Chapter 127: Under the Maru Capital

Western liaoning

When you see a scene of a huge city being built on the earth, a scene in full swing, you will think that maybe a city is insignificant compared to the whole vast world, but in people's hearts, if you have a city, you can selfishly think that the whole world is yours.

Perhaps it was Yin Lang's suggestion that made Duan Chen make up his mind; Or maybe it was Duan Chen's own decision; Or perhaps it is because the terrain here is dangerous, the mountains and rivers are solid, and it is an ideal place to build a capital. We don't know exactly what the reason is, but Duan Chen is indeed preparing to build his own capital here.

This city has been built for more than a year, and it is still under construction, and in less than a day, this city has become a point of reinforcement, Duan Chen is actually grateful to Yin Lang in his heart, since the separation of Da Xianbei Mountain, in just half a year, the progress of Yin Lang's side has completely exceeded Duan Chen's expectations, not only relying on a small number of people to quickly subdue Fuyu, but also to subdue Wo Fu.

The impact on Duan Chen's side is full of demographic dividends, whether it is the Buyeo people or the Wofu people, these are free labor, after conquering the two tribal countries, Yin Lang sent a large number of young and strong laborers to Duan Chen's side, and at the same time, Duan Chen's feedback to Yin Lang is all some false names, not only that, Duan Chen also transferred back the elite cavalry to which Duan Wenzhen belonged.

Duan Chen has lived a relaxed and happy life for most of the past six months, after leaving Daxianbei Mountain, under Duan Chen's coercion by force, Duan Chen and the Yuwen Ministry have concluded a very strong alliance, after all, Duan Chen has married the fourth princess of Yuwen, no matter what, he is now the son-in-law of the Yuwen Ministry. The three major tribes are left with the Murong Ministry, although Duan Chen wants the Murong Ministry to be tightly tied to his chariot, but the Murong Ministry has always had considerable autonomy, and Duan Chen has no excuse or reason to merge the Murong Ministry, fortunately, the Murong Department is quite acquainted, seeing that Duan Chen has basically integrated the entire large and small Xianbei tribes in Liaoxi and Liaodong, he consciously expressed his obedience to Duan Chen's orders, and regarded Duan Chen as a big single Yu, and asked for instructions every three days and asked every five days, and his attitude was quite good. Duan Chen turned a blind eye and passed over.

The internal problem was solved, Duan Chen's eyes were naturally aimed at the outside, and now in Duan Chen's eyes, there was only one opponent left in Goguryeo, for more than a year, Goguryeo watched Duan Chen unsuspectingly like a tsunami that swept the entire land of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and when Goguryeo suddenly woke up, the entire Goguryeo had been surrounded by Duan Chen's sphere of influence, the north was Yin Lang's territory, the east was subordinate to Duan Chen's Yuwen Xianbei Department, the west was the barren Sanhan, and there was the sea that could not be seen at a glance. To the south is the mighty Murong Ministry.

What is Goguryeo doing? Don't they have a sense of crisis? Watching Duan Chen rise? Regardless of the slightest, would you rather be a comfortable frog in the well? Of course not. The reason is that the king of Goguryeo is dead, and the two major forces in the country are fighting for power, and they can't care about anything else for a while.

Goguryeo Castle

Marutsu Castle

Marudu Fortress is the capital city operated by Goguryeo in the past dynasties, and the city wall is more than ten miles around, and the two mountain cities in the south and north are respectively entangled by rivers. It can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack.

King Xichuan of Goguryeo was leading his troops and horses to attack the city of Marudu, and the person who held the fortress in the city was the successor designated by the previous king of Goguryeo: Gao Zhao. King Xichuan was very dissatisfied with the fact that the king of Goguryeo did not pass the throne to him, and even let Gao Zhao take the lead in the city of Marudu, and the king of Xichuan was angry and led his strong soldiers and horses to surround the city of Marudu, preparing to attack it, captured Gao Zhao alive, and became the next king of Goguryeo.

King Xichuan was riding a horse in the rear at this time to urge Goguryeo's soldiers and horses to step up the siege, King Xichuan was a little annoyed, a few days ago he didn't know how to do it, accidentally believed in the city Gao Zhao's delaying strategy, actually gave up the siege for a while, waited for half a month, the king of Xichuan knew that Gao Zhao did not plan to surrender at all, so he ordered to step up the siege.

