Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

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"How do you say this?"

Li Daozong talked in detail, saying: "When Emperor Sui Yang attacked Liaodong City for the second time, he mainly used two siege weapons. One is the weir road made of earthen bags, and the other is the eight-wheeled building cart. "

"With the Yuliangdao army, it is easy to attack the city wall, and with the bow and arrow of the eight-wheeled building chariot, it is possible to suppress the enemy army on the tower. It is said that with these two siege weapons, Liaodong City cannot last for a few days. .”

"However, the defenders of Goguryeo were very clever. They immediately divided the city wall into countless small sections with wooden fences and sandbags. Even if the Sui army attacked the city wall, it would be difficult to expand the results. In the end, it was still a failure."

"Weichen learned this lesson and secretly ordered people to develop this kind of building car. In fact, it is a combination of fish beam road and traditional building car."

His Majesty Li Er nodded, and said: "I understand, yours is broken into parts. It is for a sudden attack, so that the Goguryeo people will not find out that we have this kind of siege weapon in advance, and prepare for it."

"Exactly! We have prepared [-] eight-wheeled vehicles, each of which can hold [-] soldiers. In other words, we can send [-] Xuanjia troops to the city wall at one time. When the time comes, we will be able to break through city."

After Zhang Shigui finished listening, his expression was extremely ugly. He cupped his hands and said, "King Jiang Xia, I never thought you would spend so much effort in order to break through Liaodong City. My old Zhang is convinced, and I won't fight with you anymore! Hehe, one day Breaking Liaodong City, your name will go down in history! And myself..."

"how?"

"I'm afraid he will be regarded as a villain who has eyes but does not know Mount Tai, and will be recorded in the history books."

Li Daozong was triumphant, and said: "I don't think about the history and so on. I don't think so long. As long as I can relieve your majesty's worries, I will be satisfied."

Zhang Shigui bowed and said, "Uh...Jiang Xia Wang, I have a small request from my humble official, I wonder if you can agree to it?"

"tell me the story."

"When attacking the city, can you let the humble official lead his troops to the city? In that case, the humble official's reputation in the history books will be better."

Li Daozong frowned, and said: "It's not that I don't give you this face. But you are my Duke of the Tang Dynasty, and at your age, you still take the city by yourself. This...is not in line with the rules."

"I also hope that King Jiang Xia will be successful!"

"I can't make the decision. How about we ask His Majesty Li Er?"

No matter Li Daozong or Zhang Shigui, they are all experts in using soldiers.They all thought that with this kind of building car, the city could be destroyed in one day, and this was basically done.

His Majesty Li Er said: "Since the Duke of Guo State strongly requested it, I will grant his request. Tonight, we will secretly set up the building car. At dawn tomorrow, King Jiang Xia will command the Xuanjia Army to go to the city. As for me , We must beat the drums to cheer for all the soldiers participating in the battle."

Fu Yuzhang knelt down on the ground, and said: "Then can you give Xiao Wang a chance to help King Jiang Xia with His Majesty. Maybe let Xiao Wang see the majesty of Tang Hu Ben."

"Of course you can. Not only you, Brother Ku and Prince Su Zhi can also watch the battle with me. Let's see how my Tang soldiers use [-] strong men to break through Liaodong City in one day!"

Chapter 1938 God's Will

On the second day, it was just dawn.

Thirty huge construction vehicles lined up and arrived at the foot of Liaodong City.These building cars are all several times larger than ordinary building cars, and they are also much taller.In fact, you can go directly to the city without using a ladder.

However, although these building cars are so easy to use, Zhang Shigui is not half happy.

Because he saw that the Goguryeo people had used sandbags and fences to divide the city wall into countless small sections since some time ago.

Li Daozong's plan to beat others by surprise completely failed!

Zhang Shigui thought to himself, the plan failed, what should we do?Should we just go back and discuss other ways to attack the city?

no!Absolutely not!

Now watching the battle are not only His Majesty Li Er and a group of senior officials, but also King Wu of Baekje and the prince of the Xi clan.We really can't afford to lose this person before retreating without a fight in front of so many people!

Besides, the building car is better than the ordinary ladder. Even if the Goguryeo people are prepared, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road, there may not be no chance today.

Thinking of this, he waved the command flag in his hand, and said: "Boys, attack the city with the old man!"

"Here!"

squeak~

Braving the rain of arrows, the building car is getting closer and closer to the city wall...

ten feet...

five feet...

three feet...

one zhang...

bumped into it!

It's now!

Zhang Shigui kicked open the door of the turret, and rushed out with a huge shield in his hand.

Unexpectedly, what greeted him at this time was no longer dense arrows, but barrels of vegetable oil!

The Goguryeo soldiers near the city wall, each holding a bucket of vegetable oil in their arms, poured their lives on the building car, regardless of the presence of Tang Jun's weapons.

"No, they want to use vegetable oil to set fire to the building!" A thought flashed through Zhang Shigui's mind.

However, it is too late to realize this now.

Rockets flew out from the distant city wall, completely igniting the thirty buildings and cars, turning them into thirty huge torches.

The six hundred Xuanjia army has become a lone army, advancing but never retreating!

Zhang Shigui shouted loudly, "The time has come to be loyal to His Majesty. All soldiers, follow me to kill the thief!"

"Here!"

The six hundred Xuanjia soldiers fought bravely, each of them scrambling to be the first, like chopping melons and vegetables. In just a quarter of an hour, they killed hundreds of Goguryeo soldiers inside the fence.

Then, in one go, they broke through two fences and beheaded more than a thousand enemies.

But that's it.

On the one hand, the cunning Goguryeo people concentrated their strong bows and crossbows, relying on the fence to block the Tang army's offensive, on the other hand, they poured hundreds of barrels of vegetable oil onto the city wall!

"Mr. Guo, it's not good! The ground is full of vegetable oil, brothers can't stand under their feet at all! Think of a way." A soldier shouted.

Zhang Shigui smiled wryly: "I can't stand firmly? It's not that simple! I'm afraid this is where you and I will be buried."

As soon as he finished speaking, the arrows shot by the Goguryeo people turned into rockets.The entire city wall was filled with flames.

Not to mention, they kept throwing vegetable oil barrels to add fuel to the raging fire.

No matter how powerful the Xuanjia Army is, they are still flesh and blood, how can they withstand this ruthless fire?

In desperation, many people began to launch suicide attacks on the Goguryeo people!