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But things are different now. If Yang Guang is defeated, Wang Junlin may be Yang Guang's last fig leaf. When the time comes, he will apply for an official position and form an army. Yang Guang will only admit it no matter what he thinks in his heart, and
The reward will also be officially awarded.
For Wang Junlin, the most difficult thing is how to hide his own system under the court's system. Correspondingly, every officer will have two identities, one is the military position of the court, and the other is the position of the internal system. Goguryeo
After this war, local officials in Fanyang County would be more or less aware of the differences, but by then the civil strife in the Sui Dynasty would inevitably become more serious, and Yang Guang and the court would no longer be able to control Fanyang County.
Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong knew that the attack on the city was mainly their business. After the two discussed it, they rode over together. After saluting Wang Junlin, Guan Xiaotong said: "Sir, there are more than two hundred steps in Daluo City on Friday.
Goguryeo only had 5,000 troops plus auxiliary troops, and each side only had more than 1,000 people. But we only had more than 15,000 people. In a siege, the attacking side needed at least five times the strength of the defending side, so it was a humble job.
It is recommended to contain both sides and attack one side by force."
Wang Junlin thought for a moment, nodded and said: "Okay, just do as you say. The two of you can prepare to attack the city tomorrow."
At this time Luo Chun came over and said: "Sir, we have captured more than a thousand auxiliary soldiers at the moment. What should we do with these people?"
Wang Junlin looked at the Goguryeo soldiers on the top of the city and said with a smile: "As a general leading the army, in addition to doing our best to achieve victory, we must also try our best to reduce the casualties deployed. Naturally, these Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers cannot be allowed to go in vain.
Our food.”
After a pause, Wang Junlin continued: "I remember that during the Battle of Baengling Island, these Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers were very good at making shield carts and using shield carts, so I asked some of them to start making them immediately and use the ones that drilled holes.
The things are also ready. Let them push the shield cart to dig the city wall tomorrow. Tell them that whoever makes the shield cart can push it himself. As long as they survive this war, they no longer need to be auxiliary soldiers. I can give them fields.
, and became real common people. The other auxiliary soldiers provided them with armor and weapons, allowing them to be the first to attack the city. Those who survived were given double the fields of the auxiliary soldiers pushing shield carts, and they also became real common people."
Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong looked at each other and said in unison: "I will definitely destroy the city with one blow tomorrow."
That night, King Junlin ordered three lanterns to be hung up in the center of the military position. They were not covered with black cloth, which seemed to be very disdainful of the Goguryeo soldiers in Daluo City. It is not known how many people were actually around. Those Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers were stationed around
I was busy all night with torches, and under the command of the craftsmen brought by Wang Junlin, I built shield carts and various ladders. However, the Goguryeo army in Daluo City did not harass them at night, and they lived peacefully until dawn.
Early on the next morning, the drums of Wang Junlin's camp were beating continuously, and soldiers in neat formations came out of the camp one after another and formed up one mile away from the city wall.
There was a dark group of people sitting outside the camp in the north. There were more than a thousand people in total. They were divided into fifty small groups sitting on the ground. There were more than twenty people in each group, and they were wolfing down the steamed cakes in their hands.
Hearing the movement behind them, they all looked around to look at the giant trebuchets pushed by Gululu.
These are the more than a thousand Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers mobilized yesterday through coercion and inducement. These people are actually very experienced in combat and have no favorable impression of the Goguryeo government and the court, only hatred.
In their eyes, this group of Sui soldiers were strong and well-equipped, and their movements were uniform and powerful. They were completely different from their Goguryeo soldiers. Although they could not explain how they felt, they knew that they were rare and powerful soldiers.
army, and they were very confident in their actions. They seemed not to take the war with Goguryeo seriously at all.
So these auxiliary soldiers who were like slaves in Goguryeo thought that they might be able to capture Daluo City easily. With the examples of Bailing Island and Nanyang Village, they quite trusted Wang Junlin's promise and just wanted to fight today.
As long as they survived, they would be able to formally break away from the slave-like auxiliary status. As for being a common people to the Sui people or to being common people to the Goguryeo officials, they didn't care.
Hu Gouzi was a centurion leader under Guan Xiaotong, and he was also the one who was selected to learn Goguryeo the best in the early stage. At this time, he walked up to the thousands of Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers and began to tell these people in detail. Wait a minute.
What they had to do was to see a group of people in front of them who were wearing tattered clothes and were thin, with numb expressions and some expectation. They sat on the ground and stared curiously at Hu Gouzi, feeling very curious about what he said.
Hu Gouzi saw their dark faces and cord-like hair, and suddenly remembered that he was like this more than a year ago when he was a salt slave in the salt field of Fanyang County. It was not until the prefect appeared that his life changed.
These Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers in front of them obviously fought with blood and courage. Their bodies were thin and their fighting skills were mediocre. They would be killed easily, but Hu Gouzi knew very well that if three or four more of these people died, they would always be defeated.
One of them should die!
"What you are going to do..." Hu Gouzi said loudly: "Part of it is to push the shield cart to dig a hole under the city, and part of it is to climb the ladder up to the city wall. When we climb the city, our long-range attacks will support you below the city. There are six of us below the city.
Thousands of people, as long as you occupy a small section of the city wall, the soldiers behind will rush up. Then you will attack the city tower with us, and then open the city gate. Don't run around, and you must remember to attack the city gate...
"
A quarter of an hour later, twenty giant trebuchets started roaring at the same time. The three-pound stone projectiles had no lethal effect on the city wall. They could only hit a shallow pit, but their momentum immediately increased, and it also affected the morale of the Goguryeo people on the city wall.
The blow is very big.
Dozens of shield carriages creaked slowly toward the south gate, driven by more than two hundred Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers.
There is no uniform standard for these shield carts. Wang Junlin asked them to give orders. When these people made them, they knew that whoever made the shield cart would push it themselves. Therefore, the auxiliary soldiers worked overtime without daring to be careless and gave full play to their abilities.
With his cleverness, he came up with countless reinforcement methods to give himself a better chance of survival. The most creative one even laid a layer of soil on top.
But what they didn't expect was that the strongest shield carts were placed in the front row, and the weaker ones were placed in the back row to provide cover for the Sui crossbowmen, which greatly reduced the risk.
This incident taught them a truth: sometimes it is not a good thing to take things too seriously without clearly understanding the purpose.
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