"Matchless! The city gate alone, I have absolute confidence in Gao Shun's trapped camp, even if the allies attack the city for a winter, they will not want to break through the city gate! ”

"The lord is so confident in the trapped camp?"

Hearing that Li Li so highly regarded the trapping camp that had been cultivated by Chongshun for more than two years, Jia Xu did not shy away from questioning it. In the Xiliang Army, he may be the only one who has the qualifications and the courage to question what Li Li said, and there is no one else.

"But as far as Wei Chen knows, the trapping camp has not participated in the big war since its formation, and except for being ordered to go to conquer the White Wave Thieves, there are not many outstanding achievements. Since General Gao Shun joined the lord, he has almost never made great contributions, but he has always been entrusted with important responsibilities by the lord, worshiped the general, and held the position of commander, which is equal to the status of the commander of each battalion. In this regard, although the commanders and generals of the battalions did not express their dissatisfaction in front of the lord, they talked about General Gao Shun in private, and even some generals arbitrarily arranged General Gao Shun, saying that he was a flatterer and pleased the lord, so he was able to occupy a high position without achievements. ”

Speaking of this, Jia Xu said solemnly: "These words are not that I am playing right and wrong, nor do I disbelieve in General Gao Shun's loyalty to the lord, but I am quite worried about the lord handing over the Hangu Gate to him with full responsibility, or I am not at ease. I often hear the lord mention that Gao Shun is a great general with both civil and military talents, but what kind of talent he has has never been displayed, and the generals and Weichen and others have never seen it with their own eyes.

As the saying goes: hearing is false, seeing is believing. For more than two years, General Gao Shun has not had the opportunity to build up his military exploits, but he has never made much achievements. He has been on the White Wave Thieves for more than a year. Although the trapped camp made the Baibo army dare not plunder Sili County, it has not been able to completely eliminate the Baibo army, and it was not until the previous battle of Dongyuan Castle that our army was wiped out in one fell swoop. At this moment. The Hangu Gate is very important, and it is directly related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of our army, as well as the lives of the lord's hegemony and our subordinates. Once the city gate falls, the consequences will be unimaginable, and it will directly destroy the foundation that our Xiliang army has worked so hard to build, and even become the target of the princes' alliances, and be defeated.

So. I implore the lord to consider carefully, and if necessary, he can order Jin Yiwei to go to the city to take over the defense task, and make sure that the city gate is not lost. Hangu Pass is not lost! ”

"Ugh! What Brother Wen He said is not unreasonable, Weichen seconded the proposal, please think twice! Guo Jia's expression changed slightly after hearing this, and he nodded thoughtfully. He chimed in: "The matter of guarding the city gate is indeed not trivial. It should not be taken lightly, let alone carelessly. If the city gate is lost, Hangu Pass will inevitably not be guaranteed, and if the natural castle of Hangu Pass is lost, the east gate of my Xiliang and Liangzhou will be opened, which will endanger Chang'an City and directly shake the foundation of the lord. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully decide who to send to guard the city gates. There must be no half-spread pool! ”

Jia Xu and Guo Jia invariably questioned Gao Shun's ability to command troops to fight, which was greatly unexpected by Li Li. He hadn't even thought about it before, it could be said that he didn't expect it, and he looked stunned for a while, as if it was a little difficult to choose.

In fact, Gao Shun has indeed not made great contributions in the past two years, nor has he won a big victory, which can almost be said to be decent and obscure. In addition, Gao Shun is introverted, usually not good at words, never forms parties for personal gain, never forms gangs, is taciturn, has always lived in a simple place, and does not have many interpersonal networks. But he has always been in a high position, and since he joined Li Li, he has been a loner, almost no interaction with the generals in the army, and has no other hobbies except training recruits all day long. ”

"Hehehe!" After Guo Jia finished speaking, Li Li shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "What the two of you said is not unreasonable, but you attach too much importance to the achievements and ignore the way of governing the army and training, which is inevitably biased. It is true that for more than two years, Gao Shun has indeed had no conspicuous achievements, or can be said to be an enviable achievement, but he has always been on an equal footing with the commanders and generals of each battalion, worshipping the generals and marquis, and holding a high position. However, I don't know if you have noticed, in the past two and a half years, the camp has expanded its army three times, and has never asked the general's palace for money and food, nor has it asked for a fixed camp or a single supply of ordnance. The soldiers were recruited by Gao Shun himself, and the armor and weapons were also built by themselves, there was no fixed camp, and they stayed in the territory of Shangdang for a long time, and they would only live in the Anyi camp every winter, and there were no too many requirements, which was the same as the treatment of ordinary soldiers in the Anyi camp.

In addition, since the formation of the trapping camp, there has never been a violation of military discipline, nor has there been any act of committing adultery or wantonly bullying the people, and the strictness of military discipline has ranked first in the whole army for two consecutive years. These have all been registered by the officials of the General's Palace, and they are well documented, and they are by no means untrue. ”

As he spoke, the smile on Li Li's face gradually faded: "There is another thing that you and most of the generals in the army may not know, that is, in the past two and a half years, in addition to the necessary salaries to support his wife and children, almost eighty percent of the salaries have been distributed to the soldiers in the trapped camp, and he has concealed the truth, claiming that it is my Li Li who has distributed the salaries to the soldiers. The Gaoshun Mansion is still the furnishings of the home furnishings when I gave the house, and there has not been a new appliance in nearly three years. Such a well-guarded and disciplined general, Hugh said that there is only one person in our army, even if we go back hundreds of years, how can there ever be such a brave and loyal general?

