Li Mu was a later generation who had never fought the war of the Tang Dynasty and had no experience at all. But don’t forget that he was a game designer. When designing the game “The Legend of the Tang Dynasty”, in addition to data balance, he also participated in the construction of the gang territory system.

The gang territory system, one of the important gameplay is the siege battle between gangs. In order to make the game more interesting, Li Mu worked overtime at that time and read a lot of historical materials. The siege battle during the Tang Dynasty was very simple, and it was roughly divided into three solutions: one was aimed at the city gate, the second was aimed at the city wall, and the third was aimed at the people on the city wall.

For city gates, "storm" is also called "lin Chong" or "opposing building", which is an armored siege tower, that is, destroying the city wall with the force of collision. The city gate is a simplified version. To put it bluntly, it means hitting the earth-rammed city wall and wooden city gate with its own weight acceleration, breaking the city gate, and the army can rush into the city.

When targeting the city wall, a bed crossbow is used. Also known as the "Eight Niu Crossbow", the arrows are made of hard wood as arrow shafts and iron sheets as feathers. They are like javelins in size. They are truly a killer weapon. When this thing is launched, it is quite spectacular. The arrows can cross two horses, and the huge impact force can nail the arrows directly into the city wall. When firing volleys, hundreds of "javelins" are nailed into the city wall, and siege soldiers can use this to climb up.

When targeting people on the city walls, bows and arrows were used. During the Tang Dynasty, both foreign races and Tang soldiers shot well. When siege, bows and arrows were an indispensable weapon. Only when defending the city could they shoot from top to bottom, while the siege needed to shoot arrows, shooting arrows into the air and then falling down. Under the action of gravity, the lethality was greater than that of direct shooting.

Apart from the above three tactics, there are the most basic ones, such as grab hooks, cloud ladders, etc., which do not have any technical content and are completely fighting for life. Usually, defending a city is cheaper than siege. Both sides have equal troops and there is no food and grass on the side of the city, the siege is almost impossible to succeed. Li Jing's army only used three thousand elite cavalry to break through Dingxiang City. In addition to the bravery of the soldiers, the more important thing is that the Turks are not good at defending the city. The Tang army suddenly came to attack and caught off guard. They didn't know how to deal with it, so they were broken.

When Li Mu dared to come back, he did not suddenly become passionate and had a second-year disease. Instead, he fully considered various objective conditions and felt that he could hold on. Previously, when Li Siwen wrote a letter to Li Ji, he usually received a reply in three days, which means that the one-way journey was almost one and a half days. Li Ji sent a letter to say that he would definitely send someone to chase after Princess Yicheng when he found the traces of Princess Yicheng. Even if he found it near Lingzhou, the journey would be only one and a half days. In other words, Princess Yicheng could not attack the city for no more than one day. When Li Ji's troops arrived, she would not have any chance.

Half a day has passed, and Princess Yicheng's men are still missing. Li Mu's heart has been relieved. Even if Princess Yicheng comes now, as long as he can hold on for a day, the problem will be solved.

What needs to be thought about now is how to persevere in this day.

Li Mu analyzed that since Princess Yicheng gathered hundreds of remnants after the Turkic camp was destroyed, it means that she could not have siege equipment. In other words, she could not have 'storm' and 'bow crossbow'. But there are dense forests nearby. If Princess Yicheng sent someone to cut down, make it into a ladder, or simply find a giant tree to hit the city gate, this kind of thing could still happen.

In response to these two possibilities, Li Mu first arranged for all the craftsmen to demolish the houses at the city gate, and use bricks and stones and wood to build the city gate to death. In this way, no matter how they hit, it would be impossible to break the city gate.

As for the siege of the city by cloud ladders, Li Mu also had a way to deal with it. He found a few people who could make iron thrusts among the craftsmen and asked them to make a lot of "caltrops". This kind of thing doesn't require any drawings. In short, it's just how to stab people and how to avoid it. All the iron ingots left in the old iron head were melted into caltrops and thorns. The masons went into battle together and were all inlaid on the city wall. In this way, it would be impossible for the Turks to climb the wall when siegeing the city.

In addition, Li Mu mobilized the people to move the remaining bricks and stones to the city wall together. When the Turks attacked the city, this is the "wooden cannon stone". It doesn't take much effort, just pick it up and smash it.

In addition to these, Li Mu also fully considered the possibility of a city breaking. So he ordered people to dig a shallow pit with a bowl size of about half a foot in the middle of the streets in the city, a few feet apart. This is what he learned from the TV series. Li Mu vaguely remembers that this kind of thing seems to be a "sank horse pit" in a certain movie. If a horse falls into this "sank horse pit" when it runs, the horse's legs will be broken immediately. At that time, people will be ambushed on both sides, holding a spear, and one will fall and stab the other to death, without even a chance to react.

After dawn, all the preparations were basically arranged. Li Mu stared at a pair of dark circles and patrolled the city walls on all sides, feeling that the preparations were quite sufficient. Even if Princess Yicheng came to attack, there were only a few hundred people. As long as she did not leave the city wall to fight head-on, she would not be able to attack. Even in the worst case, persisting for a day or two will not be a problem.

Li Mu ordered people to set up a stove to cook on the side of the city wall. The food in Dingxiang City is still enough. After all, the population of the city is only six or seven hundred. Judging from the current grain storage, it is no problem to persist for half a month. The battle is imminent. Every stove is cooked with dry rice, and there is no sparse at all. Everyone has been tired all night and has to eat enough to have the strength to fight the enemy.

"After eating, I lean on the wall to hurry up and rest. Don't worry, as long as we survive the day, we will be fine. Everyone keep their heart in their stomachs, and reinforcements are already on the way!"

Li Siwen pulled his neck and shouted, but there were only a few people. The tension before the war and the fear of an unknown future had already occupied the hearts of the people.

Li Mu pulled Li Siwen and handed him a steamed bun, saying, "Save your throat, if you really fight later, you will be shouting." Li Siwen took the steamed bun and bit it. At this moment, he didn't think the steamed bun was a coarse grain and swallowed it into his stomach. He glanced at Li Mu secretly, and saw that his expression had not changed, and said, "Are you not worried at all?"

"Worry." Li Mu swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth and said, "But worry is useless. The important thing is that I don't believe I will die here."

Li Siwen laughed and said, "Where did you get the confidence? It seemed like you had fought a war."

Li Mu didn't explain. He could not say that he felt that he had a pig's feet halo and could not die so ordinary. The two of them were about to go back to the yamen when they suddenly felt the ground trembling and quickly got off the horse and climbed up the city wall. Western smoke and dust rolled in, and the sound of horse hooves was like thunder, more than a thousand people. The steamed bun in Li Siwen's mouth fell to the ground and looked at Li Mu dullly: "My father said there are only a few hundred people. Where did so many people come from?"
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