The original Taiyuan City battle started three days after Pei Shiqing entered Taiyuan City, but it was not as tragic as Li Yuanji said in his letter to his father. In fact, he exaggerated the situation of the battle just to urge his father to send reinforcements quickly. Since Yang Yuanqing led nearly ten
Ten days have passed since Wan Dajun arrived in Taiyuan City. Only one battle has occurred in these ten days: Yang Yuanqing personally led his army to capture Jinyang Palace again. In just half a day, he defeated the five thousand defenders guarding Jinyang Palace.
The guard Sun Da died in the strikeout
Perhaps in Li Yuanji's eyes, this battle can be called tragic.
The capture of Taiyuan City is the core of Yang Yuanqing's entire Hedong chess game. The other counties south of Taiyuan are not important to him now. He does not have so many troops to disperse and fight. Yang Yuanqing took back all his troops, except Su Dingfang led 5,000 cavalry.
The second reinforcements left in Hedong County to restrain the Tang army, and Cui Pojun led 5,000 troops to guard Huoyi County, and the rest of the troops were all concentrated in attacking Taiyuan City.
When Taiyuan City was defending Liu Wuzhou at the beginning of the year, it dug two deep and wide trenches under the city, including the moat, with three defensive lines. Taiyuan defenders carried out peripheral defenses across the trenches, but in Liu Wuzhou's army, nearly two
During Yue's attack, wooden bridges were built on these trenches, and the moats on the east and west sides were also filled with soil by Liu Wuzhou's army. However, Liu Wuzhou was unable to capture Taiyuan City in the end, and his efforts made Yang Yuanqing fulfill.
Outside the east and west cities, military flags covered the sky and the camps stretched for several miles. It was the tenth day that the Fengzhou army arrived in Taiyuan, but it had not launched an attack on Taiyuan City. Perhaps because they did not have weapons to attack the city, Liu Wu and Zhou Liu
The siege weapons under the siege were all destroyed by the Taiyuan defenders, and the Sui army in Fengzhou seemed to have not had time to make ladders, siege rams and other weapons. They came empty-handed, which gave the Taiyuan defenders a glimmer of hope.
The Sui army in Fengzhou seemed not in a hurry. They were preparing for the siege. Teams of horses were galloping outside the city. In the distance, carriages transported long and straight giant trees.
The giant fir trees transported from Yuci County more than ten miles away. There, the Sui army found a dense fir forest and collected thousands of giant trees as high as five or six feet tall. Using these long and straight giant trees, the Fengzhou army found a dense fir forest there, and collected thousands of giant trees as high as five or six feet tall.
It can create a simple and effective siege weapon - the siege ladder, which is a profound inspiration left by the Turkic army. When this siege ladder that is several meters wide hooks the city, the army can rush in groups.
Go up to the city.
On the top of the city, Li Yuanji, Duke of Qi, rode a horse on the east city wall to check the Fengzhou Sui army's siege preparations. At this time, he no longer had his usual domineeringness and arrogance, and there was a hint of unconcealed fear in his eyes, especially when
When he heard that the 20,000 jing soldiers who supported him were completely wiped out by Yang Yuanqing, he felt isolated and helpless, as if the entire Hedong had been lost, leaving only an isolated city in Taiyuan.
Li Yuanji had never experienced war. He had no experience in defending the city. Facing the powerful Sui army in Fengzhou, he was filled with fear of death. He wrote to his father more than once, asking his father to allow him to give up Taiyuan City.
, he asked his father to change the guard, but he only waited for his father to scold him again and again.
Behind Li Yuanji stood a group of Li Yuan who stayed to assist his aides and officials, deputy left-behind Xiahou Duan, chief of Taiyuan left-behind office Dou Dan, Sima Liu Dewei. Recording officer Yuwen Xin, Shaoqing of Weiwei Temple Liu Zhenghui, Taiyuan County
The prefect Wang Xu and dozens of generals.
Facing the upcoming offensive by the Fengzhou army, everyone was in a complicated mood. They all knew very well that the Fengzhou army was not a bandit, and Yang Yuanqing was not Liu Wuzhou. He was famous all over the world when he defended the city, and those who were good at defending the city were also good at defending the city.
