The siege battle is first in the upper city, the emphasis is on the city gate, only by controlling the city gate tower, can the city gate be opened, and the army will be killed into the city, so as to level the remnants of the enemy, in this sense, but the center of gravity of the siege must be near the city gate tower, and the main force of the defending army and the main offensive and defensive equipment are often mostly gathered here, and Pyongyang City is no exception - these days, the Tang army has pressed the border, although it has never launched a siege war, but more than 400,000 troops camped under the city, and the defenders are not careful and cautious. In particular, the east gate where Li Zhen's main force is located is a large army, there are more than 20,000 elite soldiers stationed near the east gate, all kinds of offensive and defensive equipment, such as crossbows, trebuchets, wooden rolling stones, etc., but all of this without exception is concentrated in the city gate tower and the urn city area, as for the Yan eighteen troops to rush to the city far away from the city gate tower, it is precisely the weakest link in the city defense, there were still some patrols responsible for guarding, and they were beaten away by the bombs of the Tang army, so that The huge section of the city wall was completely emptied, and the Tang officers and soldiers who rushed to the city would not waste such a God-given opportunity, and they all tried their best to rush forward, erecting more than a dozen ladders on the moat, and covering them with thick wooden planks, forming five pontoon bridges.

"The enemy is coming, the enemy is coming!" At the moment when the first Tang soldier who rushed to the city climbed the city, a chaotic footstep sounded, and a large group of Goguryeo soldiers rushed along the city wall at high speed from the direction of the east gate under the command of a general.

The defenders came in time, at this time when the Tang army has not yet gained a firm foothold on the city wall, if you really let the defenders rush to the front, the Tang army that has just arrived at the head of the city in a hurry may not be able to withstand the counterattack of the defenders, once it is suppressed down from the city, the loss of soldiers is still a small matter, and the morale has been hit hard, and then it will be difficult to attack the city.

Yang Kaitai was born in a famous Goguryeo family, and Yang Wanchun, the former city guard of the city, is the same clan, but unlike Yang Wanchun, who has always been hostile to Yuan Gai Suwen, Yang Kaitai has always been Yuan Gai Suwen's confidant and favorite general, one of the famous wise generals of Goguryeo, when he went to aid Baekje before, Yuan Gai Su Wen planned to send his army to the expedition, but at that time Yang Kaitai happened to be sick in bed and could not follow the army, so there was Gao Quansheng in charge, otherwise, with Yang Kaitai's ability, Xue Wanche was afraid that he might not be able to win so smoothly, This time, Yuangai Suwen ordered his generals to guard the east gate, and it was precisely by virtue of his ability that Yang Kaitai should not have been on duty in the early hours of this morning, but last night Yang Kaitai seemed to feel something, tossing and turning in the barracks of the urn city and couldn't sleep, and got up in less than four watches, and when he was irritable, he simply took a group of guards to inspect the city, but he didn't expect that as soon as he walked up to the city gate, there was a violent roar at the far end of the city wallOn the one hand, he ordered the whole army to be assembled, and on the other hand, he sent people to report to the Lu Mansion, but he led more than 3,000 officers and soldiers on duty at the head of the city to rush towards the place of the incident.

"Sons, kill! Drive Tang Kou out of the city! Yang Kaitai led his troops to the vicinity, and when he saw that Tang Junfang had just gone to the city, and everything was still in time, he breathed a sigh of relief, waved the big knife in his hand, and ordered the whole army to press it in a loud voice.

"General, those strange ......" The rout officer who followed Yang Kaitai immediately heard Yang Kaitai's order to press the whole army, and immediately became anxious, pointing to the eight hot air balloons floating above the city not far away, and hurried to explain, but in a hurry, what he said did not reach Yang Kaitai's ears at all, and before he could say more, a group of officers and soldiers defending the city had already shouted and rushed over.

