Beginning on October 18, the 10th year of the Great Cause, the Goguryeo coalition army began a new stage of siege of Liaodong City.

The commanders of the combined forces of the Mòhé, Murowei, and Ji tribes began to find various excuses not to participate in the war every time they proposed a joint siege in Goguryeo. For all ethnic groups, in this battle of Liaodong, they have lost too many soldiers and horses. If they don't want to, they have already made up their minds that they will never send a single soldier to participate in the siege of the city. The reason why he continued to stay under Liaodong City and did not go back to his own home was also because he felt that Liaodong City could not be defended. Staying, naturally, for the sake of wealth in the first fortress of Liaodong.

After losing the support of the troops of various ethnic groups, the Goguryeo people, who had only more than 80,000 soldiers left, also began to change their siege strategy. In the ensuing siege, the Goguryeo people could no longer be swarmed with deep pockets, and they formulated one elaborate siege plan after another, and each time the deployment of troops was very remarkable. There will never be a waste of troops, and each time there are 20,000 or 30,000 people attacking the city, and basically they are feints on three sides and one side is attacking. False and real, real and virtual, and they also keep carrying out night raids, small troops stealing city battles.

After the Sui army had previously used tunnels to attack Liaodong City, the Goguryeo people dispatched a large number of slave men and began to dig tunnels. However, for the Sui army in the city, how could they be defenseless when they captured Liaodong City in the first place.

The engineer battalion has the most professional tunnel-digging personnel, and they are equally proficient in tunneling. The city had already made preparations before the war, and at the foot of the city wall, there were already deep ditches dug one after another, and even a large number of urns were buried at the foot of the four city walls in the city, and the underground situation could be accurately detected by listening to the urns.

No matter whether the Goguryeo people dug small tunnels or large passages, they could not hide from the eyes of the Sui army.

Every time they just dug a tunnel, they were waiting for either bows and arrows, or the flooding of the Sui army. After digging countless tunnels and spending a lot of manpower, the Goguryeo people not only did not make any progress, but instead lost their troops and took thousands of men and horses.

The Goguryeo people could not attack, but they were worried that the Sui army would send cavalry to raid the coalition camp like last time. So, those people and slaves worked day and night to lay fortifications under Liaodong City, and around Liaodong City, the Goguryeo people directly dug dozens of ditches. Not only that1 innumerable thorns and deer feet, trapping horses in pits, and rejecting horses, all over the city of Liaodong.

And in order not to let the Sui army in the city rest, Yizhi Wende and Gao Jianwu formulated a complete attack plan. The allied army of the four tribes, including Mòhé, was divided into three teams, and every night they brought 50,000 slaves and men to the city of Liaodong to beat gongs and drums and shout.

And in order to achieve better results, Gao Jianwu and Yizhi Wende, who are old Jiān giant slippery, will arrange a small force of 10,000 or 20,000 people from time to time to be caught in those attacking soldiers and horses, and every once in a while, it will change from sāo disturbance to a real siege. In short, they just didn't give the Sui army a little time to rest.

During the day, Gao Jianwu's troops would routinely attack the city, sometimes with one or two casual attacks, and sometimes they would also concentrate tens of thousands of troops and horses to launch a strong attack. However, for the Sui army at this time, the failure of the Goguryeo coalition army to attack the city since the first day was equivalent to announcing the failure of the entire siege of the coalition army.

After replenishing some of the soldiers, only 100,000 Goguryeo soldiers remained, and they were really not taken into account by the Sui army. Although there were only 80,000 people left in the Sui army, the Sui army's equipment was still sufficient. Although most of the various crossbow bolts were lost on the first day, there was still a large amount of brand new equipment in the warehouse.

With this large number of advanced equipment, the Sui army held the city. The Goguryeo people also had a strong faith, and through this new strategy, they continued to wear down the physical strength and will of the defenders in the city.

On the night of October 25th, there was no light in the dark night, and I couldn't see my fingers.

