Chapter 35: The Siege of the Tibetan Army Fails
The leader of the Tibetan army was completely dumbfounded, and the last two warriors he left behind had also been captured, so far, he and the warriors under his command were completely wiped out.
"Surrender! Surrender, and I will spare you a way out. ”
Li An stared at the leader of the Tibetan army and sincerely persuaded him to surrender.
"Hmph, don't pretend to be a good person, I killed the people here, even if you are willing to let me go, thousands of people here will not agree, and death will be death."
The leader of the Tibetan army ignored Li An's kindness, and killed himself with a dagger after speaking.
Seeing that the leader had killed himself, several of the spies of the Tibetan army immediately followed suit and fell, they never believed in Li An's kindness, believing that once they surrendered, they were very likely to suffer great physical torture.
After all, their army dug people's ancestral graves outside the city, which made the people of the Tang Dynasty extremely hateful, and they killed the people here with fish poison, and they would be greatly hated by the people.
"Are you two surrendering?"
Li An took a few steps forward and looked at the two spies of the Fan army who were held by Zhang Erniu.
The two spies of the Tibetan army looked at each other, and with a 'uh' sound, they vomited blood and died.
Li An's eyes were shocked, these spies of the Fan army were quite backbone, and they bit their tongues and committed suicide without even thinking about it.
Twice lured the snake out of the hole and annihilated all the spies of the Tibetan army, Li An achieved a huge victory, but looking at these corpses lying at his feet, he did not feel the joy of victory.
"It's okay, the spies in the city have been wiped out, what are we going to do next?"
Li Fei Shouyu looked sideways at Li An, although he was a few years older than Li An, and the brothers in the White Wolf Village were all his old subordinates, but after a series of events, he found that Li An's means and abilities were stronger than him, so he was willing to bow down and obey Li An's dispatch.
And Zhang Erniu and other brothers in the White Wolf Village have long regarded Li An as their backbone, and even unconsciously become Li An's de facto subordinates.
Li An didn't squirm, and directly ordered: "Shouyu, you lead twenty brothers to the east gate to set up defenses, and I, Kunxiong and Feiyu, together with me, lead the remaining brothers to reinforce the south gate."
Li Fei Shouyu nodded lightly, led the twenty brothers, and rushed to the east gate of Anbian City.
Li An, Kunxiong, and Feiyu glanced at each other, and led everyone to the direction of the south gate.
"Kill ......"
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows, and defend the city for me......"
In the direction of the south gate, Li Tianlong and his 5,000 troops have launched a third round of attack, and in the distance, the reinforcements led by Li Tagu himself have also arrived at the foot of Anbian City.
Looking at the more and more soldiers and horses of the Tibetan army, the soldiers and people of the Hengye army at the head of the city were all frightened, if the soldiers of the Tibetan army attacked so endlessly, the city was very likely to be unable to hold it.
Guo Ziyi's face was still resolute, but his heart was also very nervous, in order to show the strength of the soldiers and horses defending the city and deter the Tibetan army, he mobilized all the Hengye troops and Minzhuang deployed in the direction of the south gate, that is, he did not reserve reserve soldiers and horses at all.
The Tibetan army erected a large number of ladders, and many soldiers of the Tibetan army continued to attack the city, and the defending Hengye army and Minzhuang also attacked and killed these soldiers who attacked the city.
"Kill the enemy with all your might, and kill those who retreat!"
Guo Ziyi personally greeted the enemy, waved his hand, and beheaded a soldier of the Tibetan army who attacked the city.
Under the encouragement of the commander-in-chief, the soldiers of the Yokono Army fought with all their might, and no one retreated.
Not far outside the city, Li Tagu stared at the battlefield in front of him, his mood was quite complicated, the Tang army generals wielding their dry qi on the city gate tower were extremely brave, and successively beheaded many soldiers under his command under the city.
He couldn't help but sigh that the Tang Army was full of talents, and there were such powerful generals in the small Anbian City.
"The general of the Tang Army who commanded the battle in the center is Zhang Qiqiu?"
Li Tagu looked at Li Tianlong beside him and asked softly.
Li Tianlong shook his head lightly and said, "Chief, Zhang Qiqiu doesn't have such a majestic figure, he is Zhang Qiqiu's right-hand man Guo Ziyi. ”
"Guo Ziyi." Li Tagu sighed and said softly: "This Guo Ziyi is very brave, with him sticking to the south gate, we don't have to spend blood, it seems that it will be difficult to break through Anbian City." ”
Li Tianlong's cheeks trembled, and he said excitedly: "Leader, don't worry, no matter how powerful Guo Ziyi is, I, Li Tianlong, will trample him under my feet." ”
Li Tagu nodded lightly, and the corner of his mouth smiled: "Don't worry about the bold attack!" The leader has already sent 500 men and horses to the direction of the east gate, as long as the main force in the city is attracted to the south gate, the east gate will be at your fingertips. ”
Li Tianlong grinned, and the fat on his cheeks trembled even more.
The Tibetan army adopted the strategy of attacking in turn to make up for the consumption of physical strength, while the defending Hengye Army and Minzhuang fought continuously, for which they became more and more fatigued, and soon lost the advantage of waiting for work, but relying on the terrain advantage and Guo Ziyi's clever command, they could still successfully block the attack of the Tibetan army.
When Li An, Kunxiong, and Feiyu led more than 20 reinforcements to the south gate, they were just in time for the fourth attack of the Tibetan army.
