Chapter 1118 The Secret Treasure of the Broken City Sent by Wang Junlin
Yang Guang watched Li Yuan leave and looked at everyone in the audience with cold eyes. Although he did not want to retreat, he knew that it was too late to divide his troops to attack the capital of Goguryeo. He could only capture Liaodong City at all costs.
He glanced at everyone coldly and angrily said with murderous intent: "You think you are in a high position and rely on your prominent family background to besiege Liaodong City for a month, but a million troops cannot capture a small city. You are greedy and fearful.
If you refuse to work hard, do you think I really don’t dare to kill you?"
Yang Guang's tone was extremely stern, and the murderous intent on his body was overwhelming. All the generals lowered their heads, trembling in their hearts, knowing that if anyone dared to say no at this time, Yang Guang would immediately ask Yuwen Chengdu to come in and pull the person down to kill him.
Yang Guang snorted heavily and said sternly: "Now that an epidemic has appeared in the army, time can't wait. I will give you one last chance. If you cannot capture Liaodong City within today, don't blame me for wanting to kill someone."
Approval of people!"
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An hour later, the Sui army began to attack Liaodong City again, and it was more fierce than before.
Yang Guang personally stood on the high platform specially built by Yu Wenshu about 800 steps away, watching the Sui army attack the city with a blank expression. He saw that Goguryeo was extremely determined to defend the city. Although the twelve generals each selected five
Thousands of elite soldiers took turns to attack and attacked the city several times, but they were all driven back by the Goguryeo people, and all the Sui people who reached the city were killed.
Yang Guang finally realized how stupid the "benevolent" decrees he had been issuing these days were. Coupled with the fact that the epidemic began to appear in the army, his extremely inflated thoughts were completely brought back to their original shape and some sanity was restored, so he issued the decree.
"The whole army is told that the first person to attack the city of Liaodong will be promoted to the third rank and will be rewarded with thousands of pieces of silk!'
After Yang Guang's order was issued, the morale of the Sui army recovered somewhat, and the offensive was like a wave. The ladders once again pushed towards the head of Liaodong City. However, the Goguryeo people in the city were convinced that the Sui people would massacre the city and tried their best to defend the city. Both sides suffered heavy casualties.
However, Liaodong City has never been able to break through.
Of course, this is related to the fact that the morale of the Sui soldiers has been exhausted these days. If the siege was like this from the beginning, and the soldiers attacked the city without restraint, no matter how strong the Goguryeo people in the city were in defending the city, the city would be broken.
At this time, seeing that most of the day had passed and there was no sign of Liaodong City being breached, Yang Guang's face became increasingly ugly and his heart sank to the bottom. Yang Guang, who had regained his senses, knew very well that when the epidemic began to appear in the army,
If Liaodong City cannot be captured immediately, then his expedition to Goguryeo will be considered a complete failure, which will be a huge blow to him.
"Your Majesty, Duke An of Qin has sent you an urgent secret message." Yuwen Chengdu ran up to the high platform, presented a secret letter with both hands, and bowed.
Yang Guang's expression changed and he turned his gaze away from Liaodong City. When he heard that it was 'an urgent matter', he was worried that Wang Junlin's side would also be defeated.
After tearing open the letter and reading it, Yang Guang was shocked and shouted: "Wang Junlin said that there is a secret treasure that can break the city. He sent a small team over. Where is that small team?"
Yuwen Chengdu quickly said: "Report to Your Majesty, just outside the camp."
Yang Guang said with a trembling body: "Wang Junlin has never let me down. He said he had a secret treasure that could break the city, so I believed that his secret treasure would be able to break the city. I sent an order to Yu Wenshu and other twelve generals to give them full cooperation.
Wang Junlin's troops captured the city."
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Although Wang Junlin knew that exposing the gunpowder would bring him a lot of trouble, Yang Guang's suspicion was unavoidable in the first place. It was difficult to completely conceal some of the shady things he did in Fanyang County.
But in order to save the lives of millions of Sui soldiers and millions of civilians, he hesitated and sent two thousand kilograms of gunpowder, five specially-made trebuchets, and two hundred operators.
Bringing these two hundred people was Wang Junlin's general Shan Xiongxin. He behaved very forcefully. No matter Yu Wenshu, Pei Shiju, Yuwen Chengdu, or all the generals, they were not allowed to touch these two thousand kilograms of gunpowder.
In his letter to Yang Guang, Wang Junlin mentioned the need for the full cooperation of the army here. Out of his trust in Wang Junlin's ability to create miracles, Yang Guang also ordered the twelve generals to fully cooperate, and asked Yuwen Chengdu to personally lead the five generals.
Thousands of emperor's personal guards protected and cooperated with this team.
Although everyone had to cooperate due to His Majesty's will, both the twelve generals and Yuwen Chengdu were quite dissatisfied. Shan Xiongxin ignored their attitudes and just told Yuwen Chengdu that the ruined city he had brought
The secret treasure is very dangerous. Once it is not controlled well, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty will be destroyed first.
Shan Xiongxin led two hundred specially trained operators and spent an hour testing and adjusting five special trebuchets.
When it was almost afternoon, Yu Wen Chengdu put on his military uniform and took five thousand emperor's personal bodyguards with him. He said to Shan Xiong with a serious face: "If it doesn't work, Wang Junlin is deceiving the emperor, and you people will definitely be punished by your majesty."
Ordered to be beheaded, so if it doesn’t work after a while, just take your people and die on the battlefield!"
Shan Xiongxin smiled slightly after hearing Yuwen Chengdu's words and said: "General Tianbao, don't worry, our father-in-law has never missed a chance."
Outside Liaodong City, under the gloomy sky, the dull sound of war drums sounded again. The Sui army once again began to attack the city with all its strength, and the five thousand emperor's soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, wearing heavy armor, advanced towards the gate of Liaodong City step by step.
As soon as they entered the place where an arrow can be drawn, a dense rain of arrows from the Goguryeo people rained down from three directions.
"Shield array!"
Yuwen Chengdu shouted loudly, and countless bright shields were erected, and soon the military formation was turned into iron turtles, and the two hundred people led by Shan Xiongxin, five trebuchets, and five
The cart was tightly protected inside.
Iron Turtle is still moving slowly towards Liaodong City.
At the same time, Yu Wenshu ordered the Eight-Niu Crossbows to be dragged by mules and horses into Liaodong City, and stopped within a stone's throw. All the Eight-Niu Crossbows desperately used winches to string the Eight-Niu Crossbows.
Arm-thick crossbows and guns were placed on the chute. The thickest soldier held the handle of the eight-niu crossbow and aimed at the tall city wall of Liaodong City from a distance.
Yuwen Chengdu stared at Shan Xiong with a relaxed expression and said, "When will your secret treasure show its power?"
Shan Xiongxin said with a smile: "When the trebuchet can accurately hit the gate of Liaocheng, other places need to suppress and contain the Goguryeo people as much as possible, because we only have one chance, and we must do everything possible."
Yuwen Chengdu took a deep look at Shan Xiongxin, nodded and said: "Okay, your people will push your things between the iron shield formation and the crossbow formation."