The next day, Li Hao ordered troops on the school field, and Feng Chen Bin was the vanguard general of the left road, leading 3,000 troops to attack the east gate of Gaochang, Peng Hai was the vanguard general of the right road, leading 3,000 troops to attack the west gate of Gaochang, and Chen Yong, the commander of Liangzhou Zhichong, was the vanguard of the middle road, leading 3,000 troops to attack the north gate of Gaochang.

The sound of war drums, the whole army attacked, the army began to attack the city, although the strength of the three armies was the same, but all the siege baggage was at the north gate, so the battle at the north gate was destined to be the most intense.

As soon as Chen Yong started the battle, he used a catapult, five catapults drove together, and the flying stones smashed into the city, and the Gaochang defenders at the head of the city were suddenly in chaos, and they were also deeply shocked when they saw the power of the catapult for the first time.

Chen Yong took advantage of the chaos caused by the catapults to send troops to attack the city, and at the same time sent a city truck to storm the north gate of Gaochang.

There were nearly 10,000 defenders of Gaochang on the north city wall, although they were frightened by the catapults, but they still fought back, because they had an absolute advantage in numbers, and they were condescending, occupying a favorable location, and the stones and trees were rolling down like a tide, and the Tang army could not climb the city at all.

The herald ran to pass the order, reporting the battle situation ahead, Li Hao stood in front of the army with a feather fan in his hand, looking at the fierce battle situation in front, listening to the battle damage reported by the herald, frowning, after a long time, he turned around suddenly, walked towards the tooth tent, and said at the same time: "Collect the troops!" ”

The sound of Mingjin sounded, the Tang army collected the troops, Li Hao sat in the tooth tent, shaking the feather fan, frowning and groaning, the damage of the storm on the city wall was too great, even if there were catapults to help today, it also lost nearly a thousand soldiers, although the damage on the Gaochang side was not light, but on the whole, Li Hao's gains outweighed the losses.

Li Hao also didn't want his soldiers to sacrifice so much, Zhu Su Lao warned him that Ci was not in charge of the army, but Li Hao was still too merciful, even if it was a war, he was reluctant to sacrifice his soldiers, which was not a good thing.

But Li Hao didn't plan to change, he knew that fighting was cruel, but he just didn't want his soldiers to die in vain. He was thinking, thinking of a feasible way, a way to minimize the sacrifice of his own soldiers.

Li Hao thought for several hours, and felt that there was a siege machine that might be able to help him, so he found a pen and paper and began to draw, Li Hao is now more and more handy at drawing, only half an hour, a siege machine was drawn, this is a huge nest car drawing.

The nest car, in fact, is a bit similar to the arrow tower, belongs to the siege equipment, the base is very large, very high, generally higher than the siege pool, the soldiers can stand on it can shoot arrows into the city, the geographical advantage and disadvantage into an advantage, as long as the nest car is enough, it can completely reverse the battlefield situation.

After drawing the drawings, Li Hao immediately sent Li Yuanzhong to Xizhou to recruit trees and craftsmen.

From the next day, Li Hao sent catapults to throw boulders at Gaochang City every day, and did not send troops to attack, just smash them like this, how many can be killed, it is better to smash the female wall, anyway, the city wall of Gaochang is also an earthen wall, so it is very smashed.

Lu Zhisheng sent a large number of people to nun the wall overnight every day, and in the daytime, it was smashed again, and it was repaired at night, but fortunately, Li Hao's catapult was not much, otherwise Lu Zhisheng was estimated to collapse.

Five days later, Li Yuanzhong returned, bringing with him a large number of logs and craftsmen, and Li Hao ordered all the craftsmen to start making the nest car.

At the same time, Hou Junji had already captured the second city of Tiandi Liugu and came to Gaochang City to meet Li Hao.

With Hou Junji's 10,000 army, Li Hao's confidence suddenly increased, and now they and Gaochang's troops are waiting, Li Hao decided to attack the city again, because he has built too many nest cars, the progress is a little slow, and it may be too late.

