Liaodong City.

Overnight, the city changed greatly, and a shed was erected, and the city wall was like a passage, and people had to bow their bodies in it, and they also needed to squat half-way when fighting, but no one of the soldiers complained, complained, but was excited, with a shed to cover it, people were not easy to be shot by arrows on the city wall, where to find this kind of good thing?

Qin Huaidao ate something and rushed to check, and saw that it was built with a thick layer, with a wooden board as the bottom, and a layer of stone slabs on it, and a shield on top of the stone slabs, which was pressed with soil to prevent the wind from blowing away, double protection.

"The general is wise!"

The mercenaries guarding the city wall saw Qin Huaidao coming over, and shouted from the bottom of their hearts, a general who thinks about everyone's life is worthy of everyone's respect and follow.

"Whew-"

Suddenly, a low trumpet sounded, followed by the roar of war drums, which shook the wilderness.

Qin Huaidao came to a wall battlement with his body, looked forward from the opening, the enemy army began to assemble, ready to attack, and rested for a night, the enemy army had reached a unity inside, this is a refusal to sneak attack, to fight to the death.

This choice made Qin Huaidao puzzled, normally speaking, Goguryeo should choose to accept surrender, even if it was deceived and deceived into some of the silver grain, it would instead arouse the lives of the three armies and improve morale, refusing means going against the will of the army, could it be that something went wrong with Goguryeo?

A doubt came to his mind, and he didn't have time to think about it, Qin Huaidao shouted: "Order, let the mercenaries on standby carry water to help defend it." ”

"Obey!"

Luo Zhang found someone to give a few words, and after the other party left, he continued: "General, do you want to go out of the city to challenge, disrupt the enemy's deployment, delay time, and it will take some time to carry water." ”

"The enemy army has already suffered a loss, it should not be accepted, blocking today's attack, the enemy has suffered a lot, and after realizing that it is not easy to take this city, he will go out to challenge, maybe he will accept it." Qin Huaidao did not hesitate to explain Luo Zhang's problems and cultivated them wholeheartedly.

"Understood." Luo Zhang is thorough at one point.

"Prepare for battle, use feather arrows first, have you survived feather arrows?"

"I stayed up all night last night, and I have a lot to spare."

Qin Huaidao was relieved, once the feather arrows were survived with a mixture of feces, arsenic, etc., they would be stained with bacteria, and once they were shot into the body, they would be infected, and there was basically no solution, looking at the large number of archers who came out, the infantry actually sent behind, this was to attack frantically, and shouted: "Order, dodge the arrows." ”

"Dodge the arrows!"

"Dodge the arrows!"

Many people shouted, reminding the busy people under the city walls to hide.

After the three-way war drums, the enemy archers also lined up neatly, the angle problem, the archers looked up at the city wall, and could not see the changes above, they drew their bows one after another, full of strength, and gave an order, ten thousand arrows were fired in unison.

Countless feathered arrows rushed into the sky, like a black and oppressive dark cloud, and then rushed to the sky, dense, like rain, and fell fiercely on the shed of the city wall, making an aggressive sound, shooting at the shield, the tail of the arrow buzzed and trembled, the strength was exhausted, and it was difficult to penetrate the harder stone slab below.

The soldiers hid below, and when they heard the dense sound, they turned their heads to look worriedly, but found that after a rain of arrows, the shed was unscathed, and not a single feather arrow had penetrated, and they were immediately overjoyed.

"Okay—"

"The general is wise!"

Countless people cheered, morale soared, the defenders of the city were most afraid of arrows, and now the enemy feathered arrows can't shoot, what else is there to fear?

Qin Huaidao also breathed a sigh of relief, but the price was a bit big, almost demolished the outer courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion and several attics, and the planks and wood that could be used in the city were also collected, but fortunately, the effect was good.

At this moment, Qin Huaidao was completely relieved, and he was not worried when he saw the second round of feather arrows, and even the sound of the feather arrows falling was so pleasant, and said with a smile: "Luo Zhang, I am afraid that the enemy will have to shoot ten rounds in this posture, this is to kill and injure the living force of our army, create panic, and cover for the strong attack." ”

"That's true, tens of thousands of archers, this is a concentrated attack on Simon, want to rush in?"

