Su Jin quickly led people to the upper floor of the Imperial City, only to look down, his heart suddenly felt half cold, the downstairs of the Imperial Palace City was densely packed with torches, under the torches, the crowd of war horses neighed, not to mention thousands, I am afraid there are tens of thousands of people.

On the east side of the city gate, rows of tall horses in armor stood quietly, and immediately there were strong soldiers in bright silver armor holding shields and spears, and the iron masks were stuck on their faces, looking like medieval warriors of the round table.

Directly opposite the middle are rows of infantry, holding bows and arrows, scimitars, and the armor on their bodies is also complete, this is the Su Guard, the standing army in the capital; On the west side are the three teams of the guards, and Ouchi is on duty with the ninth and tenth teams of Hosomu Hona and Buluobu, and these three teams are responsible for the guard outside the palace, and it seems that they have been pulled into the battlefield.

Su Jin quickly analyzed the situation in front of him, the strength and number of people are naturally worlds apart, but his own good is that there is a strong city wall as a cover, Yuan Hao spared no effort in the construction of the palace, not only the city gate is high and thick, reinforced with copper nails, the city wall is also more than three zhang high, as wide as one zhang six, the height is three feet higher than the outer city wall of Xingqing Mansion; The various battlements on the city wall are also very complete, which is very conducive to defense.

But the advantage of terrain is not enough to reverse the absolute gap in strength, the gap in strength is too big, Su Jin only has two teams of guards of 1,000 people on hand, and he brought less than 100 people to guard him.

"Immediately gather all the palace attendants to gather in the square inside the city gate, General Ximu, can there be an armory in the palace?" Su Jin stared at the restless and noisy army below and asked without looking back.

"The armory, of course."

"Is there any oil on the kerose, a crossbow on the bed or something?"

"There are some fire oils, what is a bed crossbow? Haven't heard of it; There were a dozen whirlwind cannons. ”

Su Jin said: "All the assembled attendants were moved here for standby; General Morrow, you take 500 soldiers to defend the east wall, and the remaining 500 soldiers to defend the west wall, fortunately, the front wall is only 200 steps away from the enemy, and the moats on the left and right sides play a big role, otherwise this battle will not be fought. ”

Mo Luo buried the sermon: "The emperor dug the moat on both sides for the defense of the palace, and connected it with the Beilin Lake behind the palace, and only one side met the enemy, but I didn't expect it to really come in handy." ”

Su Jin nodded and said: "It's a good idea, listen, the enemy army is numerous, we can only rely on the terrain to hold on, and shoot with bows and arrows from a distance, once the city wall is broken, then the general trend is gone, pay attention to this." ”

Moreau said: "Don't worry, I'm not a vegetarian, I'll leave it to me." ”

Su Jin nodded and turned his eyes to the inside and outside of the city wall, the people outside the city neighed and screamed, and the city was also busy, and the inner servants were gathered There were thousands of people, one by one, they took small steps and sweated under the supervision of General Ximu to move out of the arsenal next to the side hall from the arsenal next to the side hall, such as bows and arrows, armor, oil barrels, whirlwind cannons, etc., these guys were already disabled and unable to do their strength, where did they do such physical work on weekdays, they were tired and half dead, and it was easy to finish moving things, and all of them lay on the ground and called.

The soldiers and horses outside the city finally moved, and a passage slowly flashed out of the guards in the middle road, and a few generals wearing armor came out, and the fine mother said in Su Jin's ear: "The one in the middle is not hiding the false face, and the big fat man next to it is the prodigal man, but it seems that the prodigal is aware of something." ”

Su Jin nodded and said, "You talk to them and try to delay time, and it will be beneficial for us to delay a little longer now." ”

The fine mother nodded, leaned out from the city tower, and shouted at the few people who walked out slowly under the city wall: "Who is coming? Before gathering soldiers in the palace, is this a rebellion? ”

The tall and thin man stood still, and his desolate voice sounded: "General Ximu, don't you even know the old man?" ”

The fine mother looked at it pretending to be a face, and said, "It turned out to be the Prime Minister, what is the Prime Minister doing?" Why did you bring troops to the palace, is this to rebel? ”

He didn't hide Pang and said loudly: "General Ximu, who is plotting rebellion, you know in your heart; The old man advises you to quickly put down your sword and open the palace gate, otherwise the old man will be unkind, you rebels and thieves, you dare to kill the king and seize the throne, it is really bold, but do you have that ability? ”

