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Section 15 First Trial

Li Xiuning was not seriously injured. She was knocked off her horse by the sergeant holding the shield and was only slightly injured. However, the sergeant was not so lucky. The special feather arrow fired by the Eight Bull Crossbow not only penetrated the wooden shield, but also suffered minor injuries.

It also passed through his body, right at the center of his body, and he died before he could return to the handsome tent.

It was past midnight, and although the sun was dazzling, I couldn't feel much heat. This time, twelve people were injured in this test. The eleven people who filled the river were turned into hedgehogs by arrows. After being cremated, each of them had a few...

Arrow.

The sergeant of the logistics battalion silently collected the ashes and placed them on the altar. Then he affixed his name to the mouth of the altar and placed it on the carriage. There was no time to grieve because there was about to be an attack again and more people would be sacrificed. Then they were cremated and placed on the altar.



Li Xiuning was riding on a war horse, dressed in military uniform, holding a spear in his right hand and pulling the reins with his left hand. The expression on his face was resolute and calm, perhaps because he had seen it a lot.

Luo Yu was different. The sergeant who blocked Li Xiuning's arrows was named Zhang She. He had served in the special forces and had excellent results. He had to quit due to family reasons. He could not have come to this expedition, but he came anyway. In order to protect

Li Xiuning, he died a worthy death, but he left a family of children without anyone to care for him.

The court's pension was not much. Luo Yu believed that Li Xiuning and their living friends would help the deceased's wife, children, and children. However, the fresh lives disappeared in front of his eyes. It would be a lie to say that he was not sad. Luo Yu sighed in his heart.

Since the tone cannot be changed, we can only accept it. What we have to do now is to sacrifice as few people as possible so that everyone can go home alive and do whatever they need to do.

The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded again. Li Xiaogong and Yue Yun led five teams of cavalry to a place three hundred steps away from the city gate. They stopped advancing. The team leader waved the red triangular flag in his hand, and there were already twelve people in each group carrying the installation.

The huge eight-oxen crossbows were placed in front of the formation. There were thirty of them, lined up in a row. Using the power of the mechanism, the siege crossbows were loaded and ready to be fired at any time.

Li Xiuning and Luo Yu watched from the temporary wooden platform built next to the Chinese army's tent. The expression of Dou Jun on the city wall did not seem to have changed. He was wearing white clothes, armor and black helmets. There had been more than 30 casualties in the round of shooting, including 19.

One of them died on the spot, and fifteen others were seriously injured. Looking at the Sui soldiers like himself under the wall, Yuchi Gong couldn't help but feel sad. Brothers were killing each other. Why on earth was this?

About a kilogram of black gunpowder was packed in a porcelain jar. Luo Yu personally handed this huge weapon that did not belong to this era to a special operations team member in his twenties. After teaching him how to use it, he gave him another weapon.

Give him a special fire fold.

This fire stick is mixed with white phosphorus, rosin and other flammable substances, which will spontaneously ignite when exposed to air and will not be easily extinguished. The fuse has been soaked in oil and will ignite at once.

There were more than a dozen special forces members in Jiezhou City. Just now, news came from the bamboo tube floating in the water of the moat that they were going to kill the guard by surprise and seize the city gate. However, Luo Yu raised a flag and strictly prohibited them, asking them to retreat to the inner city.

, don’t reveal your identity unless absolutely necessary.

If they don't want to hurt more lives, if the guard general is not Yuchi Gong, they can try their method, but in front of the fierce general Yuchi Jingde, their little ability is better not to show their shame. Besides, this fierce general will be taken as his own.

use.

There is black gunpowder, but are you afraid that you can't blow open a small iron door?

The two sides were still speechless. After a drumbeat, thousands of soldiers from the trapped camp raised their shields and began to fill the river. Arrows were still raining down from the city wall. Li Xiuning ordered his own side to shoot at them to suppress the rebels on the walled city.

