The tactical thinking of the veteran General Li Zixiong is actually very right. He mainly uses the most orthodox siege tactics, and takes the top of Mount Tai to attack the defensive army head-on, supplemented by the surprise soldier, which suddenly hits the morale of the defenders and creates an opportunity to quickly break through the city.

If it were replaced by other cities, General Li would use these methods to attack the city. There were at least six or seven of the ten cities. Unfortunately, General Li encountered Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Great Sui Dynasty. The city that had been built for more than ten years was extremely solid. Needless to say, the city was perfect fortifications and the city defense materials were sufficient. What made General Li even more depressed was that his opponent, Shangchunmen commander, "Pei Hongce", gave him a huge surprise. He used all kinds of methods to defend the city properly, as if he could still predict the future. He would always expect General Li to take the next action and prepare for the response in advance, so that the confident Old General Li had full ambitions, but he always could not help the towering Luoyang city walls.

Everyone's white robe also disgusted General Li, tightly sealing and blocking every loophole exposed by the Shangchun Gate defenders, and even attacked very cruelly and viciously. They almost cut all the rebel soldiers who rushed to the city wall into pieces. The tactics of the carefully arranged catapults to cover the city walls and battlefields did not work for them at all. The rebel catapults thrown onto the city walls and could not shake them a little, and they could take a step back, and they could not stop them from chopping the rebel soldiers into pieces of meat less than a foot long and throwing them down the city wall to intimidate the rebels.

It was not over yet. After the sun was full of corpses under Shangchunmen City, the sun was gradually turning west, and the old general Li, who could not hold on to face, made a desperate bet and put all the last five ladder trucks into the battlefield to launch a final attack. As a result, a ladder truck miraculously leaned on the city wall with a few flames. Then, without waiting for the old general Li and the rebels to cheer, the conspicuous white robe had already cheered and seized the top of the ladder truck, and continued to be in a favorable position to kill the rebel soldiers who were swarming on the car so hard that they howled and flew everywhere. They even launched a counter-charge, killing all the rebel soldiers on the ladder back to the ground. When the Sui army soldiers intensively threw torches and swallowtail torches and easily burned the last ladder truck, the rebels had already paid no less than three hundred lives for the ladder truck.

Of course, if the extremely depressed General Li knew that the ladder truck was deliberately indulged because of a bad person wearing a white robe, and ordered the stop to shoot arrows and let the ladder truck lean against the city wall, then the ladder truck would definitely be even more depressed.

The twenty ladders were all finished, and the sun slowly reached the west of the sky that was very unfavorable to the rebels. The dazzling sunlight shone directly on the face of the rebels, making it difficult for the rebel soldiers to see the defenders on the city walls. They were then smashed and slashed by the defenders fighting back light. Before General Li ordered the gold to be heard, the rebel ant team, which had been hungry and thirsty, had collapsed automatically. In order to escape as soon as possible, many light flight ladders were thrown down and ran backwards. The tide retreated to the future. The supervising team led by Yang Xuanting personally went up to stop it. In the blink of an eye, they were completely submerged by the crowd of defeated soldiers. In order not to be trampled to death, they had to join the escape team, which led the safer bow and arrow team and the toad convoy also fled with them. In order to escape as soon as possible, many rebel soldiers simply threw many toad cars that were not easy to build under the city.

There is also the rebels' catapult fleet. Because of their lack of skill in technology and poor materials, three of the five catapult aircraft of the rebels have withdrawn from the battle due to broken drops. Although the remaining two are still dropping bombs, their power has been greatly reduced. Seeing their own brigade retreating, \u53

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Seeing that the enemy was frustrated, Chen Yingliang quickly turned his head to see the city gate and found that the rebel siege convoy at that location was also retreating. Chen Yingliang didn't think much about it and immediately shouted: "I'll order all the regiments of the National Army to go down to the city gate to gather at the city gate and prepare to go out of the city to pursue!"

As he shouted, Chen Yingliang grabbed the horizontal knife on his waist and was about to rush down the city. But an arm stretched out from beside him and pulled Chen Yingliang. A very familiar voice sounded, "Don't go, this time I'm very satisfied, I don't need to chase him. Chen Yingliang's order does not need to be conveyed."

