Chapter 20 The Wei family enters the game
"Report~"
In the afternoon, Li Jue was looking at the siege equipment that was gradually assembled outside the city. Suddenly, an anxious voice came from the dusty and blood stained soldier rolled and crawled from under the city tower, rolled to Li Jue, and hissed: "Lord, something is not good!"
"Li Yi, why are you here?" Li Jie was shocked when he saw the visitor. Isn't this person the Li Yi, the general who stayed in Chang'an?
"Lord, Chang'an... is lost!" Li Yi lay on the ground and said hysterically.
"What did you say!" Although I had a premonition when I saw Li Yi, when I heard what Li Yi said with my own ears, Li Yi still couldn't stand firm and almost fell to the ground. The soldiers on both sides quickly helped Li Yi. At that time, everyone's faces were filled with an indescribable look of panic.
Chang'an, but Li Jue's base camp, not only Li Jue's whole family was in Chang'an, but many of the soldiers in the army also settled in Chang'an. Chang'an was destroyed, which immediately caused many soldiers to lose their fighting spirit.
Li Jue suddenly broke away from everyone and grabbed Li Yi's collar. In his moment of anxiety, his strength increased sharply. Li Yi, who was about 100 pounds, was still wearing armor, was actually picked up by him. He opened his eyes wide open and looked at Li Yi roaring: "There are eight thousand defenders left in Chang'an, which is even more beneficial to the city. How can it be broken??"
"It's the Wei family, and the Wei family of Hedong led the Hedong children to suddenly attack the city!" Li Xuan said anxiously: "The Wei family has many soldiers, with a total of 30,000!"
"So Chang'an was broken!" Li Jie roared. Even if there are 30,000, so what? Li Yi's eight thousand defenders have the advantage of a strong city. The walls of Chang'an City are nearly five feet high. No matter how many soldiers and horses are, they will be difficult to conquer in such a short time, right?
"No, although Wei Ji had a lot of troops, our army's provocateurs noticed it early. The last general closed the city gate in time, but Wei Ji did not succeed!" Li Yi bowed and said.
Li Jue: "…Where is my knife?"
Looking at Li Jie's murderous gaze, Li Qi hurriedly said, "At this moment, a Shu army was out of nowhere. These Shu soldiers were not large, only 3,000, but they were extremely brave. There were also five hundred soldiers wearing vine armor who could not get in. Our army fought with Wei Ji for three days and three nights, and they were exhausted. Unexpectedly, the Shu army suddenly broke out and caught our army off guard and was captured by Deyang Gate. The generals in the head were two red-faced men, both of whom were using big swords. They were really brave. Our army was attacked from both sides and the city was taken away. Only the last generals and a few soldiers escaped their lives. Now Chang'an is in his hands!"
"General, knife!" A personal guard brought Li Jue's knife over at this time.
"Lord, this is not a crime of war. He is attacked from both sides. The Shu army is extremely powerful. The last general has tried his best!" Li Yi looked pale and begged: "Lord, please spare your life!"
"Even the city can't be defended, what's the use of keeping you?" Li Jue said nothing nonsense, and then slashed his head with a knife in Li Yi's horrified gaze.
"Ye Zhao!" After killing Li Yan, Li Jue suddenly turned his head, looked at the Shu army that was still being arranged on the opposite side, pinched the knife in his hand, and said in a sequel: "If you dare to touch the people of my tribe, I swear to destroy your nine tribes!"
"General, what should I do now?" Several generals rushed up and looked at Li Jue anxiously. Chang'an was broken, not only Li Jue's tribe members were there, but many soldiers in the army's families were there.
Li Jue turned around, and in just a moment, the commotion began to spread uncontrollably in the army, and he hated Li Yi even more.
Does speaking matters?
"When withdrawing troops at this time, Ye Zhao will definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue him, Li Ying, Li Li!" Li Jue turned around and looked at the generals and said.
He couldn't ignore Chang'an, but Li Jue was still clear-headed and knew that once he gave up Mei County at this time, Ye Zhao would definitely take the opportunity to pursue him!
"The last one is here!" Li Ying and Li Li stepped out of the line and bowed.
"You two immediately click 10,000 troops and return to Chang'an. Be sure to take Chang'an back without any mistakes!" Li Jue said in a deep voice.
"Here!" The two of them agreed and went to the army to prepare to return to the rescue.
"I inform Guo Si and Duan Wei to lead the army to help. Only by repelling Ye Zhao's main force can we not be so passive!" Li Jue's voice was a little hoarse. The breaking of Chang'an had already made him feel a little confused. The rear was unstable. Even if he repelled the Shu army that had entered Chang'an, the sudden invasion of the Wei clan in Hedong could not be ignored.
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"Hedong Wei family actually intervened in?" In Ye Zhao's army, shortly after Li Jue received the news, Ye Zhao also received the news from Chang'an.
Although it was a bit surprising that Guan Yu and Wei Yan were able to successfully break through Chang'an, this matter was a chance of 55 openings. What surprised Ye Zhao was that Wei Ji actually intervened in the matter.
