Liaodong City is very difficult to fight, in addition to its surrounding sixteen mountain cities, its big city is also impregnable.

On the four sides of the city, there are urn castles on all sides, which protrude from the city wall like a turtle head.

The four urn cities, all of which are built by bluestone barriers, look like they are built temporarily, bluestone is really hard, but the base is too high, it will collapse.

So the four urn cities, the walls are ten meters high, and the gaps in the stones are filled with lime and clay, and when it rains, these binders are washed away, and after a long time, it will collapse.

But as a temporary defensive barrier, it looks as if it is impregnable, this thing is an insulator of catapults and ballistas, and it cannot be touched at all.

But if you don't fight, you can't do it, if you go around the urn city to hit the city wall, the archers in the urn city, the two wings of the volley, the loss of the siege team will be very heavy.

There are also moats and moats on the periphery, which is quite difficult to fight.

Therefore, to fight this kind of city, you must first fight the urn city, and after beating the urn city, you have to climb the city from the city walls on both sides, and you can't enter from the urn city, because there is only one gate between the urn city and the city wall.

Why is it called Urn City, the turtle in the urn, this thing can't go in, it's dangerous to go in.

To put it bluntly, fighting Liaodong is a pile of human lives, and there is no second way, because Yang Guang has set a time for you, otherwise, you can also besiege the city, cut off the water source, and wait until the food and grass in the city are exhausted, and it will naturally be easy to fight.

Tu Wanxu's siege troops, 60,000 people, set up camp in the southwest, west, and northwest directions outside the city of Liaodong, and frequently sent flag officers to call out the battle under the city to lure the enemy out of the city.

Although everyone knows that people won't go out of the city, they still have to give it a try, don't there be any things in the world?

By the time the camp was erected, it was already three days later.

Tu Wanxu ordered Qu Tu to lead 4,000 people in the headquarters, 3,000 archers in the Asian general Qian Shixiong, 3,000 in the ranks of the Asian general Liu Jincha, and 10,000 siege equipment in charge of the commander, forming a formation as the first test.

The main purpose of this expedition was to probe the defensive deployment of the enemy's walls, and secondly, to fill in the trenches and moats.

Because the Great Sui conquered Goguryeo this time, he brought a few heavy guys and siege the city ladder.

The ladder has six wheels, 12 meters high, the two sides are provided with a Z-shaped auxiliary ladder, and there is a pair of rollers at the top, which is used to manipulate the flying ladder, the role of the flying ladder is to improve the height of the ladder, if the ladder is higher than the city wall, then turn the roller to fall the ladder, this is to jump into the city wall from top to bottom, if the ladder is not as high as the city wall, then the ladder is just to make up for this distance, and the soldier only needs to climb a short section to climb the city wall.

The city wall of Liaodong City is fifteen meters high, that is to say, after the guards climb the cloud ladder, they can climb three meters through the flying cloud ladder to climb the city wall.

But the ladder must fit the walls, so you'll have to fill in the ditches and moats.

The moat is shallow and can be built with planks, but the moat is wide and deep, and the planks can't carry the weight of the ladder, so you have to fill it with stones.

As the war drums of the propaganda team sounded, the 10,000 tentative troops led by Qu Tutong were divided into eight phalanxes and slowly marched towards Liaodong City.

In front of the formation, of course, were platoons, in the middle were bows and arrows, followed by twelve siege vehicles and more than thirty ballistas.

In front of the siege engine, eight people carried a three-meter-high platoon, or a large shield, which was tied together by thick logs with ropes, and once the siege vehicle was in place, eight guards would lift the platoon with six wooden sticks of different lengths as a defensive shield for siege weapons.

Before throwing stones, they need to go eight meters forward to give the catapult a clear perspective, and then they need to retreat about four or five meters to prevent the enemy boulder from hitting the catapult.

In the middle of the various formations, there are herald flag officers who constantly wander in the military formations, responsible for giving orders.

When the distance was closer, it was already close to the range of the enemy's long-range weapons, Qu Tutong ordered the four army formations on both flanks to break away from the central army, avoid the urn city, and move towards the city walls on both sides.

With the sound of drums in the city wall in the distance, the ballistas and catapults on the high platform of the urn city took the lead in projecting towards the army formation on both flanks of Qu Tutong, because the siege weapons were on both flanks.

The archers of Goguryeo, on the other hand, needed to wait for the Sui army to enter the firing range before they could shoot.

The sound of the stone throwing on the ground was amazing, and the sound of the crossbow machine when it was fired formed a wonderful sound, a kind of urging sound.

There is only one fate when you are hit by a head stone, which is a puddle of flesh and mud, and if you are hit by a heavy crossbow, you will die with broken armor.

Even a shield made of refined steel can't withstand the huge impact of the heavy crossbow, because the shield of the platoon is easy to carry, and the weight and thickness are limited, not to mention that the Tuwanxu army is not equipped with refined weapons.

On the Sui army's side, the officers of each array kept shouting loudly, urging the guards under their command to maintain their formation, even if the stones and crossbow arrows fell, you couldn't hide.

Because as soon as you hide, you will also hide with the people around you, which is easy to cause the herd effect, that is, the herd mentality.

That's why behind Qu Tutong's ass, there is still a team of 2,000 people, and there is no gong to collect the troops, and whoever dares to run back will be killed.

Because as soon as you run, someone will run after you, and the army will be in chaos immediately.

However, catapults and heavy crossbows have a natural shortcoming, that is, they are too close to each other to fight.

Therefore, Qu Tutong's Chinese army quickly moved closer to the urn city, as long as you get closer, your bows and arrows will be limited to me after all.

