Chapter 543 Liu Rengui's siege of the city (5,000-word chapter)

"Abide by the order!"

The messenger beside Li Chengqian immediately turned over and went to pass the command.

Li Chengqian looked at the head of Tongguan City and said to himself: Don’t you think about lunch?

Su Dingfang received the order from Li Chengqian, and without saying a word, he immediately ordered the soldiers who had already eaten lunch and pushed the catapult cart to walk down Tongguan City.

The tall catapult cart moved, but stood up and the people on the top of Tongguan city were shocked. Gao Luxing and Wei Renqing were reported and stood up to the city wall to check.

Dozens or hundreds of catapults stood upright, casting obvious shadows in the sun like a forest.

The catapult cart and the shadows on the ground slowly pressed towards Tongguan City, making Gao Luxing and Wei Renqing feel numb on their scalp.

Gao Luxing glanced at Wei Renqing and said with a serious expression: "Li Chengqian is thinking about the losses and uses these catapults to break the city?"

Wei Renqing nodded with a serious expression, and then said, "We must prepare more catapults as soon as possible."

The two of them also judged that Li Chengqian wanted to use the catapult cart under the city to kill the defenders at the city.

Simply put, it is to use a catapult to fight against the catapult on the top of the city.

If you have a good advantage in the city, you can easily smash the catapults under the city. The city will make up for the shortage by counting, break one more and then go up until all the catapults on the city are smashed, and the defenders on the city are so angry that they dare not stand out.

"Hurry, hurry up, order the soldiers guarding the West City to come to Dongcheng quickly and place the throwing cart." Wei Renqing shouted in panic.

Gao Luxing also looked gloomy. The two of them were just looking at the catapults under the city, and almost forgot that there were only a hundred people on the head of Dongcheng at this time.

Tongguan City is surrounded by mountains on both sides of the north and south, and the soldiers guarding the city only stand guard on the city walls on both sides of the east and west. Now Li Chengqian's army is at the east end of Tongguan City, and at the west end of Guanzhong Huayin County. Gao Luxing and Wei Renqing both believed that there would be no attack on Tong from the west.

Today, the platoons arranged most of the troops on the east wall, and the defenders on the west wall were only a small reserve force.

Now, the soldiers on the east city wall went down to have lunch, and Li Chengqian launched an attack on the city, so naturally, the people on the west city wall were on the top.

After a while, the soldiers guarding the city walls on the west hurriedly ran over the walls on both sides.

Wei Renqing commanded the soldiers and pushed the catapult cart on the wall forward a little, which was not only visible to the people under the city, but also was easily covered by the city wall.

Su Dingfang also commanded the soldiers under the city to arrange the catapult carts in three rows. After the three groups in the front row were arranged, he sent troops again to ask Li Chengqian whether he could attack the city.

Li Chengqian and his ministers sat in the shade and watched the whole process. They were scattered troops and formations above and below the city of Tongguan. By this time, the battle was about to break out.

Li Chengqian looked at the messenger who came to ask for instructions, looked at Tongguan City not far away indifferently, and shouted in a deep voice: "Transfer the Orphan King's orders, and the Flying Eagle Army will all take off in a quarter of an hour."

The messenger immediately went to pass the order.

After hearing this, all the ministers knew that Li Chengqian was delaying time.

Some people couldn't help but think that with Li Chengqian's current military strength, even if he was strong, he could still break Tongguan City.

When Li Chengqian passed Hangu Pass, because the generals guarding the pass Niu Yanfu and Zhu Shunde were in charge, they fled Changsun Chong's gang, and the news of Changsun Chong's murder was that Li Chengqian sent someone to Chang'an.

Therefore, the generals of Tongguan only knew that Li Chengqian had passed Hangu Pass, but did not know how Li Chengqian passed Hangu Pass.

Gao Luxing Wei Renqing stood behind the female wall with a blank expression, looking at the rows of tall catapults under the city, waiting for Li Chengqian to start fighting.

I waited for a quarter of an hour and there was no movement under the city.

Gradually, the two of them felt the sun above their heads burning, and the sweat on their foreheads couldn't stop flowing down. They felt their breathing getting heavier and heavier, but they were just upset and irritable anyway.

But even so, the two of them dared not take a step away.

Under the city was the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty and the civil and military elites in half of the Tang Dynasty. Even Gao Luxing had been prime minister for several months, he did not dare to claim that he could in front of Chu Suiliang, Du Zhenglun and others.

What's more, there are powerful generals such as Li Shiji and Su Dingfang, such as Xue Rengui, Wang Fangyi, and Cheng Wuting.

Once the battle starts, the outcome is unpredictable. Their lives are like broken stems and floating, which may go straight to the sky or dust.

So although Gao Luxing and Wei Renqing are quite calm on the surface, they are actually very distressed all morning.

At this time, Wei Renqing wanted to curse at the city, and then lead Li Chengqian to start the war in anger. It would be better to see a win or loss on the battlefield than torment like this.

However, even if he wins, Li Shimin will use his head to pay tribute to Li Chengqian.

"well--"

After staring for a long time, Wei Renqing felt a little headache. He rubbed his temples and turned around to the parasol behind him. He picked up a cup of cold drink and held it in his hand to watch...

Gao Luxing turned around and saw it, took a deep breath and said, "Brother Wei, don't be depressed. This is just Li Chengqian's plan to attack. He wants to pass Tongguan, but he will start fighting."

As he said that, he slowly walked to his seat and sat down, picked up a cold drink and drank it all.

After hearing this, Wei Renqing let out a light whisper before drinking the cold drink in his hand, then sat down, looking east with resentful eyes.