The Goguryeo people routinely dispatched tens of thousands of people to attack and harass for more than three hours, and finally gradually retreated. Just when the defenders at the head of the city thought that today's annoying sāo harassment was finally over, Etoji Wende and Gao Jianwu dispatched 50,000 well-recharged soldiers and secretly went to the city with thousands of ladders.

After nearly half a month of raids, the Sui army at the head of the city was indeed exhausted, and it actually appeared when a small army of Goguryeo vanguard had already reached the head of the city. The soldier who had just come to scream was killed.

The Goguryeo people at the head of the city were desperately guarding the head of the city, dozens of ladders were erected on top of the gang wall, and teams of Goguryeo elite warriors continued to leap up from there. More and more Goguryeo people climbed the city, and soon a few people went to the city. ,

According to the predictions of the Goguryeo people, this time they have succeeded.

However, the heavens did not let them succeed, although they occupied a part of the city, but in order to deal with the situation of each other. Chen Kefu had already arranged a large number of soldiers at the head of the city, and almost every one or two meters, there would be one or two groups of soldiers and several people at the head of the city. These people were not on duty, but Chen Kefu arranged for half of the people in the city to take turns sleeping on the city every day.

In this way, a quarter of the people on duty at the top of the city every day, and two-quarters of the people sleeping at the head of the city, only the remaining quarter of the people will take turns to sleep peacefully under the city.

Together, these unclothed soldiers and civilians didn't have to run from the city to the city at all, they just got up and joined the battle. After more than half a month, Chen Dongfu asked the people in the city to strengthen their training in crossbow shooting while defending the city. With the craftsmen in the city working day and night, the Sui army had countless simple versions of crossbow arrows in their hands. These simple versions of the crossbow arrows have a shorter lifespan and a higher failure law, but at this price, they can be used in large quantities to produce standard accessories, which can then be quickly assembled by the people.

In half a month, this shoddy and simple version of the single crossbow was made, but a full 100,000 were made. Coupled with the crossbow in the original equipment warehouse, in the entire Liaodong City, except for those craftsmen and doctors who were working in the city, everyone basically had one hand. Even the guy who delivered food to the defenders at the head of the city brought a handful with him.

Bursts of crossbow rain shot down the Goguryeo people who had climbed up to the top of the city. The more you go on, the more you die. In the rush of alarm bells, more and more Sui soldiers arrived, and there was no need to fight in close quarters at all, although this kind of simple crossbow with a range of only thirty or forty paces away, it could allow the weakest Sui soldiers and civilians to kill the strongest Goguryeo warrior in an instant.

The Goguryeo people have been preparing for today's siege for several days, and all the troops who went to the city first were the strongest soldiers and horses. And for the sake of concealment, these Goguryeo people all wore black clothes1 and did not wear iron armor in order not to make a noise.

The Goguryeo people, who were only dressed in black sè and carrying swords but no armor, no shields, and not even a large number of bows and arrows, fell one by one under the rain of crossbows and arrows of the Sui army. The rest of the Sui troops who rushed to the city directly poured barrels of oil into the city, threw down torches one by one, and the raging fire ignited, and those Goguryeo people who had not yet attacked the city had to retreat.

The soldiers and horses of Goguryeo City, which lost the support of the follow-up troops, became a lone army when it was completed. By the time the heavy infantry units wearing heavy armor arrived at the head of the city, the whole battle was no longer in suspense, and one after another Goguryeo people were either cut into two pieces by Modao, or were driven directly off the city.

By dawn, all the Goguryeo people who had climbed on the pouting head were finally wiped out, and the remaining Goguryeo people reluctantly retreated to Liuhe City in the face of the failure of the siege, leaving only nearly 5,000 corpses under the city of Liaodong.

This night raid was the closest the Goguryeo people came to success since the failure of the siege on the first day, and nearly 4,000 men climbed each section of the wall. However, under the strong blow of the Sui army, it was still in vain in the end.

