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On the stone head of Baiyan City, it is now densely packed with giant arrows, and I have to say that the solidity of the stone city wall is replaced by a general rammed earth city wall, and the salvo of the crossbow bed can already break the city. This is also limited by the terrain of Liaodong, the Goguryeo people are all built Shicheng mountain city, and the Central Plains except Luoyang, Xijing, the city is made of rammed earth, otherwise the Sui army will not have 300,000 troops, attacked for three months, and could not capture Liaodong City.

But even if there was a strong city to lean on, the Goguryeo soldiers at the head of the city still tried to rip off the arrows at the head of the city with hooks, but every time they did, they would be shot by the arrows of the nest chariot of the Cangtou army and the crossbowmen under the city.

The soldiers pushed the three-story nest cart covered in cowhide and slowly approached the city wall.

On each nest car, there are more than a dozen crossbowmen holding three-stone crossbows, but due to the terrain restrictions under the city, the nest cars cannot reach the city wall, so they can only shoot from the side.

And after yesterday night, the craftsmen of the army made seven or eight stone throwing machines. This simple stone thrower can only be fixed in place and cannot be moved, but it can project a boulder of 30 catties in 300 steps and smash it onto the city wall.

But even if a boulder is thrown away, it can be smashed on the wall of Baiyan City, and it can't break the city at all except for smashing a piece of stone chips.

After yesterday's confrontation with the Cangtou army, the Goguryeo army also saw the strength of the Sui army's crossbow array, and gave up the method of shooting at the moment, and generally did not show its head to shoot at the Sui army, but once the Sui army soldiers approached the city wall, stones, fire oil, and arrows were thrown on the city to prevent the county soldiers from approaching the city.

At the same time, the county soldiers climbed the wall with their bare hands by means of huge arrows tied to the city wall, but once this happened, the Goguryeo people would desperately drive the Sui army off the city wall regardless of the crossbow arrows fired from the nest cart.

Although these Goguryeo people fought without rules, they all fought to encircle their homeland, and with a bloody and courageous spirit, although they were shot down by the archers of the Cangtou army, the county soldiers were never able to take advantage of this to gain the slightest foothold in the city.

Seeing that the Goguryeo soldiers were so brave and fearless of life and death, the soldiers and soldiers of the county who watched the battle under the city also felt that the city was indeed difficult to attack.

After attacking like this for a day, there was no progress. Yuan Xiaokong Shan knew that Goguryeo's reinforcements were coming, so they were anxious that Li Chongjiu could take the lead and break the city earlier. But after watching it for a day, Li Chongjiu's county soldiers fell into a situation where they had no way to hold the fortress of Goguryeo, just like the Liao Sui army.

As a result, once the Goguryeo reinforcements arrived, they would be caught in an unfavorable situation of internal and external attacks.

Yuan Xiaokongshan discussed for a while and felt that the situation was very unfavorable, but seeing that Li Chongjiu and the generals were still unhurried, he secretly wondered at the moment.

On the third day of the siege, the ladder on the side of the Cangtou army has been built, and in order to overcome the terrain of the hillside under the city, the craftsmen also created a batch of ladders overnight, which are suitable for erecting the city wall.

After the 500 county soldiers had eaten lunch, the whole team was finished, lined with a layer of cloth armor, covered with fine scale soft armor, and finally tied iron shoulder armor and heart guards, holding iron long knives and small round shields made of leather, followed the ladder to attack the city. When the ladder hooked the city wall, the soldiers entered through the back door of the ladder one by one and began to fight in the city.

After approaching the city wall, the county soldiers began to climb the ladder to attack the city, and climbed to the top of the city, because their own army landed in the city, the crossbowmen on the nest car did not dare to shoot crossbow arrows again, and the defenders of Goguryeo were relieved from the suppression of crossbow arrows and poured up.

The fierce battle at the head of the city was very fierce, and the Goguryeo people still had such delicate heavy armor as the county soldiers, nor did they have the strong crossbows that the county soldiers had such a long range. However, the defenders, all wearing white turbans and armed with hooks, collars, knives, and forks, almost like militia-like Goguryeo, desperately stepped forward to form a flesh and blood body to resist the county soldiers who were armed to the teeth.

Above the city walls, blood spilled from the battlements and moored down the walls.

They could see that despite the inferior equipment, the casualties of the Goguryeo were far greater than those of the county soldiers, but the Goguryeo people fought very tenaciously and bravely, and almost drove the county soldiers off the city several times with several counterattacks.

The progress of the siege here is slow, Li Chongjiu from the nest car reconnaissance to get the news, the Goguryeo women in the city are mobilized, take care of and bandage the wounded soldiers, cook and deliver food, and even the arrows, rolling wood, and stones at the head of the city are carried by them, although the siege has always been suppressed by the county soldiers, and is at a disadvantage, but yesterday's reinforcements gave the defenders a great encouragement, and the city is a scene of the same enemy.

The two sides fought fiercely until dusk, and Goguryeo was finally exhausted, although the defenders were not afraid of death, the casualties were already quite heavy, and they were unable to regain a foothold on the city.

But now it is also dark, and the county soldiers are also worried that the Goguryeo people will sneak attack at night and conduct field battles, so they have given up on gaining a few footholds at the head of the city, and restarted a new round on the nest car, shooting a rain of arrows to suppress the city. And the iron-clad soldiers of the county were well removed from the ladder. After that, the nest car and the ladder were pushed back to the same place.

On the night of the third day.

