Standing on the city wall, of course Li Er couldn't hear the screams of the soldiers in the corridor of the city gate, but based on his innate intuition, Li Er already knew that the situation at the city gate was definitely not good, and subconsciously came up with a countermeasure , roared and ordered: "Li Deliang, go down to the city immediately, lead the army to pack earth and rocks in straw bags, and block the passages of the city gate! Quick! The sooner the better!"
The situation was extremely urgent, but Li Deliang did not obey immediately. Instead, he asked Li Er with a mournful face: "You Dudu, you didn't prepare beforehand. In a hurry, where did you go to find so many straw bags to hold earth and rocks?"
Hearing this, Li Er's body trembled, and he lowered his head powerlessly, thinking to himself: "No wonder he refused to use this tactic to attack the outer city when he was in Daxing, he just wanted to prevent us from blocking the city gate The tunnel, so I wanted to save it for the battle in the inner city, and I kept it until today, and finally used it on me. The traitor, the scheming is really deep."
While feeling sad, Li Er did not give up his dying struggle, and told Li Deliang: "Then first use firewood to block the passageway of the city gate, and light a fire to block the city gate! Block the gates! Come on, we don't have much time!"
Li Deliang finally sang his promise this time, and hurried down to the city to organize the army to act according to the order. At the same time, the news that the city gate had been blasted by the Sui army's artillery to break the latch was also reported to the city, and Li Erjun who heard the report The faces of the generals were ashen-colored and their legs were trembling, but Li Er's face was as deep as water, and he didn't say a word. He kept praying to his father's heroic blessing in his heart, so that the sooner the Sui army could find out about this, the better.
The generals of the Sui Army did not immediately realize that the tactics of bombarding the door with artillery had been successful, but it didn’t matter much. The Sui Army’s artillery built under the guidance of the traverser Chen Sangliang and the genius scientist Yuan Tiangang personally supervised the construction of the Sui Army’s artillery. I know that cleaning the gun barrel with a cotton-wrapped wooden stick dipped in water will extinguish the sparks. The shells and the gun barrel are of uniform specifications without special shells, so that the shells can be used directly. I have also repeatedly studied the composition ratio of the propellant. The amount of gunpowder has a uniform standard and Individual packaging not only avoids waste, but also greatly speeds up the charging and loading speed, so when Li Deliang just started to organize the defenders to carry firewood and debris into the corridor of the city gate, the third salvo of the Sui army artillery came again. .
Of course, the target of the third salvo of the Sui army's artillery was still the most vulnerable city gate. Half of the shells hit the walls at both ends of the city gate. The other six shells hit the city gate accurately, and as a result, the Huoyi city gate was exposed at once. One door was smashed wide open, and the other door was directly broken in two, allowing the soldiers of the Sui army to See the situation in the city directly.
Without hesitation, Chen Sangliang of course ordered the long shieldmen to dispatch, strode forward to set up temporary fortifications outside the moat, and covered the archers to suppress the defenders on the city. General Qiu Shili volunteered to lead the death squad to seize the city Chen Sangliang immediately agreed, and asked Qiu Shili to charge forward from the side of the artillery array, so that the Sui army's artillery could bombard the city gate for the third salvo.
Seeing from afar that the infantry of the Sui army had already started to move out to grab the gate, Li Deliang, who was in charge of blocking the gate, was so anxious that his eyes were red, he yelled and urged the soldiers to come forward, and threw all flammable objects into the corridor of the gate , What firewood, wagons, wooden barrels, wine jars, tents, wood, etc., all of which can be moved and pushed are all stuffed into the corridors of the city gate, and they can't wait to pour kerosene, and throw all the burning torches and charcoal basins into the miscellaneous places. On the pile of objects, set fire to cut off the Sui army's way into the city.
