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Chapter 205 Chapter 213: Breaking through Gaochang

The next day, at Li Hao's school field, Chen Bin was appointed as the vanguard general on the left with [-] troops to attack the east gate of Gaochang. Peng Hai was the vanguard general on the right with [-] troops to attack the west gate of Gaochang. Chen Yong was the vanguard of the middle road, leading [-] troops to attack the north gate of Gaochang.

With the sound of war drums, the whole army attacked, and the army began to attack the city. Although the strength of the three armies was the same, all the siege supplies were at the north gate, so the battle at the north gate was destined to be the most intense.

Chen Yong used catapults as soon as he started the battle. Five catapults drove together, and the flying stones hit the top of the city. The Gaochang defenders on the top of the city were in chaos. It was the first time they saw the power of catapults, and they were deeply shocked. .

Taking advantage of the chaos created by the catapults, Chen Yong sent troops to attack the city, and at the same time sent a siege cart to attack the north gate of Gaochang.

There were nearly ten thousand defenders in Gaochang on the north wall. Although they were screaming in fright from the catapults, they still fought back vigorously, because they had an absolute advantage in numbers, and they were condescending and occupying a favorable location.

The messengers rushed to report the battle situation ahead. Li Hao stood in front of the army with a feather fan in his hand. Looking at the fierce battle ahead and listening to the battle damage reported by the messengers, Li Hao frowned. After a long time, he suddenly turned around and looked towards Yazhang walked over and said at the same time: "Retreat!"

The sound of Mingjin sounded, and the Tang army retreated. Li Hao sat in the tooth tent, shaking his feather fan, frowning and pondering. The storming of the city wall caused too much damage. Bian Ye was seriously injured, but generally speaking, the gains outweighed the losses for Li Hao.

Li Hao also didn't want his soldiers to sacrifice so much. Zhu Su Lao had warned him that kindness does not command soldiers, but Li Hao is still too kind. Even in war, he would not be willing to sacrifice his soldiers. This is not a good thing.

But Li Hao didn't intend to change it. He knew that fighting was cruel, but he just didn't want his soldiers to die in vain.He was thinking, thinking about a feasible method, a method to minimize the sacrifice of his own soldiers.

Li Hao thought about it for several hours, and felt that there might be a siege equipment that could help him, so he found a pen and paper and began to draw. Li Hao is now more and more comfortable in drawing pictures. In just half an hour, a siege equipment was drawn. This is a giant nest car drawing.

The nest cart is actually a bit similar to the arrow tower. It is a siege tool. The base is very large and very high. Many, can completely reverse the battlefield situation.

After drawing the blueprint, Li Hao immediately sent Li Yuanzhong to Xizhou to recruit trees and craftsmen.

From the second day on, Li Hao sent catapults to throw boulders at Gaochang City every day, and did not send troops to attack them. Just smashing them like this would kill as many as they could. It would be better if they could destroy the female wall. Anyway, the city wall of Gaochang is also dirt. The wall was so smashed.

Qu Zhisheng sent a large number of people to repair the nun's wall every night. During the day, they smashed it down and repaired it at night. Fortunately, Li Hao didn't have many catapults, otherwise Qu Zhisheng would probably collapse.

Five days later, Li Yuanzhong came back with a large number of logs and craftsmen, and Li Hao ordered all the craftsmen to start making nest carts.

At the same time, Hou Junji had captured the second city of Tiandi Liugu and came to Gaochang City to join Li Hao.

With Hou Junji's [-] troops, Li Hao's confidence suddenly increased. Now that they were on par with Gao Chang's troops, Li Hao decided to try to attack the city again, because he had built too many nest vehicles, and his progress was a bit slow, so it might be too late .

This time, Li Hao sent someone to replace the stone with an iron barrel filled with kerosene, put it on a catapult, lit it, and threw it into the city. After one round of throwing, the city of Gaochang was full of flames, black smoke billowing, screams and wailing All over the place, there was great panic.

Li Hao and Hou Junji took the opportunity to send troops to attack the city, and the Gaochang defenders were struggling, especially at the north city gate. Flames were everywhere above the top of the city, killing and injuring countless Gaochang troops. Li Hao and Hou Junji had no choice but to withdraw their troops for the time being to block the Tang army with fire.

Although the siege failed, Li Hao could see that Gaochang's army was in disarray, and throwing fire oil barrels was really effective, so he ordered to throw dozens of fire oil barrels into the city every day and night, and burn them, so that They have no peace day and night, and while creating panic and chaos, they also achieve the effect of exhausting the army.

For ten days in a row, the city was constantly on fire. The Gaochang defenders could only take a break for an hour or two every day. Everyone was listless, and the people in the city were even more panicked. It's over.

The nobles once again jointly asked Qu Zhisheng to surrender. Qu Zhisheng hadn’t slept for many days and was worried about the war. Send someone to blow these nobles away with sticks.

The nobles suddenly felt cold, and began to use their relationships to contact the generals in charge of the military to discuss retreats. The general who is now leading the defense of the city is Gaochang Jianwu General Qu Zhengxin, Qu Wentai's cousin, in terms of seniority, Qu Zhisheng He should be called Uncle Wang, Qu Zhengxin is a member of the royal family, the nobles can't win over, they can only win over some small generals, even small generals who only lead hundreds of soldiers, they discuss, if the situation is not right at the last moment, they will rush to force the palace Rebellion, capture Qu Zhisheng, offer the city to surrender, in this way, maybe you can get a reward from the Tang Dynasty.

