At the beginning, Emperor Yang of Sui was kidnapped

Chapter 35 Siege
"Qin Hussars, General Pei has an order to attack the city immediately as promised in your military order, and capture Yangcheng within three days!"

Not long after, Qin Shubao received a military order from Pei Renji in the vanguard tent.

"Within three days, if you don't leave this city, you will come to see me at last!"

Qin Shubao took the military order and made a solemn promise.

Dugu Sheng, he had dealt with Li Mi several times before he surrendered to Li Mi.

Quite brave, but less strategic.

He was ten miles away, watching this person guarding the city, but he was not prepared for anything outside the city.

Without trenches or barriers, how could the remnants of the city be able to withstand his vanguard army of [-] hussars?

After Pei Renji returned to Li Mi, Li Mi specially selected four brave generals to form the Hussar Army, known as the Internal Forbidden Army!
A few months ago, Li Mi pointed to their four generals and boasted, saying that eight thousand hussars can defeat an army of one million!

Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie are among them!
And he led a total of three thousand hussars, among the four, they were highly valued by Li Mi!

"Here's an order to start cooking immediately, take an hour's rest after the meal and then attack the city. Before dark, we must take down Yangcheng!"

Qin Shubao observed the terrain outside Yangcheng and the city wall of Yangcheng again, and issued a military order.

……

On the tower of Yangcheng, Dugu Sheng frowned when he saw that the Qin army outside the city... started to light a fire and cook.

Seeing this, Sun Ying, the general next to him, analyzed in a deep voice: "The enemy army has just arrived, and they are exhausted, so they need to rest, but at this time, they light up a fire and cook, and the meaning is clear. It is estimated that in two hours, the enemy army will be impatient to attack the city. .”

Dugu Sheng nodded when he heard the words, looked at the enemy army from a distance, and ordered: "Call the civilians, our army will cook immediately, there may be a fierce battle to be fought later."

Sun Ying: "..." He looked at the general he had followed for ten years, with a hesitant expression on his face.

People cook, you cook too...

In fact, he really wanted to suggest that when the enemy soldiers were tired and were lighting a fire to cook, he could go and harass them to disrupt the rhythm of the enemy's siege.

But seeing the deep tired look on the brows of Dugu Sheng, Sun Ying sighed in her heart and chose to keep her mouth shut.

In fact, harassment is useless, it's just delaying the destruction of the city.

Yangcheng had already asked Luoyang for help, but Luoyang... just replied with a short sentence - must defend Yangcheng.

After hearing the news, Dugu Sheng was already disheartened. At this time, he probably already had the idea of ​​dying with Yangcheng.

With a heavy heart, Sun Ying silently walked down the tower and announced the order to light a fire and cook.

……

At the foot of the mountains, in the temporary command post.

Zhang Xutuo reported to Xu Mu immediately after learning the news that the Qin army had made a fire to cook.

"I'm afraid the Qin army will attack the city soon." Zhang Xutuo concluded in a deep voice.

Xu Mu took the binoculars, and then...saw the smoke rising from the Yang City.

He showed an expression of disbelief.

This... Is it faster to cook than who, or is it more delicious than who to cook?
"Dugu Sheng is brave but not resourceful. He is only rudimentary in the art of war. I'm afraid he has already lost his position when the army approaches the city. He doesn't know how to deal with it." Seeing this, Zhang Xutuo couldn't bear to sigh.

"However, this person has an advantage. He is strong and will never surrender to Xiancheng. Therefore... we still have time!"

Zhang Xutuo frowned and continued to analyze: "But the morale of the Qin army is strong, Qin Shubao is quite strategic, he is not easy to deal with, this city must survive tonight, otherwise..."

He didn't say anything later, and Xu Mu knew what the result would be.

The excavation speed of the civilians in Wanmin City is average, and it may take tomorrow morning to dig out a passage for soldiers wearing iron pagodas to pass through!
So Dugu Sheng must survive tonight!
Otherwise, after the city is broken, it will fall into the hands of Qin Shubao's elite vanguard, and their plan will fail completely.

"Now, we can only hope that Dugu Sheng can survive tonight."

Xu Mu stared at the bloody cloth on the top of the city, and at this moment, he hoped that Dugu Sheng could win this offensive and defensive battle.

And behind Xu Mu, the 300-strong Iron Buddha Army was fully dressed and ready to enter the tunnel at any time.

……

Two hours later.

The Qin army took a short rest, and indeed began to attack the city.

Under Qin Shubao's deployment, the [-] vanguard army first used long-range trebuchets, bows and arrows to launch the first wave of offensive.

But the accuracy of trebuchets in this era is really bad.

After a wave of offensive, taking advantage of the opportunity when the defenders on the tower did not dare to show their heads, Qin Shubao gave an order, and the whole army launched a charge to the city.

A total of ten batches of siege, one wave after another.

Qin Shubao wants to finish his work and win Yangcheng in one fell swoop!
The soldiers under his command are also elite soldiers who are not afraid of death, and the city wall of this Yangcheng is really too low, only two feet...

All of a sudden, many Qin soldiers set up ladders and climbed up the tower, almost falling several times.

On the city tower, the Qin army had only attacked for two hours, and more than a thousand remnants led by Dugu Sheng had already killed or injured hundreds of people.

On the city wall, there are corpses.

"Hold it! Hold it for me! Use kerosene, throw stones! Be sure to hold it!"

Dugu Sheng ran around on the city tower, covered with more than ten wounds, but he didn't realize it.

The same is true for Sun Ying, following Dugu Sheng's side, never leaving.

