Being on the city wall, Li Er could not hear the screams of the soldiers in the city gate corridor, but based on his natural intuition, Li Er already knew that the situation in the city gate was definitely not good, and subconsciously came up with a response strategy and shouted and ordered: "Li Deliang, go down to the city immediately, lead the army to fill the soil and rocks with straw bags, and block the city gate corridor! Quick! The faster the better!"

The situation was extremely urgent, but Li Deliang did not obey the order immediately. Instead, he asked Li Er with a sad face: "Right Governor, there was no preparation in advance. In a hurry, I will go there to find so many straw bags to pack earth and stones?"

Hearing this, Li Er's body shook, and he immediately lowered his head weakly, and said to himself: "No wonder he refused to use this tactic to attack the outer city in Daxing. He just prevented us from blocking the city gate corridor, so he wanted to keep it for the inner city war and then use it for today, and finally used it on me. The traitor, his scheming is indeed deep."

While feeling sad, Li Er did not give up struggling to death, and then ordered Li Deliang: "Then let's use firewood and weeds to plug the corridor of the city gate first, and light the fire to block the city gate! Then collect straw sacks and sacks, and fill the earth and stones to block the city gate! Hurry up, we don't have much time!"

Li Deliang finally sang his promise this time and rushed down the city to organize the army to act according to the order. At the same time, the news that the gate had been bombarded by the Sui army artillery and the door bolt was reported to the city, which made the generals of Li Erjun who heard the report look like earth and their legs tremble. Li Er's face was as deep as water, without saying anything, and kept praying in his heart for his father's heroic spirit to protect him, so that the later the Sui army would find this, the better.

The Sui army soldiers did not immediately discover that the tactic of artillery bombing was successful, but it didn't matter much. The Sui army artillery, which was personally supervised by the time traveler Chen Sangliang and the genius scientist Yuan Tiangang, was directly jumping forward in many details. They knew that using a wooden stick wrapped in cotton dipped in water to clean the cannon barrel and extinguish the sparks. The shells and cannon barrels were uniformly specified without special bullets, so that the cannonballs could be directly used. They also repeatedly studied the proportion of the components of the launching drugs. The amount of gunpowder has a unified standard and is packaged separately, which not only avoids waste but also greatly accelerates the loading speed. Therefore, when Li Deliang had just started to organize the defenders to carry firewood, weeds and debris into the city gate corridor, the third round of the Sui army artillery fired again.

The target of the third round of the Sui army artillery fire was of course the most fragile city gate. Half of the shells hit the city walls at both ends, causing dust to splash in the rammed earth walls, revealing six large pits, and the other six shells accurately hit the city gate. As a result, the Huoyi city gate was exposed at once. One door was smashed and opened inward, while the other door was directly cut into two pieces, allowing the Sui army soldiers to see the situation in the city directly.

Next, without hesitation, Chen Sangliang of course ordered the Long Shield Hand to move out, strode forward to form temporary fortifications outside the moat to cover the archers and suppress the defenders on the city. General Qiu Shili volunteered to order the suicide squad to rob the city gate. Chen Sangliang immediately agreed and asked Qiu Shili to charge forward from the side of the artillery formation so that the Sui army's artillery could bombard the city gate with a third volley.

From a distance, he saw that the Sui army infantry had begun to go out to grab the door. Li Deliang, who was responsible for blocking the city gate, was so anxious that his eyes were red. He shouted and urged the soldiers to come forward and threw all the burnable items into the city gate corridor, such as firewood, horse carriage, wooden barrels, wine jars, tents, and wood, which could be moved and pushed them into the city gate corridor, and could not wait to sprinkle tin oil, throw all the burning torches and charcoal basins onto the pile of debris, ignite the fire and cut off the Sui army's road to the city.

