Shuofang, a round of offensive began again

This time, Sang Xiong experienced the experience of the first three battles and made corresponding adjustments, dividing the siege team into ten parts, launching a series of disobedient attacks on Liangzhou City, which caused a great blow to the Liangzhou defenders. Some of the Tubo gentry even attacked the city of Liangzhou. If Sun Erlang hadn't responded in time and led his personal guards to kill them and chased them to the city wall, it would be hard to say what kind of disaster Liangzhou City would face.

Such an attack lasted for ten days, and the bodies of more than 30,000 Tubo and Tuyuhun soldiers were piled up outside the city.

Liangzhou City also began to fall into a sad atmosphere, because everyone knew that Tubo and Tuyuhun had siege for about ten days, breaking the city would not be a problem.

And it happened to be October 18th

In the meeting hall of the General's Mansion in Liangzhou City, Li Ke sat in the main seat, all the generals sat upright, and the atmosphere was solemn.

After a while, no one spoke

Because the situation was moving in the direction Li Ke told them at the beginning, Sang Xiong really started to attack the city at all costs, and the report of the scouts, the jingle of craftsmen working in the Tubo coalition camp. Everyone is not fools, they know very well that this is Lu Dongzan creating a large siege ladder.

"Cough cough--" Li Ke coughed softly, "You all tell me, how should you defend the city?"

Li Ke still asked everyone with a faint smile, as if Sang Xiong's siege and the news reported by the scout were so worthless in his eyes.

"Your Highness, transfer Mo Daojian to the top of the city to defend the city," Sun Erlang began to suggest

Since he promised Li Ke to form a Mo Dao War, Li Ke has valued Mo Dao Warriors as much as the black armored cavalry. In several battles of life and death, this powerful heavy infantry was still not used. Sun Erlang knew that Li Ke did not want to sacrifice this powerful infantry in such a siege battle, and wanted them to become an elite force galloping across the northwest. He also tried his best to train this Mo Dao Warrior and also wanted to meet Li Ke's requirements. But today, he himself did not know what would happen next siege, and he could not help but suggest it.

"Your Highness, we will let the Ghost Face Rider ride on," Zheyu suddenly said, "The Ghost Face Rider will swear to protect Liangzhou City to the death and will not take a step back."

After this period of time, Zheyu's injuries have been completely cured. Now he has been training and sent to Liangzhou for 40,000 prisoners. Now after selection, the number of Ghost Face Riders has been determined to be 30,000. The remaining 10,000 were selected by Li Ke and they were thrown into the reserve team of the city guards. Those who were not selected became logistics soldiers. They were responsible for the transportation of stones and other transportation of the city guards. Zheyu was also very clear about the situation in front of him. After the ten days of guarding the city, the soldiers who guarded the city died.

More than ten thousand, next time you attack the city, you must send a strong force to ensure that Liangzhou City will not be defeated by Tubo and Tuyuhun. All the cavalry around Li Ke are elite soldiers trained with effort and time. Only the candidates for the Ghost Face Rider are inseparable, but their combat power is also very strong. Zheyu would suggest this and volunteer for another reason, that is, Zheyu believes that when the King of Northern is troubled, he, as his subordinate, will help the King of Northern is relieve the troubles. This is his responsibility

"Your Highness, there are not much storage of stones, arrows and tincture oil," Xu Jingzong also said, "Especially tincture oil, it is difficult to refine, and in addition, there is insufficient materials in Liangzhou City, it may only support one or two battles now."

Xu Jingzong's words hit the nail on the head, causing everyone to fall into silence and thinking again

However, the generals in the tent did not speak, but turned their eyes to Li Ke

After a while, Li Ke said, "Next time to attack the city, Sangxiong may use a ladder and a catapult. The crossbow must be set at a dead corner to deal with the opponent's catapult that is 800 steps away. In this battle, we do not use tincture oil, and mobilize ten thousand ghost-faced riders to the city to prepare to participate in the defense of the city."

Li Ke threw down this sentence and left strode, making the generals at a loss

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Tubo and Tuyuhun coalition camp

In the handsome account, Lu Dongzan has recovered and is sitting upright in the head coach's position. Sang Xiong still sits down his attack. The generals of Tubo and Tuyuhun have already arrived. Everyone has a faint look of joy in their faces. They are talking about something in a low voice. When they hear carefully, they are talking about the progress of the siege in the past few days, the newly built ladder and the catapult.

