Chapter 56: The whole army attacked

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The dawn of the morning had just driven away the night, and the sun had not yet come to show, and the army of the Sui Dynasty, which had been rewarded for its rebirth after yesterday's military parade on the plains, had already gathered in the sound of drums and horns.

Bands of soldiers converged into a line, and the groups of soldiers eventually all converged into the various columns of the army divided into wartime. Today, His Majesty the Emperor has a decree that all the troops under Liaodong City will be dispatched, and there is no need to take Liaodong City in one fell swoop with the spirit of a great victory.

When the army all gathered under the city of Liaodong like ants, the summer sun of Liaodong finally jumped out from the east. The morning sun shines through the clouds on both sides of the Liaohe River, and the bright light reflected on the bright light armor of the more than 400,000 troops under the city of Liaodong makes the entire city of Liaodong a dazzling light. The defenders at the head of the city in Liaodong paid close attention to the movements of the Sui army, and yesterday they were nervous for a day, but the Sui army did not attack the city for a day.

Finally, when it was almost dawn, the defending troops of the city were replaced to rest, and as soon as the newly arrived defending troops came up, they were illuminated by the bright light reflected by the bright light armor of the more than 400,000 troops of the Sui army.

The general guarding the west gate looked at the Sui army in front of him with a slightly pale face, and he could see at a glance that the Sui army today was different from the past after guarding the city in Liaodong City for several years. In the past, although the Sui army also besieged Liaodong City every day, it also took turns to send troops to attack each other. You must know that although Liaodong City is large, when it comes to really attacking the city, the Sui army can only send about 100,000 people at a time, and it is almost saturated, and no matter how many people there are, it may not be useful. Now that Sui Jun is unusual, he suddenly put on such a posture, which can't help but make him feel that things are a little urgent.

"Quickly go and inform King Rongliu, and say that the whole Sui army is dispatched, and ask the prince to preside over the overall situation." Li Gui, the guard of the West Gate, said to the soldiers on the side.

Although Chen Kefu's broken military camp is cavalry, and even half of it is heavy cavalry, but today with Yang Guang's will, all the troops have driven to Liaodong City to take action, even if it is the people and foot forces, there is not a single left. Even the logistics guys in the army were all dressed in battle armor and lined up behind the big array with weapons. Although the sun was only rising, for these Sui troops, who were all dressed in iron armor and gathered densely in the open space under the city, they still felt the power of this fiery summer, and everyone began to sweat, as uncomfortable as steaming in a cauldron.

The marching bands of the army were all dispatched, and hundreds of war drums made a majestic sound under the beating of the drummers. One by one, the flags were rolled up with the wind, different from the siege in the past, all the troops today are in high morale, most of the soldiers believe in the emperor's words, today will be a battle down Liaodong City, and they will have a celebration banquet in Liaodong City in the evening.

Although Chen Pojun and other broken military camps are cavalry, but since they have opened to the city, they are not allowed to come to Guangguang as spectators, and after a while, a herald came over and brought the emperor's will, and the 10,000 cavalry troops of the broken army lined up not far from the west gate, as long as the siege troops of the Sui army opened a gap, then they would be the first batch of the most elite troops to enter the city. In particular, their 5,000 heavily armored cavalry, as long as they can open the gap, they will be basically unstoppable when they rush.

It can also be seen that the emperor does favor Chen Kefu and the broken military camp, and this is the first unit to enter the city, which not only has honor, but also represents a great achievement. No matter how many people grabbed it, they couldn't grab it, but the emperor gave this credit to Chen Kefu.

The west side of Liaodong City was originally a small forest, and later after the war with the Sui army began, the Goguryeo people had already cut down the surrounding area of Liaodong City in order to enhance the vision on the city wall and save the Sui army from cutting down trees to make siege equipment.

Not only that, but Liaodong City, which has been besieged three times, has long practiced a set of perseverance skills. In the city that the Sui army attacked this time, they re-surrounded Liaodong City and re-excavated the original moat, making it an extremely deep trench.

Outside the moat, the Goguryeo dug several more trenches and planted antlers in the open space within 500 steps in front of the city wall. The so-called antlers are divided into two kinds of defensive foot riding, the first is to tie many sharp and strong branches or trunks together, because the shape is like antlers, also known as repelling antlers. The second is to sharpen the logs and fix them together to prevent the cavalry from attacking, so that they can move, also known as repelling horses.

However, the antlers under the city of Liaodong are more powerful than these two, but the two ends of the wooden stakes with thick arms are sharpened, one end is driven into the ground forty or fifty centimeters, and the other end is also sharpened to expose the ground about forty centimeters, these sharp piles are buried in all the open space under the city wall, dense, disordered, not only can effectively curb the infantry siege, but also have a greater limit on the impact of the cavalry.

If the Sui army wanted to get close to the city wall, it could only remove these antlers little by little, while the Goguryeo defenders could rely on the city wall to use bows and arrows, crossbows, etc. to kill and injure the Sui army in large numbers. In the siege of Liaodong City for a month, now in front of Chen Kefu and others, all the antlers under this city wall have been cut off by the Sui army at the cost of the lives of many soldiers.