This time, the attack of the Fan army was extremely fierce, which caused great pressure on the Hengye army and Minzhuang defending the city, and the soldiers of the Hengye army and Minzhuang continued to die in battle.
"General Guo, Li An came to help."
Li An stabbed his spear sharply, knocked a soldier of the Fan Army who climbed the female wall down the city, and looked sideways at Guo Ziyi beside him.
When Guo Ziyi saw Li An coming, she was anxious, and glared: "Li An, why did you come here, if the spies in the city make trouble, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”
A flash of confidence flashed in Li An's eyes, and he said loudly: "General Guo, rest assured, the spies of the Fan army in the city have been completely wiped out by me." ”
Guo Ziyi was slightly stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Okay, great, it's worthy of Li Shaolang, he wiped out the spies of the Fan army so quickly, hahaha!" ”
The majestic laughter inspired the soldiers defending the city, and greatly increased the courage of the soldiers, and Li An and his brothers went all out to fight and resisted the attack of the Tibetan army together with Guo Ziyi's team.
The strong attack of the Tibetan army was once again repulsed, and at this moment, the five hundred soldiers of the Tibetan army hidden in the direction of the east gate launched an attack on Anbian City.
The terrain here is too narrow to be conducive to the action of the large army, so there are not many defensive soldiers and horses deployed, and Li Tagu believes that as long as the fighting in the direction of the south gate is fierce, the mobile soldiers and horses in the city will be transferred to the south gate to defend, so that the east gate direction cannot be rescued when it is attacked.
Seeing the five hundred soldiers of the Fan Army carrying the ladder to kill, the more than 30 soldiers of the Hengye Army who were in charge of the defense gasped, even if Li Fei Shouyu and the twenty warriors under his command were added, their strength was only one-tenth of the soldiers and horses of the Fan Army, and this pressure can be imagined.
However, Li Fei Shouyu did not have the slightest fear, he bent his bow and aimed at the outside of the city, and shot one arrow after another, and every time the arrow was shot, a soldier of the Fan army was hit by an arrow in the forehead and fell to the ground.
"The arrows are all in the forehead, it's too powerful."
The soldiers of the Hengye Army defending the city were stunned by Li Fei Shouyu's archery, and their confidence in defending the city was greatly enhanced, while the soldiers of the Fan Army who were besieging the city were frightened.
"Attack, attack with all your might, don't retreat."
The officer, who was hiding outside the range of his bow and arrow, shouted loudly to stop his soldiers from retreating.
The soldiers of the Tibetan army were very helpless, and attacked head-on, trying to rely on the absolute superiority of numbers to attack the city wall of the east gate.
Li Fei Shouyu was not in a hurry, bent his bow and arrows, and picked up the small leaders of the Tibetan army, so that the command system of the Tibetan army suffered heavy losses, and the continuous shooting of the brothers and the Hengye army under his command caused the Tibetan army to suffer a lot of losses.
After losing nearly 100 soldiers, the officers of the Tibetan army saw that there was no hope of breaking the city, so they had to retreat.
After the failure of the two-way siege of the city, the Tibetan army did not give up, and under the leadership of Li Tagu, they set up camp five miles south of Anbian City, preparing to continue the attack on the second day.
The soldiers and horses of the two routes lost hundreds of soldiers, but failed to break through the defense of Anbian City, and the leader of the Tibetan army, Li Tagu, was furious, and reprimanded several generals in charge of the command.
Li Tianlong's fat cheeks were flushed, and he said stubbornly: "Chief, in today's battle, the enemy army is already at the end of the crossbow, and if you attack tomorrow, the last general will definitely be able to break through Anbian City." ”
The corners of Li Tagu's mouth sneered slightly, and he nodded: "Okay, then the leader will give you another chance, you must not let me down again." ”
"Don't worry, the leader will break the city tomorrow."
Li Tianlong didn't know where he got his confidence, and he actually felt that he would definitely be able to break through Anbian City.
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In the direction of the south gate of Anbian City, the soldiers of the Hengye Army and the people of the army leaned on the female wall to rest, and some of the wounded soldiers were being treated by Langzhong, and the sound of grinning teeth could be heard from time to time.
Guo Ziyi patrolled back and forth on the city wall, checked the casualties of the soldiers under his command, and greeted the wounded soldiers, which made the hearts of the soldiers warm.
Li An followed closely behind Guo Ziyi, he could see that Guo Ziyi was a general who loved his subordinates very much, of course, as a general, only by caring for his subordinates could he make his subordinates willing to work for himself when he was fighting.
After Guo Ziyi greeted an injured subordinate, she slowly stood up, gently supported the female wall with her left hand, and looked due south, with a faint worry in the corner of her eyes.
Although he has a resolute personality and vows to defend Anbian City with all his might, the strength of the Fan army is too strong, and he has no absolute certainty of victory, as a general of the Tang Dynasty, he is not afraid of dying in battle, but he does not want an excellent talent like Li An to go to trouble with him.
"Li Shaolang, I am very happy to have your help, but after all, you are not a Tang soldier, there is no need to follow me to stay here, there is a gourd water outside the west gate, there is a boat on the shore, you can leave here at any time."
Li An didn't know whether Guo Ziyi was testing his determination or worried about his safety, but no matter what the situation was, he would not leave Anbian City at such a time.
"General Guo is brave, don't you have confidence in defending Anbian City?"