Seeing that such a long-prepared plan still failed, Gao Jianwu and Yizhi Wende both had bad faces and felt a little bad. Through this night attack, they obviously felt a very bad signal, the Sui army in the city not only did not get weaker and weaker in the siege, but seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.

"Lord Wang, see if you can come forward, and then invite Tie Anda, Fuyu Zhang, and Huang Ge to discuss. The siege has dragged on for too long, and things have already exceeded our estimates.

If it drags on any longer, I'm afraid that the reinforcements of the Sui army will arrive, and it will be even more difficult for you and me at that time. ”

From the first day of the siege, it has been a full eleven days now, and in these eleven days, they have attacked the city dozens of times, but except for the loss of more than 10,000 people, there has been no progress at all. When they first came, they already knew that a detachment of soldiers and horses from the Sui army was coming in a hurry, and they would be able to arrive in about half a month at most.

Eleven days had passed, that is, they had only four or five days left at most to storm the city. If they can't attack it by then, they will face a Sui army supported by fresh reinforcements. Originally, he thought that Goguryeo soldiers and horses alone could take Liaodong City, but now it seems that it is impossible. At this time, I can no longer care about the ridicule and ridicule of those barbarians. They still have more than 20,000 elite soldiers and horses in their hands, which is a new force that has been recuperating for more than ten days. ,

Gao Jianwu nodded, "I'll talk to them in a while, taking Goguryeo is good for all of us, if we can't take Goguryeo City, it's not just our Goguryeo family who are unlucky, I believe they will know how to choose." ”

There was a rush of footsteps, and a soldier burst in without being announced. Yizhi Wende was furious, "Without notification, trespassing into the handsome tent, this is a capital crime, dragged out and beheaded!" In addition to being angry, he couldn't help but wonder if it was because there had been no progress in the siege recently, and even the people below had begun to snub him.

The man was held down by several guards, and kept struggling, "Dashuai, I have an urgent military situation to report to you, because the matter is urgent, so I forgot the rules for a while, please spare your life!" ”

Etozhi Wende stretched out his hand to stop the guards and said coldly. "Say, what an emergency military situation!"

"Marshal, there is no food in the army!" The man said with a shudder.

Echiwende, who had just picked up a glass of water and was about to drink it, was taken aback, and the cup in his hand was not held steady, and fell to the ground, breaking into seven or eight pieces, and the tea in the cup also splashed up, drenching his boots.

But at this time, he was no longer in the mood to care about these people, and Yizhi Wende exclaimed, "What are you talking about!" ”

The person who came to report was the logistics officer, and at this time, his face was as white as paper, and he whispered, "Marshal, there is no food in the army, and the whole army will run out of food tomorrow." ”

Gao Jianwu's face was also anxious at this time, and food was the life of the army.

Now that hundreds of thousands of them are under the city of Liaodong, they have not yet destroyed the enemies in the city, but they have run out of food for the people in their own city, how does this matter sound like a joke.

"Impossible, before the army came out, His Majesty had already mobilized enough grain from all over the south to transport it to the Inner City and the Black Bone City. When we came out, we brought a large army of food for a month, and tens of thousands of slaves were arranged to transport grain to Liaodong City, how could there be no food tomorrow? "If it weren't for the fact that this man was a petty officer, he would have thought that all the military rations had been swallowed up by this logistics officer.

The logistics officer said with a sad face, "Lord Wang, when we went out, we did bring a month's worth of food, but some of it was carried by the former army. The former army was attacked by the Sui army at night in Daliangshui, and all the grain and grass were burned. Later, after joining with the army, it replenished enough food from the Chinese army. As a result, the former army was ambushed by the Sui army in Xincheng, and the whole army was gone, and that part of the food was gone. After the Chinese army arrived in Liaodong this time, it has been almost a month now, and in addition, the soldiers and horses such as Mòhé, Murowei, and Ji have also eaten our grain, and all the grain is consumed very much. ”

