Shi Siming waited on the ground for an hour, but there was no movement underground. When he was restless, a hole opened in the ground ten feet away, and a stone with a rope was thrown out of the hole.
Shi Siming ordered people to drag the rope. The rope was quite heavy and required dozens of strong men to drag it.
Amid the shouts of the soldiers, the rope was slowly pulled up. What was pulled out of the cave was actually the Yan Army squad that had just entered the tunnel. The corpses of the soldiers were threaded on the rope one by one like straw ropes piercing the gills of fish.
The generals are horrified!
Shi Siming's face was ashen. He knew that after this battle, no one in the Yan army would dare to go to this "Abi Hell".
"Smoke it for me!"
Shi Siming thought of the methods used by herdsmen to catch field mice on the grassland.
The officers and soldiers of the Yan army found dry firewood and wet grass, and after lighting them, thick smoke billowed out and they were thrown into several cave entrances.
After a stick of incense, the captain guarding the stables stumbled over, panting and reporting:
"Commander, it's not good!
Some bastard lit a fire in the stable, and thick smoke swept through the entire stable. The horses were frightened, and hundreds of war horses, led by your beloved horse, had already broken through the fence side by side and escaped from the military camp!
Marshal, go and have a look..."
Before he finished speaking, Shi Siming became furious, pulled out his sword, and chopped off the head of the stable captain with one blow!
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Unable to eat at the table, he drew his sword and struck the pillar with a long sigh.
How long will it take for my husband to be able to fly and hang his wings?
He abandoned his post and returned home to rest.
I went out to say goodbye to my wife in the morning, but I was still by my side in the evening.
Do some foreplay on the bed and watch the woman weave.
Since ancient times, all the saints and sages have been poor and humble, not to mention that we, our generation, are solitary and upright!
——"Eighteen Poems about Difficulties in Traveling" Bao Zhao (Southern and Northern Dynasties)
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Shi Siming's 100,000 troops surrounded Taiyuan and attacked day and night. The war lasted for more than a month, but Taiyuan City remained unmoved.
In order to break the city as soon as possible, Shi Siming sent 3,000 people back to Hebei Road to transport siege equipment. When the Yan army arrived in Guangyang with heavy siege equipment, Li Guangbi had already laid an ambush here. The Tang army's special generals Murong Yi and Zhang Fengzhang led
The soldiers annihilated all three thousand Yan troops and burned all the siege equipment.
Not only that, hundreds of soldiers disappeared mysteriously every night in the Puppet Yan Army Camp - no one alive, no corpse!
From then on, the Yan army was filled with an aura of mystery and fear. The soldiers spread the word by word of mouth, and the rumors became more and more frightening. They did not dare to act alone even when peeing at night.
Shi Siming had no choice but to send people to yell at the city in an attempt to anger Li Guangbi and force the Tang army to leave the city for a decisive battle. Most of Shi Siming's troops were grassland cavalry, as fast as the wind, tough and brave, and capable of fighting in the field. If the Tang army could be lured out of the city to fight, the Yan army would win.
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The scolding formation is a traditional siege strategy.
A school lieutenant led dozens of loud-voiced Han soldiers to the front of the formation. He stood outside the range of the crossbows, rolled up his sleeves, raised his neck, and started to curse at the top of his voice.
From the scoldings of Li Guangbi's 18th generation ancestors to Li Guangbi himself: he had done all kinds of evil since childhood, seducing his second sister-in-law, embezzling military pay...the scoldings were vivid, as if he had witnessed them with his own eyes.
When they got to the point of scolding, a dozen soldiers untied their belts and urinated in front of the Tang soldiers on the tower. After urinating, they burst into laughter.
Many of the fine horses from Dawan that were scattered were captured by Tang soldiers and transported back to Taiyuan City through the tunnels. Shi Siming's eyes were so angry that they were on fire.
"A small trick! With this trick, you want to stop my army of tens of thousands?!"
With a wave of the flag, Shi Siming personally led the troops to attack the city.
Thousands of soldiers came roaring towards the city wall like a tide. They set up ladders and rushed chariots to attack the towers.
While running, the soldiers did not dare to look forward, but stared at their feet. If they were not careful, a few "bloody mouths" would appear on the ground, and with a squeal, they would knock the running Yan down.