Lu Dongzan's face also showed a faint smile. He was also discussing with Sang Xiong what to do when he saw everyone. He coughed a few times and said, "Everyone, we have achieved good results in the siege in the past few days. Although we have not captured Liangzhou City, our warriors and the ones who have climbed Liangzhou City are the only way to do everything they can. We must not relax in our future battles."

"No" the generals answered

"This time, we siege the city at all costs and achieved unsuccessful results. The Tang army suffered heavy losses. Their soldiers were very tired. Then, this is just the beginning. Tomorrow, we will use a catapult cart and a ladder. At that time, I hope everyone can work together to win the city of Liangzhou in one fell swoop." Lu Dongzan continued to shout.

"Okay - Take down Liangzhou City" someone shouted

"Catch Liangzhou City" shouted loudly, and the morale of the generals was very high

When the generals left, only Lu Dongzan and Sang Xiong were left in the tent.

"General Sangxiong, will you have the confidence to conquer Liangzhou City tomorrow with the cooperation of the catapult cart and the ladder?" Lu Dongzan asked seriously.

"Great appearance, if you cooperate well, it's okay." Sang Xiong replied ambiguously

In fact, since Sang Xiong led the army to siege the city for ten days regardless of the cost, he gradually understood what it means to play to one's strengths and avoid one's weaknesses. He also knew Li Ke's actual intention, that is, to avoid the strengths of the thirty army, lead the 300,000 cavalry of the coalition army to the city of Liangzhou, and let the cavalry act as infantry to attack the city. The purpose of this is very obvious, that is, the disadvantages of the cavalry are suddenly obvious, and they are not good at fighting siege wars, and there will be great casualties. The Tang army can rely on the tall and strong city walls to wait for their labor.

Therefore, when Lu Dongzan asked him whether he could really capture Liangzhou City, he would say yes without hesitation, but now he dare not fight like this. However, this is not that he has no confidence, but that he has become more steady, not as despised as before, nor has he seen his cavalry as strong as before, and he also understood the combat power of the Tang army.

"What are you planning for tomorrow's deployment?" Lu Dongzan continued. He knew very well that after these ten days of hard fighting, Sang Xiong must have figured out the combat effectiveness and defense of the Tang army.

"The Grand Prime Minister, the Tang army had crossbows at an distance of 800 steps. Although there were not many, although it had great lethality, it had amazing destructive power. It was probably putting a lot of pressure on our soldiers. This was their first defense point, and the archers at the second 300 steps. They had about four or five thousand people. This was their second defense point, with great lethality and the third defense point, which was at the foot of the city wall, their big stones and tinder oil. The defense was the most powerful," Sang Xiong analyzed, "In the past ten days, we rushed to the city head several times. It was because of the shortage of stones and tinder oil that we had the opportunity to take advantage of."

"So, General Sang Xiong's suggestion is-" Lu Dongzan asked

"My suggestion is that the position of our catapult cart should be at least 800 steps away from Liangzhou City, and cannot be within the range of their crossbows. The ladder must be used as a cover while advancing, otherwise it will be destroyed by their crossbows." Sang Xiong said seriously, "And our siege in the past ten days has consumed too much stones and tinder oil, so we should not be too worried about the third line of defense. What we are worried about is the combat effectiveness of the Tang army, because when attacking the city several times, the combat effectiveness of the Tang army was amazing. Our soldiers were unable to stand firmly on the city and it was difficult to form an effective counterattack, so we could only let them slaughter."

"Well" Lu Dongzan nodded, "It is true-but we must also beware that this is the Tang army's plan to lure the enemy. We don't know the amount of their tincture and stone storage, and we can't be careless."

"Yes, what the big shot said is that we can't be too careless," Sang Xiong agreed.

"General Sangxiong, for tomorrow's siege, you continue to command me to command the throwing cart and cloud ladder behind," said Lu Dongzan.

"No" Sang Xiong took the order

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ps: I'm sorry I had heat stroke yesterday and I'll recover from it in the future


Chapter completed!