The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 531 General Arrogance
The siege of Zhuyangguan has lasted for half a month. After more than half a month of continuous large-scale siege, today's siege finally stopped.

Under Zhuyang Pass, corpses were piled up like a mountain, and the wreckage of damaged catapults, ladders and nest carts were scattered on the ground. Although the Sui army paid the price of more than 4 slave soldiers, Zhuyang Pass still could not be captured. .

The Tang army headed by Li Shimin was on the defensive, condescending, occupying a convenient location, and there was no shortage of soldiers. More than [-] troops took turns to fight, and they withstood the continuous attacks of the Sui army for [-] days and nights. A heavy price for more than ten thousand people.

The attacking side suffered more than 3 casualties, and the defending side also paid a price of [-] people. This result is speechless, but it is true. All this is because the Sui army's siege equipment is too sharp.

The crossbows and catapults of the Tang army could not reach the phalanx of siege equipment of the Sui army under the city, but the opponents threw stones on the top of the city day and night.If you leave him alone, the slave soldiers will rush forward desperately. Once you come out, huge arrows will greet the top of the city. A cross arrow will suffocate, and a living one will be cut in two. Cut, if the soldiers are a little denser, several of them can be killed with one arrow.

The 'stones' thrown by the catapult were not stones, but hard ice.

That's right, quarrying is troublesome, labor-intensive, and slow. When thrown into the city, it will be used by the enemy. Therefore, Tai Sui came up with ice bombs. You only need to build a square wooden basin, fill it with water and sharp stones, Add some condiments to it, and an ice bomb will be baked in no time.

Ice is not rare in winter, but it is a treasure to cool off in hot summer. Li Shimin remembers that as the father and emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, he used ice to cool off, and he had to ask his concubines to save it. After all, it is not easy to harvest ice in winter , the stock is not much, and no one is willing to use it indiscriminately.

It is still a hot day, how can there be hard ice to mine?The only possibility is that they moved from Luoyang.

Tang Jun held on for so many days, and the rolling wood and rocks were almost exhausted. He wanted to use the stones thrown by the Sui Army to fight back. , so that some places have condensed into a frost, it is necessary to use it, and it slips and falls as soon as you step on it. It is cool, but it is deadly.When it hits the city, it will shatter and splatter, and the damage range is larger than that of stone bullets.

Reluctantly, Li Shimin had to send troops into the mountain to cut wood and quarry rocks. Although Funiu Mountain was not lacking, it also needed people to carry it. After half a month of doing this, the whole army did not have a good rest day.

When he was free, Li Shimin would also rack his brains thinking, where did the Sui army get so much ice, but no matter who it was, they never thought that the Sui army had already mastered the method of making ice, but simply thought that the other party was a local tyrant. Stupid, but the limitation of vision, people will only guess according to the laws of nature, and no one has ever thought about such a heaven-defying thing that ice can be produced in summer.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

At noon, the siege continued.

As the chief general of the Sui Army at Zhuyangguan, Xue Wanjun didn't even bother to look at it, because he knew that Tang Jun would never come out.

At the very beginning, Li Shimin sent troops out of the city in an attempt to destroy the siege equipment, but as soon as they came out, they were slaughtered by the cavalry of the Sui Army roaming outside. After understanding the theory of mobile warfare, if you can not fight close to the enemy, you should never fight close to the enemy. During the movement, you can use the advantage of cavalry maneuverability and the range advantage of the crossbow to wipe out the enemy outside the range. Most of the soldiers of the legion had participated in the battle beyond the Great Wall, and they were very familiar with this set of nomadic tactics. No matter whether Li Shimin sent infantry or cavalry, they were all killed by this set of tactics. The soldiers followed the Tang army's rout and entered the city.

At this time, Xue Wanjun and dozens of generals and schools were discussing matters in the camp of the Sui Army's Central Army.

"General, it's not the way to fight like this?" Yao Junsu still doesn't agree with Xue Wanjun's tactic of taking human life for fun. These slave soldiers are all strong men. It's a pity to die like this. Good work.It's not too late to sacrifice them if they are thin and sick.

Xue Wanjun said with a smile: "In fact, it is not difficult to break the city. The difficulty lies in the fact that Li Shimin has too many troops, and the Holy One is not in a hurry, so I have fought with him for so long and for so many days. If you run out of energy, as long as Tang Jun is exhausted, everything will be easy. Now I have at least three ways to deal with Li Shimin."

"Three ways?"

"One way is to throw sandbags from catapults, lay out a slanting city, and drive fire horses to attack the city. Then send brave men to follow and kill."

As soon as Xue Wanjun's words fell, there was a burst of applause in the big tent. This method is exactly the same as Yang Tong's attacking and yelling. Although the method is old-fashioned and easy to see through, Zhuyang Pass City is not high, and a slanted city needs to be filled out. Not difficult.

Yao Junsu nodded and asked, "What about the second method of the general?"

"The second way is to go up the mountain."

"Up the mountain?"

Yao Jun is a serious orthodox general, he has never fought with Yang Tong, and his train of thought can't keep up with these eccentric young generals, so he asked puzzledly, "Why go up the mountain?"

"General Yao, there are big mountains on both sides of the Zhuyang Pass. The pass is located between the two mountains and is integrated with the mountains. Since we don't use cavalry to attack the city, soldiers can also climb into Zhuyang Pass from the mountains and walk along the two mountains. Killing on the mountains, the Tang army has cut down trees to serve as rolling logs these days, but cleared a large area, and even the roads are well paved. After our army touches the mountains, they can follow these smooth roads into the city, which is better than ours It is much more effective to attack from below the city."

