"Catapult! Catapult! Release it quickly!"
At the top of the city of Taiyuan, generals in chainmail crouched and rushed forward, their foreheads covered with sweat. When Maoyao reached the stepping stone to the city, he thrust his head out and roared angrily at the catapult team under the city wall.
"If you keep fucking ink, all your brothers will be dead!"
Half of the city tower behind him has collapsed. Beneath the parapet, there are countless archers lying bent over. Only the crossbow placed on the pier can shoot out a huge arrow from time to time.
The commanders of the dozen or so catapults under the city wall were also sweating profusely and kept urging: "Get ready, get ready! Eject it as soon as it's loaded!"
The Jin army had fought many tough battles with the Tang army, and gradually figured out the Tang army's attack methods.
First cover the city head with artillery, then use trench bridges to build trenches, and then use wells and ladders to fight close to the city wall.
Disgusting things like wells are powerful siege weapons, but they are not without restraint. Before Li Jing, the defenders of the city often responded with fire attacks, which were invincible.
But now Tang Jun is extremely disgusting! Everyone has a gun, and they don't need to be too close to the city wall. They can headshot Jin soldiers from a high position. It's just a matter of missing the target and consuming more ammunition.
At that time, the Tang Army's ladder troops can quickly approach the city wall under cover and slowly climb to the top of the city to fight.
Therefore, facing the Tang Army's well, the Jin Army had nothing to do with it!
You can only hope that the catapult will be lucky enough to hit it and then it will fall apart.
At this moment, the ladder truck of the Tang army was approaching the city wall, but the archers on the city wall were suppressed and did not dare to show their heads at all.
Seeing countless Tang troops in heavy armor pushing ladder carts slowly approaching, the commander of the Jin army at the top of the city jumped in fear.
Fortunately, the catapults in the city finally gained strength and continuously threw out several burning fireballs, causing some damage to the ladder troops attacking the city and also putting some pressure on the wells outside the city.
At this time, the crossbowmen on the city wall and several powerful bed crossbows were able to fire with all their strength.
Wave after wave of "swish, swish" arrows struck Tang Jun's armor and stomach, bringing up sparks.
With these waves of arrows, the Tang army suffered nearly a hundred casualties.
At the same time, several more catapults were mobilized from various places in Taiyuan City and began to suppress the Tang army attacking the city.
But that was all, the Tang army was only slowed down a little, and the rumbling ladder truck finally reached the head of Taiyuan City. Then, the heavily armored infantry, whose whole body was made like an iron barrel, began to climb up from under the ladder car holding equipment.
The Tang army on the well in the distance also gradually stopped shooting in order not to hurt friendly troops. They all just stared with wide eyes, watching their soldiers continue to rush to the top of the city and fight with the Jin army.
At the same time, the infantry on the top of the Jin army's city also gathered in formation, heavily surrounding the Tang soldiers who climbed up, and constantly relied on their numerical advantage to kill them.
The fighting continued until sunset. Seeing that the Tang army could no longer expand their advantage, they could only gradually retreat.
But today's attack on the city was not without gains.
Everyone knows: The Taiyuan garrison will not be able to hold on any longer.
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"Today's first attack on the southern city, be the first to reach the top of the city!"
"I said Chu Manzi, have you learned to tell lies with your eyes open now? All the generals can see clearly that Dongcheng climbed up first!"
In the main camp of the Tang Army, there was a lot of noise in the main tent.
Li Jing, who was wearing a straight purple court dress, just smiled and looked down at Chu Shan arguing with another scar-faced warrior in his thirties, holding his neck.
On the other hand, Jingxiang couldn't stand it any longer. He coughed a few times and raised his hand to dissuade us: "Why are the two generals arguing? Both of them are the beloved generals of the Holy Lord. Wouldn't it hurt the harmony? When we break the city later, , wouldn’t it be wonderful to strive for the first achievement again?”
Only then did the two rude warriors give up. The scar-faced warrior clasped his fists at Li Jing: "Your Majesty, Taiyuan can't hold on any longer! If we attack the city tomorrow, please be the vanguard! I will chop off Li Keyong's head later." Dedicate it to the Holy One and see if Chu Manzi is convinced or not!"
Chu Shan sneered disdainfully, but he did not dare to compete for credit in front of Li Jing anymore. He just whispered: "I'm really not afraid of the wind blowing my tongue!"
Li Jing had a smile on her face and just waved her hand: "The two generals are both tiger generals. Compared with Taizong's E Guogong and Hu Guogong, they are both the pillars of the Tang Dynasty. What is there to argue about?"
After that, he laughed and cursed again: "Besides, you two are the only ones who have the first success in attacking the city? The other generals in the tent have no credit. The minister of honor is by my side all day long, and he has no credit in staying in this camp. Already?"
The two of them looked happy before, but when they heard what happened, they were extremely ashamed. Now they handed over to the generals together: "Lao Chu and I are both rough people and don't know how to measure. We are all capable." People, don’t take offense.”
Li Jing laughed, waved his hand, and asked them to sit down: "You can see the truth on the battlefield. Today's attack on the city, what can you see?"
Hearing his question, the tent immediately became abuzz with chatter. Li Jing did not interrupt, but listened to their discussion with a smile.
At the end, a general stood up from behind and saluted with clasped fists: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid Taiyuan will not be successful! The soldiers have besieged Taiyuan for more than a month and have attacked the city several times, but they have been able to attack it in these few days. On the top of the city, although the Taiyuan army still has the strength to resist, I'm afraid they won't be able to stand for a few more days."
"good!"
Jingxiang agreed from the side, then held the feather fan in his hand and handed it over to Li Jing: "A letter came from Liu Jiedu the day before yesterday. There was a partial army in Jinzhou who wanted to go east to aid Taiyuan, but they were all beheaded and captured. At the same time, Wang Jishi There is also progress there, Chanzhou has been conquered, and the Mobei army has been defeated."
Li Jing nodded, stood up, tapped his fingers on the map behind him, and affirmed: "Taiyuan is already an isolated city... Li Siyuan and Mobei will have to find their own way out."
Jingxiang shook his feather fan calmly, obviously he had thought of this for a long time.
However, all the generals were immediately shocked: "It must be natural for Mobei to be defeated and retreat to Youzhou. Then why is Li Siyuan thinking about escaping? Where can he run to?"
Just as Jingxiang was about to explain to these vulgar warriors, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from outside the tent, and then immediately a guard in Jin Yi opened the curtain and strode in, kneeling on one knee to salute.
"Your Majesty, the Jin thief Li Keyong appears at the top of Taiyuan City and wants to see your Majesty."
"oh?"
Li Jing turned around in surprise, then smiled, and commented to everyone: "This old man finally lost his temper."
All the generals laughed.
Li Jing walked off the stage and looked at Jing Xiang with a smile: "Forget it, I'll go see what this thief has to say."
Jingxiang shook his feather fan and followed behind him with a smile.
Naturally, all the generals got up one by one, rode their horses outside the tent, and surrounded Li Jing and headed out of the camp.
There was no commotion among the sergeants in the camp. There were elite Jinyi guards, led by Zhong Xiaokui, who appeared as Li Jing's personal soldiers.
Li Jing didn't stop until he was three to five hundred steps away from Taiyuan City.
There were traces of fire outside the city, and broken equipment was everywhere. A collapsed well was left fifty feet away from the city wall.
At the top of Taiyuan Wengcheng, a wheelchair was slowly pushed out, but the white-haired old man on it was still full of energy.
In front of tens of thousands of people from the three armies, he said loudly: "I did not expect that the first time I saw the late emperor's abandoned son would be at this moment."
