Li Ye and Li Keyong's joint attack on Huangchao was naturally a joint action, but Li Ye and Li Keyong had to fight each of these three credits, who belonged to them, or who took the lead.
But after Li Ye started the conversation, Li Keyong was not in a hurry, and asked Li Ye for the task of attacking first. Huiming had a conversation with Li Keyong just outside the barracks.
At that time, Huiming said: "If the general of King An asks the vanguard to attack the city, the general must not fight with him. Not only can't grab it, but let it go."
Li Keyong was puzzled: "Wouldn't that be handing over the credit to others?"
Huiming said: "Tongguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Siege will inevitably lead to heavy casualties. This is the first; Tongguan has two real-world masters sitting in the fortress. Whoever goes up first will be in trouble. This is the second. If King An strikes first, he If he doesn't show up to attack the city, there are no top experts in the Pinglu army, and he will definitely not be able to win the Xiongguan. If he shows up to attack the city and is targeted by the opponent's real world, whether he can save his life is a problem."
Li Ke said: "When will our department act?"
Huiming said: "When King An can't stand it anymore and invites the general to play, the general will be able to play."
Li Keyong said: "At that time, with the help of the masters from Juexiao Temple, I will not be afraid of the real people on Tongguan. And with Li Ye's consumption of the defenders before, with the elite of our soldiers, we will conquer Tongguan is also easy."
Huiming said: "Exactly."
Li Ke withdrew his thoughts and looked at Li Ye. He knew very well that Li Ye would definitely grab the credit for attacking Tongguan, so Li Ye would definitely propose that the Pinglu Army take the lead in attacking the city, and the Pinglu Army had the opportunity to attack the city first. After a few days of great victories, Li Ye would definitely think that they would be able to capture Tongguan.
Li Keyong shook his head secretly, and immediately felt very happy in his heart. Although Li Ye is also a ruthless person, he only has the ninth level of Qi training and cannot sense the existence of the real world. Of course he would not know that there are two people from Zhongnan Mountain above Tongguan Famous and real people sit in town.
"Marshal, the last general please be the vanguard and conquer Tongguan for the army!"
Zhao Polu, the Pinglu army, got up from the small case and clasped his fists to Li Ye to ask for his order.
"Okay! General Zhao is full of fighting spirit. This commander is very pleased. I will let you attack the city tomorrow!" Li Ye smiled and looked at the crowd, "Do you have any objections?"
Yang Fuguang and Zhou Ji looked at it, and they wanted to say something, but they didn't say it out loud. They attacked Tongguan and let Pinglu's army go first, so what would Li Ke's Yanmen army do? But since Li Ye agreed to Zhao Polu's request, he wanted to take the credit for breaking Tongguan. At this time, Yang Fuguang and Zhou Ji couldn't disobey Li Ye's intentions.
Wang Duo smiled and said: "Your Highness has good generals like clouds, General Zhao's heroic posture, I also admire him very much."
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Li Keyong immediately said: "The general has no objection."
Li Ye was very satisfied when he saw that there was no difference in the opinions of the people. He decided on who would attack first tomorrow, and the most important issue in this battle would be resolved. The next thing is that the Yanmen army set up camp, and the two armies' cooperation in defense is a trivial matter. .
Li Ye looked at Wang Duo, Li Keyong and others with satisfied faces, and secretly smiled in his heart.
That day the army was dispersed and everyone went back to the camp. It was still early, Li Ke used to go back to the Yanmen Army to rectify the troops, and set up camp without mentioning it.
On the second day, Pinglu's army marched beyond Tongguan. Li Ye, Wang Duo, Li Keyong and others all went to the front of the battle to observe the battle situation. Although Li Keyong has no combat mission today, he is the chief general of the 200,000 Yanmen Army after all, so he naturally has to pay attention to the progress of the battle. Even Li Ye can't drive him away.
"Tongguan and Forbidden Valley form a corner, and they cover each other. If you want to attack Tongguan, you must attack the Twelve City of Forbidden Valley at the same time, otherwise you will be restrained." Li Ye rode his horse in front of the formation, pointed at Tongguan and said, turning around: "Let Liu Dazheng lead his troops to attack the Forbidden Valley."
The orderly went away.
Li Ye asked Zhao Polu who was following him, "How is General Zhao's preparation?"
Zhao Polu clasped his fists and said, "The final general can attack the city at any time!"
Li Ye nodded in satisfaction, didn't say any more, and looked up at Tongguan among the cliffs in the mountains. Tongguan looks small, and it is incomparable with Dengzhou City. It is impossible for the Pinglu army to attack the city with tens of thousands of people at the same time.
The passage here is narrow and can only accommodate one horse and one cart. How many soldiers can be accommodated in a row? Therefore, this battle was assisted by ordinary soldiers, while the elite monks quickly approached the top of the city and started fighting at the top of the city.
Tongguan is wide on the outside and narrow on the inside. Zhao Polu led his troops forward. There were dozens of soldiers in the back row, and only a dozen soldiers in the front row. Now the soldiers are all holding shields. Ahead, always ready to move.
On the top of Tongguan City, there are densely packed armored soldiers, and there are also many monks gathered on it, and the breath is faintly emitted.
