Buyeo City

This is the birthplace of Buyeo, the ancestor of the Goguryeo royal family, and after regaining this land, Goguryeo established this small city in the first year of Taihe of the Northern Wei Dynasty (477 AD), and it has been less than 100 years since the 19th year of the Xia calendar (576 AD).

In the later Liao period, legend has it that there is a yellow dragon here, so it was renamed Huanglongfu, and the yellow dragon in the yellow dragon is the Buyeo City, which is also a city with a relatively long history, and it was the political center of their rule in the hometown of Buyeo in Goguryeo.

It's just that the current Buyeo City has lost its former liveliness, a number of up to 80,000 infantry troops have surrounded it, and the summer army camp stretches for more than ten miles on three sides outside the city.

Even if the Goguryeo people in Buyeo City were a little more psychologically stronger because of their long-term hostility with the Khitan, they were still worried in the face of a multi-fold gap in strength, after all, the Goguryeo army had almost always failed against the Xia army in recent years.

This time, the Xia army came violently, without the slightest friction from the last time, all of which doubled the pressure on the Goguryeo defenders, even the city wall as high as four or five zhang high did not make them feel safer, but felt that this was a cage to trap themselves.

Around Buyeo City, Hu Bingchang was leading more than 30,000 cavalry under his command to cruise within a radius of hundreds of miles, expelling all suspicious people, and Ji Xiang led his independent cavalry division to go hundreds of miles, ready to intercept the Goguryeo soldiers who might escape from the city at any time.

On a small dirt slope three miles away from Fuyu City, Jiang Chuan and Xu Ning respectively held a pair of binoculars to look at the heavily guarded Fuyu City, I have to say that this kind of newly appeared binoculars can see much clearer than monoculars, but at present, they are only equipped to the level of Duwei Jun Sima.

"The intelligence says that the general who is guarding in Buyeo City is Gao Wencan's general Gao Jian, and at present, he only has 20,000 Goguryeo infantry troops under his command, and the other 30,000 Goguryeo cavalry are nowhere to be found, but I guess this cavalry is likely to take advantage of our siege to raid our rear road!"

After Xu Ning held the binoculars high and looked at them for a long time, he said to Jiang Chuan, although there were 30,000 Goguryeo cavalry behind him who might appear at any time, he was still full of confidence in his own offensive this time, and these cavalry had their own Hu Bingchang to deal with, and the infantry army could only attack the city.

Jiang Chuan shook his head after looking at it for a long time and said: "I'm afraid it's not just that, we also have to take into account the number of people in the city, before we arrived, Gao Jian had already gathered all the Goguryeo people within two hundred miles around Buyeo City into Buyeo City!"

In this way, we will not only face 20,000 defenders, but also more than 100,000 Goguryeo Qingzhuang who will take up arms and fight us, these people know what we have done in Baekje and Silla in the past, and if we don't get it right this time, we will need to slaughter the city to take down the city in front of us! ”

Xu Ning didn't care and said: "What are you afraid of, slaughtering the city will slaughter the city, it's not like we haven't done these things before, it's rumored that the city surrendered, if the slaughter of the city after the defeat of the city is broken, I don't believe that these Goguryeo people have the courage to hold on all the time!" ”

Saying that, Xu Ning also glanced back at a huge tent that had been isolated in the camp in the distance, and he said with confidence: "Even if these Goguryeo people are unwilling to surrender, we still have tens of thousands of catties of black powder!" The cities of these counties in Liaodong are not easy to attack, but the other cities are still easy to attack! ”

Xu Ning's meaning Jiang Chuan understood that as long as there was a large amount of gunpowder, the walls of these cities could be blown apart, so that the cities would be easy to overcome.

The cities that were the pillars of Goguryeo's rule in Liaodong, namely Buyeo City, Anshi City, Liaodong City, Xincheng, Jian'an City, and Daheishan City (Beisha Port), were not only the centers of Goguryeo's rule in this region, but also the strongest cities.

However, at present, the Great Black Mountain City has already become the record of the Blue Wolf Army, that is, the other five cities are more symbolic, if the Xia Army can easily capture these cities, then the other smaller Goguryeo Mountain Castles will easily lose confidence.

Xu Ning and Jiang Chuan would not let the soldiers carry traditional equipment such as ladders and goose carts to attack the city, and the Xia Kingdom, which was extremely lacking in human resources, could not afford to lose such a large amount of manpower, they had other means to attack, but it took time to prepare.

That night, the Xia army camp was attacked by a group of people, but hundreds of people were killed by a crossbow shot by the Xia army sentry who had already prepared, and hundreds of other people were about to flee back to Fuyu City, but they were all cut down by the cavalry led by Yang Wu who was in ambush.

The next day, tens of thousands of Xia soldiers surrounded Buyeo City on the east, west and north walls, leaving only the south gate without any troops, of course, there were 15,000 cavalry led by Ji Xiang in the distance, so that there were more than 20,000 troops on each side of the three city walls, which was more than the total number of Goguryeo defenders in the city.

In the face of the pressure of the army outside the city, the Goguryeo defenders were very tenacious, not only did not any of them escape, but even tens of thousands of Goguryeo youths also actively participated in the defense of the city.