"Bomb dropping!" Seeing a group of defenders surging along the city wall, a group of Tang Army grenadiers who had already been prepared on the hot air balloon would not let go of such a good opportunity to annihilate the enemy, with Yan Wancheng roaring, dozens of iron cans smashed into the chaotic army like hail, and in an instant, the sound of violent explosions thundered into one, and countless shrapnel flew around like the sickle of death, turning the more than two hundred defenders who rushed to the front into stumps and broken arms flying in the air, and in the screams, flesh and blood flew sideways, The whole city suddenly became a hell of blood and fire, and the poor Goguryeo officers and soldiers had never experienced such a terrifying formation, and the officers and soldiers who were lucky enough not to be killed immediately cried and turned around and ran, colliding with their comrades who rushed up from behind, and the defenders who were originally coming with great momentum became a mess.

"Steady, steady, don't mess up, steady!" Although Yang Kaitai had also considered the monster attack that the rout soldiers said before, but he didn't expect this kind of attack to be so powerful, as soon as he saw that his own department was completely chaotic, he was in a hurry, wildly brandished the big knife in his hand, and roared hoarsely, after slashing to death several rout soldiers who rushed and collided one after another, he finally barely stabilized his position, and at this moment, the gunpowder smoke that filled the city had just dissipated, and in the gradually brightening skylight, he could barely see the scene of the explosion. This made Yang Kaitai completely dumbfounded.

"Doom ......" "Oh my God, Doom ......" ...... What kind of hell is this, the city is black, the stumps and broken arms are scattered all over the ground, the minced meat and internal organs are covered with the city plates on both sides, the mutilated human heads can be seen everywhere, the red, white and yellow things are flowing everywhere, the wounded soldiers who are not dead are rolling and crawling in a mess, wailing, the scene is simply the hell in everyone's impression, Rao is a group of soldiers are all characters rolling out of the sea of corpses and blood, but when they see such a tragic scene, they all can't help but vomit, not only the Goguryeo defenders, Even the more than 200 Tang officers and soldiers who took advantage of the chaos to climb to the top of the city were no exception, and even the bombardiers in the hanging baskets were also shocked by the results they had made up before, and for a while, the sound of vomiting all over the city sounded one after another.

"Crossbowmen assemble, quick, shoot down those monsters for Ben."

In the sound of vomiting, Yang Kaitai was also sick enough to choke on his stomach, but after all, he was brave enough to avoid people, and he was not frightened by such a terrible scene, and by the light of dawn, he had discovered the existence of the Tang Army grenadiers in the hanging basket, and he understood that this thing was not a monster, but just a new weapon of the Tang Army.

"Shoot the arrows!" Although more than 300 Goguryeo crossbowmen were all frightened, they still gathered forward according to the order, and formed a tight formation forty steps away from the Tang Army's hot air balloon array, and with Yang Kaitai's order, hundreds of feather arrows were intensively shot at the most remote hot air balloon.

More than forty steps at such a distance, has been out of the Tang Army grenadiers attack range, although a group of grenadiers tried their best to throw bombs to the Goguryeo crossbowmen, but unfortunately failed to achieve any effect, although the city wall was full of gunsmoke, but it was difficult to pose a threat to the defenders of the crossbowmen, with a burst of feather arrows whistling, the most remote hot air balloon was shot into a hedgehog when it landed, "Xiu Xiu" under the sound of air leakage, the original bulging hot air balloon quickly suffocated, can no longer stabilize in the air, swayed a few times, They fell headlong into the city, and the poor grenadiers on them were all smashed into meatloaf.

"Crossbowmen move forward, the whole army is ready to assault!" As soon as he saw that the crossbow attack was effective, Yang Kaitai's hanging heart was immediately put down, and he shouted loudly and ordered the group of crossbowmen to continue to attack forward.

The Goguryeo crossbowmen were so powerful, the Tang Army grenadiers were unlucky, and two were shot down in a row, and the rest of the grenadiers were anxious, but they had no choice but to shout to the Tang Army infantry who had gone to the city to come to the rescue, and at this time, Wu Qianchong's Tang army had nearly 500 people climbing to the city, and when they saw that their own grenadiers were attacked, they did not dare to slack off, and they shouted and pounced on the Goguryeo crossbowmen.

"Assault! Drive Tang Kou off the city and kill him! Yang Kaitai, who was standing behind the crossbowmen and observing the battle situation, saw the Tang army's foot soldiers rushing over, he didn't dare to slack off, shouted, and led his troops to launch a counter-charge, the two waves of people hedged against each other, and soon collided together, and suddenly the screams, the impact of weapons, and the shouts of killing were all intertwined, and a bloody hand-to-hand combat began.

