The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 945 Emergency Response (Ticket Request)

There was nothing to say all night, and in the early morning of the next day, Li Daliang led two thousand soldiers to the top of the mountain in the west of Luo County, and found the best attack position. When Yang Tong received the message from him, he immediately clicked The soldiers and horses rushed towards Luo County in mighty force, and simple siege equipment made by military craftsmen were pushed out. At the same time, the beacon fire was ignited, sending a signal to Li Daliang to attack.

"It's said that Yang Tong used his troops like a god, but now it seems that's just the case." Standing on the Luoxian city tower, Dou Gui silently watched the Sui army line up and started to attack the city wall, shaking his head and laughing. It doesn't mean that Yang Tong's lineup is poor, but that the Sui army's lineup is quite satisfactory, and there is nothing unusual about it.

In fact, this can't be blamed on Yang Tong, after all, the siege routines are so simple, no matter how powerful the coach is, once he chooses to storm the enemy's city, he can't break away from these clichés, so Yang Tong naturally has nothing novel.Of course, if the various crossbows and siege equipment developed by the Sui army over the years came one by one, or let the slave soldiers who don't need pensions attack the city desperately, I'm afraid Dou Gui would not say such sarcastic remarks.

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu whom suddenly arrows fell from the sky. Although the arrows were not dense, they covered the entire city. , making bursts of wailing sounds before dying.

"Where did the arrows come from?" Several generals of the Tang Army who commanded the soldiers to defend the city looked at the Sui soldiers who were at least [-] steps away from them in surprise. At such a distance, it is impossible for the opponent's bows and crossbows to shoot. come over.

"It's an arrow shot from the mountain!" Dou Gui, who quickly reacted, was filled with remorse. He thought of all the possible defense loopholes in Luo County, but dropped the mountain above the city.

At this moment, a black light continued to magnify in his sight. Dou Gui, who was thinking about countermeasures, didn't notice it at first, but soon realized that the arrow was coming towards him, and it was too late to avoid it. , the arrow directly pierced his bun, and Dou Gui staggered back a few steps, his legs softened, and he almost fell to the ground.

"Xiangguo!" Several guards guarding the city were shocked when they saw this, and quickly stepped forward to protect Dou Gui with shields in the middle. Seeing that he was just shot by an arrow in his hair, they all breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Dou Gui with a look on his face. With the appearance of the rest of his life after the catastrophe, he didn't know whether to say whether he was lucky or unlucky?
Far below the city, Li Xiuning saw that Dou Gui was already hiding in the shield formation, and regretfully put away the powerful compound bow in his hand.

The Li family has been generals for generations and has deep experience in archery. It has been famous for its good archery for several generations. Li Xiuning's great-grandfather Li Hu is famous for riding and archery. And his father, Li Yuan, is the founder of the idiom "chosen by the bird screen". According to legend, Dou's family has a peerless appearance. Due to many suitors, Dou Yi had to set up a bird screen to choose his son-in-law. Li Yuan shot an arrow at the two peacocks on the screen a hundred steps away. Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Yuanji were also selected for their eyes. As for Li Xiuning's own archery skills, she is not bad. It's a pity that she is far away from the city of Luo County. It has become the end of the crossbow, if it does not hit the vital point, it will not cause any harm to Dou Gui, so it is aimed at his face, but she is shooting from the bottom up, and the arrow has lost part of its strength, so He missed, but even so, it scared Dou Gui out of his wits.

"What a despicable and shameless villain, he doesn't talk about martial arts!" Dou Gui felt a chill running down his spine, but his clothes were already soaked in cold sweat. Jun yelled curses to vent his fear.

However, the generals of the Sui army were as imposing as a rainbow, screaming and killing, and they had already slowly killed the city. How could they hear his shouts?

"Get ready to shoot." Yang Tong, who was in the middle army, ordered loudly. The Sui army seldom fought siege battles, not to mention the difficulty, and the losses were huge. Looking at the battle of Jishiguan last year, the Second Tu coalition forces directly took lives to fill.

Of course, Jishiguan, a level specially built for war, is good for defense, so the casualties of the attacking party are very high, but even if it is an ordinary city, the attacking party can achieve a four-to-one victory, which can be regarded as a victory. A brilliant record, if there is enough time, Yang Tong is more willing to play tricks and lure the Tang army out of the city to fight in the field.But now, it is obvious that there is no way to lure the Tang army, who is fearful of the Sui Dynasty and passively defending, to come out to fight. The lack of water and food will not be effective. After all, cities in key locations like Luo County must have a lot of food, and they want to rely on this method. You have to be prepared for a protracted war.But Yang Tong wanted a quick victory, so he chose to attack by force.

