At the first update, most of the defenders on the city fell asleep, and only a very small number of soldiers patrolled the city. The Sui army had been besieging the city for ten days and had not launched an siege. The soldiers guarding the city gradually became tired and became lazy. Moreover, the soldiers guarding the city could see clearly that the Sui army did not create any large siege weapons, and only transported a lot of wood, but the shadow of the siege weapons was gone. According to this progress, it may not be possible to cause ladders or catapults in five or six days, and their reinforcements were almost here.

It is precisely this fatigue and luck-taking mentality of defending the city. The defense at night is particularly relaxed. Most of the guards hide at the city and sleep. Even the officers are too lazy to ask about it. The stuffy heat makes the physical strength drop greatly. Everyone takes the time to rest and restore the exhausted physical strength during the day.

In the east and west cities, the soldiers patrolling at night decreased from the initial 500 to more than 100. In the North and South cities where the Sui army did not deploy an attack, it was difficult to see a patrol soldier on the city wall. Occasionally, a team of soldiers walked by listlessly.

The sky is gloomy and clouds are covered with red clouds. There is no starlight or moonlight. The night is pitch black. You can't see anything within a few dozen steps. There is only endless darkness outside the city.

The soldiers guarding the North City could not see or imagine that at this time, the trenches a hundred steps away were densely packed with Sui soldiers holding crossbows, with tens of thousands of people. Soldiers were still pouring out of the tunnel. These tens of thousands of crossbowmen were used as cover, commanded by the general Qin Qiong, and the siege was responsible for the siege of the city of 4,000 heavily armored Modao infantry led by Yang Sien. They were also sitting in the trenches waiting for the moment of attack.

Among a group of heavy armored infantry, a city hammer that is five feet long and more than three feet in diameter is placed. This city hammer is made of a beam of Jinyang Palace. It is a thousand-year-old iron wood cut from Yuzhang County. It weighs thousands of kilograms. The front end is equipped with a steel head hitting the head, and two hundred grippers are installed on each side at the lower ends. Two hundred heavy armored infantry must be used to lift it. This city hammer has a gravity of ten thousand kilograms under the attack. No city gate can support its impact.

Although the trench was crowded with 14,000 people, no one spoke. The trench was quiet. Even if someone couldn't help coughing, he would lower his head, cover his mouth with his hands, and try not to make any noise. The only thing that bothered the soldiers were mosquitoes. It was stuffy and humid here. A large number of mosquitoes bit the soldiers, causing them to constantly drive away these disgusting vampires with sweat cloth.

Two miles away, 30,000 cavalry were already lined up. The spear was raised, the sword was unsheathed, and the pair of cold eyes were staring at the northern city. They were waiting for the moment when the city gate opened.

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Time gradually came to the first update, and the time for siege came. Fifteen black shadows ran to the north gate with extraordinary speed, with more than 10,000 pairs of eyes staring at them. These were fifteen scouts with great martial arts skills. They used long wooden boards to build the moat and quickly crossed the river. Their bodies were against the wall. Each of them carried three bags of turmeric oil. They removed the turmeric oil from their bodies, but did not act in a hurry. Two of them climbed the suspension bridge like monkeys.

The suspension bridge is the key to this siege. Only by putting down the suspension bridge can the city gate be collided. However, the suspension bridge is wide and heavy, with a strong wooden board of half a foot thick. Two iron chains as thick as arms stretched down from the head of the city, firmly clamped the suspension bridge, and pulled the suspension bridge high in the air.

Everything has weaknesses, and this suspension bridge is no exception. Its weakness lies in the iron chain catching the two iron wedges of the suspension bridge. The iron wedge is inserted deeply into the wooden board and a pig iron ring is also snatched outside. The pig iron ring is drilled to allow the iron wedge to pass through the hole, so that even if the wood is decayed, the iron wedge will not fall off.

However, due to the years of wear and tear, the holes on the iron hoop have been worn off. In this way, it is possible to pull out the iron wedge from the suspension bridge. The Scout of the Sui army discovered this small loophole.

It was this detail that made Yang Yuanqing finally decide to attack the North City Gate. Perhaps, this is called details that determine success or failure!

