The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 262 Siege
The howling north wind engulfed the sky with snowflakes, covering the endless Xishui Plain!Gao Jianwu stood on top of the city of Pyongyang, looking at the Sui army who had not attacked the city for a long time, and laughed, but he hadn't waited for him to say anything.

A rumbling sound sounded from time to time.

"Your Majesty, the Sui army has large siege equipment." A general pointed to the carriage approaching from a distance with a look of surprise on his face.

Gao Jianwu looked out, but as far as his eyes could see, there were carriages slowly approaching in a row. On the flatbed carts were straight fir trees seven to eight feet long and as thick as waists. Formed into a series of flat ladders, each ladder is about one foot wide, and one end is equipped with a big iron hook for catching the city. There are many straight and tall trees in the forest, which were obviously built by the Sui army according to the height of Pyongyang City and the width of the moat in the past few days.

Nearby, hundreds of Ji Sui soldiers were working in full swing, and huge objects quickly stood up under their assembly.

Gao Jianwu's face finally became serious. When he was besieging Liaodong City, countless flying stone arrows fell from the sky. Those stone-mill-like cannonballs could smash a living person into a pulp, and crack open a solid city wall. He said: "It's a Jinglan car, but it doesn't look like it."

Jinglan is a mobile archery tower. It is said that it was invented by Mozi. Jun was so suppressed that he couldn't lift his head.The advantage of Jinglan is that it has a wide shooting range and strong anti-knowledge ability. The disadvantage is that it moves slowly. If there are no corresponding protective measures next to it, it is easy to be destroyed.

However, the Jinglan of the Sui Army is different from the ones Gao Jianwu has seen. It has no archery towers, and the overall shape is "⊿". The straight face facing Pyongyang City is covered with wooden boards. It is impossible to see what is inside, and the hypotenuse is composed of logs. stairs.

But soon, Gao Jianwu and Goguryeo knew the function of this strange well.I saw that the Sui army pushed it out of the range of the arrows, and then worked together to lift the ladder to the two 'well fences', and then erected the wooden raft on the well fence through ropes.

Gao Jianwu's mood became heavy.

"If this row of ladders reaches the top of the city, the Sui army can climb directly to the top of the city, and the moat is almost useless." Gao Yanshou stared at this frightening row of stairs before, with a flash of panic in his eyes.

Gao Jianwu looked around at the civil and military officials with ugly faces, and said in a deep voice: "Whether it is true or not, we can't make a conclusion early, but judging from the siege equipment that has not been destroyed before, this thing must be a great threat. "

Liu Cheng on the side said solemnly: "My lord, should we go out of the city to destroy this thing?"

Gao Jianwu nodded silently and said, "Let's see their effects... Now prepare as much flammable fire oil as possible, and focus on defending Nancheng."

"The general understands." Liu Cheng took the order and left.

Under the city!

With a relaxed expression on his face, Yang Tong, accompanied by Zhang Zhenzhou, Luo Shixin, Niu Jinda, Li Xiuning and other generals, silently watched this fortified city. There were at least a few thousand Goguryeo soldiers standing on the city wall.

"Husband, are these ladders useful?" Li Xiuning asked.

Yang Tong smiled and said: "The height of the city is four feet, and the moat plus the width of the city is about two and three feet. Our longest ladder is seven feet long. As long as it is five feet from the moat to the top of the city, A slope of more than 30 degrees will be formed, and then a few short rows of ladders will be used to build the previous row of ladders at intervals, and the cavalry will rush to the top of the city in one charge. Moreover, the city wall of Pyongyang is three feet wide, so there is no need to worry about it. To rush to the opposite side of the city wall, of course, you need to use catapults and crossbows to crush the defenders so that they can't lift their heads."

"Your Highness!" Luo Shixin eagerly said, "Let me go up! With this row of stairs, I am sure to break through the defense line of the Goguryeo army and kill the top of the city."

"There are nearly [-] dead soldiers who are not afraid of death, why do you take this risk, are you sick?" Yang Tong rolled his eyes at him, and then asked Zhang Zhenshou: "General Zhang, when you followed Do you have any good suggestions for the General to attack Pyongyang City?"

