Chapter five hundred and eighty first Xiongdu (twenty-four)
The damage caused to Jinyang's troops by the Wanjun divine crossbow was far greater than that of Xu Leyi in the city, and even Li Shimin himself almost died under the giant crossbow. However, the siege army did not stop because of this. After the initial panic, the army still followed the tactics they were familiar with, and each performed its own duties and rushed towards the city.
Li Yuan was kind-hearted, and had the huge financial resources of the first family in the north and the massive wealth accumulated by Yang Guang in Jinyang to ensure that Li Yuan had sufficient capital to reward the three armies. He would be rewarded from time to time on weekdays, so that Jinyang Yingyang soldiers would understand a truth early: following the Duke of Tang, he would be infinitely rich and honorable. Compared with those who worked for the emperor, life would be of little knowledge.
The principle of "spring breeze brings summer rain" may not be applicable to the great families, but it is still applicable to most military men with a humble and simple temperament. On weekdays, everyone has gained great benefits from the Duke of Tang, and they all think of repaying the kindness from the bottom of their hearts. However, if they have nothing to do, how can they repay the kindness of the Lord with a single life? Therefore, when Li Yuan raised the anti-bank, these generals were willing to die for it. Although some of them wanted to take the opportunity to gain wealth, many people were simply just to repay the kindness. No matter how powerful the crossbow on the city was, they had to rush forward at all costs, even if they used their lives to repay the kindness of the Duke of China!
Besides, no one can stop at this time. Thousands of troops move together, not to mention running back casually, it is dangerous to stand still. If you don’t run by yourself, the robe behind you may knock you to the ground and then step over you until you step into a paste! Unless everyone around you wants to escape, even cowards can only passively be swept by the crowd at this time.
After the initial panic, Li Shimin calmed down and got up from the ground and shouted loudly: "Siege the city! Don't let them release the second crossbow arrow!"
He was also very familiar with the Wanjun crossbow and knew the shortcomings of this combat tool. At this time, retreating was just in line with the enemy's wishes. The defenders could load and launch calmly, and shoot Jinyang troops as prey. Taking advantage of this opportunity to rush up, climb to the top of the city and enter the hand-to-hand sword, and then have a glimmer of life.
The drum sounded again, which was louder than just now. The large group of people shouted and rushed to the city regardless of everything, preparing to fight against the Sui army to death. Tonight, Li Shimin led his troops to attack the city mainly to cooperate with Xu Le. In order to ensure the speed of action, the three armies only carried simple siege equipment such as cloud ladders and hook locks. Large equipment such as Lu Gongbu and rushing vehicles were not launched. Now the sneak attack turned into a strong attack. The lack of these equipment made Li Shimin a little restrained, but he did not turn around. At this time, he could only grit his teeth and rush to the city wall with the ladders. Another part of the soldiers carried the two men and hugged the thick logs and rushed towards the city gate.
Li Jiancheng and Xie Shufang immediately stood behind the three armies, looking coldly. The round of crossbow arrows just now also frightened Li Jiancheng, and quietly moved back a distance before stopping again. Although the night was as dark as ink, the scene around him could still be seen with the torch. Li Shimin's troops shot and killed the giant crossbow.
The moment he saw Li Shimin falling off the horse, Li Jiancheng's heart suddenly rose to his throat. No matter what, blood was thicker than water. Seeing his fellow-in-law fell off, Li Jiancheng could not remain indifferent. He almost subconsciously ordered the withdrawal of troops and let his personal guards snatch Erlang back desperately before saying it. However, when the words were on the lips, they were still firmly blocked by their teeth, and these two words could not be spoken. It was not until Li Shimin got up again to pass the order that Li Jiancheng's heart was let go.
"Junxuan, look, Erlang is safe and sound! This is God bless my Li family! A good omen, this is a good omen!" Li Jiancheng's words are sincere and sincere, not a false statement. No matter how his brothers fight, it is his own business, and he can't afford to outsiders. After all, the number one opponent at present is the Yinshi Master of Chang'an, not his own flesh and blood.
Xie Shufang echoed: "What Langjun said is not bad, and he also thinks it is God's will. Even the Wanjun divine crossbow cannot do anything to Erlang. It can be seen that he is a blessed person. This city should be changed tonight! Langjun can quickly send an arrow and order the rear army to transport all the siege equipment to help Erlang break the city. He then ordered his personal soldiers to implement military laws. Whoever dares to retreat without orders will be killed without mercy!"
"This... needs to be attacked?" Li Jiancheng hesitated: "The thief even put out the Wanjun crossbow, I don't know what other means. If Erlang continues to attack again, what if something goes wrong..."
"Mr. Lang is too worried! He is not even afraid of Wanjun crossbow. What other equipment can hurt Erlang? Just let Erlang let go of his hands and feet to attack the city, and never stop it, otherwise he will be blamed by Erlang in the future! The Li family's great cause will be here! Not only can we not withdraw our troops, but we must also let Erlang attack the city desperately. Even if we use human lives to fill it tonight, we will have to break Chang'an!"
Li Jiancheng was a little confused at first, not knowing what Xie Shufang sold in the gourd, but soon he figured out the key points, and then he broke out in a cold sweat, and even looked at Xie Shufang with a strange look. In the raging fire, Xie Shufang's appearance was so ferocious, which was completely different from the image of a gentle and elegant family. This person is really the descendant of the famous family of the Xie family in Jiangzuo? He was the man who leaned on his left and right hands and even prepared to thread a needle to make him his sister-in-law?
