Tibet

When he woke up the next day, the woman beside him had disappeared. Thinking of the absurdity of last night, he secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, but the adjustment of yin and yang was indeed a good medicine, and he felt energetic and full of energy.

He got dressed and went to the front tent. The soldiers came in to put on his armor.

"Where did you find that woman last night?" Li Ye asked.

"Reporting to Your Highness, she was arranged by Ambassador Zhang."

"Zhang Ping?"

"Exactly, otherwise we wouldn't dare to let her in."

"This bastard!"

Li Ye laughed and scolded, "It's just this once, I won't do it next time."

"I understand."

After a pause, Li Ye said again: "Go and tell Zhang Ping to restore the woman's family to good status, and I will reward her with five hundred taels of silver."

"I humbly obey my orders!"

Li Ye put on his armor and rode to the south city head again. He first went to Qujiangfang to inspect.

After a night of work, the walls of Qujiang's square were raised ten feet to be level with the city wall. They were piled with sandbags and then poured on overnight. They were frozen solid overnight and covered with spikes. The other side of the wall is also full of spikes. Zhang Ping organized civilian workers to complete the construction work overnight last night.

At this time, Li Ye saw Zhang Ping. He stepped forward and pulled him aside, saying harshly in a low voice: "You bastard, just send any woman of unknown origin to me."

Zhang Ping quickly raised his hand and said: "Brother, how dare I arrange a woman of unknown origin for you? That woman is my wife's cousin. She comes from a poor family and became a Le Ji, but she is not a prostitute. A few years ago, she She is married to a musician and has a three-year-old daughter. The couple makes a living teaching people how to play the piano in a music studio. An Lushan found a lowly girl from the city to reward the soldiers. Her whole family is hiding in my house. Yesterday she asked me to replace her. Her family was restored to good status, and I saw her good looks, so I recommended her to my eldest brother, and she agreed."

"Does her husband know?"

"I arranged for him to be in charge of money and food at the county government, but it was too late for him to be happy!"

"Just this once, give that woman five hundred taels of silver and reward her with an ownerless courtyard, and this matter will be over!"

"Don't worry, brother, I promise to handle such a small matter properly!"

"Go! I'll ask my soldiers to give you the money and settle that woman's matter quickly."

"I'll go!"

Zhang Ping got on his horse and left with a few followers.

Li Ye walked up to the city again and checked the lake. It had been cleaned up. The ice was like a mirror, and there was not a single person in sight.

Overnight, the Yan Army's camp underwent tremendous changes. The camps on the east, west, north, and west disappeared, and they were all concentrated five miles away to the south. This was already a clear sign that the Yan Army would attack the city in a large scale from the south.

In the king's tent in the military camp, An Lushan's body like a mountain of meat was lying in a huge bathtub. In the bathtub was hot medicinal soup, which could help him recover from his illness as soon as possible.

Seven strong beauties waited on him in the huge bathtub, massaging his whole body vigorously, allowing the medicinal soup to penetrate into every pore of his body. He liked this bath treatment very much, and it made him feel ecstatic.

An Lushan hated taking medicine and acupuncture very much. The imperial doctors racked their brains before finally coming up with this treatment method that he could accept.

Although it was expensive, each balneotherapy required hundreds of strings of various medicinal materials to make soup, but An Lushan was the emperor, and this small amount of money was simply not worth mentioning to him.

At this time, Gao Shang came in and reported that he did not dare to look directly at the seven naked women in the bathtub. He had to lower his head and said: "Your Majesty, twenty trebuchets have been completed, eighteen nest chariots have been completed, and finally Both will be finished tonight, as will the ladder."

"When is it now?" An Lushan asked again.

"Replying to your Majesty, Chen Shi has just arrived."

An Lushan nodded, "It's still early, so we can use the trebuchet to warm up the place first!"

"I humbly obey my orders!"

Gao Shang slowly retreated, and An Lushan suddenly shouted angrily: "You idiots, I'm about to get up, what are you doing standing still?"

The seven strong women were so frightened that they quickly came out to dress and called the soldiers to come in and carry the lord into the inner tent. Mount Anlu weighed hundreds of kilograms, and not a few women could lift it. It required a dozen young and strong men. Only then can he be lifted up.

An Lushan put on his clothes and wrapped himself in a thick quilt, and was carried to the golden platform and went to the battlefield to watch the battle.

On the battlefield, twenty heavy trebuchets were lined up in a row and began to prepare for the war. In front of the heavy trebuchets was a huge triangular baffle. The triangular baffle was made of logs and was three feet long and two feet high. It is specially used to protect trebuchets and soldiers. After all, the range of heavy trebuchets is only three hundred steps, while the range of large yellow crossbows can reach more than five hundred steps.

The trebuchets on the city head are also concentrated in the south city. Excluding the damaged trebuchets, there are ninety-six remaining, arranged on the head of the eighteen-mile-long south city.

Li Ye and the generals stood on the main building of the south city, watching the enemy's trebuchet from a high position.

"This is actually the result of An Lushan's creation in a few days. It's amazing!"

Li Ye was a little surprised. He originally thought that the opponent would only build twenty nest vehicles, but he did not expect that there would be twenty heavy trebuchets, so there must be ladders. An Lushan's strength should not be underestimated.

Chief Shi Cui Guangyuan sneered: "Your Highness, you don't have to think highly of them. I know An Lushan that the materials used to build these siege weapons are the reserves of the Ordnance Supervisor, and the craftsmen are also craftsmen of the Luoyang Ordnance Supervisor. There are thousands of them." People are the reserves of the imperial court for hundreds of years, and he got them."

Li Ye sighed and said: "How he got it, actually I don't care. I only care about his war strength. At least from the current point of view, his war strength is much stronger than ours. We have to face reality."

Li Sheng pondered for a moment and said: "Your Highness, you don't have to worry too much. Although An Lushan received a lot of supplies and wealth, his consumption was also quite staggering. I know that he and the Tang army used tens of thousands of carts during the battle in Fengxiang. But this time when his army came back from Gyeongwon Province, there were only five or six thousand carts left. Where are the other military supplies? His army is all here. It is impossible for him to store it elsewhere. Your Highness, please explain that An Lushan passed by Several battles have depleted all kinds of military supplies, and these siege weapons are probably the last remaining supplies. Adding their food and tents, it amounts to thousands of carts."

Li Sheng analyzed it more rationally, and Li Ye nodded, "Everyone will act according to the plan I made yesterday. If there are any changes, I will notify everyone in time!"

All the generals saluted together, "Obey the order!"

The generals each went to their positions. At this time, Pei Xiu stepped forward and said urgently: "Your Highness, please leave the main building. The main building will be a place where the enemy must attack. It is very unsafe here!"

Li Ye nodded and left the main building. Just as he stepped off the tower, the Yan army's trebuchets broke out. Twenty trebuchets were launched at the same time, and twenty huge rocks roared towards the top of the city. The soldiers squatted down. Next, just listen 'Bang! With a loud noise, a huge boulder hit the battlement twenty steps away from Li Ye. The rubble flew everywhere, and the boulder flew up, crossed the city head and fell into the city. A small pebble hit Li Ye in the face. My head is burning and painful.

At this time, "Boom! Boom!" There were two loud noises in succession, and two huge rocks hit the city tower one after another, smashing two big holes in the main city tower.

"Boom!" A trebuchet was hit by a huge boulder, broke into two pieces, and fell down the city.

Li Ye immediately ordered: "Send the order to the entire army to launch powerful crossbows!"