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Whoosh swish swish swish!

Rumble!

At the same time, the large number of stone-throwing cars created by the Sui army also began to bombard the sky thunder onto the walls of Tongguan.

The violent explosions still have limited killing for the Tang army.

However, it was a more severe blow to the morale of the Tang army soldiers.

The soldiers of the Tang army had never seen thunder in the sky.

As a result, the "stone shell" in their eyes exploded, which made them extremely frightened.

"Don't panic, the General and His Highness are here.

Defend the city gate and repel the Sui army."

At the critical moment, the head coach Liu Hongji and Li Er both risked their lives to climb to Tongguan personally to boost the morale of the Tang army.

This stabilized the morale of the Tang army, revived the Tang army, and withstood the Sui army's offensive again.

The most difficult day passed, and the Tang army guarded the city gate.

As it got dark, the Sui army withdrew.

However, the Tang army suffered nearly 5,000 casualties on this day. Such a terrifying number of casualties made it difficult for Li Er and the head coach Liu Hongji to accept.

"This is a thick and long crossbow arrow. What kind of crossbow should it be shot!"

"And there is also this stone shell, what exactly is it inside? It explodes like thunder?"

After the war, Li Er held a crossbow arrow and the exploded Thunder Stone Shell, his face was gloomy and asked everyone.

"Your Highness, according to our spies in Dongdu, we have sent back the news.

It is said that there is a heavy crossbow in the Sui army that can fire several such long crossbow arrows at one time, with amazing lethality.

This kind of "stone" that could explode was also used by the Sui army, and it was used by the time of destroying Dou Jiande.

Unfortunately, Yang Guang protected these things very closely, and our people could not get in touch with them, so they could only hearsay."

Changsun Wuji stood aside and said to Li Er.

"It was circulated in Chang'an before, saying that Yang Guang would attract the Nine Heavens Thunder, and most of them were talking about this kind of weapon.

Even the people in Jizhou have a rumor that the Sui army has a magical weapon that can fly into the sky. At that time, the Sui army used that magical weapon to quickly defeat Dou Jiande's Xia army.

Originally, my subordinates didn't care much about these circulating things.

But now it seems that the public is probably not groundless. The Sui army may have strange weapons.

We have to be more prepared.”

"Damn it, I'm careless.

If I had known this, I should have spent a lot of effort to find out the rare weapons that the Sui army had."

Li Er said with some regret.

"Your Highness doesn't have to blame yourself. Now we still have a solution to how to break the Sui army's methods.

Everyone has seen the situation today.

The long-distance archer-covered shooting of the Sui army has posed a huge threat to us.

In addition, the attacks of these heavy crossbows, especially the explosion-like "stones", are too harmful to our soldiers.

Casualties are not the most important, and the most impact is the morale of our army.

Now, when you go out and take a look, the soldiers are all very afraid.

If this situation cannot be resolved in time, if time delays, the morale of the army will inevitably be disintegrated.

At that time, it will be impossible for us to defend Tongguan."

Liu Hongji stood up to comfort Li Er, and at the same time said to everyone in Tang Jun.

I want to brainstorm and come up with a solution to break the situation as soon as possible.

"This situation cannot continue, otherwise it will be a vicious cycle.

It's actually not difficult to break the deadlock."

At this time, Xu Maogong spoke.

"Mr. Xu, what can I do to say it?"

Liu Hongji looked at Xu Maogong and said.

"Whether it is the archers of the Sui army, the heavy crossbow, especially the 'stones' that can explode, they are also thrown to our side with the help of a catapult cart.

In other words, these are all long-range attack troops.

This type of troops has strong attacks and weak defenses.

As long as we can send a group of people to rush to these crossbowmen and catapults, it will be enough to destroy them."

"What Junshi Xu means, we have to do it once, and fight the battle that was like attacking the Sui Army's archer formation before leaving the city?"

"That's right, if we only defend but not attack, we will only have chronic death.

If we want to break the deadlock, we can only turn from defense to offense now.

As long as the Sui army's archery formation and the Sui army's crossbows and catapults, even if it costs a certain price, it will be spared.

Without these archers, crossbows and catapults, the Sui army would not have the ability to break through Tongguan even if their troops were several times more powerful than our army."

Xu Maogong nodded and said.

"Mr. Xu is right. These archers, crossbows and catapults from the Sui army must not be kept."

Li Er also stood up and said with a 'click' crossbow arrow as thick as a thumb. His eyes were firm and powerful.

"However, we are short of troops now, and it is already very difficult to defend the pass.

There were no troops left to go out of the city to fight the Sui army, let alone to destroy their archery formations, and to destroy their crossbows and catapults.

You have also seen how closely the Sui army protected their archery array.

Several of our troops broke out of the city and only forced the Sui army's archers to retreat, but did not hurt them. In the end, we had no choice but to retreat.

Now, the Sui army's protection of their crossbow chariots and catapults was probably even more important than the previous archers' formation.

Our troops are now losing a lot and the morale of the soldiers is depressed. Now that we are leaving the city to fight back, wouldn’t we seek death?”

Changsun Wuji next to him said angrily.

"I will write to my father for help now. As long as we stand in Tongguan for another five days, our reinforcements will arrive.

At that time, we will organize a large counterattack and must destroy these crossbows and catapults of the Sui army."

In the end, Li Er had to ask Li Yuan for help.

"That's all, this is the only way. These five days will be a huge test for us.

After the generals returned, they must appease the soldiers under their command.

This general and Your Highness will also go down to comfort the soldiers, boost morale, and survive these five days."

Liu Hongji turned around and ordered the Tang army generals such as Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Jingde and others.

"Okay, let's take action now."

Just on the Tang army, there was a bleak cloud. When he was thinking about how to break the Sui army's crossbow and catapult cart, the Sui army was filled with joy.

"Governor, I feel that the Tang army can't stand it anymore."

Taishici stood behind Zhou Yu and spoke.

"The Tang army is not that fragile. The pseudo-Qin King of the Li Tang rebels was in Tongguan at this time.

This person is our old rival, so I dare not underestimate him.

We will still act according to the original plan, and it doesn’t matter if we get it early and late in Tongguan.

This time, what I want to do is to destroy the elite heavy armored cavalry under the command of the pseudo-Qin King.

Otherwise, if this heavy armored cavalry is kept, it will pose too great a threat to us in the future."

Zhou Yu looked heavy, staring at Tongguan and said.

"Tomorrow will continue to attack the city, but today's style of play.

Lu Su and Lu Meng were also prepared. Once the Tang army dared to leave the city again, they would leave all the governors behind.

This time, this governor must force out the heavy armored cavalry from Li Er's hand again."

Before, Zhou Yu saw with his own eyes that the thousand mysterious iron cavalry in Li Er's hand were powerful, so he made up his mind to destroy this heavy armored cavalry.

"Yes, Governor."
To be continued...