Not only the antlers, but even the artificial river that cost countless people of Goguryeo was constantly filled in by the soldiers of the Sui army in the past month, from the initial filling of several offensive channels in the moat, to now basically this moat has become flat.

Looking at the ground in front of me still remaining some low piles, some bones in the moat, and even the broken city wall, even the ground under his feet is still oozing red and black, every inch of land here is full of the blood of the soldiers of the Central Plains, this city is like a bottomless pit, constantly sucking away the blood of the Great Sui, so that an incomparably prosperous Great Sui has lost too much vitality.

Yesterday, in terms of meritorious deeds, Chen Kefu was still the commander of the broken barracks, and the other generals in the broken barracks were also promoted and made rich, plus the several generals brought by Li Jie, at this time, dozens of generals around Chen Kefu were gathered together. Chen Kefu is in the center of the commander-in-chief, and on his left is the old man Li Benlei, who has just been knighted as the founding candidate of the Southern Soviet Union, and now the old man is also promoted to the general of the Zuo Bei Mansion. In addition to Chen Kefu and Li Benlei, the two people in the broken military camp are the generals of the Zhichong Lang, and even the new Li Jie is also the general of the Zuo Bei Shen Mansion, and the four generals of the Zuo Bei Shen Mansion, one of the twelve guards and four mansions, and the broken military camp accounts for three, which shows how important this army is in Yang Guang's eyes.

However, although Li Benlei and Li Jie are both generals of the fold Chong, they are Chen Ke's deputies yesterday. At this time, Li Jie rode a horse with a smile on his face and stood on the right side of Chen Kefu, which was also in the hands of these two deputies, which was equivalent to indicating that the old man Li Benlei was the second in command, and Li Jie could only be third. However, Li Jie didn't care at all, but after being with the generals, he showed great respect for the generals of the original broken military camp everywhere, and he behaved very well to Chen Kefu and Li Benlei.

And after the two of them, there were just a group of generals who were from the fifth grade and from the fifth grade. The 10,000 cavalry were divided into 5,000 heavy cavalry and 5,000 light cavalry, and Chen Kefu took 200 men as a regiment and 400 men as a battalion. The broken battalion was divided into twelve light cavalry regiments and twelve heavy cavalry regiments.

The remaining 200 light cavalry had just been formed into a scout battalion, the 200 heavy cavalry 100 Chen Kefu took 100 as his personal guard cavalry, and the remaining 100 were the personal guards of his general. The original fifteen lieutenants in the broken barracks, except for Li Benlei, who was promoted to the general of Zhichong Lang this time, the remaining 14 have been promoted to the general of the five grades of Xiong Wulang, plus the seven people brought by Li Jie, and the five grades who were promoted from the army, a total of 24 people, each leading a battalion.

"General, do you think we can break Liaodong City today?" Rollin asked. This time on meritorious deeds, most of the generals in the army are promoted to one level, but Luo Lin is a nobleman in his family, and his father is very likely to die in Liaodong due to disappearance, plus this time he followed Chen Kefu's performance is indeed extraordinary, the emperor waved his hand, Luo Lin was immediately promoted from the brigade commander who had just been promoted for a few days to the general from the five-rank martial arts general, and directly skipped the rank of captain, I don't know how many soldiers envy him. Now although he has been promoted to general, he still serves as the commander of Chen Kefu's 100 personal guards.

Chen Kefu turned his head to look at Li Jiedao, who was smiling, "General Li, do you think our army can take Liaodong City today?" ”

Regarding Chen Kefu's question, Li Jiedao answered very refreshingly, "General, I think it is a little difficult, but it is not impossible, it depends on how determined Your Majesty is." Although the city of Liaodong is strong and has not been captured by the siege of several cities, in fact, hundreds of thousands of our troops have besieged Liaodong for nearly a month, and although the Goguryeo people are still holding on to the city, they are also exhausted. The best way to deal with them is, of course, to continue the siege, as long as there is another month like this, it will definitely be able to easily take Liaodong City. It's just that my Great Sui Dynasty is here, and if I am trapped here for a long time, we can't afford to consume it. Attacking now, although the cost will be great, is still worth it overall. After all, in addition to this Liaodong city, there are many more cities in Goguryeo. If the time comes, the city of Pyongyang will be like this, and we really can't afford it. ”

Chen Kefu nodded, of course it is a way to fill in with human lives. However, this method is too extreme, basically hurting 10,000 people, losing 8,000 thousand, or even double. However, from a strategic point of view, every day that the Sui army dragged on in Liaodong, the damage to the Great Sui was also greater. For this Li Jie, Chen Kefu couldn't help but re-evaluate it in his heart, this is not only a child of a family, but also a capable family elite, especially Li Jie's attitude, which made Chen Kefu a little more vigilant in his heart. The dog that bites people doesn't bark, if he is arrogant as soon as he comes, Chen Kefu will not take it to heart, but now his demeanor can't help but make him understand that he has met a difficult opponent.

I hope I can take it. Chen Kefu also prayed in his heart.

"General, our offensive has begun!" Rollin's voice interrupted his thoughts.