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The suspension bridge is five feet wide. It is currently half-suspended at the city gate. Two bowl-thick iron chains are stretched straight on both sides. Cutting off these four iron chains in a short time is as difficult as climbing to the sky. The winch of the iron chain

In the stone house inside the city gate, if you want to lower the suspension bridge, you must open the winch at the door opening. This means that you must break through the city gate to lower the suspension bridge and let everyone pass.

It was very difficult, so they were filling the moat at all costs. Dou Jun's rockets were not a vegetarian, and there was an endless "ding-ding" sound when they were nailed to the wooden shield. However, the shield was also specially treated and was not easy to catch fire.

The special operations team member holding gunpowder sneaked into the moat from an inconspicuous river. He held the gunpowder porcelain pot with a wooden shield and covered it with a three-inch thick iron plate.

A bloody piece of clothing was placed on top to protect him from being shot by Dou Jun's random arrows.

He disguised himself as a dead body and drifted with the waves. The river water in February was freezing cold. After staying in the water for a long time, his face was livid. He looked like a dead body even if he didn't need to pretend. The waves caused by the earth filled in the river upstream made him speed towards the suspension bridge.

As long as you get under the bridge, you can safely find a place to blow up the city gate. The people on the wall can't see everything under the suspension bridge.

Xue Li sent a message to tell him that he had arrived in Dongguo. The city here was built with mountains on its back and faced Jiechi. The mountains and rivers formed a natural barrier. It was a bit unrealistic to go around and attack Yuncheng. The defenders here

The general's name was Xiong Kuohai, and he was also a famous general. Xue Li did not dare to get into trouble with just 5,000 horses, so he decided to leave a few soldiers and horses in Dongguo to set up a suspicious formation. He personally led the army to Xia County to steal Dou's army's retreat.

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After Li Xiuning read the letter, he gestured with his fingers on the military map drawn by the sergeants who had set out to draw the terrain first, and then said, "Would it be a bit risky to join the army?"

Luo Yu knew her worries and said: "Xue Li is fine, not to mention that Xu Juntou is still over there. I will issue a military order now!" Li Xiuning glanced at Luo Yu strangely: "No, I don't know you either.

Where does the confidence come from? If that's the case, then it's up to you. Let Xue Li take full command of the cavalry. I hope he can succeed."

Luo Yu wrote the letter according to Li Xiuning's wishes. Of course, it was written according to the code. He called the special forces member who delivered the letter and told him to deliver it before the time was due so that Xue Li could be prepared.

The chess piece has been laid, and there is no room for regret. Even if Xue Li takes the five thousand cavalry and surrenders to the enemy now, there is nothing he can do. Luo Yu trusts Xue Li.

A muffled sound came from the ground, and it felt like the whole earth was shaking. The war horse retreated uneasily and neighed. The knights hurriedly comforted the horse, and it took a long time to calm down.

This explosive package was carefully prepared by Luo Yu. The raw materials were ground like dust and mixed with egg whites into small particles. The power is three times that of ordinary black gunpowder. It can break mountains and rocks. I don’t know who the special forces member who lit the fire was.

Did you come back safely? I told him to run as far as he could after lighting the fuse.

The city gate was sinking at a visible speed. The water in the moat poured into the space created by the explosion. The explosion shock wave destroyed the rock structure underground. It could no longer bear the weight from above and began to collapse.

Dou Jun still didn't understand what was going on. In panic, he ran to both sides. The ten-foot-thick city wall broke in the middle. Although the iron chain was thick, it could not bear the weight of a section of the city wall. As the wall city

The suspension bridge sank, and the suspension bridge was pulled back. With a "bang" sound, the suspension bridge had been pulled to the city wall. After several consecutive loud noises of "bah, bah, bah", the iron chain broke, and the suspension bridge bounced back with the help of force.

, bounced on the road a few times before returning to calm.

A signal arrow rose into the air in front of the Youwu Army formation, accompanied by shining sparks, exploding in the air. The cavalry led by Li Xiaogong and Yue Yun had already been riding forward, and they arrived at the suspension bridge in only three or four breaths.

