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The navy blocked the Liao River, and the news could not be transmitted. Liaodong City had actually become an isolated city. The Jin army dispatched troops very quickly. On the third day after intercepting the carrier pigeon, a 30,000-strong army arrived at Liaodong City under the leadership of General Li Bing.
Liaodong City was the Xiangping City of the Han Dynasty and was once an important town in the east of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo was destroyed, Liaodong City became the military headquarters of the Andong Protectorate. At its peak, it had a population of nearly 200,000, but now its population has declined.
Although the population has been greatly reduced, there are still tens of thousands of residents in the city, and many ethnic groups live together in the city.
The city of Liaodong City is divided into an inner city and an outer city. The outer city wall is tall and solid, with a circumference of thirty miles. The Taizi River passes through the city from the northwest corner and flows out from the southeast corner, forming two water gates.
Although the city wall of Liaodong City is tall and strong, the number of troops in the city is too small, only 3,000 people, and they cannot defend the city wall with a circumference of thirty miles. The wide city wall has become the weakness of Liaodong City.
Li Bing rode horseback under the city and looked at Liaodong City. He had gone through hundreds of battles and attacked countless cities, and had accumulated rich experience. After basically looking around, he had an idea of how to attack Liaodong City.
Liaodong City has two obvious weaknesses. One is that it has too few troops, and the other is that the city wall is too dilapidated. It is estimated that it has not been renovated in almost seventy or eighty years.
If the enemy's troops are too few, you can use more forceful attacks to directly attack the city. But if the city wall is too dilapidated, it's time for the Iron Fire Thunder to show its power.
The dilapidation of the city wall does not only refer to the city gates, but also to the city wall itself. The city bricks have been beaten by wind and rain over the years, and many of them have become brittle. At a certain point, they will be unable to bear the weight and collapse. All many cities have to take turns every year.
The main purpose of repairing the city wall is to replace the broken city bricks.
The dilapidated city wall that has not been repaired in seventy or eighty years will definitely not be able to withstand the power of a giant iron fire thunder.
Among the people who followed Li Bing to inspect the city wall, there were also several veteran craftsmen who were with the army. They were familiar with the structure of various city walls. At this time, a leader of the craftsmen saluted Li Bing and said: "General Qi, we discussed it and agreed.
Basically, they are relatively uniform. The walls on both sides of the Shuicheng Gate are thin and have holes inside. The wall bricks have been affected by water damage and weathering all year round, making them more brittle and easier to destroy than other city walls."
Li Bing nodded. He originally considered the city gate, but it is estimated that the inside of the city gate has been blocked by huge rocks, so the weakest point of the city wall is the ideal blasting point. The craftsmen recommended the two sides of the water city gate. Li Bing also
Knowing the structure of Shuicheng Gate, there are indeed passages up and down the city, so the middle is empty, unlike other city walls that are filled with sand.
He went around to the southeast corner and took a closer look at the river outside the city. Both sides of the river were covered with weeds as tall as a person. He quickly had a perfect siege plan in his mind.
Li Bing turned back to his deputy Zhao Lin and said: "Instruct the three armies to line up and prepare to attack the city!"
"Follow the order!"
Zhao Lin turned the horse's head and galloped away...
Thirty thousand soldiers did not set up camp, but were resting on the same spot three miles away. Suddenly, the war drums suddenly sounded, 'Boom! Boom! Boom!'
The drum beat rapidly, which was the drum sound of gathering troops. The resting soldiers immediately stood up and gathered, and the heads of the West City began to become tense. Wei Chaoan mobilized troops from all directions to the West City. He found that the enemy did not have many siege weapons, and it was very possible that
Will attack Xicheng.
At this time, a small boat floated on the Taizi River in the east. There was no one on the boat, only a large wooden box. In fact, there were obvious loopholes in it. How could the boat go upstream on its own? Anyone with a little bit of brains would guess that there was someone below.
Push the boat forward in the water.
Unfortunately, there are almost no soldiers left in the east city. There are only less than a hundred soldiers. They are all concentrated above the city gate. From their angle, the line of sight is blocked by weeds as tall as one person on both sides of the river. The boat slowly sails close to the shore.
Okay, try to let the tall weeds block the hull of the boat. Unless you look down from the front, it will be difficult to spot the boat.
Not long after, the boat sailed into the moat and immediately entered the water gate in the southeast corner. Three arm-thick iron fences were placed inside the water gate, blocking the waterway into the city. Dozens of boulders were also thrown under the water, blocking the iron fence.
It is impossible to swim into the city from under the water gate.
Several soldiers jumped out from the water. They cooperated tacitly, and soon they used thin iron hooks to pull out several city bricks from the cracks in the city wall. One of the city bricks even broke into several pieces. Soon
A big hole appeared in front of them.
Everyone worked together to stuff the heavy wooden box into the cave, opened the top cover, and revealed a roll of match rope. A soldier pulled out a match rope and flicked it into the wind, and the match rope ignited.