Facts have proved that this tactic of the second army of Li can only be effective against flesh and blood. Not only is it useless in front of the artillery of the Sui army, but it also hurts them. The advancing shells slammed heavily on the pile of debris, smashing the pile of debris that had just started to smoke and collapsing. Countless debris with flames flew into the city, smashing their heads and faces on the heads and faces of Li Erjun's soldiers, killing one by one. The soldiers of Li's Second Army directly turned into burning men, screaming and rolling on the ground, and then ignited the houses and streets near the city gate.
At this time, the Sui army's long shieldmen had rushed to the city gate to cover the archers' arrows, while the defenders on the city panicked and fired back their arrows, the Sui army's death squad led by Qiu Shili also rushed to the city gate with round shields, knives and guns, and directly crossed the gate. The moat that the Sui army worked hard to fill with toad carts. At the same time, the trained gunners of the Sui Army also seized the last chance and fired another round of salvo into the city gate. Most of the howling shells rushed directly into the city, and the soldiers of the Second Li Army risked their lives. The sundries were cleared up again, and by the way, the lives of many soldiers of Li's Second Army, including Li Deliang, were taken away. The castration was still unabated, and two street houses in the city were blown down before they stopped, bringing more damage to the defenders in the city. Much confusion and panic.
Qiu Shili's army rushed into the city gate corridor with smoke and fire, and rushed into the city before the flames, fighting desperately to seize the road into the city, the Sui infantry brigade also strode forward, rushing forward for reinforcements against the clock Qiu Shili and the artillery of the Sui army immediately shifted their targets and fired freely to bombard the densely populated areas of the city. The heavy shells bombarded the upper city one after another, bouncing and ravaging. There were constant screams while dodging bullets, and individual soldiers panicked and fell directly off the city wall. The panic of the army reached the extreme.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Li Er still knew very well that since the army's defeat was set, there was no way to reverse the situation and turn defeat into victory. However, Li Er still didn't want to give up, and ordered Li Shentong and Zhu Can to lead the army into the city to fight against the Sui army. While fighting in the street, he rushed to the south gate, personally led the cavalry out of the city from the south gate, and went back to attack the artillery positions of the Sui army, fighting for the last hope of stabilizing the battle situation. ——However, just to be on the safe side, Li Er did not dare to bring his commander-in-chief flag to the cavalry army this time, and instead used Duan Zhixuan's flag to command, so as to avoid revealing his position and become Chen Sangliang's key target.
Li Erjun's previous lie that the Sui army would massacre the city played some role at this moment. After seeing the Sui army rushing into the city, although Li Erjun's soldiers were in a panic, they still summoned up their courage to step forward at the general's request. Carried out hand-to-hand street battles with the soldiers of the Sui Army. The main battlefield, East Gate, was filled with people with heads like ants, and the sound of killing was loud. The soldiers of the two armies fought desperately for survival and victory. The battle was brutal and intense.
Cavalry assault is Li Er's magic weapon. When Chen Sangliang was studying the tactical characteristics of his rival, he often felt headaches and fears for Li Er's unique move, but it didn't matter today. Li Er hurriedly led the cavalry out of the city from the south gate. Chen Sangliang The infantry team deployed in the southeast corner of Huoyi before Sangliang had already strode forward and took the initiative to meet the cavalry of Li's Second Army. Chen Sangliang also immediately ordered the Bao Guojun to attack, and went directly to fight head-to-head cavalry battles with Li Er. When Guo Feng and Chen Ci led the order to sing promises, Chen Sangliang said half-jokingly: "Li Erlang likes to lead the cavalry himself. Charge, although I didn't see his handsome flag this time, he may still be in the cavalry of the bandit army. I don't like this kid the most. Who can get his head and who will I be in-laws with? A daughter marrying his son!"
The half-joking words had an effect that Chen Sangliang didn't expect. After hearing the reward offered by Chen Sangliang conveyed by Guo Feng and Chen Ci, the soldiers of the four regiments under their command who still had nearly 700 soldiers all turned red. They all charged wildly like chicken blood, screaming and rushing directly to the cavalry of Li's second army. Chen Sangliang was a little baffled by his excitement, and secretly said: "I only have a son and no daughter now. Could it be that I am still in her mother's hands?" How can the daughter in my stomach have such a great charm?"