Because of this, I often praise Gao Shun, saying that he is a real soldier, a veritable general. There is a saying: if a soldier instigates one, he will instigate a nest. With such a soldier trained by such an upright general, the combat effectiveness will definitely not be too bad, and it may be very strong. If the city gate falls today, and Gao Shun and the trapped camp under his account can't even defend a city gate, then I, Li Li, am incompetent, and I can't blame anyone! ”

Jia Xu and Guo Jia were inexplicably shocked when they heard this, their cheeks were slightly red, and they were quite ashamed of themselves.

Indeed, if Gao Shun is really as upright and self-disciplined as Li Li said, then Guo Jia and Jia Xu should indeed feel ashamed and dwarfed; Because they can't be as selfless as Gao Shun, and they can't be honest and self-disciplined.

Guo Jia prefers fine wine and Mei Ji, there are hundreds of jars of fine wine in the mansion at any time, Mei Ji and Miao Ling have as many as sixty or seventy women, and there are more than two hundred servants and maids together. And Jia Xu is even worse, the mansion located in Chang'an covers a large area, the luxury of decoration is second only to Li Li's general's mansion, magnificent, in addition to the clansmen and wives and concubines and children, the servants and maidservants are a full 300 people, just stepping on the red line of Li Li's clear regulations on the number of servants. In addition, he also has more than ten mansions and manors, and almost all the major cities in Xiliang and Erzhou have mansions and courtyards, and his family is well-funded, which can be described as a real glory and wealth.

Therefore, after hearing about Gao Shun's experience at this time, Guo Jia and Jia Xu were speechless, bowing their heads and saying nothing, ashamed of their actions. And Li Li's gaze did not stay on the two of them, he got up and stood by the city tower to watch the siege formation of the Yuan army, because at this moment the siege battle had officially begun.

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"All the soldiers obey the order, and the archers fire ten volleys, and suppress the enemy's arrows for me!"

“??? Catapult prepares and puts! ”

“??? Shield cover, ladder forward, for Lao Tzu to climb the city! ”

"Rush the city car, hit the city gate, rush!"

One hundred and fifty steps before Hangu Pass, Gao Gan jumped on his horse and shouted out orders from his mouth, and tens of thousands of Yuan troops rushed to the foot of the city wall without fear of death. And Chun Yuqiong and Yuan Xi were beside him at this time, and they also gave orders sharply, commanding their respective soldiers and horses to attack the city in a big way.

Under the city pass, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Yuan army carried ladders on their shoulders, pushed the city carts, erected well railings, and rushed to the city without fear of death under the falling arrows of "whoosh".

"Boom, boom, boom??? Bang bang bang! ”

"Puff puff puff - ah???????"

On the head of the city, the stones and rolling trees fell suddenly, the flying stones were like locusts, and the dense arrows roared and shuttled like dark clouds covering the sun, falling like rain, smashing the Yuan soldiers who tried to set up a cloud ladder to climb the city head one by one, and thousands of Yuan troops fell in pieces in the roar of the arrows.

In an instant, Yuan Bing, who tried to climb the ladder, was smashed and tumbled and fell, and after falling to the ground, he fell and splashed blood plasma, and in the blink of an eye, the broken arm and body several feet high were piled up under the base of the wall, and the blood flowed like a river. The Yuan army, who was running towards the city wall, screamed and fell to the ground at a speed that was difficult to find with the naked eye, and was immediately trampled into pulp by the latecomers, and tens of thousands of Yuan troops poured into the city pass one after another.

The horses neighed, the arrows roared, the fire pots burst, the stones and logs fell with a bang, and the boiling oil poured down. The terrible screams were endless, resounding through the sky, and the deafening rumbling sound swept in, penetrating in all directions, startling the birds and flying squirrels in the mountains and forests within a radius of 100 miles, and the roars of birds and beasts were in an uproar.

"Hey, hey, hey, ——— put!"

At the same time, the soldiers of the Yuan army pushed out one catapult after another, put on the ignited oil clay pots or boulders, and more than 2,000 soldiers shouted neat trumpets and manipulated more than 300 catapults to throw and launch at the same time, and went straight to the city and roared.

In an instant, the blazing fire pots and boulders filled with fire oil roared into the sky, leaving arcs and smashing straight towards the city. With a loud bang, countless pieces of iron exploded from the crockpot and suddenly pierced the bodies of the defenders, causing the defenders to fall to the ground screaming; And the boulders did not fly to the top of the city due to their heavy weight, and they all smashed on the city wall, smashing the city wall with a loud bang, rubble everywhere, and stone chips flying.

The siege battle did not require any brewing, and at first the beginning it was a climax, and it quickly entered a white-hot battle of life and death.

For the soldiers of the two armies besieging and defending the city, this is a collision of blood and fire, and life and death can be seen in an instant. Under the cruel and ruthless crushing, every fresh life is like a wave in the ocean of war, which will disappear in a flash, and will eventually merge into the purgatory of the sea of blood.

———————————— (To be continued......)