Watching Zheng Guanyin and his son walk into the east city of Taiyuan from afar, Chen Sangliang, who sighed that his fate was impermanent, was shook his head and sighing. A quick pond newspaper with chicken feathers was suddenly rushed to the front by his personal soldiers. Chen Sangliang once thought

It was the Tangbao of the left-wing war, and he asked casually: "It was Liu Heita's Tangbao? Have you taken Li Shi?"

"Report to the King of Tang, it was not General Liu's management of Tang, but the report of Old General Yun." The personal soldiers quickly corrected it and reported: "It was the report of Old General Yun from Xin'an, who sent him five hundred miles to the emergency.

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"Five hundred miles have rushed? Something happened in Dongdu!"

Chen Sangliang felt a sudden heart, and quickly took the Tangbao and opened the viewing content. The Sui army and civil servants present also guessed that there must be a major change in the eastern capital Luoyang. They all nervously observed Chen Sangliang's reaction, but found that Chen Sangliang was the first.

He was obviously surprised, then frowned again, with a worried look on his face, and had not said a word for a long time. Qu Tutong couldn't help but curiosity, so he asked carefully: "Your Highness, what big thing happened?"

"Li Mi was defeated." Chen Sangliang frowned and replied: "The defeat was very miserable. The main force west of Hulao Pass was almost completely lost, and Luokoucang was also snatched away by Wang Shichong. Yun Dingxing still found that it was not yet available.

According to the confirmed news, Li Mi may have been seriously injured in the battle and was unable to command the Hulao Pass defenders to launch a counterattack to retake Luokou Cang, and had already fled to the white horse in the east."

"Li Mi was defeated so miserably?" Qu Tutong was a little surprised and said in confusion: "This is unlikely, right? Even if Wang Shichong is treacherous and sly, Li Mi's strength is higher than Wang Shichong. Even if he accidentally loses his battle for a while, he will be defeated.

, it is impossible to defeat so miserably?"

"Li Mi has committed the problem of underestimating the enemy. The internal conflicts accumulated with Zhai Rang before always broke out at critical moments. I lost a little wronged, but it was not considered unjust." Chen Sangliang sighed and handed over the Tang Zhuo to the

After watching the lackeys of accomplices, Yuan Tiangang and others quickly stepped forward to watch with Qu Tutong, and then they understood why Chen Sangliang said that Li Mi was both wronged and not wronged.

Li Mi's defeat this time was entirely a death-making man. After Chen Sangliang personally led the Sui army in Guanzhong to the northern expedition of Taiyuan, he felt that Li Mi, who had strong strength, ignored his main combat soldiers with Xiaoguo Army without any worries.

The reality of the biggest losses in the decisive battle was that the most casualties were the most. He rashly launched a frontal attack on Luoyang Jiancheng, trying to seize the time to eliminate Wang Shichong and dominate the Central Plains. As a result, this hit Wang Shichong's thoughts. The old and sloppy Wang Shichong was relieved and his strength was achieved in the food shortage.

After receiving certain supplements, he not only did not rush to launch a decisive battle, but also deliberately showed weakness to give up the outer city of Dongdu, gathered elite troops and generals to defend the imperial city of Dongdu, and consumed Li Mi's strength and morale with a stronger imperial city and palace city.

Li Mi, who successfully captured the outer city, was indeed trapped and attacked the Dongdu Imperial City regardless of casualties. Wang Shichong's army suddenly became very sufficient due to the sharp shrinkage of positions. Each army and his army took turns to fight in the city.

In the battle to defend the city, it consumed a lot of Li Mi's strength at a relatively small price, which also made Li Mi's army exhausted and his morale declined after a long attack on the city. Then Wang Shichong seized the right opportunity to fight back in full swing.

Li Mi, caught off guard, recovered the outer city of the Eastern Capital in one fell swoop, and took advantage of the victory to pursue Li Mi's defeated army with all his might, and in turn he had to eat Li Mi's army in one bite.

At the critical moment, Li Mijun's internal conflicts broke out. Pei Renji, a professional cheating official, was dissatisfied with Li Mi's refusal to adopt his suggestion of trying to lure the enemy into a decisive battle in the field. When he was defeated and fled, he once again fled and refused to perform the mission behind the palace and led his army to return to Luocheng.

Leaving the main brigade, he once again severely damaged the morale of Li Mi's army; then Zhang Tong'er, the surrendered general of the Xiaoguo Army who succeeded Pei Renji, turned against him again and led his army to surrender to Wang Shichong. Wang Shichong took the opportunity to catch up with the main force of Li Mi's army and seized Li Mi's army.

