Chapter 1337: Taking Xi'anyang Again

With Tang Shi's order, fifty catapults fired stone bullets at the Xi'anyang city wall in turn. Dozens of stone bullets flew towards the city wall. Although more than half of them fell inside and outside the city wall, nearly twenty of them fell accurately on the city wall in each round. Each stone bullet smashed the city wall into mud and stones.

In Xi'anyang City, behind the West Gate Tower, Zeng Sheng hid in the soldier cave and leaned out from time to time to look towards the south wall. From his position, he could see huge stone bullets falling from the sky and falling behind the city wall. In a moment, he heard that several houses collapsed under the attack of stone bullets.

What made him feel strange was that the Tang army's stone bullets were basically concentrated in the southwest corner of the city wall. On the contrary, only a few stone bullets deviated and flew over from the position of the West Gate Tower where he was. This was also the reason why he dared to stick his head out to check the situation in the south.

Just when he was puzzled, he suddenly heard a guard beside him saying: "Why did the Tang army waste all the stone bullets on the southern wall instead of targeting the towers and gates?"

"Who knows? Maybe the generals of the Tang army are mentally ill and don't know!" Another guard answered casually;

"I don't know who the general surnamed Tang outside is..." said another person next to him;

"Tang..." Zeng Sheng didn't look back, but a thought flashed through his mind, thinking about which general surnamed Tang there was in the Tang army. You know, they are all the most powerful generals in Zhang Liao's army, so Zhang Liao has informed them of the situation of the main generals of the Tang army more than once.

Of course, these generals are basically from Sizhou, and the generals from Yanzhou and Yuzhou are not so clear, but Zeng Sheng clearly remembers that there seems to be no generals with the surname Tang in the Tang army. You know, looking at the situation of the soldiers outside the city, Zeng Sheng knows that the Tang army soldiers outside the city are all Tang army soldiers. According to the arrangement of the Tang army, the generals who can command more than 5,000 soldiers are definitely not ordinary people, but Zeng Sheng can't remember which general with the surname Tang.

Suddenly, a name suddenly popped up in his mind, "Tang Shi! Yes, it must be Tang Shi, the former commander of Xi'an Yangcheng, a general under Xiao Jiejie, one of the three foreign lords in Wuyuan County."

Since it is Tang Shi, he will definitely not be aimless. As the former commander of Xi'an Yangcheng, he is absolutely familiar with the situation of Xi'an Yang. In this way, it means that the direction of the Tang army's attack must be the loophole in the defense of Xi'an Yangcheng.

Thinking of this, Zeng Sheng could no longer care about anything else. He immediately rushed out of the soldier cave and ordered his personal guards: "Come on, quickly pass the order, order the two thousand soldiers who are taking turns to rest in the city to rush to the west of the city immediately, without going to the tower, and go directly to the southwest direction where the Tang army's catapults are attacking."

The personal guards did not react to his shouting, and Zeng Sheng did not care about anything else. He slapped the personal guard and knocked him to the ground. He shouted again: "What are you still standing there for? Go, personal guard camp, follow me to go around the southwest city wall! That is the main attack direction of the Tang army!"

After saying that, he didn't care about the stone bullets flying from the sky from time to time, rushed out of the soldier cave, and went around the southwest corner of the city wall.

The personal soldier got up from the ground, and didn't bother to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. He saluted Zeng Sheng's back and ran towards the barracks in the city like flying.

The rest of Zeng Sheng's personal soldiers also reacted, and under the leadership of the personal soldiers, they followed Zeng Sheng and ran towards the southwest of the city wall.

Unfortunately, Zeng Sheng's reaction was too slow. By the time he reacted,

nearly half an hour had passed. At this time, the Tang army's catapults had already launched more than a dozen rounds of stone bullets at the southwest corner of the city wall. More than 30% of the nearly 1,000 stone bullets hit the city wall, and a crack had been smashed on the city wall. However, at this time, neither the Zhao army behind the city wall nor the Tang army outside the city found the existence of this crack.

When Zeng Sheng led his personal soldiers to a hundred steps behind the city wall, the city wall finally couldn't withstand the attack of the stone bullets. With a "booming" sound, the new city wall wrapped in the outer layer collapsed in both directions. Countless stones and soil fell on both sides of the city wall, forming a natural ramp, which opened up the defense for the Tang army's attack.

Zeng Sheng stood a hundred steps behind the city wall, watching the wall collapse with a loud noise, and the smoke and dust almost covered the entire wall.

"Good!"

"Great!"

Unlike the Zhao army soldiers in the city, the Tang army soldiers outside the city cheered loudly. Tang Shi jumped up excitedly, and ordered the soldiers to prepare for the siege, and ordered the catapults to continue attacking for two rounds, and then extend to the back of the city wall for five rounds.

In the center of the Tang army, Tian Yu and Fa Zheng smiled at each other. The great victory in the first battle was a great help to the morale of the army. In contrast to the happiness of the two, Xu Huang and his generals smiled bitterly. It seemed that this round would not be their turn.

A quarter of an hour later, the catapults began to launch catapults into the city, and Tang Shi led thousands of his troops to rush towards the city wall. The catapults were ready to launch several rounds of catapults, but when they saw Tang Shi leading the army to quickly approach the city wall, Tian Yu immediately ordered the catapults to stop attacking to avoid accidentally injuring their own soldiers.

Half a year later, Tang Shi led the army into the city and seized the West Tower of Xi'an Yangcheng from the Zhao army. Then, the city gate was opened by the Tang soldiers. Following Tian Yu's order, Xu Huang immediately sent 10,000 infantrymen under his command to quickly enter the city from the west gate.

By the afternoon, the Tang army occupied Xi'an Yangcheng. Of the 6,000 Zhao soldiers in the city, less than a thousand were killed in the battle, and the remaining 4,000 were all captured.

After Tian Yu received Tang Shi's report, he laughed and said to Fa Zheng: "Military Advisor, you finally don't have to suffer in the cold and freezing weather anymore."

"General, you are right. I am not as strong as you. If I can have a room to sleep in, it would be the best." Fa Zheng did not refuse and answered;

"Okay, order the army to enter the city. Before dark today, all the food and supplies must be sent into the city for safekeeping." Tian Yu gave the order and was about to ride into the city, but suddenly stopped and said: "Send a message to General Tang, the first merit of this battle belongs to him, but he broke the city wall, so I have to trouble him to repair it, otherwise Zhang Liao's army will attack, I am afraid..."

After that, Tian Yu, in a good mood, laughed and kicked the horse's belly, and rode towards the city.

Upon hearing this, Fa Zheng smiled and followed the others towards Xi'an Yang City. To be honest, he was originally a civil servant and had indeed suffered a lot during these days of following the army. Now, he was more than happy to have a yard where he could have a good rest.