"Is it really God is going to destroy my Li family this time? After several years of hard work, I got such a result?"

Li Shimin outside Chang'an City looked at the tall and majestic city wall in the distance, calm on the surface, but was already desperate inside.

Unlike the Yinshi Division expected, Jinyang troops did not collapse or retreat after being shot by Wanjun crossbow three-wheeled fire, but the offensive continued to increase. At the beginning, the siege troops only carried simple equipment such as flying hooks and cloud ladders. Now, as more and more follow-up troops were put into battle, siege equipment such as wall cars, anger-warming vehicles, nest cars, wooden ox cars, pointed wings, etc. were also pulled to the front line one after another.

When the Five Barbarians invaded China and the world was in chaos, the princes in the world killed people in order to fight for the country and the world were indifferent. In the troubled times, people's lives were as light as grass, and no one would be stingy. However, the premise of this killing was to target the enemy or the people who were useless to them. Otherwise, they would be determined to be able to win this battle and would not hesitate to use their subordinates' lives to fill it.

If the outcome is uncertain and the future is unpredictable, the princes will not waste their troops. After all, the more people kill, the fewer people will be killed. Even if they sweep the floor, they will not be able to find a strong man, and the troops will not be able to replenish them. Military soldiers are the capital to settle down. Once the troops are gone, their own wealth and life will be difficult to preserve.

Therefore, at that time, the defending city side pulled out the Wanjun divine crossbow and fired it, and the princes wanted to withdraw their troops to retreat to avoid losing their troops in vain. Besides, the soldiers were mostly forced to conquer or even arrested, and had not received much training. Seeing the power of the Wanjun divine crossbow, they would flee. Often, after two rounds of crossbow arrows were shot, no one dared to rush up.

However, since ancient times, there must be great rule after the chaos. The Sui Dynasty has been in chaos for dozens of years, and people's hearts are not wasted. In particular, the Li family's vanguard army is mainly loyal to the Jinyang headquarters. Even the newly attached soldiers and horses had to grit their teeth and move forward. No matter how powerful the Wanjun magic crossbow is, it will not be like before, just a few rounds of volleys. The emergence of these siege equipment gave the soldiers enough courage.

The vanguards of the Li brothers stationed troops under Chang'an City have not been alone in the past few days. The soldiers and generals under them have been mobilized to log wood and create various siege equipment. The main general has been supervised effectively, and the siege equipment has been created countless. However, due to the sergeant skills, most of these equipment are bulky and difficult to move, and they cannot be considered solid in themselves.

Li Shimin initially sent troops to cooperate with Xu Le, focusing on fighting with three slows. It was unnecessary to bring these bulky objects, so he only brought a ladder and killed the hooks. However, now the situation has changed, and the city gate has not been opened for a long time, it is obvious that something has happened. If you want to attack the city, you must rely on a large group of people to attack. These weapons have become indispensable and important objects, and naturally they have to be transported to the front line to assist in the battle.

The soldiers grinned and used all their strength to push the vehicle. The general shouted a trumpet and pushed the heavy wooden high-speed car into the city little by little. These equipment that had been hard-working for soldiers were naturally not useless. In fact, no matter which equipment reached the designated position, it could affect the city defense. But the premise is... it must be reached.

The pothole-burning ground and the weight of the equipment themselves are all natural allies of the soldiers guarding the city. Even if the Li family soldiers break through hard to push, the speed of these equipment is still slow. After all, the military soldiers are not craftsmen, and their craftsmanship cannot be compared with the craftsmen who are supervising. The quality of the equipment itself is not good. Besides, in the war, there are still arrows and crossbows on their heads, and no one can concentrate on pushing the cart, so the effect naturally needs to be discounted.

The siege did not have heavy crossbows like Wanjun crossbow, but there were also hard crossbows such as Zhang crossbow and strong bows. The shooter held a bow and crossbow and shot arrows at the city head, hoping to suppress the defenders at the city head. The tall nest chariots were also full of soldiers, holding a bow and crossbow in their hands and shooting at the city head to kill each other.

These nest cars were originally used for siege. If you encounter a remote small city, the height of the nest cars may be higher than the city wall, but the siege's shooting is lowered. After a few rounds of shooting, the morale of the defenders will often collapse and escape in a panic. However, Chang'an City is too high, and you can only barely achieve a flat shooting. The defenders rely on the battlements and the city wall to cover the city wall, and the casualties are far smaller than those of the siege, and they will not collapse.

Especially these nest cars were slowly swaying left and right, and the soldiers standing on them were unable to stand steadily, and the power of the bow and arrow was greatly weakened. It took a long time to shoot an arrow, and the arrow was crooked and slanted without any lethality, so it was impossible to scare people.

The situation of other equipment is not much better than that of a nest truck. Although it takes time and effort to build it carefully, it is still a day or so, so it is naturally impossible to move out the equipment and work.

