Chapter 321: Battle of Seoul
"Maybe, then wait for a day, whether they come or not, we will take Seoul!"
Yi Yijing was a little impatient to enter Seoul.
Ju said that after Xu Ding's soldiers and horses crossed the sea, they transported a lot of good things to the city, such as grain, which were piled up in all the granaries in the city.
Ordnance, for example, was also brought in a lot.
Conquer Seoul, then Dagoguryeo will have everything.
In fact, he knew that there were more weapons in Hanjiang City, but they were all Yuan Yin's, and he didn't dare to give it to himself.
I have to lure myself to Seoul and take the weapons here.
Wait for the Yuan family, wait for my Great Goguryeo to take Seoul, take the grain and weapons inside, and the entire peninsula will be ours, and Hanjiang City will be no exception.
Inside Seoul!
Cheng Yu looked at the Goguryeo army outside the city and breathed a sigh of relief.
Almost 150,000 people, densely packed like locusts.
Fortunately, they all came for themselves, and they all came to fight Seoul, not the old Gimcheon City, but Zecheng, or the camp of Tian Feng and others, if that was the case, it would be a very bad thing.
for those cities may not be able to hold on.
Fight Seoul, you are not afraid.
At 50,000, he thought he could afford it.
"My lord! Good news, the southern cities received your order, and all of them contracted and held out, without sending reinforcements north. ”
One of the guards went up to the city and said.
Cheng Yu nodded, this is indeed a good thing.
He was afraid that if he disrespected the order and led his troops north, he would definitely send sheep into the tiger's mouth and be eaten by the Goguryeo army under the city.
"Siege!"
In one day and one night, the Goguryeo army built countless basic siege equipment, which are simply ladders and siege vehicles.
Because these craftsmen sent by Yuan Yin can only do these basic things.
Of course, he is reluctant to give it to the Goguryeo people who know other skills, after all, this is a meat bun and a dog with no return, and he is not stupid.
But that's enough for Goguryeo.
What the Goguryeo people lacked was these basic tools, and as long as they were willing to take the time and ponder slowly, they would definitely make siege weapons that other great Han people had in the future.
The army of fifteen cities, besieging Seoul, attacked on all sides, and there were 30,000 men in each gate.
The defenders were only sixteen thousand, and the cities were only four thousand.
And all of them are the old Yellow Turban Division, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the captains of Donglai.
"Shoot the arrows!"
In the face of the tide of Goguryeo, the first wave of resistance was arrows, countless arrows flew away, almost no need to aim, each arrow could hit almost one person.
However, it did not affect the Goguryeo attack.
Because there are so many of them, it is nothing at all to the next thousand, eighteen.
Soon the Goguryeo ladder was erected on the wall, and the Goguryeo people began to climb.
"Smash! Smash it down!"
The city's commanders will be busy smashing stones and logs.
For a while, the stones and trees at the head of the city were constantly thrown down, and the Goguryeo people who were climbing fell from the ladder one by one with a scream.
However, more continued to climb, and at the same time the Goguryeo archers came to the city in groups and began to shoot from their backs.
They had no shields to cover, and when they came to the city, they were shooting, and there were many of them.
It is several times that of the archers of the Han army in the city.
Their longbows had a longer range than those used by the Benhan, Tatsuhan, and Donghao.
You must know that before cooperating with the Yuan family, Goguryeo was able to beat Donghao and Wofu, relying on the advantage of weapons and the courage of soldiers.
The archers of the Han army in the city were suddenly suppressed by the extremely large number of Goguryeo archers.
The pressure to defend the city increased dramatically.
Han soldiers were constantly shot and fell into the city, or were injured.
The number of stones and sassalwoods thrown has also become scarce.
"To the oil!"
After only a few moments of fighting, the enemy army was about to climb to the top of the city, Cheng Yu frowned, and gave an order.
He was the north gate, the main direction of attack of Goguryeo, and the number of troops reached 60,000.
Suddenly, a pot of hot oil was thrown down the city.
"Ah......h
The hot oil got on the Goguryeo people, and one by one the soup screamed and fell down.
Even the Goguryeo people under the city will also scream and roll as long as they are touched by a star.
The hot oil is not only hot, but also slippery, and the ladder that has been contaminated becomes a little difficult to climb.
A pot of hot oil poured down from the city, like a dense rain of bullets, in patches and piles of Goguryeo people let out a miserable howl, or killed or wounded, losing the ability to continue the attack.
At this time, the Goguryeo people had a row of shields rushing straight to the castle hole.
They were guarding the siege of the city and the crashing wood.
Even if hot oil spills down on the city, it won't be a big problem.
"Bump!"
The Goguryeo people who shouted the trumpet pushed and bumped into the wood in unison.
There was a dull sound at the gates.
Again and again, the Goguryeo people kept knocking, and the city gate found a dull sound again and again, as if every time it hit, it could be knocked open the next time, giving people spiritual encouragement.
But they thought too much, because the north gate was blocked by Cheng Yu with stones.
It was impossible for the Goguryeo people to break through the city gates.
However, he still had people fight the Goguryeo soldiers who hit the city gates, and he wanted the Goguryeo people to put their hope here, so as to reduce some of the pressure on the city.
So a few soldiers carried a bucket of fish oil to the top of the city gate, and then pushed it down and smashed it hard.
The fish oil drum smashed straight into the crashing wood, and it exploded, splashing the fish oil inside.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Several rockets were fired at the scene.
Suddenly, the striking log was ignited.
Then there was an even more violent bang, and the fire burned in all directions, and all the Goguryeo people who were splashed with fish oil were ignited, and more than 100 Goguryeo people at one time let out a terrible tragedy.
Frightened, the other Goguryeo hurriedly dodged.
The assault on the gates was halted for a moment.
"Intensify your efforts, continue to attack the city, and don't stop!"
The Goguryeo king Yiyimu was very unhappy when he saw that the soldiers who hit the city gate were either burned to death or forced to disperse by the fire.
At that moment, some Goguryeo generals went to supervise the battle, and more shield soldiers came to the city with shields, and many Goguryeo people carried buckets loaded with mud and sand from behind, and then fell to the city hole.
Sand is more conducive to extinguishing fires started by oil, but splashing water will not have an effect, on the contrary, too little water will have the opposite effect of fueling combustion.
"The bed crossbow has been transferred!"
There were too many Goguryeo people gathered under the city, especially the bow and shield soldiers, which accounted for two-thirds, and they were densely packed with these two arms.
So Cheng Yu had to use another weapon to defend the city.
Bed crossbow!
To be precise, it is an old-fashioned bed crossbow, not an improved version of Huang Yueying.
In fact, there are craftsmen who make crossbow machines in every state and county of Dahan, so it is not uncommon to build bed crossbows.
It's just that in the hinterland of the Central Plains, before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were basically few wars, so these city defense equipment were generally concentrated in the border county cities.
Huanghai County originally had it, but it was all taken over by Yuan Yin, and later moved to Hanjiang City, at this time, Hanjiang City, Yuan Yin later built countless planes in order to defend the city.
Now these are for the Han army to be remade by craftsmen after Cheng Yu arrived.
So these are the old bed crossbows of the Han Dynasty, not the kind of improved ones that have been added with stainless steel and springs.