Sleeping in the mouth of a tiger.

The crossbowmen on the two earthworks had been transferred to the valley, and Dian Wei had a huge drumstick diagonally inserted at his waist, hugging a huge war drum, and moved step by step towards the earthwork amid the exclamation of the soldiers on the side of the hillside.

Under the mouth of the sleeping tiger, catapults and crossbow cars of Wuhan Iron and Steel were installed by military craftsmen with mortise and tenon structures, and huge wooden beasts seemed to be waiting to show their majesty on the battlefield. Farther away, a group of soldiers gathered together in Wush, examining each other's armor and blades, each with a calm expression.

The command platform on the earthwork was set up in a few moments, protected by wooden fences and large oars on all sides, and the two teams of flag-holding samurai were sitting on their knots, and the various battle flags symbolizing the thick bowls of the captain's headquarters beside them were firmly planted on the ground, hunting in the wind.

The two earthworks are now combined into one, as a command platform to increase the height of one zhang, covering a wider area and even a little higher than the Susheng Bone City, across three miles can still see the soldiers and horses of the southwest two city walls on the city are roughly arranged, there are 600 warriors on it, bows and crossbows are prepared, it is the center of this battle.

Sleeping Tiger's Mouth is a good location, an earthwork outside the mouth blocks the situation in the valley, and the soldiers above the Bone City are afraid that they still don't know that the valley has deployed troops to attack the city...... However, this is not much different from what they knew, from the perspective of Yanbei, the west side of the city was the most tightly guarded, although the soldiers looked like ants from here, but the city was crowded.

Lu Yi was draped all over his body, and he stepped onto the earthwork with a clasped knife in his hand, and behind him there were soldiers carrying the long lance given by Yanbei for him. Looking further back, Zhao Yun with a spear in his hand, Tai Shici with a longbow on his back, Zhao Weisun, a confessor from Liyang, Sima Panling from other departments, Sun Qing, a scout lieutenant, and others have boarded the earthwork. Lu Yi arched his hand and said: "General, the soldiers are all ready, just waiting to attack the city!" ”

"Good! General Koji, you led the Yuyang Battalion, the Duliao Battalion, and the Pan Ling Department to attack the West Gate, which was the strongest garrison of the enemy army, with the enemy defenders only 5,000, and we have thousands of stones, even if you smash it, you will also smash the west wall for me! Yan Bei pointed to the Bone City of Susheng and gave an order to Lu Yi, and then said to Sun lightly: "Captain Sun, you lead the scout army to wander under the three city walls in the east, south, and north, and convey the news to all departments, if the enemy army goes out of the city, do not fight with them, avoid them." ”

Lu Yi Sun Qing received the order to hold his fists, Lu Yi received a desperate job, and Sun Qing was a physical work, but at the moment of the war, no one will be easy.

"Ziyi, Zilong, your two cavalry battalions are stationed at the two northeast gates, hidden outside the city, if the enemy army goes out of the city, the small part swallows most of it, leaving the south gate, and Zhang Junyi leads a song of cavalry to ambush on the official road, if there is an enemy to escape, the soldiers will be ambushed, and the soldiers will be pursued by the second cavalry battalion."

Zhao Yun, Zhang Jaw, and Tai Shici hugged their fists to lead the order.

"Blow the trumpet, go on the march!"

With Yanbei's order, the attendant warriors blew the horn one after another, Dian Wei led nine sturdy sergeants to carry drumsticks and landed heavily on the drum surface, the military music on the earthwork started, the various departments in the valley shouted mighty, and the generals returned to the camp to lead the troops, each walking calmly towards the battlefield!

Yan Bei sat on the stool, looked down at the square military formations under the earthwork, took out a small cyan flag from in front of him, and waved it forward: "Lu Yibu, the front army is attacking!" ”

Whining!

The samurai holding the cyan banner on the edge of the earthwork waved the battle flag with the sound of the horn, and the front army of the Koji Yi Department under the earthwork, the Pan Ling Department pushed the huge catapult slowly forward, and the huge military formation moved forward.

"The rear army of the Koji Rebellion is advancing one mile!"

The Duliao camp and the Liyang camp followed closely behind Pan Lingbu, carrying the cloud ladder from the left and right of Pan Lingbu and slowly pressing up.

"Scout Camp!"

Sun Qing's cavalry roared out, and nearly 3,000 cavalry were reduced to zero after receiving the military order, and in the blink of an eye, they were divided into small divisions and shuttled across the battlefield.

"Zhao Yunbu advances!"

"Taishi Cibu!"

Zhao Yuntai Shi Ci's two cavalry battalions slowly paced their horses, and moved towards the two established city gates with a small number of foot soldiers. Although Yanbei positioned the second cavalry battalion as one for charging and the other for arching, in fact, the two cavalry were composed of archers, light cavalry, and foot soldiers, but they each had their own focus, and they both had the ability to fight alone in the battle.

"Open the jaw!"

With the military order, more than 700 horsemen of the open jaw department rushed towards the position of the south gate, but the path chosen by this cunning guy made Guo Jia laugh secretly when he looked at the earthwork. The route chosen by Zhang Jaw is to quickly follow the Tai Shi Ci Department through the south gate to the east gate, more than 700 horsemen from the start of the formation to break up the formation, more than ten horses and dozens of horses chased after Tai Shi Ci's horse buttocks, it looks as if Tai Shi Ci has soldiers and horses left behind, until the southwest corner of the Susheng Bone City, the cavalry who originally followed the bow cavalry battalion quickly rushed out of the army, and then even people and horses drilled into the forest, and they could not be seen on the earthwork.

