Chapter 2492 Jiang Shang’s death
Chapter 2489: Jiang Shang’s death
Li Shimin and his group passed Xuanwu Gate. The gate of Xuanwu Gate immediately closed, and the front door behind was also closed.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of archers suddenly appeared on the city tower, and they pointed their bows at Li Shimin and his group under the city.
After seeing this scene, Li Shimin and Jiang Shang were both shocked. They never expected to be ambushed at Xuanwu Gate. After all, the palace guard is Li Maozhen.
Li Shimin suspected Li Si and even suspected Li Chunfeng of the country, but he did not doubt Li Maozhen. The reason was that Li Maozhen was the son of Li Xiaogong.
Li Xiaogong is Li Shimin''s most trusted uncle. He loves the house and is in the underworld. He is also very new to Li Maozhen. Although the two are not brothers, they are better than brothers.
Of course, the reason why Li Shimin never doubted Li Maozhen was that in addition to the relationship between the two, the main reason was that Li Xiaogong was.
Li Xiaogong would never betray him, and if Li Maozhen rebels, where would he do his own father? He will definitely be criticized for being unfaithful and unfilial.
But what Li Shimin never expected was that Li Maozhen not only betrayed him, but also ambushed him by the Xuanwu people. He wanted to repeat the Xuanwu Gate Incident again, which was simply killing people.
Li Shimin was able to accept the betrayal of Hua Xiong, Li Jue and others, but he could not accept Li Maozhen and betrayed him. He could no longer suppress the anger in his heart and roared at the city tower:
"Li Maozhen, do you know what you are doing?
What do you think of me for you? Why do you betray me? Betray your own family?
Are you considering your uncle? ”
Li Maozhen on the city tower felt even more guilty after hearing this.
Li Shimin is sorry to Li Xiuning, Yang Jian, and the people and the aristocratic families of Guanzhong, but he has never given him Li Maozhen. Instead, he is sorry to Li Shimin.
So, Li Maozhen was shameless and didn''t want to see Li Shimin, so he simply closed his eyes and ordered softly: "Shoot the arrow."
Shooting an arrow?
After receiving the order, nearly half of the crossbowmen did not move. After all, the one below was their lord, but Li Maozhen''s confidants all shot arrows decisively.
The other half of the crossbowmen saw that so many people had fired arrows, and they had acted in a rebellion whether they could shoot arrows or not. So they gritted their teeth and followed them to shoot and kill the people under the city.
Swoosh, swish, swish...
Arrows fell like raindrops.
[Dingdong, Jiang Shang''s skill "Soldier Ancestor" effect 3 is activated. When he is the chief general, all generals under his command will +1, and the entire army will have a military force +2; if he is not a master general, the military force will be reduced by half; when half of the casualties are over, the entire army will have a military force +1;
Li Shimin: Commander 100 (+2), force 100 (+12), intelligence 99 (+2-1), politics 103, Charm 81 (+1-20); Taiqing Sword +1;
Currently, all military forces under Li Shimin''s troops are +1.
Li Shimin''s force rose to 102;
Jiang Shang''s force rose to 87;
…】
"Protect the car."
With the increase of the "Soldier Ancestor", the escorts entering Xuanwu Gate increased their combat power and responded very quickly.
The personal guard holding a shield quickly protected Li Shimin''s frame and protected both Li Shimin and Jiang Shang.
As for those guards without shields, in this limited space, they have nowhere to hide even if they want to hide. No matter how strong the combat power is, there is only one final outcome, that is, they will die under the heart of thousands of arrows.
"ah…"
"No, I''ll vote..."
Screams rang one after another.
In the blink of an eye, nearly half of the thousands of personal guards guarding Li Shimin died under arrows.
The remaining people may block the team, and may use their companions'' bodies as shields to support them, but this is obviously not a long-term solution.
[Dingdong, more than half of the casualties in the entire army, Jiang Shang''s skill "Soldier Ancestor" effect 3 is activated again, and when more than half of the casualties, the whole army''s force will +1 again;
Currently, Li Shimin''s force has risen to 103;
Jiang Shang''s force rose to 88;
…】
With the two consecutive increase in the skills of the entire army, all guards, including Li Shimin and Jiang Shang, all received 2 points of increase in force.
If this is a field battle, even if Li Maozhen''s troops are several times theirs, they can still win the battle. Unfortunately, this is an ambush, and they can only be beaten passively.
"how so?"
Looking at the guards falling down around, Jiang Shang unconsciously clenched his fists.
He tried his best to help Li Shimin, who was thankless and helped him not to seek fame or profit. All he wanted was to save his life to save Taoism, but he did not expect that he would become the culprit for Li Shimin''s death.