"And besides," the logistics officer hesitated for a long time before saying, "And if it weren't for the first attack on Liaodong City, nearly 100,000 people were killed in that battle, and this grain would have been unable to last today." ”

Hearing this, Echi Wude couldn't control himself anymore, and flew out with a kick, kicking the logistics officer to the side. He cursed angrily, "Could it be that the soldiers of the army who were born and died have actually become a group of rice buckets who can eat in your eyes?" ”

Gao Jianwu also said with a calm face, "Since there is a shortage of food in the army, why didn't you report it before, and you didn't report until you ran out of food?" ”

"Lord and marshal, a batch of grain should have arrived in the army five days ago. It's just that I don't know why, but it's been delayed, and I see that the two adults haven't been in a good mood lately, so they don't dare to report the news. I originally thought that it would always arrive after a day or two, but I thought that I would wait day after day, but I didn't arrive. Now the army has run out of food and grass, so the villain has to report. ”

Such an important matter was not taken seriously by the logistics officer, and it was postponed again and again. Ochi had just fought a big defeat, but at this time he was shocked and angry by the news.

"Drag this person out of the military plane for Ben Shuai, and cut the corpse into pieces!"

After waiting for someone to drag it out, Gao Jianwu said with a worried face, "Dashuai, what should I do now?" ”

This side has been continuously attacked, but the coalition troops and horses over there are sitting on the wall and watching. Seeing that the reinforcements of the Sui army were about to arrive, they actually ran out of food. And it's so completely broken, there is not even tomorrow's bread.

At present, there are more than 300,000 soldiers and horses in the entire Liaodong City, and there are more than 300,000 mouths on this day. If there is no food to eat, where will you have the strength to fight? If one is not good, it will be over. Now they have to think about more than just how to take Liaodong City, if they don't do it, their 300,000 people will starve to death in Liaodong City. ,

At this time, Gao Jianwu couldn't help but admire Chen Pojun in Liaodong City, and he actually made such a ruthless move against the strong wall and cleared the wilderness, and after breaking through all the nearby cities, he confiscated all the grain.

The Goguryeo soldiers and horses who fought in their homeland had to come from thousands of miles away to use food.

"All the grain in the nearby cities has been robbed by the Sui army, and the nearest city of our army is still east of Daliangshui. Even the fastest horses take three days, not to mention the round-trip transportation of grain. More importantly, the city near the sorghum water simply does not have enough food to feed 300,000 people. Eulzhi Wende was also sweating profusely at this time.

Even if he Yizhi Wende and Gao Jianwu are called the gods of war and the gods of war, they are also unable to lead the army without food.

At this time, the two of them really felt in a dilemma, even if it was too late to withdraw their troops now. It took at least three days to rush to the nearest Goguryeo-controlled area, and there was not enough food to feed so many people in the three days. And no matter how far it goes, it can't go that far with food. At that time, their hundreds of thousands of people were the biggest group of jokes in the world, and they starved themselves to death by attacking the city. Throughout the ages, only those who were trapped in the city starved to death, and it has never been heard of those besieging the city starving to death first.

Long silence!

"There is only one way to solve today's plan!" Etozhi Wende said in a low voice.

Gao Jianwu nodded, he also knew what Yizhi meant, "This is the only way, there are tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass in Liaodong City, not to mention 300,000 people, even 30,000 people are enough." Now most of them can only save the lives of 300,000 people by taking Liaodong City. ”

"The news of the food shortage must be tightly sealed, and it must not be known to other officers and soldiers in the army.

Lord Wang, you immediately dispatch a team of men and horses to lock up all the men and horses in the logistics battalion, and in addition, we have to invite Tie Anda, Fuyu Zhang, and Huang Ge to discuss now. Capture Liaodong City, everyone has something to eat, can't take it, everyone is waiting to be a starving ghost! ”

The two of them frowned, and there was deep fear in their eyes. The current situation, even if they kill all the war horses in the army for food, they can't support it for a few days. And if you want to take Liaodong City in just a few days, it's too difficult!

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