Can you not be good at siegeing the city?
"Qi Duke, Yang Yuanqing came from afar. They did not prepare siege weapons. They are now making temporary weapons. Not enough to worry, but we are fully prepared. There are 120 catapults alone, which is enough to drive Yang Yuanqing's
The army is smashed into meat paste, so Mr. Qi doesn’t have to worry. We can definitely defend Taiyuan City!”
The person who persuaded Li Yuanji was the deputy left-behind Xiahou Duan. He was Li Yuan's friend and Li Yuanji's elder. He was responsible for commanding the defense of the entire city. Xiahou Duan also received a letter from Li Yuan to him, and in the letter, he ordered him to be optimistic about Li Yuanji, but he did not.
Jun Yuanji abandoned the city and ran away.
Xiahou Duan knew Li Yuanji's thoughts very well. He was scared by all kinds of rumors in the city and was scared by Yang Yuanqing's 100,000 troops. Yuanji was young after all, and had never experienced war and had no experience. He suddenly asked him to bear it.
He could not bear the heavy responsibility of guarding Taiyuan.
Xiahou Duan pointed the Sui army below with a horse whip and comforted him in a low voice: "Yang Yuanqing actually only brought 30,000 cavalry, and the rest of the army were surrendered by Liu Wuzhou. His training was weak, so Qi Gong was not worth worrying."
Li Yuanji was already tired of the old lady Xiahou Duan, and he just wanted to defend the city by himself and not give up easily. He glanced at Xiahou Duan and said coldly: "There are also 15,000 surrendered soldiers from Li Shuliang."
After saying that, he urged the horse to turn around and hang Xiahou Duan aside. Xiahou Duan looked at his back and couldn't help but sigh, no reason was to call his uncle's name directly.
The chief Dou Dan also shook his head and said to Xiahou Duan: "He is only sixteen years old after all, and he is still a child. General Xiahou should not make things too difficult for him."
"child?"
Xiahou Duan was full of fire and started to attack Dou Dan, "I led the army to fight at the age of fourteen, and I was accused of merit and found Yitong at the age of sixteen. I have already experienced many battles. When you ask for a court man at the age of threeteen, you can report to the court.
Yang Yuanqing was ten years old and guarding the border to fight, but our prince is already sixteen years old. You still say he is a child. He robs the people of the country and plays with women. Why don’t you say he is a child? He is arrogant and indulgent, and he is not a trivial matter.
For big things, he is such a person. Don’t just think you are his brother-in-law and just hide it for him!”
Dou Dan was about twenty-seven or eight years old. He was Dou Kang's son, with his literary talent and martial arts skills, and he married Li Yuan's second daughter as his wife. Li Yuanji's brother-in-law. Li Yuan ordered him to be the chief of the left-behind mansion in Taiyuan to assist Li
Yuanji defended the city.
He was also annoyed by Xiahou Duan's scolding and scolding, and blushed and argued roughly: "Do you think I'm willing to do this? He is the son of his lord. Even if he is not good, we have to assist him. Apart from saying that he is a child, what else can I do?
Explain to your lord, is he tyrannical?"
"You should at least tell the truth to your lord!"
The two were quarreling red. At this moment, a roar of a goshawk suddenly came from the sky. They looked up and saw a goshawk circling from the slant. Xiahouduan saw a tied on the eagle's legs at a glance.
Red Se small tube, he immediately said in surprise: "It's Xinying!"
An eagle slave had already rushed to the top of the city. He shouted and waved to the eagle. The eagle retracted its wings and landed on his hand. The eagle slave took off the letter tube and handed it to a soldier, and took out a piece of fresh from the bag.
Meat reward letter eagle.
The soldier rushed forward and knelt down on one knee, and presented the letter to Xiahou Duan, "I report to the general that it is the eagle letter from Hedong City."
The letter tube was engraved with the word "Hedong". Xiahou Duan pulled out the letter in a hurry, looked it quickly, and looked at it with a surprise in his eyes. He turned to Dou Dan with a look of expectation and said, "Our reinforcements are here. We have already crossed Hedong.
county."
Dou Dan was overjoyed and asked quickly: "Who led and how many troops?"