Before entering Luokoucang, the army was defeated again. Then, the former subordinate of Zhai Rang, who was guarding Luokoucang, gave Li Mi a fatal blow, opened the gate of Cangcheng to surrender to Wang Shichong. Li Mijun, who had been defeated for a while, suddenly collapsed completely and surrendered.

One after another, Yang Jishan, who hurriedly led the Hulao Pass defenders to the west, was also defeated by Wang Shichong's army with a strong morale. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Li Mi could only lead a small number of confidants to escape into Hulao Pass. Wang Shichong successfully seized Luokou Cang and completely

Solved the food shortage problem.

By the way, Pei Renji, a professional cheater, was afraid that Li Mi would pursue his crime for leading his army to leave the battlefield. As soon as he received the news of the fall of Luokoucang, he took the initiative to surrender to Wang Shichong, and immediately ran to Heyang again and defeated Yu.

The cultural and river crossing advance team burned down the Heyang Bridge and destroyed the dream of Yu Culture and taking advantage of the situation. Zhai Rang's two other deputy, Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji, also surrendered to Wang Shichong in the fierce battle. Wang Shichong, who was once dead end, raised his momentum.

The overall strength has been greatly improved, but the Li Mi army, who once dominated the Central Plains, collapsed, leaving only a small group of defeated generals who survived east of Hulao Pass.

After carefully reading the Dongdu War report that Yun Dingxing had worked hard to collect and organize, Qu Tutong, Yuan Tiangang and others were amazed at the Black Eight Miracle created by Wang Shichong and Li Mi's collapse. He inevitably asked Chen Sangliang strangely:

"Your Highness, Li Mi is a powerful enemy of our army. His miserable defeat is a great thing for our army no matter what. Why are you worried? Are you worried that Wang Shichong will form a huge victory in our Guanzhong hinterland after he wins a great victory.

threaten?"

Chen Sangliang shook his head and said in a heavy tone: "Wang Shichong will be a little threat to us after winning a great victory, but his foundation and character are placed there, even if it is a little threat to us, I won't let it go."

In my eyes, I was in a bad mood because I was worried about my friends, and I didn’t know if they had any harm in this war and what the situation is now.”

"Your Highness, your friend?" Qu Tutong was stunned and said hurriedly: "Your Highness, since you have friends who have been affected by this war and are worried about their situation, then you can send someone to contact Wang Shichong and ask Wang Shichong to help find their

Whereabouts? Wang Shichong and you are the relatives of your father-in-law and son-in-law. Wouldn't you not help me with this little thing?"

Chen Sangliang smiled and thought it was that easy? But after thinking about it, Chen Sangliang said again: "It's not necessary to ask Wang Shichong to help find someone, but there is no need to be less than ritual exchanges. Fu Jia, with my personal reputation,

I wrote a letter to my father-in-law Wang Shichong, congratulating his victory in Dongdu, and expressing my willingness to get along with him in a friendly manner. We have not taken down all Taiyuan yet, so we have to be humble."

Sun Fujia sang a promise and wrote a book immediately after he agreed to reply to the tent. Chen Sangliang nodded, looked at the east city of Taiyuan for a moment, and ordered: "Transport the eighteen artillery to the west city of Taiyuan, together with the two I sent before

All the artillery and twenty cannons were set at the top of the city of Xicheng. If you find a suitable target, you will fire the gun and bombard the East City of Taiyuan, making Li Jiancheng feel at ease day and night, and forcing him to make a choice!"

Yuan Tiangang, who was in charge of weapons, asked Chen Sangliang again: "Your Highness, will you continue to build the embankment?"

"No more construction." Chen Sangliang replied: "Taiyuan East City has no much food, and the city is much smaller than that of Xicheng. It can be completely defeated by force. Building an embankment will only waste time, and Li Jiancheng wants to escape without even trying to escape.

We will escape and prepare to attack the city with force. The sooner we will win the East City of Taiyuan, the better. Wang Shichong has already won a decisive victory, so it’s time for us to speed up our movements.”

Because of Chen Sangliang's order, although the innocent Taiyuan soldiers and civilians escaped from the flood, from that night, the poor Taiyuan Dongcheng soldiers and civilians were trapped in fear all the time, and twenty artillery pieces were placed at the distance of Taiyuan.

On the wall of Taiyuan Xicheng, which is only more than 200 steps in Dongcheng, a volley shot first knocked the west gate tower of Dongcheng into rubble-shaped demonstrations, and then when he saw that there were many people there, he would shoot cold guns there. He was very talented in mathematics.

Qian Xiangmin commanded the Sui army artillery team, and suddenly shot one or two guns into the east city of Taiyuan every irregular period of time, and knocked the Taiyuan army guards on the east city wall into tears and howling, and they were forced to do so.

