Chapter 574: The Peerless Battle (14)

"Kill~~~~" "Kill~~~~" "Kill~~~~"

Hundreds of thousands of Sui troops gathered outside the dangerous Liaodong City, and the sound of the tide surged, accompanied by the fierce war drums and thunder, and the shouts of killing sounded again.

With the sound of shouting and killing, a group of nearly 10,000 Sui troops, all dressed in armor, launched a brave attack along a long ramp leading to the Liaodong city wall, with hundreds of people in the front holding heavy shields to block the attack on the city as much as possible, and other Sui soldiers followed closely behind them with small shields.

The Sui army was followed by more than 10,000 young and strong men carrying cloth bags on their backs, all of which were filled with dirt.

The long ramp under their feet was built by the Sui army in successive days of offensive with hundreds of thousands of people, and now the ramp is only a few dozen steps away from the city wall, once the Sui army extends this ramp to the city wall, all kinds of large siege equipment can rely on this point to board Liaodong City.

No matter how strong the overall combat effectiveness of the Xia army is, when the Sui army, which is more than three times as strong as them, attacks desperately, the Xia army will not be able to fight the Sui army just by consuming manpower, after all, no matter how advanced your weapons are, the ones who use them are only people after all.

"Knock" "Knock"

At the same time as the Sui army attacked, huge stone bullets flew out from the front of the Sui army's formation, and smashed on the thick city wall of Liaodong City.

The Sui army used its siege methods to the fullest, of course, the Xia army would not be beaten, and the more sophisticated the armament, they could even fight farther than the Sui army, but after all, there could not be too many boulders in the city, so many stone bullets shot into the city by the Sui army were shot out by them, destroying one after another Sui army trebuchet.

After all, the number of trebuchets of the Xia army is a little small, if they destroy one trebuchet of the Sui army, the Sui army can pull out two, and the Sui army has already built four of them, so no matter how the Xia army fights back, the Sui army can still maintain the attack intensity of nearly a thousand trebuchets at all times.

If it weren't for the fact that the Xia army in Liaodong City still had a huge number of rockets that could be used to suppress the large-scale offensive of the Sui army, which made the Sui army more fearful, otherwise Liaodong City would have been conquered by the Sui army a long time ago.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

With a violent explosion, the nearly 10,000 Sui troops who had attacked Liaodong City before retreated with heavy casualties, and even more than 10,000 people could not return, and they became one of the more than 100,000 dead bodies under Liaodong City.

No one said anything about such a scene, after all, everyone had gone from shock to accustomation during the days of attack.

In fact, whether it was the Sui soldiers or the people, they were not willing to go up to their deaths, but they had to participate in the endless attacks in this way, otherwise there would be one of them hanging from the thousands of wooden stakes under the ramp.

If it weren't for Yang Guangqiang's order for Yang Siren to organize a supervising team, and hacked to death thousands of soldiers who violated the order, and even several Sui troops were established, otherwise how could these Sui troops and Minzhuang attack so desperately?

In the sound of long horns and war drums, another group of nearly 10,000 Sui troops began to attack Liaodong City under the supervision of the warlord, and Yang Guang wanted to use this endless offensive day and night to completely exhaust the energy of the defenders in the city.

"King Jin, the food in our camp can only be eaten for six days, if we can't conquer Liaodong City within five days, I'm afraid it will be ~~~~~~."

Just when Yang Guang was thinking about how to better conquer Liaodong City, Pei Ju, who was in charge of the logistics of the army, quietly walked in, as Yang Guang's confidant, he was responsible for supplying all the Sui army food on the entire front, and this amount of food must be kept strictly secret and not known by anyone.

However, after three or four days of siege battles, the food consumption in the barracks was extremely great, and even literati like Pei Ju knew that the Sui army on the Liaodong front was actually in a very dangerous situation at this time.

However, Yang Guang still did not change his face and said: "Since there are still six days, it means that we still have six days, and we have been attacking day and night for four days and nights, which means that the 200,000 Xia troops in the city are already very tired even if they take turns to rest!"

And we have an army of 500,000 people, 600,000 people, attacking day and night and fighting non-stop, the first to collapse is the Xia army after all, as long as we can conquer Liaodong City and seize the Xia State Lord in Liaodong City, then all the problems we are facing now are no longer problems! ”

"But King Jin!" Pei Ju was very worried, "The Xia army defending in this Liaodong City is the headquarters of the Xia Lord's Central Protector Army, it is said that the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and the armament, grain and grass they have in the city seem to be very large, it is very difficult for us to conquer it in five days!" ”

Yang Guang sighed and said: "Pei Shilang, you must know that our retreat has been completely cut off by hundreds of thousands of Xia troops, you are one of the few who know this news, we have no way to retreat, if we can't capture Liaodong City, then we can only all die here!" So no matter what the cost, we have to go on the offensive! ”

Yang Guang's willingness to conquer Liaodong City is so strong, he no longer cares how many soldiers and how many people will die in this time to conquer Liaodong City, as long as he can capture Liaodong City, no matter how big the price is, he is willing to pay.

With his order, one group after another of the Sui army attacked day and night, although the casualties were very serious, but because the Sui army was so numerous, the Sui soldiers were able to withstand it for the time being.

