The intention of the Sui army's arrangement along the Yalu River was to cut off the grain route of Liaodong and cut off the mind of the defenders of Liaodong, but Yang Guang still underestimated the tenacity of the Goguryeo people, and the army stormed for a day, with countless casualties, whenever the Sui army set up a ladder and was about to climb to the top of the city, there were Goguryeo people who braved the rain of arrows of the Sui army under the city to overturn the ladder with a pole, and the surrounding siege Sui army avoided one after another, and the offensive was stagnant, and several Sui troops who had climbed the city were wiped out by Goguryeo taking the opportunity.

Yuan Taizuo was sitting in Liaodong City at this time, anxiously waiting for his subordinates to come back and report that he was supposed to command the battle against the Sui army in Pyongyang City and lead the army of the whole country, but he was dissuaded by his son Gai Suwen to inspect Liaodong City to encourage the soldiers fighting on the front line to fight to the death. He just handed over the work in his hand to his son two days ago, and arrived in Liaodong City alone with the guards, and caught up with the Sui army to attack the city, and when he packed up his things and was ready to leave, it was already too late, and the 300,000 Sui army surrounded Liaodong City with three layers inside and three layers outside.

He had already sent a letter of request for help to Pyongyang with carrier pigeons before the sun came out, so it stands to reason that he would not be anxious today. Just as he was about to call his subordinates to send a letter for help, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and the subordinate who had gone to send the letter before ran back, knelt down in front of him, and said, "Great to Lu, letter from Pyongyang." With that, he handed a letter to Yuan Taizuo with both hands.

Yuan Taizuo opened the letter, and it was Gai Suwen's handwriting: Father rest assured, I am leading more than 100,000 troops to Liaodong, and I also ask my father to stick to Liaodong City.

Yuan Taizuo put away the letter, and after he knew the bottom of his heart, he called someone to change into armor and dress up, and he wanted to go to the city to inspect. At this time, the Sui army, which had been storming all morning, was tired, and withdrew its troops, preparing to have lunch before attacking the city. Yuan Taizuo also ordered people to make a large amount of food, personally led people to the top of the city, looked at the Goguryeo soldiers who looked at him around, and was shocked, nine times out of ten are wounded soldiers with wounds wrapped in cloth, with the help of defending the city in the morning, it is still like this, if the Sui army occupies the city, where can he still live.

Looking at the defenders' godless gaze, Yuan Taizuo's heart tightened, so it seemed that as long as the Sui army had another onslaught in the afternoon, he might have to take Liaodong City directly, so he asked his subordinates to give the defenders food to eat, cleared his throat and said to the defenders: "Warriors, this Liaodong city has never been captured by the Han since our ancestors took it from the Han people!" The Emperor of the Central Plains has waged war against us more than once, but every time he has to return under the city, this time will not be an exception, I Yuan Taizuo is here, with the order of the King of Yingyang, and you will stick to Liaodong City, my son Gai Suwen has led an army of 200,000 to come in the starry night, as long as I hold Liaodong City, I will personally go to the King of Yingyang and give you a reward! ”

Looking at the slightly lit eyes around him, Yuan Taizuo personally changed the medicine for the wounded soldiers and repaired the destroyed city wall with the soldiers. As soon as the morale was boosted, I heard the sound of drums coming from under the city, and from a distance, the Sui army began to prepare to attack the city again.

The Sui army under the city reorganized the queue, but did not rush to attack, and then launched more than a dozen carts, Yuan Taizuo recognized this thing, this kind of giant car is called Feilou, also made a building car. The flying tower is surrounded by hardwood boards in the shape of a house, and the outside is covered with cowhide in imitation of the method of making leather shields by the Hu people of the grassland.

Yuan Taizuo suddenly remembered that when he defeated Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian's Eastern Expedition a long time ago, he had captured more than a dozen siege crossbows, and later repaired five of them, and now he is in Liaodong City, fortunately, when this Liaodong City was built, it was the time when the Central Plains was the most powerful, and the city wall was extremely tall and wide, and even two carriages could run side by side. So Yuan Taizuo hurriedly sent a team of soldiers to the treasury to take out the giant crossbow and prepare to push it up the city wall.

At this time, the Sui army under the city had completed the whole team, and the flying tower was also pushed to the designated position, and the Sui army began to climb the flying tower in turn.

