The enemy entered the range of the bow and arrow, the feather arrows fired a volley, the enemy had a wooden shield, the casualties were not too serious, still holding the shield, carrying the ladder towards the city, the rear enemy archers entered the range, began to shoot arrows to counterattack, Li Hao should be glad that the enemy did not have heavy engineering equipment such as catapults, otherwise the difficulty of their defense of the city would be greatly increased.

The enemy army set up a ladder under the city and began to attack the city, and the city cart was also pushed out, marching towards the city gate, Li Hao watched Li Zhen command the battle from the side, and found that he was still very set, and the command was determined, not at all like the first time on the battlefield, although some details may not be in place, but Li Hao will immediately remind.

The stones and trees at the head of the city were smashed down one after another, and the ladder was pushed away as soon as it was erected, and the enemy was not lightly killed or wounded, but Li Hao and they were not happy, the enemy had too many archers, and the arrows were like rain, covering a large area, and some soldiers hiding behind the battlements could be hit by arrows.

Li Hao observed the situation on the battlefield and shouted: "Shoot the enemy archers first." ”

Li Zhen hurriedly ordered the archers to shoot at the enemy archers, although they did not have as many archers as the other side, they had a city wall to cover them, and they were condescending, taking advantage of the geographical advantage.

"Report! The enemy army on the western wall is attacking fiercely and needs support! ”

"Report! The enemy army on the eastern wall is attacking fiercely and needs support! ”

The heralds on the east and west walls came to ask for help, and it seemed that they wanted Li Hao to transfer the two thousand defenders on the south city wall to help them.

After all, there was no battle on the other side of the southern wall, and the two thousand soldiers were on the empty side.

Li Hao hesitated for a moment and began to give orders: "Transfer 1,000 people from the south city wall to the east city wall to support, and the west city wall will start to use golden soup and fire oil!" ”

As soon as Li Haojun's order was reached, the herald immediately went to give the order, and soon, a thousand troops on the south city wall began to mobilize to support the east city wall, and on the west city wall, many cauldrons were erected on the city wall, and the diluted feces began to be boiled, and the long-lost golden soup appeared on the battlefield again.

When Li Hao was struggling to defend Tingzhou, Jin Tang made a miraculous achievement, that time, Jin Tang created a plague in the enemy camp, causing the enemy army to lose more than half of its troops, and the Western Turks directly retreated, this time, Li Hao hoped that Jin Tang would create another miracle.

Jintang is not 100% able to cause cholera, which has a certain probability in it, of course, this is also related to the climate season, in the hot weather, the probability of cholera is extremely high, and the speed of infection is also very fast, but now it is the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and this is the north, summer comes slowly, and the current weather, if you want to cause cholera, you really have to depend on luck.

The appearance of Jintang and fire oil scared away all the Khitan troops under the city, and many soldiers who were scalded by Jintang were rescued, Li Hao hoped that one of them could get cholera, as long as one, it could infect a thousand, infect 10,000, or even more, and change the overall situation.

The east city wall was on fire, temporarily hindering the enemy's siege, Li Hao immediately sent a thousand people out from the east city wall to the north to fight against Xue Yantuo's army, Xue Yantuo's army was full of three people, but it was not easy to deal with, a thousand people joined in, it seemed that the effect was not great.

Li Hao ordered again, all the use of gold soup, so the city has set up a big iron pot, began to cook the gold soup, Youzhou City suddenly stinky, the people in the city have to endure the smell, to the city to carry the stone rolling wood, without the slightest complaint, they are the group of people who are unable to fight, since the Tang Dynasty soldiers fought for them, they have to stand behind the Tang Dynasty soldiers to make a contribution for them, the more this time, the more can reflect the cohesion of the Tang Dynasty army and people.

Although there is a lot of fire oil in the city, Li Hao does not plan to use it up at one time, he must save some points, the two sides are still fighting, there is no heavy siege equipment, it is really difficult for the enemy army to enter the city, and they can only rely on the advantage of numbers to succeed.

The battle lasted for nearly an hour, and Mu Erqin ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and he also saw that it was difficult to attack the city in this way, and even if he could fight it, he would suffer heavy losses, and he couldn't exhaust his troops here in Youzhou, otherwise how would the next battle be fought, after all, their goal was not only Youzhou, but the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty.

The enemy withdrew, Li Hao breathed a sigh of relief, this battle can be said to be a tentative attack of the enemy, but the enemy's offensive is still very fierce, after counting the battle losses, Li Hao They lost more than 1,200 people, this result is not bad, the enemy's losses are estimated to be more than twice as much as them, but Li Hao still frowned, now the city is short of troops, he is distressed by one less person, and now he can only hope for Jintang.

However, Li Hao's luck did not seem to be good this time, the enemy army burned by Jintang did not cause cholera, but caused some other infectious diseases, but was quickly strangled in the cradle.

The enemy army rested for one day, and on the third day, the city was attacked again, and it was another fierce battle, Li Hao used the golden soup again, and the hot golden soup combined with the strange smell forced the enemy to retreat.

