The Bone City can't hold it, which is a joke in the eyes of many people. With even a single moat, a thousand defenders in the city can sit back and easily throw arrows down the city to repel the enemy.

Even though the Han army had twenty strange stone cannons that could temporarily suppress the defenders of the city for a while, when they took out the fire arrows and shot the stone cannons, the besieging army could only withdraw like a tide.

The damage of the stone cannon is certainly terrifying, but in the final analysis, the range is completely suppressed by the bow and arrow.

Having figured out this problem, it is not difficult to defend the city.

But the emergence of deserters is also a problem that cannot be stopped...... People's hearts are the most difficult thing to fathom, especially under the relatively closed siege of the city, although in just one day, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses trapped on the periphery of the city pressed on the hearts of every Goguryeo soldier, which was overwhelming.

In the afternoon, hundreds of meters of Goguryeo soldiers went out of the city by hanging baskets, digging the earth and stones piled up in the moat by the Han army under the city.

Despite the rain of arrows at the head of the city, Pan Lingbu gathered 400 paces below the city and fired at the Goguryeo soldiers on the outside of the moat, harassing them that they could not concentrate on cleaning the moat, and finally had to retreat to the city.

That night, the well-rested Han army regrouped, and nineteen stone cannons covered with thick and stiff mud were slowly pushed to the city by the Duliao battalion carrying earth and stones, and the attack on the city head was not inferior to that of noon, and began.

Thousands of soldiers of the Duliao battalion raised their arms and shouted, carrying swords and steadily marching towards the moat under the city, and nineteen stone cannons were surrounded by soldiers and pushed to the moat in a position of overwhelming mountains and seas.

With the experience of dealing with stone cannons at noon, the Goguryeo soldiers defending the city had already prepared enough fire oil and arrows, and before the stone cannons were launched, they threw endless rockets down, not only to shoot at the stone cannons, but also to kill and injure the soldiers who operated the stone cannons, and in an instant, hundreds of fire arrows were thrown into the stone artillery line under the city...... The nineteen stone cannons that bore the brunt of the attack almost threw flying stones at the same time as they planted several fire arrows each.

The power of a single arrow of fire is negligible to that of a stone cannon made of large logs, but it adds up to a lot, not to mention that the strips of cloth soaked in kerosene on each arrow become the best thing to ignite the cannon, and continue to burn the wooden frame of the stone cannon.

However, it was clear that the soldiers of the Yanbei army were not worried about this, and the thick mud could not be known to the Goguryeo soldiers in the city at night, and they could only see the fire bolts stuck in the stone cannons and let out cheers in unison, and then repeated the head-hugging rats under the heavy blows of the stone cannons.

As the stone cannon shook with a boulder, a large number of mud blocks with fire bolts fell with each shot, and the daredevils with large shields around them took advantage of this opportunity to smear the mud from the back basket on the bare wooden frame again, and put a thick armor on the stone cannon.

Not afraid of fire.

Although it may not be able to harm the cannons, it does give the unknown Goguryeo army a boost of morale, and even in the darkness of the night, they can't see how many stones are flying towards them...... The unknown can sometimes be frightening, and sometimes it can be meaningless.

The Goguryeo sergeants were noticeably braver than they were at noon, and the uninterrupted fire bolts continued to rain down, even in the face of the stone cannons.

After waking up in the afternoon, Yi Yinmo, the prince of Goguryeo with a white bandage tied to his forehead, forcibly braced his body and issued a special strategy to the generals at all levels to defend the city against stone cannons, prepare more fire arrows and oil, and at the same time mobilize the people to dig tunnels in the city...... Although the Han army had not yet shown the slightest sign of capturing the city, Yi Yinmo was ready for street fighting.

The battle between Han and Goguryeo was different from the battle between Yanbei and those enemies in the Central Plains or in Youzhou and Jizhou in the past, and even the mentality of the Goguryeo people was different from that of the Han people.

According to the minds of many strategists and generals in northern Yanbei, even if the war burns to Xiangping, the largest city in eastern Liaodong, they may not be willing to defend it. In fact, in many cases, what kind of military spirit an army has depends largely on their leader.

Just like Yanbei, who always regards the lives of his subordinates as crucial, their army is the same, from generals to strategists, no one fights for the gains and losses of a city or a place. Even if Xiangping is lost, they can go around and grab a city. With the prestige of Yanbei, the general of Duliao, he wants Youzhou to get a city, which is a matter that can be passed on.

But Yi Yinmo's mentality is different, hundreds of years ago, his ancestors took away the entire hometown of Xuansu County from the Han people, and then countless Juli people sacrificed their lives to fight the Han people, so that they finally had the land of the cone. For hundreds of years, the war between Goguryeo and the Han people never stopped.

The Han emperors regarded Goguryeo as a rebellious vassal state and never paid attention to it; Goguryeo, on the other hand, saw itself as an independent state, and the Han Dynasty was a great enemy of its neighbors.

From the new dynasty emperor Wang Mang changed Goguryeo to Lower Juryo and launched a war; to the Han Dynasty, the Liao general Qiao Xuan led the army to the east to the north; Even now, the warlord of the Liao Dynasty was formed by the civil strife of the Han Dynasty, and the disputes between Goguryeo and the Han Dynasty have never stopped.

