There are twenty shield carts in the front row, followed by 300 Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers carrying loaders filled with soil. Behind the second row of shield carts are three hundred crossbowmen under Guan Xiaotong, who will cover the trench filling.
These auxiliary soldiers.
Seventy steps away were more than 500 Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers who were specially armored. They were divided into teams of fifty, and each team used three ladders. This simple ladder had no equipment to cover the approach, and only had an iron roof on the top.
The hook can be hung on the battlement to prevent it from being easily pushed down by the defenders. There is also a bracket in the middle that can support more people to get on the ladder at the same time. They will start attacking when the trench is filled. The last row is led by Guan Xiaotong
Three thousand elite infantrymen are personally commanded by Guan Xiaotong. Whenever there is an opportunity, they will immediately climb the city wall to support.
At this time, the front row of shield cars creaked and creaked, and quickly arrived at the edge of the city trench. The rear row of shield cars stopped ten steps away, and a dense number of crossbowmen flashed out from behind, aiming at the top of the wall and starting to fire suppressively.
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Although he gave these more than a thousand Goguryeo auxiliary troops a bright future, rather than reducing the losses of his soldiers, he did not hesitate to push these Goguryeo people to the front. How much they would survive in the end was no longer something Wang Junlin considered.
You can't be kind to your own soldiers on the battlefield, let alone the enemy.
The moat in Daluo City is neither deep nor wide. It is only about one foot deep and three to five feet wide. The water in the moat is only four or five feet deep.
There are four gates in Daluo City. The layout of the city is similar to that of many cities in the Sui Dynasty. They are all cross streets. Two streets run through the north and south gates and the east and west gates respectively. Wang Junlin mainly attacked the south side.
The auxiliary soldiers who were filling the trenches shouted, and jumped out from behind the front row of shield cars. They rushed to dump the earth and rocks into the trench, and then went back to pick up the second batch. The more than 200 auxiliary soldiers also began to run back, and they also wanted to
Participate in trench filling work.
When the sound of movement was heard at the top of the city, some figures emerged, taking stances and preparing to fire their bows. Hundreds of rapid crossbows were fired from below the city at the same time. The harsh sound of piercing the air was heard densely. A dozen Goguryeo archers were hit and struggled to disappear.
On the top of the city, the Goguryeo soldiers screamed in panic. The Sui army's fast crossbowmen under the city immediately stepped back after firing eight crossbows, and replaced the shield chariot with a new batch of fast crossbowmen, and so on.
, ensuring constant suppression and attacks on the city head.
"Each of you keep an eye on the city plate facing you. Don't worry about others. Watch those who dare to take the lead. Fire a volley at a time. Don't let him go in advance." Hu Gouzi walked back and forth in the shield workshop, riding on the artillery.
The opportunity to pause reminded those team leaders.
Guan Xiaotong's 3,000 infantrymen included 1,000 spearmen, 1,000 rapid-fire crossbowmen and 1,000 sword and shield warriors. At this time, these 1,000 fast crossbowmen were divided into three rounds, alternately covering the soldiers filling the trenches.
, the Goguryeo soldiers did not dare to take the lead, but blindly launched bows and arrows from a position behind the city disk, and the accuracy was greatly reduced.
After more than an hour, the trench was filled in to a sufficient width, and the auxiliary soldiers in the rear formation howled loudly and swarmed in carrying ladders.
There are many defenders in the city. After Yeon Gaesooun returned to Annan County from Baengnyeong Island after his disastrous defeat last time, he had actually guessed that Wang Junlin would attack the land one day, so Goguryeo also made a lot of preparations.
The equipment was extremely abundant. What Wang Junlin could see through the telescope were mulberry trees, yaksha shots, bumping poles, etc. It is conceivable that there should also be regular gray bottles and fire bottles.
There are several trebuchets on each of the 400 walls of the city. The level of Goguryeo's craftsmen is not much lower than that of the Sui Dynasty. These things can be made easily, but their performance is far behind that of Wang Junlin, even compared with the products of the Ministry of Industry of the Sui Dynasty.
It's also a bit worse.
Goguryeo still has five thousand soldiers in the city. In addition, there should be some auxiliary troops in Daluo City, all of which can participate in the defense of the city. Wang Junlin does not have any military advantage. Only his momentum and morale are better than Goguryeo's. Yesterday Jin
Yibei had lost his courage. Although more than a thousand of them had fled back, they had no courage to go out to fight in the city.
According to Wang Junlin's plan, the attack is still aimed at seizing the city gate. There is no Wengcheng in Daluo City, and there is no Qianjin Gate that is only found in large cities. The attack is not difficult.
Therefore, Wang Junlin openly planned to invade the city with ants, but considering that Goguryeo had enough manpower on the wall, it would be difficult for the soldiers who climbed up to stand, or that if they wanted to stand firm, they would inevitably suffer a lot of casualties, so secretly he mainly used
The tactics of poaching are used, and the manpower is still Goguryeo's auxiliary troops.
Although these auxiliary soldiers also have many poor people, Wang Junlin will not pity them now.
The shield carts in front were to fill the trenches, but at this time the second batch of shield carts behind them were squeaking and heading towards the city gate. There were scouts from the special forces walking around two hundred steps away from the city wall. The shield carts were
There were still two levels at the front and back. Lu Han sent a thousand men to advance under the cover of shield vehicles. There were two very exquisitely made trebuchets between the two layers of shield vehicles.
Not long after entering 500 steps, several trebuchets on the Daluo City Gate began to fire. Several stone bombs flew out, flying high over the heads of the shield cart line and hitting the ground behind with a bang. There was a burst of push carts and auxiliary troops.
Screaming, the two mentally broken auxiliary soldiers turned around and ran away. After just a few steps, they were chopped down to the ground by the soldiers under Guan Xiaotong who were escorting the car.
The soldiers on Wang Junlin's side who were escorting the car raised their swords and shouted loudly, telling them to move forward. The trebuchet on the city tower fired again, this time closer. The Sui soldiers loudly reminded the auxiliary soldiers to approach the city wall and throw the trebuchet.
The stone machine will lose its function.
The auxiliary soldiers tried their best in panic, and the shield cart moved faster and faster. When they reached three hundred steps, they were finally hit by a trebuchet. A shield cart in the back row on the left broke open like a pile of toys, and the ferocious kinetic energy of the stone bullets smashed the shield cart.
The tree trunk as thick as a bowl exploded into countless pieces. The auxiliary soldiers pushing the cart were bloody and bloody, and the screams were loud and loud.
The auxiliary soldiers in the shield car formation were in chaos. Wang Junlin's soldiers killed more than ten people in a row before allowing the auxiliary soldiers to move forward. Fortunately, the accuracy of the Goguryeo trebuchets was so poor that they did not hit again.
Pass.
The other shield chariots walked safely 150 steps forward. The Goguryeo people's trebuchets had straight trajectories. There was a large blind spot after being placed on the city wall. Bows and arrows basically posed no threat to the shield chariots. When they entered the city and fired, Wang Junlin was on his side.
Repeating fast crossbows have advantages.
After entering a hundred steps, the Goguryeo city top shouted repeatedly, and the Goguryeo soldiers and archers began to shoot. The fast crossbow team behind the second row of shield vehicles immediately began to fight back. People on both sides were shot and fell to the ground, but the shield in the front row of Wang Junlin's side began to fire.
The car still pushed forward to the moat directly opposite the south gate.
The trench at the gate of the city had not been filled in, but Wang Junlin's side had a trench truck specially used to attack the city, and they quickly pushed it up.