The herald immediately passed down Wang Junlin's order, and the rest of the chariots were parked a dozen paces away from the city wall, lined up with the shield carts that were covering, and the Goguryeo soldiers couldn't throw out the fire oil so far, and now the most threatening ones were those ash bottles and fire bottles.

After Wang Junlin's order arrived, two exquisite stone throwers specially used to throw explosive packs were ready to shoot quickly and rapidly at any time, while the giant stone throwers in the distance used stone bullets to carry out continuous bombardment of the wall battlements, and the battlements near the city gate were almost flattened under the bombardment of more than 20 giant stone throwers, and the broken bricks hit the Goguryeo crossbowmen with heavy casualties, and the other shooters who were mobilized had nowhere to hide, so they could only spread out to both sides, and Goguryeo's frontal long-range attacks were completely suppressed.

The captive auxiliaries under the chariot began to dig the earth, and the excavated soil was piled up between the shield carts, and the Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall kept probing their brains to observe the movements of the Sui army.

The captive auxiliaries dug quickly, and the earth in the shield workshop was quickly piled up, and in the process, giant stone throwers and long-range crossbows continued to bombard both sides, and the shooters on the Goguryeo city walls had to retreat farther and farther.

At this time, a military horn sounded on the left flank, Wang Junlin turned his head to look, only to see that 3,000 cavalry were getting on the horse, they moved to the rear of the infantry on the left flank under the banner of Wei Chi Jingde, and a Goguryeo cavalry soon appeared outside the west city wall, about 1,500 people, they came out of the north gate, and were discovered early by Wang Junlin's side of the sentry.

This Goguryeo cavalry seemed to want to contain the Sui army from the flank, but they could only stop a mile away, in front of them was a strict infantry phalanx, in the face of this disciplined infantry battle formation, even the heavy cavalry did not dare to attack head-on, not to mention these lightly armed cavalry of Goguryeo, and the 3,000 cavalry led by Wei Chi Jingde in the flank and rear was more deterrent.

"They didn't dare come up." Wang Junlin smiled faintly, "I was already beaten yesterday." ”

Zhang Tiangang also said: "What the adults said is that the Goguryeo people can't play any tricks. However, the Goguryeo people led our cavalry to the flank, do they still plan to storm from the city gate, do you want to mobilize some of General Yuchi's men and horses in front of the south gate? ”

Wang Junlin shook his head and smiled: "Even if he wants to attack from the main gate, the six thousand infantry with Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong are enough, not to mention that the combination of explosives and repeating crossbows is the nemesis of the city gate impact."

As the two of them said this from behind, the first flag of Goguryeo Fortress in the southwest corner swayed, and after a hoarse shout of killing in the south gate, the tide of Goguryeo infantry rushed out of the gate.

According to Wang Junlin's orders, the two explosive packets prepared in advance were fired out by a special ingenious stone throwing machine after the torches were lit and the fuses were lit.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Two loud bangs rang out one after another, knocking the first few rows of Goguryeo soldiers into limb flights, and the two groups of soldiers operating the trebuchet quickly prepared another explosive bag prepared in advance, and were ready to be projectiled.

At this time, the repeating fast crossbowmen who were waiting for the battle also began to divide into three groups and take turns shooting.

As soon as they left the city gate, they were attacked with such a fierce series of attacks, and the screams of Goguryeo soldiers mixed with the sound of countless crossbow arrows breaking through the air, and spread far through the doorway.

After two more explosive packets were thrown, and three groups of 1,000 crossbowmen shot out each of their nine crossbow arrows, the Goguryeo people who had just rushed out of the door in front of them had become sparse, with nearly half of them killed or wounded.

There was only a miserable groan left in the doorway, and the remaining Goguryeo soldiers retreated as fast as they could, leaving the wounded in the ground. After another round of shooting, everyone stopped.

The wind passing through the city gate slowly dispersed the white smoke from the explosion of the explosive pack, and layers of corpses appeared inside and outside the city gate cave, the walls of the cave were full of black marks from the explosives pack, and the corpses of the Goguryeo soldiers in front of them were pierced like hedgehogs by crossbow arrows, and even the grass roofs and wooden beams of the houses on both sides of the street inside the city gate were messily filled with arrows. Some wounded Goguryeo soldiers were crawling on the ground in an attempt to crawl back into the city.

Zhang Tiangang held the telescope handed by Wang Junlin, and looked at the scene in the doorway with his mouth open, but he didn't expect the explosive bag and the nine-shot fast crossbow combination to be so shocking.

Because the manufacture of these two weapons is not simple, and the cost is extremely high, the training of this combination is rarely carried out, and Zhang Tiangang has seen it for the first time.

Wang Junlin smiled at Zhang Tiangang and said: "This explosive package is actually just the simplest firearm to use, and after the artillery and muskets on Snake Island are built in large quantities, you will know what it means to attack fiercely." ”

Zhang Tiangang exclaimed: "It's really powerful, my subordinates look at the scene inside the doorway, and the Goguryeo people are afraid that no one will have the courage to continue rushing." ”

And even in this case, Wang Junlin still did not give the order to rush into the city gate, because he knew that attacking at this time would only become a protracted street battle, and even if this Daluo City was captured, their casualties would not be light.

At this time, the bricks and stones in the city gate were flying, and the Goguryeo auxiliaries kept piling up obstacles in the gate hole, as if they were going to block the city gate.

Next, Wang Junlin's side continued to attack the south gate, the city wall of Daluo City was hit violently by a giant stone thrower and long-range strong crossbow on Wang Junlin's side, and the city wall could not stand, the Goguryeo defenders defended the city quite tenaciously this time, once the Sui army had signs of using cloud ladders to climb the city, they fought back desperately, or fire attack or stones, and twice repelled the infantry of Wang Junlin's side who were ready to climb the city.

There were a lot of Goguryeo people in the city, and the strongest fire oil and other materials to defend the city were also sufficient, Wang Junlin was worried that the loss would be too large, so he did not storm Daluo City, Goguryeo was attacked many times, and he was also terrified, and desperately piled bricks, stones, and wood into the city gate, completely sealing the gate. The two sides had mutual scruples, and although the confrontation at the south gate was lively, the cruelty was getting lower and lower.

The assault on the south gate lasted for two days, and the burned equipment of the king's side under the city wall was piled up, and the Goguryeo soldiers quietly laid bricks and stones at night, or put cloth bags wrapped in sand and gravel once, and restored the bunkers on the city wall.

The frightened Goguryeo soldiers did not dare to fight hard from the south gate anymore, and only sent cavalry from the north to contain them. But they defended the city very firmly, and in the siege battle the next day, Wang Junlin ordered five explosive packs to be thrown at a wall in one go, blowing up a large part of the wall, but immediately Goguryeo auxiliaries came up to repair it.

The battle at the south gate was fierce, and the north of Daluo City was also full of smoke, and the twenty special combat teams sent by Zhang Tiangang were equipped with two horses, coming and going like the wind, and the Goguryeo soldiers along the way were all transferred to Daluo City, leaving only some old and weak and auxiliary soldiers to guard the dungeon, as long as they were touched by the special combat team, they were ten dead and lifeless, and within three days, eleven dungeon forts were lost in a row. It has even blocked the communication line from Daluo City to Annam-gun County.

On the evening of the second day, the harassing special warfare scouts returned to Daluo City one after another, and they were about to approach the city of Annam County for 100 miles, and encountered a large number of Goguryeo cavalry.

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