"The opportunity is rare, it's a pity to give up." Chen Yingliang retorted casually and found that something was wrong. He turned his head and saw that the person who grabbed him was indeed Fan Zigai, the boss of Dongdu. Chen Yingliang quickly saluted and said respectfully: "The villain does not know that Fan Liushou is coming, and he has lost the opportunity to welcome him. Please forgive me for your crime."

"There is no need to be so much courtesy on the battlefield, get up." Fan Zigai waved his hand generously and looked at the retreating rebels outside the city and said, "I heard that this battle was commanded by you. I have some skills, but I can withstand the siege personally commanded by the old thief Li Zixiong. But there is no need to pursue it. It is too hard for the national army to fight. They are fighting the tough battles in this battle. How can they not let them rest well? Besides, there are so many Yang rebels outside the city. What should I do if I risk going out of the city and be surrounded?"

"The villain is not greedy for merit, but wants to chase after me and retreat, and continue to anger Yang Xuangan's rebels and tempt him to continue to attack Luoyang City." Chen Yingliang explained.

"The idea is good, but it's better not to take risks." Fan Zigai continued to shake his head and said, "Don't underestimate the rebel Li Zixiong. He was already a famous general of the former Zhou Dynasty long before the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty. He spent more than twice as old as yours. When fighting with him, you'd better not take risks and advance lightly."

Seeing that Fan Zigai insisted not to fight, Chen Yingliang didn't say much, so he could only give up the pursuit plan honestly. As a result, Fan Zigai was not

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Bu Xianzhi once said that during the rebel siege team retreating, a rebel cavalry suddenly rushed out of the rebel's main formation and came to the main gate of Shangchun Gate to line up and set up a formation, ready to welcome the Luoyang defenders' pursuit team at any time. After commanding the victory of defending the city, Chen Yingliang calmed down and understood that Fan Zigai's cautiousness was not unreasonable. Li Zixiong, the new think tank of the rebel army, may not be as good as Li Mi, the future fox of Wagang, in terms of strategy, but his response experience on the battlefield is not only several times better than Li Mi.

While secretly being alert, Chen Yingliang began to think quickly, "Are you supposed to do something to lure Yang Xuangan to continue besieging Luoyang City? With the current situation, Yang Xuangan continues to attack Luoyang City, which is the easiest and safest for me. If Yang Xuangan gives up Luoyang to fight Guanzhong, I will be in trouble. Fan Zigai will order me to go out of the city to fight in the field, and restrain Yang Xuangan's advance speed. If you are not careful, it will be a big problem for your head to land."

Chen Yingliang was still wary of the city wall, but Li Zixiong's face turned pale in the rebel flag formation. Although he had not had time to count the casualties, Li Zixiong knew that his casualties in this battle would never be small, because at this moment, the rebels' team launched an ant siege under Shangchunmen City, which was already blood red. The bodies of the rebel soldiers and the broken flags and guns piled up more than one person high, and the corpses and wreckage of siege weapons were covered with more than a mile long and more than half a mile wide. Some seriously injured rebel soldiers could be seen vaguely crawling among the pile of corpses, and then they were soon killed by the defenders on the city wall with bows and arrows, and were nailed to death in the pile of corpses.

Li Zixiong looked at the Chunmen city wall with a blue face and found that the defenders on the city wall had begun to cheer and celebrate, holding up swords, guns, flags and jumping. The sound of the shaking cheering sound could still be heard clearly for more than two miles away. Then Li Zixiong knew that a Sui general in a white robe was thrown into the sky by the defenders, and then dropped into the air. It was repeated repeatedly. It was obvious that this Sui general must have played a crucial role in this war.

Li Zixiong did not dare to see the disappointed expressions of the rebel generals next to him, but Li Zixiong had to pay attention to Yang Xuangan's reaction. After carefully turning his gaze to Yang Xuangan's face, Li Zixiong found that Yang Xuangan was also looking at him, with a blank expression, obviously disappointed. Li Zixiong didn't know what he should say now, but just looked at Yang Xuangan with silence. It was not until a moment later that the very educated Yang Xuangan took the initiative to speak and said, "Elder General, don't care, victory or defeat is common in military affairs, we have next time."