Facts have proved that this tactic of Li Erjun cannon can only work on flesh and blood. It not only has no effect in front of the Sui army's artillery, but also caused them to suffer themselves. After the Sui army's third round of volleys at the city gate, the roaring shells hit the pile of debris heavily, smashing the pile of debris that had just begun to smoke, and collapsed. Countless debris with flames flew into the city and hit the heads and faces of the soldiers of Li Erjun, turning Li Erjun soldiers into firemen, screaming and rolling on the ground, and then igniting the houses and streets near the city gate. The shells had not yet disappeared, and they smashed into the city and killed and injured many Li Erjun soldiers.

At this time, the chief of the Sui army had already rushed to the city to cover the archer and fired arrows. While the defenders in the city shot in a panic, the Sui army suicide squad led by Qiu Shili also rushed to the near-city gate with round shields and guns, and directly crossed the moat that the Sui army had worked hard to fill with toad chariots. At the same time, the trained Sui army gunners also seized the last chance and blasted a round of volleys into the city gate. Most of the whistling shells rushed into the city directly, sweeping the debris piled up by the Li Erjun soldiers at the risk of their lives, and then took away the lives of many Li Erjun soldiers, including Li Deliang. Their casting was still unabated. They collapsed two houses in the streets and houses in the city before stopping, bringing more chaos and panic to the defenders in the city.

Qiu Shili's army rushed into the city gate corridor with smoke and fire, rushed into the city gate before the flames, fighting to the death to seize the road to the city. The Sui army's infantry brigade also stepped forward and rushed forward against time to reinforce Qiu Shili. The Sui army's artillery immediately shifted its target and shot freely to bombard the enemy dense areas on the city. Heavy artillery bombarded the upper city one after another, bounced and raging. Wherever they went, Li Er's soldiers were broken and either died or injured. The soldiers and generals ran around to avoid the bullets and screamed in pain. Some soldiers fell off the city walls in a panic, and the army was extremely panicked.

Although he was unwilling to admit it, Li Er still knew very well that his own army had been defeated and had no way to reverse the situation and turn the defeat into victory. However, Li Er still did not want to give up. While ordering Li Shentong and Zhu Can to lead the army into the city to fight street battles with the Sui army, he rushed to the south gate and personally led the cavalry out of the city from the south gate to attack the Sui army's artillery position, and strived for hope of stabilizing the battle on the last line. - However, to be on the safe side, Li Er did not dare to bring his command this time to the cavalry army, and instead used Duan Zhixuan's flag to prevent his position from exposing his position and became Chen Sangliang's key target.

The lies that Li Erjun had previously claimed that the Sui army was about to massacre the city had some effect at this moment. After seeing the Sui army rushing to enter the city, although the soldiers of Li Erjun were panicked, they still plucked up the courage to go forward at the request of the general and launched a hand-to-hand battle with the Sui army soldiers. The heads of people in the east gate of the main battlefield were like ants, and the sound of killing sounds shook the sky. The soldiers of the two armies fought for their own death for life and victory, and fought in size with swords, swords, and flesh and blood flying. The battle was extremely cruel and fierce.

Cavalry assault is Li Er's magic weapon. When Chen Sangliang was studying the tactical characteristics of the rival, he often felt headaches and fears about Li Er's tricks. But today it doesn't matter. Li Er hurriedly led the cavalry from the south gate. As soon as he left the city, Chen Sangliang had already stepped forward in the southeast corner of Huoyi, and took the initiative to face the cavalry of Li Er. Chen Sangliang also immediately ordered the National Army to attack and go directly to fight against Li Er's head-on cavalry. When Guo Feng and Chen Ci led the order to sing, Chen Sangliang said half-jokingly: "Li Erlang likes to lead the cavalry charge in person. Although he didn't see his commanding flag this time, he still may be in the thief cavalry team. I don't like this kid the most. Who can get his head? Who will be my in-laws and marry my first daughter to his son!"

