As soon as Yuwenshu's words left his mouth, the head of Goguryeo City, which had not been moving, suddenly unfurled its flags, and countless shields were raised, which were filled with dense arrows, and it turned out to be Goguryeo's archers, who lay down or lay under these shields early to resist the stormy sea of arrows and stones, and the Goguryeo people under the shields may have paid hundreds of casualties, but no one moved, and no one got up, and they have been pretending until now, It was only when the archers of the Sui army broke away from the protection of the shield wall and boldly approached a distance of fifty paces from the city wall that they finally showed up to attack!

The battlements of the city wall are the best protection for the archers, they stand behind these battlements, and do not aim for direct shots, but directly at an elevation angle to the sky with a rain of arrows, crossing a high parabola, towards dozens of steps away, densely packed together Sui archers, the implementation of the rain of arrows covered.

Many archers of the Sui army, at this time, were bowing their heads to exchange arrows from the quiver, and did not have time to look at the situation at the head of the city, only heard a burst of bangzi and gongs, and suddenly the light became dim, as if something blocked the sun, the archers of the Sui army instinctively raised their heads to look, but only saw the sea of bows and arrows flying in the sky covering the sky, almost blocking the light of the entire sun, the only light that they could see was those three-edged arrows flashing, with a cold and cold glow of death.

The sound of bows and arrows entering the body is endless, and the high parabolic hanging shots of the Goguryeo archers make these bows and arrows fly to a height of five or six zhang above the ground before they begin to fall, with huge potential energy, falling fiercely, not to mention that the archers of the Sui army are lightly armed and only wear leather armor. Even if they wore those double iron armors of the Xiaoguo knights, it was impossible to protect the whole body, and some arrows directly shot through the front and back layers of leather armor of the Sui archers, and the arrows drilled out from the armor skin on the back, while the white feathers at the end of the arrows remained on the chest, stained red by blood.

Archers of the Sui army. Under such a sudden blow by the Goguryeo army, like the wind cutting ears of wheat, they were swept down piece by piece, and only four or five rounds of salvo fire were enough for three or four thousand Sui archers to lie on the ground forever, and they could no longer get up. It's hard to find a place to stay.

The six or seven thousand archers of the Sui army who came out of the battle in this round, that is, more than half of them were killed and wounded in a short period of time, and the rest of the people could no longer care about suppressing the bow and arrow on the head of the city, and they fled back to the shield dozens of steps away, only those poor wounded soldiers who could not escape remained in place and turned painfully. **, which was soon covered by new rounds of Goguryeo arrow rain. Crucified alive to the ground, he became a corpse full of arrows that could not even be seen in human form.

Yang Guang couldn't close his mouth when he saw it, and it was the first time he really saw the strong bow and arrow speed of the Goguryeo army, and at this moment he finally understood why this Liaodong city was so difficult to fight and could not be captured for a long time.

The Sui army's catapult began to roar incessantly again. In the first round of long-range strikes, more than half of the stones were used, which made this round of blows look much smaller than the first one, in the Liaodong city of Goguryeo. There was a low sound of drums and horns, and the head of the city, which had been full of arrows just now, suddenly fell silent again, and thousands of Goguryeo archers, like ghosts, disappeared in unison, only the sound of bursting stones hitting wooden shields, and the occasional sound of some human bodies falling from a high place would be heard in the wind.

Yang Guang completely understood it at this moment, he gritted his teeth and said: "The hateful Goguryeo people are actually hiding under the shield like this, the head of the city, General Yuwen, can these stone carts push closer and send some larger stones, just these small stones, it is difficult to kill the enemy under the shield." ”

Yu Wenshu shook his head: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, the stone cart can only throw small stones far, if the size of the stone is big, the distance will be greatly closer, now these stones the size of a fist, can also be smashed into the city from a distance of two hundred steps away, if the stone is a big circle, a few catties in weight, even if it can only be thrown fifty steps away, not only can not hit the enemy, but also hit the archers and infantry in front of our army, the gain outweighs the loss." ”

After Yuwenshu quickly gave Yang Guang a science popularization of the principle of the catapult, he didn't wait for Yang Guang to come another 100,000 why, and immediately ordered: "The archers continue to step forward to suppress, the catapult is not allowed to stop, move the shield forward, the infantry raise their shields to protect the top of their heads, forcibly cover the archers to shoot, no matter how many people die, I must suppress Goguryeo's bow and arrow before the infantry charges!" ”

In a mezzanine inside the city wall, two inconspicuous bricks were pulled away, Yuan Taizuo and Yuan Gai Suwen father and son, were nervously watching every move outside the city, behind them and above their heads, the screams were endless, they did not look back, they didn't need to look to know that it must be the archers of their own city, unfortunately hit the arrow or stone in the confrontation with the enemy, and were smashed to the city.

At this time, under the corner of the city on their side, there were already two or three thousand bodies of Goguryeo soldiers who were either dead or wounded, whose heads were bleeding, or whose bodies were stuck with feather arrows, and the auxiliaries with door panels on their heads were like moving ants, constantly digging the wounded soldiers who still had a breath from the crowd under the corner of the city where the dead and wounded were sleeping, and then urgently transported them back to the rear for rescue, as for those who were already out of breath, there was no need to waste time.

This is a contest of wills, whoever can't resist the retreat first, who will give up all the efforts, and as the Goguryeo people who defend the city, as long as the Sui army climbs to the top of the city, it is almost the beginning of a nightmare.

Yuangai Suwen looked at the archers of the Sui army who were constantly being shot down in rows outside the city, but soon more would be drilled out of the shield array, and it seemed that they would never be able to finish fighting, and sighed: "The Sui people are really desperate today, it seems that the arrival of the emperor of the Sui Dynasty is indeed extraordinary, and they have to change the siege in the first few times, and this level of casualties has already made them retreat." ”

Yuan Taizuo shook his head, pointed to a large flagpole behind the Sui army, there were more than a dozen bloody human heads, and said: "The chief general of the Sui army seems to have also issued a strict order, those who retreat are killed on the spot, with this iron-like military discipline, those archers naturally dare not retreat, and now the casualties of our army have begun to increase, pass my general's order, and change 10,000 archers to defend the city, and the people who are still alive in the front team will withdraw and rest." (To be continued......)