His arrangement was obviously not intended to let Erlang come back alive, which... was too cruel! His brothers fought against Erlang, or tried to break his wings and cut off his authority, but they could not harm his brothers and sisters' lives. This was also the bottom line of Li Jiancheng. Now Xie Shufang's arrangement has invaded Li Jiancheng's heart, causing him to feel disgusted with the planner, subconsciously wanting to scold him and then order Li Shimin to be recalled. But he then thought that Xie Shufang's intention of making such arrangements was for his own foundation, and this arrangement itself was not improper. Even if it was taken to Li Yuan in the future, there would be nothing wrong with this swearing.
Perhaps... Erlang is really a man of great fortune, and the matter of destroying the city should fall on him? If he forced himself to withdraw his troops at this time, Erlang might be unhappy and become a villain in vain. Besides, this Wanjun crossbow took a long time to load it. As long as he could catch this gap and kill the city, no matter how powerful the crossbow was, it would be useless. Wait a moment... Maybe there was nothing wrong with it?
An inappropriate sound of cracking silk interrupted Li Jiancheng's thinking and once again made the Li family general feel the feeling of despair. Just as everyone rushed towards the city wall desperately, the second batch of thousands of jin magic crossbows poured out!
Since ancient times, everything has been mutually reborn and restrained. There is no war tool in the world that can achieve invincibility in the world. According to common sense, the firing of the Wanjun crossbow is quite long, which is enough for the siege to narrow the distance from the city, and even carry out the battle to the hand-blade stage. Therefore, the defending city can only regard the Wanjun crossbow as one of the means to defend the enemy, and is definitely not all. It must be assisted with other strong bows and hard crossbows rolling wood and rocks, and use them in conjunction with each other.
Jingzhao Yingyang, who guards Chang'an, lacks experience in battle, and is inevitably nervous when he is in the battle. This is also the confidence of the siege. As long as the defenders are busy killing, the Wanjun crossbow can be turned into a waste. However, including Li Shimin, it is not enough to calculate that the Yang family's father and son have slaughtered the people's power to this extent. The number of Wanjun crossbows accumulated in the city is far beyond imagination. So luxurious that after the first round of Wanjun crossbows shot, new crossbows can be launched and arrows poured into the city.
The crossbow arrows on these crossbows were already good and did not need to be loaded. Yin Hongde was cunning and did not rush to fire before, which gave the siege an illusion that "the crossbow on the top of the city was not enough to reload", and it was not until then that he issued a fatal blow.
Unlike the Xuan Armored Cavalry in the city, these infantrymen do not have such good training and naturally do not react quickly enough. More importantly, there are too many siege soldiers and horses that are too close to each other. These giant crossbows do not need to be aimed at at all, and can kill people if they are fired at will. With this round of powerful crossbow volleys, the surging crowd was instantly shot out of countless gaps.
However, with the experience of the previous time, the reaction of Jinyang soldiers finally became calm this time. The generals who were lucky enough to not die still attacked the city head regardless of everything, hoping to narrow the distance between each other and make the opponent's weapons useless. Some generals were also shouting: "Retreat is also a death! Rush forward and seize a way out!"
When people are blind, they tend to listen to others' words. These soldiers don't know how to escape under this situation, and subconsciously choose to believe in the main general. The son of Jinyang endured his fear and ran towards the target desperately!
A cloud ladder was put on the top of the city, and then it was pushed away by a pole. Rolling wood, stones were smashed down like money, and they threw fiercely at the officers and soldiers under the city. Yin Hongde did not expect that the Jinyang soldiers' fighting spirit was so decisive that the two rows of magic crossbows could not destroy their morale. However, Yin Hongde was not worried. The rocks reserved at the top of the city were enough. Even if these things were used, it would be enough to ensure that no one could climb to the top of the city tonight, let alone his methods were more than that. Looking at the surging crowds under the city, he said coldly: "Let it go!"
The third row of powerful crossbows continued to shoot down the city!
Li Shimin's location was once again covered by several giant crossbows, but this time his situation was not so embarrassing. Just as the crossbow arrow was about to be fired, a small hand grabbed Li Shimin's arm and dragged him out of danger. It was not necessary to see the identity of the person, just looking at the little hand, you would know that it was Bu Li.
Although I knew that the little wolf girl was not so easy to die, I was always worried that I didn’t find anyone. Seeing Bu Li was safe, a stone in Li Shimin’s heart finally landed. Not only Li Shimin, but also the remaining Xuan Armored Cavalry was taken to a safe place by Bu Li.
Seeing that Jinyang's troops were in charge in rows and were defeated like a tide, Li Shimin was so anxious that his eyes were full of fire. He wanted to rush forward to command, but was tightly grabbed by Bu Li. Li Shimin did not dare to fall and hurt her, so he shouted: "Let go!"
Bu Li glanced at him, still holding Li Shimin's arm tightly, and only spit out two words: "I'll die!"
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the little wolf girl was talking about herself. He said with a sigh: "What are the fears of a real man's death? As long as he can destroy Chang'an, I will admit it even if he dies! Besides, the city is not broken, what should Le Langjun and the others do?"
"Mr. Le must have a way! You can't rely on you to break the city, you can only rely on your husband!" Bu Li said so many words to Li Shimin for the first time, with a firm tone and firm expression, and full of confidence in Xu Le! This belief not only infected himself, but also made Li Shimin's heart slightly relaxed, and he thought to himself: The little wolf girl said so confidently, it doesn't seem to be aimless. Could she be really sure?
Chapter completed!