The army conquered and the city was blocked with blood.
When Hao Xiaode and Wu Heitai finally became focused, the pressure on Tang Jun immediately increased sharply.
In the next five days, Hao Xiaode and Wu Heitai took turns sending their elite troops to storm Tongguan. Both of them were familiar with the battle for the city because they had led troops to fight for a long time inside and outside Luoyang Jiancheng.
In these days, the pride of Henan soldiers and generals is indeed a bit like sitting in a well and looking at the sky. But when it comes to attacking and defending cities, Henan soldiers are indeed the best.
At this time, there is no other army in the world that can attack each other for such a long time under a fortress like Luoyang.
The rich offensive and defensive experience finally came into play here.
On the third day of the siege, Wu Heitu's general Lou Huan took the lead in ascending the city. Although he was eventually carried back by his own soldiers, it greatly boosted the morale of the siege army.
When it was Hao Xiaode's turn again, he visited the city twice in one day. Even Prince Li Jiancheng couldn't sit still and ordered Li Gang to go to the city with a commander's flag and take charge.
The Tang army's lack of combat experience and disadvantage in defending the city were immediately exposed under the attack of the elite Henan army.
If Hao Xiaode and Wu Heita have enough troops at this time, they might be able to take the opportunity to rush forward and surprise everyone.
It is a pity that the Tang army had strong troops. Although it was caught off guard when the enemy attacked fiercely, it was always able to quickly stabilize its position and kill all the Henan soldiers who boarded the city.
This is a war of attrition, a bottomless pit devouring human lives. Wu Heitai and Hao Xiaode were unable to withstand the flow of blood.
In the next two days of siege battle, the two men could no longer maintain the intensity of the attack, and even had to work together to attack the city. The 40,000 troops led by the two men suffered heavy losses and could not get any reinforcements. The offensive ended on the sixth day.
Finally there was no way to go on.
Not only did the morale of the soldiers plummet, but Wu Heitai and Hao Xiaode, who had already made up their minds and gradually turned red-eyed, also felt chilled. Looking at the corpses everywhere, it was like a hell-like battlefield. On the seventh day, they sent troops as promised in the story.
After walking around the pass, I retreated without even touching the city wall.
The offensive came to an abrupt end. In the evening of that day, Wang Shichong's edict finally came to the front of the army, recruiting Hao Xiaode and Wu Heitai to the central army to question them.
The two guys walked together in fear. What reassured them was that, as they expected, Wang Shichong was not so stupid that he wanted their lives.
What made them angry was that they did not see the emperor at all, but waited outside the Chinese army's tent for a full hour before the eunuch came out and conveyed the emperor's edict to the two men in a sharp voice.
The general idea is that although the two of them are a little incompetent, they are still commendable for their loyalty and bravery. They were given a first-class official rank and were both promoted to Yinqingguanglu doctors, and they were ordered to lead the remaining soldiers to station behind the formation to supervise the battle.
Only Wang Shichong could think of such a method. If Li Mi came back to life at this time, he would probably express his admiration...
In Wang Shichong's view, this is called giving both kindness and power. In addition to slightly winning over the two guys who have already suffered a bloody blow, it can also further create conflicts between Li Mi's old men, and he can also reward and punish him as appropriate in the future, so that everyone can convince him.
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This is his usual method, and this is how he climbed to the throne step by step. When you are unlucky, he will win over you. When you are proud, he will definitely give you two sticks. If you disobey again, then he will only
The steel knife is left to serve.
Being good at winning people's hearts and creating conflicts within his opponents is Wang Shichong's advantage, but it is also his biggest shortcoming, because he reveals hypocrisy and deception when winning people's hearts, and most of the time he ends up falling out and being ruthless.
After creating conflicts, they were unable to resolve them, so many troubles ended in blood.
This is definitely not how political skills are played, especially in front of the two armies. The more tricks you play, the more rude and direct soldiers will become more and more disgusted.
Just like now, the shortcomings of his talents are extremely concrete. If he could have given some support when Hao Xiaode and Wu Heitai stormed Tongguan and made some progress, maybe the situation would be completely different.
But now, when Hao Xiaode and Wu Heitai returned to their own army, hearing the cries of injuries and illnesses in the camp, the two guys were already furious.
The thing is obvious, their situation has hardly changed at all, but they, who are behind the battle, have to perform the responsibility of supervising the battle. In normal times, this is an offending job, let alone now.
With the loss of troops and generals, the two troops have been reduced to mere foils. If they go to supervise the battle at this time, they will be frustrated. If they supervise the battle with all their strength, the guys in front may be able to merge with them at some point.
And if the war supervision is not effective, the emperor's knife may fall at any time... It took so much effort to sell iron, but the candle of life is still swinging. Hao Xiaode and Wu Heitai both gritted their teeth, and their eyes revealed
fierce.
What’s even more frightening is that, given what they have learned, who would be willing to waste their family money in a ghostly place like Tongguan?
But what made everyone happy and scary was that Wang Shichong was assassinated in the Chinese army that night. There were many strange people in the Henan army, so the emperor was only slightly frightened and was not seriously injured.
More than a dozen assassins were all killed. Afterwards, no one knew which hero sent the men. It happened very suddenly. It was a pity that Wang Shichong was fine despite the scourge lasting for thousands of years. This made two people, including Hao Xiaode and Wu Heitai,
Many people included felt very sorry.
So the fighting strangely stopped for a day, and the defenders of Li and Tang were confused, because this kind of intermittent siege was what the Tang army wanted to see the most, and the longer it lasted, the more beneficial it was to them.
Subsequently, Wang Shichong's central army moved forward, and the emperor still rode a war horse and swayed in front of the formation with an umbrella cover, as if to tell everyone that he, Wang Shichong, was unharmed.
Chen Guogong Duan Da, who was following Wang Shichong, was undoubtedly the first to wake up. This kind of self-directed and self-acted drama opened Duan Da's eyes again, who prided himself on being well-informed.
But like many things before, he couldn't guess Wang Shichong's thoughts, and naturally he didn't know what Wang Shichong's purpose was.
Of course, there was no need to guess soon. In front of the two armies, Wang Shichong immediately chopped off the head of Zuowuwei General Guo Ju and hung it in public.
At the same time, it was announced to the entire army that Guo Ju secretly arranged to escape and sent someone to assassinate the Supreme Being, who should be executed according to his clan.
This man was once Qin Qiong's personal guard, so it's not surprising that he died.
It can be said that under Tongguan, Wang Shichong had played enough tricks, just like he had turned the city upside down in Luoyang back then. But as for the effect, who the hell knows?