At this time, Gaul, the son of the king of Xichuan, came, and said respectfully: "Father, the morale of today's soldiers is very high, according to the ministers, the city will be broken in these few days, we just need to wait patiently for a while." ”

King Xichuan looked at his most beloved son, his heart was full of pride, his son has also grown up, and he can be regarded as a successor! What else do you want to do? If you take the throne of Goguryeo for your son, you can officially retire and enjoy the life of taking a back seat.

In addition to mobilizing 20,000 horses loyal to him, the king of Xichuan also held nearly 30,000 defenders from all over the country, a total army of more than 50,000 people, which can be said to have mobilized 90 percent of the troops of the whole country of Goguryeo.

The army of the King of Nishikawa is abundant, and for Marudu Castle, it must be a must-win. Because he first divided several servant armies to occupy the commanding heights on all sides of Marudu Castle and tightly sealed them, which played a certain role in attacking, and then took the slightly flat terrain north of Marudu Castle as the main direction of attack. Divide the 20,000 elite soldiers and horses loyal to you into four teams and launch an attack on Marutsu Castle.

At this moment, the four teams of Goguryeo warriors had already begun to attack. Most of these Goguryeo soldiers were recruited by the descendants of the king of Xichuan, and the various welfare conditions were first-class in Goguryeo, whether it was equipment or treatment. It is by no means comparable to a coerced servant army. Each of them had a greedy glint in their eyes, as if they were fantasizing about slaughtering and looting after breaching the city. This all stems from the order of the king of Xichuan, after the city is broken, the big rope is three days. Money women are the source of motivation for these soldiers, these things are far more effective than any military orders, and for thousands of years, this is the most naked ironclad evidence.

In addition to the soldiers preparing for the attack, the Goguryeo people also made a large number of ladders, rushing carts, catapults, earthen bags, etc. Because Goguryeo absorbed the siege and defense techniques of the previous Central Plains dynasties, it was very good at using these instruments skillfully. In the past half a month, King Xichuan has already ordered people to build a lot of instruments.

King Xichuan rode his horse and laughed loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, that Gao Zhao plotted to kill the first king and steal the throne, and he actually shamelessly delayed the army!" Today, all the soldiers captured Marudu Castle, and they were all rewarded! ”

The generals around King Xichuan answered loudly in unison.

When everyone's words gradually stopped, King Xichuan pulled out his portable sword and raised his voice: "Generals......"

Before the words fell, an earth-shattering roar suddenly sounded from afar, like an angry wave that cracked the shore, swept by!

The war horse of the king of Xichuan was frightened by the loud noise, and the man stood up and let out a frightened neigh.

King Xichuan is old, his riding skills are not good, and his flexibility has decreased when he is old, and his movements are inconvenient, so he suddenly loses his center of gravity and falls backwards when he looks up to the sky. Gaul was quick to step forward with several of his guards, and it took a lot of effort to stabilize the horse.

After the king of Nishikawa stabilized his horse, he hurriedly looked at the place where the sound came from.

I saw that between the remaining veins of the mountains in western Liaoxi due west, a large army swept overwhelmed. As far as the eye can see, the mountains are full of Xianbei warriors with braided hair and rope heads, strong soldiers and strong horses, killing like madness, swallowing thousands of miles!

King Xichuan suddenly fell into an ice cave, only to feel that his hands and feet were cold, and he could barely pull the reins. He snapped and asked, "What's going on?" Where are these so many Xianbei people? ”

The generals around him were all shocked, who could answer him?

At this moment, the Xianbei people rushed through the Goguryeo camp with weak troops and rushed towards the back of the siege force where the king of Xichuan was located. What's even more troublesome is that because almost all the generals who commanded the army were clustered around King Xichuan, no one in the army formation could command the troops to form an effective counterattack at this moment.

Those Xianbei cavalry rushed back and forth, chopping off the heads of the Goguryeo people one by one like chopping melons and vegetables.

The king of Xichuan turned pale, and he wanted to say something, but before he could do it, he was surrounded by his son Gaul and his guards and fled to the east......