This has nothing to do with the unyielding loyalty of the Juli people, they rebel because they are afraid, and the Han Dynasty has always had the ability to destroy them in a war; But on the contrary, Goguryeo only had the ability to protect itself, or to be hostile to Liaodong County and Youzhou.

If there is a slight difference, the family and the country will be wiped out.

Yi Yin Mo has no way to retreat, he lost the city of Susheng bones, went to the domestic royal city of Pingchuan, and lost the protection of the Qianshan Mountain Range, even if his father Wang Bogu was able to organize various departments in the domestic city to send troops and horses to fight the Han army to the death, and even repelled the Han army...... Tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land in were destroyed by the war, and there was no harvest in autumn, so that the soldiers fighting against Buyeo in the north could not be adequately supplied in winter.

The consequences are unimaginable.

If the Goguryeo people still have the slightest way to retreat, then this retreat is to block the offensive of the Han Dynasty under the Susheng Bone City.

"If you can defend the city, you will defend it; If the city is destroyed and cannot be defended, there will be street fighting; If the streets and alleys are destroyed, then fight to the death! Yi Yinmo waved his long sword at the head of the city, boosting the morale of the soldiers hiding in the flying stones around him, holding a torch and saying loudly: "In this battle, I hope that the monarchs will live and die together with the Bone City, and I will live and die with the monarchs!" ”

For many people, death is a terrible thing.

But sometimes, for some people, something is more terrible than death.

Yi Yinmo knew that he had provoked this war between Han and Goguryeo, and even if he was dedicated to serving the country, if he lost this war, he would eventually become a sinner in Goguryeo.

It's more frightening than death.

On the earthwork, Yan Bei knelt on the high platform and squinted his eyes at the city head of the flickering fire, looking at the Susheng Bone City from his position, he could only see the dense fire arrows dragging beautiful lines and falling in the formation under the city, every moment, there were soldiers under his command who were wounded or killed by arrows, which was predictable.

"Bonghyo, as expected, the morale of the Goguryeo sergeants was even more uplifted at night, and they were bent on burning the stone cannons." Yan Bei didn't turn his head, and said leisurely: "Focusing too much on one thing will make them ignore other things that seem insignificant for the time being, so give the order to beat the drum and let Pan Ling and Zhao Wei Sun move forward." ”

In order to guard against the fire arrows of the Goguryeo people, the soldiers of the Duliao tribe carried a large amount of mud and repeatedly smeared stone cannons. This may not be able to completely protect the stone cannon, but it is enough to keep the stone cannon at bay for as long as possible.

Fire Arrow, there really isn't much of a foolproof solution. What's more, some methods are too labor-intensive and material-intensive, and the gains outweigh the losses at the moment.

This operation is the first time that the stone cannon has been used in the siege of Yanbei in the hands of Yanbei, and it is enough to get good results. Only twenty stone cannons could achieve such a result, which was beyond Yan Bei's expectations, and he could even imagine what it would be like if he could call on a hundred or more stone cannons in a war in the future when he competed with Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao and others in the Central Plains.

As for tonight, the stone cannon is no longer the protagonist.

Earth and stone are.

The rumbling war drums sounded from the earth, and the Pan Ling tribe and Zhao Weisun tribe, who were dormant behind the Du Liao tribe, were silent and quickly ran towards the moat under the cover of darkness, and their army consisted of foot soldiers and cavalry, and no one carried weapons, and those men carried wooden baskets on their backs or horses, piled up with gravel and clods, and rushed to the moat without even raising torches.

Dirt and stones were constantly being dumped in the dirt tunnels that were several feet long.

Once, again, again.

The soldiers rushed back and forth, and the men who accompanied the army continued to dig out wood and stone in the rear, and the soldiers had enough stone to work all afternoon, and they cycled back and forth to the city by night.

The cannons continued to throw stones at the city, and in some parts of the city were even smashed out of the gaps due to the continuous bombardment, and large blocks of masonry and earth fell down, making them excellent gaps for ladders...... It's just that surrounded by a moat, the ladder simply can't get up to the head of the city effortlessly.

"After tonight, there may only be ten crosses left in the cannons." Yan Bei said with a chuckle, if he didn't feel the slightest distress, it would definitely be false, but such a price was something he could bear...... The shorter the siege time, the fewer dead soldiers, looking up at the starry sky, Yan Bei sighed and said, "Tomorrow, there should be many dead and injured people." ”

Tonight, if all ten stone cannons are used as bait, in two hours we may be able to build a few pontoon bridges in the moat, and tomorrow we will be able to climb the ladder to the top of the city...... That was the worst battle in the siege.

"General, will you be able to storm the city tomorrow?" Dian Wei, who was sitting on the side dragging two steamed cakes mixed with sauce, raised his head, put them on the steamed cakes and said, "Subordinates, please climb the city and put the suspension bridge!" ”

"Dianjun wants to fight?" Yan Bei thought about it, Dian Wei had not really fought under his command, this was an excellent opportunity, and after a moment of silence, he nodded and agreed: "It's okay, then tomorrow Dian Jun will lead the crowd to climb first, put down the drawbridge, and take the head of the Susheng Bone City for our army!" ”