Chapter 474: The Siege and Bloody Battle (2)
Xu Junke, at the age of fifty seven, Shanxi Taiyuan, as early as the time when Taizu Li Yuan raised the army, he had been put into the command of Li Shimin, starting from the gang leader, all the way to the post of Zuo Jin Wuwei Zhonglang General, although he did not have outstanding martial arts, nor did he have outstanding military talents, but he won in one word, he fought countless battles in his life, and rarely went wrong. Although he commanded the many crossbow crossbowmen at the head of the city to bombard, he did not forget to beware of the possibility of a surprise attack by the Goguryeo cavalry, and also made some relevant preparations, but as soon as the Goguryeo cavalry attacked, Xu Junke immediately realized that something was wrong The speed of the Goguryeo cavalry was too fast, and it was obvious that it did not start to accelerate directly from the city gate hole, but first started to speed up on the streets of the city, and then rushed out of the city gate hole. Although the difference here is subtle but enough to kill the Tang cavalry with two wings, the cavalry of the Tang Army will not be able to attack and intercept it in time before the Goguryeo cavalry rushes to the trebuchet position, and now the only one who can be relied on is the Mo Dao team in the infantry, and at this time, the shield knife men who have already dispersed to cover the trebuchet with the shield array have no time to change their formation to provide the necessary support and cover for the Mo knife men.
What to do? The Mo Dao team is still not up, Xu Jun hesitated for a while, and the Mo Dao team certainly has a natural advantage when dealing with the cavalry's assault, but if the cavalry does not go to the Mo Dao formation head-on, but rides and shoots at a distance, it will be a nightmare for the Mo Dao team, especially without the shield swordsmen to provide shield cover, it is almost certain that the extremely strong Modao team will face a bloody massacre.
Time, there is no time! Seeing that after a little hesitation, the Goguryeo cavalry had rushed out of the city gate one after another, Xu Junke had to make a decision, waved his arms, and ordered in a loud voice:
Xu Jun could give this order, and the Mo knife team that was originally located behind the trebuchet position immediately shouted the battle cry, and rushed forward from the gap between the trebuchets, and soon formed a forest of extremely strict knives, but seeing nearly eight hundred Mo knives divided into two rows, the extremely sharp knife heads were raised high, and in the reflection of the morning sun, the cold light of death flashed.
The Goguryeo Army and the Tang Dynasty have not clashed once or twice, how can they not know the majesty of the Tang Army's Mo Knife Team, at this time, when they saw that the world-famous Mo Knife Team had blocked the way, Gao Kexin, who led the attack, was not only not surprised, but ecstatic, waved the horse lance in his hand, and shouted: As soon as the words fell, he suddenly twisted the horse's head, and then ran away into the oblique spur, while galloping on the horse, he hung the horse lance in his hand on the victory ditch, and then took out the strong bow on his waist, twisted his waist, stretched the bow and took the arrow, and shot at the middle of the Tang Army Mo knife team. The Goguryeo cavalry that had rushed out of the city gate was also doing the same thing, and at the same time, the strong crossbowmen who were originally fighting against the Tang army's crossbow carts on the city also concentrated their full strength to cover the middle of the Tang Army's Mo knife team by projectile, and suddenly the sound of feather arrows breaking through the air was loud, and the sky and ground were raining arrows, and thousands of steel arrows were all roaring towards the center of the Tang Army's Mo knife team.
The rain of arrows is too dense, even if the power of the steel arrows thrown down from the city is already the end of the strong crossbow, but under the dense coverage of so many steel arrows, coupled with more than 200 feather arrows shot by the Goguryeo cavalry out of the city, the middle position of the Tang Army's Mo knife team was stirred up by a bloody storm, and the more than 20 Mo knife men who bore the brunt of the attack were shot into hedgehogs. At this moment, the second wave of Goguryeo cavalry had taken advantage of the situation to rush out of the city gate hole, risking the danger of being covered by their own arrow rain, and desperately rushed towards the vacancy of the Modao formation.
Not good, fooled! Xu Junke only glanced at the Goguryeo cavalry who were desperately attacking towards the gap of his Modao team, and immediately found that the two hundred and fifty Goguryeo cavalry did not have any weapons in their hands, but everyone was holding a crockpot that was obviously not light. If it is ignited by a rocket shot at a distance, the entire trebuchet position is afraid that it will immediately turn into a sea of fire, if so, he Xu Junke's head is afraid that he will not be able to save it!
In the face of the desperate assault of the Goguryeo cavalry, Xu Jun was in a hurry, and he didn't care about commanding his subordinates to fight, and after yelling, he personally led more than 30 cavalry of the personal guards, braving the steel arrows that were still falling on his head, and frantically rushed forward from the back of the trebuchet position, quickly crossed the gap in the middle of the Modao team, and killed the surging Goguryeo cavalry.