"It's hard to judge, but ten rounds are good, plus the attacks of other feather arrows, we can harvest more than 200,000 feather arrows, and turn around to transform into arrows." Qin Huaidao said with a smile, he had no worries, he was in a good mood, and he couldn't help but watch the jokes.

When the soldiers heard this, they also laughed excitedly, and suddenly found that the 100,000 troops outside the city were no more than that.

"Duh! Duh! Duh! ”

Bursts of dense feathered arrows rained down into the sky, striking the shed, which was densely packed, like a hedgehog, but fortunately it was possible to use large logs across the wall battlements, and the wall battlements were strong enough to support them.

Luo Zhang looked at the arrows in the shed, and shouted excitedly: "General, in ancient times, there were straw boats borrowing arrows, and now there are generals borrowing arrows from the shed, which is another beautiful story for the ages." ”

"Don't pat yourself on the back, hurry up and give orders, the enemy army is almost there, ready to fight, let people rush to deliver water." Qin Huaidao reminded.

Luo Zhang agreed, and hurriedly found someone to give the order.

"Knock knock!"

Suddenly, another war drum sounded, low, deep, and shook the heavens and the earth.

Immediately afterwards, countless people behind the archers rushed along the passage, the front one carried a ladder, someone escorted it with a shield, Qin Huaidao roughly estimated that there were at least one hundred, and there were three thousand people who rushed up, and after the infantry rushed up, the archers continued to shoot arrows at the city wall to cover the attack.

Without a shed to cover it, it was really difficult for everyone to get up and fight, only to be beaten, but now it was different, the mercenary excitedly picked up the familiar big bow, aimed it from the wall battlement, and after hearing the order to shoot freely, he released the bowstring one by one and let the feather arrows fly out.

"Woooo

The feather arrow screamed away with everyone's excitement and killing intent, like a catapulted poisonous snake, biting the target fiercely and falling to the ground, extremely fierce.

The enemy troops who rushed up did not expect that after ten rounds of attacks, the counterattack on the city wall was so big and so sharp, and they were a little panicked for a while, but without an order, no one dared to retreat, so they could only rush forward.

Kill, ignite in an instant.

On the city wall, the soldiers had no worries, concentrated on shooting, and the accuracy was greatly increased, and they fought hard one by one, while remembering the number of shots they had shot, which was all rewards.

Once the combat power is exerted beyond the norm, the killing efficiency is terrifying.

When the three thousand enemy troops rushed to the city wall, there were still about a thousand left, and they were also red-eyed, and they rushed up along the erected ladder one by one, biting the steel knife in their mouths, but they couldn't climb a few steps, and they were shot by feather arrows, screaming and falling, and there was no need to dodge the arrows, and the enemies on the ladder were simply silver sent to the door.

"Ahhh

One after another, the screams resounded under the city, and the enemies who kept climbing the ladder rolled down, but they could not climb halfway, and this result made the mercenaries defending the city feel at ease, and their hearts were stable, and they shot more accurately.

Siege warfare quietly turned into a one-sided massacre!

The remaining 1,000 enemy troops suffered countless casualties, and only had time to escape back more than 100 people, the enemy's offensive failed, and the archers also stopped attacking, looking at the city wall blankly, and couldn't figure out why the opponent still had such a strong counterattack under such a dense arrow rain attack?

The anomaly beyond comprehension makes the archer confused and difficult to conceive.

It also made the high-level of the Goguryeo army confused and angry, did not withdraw the archers, and prepared to fight again, in fact, Goguryeo had no way to retreat, so he could only take Liaodong City at any cost.

Unlike Goguryeo, the mercenaries defending the city cheered excitedly, asking how many people around them shot just now, how much silver they could exchange for, and they were all emotional, Qin Huaidao looked at everyone, did not stop it, but smiled and said: "The enemy army will soon stop the attack again, if you want to kill more enemies and get a reward for silver, hurry up and get arrows, otherwise it will not be enough." As he spoke, he pointed to the ceiling.

There were mercenaries who could understand Tang and translated Qin Huaidao's words, and everyone reacted reluctantly, leaned out one after another, took down the feather arrows shot at the shed, and distributed them to everyone for later use.

Victory, worry-free, relaxation and the feather arrows sent to the door, like four doses of chicken blood, made all the mercenaries excited, their eyes lit up, and they swore to kill how many people they would kill in a while, how much reward they would take, and they were eager for the enemy to come up early.