This time, Li Hao sent people to replace the stone with an iron barrel filled with oil, loaded it on the catapult, ignited it and threw it into the city, after a round of throwing, the fire in Gaochang City was everywhere, black smoke was billowing out, and screams and wails rose everywhere, causing great panic.

Li Hao and Hou Junji took the opportunity to send troops to attack the city, the defenders of Gaochang felt very difficult, especially the north city gate, the city head was also full of flames, burning and burning countless Gaochang troops, the enemy defenders began to order to pour fire oil under the city, hindering the Tang army with fire, Li Hao and Hou Junji had no choice but to temporarily withdraw the troops.

Although the siege of the city failed, Li Hao also saw that the Gaochang army was already in chaos, and the throwing of oil barrels was really effective, so he ordered to throw dozens of oil barrels into the city every day and at night, burning them, so that they would not be at peace day and night, creating panic and chaos at the same time, but also achieving the effect of exhausting the army.

For ten consecutive days, the fire in the city continued, and the defenders of Gaochang could only rest for one or two hours a day, all of them were listless, and the people in the city were even more panicked, they all felt that the Tang army was very fierce, and Gaochang City was estimated to be over.

The nobles once again jointly asked Lu Zhisheng to surrender, Lu Zhisheng had not slept for many days, worried about the war, and his mood had already been extremely bad, and he finally slept for a while, and was disturbed by the nobles again, he couldn't help it anymore, he was furious, and sent people to blow these nobles away.

The nobles suddenly felt cold, and began to use their relationships to contact the generals who had mastered the military power, and discussed the way out, and now the generals who led the army to defend the city were Gaochang Jianwu General Lu Zhengxin, Lu Wentai's cousin, on seniority, Lu Zhisheng should call him Uncle Wang, Lu Zhengxin is a member of the royal family, the nobles can not be wooed, they can only win over some small generals, even if it is a small general who only leads hundreds of soldiers and horses, they discuss, as long as the situation is not right at the last moment, quickly force the palace to rebel, capture Lu Zhisheng, and surrender the city, so that may also be rewarded by Datang.

After another seven days, the temperature dropped again, but fortunately, the craftsmen gave their efforts, and thirteen nest cars were built. The nest car is not a rare siege equipment in this era, but it is too huge, extremely difficult to carry, and it is extremely labor-intensive to manufacture, so it is rarely used during the siege, but the nest car designed by Li Hao is very simple, mainly divided into three parts, the huge base is a part, the nest platform of the person standing above is a part, and the middle part is the soul of this new nest car, the diamond-shaped telescopic frame.

In middle school physics, I learned that the biggest feature of triangles is stability, while quadrilaterals are unstable.

Because it is supported by a telescopic frame, it is naturally not as stable as a tower-shaped nest car, and the nest car is very high, so Li Hao asked people to make these nest cars very large, the length of the base alone has reached seven meters, ten meters high, and the upper nest platform is smaller, five meters long and four meters wide, enough to stand more than 20 archers.

A row of nest cars was placed a hundred steps away from the north wall of Gaochang, more than 300 archers boarded the nest car, and then Li Hao ordered to twist the rocker, the sound of Galala spread throughout the battlefield, the huge nest platform supported the archers to rise slowly, a few minutes later, the nest platform rose to the highest point, the archers in the nest platform were condescending, and they could already see a messy scene in Gaochang City.

Looking at the thirteen nest cars of the Tang Army outside the city slowly rising, the hearts of the Gaochang sergeants suddenly cooled half, the only thing they could rely on was the geographical advantage, seeing these thirteen huge nest cars, they knew that their geographical advantage was gone.

"Throw fire oil! Shoot! Chen Yong, the pioneer general of the middle road, shouted the order, the catapult began to throw oil barrels into the city, the fire was everywhere, the smoke was billowing, more than 300 archers on the nest car had pulled up their strong bows, and shot arrows at the head of the city, Gaochang army tried to shoot arrows in vain, but those arrows could only fall on the base of the nest car, and could not shoot at the top of the nest car, so that the three hundred archers on the nest car became an invincible existence.