They prepared enough stones and rolling wood on the head of the city, and a pot of stinking gold juice to boil on the cauldron, just waiting for the Xia army to attack the city, they would teach the Han people who tried to seize their homeland a hard lesson, even if the city fell, they would drag a large number of Xia troops to die together. 137

However, after they made all the preparations to defend the city, the Xia army outside the city did not launch an attack for a long time, but when they saw that there were thousands of craftsmen and tens of thousands of soldiers making siege equipment in the Xia army camp outside the city, their hearts were even more worried.

On the first day, the Xia army just set up camp and blocked the city.

The next day, the Xia army withdrew from the large camp to the south, but still did not attack, but only took care of building weapons there.

On the third day, thousands of Goguryeo soldiers had been killed in the battle, but the Xia soldiers had always been able to discover their movements, but the Xia army was still building weapons and still did not act.

The Goguryeo defenders were a little anxious, and the siege of the city needed to be carried out in one go, in fact, the defense of the city was also like this, and the Goguryeo Qingzhuang in the city wanted to die with the Xia soldiers with a sense of grief and indignation at first, but after being cold for so many days, one by one began to be afraid again.

Finally, on the fourth day, after a dark shadow sneaked into the city from the city wall where there was no Xia army camp in the south, Gao Jian, the Goguryeo general who defended the city, felt a little relieved in his heart, this was the messenger sent by the Goguryeo cavalry, and they were ready to attack inside and outside.

While the Goguryeo defenders inside the city were getting ready, the Xia army in the large camp outside the city was finally ready to attack the city.

Seeing the strange chariots pushed by the Xia soldiers outside the city coming out of the camp, the Goguryeo defenders at the head of the city also felt very strange, but they were all ready, waiting to deal a fatal blow to the first wave of attacking Xia troops.

Under the eyes of these Goguryeo defenders, the soldiers of the Xia army pushed the hundreds of strange chariots, and after walking hundreds of meters away from the city, they stopped, and then in the shock of the Goguryeo people, a hideous-looking, behemoth-like monster appeared in the Xia army camp.

The Goguryeo people, who still trusted shamanism, were shocked when they saw this behemoth that could fly into the sky, what was this thing that could fly? They don't know.

However, of course the soldiers of the Xia Army knew what this was, this was the hot air balloon invented by Wang Ze earlier.

Earlier, when he first arrived in the East China Sea more than ten years ago, Wang Ze used eucommia glue, silk, linen, etc. to make hot air balloons, but the processing technology of this glue has always been unpredictable, and the hot air balloons produced have always had great safety hazards, so after making a few at the beginning, Wang Ze quickly stopped this action.

Until the voyage fleet arrived in Yingzhou (South America) and introduced rubber into the South Seas, although the newly planted rubber trees in the South Seas had not yet reached the time of harvesting, the Xia fleet that followed the Chen Duan voyage fleet to Fangzhang Zhou Donghai City and Xihai City in the past two years went to Yingzhou to collect thousands of catties of glue cut from wild rubber trees for Wang Ze.

In this way, even if the rubber saplings in Nanyang are not yet harvested, Wang Ze finally has some rubber raw materials that can be used for experiments, so after several years of experiments, he finally made a hot air balloon that can be used for a long time without worrying about problems.

This time, when Wang Ze sent a large army to attack Goguryeo, he suddenly thought that when Yang Er (Yang Guang) attacked Liaodong City in history, he could not capture it because of the dangerous terrain of Liaodong City, which eventually led to the Sui army's consumption in Liaodong City and finally failed.

This time, the Xia State launched a full-scale war against Goguryeo, although it also equipped the army with a lot of advanced weapons, and a large amount of gunpowder to blow up the city wall, but if the army can have a hot air balloon to see the situation inside the city, then the attack will be smoother.

With this understanding, Wang Ze quickly used these rubber raw materials to make more than 20 hot air balloons, and then each attacking force was divided into three to five, so that even if one of the hot air balloons had problems, there could be a replacement.

Originally, in Wang Ze's view, the main military purpose of this kind of hot air balloon was to observe the reality of the Goguryeo defenders, and it also had the effect of calculating the ballistic launch angle for the trebuchet that fired gunpowder.

However, the senior generals who attended the battle meeting at that time agreed that the use of hot air balloons in this way was undoubtedly a waste to him, and they all advocated that the hot air balloon should be painted in the image of a colorful and terrifying monster, so as to also shock the morale of the enemy army.

If the conjecture of these generals is confirmed, the ancients are not modern people who are no longer superstitious in later generations, and their belief in ghosts and gods is engraved into the bone marrow.

After seeing the hideous image on the outside of the hot air balloon, the Goguryeo soldiers, especially the Goguryeo youths, were immediately frightened, of course they thought that this was the favor of the gods of Xia and sent their own monsters to assist the other party in attacking the city.

At this time, the hot air balloon invented by Wang Ze could not be used as an air combat weapon, otherwise it was loaded with explosives packets, and just throwing explosives from above could make all the defenders in Buyeo City collapse, but even this made the morale of the Goguryeo defenders drop a lot.