In anger, Li Shimin personally commanded the army and launched an attack on Yewang City.
In order to speed up, the Tang army arrived in a hurry. Catapults, crossbows, wells and other siege equipment were all at the rear. Naturally, it was impossible to capture Yewang City with only ladders and ramming vehicles.
"Pour the golden juice."
Following Gongsun Yan's order, buckets of boiled, stinky golden juice were poured directly onto the soldiers on the ladder.
"ah……"
Screams sounded one after another.
Golden juice is actually boiled excrement. This thing is extremely disgusting, but it is also a weapon for defending the city in cold weapon warfare.
Once the feces is boiled, the temperature will be too high for the human body to withstand, and the temperature will drop very slowly, which is convenient for use in city defense.
Once a soldier is splashed, his death will be extremely miserable. If he is not splashed, he will only be affected. Even if he is not scalded to death immediately, he will still get sick due to bacterial infection, and he will still die sooner or later.
In addition to its physical effects, golden juice can also shock and disgust people. People who have never seen it will definitely be disgusted and spit it out after seeing it with their own eyes, and the stinky smell is simply unbearable for ordinary people.
In such an environment, the enemy's condition must have declined and their combat power has declined. How many percent of the enemy's combat power can they still use to attack the city?
When Gongsun Yancai used the golden juice, he was also disgusted by this disgusting thing. The disgusting scene and the indescribable taste made him vomit out bile.
But after seeing the powerful effect of golden juice in defending the city, Gongsun Yan gradually stopped feeling nauseated and even got used to the smell.
Gongsun Yan's preparations can be said to be extremely top-notch. In order to be able to defend Yewang City, Gongsun Yan collected all the feces in the city in advance.
In addition, Gongsun Yan also built a toilet specifically for collecting and distinguishing, and ordered that all the people in the city and the entire army must defecate here, just to prevent the collected gold juice from being insufficient.
Li Shimin, who was ill-prepared, faced Gongsun Yan, who was well-prepared, and was naturally beaten to death.
Li Shimin had been fighting in the north and south for so many years, and he had only used golden juice to defend the city. Of course, he couldn't be disgusted by it.
Seeing that our own soldiers suffered heavy casualties, they did not even climb up the city tower. Moreover, they were so frightened by the Qin Army's Jinzhi offensive that they did not even dare to continue attacking the city.
After Li Shimin saw this scene, he also knew that it was impossible to win the battle quickly, so he could only order to postpone the siege and wait for the siege equipment from the rear to arrive before continuing the siege.
Under Li Shimin's urging, in just half a day, the catapults, manholes and other major siege equipment were all transported by the army to the front line of the Wild King. Then arrows rained down and thousands of stones were fired.
Gongsun Yan calmly commanded the army. Taking advantage of his commanding position, he first used his own catapult to destroy the Tang army's catapult. Once the Tang army got close, they would counterattack with gold juice, powerful crossbows, stones, rolling logs, etc.
Until the enemy troops are driven back.
The defense of Yewang City is very sufficient. Before the war started, Qin Lie, the prefect of Hanoi, moved various military supplies to Yewang City in advance, so as to prevent the situation that if Hangu Pass defense supplies were not enough, he would immediately move to Yewang City.
The transported materials were lost to Hangu Pass.
However, neither Qin Lie nor Jia Xu obviously expected that Hangu Pass would be directly burned down by Gongsun Yan, and it would fall so quickly that reinforcements could not be sent in time.
The siege battle was in full swing.
After all, Li Shimin is the top commander with a command of 100(2). In terms of command, Gongsun Yan, who has a command of 98, is not his opponent, but he can compete with him with the advantage of defending the city.
Li Shimin personally directed the siege of the city for an hour. After exhausting all means, Gongsun Yan also found no flaws. He knew that it would not be that easy to capture Yewang City.
"My Lord, the preparations for the Wild King City are very sufficient. Judging from the current progress, if we want to rely on the superiority of troops to attack the Wild King City, it will take at least two months. Even if we forcefully break the city without any casualties, it will take a month."
Changsun Wuji said.
"Hangu Pass has not been able to hold off my army for a month. If we are held back by Yewang City for a month, by the time we reach Luoyang City, the main force of the Qin army may have rushed back from Hebei."
Li Shimin's eyes flashed with anxiety, and he said in a deep voice: "We must find a way to break through Yewang City as soon as possible."
"My lord, you can divide your troops to capture Yiyang. The current garrison in Yiyang city is only two thousand at most. The difficulty of attacking is much lower than that of the wild king. As long as Yiyang is captured and the dichotomy between the two cities is broken, we can capture it."
Yewang City will also be much easier." Li Kui added.
"Good plan."
Li Shimin's eyes lit up and he smiled and said: "Okay, let's do it. Where is Zhao She?"
"The end will be here." Zhao She, who was bandaged, stood up and responded with clasped fists.
In the previous battle with Li Cunxiao, Zhao She was affected and was injured. However, he was very lucky and was only slightly injured, which did not affect his command of the army.
"Zhao She, I order you to lead an army of 20,000 people and attack Yiyang City."
"promise."
Zhao She answered with cupped fists. In his opinion, this battle has been won.
Although Yiyang is a fortified city as famous as Yewang, the city's defenders only have less than 2,000 troops. With an army of 20,000, which is ten times more than the enemy, is it still impossible to attack it?
Zhao She led the army confidently, and the first thing he did after arriving in Yiyang was not to attack the city, but to persuade him to surrender.
The bad guy Li Tang did a good job in intelligence work and found out all the information about the guards in all the cities in Sizhou. The guard in Yiyang was just a nobody.
Zhao She felt that his own strength was ten times that of the enemy. With such a disparity in strength, it was still possible to persuade the opponent to surrender, and there would be no loss even if he failed.
Under Zhao She's persuasion to surrender, Yiyang guard Hu Chao first refused, and then agreed.
Zhao She was overjoyed when he saw that the Qin general offered the city to surrender. Just when he was about to lead his army into the city and take over Yiyang City, a secret agent from the army suddenly came to report, saying that traces of military movements had been found in the west and east of Yiyang.
After all, Zhao She was a famous general. After hearing the news, he suddenly became vigilant. Naturally, he would not dare to enter the city easily until he knew what was going on in the city.
Seeing Zhao She lingering outside the city, even if he did not lead the army into the city, Tan Daoji, who was hiding in Yiyang City, was also secretly worried.
He planned to lure Zhao She into the city, then beat the dogs at the gate, and annihilate the Tang army. However, Zhao She, who was already preparing to enter the city, became unwilling to enter the city after hearing something.
"Is it exposed?"
Just when Tan Daoji secretly doubted himself, Zhao She raised his hand and cut off the head of Yiyang guard Hu Chao, and then commanded the army to be forcibly attacked the city.
Seeing this, Tan Daoji emerged from the city tower and shouted: "Close the city gate and prepare to defend the city."
"promise."
boom……
The gates of Yiyang City suddenly closed, leaving the Tang army's cavalry to escape.
"Is this Tan Daoji?"
After Zhao She saw the people on the tower, his eyes suddenly widened and he said in shock: "Why is he in Yiyang?"