The fine mother pretended to be puzzled and said: "I don't understand what the prime minister said at all, the emperor is resting in the palace in a good manner, how can he say that he killed the king?" ”

He scolded angrily: "Little mother, you are not qualified to talk to me, go to Jiaoye Li Duanyun, a, to see me, I want to know, how is my sister and nephew." ”

The fine mother said: "The minister of state is also suspicious, he will be on duty, how do I not know what you said." ”

didn't hide Pang Pang knew that he couldn't take it for granted with this fine mother's name, so he shouted an ultimatum: "The old man is not mixed with you, and it is not good for you to delay time, I will give you a stick of incense time, either you open the city gate and let us go in to protect the emperor, or the old man will launch an attack and attack the palace, and the old man Qingjun will kill the thieves who are plotting rebellion, whoever dares to stop me, who will punish the nine clans." ”

Before she could say a few words, she didn't hide her name but turned back to the formation, boarded a chariot with a canopy and sat down slowly.

At the same time, orders were frequently issued in the opposing formation, thousands of soldiers carried more than 100 ladders out of the crowd, and three rushing carts with double hugs and iron rivets were also pushed to the front of the formation; Thousands of archers of the Guards took their bows and arrows, mounted their arrows, and prepared to step forward to aim and shoot, while thousands of soldiers had already drawn their swords in their hands and followed the ladder to charge at the first order.

Su Jin could see that the other party was fully prepared, the reason why he had been lining up and not attacking just now must be to look for siege equipment, in the face of such a strong city wall, the ladder rush car should naturally be prepared, this person who did not hide the false Pang was not a presumptuous person.

The battle was about to break out, but Su Jin didn't want it to start so soon, he ordered the inner servants to be divided into two teams to reinforce the city walls on both sides, although these inner servants couldn't even pull their bows and arrows, and they didn't know what role they could play, but at least they were full of people; While ordering the fine mother, the name of the mother shouted down.

"Lord Wuzang, the emperor is coming from the palace, don't be impulsive, if you dare to attack and hurt the emperor, you will be a rebellious minister."

"Whew! You are a dog, you are still lying at this time, the emperor has already been killed by you, there has been news in the palace, you still think that it is seamless, and if you don't open the city gate, you will wait to die. ”

"If you dare to attack the palace, I will hang your sister at the head of the city."

The name of the fine mother was supposed to take this as a threat, and wanted to make the Wuzang Pang Mouse Trap hesitate, but he didn't expect that as soon as this sentence came out, he heard the huge scolding of Wuzang and gave a loud order, and then shouted for a while, and thousands of guards took the lead, carrying the cloud ladder and began to charge; At the same time, the three rushing cars were also pushed by more than 100 strong men to the city gate.

Su Jin scolded loudly and ordered in a loud voice: "Archers prepare, start shooting within fifty steps, the target is the archers in the rear, and the ladder infantry in front of you don't care." ”

Everyone was stunned and said, "No matter? Isn't that coming? ”

Su Jin said: "Don't worry, they can't come up this time, believe me." ”

In the shout, the Su Guards had rushed through a distance of more than a hundred steps into the range of bow and arrow shooting, the first wave of charging soldiers had the consciousness of cannon fodder, after entering the range of bows and arrows, instinctively shrunk their necks and waited for the bow and arrow to fall from the sky, praying in their hearts for the blessing of the Buddhas, the arrows would not fall on their bodies; The gods and Buddhas had spirits, and not a single arrow fell on the bodies of the nearly two thousand charging soldiers in front, although the bowstring sounded continuously, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air was overhead, but it was the archers who followed behind and prepared to cover the ladder climbing.

The strategy of Ye Li Lipang was correct, the infantry of the Su Guard in front charged, and the thousands of archers in the back shot arrows to suppress the head of the city, so that the defenders at the head of the city could not strike at the climbing soldiers, this three-dimensional cover could indeed play a miraculous effect in the siege; Archers don't seek to kill the enemy, but only to suppress them.

The opponent shot all the arrows at the archers in the rear, which was also within the calculation of not hiding the false face, and he couldn't take care of his ass, shooting the archers meant that the ladder infantry could reach the city wall smoothly, and then it was the nightmare of the other party.

As Ye Li Pang expected, two thousand soldiers rushed to the city wall without any damage, and the archers behind were killed and wounded more than 100 people, but the price was worth it. ”

But as soon as these words came out, his mouth opened, and the eyes of everyone around him also jumped out of their sockets and fell to the ground and rolled around, and the scene under the walls of the palace taught everyone to cry and laugh.