The moat is the most odious enemy against the besieging army; And the army defending the city is the most reassuring protector for them.

If there had been no stone cannon that the Goguryeo had never seen before, the elite Goguryeo warriors with sandalwood bows in the city would have accurately shot every Han soldier who tried to build a pontoon bridge over the moat, and that would have been the only result.

The corpses of the Han army would fill the city before the pontoon bridge, just like the city of Handan, where more than 5,000 corpses on both sides were stuffed into the moat, giving off a suffocating smell of death in the scorching summer.

Now the exception is the Bone City.

Under the cover of night, the defenders of Susheng Bone City could not see that there were only 3,000 Han troops engaged in the night battle, and the soldiers of Pan Ling and Zhao Weisun behind them rushed to the moat with earth and rocks on their backs, and the pontoon bridge grew almost as the Goguryeo soldiers fired volleys of fire at the stone cannons.

The number of stone cannons in the night battle also decreased rapidly, but half an hour after the battle began, six stone cannons were destroyed, and the rest all showed signs of smoke and fire.

Halfway through the battle, Yanbei ordered the dispatch of Taishi Ci's troops to return to the tiger's mouth to rest. The foot soldiers who went out to fight tonight need a good rest after withdrawing, at least until noon tomorrow, they will not be able to charge the city, but tonight the Goguryeo soldiers may find that the pontoon bridge has been laid, and in the period before the battle after the Ming Jin, the Goguryeo soldiers are likely to go out of the city to destroy the pontoon bridge.

Tai Shi Ci's archers were to parade outside the moat earlier tomorrow than the rest of the soldiers, shooting the Goguryeo soldiers who tried to destroy the pontoon bridge.

There is no need to worry about the possible salvo of the defending archers on the city, usually the bow and arrow are more than 80 paces, and most people's accuracy is already related to luck, as for 200 paces away...... Unless it is a salvo in formation, if it is a few cavalry archers alone, it is difficult to be shot by the enemy.

The stone cannon bombardment of the city at night lasted for nearly an hour, and it was only at midnight that the Han army slowly retreated from the periphery of the Bone City to the mouth of the sleeping tiger. With the retreat of the Han army, the city once again resounded with the frantic cheers of the Goguryeo soldiers.

Only this time, it was much shorter than the weak break that came at noon, and it lasted much shorter than noon.

The Goguryeo defenders were exhausted.

The one-day siege battle was extremely tragic, with more than 600 casualties among the defenders in the city, plus more than 100 deserters, and the defenders on the three walls were rotated many times by Yi Yinmo in the battle. Compared with the elite Tan archers in Goguryeo who couldn't lift their arms with their bows nearly a hundred times a day, those sword and shield hands were obviously even more pitiful.

The archers at least had the means to fight back against the Han army, and the sword and shield men could only stand at the head of the city to provide protection for the archers, waiting for the Han army to ascend the city...... Other than that, all they could do seemed to be to pray to the heavens that those dozens of pounds of stone bullets would not fall on them.

Watching the Han army slowly disappear into the deeper darkness like a ghost in the sound of golden drums, the Goguryeo soldiers in the city were already so tired that they didn't even have the strength to cheer, and they were all paralyzed on the head of the city, even if they were covered with blood, rubble and stumps and broken arms, they didn't have the strength to go down to the city and return to the camp, most of them directly looked for a comfortable place in the city and fell asleep, but for a while, the snoring was everywhere.

The Han soldiers who withdrew to the sleeping tiger's mouth were similar, whether it was the Duliao camp that was in front of the defenders of the city with bows and crossbows, or the Pan Lingbu who had experienced two intense battles in one day, they were all about to reach the limit of what their bodies could bear, and most of the soldiers were so high and swollen that their forearms were swollen because they continued to draw their bows, and even if they were wearing two layers of cloaks to protect their arms, they were still hit by the twitching trajectory of the arrows when they were fired, and they couldn't even lift the bow.

Not to mention the soldiers who pulled the stone cannons.

