Liaodong City is very difficult to defeat. Except for the sixteen mountain cities around it, its big city is also as impregnable as chicken soup.
Urn walls were set up on all four sides of the city, like a turtle's head, protruding from the city wall.
The four urn cities are all built of bluestone. At first glance, they are temporary constructions. Bluestone is indeed hard, but if it is built too high, it will collapse.
Therefore, the walls of the four urn cities are ten meters high, and the gaps between the stones are filled with lime and clay. Once it rains, these adhesives will be washed away, and over time, they will collapse.
But as a temporary defensive barrier, it seems to be indestructible. It is an insulator for catapults and ballistas, and cannot be broken at all.
But it's not enough if you don't fight. If you go around the barbican and attack the city wall, the archers in the barbican will fire from both sides, and the siege team will suffer heavy losses.
There are trenches and moats on the outside, making it a fortified city that is quite difficult to defeat.
Therefore, to defeat this kind of city, you must first defeat the urn city. After defeating the urn city, you must climb the city walls from both sides. You cannot enter from the urn city because there is only one gate between the urn city and the city wall. The people inside will kill you as much as you enter.
Why is it called Wengcheng? You can't enter this thing. It's very dangerous.
To put it bluntly, attacking Liaodong means losing lives. There is no other way, because Yang Guang has set a time for you. Otherwise, you can still besiege the city and cut off the water source. When the food and grass in the city are exhausted, it will naturally be easier to fight.
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Tu Wanxu's 60,000-strong siege force set up camp in three directions: southwest, due west, and northwest from outside Liaodong City. Flag officers were frequently dispatched to call formations below the city to lure the enemy troops out of the city.
Although everyone knows that they will not leave the city, they still have to give it a try. Aren’t there things in this world that are just in case?
By the time the camp was erected, it was already three days later.
Tu Wanxu ordered Qu Tutong to lead the headquarters with 4,000 men, the sub-general Qian Shixiong with 3,000 foot archers, the sub-general Liu Jincha with 3,000 platoon soldiers, and the escort officer Chen Xiong with siege equipment, a total of 10,000 people.
, formed a formation as the first test.
The main purpose of this test was to explore the enemy's defensive deployment of the city wall, and to fill in the trenches and moats.
Because the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo this time, they brought several heavy items and siege ladders.
The ladder has six wheels and is twelve 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 to lower the flying ladder, which means jumping into the city wall from top to bottom. If the ladder is not as high as the city wall, then the flying ladder just makes up for this distance. The soldiers only need to climb a short distance to climb the city wall.
The city wall of Liaodong City is fifteen meters high, which means that after the guards climb up the ladder, they can climb up to the city wall by climbing another three meters via the flying ladder.
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 planks, but the moat is wide and deep. The wooden planks cannot bear the weight of the ladder, so you have to fill it with stones.
As the drums of the propaganda team beat, the 10,000-strong exploratory force led by General Qu Tutong divided into eight square formations and marched slowly towards Liaodong City.
Those at the front of the formation were naturally the platoon troops, with the bow troops in the middle, followed by twelve siege vehicles and more than thirty ballistae.
In front of the siege vehicle, eight people carried a three-meter-high platoon, also known as a large 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 according to the length of the siege vehicle.
Six wooden sticks of different sizes were raised up to serve as a defensive shield for siege weapons.
Before throwing stones, they need to move forward eight meters to make way for the catapult. Then they need to retreat about four or five meters to prevent the enemy's huge rocks from hitting the catapult.
In the middle of each formation, there are flag officers who are constantly walking among the military formations, responsible for issuing orders.
When the distance got closer and the enemy's long-range weapons were within range, Qu Tutong ordered the four military formations on both wings to break away from the central army, avoid the Wengcheng, and move toward the walls on both sides.
As the drums sounded in the distant city wall, the ballistae and catapults on the high platform of Wengcheng took the lead in shooting towards Qutu Tong's two-wing military formation, because the siege weapons were on both wings.
The archers of Goguryeo had to wait for the Sui army to enter the shooting range before they could shoot.
The sound of the stone hitting the ground was astonishing, and together with the mechanical sound of the crossbow when it was fired, it formed a strange sound, a kind of urging sound.
The only consequence of being hit by a stone on the head is a puddle of flesh. If hit by a heavy crossbow, the armor will be shattered and the person will die.
Even a shield made of refined steel cannot withstand the huge impact of a heavy crossbow, because the shield of the platoon hand has limited weight and thickness for easy portability, not to mention that Tu Wanxu's army does not have refined soldiers.
Machinery.
On the Sui Army's side, the commanders of each formation kept shouting loudly, urging their guards to maintain their formation. Even if stones and crossbow arrows fall, you cannot hide.
Because once you hide, people around you will also hide, which can easily lead to the herd effect, which is a herd mentality.
This is why behind Qu Tutong, there is a supervising team of two thousand people. There is no gong sound to withdraw the troops. Anyone who dares to run back will be shot to death.
Because as soon as you run away, someone will follow you, and the army will immediately be in chaos.
However, catapults and heavy crossbows have a natural shortcoming, that is, they cannot hit them if they are too close.
Therefore, Qu Tutong's central army quickly moved closer to Wengcheng. As long as we get closer, your bows and arrows will have limited damage to me.
But the armies on both wings had to be carried alive, because filling the moat was not done by people holding stones, but by catapults aiming and throwing stones into the river. This was the most efficient.