As Pei Ju said, the defenders in Liaodong City were the 200,000 Chinese guards brought by Wang Ze and him, because of the Sui army's continuous offensive day and night, they were also very tired, but they knew that their beloved King Majesty was behind them, and they could not retreat.

Even though the Central Guard Army had a large number of gunpowder weapons, and even the Avant-Garde, Left Guard, and Right Guards had been reloaded with a large number of muskets, they were still very tired after four consecutive days and nights of high-intensity fighting, and they had to constantly encounter various siege tactics of the Sui Army.

The long earth slope built by the Sui army was only one of the tactics, and when the battle of the western city wall was fierce, the Sui army on the northern city wall suddenly used the amazing siege vehicles to bury thousands of catties of black powder under the city wall.

After a violent explosion, although it failed to blow up the Liaodong city wall, it also shook the Xia soldiers who were defending at the head of the city to the point that blood flowed from their ears and noses, and even some soldiers were deaf from the shock.

Compared with the casualties of the Xia army, the Sui army suffered a greater blow in the heart.

They paid a huge price and finally rushed to the city wall to carry out this blasting, but what they didn't expect was that the Xia army actually buried a large amount of reinforced concrete in the process of building the city wall, and the Sui army's gunpowder blasting failed to have a corresponding effect at all.

Although the city wall was safe and sound, it still frightened the Xia defenders in the city, after all, they used gunpowder to collapse the Liaodong city to take this strong city from Goguryeo.

The increase in the defenders of the northern city will inevitably affect the defense of the western city, and the Sui army here took advantage of the situation to launch a more fierce offensive, although these offensives were resolved by the Xia army one by one, but the ramp built by the Sui army was getting closer and closer to the city wall, only less than ten steps away.

With the order of the general attack issued, the Sui troops on all four walls launched the strongest attack, regardless of life and death, regardless of the cost.

Hundreds of people die every moment, like a fluttering feather, no! Lighter than a feather, as light as a spider silk in the wind, you can't see it at all, not that you look at it on purpose, in the face of a war of millions of people, an individual's life is just a gossamer in the wind.

Especially the long ramp is the most fierce node of the war, tens of thousands of the most elite Sui troops gathered on the five-zhang wide slope, at this moment Mai Tiezhu personally led the elite of the Mo sword soldiers to charge at the front, and they were also fighting with Wang Zezhong's Su Guards in the army.

Kill, kill, kill

Almost the same equipment, the same weapons and armor, even if the iron armor of the Xia army is very superior, but it still begins to become fragile in front of the unpredictable Mo Dao, and the low temperature of the cold winter in Liaodong also greatly affects the strength of the iron armor, and at this moment both sides are constantly filling in with their lives.

The entire Liaodong City turned into a huge meat grinder, throwing hundreds of thousands of soldiers into this machine.

"Hey, hey!"

At the same time as the Sui army in front of them was fighting, with the sound of a trumpet, one after another extremely heavy siege equipment came to the dirt slope, and continued to move forward under the hard work of thousands of people.

In particular, behind the goose carts besieging the city were tens of thousands of heavily armed Sui soldiers, as long as these goose carts could reach the city wall, they could continue to attack the city wall.

Just when these bulky siege equipment were still more than fifty steps away from the city wall, the Sui crossbowmen on the goose cart could even condescendingly suppress the Xia soldiers on the city, which provided great help for the offensive of the Sui army at the forefront.

In just a dozen breaths, hundreds of Sui army Mo swordsmen climbed the city wall, as long as there was their cover, it was no longer a problem for the Sui army behind to attack it.

The Sui soldiers behind them immediately cheered when they saw this, but before they could be happy, they saw that the Sui soldiers on the city head kept splattering blood, and the whole person seemed to have been punched many times one after another, and then fell to the ground with a bang.

Immediately after that, thousands of heavy rockets suddenly flew out of the city and shot at the tens of thousands of elite Sui troops on the ramp.

After so many days of high-intensity battles, the Sui army could not imagine how the Xia army, such a precious gunpowder weapon, could be used as a bow and arrow.

If they knew that the owner of the Xia Kingdom, the East China Sea, and the countless sulfur mines and saltpeter mines in the South Sea, they could only sigh and say: If they are rich, they are so capricious!

Accompanied by countless explosions, although the heavy siege equipment was not greatly damaged, the tens of thousands of Sui troops and Minzhuang gathered around the engineering equipment suffered heavy casualties, and the siege equipment was just a joke without people.

At this time, the soldiers of the Su Guard Army at the head of the city took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and repelled all the Sui army Mo sword soldiers gathered in front of the city wall, and even Mai Tie Staff suffered more than ten wounds, but he could only helplessly lead more than 2,000 remnants of the Sui army Mo swordsmen to retreat.

At the same time as the Sui army retreated, the Xia army continued to shoot rockets and oil bombs at the siege equipment on the soil slope, and soon turned these siege equipment into a pile of black charcoal, and Yang Guang, who was watching the battle, couldn't say a word angrily, he just thought that he could live in Liaodong City tonight.

It doesn't matter if the siege equipment is burned, anyway, there are many craftsmen in the camp, and then they can continue to build, but in the continuous counterattack of the Xia army, the Sui army can only use its huge forces to forcibly seize this city with their lives.