Squatting and crawling, the slightly more decent buildings in Dongcheng were also blown up, and the houses were broken, and they collapsed one after another. The poor defenders and the people in Dongcheng shouted and shouted in the city, running around and avoiding cannons, living at all times

In fear, morale and fighting spirit were greatly affected.

At the same time, in addition to sending a toad cart to fill the moat in the east city, Chen Sangliang also sent Liu Dewei and the warriors to the city to shout for surrender, so that the Taiyuan defenders knew the Sui army's policy of captives, encourage the Taiyuan defenders to surrender, and go further.

Strike the confidence and morale of the Taiyuan Army. As a result, there were some results. On the night of the ninth day of July, more than ten Taiyuan Army soldiers sneaked down the city wall to surrender, bringing a lot of important information to Chen Sangliang and the main force of the Sui Army.

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Among the information provided by the surrendered soldiers, Chen Sangliang was most concerned about the psychological impact of his own killing of the Li clan on the Dongcheng defenders. What made Chen Sangliang feel very moved was that Li Jiancheng did not use this opportunity to intimidate and force the Dongcheng defenders.

The army fought to the end and gave up the opportunity to bury the whole city's military and civilians, and allowed the Taiyuan army soldiers to believe Feng Li, Liu Dewei and others' explanation of Chen Sangliang's killing of the Li clan, so the Taiyuan army soldiers knew about the Li clan.

The murder was caused by his own death, not Chen Sangliang's untrustworthy killing and surrendering. The civil and military officials of the Sui army were also very happy. They all said that Li Jiancheng was already moved by Chen Sangliang's sincerity and that there was hope for peaceful liberation of Taiyuan East City.

It was precisely because of this hope that Feng Deyi suggested that Chen Sangliang come to the city to surrender Li Jiancheng. However, Chen Sangliang shook his head and refused after just thinking about it, and said, "There is no need to waste your energy, Li Jiancheng is not so easy to surrender.

As long as he makes up his mind, even if I say that he will not waver, he will not be able to attack the city by force as planned. He can no longer place his hope on the enemy's surrender."

After more than eight days of careful preparation and repeated attacks on the battle of constantly sending surrendered soldiers to the city to shout surrender, on July 17, under the personal command of Chen Sangliang, the main force of the Sui army officially moved towards

Taiyuan Dongcheng launched a frontal attack. Ten artillery bombed the east gate tower of Dongcheng into ruins in a moment. More than 500 catapults kept throwing stone bullets weighing dozens of kilograms onto the city wall and ramming them.

The earthen city wall was full of holes, hundreds of bed crossbows were fired one after another, and thick arrows were inserted into the city wall. The soldiers of the Sui army did not need any ladders, and could directly climb to the top of the wall with the thick arms of the bed crossbows, and the arrow rods of the bed crossbows were directly raised.

There were also tens of thousands of Sui army crossbowmen pouring feathers and arrows on the city. The feathers flying above the city were like hedgehog's hair, like reeds.

The west city was also pouring artillery fire into the east city like crazy, which made the Taiyuan Army reserve team unable to assemble in the middle of the city. They could only get as close to the east wall as possible. After the Sui army's feather arrow rock bullet passed the city, they flew into the city.

The Taiyuan Army soldiers were attacked from both sides and were in great pain. Before the fierce battle of the Ants started, the casualties were already quite serious.

After noon, the Sui army's Ant Attack City officially began. The attacking queue was like the sea waves. In the first wave of attacks, hundreds of light-weight ladders were built on the city walls. The Sui army soldiers stepped on the ladders.

He shouted and climbed upwards on the arrow shaft of the crossbow. At the same time, more than 20 ladder trucks and the same number of city-stricken cars slowly approached the city wall under the push of the Sui army soldiers. Of course, the target of the city-stricken cars was

This era is not a very solid rammed earth city wall, and as long as one ladder truck is built on the city wall, it will immediately become the biggest nightmare for the defenders on the city.

Under Li Jiancheng's personal command, the Taiyuan Army also showed admirable courage and will to resist the Sui Army's attack tenaciously, and used various city-defying weapons to attack the Sui Army's soldiers head-on, but the gap in strength was too great.

The most important long-range weapon has a huge generation gap of hundreds of years, so no matter how brave the Taiyuan army soldiers resisted, they still could not completely kill the Sui army soldiers and repeatedly attacked one after another. Fierce battles were constantly on the city wall, and the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers was significantly greater than that of

The Sui army soldiers, who were well-behaved in Taiyuan, rushed up the city wall one after another. The Taiyuan army completely used human lives to stop the Sui army soldiers from expanding their positions at the city. Even if they had the advantage of being condescending, they were basically similar to the casualties of the Sui army soldiers in the battle.