A man claiming to be a Goguryeo envoy fell from a hanging basket on the city wall and came to Li Chongjiu's camp to ask Li Chongjiu to surrender.

Li Chongjiu and other generals met with the Goguryeo envoy.

The other party was an old man who looked quite kind. As soon as he saw Li Chongjiu, he bowed and said: "The sinners are in the city as brothers, and in order to save the people of the city, they have come to ask the envoy to surrender and beg the king to spare the lives of the people of the city." ”

Seeing that the other party was kneeling on the ground, Li Chongjiu was not embarrassed, and immediately asked the other party to get up, and said: "If you open the city now, I can agree to your conditions." ”

The old man said: "Thank you for your mercy, the army of the Celestial Empire is good at fighting, and the people of our country are small and weak, so how can a large army conquer, and subduing is just conforming to the will of the people, but the people have a reluctant request." ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

The old man said: "The king is so suspicious of the border generals that he refuses to rest assured, so he moves the families of the contemptible people and the city lord to Pyongyang as hostages. If we surrender, the king will hold them accountable. ”

"Therefore, the old man also asks the envoy to allow us to suspend the surrender of the city, and if the city can be defended for more than five days and is breached, then the king will not hold us accountable afterwards. Then the wife and son in Pyongyang, as well as the family, will not be implicated. Therefore, please give your grace for two days. ”

The old man spoke very sincerely, but everyone present laughed.

The old man's face sank, and he said, "Don't you believe in our sincerity? ”

Li Chongjiu smiled: "Okay, I am willing to believe in your sincerity, and I will promise you." ”

At this time, Kongshan Yuanxiao, who did not know the situation, was stunned, and wondered why Li Chongjiu was so confused.

When the old man heard this, he immediately said with great joy: "In this way, I have thanked the envoy, so please ask the envoy to withdraw the siege." ”

Li Chongjiu smiled and suddenly said, "Who said that I was going to withdraw the siege." ”

When the old man heard this, his face changed, and he immediately said, "Why did the envoy deceive me? ”

Li Chongjiu said: "How can I deceive you, you said you wanted to surrender, but I didn't say that I wanted to withdraw the siege, tomorrow and the Japanese army will continue to attack the city unchanged!" ”

Speaking of this, Li Chongjiu smiled on his face, and said at the moment: "When I attacked Liaodong City in the Great Sui, whenever the city was about to be broken, the city would ask for surrender, and after a few days, the city would rebel and rebel again. I have already seen the shame of the Goguryeo people, and now who will believe it, not to mention the words of the five days, I will listen to it as a joke, which is not bad. ”

Speaking of this, all the generals laughed.

The old man was immediately annoyed and walked away.

The next day, in Baiyan City, it was expected that the Han army under the city would attack the city fiercely, and all the people were mobilized to go to the city, and even women and children distributed weapons.

However, contrary to the expectations of the Goguryeo people, the Han army under the city did not move at all, and the nest car and cloud ladder were all in the distance, and there was no intention of attacking the city. The defenders of the city could not figure out the number of the Han army, and they were very puzzled at the moment, if they hadn't seen the Han crossbowmen hiding in the trenches under the city, holding crossbows, they would have thought that the Han army had given up the siege.

At noon, the north of the city suddenly rose with smoke and dust, obviously the cavalry was fighting fiercely, and the Goguryeo defenders above the city, knowing that reinforcements from the direction of Liaodong City had arrived, all cheered. At the same time, it is also explained why the defenders did not attack the city.

However, the cheers of the Goguryeo people did not last long, and the crossbowmen hiding in the trenches under the city came with a volley of fire at the head of the city, and several people were accidentally shot down from the head of the city. At that moment, the defenders were furious, and the three hundred dead soldiers hid in the cave of the city gate, ready to go out and fight after gathering reinforcements.

Kongshan Yuanxiao knew that after the fierce battle outside the city, they were very worried, of course, they were even more worried about the enemy army in the city attacking out of the city, so they came to remind Li Chongjiu to be careful, if the situation was unfavorable, they could retreat.

Kongshan said: "We are very grateful for the kindness of Li Envoy's help, whether Goguryeo withdraws troops from the southern front or not, I will thank the envoy on behalf of our king, this attack on Baiyan City, although it did not achieve the goal, but it is enough to deter Liaodong." But please send troops to attack again in the fall. ”

The other party is considerate, but for the Cangtou army, the money and food have not yet arrived. Li Chongjiu smiled when he heard this, and said, "Thank you Master Kongshan for your understanding, but I don't think I can withdraw now." ”

While they were talking, a bloodied general, riding a horse, went straight to Li Chongjiu's Chinese army. Sora Shan saw that the other party was covered in blood, and his heart felt bad.

The other party was a Xi man who rode closer, turned over and dismounted, and said, "Meet the Khan!" ”

Li Chongjiu nodded, and immediately asked, "Wang Mahan, Ying Hefu, have they divided the winner?" ”

The war in the north of the city has subsided, hiding behind the battlements, watching the war in the north of the city, the Goguryeo people are anxious, but when they see the war subsided, they don't know whether they have won or lost.

If it weren't for the archers of the Cangtou Army, they would have stretched their necks to see.

At this moment, the camp under the city suddenly opened, and a general and his soldiers came to the city gate with a group of prisoners.

And under the city, the flags were thrown to the ground one after another, allowing people to trample on them.

The general lifted a human head from the side of the horse, and immediately spoke: "The 10,000 reinforcements in Liaodong City have been completely wiped out, and the chief has been beheaded by my king Mahan, and the city will not surrender quickly!" (To be continued.) )