Chapter 1823: Tan Daoji VS Zhao She
Chapter 1823 Tan Daoji VS Zhao She
Chapter 1821: Tan Daoji VS Zhao She
Li Shimin was furious and personally commanded the army to attack Yewang City.
In order to speed up, the Tang army arrived in a hurry. Catapults, crossbows, well siege equipment and other siege equipment were all at the rear. Naturally, it was impossible to capture Yewang City with only ladders and ramming vehicles.
“Pour the golden juice.”
Following Gongsun Yan’s order, buckets of boiled golden juice with a stinking odor were poured directly onto the soldiers on the ladder.
"ah…"
Screams sounded one after another.
Golden juice is actually boiled excrement. This thing is extremely disgusting, but it is also a weapon for defending the city in cold weapon warfare.
Once the feces is boiled, the temperature will be too high for the human body to withstand, and the temperature will drop very slowly, making it convenient for use in city defense.
Once a soldier is splashed, his death will be extremely miserable. Even if he is not splashed from the front, but is only affected by the disaster, he will not be scalded to death immediately, but he will also get sick due to bacterial infection. Sooner or later, he will still die.
In addition to its physical effects, golden juice can also shock and disgust people. People who have never seen it will definitely be disgusted and spit it out after seeing it with their own eyes. The stinky smell is simply unbearable for ordinary people.
In such an environment, the enemy's condition must have declined and their combat power has declined. How many percent of the enemy's combat power can they still use to attack the city?
When Gongsun Yancai was using the golden juice, he was also disgusted by this disgusting thing. The disgusting scene and the indescribable smell made him vomit out bile.
But after seeing the powerful effect of golden juice on city defense, Gongsun Yan gradually stopped feeling nauseated and even got used to the smell.
Gongsun Yan was extremely well prepared. In order to defend Yewang City, Gongsun Yan collected all the feces in the city in advance.
In addition, Gongsun Yan also set up a toilet specifically for collecting feces, and ordered that all the people in the city and the entire army must defecate here, just to prevent the collected gold juice from being insufficient.
Li Shimin, who was ill-prepared, faced Gongsun Yan, who was well-prepared, and was naturally beaten to death.
Li Shimin has been fighting in the north and south for so many years. He has also used gold juice to defend the city. Of course, he cannot be disgusted by it.
Seeing that our own soldiers suffered heavy casualties, they did not even climb up the city tower. Moreover, they were so frightened by the Qin army's Jinzhi offensive that they did not even dare to continue attacking the city.
After Li Shimin saw this scene, he also knew that it was impossible to win the battle quickly, so he could only order to postpone the siege and wait for the siege equipment from the rear to arrive before continuing the siege.
Under Li Shimin's urging, in less than half a day, all major siege equipment such as catapults and manholes were transported to the front line of Yewang. Then arrows rained down and thousands of stones were fired.
Gongsun Yan calmly commanded the army, taking advantage of his commanding position, and first used his own catapult to destroy the Tang army's catapult. Once the Tang army got close, they would counterattack with gold juice, strong crossbows, stones, rolling logs, etc. Until the enemy troops are driven back.
The defense of Yewang City is very sufficient. Before the war started, Qin Lie, the prefect of Hanoi, moved all kinds of military supplies to Yewang City in advance, so that if the supplies for defending the city at Hangu Pass were not enough, they would be transported immediately from Yewang City. Materials are transported to Hangu Pass.
But neither Qin Lie nor Jia Xu obviously expected that Hangu Pass would be directly burned by Gongsun Yan, and it would fall so quickly that reinforcements could not be sent in time.
The siege battle was in full swing.
Li Shimin is the top commander with a command of 100 (+2). In terms of command, Gongsun Yan, who has a command of 98, is not his opponent, but he can compete with him with the advantage of defending the city.
Li Shimin personally directed the siege for an hour. After exhausting all means, Gongsun Yan also found no flaws. He knew that it would not be that easy to capture Yewang City.
"My lord, the Wild King City is very well prepared. Judging from the current progress, it will take at least two months to rely on the superiority of troops to break through the Wild King City. Even if casualties are not taken into account, it will take at least a month to forcefully break the city. Changsun Wuji said.
"Hangu Pass has not been able to hold off my army for a month. If it is held back by Yewang City for a month, by the time it reaches Luoyang City, the main force of the Qin army may have rushed back from Hebei."
A trace of anxiety flashed in Li Shimin's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "We must find a way to break through the Yewang City as soon as possible." "My lord, you can divide your troops to capture Yiyang. The current garrison in Yiyang City is only two thousand at most, and it is more difficult to attack than the Yewang City." It is much lower, and as long as Yiyang is defeated and the dichotomy between the two cities is broken, it will be much easier to capture Yewang City," Li Kui added.
“A good plan.”
Li Shimin's eyes lit up and he smiled and said, "Okay, let's do it. Where is Zhao She?"
“The end is here.” Zhao She, bandaged, stood up and responded with clasped fists.
In the previous battle with Li Cunxiao, Zhao She was affected and was injured. However, he was very lucky and was only slightly injured, which did not affect his command of the army.
“Zhao She, I order you to lead an army of 20,000 people to attack Yiyang City.”
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Zhao She responded with clasped fists. In his opinion, this battle has been won.
Although Yiyang is a fortified city as famous as Ye Wang, the city's defenders are less than 2,000. With an army of 20,000 and ten times more enemies, how can it be impossible to attack it?
Zhao She led the army confidently. The first thing he did after arriving in Yiyang was not to attack the city, but to persuade him to surrender.
Li Tang's bad guys did a good job in intelligence work. They found out all the information about the guards in each city in Sizhou. The guard in Yiyang was just a nobody.
Zhao She felt that his own strength was ten times that of the enemy. With such a huge disparity in strength, it was still possible to persuade the opponent to surrender, and there would be no loss even if he failed.
Under Zhao She's persuasion to surrender, Yiyang guard Hu Chao first refused, and then agreed.
Zhao She was overjoyed when he saw that the Qin general offered the city to surrender. Just as he was about to lead his army into the city and take over Yiyang City, military spies suddenly came to report that traces of military movements had been found in the west and east of Yiyang.
Zhao She is a famous general after all. After hearing the news, he immediately became secretly vigilant. Naturally, he did not dare to enter the city easily until he knew what was going on in the city.
Seeing Zhao She wandering outside the city, even if he did not lead the army into the city, Tan Daoji, who was hiding in Yiyang City, was secretly worried.
He was going to lure Zhao She into the city, then close the door and beat the dogs, and annihilate the Tang army. However, Zhao She, who was already preparing to enter the city, became unwilling to enter the city after hearing something.
“Is the secret revealed?”
Just when Tan Daoji was doubting himself, Zhao She raised his hand and cut off the head of Yiyang guard Hu Chao with a sword, and then commanded the army to prepare for a forcible attack on the city.
Seeing this, Tan Daoji emerged from the city tower, waved his command flag, and shouted: "Close the city gate and prepare to defend the city."
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Boom…
Yiyang City Gate suddenly closed, leaving the Tang Army's cavalry to escape.
“Is this Tan Daoji?”
After Zhao She saw the people on the tower, his eyes widened and he asked in shock: "Why is he in Yiyang?"
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