As a result, this of course made it difficult for the cavalry of Li's Second Army. The front team managed to break through the blocking of the Sui Army's infantry, and the rear team was still surrounded by the Sui Army's infantry. , Knives, hacks, guns, sticks and sticks, like crazy, all kinds of weapons greet Li Erjun's cavalry, and if they don't move at all, they will die together, and they will chop their knives on Li Erjun's cavalry even if they may be injured and die-of course, This is also based on the fact that all the soldiers of the Patriotic Army wear good Mingguang armor. The slogans for capturing Li Er alive kept coming and going, and the soldiers of the Nationalist Army who had seen Li Er kept yelling, "Look for the jerk! Li Erlang is just like our prime minister, he is a jerk! As long as he is a jerk, it is right to kill him!" "
All the cavalrymen of Li Erjun, who were a little handsome in appearance, were all in bad luck because of this, but Li Er was not among them. When the national army charged head-on, Li Er, who always liked to take the lead, had quietly retreated to the interior of his own cavalry, avoiding the sharp edge of the national army. At the same time, Li Er didn't have time to pay attention to why the Baoguo army was so excited. He carefully commanded the cavalry to get rid of the entanglement of the Baoguo army as much as possible, and took as many cavalry as possible to attack the Sui army's artillery position.
Li Er soon discovered that what he did was just wishful thinking. When he finally approached the artillery position of the Sui army with hundreds of cavalry, Luo Shixin, who also made him suffer in the Lishan battle, had already stopped him with his infantry. After leaving his way, he used the dense formation of long spears to firmly resist the crazy impact of the cavalry of the Second Li Army, and did not give the cavalry of the Second Li Army a chance to smash them. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Erchang sighed, and he could only take the cavalry to the north and fled to the north gate of Huoyi to seek support.
During the detour, Li Er sent people back to the city and issued three orders. One was to order the defenders of Huoyi to open the north gate and go out of the city to intercept the pursuers of the national army. The flying handsome flag created the illusion that he was still at the east gate of Huoyi, and the third order was to let Li Shentong and Zhu Can break out of the encirclement and escape in due course. Naturally, Li Er led his cavalry up the Qianlijing trail northwest of Huoyi, took the trail and fled to Taiyuan around Queshu Valley.
Not to mention, Li Er really deceived the soldiers of the Sui army. His handsome flag reappeared on the east gate of Huoyi, like a stripped beauty being pushed into a pile of perverts. Attracting the attention of almost all the soldiers of the Sui Army, Chen Sangliang also made a misjudgment at this moment. In order to get the best hope of killing Li Er, and to win Huoyi City as soon as possible to avoid accidents, Chen Sangliang decisively ordered a general attack, concentrated The superior force stormed Huoyi City, which had already opened the gap in the east gate, and also went to fight for the chance to catch Li Erweng.
The result of the offensive and defensive battle of Huoyi City is actually no suspense. After taking down the east gate corridor, the soldiers of the Sui Army, who had the upper hand in terms of strength and combat effectiveness, were able to enter the city quickly, and fought hand-to-hand with the defenders in the city under the condition that the geographical disadvantage was not great. , Winning Huoyi City has long been a matter of time and casualties, and with the full-scale launch of the Sui army's general offensive, the demise of Huoyi's defenders has officially entered the countdown.
Amidst the sound of war drums that was more violent than thunder, the soldiers of the Sui army carried various siege weapons and lined up in a dense horizontal line, like waves, hitting the city wall of Huoyi one after another, one after another, the trench bridge cars hit the city wall. On the other side of the moat that has not been completely filled, temporary bridges are built to open up more roads that can go directly to the city. At the same time, more lightweight flying ladders also climbed up the Huoyi city wall one after another, crazily climbing up with their weapons in their hands. The soldiers of Li's second army on the city were still using their bows and arrows without knowing that the commander had already escaped. Bottles, sheep's head stones and other objects fought back desperately, but no matter what, they couldn't stop the morale of the Sui army soldiers. In the first round of ant attack, more than 20 Sui army soldiers successfully charged up the city wall.