Qin Huaidao saw that the army's heart was available, he was completely relieved, signaled Luo Zhang's command, and took Yu Linwei to the south city gate to check, reminding everyone to take arrows for backup, and when they walked to the north city gate, it happened that the enemy launched a second round of attacks, and this time the enemy's blood was greater.

The other gates could not be seen, and the troops attacking from the north gate alone had 5,000 people and 200 ladders.

If there are many people, it is arrogant!

Fortunately, there is a shed to block the suppression of feather arrows, otherwise Liaodong City may not be able to withstand such a crazy attack.

Guarding the north gate is the Xi clan in the mercenaries, the guard general is an experienced person, who has worked in the army, steady, cautious, put the enemy close and then fight, quite orderly, Qin Huaidao is satisfied with the people to leave, and does not interfere, just reminds everyone to take the feather arrows on the shed for backup.

When he came to the east gate, the defenders were struggling to shoot and prevent the enemy from climbing up, Qin Huaidao took a look, the siege force was about 3,000, which meant that the west gate and the north gate were the enemy's key attack directions, and hurriedly returned to the west gate, found Luo Zhang and reminded: "Send hundreds of people to support the north gate, that is the enemy's key breakthrough." ”

"Obey." Luo Zhang was busy directing Ximen, and he didn't know about this situation, so he hurriedly asked someone to pass the order.

Qin Huaidao thought for a while and shouted, "Yu Linwei, put up the banner of this general." ”

Erecting the general's flag means telling the enemy that the attack on the West Gate will increase greatly, Li Yixie is worried about Qin Huaidao's safety, and he is a little embarrassed, Qin Huaidao ordered in a deep voice: "Do it, what you have to do is to attract the enemy to attack the West Gate and reduce the pressure on the other gates." ”

"But?"

"No, but, can you do it, you can't do it, General Ben will come in person."

Li Yixie didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly asked people to erect the general's flag.

Flags flutter in the wind, hunting explodes, as if calling at the enemy, more like mocking the enemy's attack.

In the enemy's large array, the general in charge of attacking the west gate saw the flag's pupils shrink, and immediately became excited, pointing to the front and shouting: "See no, the enemy's banner has been erected, which means that they can't withstand the attack, and even the main general has gone to the city wall to participate in the battle. ”

"Obey." Immediately a herald ran away.

A general next to him said excitedly: "General, the king didn't say that whoever takes the city gate first will be promoted to the general, and the last general is willing to take his headquarters to attack and open the city gate for the general." ”

"Very good, it is worthy of being a tiger general under the command of General Ben, take the city gate, and General Ben will ensure that you will be promoted to three levels in a row."

"General Xie is complete!" The other party was overjoyed and prepared to go with the people of the headquarters.

The other generals looked at this scene with envy, and the general looked around and said coldly: "Listen well, no matter who among you opens the city gate for this general, the promise is the same, and you also know the king's order, you must take Liaodong City today, even if it costs nothing, go and prepare." ”

"General Xie!" The generals were overjoyed and returned to their respective units.

The general looked at Liaodong City, his eyes were cold, and he said coldly: "Liaodong City, it must be the general's." ”

However, seeing that the troops rushing up fell one after another, the counterattack on the wall of Liaodong City seemed to be unaffected, and his heart was shocked, and he was inexplicably uneasy, but when he thought that there were also people attacking at other city gates, he must not give up the post of general, and shouted: "Order, the archers continue to suppress." ”

"Obey!" The herald hurried away.

The cold wind is blowing, and the flags are hunting.

I don't know when there was a large dark cloud in the sky, and the long-lost sunlight hid, as if I couldn't bear to see this bloody killing.

Under the city wall, the thick smell of blood spread, the cold wind blew, spread wild, attracting a group of wild wolves, the wild wolves saw the fighting humans a little puzzled, stopped, couldn't understand why this happened, looked up to the sky and roared, as if asking.

The two armies that were fighting did not care about the wolves, and continued to attack and fight, their lives were as fragile as grass mustard, like cold numbers, and their deaths were meaningless.

Gradually, the city wall was covered with a thick layer, and the enemy could only step on the corpses of their companions to rush forward, but they still could not break through the ladder and climb the city wall.