After Li Ye waited for Liu Dazheng to start fighting, he ordered Zhao Polu to attack the city.
Zhao Polu drew his sword out of its sheath and ordered all the soldiers to fight. The armored torrent rushed towards Tongguan shouting and killing. In a short while, there was a dense rain of arrows slanting down from the top of the city, and when the soldiers rushed close to the top of the city, various spells slammed down from the top of the city, fireballs and sword qi.
Li Ye and others were behind the formation, watching Zhao Polu lead his troops to attack the city. In such terrain, it was very difficult for soldiers to even get close to the city wall, because the passage was too narrow. The soldiers rushed again and again, but each time, because of the heavy casualties, they had to retreat after leaving a lot of corpses, and continued to organize the next attack.
After watching for half an hour, Pinglu's army had already suffered a lot of casualties, but they didn't even put the ladder on the top of the city, and they returned without success several times.
Seeing this scene, Li Keyong didn't move his face, but there was a smile in his eyes. He glanced at Huiming, who was already closing his eyes and resting his mind. For Huiming, such a battle situation probably didn't make any sense to watch. Li Keyong knew very well that if Zhao Polu attacked the city like this for a whole day, it might not be effective.
The only way is to keep consuming the stones, rolling logs and arrowheads at the top of the city, and then dispatch elite monks to play after these things are exhausted. The monks are here.
Li Ye looked at it for a while, kept his face, let Zhao Polu continue to attack the city, and returned to the camp by himself.
The battle continued, but there was nothing to command, so there was no need for Li Ye to stay there and watch.
In this way, one day passed, Tongguan was safe and sound, and the number of times Zhao Polu put up the ladder to the top of the city could be counted on one hand. When Ye Jun was discussing, Zhao Polu angrily pleaded for orders to continue attacking Tongguan tomorrow, and Li Ye agreed to his request.
Liu Dazheng's progress is quite good, he has pulled out the two connected cities of the Forbidden Valley. The Twelve Linked Cities of the Forbidden Valley are said to be linked cities, but of course they are not cities like Dengzhou, but just small square cities. A square city can only accommodate a few hundred people at most, and a small one can only accommodate dozens of people.
However, relying on the dangerous terrain, it is still very difficult to guard mountain passes, high points, intersections and other terrains. Liu Dazheng pulled out two in a day, which can be described as a very good record.
Li Ye encouraged Liu Dazheng to continue tomorrow.
The siege on the second day was almost repeating the process of the first day. Zhao Polu, who attacked Tongguan, had suffered hundreds of casualties, and he himself was seriously injured. This is because he led a group of qi practitioners to rush straight to the top of the city and was besieged by the opponents. due to.
Liu Dazheng's progress was quite smooth, and he won two more Liancheng.
But from the third day onwards, Liu Dazheng's progress was slowed down, from two cities a day to one city a day, and he could not pull out a city in a few days. When he captured the seven cities, Fangcheng behind I can't attack them no matter what.
"The Twelve Cities in the Forbidden Valley, and the last five cities are very dangerous, even if they are not much different than Tongguan itself. Our soldiers fought bloody days and suffered heavy casualties, but they were still unable to capture the city." During the military discussion, Liu Dazheng returned to his life in shame and indignation.
Li Ye didn't say much, and sent someone to replace him. Zhao Polu attacked the city for many days, but there was no obvious result, so Li Ye also replaced him.
At the beginning, Li Ke used to observe the battle situation every day, but after the fifth day, he never went again. Because it is useless to look at it, it is impossible for the Pinglu army to capture Tongguan.
Through these few days of observation, Li Keyong has already figured out very clearly that although the proportion of monks in Li Ye's army is more than that of ordinary troops, it is still limited and cannot be compared with Yanmen Army. The Pinglu army was indeed brave, and their armor was quite sophisticated, but it was stronger than the general army of the feudal town.
"It is impossible for such an army to capture Tongguan, and it will be useless to give him another month. The current Tongguan is not the Tongguan when Huang Chao entered the pass. It is very strong, and there are masters of Taoism." On the tenth night, Li Ke said to Huiming in the big tent.
He was quite complacent. After all, after seeing the situation of the Pinglu Army, his Yanmen Army became more and more elite by comparison. Ke Yong, then the great achievement of this war is none other than the Yanmen Army, Li Keyong cannot be unhappy.
Huiming said indifferently: "King An's fierce attack on Tongguan for several days is just a slap in the face. When this breath goes down, he will know that no matter how hard he tries, he will not be able to capture Tongguan in the short term, and he will invite the general to play at that time. The general must remember At that time, the general must capture Tongguan within three days, otherwise Li Ye will try his best to get the general to end."
Li Keyong didn't take it seriously: "Master, don't worry, I know this well."
On this day, Li Ye was studying in his big tent. Yang Fuguang came to see him, and Li Ye got up to greet him.
After seeing the ceremony, Yang Fuguang said worriedly: "Tongguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Huang Chao has deployed heavy troops here. It is indeed not overnight. Isn’t it the turn of the Yanmen Army? We can’t let them watch the show all the time, let them also go up and attack for a few days, and then switch to the Zhongwu Army to attack for a few days. When it’s almost time, the Pinglu Army will go up again What do you think, Your Highness?"