In front of the three trenches, the guards began to lay wooden planks, and the catapults at the rear had also entered the effective distance and began to turn the windlass and load the stones. The heavy crossbows were responsible for shooting at the city walls and providing fire cover for the paving troops below.
The defense of Liaodong City is destined to prevent any cavalry from leaving the city to drive away the Sui army, because if you dig three circles of trenches, no one can get through, let alone horses.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! What can provide support to Liaodong City are the sixteen mountain cities near it. These mountain cities are currently at war with the Sui army.
"Report!"
A commander with a flag on his back came from afar and entered Tu Wanxu's Chinese army tent:
"General Manager Wei's journey has been quite difficult. There are bandits in Wunu Mountain City heading towards Liaodong. About 3,000 armored cavalry have already approached the southeastern flank of our army."
Tu Wanxu raised his eyebrows, looked at Ashina Danai, and said, "I will order your troops stationed in the southeast to retreat from the enemy."
"The last general takes orders," Ashina Danai immediately ordered his generals to quickly report to the southeast of Ashinasi tribe to form a formation to defend against the enemy.
Tu Wanxu calculated correctly that there must be a problem in the direction of Wunv Mountain, because the mountain city there is where the main force of the enemy's Liaodong defense is located. Due to its terrain, it cannot be surrounded without triple the number of troops.
Therefore, he deployed the Ashinasi cannon fodder team of Ashina Danai's clan in the southeast of the army early.
But in the next military report, Tu Wanxu couldn't sit still. The 28,000 Yuhuahua troops stationed in the north were broken through by the enemy forces from Yanzhou City and Shitai City. They were now heading towards
The northern flank of his army attacked.
"The army of nearly 30,000 people was defeated by less than 8,000 bandit soldiers?" Tu Wanxu was furious and shouted: "Immediately order Yuwen to move the entire army south, and flank the enemy with me to the north. If anything goes wrong,
Engage in military law.”
He is really angry. There are eight mountain cities around Wunu Mountain. Wei Yun raised 20,000 people to block it, but only 3,000 people were missed. You damn near 30,000 people tried to block 10,000 people, but eight people were blocked.
thousand.
You bastard.
Tu Wanxu realized the seriousness of the matter and urgently mobilized the main force of his command, the He Douling Division, with 5,000 men to rush north for reinforcements.
As a confidant, Hong Jing, the general, frowned and said: "Let Qu Tutong's troops come back first. The attackers on both wings cannot be dealt with. Our central army is unstable and it is not appropriate to lose money at the moment."
Of the 10,000 people Qu Tutong led, more than a thousand have died. If this continues, more will die. This death ratio of the siege troops is actually normal. As long as four-tenths of the siege troops do not die, they will be fine.
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But now that there are enemy troops attacking from two directions, Tu Wanxu must not let Qu Tutong test it again. If the enemy troops in Liaodong City know the situation and come out of the city, Qu Tutong will be finished.
Li Jing, who was in Sanfo Village, also received information about an enemy attack in the north. The attack on the city had nothing to do with him, but Li Jing knew that if Tu Wanxu's Chinese army was disturbed, the situation in Liaodong City would be dire.
It's complicated.
So he ordered Xue Zuo to personally lead six thousand elite infantry and go north.
A melee between the Yanzhou City and Shitaizi armies, plus the Sui army's Hedouling, Xue Zuo and Huang Shilang armies broke out in the swamps north of Liaodong and south of Wuliluo City.
Muliluo City, also called Xincheng, is the third largest city in the northernmost part of Goguryeo after Liaodong City and Buyeo City. It is located on Mount Goer and is surrounded by Liaoze. The roads are muddy and covered with reeds.
There are a total of twenty-seven mountain cities here, with a total military strength of thirty thousand.
Li Jing was also concerned that once Yu Wenhua and his direction attracted Wu Liluo's enemy troops to move south, it would delay Tu Wanxu's attack on Liaodong.
Normally, as long as Yu Wenhuaji sets up a defensive line, not to mention Yanzhou and Shitaizi, even if Wuliluo City's army goes south, it can still block it.
Who knew it would be like this?
Your father is also a famous general in our Sui Dynasty. Why are you so miserable?
The military information here must naturally be reported to the emperor. Who is the most appropriate person to report it to? Naturally, it is the comfort envoy Yu Wen Jingli.
"The chemical and defensive lines collapsed, causing the enemy troops to move south. Li Jing had no choice but to order Xue Zuo to lead the army to defend against the enemy. Otherwise, Tu Wanxu's main force would be disturbed by the enemy and would not be able to attack the city..."
Such a report was urgently sent to the rear.
Yang Guang tore the military letter into pieces, kicked over the commander in front of him, and cursed:
"waste!"
Yang Yue and Pei Ju looked at each other and began to follow with various scoldings.
"Pass on my decree and restore the state to Duke Li Jing. He will succeed Yu Wenhuaji and serve as the general manager of the march on Gaima Road. When the enemy is defeated, the defense line will be rebuilt."
The ministers were stunned immediately, and Yang Yue was also a little confused.
I scolded Huaji because I wanted you to settle the score in the future, not because I wanted to change generals before the battle. Isn't this inappropriate?
Yang Guang is like this, you must not let him know that you have lost, otherwise he will take command personally.
So Li Jing, the Duke of Jianguo, was called, and Yang Guang personally instructed him to deploy the defense line.
Li Jingtou is already older, and I am older. I am here to travel with you, why do I have to go to the front line?