Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 503 Preliminary Probe
Liaodong City is very difficult to fight. Except for the sixteen mountain cities around it, its big city is also as solid as chicken soup.

On the southeast, northwest and four sides of the city, there are all urns, which protrude from the city wall like a tortoise head.

The four urns are all built of bluestone, and they look like temporary constructions. The bluestone is really hard, but if it is built too high, it will collapse.

Therefore, the walls of the four urns are ten meters high, and the gaps between the stones are filled with lime and clay. Once it rains, the adhesive will be washed away, and it will collapse after a long time.

But as a temporary defensive barrier, it looks as if it is indestructible. This thing is an insulator for catapults and ballistas, and it cannot be broken at all.

But if you don’t fight, it’s not enough. If you go around the urn city to fight the city wall, the archers in the urn city will shoot from both wings, and the siege team will suffer heavy losses.

There are trenches and moats on the periphery, which are quite difficult to fight.

So to fight this kind of city, you have to fight the urn city first, and after the urn city, you have to climb the city walls on both sides. You can't get in from the urn city, because there is only one gate between the urn city and the city wall, and the people inside will kill you as much as you enter.

Why is it called Wengcheng, the turtle in the urn, you can't go in this thing, it's very dangerous to go in.

To put it bluntly, fighting Liaodong is a heap of human lives. There is no other way, because Yang Guang has set a time for you, otherwise, you can surround the city and cut off the water source. When the food and grass in the city are exhausted, it will be easy to fight. .

Tuwanxu's siege troops, 6 people, set up camps in the southwest, west, and northwest directions of Liaodong City, and frequently sent flag officers to call for battle below the city to lure the enemy out of the city.

Although everyone knows that people will not go out of the city, they still have to give it a try. Isn't there an emergency for everything in the world?
By the time the camp was erected, it was already three days later.

Tu Wanxu ordered Qu Tutong to lead 4000 people from the headquarters, the second general Qian Shixiong led 3000 archers, the second general Liu Jincha ordered 3000 platoon soldiers, and the escort officer Chen Xiong led the siege equipment, a total of 1 people. Formation, as the first test.

The main purpose of this test is to detect the defensive deployment of the enemy's city wall, and moreover, to fill in trenches and moats.

Because the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo this time, they brought a few heavy things, and they took the city ladder.

The ladder has six wheels and is 12 meters high. There are Z-shaped auxiliary ladders on both sides and a pair of windlass on the top to control the flying ladder. The function of the flying ladder is to improve the height of the ladder. If the ladder is higher than the city wall, then turn The windlass lowered the flying ladder, which means jumping into the city wall from top to bottom. If the ladder was not as high as the city wall, the flying ladder just made up for this distance, and the soldiers only needed to climb a short distance to climb the city wall.

The city wall of Liaodong City is 15 meters high, that is to say, after the guards climbed the ladder and then climbed three meters through the flying ladder, they could climb the city wall.

But the ladder must fit the city wall, so you have to fill in the trenches and moats.

The trench is shallow and can be built with wooden boards, but the moat is wide and deep, and the wooden boards cannot bear the weight of the ladder, so you have to fill it with stones.

As the drums of the advocacy team sounded, the [-] probing troops led by General Qu Tutong were divided into eight square formations and slowly marched towards Liaodong City.

Those in the front are naturally the rowers, with the bow and arrow team in the middle, followed by twelve siege vehicles and more than 30 ballistas.

In front of the siege vehicle, eight people carried a three-meter-high platoon, or shield, which was made of thick wood tied together with ropes. Once the siege vehicle was in place, the eight guards would move the platoon by length Different six wooden sticks stand up as defensive shields for siege weapons.

Before throwing stones, they need to move forward eight meters to give way to the catapult, and then they need to retreat about four or five meters to prevent the enemy's boulder from hitting the catapult.

In the middle of each formation, there is a messenger flag officer who keeps walking in the formation and is responsible for issuing orders.

When the distance was closer, Qu Tutong had already approached the range of the enemy's long-range weapons. Qu Tutong ordered the four army formations on the two wings to break away from the central army, avoid the Wengcheng, and move towards the walls on both sides.

With the sound of drums in the distant city wall, the ballistas and catapults on the high platform of the Wengcheng took the lead in projecting towards Qu Tutong's two wings, because the siege weapons were on the two wings.

On the other hand, the archers of Goguryeo had to wait for the Sui army to enter the range before they could shoot.

The sound of throwing stones on the ground is astonishing, and the sound of the machine gun when the crossbow is fired forms a wonderful sound, a sound of death.

There is only one fate for being hit by a headstone, that is, a puddle of fleshy mud, and for being hit by a heavy crossbow, it is death.

Even a shield made of refined steel can't withstand the huge impact of a heavy crossbow, because the shields of Pai Bashou are limited in weight and thickness for the convenience of carrying, not to mention that Tu Wanxu's army does not have refined soldiers machinery.

On the side of the Sui army, the guards in each formation kept shouting loudly, urging the guards under their command to maintain their formation. Even if the stones and crossbow arrows fell, you could not hide.

Because once you hide, the people around you will hide too, which can easily lead to herd behavior, that is, the herd mentality.

That's why behind Qu Tutong's buttocks, there is still a 2000-member supervisory team. If the gong sounds to withdraw troops, whoever dares to run back will be shot to death.

Because as soon as you run, someone will follow you, and the army will be in chaos immediately.

However, catapults and heavy crossbows have a natural shortcoming, that is, they cannot be hit if they are too close.