The angry Xu Junke waved the horse lance in his hand, constantly provoking and killing, and the oncoming Goguryeo cavalry fell off the horse one by one, and the more than 30 horsemen under his command saw that their master would be so powerful, and they were not far behind, and they fought bravely to kill the unarmed Goguryeo cavalry, how could they be poor in manpower, although Xu Junke led the guards to fight with all their might, but it was still to no avail, and the Goguryeo cavalry paid the price of nearly 100 horses falling off the horse, and broke through Xu Junke's interception and pounced on the gap of the Modao team.
The Tang Army's Modao team is a strong soldier in a hundred battles, although it was previously severely damaged due to the looting of the rain of arrows, but once Xu Junke took the lead in attacking, the Modao team braved the rain of arrows and desperately closed the formation, how could the Goguryeo cavalry come too fast, and before the Modao team formation was completely closed, its forward had rushed to the gap.
The commander of the Mo knife team saw that he could not seal the gap in time, and immediately roared decisively, and suddenly dozens of Mo knife men close to the gap immediately cut down the Mo knife in their hands without hesitation, trying to kill more Goguryeo cavalry passing by, but seeing the sword light in the middle of the horizon, blood burst out, and the fragments of the corpses of people and horses flew around, and the entire gap was as terrifying as a bloody hell, and then the Goguryeo cavalry who rushed to the front were all selected daredevils, and they were not frightened by such bloody scenes. Still rushing forward, more than 60 of them rushed over before the Modao team was encircled.
As soon as the shield swordsmen of the Tang Army, who were in formation, saw the Goguryeo cavalry rushing over, they immediately rushed forward in a chaotic manner, each raising their swords and chopping indiscriminately, trying to annihilate this group of bold Goguryeo cavalry on the spot as soon as possible, however, this group of Goguryeo cavalry did not pay attention to the steel knife in front of them, and almost made a move to throw! But seeing nearly sixty clay pots flying up from the chaotic army, with the momentum of the horses, whistling towards the trebuchet position behind the shield knife array, after listening to a series of ping-pong sounds, a strong smell of vegetable oil immediately permeated the Tang army's formation.
Gao Huailong was waiting for this moment to deliberately let the strong crossbowmen confront the Tang army that was obviously in a strong position, in order to create a huge sound, in order to cover the sound of their own cavalry accelerating on the street, and completely disrupt the Tang army's originally neatly arranged shield and knife hand formation, creating a chance for the sudden attack of their own cavalry, and now the death squad has thrown the oil canister into the Tang army's trebuchet position, Gao Huailong did not dare to slack off, waved his hand, and ordered loudly: Suddenly, The Goguryeo crossbowmen who had already taken advantage of the chaos on the battlefield to change their oilcloths lit the arrows in their hands one after another, and as soon as they pulled the trigger, more than 2,000 rockets rose into the air, flying like locusts towards the Tang army's trebuchet position in chaos, although many crossbow arrows had been extinguished in the air, and many crossbow arrows fell in front of the two armies due to lack of strength, but there were still more than 400 burning crossbow arrows that fell to the center of the Tang army's trebuchet position.
The fire soon broke out, at first it was just a small dozen flames, however, although the soldiers of the Tang Army guarding the trebuchet were already fighting hard, but with the help of vegetable oil, the fire could not be suppressed soon, but seeing the smoke billowing in, the center of the Tang Army's trebuchet position had been burned into a sea of fire, and there was a tendency to spread to both ends, fortunately, Luo Zhengsheng reacted in time, gave up the trebuchets in the center that were already on fire, and ordered the trebuchets to loosen the support frame that had been fixed, The more than 100 trebuchets on both sides were withdrawn to a safe place, which was considered to have saved most of the siege equipment, Rao was so, a fire came down, and there were also 45 trebuchets and several large ballistas buried in the sea of fire, the siege battle had not officially begun, the Tang army first folded for a while, even if the five hundred Goguryeo cavalry who went out of the city to sneak attack were all killed on the spot, it could not make up for the heavy losses in morale and equipment.
It's over, it's over this time! As soon as he looked up, he found that the rockets in the sky were falling towards the trebuchet position, Xu Junke's heart was cold, and his face was distorted, without looking at the results, he also knew that a fire could not be stopped, and his heart was extremely sad, and then he saw that Gao Kexin led the remnants of dozens of cavalry to resist desperately under the siege of a large number of cavalry on his side, Xu Junke was even more angry, roared violently, and no longer cared about the fire that had gradually spread, and led the guards to kill Gao Kexin.
Xu Junke rushed into the battle circle, roared, and with a force of both hands, the horse lance in his hand had stabbed Gao Kexin's chest and abdomen like lightning, poor Gao Kexin was not a brave general who was not a million enemies, and his martial arts were only average, he had fought with the belief of death, and when the fire started, it was already a wish, at this time it was already sore, how could there be any combat power at all, therefore, although he had seen Xu Junke's horse lance stabbed, he was powerless to resist, and the horse lance in his hand was raised, The tip of Xu Junke's spear had penetrated his chest, and Gao Kexin only had time to scream miserably, and he had already died under Xu Junke's horse lance, and the remaining more than 20 Goguryeo cavalry were frantically strangled by the angry Tang army's iron cavalry, and they also turned into corpses all over the ground.