Yin Hongde laughed wildly and said, "The Li family has the only ability? I want to conquer our Daxing with these toys. I'm afraid it's not a daydream! Everyone give them some colors to let them know how powerful we are!"

Yin Hongde, who used to show his identity as a wise general, had a look of madness at this moment, and he shouted at his subordinates at the top of his lungs. The loading of the Wanjun divine crossbow had not been completed and could not be launched again. The Li family soldiers were put too close to the front of the city, and some people were about to form a blade. However, under the dispatch of Yin Hongde, the defenders did not collapse in chaos, but instead fought with an equally morbid excitement. While shooting back with bows and arrows, they threw stones, rolled wood, gray bottles and other objects into the city. The Li family soldiers who were about to rush up in front of him were greeted with poles, yakshas, ​​and slap wood.

From time to time, the sound of wood breaking sounded. After finally getting on the ladder at the top of the city, it was smashed to pieces. The soldiers siege were able to jump onto the top of the city, but they could only let out a desperate wail and fell heavily towards the city. The soldiers below had become numb, and even saw the robes falling into meat pies beside them, they were indifferent, and still gritted their teeth and rushed towards the city gate.

For both the offensive and defensive sides, the most critical place is the city gate. Although the Jinyang soldiers pushed out various instruments and rushed towards the city wall, their attack on the city gate did not relax. A team of agile soldiers had already rushed into the city gate hole. The general shouted a trumpet, and the soldiers carried the thrust and ran into Mu Yun with all their strength to hit the city gate!

Under the impact of huge external force, the seemingly indestructible city gate was trembling slightly, and the chrysanthemum nails on the door were shaking.

The city gate guards burst into exclamations, and soon the news was reported to the city wall. Someone exclaimed: "General... Someone has entered the city gate hole!"

Yin Hongde didn't even look at it, and just ordered: "Why are you panic? Splash oil!"

The soldiers guarding the city were also shouting trumpets, and overturned the copper tripod that had been on the fire for a long time. The boiling oil in the tripod was poured down like a waterfall. Then a few screams sounded. Then a few more lit grass were thrown down. The soldiers thought it would be safe to hide under the city gate, but they didn't expect that the catastrophe had just begun.

The raging fire quickly swallowed the soldiers' bodies. They threw down the wood and tried desperately to slap the fire on their bodies, rolling or running outward. The general who shouted the trumpet screamed and ran to his own military formation, screaming for help while running. However, after a few steps, a wave arrow from somewhere was passed through his throat and then fell straight down.

There was a blazing fire under the city gate. The team of soldiers either died in the sea of ​​fire, or were shot by arrows while fleeing or trampled to death by robes, but they never lived.

Yin Hongde laughed and said, "Come on! See who else is not afraid of death! We have weapons, and it doesn't matter if we stay for a year! Let me see how many means the Li family has and how many lives can be consumed!"

Since ancient times, attack and defense have been like spears and shields, and are natural opponents. From the battle between Mozi and Gongshu until now, the siege side can always come up with several equipment to pose a threat to the city. Similarly, the defensive side will create enough equipment to deal with it when dealing with it. It teaches each other. There is no siege artifact that can be defeated in every way, nor is there an irresistible city that cannot be broken. In the final analysis, it depends on the ability of the general to adapt to changes, as well as the right time, place and people.

It is difficult to defend the city. Compared with those small fortresses, a huge capital like Chang'an is actually not conducive to defense. The attacking party has enough choices to launch attacks from different locations. As a defensive party, he can only passively take action and play a guessing game with the attacking party. First estimate the location that the siege troops may choose, and then arrange the troops there in advance.

If you guess wrong, you have to let the soldiers move quickly to avoid being attacked by the enemy by the city because they are outnumbered. However, this movement itself also consumes a huge amount of physical strength for the soldiers. If a soldier full of armor and weapons runs back and forth in a giant city like Chang'an, he will be exhausted and paralyzed without having to fight.

But this does not mean that the defender is naturally a weak position. On the contrary, in the current siege battle, the defense will always enjoy the bento brought by the advantage of the geographical advantage. Including the grandson of a generation of martial saints, he also wrote in his own military book: The method of siege is a last resort!

The biggest difficulty in night battles is dispatching and commanding. Even the Jinyang troops are controlled by the current communication methods, but they cannot use their fingers like the daytime. What's more, the vanguard army now belongs to the two main generals Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng. The conflicts between the main generals also affect the soldiers below. In addition to obeying orders, the generals also have to consider the relationship between the main officials, so as not to spend half a day of effort and end up in a waste of effort. There is a knot between them, so it is impossible to understand tacitly, and the night environment magnifies this problem infinitely.

Often, one army rushed forward, but the other army failed to reach the designated position and could not provide cooperation for friendly forces. Or a row of arrows shot towards the city, but failed to shoot a few enemies, but instead killed most of the robes of their siege. When the front army retreated, they were blocked by friendly forces. They collided with each other, trampled on each other, and caused unreasonable casualties.

