"Keming, Kongming, do you think there will be any change when the sword gate is closed?"
After the sword gate was closed, Li Shimin, fully armored, rode slowly on his precious horse Teller, followed closely by Du Ruhui and Zhuge Liang, while General Wei Chigong led more than a hundred guards to guard him closely.
After hearing this, Du Ruhui and Zhuge Liang looked up at the towering Jianmen Pass not far away, looked at each other, and shook their heads.
Li Shimin laughed and pointed at the birds that landed on the flag and said, "Look at these birds landing on the flag without any scruples. This shows that there are no soldiers under this flag at all. Li Jing put up flags all over the city wall. This is trying to cover up something.”
"There are not enough troops in Jianmen Pass!"
Du Ruhui and Zhuge Liang reacted at the same time. Their eyes lit up and they said in unison: "This must mean that General Gao Xianzhi has led his army into Shuzhong. Li Jing's rear was unstable and he led his army back. He put up flags all over the city wall as a bluff. , covering up the truth that his main force went south."
"good!"
Li Shimin laughed loudly: "It's a pity that Li Jing made a mistake and forgot to ask the soldiers on the city to drive away the birds, which exposed the truth about the insufficient strength of Jianmen Pass. Ke Ming and Kong Ming immediately returned to the camp and ordered the troops and horses. The strength of the troops in Jianmen Pass was serious." The lack of it is a good opportunity for us to take down Jianmen."
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More than an hour later, the trumpets of the Tang Army camp sounded, the drums thundered, and a hundred thousand troops marched towards Jianmen Pass in a mighty manner.
"Sure enough, it's here!"
On the city wall of Jianmen Pass, General Zhou Dewei looked at the birds hovering at the top of the city and sneered: "Blow the drum to meet the enemy!"
"Whoever climbs the city wall first will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold and will be given to the Marquis!"
Li Shimin came to the front line in person and beat drums to cheer. All the soldiers of the Tang army fought bravely and fought for the lead. Under the leadership of a group of brave generals of the Tang army, they held up shields, carried ladders and pushed nest carts, and attacked Jianmen Pass like crucian carps crossing the river.
On top of the pass wall, Sui Army General Zhou Dewei commanded the remaining 10,000 defenders of Jianmen Pass to fight back. Huge boulders were flying across the sky and arrows were flying.
At the foot of the pass, the soldiers of the Tang army braved the rain of arrows and rolling stones, put a ladder on the city wall, and climbed up bravely.
"As expected, Li Jing's main force is no longer at Jianmen Pass!"
Seeing that the Tang army had already approached the city wall in just a moment, Li Shimin suddenly became determined and immediately ordered: "Pass the order, the 100,000 troops will be divided into four teams, and they will take turns attacking the city day and night, without giving the Sui army a chance to breathe!"
Jianmen Pass is the gateway to Shu and an important military town. Its mountain road is narrow and can accommodate only a few attacking soldiers, only more than 2,000 people. Therefore, it has the reputation that one man can guard the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it.
But no matter how wonderful the terrain is, the soldiers guarding the pass are not invincible. They need to rest. Taking advantage of his superior strength, Li Shimin launched an uninterrupted attack from day to night. The soldiers guarding the pass were unable to rest and became increasingly tired.
After ten days of fierce attacks day and night, the Tang army suffered huge casualties. The narrow corridors were strewn with corpses of soldiers, broken arrows and blunt knives could be seen everywhere, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of blood.
The officers and soldiers of the Sui army in the pass were also exhausted. The commander-in-chief Zhou Dewei's eyes were bloodshot and his voice was hoarse and it was difficult to shout any more.
"Pass on the solitary general's order and break the barrier today!"
After more than ten days of fierce attack, Li Shimin knew that the Sui army in the city was almost reaching its limit. With a wave of his sword, he also used the Tang army's biggest weapon for the first time: "Xuanba, you are the only one allowed to attack the city today!"
"Hahaha, second brother, I'm going then!"
Li Xuanba, who had been unable to hold back a few days ago but was forced down by Li Shimin, was immediately overjoyed. He picked up the two hammers and crossed them heavily on his chest, making a deafening sound of gold and iron, and ran out laughing wildly.
"Ding dong, it has been detected that Li Xuanba has entered the state of divine power. His force is +8, his base force is 105, and his current force has increased to 113."
"The whole army attacks the city!"
The Tang Army's attack began again, with fierce war drums beating, and nearly ten thousand Tang Army soldiers entered the siege on ladders.
Behind the siege infantry, five thousand Tang army crossbowmen stretched their bows and set arrows to cover the infantry attack. A dense rain of arrows fell on the top of the city, and soldiers of the Sui Dynasty continued to fall to the ground after being struck by arrows, screaming in agony.
Arrows were also coming from the top of the city like migratory locusts. The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty held their shields in the front row very experiencedly, and the arrows hit the giant shield and made a clanking sound.
Not long after, more than a dozen siege ladders were set up on the top of the city. Thousands of Tang Army soldiers rushed up like a swarm of ants, desperately climbing up.
Rolling logs and stones fell down on the wall like hailstones. From time to time, soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were hit and fell to the ground wailing. Several Sui soldiers used steel forks to hold the ladder and pushed it outward. A long siege ladder was pushed down. Several soldiers who were climbing up fell from a height and were instantly shattered beyond recognition.
"Get out of the way, Xiao Wang!"
Li Xuanba shouted and kicked aside several Tang soldiers who were about to climb up. He grabbed the ladder with his left hand, wielded a sledgehammer with his right hand to hit the arrows, and climbed up.
"Smash him to death!"
Several Sui soldiers greeted each other and threw a huge boulder at him. Li Xuanba let out an earth-shattering roar and swung his sledgehammer violently, smashing back the boulder that took several people to lift.
Several soldiers on the wall were so stunned that they even forgot to dodge. They were hit by the boulder and immediately lost their breath.
Li Xuanba jumped up the wall. More than a dozen Sui soldiers saw him and hurriedly came over with guns and swords to kill him. Li Xuanba wielded a pair of sledgehammers and fought hard. The Sui soldiers were hit with bloody heads, broken bones, and heavy casualties.
"Send the order to the entire army to attack on all fronts. If we don't break the sword gate today, we swear we will not return to camp!"
Li Shimin saw that Li Xuanba had climbed onto the city to kill all sides, and knowing that there was a chance of defeating the city, he immediately ordered several other troops who were still resting to attack and attack the entire front. The generals of the Tang army came out one after another, and even Li Yuanji and Tian Zaibiao, who had always been at odds with Li Shimin, were killed.
"Ding dong, it has been detected that Yingbu has entered a violent state, the force is +6, the base force is 102, and the current force has increased to 108."
The brave general Yingbu was the second general to climb the city wall. He jumped on the city wall and went straight to the city gate. He waved a long spear with heavy light and shadow. He stabbed all the Sui army generals who blocked the way to the ground.
Li Xuanba had low intelligence. After entering the city, he only knew how to charge into the crowd. Yingbu was a sensible man, and knew that the most important thing to break the city was to open the city gate so that the main force of the Tang army could enter.
Yingbu was so brave that no one in Jianmen Pass could stop him at this moment. He was soon killed at the city gate, killed the guards and opened the city gate.
"Send the order, withdraw from Jianmen Pass!"
Zhou Dewei saw that the city gate had been breached and the main force of the Tang army swarmed into the city. Knowing that he could no longer stand the barrier, he immediately ordered his troops to withdraw and leave.