In the camp, Yanbei walked down the earthwork to welcome the returning soldiers, and the entire sleeping tiger's mouth was beaten by bonfires and torches, leaving six hundred strong crossbowmen on the earthwork, and after the soldiers slowly returned to the camp, they sealed the valley mouth with a wooden fence and thistle. In fact, eighty percent of these means of guarding against night attacks are not needed, not to mention whether the Goguryeo people dare to go out of the city for night attacks, just the three battalions of cavalry placed outside the mouth of the sleeping tiger, as long as the sleeping tiger's mouth can withstand the strong attack for half an hour, the two battalions of cavalry and the scout battalion will arrive...... Even if the defenders of Susheng Bone City pour out, they must be captured.

In Yanbei's heart, he hoped that the Goguryeo people would attack the camp, and the more the better. If Yi Yinmo had such courage, this difficult siege battle would have been able to directly skip the tragic stage of hand-to-hand combat, and the Han army would have won the victory directly.

Although it was past midnight, the soldiers could not ignore the hunger in their stomachs. Nearly 100 cauldrons rose in the valley, killing sheep and pigs, stewing broth and steamed cakes. The tragic siege battle will be launched tomorrow, and even the most stingy generals will not be thin at this moment, let alone Yanbei.

Under the leadership of Lu Yi, the captains, Simas, and even military marquis, generals, and team members of various departments served soup and meat for the soldiers, shouting and shouting for Yanbei to share the righteousness.

"Thanks to the general's kindness, comfort the brothers, kill pigs and sheep, everyone has a good meal, and go to the city tomorrow to meet the enemy, the first to board the reward is thirty, and the one who opens the suspension bridge is rewarded fifty!" Lu Yi shouted loudly, and the reward spread rapidly in the ears of the soldiers in the army, and the shouts of the various departments came and went, "After the city is broken, the knife will not be collected for three days, and everything you get will be your own!" ”

Slaughter the city.

There is only one meaning in the second half of the sentence, which is to slaughter the city.

Yan Bei stood on the hill, looking at the lights of the company camp in the mouth of the sleeping tiger, and the sergeant in the smoke of the cooking floated out with the night breeze for a long distance, without a trace of kindness on his face.

What Lu Yi said was naturally what he said himself. This is the first time that Yanbei has conveyed such a clear order to his subordinates about the slaughter of the city, and with this order passed to the army, the morale has been greatly boosted, and it seems that there is no need to observe the battle situation tomorrow to be able to know, after this battle, the Susheng Bone City will inevitably turn into a ruin.

Yanbei had to defend the city, and Susheng Bone City would still exist in the future, but it was not an important town on the edge of Goguryeo City or the city with the most Goguryeo people in the Han Dynasty...... There is only one result of Susheng Bone City, which is to become the northeastern military town of the Han Dynasty, and together with the sleeping tiger, it has become a fortress to hold the strong neighbors in the east.

Reign over one land, as a prince. In many cases, it is not like a ranger who cares about life and death and repays faith, and returns blood for blood.

But now, Yan Bei knew what his soldiers needed most, what he needed most.

Soldiers need wealth, they need killing; He most needed to quickly capture the ancient royal city of Goguryeo.

This does not conflict, as long as, slaughter the city.

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Early the next morning.

On the morning of June, with the rising tide, Yan Bei coughed lightly twice and raised his eyes to look at the Bone City...... An encounter had already begun without his knowledge, the cavalry traveling around the city and the soldiers sent by the city to destroy the pontoon bridge were fighting back and forth, and the scouts sent back by Sun Qing reported that they had killed dozens of Goguryeo fugitives on the official road south of the city last night.

The struggle continued, but apparently the archers were reluctant to make a surprise attack to the edge of the moat, and the Goguryeo soldiers were unable to dismantle the pontoon bridge under the harassment of the Taishi Ci Ministry.

Yanbei was a little anxious, and kept spinning in place on the earthwork.

The warm meat soup was brought by the chef in the army, and although it was boiled meat left over from last night, it still tasted delicious. It's just that Yanbei seems to have lost the ability to taste food, and just after tasting it, he looked in the direction of Susheng Bone City on an empty stomach.