Compared with the Jinyang soldiers, the Chang'an defenders were much better in this regard. As early as during the Pujin offensive and defensive battle, the Yinshi Division transferred all Jingzhao Yingyang into the capital and trained it by its own nephews. Although the Yin family's children were not famous generals, they could not make these Yingyang soldiers go from weak soldiers to fierce soldiers in such a short period of time.

However, after the exercise, in terms of cooperation, tens of thousands of eagle soldiers in the city were not inferior to Jinyang's troops, especially in night battles. After all, Li Yuan did not specialize in night battle siege projects, and Yinshishi had practiced how to defend the city at night. In this way, Jinyang's troops lost three points before they even took action.

In terms of the main general, the relationship between the children and nephews of the Yin family is much more harmonious than that of the Li family. There is no obstacle to cooperation between subordinates, which is also better than that of the Li family.

The most important point is that Li Shimin didn't have much choice to attack the city. No matter what, he had to pick up Xu Le, which determined that the attack locations that Jinyang soldiers and horses could choose tonight were only a few city gates on this side and related city walls. As the attacking side, he lost the biggest advantage of flexible maneuvering, and became a contest between Jinyang soldiers and Jingzhao defenders in simple offensive and defensive combat skills.

With several unfavorable conditions, the result of this contest is naturally unknown. Although more and more siege equipment has been invested, the battlefield situation still has no progress. Seeing the elite soldiers and generals created by the Li family over the years of hard work, falling in groups under Chang'an City, Li Shimin's heart was like a knife cut, and he felt that there was no hope of breaking the city, and the thing he was most worried about was about to happen.

Li Shimin, who had been with the military camp for many years, had no kindness as a woman. In order to win, he could regard thousands of lives as numbers and would never be moved by their deaths and injuries. However, this belief was based on the basis of being able to win and drove soldiers to death. This was not a decision by a famous general, but just a simple cruelty.

The Chang'an city wall is just such a place to kill. Li Shimin understood that even if he attacked the city with such a clumsy method, he would definitely be able to nibble the city. But the premise is that he must have sufficient time and troops and sufficient material support.

The military strategy is full of the rules, and five attacks. Calculated based on the offensive and defensive situation, you must have more than five times the force of the troops to ensure a complete victory in the siege. Even if you consider the difference in combat power between the two armies, you must have at least three times the force of troops to successfully break the city. But now, you actually have fewer troops than defending the city. You can attack the city with a small number of troops. You don’t know how many military taboos you have committed in one night, so how can you win in one night?

But it is impossible for him to retreat now. Li Jiancheng's personal soldiers set up a deadline, and anyone who retreated through this line would have to fall into the ground. This kind of supervision method on the battlefield is understandable, but Li Jiancheng did this clearly rush to him. Li Shimin is now in a state of power. Although he cannot advance, he cannot retreat. No one under Li Jiancheng's subordinates are brave enough to chop off his head, but as long as he orders to retreat, he will be a reputation for fear of death and he has to bear all the responsibilities himself.

In addition, Li Shimin also had a vague idea in his mind. Li Jiancheng used his personal soldiers to supervise the battle, but he didn't want to retreat, or he didn't want to return to the military camp. There were thousands of gods and ghosts on the top of the city, and he could die at any time on the front line. If he really died under the target, would he have a heartache?

This thought was dying in Li Shimin's mind. He didn't believe that his brothers would go to that point, but this idea was like a poisonous sting, and it always made people feel uncomfortable in his heart. No matter what Li Jiancheng thought, his decision would not change. He must conquer the city and show it to everyone!

However, the development of things was inconsistent with his idea. The equipment accumulated by the emperors of the Sui Dynasty and the embankment composed of tens of thousands of soldiers and generals who lost their retreat seemed unbreakable. No matter how fierce the soldiers and horses in Jinyang were beaten, they could not do anything.

The familiar sound of breaking through the air sounded again, and the Wanjun crossbow that had been reloaded again showed its power. In front of this giant crossbow, all the siege equipment became paper waste. Whether it was a wall car or anger car, it could easily shoot through it, and even the nest car might overturn or break under the arrow.

The soldiers wailed and fell in a pool of blood, and beside them there was a lord who had long died. The soldiers and horses of Jinyang were in a dilemma, with crossbows and arrows in the city in front and hand-to-hand swords in the back. No matter where they rushed, they would be dead. With the military and material resources in Li Shimin's hands, it would be impossible to break the city overnight, but if they waited until dawn, Xu Le and his party would have nowhere to escape and be wiped out in the city, and the entire army would be wiped out. Without them in the city, there would be no hope of siege.

Maybe God really wants to destroy the Li family? Just like Yang Xuangan was destroyed back then!

Just as Li Shimin's heart gradually became desperate and even prepared to lead the team to charge and fight for a life-long attack, he suddenly found that the dispatch of the defenders on the city was chaotic, and the cooperation between the army was not as tacit as the beginning. This change was not something famous general could not detect, but could not escape Li Shimin's eyes.
Chapter completed!