Ren Jiang Shang had made great calculations, but he didn''t expect that Li Maozhen would have betrayed, otherwise he wouldn''t have let Li Shimin fall into the trap.
The impact of Li Maozhen''s rebellion is undoubtedly extremely important.
Although the rebellious forces in Chang''an City were strong before, they did not exceed Li Tang''s side. Overall, the two sides were in a state of equal competition.
But now Li Maozhen''s rebellion has become the last straw that crushes the camel. The rebel forces have overwhelmed Li Tang''s side, and Li Cunxiao has also entered the city.
Now, Li Tangfang has to suppress the rebellion and regain control of Chang''an, and even protecting himself may be a little difficult.
In Jiang Shang''s view, for Li Tang''s current side, the most urgent task should be to withdraw from Chang''an and preserve its strength is the best strategy.
But the key is that even he and Li Shimin were trapped and died in Xuanwu Gate. Even whether they could survive was a question, let alone withdrawing from Chang''an.
Now it is already a desperate situation of death without life.
Li Shimin, hiding behind the shield, saw that fewer and fewer people were around him, gritted his teeth and asked, "Mr. Jiang, what should I do now?"
Jiang Shangze smiled bitterly and said, "I can only try my best to delay the time."
If there are steps to climb the city, they can at least fight back, but the Xuanwu Gate does not even have a staircase to climb the city, and there is no other way except to sit and wait for death.
Now Jiang Shang can only hope outside and can quickly discover Li Maozhen''s betrayal and then rescue them, but this possibility is obviously slim.
400
300
200
In less than a stick of incense, the thousand elite guards who entered Xuanwu Gate were shot to death by arrows from all directions, and their bodies were filled with arrows, which made them look so miserable.
When Li Shimin reduced his staff to 200 hours, the rain of arrows on the city tower suddenly stopped.
Li Maozhen ordered the order to stop shooting arrows. The reason he did this was not because he wanted to release Li Shimin and his arrows were not enough, but because the people left below were all holding shields and formed a turtle formation, with no gap in defense.
Ordinary arrow attacks can no longer do anything to the opponent. Only heavy combat crossbows such as bed crossbows and siege crossbows can break through the defense of the turtle shell.
But in order to defend Chang''an, Li Shimin had transported all the heavy combat crossbows to the four gates, and there was no one in the palace.
Without the heavy combat crossbow, Li Maozhen had no good idea, so he could only send troops to break Li Shimin''s turtle shell.
Squeak…
The front door slowly opened, and thousands of Tang soldiers walked in slowly, but there was still no Li Maozhen in it. After entering Xuanwu Gate, thousands of rebels under Li Maozhen''s troops began to line up, and the front door was closed again.
Looking at the gradually closed front door, Li Shimin''s heart was filled with despair. Where was his life?
Looking at the rebels lined up, Li Shimin walked out of the shield formation and roared at the city tower: "Li Maozhen, if you want to kill me, come by yourself. Why send these people to die?"
But what responded to him was an arrow, and Li Maozhen still did not stand up.
After Li Shimin knocked the arrow with a sword, he hurriedly returned to the shield formation and gritted his teeth and said, "This thing that is greedy for life and fears death."
He originally thought that if Li Maozhen had to kill Li Maozhen himself, he would have a glimmer of hope, but he didn''t expect Li Maozhen to be so cautious. There were only so few people left on his side, and Li Maozhen didn''t dare to participate in the battle himself.
What Li Shimin didn''t know was that Li Maozhen did not participate in the war, not because he did not dare to participate in the war, but because he had no shame to see Li Shimin, so he deliberately avoided the war.
After forming a formation, the thousands of rebels immediately surrounded Li Shimin''s shield formation with steady steps.
Seeing this situation, Li Shimin made a quick decision and withdrew the shield formation, he personally led 200 remnants to fight back and fight back, and fought with this group of rebels.
Li Shimin was gambling. After the melee of his betting began, it was difficult for the enemy and us to distinguish, and Li Maozhen would not be shooting arrows.
Otherwise, he would have to face the siege of this group of rebels and to resist the bows and arrows of crossbowmen on the city tower, and would sooner or later he would have been exhausted.
Facts proved that Li Shimin had the right bet.
If the two sides did not get together, Li Maozhen would definitely order the arrow to be fired, because this would also help Li Shimin to be dealt with faster.
But now that the two sides have become a clique and are completely indistinguishable from you and me. If they are shooting arrows, wouldn’t they come to shoot with their own people?
If he really does this, how can he convince the public in the future?