Two scouts climbed the suspension bridge. They slowly pried the iron hoop with a short iron rod. The iron hoop moved up little by little, and left the iron wedge. Without the support of the iron hoop, the two iron wedges could not hold the heavy suspension bridge and made a squeak. The suspension bridge shook slightly.

As soon as the two scouts turned over, they got to the bottom of the suspension bridge, hooked the suspension bridge with their feet, took out the shiny saw, and one scout turned around and made a gesture to indicate that the others could act. The other thirteen scouts slowly injected tinder oil from the gap at the bottom of the city gate. A wooden board blocked them from flowing out, and the tinder oil flowed into the city along the gap.

At the same time, the two scouts under the suspension bridge gradually saw a crack on the wooden board at the edge of the iron wedge. The appearance of the crack made the iron wedge unable to hold on to the heavy suspension bridge. With a loud bang, the iron wedge on the left took off, and the long and thick iron chains flew into the sky like a long snake. The suspension bridge tilted to the left.

The loud sound of the suspension bridge tilted alarmed the defenders on the city, "Who is it!" A defender looked out and watched, but a poisonous crossbow arrow shot like lightning. The defender groaned and fell softly on the battlement. However, he did not expect that there was another person behind him. Seeing his companion being shot to death, he shouted in shock, "Come here!"

Amid the shouts, the iron chain on the right also flew into the sky, followed by a muffled sound of "boom!", and the suspension bridge fell heavily on the moat, splashing a large splash of water.

The suspension bridge fell to the signal. Two hundred heavily armored infantrymen moved the hammer out of the trench, and hundreds of people stood on both sides, two layers in front and back, holding the handle of the hammer with both hands, and two hundred heavily armored infantrymen raised their huge shield to cover it.

The city hammer hit the city, like a huge hundred-legged insect, began to rush towards the city gate. At this time, the alarm bell on the city wall sounded, "Dang!Dang!Dang!" It was extremely harsh. Tens of thousands of defenders sleeping on the top of the city were awakened, and they rushed towards the north city one after another.

The head of the city tonight was Liu Zhenghui, the guards' lawyer, who had already understood that something was wrong. The Fengzhou army launched an attack at night. He shouted anxiously: "Go and inform General Xiahou!"

Liu Zhenghui ran to the city wall and was about to look down when an arrow flew over and wiped his forehead, which made him feel cold sweat. He hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Cater throwing!"

"Empress, you can't see it outside!"

"Cum if you can't see it!"

Catalogs squeaked away, and in the dark, the soldiers could not see the situation outside the city. They flew out one by one, smashing them aimlessly.

More than a thousand crossbowmen rushed to the battlements and were suppressed by the overwhelming arrows and could not lean down to shoot. At this time, ten thousand Fengzhou Sui crossbowmen were arranged in an arrow formation under the city, and thousands of arrows were fired at once to cover the heavy armored infantry to hit the city.

A raging fire was lit in the city gate, and the flames burned the gate wrapped in iron. The entire city cave was engulfed by fire and smoke, which made the defenders dare not approach the city gate. Xiahouduan had arrived. His face was extremely pale and he became a little distorted due to nervousness. He had realized the seriousness of the problem. Fengzhou did not beat drums or trumpets. He attacked silently at night. It is very likely that Taiyuan City will be lost today. He immediately ordered: "Speed ​​up five thousand crossbowmen to come to the north city gate!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a loud noise that was astonishing as earth-shaking came from the city gate. "Boom--" The dull and powerful collision sound seemed to come to hell, directly hitting people's hearts, making people's hearts seem to have broken. Many soldiers could not stand this collision sound, covered their ears and screamed, and fell to the ground. The entire northern city was shaking. The soldiers screamed in horror and squatted down one after another. A catapulted fuselage tilted, losing its center of gravity, slowly rolled down from the top of the city, and broke into several breaks.

The shaking of his feet made Xiahou Duan fall to the ground. He got up and shouted anxiously: "Go and transfer the crossbowman! Go!"

