With the beating of war drums, the battle officially began. Xuan Qi personally led 200,000 sailors to attack Watergate.

The city wall above the water gate was densely packed with Silla soldiers, and sharp arrows rained down on the fleet, and in an instant, the entire bow of the ship was densely covered. The officers and soldiers of the navy, who had been prepared for a long time, clenched the shields in their hands and blocked the rain of arrows. Occasionally, if you are hit by an arrow, you will be quickly dragged into the cabin for treatment.

Xuan Qi had already observed the terrain of Seoul and knew that if he attacked from the other four gates, it would be extremely difficult, unless he really took the lives of soldiers to fill in and stepped on the corpses of his companions, it was possible to rush into Seoul. And Watergate is the most likely place to break through. In order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, Xuan Qi had already set up a siege with Li Xing, and the army was temporarily pretending to attack the city to minimize casualties, but Xuan Qi took on the heavy task of attacking the water gate himself.

In the face of the rain of sharp arrows, Xuan Qi did not dare to let the warship get too close, and the two sides always shot at each other from a distance of arrows, and the casualties caused were not too great. A whole day passed, and the Celestial Empire army had no results, so they had to withdraw their troops before sunset.

Xuan Qi lay on the bed, quietly analyzing the situation of this day, hoping to find a way to break the city. In fact, the easiest way to break the city is to besiege it without attacking it. At this time, the army of the Celestial Empire had occupied almost the entire territory of Silla, and as long as the regiments surrounded Seoul, the grain and grass in Seoul would be exhausted one day. It's just that Xuan Qi knows that this must be a long process.

Park Joo-ho had already transported all the grain from all over the world to Seoul before the arrival of the Celestial Empire army, and it was estimated that the food in the city would be enough for the Silla army to eat for at least a year or two. The Celestial Empire's several years of turmoil, years of conquest, have long been unable to make ends meet at this moment, and there is simply no way to support such a long-term battle.

For the attack on the Water Gate, the first thing is to be able to get close to the Water Gate before we can talk about the next attack. On this day, under the suppression of the Silla army's rain of arrows, it was very difficult to even get closer, and the first thing to solve was how to get close to the water gate. The first plan was to force the way around regardless of casualties, and the second was how to make the sharp arrows of the Silla soldiers lose their power.

Thinking of this, Xuan Qi's eyes lit up, and he thought of a way to consume the bows and arrows of the defenders of Seoul. Since he thought of it, Xuan Qi left the camp overnight and rushed to the Li Xing camp outside the north gate.

On the second day, the Celestial Empire army was still only a feint, but it was the shield soldiers in full armor who rushed to the front. Seeing that the Silla army of the Celestial Empire was approaching, the Silla soldiers who were defending the city still kept shooting sharp arrows to stop the advance of the Celestial Army. And a whole day passed, but the army of the Celestial Empire did not shoot a single sharp arrow. After Mingjin withdrew his troops, more than 200 soldiers were still killed by arrows, and more than 1,000 were wounded. It's just that these costs were paid, but at least hundreds of thousands of sharp arrows of the Silla army were consumed.

After seven or eight consecutive days, the Silla army had consumed more than a million arrows. Li Sungye finally saw the clue, and immediately rushed to the palace and informed Park Joo-ho. Park Joo-ho was also in a hurry after hearing this, and hurriedly asked people to check the number of bows and arrows, but there were only more than 100,000 left. After the two discussed, they immediately gathered all the long arrows together and sent them all to the barracks at the Water Gate, while Li Chengye simply went to the Water Gate to guard in person.

On the second day, in the face of the feint attack of the Celestial Empire army, only some long arrows would be shot at the Water Gate. Li Xing and Xuan Qi both discovered the abnormality at the same time, knowing that they had been seen through the plan by the other party. It's just that neither of them knows how many long arrows there are in the city at the moment, and after discussing with each other, they both think that they can give it a try.

In the afternoon, the feint attack of the Celestial Empire army finally turned into a real offensive. Countless soldiers began to charge, and the ladders were constantly erected on the city wall, but on the city wall, there was no arrow, which made Li Xing and Xuan Qi feel a little relieved. As another day passed, the onslaught of the navy army still consumed more than 20,000 long arrows of the Silla army.

On the third day, the Celestial Empire army stopped attacking the city, but instead trained its troops and horses outside the walls of Seoul. And Xuan Qi's sailors still attacked the water gate, but Xuan Qi reduced the number of sailors on the ship by half. As the naval warships approached, the city walls had to continue to block the advance of the naval army with sharp arrows.

Xuan Qi stood at the bow of the boat and looked at Li Chengye standing on the city wall from a distance, but Li Chengye also looked at Xuan Qi coldly. Xuan Qi asked people to take a hard bow and shot an arrow at Li Chengye from the bow of the ship one arrow away. The long arrow roared towards Li Chengye, but Li Chengye, who looked very old, did not panic.

When the long arrow was about to reach his eyes, Li Chengye lifted the iron spear in his hand, held the barrel of the gun with both hands, the tip of the spear flashed, and headed towards the long sword. The tip of the spear happened to collide with the arrow in the air, and under a shock, the long arrow had lost its strength and fell at Li Chengye's feet. The eyes of the two met in the air, and although they couldn't see clearly, they could both feel a strong hatred and a sense of killing for each other.

In the afternoon of this day, it began to rain in the sky, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and after it rained for a day and a night, it began to get smaller, and the next day and rain did not stop, so that the army of the Celestial Empire also temporarily stopped attacking the city. The torrential rain caused the water of the Han River to swell, and the river channel at the water gate suddenly widened a lot, and Xuan Qi knew that the opportunity he was waiting for had finally come.

In the night, the warship braved the drizzle and slowly approached the water gate. The drizzle made it difficult for the Silla soldiers on the city wall to see the situation on the river, and it was not until the warship was less than 30 zhang away from the city wall that the Silla soldiers defending the city were discovered. The sound of the gong woke up the Silla soldiers, who had already fallen asleep, so they quickly dressed themselves and rushed up the city wall in the rain.

Sharp arrows rained down on the five oncoming ships. The ships were getting closer and closer, and the rain of arrows was getting denser and denser, filling the entire sky. The two warships finally slammed and crashed into the water gate, and Xuan Qi, who had long been lurking behind the warship, took dozens of South Vietnamese sailors who were well versed in water, carrying giant axes, sneaked into the water and touched towards the water gate.

The heavy rain has caused the water gate at this time to raise the underwater gate to drain the stagnant water in the city, but what remains at the water gate is only an iron gate made of fine iron. The sailors on the warship hid in the cabin and kept shouting, and the shouts and the sound of wind and rain made the Silla soldiers on the city wall unable to detect the underwater movement at all. To find this site, please search for "6 Mao" or enter the URL:.