After another seven days, the temperature dropped again, but thanks to the hard work of the craftsmen, thirteen nest cars were built.The nest car is not a rare siege vehicle in this era, but it is too huge, extremely difficult to carry, and it takes a lot of man-hours to manufacture, so it is rarely used in sieges, but the nest car designed by Li Hao is very simple , is mainly divided into three parts, the huge base is a part, the nest-shaped platform for people standing above is a part, and the middle part is the soul of this new nest car, the diamond-shaped telescopic frame.

He had learned in middle school physics that the biggest characteristic of a triangle is stability, while a quadrilateral is unstable. Li Hao took advantage of the instability of a quadrilateral to create this elevating nest car.

Since the telescopic frame is used as support, it is naturally not as stable as the tower-shaped nest carts, and the nest carts are very high, so Li Hao asked people to make these nest carts very large. The length of the base alone reached seven meters, and the height was ten meters. The nest platform is small, five meters long and four meters wide, enough to stand more than 20 archers.

A row of nest carts was set up a hundred steps away from the north wall of Gaochang. More than 300 archers boarded the nest carts. Then Li Hao ordered to twist the joystick. It rose slowly, and a few minutes later, the nest platform rose to the highest point. The archers in the nest tower were condescending, and they could already see the messy scene in Gaochang City.

Watching the thirteen nest wagons of the Tang army rising slowly outside the city, the hearts of the Gaochang soldiers suddenly turned cold. The only thing they could rely on was the favorable location. The geographical advantage is gone.

"Throw kerosene! Shoot!" Chen Yong, the vanguard general in the middle road, shouted loudly, and the catapult began to throw kerosene barrels into the city. The fire broke out and thick smoke billowed. The Gaochang army tried to shoot back in vain, but those arrows could barely hit the base of the nest cart, and could not hit the top of the nest cart. In this way, the 300 archers on the nest cart became invincible.

Li Hao shook his feather fan lightly, looked at everything in front of him, and said leisurely: "The overall situation is settled, Li Yuanzhong, take a thousand cavalry to ambush outside the south gate, in case the enemy chieftain abandons the city and escapes."

"Yes!" Li Yuanzhong excitedly took the order and left.

The [-] archers on the nest cart kept shooting arrows at the top of the city, coupled with the kerosene barrels thrown by the catapult, the defenders of the northern city wall of Gaochang almost collapsed, and there was no place to stand on the entire city wall. The fire burned, and the army was forced to retreat from the city wall.

The nobles in the city were always paying attention to the battle situation. When they saw this situation, they immediately cried out that it was not good, and they started to contact the generals they had recruited before. Together, there were more than 3000 people, and then they went straight to the Gaochang Palace.

Qu Zhisheng had just received the emergency battle report from Qu Zhengxin at the North City Gate, and was about to pack up his things and escape from the South Gate in a panic. Come to force the palace.

Qu Zhisheng was frightened for a moment, feeling that the whole world was full of malice, he had only been on the throne for a few days, and he had to go through these bad things, he suddenly hated his father, who had done wicked things all his life, and then When Tang Jun came to commit the crime, he let go of it as soon as he kicked his legs, and left the mess to himself.

Qu Zhisheng has no other choice now, he can only order a thousand defenders of the palace to lead him out of the siege, anyway, he can't die, he must escape.

The defenders of the northern city wall fled. Li Hao ordered to attack the city and sent a chariot to smash open the city gate. The morale of the Gaochang army was lost immediately. As soon as the army saw Tang Jun, they knelt down and begged for mercy. They had no longer any intention to fight, and there was no resistance after Tang Jun entered the city.

Li Hao led his troops into the city and went straight to the palace, while Hou Junji led his men to capture prisoners everywhere. At the same time, he also supported Li Hao and surrounded the Gaochang Palace. However, when he arrived at the palace, he found that there was no guard in the palace. Only a group of court ladies and eunuchs fleeing in a hurry, Hou Junji caught an eunuch and questioned him, only to learn that the nobles in the city rebelled and forced the palace to surround Qu Zhisheng. Going out, fleeing to the south, Li Hao's army also came, but Li Hao received a report from the soldiers and went south to chase Qu Zhisheng.

Hou Junji was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately sent people to search the Gaochang Palace, and arrested all the concubines, maids and eunuchs.

Li Hao ran into nothing in the Gaochang Palace, and received a report from Chen Bin that Qu Zhisheng had fled to the south, and immediately led the army to hunt him down. The gate of the city has been guarded by his own troops, and Qu Zhisheng is leading hundreds of people to fight bloody battles, not against his own army, but against the group of sergeants led by the nobles.

Although Qu Zhisheng knew that he could not escape, he was not reconciled. When he thought of being betrayed by his own people, he was extremely angry. How preferential treatment was given to these nobles by their father and son, he did not expect that when things came to an end, they would come to harm him , All he thinks about now is to kill these traitors, it doesn't matter if he dies, he must be more supportive.

As for those nobles, they also have their own ideas. They should perform well in front of Tang Jun, so that Tang Jun will not embarrass them, and may even reward them.

Li Hao was watching a play leisurely, when Chen Bin came over to ask for instructions: "Military Master, do you want to take them all at once?"

"No need." Li Hao raised the feather fan and shook it lightly, "Just watch them dog-eat-dog, it's fine."

Indeed, Li Hao had endless anger towards Gao Chang. When he saw such a picture of a dog biting a dog, he felt unspeakably comfortable. One word - cool!
　Let’s update it twice a day. There are no manuscripts. Wait a month to see how the manuscript fee is. If the manuscript fee is okay, consider resigning and writing a book. Don't say it out loud, or the leader will talk to me, which is embarrassing.

　　
　
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