Fight, turn into a one-sided killing!

However, the enemy still followed one after another, attacking at any cost, and there was a great tendency to never retreat without taking the city wall.

Half an hour passed.

An hour passed.

In addition to the casualties in vain, the Goguryeo army made no achievements, looking at the corpses all over the ground, the generals hesitated, and seeing that the counterattack on the city wall did not weaken, the generals panicked and couldn't guess why this happened.

According to experience, even if this kind of siege war is exchanged for five to one, 50,000 people can kill about 10,000 defenders, and the morale of the defenders who are killed collapses, the feather arrows are exhausted, and there is no strength to fight, however, 30,000 people are invested in it, and there is not even a bubble, and the defenders' offensive is the same as at the beginning, how can this be fought?

The general in charge of attacking Ximen hesitated, and a general couldn't help but remind: "Big brother, if you continue to fight like this, the troops will be exhausted, and without the troops, what will we do in the future?" ”

The general acquiesced, who would dare to withdraw without a big tent order?

The general also understood this truth, but he still couldn't help but remind: "Big brother, I thought that I could exhaust the enemy's materials in Checheng through a strong attack, but now it seems impossible, their feather arrows seem to be inexhaustible, this battle can't be fought like this, the clansmen are all killed in battle, what will the tribe do in the future?" ”

"What do you want to say? Who would dare to withdraw without an order? The general's face was gloomy.

"We can slow down the pace of the attack and save our strength."

The general's words made him tempted, and he couldn't retreat, but he could slow down the attack and reduce casualties, but when he thought that if someone attacked Liaodong City and took the city gate, wouldn't the previous efforts be in vain?

But if no one can take it, continuing to attack means losing more.

For a moment, the general hesitated, and the general anxiously persuaded: "Big brother, have you ever thought about it, if the troops are exhausted, even if you get the position of general?" What's more, without the troops, will the king really fulfill his promise and let the eldest brother be a general? I don't think so, the position of general has always been only held by the royal family, but we are not. ”

The general came to his senses, looked around, and said in a low voice: "You mean, the king deliberately used this trick to provoke us to compete, in order to weaken our strength?" ”

"Or else?"

The general's pupils shrank suddenly, and he regretted it a little, and said in a low voice: "Go for the summons, do it secretly." ”

"Obey!" The general secretly breathed a sigh of relief and hurried away.

The general looked at the big tent, his expression became complicated, thinking that the captured general was not in charge, and the soldiers who died in the battle were unwilling to redeem it, a dissatisfaction came to his heart, and after thinking about it, he suppressed this dissatisfaction, in the battle just now, the army lost more than half, but the king elite was unscathed, and he could only endure it!

Watching the clansmen who rushed up fall one after another, the general's heart was dripping blood, and a thought that he had never had before suddenly came to his mind - 100,000 troops can't take a single Liaodong City, can Goguryeo win this battle? Waiting for the Tang Dynasty to react, where should Goguryeo go, and where should he go?

Together, this thought can no longer be contained.

The next moment, the general looked back in the direction of the big tent, and dissatisfaction rose again in his eyes.

On the city wall, Qin Huaidao was keenly aware that the attacking troops not only did not increase the number of people, but the attack speed slowed down, obviously less crazy and resolute, more hesitant, very abnormal, and suddenly felt a shock in his heart, it is said that after the general banner is erected, the enemy attack will become more and more crazy, it seems that the Goguryeo army is not monolithic, there must be a problem.

"Can it be disintegrated from within?" Qin Huaidao's mind came alive.

The fighting continues, the death continues.

The blood stained the snow outside the city red, and the corpses were layered on top of each other, densely packed, feathered arrows, and weapons were all over the ground, which was shocking, but no one cared about it.

Until—

"Bang Bang!"

A dense sound sounded, which was a signal to retreat.

The attacking troops were relieved and turned around and ran, not even caring for their wounded comrades.

The mercenaries defending the city continued to draw their bows, their arms were sore, they couldn't do it, and they couldn't move, they were relieved to see this scene, cheered, and excitedly told their companions how many they had killed in the battle just now, showing off, rejoicing, and happy, and all kinds of emotions came to their hearts.