Li Hao shook the feather fan lightly, looked at everything in front of him, and said leisurely: "The overall situation has been decided, Li Yuanzhong, take a thousand cavalry to ambush outside the south gate, in case the enemy chief abandons the city and escapes." ”

"Yes!" Li Yuanzhong excitedly took the order and left.

The 300 archers on the nest cart kept shooting arrows at the head of the city, and the fire oil barrels thrown by the catapults nearly collapsed, and the defenders of the northern city wall of Gaochang almost collapsed, and there was no place for the entire city wall, either dying from feather arrows or being burned by the flames, and the army was forced to retreat from the city wall.

The nobles in the city always paid attention to the battle situation, and when they saw such a situation, they immediately secretly screamed that it was not good, and they began to contact the generals they had attracted before, and there were more than 3,000 people in one place, and then they went straight to the Gaochang Palace.

Lu Zhisheng had just received a report from Lu Zhengxin about the urgent battle at the north gate, and he was in a hurry to pack up his things and escape from the south gate, but before he could get out of the palace, suddenly a guard came to report, and the nobles rebelled and came to force the palace with more than 3,000 troops.

Lu Zhisheng was suddenly frightened, feeling that the whole world was full of malice, he had only been on the throne for a few days, and he was going to experience these bad things, he suddenly hated his father and the king, and he had done a lifetime of bad things for lack of morality, and then when Tang Jun came to commit it, he kicked his leg and left it alone, and threw this mess to himself.

Lu Zhisheng has no other way now, so he can only order a thousand defenders of the palace to take him out of the encirclement, anyway, he can't die, he must escape.

The defenders of the north city wall fled, Li Hao ordered the siege of the city, and sent a car to crash open the city gate, the morale of the Gaochang army was suddenly gone, the other three city walls also fell successively, 20,000 Tang troops attacked the city, the people of Gaochang and the army knelt on the ground and begged for mercy when they saw the Tang army, and there was no longer half a point of war, and the Tang army had no half of resistance after entering the city.

Li Hao led the troops into the city, directly to take the palace, Hou Junji led people around to capture prisoners, but also in response to Li Hao, to the Gaochang palace to surround the palace, but when he arrived at the palace, he found that the palace did not have a defender, only a group of palace maids and eunuchs who fled in a hurry, Hou Junji caught a eunuch and asked, only to learn that the nobles in the city rebelled against the palace and surrounded Lu Zhisheng, Lu Zhisheng had already taken a thousand palace guards to break out, and fled to the south, Li Hao's army also came, but Li Hao received a report from the soldiers, and went south to chase Lu Zhisheng.

Hou Junji was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately sent people to search the Gaochang Palace, and arrested all the concubines and eunuchs.

Li Hao pounced in the Gaochang Palace, received a report from Chen Bin, Lu Zhisheng fled to the south, and immediately led the army to pursue, and went south to the south gate, only to find that he was worried in vain, only to see that the south gate has been guarded by his own men and horses, and Lu Zhisheng is fighting with hundreds of people, not with his own army, but with the group of soldiers led by the nobles.

Although Lu Zhisheng knew that he couldn't escape, but he was unwilling, as soon as he thought of being turned back by his own people, he was extremely angry, how good they were to these nobles, but they didn't expect that when the matter came, they came to harm themselves, what he was thinking about now was to kill these traitors, it didn't matter if he died, he must pull a little more back.

As for those nobles, they also have their own ideas, they want to behave well in front of the Tang Army, so that the Tang Army will not embarrass them, and may even reward them.

Li Hao was watching the play leisurely, and Chen Bin came over to ask for instructions: "Military advisor, do you want the last general to take them down in one fell swoop?" ”

"Not necessarily." Li Hao raised his feather fan and shook it gently, "Just watch them eat dogs, it's good." ”

Indeed, Li Hao has endless anger towards Gao Chang, when he sees such a dog-eat-dog picture, his heart is indescribably comfortable, one word - cool!