Although the city walls of Pyongyang City are open, enough to accommodate more than a dozen people in parallel, but for the two armies to hedge, the field is still too small, and the soldiers on both sides who are crowded together have no room to show at all, they can only desperately wave their knives and guns, killing each other, this is a fight of consumption, the competition is the willpower of both sides, one side is to protect the family and defend the country, the other side is to make meritorious contributions, and the will of each other is extremely firm. The battle line was moving back and forth in advance and retreat, and neither could completely overwhelm the other.

At three o'clock, the sky was already bright, although it was still a little gloomy because of the thick clouds, but the line of sight was already unhindered, and the scene of the fierce battle on the city was completely revealed, which made Yan Eighteen, who was commanding the battle under the city, red-eyed - the fierce battle had been nearly half an hour, and the Tang army that had been put into the battlefield at the head of the city had as many as more than 2,000 people, but it was still unable to defeat the defenders, not only that, but under the impact of the continuous reinforcements from the defenders, the Tang army's front had already shown signs of being overwhelmed. This made Yan Eighteen look at it in his eyes and anxious in his heart, you must know that in order to be able to compete for the great task of this surprise attack vanguard, Yan Eighteen took a lot of effort to get the first place from Xue Rengui and other fierce generals, if it was really a failure, what face would he Yan Eighteen have to see His Royal Highness the Prince.

"Woo woo ......" just when Yan Eighteen was anxious, a loud horn suddenly sounded in the Tang army camp in the distance, and suddenly, the rumbling war drums sounded in the sky, and countless Tang officers and soldiers stepped out of the camp with the beat of the drum, first Xue Rengui led 20,000 cavalry to gallop towards the city wall, and then, several infantry teams escorted the Shenji battalion that pushed and pulled all kinds of trebuchets, rushing cars, and ballistas also slowly walked out of the camp gate, and approached in the direction of the city wall. The main force of the Don Army attacked! "Damn it!" Yan 18 looked back at the main army of his own side that was coming out of the camp, knowing that the time had come to fight, if he really waited for the army to line up, and his own department could not take the city gate, what was waiting for him would be the disposal of military law, even if he Yan 18 was Li Zhen's cousin, he would definitely not be spared, in a fit of anger, he scolded hatefully, pulled off the helmet on his head, slammed it to the ground, and roared: "Modao team, go to the city with the general, kill the thief, kill the thief, kill the thief!" As soon as the words fell, he didn't care about commanding a group of his sergeants, and led two hundred Mo Daomen lined up behind him to rush across the pontoon bridge, bumped into a group of officers and soldiers waiting to enter the city, and climbed to the top of the city.

"Whole team, quick, whole team!" Yan Eighteen was the first to climb the city, but he didn't care about the battle on the city wall in front of him, but kept urging the Mo Dao Men who were inconvenient to climb the ladder to speed up the climb, until more than fifty Mo Dao Men went to the city, Yan Eighteen didn't dare to wait any longer, shouted, and ordered the Mo Dao Men who had climbed the city wall to line up in four columns, slowly advancing forward, and all the way to order the soldiers who were crowded on the city wall waiting to participate in the battle to make way, and advanced towards the fierce battle line with difficulty.

When Yan 18 led the Mo Dao team to the city, he couldn't help but block the follow-up Tang Army's shield swordsmen and spearmen to go up to the city, and as for the Mo Dao Queue Formation, it disrupted the deployment of the Tang Army's troops on the front line at the head of the city, so it naturally gave the defenders a great opportunity to suppress the Tang Army's battle line, and when he saw that the Tang Army front was being oppressed and retreated, Yang Kaitai, who was commanding the battle, became excited, and shouted at the top of his voice in the chaos: "Tang Kou is going to be defeated, sons and daughters, kill them, kill!" Seeing this, a group of defenders and officers who were already capable of killing each other, each of them fought bravely to be the first, and in an instant, the Tang Army's front almost collapsed.

