In the domestic city, when the Tang army came here, they stepped on the bones of the city.

The closer he got to the domestic city, Li Shimin would have an inexplicable pain in his heart.

As the emperor of the Central Plains, it is just that the people of the Central Plains were killed by the surrounding small states, and Li Shimin couldn't bear it and couldn't bear it when he put his bones in Beijing.

In this city, the city lord is not a close confidant of Yuangai Suwen.

It's not even a figure of the Yuan faction, and it's even anti-Yuan.

Eulji Wendeok was regarded as an ancestor and the god of war by later generations and the Goryeo sticks that could not be beaten by the eight poles of Goguryeo. Just because he defeated the 1130,000 army of the Great Sui.

"Sage, please attack the city."

It was Li Shimin's brother-in-law Xue Wanche who spoke, and he married Li Shimin's fifteenth sister, Princess Danyang.

Xue Wanche is the only brave general who can fight with Yu Chi Xue after Qin Qiong, and has been staying in Chang'an as the deputy commander of the Yulin Army of the Tang Emperor Li Shimin.

As soon as Xue Wanche finished speaking, before Li Shimin could give any instructions, four more people stepped forward: "Minister, please attack the city as the vanguard." ”

The five people untied their armor at the same time, wearing only close-fitting leather armor, and holding a light shield horizontal knife, which is the standard equipment of the siege shield soldier, and the siege shield soldier is one of the troops with the highest mortality rate, and the higher than him is the trapped camp.

These five people are all surnamed Xue, and they are brothers.

The eldest brother Xue Wanshu was physically injured and was no longer a military general, but now he was the Sima of the Yanzhou March, in charge of logistics.

The second son, Xue Wanshu, was the general of Yingzhou, and he was the first line of Goguryeo.

The third son, Xue Wan, was the general of Liaozhong City, the general of Zuotunwei, and the first line of Goguryeo.

The fourth son, Xue Wanche. The fifth son, Xue Wanbei, is now the deputy general of the Shence Wei Baiwu Army.

Li Jing stepped forward: "The minister asks the sage to allow the five Xue generals to lead the army to attack the city, but they are not allowed to be on the temporary front line." ”

"You think my brothers are afraid of death." Xue Wanche gave Mao at that time and yelled at Li Jing.

Li Jing was not in a hurry, and said slowly: "In the former 12th Army of the Sui Communist Party, the commander of the 11th Army, General Xue Shixiong led the army, and Goguryeo's Eokzhi Wende asked for surrender several times, and General Xue had to send people to ask Emperor Sui several times. ”

"I know."

Li Shimin naturally knows this history.

Li Jing bowed: "The minister thinks that the five brothers of the Xue family can attack the city." ”

"Exactly."

Li Jing asked for instructions again: "The minister has checked, the general's artillery has brought 110,000 shells, and there are 1,000 cannons, but not a single cannon has been fired so far. Goguryeo had been pacified, so the minister suggested ....... When Li Jing said this, a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and this smile even Xue Wanche couldn't help but shudder.

Sure enough, Li Jing said: "Shoot up this cannonball to comfort General Xue and hundreds of loyal and brave generals, and hundreds of thousands of soul-breaking Goguryeo soldiers in the heavens." ”

"Okay, the five sons of the Xue family listen to the order."

"In!"

"Go and set up an artillery array, I want to watch the battle, if you can't beat the majesty of the Tang Dynasty, you will be severely punished. If you can't comfort the heroic spirit, you will be punished severely. ”

"Command."

The general's artillery array, Li Jing Liumu has talked about it several times, and he has also heard Liumu describe the grandeur of thousands of cannons.

But many generals have not seen it.

This is just an opportunity for everyone to see Datang's new way of fighting.

The Tang army lined up and surrounded the city on all sides.

Li Shimin issued an order and praised Yizhi Wende's method of using soldiers and tricks, soldiers are tricks, and it is right to use the weakness of the former Sui to attack, but killing prisoners and piling up Jingguan, the Tang Dynasty can't bear it, and Yizhi Wende will be punished.

Yizhi Wende replied that the city was the heaviest defense line of the Great Goguryeo, the first Xiongcheng in Jiangbei, with groundwater, enough food to eat for five years, countless weapons and arrows, and the former Sui million army could not capture the city, and the little Tang people wanted to capture the city with 40,000 soldiers, 70,000 auxiliary troops defending the city, and 120,000 people, which was ridiculous.

While scolding each other to boost the morale of their respective armies, the two sides actively prepared for war.

Li Shimin asked Li Jing: "I'm wondering if it's necessary to adjust the Guanwu Horn to suppress the formation." ”

Li Jing replied: "Sage, 120,000 rounds of shells, piled up is also a small mountain, the minister has heard Liu Juma say several times, artillery is the god of war, even if the current Tang artillery is still a baby, it is not a cold weapon can fight, first hit 100,000 shells, or the effect is not good, the minister will adjust his tactics, if the city can't take it, the minister will be guilty." More than 500 people were killed and wounded, and the crime of the ministers. ”

"Qing let go and fight."

Li Shimin believed in Li Jing, and even more believed in Liu Mu's words as the god of war.

Artillery has exercised artillery, but it has never really been used in war, this is the first time that Datang has used artillery in battle.

The Tang army was arrayed, and the artillery was lined up two miles outside the city wall, escorted by firecrackers, heavy shield soldiers, and strong crossbowmen.

It was almost noon after the two sides finished arrasing, and the Tang Army's leading army began to deliver food to the front line, including wine, meat, snow-white rice, snow-white meat buns, and canned fruits. The soldiers of the Tang Army were talking and laughing, and they were eating lunch very easily.

The Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall only had dry food, and they looked nervously at the Tang army under the city wall.

At the end of lunch, there was a herald cavalry holding the flag high, waving it as they ran.

This flag means that the whole army wears ear protection.

Cork from the Mediterranean Sea is of great value, and Datang made countless earplugs, and then added cloth covers, as well as cotton, etc., to make ear protectors used by Tang soldiers.

The Tang army commanded, drums, trumpets, gongs, flags, gestures.

Each regiment of 200 people will arrange at least four soldiers to be responsible for reading the flag, and when the battle is fierce, especially after the artillery puts on ear protectors, they rely on the flag language and gestures to transmit orders.

1,000 cannons, 4,000 people operating cannons, 8,000 auxiliaries carrying cannonballs, 8,000 shields, muskets, and crossbows, 2,000 heavy armored cavalry, 2,000 flying cavalry, and 6,000 miscellaneous auxiliaries.

24,000 men for an army, plus 6,000 miscellaneous auxiliaries, a total of 30,000 people, 1,000 guns.

There are also a number of tiger squats in special situations, there are carrying auxiliaries who can operate a thousand tiger squats, and a hundred Vulcan flying crows that the shield and sword soldiers are responsible for.

Vulcan Crow is a heavy incendiary bomb, and the value of a flying crow is hundreds of shells, and Li Jing is reluctant to use it.

A quarter of an hour later, the herald changed the flag, a fiery red trim and a pure white flag inside.

This is the flag before the artillery of the White Tiger Army prepares to attack, and then the commander-in-chief sends the first cannon, the regimental commander fires the cannon, and then the thousand cannons fire in unison.

Xue Wanshu nodded, this is the glory given by the Tang Emperor himself.

With a loud noise, Yizhi Wende at the head of the city was stunned for a moment, he thought that this was the order for the Tang army to attack, but the Tang army did not move at all.

Soon, there was a thud on the wall, and a battlement shattered, and then slid down.