"Woooooo..." Dozens of horns blew at the same time, and the deep sound of the horns echoed over Luo County.

The 100 Sui archers stopped at a distance of more than [-] steps under the cover of the shields. They raised their compound bows together, and the [-] arrows aimed at the top of the city. With the sound of the horn, they stopped. Suddenly, there was a dense sound of clappers, and five thousand arrows soared into the sky, shooting towards the city like a black cloud. This compound bow is Yang Tong's only new weapon at present.

But despite this, a powerful compound bow still caused a lot of casualties to the Tang army who was waiting in battle. Although some Tang soldiers raised their shields to meet them, most of them made common-sense mistakes of empiricism. The Sui army who had already opened their bows laughed at them, so when the dense arrows fell easily on the top of the city, these Tang army soldiers were caught off guard. Immediately there was a scream, and hundreds of Tang army soldiers in front of them fell to the ground one after another, causing a panic attack. It's a mess.

Although the compound bows of the Sui army achieved considerable results in the first round of shooting, they still did not achieve a decisive effect. Soldiers of the Tang army who had learned their lessons raised their shields to cover them, so that the subsequent arrows had little success.

At the same time, a set of simple catapults quickly set up their formation under the city after the army pressed down on the city.

The road to Shu is very difficult. It is very difficult to transport siege equipment such as catapults from Hanchuan. However, most of the defense supplies in Baishuiguan, Zitongguan, Jiamengguan or county military depots are simple. The catapults are all temporarily made by the craftsmen of the army. Not only the range is not far, but the weight of the stones fired each time is less than ten catties, but it is more convenient. As long as there are enough people, a large number of catapults can be made , and the frequency of hair stones is not lower than that of bows and arrows.

The more than 500 catapults erected under the city will definitely not be able to knock down the city wall, but these catapults launch small stones weighing two or three kilograms, three pieces of gravel at a time, and more than 500 catapults launch at the same time, that is More than 500 yuan made the Luoxian city wall look like a rain of stones.

Two, three or four catties of stones hit a person, even if they don't die, they can still cause severe injuries. If the wooden shields of the soldiers of the Tang Army are attacked continuously, they can also be broken. , The soldiers of the Tang army guarding the city ran away with their heads in their hands, looking embarrassed.

Before the two sides formally confronted each other, the morale of the soldiers of the Tang Army was weakened again and again. Under the protection of several shieldmen, Dou Gui walked out of the tower and walked around on the city wall. The small catapults used by the Sui army launched a counterattack against the catapults of the Sui army.

Immediately, the stones above and below the city were intertwined, causing considerable losses to both the enemy and us. At this time, the soldiers of the Sui army who climbed the city had already mounted the ladder and began to climb up. The soldiers brought by Yang Tong were all elite troops, but The soldiers Dou Gui brought from Chengdu were not a mob. In addition, they had the advantage of defending the city. For two consecutive days, under the reasonable and powerful dispatch of Dou Gui and Changsun Shunde, the Sui army never broke through Luo County.

However, the soldiers of the Sui army on the top of the mountain continued to shoot arrows down and put down rolling logs and stones, which made the soldiers of the Tang army unable to let go of their hands and feet to deal with the Sui army below the city. In the city, this made the Tang army defending the city very passive.

"We must try to defeat the Sui army on the mountain, otherwise Luo County will be difficult to defend!" Three days later, Dou Gui summoned the generals of Luo County to discuss matters.

The threat to them from this group of troops is too great. If these people hadn't suppressed the Tang army in the city, they wouldn't have been suppressed and beaten by Yang Yu. It's right to have a favorable position, but now it's the opposite, and it's like being suppressed by the Sui army.

Dou Gui looked at a general, who was his brother Dou Lun, and said, "Dou Lun, I will give you three thousand soldiers and horses, and I will definitely kill the Sui army on that mountain tomorrow!"

"The last general takes orders!" Dou Lun bowed to his orders.

Early the next morning, the prelude to the war began again, but today, the arrows on the mountain did not fall. When Dou Lun led his army to the top of the mountain, how could there be any shadow of the Sui army?After the search was fruitless, Dou Lun had no choice but to return to Luo County to report.

