In the early morning of the next day, Pei Xuanqing, the commander of Pyongyang, who was dressed all over his body, and Shin Chongqian, who was wearing a wide civilian robe, came to the city tower early before the daylight woke up.

The Tang army has been assembled outside the city for three days, and it should be almost time to recuperate, according to the calculations of the two people, it is very likely that the Tang army will start a siege battle today.

The two ministers, who had the confidence and belief in victory, knew that there could be no negligence in this battle, so they came to the city wall to sit in the town and preside over the overall situation.

As the two expected, the sky was just dawning, and the Tang army camp was densely lit, brilliant as the sea, and the soldiers were full of shadows, and they had obviously begun to move outward.

To be honest, although the battalion of 100,000 people is huge, it has not yet made people fearful.

"General Pei, are the soldiers ready?" asked Pei Xuanqing in a calm voice. Among the three peninsulas, Goguryeo is the closest to the Tang Dynasty and is the most deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty culture, whether it is the state system, the city architecture or the speech and behavior of the officials and generals, they are very similar to the Tang Dynasty.

Pei Xuanqing said confidently: "Shen Gong rest assured, the soldiers are waiting for the day, and they have already made sufficient preparations." If the Tang army doesn't come, it will be enough, and if they come, they will know how powerful my Goguryeo warriors are!"

Shen Chongqian nodded, he was in a similar mood to Pei Xuanqing, although he was afraid of the Tang army, but he had 300,000 elites in this battle, which can be said to be a concentration of the essence of the country's soldiers, the defense system was tight, and he was defending the city at the moment, in order to be foolproof, in the face of a mere 100,000 Tang army, he thought that there was no reason to miss.

The Tang Army branch left the camp one after another, entering the battlefield position from each gate, and the sky gradually brightened.

Pei Xuanqing and Shen Chongqian watched each other's movements closely, their eyes unblinking.

By the time it was two o'clock, the formation of the Tang Army had been basically formed, and several ironclad lakes were magnificent, with small formations and large formations, and large formations and small formations. The infantry army is in the middle, the elite cavalry is on the two wings, the handsome platform is built, the war drums are in place, and the rangers are cruising on the flanks.

The 100,000 Tang troops almost poured out, and in the case of the extreme disadvantage of soldiers and horses, they still adopted the method of encircling three ques and arranging a formation. The Tang army outside each city wall is only more than 30,000, and if you throw away the cavalry who will not take the city, the infantry who can fight is only more than 20,000.

"The Tang army is really too big, knowing that there are two acropolis on my left and right, they don't divide the troops to defend, and put all the military forces in the position of attacking the main city of Pyongyang, so they are not afraid of the Acropolis soldiers and horses going out of the city to attack?"

Although Shen Chongqian is a civilian official, he has also followed the army for many years, and he still has battlefield knowledge.

Pei Xuanqing saw more things, he snorted coldly, and his tone was mixed with two attitudes: "It's not that the Tang army is defenseless and left and right on the Acropolis, but it's just using cavalry.

"However, their cavalry numbered only 30,000, scattered outside the three walls, not only to guard the large array of infantry, to prevent the elite cavalry in our city from going out to attack, to disturb the formation of the infantry, but also to guard against the two acropolis. This way of arranging troops is simply arrogant to the extreme!"

Shen Chongqian suddenly knew the thoughts of the Tang army, and a sense of disdain also rose in his heart, "It makes no sense for a hundred thousand Tang troops to attack a city that is heavily garrisoned by 300,000 troops. The premise of this mistake is that no matter how they lay it out later, they will only be more wrong. ”

Pei Xuanqing nodded, "That's true." The Tang army was wrong at the beginning of this battle, and it can only keep making mistakes later! Hmph, let them try to attack the city, but they want to see what is different about the Tang army. As long as Ben General sees the fighter, he will strike a thunderous blow and make the Tang Army pay the price of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!"

Shen Chongqian bowed his hand to Pei Xuanqing, and flattered him with a smile: "With General Pei's great talent, I have no doubt that if the Tang Army shows any flaws, it will be wiped out." ”

Pei Xuanqing twisted his beard and smiled without saying a word, putting on a high stand.

The two continued to watch the Tang Army's formation move and enter the offensive position. The left and right Pyongyang cities did not plan to take the initiative to attack at the beginning, so at the moment neither of them had to think about anything else, they were both a little leisurely.

When the Tang Army's formation was fully formed and the various units had completely entered the offensive position, Shen Chongqian pointed to a strange large formation in front of the infantry army that was guarded by the rangers, and asked Pei Xuanqing with a little puzzlement, "General Pei, what are these instruments in front of the Tang Army's infantry formation? Trebuchet? Why does it look different from ordinary trebuchets?"

Pei Xuanqing also saw the "trebuchet" that Shen Chongqian said.

Before the army attacked the city, it was normal to use trebuchets to bombard the city first, and Pei Xuanqing didn't feel anything.

He was a little surprised that there were a lot of trebuchets in the Tang Army, and there were more than 100 outside each city wall!

Although the one in front of me is not a giant trebuchet, but a small one, this type of trebuchet is also used by the Goguryeo army, but it can be used no more than a hundred at a time.

The Tang army actually dispatched more than 300 planes at one time?

However, Pei Xuanqing was just a little surprised, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty was not comparable to that of Goguryeo, and it was not surprising that more than 300 trebuchets were dispatched. Moreover, although the trebuchet is powerful, the effect is not as outstanding as imagined.

It has two limitations.