Calm down! Calm down! Yan Eighteen, who had squeezed not far from the battle line, also sensed the crisis of his own front, and was very anxious in his heart, eager to enter the battle immediately, but he knew that this was not the time, so he could only keep reminding himself in his heart to be calm, even if the soldiers in front were killed and wounded, Yan Eighteen was not in a hurry to continue to move forward, and calmly sat and watched one Tang soldier after another bravely sacrifice under the swords and guns of the defenders, until the Mo Dao team and the front line had opened a distance of about ten steps. Yan Eighteen finally launched, raised the three-foot Qingfeng in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Mo Dao Formation, get up!" With Yan Eighteen's roar, more than fifty incomparably sharp Mo knives were raised in unison.

"Enter!" As soon as he saw that the Goguryeo defenders had killed through the array of the Tang army in front of them, and had appeared in front of the Mo Dao Formation, Yan Shibai used all his strength to roar, and in an instant, the Mo Dao Formation lined up in a thick formation began to press forward, although the speed was not very fast, but the indomitable momentum could never be blocked.

"Mo Dao Team, oh my God, it's Mo Dao Team!" A group of defenders who had just broken through the Tang Army's front were about to cheer, but suddenly they saw the majestic Modao Formation in front of them, and they all shouted in panic, not only did they not dare to rush forward, but they desperately retreated, and the original indomitable momentum was suddenly greatly defeated.

"Slash!" Taking advantage of the panic of the officers and soldiers of Goguryeo, the Tang Army's Mo knife team unceremoniously pushed forward, with Yan 18's order, more than 50 Mo knives waved like wheels, like chopping melons and vegetables, the defenders who were blocking the front were cut into pieces, and for a while the screams resounded in the sky, and the poor defenders fought hard, how could they withstand such a wild slashing by the Mo knife array, and their morale was taken away, and they couldn't care about what the generals would not order, they all turned around and fled backwards, no matter how the generals drove them, no one was willing to turn back and fight.

"General go quickly, you can't stop it!" Yang Kaitai slashed and slashed the routs with his sword, trying to save the collapsed front, but it was a pity that all this was useless, seeing that the Tang Army's Mo Dao team had killed like a god of death, Yang Kaitai's guards around him were all anxious, and they rushed up, set up Yang Kaitai and fled towards the city gate.

"Modao team, flash! The whole army pursues, kills! Seeing that the enemy army was already in a complete rout under the blow of the Mo Dao team, Yan Eighteen was overjoyed, and he would not let go of such a great opportunity to beat the water dogs, and ordered the Mo Dao Formation to dodge the formation, and let the Tang Army spearmen and shield knife men behind them pursue the fleeing enemy forward, as for Yan Eighteen himself, he rushed to the forefront, roaring and rushing towards the direction of the city gate tower.

Although there are more than 4,000 defenders on the city, there are more than 10,000 defenders waiting to go to the city to participate in the battle, but under the fierce pursuit of more than 1,000 Tang troops, the defenders who could not stand their positions were chased by the Tang army and drove down the city gate tower, and the rout of the house book dragon enemy was out of control, at the same time, the main force of the Tang army also began to act, and the infantry of several phalanxes rushed towards the direction of the city gate tower with cloud ladders on their shoulders, With the prestige of the Yan Eighteen Divisions began to climb the city, as the new force continued to rush to the city, the war began to turn to Weng City, and the two sides added up to tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the urn city to launch a desperate fight, especially the battle between the Weng City Gate and the main city gate was the most intense, and both sides invested heavy troops in these two places.

The fierce battle is still continuing, human life is like a mustard disappearing, the flames of war are raging, suddenly a burst of cheers sounded, the thick urn city gate was the first to be opened by the Tang army from the inside, a Tang army infantry team that has been waiting outside the urn city gate for a long time immediately roared along the city gate hole into the urn city, the defenders who were already unable to support can no longer resist, not a few moments, the main city gate was also blasted open by the Tang army, countless Tang officers and soldiers chased the defeated soldiers into the city of Pyongyang, then, at this moment, a rumbling sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, It was Yuan Nanjian who led his troops to arrive, and for the Tang army who had just rushed into the city, the situation suddenly became tense again......

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