Chapter 016: Attack on the Western Courtyard
The courtyard wall is densely packed with human heads, the enemy also set up a high platform behind the courtyard wall to shoot arrows outside, arrows rained down, the soldiers and attendants who attacked the door fell to the ground one after another, Li Yuanji's eyes were bloodshot because of the fire, and he threw the lance to the ground fiercely, his ruthless face was full of anger, and he ordered the soldiers and attendants who attacked the door to retreat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Open the meal, fight again after the meal!" Looking at the palace maid who sent food from the Yeting Palace, Li Yuanji had no choice but to order.
"The enemy is outnumbered, it is better to gather troops in one place and urge them in a battle!" Feng Li suggested: "Once the battle situation is stalemate, we will definitely lose!" Although guarding Taicang, there is enough grain, grass and silver, but the most important thing is that the prince is dead and cannot mobilize the troops in the city, and Li Shimin has the Son of Heaven in hand, and there may be an army called up at any time.
Li Yuanji sent an order to transfer all the soldiers on the city wall to come over, recruit the same guards who dare to fight as the vanguard, and ordered the palace attendants and Taicang miscellaneous servants to prepare siege equipment such as hooks, ladders, crashes and other things. In fact, there are large catapults and large crash cars prepared for the north city wall in Taicang, which are too huge, and they are prepared for long-term defense of the city.
"The weather is hot, the number of enemies is more than three thousand, more than double that of us, and there is a commander like Li Shimin, the king of Qin, the delay of time is not good for me, it is better to attack with fire, burn the jade, and force it to come out to fight!"
"There are a lot of concubines in the palace, and many confidential information in the country are collected in the palace, how can they be destroyed because of their own selfishness?" Although Li Yuanji wants Li Shimin's life and has a sense of responsibility for the Tang Dynasty established by his own family, how can the beautiful and majestic Taiji Palace be destroyed in his own hands, this is a symbol of the Tang Dynasty!
Li Yuanji thought to himself, he is indeed inferior to Li Shimin, if it was Li Shimin, he might have made up his mind a long time ago, but he was afraid that he would set fire to it!
Geshu Jitong didn't think so, there was nothing left when people died, and there was nothing to worry about, but these soldiers and generals only listened to Li Yuanji and Feng Li and others, in the end, he was of a different race, and his roots were shallow.
Da Zhi said: "Taicang has a lot of millet, and there are a lot of wrestlers, so it is better to drive it to the grain bag as a ladder, and base it under the wall, so that the wall is like a thoroughfare, and a certain family is willing to lead three hundred Youzhou iron horsemen to rush in!" However, it is not the best way to rush in, you must know that the courtyard wall is not short, and the war horse will be damaged if it jumps so high.
There are 300 people in the Changlin army that have not yet dispersed are the elite armored cavalry selected by Luo Yi in Youzhou when he defected to the prince, these armored cavalry fight in the border fortress all the year round, and they are really not inferior to Li Shimin's Xuanjia elite cavalry.
Today's attack and defense are too urgent, the equipment is not repaired, the personnel are not organized, if the grain bag is used as a ladder, the courtyard wall is only two people high, it can be piled up under the wall, directly rush in, than with a hook ladder and the like, it is more violent, but there are many enemies, bows and arrows are like rain, and the person who bears the bag must suffer heavy casualties.
Inner palace maid, how many such people there are, Li Yuanji grew up in a family of public waiters, this bit of human life is a fart to him, he nodded immediately, and ordered his subordinates to do it! At this time, his heart was happy, fortunately he controlled the Yeting Palace, controlled the inner servant province, there are many palace maids there, although the people with armor are not as good as Li Shimin, but the manpower is everything, which can be used for consumption.
Within a hundred steps, there must be faithful, listening to the Son of Heaven suffering, many chamberlains gritted their teeth, and stood up by themselves without mobilization, they are rootless people, the palace is their home, Li Shimin dares to kill the monarch in the palace, that is with all the chamberlains as enemies, the chamberlain province fully cooperated, and constantly organized people to send over.
Sumeru, after the meal, shouting and scolding, Li Yuanji's men and horses acted again.
