Chapter Ninety-Eight: Defending the War
Tian Chenghe's attack on Longshouyuan Dazhai was slightly more intense, and his headquarters soldiers and horses had not fought the Southern Wu army, and followed the winning experience since the beginning of the army, and launched a heavy attack on Longshouyuan Dazhai. Therefore, empiricism kills people, and the impact of the soldiers and horses of the field was met by the Southern Wu army.
At the moment of offensive and defensive fighting, both sides did not use large magic arrays and large equipment, Tian Chenghe's troops were killed more than 30 people and wounded more than 100 people, and the Southern Wu army also had five killed and more than 10 injured under the advantage of occupying a favorable location.
Because Chang'an City and Longshouyuan Dazhai are each other's horns, although the rebels have 150,000 people, they cannot besiege the city, and can only tentatively attack each gate.
Beginning on the eighth day of the first month of February, An Shouzhong, Li Guiren, Cai Xide, Tian Chengsi, Cui Qianyou, Yin Ziqi and other troops began to attack Chang'an and Longshouyuan Dazhai, the scale became larger, and the battle situation suddenly became tense.
By 13 February, Shi Siming's various units also began to take turns attacking the city.
Gu Zuo convened Chen Xuanli, Li Siye, Ge Shuhan, Guo Ziyi and others to discuss the current battle situation, Li Siye said that it was too passive to defend and not attack, and the rebels tried for many days, arbitrarily choosing the direction of attack, and the arrogance was overflowing. He took the initiative to ask for battle, saying that he was willing to go out of the city to fight a counterattack.
These days, Gu Zuo did it himself, patrolling and guarding the city wall of Chang'an, and often went out of the city at night to fly to the Longshouyuan Dazhai next to him to learn about the battle situation, knowing that what Li Siye said was right, the rebels were indeed very arrogant and disdainful of the defenders.
However, Li Siye's initiative to ask for battle still made Gu Zuo hesitate a little, could this be the rebels' slow enemy's strategy? Moreover, in the past half a month, the enemy's various units have taken turns to fight, why don't they see heavy siege weapons?
In this regard, Li Siye didn't care: "You always have to fight a dozen, if you don't fight, you won't be able to find anything, and you won't be able to detect it...... As for the danger? How can there be a foolproof thing in a war? If you die in battle, the Taishi doesn't have to worry too much, the big husband is shrouded in horse leather, which is the right way for my generation!"
Li Siye had 200 Mo swordsmen to follow him into Beijing, which was the weapon of the newly built Yulin Army. Originally, Gu Zuo was worried that this army would be inconvenient to move and difficult to go out of the enemy, but after seeing it, he was relieved. The cultivation of these two hundred Mo Dao hands is the lowest Qi refining perfection, the huge Mo Dao magic weapon is on the shoulder, and the heavy armor on the body is also like nothing, and the action is easy and effortless.
On this day, the attack on Anhuamen in Nancheng was the rebel general He Qianqian's department, this rebel army was not the army of Fan Yang and Pinglu, but the soldiers and horses of Xiang, Wei and other prefectures and counties, and it looked slightly weaker.
Chen Xuanli and Li Siye both came to see Gu Zuo and suggested that they start with He Qianqian and take the initiative to fight a dozen.
Gu Zuo agreed after thinking about it, and personally sent Li Siye to Yanpingmen. Five hundred soldiers have been gathered here, with two hundred Mo swordsmen as the backbone, and three hundred dragon warriors to protect the flanks, ready to surprise the He Qianqian Department who was attacking the city outside the Anhua Gate.
Gu Zuo told Li Siye: "General Li, don't leave the city for thirty zhang when you go out of the city this time, within this, if there is an accident, I can still find a way to save you, and it will be difficult to do it if you are far away." ”
Li Siye nodded: "The last general knows!"
Several military academies went down to each team and read out the general's order aloud: "Go out of the city gate, march to the left along the root of the wall, the rear team follows the front team, do not exceed the position of the team officer, count it clearly in your own heart, the third city gate enters the city, that's it!"