Half-joking words had an effect that Chen Sangliang did not expect. After hearing the reward from Chen Sangliang by Guo Feng and Chen Ci, the four regiments under their command still had nearly 700 people. The soldiers all had their eyes red and charged wildly like chicken blood. They screamed and rushed directly towards the cavalry of Li Erjun. The excitement made Chen Sangliang feel a little puzzled and said to himself: "I only have sons but no daughters now. Can my daughter, who may still be in her mother's belly, have such great charm?"

As a result, this made Li Er's cavalry suffer. The front team finally rushed past the blockade of the Sui army's infantry, and the back team was still entangled by the Sui army's infantry in close combat. The report was already rushed over like chicken blood, and the knife was cut by guns and stabbed the stick. The same thing was crazy. They were just various weapons to greet the Li Er's cavalry, and they were always fighting together. They tried to cut the knife in their hands on the Li Er's cavalry with possible injuries and deaths. Of course, this was also based on the report that all the soldiers were wearing good light armor. The slogans of capturing Li Er alive came one after another, and the report soldiers who had seen Li Er's one after another kept shouting, "Look for a little face to kill! Li Erlang is like our prime minister, all a little face! As long as he is a little face, it is correct to kill him!"

The cavalry of Li Er, who looked a little handsome, was all very unlucky, but unfortunately Li Er was not among them. In fact, Li Er, who had suffered a great loss in the Battle of Mount Li, had always been very afraid of this army. When he saw the army of service coming towards him, Li Er, who had always liked to lead, had quietly retreated to the inside of his own cavalry and avoided the edge of the army of service. At the same time, Li Er did not have time to pay attention to why the report was so excited. He was careful to command the cavalry but just got rid of the entanglement of the report as much as possible, and took as many cavalry as possible to attack the Sui army's artillery positions.

Li Er soon discovered that he was just a delusion. When he finally took hundreds of cavalry to approach the Sui army's artillery position, Luo Shixin, who also caused great suffering in the Battle of Mount Li, had already led the infantry to block his way, and used a long spear to mount a squad to withstand the crazy impact of the cavalry of Li Er, without giving the Li Er's cavalry a chance to break them. At the same time, he quickly turned around and turned behind the cavalry of Li Er. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Er sighed and could only lead the cavalry to detour and flee to the north gate of Huoyi to seek support.

During the detour, Li Er sent people back to the city and made three orders, one was to order the Huoyi defenders to open the north gate and go out of the city to intercept the pursuers of the country, and the other was to order the self-armed army to re-establish the flag that was bombarded by the Sui army on the east gate, creating the illusion that he was still at the east gate of Huoyi. The third order was to let Li Shentong and Zhu Can break through and escape in time. Then, naturally, Li Er of course led his cavalry to rush up the thousand-mile path northwest of Huoyi, and took the small path around the Queshi Valley to escape to Taiyuan.

Not to mention, Li Er really deceived the Sui army soldiers. His handsome flag reappeared on Huoyi East Gate City, just like a beautiful woman stripped naked and was pushed into the pile of perverts. It immediately attracted the attention of almost all Sui army soldiers. Chen Sangliang also made a misjudgment at this moment. In order to win the greatest hope to kill Li Er and to take Huoyi City as soon as possible to avoid the emergence of troubles, Chen Sangliang decisively ordered a general attack, concentrating superior forces to attack Huoyi City, which had already opened the gap in the east gate, and also to fight for the opportunity to catch Li Er in the jar.

The result of the attack and defense battle in Huoyi City was actually no surprise. After taking down the East Gate corridor, the Sui army soldiers, who had both military strength and combat power, were able to quickly enter the city. They fought hand-to-hand combat with the defenders in the city with little local advantages. It was only a matter of time and the number of casualties that took down Huoyi City. With the full launch of the Sui army's general offensive, the demise of Huoyi Army officially entered the countdown.

