At dawn, the first 1,000-strong battalion of the Chinese army under the command of Goguryeo Ulji Wende rushed to the east of Liaodong City.

Then there were not many, the second thousand-man team, the third thousand-man team, and the fourth thousand-man team regretted until the first thousand-man team arrived on the battlefield, and there were still soldiers and horses behind that did not arrive.

The countless torches illuminated the entire eastern part of Liaodong City, and the sparks were lit up like stars.

In the mist of the morning light, you can already clearly see this boundless, like a sea of black water in the Liao people. There were a total of one or twenty Goguryeo warriors and a thousand troops, and there were three logistics militia thousand-man teams behind.

In addition, there were twenty thousand cavalry troops of the Murowei people, twenty thousand infantry troops,

Blackwater Mòhé had the fewest men, with only ten cavalry thousand-man teams coming. Originally, Jueluo, who was a black water shoe scorpion, sent out the whole clan this time and brought 30,000 people from the old, old, weak and weak to Liaodong. However, after they ransacked the Limoshui tribe on the way, they also attracted the combined forces of Limoshui, the Sui army, and the Khitan, and finally fought between Baishui and Heishui.

Gao Jianwu was attacked on Daliangshui, and everyone in Goguryeo thought that Heishui Mòhé was responsible, and in desperation, Jueluo had no choice but to send his son Huang Ge to lead 10,000 cavalry to converge, and explain to Eulzhi Wende to Gao Jianwu to prove their innocence.

There were forty or seventy thousand troops in the east and forty thousand troops in the south, and the Goguryeo coalition army reached 510 thousand troops, and the total strength reached 510,000 men, although only 210,000 soldiers were among them. But this number is also the largest gathering of soldiers and horses of all ethnic groups in the entire Liaodong, East and West, and Haidong.

The Goguryeo coalition army was 510,000, with 210,000 soldiers and 300,000 auxiliary soldiers. Liaodong Sui army 160,000, minfu 300,000.

The two sides seem to have equal strength, but in fact, the Sui army has only about 130,000 soldiers, including 30,000 elite soldiers and horses, 60,000 soldiers who have been on the battlefield and have been trained, and nearly 40,000 of the remaining are recruits who have only received training for a month, and they have not even killed anyone and seen blood.

The soldiers of the Sui army at the head of Liaodong City were all watching the Liao army of Goguryeo, and everyone couldn't help but hold their breath and feel their hearts heavy. There are 10,000 people, boundless, and here are 510,000, and that is even more boundless. In the mist of the morning light, the Liao soldiers were crowded, and countless military flags fluttered.

This is the biggest duel between the Central Plains Dynasty and the tribes of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and it is a peak duel! In the past, the Sui army fought the Turks, the Khitan, and the Xi people, and they have been fighting the Goguryeo people in recent years. But every time, it was basically a one-on-one war, and even other tribes had to stand on the side of the Sui army and send tens of thousands of 8,000 people to help in the war.

But this time is different, this time, except for the Turkic and Xi tribes who are unwilling to participate, the Khitan Dahe clan can't come, and the other surrounding tribes can come.

Except for the Turkic and Xi, the two major tribes close to Hebei in the Central Plains, all the other tribal kingdoms in eastern and western Liaodong have all been involved in this war. Great Sui, Goguryeo,

Khitan, Mòhé, Murowei, Ji, Silla, Dongying, this is a decisive battle involving the eight major powers.

As the commander of the coalition army, Eji Wende had already lost 20,000 people in the front army before the war began.

Moreover, he also lost a brother. Looking at the Liaodong City that towered like a monster, he said loudly, "This time, we and other countries have made a bloody alliance and sworn together to fight against the Tyrannical Sui. As long as the Liaodong City in front of him is captured, then the Sui army will never enter the east again. As long as we annihilate the Sui army in front of us, then we can take advantage of the situation to advance westward, cross the Liao River, and take the entire western Liaoxi in one fell swoop. Brothers, after defeating the Sui army, the entire Liaodong and Liaoxi will be completely our own Liaodong and Liaoxi! ”

Huang Ge smiled and said, "Fighting against the Sui State is our common goal. Over the years, Yang Guang, the son of heaven of the Sui State, has become more and more arrogant, and if this continues, it will be Goguryeo that will be destroyed this time, and it will be us next time. We also understand this truth. Only by joining hands can we ensure that we will no longer be bullied by the people of the Central Plains in the future.

If you say more, you don't need to say that we have already brought soldiers and horses, how to fight next, we will see the decision of the second branch! ”

Everyone saw Huang Ge, who was only in his thirties, patting Yizhi's ass like a pawn, and they all felt a little disdainful in their hearts. Everyone understands that Heishui Mòhé is now a little unclear about the attack on Gao Jianwu that day, for fear that Goguryeo will seek revenge from them in the future.

Yizhi Wende had the experience of annihilating the 300,000-strong army of the Sui army, so no one in the coalition army disobeyed his command.

"Good. Since everyone believes in Ben Shuai, then Ben Shuai should also be in charge. At present, our army has newly arrived, and it is the time when it is full of vigor, and we should take this opportunity to attack the city in one fell swoop, even if we can't attack it today, we can still show the momentum of our coalition army. ”,

There is a sentence that Yizhi did not say is that they have already received the news that the Sui Dynasty has sent a general Ji Sutuo to help. Seeing that there was still half a month at most, and Sui reinforcements were about to arrive, in order to avoid too many nights, of course he hoped to attack the city as soon as possible.