The two were sitting and resting when they suddenly heard the soldiers in front of them screaming.

"ah!"

"What is that!"

He was shocked, rushed up and ran to the city wall to look out. Both of them were shocked when they saw it.

I saw colorful giant balls bulging between the army formations for several miles below the city. These colorful giant balls seemed to be alive, swaying left and right on the ground, and suddenly broke away from the ground and gradually rose.

"It's the Flying Eagle Army."

Gao Luxing looked solemn and authentic.

Wei Renqing sneered and said, "No matter what army, as long as he dares to attack the city, it's easy."

Gao Luxing nodded after hearing this. Although he knew that the generals defending the city would be extremely tragic later, as long as he could hold on, he would be over.

As long as Li Chengqian takes this step and cannot pass the throne as soon as possible and returns to Chang'an to ascend the throne, he will be a rebel and will be abandoned by the people of the world.

Having settled down, Gao Luxing said in a deep voice: "Prepare the crossbow, arrange all the soldiers who can arrange them, and the rest of the soldiers are also ready to be substitutes."

Wei Renqing turned around and shouted loudly after hearing this: "Did you hear me? I'll send the order according to Gao Xianggong's words."

The messenger immediately ran down the city and sent a command to the soldiers who were having dinner.

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"Your Highness, the Flying Eagle Army is rising, but is it going to blow up Tongguan?" Xu Jingzong, who has been low-key recently, asked with a complicated expression as he looked at the hot air balloons all over the sky.

Li Chengqian looked silent after hearing this, lowered his head and said for a while: "If you can't pass the test in the end, you can only start a war."

To be honest, he was not soft-hearted at all when he killed Changsun Chong. After entering Tongguan, he would kill Gao Luxing, Wei Renqing and others without hesitation.

However, once Zhanduan Kaicheng was open, the city was full of soldiers from the Tang Dynasty. Most of them obeyed the orders. Being involved in the war would be a disaster for them and their families. If the families who could not handle these people well, they would always hate themselves.

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Not far from the west of Tongguan City is the Tongshui River, and there are dense forests on both sides of Tongshui River.

Liu Rengui led three thousand foreign soldiers and hid in the mountains and forests beside Tongguan City.

Although it was noon at this time, the huge trees in the forest were towering, covering the sky and the light under the forest seemed very dark.

The tall Liu Rengui, Wang Qun and their close guards sat in a temporary open space. There were messy bushes around him, hiding him tightly. I didn't know that even if I walked around them, I would not be able to find them.

The same was true for other soldiers, cutting off some shrubs around Liu Rengui and the others and then sat on the ground, waiting for the order to attack the city.

"Bang!"

"This forest is also cool. If it weren't for too many mosquitoes, it would be a good place to cool down." Liu Rengui killed a mosquito biting his feet and said to Wang Qun with a smile.

Wang Qun forced a smile on his face, and after a while, he said nervously: "I have been sitting here for a whole morning, why hasn't there been any movement on His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

After hearing this, Liu Rengui laughed and said, "Don't worry, Lord Wang, Your Highness the Crown Prince must have a complete solution. We just need to wait for the signal from Your Highness the Crown Prince to capture Tongguan City from the west and welcome Your Highness to enter the pass."

After hearing this, Wang Qun nodded absent-mindedly, looked out again, trying to see if any spies were back.

Liu Rengui didn't say much when he saw him, and Wang Qun was worried by himself.

Anyway, he is in a very good mood now, just waiting to help Li Chengqian ascend the throne and establish the merit of following the dragon.

Since Li Chengqian's first northern expedition, Liu Rengui has been in Lingzhou for six years. Although he has mastered military and political power and enjoyed high-ranking officials and generous salaries, he has been in a bitter and cold place outside the border for many years.

After a long time, I really want to go back to Chang'an City.

But there is no way. Li Chengqian himself is still in charge of Yandu. As a subordinate, he wants to go back to Chang'an to enjoy it?

Liu Rengui knew that this was impossible. Since Li Chengqian liked him, he would defend Lingzhou City and promote the government orders completely according to Li Chengqian's will.

This time, Liu Rengui received a secret order from Li Chengqian sent by Wang Qun and ordered him to bring three thousand alien soldiers into the pass from Hedong quietly.

When Liu Rengui saw this, he immediately smelled the order extraordinary. He knew that he might want to build the Conglong master, so he was so excited that he didn't sleep all night. On the second day, as soon as he arranged the government affairs in Lingzhou, he immediately led three thousand alien soldiers with a batch of gold and set off for Chang'an overnight.

Normally, he went to Longyou from Lingzhou to Chang'an, which was the way Li Chengqian took when he went to the expedition. However, as Liu Rengui, he did not have the imperial edict from the court. He led three thousand foreign soldiers to enter Guanzhong from Longyou, which was no different from seeking death.

Therefore, Li Chengqian ordered him to go south from Hedong along the Yellow River. The places he passed through were mainly territories influenced by the Xue family, Pei family, Liu family, and Taiyuan Wang family.

Holding Li Chengqian's handwritten letter, Wang Qun, who was born in the Taiyuan Wang family, led the way, Xue, Pei, Liu and Wang family in Hedong, and Liu Rengui himself was extremely smart, and three thousand people came over with gold, but he did not receive any slight news from the Chang'an court.

Now that he is at the foot of Tongguan City, what else should Liu Rengui worry about?

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"Report - Governor, colorful balloons have taken off the air in Tongguan City." A spy ran quickly to Liu Rengui and said loudly.
To be continued...