Dou Gui listened to Dou Lun's report, but felt bad in his heart, such a favorable strategic location, no one with a little military knowledge would give up easily, now Yang Tong will give up, there are only two possibilities, one One is preparing to withdraw from the army, and the other is that Yang Tong has other ways to break the city.But until now, the Sui army would not have been able to retreat if there hadn't been a major change in the future. Otherwise, there was only the latter possibility.

Thinking of this, Dou Gui became very nervous, and hurriedly ordered people to strengthen the city defenses. Although he didn't know how Yang Tong would attack the city, since he had given up his favorable position, once he launched an attack, it would be overwhelming. Can't prevent.

"Xiangguo, look!" Just as he was thinking about countermeasures, he saw a general pointing to the sky in front of him in horror.

Dou Gui looked in the direction pointed by the general, but saw huge lanterns flying towards this side one by one.

"What... what is this?" Even though Dou Gui was well-informed, he was shocked when he saw a flying Shenzhou flying in the sky.

The current mood and expression of Tang Jun guarding the city are like those of the soldiers of Jiameng Pass and Baishui Pass. They are in a panic because of the appearance of Flying Shenzhou. However, Dou Gui is a traveler after all. I have traveled to Yizhou several times and heard some legends about Kongming lanterns. According to legend, Zhuge Liang was trapped and the whole army was helpless. Zhuge Liang came up with a clever plan. Using the upward gravity of the smoke to take them into the air, small lanterns rose into the air one by one, and then the soldiers in the camp shouted: "Mr. Zhuge is sitting on the lamp to break through!".The enemy general believed it was true, and led his troops to chase the sky lantern, and Zhuge Liang was able to escape, so later generations called this lantern "Kongming Lantern".

It's just that legends are legends after all, and Dou Gui used to listen to them as legends, thinking that no matter how stupid the enemy general is, it is impossible to believe that a small Kongming lantern can fly people into the sky, let alone let the army chase the lantern away.However, today, he actually saw the large Kongming lanterns leading the soldiers of the Sui army to fly into the sky. Obviously, the craftsmen of the Sui Dynasty used the legend of Kongming lanterns to create these large Kongming lanterns, thus realizing the whimsy of flying people into the sky. Wonderful idea.

So after the initial shock, Dou Gui quickly reacted, and quickly ordered the soldiers to raise the crossbow and aim it at the air, and fired rockets at the flying boats.

However, in a hurry, most of the crossbow arrows that were inconvenient to operate were shot empty, but there were also three flying Shenzhous that were pierced through the airbag by the crossbow arrows that pierced through the air, and fell staggeringly.

under the city.

When Yang Tong saw that three flying Shenzhous were shot down, he sighed in his heart. With these five crashed flying Shenzhous as an example, the panic about the flying equipment will be greatly reduced. Just because of the wear and tear, it means that this Things are not invincible. When the soldiers of the Tang army in the city saw that the flying Shenzhou was not an invincible fetish, they naturally would not have a sense of hopeless fear.

But even so, with the addition of Feitian Shenzhou, the effect is much stronger than Li Daliang shooting arrows aimlessly on the mountain.

The crash of the three Flying Shenzhous caused the rest of the Flying Shenzhous to increase their altitude. As the Flying Shenzhous approached, the large crossbows in the city also lost their function.

The Sui army had the flying Shenzhou to shoot arrows condescendingly, and threw kerosene cans from time to time, and lit them with torches, which doubled the pressure on the defenders of Luoxian County, and was robbed by the Sui army on the city wall several times.

The defender of the Tang army ordered the soldiers to fight back desperately, fought fiercely with the Sui army, and called up the Tubo soldiers in the city. Only then did they barely hold the city wall, but because of the flying Shenzhou, which was a big killer, they kept setting fires and arrows. It is almost a matter of time before Luo County is destroyed.

When Yang Tong withdrew his troops again, Dou Gui ordered people to clean up the battlefield and at the same time recruited Dou Lun: "Go back to Chengdu immediately, explain the situation here to His Highness, and ask him to send reinforcements and a batch of bed crossbows. Without reinforcements and bed crossbows, Luo County may not be able to defend it!"

"The last general obeys orders." Due to his bravery in battle, Dou Lun became the focus of the Feitian Shenzhou's care. Not only was he shot by an arrow, but he was also burned with kerosene once. If he hadn't sprinkled sand on his body in time, he might have become a scorched corpse. But even though he was alive, he was also seriously injured.At this time, staying on the front line is of little value.

(End of this chapter)