False Eunuch: With Many Children, I'm as Happy as a Fish in Water

"Then General Li Tang, is he crazy?"

At the top of Xiping Fort, a figure poked its head out and looked at the situation of Li Tang's army below in surprise.

Just look at this man, even if the weather is freezing, he still has the iron armor wrapped around his body, only revealing his relatively young face.

In the land of Liaodong, under the wind and snow, the appearance is even worse than in Guan.

"Master, you'd better go down!" The guard beside him asked worriedly.

"nothing."

Huang Taiji waved his hand, with a look of disdain on his face.

This touch of disdain was naturally directed towards Li Tang's army outside Xiping Fort.

"I thought that the general leading Li Tang's army this time was quite capable, but I didn't expect that his subordinates were also a bunch of idiots."

Huang Taiji saw the intention of Li and Tang's army outside the fort, which was to capture Xiping Fort with a quick attack.

If Xipingbao was so easy to fight, it wouldn't have caused such a headache to my own Arma.

"Let the boys prepare!" Huang Taiji whispered to the guards around him.

Just as the guards went down to convey the order, Huang Taiji looked deeply at Li Tang's army outside the fort.

Guarding Xiping Fort was the most critical move in Nurhachi's plan, and it was natural that he would leave it to his closest son to take over.

But... when I learned that there were less than 10,000 soldiers in the fort, and they would have to hold on for at least a month.

Nurhachi's eldest son Chu Ying did not have the courage to agree.

Now that Nurhaci has founded the People's Republic of China, his sons have naturally become heirs.

According to the Han family's imperial succession system, the eldest son will naturally come first.

But this is Liaodong!

The Jurchens originally started out as barbarians, so why should they implement the Han system? !

It’s just that stupid big brother who believes in eldest son inheritance.

Huang Taiji's eyes narrowed slightly as he thought of this.

If you want to lead your tribe to survive in a bitter cold land, only strength can speak for itself!

This is the reason why Huang Taiji took on this task.

Nurhachi promised.

When the war ends, those who defend Xiping Fort will make their first contribution.

"The enemy is coming!"

"Tang Dog is coming up!"

Rapid shouting in Xiping Fort interrupted Huang Taiji's thoughts.

Looking at the soldiers of Li Tang who charged up the steep slope, they only had the ladders on their shoulders.

A strange color flashed in Huang Taiji's eyes.

Is it possible that General Li Tang at the foot of the mountain is an idiot?

Could it be that the other side thinks that Xiping Fort can be captured by relying on a ladder?

What Huang Taiji didn't know was that Zhao Guangyi really felt that way!

In his opinion, he had more than 70,000 soldiers under his command.

On the other hand, there were less than 10,000 defenders in the fort, and they were tightly besieged, with no way out.

It's like catching a turtle in an urn, it doesn't take much effort.

Therefore.

Zhao Guangyi planned to attack Xiping Fort directly. It would be better if he could capture it.

Even if he can't take it, he can still rely on showing Li Tang's military power to intimidate the defenders in the fort to surrender.

can only say.

The imagination was very full, but reality slapped Zhao Guangyi hard in the mouth.

Throughout the ages.

Storming a fortified city is a taboo in the art of war.

Unless they have no choice, generals should find other ways.

A very simple truth.

When Mongolia went south to destroy the Song Dynasty.

Diaoyu City alone blocked Mongolia for more than thirty years, and even directly consumed a Mongolian Khan.

In the end, it was all thanks to Kublai Khan's persuasion to surrender that the city was captured.

The perspective returns to the foot of Xipingbao City.

The shouts of killing shook the sky.

The wall of Xiping Fort was silent.

Only the arrows quietly poked out of the arrow holes after Li Tang's soldiers got closer.

Whoosh!

Arrows rained down.

Li Tang's soldiers, who did not react in time, were killed by arrows on the snow before they could raise their shields.

The screams and roars continued.

After raising the shield to carry the arrows over the city, some warriors put the ladder up on the city wall.

This scene could not help but cheer up the soldiers of Li Tang who were attacking the city.

Zhao Guangyi issued an order. The first person to log into the city would be promoted to five levels and rewarded with a thousand gold coins!

Driven by such heavy profits.

The eyes of Li Tang's soldiers who climbed up the ladder were red, and the rest were not to be outdone, for fear of losing their rewards.

The so-called ladder.

This is not the thing in some period films where ladders are used to make up the numbers.

A real ladder has a sharp hook at one end that can be grasped between the gaps in the city wall.

At the same time, this sharp hook is often made of iron, and it can be cut continuously by swords.

but.

Both offense and defense have ways to deal with it.

Rolling logs and stones were piled on the wall of Xiping Fort early.

These were originally stored in the fort to defend the city against the Jurchens, but now they were used by Hou Jin.

It's ridiculous to say that.

Just like this, stones the size of a human head were smashed down from the city wall one after another.

"ah!!"

Li Tang's soldiers, whose heads were smashed and bleeding, kept falling down from the ladder.

It fell heavily to the ground and made no sound.

Only Zhao Guangyi, who was at the foot of the mountain, squinted at the progress of the siege, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face.

This is too slow!

In his opinion, the city should be attacked within two hours.

The fight lasted from noon to almost dusk.

Just now I heard cheers coming from Li Tang's soldiers.

It turned out that some warriors had climbed up to the top of Naxiping Fort.

However.

Not long after the cheers started, they fell silent like a duck being strangled by the neck.

The sharp man who climbed up the wall was a lieutenant colonel in the army, with a peak level of third-rate cultivation.

But he didn't expect that after going up, he couldn't even hold on for a stick of incense, and his head was chopped off and thrown down.

This scene made Li Tang's soldiers outside Xiping Fort feel cold in their hearts.

After a while, I just woke up.

Looking around him, he saw all the corpses of Pao Ze, like hell.

Li Tang's soldiers, who had no intention of fighting, launched an offensive.

Zhao Guangyi's face darkened when he saw this scene.

I knew that I might not be able to attack today, so I sent out gold to withdraw my troops.

Li Tang's soldiers, who had been granted amnesty, swarmed down the mountain and did not dare to stay for a moment.

Huang Taiji looked at the retreating Li Tang soldiers, wiped the blood on his hand armor, and felt reassured.

Judging from the performance of Li Tang's soldiers today, do they also want to capture Xiping Fort?

There were less than a hundred casualties in the city.

On the other hand, Zhao Guangyi's troops left behind about 3,000 corpses, but they didn't even see the top of the wall of Xiping Fort.

However.

Zhao Guangyi was not reconciled.

For seven consecutive days, Xiping Fort was attacked every day.

As you can imagine, the casualties were extremely serious.

The soldiers in the tent were full of resentment when faced with such an act that seemed like sending someone to death.

"General Zhao, we can't attack again!" A military general in the tent tried to dissuade him.

Zhao Guangyi's face was uncertain. He couldn't believe that in the past seven days, he couldn't even take down a small Xiping Fort!

"Okay, let's rest tomorrow and discuss it later."

Zhao Guangyi, who couldn't stand it, just agreed to let the army rest.

However.

That night.

After four thousand soldiers, Jin's soldiers took advantage of the darkness to leave the fort and attack Zhao Guangyi's camp at night.

Zhao Guangyi, who had never expected that the Jurchens in Xiping Fort would dare to take the initiative, was caught off guard.

In addition, the soldiers under his command had been fighting hard for days and were already exhausted.

certainly.

This kind of night attack only burns some baggage.

But what no one expected was!

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