"As for the third method, it is even simpler. When Li Shimin attacked Wang Shichong, all the food and grass were moved to Hongnong. There were many troops in the city, and the food and grass in Zhuyang Pass were far from enough, so his logistics was in Xiyang. It was transported here along the Xishui River, but Neixiang is too close to here, and it is very difficult to attack his grain road. According to the news reported by our scouts, the current grain and grass of the Tang army are supplemented by Nanxiang County. It can be seen that Neixiang The grain and grass in the township have been exhausted, we can ask You Pushe to send a cavalry to destroy Li Shimin's logistics center, once the supply is cut off, Li Shimin can only roll south and return to Xiangyang, but at that time, it is not up to him to decide."

Shi Jin, Yu Zhan, and Gao Yan three "little generals" were amazed. Xue Wanjun was actually not a few years older than them, but he was already a general and a prince. First of all, they were not convinced by Xue Wanjun and other generals. I feel that if I defected to the Sui Dynasty a few years ago, I would have won such an honor, and I would even do better than them, but when they were still racking their brains for Zhu Yangguan, they already had three ways.

"After our days and nights of offensives, the Tang army is exhausted. I decided to use a three-pronged approach, not only to recover Zhuyangguan and the entire county of Xiyang, but also to take down this Tang army." Xue Wanjun said in his eyes. Gleaming with strong ambition and hatred.

Although he is young, he is one of the veterans of the Sui Dynasty. After joining Yang Tong's command, he is also a man who has experienced battles. It is common for him to win the many with the few and defeat the strong with the weak; He was overjoyed and moved, only the great victory of destroying the country and destroying the army could drive him crazy.

Before he came out, he and many young generals were all bachelors of Lingyan Pavilion Jingwu Academy. As the "Pavilion Master", Yang Tong forced them to write military diaries every day. When the marching diary was passed to Yang Tong, He will always review and reply in a timely manner, and answer any deficiencies. For questions that Yang Tong cannot answer, he will ask Yang Gongren, Pei Renji, Yang Shanhui, Li Jing, Wei Yunqi, etc. to solve them, and then add his own understanding, and then give feedback to the scholars .

They are the people brought out by Emperor Shengwu, the "Great Sui Army God". Each of them has been trained and instructed by the "Great Sui Army God", and they can be regarded as students of the "Great Sui Army God".

And Yang Tong, the teacher, has never let them down, let alone failed, but not long ago, he was hijacked by Li Shimin with that rogue method, which caused Tang Jun to escape from the encirclement safely; They swallowed up the entire Hongnong, as well as countless food and grass in the Luoshui camp, and swallowed tens of thousands of Tang troops, but the results were a little smaller.

However, Xue Wanjun, a 'student', was supported by Yang Tong's series of brilliant victories. He felt that it would be a failure not to wipe out the enemy, and it was related to the dignity of the king and teacher, so Xue Wanjun vowed to keep Li Shimin and his army. In Xiyang, there was a fundamental reason why he had not used the method of trapping the city.

This is also the prestige of the Sui army. There is a concept from top to bottom. If you don't destroy the opponent in the war, you will fail...

"General, will You Pushe cooperate?" Shi Jin put away the banditry on his body and became much more submissive.

"Yes!" Xue Wanjun gave an affirmative answer, not forgetting Yang Tong's confession, and taught the younger brother by the way: "A large ship requires the full cooperation of people from various professions such as the helmsman, crew, and observers to sail to the sea. It is also a whole, and it needs to cooperate with each other to win. This cooperation not only refers to our side, but also includes the right servant, Li Shangshu, and the left servant who is farther away. The puppet Tang is different!" Xue Wanjun stared at Zhu Yangguan Fang Xiang sneered for a moment, "Pseudo-Tang always treats head with headache and foot with foot pain. After so many years of defeat, he will not fundamentally learn the lessons of failure. Yu Zhan and Gao Yan, each of you will lead an army tomorrow. Sneak into the two mountains on the left and right, take a good night's rest, and be sure to hide; I will build a ramp the day after tomorrow to attract the attention of the enemy. When you see the beacon fire in the camp, kill and go down the mountain."

"The last general understands." The second general responded excitedly.

Xue Wanjun's eyes fell on Shi Jin. For the past two days, he had been begging to see Xue Wanjun, hoping to get a chance to play.

Shi Jin saw that all the two good brothers got the assignment, but he was left alone, and he felt a little uncomfortable. Suddenly, Xue Wanjun looked at him, his heart was pounding, and his eyes shot out with extreme anticipation. look.

"Where is General Shi Jin?"

Shi Jin was overjoyed when he heard the words, stepped forward, cupped his fists and saluted: "The end is here!"

"General Shi, the ramp is paved, first the fire horses attack the city, then the slave soldiers come up, and then our Tai Sui's sinking army, I need one person to lead the sinking army, this is a relatively difficult task, I I heard that you are good at martial arts, so I will entrust you with this task."

Shi Jin was overjoyed, and said energetically: "The last general will accept the order!"

"In the day and night in the future, you not only need to rest well! You also need to get acquainted with the generals of the Siege Camp so that you can cooperate tacitly during the war."

"Here!"

(End of this chapter)