Chapter 71: Attacking Liaodong City

Li Keshi did not let people attack the city, mainly to reduce losses, and at the same time to encircle the point to send reinforcements, during this time, more than 10,000 people organized by seven or eight nearby cities have been defeated, and Zou Yu is waiting because he has siege equipment.

To say that this siege equipment, because of the manpower, of course, it cannot be as rich as the Central Plains, but who is Zou Yu, a traverser, because most of his subordinates are cavalry, so the first thing he thought of was the cavalry of the later Mongolian cavalry, and the bow and crossbow of the invincible Great Qin.

Buyeo City has good animal husbandry, so the most important thing is the tendon of various animals, and no one can make a crossbow, but there is no problem with a super strong crossbow.

Select a tree trunk with good toughness, and then use cow tendon to make a thumb-thick bowstring, which is fixed with a frame below to make a crossbow about 2.5 meters wide, and the arrow is made of an arm-thick, three-meter-long wooden stick.

After making it, it was experimented, the double-layer cowhide shield can be pierced for 150 meters, if it is an earthen city wall, within 100 meters, it can be shot steadily, while ordinary archers can only shoot within 100 meters.

As soon as Zou Yu arrived, Li Keshi also thought that the time was ripe, and immediately arranged for people to set up a formation outside the city, and at the same time, the cavalry was dispatched for all, surrounded by three and one, and let go of a city wall, which seemed to leave a way to live, but in fact, this was to break the enemy's fighting spirit.

"Woooooo The sound of bull horns resounded through the world.

The Goguryeo guards not only did not feel surprised, but had a feeling of relief, so many days, surrounded but not fighting, the psychological pressure brought was too great, even if there were constantly people to boost morale, there was still a feeling of waiting to cut off the head, but the knife was raised high, and it never fell, it scared people to death!

"Da Da Da!" Footsteps sounded, shields were erected, and Goguryeo guards quickly ascended to the top of the city.

"Su Sima, it's up to you!" Zou Yu took over the command and shouted in a deep voice.

"Whoa!" Su Dingfang replied with his fists clenched, and then rushed out on horseback, raising his gun and pointing at the head of the city.

In the unexpected eyes of the Goguryeo people, the enemy outside the city did not give in to the infantry attack, and thousands of cavalry rushed out.

"Could it be that the cavalry wants to attack the city, and the commander on the opposite side is crazy?" This idea appeared in the hearts of many Goguryeo people.

"Qin Sima!" Zou Yu didn't know that someone was ridiculing him in his heart, and shouted again.

In front, Su Dingfang's 3,000 men and horses rushed out, quickly lined up in three rows, and went around for half a circle before they pounced diagonally towards the city wall; When they were almost done, Qin Qiong rushed out again with three thousand men and horses, and followed behind Su Dingfang's team in the same circle.

Just under the hesitant gaze of the Goguryeo people, Su Dingfang's team was a hundred meters away, parallel to the city wall. Seeing that all the cavalry had their bows and arrows in their hands, the Goguryeo commander reacted and hurriedly shouted: "Dodge, dodge!" Then he immediately crouched down and hid behind the battlements.

"Brush, brush!" Before the words fell, dense arrows were thrown up.

Now the troops of Buyeo City are all horns and hard bows, plus life has become better, or not, it can be said that the strength of one by one is amazing, the arrows fell on the city, many were inserted into the bricks, and the arrow feathers trembled and trembled.

"Ahhh Many of the soldiers who could not hide, or who did not hide well, were shot and let out a scream.

Urban defense warfare, unlike ordinary battles, relatively speaking, there are not many shields, which are generally found near the archers, and everyone else will only get up when they are engaged, because at this time, in order to avoid accidental injury, the archers will throw into the city. This time, many people were shot because Goguryeo did not expect that the cavalry would be mounted and shot in the siege battle, and many people were killed by carelessness.

"Brush, brush!" Goguryeo was all elite at the front, and naturally immediately turned against the color, and the archers began to counterattack.

It's just that there seems to be a gap in the distance, none of the arrows shot by Goguryeo touched the cavalry, and the people led by Qin Qiong arrived next, all of them were good at bows and arrows, so they naturally saw the direction of the arrows and immediately followed and threw them over.

The Goguryeo archers were dumb at once, and the arrows shot again have been sparse a lot, in fact, this is not surprising, the cavalry's war horses run, and the arrows shot will also have some inertia, so the distance is farther, of course, the effect is different.

"Crossbow bolts! Crossbow bolts out! The Goguryeo general ordered anxiously and loudly.

Crossbow arrows, generally to destroy large siege equipment, because the loading is slow, and it is easy to be targeted, so it will not be shown in advance, by the cavalry cavalry, from the battlements of the city wall secretly saw that their side could not be shot, no way, the Goguryeo generals let people push out in advance.

There were only 10,000 Khitan cavalry under Zou Yu's command, and the rest were infantry soldiers recruited from the Guixin Goguryeo, so it was impossible to shoot as continuously as the Mongolian iron cavalry, so after only one round, the two pairs of cavalry ran away on the left and right, and at this time, the infantry behind had already pushed up two hundred giant crossbows.

The foot soldiers have to cooperate much more, the shield is in front, the archers are behind, the giant crossbow is a little behind, and the shields in Buyeo City are all double-layered cowhide shields, which are covered with two layers of cowhide on the outside of the giant tree. The shield was raised diagonally by the shield soldiers, shielding the crossbow from the crossbow, so that the city could only see people approaching, and it was not known what it was.

The troops advanced to about one hundred and fifty meters and stopped, this distance was just at the edge of the local firing range, protected by shields, and there was no need to worry about local bows and arrows.

As for the archers, they originally wanted to use the foot crossbow, that is, the Zhang crossbow, (the Han Dynasty rhubarb triple crossbow, the Song Dynasty divine arm bow, and the Qin Dynasty crossbow are all the same kind of weapons, with the Song Dynasty arm bow as the peak), but unfortunately there is really no talent in this area, so Zou Yu and others are eager to open up the road to the Central Plains, talents, which is also an important reason. Therefore, you can only use ordinary archers, but it is enough to use them to disturb the enemy.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Seeing that the rain of arrows had stopped, and the foot soldiers outside the city had already carried the siege ladder and pushed the building cart forward, the Goguryeo generals hurriedly stood up and urged their subordinates.

"Bang bang bang!" Huge crossbow arrows, shot at the city walls, the head of the city, made a loud noise, and then a "Buzz!" was heard. "The sound of a piercing bowstring.

The Goguryeo general was stunned to look at the arrows inserted in front of him, and couldn't help but have a blank mind, just now he only felt an object, slammed in front of him, and the ground at the head of the city seemed to shake, and when he came back to his senses, he was afraid in his heart, just a little, he was like other soldiers, he was directly pushed down the city, inserted on the ground, and he didn't even have time to scream, he could only struggle a few times with his eyes blank on the ground and blood from his mouth.