Zhang Zhenzhou said solemnly: "The Goguryeo army hates us very much. Their biggest characteristic is their tenacity. In order to defend their capital, they will follow us to the death. Your Highness, don't expect the Goguryeo people to surrender. Only Killing them all is the right way to attack, let alone surrender, those are all lies, once we are fooled, all previous efforts will be wasted, the lesson back then was too painful."

"The people of Goguryeo are so tenacious, they just happened to be buried with hundreds of thousands of heroic souls." Yang Tong glanced at the generals, and said in a serious tone: "Immediately pass down the order, and when the city is destroyed, kill them all, leaving no one behind."

Li Xiuning shrunk her beautiful eyes, massacring the city, her husband is going to massacre the city, since she followed Yang Tong, she has never heard Yang Tong give such a terrible order, which shows that Yang Tong really did everything for the safety of the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty. Desperate.

"Here!" All the generals cupped their fists and said, "The last general will make arrangements immediately."

"After half an hour, attack the city." Yang Tong ordered.

"promise!"

As the siege order was communicated, all armies prepared in an orderly manner!

The atmosphere suddenly tightened, and the air of awe filled the sky.

. . . . . .

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Half an hour later, the sound of huge drums rang loudly, and the shouts of the Sui army were louder and louder. Ten thousand Sui troops deployed quickly, and ten thousand Turkic slaves in leather armor and armed with horizontal knives also entered the area. battle seat.

The Goguryeo defenders on the city did not dare to slack off. They had been paying attention to the movement of the Sui army. When the Sui army's drums sounded, they immediately invested [-] defenders and [-] temporarily armed young men to deploy densely at the top of the city.

For this expedition to Goguryeo, Yang Tong knew that a tough battle was inevitable, so he was well prepared. Half of the warships were equipped with offensive and defensive equipment, which could be described as ample ammunition and extravagant.

Two hundred large trebuchets lined up outside the range of the Koguryo army. These trebuchets can throw hundreds of catties of boulders five hundred steps away. This kind of heavy trebuchet with a height of two feet and one foot originally required 100 Many people pulled, but after the improvement of Kaitianyuan, the old-fashioned trebuchet was changed to back pull, and the belt elastic force of the trebuchet was used to shoot out, and the principle of pulleys was used to turn the pulling force into multiple winches. In this way, one The trebuchet can be operated by only 20 people.

There is no shortage of "technical" talents in Kaigong Academy. They not only designed the winch-type heavy-duty trebuchet, but also restored the powerful continuous-firing Qin crossbow, which is to use the huge bed crossbow to shoot ten cross javelins at once, which can penetrate within [-] steps. The shield has a full range of [-] steps. This kind of large bed crossbow can be controlled by only three people, and with two assistants who can put arrows on it, there are five people in one. It is also wound by a winch. This time, we brought six hundred Such a large bed crossbow has an amazing killing effect against the dense defenders. Now it is placed on the outermost edge, and the crossbows shine brightly in the snow, pointing at the city like poisonous snakes that choose to bite. head.

Various types of strong, medium and small trebuchets and bed crossbows are available, and the layout is reasonable according to the distance of the shooting range.

There is also a short-range heavy-duty shotgun, the range is not too far, but it has the advantage of high accuracy, and it can hit every shot within a hundred steps.

Goguryeo soldiers looked from the tower and could see clearly that this series of crossbows and trebuchets formed a huge square formation.

The two wings of the crossbow formation are each guarded by a team of cavalry. If the enemy wants to outflank the crossbow formation from the left and right, they will be hit head-on by the cavalry.

Behind the crossbow formation, there are three teams of cavalry, divided into left, middle and right formations.They are like dragons, horses like tigers, and powerful like rainbows.This is the general reserve team, wherever there is a need, it will rush there.

Looking at the formation covering an area of ​​several miles, and the cold arrows pointing obliquely at the city tower, the Goguryeo people could only feel their scalps go numb.

With such a huge siege phalanx, Koguryo, whose life is so compact, let alone met, has never even been heard of.

A brand new and luxurious tactic has appeared!
Li Xiuning, Zhang Zhenzhou, Luo Shixin, and Niu Jinda were so excited, their eyes shone with fiery light, their hands clenched into fists, and their bodies trembled slightly!
So many large crossbows and trebuchets are used intensively, what does that mean?
It means destroying all enemies who stand against it!Don't talk about the enemy, even the gods, in the face of so many formations, they will not be able to stand up!

