"Wang Hu's troops were attacked by the defenders of the pill capital at night, losing thousands of soldiers and narrowly leading to a rout. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Li Yu handed the battle report sent by Li Shangdan to Sima Xue Jun, and looked at the marching army with gloomy eyes.

"Fortunately, I sent reinforcements, otherwise it would be unpredictable to win or lose the battle against Gao Yanwu."

Xue Jun shook his head after seeing it and said: "Wang Hu is brave and unstrategic, fighting a war depends on hard work, and he is only worthy of being a pioneer." Before the expedition, the minister persuaded His Royal Highness, not Wang Hu as the commander of the army, he fought these battles, Marudu has not yet lost more than 3,000 troops, and there are more than 5,000 soldiers and horses left to face more than 10,000 defenders in Marudu, if it is not for His Highness to send troops to support in time, the defeat is certain! ”

Wang Hu has served as the pawn of the Yan Wangfu since Li Yu opened the mansion, and he has five big and three rough and strong forces. The reason why Li Yu values him is because of his frank and open-minded nature, although his mind is simple and he can't hide things in his heart, but there is no doubt about his loyalty.

Throughout the ages, any commander has preferred subordinates who don't need to be outstanding, but loyal enough.

originally wanted to take the opportunity of this crusade against Gao Yanwu to accumulate military merits for Wang Hu, and become a general he could rely on in the future. It's a pity that the brave and unscrupulous Wang Hu's performance was too poor, which made Li Yu extremely disappointed.

Li Yu reconsidered his positioning of Wang Hu in his heart, and if he couldn't help him, then make the best use of it.

Rolling ducks on the water, the main force of the Tang Army slowly crossed the pontoon bridge, and the flags on both sides of the strait waved and horses roared endlessly. Li Yu looked back and felt quite emotional, this expedition was the third time in Chinese history that troops were used on the Korean Peninsula. Gao Kan, the commander of the Tang Army, and Li Jinxing, the commanders of the Tang Army who fought against the Goguryeo rebels in their previous lives, are now in the turn of supporting roles, and I, Li Yu, will write a glorious page on the Korean Peninsula.

Liu Shijiang led the Flying Tiger Army and the Zhendong Army to come to help, and after a day of rest, Li Shangdan convened the generals to discuss and decided to attack the domestic city.

The defense of the city of Marudu was difficult and easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the defenders did not suffer much losses, but Wang Hu's troops suffered heavy losses. The defenders of the domestic city were annihilated by Li Shangdan as many as 6,000 outside the city, and the loss of one-third of the troops.

In the end, it was decided that Wang Hu's troops would stick to the camp to watch the defenders of Marudu City, and if they left the city, they would meet and block their reinforcements to the domestic city, and strictly prevent their night attacks.

Li Shangdan swore a heavy oath that he would break the domestic city in two days.

Liu Tao's army feinted to attack the east gate, the Zhendong army and the Flying Tiger army still took the south gate as the main direction, and the Dangdi army surrounded the north gate. The large siege towers and battering rams that took several days to make were also completed.

The Tang army laboriously pushed the siege tower and battering ram to the south gate of the domestic city, and Li Shangdan and the generals came to the city again with confidence, and invested four armies to attack the city at one time.

Before reinforcements, a maximum of two armies can be invested, and the other army cannot be moved, so as to prevent the defenders of the inner city from coming out of other gates. So that every time the city was attacked, it was impossible to divide the forces to contain the defenders of the other gates, resulting in most of the defenders of the entire domestic city gathered at the south gate.

Gao Yanxing in the city was in a tight position, because the Tang army gathered troops at the east gate and the north gate, so that the defenders of the two gates could only draw part of their troops to support the south gate, and the situation became a crisis.

Li Shangdan glanced at the whole army, the morale was available, and ordered: "Beat the drum to attack!" ”

"Drum attack!"

"Ho." The soldiers of the Tang Army struggled to push the heavy siege towers and battering rams towards the domestic city.

The battering ram is a two-zhang high quadrangular wooden frame, in which a giant log of three feet thick is hung with a rope as a battering ram, and the rope at the back end of the battering ram can be used as a simple impact on the gate. The battering ram was covered with a wooden plaque made of two layers of thumb-thick branches to protect the Tang soldiers pushing the battering ram inside.

Before the siege tower was advanced to the bottom of the city, there was no Tang army inside, and it was much lighter than the battering ram hanging from a wet and heavy log. The speed of the soldiers pushing the siege tower was more than half faster than pushing the battering ram, and it was almost pushed to the bottom of the city in less than two quarters of an hour, and the Tang army following behind the siege tower climbed into the siege tower in a row of three people in a tense and orderly manner under the shouts of the officers.