The situation in the city was the same, unable to withstand the crazy attack of Qiu Shili's army, the two streets near the east gate in Huoyi City had already fallen, and the soldiers of the Sui army who had seized the space of the position swarmed into the city, and attacked Li Erjun's forces more powerfully and swiftly. Alley battles and defensive lines, the slogans of surrendering and not killing came one after another, and many soldiers of the Sui army had already rushed up the steps of the upper city, outflanking the place where Li Er's commander-in-chief was located. Li Er's army retreated steadily, and countless surrenders.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhu Can was the first to lead the troops out of the city from the west gate, followed Li Er's example and fled into the depths of the mountain forest. He was also very clever and changed into the clothes of ordinary soldiers early on, and brought a guide who knew thousands of miles of paths with him, and made a prompt decision. His courage and calmness in the face of danger are worthy of admiration.
Li Deliang had already died under the cannons of the Sui army, but Li Shentong was still fighting in the street fighting. Tang Xian, another important official of Li's second army, took a few soldiers and disguised himself as ordinary people, and fled out of the city from the north gate to the path of thousands of miles. It's a pity that his luck was bad. After leaving the city, he met Li Erjun, who was fighting against the Nationalist Army, and his team collapsed. Put him on the wanted list and have been wanted for more than ten years.
When Li Shentong finally couldn't resist abandoning the city and fleeing north, the generals of the Sui Army finally discovered that the Li Ershuai flag on Huoyi City was just an empty flag, and through interrogation of the prisoners, they found out that Li Er had already left the city with the cavalry before, and was furious. After sending the news to Chen Sangliang, Chen Sangliang couldn't help being a little angry, scolding Li Er for being despicable and cunning, and letting himself miss the best chance to kill him. After calming down a bit, Chen Sangliang quickly gave another order: "Order the whole army to shout the slogan that Li Erlang has been captured, and let the enemy know that we have captured Li Erlang."
"Prime Minister, isn't this necessary?" Sun Fujia, the new staff member next to him, said suspiciously: "We have already secured our chances of winning, and the Li family's bandit army has also collapsed. There is no need for us to attack the enemy's morale anymore, right?"
Sun Fujia was originally a lawyer in Wannian County, Guanzhong. Because of strict law enforcement, integrity and self-discipline, he was appreciated by Chen Sangliang's old accomplice Wei Zheng, and was transferred to Daxing to work in the Ministry of Civil Affairs in charge of money and grain. Because Chen Sangliang refused the extravagant etiquette budget proposed by the Ministry of Rites and was selected by Chen Sangliang, and he himself was good at writing, and Chen Sangliang was short of talents in this field, so he miraculously jumped into Chen Sangliang's prime minister's office twice. , became a close minister of Chen Sangliang who made Daxing officials very jealous, and was quite loved by Chen Sangliang. So after listening to Sun Fujia's question, Chen Sangliang explained again, "I didn't do this for the present, but for the future. Li Erlang is too powerful, so don't pour some sewage on him and carry some suspicions, let him directly Fleeing back to Taiyuan, I'm afraid it will become our scourge in the future."
Sun Fujia nodded half-understood, remembering Chen Sangliang's arrangement carefully, and figured out the reason why Chen Sangliang did this when he had a chance in the future. The messengers around him rushed to the messenger rooms of the various armies, and Chen Sangliang turned his eyes to the direction of Taiyuan in the north again, thinking to himself: "Brother Jiancheng, that precious brother of yours is probably going to flee back to join you, what are you going to do?" Hold on, don't let him take away your territory and army, let alone let him harm you."