On October 16, the mist in the morning light had not yet cleared, but the Goguryeo coalition army had already begun to sound like thunder! Countless soldiers and horses roared wildly and rushed straight towards Liaodong City.

There is no offensive order, and there is no formation echelon. The allied forces of Goguryeo attacked Liaodong City from all sides!

The offensive has begun!

Liaodong City had already sounded the alarm when the Liao people began to blow the horn of attack.

Except for the cavalry troops, and a third of the soldiers, all the soldiers and horses were transferred to the four sides of the city.

The mist in the morning light seemed to be blown away a little by the rushing coalition army, and the Sui soldiers at the head of the city were surprised to see that the entire city was covered with soldiers and horses surging like a tide. What surprised them even more was that these tide-like soldiers and horses rushing to the front, each of them had no armor, but only a spear or a scimitar, and rushed up in a tattered robe.

They were in a team of more than ten people, carrying shoddy ladders and running continuously.

"Wouldn't this be a coalition soldier? If you are tired, this is a coalition soldier, so don't say it's two abundance, even 500,000, we don't have to be afraid, it's still swept away. Li Shimin stood there, looking at the crowd of people who generally only had a rudimentary weapon and said.

"No, these are not coalition soldiers, these are the slaves of the Goguryeo people, and the other side wants to use these slaves to consume our arrows and the strength of our warriors." Li Jie said calmly, when attacking the city, driving the slaves as the vanguard can not only consume the defenders' materials for defending the city, but also greatly consume the defenders' physical strength. No matter how strong an archer is, if he fires twenty arrows in a row, he will be exhausted. When the physical strength of the defenders is almost exhausted, it is time for the regular soldiers and horses to be dispatched.

Chen Kefu said coldly: "There are not many soldiers and horses in Liaodong City, but there are many equipment and materials for each of us. He just drove all the slaves surnamed Goguryeo to be the front army, and I killed them all the same! ”

But again, to everyone's surprise, the Goguryeo slaves stopped when they rushed five or six paces away from the city. There was another thunderous sound of drums, and the slaves in the mist suddenly leaned in both directions, making way for an empty passage.

Under the attention of all the soldiers at the head of the city, batches of slaves were driven out, but these slaves were all barehanded. They had no weapons, but each of them carried bags of dirt, and these people were responsible for filling the moats around Liaodong City.

Liaodong City has dug a ditch that is three zhang wide and one zhang deep. Later, after Chen Kefu took Liaodong City, he mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to widen and deepen the ditch. Directly from three zhang wide to ten zhang wide, two zhang deep, completely turned into a dry river.

In order to improve the defense, he also asked the men of the engineer battalion to direct the men to drive a number of stumps at the bottom of the river. After the final achievement, the sappers simply dug a ditch directly from the nearby river company to attract river water, turning the entire ditch into a moat. The moat is ten zhang wide and two zhang deep, and the besieging men and horses can't go at all without filling it up.

There were tens of thousands of slaves carrying bags of sand, and they had to come down to the city of Liaodong under the drive of groups of Liao soldiers with spears and scimitars.

"Don't release arrows, don't release arrows, we are Sui people!"

"Don't let go of the arrows, I'm Sui Jun!"

The slaves got closer and closer, and many of them were crying out to the defenders at the head of the city.

"Dashuai, it seems that he is really a Sui person!" Li Benlei said in a deep voice.

"Don't let go of the arrow, it's your own people, your own people!" Pieces of crying and wailing continued to come from the city. Chen Kefu and other generals watched carefully, these slaves who spoke Chinese in the Central Plains were indeed Han people, and these people spoke Chinese very fluently. In particular, most of these people are young and strong men, and there are no old or young or weak people.

Li Jie's face was scared, and he said angrily, "Dashuai, these must be the more than 40,000 captured soldiers of our army during the second expedition to Liao in the hands of the Goguryeo people." These shameless Goguryeo people actually used such a trick. ”

Driven by the Goguryeo spears, scimitars, and bows and arrows, tens of thousands of Sui prisoners had already entered the range of the Sui army.

"Dashuai, what should I do?" All the generals hesitated, and the following are all brothers of the same clan in the Central Plains, and comrades in the army. He was captured only because of the defeat, and at this time he was driven to block the moat. None of them could order an attack on them, and if they were not killed, they began to block the moat under the persecution of the Liao.

The officers and men of the gendarmerie in black armor and red armbands on their arms were already supervising the battle.

"Shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows, the enemy is already in range! Start firing arrows! You can't let them just fill the moat! "One gendarme after another began to roar wildly at the archers and crossbowmen at the head of the city.

However, the archers, crossbowmen, and sappers at the head of the city, who had always feared black-clad gendarmes like tigers, hesitated. How can they do to those who are their compatriots and comrades in the city?

Most of these soldiers defending the city were new additions to the Liaodong army. Until a few months ago, they were just ordinary peasants, although many of them had mounted horses and killed people. But on that battlefield, either you die or I die, they are not soft in the face of those foreigners, but now in the face of a group of compatriots, they hesitate.

If the defenders at the head of the city were as elite as the original broken barracks, as long as the general gave an order, they would not hesitate. However, the garrison at the head of the city was only a new recruit. No one had their hands stained with the blood of their kind, and the soldiers turned their heads to look at their respective officers, waiting for the final orders.