The soldiers devoured it.
The soldiers lowered their heads and ran, and although they luckily escaped the traps on the ground, they could not avoid the crossbow arrows fired from the city wall if they did not raise their heads.
The soldiers of Yan were frightened and unable to defend themselves. They could only follow the ladder closely, rush to the side of the car, and move slowly.
As soon as the Yan army's ladder and charging chariot approached the city wall, the ground collapsed, and the ladder and the soldiers on the charging chariot fell into several large pits.
Before the soldiers could climb out of the pit, the Tang army soldiers threw dozens of wooden barrels from the tower. The barrels fell into the pit and broke into pieces, leaking out a large amount of kerosene.
A rocket shot into the crater and exploded with a "boom"!
The pit was filled with flames, thick smoke, and screams, and it instantly turned into a hell on earth.
"Thousands of soldiers were just lost?!"
The generals of the Yan army were stunned, and fear filled every face.
After a while, there was silence at the bottom of the pit.
A gust of wind blew by, the ashes rekindled, and the flames crackled. The entire Yan Army camp was filled with the smell of burnt barbecue...
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"It must have angered Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva!"
This sentence slowly spread among the soldiers of Yan, and the soldiers became more and more timid. Although there were military orders, they could not command, and the three armies circled the city.
When these soldiers screamed unbridled, a deep hole suddenly opened in the ground beneath their feet. The soldiers sank and fell to the bottom of the hole, letting out several shrill screams.
The other Yan soldiers were surprised and frightened, and couldn't help but take a few steps back. The ground suddenly opened behind them, and several Tang soldiers lifted up the cover and dragged the Yan soldiers into the tunnel. They slashed and stabbed with swords, and screamed repeatedly.
The loess and sand are like monsters and living creatures.
The earth demon's giant face opened its bloody mouth from somewhere, mouthing east and west, swallowing dozens of Yan troops in an instant.
The Yan army patrolling the watchtower saw clearly and hurried back to the Chinese army's tent to report to Shi Siming.
Shi Siming was full of doubts. Of course he didn't believe the nonsense of monsters and ghosts. He walked to the front of the formation and observed carefully. There was nothing strange on the loess ground.
Just as Shi Siming turned around, a piece of floorboard suddenly lifted up from the ground behind him, and a crossbow arrow shot out. Seeing that the situation was not good, Shi Siming's soldiers pushed Shi Siming away, swooped down, blocked the arrow with his body, and drew blood.
Splashed on the spot.
Shi Siming was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. He finally understood the reason why the soldiers had disappeared in the past few days - the Tang army had dug a tunnel.
Shi Siming ordered his soldiers to carefully search for the entrance to the tunnel and not miss every corner.
Yan Jun inspected the wells one by one, the bottom of the grinding pan, etc., and found many disguised tunnel entrances.
Shi Siming was overjoyed and ordered his soldiers to explore the cave and kill the enemy.
Several soldiers took shields and steel knives and carefully entered the cave entrance. As soon as they entered the cave, they stepped on the ground with both feet. The movable flap immediately opened, and several soldiers fell into the deep pit instantly. Before they could shout, they were
The sharpened thick bamboo tube was tied into a meat gourd skewer, and he was killed on the spot.
Shi Siming ignored the corpses of the soldiers and forcibly filled the deep pit with sandbags. After filling it in, he ordered a small group of soldiers to move horizontally along the tunnel.
After a dozen soldiers walked a few feet, a flap in the tunnel automatically opened, blocking the road behind the soldiers.
The road back was cut off, and Yan Bing could only move forward cautiously. The road ahead was criss-crossed, and the chessboard road was circuitous, like a maze. After walking for half an hour, he found that he was back to the same place.
Yan Bing was exhausted. He ignored the warning of the squad leader, put down his weapon and collapsed to the ground. The squad leader had no choice but to take out the water bag, unplug the stopper, and raised his head to drink water.
"Swish, swish, swish", the sound of machine gunfire was heard everywhere, and a large number of arrow holes suddenly appeared on the walls on both sides of the tunnel. Countless crossbow arrows were shot from all directions, and there was no way to avoid them. These dozen Yan soldiers were shot dead on the spot in an instant.