The Chinese New Year is approaching, and the great war between Goguryeo and Xia is still going on.

After completely defeating the 80,000 people of the Goguryeo front army, Wang Ze ordered the Central Protector Army to move forward five miles and set up a camp, and the Xia army camp had already advanced to within ten miles of Pyongyang City, that is to say, as long as the Xia army finished the formation out of the camp, basically the soldiers at the front were only five or six miles away from Pyongyang City.

In the face of Xia Jun's aggressive momentum, Yuan Dazuo was very annoyed in his heart!

In ancient times, the two sides generally set up a large camp twenty miles apart, unless the other side had absolute confidence in itself, or it would dare to approach such a short distance by relying on several times the siege of the city.

Under the circumstance that the total strength of the Goguryeo army in Pyongyang City was still more than twice the number of Wang Zezhong's protectors, Wang Ze dared to push the camp within ten miles, making it clear that he could not look down on the combat effectiveness of the Goguryeo army.

Although Yuan Dazuo's aggressiveness annoyed Yuan Dazuo, what made him even more annoyed and caught off guard was the sudden defeat of the 80,000 people of the previous army!

In his opinion, now that the left and right flanks of the Xia army have been contained, his army is only facing 60,000 people under Wang Ze's central protection army, he originally wanted to use these 80,000 people to consume the strength of Wang Zezhong's protection army first, and then the army attacked to defeat Wang Ze's troops in one fell swoop.

In his mind, the total strength of Goguryeo far exceeded that of the Xia army, and it didn't matter if the previous army lost a few battles.

But he never thought that the 80,000 troops of the front battalion did not hold on for even a day under the attack of the Xia army, and they were defeated in one go, and the front camp was only so close to Pyongyang City, and most of the soldiers were unable to escape back, and more than 50,000 people were eaten by the Xia army in one go.

Annoyed is annoyed, and the combat preparations that should be done should still be continued.

On the one hand, Yuan Dazuo strictly ordered the Goguryeo defenders on the left and right flanks to defeat the Xia army in front of him as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he continued to shrink his forces and prepared to rely on Pyongyang City to fight a decisive battle with Wang Ze.

In Yuan Dazuo's view, the Goguryeo army with the defenders of Pyongyang City and the left and right flanks actually formed a formation of attacking Wang Ze's troops on three sides, and once the left and right flanks could defeat Zheng Kui and Han Zigao, they could encircle and annihilate all the Xia army.

But to Yuan Dazuo's great surprise, the two wings of the Xia army, which thought that the combat effectiveness should be relatively weak, were actually not weak, and he seemed to underestimate Zheng Kui and Han Zigao, how could it be an ordinary army that could fight all the way north from Jeju Island.

When Zheng Kui and Han Zigao led the army to attack the two wings of Goguryeo, the defending Goguryeo army also tried to take the initiative, but the test failed but was defeated, and thousands of people were lost successively.

However, the main battlefield of the two sides is still on the side of Yuan Dazuo and Wang Ze.

Facing Yuan Dazuo's continued defense of the turtle stream, Wang Ze also began to feel a little tricky, after all, Yuan Dazuo's fortifications relying on Pyongyang City for defense were stronger, and the rammed earth city had the ability to absorb the shock wave of the explosion, and the effect of the explosives was actually not as good as imagined.

In order to destroy the defense of Pyongyang City, and to further demoralize the Goguryeo army, Wang Ze simply ordered the craftsmen to rebuild 300 giant trebuchets in one go, and he wanted to use this revolutionary weapon to destroy the confidence of the Goguryeo people.

How could Yuan Dazuo sit back and watch Wang Ze make weapons there, so he gave full play to the advantage of the larger number of the Goguryeo army, and at the beginning, he arranged a part of the army to attack at night every day, or beat gongs and drums to disturb the Xia army, so that the Xia army outside the city could not rest properly.

Although Wang Ze also arranged some soldiers to be on duty, Wang Ze only had 70,000 or 80,000 cavalry at this time, while Yuan Dazuo had at least 200,000 people to use, and he could even further recruit some soldiers from the surrounding Goguryeo people who had fled.

Wang Ze was very annoyed in the face of Yuan Dazuo's hand, but he was helpless, and finally after four or five days, another 200,000 catties of explosives made of black powder were transported to the rear, so Wang Ze made up his mind to start a large-scale offensive against Pyongyang City.

The huge trebuchets with a total of 400 were pushed to a position only 300 steps away from the city wall, because the Goguryeo people also erected a large number of trebuchets on the city wall, and in order to prevent being attacked by the Goguryeo people, the Xia army also set up two fences in front of their trebuchets to block the stone bullets of the Goguryeo people.

These 400 trebuchets are not lined up, but used in a staggered situation, and there are nearly 50 trebuchets in the middle and a high platform is specially stacked to make them more aggressive, and the range of these dozens of trebuchets can be increased by more than 30 steps (45 meters).