First, the front sight. The trebuchet threw boulders at a distance of several hundred paces, and those who could accurately hit the head of the city had two achievements to the sky. Most of the boulders will fall into the city, as long as the defenders are prepared, only the houses will be destroyed, the casualties of the soldiers will not be too large, and even if the women's wall is smashed, it will be very limited after all.

Second, the trebuchet cannot run continuously for a long time, otherwise it will fall apart first.

In the final analysis, the trebuchet is just a more powerful thing, and the intention of shocking people is deeper. As long as there are enough True Realm cultivators in the city, they can intercept the boulder when necessary.

As for the strangeness that Shen Chongqian said, Pei Xuanqing also discovered that the Tang Army's trebuchets were all black, flashing a faint metal-like luster in the morning sun, and it didn't look like it was made of wood.

"It can't be made of wood. Pei Xuanqing frowned slightly, and secretly thought, "In addition to wood, what else can a trebuchet use to make stone?"

Thinking of the end, Pei Xuanqing was almost amused by himself.

When the time was approaching, the Tang Army, which was full of ironclad armor and spear-grabbing forests, sounded like thunderous war drums. Little by little, the rhythm is distinct, and the sound is grand, as if it falls on people's hearts, and people's heartbeats can't help but follow its rhythm.

"The Tang army is about to attack!" Shen Chongqian's expression became solemn.

"Open the curtain!" Pei Xuanqing shouted loudly.

Although he did not see the subtlety of the Tang Army's trebuchet, he knew how to guard against such things, and Pyongyang City was well prepared. At his command, the head of the city was opened with a curtain like a cloud, and the sections were connected, and the walls were guarded behind it.

Some of the boulders blocked by the curtain cannot fall on the head of the city or in the city, which can greatly reduce the power of the trebuchet.

It was precisely because the prepared cloth curtains were also sufficient that Pei Xuanqing was still calm and steady when he didn't see the mystery of the Tang Army's trebuchet.

With the sound of heavy drums, under the control of the soldiers, the Tang army threw stones and maneuvered!

I don't know what tricks the Tang army used, a large streamer suddenly lit up on the fuselage, and as the soldiers smashed down the machine with a hammer, the huge arm shook suddenly, and a "boulder" of hundreds of catties was sent into the air!

The moment the trebuchet was launched, Pei Xuanqing couldn't help but shrink his pupils.

The light that burst on the trebuchet was as bright as the moon, and it faintly outlined the outline of the rune array, which was a scene that only appeared when the magic weapon was activated!

"These trebuchets are magic weapons, this is impossible!" Pei Xuanqing panicked and couldn't help but shout secretly.

If the trebuchet is a magic weapon, what kind of power will it have?

But trebuchets have never been magic weapons, there is no magic weapon in the world, which can be made so huge, it not only requires a huge amount of cultivation resources, but also requires a master monk to engrave rune arrays, there is no such talent in the world!

Pei Xuanqing knew that when the Tang Army was at war with the Khitan, the trebuchets were all ordinary trebuchets, but only three years have passed, how could the Tang Army have magic trebuchets?

Without waiting for Pei Xuanqing to convince himself, the "boulder" slid through a perfect arc in mid-air, and smashed down towards the city wall with great momentum!

If Pei Xuanqing only had pupils shrunk before, then now, he couldn't help but stare at him.

The "boulder" is not big, far less than a few hundred catties, and it is not as big as a pumpkin no matter how you look at it.

But that's no ordinary stone!

It glowed with red light, like a flaming fireball, and because of its incredible speed, it dragged its tail in mid-air like a small comet!

If the trebuchet just throws burning stones, Pei Xuanqing will not be surprised, this kind of thing is common in war, it is nothing more than wrapping the boulder in a layer of burning cotton cloth, and the increase in power is limited, that is, it can be together to a certain extent, and it has the effect of arson.

But as these "stones" approached, Pei Xuanqing could not feel it clearly, and there was an aura on them!

"Is it a spirit stone?a spirit stone engraved with a rune array?" Pei Xuanqing was shocked, "This is impossible! Who would use the spirit stone like this?! The spiritual energy contained in such a large spiritual stone, if a first-level Qi cultivator was allowed to absorb the spiritual energy, it would save them the ...... of three months of penance."

At the same time as Pei Xuanqing's heart was shocked, the spirit stone fireball accurately smashed down on the city, and those curtains that were enough to resist ordinary boulders were like window paper that had been pierced by a shot, and they didn't have the slightest interception effect at all!

In an instant, the spirit stone fireball smashed down on the city's head, and at the moment it touched the city wall, the rune array in it swayed suddenly, and the spirit stone exploded in an instant, shattering into countless flying stones that flew at high speed, flying in all directions in the crowd.

The soldiers who defended the city at a close distance were directly blasted into a cloud of blood mist by the explosion, and the soldiers who were a little farther away were hit by the air wave, not only the body flew upside down, but also the body broke and flew sideways, and the soldiers within a few zhang range, even if it was hit by a piece of gravel, it was almost like being smashed and stabbed with a shot, the body was pierced, and blood gushed out!

The spirit stone fireball stars fell like rain, and the city head suddenly fell into a bloody purgatory.

Except for the Qi Cultivators, most of the soldiers defending the city were screaming miserably in the blood light and dying in Jiuquan! Even if they were Qi Cultivators, if the monks were in the low level and were in the center of the spirit stone explosion, they would either be dismembered by the flying stones, or they would be beaten into a sieve, and they would be hated on the spot!

The bloody and tragic scene in front of him made Pei Xuanqing feel like the hairs on his body were exploding!

Ninety percent of the spirit stone fireballs accurately landed at the head of the city, and the crosshairs were far from being comparable to ordinary trebuchets!