But the army on both wings still had to be carried alive, because to fill the moat, it was not people holding stones to fill it, but catapults aiming and throwing stones into the river, which was the most efficient.

Before the three trenches, the guards began to lay planks, and the catapults in the rear had also entered the effective distance, and began to turn the rollers and load the stones, and the heavy crossbows were responsible for firing at the walls and providing fire cover for the paving troops below.

With such a defense of Liaodong City, it is destined that no cavalry will go out of the city to drive the Sui army, because you dig three circles of trenches, and people can't get through this thing, let alone horses.

And what can provide support for Liaodong City is the sixteen mountain cities near it, and these mountain cities are now fighting with the Sui army.

"Report!"

An officer with a flag on his back galloped from afar and entered the Chinese army tent in Tuwanxu:

"General Manager Wei has a difficult road, there are already thieves in Wunu Mountain City who are going around Liaodong, and about 3,000 armored cavalry have approached the southeast flank of our army."

Tu Wanxu raised his eyebrows, looked at Ashina Danai, and said, "Order your southeast garrison to retreat from the enemy." ”

"The last general commands," Ashina Danai immediately ordered the generals under his command to report to the Ashinas Division in the southeast to form a formation to defend against the enemy.

Tu Wanxu calculated correctly, there must be a problem in the direction of Wunu Mountain, because the mountain city over there is the main force of the enemy's defense in Liaodong, and because of its topography, if it is not three times the strength, it cannot be encircled.

Therefore, he deployed the Ashinas cannon fodder team of Ashina Danai's clan in the southeast of the army early.

But in the next military report, Tu Wanxu couldn't sit still, and the 28,000 people of Yu Wenhua and his troops who were stationed in the north were broken through the defense line by the enemy troops in Yanzhou City and Shitai City, and now they were rushing towards the north flank of his army.

"An army of nearly 30,000 has been killed by less than 8,000 thieves?" Tu Wanxu was furious, and said: "Quickly order Yuwen to organize the army to the south, and flank the enemy army with me to the north. ”

He is moving a real fire, around the Wunu Mountain, there are eight mountain cities, Wei Yunqi 20,000 people to block, only 3,000 people leaked over, why don't you nearly 30,000 people go to block 10,000 people, leak over 8,000.

You son of a bitch.

Tu Wanxu realized the seriousness of the matter, and urgently transferred the main force under his command, the Sudouling Division, and led 5,000 people from his headquarters to the north to help.

As a confidant, the Asian general Hong Jing frowned and said: "Let Qu Tutong's department come back first, the attack troops on both wings can't be solved, our Chinese army is unstable, and it is not appropriate to wear and tear at the moment." ”

Of the 10,000 people that Qu Tutong carried, more than 1,000 people have died, and if it continues like this, there will be more deaths, and such a proportion of the siege troops killed is actually normal, as long as they don't die four out of tenth, they will be fine.

But now that there are enemy troops attacking from two directions, Tu Wanxu must not let Qu Tutong test it anymore, in case the enemy army in Liaodong City knows the situation and kills out of the city, Qu Tutong will have to finish the game.

And Li Jing, who was in Sanfo Village, also received the military information that there was an enemy attack in the north, and the siege of the city had nothing to do with him, but Li Jing knew that if Tu Wanxu's Chinese army was disturbed, the situation in Liaodong City would be complicated.

So he ordered Xue Zuo to personally lead 6,000 elite foot soldiers and go north.

The Yanzhou City Division, the Shitaizi Division, plus the Sui Army's Sudouling Division, Xue Zuo's Division, and Huang Shilang's Division, the melee of the five armies was fought in the swamps north of Liaodong and south of Wuli Luocheng.

Wuli Luocheng, also known as Xincheng, is the third largest city in the northernmost part of Goguryeo after Liaodong City and Buyeo City, located on the Gaoer Mountain, surrounded by Liaoze, the road is muddy, and there are reeds all over.

There are twenty-seven mountain cities here, with a total army of 30,000.

Li Jing was also worried that once the Yu culture and direction attracted the enemy army of Wu Liluo to the south, it would delay the time for Tu Wanxu to attack Liaodong.

Normally, as long as Yu Wenhua and the defense line are arranged, not to mention Yanzhou and Shitaizi, even if the army of Wuli Luocheng goes south, it can also block it.

Who knew it would be like this?

Your father is also my famous general of the Great Sui, why are you so unbearable?

The military situation here is naturally to be reported to the emperor, who is the most suitable to report? Naturally, it is a soothing and quiet ceremony.

"The collapse of the defense line caused the enemy army to go south, Li Jing had no choice but to order Xue Zuo to lead the army to resist the enemy, otherwise the main force of Tuwanxu would be disturbed by the enemy and would not be able to attack the city."

One such telegram was urgently sent to the rear.

Yang Guang tore the military newspaper to shreds, kicked over the long table in front of him, and scolded:

"Rubbish!"

Yang Yue and Pei Ju glanced at each other, and began to follow all kinds of numbers.

"Passing on my will, Li Jing, the Duke of the Kingdom, will succeed Yu Wenhua and be the head of the march of Gaima Road, and wait until he repels the enemy army and rebuilds the defensive line."

The ministers were stunned for a moment, and Yang Yue was also a little stunned.

I scolded Huaji, I hope you settle accounts after the autumn, but I don't hope that you will change generals before the battle, this is not appropriate, right?

Yang Guang is like this, you must not let him know that you are defeated, otherwise they will have to command it personally.

So Li Jing, the Duke of the State of Qi, was called, and Yang Guang personally instructed him to deploy the defensive line.

Li Jingtou is older, I'm a handful of years old, I'm here to travel with you, why do I have to go to the front line?

(End of chapter)