[Dingdong, Li Shimin''s skill "Zhenguan" effect 4 is activated, and the generals of the entire army have a force of +1, and some of the enemy''s morale are reduced.
Currently, all military forces under Li Shimin''s troops are +1.
Li Shimin''s force rose to 104;
Jiang Shang''s force rose to 89;
…】
"Kill..."
"Traitor, die..."
"Go to your uncle..."
The guards who were always passively shot but could not fight back were naturally extremely frustrated. At this moment, they completely vented and roared at the rebels.
[Dingdong, Li Shimin''s skill "Sword God" is activated, with force +4, and the current force has increased to 108;]
Li Shimin cut off the three spears that were stabbed with one sword, and then cut off the three soldiers'' heads together.
"Tang Gong is brave."
After Jiang Shang exclaimed a sigh of praise, he also beat a rebel to death.
Although Jiang Shang fought for half his life, he had only a handful of times in person. Because he was a Confucian general, he could not use him to fight in person. He did not want to fight in his later years, but was forced to fight in person.
Of course, this was also done by Jiang Shang himself. If he didn''t wade into this muddy water, there would naturally be no such things.
Li Shimin''s situation is similar to Jiang Shang. Now he is forced to participate in the war in person, but his strength is much stronger than Jiang Shang. The number of rebels who died under his sword is increasing.
With Li Shimin personally participating in the war, the remaining 200 guards once again received an increase of 1 force, and had accumulated a total of 3 force points.
They were originally elites, otherwise they would not be Li Shimin''s guards, and their combat effectiveness in desperate situations was even more terrifying.
To be honest, the 200 personal guards gathered around Li Shimin now have surpassed the elite camps such as the Xuanjia Army and the Feixiong Army.
On the other hand, the rebels became traitors for no reason. Many people did not dare to kill Li Shimin at all, and their morale was reduced by the "Zhenguan".
With his hands and feet in his arms, Li Maozhen''s one thousand rebels not only could not defeat Li Shimin''s two hundred remnants, but was also suppressed and beaten by the other party.
[Dingdong, Li Shimin''s skill "Zhenguan" Effect 3 is launched. When commanding the army to fight, the comprehensive quality of the entire army has been greatly improved. The greater the difference in the force between the enemy and us, the stronger the combat power of the army will explode. 】
As soon as the effect of "Zhenguan" was released, a thousand rebels were completely defeated and they began to quickly reduce their personnel. Soon nearly 500 people died, but Li Shimin only lost more than 30 people.
Seeing this, Li Maozhen frowned. After all, if this is the case, all the thousand people below would not be able to defeat half of Li Shimin''s people.
Just then.
Boom...
A huge explosion came, which was exactly the direction of the Tang Duke''s Mansion.
Li Maozhen looked closely and saw that the Tang Duke’s Mansion was filled with smoke, and the main hall had collapsed directly, while other buildings were still collapsing one after another.
Obviously, an extremely fierce battle is breaking out in the Tang Duke''s Mansion, which is very likely caused by Li Yuanba and others besieging Li Cunxiao, otherwise such a big disturbance would have been caused.
"You can''t drag it on."
After pondering for a while, Li Maozhen personally led two thousand soldiers to join the war to solve the big trouble of Li Shimin as soon as possible.
Squeak…
The front door of Xuanwu Gate opened again, and this time Li Maozhen finally went to fight in person.
"kill…"
[Dingdong, Li Maozhen''s skill "Gun God" is activated, with force +4, basic force 101, Qi Wang Gun +1, sweat and blood horse +1, current force has increased to 107;]
With the addition of two thousand new forces, this naturally doubled the pressure on the guards. After all, each person had to deal with the siege of more than ten enemies, and no matter how elite soldiers could not withstand such a fight.
But they had no way out, and they couldn''t even surrender. They had no other way except to die in battle. Is there anything more desperate than this?
After half a stick of incense, the guards began to lose their energy and eventually wiped out the entire army under the siege of more than ten times their rebels, but they also fought eight times their enemy.
Li Shimin had a thousand personal guards, and Li Maozhen eliminated the first eight hundred people without hurting a soldier, but the last two hundred people cost a heavy price of 1,600 people.
At this point, only Li Shimin and Jiang Shang were left on the battlefield, and they were still fighting back to back.
"Mr. Jiang, if you were captured alive, would you be loyal to Ying Hao?"
Li Shimin''s voice came from behind.
Jiang Shang was stunned when he heard this. In the previous battle, he was also seriously injured and his brain was a little confused, so he didn''t react.
Before Jiang Shang could answer, he was penetrated from behind by a sword.
(This chapter ends)