The group of sergeants who had just been filling in the moat were close to the city gate. From the time they were most stunned and speechless to the time when the sinking of the city wall was completed, they had already moved soil to fill the sunken hole under the command of the military leader, so that the cavalry could

successfully passed.

Yuchi Gong was worthy of being a general. After a brief moment of shock, he immediately organized his sergeants to counterattack. He rode a tall war horse and, with a horsetail dancing in his hands, rushed towards the soldiers who were filling in the ground in the camp.

Just as he was about to arrive in front of the sergeant, the team leader of the underground camp threw a handful of iron thorns on the ground. The short thorn with a shining corner was waiting for the arrival of Yu Chigong's horseshoe. This thing can hurt the horse's shoe the most. There is no shoe.

For protection, the horseshoe will be penetrated.

The horse seemed to know how powerful this thing was. It made an emergency stop and neighed, then stood up. Due to the emergency stop, its hind legs were unstable, and its huge body fell to the ground. Yuchi Gong was thrown off the horse and fell seven feet.

Xun Basu, before the follow-up cavalry arrived, had already been tied up by the soldiers of the camp.

This was the general's request. Try to capture this black carbon head alive. I don't know who gave the idea. The space left after the city gate collapsed was not big, but it was filled up in no time. A sergeant had already scattered the black carbon head.

The iron thorns on the ground were swept to both sides, and as he watched his own cavalry roaring in, he hurriedly stood by the broken arch, fearing that he would be trampled to death by his own cavalry accidentally.

When Li Xiuning and Luo Yu entered the city, it was already late, and the sun was setting in the west. Looking at the tied-up black-faced man Yuchi Gong and a group of generals, Li Xiuning hurriedly ordered the sergeants to loosen their bonds, and then brought Yuchi Gong and Yuchi Gong with a look of disobedience.

A partial general entered the Jiezhou General's Mansion, which was converted from an ancestral hall.

Half an hour later, Yu Chigong and the general were sent back to the surrendering army. After that, no one cared about them, and Li Xiuning was not afraid of their disapproval.

Luo Yu had already asked Li Xiaogong to publish an article to calm the people's hearts. Except for a small number of stubborn rebels who were wiped out, most of the five thousand troops and horses in Jiezhou City surrendered. These people were ordinary people years ago, although they were not as strong as Dou Jiande.

They came to conquer, but they could not be said to be very loyal. When they saw that the general and a group of military attachés had been captured, but the army did not kill them, they gave up resistance and surrendered.

The special operations team member who lit the explosives stayed in the cold water for a long time and did not have time to run far. He was knocked unconscious not far downstream from the suspension bridge and suffered internal injuries. He came to Luo Yu to give the order, his eyes filled with fear and fear.

Worship, what is that thing? It is so powerful, if it is the human body... He did not dare to think about it anymore. He just listened to Luo Yu and said: "Zuo Ping, thank you for your hard work. Go down and have a rest. I will ask the military doctor to come over immediately! Remember, this matter is

secret……"

Zuo Ping agreed, saluted, turned around and walked out.

Dou Jiande probably didn't know that Jiezhou City was captured so quickly. The first eastward attack to the west was almost completed. After Xue Li's side captured Xia County and cut off the connection between Jinyang and Yuncheng, and provided food and grass, the second eastward attack to the west would begin immediately.

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Longju Town is the west gate of Yuncheng, only twenty miles away from Yuncheng. According to the reports from the special forces, the walls of Longju Town are not that high, but the moat was dug two feet wide by guard Xin Wenli, and is now more than three feet wide.

, and the water is deep and fast, it should be that underground veins have been dug. There are 6,000 defenders, all of whom are infantry. It is a bit difficult to break through like Jiezhou.

Xin Wenli, one of the eighteen heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, unexpectedly served in Dou Jiande's army. It seems that the war in Longju will not end so easily. Yuncheng has not sent anyone to check the situation in Jiezhou until now, and it is not known whether

Don't worry, Wei Chigong still has no troops to send.