Yang Xuangan was just finding a way for Li Zixiong and saying a symbolic comfort word. The face-loving old general Li took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and bowed to Yang Xuangan and said, "Duke Chu, I have no choice but to lose this battle. I will never hide it and will bear all the crimes I deserve. But I must declare that the most important reason for the failure of this battle is the lack of siege weapons, especially the most important catapults. If there are more than thirty catapults to make up for the weakness of our insufficient bows and arrows, there are also ten more ladder cars. I have already captured Luoyang City today!"

He tried to shift the responsibility to Li Mi, deputy military advisor in charge of logistics. The old general Li said shamelessly: "If Chu Gong is more trustworthy than me, please prepare more siege weapons. I can guarantee that next time I attack the city, I will definitely be able to capture Luoyang in one fell swoop, capture Fan Zigai alive, and capture Huangfu Wuyi alive, so as to make Chu Gong's revenge today!"

Yang Xuangan frowned slightly because heavy siege weapons such as catapults and ladders were not just ready. Even if you don’t consider the necessary materials, it would take a lot of time to build these weapons. With the main force of the Sui army returning to the Luoyang battlefield quickly, the rebels dared to waste so much time preparing for the siege. No matter how great Yang Xuangan is, he must hesitate to consider it.

"Duke Chu, look, there is movement in the city!"

Maybe it was a coincidence that, just at this moment, a new movement suddenly appeared on the Shangchun Gate. Yang Xuangan, who was reminded, quickly looked up, but saw that there were thirty or forty big trees that hit the flying ladder in Shangchun Gate city at some point.

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The scout was sent up, and the situation on the city wall changed again. Some Sui soldiers raised their horse whips and tried hard to beat their companions tied to wooden stakes. At the same time, Fan Zigai's figure appeared on the city wall. His tall and big bearded hair was very white and easy to identify. He was yelling with claws. He was too far away and could not hear it. He could only wait patiently for the scout's reward.

I don’t know how many whips I slapped. Ordinary Sui soldiers tied to wooden stakes were put down again, but the unlucky Sui general was still whipped. At the same time, several scouts sent by Yang Xuangan to return to the flag formation and reported to Yang Xuangan: "Reported to Duke Chu, some officers and soldiers who fled down the city wall in the face of the battle. Fan Zigai asked them to tie them to the city wall to execute public execution. Hearing Fan Zigai shouted, the soldiers whipped twenty whips, and the eagle striker who quietly fled down the city wall whipped eighty whips."

"Old man! He is so proud and arrogant when he wins a small battle!" Yang Xuangan cursed and was very dissatisfied with Fan Zigai's arrogant attitude to deal with the deserters in front of him, and was too lazy to pay attention to such trivial matters. He shouted: "Send the order and the whole army will return to the camp to rest."

After the order was conveyed, a large number of rebels began to retreat slowly. Yang Xuangan, who was very good at leading troops to govern the army, personally led the elite troops behind the palace and returned in an orderly manner. Looking at this situation on the city wall, Fan Zigai, Chen Yingliang and others also died completely and took the opportunity to pursue. When they returned to the city tower, they began to arrange the aftermath of the war. After a while, the unlucky Sui army's eagle striker finally got whipped, was carried into the city tower by the execution soldiers, and went to Fan Zigai to test the punishment.

"Thank you for your hard work, does it hurt?" Fan Zigai asked the eagle striker with a bloody face full of chest and blood.

"Sir, can you not feel any pain?" The Eagle Hidden General, who was almost fainting from pain, asked in a crying voice, and groaned in pain: "Eighty whips, you can't let Mo Jiang put something in your clothes. Mo Jiang can come back alive. For the sake of the Sui Dynasty, Mo Jiang has sacrificed a lot."

"Since it is for the Great Sui Dynasty, you will not suffer in vain." Fan Zigai smiled and said, "Fifty stags of money and ten pieces of colorful silk. I will make you a soup and medicine fee. Go down and act according to your plan. If you succeed, I will not only give you a heavy reward, but also ask Your Highness the King of Yue to promote you to Yingyang General."

