The duel between Li Cunxiao and Li Yuanba was the most dazzling presence in the North City, but compared with the siege battle involving tens of thousands of people, they occupied only one city tower and would not have much impact on the entire battle.
"Archers, three-stage shot preparation, target, the sixth area of the northern city wall.
The shield bearer stepped forward to cover the archers and the cloud echelon team, and the siege team immediately climbed up the stairs.
All the slinging convoys focused on the fifth area to prevent the defenders from supporting the sixth area..."
Bai Qi didn't even look at such a fierce and shocking battle on the city tower. Instead, he commanded the soldiers to attack the city with a calm face.
Under Bai Qi's methodical command, the coalition forces finally occupied most of the city tower, and their strength gradually overtook the Liang army on the city tower.
The Liang army on the city tower fought hard for several hours, but failed to completely drive away the weak coalition forces. Now that the enemy's and our forces are reversed, it is even more impossible to defend the city wall.
The north gate city wall began to be quickly occupied by the coalition forces, and all this was seen by Qin Hao.
"Li Shimin was so focused on the city gate that he failed to recapture the city gate. Now the city wall has completely fallen. If he had no backup plan, the battle on the north side of the city would be over in an hour or two."
Qin Hao couldn't help but flash a glimmer of light in his eyes, and thought to himself: "Should you give up Luoyang and retain your strength, or continue to fight to the death? Li Shimin, how would you choose?"
Li Shimin in the city was extremely anxious at this time.
Since he arrived with reinforcements, he has killed nearly ten thousand enemy troops one after another. However, the coalition forces have been coming in continuously through the city gate, and they cannot kill them all.
Of course, Li Shimin also wanted to recapture the city gates first, and then besiege and kill the enemy forces in the city, but Shi Wansui, who had high hopes, could not be reused. He could not get rid of the entanglement of the enemy generals for a long time, so he closed and opened the gates.
In fact, it can't be blamed that Shi Wansui, Lian Po, Ji Ling and Wang Bodang were all defeated by him together. He had tried his best, but he met a stronger opponent.
Wang Bodang really had the "true inheritance" of Hou Yi. He was obviously good at bows and arrows, but he insisted on fighting Shi Wansui in close combat. In the end, after only three rounds, Shi Wansui broke his weapon with a halberd, and he vomited blood and ran away.
Ji Ling didn't last long. After fifteen rounds, he was hit hard by Shi Wansui. He was so shocked that he vomited blood and ran away, leaving Lian Po alone to hold on.
In his prime, Lian Po was quite brave, but compared to top-level generals like Shi Wansui, the gap was still too big. He was defeated in less than ten rounds alone.
If Shi Wansui hadn't been eager to close the city gate and didn't pay too much attention to Lian Po who was running for his life, I'm afraid Lian Po would have been killed by Shi Wansui.
Three against one is to bully the minority, but he was defeated by the opponent alone. This made Lian Po feel humiliated and determined to avenge his previous humiliation.
Shi Wansui first defeated the combined forces of brothers Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi, and then defeated the siege of Lian Po, Ji Ling and Wang Bodang. Although he failed to kill the general, it was already a very rare achievement.
After successive battles and victories, Shi Wansui was also full of pride, and immediately set his sights on the city gate.
Shi Wansui led a team of elites and headed straight for the city gate. The ordinary soldiers were naturally unable to stop them, and Shi Wansui closed two auxiliary gates in succession.
But just when Shi Wansui was about to close the largest front door, Qin Army General Qin Wu personally committed suicide.
Qin Hao didn't want to send Qin Wu in, but Qin Wu insisted on asking for a fight, seemingly following Bai Qi instead of fighting happily.
It was detected through the system. Qin Hao knew that apart from Shi Wansui, there were no other generals of the Liang Army in Beicheng, so he nodded in agreement after thinking briefly.
As a veteran general, Shi Wansui was naturally much stronger than Qin Wu, but his consecutive defeats of five allied generals took a huge toll on Shi Wansui, so much so that he was beaten by a junior like Qin Wu.
[Ding dong, Qin’s martial arts skill ‘King of Swords’ is the advanced ‘God of Swords’. The God of Swords activates force 4, basic force 101, White Tiger Sirius Sword 1, Zilu 1, the current force has increased to 107. 】
"Shi Wansui, have you not eaten?"
Qin Wu violently suppressed Shi Wansui with a sword, and laughed and said: "Liangzhou's famous general is nothing more than this."
[Ding dong, Qin Wu’s skill ‘Tiger Roar’ is activated. This skill has been strengthened after Qin Wu merged with the soul of King Qin Wu.
Tiger Roar (one enhancement): The Tiger King is angry, the clouds thunder, the Tiger King roars, and all beasts are frightened.
Effect 1, force 3 after this skill is activated.
Effect 2, activated during a battle between generals, reduces the enemy general's force by 1 to 5 points in a single fight, and reduces the force of all opponents by 1 to 3 points in a group battle.
Effect 3, activated during legion combat, the overall combat strength of the enemy's entire army is partially reduced.】
[Ding dong, effects 1, 2, and 3 of Qin Wu’s skill ‘Tiger Roar’ are activated one after another. The current force has increased to 110, and Shi Wansui has been reduced by 3 points of force. The overall combat strength of the North City Alliance Army has been partially reduced. 】
Qin Wu's contemptuous words made Shi Wansui blow his nose and stare in anger, but no matter how angry he was, there was nothing he could do.
Shi Wansui had just experienced two battles, which consumed a lot of internal energy and physical strength, and it would take time to buffer his skills before they could be activated again after cooling down, so it was very difficult to remain undefeated, let alone close other city gates.
Seeing this, Li Shimin wished he could fight in person, but his injury had not yet fully recovered, so he had to mobilize other generals. At this time, news came that the other three gates were also attacked by the coalition forces.
"Bao, Jiang Song, Zhao Yun, Xue Rengui, Huang Zhong... appeared at the east gate."
"Bao, Ran Min, Gongsun Xuanyuan, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei... appeared at the south gate."
"Retribution, Yin Zhou, Er Lai, Pei Yuanqing... appeared at Ximen."
For a time, all four gates of Luoyang were attacked. Of course, the other three gates were not seriously affected for the time being. The most dangerous one was the north gate that had been breached.
As soon as he heard about the personnel transfer of the coalition forces, Li Shimin knew that Qin Hao wanted to divide the strength of the Liang army so that he would not dare to concentrate his efforts to pacify the North Gate.
Qin Hao's conspiracy was successful, and Li Shimin really didn't dare to gamble anymore.
Lu Bu, Yuwen Chengdu, Jia Fu, Hou Yi and other top generals were responsible for guarding the other three gates and had great responsibilities.
Although Li Shimin couldn't mobilize them, he could still mobilize subordinate generals, such as Wu Yunzhao!
Li Shimin was just about to order the transfer of generals, but the biggest bad news came: the city wall could not be defended!
"Report, the coalition's offensive is too fierce, and the brothers on the city wall will not be able to withstand it."
"What? So fast?"
Li Shimin's eyes widened, and then he asked sharply: "Who is directing the attack?"
"This is Qin general Bai Qi (Bai Qi)."
"It's him."
Li Shimin took a deep breath and suppressed the fear in his heart. He knew that since he was white, Qin Hao must have been outside the city, which also meant that he had little choice.
Li Shimin closed his eyes. In just a short moment, he thought about many things in his mind.
The next second, Li Shimin opened his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Send an order for all the defenders on the city wall to withdraw from the north wall immediately."