As soon as Shen Shi arrived in the afternoon, the Sui army had already successfully captured the entire city of Huoyi. Although they failed to get the head of their love rival Li Er as they wished, Li Shentong, Zhu Can and other Li Er's lackeys also escaped into the northern mountainous area by chance. Sang Liang was quite surprised and delighted that the generals of the Sui army captured Sheng Yanshi, the general of Li's second army who assisted Li Deliang in guarding Huoyi. Others don't know how important Sheng Yanshi is, and Li Er has never reused Sheng Yanshi, the magistrate of Chengcheng County who took the initiative to seek refuge with his father. Master Sheng Yan brought it up in front of him, personally untied him, comforted him and tried to surrender.
It's a pity that Master Sheng Yan didn't want to accept Chen Sangliang's love, and flatly refused to surrender and only asked to die. When Chen Sangliang asked the reason, Master Sheng Yan replied frankly: "Because the late general was kind to me, When I was just a mere district magistrate, the general not only respected and invited me to join his volunteer teacher, but also undressed me, pushed me to eat, and named me Doctor Yinqing Guanglu, the chief of the army, and treated me with kindness. Again, I can't live up to his kindness."
Being completely brainwashed by the old Li's family with such an empty favor, Chen Sangliang almost wanted to strangle Master Sheng Yan to death, but after seeing Master Sheng Yan's firm expression, Chen Sangliang changed his mind again and said: "Sheng Yan General, even Li Yuan's son Li Shimin has been captured alive by our army, and the Li family's bandit army is about to be wiped out, why are you so obsessed with it? Haven't you heard that good birds choose trees to live in, and virtuous ministers choose masters to serve?"
Master Sheng Yan still categorically refused to surrender. Chen Sangliang had no choice but to sigh and said: "The general is really a righteous man. Since the general insists on not surrendering, then I will not force you. You can go. I will let you go back to Taiyuan." , to continue serving your benefactor's son."
"You let me go? Is it true?" Master Sheng Yan asked in surprise.
"Of course it's true. Not only will I let you go, but I will also give you rations and horses." Chen Sangliang said casually, "But I also have one condition. You help bring a letter to Li Jiancheng, so that I don't have to send another person to take the risk of going north." .”
Seeing that Chen Sangliang's attitude did not seem to be fake, Master Sheng Yan also saluted and thanked Chen Sangliang for not killing him, and also agreed to send a letter to Li Jiancheng for Chen Sangliang, and Chen Sangliang asked Master Sheng Yan to be invited to the camp Marquis Zhongtemporary, ordered his own soldiers to treat him well, and waited for him to prepare a letter to Li Jiancheng before letting Master Sheng Yan take him northward. Then Chen Sangliang called Sun Fujia to the front again, and whispered in his ear: "Give it to my personal soldiers, let them pretend to chat while guarding Master Sheng Yan, and let Master Sheng Yan hear these two news One is that Li Erlang has surrendered to me after being captured, and the other is that Li Erlang was released on purpose by me, and I asked him to escape back to Taiyuan to serve as my internal response. When he has the opportunity, he will kill Li Jiancheng for me and help our army take Taiyuan .”
While Sun Fujia sang promises, he also thoughtfully asked: "Prime Minister, Li Erlang neither left any family members as hostages, nor did he leave any fatal handle in your hands, so you just let him go back to Taiyuan." It may be difficult to win the trust of the enemy by being a hostage to our army, right?"
"Good question." Chen Sangliang nodded approvingly, and then said in a low voice: "Let the soldiers guarding Master Sheng Yan also ask this question, and let the soldiers who pretended to see the situation answer, just say that I have I could see that Li Erlang was just trying to feign surrender to save his life, and that he was just taking the opportunity to escape when he served as my internal response. I deliberately put him back because I knew very well that Li Erlang was a wolf. Anyone who is willing to be my internal correspondent will definitely spy on Li Jiancheng's military power and position. Once he and Li Jiancheng fight brotherly, it will be much easier for us to take the opportunity to take back Taiyuan."
Sun Fujia suddenly realized, and immediately bowed his hands and sang promises. Chen Sangliang nodded in satisfaction, and said in his heart: "Brother Jiancheng, I didn't do this to harm you, but to save you! If you are not careful, you will definitely die in the In your brother's hands!"