"After running this lap, each person will be rewarded with a thousand dollars!"
"Regardless of the head in this battle, don't cut off the head!"
The short military order was exceptionally clear and was quickly prepared. When Gu Zuo landed at the top of the city, he heard the sound of the formation, the magic circle that closed the Yanxing Gate stopped, the gate creaked open, and Li Siye killed it first, and behind him was a Mo swordsman wrapped in two hundred heavy armor.
After the Mo Dao hand came out, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the cavalry of the three hundred dragon martial arts rushed out and hung behind the Mo Dao team as a support.
Carrying a heavy Mo knife on his shoulder, the Mo Daoist hurried with the queue in front of him, circling along the city wall. When I turned around the southwest corner of the city, I immediately saw He Qianqian's department who was storming Anhua Gate.
The rain-like arrows shooting at the head of the city and under the moat, the floating ladder on the moat, the cloud carts and rushing cars that are moving forward, and more are the collisions and confrontations of various portable magic circles issued by the generals.
Li Siye raised his knife with one hand and slashed forward, and several generals of the Mo Dao team shouted in unison: "Kill!"
The two hundred Mo swordsmen shouted at the same time: "Kill!" The distance between the front and back was immediately widened, forming two rows of thirty-five zhang wide knife walls.
Two rows of Mo knife hands alternately forward, one row in the back to gather momentum, turn a few times and then raise the knife forward, obliquely up and down and slash down suddenly, bringing out a long blue knife, where the knife sweeps, no matter the armor, blades, war horses, enemy troops, all of them are a knife and two sections!
After slashing a knife, the Mo knife hand stepped back to the left rear to unload the force, just to give up the position, allowing the other row of Mo knife hands to complete the charge to cut out another blue knife wall.
Three hundred dragon warriors roamed around the side of the Modao team, completely dispersed the panicked rebels, or counterattacked, making it difficult for He Qianqian's troops to obtain timely and effective rescue.
Gu Zuo was watching Li Siye's attack at the head of the city, ready to mobilize Taoist soldiers to rescue at any time. Seeing that Li Siye defeated the rebels under Guanghua Gate, he couldn't help but feel relieved.
When he was looking, a general flew out from He Jun's main formation and turned into a fire dragon, and the fire dragon turned over in the air, shook off thousands of sparks, and covered down towards the Mo Dao Army.
Li Siye stepped forward with his knife, looked at it for a while, exerted force under his feet, and suddenly flew up, and the blue knife light rolled by, cutting the fire dragon in two.
For a while, He Qianqian's soldiers exclaimed: "General He is dead!"
"General He is dead!"
"Why did the general take revenge!"
A few sword lights flew out of the camp in the rear camp of An Rebellion, and at the same time came to grab He Qianqian's corpse, Li Siye didn't care about the corpse, flew back upside down, and stood in front of the half-open Qixia Gate, until the five hundred soldiers brought out returned to the city, and then dragged his huge Mo knife into the city.
Chen Xuanli was on the city tower, saw it clearly, was silent for a moment, and said to Gu Zuo: "Where did Huaixian get the news from in the first place?
Gu Zuo smiled and said, "I said it earlier, since I came to Chang'an back then, I suddenly got my senses, and I know how to forget it!"
Chen Xuanli was dumbfounded, but there was no excuse, he could only shake his head and smile bitterly.
After He Qianqian was beheaded by Li Siye, perhaps because he was worried that this would lead to low morale, from this day on, the rebels suddenly increased their siege efforts, and it was often a siege battle of 10,000 people, and all kinds of war and law weapons were also put into battle in turn, and the defense of Chang'an City and Longshouyuan suddenly became fierce, and the casualties increased greatly.
On the contrary, it was the strength that allowed the defenders to finally settle down, and this is the correct way to attack the city!
On this day, Gu Zuo was supervising the battle in Longshouyuan Dazhai, when he saw the attacking Tian Chenghe's department pushing out a car-like magic weapon, and a long crossbow was inserted in the magic weapon.
Is this a ballista? Why does it look a little different?