If it wasn't for him several times, Dugu Sheng would have been surrounded and killed by the enemy troops rushing to the city.

Wave after wave of attacks continued, with only 1000 people exhausted, and the city wall was too short, before sunset, more than ten waves of enemies climbed onto the city wall.

Fortunately, Dugu Sheng and the others knew that they would die if the city was broken, so they fought hard and repelled the enemy army, and lasted until evening.

And at dusk, the guards of the Xiaoguo Army on the tower were panting heavily with long knives, their eyes were scarlet, and they didn't even have the strength to hold the knives.

but……

The offensive has not stopped!

And they have already killed and injured hundreds of people in this battle to defend the city!
Although relying on the advantage of the city, he also killed hundreds of enemy troops.

But the enemy army seemed to have taken medicine, and moved after hearing the news, constantly attacking the city, without giving them any time to breathe!
"General, I can't hold it anymore, I can't do it anymore, the soldiers have no strength..." Sun Ying held up the knife and stared at Dugu Sheng.

The knife in his hand cut down an unknown number of enemy soldiers, but... because of the tactics, the number of enemies killed was limited.

Originally, if you want to capture a city, you must have ten times the strength of the defending army in order to securely win it.

And the other party is only three times as strong as the defenders of Yangcheng.

He almost captured Yangcheng during the day.

During the period, he fell several times, and it must be said that it was all thanks to Dugu Sheng's arrangements...

Sun Ying wanted to remonstrate several times, but at this time Dugu Sheng only knew how to kill the enemy.

Don't listen to him at all.

Dugu Sheng raised his eyes and looked around, all the soldiers looked around, their eyes were full of exhaustion.

"I know you have worked hard to defend the city. After this battle, I will definitely reward you for your merits! But the premise is to defend Yangcheng! You must defend it!" Dugu Sheng roared in a hoarse voice, and his figure was a little staggering , Sun Ying was so frightened that he quickly supported him.

"Sun Ying, this general is no longer able to command, these Xiaoguo troops are now under your control! This general has only one request, to defend Yangcheng, at all costs!"

Dugu Sheng clenched his teeth tightly, and the corners of his mouth started to ooze blood.

"General!"

Sun Ying was shocked, and hurriedly let Dugu Shengping lie down, lifted his mysterious armor, and found...the blood was profuse, and there were more than ten stab wounds on his body!

"Quick! Pass on the healer!" Sun Ying roared angrily. He didn't expect that Dugu Sheng, who was wearing more than ten Dao Chuang, was... running desperately to kill the enemy.

In fact, during the day, more than ten waves of enemies climbed up the city wall, most of them were repelled by Dugu Sheng.

In the battle of defending the city, the most feared thing is that the enemy will kill the city wall.

Because... once an enemy army kills the city wall, it means that with the help of the ladder, the follow-up enemy army will continue to climb up.

That's almost not far from breaking the city.

So Dugu Sheng rescued each other desperately, and with his bravery, he managed to keep the city wall intact!

Otherwise... the city wall would have fallen long ago.

"General!"

Looking at Dugu Sheng lying on the ground bleeding profusely, a group of soldiers couldn't help crying out in pain.

"Everyone, don't make a mess, Yangcheng must not be left in the hands of this general! I can just rest for a while, Sun Ying, the Xiaoguo army will be dispatched by you now, and you must guard Yangcheng!" Dugu Sheng stopped everyone's mourning Atmosphere, pointing at the city wall, pulling his body and trying to stand up: "Go to the wall for me! Never let people rush up the city wall again!"

"promise!"

A group of soldiers including Sun Ying responded in a deep voice.

Then the doctor came and bandaged Dugu Sheng's injury, barely stopping the bleeding.

But the fighting didn't stop. Qin Shubao was determined to capture Yangcheng today, even though he had killed and injured hundreds of people, he didn't intend to stop the siege.

However, under the command of Sun Ying, the efficiency of the Xiaoguo army's defense of the city has been significantly improved.

"Every ten steps, ten people will be stationed, watching and helping each other. We must not go to reinforce because other places are lost, and those who violate it will be beheaded!"

"The fire oil is ready, two people cooperate, one throws the oil, the other ignites the fire, wherever there is a ladder, throw it there!"

"City gate! In the direction of the city gate, 200 people are stationed, and you must not leave!"

……

Sun Ying issued a series of orders at the top of her voice, which greatly improved the efficiency of defending the city.

And through the fire oil prepared before, it caused a lot of casualties to the Qin army.

And two miles outside Yangcheng, Qin Shubao also noticed something was wrong.

"Could it be that Dugu Sheng died? Another general?" He was full of doubts.

If he didn't know Dugu Sheng very well, he would never have stormed the city wall so anxiously.

It was through prior observation that he found that Dugu Sheng hadn't made any preparations for defending the city, so Qin Shubao took a positive approach to attack the city.

Of course, he also adopted the strategy of feigning a frontal attack and sending hundreds of people to hit the city gate with giant logs.

However shortly after...

"Report, the city gate attack failed. Although the city gate was breached, there are hundreds of people stationed in the city, and the city gate was closed by the Yangcheng defenders!"

Qin Shubao looked at the bloody flag on the city wall, and said solemnly: "It seems that this man knows the art of war, and knows how to guard the city gate in the dark. But right now, the defenders of Yangcheng are exhausted and exhausted, and there is only one last wave left." You can break the city!"

"Decree to the whole army, the first person to enter the city tonight will be rewarded with a hundred crowns and named a centurion!"

As a veteran general in the army, he knew very well that the opponent was exhausted at this time, as long as they persevered, they would definitely be able to capture this city before dawn!
(End of this chapter)