Wei Ji disappeared in Luoyang since He Jin's death. Over the years, Ye Zhao has been living in Shu and observing the world, but there is no Wei family. When Xi Zhicai analyzed the situation in the world, he did not count the Wei family among the princes. Like Ye Zhao, the Wei family had been dormant for ten years before suddenly attacking. As soon as he took action, he pointed directly at Chang'an. It has to be said that Wei Ji's vision and strategy were quite accurate.
Hedong is rich. If the Wei family is allowed to occupy the fertile land of Guanzhong again, there will be a Wei family in the future. If Ye Zhao did not send troops to the northern expedition at this time, Wei Ji would really succeed. At that time, Wei Ji would replace Li Jue and Guo Si and become one of the new five hegemons.
The Wei family in Hedong will also become a top family that is comparable to the Yuan family. After all, although the Wei family is not as strong as the Western Han Dynasty, the lean camel is bigger than a horse, and its background cannot be underestimated.
"Lord." Xu Rong frowned and said, "If the Wei family sent troops, they should have left Hongnong at this moment, so why did they directly attack Jingzhao?"
"It's very simple!" Ye Zhao asked the messenger sent by Guan Yu to rest, and looked at Xu Rong and said, "I have reached an agreement with others. This time, the Wei family is not the only one who covets the fertile land of Guanzhong. This time, Wei Ji is probably invited by Lu Bu. Otherwise, no matter how rich the Wei family is, Hedong will be, and it will be difficult to raise 30,000 soldiers. In one breath, you can't swallow this Guanzhong!"
"Why isn't Cao Cao?" Ji Ling said strangely.
As one of the three major princes of the Central Plains today, Cao Cao also bordered Guanzhong after he welcomed the emperor.
"If I were Cao Cao, I would never be involved in Guanzhong at this time!" Ye Zhao shook his head and said, "Cao Cao's territory starts from Xuzhou in the east and goes to Luoyang in the west. If he extends his hand to Guanzhong, his territory will run across the north and south, and is sandwiched between Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and the defense line will be lengthened. There is also Nanyang Lu Bu, who has to add another Hedong Wei family, which is equivalent to trapping himself in a state of enemies all over the world. He would not do such an unwise move!"
"Lord is wise!" Xu Rong and others couldn't help but admire him when they heard this.
"Don't think so far. For the sake of the present, I will settle the Li and Guo first. I am afraid that this battle will not only be the Wei family and Lu Bu will participate in the battle!" Ye Zhao shook his head and looked at the gradually forming siege equipment in front of him.
"Here!" After hearing this, the generals politely looked at them, and ignored these things and began to concentrate on adjusting the troops and preparing to attack the city.
Another hour later, while the Xiliang army was waiting on the depressingly, the carts, the rooftops, and the ladders were assembled into Wancheng. At the same time, the three-stone crossbows were already aimed at the city tower under the operation of the crossbowman. This time it was not an experiment, but a real actual combat.
"Boom the sky car, calibration!" Xu Rong was in charge of the command. With Xu Rong's order, ten giant catapults began to make the final calibration. The dense wooden gears rotated, and all the stone bullets were filled and ready to go.
"Let it go!" With Xu Rong's order, ten sky-bombing cars roared at the same time, and ten special stones the size of millstones bounced out of the air.
Li Jue did not have much expression on the city wall. Although the rock bullet was so big that it was a bit scary, it was common for siege cars to bombard the city wall during the siege war, and the opponent's catapults were only ten. He had seen thirty or fifty catapults siege cars, so he didn't care.
"Boom boom boom boom~"
Continuous stone bombs continued to hit the aisle of the city wall. At this moment, Li Ru's expression finally changed. Each of these stone bombs was made of special stone bombs, and they had extremely high accuracy. They all fell on the aisle. With the huge impact of landing, the gravels stuck to the stone bombs flew out. In just this moment, a large number of soldiers fell under the gravels, and huge gaps appeared in the city wall.
Li Jue finally believed Hu Feng's words until now. The power of the new catapult of the Shu army is indeed terrifying!
However, this round of bombardment caused the morale of the defending soldiers to almost collapse. The attack on the opposite side had just begun. The Sky-Bounding Car began to load stone bullets again, but the stone bullets were loaded slowly and there would not be a second shot in a short period of time.
"Where is our stone cart!?" Li Jue roared madly with his knife in his arms.
Soon, the city wall began to fight back, but the stone bullets shot were only about 150 steps at most, far from the distance of the sky-booming car. A general said bitterly: "Lord, our stone-booming car cannot defeat the enemy at all."
Li Jie's face was bitter. If he had known this, he would have listened to Hu Feng's words. He could not give the other party the opportunity to assemble these equipment. Now he can only be beaten and does not even have the ability to fight back. Instead of doing this, it would be better to leave the city early. Although there is also the risk of defeat, it is better than this situation.
"The Xiliang Iron Cavalry left the city and destroy those catapults for me!" Li Ru could no longer imagine at this moment, and could only kill the most elite Xiliang Iron Cavalry from the city, hoping to use the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to destroy those catapults for me.
"Boom~"
The gate of Mei County suddenly opened, and the black cavalry of Xiliang rushed towards the direction of the catapult cart like a torrent.
Chapter completed!