The news from the special forces team from Yuncheng was that they had not seen the general guarding Yuncheng. The sky ban had been implemented ten days ago. Except for the sergeants standing guard and patrolling on the city wall, the other more than 20,000 defenders had gathered in the west of the city.

In the camp, the general only recruited a few civilians to do some chores around the military camp. Entry and exit of the camp were based on tokens and passwords.

The residents in Yuncheng were not affected much. Except for the rule that Shen Shimo had to go home and close the doors and windows, everything was the same as before. The special forces team did not get the information they wanted from the people, and they wanted to sneak into the military camp, but they had no choice but to patrol

The soldiers are all in groups of five, and the slogans corresponding to each place are different every time. Even if you grab the token, you have no way of knowing the password. Instead, you will be alerted, so you have to give up and send the news back to Luo Yu.

Li Xiuning finished translating the military report himself, tilted his head and glanced at Luo Yu, and saw that he had been frowning and looking east, as if waiting for good news from Xue Li. The war in Xia County directly affected the success or failure of this battle, and

Xue Li was another candidate he had always recommended for a surprise attack. Apart from the initial news that there was a mountain of food and grass in Xia County, the five special forces members over there had received no news, and they didn't know what the situation was.

Li Xiuning said: "As a general, when Mount Tai collapses in front of you, don't show your composure. Things in Xia County have been arranged, so don't worry too much. If Xue Li fails, our army will have room for maneuver. If he succeeds in taking Xia County,

, Our army has no worries about food and grass. We can attack Jincheng to the east to help Zhao Kuangyin, and threaten Linfen to the north. If that doesn't work, we can detour to Changzhi and go north to Taiyuan to join forces with my father..."

Luo Yu sighed and said: "I'm afraid it will be too late by then. Dou Jiande may not know that our army is approaching Yuncheng, and the battle in Longju will not end so soon. Even if Longju can be conquered quickly, what about Yuncheng?

Our army is now prepared and unprepared. We quickly occupied Jiezhou with the help of gunpowder. If we attack hard, we don't know how many brothers will be sacrificed. Now I have a bold idea, that is, not to attack Longju, but directly

Attack Yuncheng and attract the surrounding Dou army to come for reinforcements..."

Li Xiuning said: "Surround the point to call for reinforcements?"

Luo Yu said: "No, I won't fight them. What I want to do is to put all their reinforcements into Yuncheng or drive them into Yuncheng. With more people, their strength will be greater, but their consumption will also increase. As for the food and grass in Yuncheng, it will not be enough."

After five days, we have to mobilize grain and grass from outside. Our army is now three times that of Dou's army. Besieging the city may be the simplest and least sacrificial way. As long as we surround Yuncheng and prevent grain and grass from entering, they will be in chaos. Therefore, Xia

The success or failure of the county's war is so important."

Li Xiuning thought for a moment and said, "What will happen to our army if Dou's army comes in full force to help?"

Luo Yu said: "No, as far as the situation in Linfen and Jincheng is concerned, they can't send troops over. The troops mentioned by my subordinates are just a few troops from the military towns around Yuncheng. Besides, we are not attacking.

The city is under siege, giving Dou Jun an illusion, and maybe Xia County will send troops over, and then Xue Li will be able to relax more."

Li Xiuning added: "I'm afraid Xue Li has already launched an attack..."

Luo Yu glanced at the map: "Whether he launched an attack or not, I told the special operations team members over there and gave them two gunpowder bombs. There is no problem in capturing Xia County. The main reason is to reduce casualties...

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Xue Li ordered to set off as soon as he saw the rocket take off. At this time, he had already arrived at the foot of Xia County City. This was Dou Jun's food transfer station. There were more than 5,000 defenders. The guard general Cheng Zhijie, also known as Cheng Yaojin, was also there.

Dou Jiande served in the army.

