Chapter Thirty-Seven: Tu Su's Rising Bones
No one could break through the gatehouse guarded by the heavily armed Dian Wei.
Dian Wei stood here, and the situation in the Bone City meant four words to Yi Yinmo and the Goguryeo people.
Unable to return to the sky.
Dozens of Goguryeo defenders formed a formation and charged up towards the city gate tower with great bravery, and they saw that this Han giant guarding the gate tower should be a fierce general under the northern part of the Liao general Yan, and it was because of this that they had the idea of taking this opportunity to obtain his head and make meritorious deeds. However, they swarmed up but were chopped to death by Dian Wei cut melons and vegetables in an instant, nearly half of them were invincible, and more than 30 people were afraid, and they hesitated to chop four or five people for Dian Wei, and then the birds and beasts dispersed, Dian Wei chased out, and killed three or four people in an instant.
In just a moment, nearly twenty people were defeated by Dian Wei, and the corpses were scattered all over the ground outside the city gate tower. Not only that, but Dian Wei also picked up a skin wooden shield, and held it in his hand to look at the Goguryeo soldiers who scattered not far away.
Dian Wei and Pan Ling's attack on the city was not mentioned for the time being, but in a moment, the loud sound of the drawbridge slamming on the moat outside the city and breaking the bridge resounded on the battlefield.
Seeing this scene from the Chinese army, Lu Yi knew that he was one step closer to attacking the city, and immediately urged the archers who climbed the city to speed up and cooperate with the foot soldiers who had already attacked the city to drive the Goguryeo soldiers in the city to seize the city, and then ordered Zhao Wei and his subordinates: "Hurry, rush to the bridge with the car!" ”
In the past four hundred years, the city of Susheng Bone has been refined several times, although it is said that as the former royal city of Goguryeo, such a pattern is not in the eyes of the huge ruins of Luoyang, but for the northeastern border of the Han Dynasty, whether it is the moat or the city circle, the magnanimity is far beyond that of Youzhou Jixian.
In other words, attacking Jixian with the same force, it should have fallen yesterday.
And today, until the drawbridge was lowered, the siege had just begun.
There is a wide moat that is second to none in Youzhou, which is due to the fact that the tributaries of the Daliang River running through Liaodong and Goguryeo brought indescribable difficulty to the Han army under the command of Yanbei to attack the city. On the other hand, the capture of the city did not mean that they had captured the city, but only that they had the opportunity to turn the tide with the Goguryeo defenders and get a near-parity in hand-to-hand combat.
Guarded by a horde of foot soldiers, the tall and heavy chariots drove up the broken bridge, crossed the drawbridge to the city gates, and the sturdy soldiers shouted trumpets towards the thick gates of the city. Every time the wooden pillar made contact with the city gate, there was a loud noise, and the countless fibers in the wooden door broke to make a rough and tooth-aching sound.
And in the city, the desperate battle to drive away the Goguryeo soldiers also became fierce.
Pan Ling led his troops to fight the enemy at the head of the city, although as more and more of his own troops entered the city, the Goguryeo soldiers began to retreat slowly and methodically to give way to the favorable terrain above the city. But in the end, there were countless casualties when the two sides met in close combat, and blood was spreading everywhere.
After ascending the city, Pan Ling became the highest official on the west wall, and nearly 1,000 soldiers marched to the inner wall according to the west of the urn city under his command, and the Goguryeo soldiers who slowly retreated into the city from the urn city by archers shot arrows.
In the process, Pan Ling was shot in the ass by an arrow from his own archers outside the city...... Blame him for being too ostentatious, in the bloody battle of the city, with the arch guards of the left and right soldiers, Pan Ling has always been a character of fighting to the death, and after the experience of gathering mountains and forests in Goguryeo, he felt that he was incomparable, but he killed more than ten Goguryeo soldiers under the knife, and also took away the three-legged golden crow king flag of the Goguryeo standard-bearer who could not retreat, and wrapped it around his upper body to watch the Goguryeo soldiers retreat from the city and run all over the city swaggeringly.
In this way, the soldiers of the city are a little unclear, and they can't see who he is when they are too far away, not to mention that the Goguryeo royal banner covers the color of the armor on his body, and everyone in the city can only see the rather dazzling three-legged golden crow running around at the head of the city, and think that the enemy army is fleeing under the pursuit of his own soldiers.
A small archer immediately drew his bow and shot an arrow, which was pierced into Pan Ling's buttocks.
Other than that, everyone is happy.
The Goguryeo soldiers on the western wall continued to retreat to the city under the orders of his son Yi Yinmo after Dianwei let go of the drawbridge, and although the soldiers were left behind, they still could not change the fact that they were defeated and were about to lose this Goguryeo royal city.
On the other side, more than 600 defenders stationed on the northern city wall did not hesitate to open the city and flee from the north gate when the Han army attacked the city, once again aggravating the dilemma of the Goguryeo army.
Outside the west gate, the intimate contact between the Han army's rushing cars and the city gate never stopped, and the sound of collision became louder and louder each time.
Rumble!
With the last spear broken after the city gate, the entire city gate was finally overwhelmed and collapsed by the rushing car, Zhao Wei and the Han army frantically poured into it, ran out of only a few steps and was stunned in the empty urn city, so he had to turn around in frustration and push the rushing car to attack the city gate in the urn city again.
But that doesn't stop the fact that the last street fighting in the city has begun.
