Chapter 1072: Different Offensive and Defensive Battles (seven)
A large number of crude trebuchets on the Goguryeo side also began to fire. The stone bullets flew and hurled at the earthen wall on the defending side, smashing up balls of dregs. After three rounds, a flood of shield vehicles came towards the earthen wall. The Goguryeo soldiers
At one time, two rows of shield cars were launched, with as many as three levels in the middle.
Liu Yidong stood on the top of Bailing City, commanding the overall situation, and issued orders in an orderly manner. The defending side was like a precise machine, operating nervously and orderly. Everyone was a part of this huge machine, playing their part
It has its own role or function.
When the Goguryeo soldiers came within 700 steps, Wang Junlin's trebuchets began to fire in turn. The heavy stone bullets smashed the seemingly solid shield vehicles and flew everywhere, causing screams.
The battle between the two sides was very fierce, the screams on the battlefield never stopped, and people died all the time.
With the experience of the fierce defensive battle in the previous two days, Wang Junlin's defense tactics have become more proficient, and everyone knows what they should do when. Six hundred steps later, the long-range crossbows also began to launch, and once
Each shield cart was smashed to pieces, and the Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers pushing the shield cart screamed in agony.
After entering the pothole area, the Goguryeo people's shield vehicles stopped one after another, and the auxiliary soldiers rushed out from behind, risking their lives to throw earth bags into the potholes one by one. With the experience of the previous two days, they filled the soil more than the previous two days.
It was much faster, and there was no fear or panic like the previous two days.
It's just that while they are filling in the hole, they are also cleaning up the remains of the shield car they left here two days ago, so their progress is very slow.
All the auxiliary soldiers howled at the top of their lungs and pushed the shield carts forward with all their might. No one thought about dodging. They all looked numb and resigned to their fate, thinking that they would die if they died.
When the distance approached within a hundred steps, the soldiers in the trench at the front of Wang Junlin's side fired continuously with rapid-fire crossbows. The Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers responsible for clearing the obstacles suddenly suffered more casualties.
Being killed so quickly and with a high probability, these auxiliary soldiers finally developed fear. However, as long as anyone dared to stop, he would be shot to death by the supervisory soldiers behind him, thus forcing all the auxiliary soldiers to continue moving forward without them.
Under any protective conditions, they risked their lives to clear obstacles and fill holes. Almost every time a hole was filled, more than a dozen Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers died.
In this way, the potholes were filled one by one, and the shield chariots advanced little by little, but the Goguryeo auxiliary troops continued to decrease, and Wang Junlin's long-range crossbows, trebuchets, rapid-fire crossbows, ordinary bows and arrows, all attacks
Still fierce, harvesting the enemy's life.
All attacks may seem messy, but in fact, the coordination between them, the filling of gaps, and the combination of long-range and short-range are all carefully studied before the war and scientifically configured based on the situation. This way, the attack can be ensured
It exerted its power to the maximum without wasting any attack as much as possible, thereby continuously destroying those shield vehicles, shooting those Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers, and breaking up their formation, destroying their will to fight.
For half a day, the Goguryeo soldiers endured heavy casualties and finally advanced to ninety steps away from the earth wall, which was the effective range of their bows and arrows.
As the Goguryeo general in charge of advance command gave an order, a horn sounded, and thousands of light arrows rose into the sky, pouring down towards the Sui earth walls on the defending side. Finally, the Goguryeo side's attack since the beginning of the war was issued.
The first large-scale counterattack.
However, the effect of such a counterattack made Yeon Gaesowon, who witnessed the process from a distance, look extremely ugly.
There was a dense popping sound on the hanging curtain on the earthen wall of Wang Junlin's side. The arrow-proof hemp quilt seemed to be covered with weeds in an instant. The hanging curtain on the earthen wall seemed weak, but strangely, all the bows and arrows could be used.
If blocked, no arrows can penetrate this hanging curtain. Occasionally, arrows shot higher can fall behind the earth wall, causing screams from time to time.
In short, most of the tens of thousands of arrows fired by Goguryeo were blocked. The soldiers on standby behind the earthen wall hid under the hanging curtain. There was also a hanging curtain made of wooden frame and hemp quilt above, which effectively blocked the arrows.
As the saying goes, "Everything is done in advance, otherwise it will be ruined." The benefits and advantages of a fully prepared defensive battle are fully reflected at this moment.
The defending side fought back behind the parapet, shooting the Goguryeo soldiers who filled the pits. The two sides engaged in shooting, but this shooting was too unfair. The Goguryeo side often needed tens of thousands of arrows to kill a dozen people, but the defending side
One hundred arrows can kill a dozen Goguryeo soldiers.
The defense behind the earthen wall is in order. In some cases that cannot be seen, the observation posts on the top of the city behind or on the hillsides on both sides will constantly send messages and shoot information with arrows.
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Wang Junlin observed the enemy camp with a telescope. His side attacked fiercely, and the long-range attacks were very accurate within a hundred steps. Fragments of shield vehicles exploded one after another on the front line, and the screams of the Goguryeo people could be heard in pieces.
, but there was no obvious decrease in Goguryeo's shield chariots. After the ones that were hit stopped, another one behind them bypassed and added to the line. There was also an endless stream of auxiliary troops. The ones in front just fell, and the shield chariots behind them
A group of auxiliary soldiers were also driven out.
The shield chariot stopped between seventy and eighty steps. Countless Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers worked desperately in front of the shield chariot, stacking the remains of the shield chariot from the previous few days in front of the new shield chariot. Thousands of Goguryeo soldiers were behind the shield chariot.
The archer drew the bow and fired, and after five or six arrows, he replaced it with another round. Maintaining his strength, the waves of arrow rain seemed to never stop. Even though Wang Junlin's soldiers had special curtains, there were still casualties.
The shield workshop flashed with some sharpshooters selected by Goguryeo. Their shooting skills were accurate and they were often able to suppress the Sui soldiers holding repeating crossbows in the blocking ditch. After all, the defensive force was much different than the opponent. In order to reduce
They had no choice but to retreat towards the earth wall one by one, climb up the winding passages, retreat through the ditch, enter the parapet in front of the earth wall, and rely on the parapet to continue shooting at the enemy.
In this way, the earth wall has two lines of firepower, but they will not affect each other's attacks, and they can also cooperate with each other to shoot at the same time, adding each other's attack power.
"Send a message to Liu Yidong. The auxiliary soldiers behind the Goguryeo shield cart are stacking earth bags into the shield cart. They probably also want to repair the trench." Wang Junlin took down the telescope and said to Zhang Tiangang next to him.
The latter responded immediately, quickly wrote what Wang Junlin said with a charcoal pen, and then sent the letter to Liu Yidong with a sea eagle.
Wang Junlin observed from the angle of the sea that two stone bombs hit the shield car, and the front guard was shattered, revealing the stacked earth bags inside. He couldn't help but said: "Yuan Gaisuwen is not slow to react, and he also knows how to learn from us."