Yang Xuangan's strength is now, in front of the Great Sui Dynasty at this moment, he will be annihilated." Li Yaoguang looked into the distance, revealing a faint, lonely expression. "It won't take long for the lineage of the Duke of Chu, who was famous in the past, to die out."
For Li Yaoguang's feeling like a thinker or a philosopher, I'm a little speechless, is the fourteen-year-old expired Lori good, and actually issued such a headache for philosophers and big thinkers like Ben Gongzi, I really don't know if when she grows up to a mature age, will she start to study materialism or idealism.
"Don't think too much, we do what we have to do, many people and things can only be left for the future, and it is up to the world to evaluate their rights and wrongs." I took a deep breath of air and quickly filled a large gulp of clear water to make this answer.
When the smoke and dust billowing in the sky around Naanximen, when the earth-shattering sounds of fighting gradually disappeared, above the city, there were shouts of joy for the rest of their lives, representing the rebels' attack, which had once again suffered a heavy setback.
And in our area, thirty or forty thousand rebels, in the end, with those wounded on the soles of their feet, retreated in panic. And a few of us also took this opportunity to rush in the direction of Anximen in the north of the city, naturally wanting to see how the situation was.
There was still a strong smell of burning in the air, but Ben Gongzi couldn't vomit if he wanted to, not to mention, his attention was diverted by those miserable injuries, and the wounded with arrow wounds were lucky, and the rebels rushed to the city at least three times, and finally because of the timely arrival of reinforcements, the rebels' offensive was suppressed.
According to Pei Yuanqing, who rushed to greet our group, several pitchers were shot and wounded by the rebels when they threw the lit oil jars, or they were cut by the rebels who rushed to the city, and the jars shattered on the top of the city and caused a fire.
Fortunately, the fire stopped the defenders, and the rebels who were besieging the city, and fortunately, the lethality of this jar of fire oil was terrifying, even on the water.
The oil jars brought by those reinforcements are really shining, if not, I am afraid that the number of casualties will increase by how much, but the city wall is in a mess, anyway, I am not in the mood or interested in appreciating it. At least I'm not a pervert, and there are even a few broken places above the city, and there are more than a dozen arrow towers that have collapsed outside the moat, so you can imagine how tragic this battle was.
And there were no less than four or five thousand corpses on the plain, and I couldn't help but gasp when I saw it. "I can't imagine that the rebels are so brave."
"I'm afraid that our reinforcements are coming, and they won't be able to fight for their lives at this time, and at that time, they won't be able to fight if they want to." Wei Yunqi, who was wrapped in a bandage on his left arm, walked over, his face was pale from blood loss, and his voice was very hoarse.
And in the afternoon, I finally heard that the rebels fought today, which lasted for nearly three hours, and the number of rebels killed in the battle exceeded 10,000, and the defenders of the city also fought about 3,000, and the wounded rebels were also at least twice as many as the dead in the battle.
Although our side was the first to be attacked, but because of the proper preparation, the casualties were very small, but I think Yang Xuangan may just want to use our city wall as a bait, and its real main attack direction is actually the north of the city, so each attack is at most an hour, and after losing a certain amount of soldiers and horses, he will withdraw directly.
Like in the north of the city, in less than three hours, the casualties on both sides exceeded 20,000 or 30,000. And we have been fighting and making trouble for so long, we will not have more than 100 casualties, and nearly 1,000 casualties, as for those unlucky rebels, the casualties are at most 5,000 in the sky, compared to this side, it is like a child playing at home.
Except for Yang Gongdao, who has been on the battlefield, everyone else is a crooked party, so when they heard this number, they couldn't help but gasp.
"Obediently, if the rebels keep attacking the city like this, I'm afraid it won't take three days, and few of us will be able to stand up." Liu Hongji touched his head and let out such an emotion.
"If it is really such a strong attack, it will not take three days at all, and Yang Xuangan's soldiers and horses will be afraid that they will disperse." Yang Gongdao said with a smile: "Yang Xuangan's subordinates, at most, are 30,000 elites, the rest of the people, etc., most of them are ordinary people, and they have not received much training at all, such an attack must be dominated by elites, supplemented by the people's militia, just one day, I am afraid that the elite in his hands will lose almost one-fifth, and then two days, when the time comes, what will he rely on to control the rebels composed of ordinary people?" I'm afraid that when the time comes, all the reinforcements will be unanimous, and the elite Yang Xuangan will be lost, and it will be time to award the head. ”
Hearing Yang Gongdao's words, I nodded thoughtfully, in this era, ordinary people who have never been on the battlefield can charge with enthusiasm, or even fight a tailwind battle, but if you want to become the elite of the army, it is definitely not a joke.
As for the soldiers of my family, to have today's achievements, it has also gone through more than half a year of high-intensity training, and this era is at most one exercise in three days, this time is equivalent to two or three years to become an elite, and then you have to rely on war to polish, so although Yang Xuangan's soldiers and horses seem to be outnumbered, it does not mean that Luoyang City can be captured by a pile of people.
Ordinary people and professional soldiers, these are two completely different concepts.