Nearly 1,000 soldiers bent their bows and arrows, and kept shooting at the city wall, and hundreds of soldiers each held a spear and horizontal knife, and kept driving some timid and fearful servants to rush up in the back, and the timid people who really couldn't take a step should be stabbed in the head, cut off their heads, inserted them in the poles, and erected them in the square, for the faint of heart.
The ant-like chamberlains each charged forward with half a sack of corn on their backs, and from time to time someone was hit by an arrow to the ground, and the wounded groaned and went unheeded, and the living were completely ignored.
The big name Liu Fenghua, the nickname Xiaohua, is one of these servants, now only fifteen years old, still a teenager, because of the chaos in the world, he grew up poor, lonely, was sent to the palace, although often bullied by the elderly, to be enslaved, do a lot of chores, but warm and well-fed, compared to the previous end of starvation and freezing to death at any time, not too much, his little friend he saw with his own eyes frozen to death more than one.
He is still young, he doesn't understand the harm of castration, he only knows that a happy life is not easy to come by, and he is often educated, the Son of Heaven is his master, the root and guarantee of all his lives, and he heard that the Son of Heaven was killed by the King of Qin, so rebellious, he was so ruthless that his teeth itched, although the young man had no roots, he was still enthusiastic, and he signed up to join the death squad for the first time,
Countless arrows were shot at the side and above the head during the run, and some were inserted in front of the feet, and the partner next to him couldn't help but fall to the ground, Xiaohua would not be frightened by this, he yelled all the way to vent his fear, rushed forward, did not look back, he didn't look at it, only the courtyard wall in front of him. rushed to the place, dropped the rice bag, did not stop, turned around and ran, although the arrow swished, it was not damaged at all and returned to the starting place.
Shang Gong of the Shanggong Bureau of the Inner Service Province is a kind old man, surnamed Tian Jiucheng, who happened to be in the place where Xiaohua came back to record his merits, Tian Jiucheng patted Xiaohua on the shoulder: "Okay, don't embarrass us the inner servant, you are the first to come back! Continue to work hard, get rid of the rebellion as soon as possible!" handed him a scoop of water, Xiaohua drank the scoop of water in a pant, took a calculation chip handed over by Tian Jiucheng, pinned it to his waist, and took half a bag of rice and carried it on his shoulder, half of which bowed slightly and strode forward.
Li Yuanji used the method of attacking the city with ants, and these servants only need to complete three calculations today to rest first, and there is no need to go into battle again. The palace maids were wounded in order to retreat.
On both sides of the Ganlu Gate, the protection is the strictest, here is the headquarters of the King of Qin personally guarded, the loss is also the most serious, those who can get close to the wall are few, and there are no inner servants who can escape back. In the distance on both sides, the protection was not so tight, the corn bags were piled up little by little, and the square was full of blood and corpses, and it was already filled to the normal height on the west side.
Li Yuanji waved his lance and shouted: "Rush!" The red flag on his side rolled and waved the signal vigorously.
More than 1,000 soldiers bows and arrows suddenly turned, all shot to the west side of the courtyard wall, one round, two rounds and three rounds, the guards defending the wall kept turning over and falling, many arrows were picked into the Baifu Palace, Qianqiu Palace, Chengqing Hall nearby, the square suddenly grew a lot of grass, more than 100 people were shot to the ground.
The three hundred elite horsemen who had already assembled and retreated to three hundred paces away, their bodies lowered, their left arm shield resting in front of their heads, and their right hands holding the reins of the knife "Kill, kill!" rushed out with a loud shout.
The wind swept the thunder, as fast as a cone, the distance of three hundred steps was fleeting, and the three hundred horsemen volleyed into the west courtyard under the panicked eyes of the guards, and only fell more than ten horses, some of which were shot down by enemy arrows, and a few of which were broken legs by stepping on the gap in the rice bag.
Li Yuanji's expression was excited, and he ordered again, in the red flag, hundreds of soldiers on the west side abandoned their bows, pulled out their horizontal swords, closed them in the middle, followed the cavalry, rushed to the rice bag, and jumped into the courtyard. The other soldiers slowly moved closer to Li Yuanji, and the whole team moved closer to the west.
Generals such as Ma Sanbao, Da Kezhi, Geshu Jitong, and Wu Shiyi also rushed into it.