Seeing another son die on the battlefield under his nose, Rao is Gao Huailong has a strong heart, and he can't help but cry out in a low voice, the colic in his heart together, the tall and burly body is shaking, and he almost fell off the city, so that the general next to him Cheng Dawu is quick and fast, and he supported Gao Huailong's crumbling figure.
As soon as Cheng Dawu saw Gao Huailong's face as white as paper, he was shocked, and he hurriedly shouted twice, and the Goguryeo crossbowmen who heard the wrong sound didn't care about cheering for their own victory, and all of them swarmed around, although they didn't say anything, but everyone's faces were full of nervous looks.
Gao Huailong gently pushed away Cheng Dawu's hand, shook his head heavily and said:
; Cheng Dawu didn't believe that the Tang army would suffer such a setback and would forcibly attack the city again, so he couldn't help but say something and tried to ask questions.
Gao Huailong waved his hand, interrupted Cheng Dawu's words, and said calmly:
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Looking at Gao Huailong with a solemn face, and then remembering that in order to defend Anshi City, Gao Huailong had sacrificed his two sons one after another, and the Goguryeo defenders present were all excited, and they each patted their chests desperately, and they were coaxing to show their posture, and for a while, the morale of the defenders at the head of the city was high to a peak.
Gao Huailong faced the passionate crowd, nodded with satisfaction, clasped his hands into fists, and then, surrounded by everyone, slowly walked to the wall dish, stretched out his right hand to hold the city dish, looked at the direction of the Tang Army, and silently pondered;
Anger, extreme rage! Looking at the sky-high fire on the battlefield, and then looking at Xu Junke kneeling in front of him dejectedly, Li Shimin's originally elegant face was already full of clouds, so cold that even the air around him seemed to be frozen, and the temperature suddenly seemed to drop a few degrees as if it was colder, which made those generals who originally had the intention to come forward for Xu Jun to relieve their cheeks were all silent, and no one dared to touch Li Shimin's moldy head at this time, and the entire Chinese army was strangely quiet for a while.
Xu Jun, who knelt on the ground, could see that Li Shimin had not spoken for a long time, and in his heart he was ashamed, Huo Ran raised his head and said in a resolute tone.
Zhang Junyi, the head of the march of Liaodong Road, and Xu Junke are old friends, and they are also children and daughters, at this time, seeing Xu Junke's words to ask for siege, he has the heart to rescue Xu Junke, and without waiting for Li Shimin to express his position, he immediately made his debut:
As soon as Zhang Junyi's voice fell, another general came out from the back row, and reported loudly that this person was Liu Tietao's fierce general Liu Tietao, who was originally a member of Li Daliang when he was the guard of Yanmen Pass, and served under Li Zhen for a short time, and Hou Junji's son Hou Guozhong stood up for war and made military achievements, and was promoted to lieutenant, and then transferred to Youzhou with Li Daliang, tired of officials to the right guard Lang general, last year in the battle of Goguryeo He participated in it, because of the war merits promoted to the post of the right guard Zhonglang general, is the first heavy general under Li Daliang, The nature is the most belligerent, after this time to send troops, has not been able to get on the battle array, has long been itchy palms, he was originally responsible for the first attack on the east gate, at this time I saw Zhang Junyi, who was responsible for attacking the south gate, stood up to ask for battle, and refused to lag behind, and also stood up in solidarity.
Cheng Wuting failed to fight for the task of the first attack this time, and he had already held a fire in his heart, and at this time, seeing that the generals were fighting to fight, he didn't care about asking his father for instructions, so he stood up and asked for his life.
Seeing that the generals asked for orders to forcibly attack the city, Li Daliang, who had always been steady, did not dare to agree, and hurriedly stood up from behind and said:
Li Ji's opinion was obviously different from Li Daliang's, and when he saw Li Daliang asking for a halt, he immediately stood up and reported loudly.
Cheng Yanjin is also a belligerent, and his favorite thing is killing, and at this time he also stood up and echoed Li Ji's statement.
As soon as Su Dingfang saw that Li Shimin seemed to have a tendency to agree to the war, he hurriedly stood up and shouted to dissuade him.
Cheng Yanjin has always been at odds with Su Dingfang, and a few days ago, he had a quarrel with the emperor, and at this time, when he saw Su Dingfang jumping out again and contradicting himself, he immediately ridiculed Su Dingfang unceremoniously.
Although Su Dingfang's cultivation is good, every time he encounters Cheng Yanjin, he always can't suppress the evil fire in his heart, and when he hears Cheng Yanjin's disrespectful words, he immediately stares at Cheng Yanjin, and he glares at Cheng Yanjin.
Well, this time, the war has not yet started, and the major generals of the Chinese army have made trouble first, which has made Li Shimin dizzy and his face more and more unsightly;
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