Amid the sound of war drums that were even more violent than thunder, the Sui army soldiers were carrying various siege weapons and lined up densely with dense horizontal lines, like waves, continuously striking the Huoyi city wall. One after another, trench bridges and chariots hit the other side of the moat that had not been completely filled, building temporary bridges to open more roads that could reach the city. At the same time, more light stairs also continued to climb onto the Huoyi city wall, biting the weapons and climbing up crazily. The soldiers of Li Erjun on the city were still fighting desperately with bows, arrows, gray bottles, sheep head stones and other objects without knowing that the commander had already escaped, but they could not stop the morale of the Sui army soldiers. In the first round of ants attacks, more than 20 Sui army soldiers successfully rushed to the city wall.

The situation in the city was the same. It could not withstand the crazy attack of Qiu Shili's army. Two streets near the east gate of Huoyi City had been lost. Sui army soldiers who had seized the position space flocked into the city, rushing into Li Er's street defense line more powerfully and more rapidly. The slogans of surrendering and not killing came one after another. Many Sui army soldiers had rushed up the steps of the upper city and surrounded Li Er's commanding flags from left to side. Li Er's army retreated step by step, and countless surrendered.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhu Can was the first to lead his troops out of the city from the west gate, followed Li Er and fled into the deep forest. He also cleverly changed into ordinary soldiers' clothes early and brought a guide who knew the path of a thousand miles. His decisive decisiveness and calmness in the face of danger are both admirable.

Li Deliang had already died under the Sui army's artillery, but Li Shentong was still fighting stubbornly in the street fighting. Tang Xian, another important official of the Li Erjun, had disguised himself as a commoner and fled from the north gate to the thousand-mile path. Unfortunately, he was not lucky. After leaving the city, he encountered the Li Erjun army's army, who was facing the report, collapsed and was overthrown by the defeated Li Erjun who was rushing to escape. He stepped on it into meat sauce and had no bones left. After the war, the Sui army continued to put him on the wanted list and was wanted for more than ten years.

When Li Shentong finally couldn't resist the abandoned city and fled north, the Sui army soldiers finally found that the Li Ershuai flag on Huoyi City was just an empty flag. Through interrogation of the prisoners, Li Er had already left the city with the cavalry. After the furious Sui army soldiers sent the news to Chen Sangliang. Chen Sangliang couldn't help but be angry and scolded Li Er for being despicable and cunning, so that he could miss the best opportunity to kill him. After calming down a little, Chen Sangliang quickly ordered: "Tell the entire army to make everyone shout the slogan that they had caught Li Erlang, so that the enemy knew that we had already taken Li Erlang."

"Prime Minister, there is no need for this?" Sun Fujia, the new aide next to him, said in confusion: "We have a steady chance of winning, and the Li family's thief army has collapsed and collapsed. There is no need for us to attack the enemy's morale, right?"

Sun Fujia was originally a law chief in Wannian County, Guanzhong. Because of his strict law enforcement and integrity, he was appreciated by Chen Sangliang's old accomplice Wei Zheng. He was transferred to Daxing to serve in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which was in charge of money and grain. Less than three days after he was appointed, he was awarded by Chen Sangliang's prime minister for refusing the extravagant etiquette budget proposed by the Ministry of Rites. In addition, he was lacking in talents in this area. He miraculously jumped into Chen Sangliang's Prime Minister's Office for two consecutive years, becoming Chen Sangliang's close minister who made the officials of Daxing very jealous, and was quite loved by Chen Sangliang. So after hearing Sun Fujia's question, Chen Sangliang explained again, "I did this not for the present, but for the future. Li Erlang is too powerful. If he doesn't throw some sewage on him, he will be suspected of him and let him escape back to Taiyuan directly. In the future, I am afraid that it will become a disaster for us."

Sun Fujia nodded as if he had no idea, remembered Chen Sangliang's arrangement carefully, and then figured out the reason why Chen Sangliang did this when he had the opportunity in the future. The messengers around him rushed to the messenger of each army. Chen Sangliang turned his gaze to the direction of Taiyuan in the north and said in his heart: "Brother Jiancheng, your precious brother is likely to escape back and seek refuge with you. You have to hold on. Don't let him steal your territory and army, let alone let him harm you."