The four people lit the match rope, turned over and jumped into the water. They didn't care about the boat and swam away as hard as they could. Just as the four people swam seventy or eighty steps, a red light burst out from the hole in the city wall, followed by an earth-shattering explosion.
With the sound of the explosion, the four people dived into the water at the same time and stood close to both sides of the river bank. They all felt the earth shaking in the water.
Countless broken bricks fell like raindrops, and the two soldiers groaned as they were hit by the broken bricks falling from the sky.
After a while, the four people emerged from the water and looked towards the Shuicheng Gate together. They were all a little stunned. The entire Shuicheng Gate had disappeared. A twisted iron fence and nearly two walls of collapsed city walls could still be seen.
It was so long that the moat was even filled up by the pouring bricks and silt.
The entire city walls have decayed, and they will collapse on their own with just a little external force. The small earthquake caused by the giant iron fire thunder is this fatal external force.
The explosion was a signal. The 30,000 troops assembled in the West City quickly rushed towards the East City. The 5,000 cavalry led the way and rushed to the southeast corner. A small wooden bridge had been laid over the river. They crossed the river and crossed the moat, directly from
The collapsed city wall rushed into the city, and then the remaining 20,000 troops also rushed into the city.
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There are also five thousand cavalry patrolling the outside, specifically to capture enemy soldiers who have escaped from the city.
The city was in chaos. The soldiers abandoned their armor and fled in all directions. Most of them fled into civilian houses and hid, but there were still a small number of soldiers who escaped from the city.
Wei Chaoan disguised himself as a soldier and escaped from the city. He mixed in with a large group of soldiers and fled to the north. However, within two miles, they were surrounded by hundreds of cavalry.
The soldiers were so frightened that they knelt down and raised their hands to surrender. At this time, a school captain led a dozen cavalrymen and ran over from the direction of the city. The school captain reined in his horses and shouted loudly: "Is there any general who is defending the city here?
Whoever reports it will be rewarded heavily!"
The Jin army failed to find the enemy general Wei Chaoan. A soldier reported that Wei Chaoan had disguised himself as a soldier and escaped from the city. Li Bing immediately sent people everywhere to intercept him.
A soldier glanced at Wei Chao'an and rolled his eyes twice. Wei Chao'an was shocked and was about to go up and hold the soldier down. Unexpectedly, the soldier jumped up, turned back and pointed at Wei Chao'an and shouted: "I'm going to expose him, he is the commander-in-chief Wei Chao'an!"
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Wei Chao'an suddenly collapsed on the ground, his face ashen, and his eyes were extremely vicious as he stared at the soldier who exposed him.
Several cavalrymen rushed forward and put their spears to Wei Chaoan's throat. Several soldiers stepped forward and knocked him down and tied him up with ropes.
At dusk, seven generals, including Wei Chaoan, were taken to the top of the city and beheaded. Their heads were hung high on the city wall. This was Guo Song's order. Those who refused to surrender would be beheaded after the city was broken!
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The next morning, Guo Song led the army to Liaodong City. He went into the city to meet with the civil servants of Liaodong City and dozens of gentry representatives in the city. He comforted them and explained to them repeatedly that the imperial army was only to eliminate Zhu Tao and was by no means
Regarding the people of Liaodong, the vast majority of people in Liaodong, whether they are Han or other ethnic groups, as long as they are loyal to the imperial court and keep their own laws, they are also subjects of the imperial court.
Under Guo Song's instruction, Liaodong City Mayor Shi Gaohuan sent a pigeon letter to his father.
After appeasing the people and officials in the city, Guo Song did not stay too long in Liaodong City, and immediately led an army of 80,000 across the Liao River and headed towards Liucheng.
At this time, Zhu Tao had realized that something was wrong, and two cavalrymen who delivered grains had a chance to escape. They fled back to Liucheng to report that the grain delivery team was ambushed by a Jin army cavalry, and the grain team was kidnapped.
If the cavalry ambushing the grain team only made Zhu Tao slightly suspicious, after all, the Jin army in the south would also send a cavalry to attack the grain team. Then several businessmen sent news that a huge ship appeared on the Liao River.
Team, this finally made Zhu Tao panic.
Zhu Tao knew very well where this huge fleet came from. It must have set off from Dengzhou, cooperating with Yao Jin from the south to make the northern expedition from the Western Liaoning Corridor to attack Yingzhou by land and water.
Zhu Tao had not yet thought that the main force of the Jin army was attacking Silla and annihilating his second son's nearly 100,000-strong army. He thought it was just a military operation targeting Yingzhou.
But even the Northern Expedition against Yingzhou made him panic. There were only 3,000 soldiers in Liucheng, and 30,000 troops faced off against the main enemy force at Bailang Mountain.
Only then did he realize what the appearance of a cavalry team in Bailangshui meant.
The connection between Liucheng and the main army was cut off by the opponent's cavalry. If the enemy came from the west, they would be in a desperate situation.