Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 397

"This is San Niang?"

Under the new city camp of the Sui Army, General Marquis Wu of the Left, General of the Sixth Army of the Right, Prefect of Yan County, and Luo Yi, Lord of Yan State, were wearing a bronze armor bestowed by the emperor, holding a jade sword in their hands, looking at that heroic young man Look around.

Li Sanniang is dressed in silver armor, covered with a silver robe, holding a silver spear and wearing a silver sword.She stood there with a silver helmet in one hand, looking very sassy.

Even Luo Yi couldn't help admiring in his heart when he saw it.

Women do not allow men.

"The last general, Li Xiuning, pays his respects to the great general."

Li Xiuning's face was frosty, and she spoke seriously, but the more she was like this, the more Luo Yi admired this girl.In fact, most of the nobles in Guanlong started their careers in military affairs, even those wealthy families in Longyou at the beginning also cultivated both civil and military skills, so the children of these noble families are all very brave.Even if they are girls from noble families, many of them can ride fast horses and draw horn bows.

However, these years, the world has been peaceful, and the noble family has gradually become infected with the custom of Xiangwen. Many noble children have slowly learned literature, let alone those girls.

And Li Yuan's daughter-in-law was actually able to hold a spear with her helmet on, that's really extraordinary.

"Xiu Ning, that's a good name. I don't know what kind of job my niece Xian is doing now?"

"Deputy General of the Central Guard Regiment of the Left First Army of the Imperial Battalion."

Luo Yi nodded, looked to the side, and saw Li Jiancheng with an ugly face at a glance.

"Young Master Li is here too, don't you know what kind of job you're taking?"

"Temporarily serving as a reporter in the army."

Luo Yi chuckled, Li Sanniang is the deputy general of the personal guard regiment, but this Li Dalang is a secretary and joins the army, which is a bit interesting.

"Li Shimin, deputy head of the first battalion of the pro-guard regiment, pays a visit to General Luo."

Next to Li Jiancheng, a heroic young man saluted loudly. Luo Yi saw that this young man was young, but his voice was loud, especially his eyes were very bright.

"You must be Tang Guogong's second son. I didn't expect you to be so heroic. I'm afraid you won't be sixteen this year?"

"Back to the general, I am 15 years old."

At the age of 15, he has already served as the deputy captain of the battalion. It has to be said that he has the demeanor of a general of the Wu family.

"Let me test you. You said that our two armies are besieging Xincheng this time, and His Majesty has a deadline of one month to break through the city. Do you have any good ways to break the city?" Luo Yi asked Li Shimin.

Li Shimin was not polite, and said directly, "Actually, from the perspective of my job, it is easy to destroy the new city. There are at most four or five thousand defenders left in the new city. After besieging the city for so long, they are exhausted physically and mentally."

"Young people, don't learn to talk big? Do you have any specific plans to tell me?"

"When General Luo broke through the city, it is said that he listened to the strategy of the Marquis of Xiangyang and built a fish bridge road under the city?"

"Yes."

Li Shimin smiled and said, "Now we can do the same thing and build a Yuliang Avenue under the new city. The new city is more than ten miles away, but the defenders are only a few thousand. Even if we add tens of thousands of young and strong in the city, there are still few soldiers in the city." In the previous long-term siege, the fortifications around the new city have been almost wiped out, so what we are facing now is just a few thousand exhausted troops defending the besieged city. Cover them and fill a weir bridge avenue straight up to the city wall, then breaking the city will be easy."

Luo Yi nodded when he heard this. It was unexpected that Li Erlang could come up with such an effective method at such a young age, but with a very active mind.

In fact, this Yuliang Road is just a very common method of siege, and it is not practical under normal circumstances, unless the enemy in the city can only defend and cannot attack, and there are few soldiers, then there is a chance for them to attack the city. You calmly pile up a mountain of earth leading to the city.

But the current situation in Xincheng is indeed suitable for repairing Yuliang Road.