Qin Huaidao handed over the command to Luo Zhang, and told him to replace the troops that could not be defeated to rest and prepare for another big battle, who knows if the enemy will continue to attack? He took Yulin Wei down to the city and came to the city lord's mansion.

"Li Yixie?"

"What does the general command?" Li Yixie hurriedly asked.

"Didn't Luo Zhang capture a father and son? Bring my father over. Qin Huaidao admonished, sat down at the top, and thought while spreading out the map, the enemy fought too abnormally in the end, something must have happened, and Cheng Yanjin should also take the troops to rob the grain road at this time, I don't know how, we need to consider it all and deal with it in advance.

Not long after, a general was brought over, tied up, and his wound was bandaged.

Qin Huaidao looked at the other party and was silent.

The other party also looked at Qin Huaidao, a little shocked in his heart, and asked, "At such an age, you are actually the main general, presumably your identity is not simple, right?" ”

"Oh, why didn't General Ben sit in this position because of his military exploits?" Qin Huaidao asked rhetorically.

The other party is not hypocritical, and said bluntly: "The little general is really powerful, the force has been witnessed with his own eyes, just now the shouting outside the city shook the sky, presumably it was a large army attacking the city, but the little general's face was calm, not chaotic at all, it can be seen that the siege failed, this command ability is not bad, but these alone may not be enough, it is said that the most important thing in Datang is a famous general, such a high position to a teenager, unless there is a great background, it seems that I underestimated the opponent." ”

"You're very smart, it's much easier to talk to smart people, how about we make a deal?"

"Tell me?"

Qin Huaidao saw that the other party did not refuse on the spot, he was not a foolish and loyal person, and when dealing with this kind of person, he only needed to state his interests and let the other party choose, and he also said straight to the point: "First, this general sent someone to your army to negotiate and proposed five stones of grain for a corpse, as for you and your son, each offered 10,000 pieces of silver and 10,000 stones of grain, and your king refused." ”

"You want to stir up the relationship between General Ben and the Great King?"

"Wrong, I'm just telling you a fact, you are not important in the eyes of this general, it is worth 10,000 pieces of silver, 10,000 stone of grain, since your king does not agree, this general will let you go back to raise silver and grain, give you five days, and if you can't send it after five days, just wait to collect your son's body."

"If you really let me go back, aren't you afraid that I will lead the army over?" The other party looked at Qin Huaidao with a shocked expression.

Qin Huaidao smiled: "I thought you were a smart person, but now it seems that it is nothing more than that, those who were defeated and captured, what qualifications do you have to lead the army?" Your army has just lost more than 30,000 people in the siege, and the king of Goguryeo is angry, and he will only be angry when he sees you go back, and even suspect that you have betrayed, kill you and deter all the armies. ”

The general's face changed drastically.

Qin Huaidao waited for a while, let the other party digest the information, and continued: "General Ben is not afraid that you will go back, the general of the defeated army will not be able to make waves, and give you two choices, one, find a way to prepare silver grain in exchange for your son's life, remember, you will only be given five days, and if there is no food, you can exchange it for silver; Second, bring at least 20,000 people to vote, and it doesn't matter what you do, it will also take five days. ”

After speaking, Qin Huaidao didn't care whether the other party agreed or not, and said to Li Yixie: "Escort it down, eat it raw, and send it out of the city after dark." ”

"Obey." Li Yixie agreed.

The general glanced at Qin Huaidao deeply, his eyes were full of jealousy, and said: "Insight into people's hearts, command is determined, and the force is strong, no wonder you can sit in a high position, you are very powerful, Goguryeo may not be spared this time, I hope you will keep your word and wait for me for five days." ”

Hearing these words, Qin Huaidao became more and more determined to guess that the king of Goguryeo was a suspicious and ruthless person, and the Goguryeo army was not monolithic, otherwise the previous attack would not have changed suddenly.

"You are also very smart, you can see that the end of Goguryeo is coming, and the good birds choose trees to perch on, go."

Qin Huaidao became more and more firm in his guess, the Goguryeo army is really not monolithic, it is worth using, no matter how the other party chooses, he will make a lot of money, if he doesn't go back, it doesn't matter, it's just a worthless prisoner.

However, the other party is a father, and it is impossible to watch his son die, and he will definitely do something.

"How will you choose?"

Qin Huaidao looked at the back of the other party leaving, his eyes were full of anticipation.