"Thank you, Mr. Liu, I am injured and cannot salute you. Please forgive me." The eagle striker groaned and said, "I will go back to write a letter now, and I will send someone to Yang's rebels to the evening."

"Very good." Fan Zigai nodded with satisfaction and reminded: "Remember, you must emphasize in the letter how I am not able to win the morale of the army and how I abuse you. Your younger brother, the captain Ma Yihao, is responsible for guarding the Luoyang granary. You must also write it down and tell the Yang rebels that when they attack the city next time they have the chance, one of your brothers will burn the granary and the other will open the city gate in the chaos to welcome the Yang rebels into the city! Do you understand?"

"I understand, understand." The eagle striker agreed with tears and tears, begging: "Sir, please let Mo Jiang go down to cure the wound. Mo Jiang's blood flowed into his crotch."

Fan Zigai smiled heartlessly, then waved his hand to let the Eagle Strike General go down to cure the injury. Chen Yingliang next to him rushed to the Eagle Strike General and reminded: "This general, please remember that you have arranged for the person who left the city to deliver the letter. You must not let him know the incident. You must also think that you were hit by a whip because you were timid in the battlefield and escaped from the city wall. In this way, no matter how Yang rebels interrogated, they would never know the truth."

"Chen Jishi, I will ask my brother-in-law to go out of the city to deliver a letter!" The unlucky eagle general said in a crying voice: "That bastard, dare to attack the maid brought by my wife. I have wanted to deal with him for a long time. It just so happened that he was not a soldier and didn't know what happened. This time I asked him to go out of the city to die. Is this a problem? Please let me go down to cure the injury, \u62

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Crying, the extremely unlucky eagle striker cursed in his heart again, "Damn it! Is that bastard who made a bad idea for Fan Zi? I was framed and gave me a charge of being timid in the battle. I whipped me eighty whip for no reason. I was responsible for supervising the transportation of materials to defend the city. Why did I timid in the battle? If I timid in the battle, the stones on the city would be smashed in less than an hour! I was wronged! I was wronged!"

In the evening of that day, after the main force of the rebels retreated to the Jinyong City camp in a mess, the rebels' decision-making level had huge differences on whether to continue to attack the eastern capital Luoyang. The rational faction led by Li Mi tried its best to persuade Yang Xuangan to give up attacking Luoyang and turn around to attack Guanzhong. The reason was that Luoyang was closely guarded and the city fortifications were perfect. Without a long period of repeated attacks, there was almost no possibility of quickly taking it down. Instead of wasting precious time under Luoyang City, it would be better to turn around and attack Guanzhong, where the main force had been severely damaged.

The passionate faction led by the brothers Yang Xuanting and Yang Wanshuo opposes the change of the target, because the Dongdu defenders owed too much blood debt to the rebels. If they did not conquer Luoyang and avenge, the brothers of the Yang family would have no face to see the elders of Guanzhong and the villagers of Huayin. Although the veteran General Li Zixiong understood that Li Mi’s suggestion was reasonable, he was unwilling to be severely damaged by the Luoyang army. He also stood on the side of the Yang Xuanting and his brothers, insisting on launching another large-scale siege, striving to seize the Luoyang City, which has a large number of families of important officials of the Sui army, and destroy the morale of the main force of the Sui army in one fell swoop.

Everyone has their own reasons. Yang Xuangan, who is brave but not resourceful, is certainly difficult to make a decision. After hesitating for a long time, he cannot decide whose suggestions he should adopt. He can only temporarily put the matter aside and decide to let the main army rest for a night before discussing the matter carefully the next day. Because Yang Xuangan did not ask for the construction of siege weapons overnight, Li Mi was somewhat relieved and returned to the tent and did not sleep all night, thinking about how to persuade Yang Xuangan to adopt the correct strategy.

Li Mi, who was determined to rebel against Sui, soon became completely desperate. The next morning, when Li Mi waited in front of the central army tent early to wait for Yang Xuangan's summoning, a man with a deer-headed rat was suddenly taken to the central army tent by a rebel scout. Li Mi asked why, the man with a deer-headed rat claimed to be Huang Youwei, the brother-in-law of the garrison of the Luoyang defender, and also claimed to have brought his brother-in-law, General Ma Kou, requested a letter of surrender......
Chapter completed!