"It was led by Duke Qin. There were a total of 50,000 troops!"
Dou Dan was so excited that he patted his forehead. King Li Shimin of Qin came. This was the Prime Minister's wise decision. He no longer used a fearful person like last time. He was destroyed before he even went north, making Taiyuan City passive
pole.
Dou Dan forced himself to calm down and said to Xiahou Duan: "Since we know this information, Yang Yuanqing will also know that he will definitely launch an attack in the next few days, so we must be more vigilant."
"But what attack he used?"
Xiahou Duan looked at the Fengzhou Army's camp. So far, he had not seen any large siege weapons appear. With such a thick city wall in Taiyuan City, would they still want to get in?
"General Xiahou, don't underestimate Yang Yuanqing, he is very good at making strange plans." Dou Dan said with some concern.
"I know he is good at making strange plans and does not underestimate him. I just talk about the matter. A man who is not prepared to attack the city. He ran to Taiyuan City and looked for trees to build siege weapons. Such a general can attack Taiyuan City. I will keep my head
Give it to him."
Xiahou Duan sneered disdainfully, turned around and went downstairs to deliver a letter to Li Yuanji. Dou Dan's eyes turned to Yang Yuanqing's camp. He frowned and told him intuition that Yang Yuanqing must have done something they didn't know in the past ten days.
matter.
If Dou Dan left the city, or if he stood ten feet higher, he would discover Yang Yuanqing's secret. Unfortunately, from the perspective of his standing, he could not find it, and no one in Taiyuan City could not find it.
In addition to the moat outside the city, the Taiyuan defenders dug two trenches a hundred steps away and two hundred steps away. The trenches were 1 zhang wide and six feet deep. There was a passage between the two trenches, which was to connect the two trenches.
The defense line was pushed to the periphery, designed to target the short range of bows and arrows of Liu Wuzhou and the lack of cavalry. Ten thousand Tang army crossbowmen hid in the trenches to resist the enemy. These two trenches played a huge defensive role, and she killed more than 30,000 Liu Wuzhou.
the siege army.
But with the arrival of Fengzhou Army, the two trenches lost their defensive effect. The Fengzhou Army's cavalry was fast, and the defenders hidden in the trenches could not escape the pursuit of the cavalry. The Taiyuan trenches gave up the outer defense.
The trenches became decorations, and the Sui army could easily lay bridges on them.
But at this moment, there was a situation in the two trenches that Dou Dan and even the Taiyuan defenders could never have imagined. The two trenches outside the northern city were filled with Sui army, with hundreds of people. This was the Sui army.
The army's fortification soldiers, hundreds of Sui army soldiers sat in the trench, leaning on the wall of the trench, holding iron shovels in their hands. In the past ten days, the Sui army in Fengzhou only did one thing: dig tunnels.
First, dig the tunnel from the Daying to the first trench on the periphery, and then dig another tunnel between the two trenches. In this way, the Sui army in the Daying can directly enter the second trench on the inside through the tunnel, and
If it is not discovered on the top of the city, the Sui army soldiers can appear a hundred steps away from the city wall without knowing each other.
This should be a negligence of Xiahouduan. There are also such trenches outside the Dali City of Fengzhou, but the trenches are connected to the moat. Once they are given up, they will be immediately flooded, which is to prevent the trenches from being used by the enemy.
But Xiahou Duan did not consider connecting the trenches and the moat. Perhaps he was too confident in the city walls of Taiyuan, or perhaps he was not experienced enough. He could not think of how to use this trenches to attack the city. After all, the Sui army would still come out of the trenches.
Exposed to the rain of arrows, at most, avoid the attack of the scatterer.
Everyone will have negligence. The key is whether they can grasp the negligence of the enemy. Xiahou Duan's negligence is nothing in the eyes of Liu Wuzhou, who is not good at siegeing the city, but for the Fengzhou Sui army, who is good at attacking and defensive battles in the city, this
It's definitely a fatal negligence.
[Digging tunnels to siege is a very common method for siege wars. During the Anshi Rebellion, tunnel wars were staged outside Taiyuan City. In addition, please recommend votes!!] To be continued