Therefore, Qu Tutong's central army quickly approached the Wengcheng, as long as they approached, your bows and arrows would have limited damage to me after all.

But the armies on the two wings still had to carry it, because filling the moat was not done by people carrying stones, but by catapults aiming at it and throwing stones into the river, which is the most efficient.

Before the three trenches, the guards began to lay planks, and the catapults behind them had entered the effective distance, and began to turn the windlass to load the catapults. The heavy crossbow was responsible for shooting the city wall, providing fire cover for the paving troops below.

With the defense of Liaodong City, it is doomed that no cavalry will go out of the city to drive away the Sui army, because you have dug three rounds of trenches, and this thing is difficult for people, let alone horses.

What can provide support for Liaodong City are the sixteen mountain cities near it. These mountain cities have already fought against the Sui army.

"Report!"

An officer with a flag on his back galloped from afar and entered Tu Wanxu's Chinese army tent:

"Director Wei's journey has been quite difficult. Bandit soldiers from Wunvshan City have already circled towards Liaodong, and about [-] armored cavalry have already approached the southeast flank of our army."

Tu Wanxu raised his eyebrows, looked at Ashina Danai, and said, "Order your southeast garrison to retreat from the enemy."

"The last general takes orders," Ashina Danai immediately sent an order to the generals under his command to quickly report to the southeast of Ashina's troops to form an army to defend against the enemy.

Tu Wanxu was right, there must be a problem in the direction of Wunv Mountain, because the mountain city over there is where the main force of the enemy's Liaodong defense is located. Due to its terrain, if it is not three times the strength, it cannot be surrounded.

So he deployed the Ashinas cannon fodder team of Ashina Danai's family early on to the southeast of the army.

But in the next military report, Tu Wanxu couldn't sit still. The 8000 people of Yuhuahua and the Ministry of Defense in the north were broken through by the enemy troops from Yanzhou City and Shitai City, and they are now heading towards him. The north wing of the army came on the attack.

"An army of nearly [-] was killed by less than [-] bandit soldiers?" Tu Wanxu was furious, and said, "Quickly order Yuwen's entire army to go south and attack the enemy with my northern flank. If there is any discrepancy, the military law engaged."

He is on fire. There are eight mountain cities around Wunv Mountain. Wei Yun has 2 people to block it, but only 3000 people have missed it. You f*ck nearly 3 people to block 1 people, and [-] people have missed it. .

You bastard.

Tuwanxu realized the seriousness of the matter, and urgently dispatched the main force of his command, the Hedouling Department, and led 5000 people from the headquarters to rush north to help.

As a confidant, Hong Jing frowned and said: "Let Qu Tutong come back first, the raiders on the two wings can't deal with it, my army in the middle is not stable, and it's not suitable to be wasted right now."

Of the 1 people led by Qu Tutong, more than 1000 people have already died. If this continues, more will die. The death rate of the siege troops is actually normal.

But now that there are enemy troops coming from two directions, Tu Wanxu must not let Qu Tutong go to test him anymore. If the enemy troops in Liaodong City know the situation and come out of the city, Qu Tutong will be finished.

And Li Jing, who was in Sanfozhai, also received the news that there was an enemy attack in the north. The siege had nothing to do with him, but Li Jing knew that if the Chinese army of Tuwanxu was disturbed, the situation in Liaodong City would be affected. Complicated.

So he ordered Xue Zuo to lead six thousand elite infantry and head north.

Yanzhou City Department, Shitaizi Department, plus the Sui Army's Hedouling Department, Xue Zuo Department, and Huang Shilang Department, the five armies fought in the swamp north of Liaodong and south of Wuliluo City.

Wuliluo City, also known as Xincheng, is the third largest city in the north of Goguryeo after Liaodong City and Fuyu City. It is located on Mount Gaoer and is surrounded by Liaoze.

There are 27 mountain cities here, with a total force of [-].

Li Jing was also concerned that if Yu Wenhua and his direction attracted Wu Liluo's enemy troops to go south, it would delay Tu Wanxu's attack on Liaodong.

Normally, as long as Yu Wenhua and his defenses are well laid out, not to mention Yanzhou and Shitaizi, even Wuliluo City's army going south will be able to block it.

Who knew it would be like this?
Your father is also my famous general in Sui Dynasty, why are you so unbearable?

The military situation here is naturally to be reported to the emperor, who is the most appropriate to report?Naturally, Yuwen Jingli was the comforter.

"The collapse of the Huaji defense line caused the enemy to move south. Li Jing had no choice but to order Xue Zuo to lead the army to defend against the enemy. Otherwise, the main force of Tu Wanxu would be disturbed by the enemy and could not attack the city."

A report like this was urgently sent to the rear.

Yang Guang tore the military newspaper to pieces, kicked over the long table in front of him, and cursed:
"waste!"

Yang Yue and Pei Ju looked at each other, and began to follow all kinds of complaints.

"Pass down my decree, Li Jing, the duke of the state, will succeed Yu Wenhuaji as the general manager of the Gaimadao march, and rebuild the line of defense when the enemy is repelled."

The officials were stunned for a moment, and Yang Yue was also a little confused.

I scolded Huaji, hoping that you will settle accounts after the fall, not because you want to change generals just before the battle, isn't that appropriate?

Yang Guang is like this, you must not let him know that you have lost, otherwise he will command himself.

So Gong Gong Li Jing was called, and Yang Guang personally instructed him to deploy the defense line.

Li Jing's head is getting old, I'm getting old, and I'm here to travel with you, so why do I have to go to the front line?

(End of this chapter)