As soon as the siege tower reached the bottom of the city, the Tang army, which had been prepared at the top of the tower, put the tower gate down on the city wall. The first two rows of Tang troops rushed to the city with a shield in one hand and a horizontal knife in the other, and fought with the Goguryeo people.

The battering ram was also pushed under the south gate at this time, and the Goguryeo army on the tower of the city continued to pour gold juice on the battering ram, and the smelly and hot gold juice poured on the top of the battering ram to make a sizzling sound, steaming with disgusting heat, but it was difficult to hurt the Tang army inside because of the wooden raft made of two layers of thin wooden strips.

"Pull the rope and smash this broken gate open for me." Captain Tang, who was in charge of the battering ram, shouted at the soldiers behind him.

"Ho ......" dozens of Tang soldiers grabbed the ropes on the ground and pulled up the giant wood in the battering ram, and the Goguryeo people on the city tower were ruthless, aiming at them and firing arrows.

As soon as the battering ram was pulled up, more than a dozen Tang troops fell under the arrows of the Goguryeo people.

"Boom." The battering ram hit the south gate, but because of the lack of force, it did not move.

The soldiers who pulled up the rope were constantly shot to death by the Goguryeo people in the city, and Li Shangdan urgently ordered: "The shield bearer quickly goes and protects the soldier who pulls the rope." ”

"No!" A hundred shield-bearers holding rectangles quickly rushed to the battering ram, raised their long shields, and tightly protected the soldiers who drew the ropes behind the battering ram in the middle to block the arrows that were constantly being fired from the city.

With the protection of the shieldman, the death of the rope puller plummeted, and at the order of the captain, the battering ram was pulled up high and hit the city gate more and more heavily.

The top of the battering ram is a triangular top, and the gold juice not only can't hurt the Tang army inside, but also flows down the corner top to both sides of the battering ram to the ground, causing negligible harm. However, because the battering ram itself was strong enough, it was not broken for a while.

The Goguryeo army in the city had no way to take the battering ram, and the people were panicked for a while. The Tang army's rope puller was dozens of feet away from the city, and it couldn't be drenched at all, and the rolling wood and stones couldn't be smashed, and the arrows were blocked by the Tang army's shield.

Gao Yanxing anxiously pulled over a soldier beside him and ordered: "Hurry up and inform the mattress to send reinforcements, if you don't come to the reinforcements, you won't be able to defend the south gate." ”

"General, the city gate is about to be breached." A soldier rushed to report in a panic.

Gao Yanxing was sweating profusely as he looked at the Tang army on the city wall who were constantly rushing out of the siege tower to fight with the defenders, and there was a high crash under his feet, and every time he hit, his heart trembled.

Gao Yanxing's eyes widened angrily, and he grabbed the collar of Bai Chang beside him with one hand and ordered solemnly: "You immediately led the troops to move wood and stones for me to block the city gate tightly, do you know?" If you can't block it, lift your head to block it. ”

"Genus...... Subordinates know. As soon as Gao Yanxing let go, Bai Chang couldn't wait to lead people to the city. There was not enough wood and stone, so the surrounding houses were demolished, and the lack of manpower was enough to grab the people near the south gate and carry the wood and stone into the city gate hole of the south gate.

The house was built relatively firmly, and it was time-consuming and laborious to dismantle it, and when the house was not demolished, the city gates were broken. Bai Chang was ruthless, and directly divided a part of the people to dig the nearby soil by hand, mixed wood and stone to fill the city gate hole.

After Gao Yanwu received an emergency from Gao Yanxing's south gate, he sent Gao Yanzong to lead the last reserve force in the city with 2,000 troops to support the south gate, and at the same time used the remaining 2,000 cavalry as infantry to reinforce in advance.

When Gao Yanxing was desperate and the defenders in the city were getting fewer and fewer, 2,000 cavalry took the lead and dismounted and rushed up the city wall to fight with the Tang army, so that the desperate and dangerous South Gate could stalemate with the Tang army in the city. After Gao Yanzong led his troops to arrive, his troops overwhelmed the Tang army that landed in the city, and concentrated his forces to launch a wave of counterattack against the Tang army that landed in the city.

The seven-foot-tall Gao Yanzong stood out from the crowd, holding a seven-foot sword in his hand, and drove the Tang army out of the city in a fight.

The city gate hole of the south gate was blocked by the Bai Chang with earth and stone at this time, and the Tang army outside the city hammered the city gate hard, and it was impossible to knock the city gate open when it was about to break.

"Damn, I was actually driven down by Gao Liman." Wei Chi Xunyu said hatefully.

"Mingjin retreats." Seeing that the city was about to be broken, he didn't think that it would fail at the last moment, Li Shangdan looked at the city in front of him in disappointment.