Chapter 946: Burning Luoyang (Part 2)
Chapter 946 Burning Luoyang (Part 2)
Chapter 944: Burning Luoyang (Part 2)
Evacuate the city wall?
As soon as Li Shimin said this, everyone present was in an uproar.
“General, don’t do it. Once you withdraw from the city wall, even if you close all the city gates, the North City still cannot be defended.”
"Yes, General, we cannot withdraw, otherwise the blood of our brothers will be shed in vain."
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Everyone kept trying to dissuade Li Shimin. Of course, this was reasonable.
Closing the already opened city gate is to prevent the coalition forces outside the city from continuing to send troops into the city.
And if the defenders on the city wall are withdrawn, even if the city gate is closed, the coalition forces can still transport troops through the ladder.
This entire section of the city wall at the north gate is such a spacious area. If there is no defender to stop it, troops can be transported faster than the city gate.
So, withdrawing the defenders of the city wall is actually equivalent to giving up the north gate.
The Liang army is already at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. If they lose the protection of the city wall, not to mention the North Gate, even the entire Luoyang will fall quickly.
Generally, in a city defense battle, once the city gate is opened, the battle is basically over.
But Liang Jun is different.
The city gate was opened from the inside, but the Liang army did not lose the north gate and still struggled to defend Luoyang.
But now, the city wall is about to be lost and forced to abandon Luoyang. Naturally, most of the Liang army cannot accept it!
Li Shimin knew what everyone was thinking, so he sighed and explained: "Don't worry, I don't want to abandon the North Gate. It's just that the morale of the coalition forces is now strong. There are 20,000 defenders in the North City, plus the 30,000 reinforcements that have arrived. Five Even after ten thousand troops fought desperately, they failed to expel the coalition forces.
Therefore, it is better to avoid its sharp edge for the time being, and after its morale has calmed down a little, concentrate on retaking the North Gate. "
The troops of the remaining three gates cannot be mobilized easily, and the Liang army only has 50,000 fresh troops, of which more than 10,000 have died in the battle. Of course, the casualties of the coalition forces are naturally greater.
Of the 50,000-strong army, there are now less than 40,000 left, and if such endless consumption continues, even if the North Gate is recaptured, it will still be impossible to hold it!
So, it's not that Li Shimin didn't dare to confront Qin Hao, but that the Liang army really couldn't afford to fight. The casualties of the coalition forces were borne by all the princes, so Qin Hao naturally didn't care.
With that said, Li Shimin turned to Yang Jian and said: "General Yang Jian, you immediately lead people to clear an isolation zone between the city wall and the civilian area as soon as possible, and prepare a lot of kerosene, sulfur and other materials.
After all the troops on the city wall were withdrawn, a wall of fire was immediately set up to prevent the coalition forces from directly attacking the city.
It will be dark in an hour or two. Dark night is not conducive to siege. Only after dark can we have hope of retaking the north gate. "
Yang Jian was stunned when he heard this. He obviously did not expect that Li Shimin would take advantage of the opportunity, but currently this is the only way to make up for the lack of military strength.
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Yang Jian clasped his fists and said solemnly, but then asked: "But general, once the fire wall is set up, Yuanba will be separated from us, how can he come back?"
Li Shimin raised his hands and said confidently: "You don't need to worry about this. Yuanba's body is extremely strong, and ordinary swords can't hurt him. In addition, he has reached the master level and can release his inner energy. If you protect him with his body down, it's impossible for a mere wall of fire to fail to hurt him."
What Li Shimin said is also true. With Li Yuanba's inhuman physique, even if he didn't use his internal energy to protect his body, he wouldn't be able to burn to death in a while, and this time would be enough for him to pass through the wall of fire.
And here another spy came to report. "Report... There has been a major change in the ghost street. Except for the Daozai family, hundreds of disciples have used some means to detoxify the poison and escape imprisonment. Their whereabouts are now missing."
“What? How could this happen?”
Li Shimin said with a look of shock and anger, and his heart became increasingly uneasy.
Li Shimin knew that there must be people from the coalition forces among the hundreds of families, so he was on guard against these disciples from the beginning. If they did nothing, they would definitely be extremely passive, so he simply killed them all and turned passivity into initiative!
Li Shimin thought that he paid enough attention to the disciples of the Baijia School, but he did not expect that they could escape silently under his nose. Li Shimin could only lament that the background of the Baijia School was really unfathomable.
The flight of hundreds of disciples is actually nothing, but it means that a bigger conspiracy in Luoyang is about to be revealed. Otherwise, why would they flee with a guilty conscience?
Every time he thought about this, Li Shimin became more and more uneasy, and finally decided: "General Yang Jian, there may be something unexpected happening in the city. I am going back to the city to scare Xiao Xiao, so I will leave the north gate to you."
“General, don’t worry, I will definitely protect the northern city.”
Li Shimin nodded, and then hurriedly led the people back, but on the way back, the uneasiness in his heart became stronger.
Boom...Fires soaring into the sky ignited, dyeing the sky in Beicheng red.
Li Shimin turned around and saw that Yang Jian had set the fire. However, he fell into deep thought while looking at the fire, but woke up suddenly after a few seconds.
"fire?"
Li Shimin's eyes widened, a bad guess appeared in his mind, and he immediately shouted: "No, please quickly send an order to Li Xiuning to immediately send more people to strictly guard the grain depot to prevent military spies from attacking."
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After the order was issued, Li Shimin was still worried and immediately prepared to go to the grain depot in person to take charge.
Outside the city, Qin Hao looked at the fire in the city and couldn't help but smile: "Li Shimin used this method to stop the enemy. Li Shimin is really full of wisdom."
“Report...to the leader of the alliance, after the enemy troops on the city wall retreated, our army wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue them, but the Liang army lit a fire at the north gate. The fire prevented our army from attacking in the short term.”
“That’s all, if that’s the case, let’s postpone the attack on the north gate.”
After saying that, Qin Hao couldn't help but look up to the tower and whispered to himself: "Li Shimin, I'll take this small fire of yours. I'll take it. I'll take the big fire that I've carefully prepared for you. I don't know if you can take it." Where’s next?”
On the north gate tower, Li Cunxiao and Li Yuanba were still fighting, and the firelight made the battle even more legendary.
Seeing this, Qin Hao's eyes were full of brilliance, and he said softly: "The side that wins this battle will definitely be the best in the world for more than ten years!"
As soon as Qin Hao finished speaking, the inner city of Luoyang, where the Liang army's grain depot was located, actually burst into flames.
Grain and grass are flammable things, and the fire soon became difficult to control. The momentum was even greater than the wall of fire at the north gate.
“There’s a fire in the grain depot, hurry up and put out the fire!”
“Water, bring the water quickly!”
On the roof of a building across the street from the grain warehouse, a group of swordsmen in black were watching with cold eyes as the guards put out the fire in a messy manner, but they could not stop the spread of the fire at all.
(End of this chapter)