Yuan Taizuo was secretly anxious in his heart, the flying tower was several feet higher than the Liaodong city wall, if he pushed it closer, he didn't need the soldiers in the flying tower to build a bridge to enter the city, only shot the defenders on the city wall, and he would be powerless to resist. Seeing that the Sui army finished climbing the flying tower, and in the drumbeat of the changing formation, one flying tower every hundred steps was arranged, and the Sui army carrying the ladder below formed a formation, and finally slowly pressed towards Liaodong City in the drumbeat of the attack.

The defenders of the city could not attack the soldiers behind the flying tower, and the rest of the soldiers were holding cowhide shields and forming a formation to protect the soldiers who were fighting against the ladder. But the trapped beast was still fighting, and Yuan Taizuo still ordered to release the arrows. At this time, in order to boost morale, Yuan Taizuo had moved his temporary marshal's mansion from the city to the tower of the city wall, and was on the front line with the soldiers. At the same time, he also ordered the soldiers to use their own money to buy all the medicinal materials in the city's pharmacies, and if the money was insufficient, they used their own seals to write IOUs, promising to pay them off after the war. He also levied rice grain from the major rice merchants to stabilize the soldiers and civilians in the city, so as not to prevent these rice merchants from hoarding rice and selling it, disturbing the people's instability.

The Sui army under the city advanced slowly, and the Goguryeo army on the city rained down arrows, although the Sui army advanced slowly with shields, but after all, there were still places that could not be taken care of, and many arrows passed through the gaps between the shields and shot down many Sui soldiers. The wailing of wounded soldiers does not stop the advancing ranks, and the iron rule of war freedom does not stop turning because of the will of one or two people. Fortunately, the Goguryeo people in the city continued to shoot arrows, ending the suffering of these soldiers who fell to the ground and broke out of formation. Some soldiers were a little flustered, worried that they would be shot next, and the formation suddenly loosened a little, and the centurions who attacked with the team kept wandering around the formation, comforting the panicked soldiers, and making the entire offensive formation solidify again.

Yuan Taizuo's hand pressing on the head of the city was already a little white, and he watched the flying tower gradually approach the city wall, and all the flying arrows were bounced away, and they could not cause harm to the soldiers in the flying tower. At this time, the soldiers who went to the treasury to get the giant crossbow finally pushed the giant crossbow up to the city wall, because the city wall did not set aside a position to prevent the city defense crossbow in advance, so they could only shoot out through the battlements. Yuan Taizuo hurriedly ordered people to arrange the siege crossbow on the city wall, aiming at the advancing flying tower.

Yuan Taizuo personally turned the winch, slowly opened the string of the giant crossbow, and when it was stretched to the limit, the soldier next to him hurriedly lifted the custom-matched iron giant crossbow arrow and placed it in the arrow slot. Wei Wei reconfirmed that he was aiming at a flying tower, and then decisively deducted the launch bracket.

The open bowstring that had been pulled by the machine suddenly recovered, and an iron arrow flew out of the air and flew straight towards a flying tower. How could a flying tower that could defend against arrows be able to defend against a city gate that could break through a thickness of several feet, or even a siege arrow that could directly penetrate the rammed earth wall? As the iron arrow passed through the flying building, countless stumps and dead bodies and blood flew down, and the wrestlers who pushed the flying building forward felt that the flying building was shocked, and countless wailing voices came, but when they looked up, they were drenched in blood.

The remaining four siege crossbows on the head of the city also opened their crossbows one after another, and in an instant, four more flying towers were destroyed, and countless people were killed and wounded. Yu Wenshu, who was watching the formation in the rear, was also secretly frightened, and personally operated the mallet and beat the drum to boost morale. The attacking Sui army, under the leadership of the centurion, also roared a desolate and simple ancient military song: "How can you say that you have no clothes, you are with your son, kill and kill." ”

The Goguryeo army in the city saw that the destruction of the flying tower could not stop the advance of the Sui army under the city, and they were also a little panicked in their hearts.

Yuan Taizuo didn't care much at the moment, and personally shot another flying tower, and returned to the city tower under the escort of the guards. At this moment, it was too late to wind the siege crossbow, and the Sui army had already advanced to the bottom of the city tower in the rain of arrows, and slowly began to erect the cloud ladder. Although almost all of the flying towers were destroyed by the flying arrows, three more flying towers were pushed to the side of the city wall and began to shoot arrows at the top of the city, suppressing the archers on the city, and for a time the Goguryeo army began to suffer a large number of casualties.

The ladder has also been erected, and the soldiers of the Sui army held a shield in one hand and climbed the ladder in the other hand and began to climb up the city. The Goguryeo army in the city was suppressed and could no longer push the ladder with a pole, so they condescendingly dropped the rolling wood and stones from the top of the city, and the smashed Sui soldiers fell from the ladder one after another, but more soldiers climbed the ladder.