With Yanbei issuing military orders, various flags on the earthwork swayed and drums roared; Under the earthwork, the various military formations advanced one after another, and the cavalry infantry fought separately, roaring from the mouth of a sleeping tiger towards the city of Susheng Bone on three sides.

With the dispatch of soldiers and horses on Yanbei's side, the defenders on the city wall also began to take precautions, and from a distance, they looked like a swarm of headless flies scurrying around the city. ”

Even if he couldn't see clearly from a distance of nearly three miles, the sergeants guarding the battlements could still be separated from the people carrying sundries back and forth, and although there were defenders on the three walls, it was clear that there were at least two thousand defenders on the west wall...... Now that the Yanbei Army is arranging this way, even a fool can see that the garrison of the Northeast Second Gate is only worried that its main force will suddenly come out, and it is the West Gate that really bears the heavy pressure of the siege.

However, Yanbei's arrangement still made Yi Yinmo breathe a sigh of relief, even if he just saw several battalions of soldiers and horses galloping out like a glimpse, Yi Yinmo had a general understanding of the soldiers and horses that Yanbei had brought up this time.

The total strength of the army was close to 20,000, but as the main force of the siege, there were only 10,000 foot soldiers, and the rest were cavalry...... The Han Dynasty's Duliao general was a little arrogant, and led so many cavalry to Goguryeo in order to defend the city after the Bone City of Susheng, so that he could fight with the reinforcements in the country, right?

The only thing that made Yi Yinmo feel a gang was the big wooden frame pushed by the Han army foot soldiers under the city, he had seen the power of the Wuhan Iron and Steel Qiang Ballista on the west bank of Liangshui, the one-person long ballista could use the eight-foot spear as a spear to excite it, and the three or four sturdy warriors who rushed to the front were worn together in the blink of an eye, but this strange shape of the big wooden frame, Yi Yinmo really couldn't see what it was for.

But even if he couldn't see it, he was also surprised by the siege ordnance prepared by Yanbei, three rushing cars, and countless ladders.

Could it be that Yan Zhongqing, the general of Han Duliao, is so sure that he can break through the city with 10,000 foot soldiers, the city is two feet high, the defense is complete, the arrows and grain and grass are sufficient, and the Susheng Bone City with a moat and a Ximen urn city?

What is the use of these siege weapons, as long as you can't cross the moats and moats outside the city, whether it's a ladder or a rushing car, you can't touch the edge of the city wall at all!

But Yi Yin Mo was right, Yanbei was confident that he would be able to capture this city quickly.

With the slow advance of the front army of the Koyi Division, the distance from the city wall was rapidly shortened, and in an instant, it entered the city 300 paces and fell into the range of the enemy's archers.

"Shoot back, raise your shield!"

The reason why Pan Ling was at the forefront was because there were many Goguryeo people among his subordinates, and even if these people were killed by the enemy soldiers in the city, none of the generals would feel distressed, and Pan Ling would not ...... He is the one who doesn't care about winning or losing this war, no matter how good he is or what his own siege performance is, he knows that his future has come since he bowed on the official road.

However, even if the Goguryeo soldiers died and were not distressed, Pan Ling still had to show his skills to order the soldiers to raise their big shields to cover their bodies, and at the same time waved their knives loudly and shouted: "Forward, forward, protect the stone artillery!" ”

Catapults were first used on a large scale on the battlefield during the Warring States Period when the Qin State attacked Chu, and Li Guang's ancestor Li Xin led 200,000 Qin troops to break the stone cannons of the Chu army on the riverbank.

"General, the stone cannon is about to push to the moat!"

Guo Jia clapped his hands excitedly, but Yan Bei frowned, this is the first time that the Liaodong stone cannon has been put into the siege battlefield, and now it seems that this thing is far from the power of the 200,000 broken army recorded in the ancient books.

Liaodong stone-making artillery has more than enough technical level, and the rush is also very hasty, so the firing range is only 80 to 100 steps, and 50 people need to drag the rope at the same time, but only 30 catties of stones can be thrown, and the power is really limited.

And the Susheng Bone City is not far from the beam water in the north, the moat is 20 zhang wide, and the moat is still 35 zhang away from the city wall...... In other words, if the stone cannons of the Du Liao army wanted to smash on the city wall, they would almost have to be on the edge of the moat.

Pan Ling's two thousand sergeants just had to operate twenty stone cannons to reach the edge of the moat and then protect the stone cannons.

Two thousand sergeants, and when they arrive in the city, there will be no two thousand sergeants!

A full distance of more than 100 steps, the arrows thrown down by the defenders at the head of the city are dense and do not stop, and the arrows in the city are enough to fill the moat, which is the most difficult road for Pan Ling.

Fifty steps, thirty steps, ten steps, Pan Ling raised the ring knife and shouted: "Prepare to throw stones!" ”

His soldiers had long since had enough of the rain of arrows, and rows of large shields were erected in front of the cannons to block the rockets that might be fired by the defenders of the city, and then they stood in front of the cannons and pulled back with ropes, while hiding behind the cannons.

Thirty catties of cobblestones were piled up on top of the stone cannons, and the stone cannons pulled the ropes one after another against the arrows of the Goguryeo people, and Pan Ling shouted: "Let go!" ”

More than a dozen flying stones flew towards the city with a whistling sound, the protruding battlements were smashed, and the few archers hiding behind were crushed by the stones.

"It's limited, but it's still useful." Yanbei calmly took advantage of the earthwork, waved the command flag in his hand and said: "The second battalion of Duliao and Liyang will move forward, carry sand, stone and wood, and build a pontoon bridge!" ”