Yang Guang's eyebrows raised: "Isn't the hollow city wall easy to collapse?" Wouldn't it be easy to let our army's catapults smash against those sandwich walls? ”

Yu Wenshu secretly scolded this Yang Guang in his heart for not knowing anything about fighting, if he changed his subordinates and said such brainless words, he would have kicked him away a long time ago, but in front of Yang Guang, he still had to smile and said: "Your Majesty should know that these sandwich walls are just some small rooms only a few feet wide that are temporarily dug in some parts of the city wall, not the entire city wall is hollow, and when observing, only one brick is extracted, and after reading it, the brick will be filled back, They even kept refilling the excavated sandwich walls on the city walls to increase the thickness and strength of the walls. ”

Yang Guang understood this time, and sighed: "So, is it unlikely that he will hit those sandwich walls?" Even if it hits, it won't be possible to collapse the entire city wall at once. ”

Yuwenshu immediately said: "Your Majesty Shengming, so our army is attacking like this, on the one hand, it is to suppress the enemy army at the head of the city, on the other hand, it is also to try its luck, maybe it just happens to hit a sandwich wall, there is a possibility of collapsing a section of the city wall, the first few sieges of the city, our army has accidentally collapsed two sections of the city wall, smashed out a few zhang wide gap, but for our army, this width is still not enough, the Goguryeo people are desperately resisting, and it is a fraudulent surrender, and finally this gap is blocked. ”

A trace of unhappiness flashed in Yang Guang's eyes, and he pointed to the opening of a brick wall about half a zhang wide and obviously a newly built brick wall on the west city wall, and said, "General Yuwen said this gap?" ”

Yu Wenshu nodded: "Yes, this is the opening, after smashing this section at once, our army was exhausted, desperately trying to attack it." The Goguryeo people also did not hesitate to suffer casualties, and brought in the most elite troops, and they fought with us at this mouth, and even sent many death squads to cut off the back road of our army. In this way, three fences were erected in succession to tie the gap, and half of the corpses of our army piled up under the city were left behind during that breach. ”

Yang Guang sighed: "It's a pity, if there is such a good opportunity today, Qing and the others must not delay the fighter again, even if there are many deaths, they must enter from the gap!" ”

Yu Wenshu and the cadres behind him said respectfully: "Obey the holy order!" ”

As he spoke, the sound of stones hitting the wall in the distance gradually became quieter. At the foot of the city wall, in addition to the tens of thousands of corpses of the soldiers of the two armies, it was covered with a layer of stones of varying thickness, which was more than two feet high, which was exactly the result of today's stone attack on the city. The whole city looked empty, except for the weeds that grew on the old moss at the battlements and still fluttered in the wind. Shows tenacious vitality.

Yang Guang shook his head: "Why, are all the stones running out so quickly?" How do I remember when I was in Liaohe, but I fought for two hours? ”

Yu Wenshu replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, at that time in Liaohe, the front of our army was only ten miles wide, and the catapults used were only more than a hundred. Moreover, it was the first battle, and there were plenty of ammunition and stones, so it could last an hour, but the siege of Liaodong City had been fought for two months, and every day it was up to the soldiers to collect stones and solid soil from the nearby mountains. Today is another siege on all sides, and more than 2,000 trebuchets have been set up, so by now, the stones have been used up, and next, our army is going to use arrows to suppress the defenders at the head of the city and cover the siege. ”

Yang Guang said softly: "You are today's general general, you decide how to fight, I just watch here, and don't interfere with your command." ”

Yuwen Shu breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a deep voice to the herald beside him: "The herald, the bow and arrow suppression, fifty rounds of rapid attacks, no living Goguryeo people are allowed to come up to defend the city!" ”

Yuwenshu's order was quickly conveyed by the flag and the drum and trumpet, the archers of the Sui army wearing leather armor, like a tide, surging forward, a hundred steps away from the city wall, thousands of large shields were erected, the archers behind the shield in a unit, about a line of archers lined up in front of the city wall more than six miles wide, three steps apart, there were six or seven hundred people in a row, after walking out of the shield, on the city wall is to pull the bow and release arrows, with the sound of the neat bowstring, a black pressure arrow cloud rose into the air, straight to the city, At the same time, the archers who had spared the arrows quickly retreated behind their shields, and the archers of the next wave stepped forward to continue firing.

Wave after wave of arrow rain rushed into the sky, ruthlessly cleaning the head of Goguryeo, the sound of the three-edged arrow hitting the stone battlements and the city wall, even Yang Guang, who was five miles away, could hear it clearly, in this position almost level with the head of Liaodong City, he saw that there was still no movement at the head of the city opposite, and from his point of view, it was impossible for any living creature to survive under such a high-intensity blow.

In this way, the Sui army's arrow rain storm lasted for half an hour, and as the city head was completely suppressed, the archers of the Sui army also began to step out from behind their shields, and gradually advanced, a hundred steps, eighty steps, sixty steps, fifty steps!

At this distance of fifty paces, the archers of the Sui army began to stand still, these archers with strong arm strength could shoot through five-inch thick wooden targets at a distance of fifty paces, and even some guys with super arm strength shot arrows directly into some mud city wall sections, the tips of the arrows entered the wall, and the feathers on the tail were still vibrating.

Yang Guang was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Our army's attack is going well, General Yuwen, are these Goguryeo people already scared, or are they dead?" With such an attack of intensity, they couldn't fight back, and it seemed that as long as the infantry was dispatched, this Liaodong City could be directly captured. ”

Yuwenshu's brows furrowed slightly, and he was about to say something, when suddenly, a dull sound of drums and horns sounded in the Liaodong City in the distance, followed by the sound of bangs and gongs one after another, Yuwenshu's face changed, and he lost his voice: "It's not good, the Goguryeo people have gone up to the city wall, give the order quickly, the catapult will continue to fire, and the archers are not allowed to stop!" (To be continued......)