The shooter on the flying tower also shot the quiver he was carrying, drew a short knife and opened the door to the upper floor, and then hooked the flying bridge with a hook at the front of the city head, and then the soldiers in the flying tower rushed out in one go. This time, without the suppression of arrows, the archers of the Goguryeo army began to shoot at the Sui soldiers who poured out of the flying tower. For a while, arrows rained down, and the soldiers of the Sui army fell off the high flying bridge with arrows, and fell under the city without knowing whether they were alive or dead.

After paying countless casualties, the Sui army finally climbed the city wall and fought to the death with the Goguryeo people. The Goguryeo people also knew that it was time to fight hard, and if they couldn't kill the Sui army who had landed in the city, then it would be a matter of time before the city was broken. As a result, a large number of Goguryeo archers no longer estimated the arrows thrown under the city wall, and leaned half of their bodies out of the city wall to shoot arrows at the Sui army on the ladder.

The ladder is just a specially made elongated ladder, and there is no protection, the only protection is the cowhide shield in the hands of the soldiers who climb the ladder, but the shield is only held above the head, defending against the flying stone arrows above the head, but not against the arrows on the side. For a while, the soldiers on the ladder were also shot down one after another.

The war of cold weapons is a competition to see which country's soldiers have a high psychological tolerance for casualties, and the psychological tolerance for casualties is also the so-called morale, which is why most soldiers in Xinjiang are criminals. Throughout history, few troops have been able to fight to the last man, often losing a certain number of losses and then crushing out of fear. The role of the officers accompanying the army is to constantly inspire, stabilize morale, and raise as much as possible the upper limit of casualties that the troops under their jurisdiction can bear.

The Sui army that participated in the siege this time lost nearly half of it, and had just reached the top of the city at two points, and was besieged by the Goguryeo army to the death. The reinforcements under the city were intercepted by the Goguryeo archers and were not allowed to climb the city to support the vanguard troops on the city, seeing that the Sui army that grabbed the city wall at the beginning was getting smaller and fewer, and finally the Goguryeo people recaptured the city again, killing all the Sui soldiers on the city wall. The soldiers under the city saw that the banner of the Sui army on the city wall was thrown down the city wall by the Goguryeo people, that is, they knew that the city wall had been lost.

Seeing the withdrawal of the Sui army, the Goguryeo people rained down arrows again and shot hundreds of Sui troops, and the attack on this day was repulsed. That night, Yuan Taizuo instructed the soldiers to repair the city wall on the city wall, and cut off the heads of the Sui soldiers on the city wall and hung them on the city wall, while the remaining headless corpses were directly thrown off the city wall.

Subsequently, the main book, which was ordered to count, also made a good count of the soldiers in the city: there were still more than 10,000 soldiers in the city, and countless wounded soldiers, and more than 2,000 people were lost in one day today. There are still more than 7,000 households and more than 40,000 people living in the city. The food and grass will last for about a month, but it may last longer as the number of defenders continues to dwindle. However, nearly half of the rolling wood and stone have been lost, and if the Sui army attacks so fiercely tomorrow, it may be exhausted. There were only three siege crossbows left, and one was destroyed by a small army of the Sui army after the Sui army landed in the city. Although the small army was cut to pulp by the Goguryeo army that arrived later, it did not help. The most important thing is that there are only a dozen or so giant arrows left to match, and there is no way to replenish them.

After listening to the report of the master book, Yuan Taizuo ordered: "The grain must be strictly guarded to prevent arson and burning. As for the rolling wood and stones, don't be afraid to run out, tomorrow morning you put up a notice, in order to prevent the Sui army from breaking the city, each family will live in one room, and the rest will be demolished to defend the city and repair the city wall. There is also a must let all the residents know that as soon as the city is broken, the Sui army will slaughter the city, they will kill all the men, and kidnap women to be used as camp prostitutes, all in all, the more brutal the Sui army, the stronger the idea of these people to resist, and at the necessary juncture, we must be united by the army and the people in order to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements. ”

The chief bookkeeper agreed, turned around and went out, found the other civil officials in the city and began to carry out Yuan Taizuo's orders. There was no word all night, except for some of the sentry posts who stood guard to prevent the night attack of the Sui army, all the people fell asleep. Early the next morning, the notice of the master book worked, and every household was restless, and the people were in an uproar. In order to protect Liaodong City from being broken, even each family sent out a strong man as a folk man to assist the Goguryeo army in defending the city, and for a time once again built Liaodong City like an iron pass.