The power of 400 giant trebuchets is amazing, more than 150 catties of boulders swirl and smashed on the city wall, the arrow stacks on the city wall continue to fall from the top of the city wall, and the boulders that smash on the outer wall also make large pieces of soil continue to fall off, and the city gate tower on the south gate has been completely destroyed in the war with a stick of incense. Jushuku

Of course, the Goguryeo soldiers at the head of the city would not watch themselves being beaten, they rose up and used their trebuchets to fight back, but due to technical constraints, their trebuchets could only shoot nearly 100 catties of stone bullets in front of the first row of Xia troops, and if they used light stone bullets, they could attack the Xia army, but the effect was much smaller.

Faced with such a situation where he could only watch and be beaten, but could not attack others, Yuan Dazuo of course could not sit idly by, and he quickly sent the only tens of thousands of cavalry in the city out of the city from the north gate, preparing to attack the trebuchet troops at the front of the Xia army.

These trebuchet troops were six or seven miles away from the Xia army's camp, and the army protecting them was only three or four thousand foot soldiers, so in Yuan Dazuo's opinion, even if he could destroy one hundred and ten trebuchets, it would be enough to restore his own morale, of course, it would be better if he could destroy them all.

He even sent dozens of Han craftsmen who were good at making stone throwers to study how Xia Jun's trebuchet was made.

Yuan Dazuo was not wrong, but there were many suspicious things he overlooked.

When tens of thousands of Goguryeo cavalry in Pyongyang City roared and rushed towards the Xia army's stone throwing troops, the thousands of Xia army soldiers who were responsible for protecting the stone throwing troops immediately put on a set of heavy iron armor, and in their hands they were actually holding a half-length horse cutting giant sword.

It turned out that this infantry army was 3,000 ironclad soldiers led by Yang Pengfei, and they were specially arranged by Wang Ze to protect this long-range strike force.

Seeing that the tens of thousands of cavalry of Goguryeo galloped towards and rushed closer and closer, most of the soldiers of the catapult unit only glanced at it, and then went to prepare stone bullets to continue to attack Pyongyang City, as if nothing had happened.

It was the Goguryeo general who led the cavalry to attack, it was Yuan Dazuo's younger brother Yuan Mo, although he was happy to see the soldiers of the Xia army like this, but more of a grievance, your sister is fighting, don't ignore me so much, okay!

When the Goguryeo cavalry charged only five hundred paces away from the catapult troops, a small part of the catapult troops finally turned in a different direction, and it seemed that the Xia army was actually preparing to use less than a hundred stone throwers against themselves.

Yuan Mo snorted coldly in his heart, since Xia Jun didn't take himself seriously like this, then he just took this opportunity to kill all of this Xia army.

With Yuan Mo's shout, tens of thousands of Goguryeo cavalry screamed and waved the steel knives, halberds, and spears in their hands and galloped forward, and when they were only three hundred steps away from the Xia army's main array, they could already see the giant blades in the hands of the soldiers of the iron armor army at the front of the Xia army.

Although these made them look a little flustered, they believed that under the impact of their cavalry, the heavy infantry wearing iron armor could not resist the impact of the cavalry at all, and the stone throwing troops behind the Xia army were everyone's achievements.

At this moment, the Xia army's stone throwing troops also moved, as if nearly a hundred black things were thrown over, it should be the Xia army's stone bullets, and the Goguryeo cavalry felt that although this could cause the death of hundreds of cavalry on the Goguryeo side, it would not affect their own victory.

At this moment, nearly 100 gunpowder bags flew into the charging Goguryeo cavalry group, and then there was a sudden violent explosion, these explosive bags were specially made, which not only contained 20 catties to 50 catties of black powder, but also arsenic, broken iron, iron nails and other objects.

It can be said that this is the ancient version of the submunition, and the attack radius of one explosive package has reached an astonishing thirty meters, so that the lethality caused by nearly 100 explosive packs is amazing.

A large number of Goguryeo war horses, which had never encountered such a weapon attack, were immediately frightened, and from time to time the horses collided together, and then caused a series of collisions behind them, and the cavalry that was thrown down was the most miserable, often trampled to death by their own comrades.

Most of the cavalry who finally dodged this attack, looking at their comrades who were injured and trampled to death, felt quite uncomfortable, they originally thought that the attack was nothing had lost so many people at once, and what made them feel even more sad was that the Xia army trebuching troops on the opposite side were actually starting to fire again.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Mo was very sad in his heart, he claimed to be a fierce general second only to his brother, but he was helpless in the face of such a powerful weapon as Xia Jun, he could only rely on his enthusiasm and shouted, leading the rest of the cavalry to continue to charge.

At this time, the charge of the Goguryeo cavalry was not so high, but more of a tragedy, when Yuan Mo galloped his horse, dozens of guards around him escorted him, but this attracted the attention of the Xia army, and then three explosive bags were thrown into their crowd in succession.

An explosive bag fell directly to Yuan Mo's side, and before he could react, the explosive bag exploded, and in the sound of explosions in the sky, the group of Goguryeo disappeared.

Xia Jun didn't care about this, Cao Lei, who was in charge of commanding the stone thrower, was still conducting research and letting the students around him record data while continuing to fire a fifty-pound explosive package.

When the gunpowder package fired by the stone thrower he personally commanded blew Yuan Mo to pieces, he had no idea that he had made the Goguryeo people experience what the torrent of history was.