"It's a pity that the new city is a mountain city. Otherwise, Yuliang Road will be more secure with the tunnel, one light and one dark." Li Shimin said.

"Tang Guogong, your family's Erlang is really amazing. He is only 15 years old, and he has such insights and strategies. It's amazing."

Li Yuan was also a little proud. Although this second child was several years older than his eldest son, he was indeed a bit smarter than his elder brother Jiancheng. It was just that his eye disease had worried him for a long time.

"No matter how you compare, it can't compare to your Xiangyanghou. The Xiangyanghou is the real one. At this moment, maybe the Xiangyanghou has invaded Pyongyang and captured Gao Yuan alive."

"Hahaha, my family, Shicheng, isn't he also your son-in-law now, the whole family is our own family."

Under the new city, after Li Yuan and Luo Yi joined forces, and after a simple military discussion, Luo Yi agreed with Li Yuan to use Li Shimin's plan to build a Yuliang Avenue straight up to the city wall of the new city. The location chosen was a relatively flat section of the city wall. The lower terrain is flat, and at the same time, the outside is open, which is suitable for the powerful crossbows of the Sui army to play, and is conducive to covering the captives and civilians to build slopes.

It took three days to prepare.

Li Yuan and Luo Yi brought tens of thousands of captives and civilian husbands, and set up countless catapults, ballistas, and arrow towers at the siege site, and coordinated with the bows and arrows of the Sui army phalanx one after another, they immediately attacked this section of the city wall. Formed an absolute fire suppression.

The drums are thundering.

Under the supervision of the Sui army, countless peasants and captives carried the earthwork down the city shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand.

In order to ensure the odds of winning, Li Yuan even directly asked people to build three fish beam avenues at the same time.

In one day, the two armies of the Sui Army had 7 troops, and they shot millions of arrows. The walls of the city for several miles were densely pierced by arrows.

No less than [-] Goguryeo soldiers and civilians died under the arrows of the Sui army.

But the people of Goguryeo had to hold up their shields and pot lids to guard them. If they didn't guard them, they couldn't do it. Although Yuliang Avenue was being built slowly, it was still taking shape. If they didn't release arrows under the city, it would be faster.

But even with huge casualties, they could not stop the Yuliang Avenue of the Sui Army.

In the city, Yang Wanchun's face was ashen.

"Unexpectedly, Luo Cheng left, and Guo Yan came. After Guo Yan left, Li Yuan and Luo Yi came again. Now it seems that the new city is difficult to defend."

"But we have been guarding for so long, so let's forget it?"

Yang Wanchun gritted his teeth, "It's because the Yuan family refused to rescue, and they refused to send a single soldier for such a long time."

"Now they can't even if they want to. Hundreds of thousands of Sui troops are staring at the large and small mountain cities along the Liaohe River, attacking day and night, and no one can get out of the city."

"Then we have no choice but to run away. The green hills left behind are not afraid of running out of firewood. We will come back sooner or later." Yang Wanchun observed the Sui army for a day, and he had already judged that this time he would not be able to hold on.

In fact, up to now, there are only 3000 soldiers in the new city who can fight, and although there are more than [-] soldiers left, they are actually just temporarily armed by him from the young and strong in the city, and these are not soldiers at all.

As night fell and the day's siege ended, the Sui army lit countless bonfires under the southwestern city wall, illuminating that period as if it were daytime.But in the northeast corner of the new city, Yang Wanchun took [-] defenders and quietly escaped out of the city in the dark. In order to buy more time, Yang Wanchun didn't even tell the people in the city, let alone take them away.

After dawn, when the Sui army fired bows and arrows at the city again, they found that there was no response from the city.

When those shy captives and peasants were carrying soil and approaching the city, they didn't even shoot a single arrow.

"What's going on?" Li Shimin frowned, "Could it be that the Goguryeo people have to go out of the city to destroy Yuliang?"

Luo Yi next to him laughed loudly, "No, Yang Wanchun has already escaped, pass the order, build the city with ladders, break the city!"

(End of this chapter)