The sergeants and pawns of the camp slowly woke up, although there was no military horn to wake them up under Yanbei's orders, but the long-standing habit still made it impossible for most people to maintain a long and sweet sleep, and the whole sleeping tiger's mouth was extremely quiet in a group of slaughter, leaving only the occasional whispers of the soldiers and the sound of sharpening swords.

It was clear to everyone that the battle in the city would inevitably face the frantic resistance of the Goguryeo army...... Arguably, the most terrible hand-to-hand combat began today, but no one knows when it will end.

It's just that there is an order to slaughter the city and plunder it at will, and the soldiers are obviously full of expectations for the siege. Death is inevitable at any time, but if you are lucky, it can make a better life for your family.

This is already the best preferential treatment for them.

The soldiers on duty were changed three times, the sun rose high overhead, Yan Bei nodded slowly, the horn in the mouth of the sleeping tiger was blown desolate, the heavy war drums were still roaring, but the warriors who beat the war drums were changed.

Dian Wei buckled the heavy iron armor on the outside of the leather armor, although Tie Wu had already made a complete set of iron armor for this old man, but he never had the right opportunity to wear it. In Dian Wei's opinion, in the past, it was really tyrannical to patrol the camp like a tiger in iron armor.

Today is the perfect opportunity.

Under the nod of Yanbei, Dian Wei carried a big iron halberd, with more than a dozen small halberds inserted in his waist, and a large shield that could cover half of his body on the negative side, and roared with a firm step holding the iron halberd, leading a song of Yan Zhao warriors to march under the earthwork, and marched towards the Susheng Bone City with the armies of each department.

The pace of the march was different from yesterday.

Although the generals did not urge the soldiers to attack the city, the whole army knew that it was a battle to climb the city, and the nervousness and excitement in everyone's hearts made them speed up their feet, and only the sound of each other's breathing and the collision of soldiers' armor came to their ears as they marched.

Everyone was holding back a lot of energy in their hearts.

The same was true of the Goguryeo garrisons on the city of Susheng.

They all know that there is a pontoon bridge of the Han army under the city, and if there is no accident, the short-handed encounter is only today. Although there were still hundreds of soldiers on the inner bank of the moat under the city who planned to destroy the pontoon bridge of the Han army, it really had little success.

Under the harassment of the archers of the Taishi Cibu, it was difficult for them to destroy the pontoon bridge where the earth and stones had been buried in Hanoi, and at most they could only lift off a layer of wooden bridges, but even so, the Han army was still able to wade through the water on their small legs.

The Han army marched faster and faster, and within the range of the Goguryeo defenders in the city, the vanguard of all divisions ran and rushed towards the pontoon bridge.

The Goguryeo army in the city hurriedly put down the hanging basket, the soldiers of the city rushed to grab the hanging basket and rose towards the city, the rain of arrows was thrown towards the Han army, Dian Wei had rushed to the front of the military formation, holding a large shield above his head, and the high rear carried a halberd to rush to the pontoon bridge first, and the huge weight made the entire pontoon bridge sink down an inch.

But he didn't even tremble, and went straight to the other side of the pontoon bridge to get on the gondola and could only form a formation of Goguryeo soldiers to kill, dozens of pounds of big iron halberds flew out in the roar, and smashed heavily on the shield raised by the Goguryeo soldiers after more than ten steps, and the shield was shattered when boarding, and the soldiers behind him smashed away as if they were hit by flying stones, and several people behind them smashed on the city wall.

Before he even had time to scream in fright, Dian Wei's huge body had already jumped up from the pontoon, holding several halberds in his hands and throwing them one after another.

Resting heavily on the other side of the moat, his footprints clearly visible on the ground, Dian Wei placed a large shield full of arrows on his head, smashed the head of a terrified Goguryeo pawn with his fist, and picked up the large iron halberd from the corpse under the city walls.

"Chen Liu, Dian Wei!"