Li Dingshan sat firmly in the center of the army. In the distance, Li Dingshan's men and horses had rushed to the Zhuque Gate tower and fought with the Yulin army guarding the city.

There are still a steady stream of people climbing up the city wall below the city, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before the city is broken.

"Assemble the siege truck!"

Li Dingshan ordered.

The Yulin Army is at an end, and now is a great time to break through the city gate and enter the imperial city!

The army retreated in an orderly manner, and the siege vehicle weighing a thousand kilograms slowly drove out and crashed in the direction of Zhuque Gate.

On top of the city tower, Wen Zhehan chopped down a man who was approaching him. He looked at the siege truck crashing towards the city gate, his expression suddenly became extremely solemn.

Li Dingshan even moved out such heavy siege weapons!

The fine iron fangs on the front end of the siege vehicle hit the city gate with a "click", and the thick city gate made a tooth-breaking creaking sound. The entire city wall felt a shaking, and the city gate was even more shaky.

The generals who defended the city retreated in front of Wen Zhehan, protecting Wen Zhehan behind him, and shouted loudly: "Your Highness! We can't hold it anymore! Let's withdraw?!"

withdraw?

The imperial city is the last defense. Once the city wall is breached, where can they retreat to?

It’s not that the generals guarding the city didn’t understand this.

When he said about withdrawing, he not only wanted to give up the city, but also wanted to give up everything he had as a member of the royal family.

He is persuading himself to run away!

"Your Highness! If you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood!"

When the general guarding the city saw that Wen Zhehan was silent, he tried to persuade him again, with a worried look on his face, "If you fall down here, you will lose everything!"

Wen Zhehan was silent for a moment, and finally his heart sank, and his eyes were firm: "Deploy roadblocks, and be sure to stop the siege vehicles at Zhuque Gate!"

The general guarding the city felt cold, but seeing Wen Zhehan's determined look, he was obviously planning to fight to the death at Zhuque Gate. He circled his words of persuasion before swallowing it. He waved his hand in annoyance and turned around to arrange for someone to set up a road blockade. .

The siege truck retreated three to five meters and hit the city gate for the third time.

With a "bang", the entire city gate was knocked backwards.

The city gate fell heavily, but failed to fall to the ground.

Through the gap in the door leaf, the siege soldiers saw that on the palace road behind the door, there were several solid wood fences half a man high and a man thick, full of giant spikes.

This is specifically designed to prevent siege vehicles from using their thick bodies to rampage through the city and become a killer after they break through the city.

Siege vehicles are tall but heavy, with many and low wheels. These thick and short vehicle barriers can just fit into the chassis of the siege vehicle. Don't damage the wheels of the siege vehicle so that the siege vehicle cannot move forward.

The siege vehicle was huge, and even a siege vehicle seemed awkward after being blocked in the wide palace road.

Since the siege vehicle could no longer move forward and its wheels were stuck, the charging soldiers had to avoid the siege vehicle, only to be overwhelmed by several layers of vehicle barriers and half of the broken city wall. The door blocked the palace road.

The low traffic barriers were not enough to stop their progress, but it would take some time to climb over the barriers. What's more, the archers who originally guarded the city wall had retreated and were now on the towers on both sides of the palace road, aiming at the attackers below. Soldiers.

Even with their heavy shields and low traffic barriers, they couldn't climb over them.

The charging soldiers never expected that the traffic barrier, which had no function other than blocking the siege vehicles, would become a hurdle that they could not overcome!

When the news spread back to the Chinese Army, Li Dingshan suddenly realized that he had made a common sense mistake.

He has been fighting on the border for decades, and he has not been able to fight many siege battles. Siege engines have always been powerful siege weapons. Once they enter the city, they are almost invincible, and they will attack wherever they go!

Even if you are stopped by a car barrier, lose the protection of city gates and walls, and soldiers rush in, the wide garrison is the best slaughterhouse.

But he forgot that behind the gate of the imperial city, there was not a military garrison that was wide enough to train troops, but a palace road that could only accommodate four vehicles in parallel!

The palace road with four vehicles running parallel is not narrow, but after blocking the siege vehicles that can occupy the width of three vehicles, it becomes extremely narrow.

Moreover, there were thick and tall palace walls on both sides of the palace road, and vehicle barriers were placed all over the palace road. With the archers on defense, it was enough to prevent his people from breaking through for a while.

In this case, either the people who climbed up the city wall killed the archers, and the people under the city cleaned up or climbed over the car barriers to take a closer step to capture the imperial city; or they had to wait until the archers ran out of arrows.

But no matter which one it is, there is no doubt that it will take a long time.

This is not good news for Li Dingshan, who is eager to capture the imperial city, but at the moment he has no better way.

In the end, he had been at the frontier for too long, and the inertial thinking he had formed made him suffer!

Fortunately, even if it takes longer, he will definitely be able to capture the imperial city before Guo Youning's reinforcements arrive!

Thinking of this, Li Dingshan was no longer in a hurry.

Making steady progress now is the best situation.

Li Dingshan was thinking this, but suddenly there was a scream and howl from behind.

Li Dingshan frowned and looked behind him, and saw that the rear army soldiers were in chaos.

"What's going on?!" Li Dingshan asked.

Before he finished speaking, he heard a man hurriedly coming from the rear, shouting loudly: "Report!"

When they got closer, the messenger knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists and shouted: "Report to the marshal! There is a cavalry attack from behind our army!"

"What?!"

Li Dingshan couldn't believe his ears, "Where did they get the troops from?!"

During this month, the troops he had previously transferred from southern Xinjiang had also arrived in Beijing. Except for the Tianshu Guards and Longya Guards who were sent to intercept the Xiangya Guards and the Black Flag Guards, his men and horses plus the Hussars Guards totaled nearly

Eighty thousand troops were divided into four parts to attack the four gates of Kangdu.

Although his army mainly attacks the south gate, the soldiers and horses in the other three places are enough to hold back the soldiers guarding the city gates, and they may even break the city and attack the imperial city together with the army!

Under the suppression of absolute numbers, he should not have led his entire army into the city to attack. It was the best choice to camp on the outskirts of the city and sit firmly in the military tent to issue orders and strategize.

But Guo Youning's troops had already begun to return reinforcements, and Western and Eastern Xinjiang had also heard about it. He had no choice but to fight with all his strength and consecrate Wen Zhemao to the throne. In this way, Western and Eastern Xinjiang naturally died down, and Guo Youning was left alone, which would not make a difference!

And once Wen Zhemao ascends the throne, he, as the biggest contributor in supporting him to ascend the throne, will be his distant uncle and grandfather. He would not dare to openly disagree with him, both emotionally and rationally.

A new emperor with little power and an unstable foundation, what difficulties would there be in controlling him?

This opportunity was too good to pass up.

He thought that the matter was a done deal and easy, but he didn't expect that there would be repeated mistakes, and now there were even cavalry raids on the rear of his army!

Li Dingshan still couldn't figure it out. Under such circumstances, how could Wen Zhehan dare to dispatch soldiers from other city gates to support him?
Chapter completed!