Feather arrows traveled continuously in the sky, but the shafts of these feather arrows were all covered with the Taiyuan Army's stamp number. The Sui army's ladder truck and the city-killing crane car were also constantly burning under the attack of the swallowtail torch and the flaming oil pot.

The fire broke out, but it was very regrettable for the Taiyuan defenders that most of their tincture oil reserves were in the West City, and they had already fallen into the hands of the Sui army. The precious tincture oil was used every time and less.

Because even the weapons supply officers have shamelessly surrendered to Chen Sangliang, their weakness has long been seen by the main force of the Sui army. Therefore, even though they burned down ten or hundreds of Sui army ladder cars and city-killing cars, they still have more

Many heavy siege weapons slowly drove towards their positions.

As the sunset gradually set, a loud bang suddenly broke out at the bottom of the city wall that was dug by the city cart and Sui army infantry. A rammed earth wall that was at least four meters wide collapsed. It turned out that the Sui army soldiers were digging out.

After a suitable cave, a coffin filled with gunpowder was stuffed into the hole and ignite and detonated. In this era, Taiyuan soldiers who could not accumulate similar experience were unable to respond in time and were blasted by Sui soldiers. More than ten soldiers in the city were exploded.

The city wall fell down with the sound and was buried by rammed earth, and a gap was also revealed on the city wall.

Fortunately, similar situations occurred in the previous cold weapon war. Taiyuan soldiers who were prepared for a long time immediately pushed the door-sticking knives into the gap, and quickly established a wooden fence to repair the gap. However, it was a pity that such a response strategy

Although the cold weapon war was so correct that it could not be more correct, the poor Taiyuan soldiers met the main force of the Sui army, which was equipped with quite advanced gunpowder weapons, ten artillery fired in just one round, and knocked the door-squeezing cart.

It became a part state, and it also smashed the fence that Taiyuan soldiers had worked hard to build into wood chips. The Sui soldiers shouted and rushed into the city from the gap.

Indeed, he looked at the fatal gap. Li Jiancheng was struggling and ordered the army to launch a counterattack to drive the Sui army out of the city again. Yang Wengan led his army to shout and started a close-range melee with the Sui army soldiers at the gap. The battle was fierce.

It was abnormal, but the gap in strength was destined to make it difficult for Li Jiancheng to get what he wanted. As the war continued, there was another gunpowder explosion under another section of the city wall, and another section of the city wall that was more than two meters long collapsed again.

By the way, the reason why Chen Sangliang dared to squander so much precious gunpowder in his first full-scale attack was that he entrusted the blessings of Li Jiancheng and Li Er - Li Er got the gunpowder formula for the Taiyuan Army through the relationship between the Dongdu court.

Li Jiancheng, who valued combat preparations, took out a lot of money and grain to produce a large amount of gunpowder. Unfortunately, most of these gunpowder was stored in the Xicheng Arsenal. After being captured by the Sui army, it became a powerful tool for killing Taiyuan Army soldiers.

Chen Sangliang did not like the frontal battles that consumed huge amounts of money in all aspects. This was the greatest confidence that the Taiyuan Army soldiers such as Li Jiancheng and Yin Kaishan dared to resist stubbornly in the East City. However, when Chen Sangliang was very rare to launch a frontal battle, Li Jiancheng

Talented with Yin Kaishan and others, they discovered that Chen Sangliang's attack methods were more powerful than they thought, and they were so powerful that they could not resist. They stared at the Sui army soldiers who were constantly slaying into the city through two gaps.

Li Jiancheng, Yin Kaishan and others couldn't help but feel completely despair, and they murmured together: "Is there still a need to continue this battle?"

At the same time, the civil and military officials of the Sui army around Chen Sangliang were ecstatic and danced, congratulating Chen Sangliang: "Your Highness is powerful, invincible in battle, and invincible in every battle! It took only one day to break through this Taiyuan Jian.

The city is really unheard of. If the ministers had not seen it with their own eyes, they would never believe that the power of His Highness is so sharp!"

"Is it sharp?" Chen Sangliang sneered and said to himself: "The cost of a feather arrow is more than 30 yuan. So far, we have used more than 500,000 pieces, more than 1,500 pieces, and more than 1,500 pieces so far.

More than 15,000 guan has been spilled out. Wood, gunpowder and weapons are just consumption of supplies. Today, our military expenditure exceeds 30,000 guan. This is all the hard-earned money of the people. Tens of thousands of strong men will not be able to spend a year.

The hard-earned money that we can’t earn without eating or drinking. Also, our soldiers have suffered more than 1,800 casualties, and more than 1,800 lives have been lost. Nearly two thousand pairs of white-haired mother,
To be continued...