The Eight Ox Crossbow is so powerful that piercing a person's body is like piercing a piece of white paper. There are people everywhere on the battlefield, and there is no way to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, so that the Eight Ox Crossbow has no way to lower its sight and continue to annihilate on the battlefield.
Goguryeo people.
The trebuchets continued to bombard the city. If they could take the opportunity to destroy the Goguryeo trebuchets, it would be the greatest result.
In order to break the city, the twelve generals tried their best. The Sui army's rocks were mixed with cans of strong kerosene. When the kerosene reached the top of the city, smoke started to appear everywhere. However, the effect was not good. Black smoke just started to rise.
It quickly disappeared on the city wall. This is because Yuan Taizuo had been preparing for the defense of Liaodong City for several years for this battle.
Seeing the tide of Goguryeo's light cavalry crashing onto the hard rock of the emperor's personal bodyguards, Shan Xiongxin breathed a sigh of relief.
The troop retreat horn sounded behind the Goguryeo city gate, causing the Goguryeo cavalry in the battlefield to retreat slowly, while the emperor's personal guards were unable to catch up.
Although the two thousand and five hundred emperor's personal guards who had advanced to the city blocked the charge of the Goguryeo cavalry, they suffered heavy casualties. Only more than a thousand people were left. At this time, they were slowly retreating. They were exhausted.
I have no strength to stay on the battlefield.
Fortunately, when they were retreating, there were only a few sparse stones flying above their heads, which showed that the trebuchets of the Goguryeo people had suffered heavy losses in the trebuchet bombardment just now.
Yuwen Chengdu was naturally different from the ordinary guards of the emperor. He returned to the military formation covered in blood, still high-spirited and full of murderous intent. He stared at Shan Xiongxin and shouted sternly: "When will your secret treasure be used?"
Shan Xiongxin frowned and said, "It's quick. If you push it closer, it will be used."
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No one paid attention to the wounded on the battlefield, the heavy marching drums beat again, and the Sui army infantry resumed their siege.
The Sui army's trebuchets once again showed their power. At the same time, tall ladders were erected one after another, and the climbing soldiers were as dense as ants.
Under the cover of the remaining shield array of more than 2,000 emperor's personal guards, Shan Xiongxin pushed forward again, but in this process, the emperor's personal guards lost more than 500 people.
Shan Xiongxin pointed to the Liaodong City Gate and asked: "If we pile gunpowder at the city gate, can we blow open the city gate?"
The centurion leader nodded and said: "Although this city gate looks very strong and solid, it should be able to be completely blown up with at most one thousand kilograms of explosives, and we brought two thousand kilograms of explosives."
Yuwen Chengdu came again and urged: "When will your secret treasure be used? If this continues, all of us will die here."
Shan Xiongxin said: "We need ten dead soldiers to place these ten packages in front of the city gate."
Yuwen Chengdu said without hesitation: "Okay, I will immediately send the ten strongest people over to listen to your instructions."
Shan Xiongxin glanced at some Sui troops at the top of the city and said: "These secret treasures will blow up the entire city wall near the city gate. There are many of our people at the top of the city and near the city gate, and they may be killed too.
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Yuwen Chengdu glanced at the Sui soldiers on top of the city, and said coldly: "As long as Liaodong City can be captured, they will deserve their death."
"Hurry up!" At the end of the sentence, Yuwen Chengdu yelled.
Shan Xiongxin found that Yuwen Chengdu's eyes had turned red, and the eyes looking at him were full of violent murderous intent. He had no doubt that if he dared to refuse, Yuwen Chengdu would attack him.
Shan Xiongxin looked at the Sui soldiers who were fighting fiercely at the top of the city, and said calmly: "In that case, it's up to you."
Yuwen Chengdu selected ten powerful personal bodyguards of the emperor.
Shan Xiongxin waved his hand to the centurion leader, and immediately ten explosive bags worth 100 kilograms were delivered to the hands of the ten emperor's personal guards.
After Shan Xiongxin gave an order in Sui Dynasty, these ten personal guards of the Emperor, who had the strength of the foundation-building stage and were wearing heavy armor with their faces covered, each held a hundred kilograms of explosives and rushed towards the city wall.
When these ten emperor's personal guards wearing heavy armor rushed to the city gate risking their lives, Shan Xiongxin ordered five trebuchets to launch five ignited fuses, each containing two hundred kilograms of gunpowder packets.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Fifteen explosions were heard in succession, and everyone heard an earth-shattering noise. The entire earth trembled at this moment.
Yuwen Chengdu was caught off guard and his body trembled, but he quickly stood firm. However, the others did not have his strength. Countless Sui soldiers under the city were frightened and shocked, and their bodies staggered.
After the rumble, the earth stopped shaking, and Liaocheng City in the distance was shrouded in dust.
Shan Xiongxin didn't need to look there to know what the consequences would be. He led two hundred people and quietly left the battlefield before Yuwen Chengdu woke up from the shock and headed for the seaside.
Wang Junlin told him before coming that if this secret weapon was exposed to the world and to Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, it would be difficult to hide some of the things they did in Fanyang County, and if they stayed, they would probably be exposed to Yang Guang.
Guang tortured about the secrets of explosives.
Fist-sized gravel flew out from the thick smoke. Yuwen Chengdu and his less than two thousand emperor's personal guards shook their bodies and held up the giant shield together, letting the stones clank against the shield, hiding their heads.
The shrunken ones dare not confront Tianwei.
Everyone's ears on the battlefield were buzzing, and some people were shouting something with their mouths wide open, but in fact they couldn't hear a word...
Eight hundred steps away, the high platform Yang Guang was standing on began to shake. Under the protection of a group of expert guards, Yang Guang got off the high platform with a pale face and great excitement. Then the seemingly solid high platform fell apart.
The north wind in the summer finally blew away the dust in Liaodong City. Hundreds of thousands of Sui soldiers and civil and military officials on the battlefield looked at the scene in front of them. Everyone looked in disbelief, and countless people opened their mouths in jaws.
, and tens of thousands of people knelt on the ground with a thud, raised their arms high and shouted miserably: "Oh my God!"
The city wall that the Sui army failed to attack even after spending 100,000 men. Centered on the west gate, the entire west wall disappeared...
There are only rubbles and half-broken walls everywhere. Not only that, the dead bodies of Goguryeo people are lying inside the rubble of the city wall and in the urn behind it. They lie on the ground very quietly. There are only a few war horses that are lucky enough to survive.
With some Goguryeo people who were far away, their eyes and ears were bleeding. They tried to stand up, but fell to the ground after all...
Shan Xiongxin took two hundred people and rode horses prepared in advance for most of a day to reach the seaside, where a large ship was responsible for picking them up.