After Murqin collected his troops and returned to the camp, he counted the battle losses and found that he had lost more than 4,000 people, plus the last loss of more than 3,000 people, and had lost 8,000 people, but they had not yet been able to climb to the top of the city half a step, which made him very discouraged.

Just when Murqin was irritable, another soldier came to report that several wounded soldiers in the battalion had contracted a contagious disease.

Murqin immediately ordered these soldiers who were infected with the disease to be buried alive, after all, he had already suffered a loss two days ago, and this time he must take precautions early.

Once again, the barbarian army was repulsed, and the whole city cheered, but Li Hao was worried, this time the golden soup failed to play a miraculous effect, which made him very depressed, the first two days of the battle, and lost 1,800 people, and now there are only 12,000 troops left in the city, and more than 3,000 people are slightly or seriously injured, and the situation is becoming more and more serious.

Unexpectedly, this was not the worst, just when Li Hao was defending the city, another army crossed the Juyong Pass and defeated the 10,000 Tang troops who came to support Youzhou, and this army was the army of Goguryeo, and it was an army of 40,000 led by Gai Suwen himself.

Although Goguryeo is weak, the Goguryeo people are still very fierce, because Goguryeo is located in Liaodong, the environment of Liaodong is harsh, and there have been many ethnic groups in this place in history, but each of the ethnic groups that appear is very fierce, and only if they are fierce enough can they survive in a harsh environment.

In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin drove the expedition in person, almost defeated Goguryeo to destroy the country, and finally Goguryeo's 100,000 army guarded the city of Anshi, relying on the cold weather and harsh environment to force the Tang Dynasty to retreat, which can be described as a great shame for Goguryeo, Gai Suwen was not a fuel-efficient lamp, after three years of recuperation and rectification, Goguryeo's national strength gradually recovered, Gai Suwen wanted to take revenge, but there has been no chance, after all, the Tang Dynasty is too strong, and the border is guarded like an iron bucket, but he has been secretly sending people to monitor every move of the Tang border pass, Like a wolf in the wilderness, peeking at Datang.

After Gai Suwen entered the customs with an army of 40,000, he happened to encounter the army sent by the two states and counties in the north to support Youzhou, he took the opportunity to defeat the reinforcements of the Tang Dynasty, and then attacked the two states and counties in the north of Youzhou, these two states and counties were originally limited in strength, and also lost 10,000 troops, the defense was naturally weak, and was taken by Gai Suwen in one fell swoop, Gai Suwen looted and plundered everywhere in the city, sent 10,000 troops to escort supplies and slaves back to China, and led 30,000 troops to attack Youzhou.

Li Hao and the army of the three clans stalemate for nearly a month, both sides suffered heavy losses, in the past month, they have experienced 20 battles, there are only 10,000 defenders left in the city, and among the remaining 10,000 people, 4,000 are Li Hao's temporary requisition from the city, that is to say, now the battleable strength in Youzhou City, there are only more than 6,000 people.

The losses of the alliance army of the three clans were even heavier, and there were only 38,000 people left in the 60,000 army, and the biggest loss was Xue Yantuo, who lost nearly half of Xue Yantuo's 30,000 army.

After besieging Youzhou for twenty-seven days, he failed to take Youzhou City, and he paid such a heavy price, the morale of the three ethnic coalition forces was a little low, and Mu Erqin was also frowning all day, and if he didn't capture Youzhou, he was afraid that the reinforcements of the Tang Dynasty would be coming, he regretted it a little now, why didn't he bring more soldiers and horses, he thought that the 60,000 army could fight Datang by surprise, but I didn't expect Li Hao to be so able to fight, and more than 10,000 people insisted on holding Youzhou for a month.

Not only Murqin, but even Li Tai, the king of Wei, also regretted it, he finally realized that rebellion is really not an easy task, it took a month for 60,000 troops to attack a Youzhou, and there is no hope at all, he is very manic now, he wants to kill people, he wants to slaughter all the three old things of the Cui family, blame them, they are the ones who instigated their rebellion, and they are also the ones who make their own decisions and let the barbarians enter the customs, now it's good, he has no way to retreat at all, he is a little awake, in fact, it's good to be a stable prince, At least it's good to be able to live happily, eat whatever you want, play what you want, and do what you like.

However, now, he has to be worried every day, thinking that he is very likely to be defeated and captured back to Chang'an, even if he is the emperor's own son, even if Li Shimin used to love him very much, so what, now he is colluding with foreign rebellions, which is greater than the mistake made by Li Chenggan, and his fate will definitely be worse than Li Chengqian, and the Chinese military officials will not let him go, and what awaits him must be in a different place.

Just when Li Tai was in a panic, a large army appeared, a full 30,000 people, and came to the city of Youzhou, which was the Goguryeo army of Gai Suwen.

Cui Gongwang, who was also extremely anxious, was suddenly overjoyed, and hurriedly asked Li Tai to meet Gai Suwen, and sent people to prepare money, food and women, with Gai Suwen's help, he believed that he would definitely be able to take Youzhou in one fell swoop.

Does Li Tai still have a choice, the answer is no, in order to survive, he can only fall deeper and deeper, quickly bring rich gifts, accompanied by Murqin Cui Gongwang and others, and go to visit Gai Suwen in the Goguryeo camp.