Chapter 521: The city is broken, the country is destroyed
"General, those who came out just now seem to be the elite soldiers of the Goguryeo people, and the armor they wear is different."
When a sharp-eyed general saw the Goguryeo soldiers emerging from the city, he immediately reported to Xue Li.
"I also saw it, by the way, give the order, stop the attack first, and it won't be too late to attack when I see Goguryeo people outcropping at the head of the city."
Xue Li knew that the wave just now must have scared the Goguryeo people, and their elite soldiers had to finish playing, and due to the power of gunpowder shells, those Goguryeo people would definitely not dare to stay on the city tower, so they wouldn't have to waste rockets.
Each of the archers below the tower had more than twenty to thirty rockets, and now that they had launched most of them, they couldn't afford to waste it.
The archers stopped attacking and began to rest under the castle tower, but the heavy shield soldiers who had been holding large shields could not rest, and they were responsible for the safety of the archers, so they had to be on guard at all times to prevent the Goguryeo people at the head of the castle from suddenly giving them a shot.
Seeing this, Xue Li immediately sent some people up and began to dig a trench in front of the position where the archers were staying.
If a trench could be dug out, the work of the heavy shield soldiers would be relieved, and they would not be able to do so much labor, and it would not be safe.
Dig a trench for the archers, and when they rest, they can nest in the trench, which is very safe, and even if they want to attack, they can't help it.
And it also frees up the heavy shield soldiers, so that they don't have to be so tired.
The soldiers of the Tang Army began to act, and their movements were smooth, no matter how they did it outside the city, at the head of the city, the soldiers of Goguryeo never appeared.
Because, the Goguryeo people were in the city and were doing similar things with the Tang soldiers, unlike the Tang army's practice of digging trenches, the Goguryeo people were behind the city wall, working overtime to rebuild a new city wall.
Although it is impossible to be as tall and wide as the outer wall, at least a miniature city wall must be used as an inner wall, and even if the Tang army breaks through the outer wall, they will not immediately play with eggs.
Besides, now they can't get up to the outer wall at all, as soon as someone goes up, the Tang Army archers outside will immediately launch rockets to blow up the Goguryeo people into suckling pigs.
Well, the broken roast suckling pig, this is described by the Goguryeo people themselves, because those charred ** pieces do look very much like roast suckling pigs.
Now the Goguryeo people are extremely afraid of the rockets of the Tang army, from the beginning to the present, the Tang army has launched twenty rounds of rockets, that is to say, the outer wall of the capital of Goguryeo has been bombed twenty times, and the entire outer wall has been blown down to a height of two or three meters.
According to this trend, after dozens of rounds of bombing, the entire outer wall will have to be blown down sooner or later.
Therefore, the Goguryeo people gave up the outer wall very decisively, and instead used that outer wall to attract the rockets of the Tang army, constantly consuming the number of rockets of the Tang army.
And they were working overtime to build an inner wall inside the outer city.
In order to be able to build the inner wall before the Tang army invaded, the Goguryeo people even ordered all men over the age of thirteen in the city to participate in the construction of the inner wall.
As soon as the edict of the Goguryeo emperor came, the men of the entire Goguryeo capital began to take action, building the interior walls day and night.
The next day, Xue Li knew that the Goguryeo people had built an inner wall inside the outer wall, and the outer wall was just a place they used to consume the Tang army's rockets.
Xue Li, who received the news, immediately ordered the archers to stop the attack on the capital of Goguryeo.
Don't look at their wave of attacks yesterday was very cool, and directly beat the Goguryeo people to cry and cry and cry and doubt their lives, but they also paid a lot of gunpowder bullets and arrows for it.
The 80,000 rockets shot 60,000 on the first day alone, which is a full 60,000 gunpowder shells, which is not a small number, but half of the gunpowder bullets that the Tang army can use now.
Although the Tang Army is now stepping up the production of gunpowder bullets and arrows, Xue Li does not want to waste it.
Good steel has to be used on the blade, and now these rockets will be finished to Huo Huo, and when the critical moment comes, they will definitely drop the chain.
It must be used sparingly.
However, although they saved it, it did not mean that they did not care about the Goguryeo people building an inner wall in the city.
The next day, Xue Li directly led a team of archers, first bombarded the outer wall to ensure that there was no trace of Goguryeo on the outer wall.
After making sure that the outer wall was safe, Xue Li immediately rushed to the outer wall of the Goguryeo capital with his personal guards and a team of archers.
Standing on the ruins of the outer wall, they could clearly see the inner wall that was being built inside the Goguryeo capital.
"Sure enough, hum, you're welcome, shoot the rocket into the inner wall for me."
The Goguryeo people didn't expect that the Tang army would rush directly onto the outer wall, and even if they did, it was useless, the round of rockets that Xue Li fired before they rushed up was enough to turn all the Goguryeo soldiers on the outer wall into broken roast suckling pigs.
At this time, the Goguryeo people who were building the inner wall were looking up at the Tang soldiers on the outer wall with a panicked expression.
Except for a small number of Goguryeo soldiers who were responsible for defense and supervision, most of them were not wearing armor in order to facilitate their work.
After receiving Xue Li's order, the Tang soldiers immediately drew their bows to the full, and then shot at the inner wall built by the Goguryeos.
This wave of them was not only to shoot the Goguryeo people, but also to destroy the inner wall that the Goguryeo people had just built.
Thousands of rockets with gunpowder shells were fired at the two-meter-high inner wall that Goguryeo had just spent a day and a night hastily building, and the Goguryeo soldiers and young people had not had time to run.
Now, what greets them is the arrows of the Tang Army, and what awaits them is the call of death.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Countless explosions sounded, and the inner wall, which had just been built more than two meters high, was immediately blown apart, and almost none of the Goguryeo people who were near the inner wall were spared.
The explosion of gunpowder bombs can take away the lives of some Goguryeo people, and can also blow up the newly built inner walls to pieces, and those blown stones and the like have also become killing tools.
Countless Goguryeo soldiers and civilians died.
But that's not the end of it!