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Outside the north city, hundreds of heavily armored infantry slowly retreated with the city hammers. They held hundreds of giant shields on their heads. Although the bows and arrows could not shoot them, huge rocks were thrown from the top of the city, many heavily armored infantry were still hit and fell to the ground with a muffled scream. They were immediately dragged down by the soldiers next to them.

Yang Sien, the chief general of the heavy armored Modao Army, was also hitting the city ram. When everyone retreated twenty steps away and began to prepare for the second attack, he shouted loudly: "One! Two! Three!"

Hundreds of soldiers exerted force at the same time, hitting the city hammer with an extremely fierce force and hitting the city gate again. Only then did they hear another earth-shaking loud noise, and the city gate swayed violently. The latch behind was about to break, and the bricks and stones on the gate were loose and fell down one after another, and huge cracks appeared in the city wall next to it.

"Come again!"

Yang Sien roared, and the team retreated again, retreating to more than twenty steps away. Hundreds of armored infantry roared in unison. They devoted all their strength to hold the city hammer and rushed towards the city gate again. The power bursting out from the city hammer seemed to be able to destroy even a mountain.

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Shortly after the suspension bridge collapsed, chaos began in Taiyuan City. The Xue brothers led hundreds of people to the outside of the military camp and ignited the military camp. Hundreds of tents were ignited. The military camp was in chaos. The horse circle was also opened. Thousands of war horses rushed out of the horse circle and ran on the street. The Xue brothers' subordinates ran up to steal the horses, without caring about killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions.

The Xue brothers were determined to capture Li Yuanji and led more than a hundred people to the General Administration Office. As soon as they rushed to the General Administration Office, they met the Chief Shi Dou Dan riding a horse, and there were less than ten guards around them.

Xue Shen was overjoyed and shouted. More than a hundred people rushed over and overturned Dou Dan to the ground and tied him up. At this time, a subordinate ran over and shouted: "Brother, Li Yuanji led his army to the south gate."

Xue Shen hesitated for a moment. Since Li Yuanji had an army, it would be difficult to fight hard. However, burning the military camp, letting go of the war horses, and catching Li Yuan's son-in-law, all of which were credited. When he saw a group of soldiers running towards this place in the distance, he waved his hand and everyone grabbed Dou Dan and ran towards an alley, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

The streets of Taiyuan City were in chaos, with soldiers everywhere, and the fire had engulfed the barracks. The soldiers could not find the team and were running around aimlessly. Many soldiers began to take the opportunity to smash the shop and rob.

When the first muffled sound of the city hitting the city came, Li Yuanji and Yuwen Xin led three thousand cavalry at the south gate, which was slowly opening. Li Yuanji was panicked. Although he should stay and command the final battle of Taiyuan defense, he had completely given up Taiyuan City. He now had only one idea to escape Taiyuan City as quickly as possible.

"Mr. Qi walked slowly!"

Sima Liu Dewei chased after him, and stopped Li Yuanji and said anxiously: "Now is the most critical time. If Duke Qi escapes, his morale will be disintegrated. Taiyuan is really over."

Li Yuanji glared and said, "Who said I was going to escape? I went around to attack Yang Yuanqing's Hou Camp and forced them to withdraw. Do you dare to break my plan?"

Li Yuanji used a long spear to push away Liu Dewei's horse, whipped a whip of war horses, and led three thousand people to rush out of the city. Liu Dewei turned over and dismounted and ran towards the top of the city. He stood on the city wall. Li Yuanqing's cavalry had disappeared into the darkness, but he saw the sound of horse hooves heading south. Liu Dewei sighed, and Li Yuanji escaped at the last moment.

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The third violent impact of the Fengzhou army finally broke the latch of the city gate. The north city gate of Taiyuan was knocked open. Thousands of heavy armored Modao rushed into the city shouting and dense rain of arrows shot on them, but they could not shoot through their armor. They raised their shiny Modao and rushed towards thousands of archers.

Two miles away, Yang Yuanqing saw that the North Gate had been knocked open, and he waved his sword and shouted: "Get into the city!"

"Kill!"

Thirty thousand cavalry launched and rushed towards Taiyuan City overwhelmingly.

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