The outer wall of Xia County is two feet high and there is no moat, because this is a city built on a stone mountain. It is located in the Zhongtiao Mountain fault zone, and there are underground stone mountains two or three feet underground, so it is impossible to dig a moat. It was said in the Jin Dynasty that

Anyi was changed to Xia County in the Sui Dynasty because the ancient dynasty Daxia established its capital here.

Xue Li looked at the sharp mountain cliffs on both sides. It was impossible for ordinary people to climb up. The city gate of Xia County was at the end of this passage that could only pass a carriage. There was also a hundred meters at the gate.

The ten-square square was filled with black iron obstacles such as horses. It was possible to drive horses across.

This kind of terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. No wonder Dou Jun's food and grass are stored here. He looked back at the team that had stretched for a mile or two, frowned and ordered a halt.

Luo Yu looked at the newly sent map of Xia County and couldn't help but worry about Xue Li. Although the terrain was unfavorable, there was less risk of being ambushed. He didn't know what method Xue Li would think of to attack the city.

Cheng Zhijie is a famous general, and he also knows that there is no need to ambush. If you want to break the city, you can only use human lives to make up for it and consume all the feather arrows and crossbow arrows in the city. Otherwise, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Some of the civilian husbands recruited ten days ago were very good, but when asked if they wanted to eat military rations, these boys refused without mercy, saying that they had parents, wives and children at home, and they might not have anyone to take care of them after they left.

This is filial piety and cannot be obliterated, so General Cheng gave them a few more rewards and asked them to go back after repairing the old city wall. Unexpectedly, at this time, scouts came to report that there were thousands of people at the foot of the mountain.

The cavalry was coming to the county capital. It was thought that the soldiers and horses of the imperial court came to quell the rebellion.

Cheng Zhijie hurriedly ordered the entire army to be on alert. The small square at the gate of the city was filled with iron horses, tightly locked together with iron chains. It was difficult to move them away, waiting for the attack of the army.

So, everyone stayed, and the four special forces team members were happy. After the city wall was repaired, they were worried that they couldn't find an excuse to stay. Now they can't leave even if they want to. There is just one problem, there is no way to send the message, so Luo

Yu has never received any information from Xia County.

After Xue Li ordered martial law, he found Xu Shiji and discussed with him how to attack and minimize casualties. This was the first battle he commanded. He could kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, so he couldn't do it! He remembered what Luo Yu had given him before leaving.

There is really no foolproof method for his bag, so it is not too late to do it just by joining the army.

After Xu Shiji saw this terrain, as a famous general, he had already been thinking about how to attack to reduce casualties. However, in this terrain, the cavalry could not attack at all. So he used infantry to attack, and he had to face the killings of the defenders.

When he was troubled, Xue Li came over.

After Luo Yu read the letter from Xue Li, he immediately changed his plan. Xia County was surrounded and not attacked for the time being. As long as they were not allowed to transport grain and grass to Yuncheng, and Yuncheng's distress letter was not allowed to be delivered, the general of Xia County would not

They would know that something happened in Yuncheng. According to the usual practice of delivering goods once every ten days, Yuncheng may have changed hands before they were discovered.

Looking at the special forces members walking away quickly, Luo Yu breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Xue Li was doing well and did not launch an attack rashly. In Xia County, it was easy for Luo Yu to break through the door with gunpowder, but there was no need to spend so much time.

The price was high. It turned out that there was a little shortage of food and fodder, so Xue Li was ordered to attack the city to raise food. But today, another 300,000 shi of food were shipped from Changpingcang in Chang'an, so there was no need to attack the city in such a hurry.

Xue Li and Xu Shiji discussed for a long time. They thought of various ways, but it was almost impossible to clean up the iron chain barricades in the square at a small cost. Just as they were about to open the small cloth bag, the special forces team members who delivered the message came.

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After Xu and Xue read the translated letter, they hurriedly rearranged their troops, leaving two hundred cavalry to guard the mountain pass. Even if Dou's army opened the door and rushed out, it would not be easy to kill them. The rest of the troops returned to the mouth of the valley and were ready.


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