As soon as Shen Shi arrived in the afternoon, the Sui army had successfully captured the entire city of Huoyi. Although he failed to get the head of his rival Li Er as he wished, Li Shentong and Zhu Can and other Li Er's lackeys escaped into the northern mountainous area. But what surprised and happy Chen Sangliang was that the Sui army soldiers actually captured the general of the Li Er army, Sheng Yan, who assisted Li Deliang in guarding Huoyi. Others did not know how much weight Sheng Yan's army was, and Li Er had never reused the Chengcheng County Magistrate Sheng Yan, who took the initiative to surrender, but Chen Sangliang knew very well, so before he could enter the city, he had already ordered Sheng Yan to be mentioned to him, personally loosened his ties, and comforted him with kind words to try to surrender.

Unfortunately, Master Sheng Yan did not want to accept Chen Sangliang's affection, so he flatly refused to surrender and was willing to die. When Chen Sangliang asked the reason, Master Sheng Yan replied frankly: "Because the late general had the kindness of knowing me, and when I was just a county magistrate, the general not only invited me to join his righteous army repeatedly, but also took off his clothes and food to me, and appointed me as Yinqing Guanglu Dafu, the general manager of the march, and recreated his kindness to me. I cannot let him down."

The old Li family was completely brainwashed by such a little favor. Chen Sangliang had the intention to strangle Master Sheng Yan to death. However, after seeing Master Sheng Yan's firm expression, Chen Sangliang changed his mind and said, "General Sheng, even Li Yuan's son Li Shimin has been captured alive by our army. The Li family's thief army is about to be destroyed. Why are you still so stubborn? Haven't you heard that you choose trees for good birds to live on, and wise ministers to serve?"

Master Sheng Yan still flatly refused to surrender. Chen Sangliang had no choice but to sigh and said, "The general is really a righteous man. Since the general insists on not surrendering, I will not force you. You go, I will let you go back to Taiyuan and continue to serve your benefactor's son."

"You let me go? Is it true or false?" Master Sheng Yan asked in surprise.

"Of course it's true. Not only will I let you go, I will also give you dry food and horses." Chen Sangliang said casually: "But I also have a condition. If you help me bring a letter to Li Jiancheng, I won't let me send someone else to go north to take risks."

Seeing that Chen Sangliang's attitude was not like a false act, Master Sheng Yan also bowed to Chen Sangliang for not killing, and agreed to send a message to Li Jiancheng for Chen Sangliang. Chen Sangliang asked Master Sheng Yan to invite Master Sheng Yan to the camp for a while, and ordered his personal soldiers to entertain him, waiting for him to prepare a letter to Li Jiancheng and asked Master Sheng Yan to take him north. Then Chen Sangliang called Sun Fujia to his face and whispered in his ear: "Tell me the personal soldiers, let them chat while guarding Master Sheng Yan, so that Master Sheng Yan heard these two news. One was that Li Erlang had surrendered to me after being captured, and the other was that Li Erlang was deliberately let go back to Taiyuan to be an insider for me. When he had the chance, he would kill Li Jiancheng for me and help our army take Taiyuan."

While Sun Fujia was singing No, he also asked with his brains and thoughtfulness: "Prime Minister, Li Erlang did not leave his family as a stake, nor did he have any fatal handle left in your hands. Just let him go back to Taiyuan to be a hostage to our army. This is probably difficult to win the trust of the enemy, right?"

"Good question." Chen Sangliang nodded in praise and said in a low voice: "Let the personal soldiers who guarded Sheng Yanshi also raise this question, and then let the personal soldiers who pretend to see this situation answer, saying that I had long seen that Li Erlang just wanted to sue his life, and was just to take the opportunity to escape. I deliberately put him back because I knew very well that Li Erlang was a jackal. If he was really willing to be an internal soldier for me in the future, he would inevitably peek at the military power position in Li Jiancheng's hands. Once he and Li Jiancheng were fratricidal, it would be much easier for us to take the opportunity to take back Taiyuan."
Chapter completed!