This has not yet been launched, and some Goguryeo people on the top of the city have been paralyzed with fright!
"On the tank,"

When everything was ready, Yang Tong gave the order to attack with fire.

In an instant, oil tanks were lifted onto the long-range and short-range trebuchets.

Hundreds of trebuchets began to creak and twist the thick cables, and the long projectile rods were bent backwards, and the accumulated potential energy reached the extreme.

"Burn the drawbridge! Burn the tower. Let it go!"

When the order was issued, the soldiers yanked the rope at the same time, and the long pole was thrown out. The huge oil tank rose into the air and smashed towards Pyongyang City with a roar. Fire oil poured into Pyongyang, and after three rounds in a row, the Sui army fired thousands of rockets at the towers and suspension bridges without ordering them.

The towers and drawbridges were set on fire, and the fire burned rapidly, sending flames and smoke into the sky.

The soldiers shouted and scattered in all directions.Some soldiers who were covered with fire oil caught fire.Screaming and running around.

"Cross gun, release!"

"Om~"

Two hundred big bed crossbows fired at the same time, and two thousand crossbow spears fired at the same time. The sound was not inferior to that of thunder.

Amidst the shrill screams, the Koguryo army was in a mess due to the fire. Hearing the howling sound of piercing through the air, a javelin with a strong impact force strung the Goguryeo army into a string, and the momentum remained. , was firmly nailed to the top of the city tower, blood splashed everywhere, and made a "buzzing" sound.

How many Goguryeo people who came here have experienced such a thing. For a while, screams and shouts rang out, and the arrow rain from the sky fell one after another, causing the city to be in chaos. For a while, Some people want to escape, some people want to board the enemy, and there is a mess.

The soldiers of the Sui Dynasty were divided into three rows, firing arrows in turn. Rows of cross javelins shot up through the air. Although they were not dense, they poured down continuously. , The bright red blood stained the city head.

When the big bed crossbow suppressed Goguryeo with no strength to fight back, ten wells quickly carried five ladders and were pushed to the designated position. The same, it hit the top of the city heavily.

The slope has been built, and the soldiers left quickly!Immediately afterwards, five ladder towers of the same width reached the middle of the first row of ladders, and an overpass was immediately formed.

"Crossbow formations, trebuchets, continue to suppress." In the rear, large crossbows and trebuchets poured rain of arrows and stones on the city wall, preventing the defenders at the top of the city from showing their heads.

"Old cow, herd the cow."

Yang Tong looked at the flames of the city and the sporadic arrows, and gave an order.

"Here!"

With a wave of Niu Jinda's hand, several gaps were opened in the tight cavalry formation, and a hundred cows were led to the ladder by the soldiers.

The cows were blindfolded, wrapped in thick kerosene-stained cloth, and tied together at each end.

"Light it up!" Niu Jinda clenched his fists and said loudly after the five groups of cattle were lined up on the ladder.

The ten warriors quickly raised the prepared torches and ignited the rags hanging from the tails of the oxen. These rags were covered with kerosene and would burn instantly when exposed to fire. In an instant, half the back of the oxen was covered in flames. middle.

"Moo~"

The cows handed over from the Goguryeo people's homes, howled in pain one after another, with the power to destroy everything, swept towards the front like a stormy sea.

"Quick, shoot these cows to death!" Many Goguryeo soldiers shouted loudly, and some people drew their bows and set arrows, trying to shoot these mad cows that had been burned by the flames, but at this moment these fire bulls were already scorching hot. They were burning like crazy, the pain brought by the arrows was far from being able to compare with the scorching flames behind them, on the contrary it made them even crazier.

"Boom~"

Under the desperate eyes of the Goguryeo people, ten fire bulls, like ten 'tanks', slammed into the head of the Pyongyang city viciously, some hit the battlements, and then turned somersault heavily and fell into the wall. Among the crowd, bursts of screams and wailing spread across the entire city in an instant.

After releasing five batches of fire cattle in a row.

Two thousand Turkic slaves braved arrows and stepped on the ladder, holding their shields high and rushing towards the city of Pyongyang.

(End of this chapter)