"Report! General, more than 600 defenders of the north gate abandoned the city and fled, were scattered by Zhao Lieutenant outside the city, captured most of them, now the north gate has been opened, Zhao and Sun two captains asked the general to enter the city and fight with the enemy in the streets. ”
Yan Bei couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the noisy west city wall, and said: "I didn't expect that Lu Yi would fight to the death in the West Gate for a long time, but he was taken the first place by Zilong, go ahead, tell the second lieutenant to lead the army into the city to sweep away the enemy army." In addition, Tai Shici and Zhang Jaw were ordered to guard the second gate in the southeast, and don't leave Yi Yinmo! ”
Yanbei issued an order in the earth, and when Zhao Yun and Sun Qing had already led the army to seize the entire city to control the defense, Zhao Yun was not reckless after receiving the order, and ordered his subordinates and Sun Qing's scout foot soldiers to break up and mix, and there were teams leading the scattered cavalry into the city to clean up the streets and alleys.
Although Yanbei had already metaphorized in the order to boost the morale of his subordinates before the siege that the city would suffer an incomparable catastrophe, Zhao Yun was still trying his best to restrain his subordinates so that they would not hurt the ordinary people in the city, and only kill the resisting Goguryeo soldiers.
But Sun Qing didn't care about this, after hearing Zhao Yun's orders to his subordinates in the city, the officers of the scout battalion all showed their faces and threw their eyes on Sun Qing for help. Sun squinted his eyes and laughed: "Look at what I do, Captain Zhao has already given the order, and you haven't thanked Captain Zhao, and the brothers in the cavalry camp don't disturb the people of Goguryeo, which is very good, Xiangping's hatred...... It's up to the brothers in our scout camp to report, they are still stunned what to do, the general has an order, the city will be broken for three days without collecting the knife, and the ghosts of tens of thousands of officials in Liaodong are watching from the sky, brothers, follow me into the city, kill happily! ”
With Sun Qing's military order, the scout battalion and the cavalry battalion dispersed after experiencing the brief command when entering the city, and rushed to the streets north of the city like a wind, whether it was the Goguryeo soldiers who had taken refuge in their houses to prepare for street fighting, or the Goguryeo people who had taken refuge in their homes, they were not spared.
The Scout Battalion is a very poor frontal fighting force on the battlefield, but it is scattered into small groups, and these men can only shoot a hand crossbow at 30 paces, a strong crossbow at 100 paces, and a ring knife and leather armor...... Attacking these Goguryeo civilians is only afraid that there is no one in the army.
Zhao Yun was equivalent to being lost face by Sun Qingzhong, but it was difficult to say anything, after all, the two belonged to each other, and he couldn't control the sergeants of Sun Qing's department, so he had to sigh, waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to scatter into the city, and single-handedly quelled the enemy troops in the streets and alleys.
In all fairness, Zhao Yun is a good general, but at least not a good general for now. His courage and integrity are respected in the army, but his style of acting is decent, Yanbei appreciates his bravery, but he is less respectful because of his character...... It's hard for people who are too upright to get along with each other as brothers, but that's a good situation in the long run.
This kind of personality will be liked by people whether you are a superior or a subordinate, but you are not treated well by your colleagues.
Not long after, the city gate in the west of the city was also overwhelmed and was broken by Zhao Weisun. The soldiers of the Koji Yi Department poured into the city with murderous spirit, and more than 5,000 people above and below the city poured into the city, plundering wealth and killing the people, and the original officials and resisting soldiers in the city could not save their lives.
Although the tunnels dug by Yi Yinmo earlier did establish some meritorious deeds, and many of the soldiers who rushed into the houses to loot rice and grain were killed by the Goguryeo enemy who suddenly killed from behind, this was only a drop in the bucket compared to the huge number of soldiers under the northern part of Yan...... Yi Yinmo's arrangement was correct, but no one could have expected that the tall city defense would be breached in two days after defending Kankan, and there was too much time to dig tunnels to achieve results; On the other hand, there were too many subordinates in the Yanbei Army, far exceeding Yi Yinmo's previous estimate.
He originally thought that relying on the benefits of the fortified city of Susheng Bone City, he would have to hold it for at least ten days and half a month, so that he could carry it for more time by relying on the tunnel, and when the reinforcements from the north and south came, he could still resist the city and defend it, maybe he could turn defeat into victory.
But since then, all the arrangements have been lost!
How could he not hate in his heart?
Fortunately, seeing that the situation was impossible, Yi Yin Mo led hundreds of remnants of his body to flee to the south of the city from the largest tunnel in the city to the south of the city, this tunnel was hidden in the former site of the royal city in the city of Susheng Bone, connecting the dense forest of seven miles outside the city, from where he could escape directly to the domestic city, and the road was smooth.
This is still the arrangement left by the ancestors hundreds of years ago when the Bone City was still the royal city of Goguryeo, and he just sent people to dredge the secret passage some time ago...... To be honest, he was also reminded by this tunnel when he dug a tunnel in the Bone City.
But at the time, he didn't expect that he would be able to use this escape tunnel so quickly.
When he walked to the ground, there was no way out of the dense forest, but behind him, a distant and thick black smoke rose straight into the sky, where there seemed to be countless weeping and wailing.
Yi Yin Mo looked in that direction and clenched his fists tightly...... It was their former royal city, and today it was not only captured by the Han army, but also destroyed by the Han army!